If you were in any doubt about what we’re up against when it comes to developing Scottish football, former St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour’s incoherent rant in one of today’s newspapers, that Peter Lawwell is running Scottish football, paints a clear picture for you.
Peter Lawwell’s club, your club, PAYS for Scottish football. Fans of this club pour millions into the bank accounts of others from Dingwall to Kilmarnock. Those same clubs earn TV money and trackside advertising to viewers who tune in to see that very same club play football.
Each SPFL and SFA member club has only one vote, and Peter Lawwell is out-voted and frustrated on many issues. What he brings to the table is experience of the game, business, commercial contracts, risk and strategy that no one else in our game has ever enjoyed.
He will be the person who brings evidence-based insight into the value of our game’s commercial properties. This is not because Peter Lawwell is some unassailable guru, he simply has experience of running a business which is greater in depth and scope than anyone else in the history of Scottish football. The fair-minded acknowledge this and are thankful for it.
If your skillset is more suited to a bowling club committee than a business turning over tens of millions of pounds, and you have an unfortunate attitude towards Celtic representatives, all this might rub you up the wrong way.
You may think the last person you want illuminating Scottish football is some educated ******. Believe me, these attitudes persist in our game.
Gilmour, you will remember, was in charge of St Mirren when Charles Green (then the darling of Ibrox), was invited to New St Mirren Park for a Celtic game. They all wanted a piece of Peter then, but there was no courtesy offered from the Celtic contingent on the day.
This is a call to arms by those who want to encourage clubs to obstruct Celtic in every way possible. Peter Lawwell is their bogeyman. They are still sore that they didn’t turnover Celtic (and the rest of Scottish football) in 2012, and they blame Peter for not getting what they wanted.
Now there is a fresh reality to worry about: Celtic making their own way in the world, with the consent of Scottish football. Others will find their place in the game, while one club would wither on the vine without Celtic to feed off.
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16roads
Great to read yer posts. Hope all is good in Belfast. We need a blether involving drink soon.
Catchye soon J.
HH
Ernie
You may well be correct, talking with a loyalist unionist is out of my depth.
STARRY PLOUGH, 8:14 PM
No, Penetration headlined.
I only got to see Television a few years ago at the Roundhouse. They (3/4 of the original lineup) were better than I could have hoped, standout track was an extended Krautrock-like version of 1880 or so (1888 if they knew their history).
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:37 PM
Fair enough.
Can`t argue with that.
Suggestion.
Why don`t all the Trump objecters / rejecters unite for electoral reform instead of attempting to rewrite history ?
A futile exercise if ever there was one.
macjay
“What sexual offence has Trump been convicted of ?”
What was Saville convicted on during his lifetime?
What did Rolf get away with until he was into his 8th decade?
Now, either you have to disbelieve Donald’s own words or you would allow him to approach the females in your family, act accordingly , and dismiss it as just lustful behaviour or banter.
In the abstract, you excuse him. In any concrete situation, you would condemn him.
TGM – The only answer from the left is the usual cry of racism, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, sexist blah blah blah.
They now calling the very same American people whom gave Obama two terms in office, disgusting racists.
It’s unbelievable.
Same as people who voted to ditch that European Union abomination in England – racist, even though every hue and creed voted to leave.
Know who the most racist people alive are?
See the political elites, and the Lilly Allen types – whom live in gated mansions, the most racially segregated places on the planet, whom send their kids to all white private schools…
All those ists and isms.
Me?
Realist and realism – that’s the only language I understand.
HH.
I love the way lefties lament that Trump lost the popular vote as if somehow that makes his election illegitimate.
The US President is not, and never has been elected by the popular vote. Both sides knew the rules beforehand and under the rules, Trump won the election.
The Electoral College is there for the very good reason that it ensures one or two populous states do not determine the outcome and that the winning candidate needs the support of a large number of states.
In the US Presidential election, you need to win states, not individual votes.
It’s like a tennis match, where the winner is the player who wins the most sets, not the most games.
If you win a tennis match 0-6, 0-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4, your opponent can’t claim he was actually the winner because he won 28 games to your 20.
So Hillary won by quite a wide margin in some states, but she lost a lot more states by small margins.
She still lost!
THE EXILED TIM on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:40 PM
I can see why you would be attracted to Trump.
DAMO LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:42 PM
‘The Electoral College is there for the very good reason’
##
It’s a relicit from the days of slavery.
MacJay
Why do you think Sky and RT are on adjacent channels.
Today…Facebook seemingly barred RT….who have threatened to retaliate.
Information war….every day.
This is how politics is done now….no need for parliament, or Congress…Just Tweet…and switch between Sky, CNN, RT.
Media War
HH
HH
Damo Lennon
Take New York or California out of the equation Trump won by a landslide, the popular vote means sfa in reality, but I am out of my depth talking about it, I know nothing, Ernie the font of all knowledge has spoken.
HH
TeT
TOUCHÈ
Hahaha
How deep can a bath be ?
DELANEYS DUNKY on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:40 PM
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All good over here thanks DD.
Celtic’s successful start to the campaign is a bonus.
I hope that your Mum is on the mend again mo chara.
God bless yous all G.
KTF.
ernie lynch on 19th January 2017 9:43 pm
Says you…
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-electoral-college/
Ernie
Quite a sad man you are, if the blog allowed, I would tell you that you are a total winker and tell you to go and steep in your pish, but the blog doesn’t allow that so I will just think it.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:45 PM
There is no news today without editorial content.
However , the publicly funded National broadcasters should be above that.
BBC international news , I suspect , is biased politically.
Australian ABC most certainly is.
TET
:)
HH
THE EXILED TIM on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:49 PM
Damo Lennon
‘Take New York or California out of the equation Trump won by a landslide,’
###
If you exclude the votes for candidates other than Trump, then he won unanimously.
THE EXILED TIM on 19th January 2017 9:49 pm
And that is exactly why there is an Electoral College.
Some people love democracy only as long as it is working for them.
Damo Lennon
James Madison only wanted the Republic run by the ‘best men’
Political elite…nothing more.
HH
DAMO LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:55 PM
It’s a vestige of slavery.
Part of its attraction for a lot of Trump supporters (who did the KKK vote for?).
You gotta laugh at some people.
You can be a leftist dictator who brutally supressed his own people and personally participated in firing squads to eliminate political opposition, but as long as you’re breaking eggs for Socialism, then all is forgiven. In fact, you’ll be idolised.
But be on the political right and brag that you’ve touched up a woman, and you’re the most evil, dangerous man in the world!
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:42 PM
Savile and Harris.
Red herrings.
Not politically. :-)
Trump is the subject under discussion..
What has he been convicted of ?
Lust is genetic.
Multiplication.
Its the name of the game.
Go forth.
His private conversation was retained for 11 years and released by a compliant media outlet to subvert his presidential ambition.
It didn`t work.
Whoopee.
Damo Lennon
The tags Left and Right are meaningless now.
Globalization is the brand now.
HH
JIM PAYNE
Thanks Jimbo your memory is is better nick than mine.
Their first album was pretty good if I remember correctly aye but the leather trousers probably swung it for us germ free adolescents .
We used to hang around the Apollo all day hoping to catch a word or two with our heroes, I got wee Pete Shelleys autograph on a Troops Out sticker as well:))
Ah the glory days of punk!
THE EXILED TIM on 19th January 2017 9:49 pm
ernie lynch on 19th January 2017 9:59 pm
Whatever it is, it is there. It is used to determine the winner of US Presidential elections.
To win US Presidential elections, you have to win the majority of Electoral College votes and both sides knew that.
If Hillary had bothered to campaign seriously in a few more states, maybe she would have won.
She still lost!
Eleven million ” undocumented ” ( what they really mean is illegal immigrants ) in USA.
How many voted in ” laid back look the other way ” California ?
Of those , how many voted for Trump ?
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:41 PM
That’s what I’m trying to tell you
Take for example the senate
100 senators
2 from each state
North and South Dakota 4 senators pop 2 mill
California 2 senators pop 40 million
Electoral reform = turkeys voting for Christmas
THE EXILED TIM on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:52 PM
I recall Bertie Auld telling a story, can’t recall the opposition but he had been warned by the MIB, his next tackle and he was off. Anyway Bertie would tell it better…he was getting sent off so he went to the MIB, said to him if I called you a ******* would you send me off? If I thought you were a ******* would you send me off…Bertie walked…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Macjay
“BBC international news , I suspect , is biased politically. ”
It has just been proven here and it could not have happened to a better Tory Party apparatchik:-
Tory entryists corrupt BBC impartiality
It has got to the stage with Jeremy Corbyn reprting that it does not matter what he actually said; it will be reported as-
Corbyn laden wants all your dogs to be Muslim
Corbyn wants to replace the Royal Navy with a salad
Corbyn proposes Women-Only Gravity.
Macjay
The economy of California would collapse without the cheap labour provided by all those “undocumented illegal immigrants”
Trump the grandson of an immigrant knows that ….
The Green Man says SACK THE Board on 19th January 2017 10:02 pm
I have some sympathy for that view. There’s very little difference between most mainstream politicians these days and any dissenting views are vilified and cast as some sort of “ism.”
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:04 PM
Macjay
Illegal aliens cannot vote!
Lennybhoy
Wee Bertie was my inspiration, but I ain’t walking :-)
HH
16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:42 PM
I agree with you.
Current Western political voting trends now suggest a rejection rather than an embracing.
Sad.
But , for me, understandable.
SFTB
Good old Black Propaganda from the spooks.
No surprises there.
HH