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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Better get the barriers up in George Square.
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Oh fuck my stream is behind…..an there’s a ruckus up the road? Did they score….awe ffs
Nothing happening very slowly in the Northampton; Mansfield game
Can you believe the state of that goal.FFS.
Those defenders have looked shaky ad hell since kick off.
Ref has been bribed
Absolute disgrace but no surprise at all.
Germans are fecked now.
jesus
At 21.21 last night I got a shiver and premonition that they would score at 21.21.
Haven’t seen eyes like that since Michael Gove was last on the Tele.
Can only assume the ref and that Eintracht defender have taken bungs.
Horrible.
Bassey arms ball away in box.
Billy boys ringing out now.
Game over – handihoch
Fekin give up.
a nothing goal.
Huns will drop like stones from now on.
Amazing how you can call s game of Hunball.
How much do these managers get paid.
We all knew what would happen.
Plenty of time….CMON tae fuk Frankfurt
Stonewall pen turned down then Frankfurt defender trips over a blade of grass. Black magic at work here.
RAY
Orange magic mair like .
“When you’re playing a game and you’re the better side, and you’re not getting decisions and not scoring, and then you get hit with a sucker punch? It’s demoralising. It’s really hard to come back from that. Rangers need to play on that fact. Frankfurt have been the better side but they’re losing the game. ”
Bertrand Russell
Germans look like an amateur team.
When you think of the amount of penalties they have had in this Cup,It’s going to be ones not given to opposition that’s going to win this.Huns would have got those.
Think it was the same defender that gifted Kent a great chance too. Absolutely rotten.
Celtic should have been born in England -m Scotland is a horrible little place.
Sadly, Frankfurt look more than a bit shite
Frankfurt are scarily crap.
Frankfurt are crap – worse still these two teams are in the final of a tournament we exited stage left – incredible
A penalty denied at one end , minutes later a total blunder and a huns goal .
Quite incredible
Nothing to do with us tonight, this is fixed
The Frankfurters have not drawn a blank so far in this tournament
Japanese boy misses sitter.
Frankfurt miss a sitter
Genuine slip by the defender but the keeper was very very culpable.
Hail Hail
Stay Safe
Lundstrom could pull out a gun here and shoot someone,and not get booked.Another miss by Eintracht.