Charles Green told TalkSport, “Scottish football effectively is Rangers and Celtic. I mean, there are many other clubs but everyone has to acknowledge that that’s a fact.”
No, no, no, no. No. This is not a fact, it is not even a credible opinion. Instead it is deeply insulting to dozens of teams who conduct their business properly year after year. I have to ask, does he want this project to fail? He is effectively saying – Vote for this plan, you are irrelevant, we are all that matters and this suits our purposes.
It was this erroneous attitude which led to predictions of Armageddon this season. Instead, the long-suffering clubs who have paid their bills, while others put money which should have gone to the tax man towards buying fooballers, are enjoying a rebirth.
Green added, “Scottish football needs Rangers back at the top and Rangers being a vital part of European football. That’s where we’re trying to get them.”
This is a great season for the SPL. Financially responsible Hibs, who lost the Scottish Cup final to irresponsible Hearts, are top. Celtic, with their manageable, low, debt, have just beaten Barcelona in the Champions League. Aberdeen have their best team in years. Attendances are up for most clubs.
Before adding, “The Old Firm is the world’s biggest derby. That’s what world football wants, what broadcasters and sponsors wants, to see those games again. God willing we’ll see that in the years ahead.”
“The Old Firm” is not the world’s biggest derby, it’s not even Glasgow’s biggest derby. It doesn’t exist anymore. As for it being “what world football wants”! Oh dear. World football has better things to concern itself with, and don’t bring God into it!
The authenticity of the “Rangers Football Club plc” slideshow presentation which appeared last night is not confirmed, but I hope it’s genuine. It is, literally, fantastic. Notions contained therein that provide for “colts” teams and league reconstruction which “could see Rangers progress faster through the domestic league structures” bring it into perfect alignment with the Scottish Football League plans, which earlier this week Charles Green revealed would be presented today.
I also loved the first point on the summary page, “Profitable business model using prudent assumptions”, despite no mention of future costs, or revenues, in the presentation. Nice that they have confirmed revaluations of property assets at £79m, a fraction of the value the assets were disposed for in the summer.
This will not end well.
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FFS
Ireland should have had 2 pens already
sweden…..
1-0 Sweden,Lustik starts for Sweden,SKY 973 ITV London
virgin 853
I want Ireland to win but Sammy to score.
Bt, can ye no spell the scorer? ;)
William Collum referee for Poland: Uruguay.
Sammy Sammy Sammy !! What a guy had poor Rodger the Dodger talking the biggest bunch of ….locks regarding the constant PUNISHMENTS served on SEVCO ! Who is ranjurs bye the way lol !
” 1-0 Sweden,Lustik starts for Sweden,SKY 973 ITV London”
I never knew the 900’s went so high.
i don’t like him…
Old Tim
The Exiled Tim
Old Blantyre Tim
You have mail.
EN
NI one down at home
Geordie Munroe
Rude bhoy !!!
Jobo
Good question – but no idea!
Did see a game edited by some stato for UEFA (few years ago) where they monitored the actual time the ball was in play (in motion).
Total time = 53 minutes!
Zbyszek
That will be Poland f*k*d then
Embdae know if Benfica have a few guys playing tonight?
Praecepta, that musta been a good game.
I remember seeing a stat from S.A. World cup ( possibly one before) and it was less than 45 mins.
Engerland mince.
praecepta –
I suppose I could determine this by forcing myself to watch the Barca game another 3 or 4 times with stopwatches in hand….
Jobo
I think the actual time in play is divided between the teams according to possession …time when the ball is dead is discounted ..
Hope FF gets a few mins in Sweden. Will add a few bob to his price if he is tempted away in the future, the distant future hopefully.
KK @ 18.54,
Quite likely “MYNAH BIRD” would give the wrong answers, but the questions that you cite aren’t even right.
“World over-population” isn’t a fact: some people CLAIM that it exists.
The Palestinians haven’t brought their situation on themselves, but to claim that they’re in a “concentration camp” is ludicrous.
and Engerland score….1-1
Sammy bloodied.
!!Bada Bing!!
Dont know but portugal getting beat 1-0 by gabon
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Courtesy DTB..
Transparency follows Sporting Integrity!
The first time I heard the term Sporting Integrity used was to try and force Rangers FC to play 4 games in 7 days prior to the 2008 Uefa cup final. The manager who was asking for this to be upheld was facing a Rangers side which were revitalised by the return of a Legend, the one and only Walter Smith.
The manager in question knew his team were struggling and in order to gain an advantage in the league, he demanded that Rangers complete the domestic season and compete in Europe at the same time as Sporting Integrity demanded it.
I can not for the life of me, remember which Celtic Manager it was. To be honest, at the time, I couldn’t care less and still cant.
What I do care about was the twisting of the facts to suit a single clubs demand for an UNFAIR advantage. This was not to be as the league had already been shortened by 1 week for an international friendly due to be played the week the league originally had been intended to finish. This friendly had been called off and so the league was allowed to finish on it’s original date.
This was used by every keyboard warrior with a laptop to decry Rangers and those running the game as being in cahoots, of running an agenda. Ofcourse, the fact that their team was then given extra time to prepare for the last game of the season was just written off as a consequence of the SFA’s bias towards Rangers. The fact that to have been forced to play the 4 games within 7 days would have actually been illegal under FIFA rules were conviently forgotton like so many others have been since that day!
On that day a ideological term was perverted to suit one teams quest for a sporting advantage, which is one of the greatest oxymorons of them all, as to gain an advantage by illicit means is never going to be sporting.
Little did the Rangers supporters know that the term used that day would be used only 4 years later and in such a twisted way that it too will always be remembered as just another oxymoron.
During the 2010/11 season a new celtic manager had emerged, having learnt his tradecraft well, he would twist another ideological term to suit his own agenda. This time the term used was ‘transparency’ and the demand was issued not against the SFA or even another club.
This time the target was the Men in Black, yes the referees were biased and their right to control a game was up for grabs.
Celtic had been denied a penalty and the referee was to blame, the decision didn’t alter the final result.
But in trying to cover the blunder when faced with a raging ediface that is Neil Lennon, the referee made another blunder and lied.
This was a chance of a lifetime, and the Celtic Family weren’t about to let it go. They pushed every button they could and eventually the referee in question resigned (as he should have much earlier).
The problem was other referees didn’t appreciate the pressure they were under and the SFA, under Stuart Regans control, did nothing to back them up.
So the referees went on strike at the start of the 2011/12 season and again the men charged with governing our game let them down. Instead of backing them up they botched it!
They then almost caused an international incident by importing foreign referees either by lying to them about why the strike was on, or by not disclosing the true nature of the dispute!
Once they learnt the truth some of these referees refused to officiate the games, irrespective of whether they would be paid or not! They showed true integrity!
Under mounting pressure for the season to continue the referees eventually gave in and a dangerous precedent had been set.
From that day on Celtic FC has been given every ‘sporting advantage’ they could ever ask for. Any 50-50 decision goes their way. In only one season Celtic have received over 40% less free kicks given against them and cards issued for those fouls commited have been equally less forth coming from the officials, while those that have to play against them see an almost equal increase in free kicks given against them with a corresponding number of cards issued.
I dont blame the referees for this change, and I haven’t seen enough of an improvement in one of the poorest Celtic squads in years to justify this level of reduction. The only person that should be held accountable for the advantages that Celtic received last season is Stuart Regan, he allowed the referees to be intimidated and abused. But not by Rangers FC as Vladimir Romanov claimed when he announced to the world that he would be voting out a ‘mafia’ club.
Todays failure by all the MSM sources to publish the full and total attendances at parkhead this weekend has shown that once again Celtic FC’s ideology for Sporting Integrity is as low as their demands for transparency was on that fateful day.
Only 4 days after probably the clubs greatest ever win, they would rather deny anyone the knowledge that the stands were more than half empty than admit that Armageddon might not have happened YET! But it’s certainly on its way!
The refusal to publish any attendances for a league match doesn’t hide the pityful state of affairs inside the SPL it highlights them!
In the end not only has Sporting Integrity been shown to be nothing more than an agenda driven tool for those corrupt parties inside the Cabal oF Corruption, but now, so has Transparency been so exposed!
Those in the MSM who have aided & abetted with this agenda should hang their heads with shame, they have failed in their public duty and they have failed in their professional duty. Perhaps it’s time that they followed the example of that referee who accepted his failures and eventually did the right thing.
They are not alone those governing our game have all shown an equal level of contempt for their customers and each and every one of them should do the honourable thing and resign, now before they do the sport any further damage. The only problem is that not only do these men not have any honour they dont even have the concept of what honour actually is!
Summa
2-1 Engerland…whit dae ah know
If Big Fraz comes on second half you guys who have bet Sweden are fkd ;)
Headtheball-get Sammi aff ffs
Perfect example of why commentators should hold back their comments on whether players are injured or acting it ( as if they would know)… I think RH was just about to castigate Sammi with a ‘ nothing in it’ assessment when the camera shows a face full of ‘claret’
Hart looking dodgy again
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Estadio Nacional
19:56 on
14 November, 2012
Old Tim
The Exiled Tim
Old Blantyre Tim
You have mail.
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What about..
The Olde 001 Exiled Tim..?
Summa of OldeTimsCSC
Over on 402 Laughatme off injured ‘nothing in it’ big jessie
Massive strikes and protests sweeping the EU . Will it change the policies of the elite?
Nope, didn’t think so……….
Greece one up. Sammy assist.
The onlooker
You had me excited for a wee minute there :-))
Invercelt
It would appear Noam Chomsky disagrees with you, he’s just returned from Gaza calling it the world’s biggest open prison..
A goal for Luxembourg, their first ever against Scotland.