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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FFS……if you have to listen to snyde and
shortie then listen……..but please spare
the rest of us who don’t give a flying f**k
about whit utter corrupt cheating hun
loving pish their spinning.
Doc is Neil Lennon
18:54 on 19 March, 2013
“dontpatmadug
17:47 on 19 March, 2013
I have just read your piece for Scotzine.”
Couldnt have been my piece, I didnt write one.
Get in there Chris! Tearing bfdj a new one.
Sevconian practically desperate not to leave the lower leagues. Oh my giddy aunt!
Celtic and Rangers colts not part of league reconstruction plans STV 18:28
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Och that’s a wee shame ,sho it is.
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Peepil get payed for this pish :O(
tomtheleedstim
18:47 on
19 March, 2013
Murdochauldandhay – forgot to collect it mate. Mort v kindly picking it up for me.
Thanks very much. Appreciated.
Tom
Be aware before I left on Monday I checked if you recieved the message, the lady on duty said she couldn’t find it so I had assumed you had done so
SP-to be known as such from now on…
dontpatmadug
17:47 on 19 March, 2013
I should also mention the harassment they receive from stewards and police is evident every week. I can walk straight in, any members of the GB are stopped, sometimes searched, asked for their tickets. As I say I have seen no aggression never mind violence, yet there are stewards who stand at the bottom of the section and watch them throughout the game.
They are also filmed every game, why is that. I’m not filmed, the ghuys next to me are not, just one area, and I have yet to see any justification for this, a bit of jumping around, which I have already said I can see why the club would want this to stop, is not justification for the treatment they receive.
I had been seriously coming back to Scotland to see out my days, but that film footage has put paid to that.
Sad? yes.
I will visit. That’s it.
My homeland has become a fascist state.
Many of you will know that an author called Sinclair Lewis wrote a book in the late 30′ s called” It Can’t Happen Here ” to illustrate the possibility of Hitlerism in Amerika.
Well…
…that scenario has occurred in Glasgow……again.
Utterly filthy business.
Glasgow…..the shameless became more shameful.
It’s enough to make a grown man cry.
Doc is Neil Lennon
19:03 on 19 March, 2013
:)) Preaching to the choir. :))
in all seriousness BFDJ is by a country mile the worst “pundit” on any media outlet.He brings absolutely nothing to the table.
he has the unique “talent” of being able to contradict himself in the course of one sentence.
dontpatmadug
17:47 on 19 March, 2013
Scotzine @scotzine
My latest ESPN piece – are the Green Brigade as innocent as they claim they are or do they bring it upon themselves? http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/celtic/id/291?cc=5739 …
Sorry mate I read that as it was your ESPN piece, apologise didn’t see it was a twitter copy & paste. But if Me Scotzine is reading my comment stand.
!!Bada Bing!!
Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind..
Not posted for a long time but feel compelled to offer my 100% backing to the GB. I’ve been a proud Celtic supporter for over 45 years and absolutely love what they have brought to Celtic. We must all stick together faithful through and through !
Notthebus,
I think you are being rather unfair.
What about his original humour and razor sharp wit??
Doc is Neil Lennon
19:08 on 19 March, 2013
No worries
HH
Not being his or her usual know-it-all self, Quonno seeks enlightenment.
Today at Holyrood, commenting on Saturday’s events on the Gallowgate a SNP Government spokesperson effectively said that all prospective marchers and demonstrations must give Glasgow City Council twenty eight days notice or else the marches and demonstrations in question will be illegal.
Does anyone know if ‘Jardine’s March on Hampden’ fulfil the above notice requirements? And if not can its organ
SSB are now saying that we should only fastrack them to the SPL2, since they couldn’t afford to compete in the SPL ……… this is getting funnier by the minute…….LOL
I have met (! True but true nonetheless !) at the Barça game in the winter anda funere group of men you’d go a long way to find.
A pleasure to meet.
And i am 62.
They treated me with utter respect and made me feel like an old friend they hudnae seen in years.
True young gents.
It’s a good thing nobody in authority gives a shoite what SSB’s view is…..
Just dropped in to say…
Kilbowie Kelt
18:39 on 19 March, 2013
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I echo that. Well said.
Furthermore…a new Jungle should be built
inside CP for the GB. imo
Hail Hail n God Bless
Off oot
RSnyde…………………………..Mark Guidi leading in Jabba role race
Geordie Munro
his Doppelganger Dalziell has stolen his mantle as village idiot now.
page 3 and see serenity back..
welcome back mate, sorely missed…
back to catching up
They really aren’t wise eh?
They’d get tore a new one on most other radio stations.
FFS with our resources we should be 30 points clear
Should have reNot being his or her usual know-it-all self, Quonno seeks enlightenment.
Today at Holyrood, commenting on Saturday’s events on the Gallowgate a SNP Government spokesperson effectively said that all prospective marchers and demonstrations must give Glasgow City Council twenty eight days notice or else the marches and demonstrations in question will be illegal.
Does anyone know if ‘Jardine’s March on Hampden’ fulfil the above notice requirements? And if not can its organisers be prosecuted in retrospect?
I wonder how many people actually listen to SSB, it would be kind of a shame if they are making all that effort to keep the huns alive and there’s only like 300 hundred people listening and half of them are Tims listing for a laugh…
67heaven-Aye ,don’t bring us back just now as we will get pumped every week.We’ll let you know when it suits us…….arrogant hun fud.
What happens when they get fast tracked up a division,and don’t get promoted?
How funny would it be for Sevco to get bumped up 2 leagues only for Sally Mourinho to get them relegated again?
I think I’d laugh for a month.
!!Bada Bing!!
19:23 on
19 March, 2013
the SFL will invent play-off’s to what ever postion they finish at……………
So McCaskill now wants to see more spectacles like StMirren v Hearts? Only two years ago he was revelling in the league cup final where 30’000 bigoted huns sang about being up to their knee’s in Fenian blood.
I wish this fud would make his mind up.
Anyone trying to do an apologist article on the misbehaviour of Strathclyde Police on Saturday is on a mission impossible.
A disgrace doesn’t describe it.
From what I have seen of the police action in general around Celtic Park they are officious and petty with an obvious agenda agains the GB.
The police and their agenda has the tacit at least approval of our board.
Shame on them.
Once the GB are out of the way what will our board want next from the fan…er…customers?
60,000 Season Book holders singing anodyne songs with See You Jimmy wig hats on?
HH to the GB.
Tuesday CQN quiz!!!!!!
They have commenced demolition of the ODEON cinema in Renfield Street Glasgow.
Anybody know *without Googling* the meaning/origin of the word ODEON in the UK?
NoGoogling CSC
ItaliaBhoy
Every possibility of that happening he is without a doubt the worst hun manager I have seen in my lifetime, he’s really special, I would even go as far to say “A Once In A Lifetime” offer!!
Long may his reign continue..
Greek
bournesouprecipe
19:26 on
19 March, 2013
Tuesday CQN quiz!!!!!!
Almost certain it is an acronym.
notthebus
19:07 on 19 March, 2013
‘in all seriousness BFDJ is by a country mile the worst “pundit” on any media outlet.He brings absolutely nothing to the table.
he has the unique “talent” of being able to contradict himself in the course of one sentence.’
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Maybe.
But at least the words he uses actually exist.
Unlike Dazza.
He makes BFDJ sound like Will Self.