The Rangers chief executive, Charles Green, yesterday made an extraordinary bid to bribe his way up the Scottish Football League (SFL), saying, “I would … be prepared to guarantee other clubs the ticket revenue equivalent of 300 Rangers fans turning up for matches.”
The SFL will soon vote on reconstruction and amalgamation with the SPL with a 12-12-18 structure on the table. If this is rejected, no reconstruction will happen. Should they win successive promotions Green’s club are due to spend three years in lower league football but if successful his bribe could shorten this to two seasons.
In support of his claim Green cites Stranraer, who won Division Two in 1993 and were promoted to Division One the following season. The league structure changed that summer, from three to four leagues, resulting in more teams being relegated from Division One than was scheduled at the start of the season, but clubs were only promoted to the league they would have entered without reconstruction.
The Rangers are due to be promoted to the Second Division next season but are asking for direct access to the First Division. They have made no suggestion as to what should happen to the club who finish in second place in this season’s Third Division. Although Green’s statement references the Stranraer scenario, and an insistence that “the principle of promotion and relegation… should be enshrined”, he does not explain that Stranraer won the league and were promoted from Division Two to One, or that he wants promotion from Third to First.
It will surprise no one that Green believes “the SFL has shown real leadership in proposing” colts teams from the The Rangers and Celtic, although he has surprised me with the news that his club did not lobby for this suggestion.
I am sure the SFL lawyers would have reverted to the Fifa rule book, which is pretty clear that clubs can only be promoted on sporting merit, and explicitly prohibits clubs from paying for promotion. Which is a pity, as I am sure the financial security of Green’s embryonic club would be greatly enhanced by promotion straight to the knockout stages of the Champions League.
We have been here before.
Scottish Football League clubs will decide their only structure but now more than ever we have to stand together as a club. The direction and leadership of Celtic, and the supporters’ organisations, tested by often irreconcilable challenges at every turn, are exceptional. Fantasies that the World Order is controlled between Celtic Park, Glasgow City Council and the Vatican are just that. Running Celtic is like steering the Titanic away from the iceberg with a pizza box, although if you speak to any numpty who has never done it you’ll get a different view. Despite all this, for the first time in decades we have a successful and sustainable football model.
We recruit and develop exceptional players who achieved what few of us expected this season. The challenge for Celtic is to win the league and Cup and apply all energies on recruiting players for next season’s Champions League campaign.
Enjoy your football; Stand up for Celtic.
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King Kenny – one of our best ever players but never a manager! How did he get away with it?? –
Out-of-work Kenny Dalglish will finish the season as Britain’s best-paid manager and the fifth highest-paid in the world, new figures from France Football magazine have revealed.
Liverpool accounts showed they were forced to pay off Dalglish and his staff with £9.5 million at the start of the season after deciding to replace him with Brendan Rodgers.
According to the magazine, £8.52m of that went straight into the pocket of the Scotsman, making him this season’s highest-paid British coach without even having to manage a single game.
Dalglish was on a reported salary of around £3.5m while he was at Anfield and a tweet went viral when he left the club that read: “Kenny Dalglish has asked that the £8 million compensation owed to him after his sacking be put towards new Liverpool signings. Amazing gesture.”
Angry Liverpool fans then bombarded the Liverpool Echo with phone calls asking why the local paper had not reported Dalglish’s gesture.
The Echo were forced to publish a reply saying: “The simple reason is it’s not true.”
Dalglish won the League Cup for Liverpool last season but was criticised for paying out bloated transfer fees on unconvincing signings with the £35m paid for Newcastle striker Andy Carroll – the highest fee ever paid for a British player – drawing particular criticism.
Dalglish was fifth in the overall managers’ high-earners list which was unsurprisingly topped by Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho who earns €14m (£12m) a year.
The highest-paid manager currently working in the Premier League is actually Arsene Wenger (€9.4m) who is sixth on the list overall.
Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini is eighth on the list just making slightly more than Sir Alex Ferguson.
On the players’ list, huge endorsement deals mean David Beckham just edges out Barcelona’s Lionel Messi for top spot.
Top 10 best-paid coaches in 2012-13 (Source France Football – figures in Euros)
1. Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid): 14m
2. Carlo Ancelotti (PSG): 12m
3. Marcelo Lippi (Guangzhou Evergrande) : 11m
4. Guus Hiddink (Anzhi Makhachkala): 10.8m
5. Kenny Dalglish (Unemployed): 10m
6. Arsene Wenger (Arsenal): 9.4m
7. Fabio Capello (Russia): 9.2m
8. Roberto Mancini (Manchester City) 7.6m
9. Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United) 7.5 m
10. José Antonio Camacho (China) 6.1m
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Burgh
thanks
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a riot on your hands!
PF
no idea where you would be going.. o))
was thinking 13th maybe, although we have semi final next day v Utd although bhoys could be bhoycotting Hampdump
rc
How come he’s got the best song?
BSR
rip van recipe
Bourne ,
No worries bud
The boy jinky
Imagine chairmen being interested in the own club and not the good of sevco …outrageous
The MSM must know sevco are in a parlous financial state …they are trying very hard to force the issue here
Either that or Guidi and co are being paid
13th is fine by me
Doc Is Neil Lennon
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Kettling of protesters in Oxford Circus, or one in particular, May 1st 2001, was not a breach of Article 5 of the HRA, (Right to Liberty and Security). It did not consider Article 11, (Freedom of Assembly and Association) which also applies. Offhand, walking from the Gallowgate to Celtic Park, at which point if any, are football supporters allowed to, or by custom do, walk along the road en route? Genuine question.
BT
ha ha
I liked the Jorge Cadete song even though I wasn’t sure about the rhyming…’nette?”
PortugeseandscoreswitheaseCSC
Thank God We’re Rebels
THE EXILED TIM
21:18
You’re right. But just because they all say Sevco is Rangers doesn’t mean Sevco is Rangers. The truth is still the truth. ‘Is Sevco Rangers?’ is not a subjective question.
A subjective question to a zombie could, quite validly, be: “Do you love Sevco as much as you used to love Ranger?”
He might answer, quite validly, that, indeed, he loves Sevco more than Rangers for all we know. It matters not.
A drunk person has the impression that the room is spinning, but the room isn’t spinning, the person is drunk.
If you listened to Tommy’s call to the Rangers fan, no idea who the guy is, that guy knows it’s all a sham. His comeback to Tommy was that Celtic’s change of name (not, as Tommy pointed out, company number) meant that Celtic had gone through the same process. His argument was that Rangers fans are deluding themselves that Sevco is Rangers, but so are Celtic fans deluding ourselves that Fergus’s Celtic is Celtic.
The facts remain the facts.
Hope you’re doing well, my friend. I worry sorely about Spain.
When the ball hits the net and it’s no Jorge Cadette…………………….it’s
Doc is Neil Lennon
Feel free!
Pf
Hope those other chairmen dont have big hands too ;)
Che
TV prog from 70s Jacobi & Hurt,
My favourite is the Martin O’Neil song.
Keep forgetting the words but.
Oh Martin O’Neil, Martin O’Neil,Oh Martin O’Neil , oh Martin O’Neil , oh Martin O’Neil ………. Loads of thought in that one !
celtic mac
21:33 on
19 March, 2013
My point was a specific one, an article on the Scotzine website tried to justify the use of kettleing by stating TCoHR had deemed it legal, my point was it(ketteling) was not justified in the circumstances of Saturdays protest.
Football supporters often walk to football games together, that is allowed every week at every ground in the country, so a direct answer to your question, always, football supporters should always be allowed to walk together to the game, as the Juve Ultras were on masse a couple of weeks ago. Hope that clears that up.
More Greek Ghods
Winning Captains, Ta, couple of Sevcovians about to get annoyed at me.
Timgreen
Wenger gets big wages …a bit hypocritical that he will not spend big on players when he gets paid such an exorbitant wage himself ….
VP
yeah but I thought at your age maybe you had been around…..
All you ghuys who do the fitba coupon ,don’t feel too bad at being LOSERS.
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Knowledge of the game no advantage in sports gambling
Psychologists have traditionally characterized compulsive gambling as an “impulse control disorder,” and treated it by addressing the patient’s obsessive tendencies. But according to Prof. Pinhas Dannon of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center, not all pathological gamblers fit the same profile.
Though gambling is typically associated with casino games, strategic sports betting is rapidly gaining in popularity — and that’s a whole other ball game, Prof. Dannon explains. “Sports gamblers seem to believes themselves the cleverest of all gamblers. They think that with experience and knowledge — such as player’s statistics, manager’s habits, weather conditions, and stadium capacity — they can predict the outcome of a game better than the average person.”
But in a study published in the journal Psychopathology, Prof. Dannon and Dr. Ronen Huberfeld of the Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center determined that neither betting experience nor knowledge of the arcane details of the game is connected to successful betting outcomes. Indeed, he says, the two most successful gamblers in their study had no prior experience in gambling or knowledge of the sport in question.
These results indicate that sports gamblers are operating under an illusion of control and power unrelated to real-life outcomes, says Prof. Dannon. This should inform how psychologists approach sports gamblers, who need to be treated using different methods than their casino-addicted counterparts.
No predictor of success
Read more at http://scienceblog.com/61452/knowledge-of-the-game-no-advantage-in-sports-gambling/#RK6JS6EoDB4qwfkF.99
Tony ****** Watt
CF
Some sevco fans have a difficulty understanding life never mind basic company law
This notion that liquidation is the same as a name change is risible …..it’s amazing what guff folk will believe if it suits their purpose
Are the Bhoys out the clunk yet???
C1st
Aye we could go round in circles all day long.
We are both right, but you would be more right >}
I also worry about Spain, there is no light at the end of the tunnel just now, things will have to get a lot worse before things even start to get better.
I worry more for where I am, there is next to no industry here, the north will get anything going, Andalucia will as ever be left behind.
The sence of community is still good though, people do seem to be looking out for those who can’t fend for themselfs.
Che’eky bass,I’m a young 52.
Though my knees creak like the wreck of the Hesperus.
bsr
T****W ??
More than a football club
bsr
Indeed.
BSR @ 2125
I’m more astounded that you are in your 30’s (just)
I thought it was a prerequisite of cqn that all posters must be born pre-1950’s!!
;p
“Many of my constituents want a stronger level of policing around football matches. They are fed up with their driveways being obstructed, they are fed up with alcohol being drunk in the streets and they are fed up with people urinating in public.”
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Perhaps one way to minimise the occurrence of such behaviour would be for fans to walk to Celtic Park in organised groups.
HT @2124
The guy I know who was lifted was told he may not hear anything else.
Regarding gambling, at the moment I couldnt pick a GB member
out a kettle.
onlyluckisbadluckcsc
VP
I knew you were older than me …. im not 52 until May ;)
Ernie @ 21:51
That was gash by your standards.