The momentum for a confederated regional league in Eastern Europe continues to gather pace with clubs from Belarus keen to join. With a population of around 10m, Belarus is sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states, but their league has been rendered uncompetitive by the domination of Bate Borisov, who are on their way to eight-in-a-row titles.
Bate, who are now Champions League regulars, have no opportunity to progress while the rest of the league do not have the resources to compete with them. A regional league would solve all their problems.
Russian and Ukrainian clubs are aiming to have a confederated league in place by the start of 2014, with sponsors thought to be keen to step forward and underwrite whatever is necessary to smooth the way, but the Ukrainian FA suggest 2016 is a more viable date.
Scottish football stands to gain more from regionalisation than anywhere else on the planet. We need to have this debate before blindly stumbling into another Management of Decline while legislators in Minsk leave us behind!
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Marrakesh Express
It was a play fight between a Chelsea supporting flowershow artist and a Northern Irish Orange grower for charity. it raised a princely sum of £16:90.
Nothing to see here. move on Timmy.
MWD
PS. Monteblanco you are one paranoid Tim. Where ever did you get that from? :-))
The Boy Jinky
You on the prowl or are you hooked up?
MWD
monteblanco
23:40 on 18 December, 2012
SilenceChuck
If that post sounded like a defence of the zombies then I whole heartedly apologise!
Especially seeing as how they went out there way to attack a meeting arranged to oppose the new leglislation.
To be clear, my point is about the heavy handedness of the police escalating since the introduction of the bill. If it has caused a skirmish in Ibrox, then as sure as eggs is eggs, it will need to be balanced somehow inside Parkhead. Christine Graham says so
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If you can’t see what happened at Ibrox tonight is a reflection of what has been going on in NI then you’re being, at best. naive.
67Heaven
It dont get much better
hh and g’nite
The Boy Jinky It still has to get flushed eventually :-)
Sipsini I tried but couldn’t get that low, though I did tell them that if they were wanting to be taken seriously they should toxophile and carry a big stick.
Moonbeams, I was saying it in a W.O.S accent, you are obviously using an Irish one :-)
reilly1926
naive and paranoid I’ll have you know!
Night night Timland
Weefra HH
Marrakesh Express :O)).
Ernie,
You’ve gone to a great deal of trouble, but go back even further for the original X as a sign of Christ. The first Christians used to greet each other with a +, the sign of the cross. For fear of persecution and their own safety this was changed to X. This suited all, since very few could read or write.
Hail! Hail! and Happy Christmas.
P.S. I didn’t intend this to go so far when I pointed out the use of Xi.
Ernie,
Until tonight, before your ‘watch with mother’ educational piece, I would guess that less than 1% of the population were aware that ‘X’ was Greek for Christ and that the use of ‘X’ in ‘Xmas’ by most folks was a secular development, or a lazy writers guide.
Perception is everything. Why remove ‘Christ’ from the widely regarded festival of ‘Christmas’?
Hail! Hail!
Reilly1926
Don’t know what happened at iPox tonight,but if there was trouble ,your assessment I think will be spot on.There are troubled times ahead .
estorilbhoy
23:51 on 18 December, 2012
‘Why remove ‘Christ’ from the widely regarded festival of ‘Christmas’?’
Why pander to the ignorant?
Hopefully srathclydes finset wore their heavy steelies and broke out their largest batons in dealing with the zombie uprising at the bigot dome this evening.
It’s best to be careful when dealing with such vile scum.
Finset = polis
monte – maybe old bill just finally getting fed up their low-level arrogance or maybe they been watchin northern ireland news…hopefully its the end of their hate filled song sheet for some time to come.
lets not giv them the food to feed off at celtic park.
HH
fanadpatriot
My comments not aimed at well wishing more the theological debates around the rights or wrongs of DEC 25 Christmas celebrations that verge in to questionning beliefs – each to their own whatever you believe is my view..we are a broad church with many diverse beliefs which is why we are better than any other club.. I don’t particularly feel questioning beliefs (whatever they are) the best use of cqn
Much as I detest the huns, I wouldn’t trust Plod as far as I can spit.
Tonight’s Chanel 4 news only reinforced my views.
ernie lynch
23:55 on
18 December, 2012
estorilbhoy
23:51 on 18 December, 2012
‘Why remove ‘Christ’ from the widely regarded festival of ‘Christmas’?’
Why pander to the ignorant?
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Ernie,
Goodnight and god bless, and may your god go with you.
Sleep well, I am sure you do :))
mention comin up on SSN – lets see if they mention the violence?
not holdin my breath
Edward ursus.
That’ll be little john with the big stick and whats his name that wore the hood…Charlie chuckles?
Nite all.hh
Emdae ken the latest amount raised for the wee Oscar appeal?
Well, hopefully I am a naive paranoid loonball (am on the site at the right time of night shirley)
:)
We shall see.
Holy Christmas
G’nite
(who said that?)
Jude
More than the rst raised to fund sevco
Sevco are really just a horrible new club with the dead club’s horrible old support.
Over on hun media the blame is being put squarley on the shoulders of the police. It’s not like huns dont have a history for violence, circa everywhere they go…………..is it?
surprise surprise…not a single mention…dirty fkin scum
ACGR
What happened at doom dome tonight?
We could contact Strathclyde’s finest and offer our financial backing for a sponsored skelp.
Btw Christmas and Xmas should both be pronounced the same way.
I think the fuss and bother starts when people pronounce it ex mas. The sort of people who make tea without using a teapot. Shudder.
‘Pronunciation for Xmas
Pronunciation:ˈkrɪsməsˈɛksməs’
http://oxforddictionaries.com/pronounce/english/Xmas
I concur on both points ernie.
T B J
The pledGERS have still to wae in!! <:o))
Hun sites saying a bit of trouble kicked off and plod were looking to lift a few specific targets. The Union Bears decided to walk out en-masse to shield the suspects and get them out. Plod then decided to lock the exits to prevent suspects from leaving. Some scuffles a few minor injuries etc. Some say plod went in to remove an offensive banner others say the Union Bears were singing “Super R*ngers” and were singing the line “We hate Celtic, Fenian Bas****s” and this prompted plods intervention.
Well if they were singing that they were being honest.
I don’t think anyone should be arrested for singing that.
Ntasoolla –
They should be arrested – it’s offensive. They leave out “unrepentant”!
So they need re-educated – or is it just educated.
Agreed.
Thanks NatKnow. That made me laugh out loud.
When you need the people to buy in they cop out
22 million raised
17 from private investors and the rest from the fans it’s not exactly fireworks money in 2012 or enough to cover the costs of Green getting to hear CL music at Ibrox anytime soon
Which makes you wonder about the fans shares part of this
It would be interesting to know the share percentage wealthy oldco fans like Mc Coist have in relation to the overall fans stake
It does seems this share issue is a flop at grassroots level if wealthy fans make up a large proportion of the overall fans stake
Maybe Sevconians are paying into Chucks medicine show but they are not buying into it…….?
Of course if disaster strikes again cue Walter Smith (in the background) coming to the rescue
It’s a tactic they have used before to great success before when the PLG experiment failed
Could it be Chucks just here to get them over some more bad times just like Craigy boy
Maybe The Cardigans back for plan B (post Chuck) just like before only this time its plan B +
Yep that was funny ok, NatKnow. Quiet here tonight, I’ve had a long day and am feeling knackered so I’m Offski. Goodnight All & God Bless. HH
Remember …. They are a newco with no history of violence ?
140 days old today and violence ??
Who’d have thought
Jude, I wasnt there, but reading the main thread on hun media it appear that the polis simply waded in and battered the shite oota the onion bears and the bloo order for a bit of a baton practice.
Seems quite reasonable to me.