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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Justifying Tommy’s subterfuge by reference to who Sandaza plays for, his money, or even worse, calling him a coward because he didn’t say anything negative about McCoist or Green is what is known as an ad hominem defence. Spurious and avoiding the issue.
Invasion of privacy is the same no matter who you are.
Those pesky ole criminal Celtic fans just don’t know what to get up to next.
Next time that Nigerian guy calls me and asks for my personal details, i’ll give them to him willingly.
Once i get my bank account emptied i’m sure no one will call me naive and ‘how stupid could he be giving his personal info over the phone’?
BSR I’d call Tommy’s stunt a social gaffe. Easily rectified without recourse to the courts.
I’m unhappy with the word pesky applied to us. We’re much grander than that.
That the victim is not the brightest nor speaking in his mother tongue is no justification. In fact it aggravates the offence.
The revelation that football people are largely mercenary, greedy and duplicitous is no revelation at all.
ntassoolla
When my 70 year old mother gets unsolicited phone calls from people she has never heard of, offering her really exciting money making schemes, she gives the short shrift.
They may be invading her privacy, but she deals with it pragmatically, by telling them on no uncertain terms where to go and hangs up.
It is not rocket science.
Unless you are a stupid, stupid, stupid hun.
(And one desperate to get out of there into lthe bargain).
TMWLT @16:25 next time he calls give him Tommy’s number.
That would be an interesting conversation.
Bbj’s goal will never be forgotten. Absolute stunner
TCC if I may say there is something contradictory in calling the man “stupid, stupid, stupid” and then acknowledging he is “desperate to get out of there.”
Shall we settle for just the two stupids?
I’m sure your mother has been brushing aside such approaches since long before the Nigerian bank account scheme or the recent Chinese dead relative wheeze.
mncelt @16:32 definitely in my top ten.
For what it’s worth……. I received the following in an email response from my (SNP) MSP’s lachie:
“Regarding the incidents that took place on Saturday, Mr Dornan has written to the Chief Inspector of Strathclyde Police with a number of questions surrounding the operation. He is also in the process of arranging to meet with the Divisional Commander for the City Centre area, as well as arranging to meet with officials at Celtic Football Club in order to get a more rounded view of events, and will endeavour to raise the issues that yourself and others have contacted him about.
Once Mr Dornan has received responses from the police and had discussions with officials at Celtic Park, I will be in a position to give you a fuller response to your email.”
I think at the very least, the press coverage following Saturday’s shenanigans and the resultant necessity for politicians to (reluctantly) get involved might make the Police think twice before stepping over the mark the next time.
Prank calls have been on the go for as long as I can remember.
Some funny, some unfunny, some tasteless and in some terrible cases, like the poor nurse caught out by the Australian DJ’s when the Dutchess of Cambridge was in hospita recently, in tragedy.
However, I am willing to wager that Tommy will be the first to be threatened with physical violence and intimidation for making an arse out of a sevco player.
That’s what they do – it’s in their DNA.
JohnnyClash @16:40 always worth posting that kind of stuff.
Remember folks that those arrested on Saturday need help in formulating their defense- so if you know anyone who filmed the event or who witnessed any of it, especially the arrests, please ask them to get in touch with the FAC or the lawyers representing those charged. PC Mickebhoy need not apply
Ntass
Personally FWIW, I found the intrusion a lot worse than ‘cringeworthy’ or a ‘stunt’ or ‘naughty’
But it’s a big bad world out there and even Celtic supporters oppressed and proven to be cheated for generations, may let standards slip on occasion, below yours or mine.
The player was naive and is already proven so, by signing a contract with them, and the bigger ramification for him is that since he’s unable to score a goal, or even stay fit, Sevco
might take action against him, given what he said in the conversation.
JohnnyClash
16:40 on
20 March, 2013
Johnny I got the same reply from Mr Dornans office
Afternoon
10 years since Liverpool. Watched the game in a packed International Bar , Edinburgh. Tremendous performance. When big John got the second I got soaked .
After the game one of the younger lads said ‘ I never thought anything could be better than beating the Huns 6-2…But this is’ And I still think he’s right
Jimbo
Paddysmarket/tommysbhoy
Just back in after gone off oot.
PM, lay off those hallucinogenics :O)
TB, who in their right mind would opt to pay that manky hole a visit?
Bon chance mes enfant.
the comfortable collective,
I think your last line sumsvup Sandaza’s state of mind.
His desperation to escape from Hell caused him to suspend his critical faculties.
To be pitied, not scorned.
Definitely against taking the rip out of Sandazza like that – Tommy pick better targets please – there are lots and lots more worthy – and definitely for the CQN app, and Yes, paying £1.67 will be much much better than paying £19.67.
Re the Liverpool game, it’s worth remembering that eight of the players that started that night (Dudek, Carragher, Traore, Hyppia, Hamann, Gerrard, Riise, Smicer) finished the Big Cup final in Istanbul two years later.
* Blows dust off ole joke file *
President Barack Obama is visiting a Glasgow hospital.
He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness, he greets one.
The patient replies:
Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place,
Painch, tripe or thairm,
As langs my airm.
Obama is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient.
The next patient responds:
Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit.
Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the President moves onto the next patient, who immediately begins to chant:
Wee sleekit, cowerin, timorous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle
Now seriously troubled, Obama turns to the accompanying doctor and asks, ‘Is this a psychiatric ward?’
‘No,’ replies the doctor, ‘this is the serious Burns unit.’
Paul – have you been using Chuckles calculator – 23+18+9+9=69??. I blame cafflik schools :-)
Once ,i never spoke to the wife for 6 months,….i didn’t want to interrupt her.
I have been on the MSP site and when I try to e-mail it comes up with options Google Yahoo which I do not have e-mail accounts with with how else can I e-mail my MSP.
Desperate to get out of there?
Gies a break. More than 4 grand a week to do nothing.
A lot more desperate cases in the real world.
As for tommy’s defense, I would say exposing a morally corrupt individual playing for a morally corrupt club justifies the exposé.
Ntasola, I take it that you think that the invasion of privacy surrounding the leaking of David murray’s tax details is just not cricket either?
Bada @17:08 tell us what happened when you did.
THMLBF take things as you will.
But in the main take it easy.
Hi Fellow Celtic Fans,
BBJ’s fantastic Goal and the overall fantastic Celtic team performance over 2 legs allowed me and many others to truly BELIEVE that we could go all the way. I for one got on to the UEFA website as soon as I could and bought 2 tickets for the Seville Final. I just wish I had bought 8! (Not to sell of course, just for my wider family).
I can’t wait until Paul67 brings out the 10-Year Celebration BlogCasts of the semi-final and that amazing Final experience in Seville! Despite the result it is still my best experience as a Celtic Fan (although maybe joisting with Jinky absolutely destroying Red Star Belgrade)!!!
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
People fall for cons because they are greedy.
Sandaza was conned.
In the first half of the Liverpool game, Henrik was out on the right wing and with the outside of his right foot he placed the ball plumb on BBJ’s head in the six yard box. Unfortunately, John couldn’t convert, but what a move it was and what a goal it would have been.
After litening to the conversation between Tommy and Fran San,I felt Fran San was the more decent human being of the two.
JJ
Player of the year time
http://www.celticfc.net/poy2013
ernie lynch
17:14 on
20 March, 2013
“People fall for cons because they are greedy.
Sandaza was conned.”
Therefore Sandaza is greedy?
If that is what you are saying, it is not one of your more logical comments.
JJ
voguepunter
16:56 on
20 March, 2013
Never frequented the Oasis my self after my time’
but I remember the Glenruth was a bit of a dive, but I
will give you boys from Ru’glin you coundnae half
run.
HHTGB
Paddysmarket
We had to be fast to catch your lot :o)
VP
think I used to frequent yon discoteque when it was Baracuda
BT
The Baracuda was a couple of month after my time.
Jj,
Think the logical link is that he is greedy and therefore he was conned.
The logical link to his greed might come from more than 4 grand per week to do nothing wasn’t good enough and he was willing to forego his contract in order to get a better deal.