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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Now that SDM wants to pursue RTC and Daly, can we assume he has been tipped the wink by the goat people that HMRC’s appeal will fail?
Sorry for breaking the blog…..
…so – Off oot
SFTB
Been going to Football for 49 years now,as far as I can recall , and never had the jail either and that’s when it was common place for hundreds to get the jail at a single game I suppose it’s the same for thousands of others. In my experience its always the minority who spoil it for the majority.
The majority will still be there long after any fans groups and their agendas have rode off into the sunset
Back in again….
Headtheball
11:10 on 20 March, 2013
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HMRC’s appeal will fail because
NOBODY has the b#lls to put the huns away!!!
Cut a long story short – CSC
Off oot this time…
“Hugh Keevins n Gerry McNee wrote hunners a books for the Cellic”
I know I shouldnae ask,but here goes…
Kev,outa those hunners a books,how many were written for Cellic-sic-and how many for their own bank balances?
Kevjungle
Please list your contributions to Celtic
LiviBhoy
I dont expect anyone to pester him but I do hope Dermot Desmond asks him out for a round of golf..!
For me the film will be a biopic of not the just the great man himself but just as importantly show us the hardships of the people of the east end at the time.
If they can capture this well and show it to a worldwide audience (I expect a lot of Americans will want to see this) then it will be job well done
mickbhoy1888 11:15 on 20 March, 2013
Don’t encourage him.
MICKBHOY1888
Just don’t ask him to list his contributions to the Daily Record-he waxes lyrical about them,then goes all huffy when they get repeated……
Headtheball 11:10 on 20 March, 2013
Now that SDM wants to pursue RTC and Daly, can we assume he has been tipped the wink by the goat people that HMRC’s appeal will fail?
Murray spoke about this straight after they “won” the BTC. The interesting thing was the quote they came out with:
“Importantly, Rangers Football Club plc did not have access to all of the material covered in the programme and letters.”
So all that guff about the EBTs being “all in the accounts” was even more garbage than we thought!
PaddyTurner
Thanks. I’ll ask FAC to clarify.
Back in again…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
11:14 on 20 March, 2013
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Hi, nice to talk again big fella.
Well, ye didny expect them to write books for nothing ?
Ye see…Keevins n McNee wurny like the Kelly’s n White’s
what wi gate receipts to swally etc…no, the 2 journo’s played
it by the book so to speak :o)))
Bobby, I’m not being funny or nuthin here but – I canny duel wi
ye the day, joost…please no the day.
Catch ye again.
Hail Hail n God Bless
Off oot
Thindimebhoy
I agree. If a film is done well it appeals to everyone. The actors will get people through the cinema doors though.
Peter ullan knows what is required. Great man to have on board.
I hope everyone involved do it justice. It’s been rumoured for a few years so hopfully it will happen sooner rather than later. Imagine the sing song in the cinema before it starts?
It would be like attending a game! Haha
LB
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
11:18 on 20 March, 2013
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Tsk, tsk…..
laters a telt ye :o)
Off oot
LB
being filmed whilst watching a film..
well in Scotland maybe….
Kv67
Magic. …. pity you didnt have the hoops on when he took your pic :)
Gordon j
Was captain lorenzo not in a xx movie…. or was it an xxx
voguepunter
09:40 on
20 March, 2013
starry
Glen ruth only got hairy when we had to teach those uncouth Castlemilkies some
manners.:O)
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Sorry to break in guys But VP
In your dreams.
HH
Kev kojo jungles contributions to Celtic.:
1) stood in the car park.
2) stood in the jungle
3) stood up for Hugh Keevins after the board (bored) banned him
4) stood up for bobo’s right to publish all in his long awaited best seller about where the Seville money went.
5) stood in the queue for the daily record phone line.
6) misunderstood Gerry mcnees articles on Celtic.
To sum up, lots of standing aboot and heading off oot.
Kev jungle- I don’t care what you say but as long as you keep prefacing it with “just dropped in to say” or similar- perfect for me, my cue to scroll on by.
blantyretim
The soundtrack will be epic! A must purchase.
Premiere at Paradise on the big screen. I hope it happens and is a belter of a film. Should be done with the door open for sequels. This story needs to be told and it should be done right. I think the men in charge should do it justice.
LB
6p on a beer suspended so I suppose the guiness in the Vale stays at £2:70 a pint
The only result I care about this week
Vote Tory bhoys their keeping the price of your inspiration for posting down
KEV 1121,1123
Ok,mate. No sweat.
But they didnae write books FOR Celtic.
They wrote ABOUT Celtic for their own advancement.
McNee’s in particular were well-written,pre-centenary.
We’ll leave it at that,eh?
Was out earlier and driving behind a plodmobile
Another was parked in a layby and as we aporoached it plod1 slows and stops behind it. The occupants start to talk to each other through open windows… laughing and joking.
After a minute or so I flash my lights at them… plod 1 puts on the blue lights !!!!!!
I cant pass them as traffic coming other way is heavy and fast and im stuck behind them.
When I eventually get past and drive into morrisons car park I can see they are still there… lights flashing. .. traffic held up. Then plod 1 puts lights off and drives away
Apparently holding up the traffic is only an offence to us ” plebs “
Daniel Day Lewis and Celtic movie titles…………………………There will be Flood
mickbhoy1888 10:23 on 20 March, 2013
An article for our scottish based republican scholars to muse over
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I was at St Eunans school when father Burns arrived in the parish. he would come to the school and take part in the sporting activities – mainly football but he did try to teach us gaelic football. At no time did he ever espouse Irish republican views on us. He was just a young priest who seemed to enjoy life. I even have a pic of the St Eunans boys guild cup winning team from the mid 60’s with him at far left back
A Room with a Celtic View
My left footer
Good too see a left footer getting offered the film role
The Last of the Mochans
Les greys favourite
Dives under a table every time he sees it.
Gangs of york.
if minty is running with this, looking to take action against whoever leaked the rtc information , then he knows he is on a winner . This guy only shows his head above ground when the heat is off him . As i said yesterday , our only chance is to play our football outwith this stinking country. They will be back in the top tier as soon as , no one is fighting it ,but thats not enough , the next level is they must have european football , which as far as an auldhead like me knows only to well ,back to the honest mistakes , back to the kangaroo courts . and even more of helping hand from the governance of scottish football ( is that possible ). We should have been out this cesspit years ago ,celtic,s participation in scottish football is untenable , but alas i fear cfc have left it too late .
jimtim
In the name of the father how has he been offered the role
Sevco are Abraham Lincoln!
My Brother Jonathan Gould
There will be Blood if he gets the nod
who is going to play Michael Davitt ?
thats the big one.
Ron Bacardi
My old man went to St Eunan’s from late fifties to mid 60’s.
LB
The Ballad of Jack McGinn