President of La Liga in Spain has stepped into the Catalonian independence referendum debate by saying if Catalonia became independent clubs from that region, notably Barcelona and Espanyol, would have to leave the Spanish league and compete within their new domestic boundaries.
This claim is without foundation as multinational ‘domestic’ leagues are authorised by Uefa, Fifa and the EU, while Spanish clubs are able to compete with foreign clubs in European competition, but this intervention is likely to be one of the more emotive topics in the Catalonian debate. Would Barcelona fans vote for Catalan independence if it required them to withdraw from the Spanish league and hand back their status as one of the game’s world powers? Some would, some wouldn’t.
Football is the key cultural touchstone of European nations. Those who want to preserve the Spanish nation know this. Excluding Scottish clubs from the England and Wales football market has an enormous commercial impact on top-flight clubs here. It also means that our key cultural touchstone is Scottish.
Those who want to build a cohesive UK would be more productive by working to end the exclusion of Scottish clubs from the England and Wales league than telling nationalists they would be wrong to hold another referendum.
Popcorn and ginger on hand for the latest Newco Rangers episode. Flash mobs and EGMs, all destined to further tear the club apart. As we’ve said here for years, internecine strife is the only thing that can really damage a club. That lot seem to have a infinite supply of the stuff.
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Paul,
Catalan football teams ejected from the Spanish league if they voted for independance? (Which, as you say would never happen anyway- La Liga needs a stong Barca…)
As some who has spent many summers in Barcelona for work purposes, the Catalans would still vote for an independent nation. There is a passion for their culture, identity and heritage in overwhelming numbers that has sadly been drained out of the Scottish by their corrupt Central Bank serving politicians in Westminster.
Their in lies the fundamental difference.
BREAKING: Neil Lennon is reportedly set to be unveiled as the new manager of Al Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. http://t.co/wTGAF3JnDo
good luck to him and his family
BSR
I knew you’d be onto it in a flash!
HH jamesgang
Sandman & Monaghan1900
Sometimes you just have to smile broadly and shake your head at their sheer stupidity.
:))))))
!!bada bing!!
18:18 on 8 October, 2014
BREAKING: Neil Lennon is reportedly set to be unveiled as the new manager of Al Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. http://t.co/wTGAF3JnDo
good luck to him and his family
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A country ruled by an inherently conservative religious clique whose henchmen beat and intimidate those who oppose the theocracy….while all the while turning a blind eye to the transfer of funds to neighbouring states to finance terrorist operations…
…..after leaving Scotland Mr Lennon went on to become the manager of Saudi Arabia’s national team.
CQNwikiCSC!
HH jamesgang
Paul,
Just took possession of my new, supersized iPhone this morning.
Pure smashing so it is!
CQN looks just great being scrolled up and down on the wide screen. Canny wait to get over on ma holidays and read CQN on the train, flashing the logo to any fat, tattooed bigots in blue jerseys sitting nearby. It’s the small things.
So the Govan Branch of the Judean Popular Front are worried about the parking at The Fort for their daring raid,you couldnae write this stuff….Wolfie Smith will be leading from the front…
jamesgang- do you have Ronnie’s ear? :)
Al ittihad – translates as – The Union.
Possible stramash at the Glasgow Fort the morra.
Part 1 of a 3 part plan.
“Baldrick?!”
HH!!
!!bada bing!!
18:28 on 8 October, 2014
jamesgang- do you have Ronnie’s ear? :)
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Arrived in the post with the ransom note!!!
HH jamesgb
Jamesgang
Never jamesgb
Yukk.
natknow
I think the monster mash may be on the cards ;)
John hartson the man who thought nothing of laying into Celtic fans after the 2012 ‘Dundee riot ‘ without any facts and who wasn’t even at the game, the man who lays in to a guy doing a job he could only dream of doing all while taking his 30 pieces of silver.
I have an elderly uncle and aunty over from Scotland staying with me for a few weeks holiday.
My uncle was a commercial fisherman, who lived most of his days at sea where he is most happiest and couldn’t give a hoot about football. My aunty, however is a dyed in the wool Tim and is to be found shouting at her telly in the kitchen on most match days. For clarity, her maiden name was Donohoe.
Having never even heard of CQN, I handled her my iPad to read the comments after the Hamilton defeat. After scanning through the pages, her comment was: “I’ll no be reading that again son, are you sure that’s a Celtic website?”
no wonder a lot dont want to work,when they read some of the do gooders on here,Brother Walfrid was a good man, but that was a long time ago.from now on Charity begins at home. and you can stick your buckets and all these begging bowls were the sun dont shine. and them 3 thats on about the living wage.i bet they are the most miserble people on this earth ,when i comes to putting there hands in there pockets,aye you can all talk a good talk,
Roy on RTE eatin’ a black’n’white cat………….
Hilarious.
timbhoy2
and you can stick your buckets and all these begging bowls were the sun dont shine.
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Sorry pal, no can do. My erchie is peachy and way too wee and cute to accomplish such a misguided feat!
Mibbee you can though?
Me? I think popping in a quid is a preferable option. And people don’t look funny at like they would if you stick it up yer jacksie!
Aff oot. A ball to kick with the next Lubo
HH jamesgang
Ross County away could turn out to be a very hard game when you have so many players away on International duty you always have an anxious wait to see if they all return fit.It also means that Rony has not had all his players available for coaching and training for nearly two weeks.There has been some improvement in the last few weeks at County now if we put all that in the mix with the lack of form and confidence in some Celtic players 3 points will not come easy.H.H.
timbhoy2-are you Bob Geldof?
Far too many do-gooders on here!
“Down with that sort of thing!”
Gtf wae that bucket!
HH!!
Tallybhoy
18:33 on
8 October, 2014
Possible stramash at the Glasgow Fort the morra.
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Sorry, not tomorrow but Saturday. I should have made that clear for anyone going along!
Macca on Clyde
Q.What year did a team other than Celtic or Rangers win the league
Macca Answer: Aberdeen
Good evening all.
I find it very sad that some posters on here object to contributing to bucket collections. It beggars belief, after losing my father to cancer, that I would not contribute to the fund. Myself, am due for another biopsi this month, the 3rd in 3 years. The sooner we beat this most horrible disease, and we will, the better the world will be. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Harrison was way over the top with his criticism of Ronny.
I have my doubts about Ronny, but to say he doesn’t have a clue and is a laughing stock is insulting to Ronny and demeaning to our club.
He’s just gave msm and others a big stick to beat us with.
Ittihad FC Mid-fielder, Maan Khodari, to manager Neil Lennon: “What is this Irn Bru of which you speak?”
Good luck Neil, earn yourself loads of dosh and live a peaceful life for a change.
Come on you boys in black and yellow.
Should read Hartson. Will get the hang of predictive text one day
Till later all
re- new i phone 6…mates got one….bends if you sit on it…keep it in yir front pocket!!!!
jamesgang
Glad that you and Richie saw it that way.
At least two issues overlap with all of this.
Ronny is clearly trying to turn an oil tanker round in the Forth & Clyde Canal. Not impossible but it will take time.
The second issue is that his tenure, his job performance, his results are all tracked back individuals to whatever side of the board/bored & downsizing debate people are already on.
Those who see the board as all things that are wrong with the club appear to connect Ronny as another dot in that theory.
In their eyes, he is not experienced, not competent, not Celtic enough, not enough of his own man, not up to speed with the SPL style, not expensive enough (since he MUST be a cheap option), and now perhaps too vegan :o)
He has not benefitted from MONs start, WGSs wage cut regime or NFLs Celticness. He is being judged solely on results which is no bad thing – however as you put it, you can see what he is trying to do. Over the stretch we will win this league, but converting 10% of your chances shows a serious training need or replacement players should be shoved on. I assume Guidetti was a mild injury issue or else Ronny was working on the law of averages for AS – “he must convert one of these chances, surely…I mean he’s getting himself into the scoring position.”
As for passing, then I suspect that “some” players will not actually practice that skill, believing that if you can pass then you can pass. That is a fallacy.
Passing a ball while under little or no pressure is easy, even for me. Passing the ball quickly and accurately under pressure – even short passes – is a learned skill. Passing the ball like that with either foot is a learned skill. Passing the ball like that with one touch with either foot is also a learned skill. If you never practice an essential skill that you WILL have to rely on during a game, even in the SPFL, you will never execute it until the moment of truth. This usually means you give it away or you fail to score.
We don’t have enough players who are proficient with both feet either to defend, to score or to pass with.
Sweeping assumptions I know, but if that is the case then the issue is a competency issue firstly, and then a training and attitude issue to get it fixed.
Some professional players at Celtic seem to be in their own comfort zone with their own ability. Wanyama, Forster and Hooper improved their baseline skills at Celtic and we know what happened to them. Brown to be fair to him, has improved at Celtic too.
Ramblings(not on my bike) CSC
See a handful of huns protesting outside city chambers again.
Right enough they have a lot to complain about……………….
nature hasn’t been kind to thems.
notthebus- I had the misfortune to listen to 30 mins of that on the way home, MacAvennie sadly makes DL and BFDJ sound like intellectual giants. Utterly cringeworthy.
voguepunter
nature hasn’t been kind to thems………..neither has evolution.
Was told by a Celtic board member that UEFA would insist Barca play in Catalonia if it became an independent country, and not Spain.
Seems fair enough – Catalonia would be the national locus, not Spain, so why should the cross-border rules be bent for Barca and not, say, Celtic?
John a Hartson is being controversial for the sake of his career.
I have met BBJ , and he is a very pleasant fella, who was kind enough to take my kids onto the pitch at CP for a kick -about.
Since retiring, John hasn’t had his troubles to seek, but, if press reports are true, he has sniffed around numerous managerial / coaching vacancies with negligible success.
He also told us that Tony Mowbray would be ideal for Celtic and do a great job.
My conclusion is simple , you can be a very good player, a nice guy, but it doesn’t mean you know a lot about football, and being controversial is a great way to hide your own inadequacy as a pundit.
PS that’s not a defence of RD
So, will the ‘bored’ / PL or, whoever is in charge
bring out the Hugh Keevins pea-shooter and ban
John Hartson?
I see that Chris Sutton is getting it as well.
That’ll be Neil’s pal CS who replaced Murdo at the DR
coz Murdo was criticising Neil and his team after the lamentable
performance v’s ST Mirren in the LCSF?
That’ll be the same CS who had nothing to say last season when
Neil’s team were knocked out of 2 cups at home?
Tom Boyd’s spitting the dummy performance on Celtic View-Pravda TV
on Sunday was, CQN-Clique worthy.
Aye…bye.
One short comment:
It appears that politics is allowed in football as long as it establishment politics or the establishment that talks about it or organises it.
Challenge the status Quo and it’s send in the stormtroopers.
No joke – we do not live in a democracy. We live in a plutocracy.
The commodification of football and sport generally continues. never mind access to English sports markets. We should be arguing for the end of Sky, BT, et al money. We should be looking for fan ownership and collective ownership – not piggy backing on the bloated, immorality that is the EPL.
Look. If Sutton and Hartson had made constructive criticisms of RD – eg his team selections are questionable; his substitutions bizarre; his tactics incomprehensible etc – I would not have an issue.
It’s the choice of words – Deila is a joke and a laughing stock – that is despicable, especially as it follows the Record/Sun script to the letter.