Uefa’s videoconference yesterday moved the prospect of domestic league football in late summer a step closer. It is likely the lockdown across Europe will be lifted gradually, with mass public events like football games being the very last permitted activity.
That being the case, it is likely that some leagues will be underway behind closed doors in July, with many more in August. Football will be back, TV contracts will be compromised but not completely discarded, so there will be some income, but without ticket revenue, the consequences for most Scottish clubs will be significant.
Most Hearts players have taken a lead from the (odious, remember) Gordon Taylor, PFA chief in England, by offering to defer their wages, not take an actual cut. Ticket revenue is almost an irrelevant figure for the English top flight, becoming less so as you go down the divisions, so a deferment works at the top level there.
But it is pointless to Hearts. There is a real prospect that clubs will not be allowed to sell a match ticket this year. As with England, those at the top of the tree will cope better, but all will face consequences and even the likes of Hearts will do well to survive without an insolvency event unless they can significantly cut their wage bill.
Gordon Taylor’s >£2m salary is not sustainable if his members are not earning full wages and paying significant union fees. It is against his financial interest to acquiesce to calls from the English Football League for an across the board wage cut. While this battle goes on in England, the same debate will happen in Scotland.
The crisis is likely to come to a head in the English Championship, which operates in normal times to the norms of voodoo economics, but will be wiped out without their normal income streams. There, some well-off footballers will lose their incomes. Below the Championship, it is hard to see a viable employer. Ironically, lower league clubs in Scotland can furlough all their staff, including players, who will not be offended by a £2500 monthly cap. The crunch in Scotland will come in the top flight, where valuable contracts are at stake.
It could take weeks for this to play out, with millionaires holding firm against the backdrop of horrendous levels of anxiety, joblessness, poverty and death in the community. I predict Steven Naismith, who unilaterally accepted a 50% wage cut, is one of the few footballers you admire when this is all over, despite his personal history. A phrase I never expected to type, but these are exceptional times.
I was shocked then angry when I heard the UK death figures yesterday, weeks before the peak is due. Our governments and their advisers have no master plan out of this one, and there are too many people still taking risks. Each household is on its own, so stay at home.
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Bada
Sad to read about the death of Jimmy Gordon who was the man behind the production of the Celtic film of 1996/67 which gives us dso much precious archive footage.
Hugh was a classmate. I remember him leaving to go to seminary.
Tommy was my uncle and a bricklayer by trade so probably the same family :-)
RON BACARDI on 2ND APRIL 2020 7:54 PM
Hugh was a classmate. I remember him leaving to go to seminary.
*Lived in the same street as my wife. Although there’s a Dumbarton side tae my family I grew up out the Vale, anyone from there in yer class.
Tontine….(Mick) McGinty ( Whitecrook) was my Maths teacher at St Columba’s….
just seen a text about a Rangers fan dying of COVID-19
after travelling to Leverkusen game.
No point scoring on playing the game just posting what I received
Good response in the Garngad tonight for appreciation for the NHS
👏🙏👏🙏👏🙏
D. :)
D66- same here,it’s quite emotional…
TONTINE,
Not that I can remember, but must have been, class size was at least 30.
I remember a Michael? McGinley from Helensburgh,
I was at St Pat’s for six years and never had a school dinner. Went to the nearby shop to get a vienna roll, then to the chip van for chips to stuff the roll.
!!Bada Bing!! on 2nd April 2020 8:13 pm
D66- same here,it’s quite emotional
We had someone revving a chain saw and someone else firing a shotgun.
Hopefully neither was injured.
The Idiocy of rural life.
Ernie- that’s Brigton fur ye…😮
BANKIEBHOY1 on 2ND APRIL 2020 8:08 PM
Tontine….(Mick) McGinty ( Whitecrook) was my Maths teacher at St Columba’s…
*I knew Anthony, Danny who I believe ended up teaching down at St Josephs Dumfries and Martin.
Ernie – Bada – I agree It was very emotional
D. :)
One for CORKCELT. Posted by an acquaintance.
GOD was seen walking around Cork this morning.
When asked what He was doing, He said
“WORKING FROM HOME.”
ernie lynch
The idiocy of rural life
Your words Ernie
!!BADA BING!! on 2ND APRIL 2020 8:29 PM
Ernie- that’s Brigton fur ye…😮
awfy braw
Braw
A single firework here just after 8. Mind you, when I was at high school if I had heard the word ‘clap’ and ‘NHS’ in the same sentence it wouldn’t have been a reason to set off fireworks!
TONTINE,
The McGintys were a large family.
I think Daniel went from St Joe’s to be headmaster at a school in Perth.
Antony had a travel firm specialising in holidays to the Yugoslavia.
Their dad ran one of the boys guild teams of OHR.
Paul67 et al
Cannot believe they are still discussing PPE on Question Time. If ever there was a low-tech product that is it. Any workshop could produce them with the correct and appropriate materials. We could make them at home. OldTim67 used to make fur hats at home, (not a lotta people know that) designed them himself, (well he was an engineer) so I reckon he could put more than a few together.
From BBC 5 minutes ago:
Confirmed global coronavirus cases pass one million, after doubling in less than a week
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.
!!Bada Bing!! on 2nd April 2020 5:19 pm
Hi !!Bada Bing!!
A quick Google search on your info at 5:19pm comes up with this: …
https://www.hoax-slayer.net/misleading-warning-missed-calls-375-371-numbers-outline/
Apologies as this has likely been responded to before this response.
Keep safe everyone!
Haail Hail and God Bless,
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
JOBO BALDIE on 2ND APRIL 2020 8:36 PM
A single firework here just after 8. Mind you, when I was at high school if I had heard the word ‘clap’ and ‘NHS’ in the same sentence it wouldn’t have been a reason to set off fireworks!
smiley honest i am a joiner and am working here thing
Braw
Speaking of misleading numbers …
Headlines that Bruges have been awarded the title being 15 clear with one REGULAR season match left don’t tell the whole story.
After 30 matches the league is spilt, points totals are HALVED, and a further 10 games played involving the top six.
At best, Bruges would have been 9 ahead with 10 to play.
At worst, 6 ahead with 10 to play.
We are, at worst, 10 ahead with 8 to play.
Hurry up and call it.
TRUTH_BEAUTY_AND_FREEDOM
braw names for nieces …can they do the claw oot the knuckles thing? ….
awfy braw voices …thank you for that video..
smiley for Terrymaccers oot there…. Logan the X- Man could do that sort of thing thing
The ghirls kin that
Braw
THE ONLOOKER on 2ND APRIL 2020 3:13 PM
Some countries with recent experience of SARS already had a plan if something similar occurred. They activated screening and contact tracing.
*The first case of SARS in TO was an elderly woman returning from a trip to Hong Kong, the virus killed her in March and eventually infected 257 individuals in the province of Ontario.
WHO designated TO high on their list of infected areas and it remained there until June of that year.
I was working as a front line manager in Pearson Airport at the time dealing with the public and it was a scary period, the lady who brought it in infected her son, who also died, he in turn passed it on to patients at Scarborough Grace Hospital.
The official response by the Ontario provincial government and Canadian federal government has been widely criticized in the years following the outbreak and was described public health officials preparedness and emergency response at the time of the outbreak as “very, very basic and minimal at best”.
I had an atrial flutter at the time and was on the waiting list for a catheter ablation, didnae have tae wait too long as the hospitals were empty due tae the fears of catching SARS.
I had mine done on the Friday before Seville and was back at work on the Tuesday as the Monday was a statutory holiday. I said tae Mrs TT after watching the game that if I hadn’t had the procedure carried out I would probably have had a heart attack.
I get my updates over here via CNN, MSNBC, and both CTV and CBC 24 hour channels, the last 2 are Canadian.
We have a few right wing trumpet like premiers, a bit like governors down in the states, who are first tae jump over the Liberal prime minister, not happening this time, in fact they are openly praising him.
As one of them who I call doug trump as that was his initial hero said, there are no red, blue, green or orange Canadians right now, we are all in it together
The TO mayor who is a red tory, his name is also tory, is also in praise of the leadership which has been shown.
My only concern right now is the returning snowbirds many of whom have been down in Florida where a lame duck governor only issued a closed door policy after talking to the White House. We should know in about 4 weeks or so.
However, IMHO we have learned fae SARS and the country as a whole is doing well.
Incidentally about 2 months after we returned tae normal the northeast blackout which was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario occurred; some places were without power for up to 2 weeks. Fun and games in the biggest airport in the country, we survived that tae although the good weather was in our favour with passengers sleeping on the grass outside the terminals. Couldnae go anywhere as all the ATMs and banks were down so nae money.
jobo
Fireworks and poetry. Banger?
Login….,,again
Catholic clusters in the West of Scotland, “whit are they fenians like, Tom? Whit are they like?”
CQN readers with roots in Whiteinch and Knightswood may be interested to know tomorrow’s 10am (CP time) mass from St Paul’s will be streamed live. Only the celebrant present, it’s in memory of Marie Biagi, retired former teacher at Corpus Christi PS.
Link to the transmission available from the parish website stpaulwhiteinchdotorg.
Tontine – I think you are correct………..and I think it was Modern Studies he taught while at St Columba’s not maths.
Did yeh, aye?
RON BACARDI on 2ND APRIL 2020 8:37 PM
TONTINE, The McGintys were a large family.
I think Daniel went from St Joe’s to be headmaster at a school in Perth.
*I’m sure he went tae St Pats tae, might have been your age. Anthony hung about with the same crowd as me mostly Vale and Dumbarton lhads. At the time Billy Fury had a song called “Halfway to Paradise”, he called it Yoker Station which is halfway from Balloch to Brigton.
Wonder if BRTH is related tae them.
GuyFawkes………..
St Paul’s ( Whiteinch) was my primary school – before we moved to the Peoples Republic of Clydebank……And my mum ( God Rest Her) taught there.
HH
Bankiebhoy
As was it mine before moving to Toryglen in 57
Neustadt-Braw on 2nd April 2020 9:06 pm
Thanks Neustadt-Braw! ☺
Braw! ☺
could any Celtic best 11 leave oot ….”we are not worthy” ????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxxy8H1Wkg4
I just adored how he played the game …proper player …
Braw
Gene…………..
I was a wee bit later than that!
;)
HH.
Bankiebhoy
Everyone was a bit later than that
When I was about 13 I played against either OHR or St Onions as we called them on a horrible ash park down by the Clyde.