Right now our former captain, Paul Lambert, is one of the hottest tickets in football management so it’s no surprised that Norwich City have been unable to hold onto him. Inside three years he transformed the club from one that lost 1-7 to Colchester United (then managed by Paul) to one of the most improved teams in Europe, earning two consecutive promotions and a mid-table finish in the FA Premier League.
If Lambert ended up at Liverpool, or even Chelsea, you would not have been surprised. Instead, he’s set to go to Aston Villa. During their Martin O’Neill era Villa splurged cash they ultimately realised they couldn’t afford. Martin walked out days before the start of the season in August 2010. Since then they pitched Gerard Houllier at the job before poaching Alex McLeish from relegated city rivals Birmingham.
In short, Villa looks like a club without the vision to build stable progress. Unlike Norwich, who seem to know exactly what they are doing. They even coped with the loss of Neil Doncaster, who left the club a few months before the arrival of Lambert.
Norwich City is the better job.
I’m on Radio Scotland with Jim Spence around 16:15 today, talking about social media and football, square sliced, the price of milk and lawn care.
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Traipsing round the timternet….like ye dae…I found this from memory lane.A page dedicated to recollections of The Who,SAHB,Little Feat gig @ Celtic Park 1976. I wasn’t there….in Devon & Ireland that year,but maybe some of you bhoys and ghirls were?
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/who-ptbin-76-glasgow.html
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I made the occasssional wee point.
Come on now, make a wee point. Something. Celtic related. Or Scottish football related. Or just having a wee dig maybe?
Morning all. I assume that they are still on life support.
Just returned from Holland, Orange everywhere, a wee bit of an affront to the eyes in this Tims opinion a :-) This visual strain was compunded by groups of ‘Norn Iron’ supporters wondering around Amsterdam. They must have felt like the proverbial swines in pooh. In the home of King Billy with the town painted orange its a Huns dream. I for one hope the Dutch pump them 10- 0 and some of them catch something nasty when touring the cheaper end of the ‘Red light district’. You just know they will try and haggle!!!!
Morning champions
They bams are just a big footballin’ version of a “boiler room” scam. They’ve totally bled their own fanbase and now they’ve been rumbled,they’re all for the off with the bags of swag,two fingers up to all concerned and, “Naebudy’s gettin nuthin fae us…yez can aw go an’ whistle…”
When will the pound drop for the orcs?
They should forget about us Tims….we’ve never caused them the grief that their OWN club has. Destroyed from within. They really need to focus their pinhead craniums on THAT.
oglach on 3 June, 2012 at 09:38 said:
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6 – 0…….yesterday…
:-)
miki67
Thanks for that post. There were some recollections about this show being exchanged on here a couple of nights ago.
miki67 on 3 June, 2012 at 09:42 said:
Brilliant, now just wait a week or 2 and log into the NI STD clinics data base.
SydneyTim on 3 June, 2012 at 09:19 said:
Why does the weather in London today, give me a warm feeling inside me :)) to watch hundreds of loyal racists on banks on Thames waiting on the racist German family and they are soaked :)
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Not my cup of tea at all, the Royal Family, but I doubt that the people lining up to watch are all racists.
Gary Hooper in Hooperman III: The Quest for Silverware
Takne from Video Celts.
Celtic will definitely be seeded in next season’s Champions League qualifiers.
In the unlikely event of the first three rounds going entirely to plan Neil Lennon’s side will face Dinamo Zagreb, Cluj, MSK Zilina, Partisan Belgrade or Helsingborgs for a place in the group stage.
Only Basel and Anderlecht in the champions route have a higher co-efficient than Celtic with the draw starting to emerge on June 25 when the first two qualifying rounds are made.
The first qualifying round will feature just six teams but the second round will feature 34 clubs including potential opponents such as Dinamo Zagreb and Partisan Belgrade.
No88 Hooperman Part II
Lots of people knocking Scotland on here lately.
I had a wonderful day out with my wife and some close friends on Friday in Edinburgh.The city centre rivals anywhere that i have ever been.
I am currently sitting looking out over the Leven Links golf course, across the Firth of Forth to North Berwick.It is awesome.
We are about to leave and take a slow 30 minute drive up through the East Neuk of Fife and have a Full Scottish brunch in St Andrews.
Great restaurants ,Historical building,Universities which are the envy of the world
Scotland is where i raise my family ,make my living,and i have a great life here.
Some have chosen to go elsewhere to do that ,and good luck to them.
However these are my mountains and this is my glen (;-).
Hail Caledonia.
TT
Paul McC on 3 June, 2012 at 09:18 said:
What Might Happen to Rangers at the Re-Heard Appellate Tribunal?
Excellent summation!
May I paraphrase your opening sentence: RFCiA = Dense and Legal Stuff!
The Merchant of Venice analogy is quite apt – however I think, regrettably, there will be spilling of blood both metaphorically and physically.
Can I suggest one of your next articles be based on: the Taming of the Shrew (RFCiA) – how we keep them in line for future generations?
H!H!
oglach on 3 June, 2012 at 09:44 said:
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:-)))))))))))
It’s raining from the heavens down here on Merseyside.
This may be the first time ever I’ve welcomed piss poor weather on a Bank Holiday and, with the downbeat messages of doom within scottish MSM being played out, everything is sunny in ma hoose.
Going to the pub later to avoid any Jubilee nonsense.
Have yourself a good day, fine people of Celtic!
HH
Apologies if already posted but never thought I would see a rational piece like this in the Scotsman. A good analysis and very much on the “worst case scenario” approach. Conclusion – SPL does not need Rangers:
Will the SPL survive without Rangers?
Sign of the times: Motherwell reaching the Champions League qualifying
By ANDREW SMITH
Published on Sunday 3 June 2012 00:00
While some say the SPL would collapse without the Ibrox club, our analysis suggests the financial implications might not be so dire
THE cost of Rangers being lost from the Scottish Premier League could average out at only £375,000 to the non-Old Firm clubs next season. Detailed analysis conducted by Scotland on Sunday demonstrates that top-flight sides need not be facing catastrophe if five of them were to vote against admitting a newco Rangers into the set-up – the sporting integrity dilemma that will be faced if prospective Ibrox owner Charles Green cannot obtain a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).
Under our calculations, a total of £5.76 million would be wiped from revenues if the Rangers brand and their support were removed from the SPL financial equation. Celtic, though, would take the hit for almost half of this loss. That is because it is inconceivable the other clubs would not take the opportunity to change the voting structure if Rangers were out of the picture. Currently, the big two effectively have a veto. If that disappeared, so too could the present distribution model. In our projections, the top two SPL places would claim just over 20 per cent of centralised broadcast and sponsorship deals. At present that figure is 32 per cent.
It is possible that revenue reductions for clubs in an SPL without Rangers may be even be lower than our projections. Essentially, we have presented worst-case scenarios for the squeezes on television deals and attendances.
The SPL claim that the Old Firm account for 85 per cent of their earnings. We have therefore hacked 42 per cent off all centralised revenues in calculating what the loss of Rangers might mean to other clubs. Yet, no one knows if Sky and ESPN, or indeed other sponsors, would, or could, demand such heftily renegotiated terms. Especially since a Deloitte report last week put the worth of the Old Firm to Scottish football at 67 per cent. Moreover, we have arrived at our attendance totals by replacing clubs’ gates for Rangers games with their lowest crowd of last season. We have not factored in the fact that increases would follow greater competition among clubs for higher league placings and European slots. Indeed, aside from Celtic, some followers of SPL clubs might be more likely to buy season tickets because they weren’t going to be treated to visits by Rangers.
The picture that forms from this research is of a Scottish top flight that need not be entirely dependent on Rangers, or Celtic for that matter. Certainly, the loss of any revenue would bring serious challenges for clubs whose lack of liquidity has some commentators claiming any downturn in revenue could send them over the edge. However, the same thing was said when Setanta went bust four years ago. Then the doom-mongers said three clubs would be driven into administration as a result of £250,000 holes in their budgets. Only one club has since suffered an insolvency event… and in 2009 Rangers weren’t one of the sides being tipped for financial Armageddon.
It is insulting to maintain, as the more melodramatic do, that the SPL would be turned into the League of Ireland without the Old Firm brand. The sell-out, vibrant occasion the all-Edinburgh Scottish Cup final delivered surely obliterated that notion.
Of course, SPL club owners and chairmen are going to be nervous about how the Rangers saga could resolve itself. With our projections suggesting Motherwell would lose more than £700,000, Dundee United almost £600,00 and Hearts £500,000, serious cuts would be required at these clubs. But that reflects the fact these clubs were the big winners in terms of centralised prize money earned by their high league placings this season. Individual factors come into play. United would wipe out any reductions in gate receipts at a stroke were Dundee to replace Rangers, for instance. St Johnstone, too, would also benefit from a visit from the Dark Blues.
The flip side is that some clubs would suffer little financial impact were they to reject a newco Rangers in the SPL. Hibernian chairman Rod Petrie said recently that sporting integrity cannot be obtained for any price. Easy for him to take such a principled stand, perhaps, when the cost to his club would be little over £100,000. Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston has voiced the opposing view, yet, with Rangers’ value to the Ayrshire club being around £200,000, it must come within the club’s budget parameters.
Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson has spoken of his anguish over a “lose-lose” situation if the SPL clubs are forced to decide on how to treat a newco Rangers. No wonder. United fans, as with those of Celtic, Aberdeen and Motherwell principally, have threatened to turn their backs on the game if a new Rangers takes up where the old one left off. They will not countenance the Ibrox club being allowed simply to walk away from a debt to the public purse of up to £70m and walk into the SPL as opposed to applying to the Scottish Football League and working their way back up. Strong factions within the fan bases of every club feel the same.
As a result, any projected losses for top-flight clubs without a newco Rangers may not be a whole heap different from possible losses with a newco Rangers in the SPL. Instead of reduced television revenue, clubs could suffer reduced season ticket sales. And instead of being denied bumper gates from hosting Rangers, disgruntled Celtic supporters could deny them bumper gates by not attending when they entertain their club. The Scottish game could be torn apart by the Rangers newco issue on levels far beyond the financial.
It has to be hoped that is avoided and Rangers exit administration through a CVA.
If they don’t, though, then the SPL clubs might want to heed the warning issued by former president John McBeth this week. “If you look after the sport the money will follow you, if you look after the money you’ll kill the sport,” he said. When it comes to the SPL, our analysis would appear to bear him out.
Just been reading this mornings papers.There is no doubt in my mind that the SFA will try to ban them from the Scottish Cup and hand out a fine.Uefa must realise that this is a punishment (aye right!!) they would take gladly and it is not good enough.
Looks like penny is dropping in the MSM re: the utter insanity of RFC taking SFA to court.
There is no way out, the eyes of world football are on them at last…
My prediction: Green will walk away this week, RFC will be suspended for one year from all FIFA competition, and Brian Kennedy will snap up the assets of RFC for a couple of million.
A new RFC, playing at Ibrox, will be launched in time for next season.
D&P may never work again…
Sorry, Partizan.
Kids breakfasts got in the way of an earlier reply, then I got caught up reading Paul McConville’s latest excellent piece (at http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com): I’m a slow reader, especially where Shakespeare’s concerned.
You made some fine comments during your late-night solo run; and the blog would have been the poorer without them.
Mon the Hoops!
(Incidentally, I’ll have you know it’s ‘Folly Folly’ … and for good reason!).
kitalba on 3 June, 2012 at 09:51 said:
We have our striker and he will only get better..
Pete. Most nazis did not realise they were racists
If you are a supporter of a racist organization, you are a racist whether you know it or not
PeteTheBeat on 3 June, 2012 at 09:47 said:
TinyTim on 3 June, 2012 at 09:56 said:
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Scotland IS beautiful,and so are many parts of the UK.
It’s the stinking pyramid of the rotten class system draped in masonic regalia that blights the landscape.
Most of the people watching the mass sinking on Father Thames today will be tourists,little englanders,the meejah and hordes of polis.
And I’d live in Glasgow and have a season ticket for Celtic if I could…and maybe I will yet. But I cannot drag my wife away from HER family for all sorts of very good reasons. Life is what you make of it….anywhere on the planet.
HH! to you all from sleepy Dorset.
TravelledTheWorld&TheSevenSeas CSC.
ItaliBhoy
“A new RFC, playing at Ibrox, will be launched in time for next season.”
If they are suspended for a year, do you mean “…in time for the season after next season.”
I can see something like that happening – unfortunately.
John Hartson is the Big Strong Man
ItaliaBhoy on 3 June, 2012 at 10:04 said:
I’ve been of the opinion that there will be no rangers next season and they would return the following season (13/14), however I initially thought that would be due to all the court dealings that would follow liquidation and the fight for the assets, i.e. ibrox and murray park. Now that they have committed corporate suicide they will be suspended for one year, and that will allow the whole circus to be sorted out ahead of their return. They will of course require to return at the bottom of the Scottish League, but I would expect the league structure in season 13/14 to be dramatically different from what we have now with the SFA taking over and the SPL/SFL disappearing.
Have been saying for a while that I can’t see der Hun being here next season…. maybe newco next season
so Dundee will also come up from div1, div2 will promote the 2nd place winner, 3rd division…same..
Will they promote another team from lower leagues…juniors etc into div 3….do they have time to do this??
what will happen the start of next season, will there be any place available… or do they shoehorn them in….can they???
so many questions….so little time :)
Hail Hail
The dangers of too much sun, marching, Lambrini and hundignation:
‘”Glasgow Rangers” to the tune of Coronation Street.
We’re always looking for good Rangers anthems, and I believe that there is one that we are all overlooking.
A good chant/song needs a recognisible tune and some catchy words, and I feel we are overlooking a cracker.
The “Coronation Street” tune is one of the most recognisable in the country, and could be used for a brilliant Rangers chant.
Think about it for a minute…sung to the Coronation Street tune we could be singing, “Glasgow Ra-a-ngers…Glasgow Ra-a-ngers…Glasgow Ran-gers…Glas-gow Ran-gers…Glasgow Ra-a-angers”.
I think it could be an absolute winner, and the supporters groups should get involved.
Opinions?’
Paul Bradley @BhoyPaul
Just amazing Greens consortium looking for 8% on £8.5m loan. Thats £700,000 pa. What a deal what a con & they get all their money back too!
We’re up to our knees in rising debts…
I see that the Polish Community in Scotland arranged their own protest against the disgraceful Panorama programme from last week.
I don’t think this article has been posted previously.
Poles protest BBC racism claim
Tiny Tim @9.58
I am reasonably confident that those who decry Scotland are critical of the Scottish Establishment and the undercurrent which both feeds and serves that Establishment.
Physically, Scotland takes some beating for so much beauty and variety of scenery in a country so small. The East Coast Seascape and golf courses, the West Coast Moutntains , the explosive splendour of Torridon and the brash and vital humour of Glasgow make up the real Scotland for me.
Supporting Celtic provides my protest against the aforementioned Establishment.
Hail Caledonia and Hail! HAil! Celtic.
JJ
I think that if the huns are suspended for a year the SPL will flourish, it’ll become exciting,colourful,competitive and dare i say it fun. By this time next year everyone will have forgotten about them, crowds will be up and if our clubs can stay in euro competition for a decent run and gain some respect back for scottish football in general i don’t believe the majority will want them back in. Let’s face it they’re a negative, period.
HH
Now if the weather today had been like it was last weekend the media would be full of bs about their god shining down on her maj. Bet they don’t mention it too much because its going to rain.
What’s so great about a bunch of boats on a river anyway? Isn’t that where you usually find boats? Now if it was a thousand boats making their way up Whitehall it might be worth watching.
SydneyTim on 3 June, 2012 at 10:09 said:
You’re lacking a sense of perspective.
Monaghan
interesting …one has to wonder where they will be able to fit in their usual sectarian bile in that one
Today is the Feast Day of St.Zucchini,the last day for planting courgettes in these northern climes…
Everything in hand,Ernie…?
The Singing Detective on 3 June, 2012 at 10:40 said:
You and Kojo recovering well?
A bit of transfer gossip a great signing if we pulled it off
@Agent_ITK: Very strong possibility —► “@Bhoy22: @Agent_ITK Rhodes to Celtic? Anything on celtic?”. #SPL #Celtic #huddersfield