Hibs star Ryan Porteous insists the decision from the Scottish Government not to allow fans to attend Hampden on Saturday is wrong.
The defender will line up in his first national cup final when Hibs take on St Johnstone and he admits he's gutted his family won't be there.
It was initially decided that 300 supporters from each team could attend, before that possibility was pulled when Glasgow remained in Level 3 coronavirus restrictions.
And Porteous reckons it wasn't a good call because none of the players family will be able to watched their loved ones in the Scottish Cup Final, and he was baffled by the fact 20k were at the FA Cup Final last weekend.
He reckons it makes Scottish football 'look a bit stupid' as he laid into the decision ahead of the crunch game for the Easter Road side.
He said: “It will be a great day. It’s just a shame our families can’t come.
“There had to be ways to get fans there, but especially our families. They have to watch it from home just like everybody else.
“For the St Johnstone players as well, everyone wants their family at a national cup final.
“For us not to have that, when they had 20,000 fans at the FA Cup final down in England, kind of makes us look a bit stupid.
“But it is what it is. Our minds now are solely focused on trying to do the job on the pitch and hopefully celebrating with our families afterwards.
“The 300 tickets we were going to get wouldn’t have been enough. It might have been two tickets each and some of the boys would need five or six if they wanted their kids, partners, mums and dads.
“It was probably a lose-lose because trying to decide who was going to be there would have probably annoyed more people than it would have benefited.
“It’s probably a better thing that we can’t have any in rather than just a handful. We probably needed all 300 for family members and friends never mind fans.”
