Former Bolton Wanderers chairman, Phil Gartside, lost his battle with cancer yesterday. During Bolton’s 18 year Premier League tenure, Gartside wanted Celtic and Rangers in the league, as part of a reorganisation which would have seen a second tier Premier League created.
His motivation was the realisation that English football’s model was inherently dysfunctional. Teams like Bolton would over-commit to the player contracts necessary to keep them in the league, but with everyone else doing the same thing, it was only a matter of time before they finished in the bottom three. Less than 3 years since relegation Bolton face a winding-up order this month over a £2.2m debt to HMRC.
‘The Gartside Plan’ for league reorganisation found little support among his Premier League peers. Each passing TV deal poured ever-more money into the Premier League but the model remains dysfunctional. Those relegated regularly face dire consequences – and that’s before the bubble bursts.
As English and Welsh clubs who have dropped out of the Premier League continue to deal with the consequences, Europe’s mega-rich clubs are unhappy with their return from Champions League football. The relative democratisation of Champions League qualification, introduced by Michel Platini, which sees more clubs from smaller countries reach the group stage, is seen as a problem to some of Europe’s richest.
They want games against Manchester United, not Dinamo Zagreb. So do TV companies and sponsors. The football industry in Europe operates a series of EU sanctioned cartels. These sanctioned exceptions were granted on the basis that football is a sport, not a conventional business. The more top clubs act like businesses, not sporting institutions, the more reason to tear down the walls of these carters.
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THEBARCAMOLE
Wi luck,you’ll regret that…
DRAMBOWIECELT
Since you’ve not named a tune,have this. From your moniker,you should like it!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kNCEURBYEGo
Saw Barcabhoy on twitter earlier… Much sense for Hall of Infamy and injuries…..
Wee tune as a consequence….
https://youtu.be/nPOy7TPjfkE
Later.
HH
Mr Sydney Tim
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There is no moneyball strategy in operation at Celtic – we sell players to balance the books.
I explained yesterday that not to sell is NOT an option for the following reasons:
1) The players wanted to go to the riches and glamour of the EPL.
2) Even if they had stayed we would have had to pay the EPL wages or lose them for nothing in a couple of years as they waited out their contract.
3) Players waiting out their contracts would be disgruntled and would not perform.
4) Paying exhorbitant EPL wages to a few players would unsettle the squad.
5) Paying exhorbitant EPL wages and not selling the likes of Wanyama, Forster and VVD, would have pushed up our debt to around £50 million.
6) To service this debt would cost £5 million per season before a ball was kicked.
7) Having such a large debt would severely restrict our ability to bring in new players.
8) Having such a large debt would severely restrict any infrastructure improvements.
Your fixation with the demise Peter Lawwell is not based on any coherent reasoning and certainly makes no financial sense – so I am thinking it must be personal – what exactly do you believe he has done to you?
It is heartbreaking but the whole story is coming to its final chapter. I reckon it is best to be like little children when trying to really understand whats going on.
MR PASTRY on 12TH FEBRUARY 2016 4:43 AM
Wow ~ that is some post.
You nailed it exactly ~Well done!
HH
Currently in aussie Perth till mon then in sydney for a week 10 mins from big bridge any good pubs near by
RON67
This is where the Sydney Tims hang out. Map included.
cheers sydney
I’ve never looked at this website before, never looked beyond it for ulterior motives…… Anyway I googled things after hearing things. Well at least it is not the Internet of Everything, Sigh, Oh My Good Lord, surely not.
So Pope Francis and the Patriarch of the Russia crew are gonnae have a blether in HAVANA, Francis did say he’d meet him anywhere. ;))
A penny for the thoughts of the ‘Nazi Youth’ previous Pope. ;)
The Gnostics are in our own Division – Don’t you be so lacking in understanding that.
Christ is the King. Jesus Christ that died and took away every Sin for EVERYONE – if they just call on him – really simple. Some feckers just like to be popular and say what they don’t mean.
Let me be Brutal.
We are all eternal beings. We are going somewhere. The nonsense doesn’t add up whatsoever.
That First Commandment, is the First for a Specific Reason.
And as ever noo, Oh Ronny Ronny, Ronny Ronny Ronny Ronny Deila.
A song for the haters.
And We Know
Anger is an energy, you are right.
RON67
Poor link,try this.
http://www.cheersbar.com.au
Big Day – MSM story?
Obviously Mr C has been all over this way way in advance, if people look back in to his jibber jabber on here.
I think he is quite a good Devils advocate as well though. ;))
RON67
have a bite to eat here
http://www.automata.com.au/
You can dance if you want to.
X-Mix
Electronic Storm
Thanks bhoys
Looks like The Independent is the first major title to run up the white flag.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2016/feb/11/the-independent-a-newspaper-killed-by-the-internet
ron67,
You may already know this but the Perth CSC have their club at Rosie O’Gradys in Northbridge, most games are on TV there
Morning pals and a Big Happy Friday from a slightly cloudy but still dry, calm and frosty East Kilbride.
thermalsCSC
RON67
Sorry,mate. Thanks to ANTIPODEAN RED for the spot-I misread your post,thought you were in Sydney!
Eeeejit…
Hey Jobo.
Maximum Respect.
A tune for You, Scooby Doo.
Christ Risen
With the Independent ‘biting the dust’, lets hope that the next in line are, The Herald, The Sunday Herald, and the comic ,The National.
“Tear Down The Walls of Football Cartels”
A great headline for a Celtic blog, but what have Celtic done to challenge the corrupt cartel running Scottish football ?
What are Celtic planning to do to challenge the corrupt cartel running Scottish football ?
Silence is not an option.
http://hackinginquiry.org/
We have a disgusting right wing tabloid press as many of you know, Celtic and Celtic fans have long since been a target being victims of propaganda and spin of the SFA via these rags below
‘biting the dust’ soon i hope are the empires of Murdoch, Desmond and Daily Mail
And you dare to call me a terrorist………
When you post something on a website.
The Calvinist are Angry. In this case 2 negatives can’t make a positive.
Neganon2 howevaah can.
That hatefilled press are now exposing themselves.
I wouldn’t have seen it if NA2 hadn’t highlighted it.
Front Page on the DR.
Good article from the independent deserves the its
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/doctors-eh-you-can-t-find-anyone-more-selfish-in-society-a6867886.html
Morning bhoys and ghirls. Celt55 I noticed you asking about The Foggy Dew last night. The word I always sang was huns ( I’m 56) but remember my dad singing sons like your mammy. I checked my kindle as I downloaded a book called 201 Irish Song Lyrics and it says sons in it. I personally think it’s originally been sons and we the Celtic support have changed it to huns back in the 70s.
HH
KTF
UTLR
Group of fans placing an advert sounds familiar
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-lufc-news/leeds-united-legal-action-threat-over-cellino-out-advert-at-elland-road-updated-1-7727955#ixzz3
Oh we’re all off to Glasgow on the plane (once again)
With the duty free clinking in the bags(with the fags)
And we’re off to watch the Celtic Bhoys
And we’re hoping that the County are bad
Hail hail!
I’v noticed that Mr Pastry gave the PL and the CFC board haters they’r dinner a couple of days ago and challenged any one of them to prove him wrong with the figures he posted on his article, some made a half arsed effort at it but fell way short, then as usual changed the subject, but what I did notice was that the predictable ones who push the anti PL CFC Board (you know the ones that keep using the DOWNSIZING word) stayed well clear of it, and why did they do that? I’ll tell you, because Mr Pastry was bang on with his post, Mr Pastry I doff my cap to you sir for one thing, one thing that the agenda mob just can’t do because they are allergic to it, ……telling the truth, and proving it, once again, well done sir.
Bobby, In Perth until this mon then going to Sydney you were right the first time
Another blog that’s getting above its self and claims to speak for all Celtic supporters and threatening the manager, it’s a blog ffs, know your place have your opinion, but don’t say you speak for me.
http://videocelts.com/2016/02/blogs/latest-news/celtic-fans-arent-interested-in-criminal-tales-and-sleepless-nights
Mr Pastry on 12th February 2016 4:43 am
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Yet another pile of yer ‘slanted’ p#sh….imho.
The only EPL-level wage that is paid at Celtic Park is that which belongs to PL.
£20k a week and, it all adds up to £1million a year once ye take all the jiggery-pokery into account…..you’ll no see that being released by the coasha-auditors….
HH
tonydonnelly67,
I want Celtic to upset the apple cart.
I heard a Bhoy frae my Sons age group scored the goal.
Come on the year 2000 kids, Blessed.
Celtic is above the US Presidency and the Pope, IMO.
I’ve never been an orthodox person.
God – he can change you in the blink of an eye.
Powerful.csc.
BDO are looking to take a final appeal to the Supreme Court and have applied to the Court of Session to be granted leave. The hearing will take place on February 24.
No long noo
TD67 8.29AM: Well at least you are consistent in your opinions. No matter the blog you don’t change your opinion! But then even facts wouldn’t change that. BTW I am a happy clapper and have never booed the Celtic in my life but don’t think everything in the garden is rosy.Some things need to be changed and I don’t mean the manager.
TonyDonnelly67 on 12th February 2016 8:20 am
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Hail Hail, ya auld fenian eeejit:)….hope yer wee mammy’s well.
Anyway…..30,000 empty seats at Celtic Park….does that not constitute evidence that, the waffle being spun by Mr Pastry is a pile p#sh that has reduced Celtic FC to a rudderless ship were, nobody is accountable for any misgovernance at ‘any’ level because, every employee at Celtic Park is bondaged by, confidentiality-clauses which begs the question….what is there to hide ?
This same erudite, upstanding statesman, fantasy figure of the Happy clapper section of Celtic fans, cost the club £20 million in a CL-money-pot because….he sat Bobo Balde in the stand because BB said that he wouldn’t be signing a confidentiality-clause and, was going to devote a section of a book which….mysteriously was stopped from being released, a section devoted to the rudderless style in which the club was run…Hmmmm ?
Anyway, PL ordered his puppet manager, WGS to instruct Bobo that he’d be sitting in the stand if he didn’t fall in line with company policy and sign the C-C.
This was an attempt by PL to try and force BB out of the club, the way that he did when he threatened Kenny Miller…when KM said “Peter told me that, if I don’t leave just now, I’ll find myself 6th in the pecking order of strikers which is disappointing as I’ve been on a decent scoring run lately.”
The question is….why did WGS not step in and say – “This is my striker…I’ll decide where he is in the pecking order.”…..Oh, and don’t be surprised to see WGS(DD & PL’s puppet), being wheeled out to tell us all that it’ll be great for Scottish football when Rangers come back….watch this space…
Well, trying to freeze Bobo out….it didny work and, Celtic fans were forced to watch, Stephen McManus and, Gary Caldwell being bullied off the pitch by the likes of, Cousan, Darcheville(sp), Lafferty….etc
When did ye ever see a Celtic captain being bullied off the pitch ?
Billy McNeill ?
Danny McGrain ?
Roy Aitken ?
Paul McStay ?
Tom Boyd ?
Jackie MacNamara ?
Paul Lambert ?
Neil Lennon ?
Scott Brown ?
….Nah, me neither.
But….Celtic under Lawwell’s watch are rudderless….more often than not…on the pitch.
C’Mon the ‘Trust’ :))
Hail Hail ya auld eejit…..mind, dont be releasing the hounds on me :)
Just read the article someone linked to a couple of days ago on Glasgow Celtic chat “The Brutalization of Celtic and Ronny Deila by the Mainstream media and fans”
In which the blogger bemoans the malignant influence of the papers and broadcasters on the views of Celtic fans, particularly with regard to RD.
He entreats fans to stop buying and participating, and then proves how free he is from such influence by writing
“Then next season Rangers or Sevco or whatever you want to call them come back up….”
What was it Nancy Sinatra sang?
“And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like….”
Victory……outright victory for Timdom, will only come about ‘if’ the gallant crusade that Auldheid and his res:12 rebel band are, bravely pursuing reaches a positive conclusion.
If these, bold, gallant, blessed bunch of Celtic Supporters clinch this, earth shattering victory, I would say that, that achievement….must be up there with the greatest victory that his grand ole club has ever pulled out of the bag.
I’m talking….up there with, Lisbon 1967.
I’m sure that, the remaining lions and, those who look down on us from above….would celebrate such a victory as though they were still in the Estadio Nacional.
It could be looked back upon this, should it happen….as probably ‘thee’ greatest victory that Celtic would ever achieve….the one that get’s the club out of anti-Celtic Scotland.
Please let it be so…..