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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Gary67
19:02 on
19 May, 2015
thomthethim for oscar ok
19:00 on 19 May, 2015
All that is left to salvage a vestige of integrity, is for Celtic to tender a notice to leave Scottish football.
And go where?
*****
In a football sense, does it really matter?
You know what lies ahead.
The corruption will be cranked up, with no checks or balances at Ibrox.
So, where does that leave the rest of the clubs?
Playing supporting roles to the Almighty Indestructables.
But hey, it’s only Celtic I watch.
Would you or anyone sit at a crooked poker table?
I don’t think so, but the blind eye will be turned to justify the presence of the biggest cheats in World sport.
It would seem, going by the attendance at the LC Final and the SC semi that there are many skewed compasses amongst the Celtic support.
It may be more wholesome and provide a similar fix, if the support turned to the Ladies team, although the SFA have their paws in there too.
Sevco need a minimum 30 million, just to get on an even keel.
A further 20 million, to try and get close to the standard of Celtic playing squad.
50 million, in a Scottish football environment that pays back hee-haw.
The Celtic business model is exclusive to us. Our existence and growth is supplemented by : 1) Champs league participation / money, or alternatively
2) saleable assets, players of value up to 10/12 million.
Sevco have neither of the above. So someone willing to pump 50 million in, to achieve and gain nothing but growing debt…. Must be aff their heid. I.e not fit or proper.
Wait a minute……
thomthethim for oscar ok
19:20 on 19 May, 2015
So give up. Chuck it. Give on to the corruption.
Good evening friends
Margaret McGill at 19:15 (foot of last page) – if you don’t mind I may well be copying and pasting that on various outlets over the next wee while ;-)
Team, Previously on CQN we wrote below, I am pleased to advise that we completed the cycle of 214 miles with over 13500 feet of climbs. Everyone got to Celtic Park safely where we met our little princess Eileidh, we enclose some photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/94223413@N03/sets/72157653047287282
Thankyou so much to all the folks who had donated and sent encouraging messages, Mouldy67
Original message follows:
“Hello team, would be looking for your help to spread the word about campaign;
“The 8th May 2015 will mark the first anniversary of our friend’s child, Oscar James Knox, gaining his Angel wings. To celebrate Oscar’s short but memorable life, we’ve organised a 223 mile bike ride over three days.
We’re using this opportunity to help another young child who desperately needs support: and fast. Eileidh Paterson needs £100K by June in order to receive specialised DFMO cancer treatment in the USA. That treatment is not currently available in the UK.
On Saturday 16th May 2015, the cyclists will leave Forres, Eileidh’s home town, bound for Inverness. There, they will take in the SPFL match between Caley Thistle and Dundee United, raising awareness of neuroblastoma, and in particular Eileidh’s plight, before setting off south to Glasgow, and Celtic Park, home of Wee Oscar’s favourite team.
We have set up this team page to raise awareness and much needed funds. Our team have a common goal to raise money for the Neuroblastoma Childrens Cancer Alliance (NCCA UK). The team are Steve Taylor, Kevan Lawler, Iain McGovern, Robert Campbell and Paul Muldoon.
We are football fans of different teams with a common goal: to make a difference for Eileidh in wee Oscar’s name.
We would like to ask for your help by donating to Eileidh’s campaign.
https://www.justgiving.com/HighlandbikerideforEileidhPaterson
OR
Text EPAT50 £1-10 to 70070
The Highland Cycle Team.”
Thanks Mouldy67″
The SFA are a joke – nothing new there.
If we had had the choice, most of us would have said OK for TGSL in charge of Sevco rather than Big Mike.
However, what I don’t want to see now is a deal between King and Ashley.
For me, that is THE danger.
The SFA will turn a blind eye…
Half a team of NU players, why not a full quota?
and – here under the table – a loan of several squillion – business is business, eh?
The Hun clumpany/cub is no longer listed – they can do what they like.
Today’s football, a bit like “Michel Platini’s Financial Fair Play initiative” is a lost cause for us punters who love the aul’ game as it was.
What’s the point of Hibs turning up tomorrow…?
I asked this earlier, now that King is on board with Murray can a previously shafted creditor now apply for money from an obvious phonic company?
When King ‘jets in…’,i wonder if he’ll visit the Sevco Shop at Glasgow Airport?
Gary67
19:22 on
19 May, 2015
thomthethim for oscar ok
19:20 on 19 May, 2015
So give up. Chuck it. Give on to the corruption
*****
Nope.
Don’t selectively quote my original post.
Phoenix not phonic
ruggyman
You forgot one thing….the blatant hun cheating, that will see them shaft us for loads of money, while Peter Lawell, the man who never sees nothing, and has nothing to say, looks the other way.
The subtext is this….Ignore the cheating, and get to the back of the bus.
Bet The Qatari FA didn’t think they’d find an association as corrupt as theirs…
It is completely irrelevant to me if King puts in £50m or 50p he is deemed to be appropriate to be in a senior position on the board of a club by the governing body of football here, if all clubs accept this which I think they will, the game in my opinion is a bogey
Margaret McGill
What’s not to like about that ? He’s perfect for that mob and we can just all get on with it, regardless. Makes you sick but let’s all look forward to the “biggest derby in the world”
HH
italiabhoy
19:26 on 19 May, 2015Bet The Qatari FA didn’t think they’d find an association as corrupt as theirs…
VG
thomthethim for oscar ok
19:25 on 19 May, 2015
So go where? If we had somewhere to go I’d be totally supportive, but we don’t.
Never mind the cheating….and just renew your season ticket.
That’s about it.
Fecking Pathetic
thomthethim for oscar ok
19:00 on 19 May, 2015
All that is left to salvage a vestige of integrity, is for Celtic to tender a notice to leave Scottish football.
It won’t happen, of course, but it would fairly cause UEFA to sit up and make a comment.
I think that there would be a few leagues who would welcome Celtic.
Does anyone remember my mantra of BC or DC as the only honourable options open to Celtic?
Was I wrong?
——
Yes in my opinion.
There is no guarantee that EUFA of FIFA would step in never mind take notice. Resign and we open up the possibility of Celtic FC ceasing to exist.
I can’t and won’t condone any action which could lead to that Tom.
I really do find it offensive, and ignorant, that because I and thousands of others choose to attend SFA competitive matches that we’re in some way ‘pretending’ that it’s only done in support of Celtic.
I get that you feel passionately about this but with all due respect you’re in no position to make assumptions on the motives for others.
I’m happy to respect your opinions but please don’t be telling me and many others why we’re going to watch Celtic, I expect the same courtesy in return.
La Bella Italia.
One more match fixing scandal.Serie D level.Players being paid sums ranging from 5k euros to 18 k euros. 50 arrests so far.
the oul’ wireless is a very special medium, everything is much more vivid –
even the diabolical Bommur’s sinister WATP posturing…….
thomthethim for Oscar OK
19:20 on
19 May, 2015
Gary67
19:02 on
19 May, 2015
thomthethim for oscar ok
19:00 on 19 May, 2015
All that is left to salvage a vestige of integrity, is for Celtic to tender a notice to leave Scottish football.
And go where?
*****
In a football sense, does it really matter?
You know what lies ahead.
The corruption will be cranked up, with no checks or balances at Ibrox.
So, where does that leave the rest of the clubs?
Playing supporting roles to the Almighty Indestructables.
But hey, it’s only Celtic I watch.
Would you or anyone sit at a crooked poker table?
I don’t think so, but the blind eye will be turned to justify the presence of the biggest cheats in World sport.
It would seem, going by the attendance at the LC Final and the SC semi that there are many skewed compasses amongst the Celtic support.
It may be more wholesome and provide a similar fix, if the support turned to the Ladies team, although the SFA have their paws in there too.
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As you know I agree with you 100%.
I have said many’s a time that I would rather pull the plug, start a basketball team, but to condone the corruption and bigotry is too much in this day.
They cheated, they never got punished, now their bastard incarnation has taken over the mantle, it will only get worse for our club, mark my words on that.
The support will bitch and whine on the blogs, but that is as far as it will go.
We deserve everything that’s coming our way.
They are laughing at us, cos we let them.
HH
The Irish league would do anything to have us.
I would rather that then being confined to an eternity of cheating and corruption.
HH
jobo baldie
19:22 on 19 May, 2015
Be my guest :)
TET
While our so-called custodians were counting their bonuses.
The sevconians of the handshaking variety were doing their rounds.
As you say, they have been allowed to get away with it, and reinvigorate their entitlement culture, while we watched,
We will pay for it.
I agree, we deserve it.
HH
Currant bhun on ssb condemning hatred from Celtic fans ……. You couldn’t make it up
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
19:28 on 19 May, 2015
Margaret McGill
What’s not to like about that ? He’s perfect for that mob and we can just all get on with it, regardless. Makes you sick but let’s all look forward to the “biggest derby in the world”
HH
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Like a lot of Tims, the sad thing is that you mean it.
Are there really CFC fans on here who want to give CFC grief for the zombies getting what they deserve?
Would any of these guys have walked away when the SFA tried to get the flag to come down?
Would they have walked away when we were being shafted by EBTs?
If they would have – where would we be now?
As things stand we are the biggest, richest club in Scotland. The zombies are years behind us – as others have said the figures just don’t add up for them.
Any CFC fan who can afford it should be buying a ST to give the club the support that takes us even further away from Scottish football.
We are lucky enough to live at the time when the old Huns died – just think about that!
Think about all our fathers and grandfathers who had to put up with all the sectarian crap not just in football but in life!
How do you think they would react to the events of today?
Something tells me they would be singing and dancing on their grave!
They certainly wouldn’t be picking fights with each other or CFC!
HH
So the deed don’t look too deed or zombie like anymore. Eh?
HT,
If you or anyone attend a game, especially one involving them, you are automatically validating their existence: unless you are only there to support Celtic.
By validating their existence you or anyone are also condoning the cheating and corruption that has led to their appearance.
As are Celtic and every other club competing in the Game.
This is not something that I particularly feel passionate about or consider myself being offensive and ignorant about.
It is, to my mind, a logical view to hold, however, I will concede that logic is not always part of the football supporters vocabulary, which I fully understand.
Derry City made a case to UEFA for resigning from the Irish League, so it can be done.
I don’t think that the game of Football would be prepared to lose Celtic.
However, that is all hypothetical opinion.
What is not, is that to continue to finance Scottish football is to condone the collective actions of Scottish football.
Some people can accept that, many can’t.
I think that is where a lot of the anger is coming from.
People don’t like being taken for fools…and who can blame tham.
Off for a walk between hail showers….or is it too late in the year for ice pellets.
The huns jumping about because a guy who was on the old clubs board when they ran it into the ground with unsustainable debts got the keys to the big hoose again, that’s like us celebrating if the whites and Kelly’s got the keys to paradise again :-)
Mad zombies thinking there troubles are over, they’ll need to pay again and again to support the fledgling club HH
Yeah, never mind the cheating, just look the other way.
And renew your season ticket.
After all, that’s all that matters …right?
The only good thing for me is that I will never allow myself to enter the same stadium as the hate-filled oldco hordes who have latched onto this new Club, sevco……been a great 3 years (hopefully 4 or more) watching sport as it should be….
The Green Man
18:39 on
19 May, 2015
Yeah….we had the chance to bury sevco, we never took it, thanks to the old firmers and their bigot pound.
Watch the cheating and entitlement, and rampant honest mistakery gather serious pace now
The SFA have just informed them…that they are free to cheat.
We were warned…We stood by and watched.
They will be cheating their way to Europe…very, very soon.
Well done the Celtic board…never noticed a thing, too busy looking the other way.
HH
Not much more to say about it.
We have very willingly stood with the crows and will ultimately be shot with them.
hun skelper
I would hope so.
But a King – Ashley deal, I don’t want to see.
The SFA will turn a blind eye, if TGSL and Big Mike want to finance a clumpany/club/team into Europe.
We left the door ajar… here come the rats.
Oor fault !!!
Elbows returns to the sevco squad …….is it a (s)hit squad
Fit and proper….anagrams
Prepaid front
Profit pander
Tomthethim have to disagree
“I don’t think that the game of Football would be prepared to lose Celtic.”
Scottish football wouldn’t blink if we were gone
Henke
19:15 on
19 May, 2015
Hell mend the lot of them. The SFA for making a deal with the devil, and Sevco fans for thinking he’s the messiah.
Just remember that Celtic is an extremely complicit member of the SFA.