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| Mackessack Park, Rothes FC |
Back in July I wrote about the Highland League's decision to delay the start of their 2020/21 season, at the time to mid-October, as they waited for the green light from the Scottish government both for football to resume and spectators to be allowed in to matches.
A further decision was then taken to push back the start to 28th November and for a 16-game league season (each team playing each other once) to allow some leeway for completing the campaign.
Earlier this week the clubs voted to go ahead with that plan in the wake of the Highland and Moray regions being placed in Tier 1 of the government's coronavirus system which means limited numbers of people able to come through the turnstiles.
Good news on the face of things but nobody involved with either the league or its member clubs is under any illusion as to the problems that may come up.
With Aberdeenshire in Tier 2 it means six teams currently cannot admit spectators, those that can will have a raft of new guidelines to implement (my dad is a volunteer at one such club and I know at first hand the amount of planning that has taken place and will continue to do so) and there remains the prospect of a tightening of restrictions.
"The decision is not without some trepidation," admitted league secretary Rod Houston to the Press & Journal but the alternative, of a blank season, was too much to contemplate.
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