The Scottish Football Supporters Association Benchmark 2017 survey results were released yesterday. Over 16,000 fans participated in the survey, conducted by academics from the University of Leipzig, and showed an alarming disconnect between the paying public and the sport’s governing bodies.
I was surprised at the optimism evident in the survey. 73% believe their club is committed to the good of football and 63% believe they are open and honest.
Worse than scandal-ridden Fifa
From a maximum mark of 5, fans rated their own club’s commitment to the good of the game at 4.01. The SFPL and Uefa were almost tied on a low score (1.99 and 2.02 respectively), while at 1.58, the SFA ranked worse than scandal-ridden Fifa’s 1.86.
The SFA also ranked bottom of the pile when it came to perceptions of openness, honesty and trust; good governance and transparency; as well as to a commitment to fans affairs.
Although dissatisfaction with the SFA was across the board, “Rangers” (sic.) fans were significantly more satisfied with the national association than either Celtic fans or all other fans. Perhaps an indication of the work Stewart Regan did in halting the SPFL’s request to review matters surrounding old Rangers.
Fans of all colours want an independent supporters’ organisation to allow fans access to the structure of the game, although, interestingly, “Rangers” fans are significantly less keen on this idea.
Former First Minister, Henry McLeish, said the report uncovered “some very concerning issues, but also provides a real opportunity for change.”
The SFA responded immediately, blocking any change while pointing to its in-house Supporters Direct Scotland body, as a source for their authorised fan liason.
When 16,000 of your customers tell you they believe you to be less honest than Fifa, you have a problem. This is an ideal opportunity for the SFA to grasp the nettle and connect with their public. But what’s the point in raking over old coals? Better to let the game wither on the vine.
Well done to the Scottish Football Supporters Association and the University of Leipzig for this insight.
Tommy’s Runs for The Oscar Knox Fund at Solving Kids Cancer
The enormous pain Oscar endured during his five years, and the continuing pain carried by those who loved him will never be offset. But it is an enduring inspiration that Tommy Melly (in particular) and many Celtic fans in general, work towards solving kids cancer in his name.
Tommy has completed five runs this year, his final effort before taking a winter break is in Glasgow on Sunday. His commitment has been astonishing, this kind of work takes hundreds of hours training.
You can read a wee bit about the story here. And if you want to do your part, you don’t need to run anywhere, just give the support him however you can.
Thank you.
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GLENDALYSTONSILS on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:10 PM
BIG JIMMY on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:01 PM
Anne Budge is also offering to let you stand outside the ground for nuthin !
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aint gonna happen mate….I would want payin !
and I won’t “Budge” oan that.
HH
Paul67 BMCUW thanks bhoys for the kind words but I don’t do anything, just do what I can ;-)
Doc will take you up on the lemonade on Saturday
HH
BIG JIMMY
Aye, he was a good lookin’ big bloke!
See you Saturday!
TONTINE TIM on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:09 PM
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God rest yer Da mate…but he was right no to talk to you IF you were cutting aboot looking like Sandie feckin Shaw….could you no afford shoes ?
LOL…Only joking mate.
From 1970 whilst still at sec school….I looked like an Apache Indian….so my 1st wife would always tell me. Me and some mates would buy white tennis headbands out of Lumleys sports shop in Glasgow to wear when we played fitba…cos of our long hair !
I don’t know aboot them….but I looked pretty cool…and I got most of the wummin/…..or Glesga squaws !
HH
PHILBHOY on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:14 PM
BIG JIMMY
Aye, he was a good lookin’ big bloke!
See you Saturday!
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………….These days…I don’t need a feckin tennis headband !
see you Saturday mate.
HH
BUNDORAN BHOY – TEAM OSCAR FOREVER on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:13 PM
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Yer doing a Grand job mate !
HH
Cheers Big Jimmy HH
Mark Daly can doorstep a chancer who dodges paying UK tax, a couple of doors down from him at Pacific Quay tonight, Barry Ferguson on Sportsound
Tontine Tim 6.09.
A fine read, thank you for sharing.
I was particularly interested in the Celtic connection keeping you together.
I didn’t have a good relationship with my Dad. He was a bully who knocked 7 bells out of my mum, me and my sisters.
He died in 1993 and I have to be honest and say I was more upset when two of my good friends died than I was when he died. That’s not to say I didn’t shed a tear because I did but I felt he death of my friends more deeply.
However, my wife once said to me, after he died, that surely he must have brought some positives to your life. That got me thinking and there you have it, he introduced me to Celtic.
If you discount my own children, the vast majority of my family are not Celtic supporters. It was him who took me to Celtic games when I was younger, although, I kid you not, by the time I was 8 I was travelling to the east end from the south side myself, he allowed me to do it and his word was always final. He by this time 1971/72 would only attend the bigger games.
Hail Hail
Oh ye canny shuv Big Jimmy aff the blog
Oh ye canny shuv Big Jimmy aff the blog
Oh ye canny shuv Big Jimmy
Cause he’s a hansom Timmy
Canny shuv Big Jimmy aff the blog ;
Hoooooowwwwoooooollllll
The Tone of the Wolf CSC
Dallas Dallas – Sorry to read the news about your father, may he RIP.
Weet Weet Weet – YNWA.
…..oot.
TONTINE TIM
Another great post!
Thanks!
Barry EBT Ferguson on sportsound talking about Dick EBT Advocaat.
Perfect opportunity for a discussion on tax avoidance? Hmmmm….
JIMMYNOTPAUL
A brave post!
Best wishes mate.
Jimmynotpaul
I’d put money on the fact that you are a much better father
Than your old man.
And I don’t know you
Except for what you post.
Hail hail mate
Philbhoy/MMPD.
Thank you both for kind posts.
Hail Hail
Cascarino should have been done under the Trades Description Act – footballer mein Arsch. He makes Trump look like an intellectual.
Another ROI player who was capped because he drank a pint of Guinness one day.
I was on Celtic Lisboa twitter there.
The man/ woman puts up 2or3 goal highlights from this day in what particular year they fancy and 1 or 2 other bits and pieces.
His gives Badr El Kaddouri a mention today and has uploaded his goal against Rangers.
Now I do remember the player and the goal but I couldn’t recall the score in that game in 2011.
I had to Wikipedia it, we lost 4.2, that explains it, funny how the games we lose, a lot of them we instantly forget, well I do :-)
He’s also uploaded Tony Cascarino scoring his first goal for Celtic, in his 10th appearance, coming on as a sub for Charlie Nick. Tommy Coyne laid an open goal on for him and he nearly misses it, then just 6 minutes after coming on, he is sent off for a right hook on Craig Levein. I had forgotten that too. It must be the medication, nothing to do with getting old and doddery :-))
Hail Hail
Were is B V,and what is it
JIMMYNOTPAUL
I don’t know you either but my story is pretty similar.
It sounds to me like you got over him and became a fine man.
Unfortunately some fathers are just shite at their job.
I know mine was, anyway not seen or spoke to him in nearly 20 years.
But my wee mum now that’s a different story.
KEEP THE FAITH
JIMBOB
Blane Valley Pub, 76 Glassford St in Glasgow.
Tony Cascarino Celtic fc’s career summed up in 1 game as mentioned by JNP above
https://twitter.com/CelticLisboa/status/928322284145860608
Ferguson now on Peter McGuire show in STV2, probably pulled in the best part of a grand for 2 hours work…
Ferguson despite all his tax free wonga is a bankrupt- you couldn’t make it up
JOPHES on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 7:53 PM
Ferguson despite all his tax free wonga is a bankrupt- you couldn’t make it up
while his wife lives in a mansion, that she lets him sleep over in.
thats cheating tax allright
He can always get a bed in the ludge
Bada..Just heard Alex Rae on Radio Derek McInnes…sorry! I meant Radio Clyde and I thought, one day he’s on Shortbread and the next he’s on Clyde…It’s the same with Mark Wilson…they jump from one station to the next…Shortbread dump Murdo McLeod and whooosh, he turns up as a pundit on Clyde…what a smelly wee fish bowl we live in… :-)
Tonyrome 7.42.
Thank you and ditto my friend.
My own mum was 79 last week, a great woman, still sharp as a tack but very frail now. She is a lot sharper than me that’s for sure.
My mum finally left my Dad in 1988, I still don’t know how she put up with everything for so long. She kind of gave me an answer when he died in 1993, he was ill for a good while and she, although she kept her own place, effectively moved back in with him, to nurse him in his dying days. I asked her why she done it, I have never forgotten her reply, she said,when she left him, she had left the situation, not him.
A powerful thing is love.
Hail Hail
Murdochauldandhay. 7.49.
Thank you for posting.
Hail Hail
And then there’s Nevin….he turns up everywhere…always look under ma bed before ah go tae sleep…ye never know ffs…..
St Sivs
& she owns a childcare facility & has ‘…..ahem …..got a few properties ….’
She’s the brains obviously
JNP and Tony R…Wow! None of us has the same upbringing…I had a bad time in my teenage years and shot off to London before finishing my apprenticeship…for two years I made no contact with my family…fortunately, we made up and everything was smoothed over…family life can be difficult and now that I’m an auld geezer I think I understand where things went wrong…credit to you two for being so open…
JIMMYNOTPAUL
There seems to be a lot of symmetry in our formative years.
I look forward to the day when our paths cross for a right good reflection on the past and no doubt a belly full of laughs.
KEEP THE FAITH
PHILBHOY on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 7:08 PM
JIMMYNOTPAUL
A brave post!
Best wishes mate.
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I’ll 2nd that..well said PHILBHOY.
and also brave from TONY ROME.
HH Bhoys.
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My Da only actually hit me once for refusing to eat my evil Step Maws dinner. i was only refusing cos I was a very fussy eater as a very young Bhoy and I wasn’t brought up with them.
He stood me up on the wee couch and demanded that I eat the dinner, and I refused a few times……next minute ….SLAP…right across ma wee face, and it sent me flying aff the sofa.
I ran out of their hoose and up the close in Scotstoun, Glasgow. and cried on the steps.
The Big Man came and found me….and apologised Big Time.
15 minutes or so later….we were on our way to see The Celtic knock Vovvjdina Novi Sad oot of the European Cup with Big Billys last minute winner in the quarter final.
In later years he did grab a hold of me on two occasions cos I was slagging his evil bitch of a wife…that evil step mum !
HH
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
Cheers BOBBY it’s a great feeling being of an age were you feel you have nothing to hide.
My head is in a real good place at the moment and I’ve a lot to enjoy in life.
As I said to JIMMY I’ll talk with you about it when we meet.
KEEP THE FAITH
KEVJUNGLE on 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 6:59 PM
Oh ye canny shuv Big Jimmy aff the blog
Oh ye canny shuv Big Jimmy aff the blog
Oh ye canny shuv Big Jimmy
Cause he’s a hansom Timmy
Canny shuv Big Jimmy aff the blog ;
Hoooooowwwwoooooollllll
The Tone of the Wolf CSC
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Nearly right KEV mate,
ye canny shuv Big Jimmy aff a BAR STOOL !
HH
I was a bit wild in my late teens.
Came home from work one day and spot 2 suit cases outside the front door.
The front door, which is usually open, is locked.
I knocked and my Mum opened the door.
“Whose are these suitcases Mum?” I asked.
“They are yours” says she.
Never spoke to my folks for 2 years.
Changed my ways and eventually made up.
They deserved better.
Miss them still.