Rangers duo Jordan Jones and George Edmundson have been suspended after being caught at a house party in Glasgow’s West End with at least eight other people in a major Covid breach.
Police Scotland confirmed that they broke up a house party in the early hours of the morning in the Hyndland area of the city with the two Ibrox stars caught red-handed.
Rangers deserve credit for acting swiftly in the immediate aftermath of the situation, suspending both players and launching their own investigation as the duo begin a two-week quarantine.
But far from be your usual bad boy scandal – there’s something a little denser, more irresponsible and much more unforgivable about what’s gone on with Jones and Edmundson here.
This is a behemoth of a season for multiple reasons.
Rangers have been starved of silverware for close to a decade and as our rivals approach their Holy Grail we are the only club capable of stopping them.
Ibrox gaffer Steven Gerrard might’ve transformed the club’s fortunes on and off the pitch in the short term but his job too hangs in the balance after much investment with no glittery rewards.
The club’s supporters, desperately loyal despite all that’s happened over the course of the last decade, are starved of the chance to cheer their team on from the terraces.
This pandemic is a nightmare for everyone, for a multitude of reasons.
They are trusting those players in that squad to carry the fire for them and bring the thunder across stadiums where they’d normally be assisted thousands strong.
Rangers have up until now had an exemplary record with regards Covid-19 and this stands alone as the only idiotic, selfish, potentially season-altering breach.
Imagine if Jones and Edmundson hadn’t been caught?
Whilst the players had a day off today, do they rock up to Rangers training tomorrow nursing the tail end of a hangover pretending like they’ve not just broke the bubble?
Do they seriously risk contaminating the entire squad – and by proxy everything we’ve built so far this season – just to have a few shandies?
Rangers’ success this year means the world to thousands of people – and they’re willing to jeopardise it, for what? A house-party? Get real.
Both these tubes are also fighting for a place in the squad; an opportunity that will now almost certainly be revoked indefinitely.
Staying level-headed over this is nigh-on impossible. Rangers fans are fuming and are absolutely correct to be.
There’s only so much the club can do – and as I’ve said they deserve credit for doing it.
But in a season which has promised so much for these two to put that on the line for their own selfish reasons isn’t just idiotic, it’s unforgivable.
In a situation like this, the what-ifs are almost as pertinent as what actually happened.
Given the seriousness of what’s gone on, Jordan Jones or George Edmundson will be very lucky to get through this pandemic with their careers at Ibrox still alive.
