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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Rear (Willo) Window
My Beautiful Parkhead…
A room with a viewfaethewindae
Ashley Judd, Jeniffer Love Hewitt and Christina Hendriks,
got to be parts in the film for them, got to be.
KevJungle – the rebels have won – where ur they noo ?
11:03 on
20 March, 2013
Could it be because we must keep politics out of football?
Oh Brother Walfrid, Where Art Thou?
THE BOY JINKY
Plod story?
In the 80s,a council-worker acquaintance of mine was a regular on the gritters/snowploughs. He liked a wee medicinal of an evening,but was never one to drink and drive,no matter how hard the local cops tried to nail him.
One night,unexpected snowstorm,he’s doing his bit round Beith/Kilbirnie way,when he is overtaken (!) by two local boys in blue,who,recognising him,decided to wait round the next corner to stop and B-Test him.
After all,this was an emergency call-out he was on,for an unexpected snowstorm. So chances are he had been in the pub. Gotcha……..
Not quite. He was ready for this patch of weather-he was also a Coastguard volunteer,used to the vagaries of the weather.
What he WASN’T ready for was a parked Police van in the road as he came round an untreated road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The plough attachment cleaved the van open…………
And,oh yeah,all of that is true.
Voguepunter
take it you never came up to the Oasis ya disco dancer…
GlassTwoThirdsFull 11:19 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?”
No.
Moonbeams came out with his usual bluster after the first stage of the big tax case surprisingly didn’t find Rangers guilty of cheating the tax man.
He can’t help himself. Murray is a chancer by nature. He continually gambled with the Huns to the point where he lost everything. And for that we should be grateful. For it was no mean feat to take a club the size of Rangers hurtling towards liquidation.
Remember that Murray had been so confident of Rangers winning the case that he sold a club with a multi-million pound turnover for a mere pound to a guy he knew was as big a chancer as he was … only without influential friends in The Mound.
What Murray or any of the halfwits who attempt to write blogs on behalf of the Zombies, have failed to explain is what information was leaked.
There is a very good reason for that. None of the material on RTC was leaked and it was all available to anyone who had a wish to access it.
When at Celtic Park I struggle to get online. With this in mind we are looking at creating a CQN App which we will call CQN Today. It would simply carry the most recent blog from Paul and the comments posted thereafter. Would this be supported if it had a one off cost of say £1.50?
Celtic – the movie
winning captains
I am well in for that. An App is long overdue.
LB
Celtic movie
Green and White Christmas
Ron Bacardi
Are you able to post that photo? I would love to see if my dad is in it. he has very few photo’s due to a house fire in the family home when he was a teenager.
It is his 60th this year and would make a great surprise gift for him if he is in it. If not if you have a link to other school photo’s or a contact at St Eunan’s who can provide such things it would be much appreciated.
It would make an old man happy!
LB
Celtic movie : “The Lion Kings”
Zombie movie : “Ibrokesback Mountain”
I’d like to join the Grey Brigade as an affiliate member of the Peppered Brigade but definitely under the umbrella membership of the Old Brigade.
Winning Captains – Long Overdue and a snip at £1.50. Will the App be available on all platforms : ie Android/Iphone/Iphad/Windows Mobile/Windows 8 etc etc.
Winning Captains, a yes from me, a CQN app sounds great, android as well as apple?
Winning Captains
Sounds reasonable enough to me.
HH
Does the Grey Brigade include the follicly challenged salt n pepper cats or are they only welcome in the Auld Brigade?
WINNING CAPTAINS
Too busy watching the match,bud…..
But the app sound like a winner.
Count me in,if only to annoy sevconians in the pub!
Bsr
..the last of the mo johnsons
Definitely interested in the CQN App. £1.50 very reasonable. Will it have a Grey Brigade section?
Winning captains
great idea..me too
TOMMYSBHOY
You mean “the least of the mo johnsons”
I think there’s two of them now,the fat bassa.
Must be a Greggs franchise stateside………
Re Tommy’s phone call with Sandaza
It’s the main headline on the Mail’s football page!!
SPF
Grey Brigade should be exclusively for over 50’s :0)
winning captains
I have the problem of getting on-line too, but the boy doesn’t. I’d assumed it had something to do with service provider ?
Really like the idea of ‘Bhoys of the Auld Brigade’.
Wee Bertie for Honorary President and Auldheid for President.
winning captains
Part 2
posted too soon there.
But won’t an App still have to utilise the internet ?
winning captains
11:59 on
20 March, 2013
Yes for me
Winning captain.
Do you not need access to the net to update the content?
Ps install an ignore function and I’ll pay for it.
winning captains….
could you not make it £1.49?
prestonpans bhoys
12:13 on
20 March, 2013
Grey Brigade should be exclusively for over 50′s :0)
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Although I would qualify, surely we should be inclusive?
fabrizioravanellicsc
….or £1.67
winning captains
11:59 on
20 March, 2013
Count me in for the CQN app , £1.50’s a bargain .
winning captains
11:59 on 20 March, 2013
Yes.
new article posted.
Martin Scorsese Scottish football movies:
Celtic – GoodFellas
Rangers – (Mega)Casino
MJM