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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Talking of cartels,that’s a no bad film with Benicio Del Toro in,Sicario,well worth a swatch.
TET,
hahaha
tis a good man ye are.
But good Luck to you and big AL too mate.
It’s only a game after all ;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
celt55,
much as it pains me to say it, I agree with HamiltonTIm.
Always know it as Britannia’s huns etc.
Was a nice mammy ye have, trying to save ye from thems :-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
CELT55 on 11TH FEBRUARY 2016 10:51 PM
Can any of you lads help me out here? My mammy’s (Donegal) favourite song was the Foggy Dew, she sang it at any party we had. However, there was a line that she sang and I’ve always sung since, which is different from what I hear now. We’ve always sung, because of ma mammy, “Britannia’s sons with their long range guns.” Now I hear it’s ‘huns’. Is this a new addition or was ma mammy just being polite for us weans of her’s?
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Originally written “Sons ” early 20th century….from memory.
Morphed into “huns ” `50s,`60s
We`ve had many a debate on here on the origin of “huns” in relation to Rangers.
Perhaps the British Royal Family……genetically German.
Celt55. I used to have a number of old Irish Ballad Song Books and I have seen both versions, “sons” & “huns”.
However the song was written by a Catholic Canon and reading the rest of the lyrics, I suspect your Mammy was singing the correct original version.
Apart from fact that the overall terminology used in the song was stirring but not abusive, the song was written in 1919 and it would have been very early for anyone to be using the term Hun in that sense least of all a priest.
TET, very probably.
The Foggy Dew
Traditional
As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
There Armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by
No fife did hum nor battle drum did sound it’s dread tatoo
But the Angelus bell o’er the Liffey swell rang out through the foggy dew
Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war
‘Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Sulva or Sud El Bar
And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through
While Britannia’s Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew
‘Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go that small nations might be free
But their lonely graves are by Sulva’s waves or the shore of the Great North Sea
Oh, had they died by Pearse’s side or fought with Cathal Brugha
Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep ‘neath the shroud of the foggy dew
But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year
And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few
Who bore the fight that freedom’s light might shine through the foggy dew
Ah, back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I’d kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fled, O glorious dead, When you fell in the foggy dew.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
squire danaher on 11th February 2016 11:05 pm
Really interesting, many thanks.
T3
Hope you win the LMS6 with your non-zombie selection criteria
HH
CRC
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 11th February 2016 11:10 pm
corkcelt on 11th February 2016 11:10 pm
Thanks to you both, my Ma was 10 in 1916 and sang the version that her folks taught her, sadly I was born late into the family and never met my grandparents. Big miss.
CRC, those who admin LMS have to take a bit of flack here.
Why put the Zombies in, then give anyone picking them a hard time?
Is there something you want to tell us?
:-)
HAPPY HOOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY to
ACGR’s Mum,and to his sister too. (I had to rewrite that,it made him look like a hillbilly at first!)
And also to uber-Tim COWIEBHOY!!!!!!!
The Token Tim on 11th February 2016 11:09 pm
Aye, she was protective!!
TheBarcaMole on 11th February 2016 11:12 pm
Sorry saw your post later, many thanks. That’s the version that I’ve seen most of.
CRC,
cheers pal.
Bit harsh on the TET and Boig AL, but….sevco?? tsk tsk
;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Doc
You need to ask my partner in crime about the fixture selections
The LMS devil may put temptation in your path, but it is the LMS sinner that selects :-)
HH
CRC
Doc,
to be fair to the LMS admin’s they put them in a test.
Modesty prevents me mentioning who passed and who failed…..
;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
TTT
Aye but I bet you’ve got the monkeys on yer Saturday betting slip! :-)
Lennon N Mc. . ,Mjallby
People who liked ‘Narcos’ on Netflix should enjoy ‘Sicario’.
Emily Blunt very good in it too.
HT,
course i have, i always bet hartlepool……oh wait…..
that will be right ya warmer ye HT
:-)
Hows you anyway me ole son? Still getting hit in the face by balls at the away game??? ;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Barcamole. Be careful. I have sang the foggy dew more than once. But on a football related site, singing such songs could be deemed offensive.
Police Scotland regularly monitor this site looking for offence.
At the same time it’s okay for anti Catholic sentiment to be posted on follow follow on almost every post.
That’s Scotland.
Careful.
Wouldnae watch it wi’ ma dinner, though.
CRC, that’s just passing the buck:-)
T3, well done, I resisted last week too, but got punted oot!
Good Luck, and know, I’m only at it.
Corkcelt. You might be ok cos you live I’m Ireland.
That’s what we are up against in Scotland.
To police Scotland. I know you are reading. You won’t get away with this forever.
TTT
Ha no just getting caught singing, “Here we go, 10 in a row!”
I’m grand my friend just incredibly busy what with work, family etc etc.
I hope you, J and the girls are well.
Ps when are you available to not turn up for a pint?! :-)
Tories move to impose contracts on Junior Doctors.
Hmmm…..
Thatcher took on the miners,the union which was most likely to have public support,when she moved to annihilate the industrial sector unions.
Now her heirs are taking on the doctors,again likely to have popular support,in a bid to crush the public sector unions.
If they win this,don’t expect successful negotiations for unions representing teachers,firemen,local authorities,nurses,etc.
NEGANON2 on 11TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:35 PM
Corkcelt. You might be ok cos you live I’m Ireland.
That’s what we are up against in Scotland.
To police Scotland. I know you are reading. You won’t get away with this forever.
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Be serious,Neg.
Luke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b605qq7xBzM
THEBARCAMOLE
Good to see you on the blog, don’t be a
stranger :))
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:39 PM
Tories move to impose contracts on Junior Doctors.
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Medecins sans principles.
Celt55: Just on.. To add to the many replies you have re ‘huns’ or ‘sons’ I learned the words from a wee song book(words only) my Dad purchased whilst we were on holiday in Dublin in 1951. Definitely HUNS then!
Macjay. I am perfectly serious. If we ever get a beer I will tell you of the events after one night I spent in the brazen head. Both funny and sinister
I still wonder what happened to the contents of my wheelie bin!
Be sitting in some office somewhere in a file.
CELT55… Welcome; traditional version ad I know it…. Good Luck
Neganon… Need to extradite me from Cebu to Halfway for posting an Irish folk song on a blog… Would look forward to that particular publicity… Keep fighting the fight but try and do it without alienating like minded people
eh!
Again, Good Luck…
HT, just saying hello and a wee reminder to save the CT forms for the SE Asia cadre… Hi to H…
Marspapa… You lurking???
Thanks for the company on Tuesday…
Good craic…
BMCUW… Filled in the form; scored 57!!!
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Asia ‘
Beatbhoy
I’ll check out narcos,cheers,aye bdt isn’t in a bad film.
HH
A lot of talk about Charlie being our best defensive midfielder. He isn’t a good defensive midfielder and there seems to be no one else to fill that role at present. That is part of the problem with this team as well as a lack of strength.. both mental and physical.
HT,
hahaha, good man.
Glad to hear you are well mate.
My lot all doing ok mate, but dont forget Liam, the we man has a hard enough time in our house (esp when Im on ma travels) without being left oot :-)
Hope H and your girls and the extended family all well too mate.
As for the beers, you know I’m always not available to turn up for a pint or two ;-)
Seriously though we’ll need to get that sorted soon.
All the best pal.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
NEGANON2 on 11TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:50 PM
Macjay. I am perfectly serious. If we ever get a beer I will tell you of the events after one night I spent in the brazen head. Both funny and sinister
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Fair enough.
Can`t see an easily available You Tube song resulting in an arrest.
However,you live there and I don`t and you wouldn`t have to persuade me about the black arts of the local constabulary.
A pint? God willing,pal.
Cosy Corner Bhoy on 11th February 2016 11:48 pm
Just caught you before I go to bed! We’re talking way before ’51, but your version still could be the original. Many thanks for replying.
TBM
F, they’re just waiting for you my friend. Take care and Hail Hail.
TTT
Jings how could I forget the wee fella!!! :-)
Definitely get something sorted soon D.
God Bless and Hail Hail.
Must sleep…..