There is no point bleating that tonight’s Europa League final is the weakest imaginable, Newco are there because they are good enough to eliminate two German sides and a few weaker opponents. If they win, fair play to them, they deserve their day in the sun. I expect them to lose.
Either way, the outcome will determine relative financial strength in Scottish football. This season Newco will return an operating profit for the first time in their history. Sales of Patterson to Everton and the management team to Aston Villa, already ensured a bumper year. The run to a European final could make them the highest earners in Scotland, eclipsing Celtic in this regard for the first time. It will bestow no more than a stay of execution to a side with gaping structural deficiencies.
The importance of Celtic winning the league this season cannot be overstated. Irrespective of what happens across the city, access to Champions League income ensures our place at the top of the income chart is virtually assured next season. If we are there alone from Scotland, the benefits Newco gain from this season will seem no more than a dead cat bounce. If two clubs are there, we compete on equal terms, against a team spending from income, not debt.
It’s all about the money, nothing else determines long-term outcomes.
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PHILBHOY on 18TH MAY 2022 12:35 PM
BELMONT BRIAN
I was diagnosed with asthma after one doctors appointment about 20 years ago.
Two inhalers provided, one to be used twice a day, the other if I had breathing difficulties.
I never had a serious episode, but continued with the daily inhalers for years.
Some years ago I queried my condition with my doc who set me up with the resident nurse to have a Spirometry Test. No issues evident so asthma was struck from my records and inhalers binned.
Uncanny similarity to my diagnosis and medication PB.
MADMITCH on 18TH MAY 2022 1:11 PM
…I seemed to have an issue with “exercise induced asthma” and the doctor put me on an inhaler — basic version but can’t remember the name.
Uncanny Pt 2; likewise diagnosed with exercise induced asthma MM
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As Philhoy said, the spirometry test 3 yrs ago suggests no asthma/damage to lung capacity. Have noticed that when it’s damp + cold, the lung linings play up but I can run around/cycle with no impact.
For record, I’ve never won a Tour De anything,
ASTHMAQUICKNEWS CSC
DRFRANKENFURTER CSC
The discussion about…
Liverpool FC
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Asthma
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Steroids
…is a new low for CQN.
Cannot believe what I’m reading.
As Captain Blackadder said – Sorry, but I gotta get outta here.
JHB
“…..On the other hand, should the Ibrox club win tonight, well, that could trigger an extraordinary set of events that most of us, even in the midst of our horrible failure only twelve months ago, could not have contemplated.”
You did. You contemplated it, you predicted worse actually.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 18TH MAY 2022 2:11 PM
The funny thing is, that’s not the first time I’ve mentioned this suggestion on here.
I did it years ago when the board was a different place. Many would say a better place.
The suggestion was greated more favourably then. It was discussed with interest and without rancour or ridicule.
It’s not even my idea. I originally heard it suggest by Wiggy Smith, of whom I am no fan, but I thought it an interesting proosal.
You maybe don’t remember that. Your memory doesn’t appear to be the most reliable (might be an age thing). Or maybe it was before you joined the board.
Where are the 200K ? (Talksport)
This is the square where a mass of Celtic fans congregated and then about 5K Porto fans arrived, it was a sea of bodies with the Fountain (in view) full of Celtic and Porto fans singing. You could not see a spare inch of ground for the Celtic fans!
https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/espana/andalucia/sevilla/siviglia-plaza-san-francisco.html
GARNGAD TO CROY on 18TH MAY 2022 2:34 PM
Are those actually live cameras?
Because if they are it’s a stark contrast to 19 years ago.
Belmont Brian,
Since you’ve started the sausage puns, I’d like to say that I am hoping for the wurst possible outcome for the hun tonight.
Ernie Lynch
Yes live and there are a few links to other cameras around the City, looks to be nowhere near the numbers that are being quoted going by the live cameras.
That footage in Seville is reminiscent of Trump’s inauguration,which he claimed was the best attended ever.
He’d get a job with the SMSM anyday.
Here’s hoping it’s the wurst case scenario for the huns tonight. I’m just sick of all the baloney being talked about them. Bunch of bangers.
HASSAN I SABBAH on 18TH MAY 2022 2:57 PM
Here’s hoping it’s the wurst case scenario for the huns tonight. I’m just sick of all the baloney being talked about them. Bunch of bangers.
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they could be for Lorne this evening
Bada,
If you get em,post em.
Tom Mc Laughlin,
You should know better than to raise Ernies hackles.Waste of time digging him up.
I agree with you on the ridiculous posts today.
On your post about Captain Blackadder,probably better quoting the immortal Captain Mainwaring,
“H,mm,I think you are entering the realms of fantasy there,Jones”
Hassan I Sabbah,
I fully concur.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 18TH MAY 2022 2:24 PM
this is a fairly widespread theory – it may have started on a Liverpool podcast.
a bit of Googling will evidence that I think.
Anyone take Ko Itakura in place of CCV if he goes elsewhere.?
The Long Wait Is Over,
It may well have done,but to repeat it,especially on here,shows,well,add yor own ending.
GARNGAD TO CROY on 18TH MAY 2022 2:45 PM
Yeah, I’ve been looking at them. The difference from 19 years ago is stark.
I’m also amazed by those ‘live’ cameras. There appear to be so very few huns around (good thing).
MADMITCH
a bit behind But who is ET (is he from steven speilberg film) and is AMCG
Aiden Mcgeady ??
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I think there is a story in the lack of an SPL drugs testing programme.
I think there is a story in the way ET turned out in the SC SF.
I think that there is another story in the fact that AMcG looks as if he swims in caffeine before certain games.
Football and the second wave of drugs started in the late 60’s.
GCC,removing g ALL benches,cordoning off statues and flower beds,in case the Scum win tonight.
On Bears Den
“Nothing about them wrecking the City at the weekend.
Eh,wrecking the City.Probably right,because in their eyes,they were never liquidated.
Someone add on a couple of zeros to the amount of scum in Seville ?
That’s definitely not what I remember.
You could argue that Sevco getting into the Petrofac Cup Final and Division 3 was the biggest achievement ever by any club in Scottish Football.
Smoke & Mirrors CSC
If they are not all in Sevilla then they are here.
#StayIndoorsTonightCSC
Ps George Square has been caged off…
CELTIC40ME on 18TH MAY 2022 2:19 PM
JHB on 18TH MAY 2022 1:30 PM
Funny how you’ve pretty much you’ve done an 180 degree pívot on their financial position in the space of a year.
And on today of all days!
Ssssshhhhhh play along,pretend you have no recall or memory of any of the ex you choob sensation posts
Just play along,either it’s about ubend fc,or how we need ubend fc.
Continuity mixing for the toxic brand
Let the troll keep drinking the toilet bowl water
And keep pointing out the trollteams errors,
They are many repetitiously unsourced posts,in fact if you could be asked you could compile a thick,really thick,dense volume.
HH
Ian Blackford refusing to rise to the bait from some unknown Unionist today in Parliament,to congratulate the Scum ,and wish them well tonight.Just a smile,then head back into his papers.
JC2 @ 3.36
ET = Extra Time
AMcG = GK who plays in Govan.
But you knew that already didn’t you.
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/forms/webcam/Webcam.aspx
US Soccer equal-pay deal could ‘change game globally’ – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61492703
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I have posted twice in the last twelve months about the impact that the womens’ game will have on football worldwide.
I said I believed that it would change the structure of the game to a degree that would make Bosman seem almost irrelevant. I also highlighted that it was the US who would be in the vanguard and that discrimination law in all countries would be used to drive the changes quicker and wider than anyone could imagine.
I recently posted an e-mail answer to a question on the timing of full equality in Scotland that I put to the SWP after it was announced that it would be under the full SPFL umbrella from next season:
SWP – “It is difficult to put an exact timescale on achieving equality. However SWF will continue to work with senior clubs, the Scottish FA and SPFL to achieving equality within football for all.”
The right to play womens’ International matches at Hampden, the national stadium, with equal pay has all been agreed. Now with womens’ teams part of the SPFL, this will filter down to club level over time – how long will this take to be implemented? Celtic women have, I believe, played at least one match at Celtic Park, so the process at our club has begun, albeit tentatively. Could the pitch at Celtic Park sustain double the number of games played on it each season?
What will all this mean in the long-run to Celtic and other clubs with an ‘in-house’ womens’ team? Could it ultimately result in an equal 50/50 split in all club revenue & sponsirship between both squads, and if resisted, would it be challenged in the courts as discrimitory?
The equality snowball is now descending the slope and is getting bigger on every turn – sooner, or, later, clubs will need to ‘nail their colours to the mast’…. it’s not going away.
All seating benches removed from George Square due to ‘ football fans ‘ vandalism.
Damn you football fans.
Turkeybhoy
“Ian Blackford refusing to rise to the bait from some unknown Unionist today in Parliament,to congratulate the Scum ,and wish them well tonight.Just a smile, then head back into his papers.”
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This just ain’t true. Ian Blackford rose at PM Questions and the first thing he said was he wanted to offer his support to Rangers in tonight’s Euro final.
It happened. I saw it and I heard it and I posted about it earlier on CQN- 4 party leaders expressed support for Rangers.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 18TH MAY 2022 4:30 PM
Sturgeon has also wished them good luck.
Which is odd because I got the impression from their supporters on here that the SNP are all unreconstructed Fenians who pure hate the huns.
Survey time soon.
😇🙏 help us.
JHB
The US decision you linked changes very little for Celtic. It is the same decision, now actualised, that was being discussed by US authorities last time you tried to raise a scare.
The outcome now is that US national teams have to be treated equally; International US Male players will earn the same paltry sums that US women earn. No US soccer club is obligated to pay their women’s club team the same wages while they attract crowds of less than a tenth of what the men get. The New York Yankees will not be obliged to pay their women’s softball outfit multi-million dollar salaries, nor will the Boston Celtics or the Baltimore Ravens have to do so in their sport.
You were told this back then but you conveniently forget in your effort to promote scare stories.
You have been a troll since day one.
P.S. I fully support equality in sport in terms of access and encouragement of female participation but commercial sport is not bound to pay the same wages to Partick Thistle men’s team and their women’s team any more than Albion Rovers mens team will get the same wages as Celtic men’s team.
Speakin money and football, viewing one of the Celtic podcasts on utube it came as a bit shock that should Rangers2 win tonight and qualify for the Champion’s Lge. it would reduce Celtic’s take by 5 million on account of two Scottish clubs being in the group stage. If they become a pot one team it’s quite possible we could draw them in our group.
The Irish police made 10 arrests on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into alleged match-fixing in the League of Ireland.
A statement from the Gardai said that 10 males had been arrested in Dublin, Cork and Limerick on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61492458
No you cant, 2 teams from the same Association do not meet in the groups.
I don’t think same country teams can be drawn together in CL