A group of Russian and Ukrainian clubs hoping to form a joint championship have formed an organising committee and have invited top flight clubs in both countries to a meeting in Moscow on 18th of February to formalise arrangements.
The invitation letter states, “The main goal of our organization is the development of club, national and European football”
“In order to bring football to a new level, we propose to combine multiple national championships in one tournament. Initially Ukraine and Russia will be involved but in order to develop the strength of our game, the league could be extended to all former-Soviet countries.
“We are convinced that this new championship will be a model for other territories; this integration process is the future of football.
“This initiative will create healthy competition, increase entertainment game and increasing revenues from television broadcasts and advertising – just some of the benefits of unification.
“All of this will allow individual clubs to benefit as well as national teams, who will gain from players working in a higher standard of league. This is perhaps a unique case in sport where all participants are able to win.
Soviet Sport spoke to several Russian teams who confirmed they will attend. Sergei Palkin, the chief executive of Shakhtar Donetsk, was cautious, suggesting Ukrainian clubs and the Federation need to act with unity, “I hope this meeting takes place but only after Ukrainian clubs have chosen a common position.
“Then we can decide who should attend. The Football Federation of Ukraine need to be active, they can unite clubs and deal with the proposal appropriately.”
Note their points:
“Main goal… development of club, national and European football”.
“Bring football to a new level”.
“Develop the strength of our game”.
“This integration process is the future of football”.
“This will allow individual clubs to benefit as well as national teams”.
“Create healthy competition, increase entertainment game and increasing revenues from television broadcasts and advertising”.
Amid all the talk about reorganising our game has anyone had the clarity of vision to articulate the above aspirations? Having lived with threats from “the big five” leagues for long enough other demographically-challenged countries are putting plans in place to allow their clubs a sporting chance. It will soon be “the big six” and thereafter, who knows?
Why on earth are we worried about the number of lower divisions we have? Regionalise or wither on the vine – and do your best to ignore any muppet who suggests taking legal action because he got his sums wrong. The only change worth having will be consensual and will benefit all in our game.
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31003,
got 24 bottles of that pash sitting in my shed as i type.
Been there since Christmas – bought them for my 2 bros-in-law who drink it.
But one became a dad for the first time late on Christmas Eve (and therefore was a tad busy on Christmas Day) and the other was doing a gig so there it has sat all that time.
its yours should you but ask…..
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Just read back a bit.
Sad news Jude, thoughts with your wife.
HH
Best named beer ‘tactical nuclear penguin’ 36 % abv brewed here by brewdog
OG,
no offence, but after Friday I won’t be holding my breath! Hope you’re right.
Best lager ? ABT anything but tennants !
Buttwiper doesn’t count IMO
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop’s Fables. Remind anyone of certain posts on here?
Beer?!
What aboot those Italian delicacies Moretti and Peroni?!
Cin cin!!
HH!!
Guinness, goes in liquid one end, out solid the other end, tis truely a food >}
gerryguk7, 14:54
It will clarify a few things
TTT
That’s very kind of you….even though my question was in jest….tell ye what though tell me yer favourite tipple and I’ll reciprocate….how’s that.
OG
Time to break out the Budweiser????
The forgotten message from “The boy who cried wolf” is that the wolf did indeed turn up – regardless of whether anyone listened!!
Just dropped in to say….
O.G.Rafferty
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If you don’t mind m8…I’m going to condemn yer
news as a pile of – ole nickers n p#sh…
…then it’ll all come true :o)))
Ghood LUCK This Time
HH
Off oot again.
Beer is nice
IMO any drink thats taken ice-cold tastes more or less the same. Beers of any nature give me indigestion & heart-burn anyway. The only long drinks I can drink are Guiness & Magners. I like my wine and since I started coming to Glesga I developed a taste for a wee drop of Scotch Whiskey with a little lemonade. Skulling pints in the Barras at my age is not a good idea pre-match as if I do, I tend to spend half the game trotting in and out of the toilets.
Mea Culpa – I think the message is more about if you predict something often enough eventually it will come true :)
31003
Ye don’t get hangovers drinking buds,I must of been faking it last sunday then, lying on the counch all day after drinking about 15 of them on saturday
ernie lynch
Are you serious? Every club in England will hate us. Every English hooligan will come out in force when we are in town.
I do not want my club to move to England! I can never understand anyone who does.
The game is changing up here. We all know it was rotten but it can’t continue anymore.
The key to our success is Europe and we must play in a league where we have entry each season. They can stick their EPL where they want to but I don’t want to see my club in it. A European league should be our long term goal.
What if 3 years down the line a European league is mooted? We would be a 2nd or 1st division English club. Would be invited? No chance!
I can’t see the logic in playing in England.
LB
O.G.
Nothing can happen while I have access to a computer and am able to read about it in real time. It’s the law of the universe.
31003, 15:00
Maybe not the champers but worth a pint or two, certainly
Times are certainly tough at the Big (Bleak) Hoose
Budweiser
Oh gawd nooooooo!
During the 2006 World Cup it was the ‘fishul beer – the plan was to have exclusive rights to be sold at venues
The locals kicked up such a stink that FIFA relented and we all got the chance to savour the delights of good old German beers- lovely stuff
Have enjoyed great beers in Belgium, Slovakia and Croatia…even English Ales have something to commend them.
Poland -one afternoon in Krakow sitting in the wee square enjoying a nice steak and delicious salad with what appeared to be cabbage & carrot concoction that was devine…2 pints of beer …..totally bloootered ;-)
Lucky escape as i was ordering No 3 before it really kicked in…or kicked aff;-)
Nice waitress just smiled and brought the bill instead
Later I read the blurb and the adjoining info. on how local cops deal with public drunkedness (like a mini riot act hehehe)
Lovely people in Poland, great food, German standards of hygiene and efficiency -at Spain 1982 prices
Just be careful with the beer ;-)
HH
Just one query OG: where can we expect to see the news?
OG
It’s been toned down somewhat, by the sounds of it?!
You were talking about getting the go ahead to start the ‘serious drinking’ last Friday…suppose we can wait a little longer!
Thanks for the updates
Hail Hail
O.G
No time to scroll back!
Can you repost your story please?
Thanks in advance.
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/revealed-rangers-windingup-petition/4020
estorilbhoy @ 14:04
Rmbr RAF Bruggen early 90s and Warsteiner was nicknamed Wobbly – soon found out!
500ml bottle for half a mark – brillant.
Now drink Bitburger or Krombacher but still find it hard to beat the German beers
P
Here, I assume is what our man OG is referring to:
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/revealed-rangers-windingup-petition/4020
TOMOBLOG: WINDING UP PETITION AGAINST RANGERS NEWCO
If you can’t be bothered to click through to Thommo’s blog, here is the text:
Orlit Enterprises, based in Singapore, is seeking to petition the Scottish Court for a winding-up order against Rangers. Sources close to this legal action have spoken exclusively to Channel 4 News today.
This claim arises from the club’s alleged failure to pay two of the four invoices issued by Orlit. The outstanding sum is £400,000.
The source has clarified to Channel 4 News that Orlit Enterprises was contracted to source and introduce the investors who provided seed capital in order to acquire the club from the administrator and to secure the June 2012 payroll.
Orlit did not participate in either the pre-IPO equity fundraising or the IPO itself.
My sources indicated to me that there has been no satisfactory answer from the club as to its non-payment despite several requests. In the circumstances, the application for a winding-up order of the Rangers Football Club Limited – being the trading company obliged to pay the debt . Sources close to Orlit say they now have no other option than to embark upon winding up proceedings.
We are seeking comment on this from Rangers. Of course they may well have very sound reasons and defence for not paying.
This all sounds dramatic stuff and it may possibly play that way. But one should remember that winding-up petitions are often used as a method of extracting payment from companies.
£400k thats a big chunk of their pot :))
Questions should be good tomorrow
alex thomson@alextomo
#c4news online – we’re doing a Rangers online discussion tomorrow at 12.15 Glasgow time. Fans, legal expert, top journalist — and me.
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Thank you O.G.
Well done OG, apologies for doubting that any news would be forthcoming.
I assume if they have 22 million in the bank then this can be paid without any further ado . . .
Thanks for that ghuys!
They get worser and worser every day…….ya beauty!
If chuckles can’t pay 400K he must be in much more serious financial poo than we’d all thought.
I guess I’m a wee bit biased, living in southern Germany. However I would have to say german beers are easily amongst the best in the world.
Efe booked again !!!
Total non-story OG. For they are awash with cash, swimming in big golden rivers of lovely lovely lucre.
And remember, they have no debts!
£400,000.
Not much for a club with 500m fans and a successful share issue