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The Football League in England have woken up to the notion that they do not have a working business model.  Solidarity payments from the FA Premier League’s new TV deal will earn Championship clubs £2.3m a season (considerably more than Celtic will receive from TV for winning the SPL), with League One sides earning £324k and League Two sides earning £250k.

Unfortunately, for those hoping to establish a well-balanced and competitive structure, parachute payment to those relegated from the Premier League will earn each club £69m (£23m in year one, £18m in year two and £9m in years three and four).

The Guardian report that today Championship clubs are expected to warn the Premier League that they risk permanently damaging the “integrity of the Football League” by increasing parachute payments to the proposed level.  An unusual case of a group asking for some of its members to receive less money.

The Football League doesn’t have a viable business model.  Clubs spend unsustainable amounts of money trying to attain the riches of the Premier League, where they can add zeros to both income and expenditure.  Most fail and many of them plummet down the divisions.  Even those who drop into the Championship with parachute payments (albeit at the old level) find deleveraging too difficult.

The SPL doesn’t have a viable business model either.  They should be talking to the Football League and see what benefits could accrue from working together.

10 years ago tonight:

Liverpool 0-2 Celtic

Bang! Celtic are in a European semi final.
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  2. setting free the bears on

    macjay

     

     

    I have always managed to have a soft spot for Celtic, even when I was not a regular attender. I suspect I always will have a soft spot for them but, while I can offer unconditional love to the concept of Celtic, i cannot offer unconditional support to each and every decision it makes.

     

     

    I am no radical and, despite the nutter TSD’s best attempts, you’ll have a hard job persuading anybody of my radical credentials. Nonetheless, i have my own view about what is right and what is wrong. If Celtic allow the card shark back to the table, under the current established terms, then I must let Celtic go and make that mistake by itself. I may never stop loving Celtic but it may not be my Celtic anymore until it stops flirting with that card shark.

     

     

    I am off to my kip now. Keep yourself safe.

  3. thomthethim on

    sftb,

     

     

    I don’t have much optimism to share.

     

    I am morevor less of the same opinion as TET, as he and I have discussed iver the last year or two.

     

     

    My hold off stance is based on the stage we are at re reconstruction.

     

     

    In about four weeks time, the SPL will vote on the 12-12-18 deal.

     

     

    You may notice that apart from an unattributed quote from Thomson of DU, no one is leaking their club’s position.

     

     

    I do believe that there is intense lobbying going on, which is under the radar.

     

     

    Also, the increased desperation from Green and the MSM,suggests that their ducks are refusing to get in line.

     

     

    Having said all that, I cannot discount the recent history of path smoothing on their behalf.

     

     

    Finally, the SPL chairmen will still have last year’s rebellion in mind and, if anything, the attitudes of other clubs’ supporters has hardened.

  7. THE EXILED TIM on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    Like sftb, I have no problems with them serving their supposed punishment, a punishment that is nowhere near merited, they should be sine die, but that was never going to happen.

     

     

    let them work their way back up, no fast tracking, no favours, apart from the referees obviously, that will never change, unless the clubs get their act together and demand transparancy, a system that looks at the performance of the referees after each round of games, like they do in other countrys, disect their performance, and demote as appropriate, it’s actually rather easy to make the accountable.

     

     

    Make them the same as every other club, and I have no problem, like I would imagine every other supporter .

     

     

    But tis a dream to ask for a level playing field, how feckin sad is that.

  8. Margaret McGill on

    THE EXILED TIM

     

     

    00:33 on 21 March, 2013

     

     

    You’re deluding yourself!

     

    They should be dead.

  11. THE EXILED TIM on

    Mags

     

     

    No, not deluding masel.

     

     

    Of course they should be dead, but they aint, so we are never going to get rid, so we are either going to have to get used to them being around, or feck off, and by what I see happening, feckin off is not on the cards any time soon.

     

     

    If we have to share the planet with them, which is looking more than ever the way, we need to make things open and transparent, no much to ask for.

  13. bournesouprecipe on

    THE EXILED TIM

     

     

    I never liked walking to Celtic Park in defiance of the Hun hoardes banging the windows of their supporters buses, I hated the butterflies on the morning of seeing them inside and violating Celtic Park ( our stadium ) with there very presence. I cannot even thole them because they won’t even sit down like civilised spectators, I despise their filthy sectarian state, in it’s every form.

     

     

    My grandfather witnesssed John Thomsom’s demise, I sat with my father and brother ( now deceased ) and have had it officially confirmed in a court of law, that we were all defrauded.

     

     

    Celtic will always be my team, most of Celtic is memory anyway, and I will one day pass the baton, to future generations and let them continue the battle, of Celtic verses injustice, if they so wish.

  14. Margaret McGill on

    THE EXILED TIM

     

     

    00:45 on 21 March, 2013

     

     

    Why would you support your own death?

  16. Margaret McGill on

    If we let those hyenas collect themselves and assemble they will ultimately attack en force. After whats happened to those cnts, if they are not exterminated they will want nothing less than the annihilation of Celtic in case this situation repeats itself.

  18. THE EXILED TIM on

    BSR

     

     

    Like yoursel, I have always hated them, well I think you are saying that, I can’t change what I feel about them.

     

     

    A couple of seasons ago, we all knew they were at it, but it was never proven, and we sort of accepted it, but now that it has been proven they were indeed at it, what has changed, the powers that be have no changed, we have, we are now fighting with each other, we are now deciding whether to withdraw our support from the club we love, that mi amigo is wrong, wrong on all levels, but it might just have to be the way to get a level playing field.

     

     

    They are scum, that is a given, that will never change, we are in a land where we are hated, we are in a land where they would see us gone at the stroke of a hun pen, we can’t give in to their threats and intimidation.

     

     

    We have to fight for what is right and fair.

     

    …………………..

     

    Mags

     

     

    If we give in, aye I would seen my/our death rather than be beholding to them.

     

     

    Start a basketball team, start a volleyball team, start anything that has a level playing feild.

  19. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    setting free the bears

     

    00:25 on

     

    21 March, 2013

     

    macjay

     

     

    The Celtic Football Club can only do what is in it`s power.

     

    I would be astonished if our Board have not explored every possible method of detaching ourselves from the closed and corrupt shop of Scottish football.

     

    They would be mugs if they haven`t.

     

    You may think our Board are mugs.I don`t.

     

    In the meantime,the least we supporters can do is support.

     

    No ifs,no buts.

  20. Margaret McGill on

    macjay1 for Neil Lennon

     

     

    00:59 on 21 March, 2013

     

     

    garbage! Sue them now. Whats to lose?

  26. 'GG on

    There is a farrago of disjointed but connected interests at play in the The Rangers farce.

     

     

    Chuckles is staring into the abyss of obscurity as he tries to forge his revival side’s place in football, society and the admittedly closed and small minds of his base support.

     

    The Scottish media’s circulation is in a death spiral with readers disappearing faster than snow off one of Chuckles’ Yorkshire dykes in May.

     

    Scotland’s blighted football authorities are riddled with a collection of incompetents who are struggling to justify an environment which ignores sporting integrity, the rule of law and natural fairness.

     

     

    Each party sees the Celtic domination as a challenge to the old order.

     

    The informed, educated and articulate Celtic fan ais a threat to them being able to revert to the previous regime where the rules could be changed, bent and ignored to benefit only one team.

     

     

    The sands of time are running down and the cry has gone out to save Satan.

     

    Reporters, pundits, editors and bureaucrats are about to lose their meal tickets.

     

    A large demographic see their future weekends without a rallying point for their ancient hatreds.

     

     

    If we keep our heads, remain vocal in expressing our position to the club management and board, trust but verify they are acting in our interests and support the team as we have always done, then (pause for breath) we can rest assured that we will retain the high moral position and force the new The The Rangers to serve their time and progress to the SPL or whatever the top tier is called in three years time.

     

    (Can anyone help me find a missing comma or two?)

     

     

    When we do welcome them to Celtic Park, and I have no doubt we will meet them in the future, it will be no different from when we hosted such newcomers as Livingston, Gretna, Ross County or Inverness Caley Thistle.

     

    By then we will be benefitting from a superior management organization, invested in home grown talent and financial propriety and reaping the rewards of past prudence.

     

    We may not be winning every game but we will always be winners.

  27. Margaret McGill on

    I believe in one holy apostolic wafer Schnitzel

     

    that evil aliens came from another planet and hid

     

    from their overlord in a volcano.The omnipresent overlord found them

     

    and blew them up with atom bombs. Blowing them up resulted in

     

    their particles being blasted into every single thing on earth

     

    (Thetan Particles). To join you have to go through auditing

     

    sessions (which are VERY expensive) in order to rid your body of

     

    Thetan particles. If you dont do this you become a faith hound.

  31. PJBhoynyc on

    So…

     

    Just in from the local where my favorite barman John, from Liverpool is working…

     

     

    Stella? Says John.

     

    Please says I.

     

     

    As the pint is about to be delivered to my hand I say…

     

    So 10 years ago tonight John Hartson scores a sublime goal against who…says I

     

    The pint of Stella is withdrawn…

     

     

    And I add…

     

     

    Two years later eight members of that same Liverpool team win the Big Cup.

     

    Stella is then returned to me…

     

     

    One hour later….Five Liverpool Lads walk in to the bar…Unexpectedly.

     

    Weird synchronicity or what?

     

    Of course not.

     

    Could I resist?

     

    Of course not.

     

     

    One says… I was there!

     

    You were? I replied.

     

     

    Yes! And I was there when McManaman scored in Glasgow too…

     

    Drinks exchanged..

     

    Sweet moment away from home.

     

     

    Good Men Scousers are….

     

    True story that…

     

     

    Roll On The Synchronicity ….

  32. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Margaret McGill

     

    01:03 on

     

    21 March, 2013

     

     

    Sorry for the garbage.

     

     

    Nevertheless,

     

    Sue Whom?

     

    Newco?

     

    Oldco?

     

    Sevco?

     

    Murray?

     

    Whyte?

     

    Green?

     

    S.P.L.?

     

    S.F.A.?

     

    Sharia Law?

  33. Margaret McGill on

    A father and son were eating breakfast. The father’s newspaper had the headline, “Van Gogh sold for £8 million”.

     

     

    The son asked “Is he worth it, Dad?”

     

     

    The father, surprised at his son’s interest in fine art, replied “I suppose so, son. Why do you ask?”

     

    The son said “Well, Liverpool paid more than that for Stan Collymore, and he was crap.”

  34. Margaret McGill on

    A few years ago before he was Chelsea afficionado at a Liverpool-Everton derby, Rafa Benitez goes into the Liverpool changing room to find all his teammates looking a bit glum. “What’s up?” he asks.

     

     

    “Well, we’re having trouble getting motivated for this game. We know it’s important but it’s only Everton and we can’t be bothered, we always beat them”.

     

     

    Rafa looks at them and says, “Well, I reckon I can beat these by myself, you lads go down the pub.”

     

     

    So Rafa goes out to play for the Reds by himself and the rest of the Liverpool team go off for a few beers. After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the television on. A big cheer goes up as the screen reads “Liverpool 1 – Everton 0 (Benitez 10 minutes).” He is beating Everton all by himself!

     

     

    Anyway, a few more pints later and the game is forgotten until someone remembers “It must be full time now, let’s see how he got on.” They put the teletext on. “Result from Anfield: Liverpool 1 (Benitez 10 minutes) – Everton 1 (Cahill 89 minutes).”

     

     

    They can’t believe it; he has single-handedly gotten a draw!! They rush back to Anfield to congratulate him. They find him in the dressing room, still in his gear, sat with his head in his hands. He refuses to look at them. He says, “I’ve let you down, I’ve let you down.”

     

     

    “Don’t be daft, you got a draw, all by yourself. And they only scored at the very very end!” the players say.

     

     

    To which Rafa replies: “No, No, I have, I’ve let you down… I got sent off after 12 minutes”

  40. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MARGARET McGILL 2324

     

     

    There are some on here who are more critical of the board than are others. I consider myself to be amongst them-as I do you-but there is NO way that them being active in getting sevco back up the divisions ASAP is gonna stop me being a Celtic supporter.

     

     

    As far as I am concerned,the board will once more have done something with which I disagree.

     

     

    Tough.

     

     

    I will voice my disapproval of their actions,and get on with being a Celtic supporter.

     

     

    In the absence of anti-board sanctions which would not harm the club,there is little choice.

     

     

    I am a Celtic supporter.

     

     

    Nothing we are facing is as bad as we faced in 1994,and we came through that all right.

     

     

    But suppose we hadn’t? Suppose we folded,never to be seen again?

     

     

    I would still be a Celtic supporter-and so would you be.

     

     

    I will never watch us play them,I’ll remind one and all of the cheating it took for them to be there,but it won’t stop me being a Celtic supporter. And I hope you really feel the same,eventually.

     

     

    HH&KTF

  41. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Margaret McGill

     

    03:05 on

     

    21 March, 2013

     

    macjay1 for Neil Lennon

     

    02:55 on 21 March, 2013

     

    Dont be obtuse

     

     

    Sorry.

  42. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS

     

    03:31 on

     

    21 March, 2013

     

     

    I agree with all of that.

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