Football in Scotland
Whilst realising that football is just one of many competing businesses struggling at this time, it cannot be denied that watching professional football is popular for many in Scotland and a very important social pastime across much of the community.
The government should proactively work with the game to look for ways to assist football clubs in getting started again in a safe manner whether this is with or without crowds. This may involve grants or loans to clubs to help set up TV facilities to show games via streaming technologies whereby supporters could pay to watch their teams play.
If we don't do this, there is a very real chance that many clubs will go to the wall. Scottish football does not receive vast TV monies to help them through.
Why the contribution is important
Other countries are going to re-start their football with it being shown on TV. This means that many in Scotland will be able to watch, for example, English football and German football, and other sports possibly long before we can watch our own Scottish football.
We cannot use the reason that people may gather together to watch a game to prevent Scottish football from playing while at the same time hundreds of games from other countries are being shown live on TV. This is particularly a problem if such foreign games are only on pay TV platforms such as Sky, BT Sport, Amazon Prime, etc. This would encourage people to congregate together to watch on the one TV/subscription in homes and pubs. This is inconsistent in terms of health protection and just diverts money towards the game in other countries while continuing to starve Scottish football of revenue.
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