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I am satisfied that, in deciding whether an offence was related to a football match, a court will take into account the length of time that has elapsed since the match was played without the need for any specific provision requiring it to do so.
However, Fergus Ewing will acknowledge the valuable contribution that lottery funds make to shinty, which must be taken into account in any calculation of the financial contribution that is made to the sport.
On purely financial terms, on paper, a case might be made in the short term, but if the many ramifications and knock-on effects of closure were taken into account—as they should be—there would be no case to answer.