My initial reaction, that the outcome from today’s SPL meeting and votes on Financial Fair Play, was on the upside of expectations, appears to be well founded. All matters not relating to a Newco football team were passed. Clubs had the opportunity to vote through a process to allow a Newco access the league but it was apparent that there was clearly insufficient support for this proposal, making subsequent proposals to apply sanctions to a Newco moot.
I understand sentiment towards Rangers reflected the comments from St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour, who said, “What’s a court getting involved in football for? The decision had been made.”
There is no question that fan pressure has been brought to bear on club chairmen.
This interpretation compares starkly with BBC Reporting Scotland tonight who, if I paraphrase, said, ‘If Rangers don’t get a CVA, depending on your point of view, they will either get “back” into the SPL with light or with punitive punishment’. The broadcaster also threw in the suggestion that ‘Rangers’ might get ‘back’ in without punishment.
I’m a huge admirer of Reporting Scotland but this was perhaps the worst 60 seconds in 85 years of BBC reporting. There was a decision made to ignore the real story, that no facility to get a Newco (not Rangers) into the SPL was approved, to ignore the outcome of several months of fan pressure, and to tailor a story that suits a controversial narrative.
Fortunately, it looks like the BBC will be back on form soon, but they really need to look at what happened today.
As for the CVA, it becomes less and less likely by the hour.
UPDATE
Having spoken to BBC Reporting Scotland’s Alastair Lamont it’s clear he has been briefed differently from me, which explains the contrast between our interpretations. This story is becoming a nightmare to report, and probably to read. Fair play to Alastair for being up for the debate. I feel much better about my favourite news programme.
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Auldhied
Cheers for that.
Paul
I was making dinner. I had already outlined the scheme things to Christine when she came home from work. Not 5 mins later, she appears in the kitchen to say come and hear this.
I watched the BBC reportage and then sat down.
If news media can conduct themselves like this without fear of reaction I dread to think how our political theatre operates – may be Mr Coulson could enlighten us to things political, if not indeed Govan.
That Daly is operating out of the same network beggars belief also.
They are dead and have been to me for weeks and so to is the press in this land…
U
Mark Daly e-mails at midnight?…..there goes another early night!!!
wonkyradar on 30 May, 2012 at 20:17 said
Laughed my nut off at that. Was thinking about getting some – second thoughts.
Monaghan
That Mark Daly dude likes burning the ol’ midnight Oil.
was it the bbc who broke the blog with all the talk of emails being revealed at midnight???
Paul67, you may recall a fair few months back I put forward the notion that someone, somewhere would find a shred of decency and morality and actually DO something about the whole hun fiasco and their cheating!!!
could this be the beginnning of that unfolding, with the SPL chairmen actually growing a pair????
I would love to hear what FIFA and UEFA are saying to the SFA, SPL
Mark Daly and his after midnight stories. Sigh. Midnight is 1am here and the last one I think was a good bit later than that. There’s no way I should/could stay up tonight. Will have to be tomorrow morning….
Celtic 67Live @the_eriugena
BBC post midnight releases are too late for morning papers to spin. Aimed directly at fans on social media to make up their own minds?
Ok, so fair enough, method in the madness.
If it’s good, it’ll be better than a shot of caffeine to set me up for the day.
ahem bit of nonsence going on yes?
Duff and Phelps. Something tells me that by this time next week we’ll be saying ‘who?’
Will the fabled emails be dumped on M. Daly’s Twitter page,or has there been a specially constructed radiation proof bunker type site created to contain them?
But,seriously,does anyone know of where they will be released for us i.b.’s to peruse them.
I,for one,will feel the need to dissect them appropriately,until the last nugget of schadenfreude is fully extracted.
Hail! Hail! to you all.
I must away….she who must be obeyed is calling her siren call….
Awe Naw – as our Germanic expert, would you know whether it would be possible to get tickets to a Bayern game when I go to Munich in late August?
I get the impression it’s a sell out every match.
Thanks in advance.
Pete
miki67 on 30 May, 2012 at 20:33 said:
I think he usually puts them on the BBC or BBC Scotland site.
I keep meanin’ to ask…whither Estadio these fine days? Another fine poster.
Suspense for the watchers is bad, the suspense for the condemned must be like standing on a platform with a rope round your neck, you know you are going to go blue!
Swingers club?
I see the BBC are remaining true to the old rusty tin cans on a string internet system…I’m not one to criticise but it can be difficult to log into the worldwide web with two tins of heinz tomato soup and your grannies string.
A wee Ned called Whyte threw in the keys for ibrox and got barred!
Hamiltontim, Mark Daly has tweeted some interesting stuff to come after midnight.
bournesouprecipe, I watch and enjoy Reporting Scotland every day. Amazed at what I saw tonight. We all have bad days, I suppose.
Lennybhoy, agree. Gilmour was raging. He’s not the only one.
fergus slayed the blues, no I can’t. We’ll see what the coming days brings, but I expected the Newco provisions to be voted through today, I believe Celtic did too.
Jobo Baldie, late last week I heard from an excellent source that season ticket sales were up on the corresponding date last year.
stevebhoy, good idea.
MayoD, I don’t think the SPL would comment on fan pressure.
ulysses mcghee, the BBC is difficult for anyone to command with authority. You’ll get pools of power here and there, but it’s too big to contro.
Navanbhoy, perhaps.
There are a few ways this could be “interpreted”.
But, when you see the anger in the faces of the chairmen….
In the words of highlander:
There can be only one!
Lenny
•-:¦:-•** -:¦:- SparkleGhirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-• on 30 May, 2012 at 20:35 said:
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mercy buckets.
all right! i’m comin’!…. some folks just don’t understand why i need to be chasing down the alleys of the internet as that lot die. best series since Deadwood! lol!
: )))
I see going by the figures Jobo put up that section 111 is nearly
sold out,is that the Green Brigade section,take it they were happy
with any discussion they had with PL,good on them.
Glasgows green and white!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those of you not on Twitter, wee Oscar home safe and sound after treatment in London. All went very well. Scan in 5 weeks to see if and how well it has worked! (Prayers & crossed fingers please everyone). Will hopefully get the blog updated later.
For those fretting about rangers* future… please relax. They are doomed.
Hail Hail
Knoxy
bamboo:
The thing to realise about shortbread sports tv and wireless is that there an entrenched clique of rangler supporters there who use every oppotuntiy to skew rangler news (positive spin) and Celtic news negative spin. Its been like this for years now. Some some reason I listen to their sports bulletins everyday and they operate to a biased agenda. They are one of the more extreme factions of the SMS.
A couple of exceptions are Richard “nice guy” Gordon and Jim “Spencie” Spence.
Mark Daly is outside the clique but hes not in the sports department . Hes a serious investigative reporter.
I can tell you how many s/b’s the bhuns have sold
…………………………………………………..666.
This is a beastly fact.
Paul67
The BBC ‘old guard’ are hanging on in there, with ‘The Gers’ burying bad news.
Mark Daly is gonna need a bigger boat.
knoxy2000 eating Jelly and Ice Cream and supporting Neil Lennon on 30 May, 2012 at 20:38
Great news! Look forward to the next instalment of the blog Knoxy.
Peace. To One & All.
Goodnight Timternet.
Petethebeat
I will give them a ring tomorrow and get back you tomorrow night.
HH
That’s a good few season tickets. Any chance of Sally demanding the publishing of their names? One of the few lists longer than their list of creditors.
BBC post midnight releases are too late for morning papers to spin. Aimed directly at fans on social media to make up their own minds?
@the_eriugena
Knoxy 2000 – a timely reminder of what is important in life. I hope he continues to stay strong and that the scan brings positive news.
Keep the Faith.
Jobo
Good jobo!
Over 40k, eh!
Love of Celtic 3
The primacy of Sporting Integrity 0
Interesting, very interesting!
On balance, I side with the renewers but feel that everybody’s motives for renewing or not are difficult to question!
Difficult decision for everyone!
HH
Mark daly will not be popular if he keeps p1ssing in Jabba’s kettle!
Awe Naw – Thanks very much. Please don’t go to a lot of trouble on my behalf as I’m sure you’re as busy as most of us (CQN time is a necessary exception!)
Colleague who’s a Jags fan says it’s doing the rounds that the thems team that beat Thistle about ten years ago in the Scottish Cup semi was full of EBTs (except Scott Wilson, Arveladze and I think one other). They’re not happy either.
Re Shortbread,
I missed the ‘news’……who was the reporter?
My 2 brothers stay in Abu Dhabi and Texas
2 of my brother-in-laws stay in London and Horsham
5% to 0% jubilee coverage to A GAZZZILLLION!!!!!!
Danny, Gerry enjoy England this weekend…
U
Evening all,
Paul67,
Cold we possibly have a CQN poster of the season competion, some fine contributions have been made on the past 12 months and I think recognition is due….just a thought
Cheers Paul
Not the response I was looking for but a step in the right direction hopefully .
Auldheid /JF
If you are digging around for info to get out ,may there be something in the ragers OTT reaction to the signing embargo ,after all they could not sign anyone
anyway whilst in admin ,why such an OTT response .Seemed strange .
It even led to fat sally putting peoples safety at risk and duff n duffer committing football suicide ,paid for by the RFF .
What do they know about player signings next year that we don’t