Michel Platini’s Financial Fair Play initiative at Uefa has been one of the more inspiring developments at the top of our game for decades. It brought spending into line with income throughout the English game and punished what Platini called financial doping.
It has been so effective, Platini now promises to relax the rules. The blame does not all sit with Platini. Uefa are dealing with 10 legal challenges to the rules, with complainant clubs citing European Law in their defence. The big football powers are split. The English appear in favour of FPP (Manchester City aside), while many stressed clubs across Europe are in opposition.
The concept of living within your means is still resisted in our game, not just in barred hold-outs in Scotland.
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bankiebhoy I,
Sorry for jumping in with the pit boots earlier.
Rushing oot.
canamalar
09:58 on 20 May, 2015
Big football charity do, is code for lodge meeting I take it :)
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Shut it you old paranoid cynic!
It was the Silverknowes RSC annual bash don’t you know!
Jokin – both of yous!!!
;-).
HH jamesgang
GINGER
Cheers,bud.
I did go out wi a few. But hell they could be high maintenance on the emotional front.
Never dull and always worth it!
Canamalar –
Haha normally yes.
This was an annual event for a youth footballer who died of leukemia a few years back. My son was a team mate of the guy.
It took place in Portobello Town Hall.
A great football night.
An ex-Motherwell player was one of the speakers and he was hilarious. Can’t remember his name now.
morrissey the 23rd
03:03 on 20 May, 2015
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Have the quads called it a day ? i thought their album was good and very different.
Shame to hear that.
Tom McLaughlin:
But if I could be bothered I’d go back and find the articles reporting he did request this game as his final game. I just can’t be bothered.
Oh and those articles are about 3 months old.
A lot of agitation since GSL-gate. Rightly so.
But strangely I don’t blame Celtic for everything that has happened since the huns went Nipples North.
When it first became clear that they were going to the wall-creditors unpaid,including HMRC-celtic quite clearly considered their options.
And the decision was that they did not have to pursue an agenda against their dead foe. Due process would take care of any unfinished business,so much of their wrongs were in the public domain and they were FUBAR’d.
Additionally,being the way of things in Scotland,for Celtic to demand retribution would see us being publicly crucified. And retribution was inevitable anyway.
Celtic could not foresee that every rule and regulation in the game would be circumvented in order that the huns got through one way or another.
Nor could we foresee that even the laws of the land would be traduced in order to save their skin. HMRC didn’t see that coming either,btw.
As for blatant lies from officials,a la Bryson,we can force them out but the damage is done.
For me,I don’t personally believe Celtic PLC were too bothered about them going bust. I also genuinely don’t think they have wilfully copped a three monkey stance to enable their return.
But they’ve been incredibly naive at best. With hindsight,they might have acted differently.
I wish they had.
Meantime,I implore every Celtic supporter not to let the huns destroy our club. Please continue to support the team as before.
Not as a show of support for what as happened,but as a show of strength,and a mark of defiance.
tom mclaughlin
10:04 on 20 May, 2015
Canamalar –
Haha normally yes.
This was an annual event for a youth footballer who died of leukemia a few years back. My son was a team mate of the guy.
It took place in Portobello Town Hall.
A great football night.
An ex-Motherwell player was one of the speakers and he was hilarious. Can’t remember his name now.
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Be John Gaghan…..
Ayrshire is Green and White
Oh that’s right….you are all Good Celtic fans, but im a Bad Celtic Fan for saying the PL is responsible for the treatment we get from the SFA.
Back of the Bus eh
Don’t rock the boat.
Any other club would have challenge this corruption, but not PL, he will say nothing about it, or do nothing about.
In his his capacity as CEO of Celtic….if he cannot challenge the people, he should resign in favour of someone who will.
This is not acceptable….to be blatantly cheated by corrupt officials.
Feckin do something about it.
HH
Asked to confirm whether Rangers had the funds to pay Ashley back his £5m if shareholders required the club to do so, King replied: “Of course we do. It’s always been part of the plan, but it’s just a question of whether it’s an appropriate thing to do.”
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Start as you mean to go on……
MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar:
Craig Gordon was my choice for player of the year, but in saying that does it not raise questions?
MickTT
12 hours from now you and lots of other celtic supporters will be on here complaining about the ref tonight at sevco V hibs game.
the green man
10:11 on 20 May, 2015
Oh that’s right….you are all Good Celtic fans, but im a Bad Celtic Fan for saying the PL is responsible for the treatment we get from the SFA.
Back of the Bus eh
Don’t rock the boat.
Any other club would have challenge this corruption, but not PL, he will say nothing about it, or do nothing about.
In his his capacity as CEO of Celtic….if he cannot challenge the people, he should resign in favour of someone who will.
This is not acceptable….to be blatantly cheated by corrupt officials.
Feckin do something about it.
HH
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Any other club…..
How many clubs are there in Scotland ?
Any of them challenge the corruption?
Any other club…..Gees a couple of names, who went the full hog in challenging the corruption, any other club would have….eh naw they didny
Why is it down to Celtic? Cause any other club would…!
Ayrshire is Green and White
I mean,,,Why TF is PL being payed all that money,…..Is it to keep quiet, because it appears he has been struck dumb.
Nothing to say about any of it.
I wonder why…..PL allows Celtic to be treated like this….eh
HH
Canamalar
09:54 on 20 May, 2015
“Celtic were confirmed as league champions this month without kicking a ball, when Aberdeen’s defeat to Dundee United handed the title to the Hoops.”
I thought we played and won loads of game up to then, never kicked a ball
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Must be like the year we qualified for the CL last 16 because Benfica beat Shakhtar :-)
The timing of the SFA decision was deliberate in my opinion. Tonight Ibroke will be a caldron of jingoism and hatred, where officials will feel obliged to play their part.
If there’s a positive result for Sevco, the plans will be laid out by King to ensure the momentum will carry onto Easter Road, where decisions in favour of Hibs will be seen as a travesty and a punishment for Sevco.
Árd Macha
If you voted for an MSP, you have legitimised the OBFA. Not only that, you support the way it’s being implemented by Police Scotland. It’s a near direct analogy.
Celtic are part of a democratic organisation (no sniggering). They may not agree with all decisions but they agree to be bound by them, since that’s the democratic process.
The difference here is that the SFA are making and implementing the rules but the principal is the same.
If you are implying that Celtic are complicit simply by being in and remaining part of the SFA then I’m afraid my analogy holds.
I accept some part of OBFA because I voted for the SNP, I don’t accept fault for the way Police Scotland implement those rules.
I’m not even sure on what basis Celtic could comment about the implementation the rules here. They’re not a directly related party, nor will they have been privy to the documentation supplied by RIFC in support of DK’s fap status.
GlassTwoThirdsFull,
Excellent point.
Árd Macha
And here….you can bleat away at me, I could not give a flying feck.
You are all too ready to accept this kind of cheating.
And it will not stop….until we do something about it ourselves.
Because….The silence coming from the Celtic board is more than disconcerting, payed a kings ransom….to what, say nothing.
Nonsense.
Why is PL silent?
HH
The Green Man 10:11 on 20 May, 2015
“Any other club would have challenge this corruption, but not PL, he will say nothing about it, or do nothing about.”
Would you like to list the clubs who have challenged this decision?
favourite uncle
10:17 on 20 May, 2015
MickTT
12 hours from now you and lots of other celtic supporters will be on here complaining about the ref tonight at sevco V hibs game.
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12 hours from now I’ll be in my scratcher no giving a monkies €¿(& about Sevco or Hibs or any referee. I’ve got my car to get to the garage tomorrow first thing, how I get back home worries me more.
You worry your wee self to death I won’t, I’ll be watching Celtic in the same seat next season along with my boy.
You cut your wee hard nose off to spite your face all year long, no one will stop me watching the team I’ve watched for thirty odd years.
I’ve seen boards, managers and players come and go, the Hun raise banners with Desmond White sucks ***** in he’ll… !
Hell will freeze over before anyone stops me watching Celtic….
Enjoy yer breakfast and geis peace with your I wouldn’t darken the door again, who cares, jog on all ye want.
Hail Hail
Ayrshire is Green and White
I don’t know why but I smell hun.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
10:10 on
20 May, 2015
A lot of agitation since GSL-gate. Rightly so.
But strangely I don’t blame Celtic for everything that has happened since the huns went Nipples North.
When it first became clear that they were going to the wall-creditors unpaid,including HMRC-celtic quite clearly considered their options.
And the decision was that they did not have to pursue an agenda against their dead foe. Due process would take care of any unfinished business,so much of their wrongs were in the public domain and they were FUBAR’d.
Additionally,being the way of things in Scotland,for Celtic to demand retribution would see us being publicly crucified. And retribution was inevitable anyway.
Celtic could not foresee that every rule and regulation in the game would be circumvented in order that the huns got through one way or another.
Nor could we foresee that even the laws of the land would be traduced in order to save their skin. HMRC didn’t see that coming either,btw.
As for blatant lies from officials,a la Bryson,we can force them out but the damage is done.
For me,I don’t personally believe Celtic PLC were too bothered about them going bust. I also genuinely don’t think they have wilfully copped a three monkey stance to enable their return.
But they’ve been incredibly naive at best. With hindsight,they might have acted differently.
I wish they had.
Meantime,I implore every Celtic supporter not to let the huns destroy our club. Please continue to support the team as before.
Not as a show of support for what as happened,but as a show of strength,and a mark of defiance.
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I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that Celtic will be destroyed because of the SFA or anyone else. If people on this blog want to take some kind of moral stance over what they perceive to be complicity on Celtic’s part then that’s their right. I’m fairly certain that, if and when servo get into the top division and we have to play them, the stadium will be full. If sevco were liquidated tomorrow and Ibrox demolished, yet another new club would be formed, playing in blue, with the word “Rangers” somewhere in their title and followed by the same crowd waving their flegs. That’s the demographics of Scotland. Anyone expecting the peepil to disappear in a puff of smoke is delusional.
Micktt –
Yes that’s him. I take it you’ve heard him speak.
The Green Man
PL works to help Celtic not to go out his way to handicap Sevco/Rangers.
I think everyone needs to take a wee breather. There is a lot of ranting/venting going on at the minute and it’s like wee Bhoys in the huff if I am being honest.
King has invested zero so far. I’m sure the SA authorities are watching with a lot of interest regarding how much he has and how much he transfers and then invests in Scottish football.
That club is toxic. They will need circa £50m to challenge us at the minute.
If Sevco do get the war chest they have been promised for 4 years and do splash large cash then it should suit the PL bashers because Celtic will have to do the same.
We all know that splashing £20m a season on transfers is unsustainable so Sevco have two choices.
They take the Murray route of gambling huge sums on CL qualification and breaking even IF they achieve latter rounds every year.
or
Sevco take their time to build a sustainable model the same as Celtic.
Take a breath and think about it. Panicking about sevco is crazy. We have spent a lot more than Aberdeen and they run as fairly close this season. On their day most teams in the league can give us a game.
Sevco need a whole new squad because they struggled in the Championship and trailed an average Hertz team by double figures.
I can;t believe the fear and rage of some regarding Sevco. They were always going to appear on the horizon. They should never have got a licence in the first place. We have all had 3 years to get used to the fact they are going to hit the top league and we know what comes with them regarding their support and the MIB’s.
Do we walk aweay or do we face them up and go toe to toe with them and smash them in games.
I can’t believe the defeatist and negative attitude by many on here.
Celtic will have to beat every club in front of them domestically and Europe to win trophies. There is no point hiding, moaning or not going in 100%.
I think some fans are at a crossroads of what they want here.
The damage was done when they got a licence and kept their history. They were always going to make the top league. Whether it’s this year or next year we take them on like every other team and pump them off the pitch!
Mon the Hoops
LB
Steinreignedsupreme
Im not interested in any other team, im not concerned about them.
Im concerned about the fact that we are being shafted, yet nobody from the board has anything to say about it.
We should be challenging the decisions of the SFA, not condoning them.
See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil eh.
Haven’t had much chance to post this week. Seems like the fun never stops in Scottish football though. Is it true that the SFA considered Jimmy Savlle as a youth football ambassador? (Too soon??)
So think about what happened yesterday. On any objective assessment of the fit and proper criteria, King fails. Former club went bust, tax convictions. We all know the background. Yet was anyone truly surprised at the ruling? And at the timing of announcing it just before an important match? Some things never change.
Looks like we have a whole new chapter in the saga of clubs called Rangers. How could it possibly go wrong this time?
Prediction: a future statement from some sort of The Rangers supporters’ association will blame the SFA when it all goes very wrong. After all, they were the ones who allowed a glib and shameless tax cheat to become a director.
Kitalba
Where you by any chance referring to me with your hun crack?
BMCUW,
“Celtic could not foresee that every rule and regulation in the game would be circumvented in order that the huns got through one way or another.
Nor could we foresee that even the laws of the land would be traduced in order to save their skin. HMRC didn’t see that coming either,btw.”
There were plenty who predicted exactly that.
Weeminger,
There was loads of opposition and statements made by the opposition about the OBA, no?
Árd Macha
The timing of the SFA decision was deliberate in my opinion. Tonight Ibroke will be a caldron of jingoism and hatred, where officials will feel obliged to play their part.
Really?
Have you watched them lately?
They are horrendous.
Big boost for Hibs too tonight. Elbows returns to the first 11.
LB
Steinreignedsupreme
I agree, we lead Football in Scotland in many ways, but we arent mouth pieces for every decision made.
these people are hanging themselves, and they continue to trip themselves up and stumble from one calamity to another.
Celtic and PL in particular need to say buggerall.
tom mclaughlin
10:30 on 20 May, 2015
Micktt –
Yes that’s him. I take it you’ve heard him speak.
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Couple of times Tom, one occasion prior to the start of the evening my mate came back from the toilet and said there was some guy in the toilet talking to himself in the mirror…
It was him….
Very good and funny….
Ayrshire is Green and White
everything…absolutely everything stacks up to one thing.
getting rangers back to challenge celtic
the celtic board doing nothing and are waiting to welcome the knuckledraggers
back in the top division makes them totally complicit. your season ticket letter confirms
this.
sfa/spfl/sfl all voting in a way that suits liars and cheats to act freely to get the results they need.
referees all doing their bit, even the tim ones..gollum and clancy, pandering to the lodge.
a vast majority in sports media pushing the angles to make it all easier to happen.
creditors unpaid, 5 stars, same directors, same refereeing decisions, the usual
handshake frenzy to get the decisions they need on and off the park. the whole
thing is crooked and stinks to the high heavens.
thats why scottish football is a dead duck and celtic are now just a franchise of the sfa/spfl/rangers cabal.
to continue to support celtic seems to be the fight among celtic supporters.
its totally up to the individual
im tired of being stepped on, cheated and laughed at,
but I only support and will only ever support one team.
its a quandry
The Green Man:
Whatever gave you that idea?
Like I said….you can all bleat away at me.
The fact is…that we are being cheated, left, right, and centre.
But you want to attack me…..bring it on.
Its totally bent and corrupt, always has been, simple as.
Yet we have highly paid Celtic officials….who have nothing to say about the obvious cheating.
I wonder why.
rt rev david hay
What is the obsession with the Masonic Lodge?
Its not just you who mentions it, but has anyone ever met a mason or actually know what it involves to be one or what its about?
weeminger
10:23 on
20 May, 2015
If you voted for an MSP, you have legitimised the OBFA. Not only that, you support the way it’s being implemented by Police Scotland. It’s a near direct analogy.
Celtic are part of a democratic organisation (no sniggering). They may not agree with all decisions but they agree to be bound by them, since that’s the democratic process.
The difference here is that the SFA are making and implementing the rules but the principal is the same.
If you are implying that Celtic are complicit simply by being in and remaining part of the SFA then I’m afraid my analogy holds.
I accept some part of OBFA because I voted for the SNP, I don’t accept fault for the way Police Scotland implement those rules.
I’m not even sure on what basis Celtic could comment about the implementation the rules here. They’re not a directly related party, nor will they have been privy to the documentation supplied by RIFC in support of DK’s fap status.
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