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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Jungle Jim
17:18 on 20 March, 2013
He seems more mercenary than your average footballer.
Maybe he’s just thick.
Doesn’t he have an agent?
voguepunter
17:22 on
20 March, 2013
I see your still fairly fast, good man
HHTGB
For you autograph hunters ,Wales squad staying at the Westerwood in Cumbernauld…..
I’m not a big gambler and I rarely bet at all. But I made a lot of money out of the Liverpool tie. Much of it from people I used to work and drink with.
MON always had a decent record against Liverpool when he was at Leicester. I was extremely confident we would beat them, and when Thommo scored that game was won.
I was in Stuttgart when Liverpool knocked out Auxerre and we knew we were meeting the winners of that match. I already had tickets for the final and I remember thinking if we get a decent draw in the semis we are going all the way.
Ten years though. That’s frightening.
THMLBF
Thanks for that .
It is easier to con someone who wants what you are selling. It does not follow from that that the would be recipient is greedy.
That is illogical.
JJ
VP
thats why I missed you in there…..
BBJs goal is on the favourites list on YouTube and will continue to be there for as long as I live. No words do it justice.
If Sandaza was a Celtic player and said what he said would people still be defending him?
ernie lynch
17:30 on 20 March, 2013
BOOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :))
ernie lynch
He seems more mercenary than your average footballer.
Maybe he’s just thick.
Doesn’t he have an agent?
a)He seems to me equally “mercenary” ;
b)Maybe he is;
c)I haven`t got a clue.
JJ
More 4 showing 6 episodes of Father Ted tonight @ 9pm
ernie lynch
17:30 on
20 March, 2013
“If Sandaza was a Celtic player and said what he said would people still be defending him?”
If the conman was a Hun, then yes, I am sure that people would.
JJ
To be sure to be sure to be sure
Jungle Jim
17:29 on 20 March, 2013
People who fall victim to scams invariably allow their disbelief to be outweighed by greed.
Sandaza only engaged in conversation with Tommy because he thought he could smell the $$$$$$$.
go on go on go on
Paul67 et al
Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of the birth of David Livingstone.
He wasn’t a Tim. But he was from Blantyre.
ernie lynch
” invariably” is important in you first statement.
re Sandaza`s motives, you MIGHT be right; you invariably are.
JJ
Defending Sandazza – what’s he been accused of – wanting more money and a move away from the huns? Its hardly crime of the century stuff unless of course…
Celtic Mac
correct because Celtic where yet to be …. o))
Is it just me….or…..do any of you agree with JJ and Ernie at the same time?
BT
Or is it an ecumenical matter?
blantyretim
Well at least he had a real job as a boy, working in the Mill.
nakas
a tim is a Celtic fan and nothing to do with religion..
Celtic Mac
it was the mill or the pit in those days…o))
Example : A pensioner has savings of £ x but needs £ x + y to continue their current, average life style. Someone suggests a plan which, he says, will enable said pensioner to achieve £ x + y. Would that pensioner be “greedy” if they went for the plan?
JJ
Well done the championship clubs – somebody has to speak up – it’s immoral. Blackburn’s corporate owners are being seen for what they really are, City are obscene, Chelsea are a pantomine and Man u are heritage whores ! Worse than that there are some credible reports that Qataris want a new a world football which they’ll lavish pox money on from their loose change
http://www.cgconsultancy.co.uk
Bloody hell she’s doing well for herself – this looks really professional
BT
Phew! Just as well otherwise I would be excommunicated from Celtic.
Cheerio for an hour or so.
JJ
Couldn’t get a ticket for Anfield, but I did pick Big Johns goal for Goal of the Season competition and won a night at the presentations dinner at Celtic Park. Despite winning nothing still one of my favourite seasons.
…. a season ticket holder at Ibrox.
Re BBJ’s goal, I’ll not forget it in a hurry. Was watching the game in Mulcahy’s Pub in Clonmel. There were about 30 of us cheering for Celtic and about 10 for Liverpool. When the goal went in there was a mass charge & jump around in the centre of the floor. I think it was lateral movement that sent us flying but I ended up getting a knee in the nuts. The lad who took the wind out of my sails was a chap called Tommy Fitzgerald known far & wide in Tipperary as Tommy Celtic. The said Tommy was tragically killed last Christmas in a domestic accident. A tribute night was arranged for him to coincide with the home game against Juventus and about 800 euro was raised for Charity on the night.
I was lucky enough to be at the Liverpool game and in the main stand no less! Right in line where BBJ collected the ball spun right and boom. Always liked going to Anfield and their fans that night were really friendly given we’d just served them their dinner. They always were good sorts. Football fans just like us. God bless Paul Abrahms who we lost at the UEFA game in 97. HH.
Sorry cqn
Should get my facts straight
This is the real one http://www.christinegrahame.com
That’s more like it
Jungle Jim
17:57 on 20 March, 2013
A football player gets an unsolicited call from someone he’s never heard of but who claims to be an agent.
Why, in that situation, would he wish to engage in conversation?
Sandaza did act in a very stupid gullible manner but that is no excuse. It is wrong to phone someone get them to say stuff like that and broadcast it to the nation. The fact that Sandaza plays for Sevco is not an issue here..
Comments on the Hun Media site about Tommy.
‘Lets hope he phones Black aswell.’
‘And a few others’
More and more people are now asking if the Scottish Government is going too far in its attempt to halt “offensive behaviour” at football through incessant policing and harassing of supporters.
Spiers on Sport re Fan Criminalisation. Great Article.
Those who appear to be suffering the most are Celtic supporters, though Rangers fans also have some gripes.
This attempt at cleaning up Scottish society has turned into a nightmare, cutting to the very heart of civil liberty.
I deliberately place “offensive behaviour” in inverted commas because the nub of all this is an interpretative minefield regarding fans’ behaviour, wherein clarity is proving near-impossible.
The recent case of the Green Brigade at Celtic, a large and noisy group of supporters, some of whom have Irish republican sympathies, has highlighted once more Scotland’s alleged “police state”.
Various QCs, MSPs and other commentators have expressed concern at the way this group is being monitored by Strathclyde Police, to a point, it is being alleged, of outright harassment.
Just what is going on here? Why has there been this surge in such intense scrutiny of supporters and the way they behave?
The momentum stems from police attempts to implement the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act 2012, a piece of legislation that many – this writer included – had doubts about.
The act seeks to do what it says on the tin: stamp out “offensive behaviour” such as bigoted or sectarian expression.
There has been plenty of that around the Old Firm over the years, so to that end all decent-minded people felt that the law should crack down on bigots.
But what of political chanting at Ibrox or Parkhead? Indeed, how do you define political chanting? For example, should some of the Irish republican songs chanted by Celtic supporters be defined as “political” or “sectarian”?
It is on this blurry point that Dr Stuart Waiton, a sociologist at Abertay University in Dundee, has waded in. Waiton deplores the Offensive Behaviour at Football act and is highly critical, to a point of being derisive, about the treatment of the Green Brigade.
For my part, I wish the “Irish stuff” which can be heard from Rangers and Celtic fans could be binned. More often than not these chants are sung by supporters who are singularly clueless about the history and politics of Ireland.
I also hear both sets of Old Firm supporters singing about something more specific: the IRA. I need not point out who sings for and who sings agin. Again, I’d rather all this was junked.
But the point here is, where does the offence lie, and why? Also, is this stuff political or is it sectarian?
Moreover, no matter how you define it, football club supporters the world over espouse causes or beliefs which go way beyond the game: in Spain, in Portugal, in eastern Europe, in Latin America, as well as here in Scotland.
I’ve said it before, if you were The Global Policeman I’m not sure where you would start, let alone finish, with this. At Barcelona? At Real Madrid? At Rangers and Celtic? At Inter Milan? At the rival Viennese clubs? The list is endless.
I make a clear distinction between this stuff and the more blatant cases of bigotry, racism, anti-semitism and the like. These things we can and should stamp hard on, with no “police-state” argument being raised.
I’ve written often about offensive behaviour at football and have no doubt that bigotry had to be tackled. But I can also see, as Stuart Waiton and others are claiming, that the Scottish police are now in a dire situation as they seek to corral supporters while trying to define right and wrong.
Someone said to me: “A law never works if it cannot be objectively measured.” This absolutely captures the problem of the Offensive Behaviour at Football legislation.
We got a glimpse of the mess the Scottish government was getting into when, in June 2011, Roseanna Cunningham, not having realised how much she had chewed off, had to frantically backtrack and delay the processing of the bill.
That day it took a mere half hour of questions to realise that Alex Salmond and the SNP, wobbling towards their legislation, hadn’t quite appreciated the acuity of supporters who wanted to defend their right to hold political or cultural positions in song and slogan.
The Offensive Behaviour bill was duly delayed. But its final clarity, when put on the statute book last year, was scarcely enhanced.
It has all become quite a dog’s breakfast. Meanwhile, football supporters in Scotland feel like they are under a type of surveillance once associated with life behind the old Iron Curtain.
BCW
Ta for that. Kinda thot theyd got “permission”
Sipsini
Was it a barca fan… with a jump the dyke tim for a dad… same guy who done the dirty on his mate and married the guys girlfriend