The stage is set. Dundee United, the club who were last to beat Celtic, stand in the way of their treble ambitions, as the clubs meet on three consecutive occasions next month. The first game, a Scottish Cup quarter final at Tannadice, is the most crucial.
United lost their best two players last week but they remain they will know that beating Celtic at home will make them favourites for the Scottish Cup. They will be far less confident at the following week’s League Cup final, Dundee United expectations are always low at Hampden, but pressure will be on the club to win their home game.
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‘Burnley are bigger than Ajax’
That says it all about what rules in the EPL..
Money not class
Burnley are bigger than the club who gave us the Total football of Cruyff and Neeskens.
The epl just like courser elements of society revels in this imbalance.
Epl dont give a toss bout gap with its own championship, or other leagues (like Holland)who get loan players from megasquads.
Over £5 billion from yet councils throughout england cant maintain pitches.
Glad I do not have sky.
I object to those who sit on their ass/tv viewer dictating when a game occurs.
All they want from our game is their hate(firm) and the cheats who stole our games soul back.
Hope hector makes the epl its next project.busy wi the hun I guess.
HH
McCulloch embodies much that is wrong with Scottish Football. The macho culture where ‘being able to look after yourself’ is encouraged at the expense of developing skills and genuine competitiveness.
McCulloch is a coward. He’s scared to depend on his ability and basically hides his inadequacy as a player and a man by assaulting opponents.
I coach a group of boys from a fairly well off area. Inevitably they encounter opponents who think they are a soft touch. I always drum in to them to believe in their ability and play round eejits. It takes courage to do that. The easy thing is to kick back.
It was great to take them to Scottish schools cup final, watch them win at national 7s and to see the same boys now playing at same level now they are at 11s.
It’s sad to see so many top boys clubs and pro youth teams stacking their teams with big hard boys. It will be lovely to see the chicks come home to roost in a few years time. Maybe some of them will go on to take McCulloch’s role at Rangers. Not many will be a Kris Commons!
Has to be time for a concerted campaign to dump Sky. £10m per match while little if any money goes into Scottish football? Indeed Scottish football being subjected to death by financial strangulation.
Additional funds would only become available when that new club from Govan reaches the top division.
Time to tell them to GTF.
CrumbsofftheirtableCSC
Jackie Mac
May the soul of your father rest in peace.
HH
With the farcical amounts of money being thrown at the EPL, it’s just a matter of time before adverts replace action replays and Ray Winston’s heid will permanently linger at the corner of your screen goading you into betting that the next throw in won’t go further than 10 yards…
How much more money can be made by Sky and BT out of showing matches? Lots evidently…
An Tearmann
18:52 on 10 February, 2015
‘Burnley are bigger than Ajax’
That says it all about what rules in the EPL..
Money not class
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Excuse me but my wife and I couldn’t help noticing that we are considerably richer than yoooowwwww…
Harry Enfield csc
mickbhoy1888
17:01 on
10 February, 2015
For a supposedly deid club they get some amount of coverage in here.
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Coverage on here? Which club is it you’re battering on about?
Jackie Mac
thoughts with you and yours.
Wayne Rooney will be asking for a pay rise
Can I have some more please
And he won’t say please
Charles dickens csc
greenpinata
Don’t worry! Comments will be open on Paul’s post each day as usual. All the other news and feature items can accept comments but mostly will be locked.
If you like CQN the way it is and don’t want too much to change I think you will be happy. Hopefully the new site will be easier to use and offer more options to posters but we will trial it first to make sure most people are happy.
Re English football broadcasting in Scotland right across the domain of the SFA. We should have stopped it in the 90’s or insisted on 9% of all future deals to allow them to broadcast.
The BBC too are at it. We pay 9% of licence fees for what? Sportscene in the graveyard slot late on Sunday evening when kids are in bed.
We are in danger of losing a generation of young supporters to English clubs. And in Ireland it is already happening with the older generation preferring Celtic and the younger ones choosing any one of six or seven English clubs.
A sizeable proportion of the empty seats at Celtic Park have been vacated by Irish supporters who have been messed about by continual late re-scheduling to accommodate TV.
Call television’s bluff – no football on TV until we get 9%. Watch Sky panic…
winning captains
you are a good organiser of such things, start the campaign now
From twitter:
If Sky’s TV football deal was based on population and percentage of subscribers, the Scottish Premiership would get £500m instead of £70m.
I’ve often wondered if Celtic could go it alone with their own subscription based Celtic TV, bin Sky and take the £2m gamble?
If we had anyone with a brain running Scottish football then we would be demanding a better deal from Sky or telling them to F off but instead we have a bunch of nuggets who you wouldn’t trust to take your kids across the road .
Thanks bhoys
Fourgreenfields
Careful PL was part of the negotiating team
Good evening friends.
dessybhoy
The deals a joke but it would have been a lot worse if it was down to Dungcaster.
Davidopolous
Hahaha :-):-)
More akin ol loadsamoney lol
Hope alls good in s.e
HH
HH
Jackie mac, condolences on the loss of your father.
Evening Timland from a cold hun free mountain valley.
Jackie Mac
Sad news about your Da.
HH
YNWA
The EPL deal is disgusting and obscene. No doubt the armchair fans will pay for the mediocrity as there will be a hike in their subscriptions. More fool them. Some of the games are horrendous with very average footballers believing the hype surrounding themselves. There are only a few really special games per season and meanwhile the bank balances are bulging and ordinary fans are priced out of attending.
Where do we sit in all this? If everything went well for us in a season: winning the treble; qualifying for the group stages of the EPL and selling all our season tickets, my rough calculations estimate we’d still be 25-30m quid behind the rank rotten, bottom team in the EPL.
I find it sickening. Grass roots football will benefit, cheaper tickets etc I’ve heard it all before. It doesn’t happen and average players get richer and richer.
Quids in Mr Ashley.
viewfaethewindae
not allowed
Jackie Mac
Just read back , sorry to read about your dad . Thoughts and prayers with you and your family .
probably so, but it still sells the game very short, I heard scudamore saying it will allow for youth develpoment better facilities etc, no it wont it will go straight into the wage packets of the next Ronaldo, Rooney, Falcao, Torres Eto etc and we in Scotland and Ireland pay for this if you want Sky
embramike
19:12 on
10 February, 2015
From twitter:
If Sky’s TV football deal was based on population and percentage of subscribers, the Scottish Premiership would get £500m instead of £70m.
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It is a market-led decision – nothing more, nothing less – The world don’t want to but Scottish Football – They want the EPL.
It is sad, but true.
If Celtic was in the EPL, only Man Utd would be bigger in the WORLD!!!!
Many thanks winning captains for your reply.
HH.
Those new figures to be pumped into the EPL are staggering. Sky gets huge money from pubs and hotels and when I visit these establishments nobody ever seems to be remotely interested in EPL matches. Interesting stats I heard recently that only four million households have SKy Sports in England. I have all the sports channells and only watch about half dozen EPL matches a season.
Celtic games, golf and rugby grab most of my attention. Another interesting stat I heard on radio last week that the recent Celtic-Rangers game had more viewers over here than the Super Bowl. Hurry up Celtic TV and start broadcasting games live and we will gladly pay a season ticket for it..
want to buy Scottish Football – sorry
Jackie mac
Sincere condolences for your loss
Thoughts and prayers
hankray-I think Sky have about 11 mil subscribers in the UK,plus the sublets of Virgin,BT etc HH
viewfaethewindae
19:14 on
10 February, 2015
I’ve often wondered if Celtic could go it alone with their own subscription based Celtic TV, bin Sky and take the £2m gamble?
bournesouprecipe
I understand we’re part of a collective with the rest of the SPFL, did we not look at this pre the last deal?
Mind made up for me Sky getting cancelled , get the finger oot PL , I’ll sign up
I suppose we could go it alone – but we’d need to play ourselves every week.
And you thought the upcoming with Dundee Utd was bad…?
viewfaethewindae
don’t know what I did there, looks like I nicked your post
ger57
12:55 on
10 February, 2015
Just been reading back.
Alfie, why don’t you come along to the next Glasgow hootenanny? I could sell more tickets for your meeting with An Tearmann than sevco did for their last home game.
Why are you such a trumpet?
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What do you mean? – let the clique back-slappers get away with their fantastical claims and let the SNP lackies use this Celtic forum, as they have done for eighteen months – I will NEVER do that.
I am a Celtic SUPPORTER, not just a fan, for over FORTY YEARS.
These people think theirs is the ONLY view – as long as I am here – IT WON’T BE!!
I will always blow the trumpet of truth and beat the drum of free speech
Yours sincerely
Wynton Marsalis & Ginger Baker
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