I looked into the world of Scottish football betting yesterday. Betting on Celtic to win the Scottish Premiership is less rewarding than putting your money in an interest bearing account, which, I suspect, is an approximation of what bookmakers will do with any such bets. In short, our league is not so much a sport as a secure investment.
Betting gets really interesting if you meander onto what is referred to as the Without Celtic market, or who will win the league if Celtic are taken out of the equation. Favourites are Aberdeen, closely followed by Motherwell and then Dundee United and Hibs (hmm….).
Can you imagine what a league title like this would do for these clubs? Aberdeen, Motherwell and United actually vying to become champions?
Some hold a notion that Celtic are the great benefactors of Scottish football, which is dependent on you and me for the occasional home game and TV money. This is rubbish. Celtic inhibits Scottish football more than we can imagine. We are a competitive poison making it impossible for historically significant football teams to thrive.
Keeping a clean sheet away from home is an achievement for any team. Doing so twice, in Europe, and winning both games, is outstanding for St Johnstone. Well done. I can only imagine their absence from the top of the Without Celtic betting chart is a result of bookmakers anticipating their run to the Europa League final in Turin will hinder their league challenge.
I have to express my sheer delight at yesterday’s pronouncement by the chief executive of Rangers International FC PLC, Craig Mather. We can be confident of this guy’s credentials and that he is worthy of following in the footsteps of Charles Green, Tommy Cooper and other comedic greats.
Mather issued a statement on the club’s web site noting punishments handed out to Hearts and Dunfermline for entering administration were different from the punishment handed out to Rangers International’s predecessor club (the player registrations and current penalties Newco Rangers were allowed to inherit) – for a completely different series of offences.
Those penalties were imposed for a variety of misdemeanours, including failure to declare the club appointed a director who had been struck off, failure to comply with stock market rules and multiple counts of bringing the game into disrepute. The SFA disciplinary panel responsible for the penalties found that “only match fixing in its various forms might be a more serious breach”.
Would you not feel a wee bit embarrassed by this? Mr Mather asks for clarification but I suggest we don’t trouble him by directing him to the aforementioned SFA panel’s ruling. Better that he operates in the version of reality he is most comfortable with, and that he keeps his followers away from looking into the real issues……..
To that effect, our thanks to all the media outlets who unquestioningly reported the Mather comments without hint of irony, apart from those pesky online types at STV, who had the temerity to address the question. Cease and desist immediately.
Flag Day tomorrow, another historic moment in Celtic history. Get in early, or late afternoon, as it happens. Hoping to see some of our new guys make their claim for a start in Sweden.
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Kojo
17:17 on 2 August, 2013
Fritzong
Don’t be surprised ,pal
Thur still ur a few Stout Men ..and Women ,tae
Who know how the World Is. .and
Refuse tae Be taken In by awe this..New?
Politically Correct Nonsense.
Men Wull Always Be Sexually Aggressive..and Women wull Always..
Secretly Like . a wee bit Rough Ribaldry.. Directed at them
noo too much,mind ye.. but they dae, Ah assure ye.
Kojo
Still..Laughin
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jeez canny believe I actually agree with you kojo……he he…….keep laughin right nuff..
glendalystonsils-preferably both :)
who ever asked earlier if them physios get the same comments in sweden-
probably not, because ALL the women in sweden look that good so its nothing unusual there.
no doubt someone will accuse me of being racist for sayin somethin good about swedish women
but seriously, if you’ve never been there then its a must, you dont know where to look half of the time.
just dont look in your wallet cos it will be empty due to the price of bevvy
Tiny Tim
Hiya,Pally?
Nice tae meetya,again.
The Wee Green Man.. Is As
Fly as a Barrel of..well… Flies!
He wull dae his Damnest tae Keep his Peerie Spinning!
He wull stoap at Nothing. fur He is desperate,and Ah can’t say that Ah blame him
Like Ah said.. He wull come up wi’ something.
though, Ah canny see How..
But, Don’t Depend oan Me tae figger whit It wull Be.
Fur Ah nevah thought that Wan could Buy oot Mr. Whyte.. and tak over the G.A.
Fur a An Anodized Pound Coin… and a Bagful of Hot Air.
But, Chas did ,jist that..
Kojo
Still Laughin’
I’ve not had a chance to read back..
Is chuckles making a comeback?
I’m sure I read somewhere the cardihun would bolt if he came back !!!!
Is a Chuckles v Cardihun square go on the cards?
Note to ally and Craig – compare like with like. Compare administration at hearts with administration at rangers. What happened next for rangers was liquidation – hearts have yet to reach that stage.
Did hearts get a points deduction for going in to admin? Yep. Did Rangers? Indeed.
Your club was liquidated, snuffed out, suffocated, euthanitised, put out of everyone elses misery. Hearts still exist. If you don’t want people to notice that then stop asking stupid questions to which you do not want honest answers. No one is out to get you, you are just creating a dangerous set of ideas for the sub culturally challenged followers of newcomer.
Have another pie and be quiet.
masty is neil lennon
15:56 on 2 August, 2013
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/analysis-the-bigger-picture-of-charles-greens-shares-and-rangers-future.1375452575
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I liked this bit;
“Disinformation is rife, which leaves Rangers supporters frustrated and anxious. They will look to the one figure they trust beyond all others for an indication of the state of their club. Walter Smith…”
Is he not the self confessed, ‘I haven’t a clue about business’ Chairman ? He is ! Oh dear…
To back Paul67 assessment of Scottish Football you only need to see the crowd at the recent St Johnstone v Rosenborg match. The Perth club are one of the most poorly supported teams in the league but a little bit of success in Europe helped to double their normal crowd.
Fans outside of Glasgow will turn out in big numbers if there is good reason.
And back in Glasgow there will be a good crowd for a very decent game at Firhill tonight between Thistle and United.
True story!
I was at ‘Old Trafford’ and they were playing Leicester, this was before NFL moved to our ‘ Holy-Ground’
Leicester were 3 down with about 4 mins to + extra time, and soooo, up pops NFL with a GOAL!
Cue great cheers from the Leicester end, no surprise there, however, right in the middle of the main stand up jumps a crowd of young Man. Utd fans singing and chanting NFL’s name.
They were unceremoniously escorted from the grounds, to derision from their peers.
Turned out that they from the same Secondary School that NFL had attended, and where is still lauded today, and they left, still chanting his name. However, an enquiry ensued, and as a result, the kids missed there flight home! No apologies were forth coming, subsequently, they all became ABU’s, now they are Celtic S-B holders. Amen!
H.H.
kevtic
Supporting your team should reason enough to go to games.
This physio thing is mountains from molehills. But some comments are in danger of revealing a distasteful attitude among some of our number on here.
I agree with battered bunnets earlier assessment.
The Kerrydale Bar is open from midday tomorrow.
hoopy-do, All women in Sweden do not look good. However I would concede,there are, legions of tall leggy blonde girls hanging around. It appears to me that most of the so called “abuse” was infantile banter, silly but harmless. It also appears a few might have taken it to the next level which I would describe as crude & loutish behaviour.These few do deserve to be told to cop themselves on & to grow up. If you have 40,000 mostly male ghuys, many of whom are a bit bevied you would not be surprised to see some indulge in this over the top laddish behaviour. Not making excuses for them but that kind of s*** happens all the time.
corkcelt
agreed….
Note to Ally…read Paul McConville’s blog piece this morning which spells out the reason why Sevco were treated differently from Hearts and Dunfermline.
Bada Bing
My daughter just said that to me. There’ll be a few sore heids on Sunday:o)
Kerrydale bar open from noon tomorrow?
KO is at 515 (I feel a song coming on).
Takings should be good – PL will be happy.
Use the money to buy a goalscorer Pedro!
HH!!
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Saturday 3 August – Celtic v Ross County – open from 12pm
Saturday 24 August – Celtic v Inverness CT – open from 11am
Lots of men here telling us what women like and how they feel. Interesting.
EDB-Could be a long day :) hope you are all well.HH
weeminger-VG.
Where’s Walter
RogueLeader
17:04 on 2 August, 2013
Blue Knights hostile takeover of the huns!
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail.html?announcementId=11667151
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zombie on zombie civil war
Let the fun begin.
Thanks Bada Bing.
CQN helps for sure.
Auldheid
12:32 on
2 August, 2013
Auldheid, very interesting reading. Thank you for sharing that.
Dan
Lots of men on here should channel their morale outrage towards more important matters like Syrian kids and women being tortured and killed on a daily basis.
A f***ing wolf whistle. God help us…
weeminger
17:49 on 2 August, 2013
Lots of men here telling us what women like and how they feel. Interesting.
A first for everything ;-)
A Tedious PC debate or tedious references to a 2nd tier club? I prefer the former.
ASonOfDan
Lots of men on here should channel their morale outrage towards more important matters like Syrian kids and women being tortured and killed on a daily basis.
A f***ing wolf whistle. God help us…
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That is the most whitabooteriest whitabootery in the history of whitabooterism.
Oh and as an extra bonus , The delued zombies on rankers media are distraught at the thought of P Murray on board at the hate factory.
Friday just got a lot more interesting
Bevvied up modren mostly male ghuys are rubbish.
All
I’ll have you know that as a part-time male model in my youth I used to get annoyed when women would tell me to rip my clothes off, but learned to get used to it.
Times have indeed changed and the abuse meted out by female oglers can on occasion outdo guys usual repartee.
It’s a crazy world we live in…
Dubaibhoy, so you were also a model? Yes those days were tough.
minx1888
17:56 on 2 August, 2013
Not sure all in here are in touch with their masculine side never mind their feminine side.;>{}
Malarkey
17:59 on
2 August, 2013
LMFTA
I’m going in – wish me luck – SSB
so the proposal is for two new directors at sevco… one called paul, one called francis. this is after kevin became a major shareholder.
karma can be hilarious…