Someone had better get Sue Gray on the phone a bit sharpish.Because as soon as she’s done with Boris’ bring your own Boozegate, she might have an even more sobering investigation to oversee amidst the spit and sawdust of Scottish football’s back garden.And let’s be blunt, it doesn’t take a leaked email from a master of the dark arts to see this one Cummings.One way or another a furious row is brewing over the next Old Firm squabble which is supposed to take place in just nine days from now – having already had its can kicked down the road once before.With bodies piling up on both sides of the Clyde and more key men leaving town on international duty, the suspicion grows by the day that one or both of these sides may consider it more convenient to call for a second postponement rather than go into a title fight armed with not much more than a stinking hangover.But, the truth of the matter is, any such request is already almost certainly doomed to fail no matter how many more call offs might arise between now and next Wednesday night.A lack of wriggle room in the fixture list makes the prospect of juggling matches around difficult enough at the best of times.
Indeed, the only spare midweeks between now and the end of season split are already set aside for European competitions. And even if both Rangers and Celtic free up some room by crashing out of their respective campaigns at the next hurdle before the end of next month, UEFA dictates that those midweek dates are not then made available for domestic games to be broadcast live.
In other words, the biggest derby match of the season – with the potential to be a title decider – would not be shown on the telly.
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