The SFA put on a show yesterday, providing boxing and snooker promoter, Barry Hearn, with a stage to take aim at the SPFL. I would urge caution when digesting Hearn’s words. He took aim at some easy sounding targets, for example, the league not having a sponsor, but the league don’t have a sponsor by choice.
The alternative choice would be to sell the rights for a value considerably less than the old SPL’s rights. The league took the view that they would rather maintain their asking price, and go to market when the league is in a more competitive position. This may, or may not, be a wise decision, we don’t know, and neither does Barry Hearn.
He also talked about making money by selling fights between low-quality but committed boxers at £150 per ticket. Good for him. This kind of sport, and his auditorium-filled darts, may well have a bright future, but it’s not the direction Scottish football should be heading.
The backdrop to all of this is what’s going on at Hampden. There is a power-struggle between the SFA and the SPFL. The latter are more likely to deliver radical change, the former want to maintain control, privilege and the bowling committee-type structure which has lasted for over a century.
Can you imagine how inadequate the SFA would appear if the SPFL held a similar forum, with an invited guest there to poke fun at the SFA president’s EBT and “heavily conflicted” past? If the Association are trying to clip the league’s wings I suspect they will fail. It’s more likely the SPFL will redouble their efforts to bring structural reform to our game.
This has become a dirty battle.
Some great fun at Celtic Park last night, it was like the old days, you know, when John Greig was manager at Ibrox.
Remember, Joe Miller, tonight, at Waterstones, Stirling, from 5pm. Signing copies of Caesar and the Assassin, bring your camera.
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jude2005
That lady was not in charge of Tynecastle when Neil was attacked. Her gender is not an issue either.
G M
Yipp.
Thot Izzy was a bit off the pace tho. Has been brill of late too!!
Kitalba/ SFTB
I understand that Tonev was represented by Liam ODonnell…a very experienced solicitor who is also a solicitor – advocate
Jude@15.39
Stop beating about the bush and say what you really feel.
HH
BT
Yee haaaa
Like a rubbish scrum
a good collapse…..
Kitalba – Didn’t Kris Boyd get a “not proven” SFA judgement recently? Seems to suggest it’s within their remit to deliver such a verdict.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29555481
I was at tynecastle on Sunday and never seen any broken seats, I was 3 rows from the back so was one of the last out and never seen any.
I was also at pittodrie a couple of weeks ago and there where 100s of seats broke but they where damaged due to scoring late and everybody going mental at the end which Aberdeen came out and said wasn’t a problem as it wasn’t intentional and Celtic would pay.
So I think budgie is talking shite and trying to make a name for herself, she needs to get back in the kitchen and get her mans tea on HH
So today’s latest news:
Siobhan McMahon accuses Stephen house of lying to parliament and john mason MSP saying football supporters should be arrested and banned for wearing yes badges to a football match. WTF is going on?
Yay! £1.4m to sack him and his assistants ahahah
Rangers manager Ally McCoist’s position is not under immediate threat, BBC Scotland has learned.
Discussions between senior figures at Ibrox have taken place concerning a run of one win in four games.
Rangers trail Hearts by nine points in the Championship and following Wednesday’s 3-2 Petrofac Cup semi-final loss at Alloa, McCoist said he had no thoughts of resignation.
It is understood sacking McCoist and his assistants would cost around £1.4m.
With the Ibrox club having recently announced losses of £8.3m and struggling to pay wages beyond December, any move to change the management team is off the table for now.
McCoist, 52, succeeded Walter Smith in 2011, having served as assistant manager since January 2007.
And he has steered Rangers to the League Two and League One titles in successive seasons.
But there have been significant setbacks along the way and McCoist has been the subject of flak from supporters in recent weeks.
There were more jeers at full-time in Alloa after Rangers threw away a two-goal lead against part-time opponents, with the manager criticising his players’ “lack of professionalism”.
Asked if he was considering resignation, he replied: “No, I’m too concentrated on the game here.”
PFayr:
Do you know if he has legals’ with him today?
SonsOfErin:
I think it was within their remit too and had they arrived at that decision some might have viewed it as a copout whilst others would have viewed it as pragmatic.
It should never have come to this and I really do have faith that this time Celtic are not going to back down and let their player and our club have their collective reputations trashed on the word of one man.
If they do… then jam open the floodgates because there is a sectarian tsunami welling in the Clyde estuary
Jamesgang
so sorry to hear your sad news fella. Lost my Mum about this time last year so can appreciate how you must be feeling.
No place for the shameful sexism on show above, those responsible ought to have a think about yourself.
kitalba
14:51 on 4 December, 2014
Did Kris Boyd recently have a violent conduct case dismissed with a – get out of jail – ‘Not Proven’?
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Yes with TV evidence showing him motioning hid head towards an opposition player even though it was slight,
But then again ye cant get a slight bit pregnant :))))
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan. the vow – critically rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
14:32 on 4 December, 2014
That was an inciteful and eye opening post, how many journos just choked on their succulent lamb reading that lol
The Honest Mistake loves being first
15:53 on
4 December, 2014
I’ve been thinking about John Mason’s statement. Is it possible that he’s trying to point out the ridiculousness of banning political t-shirts etc in football grounds.
I mean I can’t think of an easier way to make that point than suggesting Yes badges should bring down the force of the law.
starry plough
14:50 on
4 December, 2014
Monaghan1900
The Pie Stall vacancy at Crystal Palace I take it! His field of expertise would be vital there…
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No way he’d be “ruling himself out” of that one Starry.
JamesGang, my condolences to you and your family.
Coleen Cant, Rest in Peace.
A measure of a parent is the children they raise, she was obviously a star.
You are a credit to her, she will be proud of you Sir.
Weeminger.
If the “evening up” nonsense wasn’t on record then I would consider this scenario but the truth seems to be that they want to criminalise everything so that non Huns are arrested to make Huns less Hunnish.
Sonoferin
Correct
They appear to use such Scots Law terms as suit from time to time
In Boyds case they used the not proven term …a term used in Scots criminal law where the standard of proof is beyond reasonable doubt ….and conviction requires corroborated evidence …ie evidence from more than one source
Whereas in Tonev’s case …the case was proved with no corroboration and decided on balance of probabilities….effectively the standard of proof in civil cases
The fact that they seem to decide on which basis to pursue each case is concerning
In Tonev’s case if they had used similar standards as they required in Boyds case …Tonev wouldn’t have had a case to answer
Whereas if they had used the standards employed in Tonev’s case in Boyds one …Boyd would have been done
The Honest Mistake loves being first
Some very good work getting done by FAC (who were at The Scottish Parliament today discussing the Gallowgate kettling) and it looks like they have exposed more of the ridiculous and clumsy thinking behind this ill conceived act. It appears John Mason MSP has said that wearing a yes badge at a football match could lead to police action. I hope his party quickly withdraw their track side advertising.
A Labour MSP has said the Chief Constable has misled parliament…
The report about the Gallowgate incident is on TCN; it runs to 58 pages and appears to pull the police version of events apart.
Sorry, appear less Hunnish.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/the-unsackable-ally/#more-5387
THM
Huns have consistently tried to excuse their hunnery by trying to suggest we behave in a similar fashion
leftclicktic:
:-)
Will wages get paid this month?
Do they know it’s Christmas?
http://t.co/LxFRuQg5nF
This link will allow you to download the ‘Gallowgate report.’
HH
At the brox
Good to read Barry Hearn telling the amateurs at Hampden,they would be sacked if they worked for him.
Bada bing
Hearn is London Barrowboy chantry rastler…..
Should have a lot in common with those who run our game :-))
Is it just me who thinks that the rankers failure to win the petrofac cup is a deliberate ploy…..in their shallow shallow ;-)) minds history would show that they were in the bottom leagues fighting for diddy trophies…..
H.H. & KTF
mibbeamparraCSC
The Honest Mistake loves being first
16:07 on
4 December, 2014
Another quote – “We should all know by now expressing political opinions is no longer acceptable at football matches.”
It’s times like these you remember just how many MSPs are really not that bright.
Macanbheatha
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First time iv heard that.
Really lovely and touching.
Doc
An here wis me thinking Coleen was thinkin ” i did my best to bring him (jamesgang) up with all the best values” but he turned out just ok ;-))
H.H. & KTF
Jamesgang,
Prayer said for your Mum big fella, thoughts and prayer with you and your family.
H.H.
Jamesgang condolences……I lost my mother 13 year ago…she had dementia….there’s not a day goes by that I don’t think of her….some of us come on here and talk up our da’s as that’s who gave us Celtic….but we are what we are because of our mammy’s.
pfayr supports weeoscar
16:18 on 4 December, 2014Bada bingHearn is London Barrowboy chantry rastler…..Should have a lot in common with those who run our game :-))
Hearn is a multi-millionaire marketing genius,and a guy who can get 500,000 to watch live fishing .
He got tore into the amateurs who run Scottish Football.Doncaster left the room when he spoke.He said he didn’t want paid for his appearance yesterday,as he can’t stand ‘suits’, and wanted to tell it how it is.Night and day,compared to Regan and Co.HH
Good afternoon all.
jamesgang
Shocked and saddened to hear the news of your mum’s passing. I feel your pain. Stay strong James, we will be saying a prayer for your mum tonight.
RIP Coleen.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.