Hibs’ fans looking forward to top-flight football resuming on 1st August received a boost after Scotland’s national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch claimed that he is “more hopeful” but “still cautious” about the prospect.
The Hibs players will return to the club’s Training Centre in East Lothian on Monday and train with restrictions in place as they work towards starting the new season.
The training sessions will be non-contact to begin with until the country comes out of phase one and begins phase two.
Last week Professor Leitch cautioned fans to ‘pencil in’ the proposed start date but now believes a drop in the number of cases and the rate of infection make the scheduled start more likely.
He said on BBC Scotland’s popular football programme ‘Off the Ball’: “We’ve had another good week. I am more hopeful this Saturday than I was last Saturday but I’m still cautious. Gradually as we move things seem to be going in the right direction.
“Things are beginning to fall into place that would allow us to put another layer of pencil over that date. But it’s still early days.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
