Celtic have been criticised for taking a controversial trip to Dubai - your views

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Celtic are waiting to find out their isolation decision ahead of Hibs clash. Picture: SNS

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Celtic have been criticised for taking a controversial trip to Dubai during the coronavirus lockdown

Claire AA Eadie

It is clear that trip was not for training purposes, so they should be made to self-isolate like everyone else, especially as one has already tested positive. Hibs should be refusing to play if they field a team of players that were on that trip, on grounds of safety.

Stuart Wilson

Hardly surprised to see this happen, they should never have travelled. Totally irresponsible.

Lorraine Blyth

We’re trying to convince our manager that our next in-service training needs to take place in Dubai. So far no joy!

Lesley Aiton

Given the year everyone has had, I don’t know why they felt the need to travel abroad to train. The rules should apply to everyone and this is why people aren’t sticking to them!

Kirsty Mackenzie Notman

What about every key worker, Ie nurse, doctor, care staff, retail and so on who would love to go on a holiday, sit by a pool having a beer mixing with people, but no they have to continue to work every day through this pandemic like they have from the start and not see their family? But Celtic think its OK to break Covid rules while on a holiday, as you can clearly see from pics and videos and then come back with a positive case and think its OK to play a game of football. Everyone that has been near that player has to self-isolate, as they have been in contact with a person who has Covid, because if they don't then this track and trace is out the window.

Brian Gunn

They have bent the rules, they should all go into quarantine, no exemptions.

Dawn Mitchell

They should be treated the same as everyone else – points deducted or to play their reserves. Other teams have done it.

Lorraine Urwin Currie

Surely the decision is made. Everyone else who has been in contact with a positive case has to isolate for 10-14 days so why should Celtic be any different?

Lynsey Maclennan

If the trip was for training, then why did they not stay in accommodation inland by the training facilities? The fact that they stayed at the Le Meridian Beach Hotel.says something very different.

Scott Robertson

Why would they field a team of reserves when every other player tested negative? Surely the common sense thing to do would be to test them all now, job done.

Michael Gordon

It’s instances like this that encourage people to push the rules a bit, thereby spreading the virus, and it’s been the same since the beginning of the virus.

Chris O’Neill

How can you possibly backdate self-isolation/quarantine? How does that work? Where is the logic in such a decision? Up until Sunday night, anyone, regardless of who you are, did not have to self-isolate on return from Dubai. The Scottish government then brought in the new rule/law stating that anyone returning from Dubai has to self-isolate for 10 days, then went on to say this would be backdated to January 3. Any 10-day self-isolation period would start from the day you arrived back in the UK. This is absolutely nonsensical. So someone who returned from Dubai on January 3, and for the past eight days has been free to walk the streets, mix with family, go to work, go to the shops, etc. But now, eight days after being free to do all that, they’ve to self isolate for two days in order to make up the 10 day period. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous. The Scottish government have panicked massively, and tried to rush through some new rule/law which hasn’t even been thought through properly.

Spaces for People

Consultants have been paid £280,000 for Edinburgh's £7m Spaces for People projects

Darren Wilson

What a waste of money. And as for social distancing, that'll soon become a thing of the past, so why bother making wider footpaths? If the clowncil aren't careful, all these stupid measure will just drive people away from the city, and that's the last thing that's needed, particularly when things will have to be be rebuilt following the pandemic.

David Boswell

Historic city with plastic bollards bolted to the roads! Well done council, makes the place look great!

Grant Gibson

Waste of money. The people in charge of the deceitful Spaces For People measures should be sacked. Using Covid as the excuse to rush through their ill thought out plans, they must think we are stupid. To spend the obscene amount £5 million and counting on this during a pandemic when people are losing their jobs left right and centre is mind blowing.