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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a riot on your hands!
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
23:34 on
19 March, 2013
CaltonTongues
Wee bit confused, Orr ?
Yes, ORR.
bournesouprecipe
23:38 on
19 March, 2013
If you open your door you’ll find Les Grey and his pals are there………………
p b
Horse or beef mince??
ps Thats an insult mince btw!!!
Lest it be forgotten, Les Gray is the man who claims to have hidden under a table because a fan said “boo” to him and thought that someone having a picture of the Pope in their house was “bigoted”.
This is the kind of brain dead moron we are dealing with.
It seems Serenity’s post has been removed. Any ideas?
prestonpans
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Don’t sell McCourt , ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
Paddy McCourt, ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
just don’t think u understand,♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
if u sell McCourt , ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
Paddy McCourt your gonny have ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
a riot on your hands!
Insult to mince btw!!
much more important tonight, now that Greenock is threating nuclear war against Port Glasgow, any tims the other side of boundary street can seek sanctuary with us, you know ethnicicity will be their next target.
Richie
Was there any wee swearies?
Amorussos mammy was told to remove a picture of the Sacred Heart when he was interviewed at his home in Italy.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
23:43 on
19 March, 2013
Carefull you could start a mince debate; steak;lean;beef or if you were a student in the 1980’s then god knows what you were eating. Horse would have been ok then though!
BIG-CUP-WINNERS,
Sir John Orr.
Google the DOBBER.
On strike tomorrow and almost thinking of another glass of wine however that means I’ll hit the nightshift mob on here!!!
jude
‘Not many people know that’
MichaelCaine CSC
prestonpans bhoys
23:49 on
19 March, 2013
On strike tomorrow and almost thinking of another glass of wine however that means I’ll hit the nightshift mob on here!!!
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Just be glad Philvis ain’t on at the minute lol
Prestonpans
No hitting the howlers
caltontongues-The clown on Newsnight was Les Gray……..what news on Orr?
Solidarity with all out on strike tomorrow.
vote for independance, vote for a free greenock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXeIm_wloKE
bsr
I didn’t get the chance to read it. It was on page 3 @ 16:49 but now it’s no’ there!
I guess it must have been fruity :-)
obonfanti1888
23:53 on
19 March, 2013
Actually I was thinking of him when I hit the post button!
Anyway at my age there is not a lot HM Gov can do to me but still going out due to the younger ones.
And there ends the political speach….
Jude2005
Yi gave me a fright there…..oooofff
now lost the ability to spell or spel :(
The Scotzine article wasn’t written by a Celtic Supporter.
A customer?
With aspirations to join the MSM?
mibbees
Hope they jail that orr when he comes back his holidays ..to keep him safe from Caltontongues lol
prestonpans bhoys
hail hail , as a former nucps steward in the early 80’s , and as a tim , i appreciate the desire to stand shoulder to shoulder with your family .
HH
Sanna
Ps. Bed now . don’t want to miss the show of solidarity tomorrow/today.
!!Bada Bing!!,
I was just in and put the TV on.
And, maybe it was STV?
ORR, they’re sticking that DOBBER on Calton TV:-)
Tommy
Too risky …
bomb the plane. … ok collateral damage stinks but they started it
When asked how Gordon Strachan’s side should deal with the threat of Spurs’ £50m superstar, Bomber said: “You know what you do, with the pace he has got and the close control… you can’t run without legs.
“And I’m sure that will be getting passed around the squad.”
Immediately asked if he meant a Scotland player should HIT Bale, Bomber replied: “No, what I’m saying is get close to him and don’t give him time and space.”
Stunned listeners inundated the show with emails and took to Twitter to criticise Brown.
Bomber was then asked again if he was suggesting Scotland should “hurt” Bale and he said: “I don’t mean it that way.”
He was later pressed for a THIRD time on whether he was advocating hurting the Welsh ace and replied: “Well… I might have been.”
HaHaHaHaHa!!!!!!!!! I LOVE this guy! “Well… I might have been.” That is an exocet comic missile!
live footage, the port gets its retaliation in first with a strike on belville street high flats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WI6b5kitrM
tommysbhoy, 00:04 on
20 March, 2013,
See if I’ve made a cnut of myself, so what, it’s the internet.
But the shit that spouted from whoever was on that couch needs challenged and sued.
As for you and the Green Brigade well, one might grow up:)))
InternetBampotsCSC.
Having watched Les Gray’s “performance” on tonights scottish newsnight it told me how much trouble there is to come. Never mind the terrifying health and safety risk that the march posed (yeah right) but instead consider his view that it is good to arrest people coming back from holiday. It was also interesting that Les Gray also basically confirmed that Celtic are colluding with the police – I wonder if Celtic will respond to that?
Listening to McAskill tonight as well really does terrify me for the future of Scotland. It is clear to a blind man that this was an orchastrated attempt to “smash the green brigade”.
It really is unnacceptable – Celtic need to act if we are indeed to unite.
All of this confirms what the GB have been claiming.
Its all pretty shocking.
NegAnon2
00:17 on
20 March, 2013
Was he not alluding to the fact that CFC know the seat numbers and therefore who is on them? As a result they can get that info from CFC? if required
May be wrong of course….
P L is going to be very lonely sitting in that big stadium on his own!!!
Neganon
Time for direct action
Jude2005
The chief exec will not be in his I will be there.
Sorry I meant he will not be on his own I and many others will be there