The jockeying for cash between English footballs two cartels is quite a sight. The English Football League (EFL) currently earn just north of £500m a year in handouts from the Premier League (PL). They want that figure to increase to around £900m, while enough Premier League clubs are reluctant to share more of the money they create with those down the food chain.
The football model in England is broken (not that we are a perfect example). The PL is one of the world’s premier sporting brands. The EFL is one of the world’s wealthiest football league structures, but the disparity between their wealth and those above them make the gap precipitous for clubs having to deal with relegation.
The PL’s decision to decline the EFL’s offer to pay them £900m a year made your Conservative government angry, apparently. Yesterday, in stepped a prime minister in trouble and looking for a populist cause to show you he understands real people. Maybe I’m not real people but it’s not having the desired effect on me.
The PL and the EFL operate cartels inside the UK to the economic exclusion of Scottish clubs. This has a very real economic impact on the wider economy. Celtic would bring in around £400m more to the Glasgow economy each year, if they were able to compete with the rest of the UK.
The last time the EFL wanted leverage in their negotiations with the PL they threatened to offer Celtic and Newco a place in their league, introducing two clubs with prospects of promotion to the Premier League itself. The threat worked, the PL folded and the UK football market remained a fractured set of cartels.
If the government wants to genuinely protect the interests of disenfranchised clubs and supporters, breaking these cartels should be top of their agenda. Unfortunately, they don’t have the vision or intellect to act properly.
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Morning all.
and again
AIPPLE on 21ST MARCH 2024 1:24 AM
I only just stopped seeing Howe video pop-ups on here. Always Pep now. Maybe he isn’t coming as well?
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Lol Aipple.
Can you imagine Pep coming to Celtic, clashing with officialdom while trying to bring our football into the 21st century?
I can almost here the response.
“Who does this foreigner think he is coming up here and telling us how our national sport should be?
Who is this guy?
What has he ever done in football?”
Typo – hear
Chairbhoy – Thanks, its just confirming what we already all know.
CHEATING
I really do hope our lawyers remit is take no prisoners at the upcoming hearing.
But alas I fear there will be a deal to be done regarding keeping quiet and letting Brendan in dugout for the Ipox game.
D :)
CHAIRBHOY on 21ST MARCH 2024 5:39 AM
CHAIRBHOY, thanks for that clear summary of VAR and how it is SUPPOSED (my capitals 😊) to be used. There are so many discussion points that arise from that summary, but the “clear and obvious error” bit has done my nut in from the start – how can a toe, a head or even a nose being in front of an imaginary line cause a player to be deemed offside. Such a use of VAR technology undermines the principals of use right there.
Then of course there are the rules of intervention, which you summarised utterly clearly and which (also utterly) clearly have not been applied to Celtic.
I watched, along with millions of others, the introduction of VAR use in the Russia World Cup and even then started to feel concerned about the level of intervention. Fast forward to Scotland 2022 and I was, from the start, absolutely against it, suspecting (knowing?) that it would be weaponised against us. The absolute proof of that was seen at Tynecastle a couple of weeks ago.
In your link to the Motherwell FC statement there was a conclusion at the end which stated the vast majority of Motherwell fans would probably like to see VAR ditched. Include me in there.
Motherwell also made reference to the expensive costs to their club in funding VAR – various references have been made to these costs being paid by clubs on a sliding scale, with our club at the top of the table paying the most for it. I don’t know what level/time limit of ‘contractual’ obligation is involved, but with such unrest among football fans across the country (even the Hun supporters feel upset at times – ha ha ha???) would it not be within our power to threaten to withdraw our financial contribution towards VAR unless the principals of use, outlined so clearly in your post, were applied clearly and rigourously?
Good stuff all round CHAIRBHOY, thanks.
Ave Ave
A wee bit of Hartson for your morning.
https://twitter.com/tirnaog_09/status/1770718740654534986?s=19
HH
Could keep watching that Hartson goal at Anfield over and over. Was there that night. Class.
A meeting of the Shipbank Shipwrecks at the Old Ship Bank, Friday 29th March 12pm onwards.
” SCULLYBHOY on 21ST MARCH 2024 8:24 AM
my wife…… usually tells me off if I wear anything Celtic related in public.”
Grounds for divorce, surely?
The small doll never knows where I am, never mind what I’m wearing. 😉
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SAINT STIVS on 21ST MARCH 2024 11:35 AM
Couldn`t agree more.
Cheerio for now.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/03/welcome-to-the-willy-wonka-experience-that-is-british-politics?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1710948542-3
The best truth is told with some humour.
Did Jinky have any weaknesses?
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