We’ve been trailing the Ukraine-Russia Joint League plans, which was due to commence early next year, since they were first mooted in 2012. Political will, met commercial money, and a football desire to put the merger of two large national leagues into the schedule.
Needless to say, these plans are off the agenda, although it’s easy to look back now and see why the political will was so forthcoming. Note to Westminster, if you want to indulge in a bit of togetherness, put your shoulder behind building a relevant nationwide sporting infrastructure.
Instead of a Joint League, what the football authorities in Russia, Ukraine and Zurich are left with is a bit of a mess. Crimean clubs, Sevastopli and Tavriya are midway through a season in the Ukrainian Premier League. Russian minister for Sport, Vitaly Mutko, said, “From the beginning of next season Sevastopol and Tavria wiil join the Russian Premier League”, which will expand to accommodate them.
He told Russian media he had received assurances from Fifa that they would accommodate the change, adding, “We want a friendly relationship with Ukraine and do not want to disrupt their current championship. When the season finishes in May we will be back in discussions to formulate the way forward.”
The Russian media report that Ukrainian FA are less interested in maintaining friendly relations with their eastern neighbours and have written to Fifa and Uefa asking them to ban Russian football if they take clubs from the Ukrainian FA without permission. This claim has not been mentioned in the Ukrainian press, or on the Ukraine FA website – despite this being cited as the source in Russia, so it cannot be verified.
Clubs moving between national associations is a common occurrence, happening every year somewhere in the world, but I’m unaware of it happening without the approval of both FAs. Notwithstanding that, there is zero chance Uefa or Fifa will block this transfer. Two member clubs are in a problematic situation, they have a league which wants to take them. Uefa will approve.
Conspiracy theorists everywhere were confounded this morning when one of Europe’s most connected clubs, Bayern Munich, were issued with a partial stadium closure for their home Champions League quarter final against Manchester United, after fans displayed an offensive banner against Arsenal in the last round. Homophobia was their offence of choice.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
“After the game I asked a policeman the way to the station and he just pointed ahead…walked on to find myself in Porto Bus area…walked back – asked another Policeman and he pointed other way”.
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voguepunter
22:52 on 24 March, 2014
Kojo/TSD/Chris Torey
Have never met??? Whit aboot the shaving mirror in the morn?
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The unholy Trinity.
Natnow that was a brilliant atricle. Hilarious!
Bournsouprecipe :
“There’s Gonna Be A Lynchin’….
There’s Gonna Be A Lunchin’….”
Yipee-Yay !
Chris Torey
Is it simple attention seeking or something far darker and more sinister?
Oh Well!
Schnorbitz’s rotweiler pal has turned up. Must be a bus run.
As unconvincing an attempt to distance yourself from holocaust denial as, well, as your last one.
Do you guys have any idea how you come across to others?
No more dialogue from me tonight.
voguepunter
22:26 on 24 March, 2014
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Might be a tag team you meet :)
HT
You go easy ,the Castlemilk ‘Carlos the jackal’ (mongrel Chick)already has you in his sights.
VP
Ahs a shakin’ Boss :-)
OK say we move to england.
Our income would increase dramatically.
We’d be able to attract better players than we have just now. You know players of EPL class; Boruc, Ledley, Hooper, Marshall, Wanyama, Fox, Hooiveld, McGeady.
How much would it cost to get these guys into our team?
What would the weekly wage bill be?
Would it be worth it?
Would we better in Europe?
Would we win the European Cup again?
Would it be a better team that we”d be watching?
The old steptoe & sons karate springs to mind…get BB to hander you:)
Night Celtic fans .
Been pretty tied up with serious stuff today so just jumped through p1 of the comments then onto this page in the hope that I might see some kind of trend/theme.
Quite the reverse. It all starts so ….. Well normal really. And fast fwd to now and it’s just a bit too mentol for words at times.
Some folk need to ask themselves, ‘what would Jobo say? Be good to y’all!’
Hamiltontim. At the risk of sounding like your Mammy, you’ve got school tomorrow and it won’t be this in the morning so don’t stay up all night fighting with those whose minds you’ll never sway:-)))
Night Timdom. And if you can’t be fair, considerate and Timlike, then be quiet!
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
Already tucked up in Spider-Man jammies :-)
George Galloway really is coming over as a total tosser.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
I don’t know about this Torey poster but I know Kojo is not TSD.
I Seem To Recall A Jewish Foundation Hosting A Convention On The Holocaust,In Norway About A Decade Ago….
As I Recall,They Came Up With A Figure Of 1 Million For Inmates Gassed In The Concentration Camps….
The Died From Disease,Starvation….
Or Being Shot…..
The Total Figure For Those Who Died Seems To Have Stabilised At Around 6 Million….
And I Don’t Understand Why Some Folk Would Dispute This Figure….
Lots Of Other Folk Died In WWII…..
In An Equally Horrible Manner….
? 25million Chinese….
“Oh no there’s 3 of them….”
Glasgowempirecsc
Emu
How do you know they’re not the same poster mate?
George Galloway is a good speaker but has a bad subject to promote.
Jim Sillars is a lesser speaker but his proposal is an attractive one.
IMHO of course.
HT
Away! I know it’s a Celtic onesie!!!
Night all!
OnlyOneInMaHooseThatDisnaeOwnAonesieCSC!
HH jamesgang
Bada..VG…..4..u.
In bed with IPad….getting auld :0(
Wow…!
Hazel Blears Lookin’ Ravishing On Newsnight…
With Her New Butch Hairstyle…..
Haunds Aff…Ernie Lynch!
Ah Saw Her First..!
Viva Willie Gemmill !
Best Fullback Ever Tae Grace The Hoops !
VP-You got Saturday night off if all goes to plan?
SFTB
“BTW, I think you owe macjay an apology for trying to co-opt him to your side. macjay may be wrong on a lot of political issues and be a “reds under the bed” believer, but he has the decency to distance himself from the company you keep.”
The politics of any other individual are none of my business.
My only issue is when an individual or group of individuals attempt to impose their politics on my football team.
Re. “reds under the bed”.
It was reported in these pages that the G.B.spokesperson, Jeanette Findlay ,was an admirer of Trotsky.Are you able to confirm or deny that suggestion?
Bada
Yes mate , see you at weekend .
GuyFawkesaforeverhero / NegAnon2 –
Aye – it raised a chuckle. Although some of the points he raised about Scottish wimmin were well-observed! ;-)
Chris Torey….
You sound familiar.
Were you born early 60s and were you brought up East of the river Clyde within Glasgow City boundaries?
Hmmmm……
I won’t give you away but you should have grown out of all that extremism by now.
Straight yes or no to both questions would be appreciated.
VP-Hope the Sheepies do their bit tomorrow night.
George “Three Cheeks’ Galloway Currently Hosts Regular Weekly Programmes On Two Foreign News Channels…
Which Are Subversive,Anti-British,And Anti-Western
[Who’d Have Thought! ….Ed]
‘Sputnik’ On Russia Today @ 1800 On Saturdays…..
And “Comment” On Press TV….
Mouthpiece Of The Ayatollahs….
No Wonder He Doesn’ T Have Time These Days To Shake NFL’s Haund Ootside Lennoxtown…..
Wonder If His Record For Attending Parliamentary Debates Is Still As Poor….
http://m.youtube.com/watch?rl=yes&v=sHMGpkbVvTA&feature=related&client=mv-google&guid=&hl=en-GB&gl=GB
Christopher Hitchens ‘Owns’ The Three-Cheeked Member For Baghdad West……
(2005) 10minutes
Anyone been to hotel dom pedro golf in vilamoura?
Thanks to CQN went and watched the debate. Thanks.
Galloway is a no holds barred streetfighter with no rules whereas Jim Sillars is an ageing gentleman Ali.
That “nonsense on stilts” phrase that he obviously thought was smart was getting me really irritated.
Not sure why Newsnicht required three presenters for that.
Maleys Bhoy….
Good hotel mate.
Close to the marina and the Irish Bar.
Golf courses all within easy reach.
HT
From a very reliable source.
Maleysbhoy….
Avoid the Brazilian lovelies smiling at you around the pool though.
TheywantyourEurosCSC
When you have a situation where a race is virtually wiped out throughout Europe in the space of less than a decade and deniers’ major argument is to quibble over ‘how many….. million’ – then it’s time to disengage and sleep.
And maybe recommend Gitta Sereny’s biography of Speer or the like where the master race’s arrogant boasts and wartime yarns condemn them.
Night Timdom.
KTF. And love the good in life and best in fholk!
HH jamesgang
Alasdair MacLean
23:34 on
24 March, 2014
Thanks to CQN went and watched the debate. Thanks.
Galloway is a no holds barred streetfighter with no rules whereas Jim Sillars is an ageing gentleman Ali.
That “nonsense on stilts” phrase that he obviously thought was smart was getting me really irritated.
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Yes. I enjoyed the discussion but I found the repeated use of that phrase incredibly irritating! I think it was originally credited to Jeremy Bentham in relation to his views on the notion of “natural rights”.