SCOTLAND’S Wags and families are banned from visiting the players at the team hotel for the duration of the Euros and also at the pre-tournament training base in Spain.
But stars WILL be granted two or three days off to see their families between the two camps.
Steve Clarke’s 26-man group jet out to La Finca tomorrow for a pre-tournament training camp which will see them take on the Netherlands and Luxembourg in warm-up matches in the Algarve.
But strict Covid protocols will be in place throughout their time in Spain – meaning the closest they will get to some downtime during the camp will be using hotel facilities such as the on-site golf course.
The Scots face Netherlands on Wednesday June 2 and Luxembourg on Sunday June 6 but will jet back to Scotland shortly afterwards.
That leaves our stars with a couple of days to catch up with their families before they embark for Rockliffe Hall in the North East of England for the duration of their Euro 2020 campaign on Wednesday June 9.
Again, strict Uefa Covid protocols will kick into place for the tournament – which means no wives, girlfriends or families at the team hotel.
It’s a common sense approach from Clarke to cope with an extended build up before the Scots commence their eagerly-awaited Euros campaign back at Hampden against the Czech Republic on Monday June 14 at 2pm.
They then face England on the Friday night of June 18 (kick-off 8pm), before rounding off their group campaign against the Croats on June 22.
Group rivals England, who will be based at St George’s Park, admitted yesterday that they would be forced to adhere to the hardline policy.
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Southgate said: “We’re not going to be able to let people in.
“There’s a clear edict from Uefa on what the bubbles need to look like to be as secure as we can make them.
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“It’s never going to be 100 per cent failsafe but we’ve got to comply with as much as we can.
“We’re hoping that we might at some point be able to let the players have a little bit of time at home.
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“But that’s constantly being assessed. It’d be a preference for us if we can.
“But of course, we’ve got to monitor not only our own situations, but where we are as a country, what are the variants, what the government guidelines are.”
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