So after 15 years and 121 years respectively, the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League will be wound-up due to the creation of the Scottish Professional Football League. Small objection, I know, but I don’t like the name. It’s cumbersome and, in the case of one member club (Queens) downright inaccurate. They stuck a word in to differentiate the new entity from the historical one, but why ‘Professional’?
I assume the last champions of the Scottish Premier League will retain the trophy, just as Northern Ireland did with the Home International Championship trophy? Or will the brown brogue brigade insist that doesn’t happen? I’m sure St Mirren will be making plans for the now-defunct Scottish Football League, League Cup, or at least they will when someone realises the awarding body is about to cease.
The new financial compensation structure will make a significant difference to half a dozen or so clubs in the second tier of the game but that’s about it. There is no magic wand for Scottish football short of federation with a neighbouring association.
The biggest laugh of the day came from the news that outgoing SFL chief exec, David Longmuir, the man who did more than anyone to prevent the new SPFL getting to this stage, has put himself forward for the new chief executive position.
The word ‘shameless’ seems somewhat inadequate. Make sure the brogues are clean for interview next week, David.
How will that one go? ‘I know, I got it completely wrong. I did my best to stop all of this from coming to fruition, what a laugh. Best thing I can say is, I’m not Neil Doncaster, so how’s about it?’
Better get that CV types, David. Or is my prediction that you were working your way to a position with a lower league club coming to fruition?
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Just drove past the Meadows in Edinburgh – hundreds of orange band troglodytes in their marching crimpolene suits. Never seen so many horrifically ugly gargoyles in my life. Fair put me off my lunch. The female gargoyles were all in black. Obviously still in mourning for their dead club. RIP RFC 1872
As the disabled are hammered by the Condems and the numbers of homeless people sleeping rough rockets, in part thanks to the bedroom tax. Wages are in decline against the cost of living and pensions have been slashed, it’s good to see some people are making do:
http://m.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/jun/28/new-class-landlords-profiting-generation-rent?CMP=twt_gu
blindlemonchitlin
13:17 on 29 June, 2013Mick TT and BurgasThe big event in Prestwick today is the diamond jubilee mass at St. Quivox for Fr Frank Courtnay, now retired here but late of St Marks in Alexandria.Not a Lambeg drum in sight.
What time is the mass?
Ma wumin goes to St Quivox..
HH
DJBEE
750 officers to be deployed to safeguard major Orange parade
Who`s safeguarding the general public?
Arrested for it at Ibrox,protected for it on the streets.
Truly bizarre.
How many were safeguarding the GB at the gallowgate.
BMCUWP
As if Mrs Blind would let me out to a pub, even one run by an ex Hun RB. Although, saying that, wee Johhny Hubbard, gentleman of the first order and who walks his dog on the same beat me and the Blindhound often take, was invited to speak at a sportsman’s evening there recently and urged me to come. When I told him that would be an ecumenical matter he seemed mystified. Maybe South Africans have no sense of humour.
Mick
It was a ten this morning.
Why does your good lady go and you not? We should be tellt!
Plenty of GLasgows finest volunteering to work the next two Saturdays marching to the toe tapping music of there fore fathers. Bus mans holiday I think you call it.
MACJAY
I pointed out earlier that there are a max of 2500 officers on duty in Scotland at any given time.
A good friend with better and closer information told me I was way overestimating that.
Nipping down to buy a hammer and a jemmy,and open an e-bay account.
Kilwinning will be deserted.
blindlemonchitlin
13:17 on 29 June, 2013
Mick TT and Burgas
The big event in Prestwick today is the diamond jubilee mass at St. Quivox for Fr Frank Courtnay, now retired here but late of St Marks in Alexandria.
Not a Lambeg drum in sight.
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Enjoy what a lovely parish!
BLINDLEMONCHITLIN
You should nurture and cherish a relationship with JOHNNY HUBBARD. He is a genuinely lovely fella,not a bone of hunnery in him.
I could have listened to him all day when he was at Dam Park in the 80s,and frequently did.
You would love him,honestly. And never be bored either.
PS-it was the wee fella first told me about the rhino….
Hubbard has an amazing penalty ratio, but what was more amazing was the amount of penalty’s that mob got when he played for them, but the again why should I be surprised.
Jonny Hubbard booked when I played for hamilton dhss v ayr dhss in 1984..
We won 5 1…
I see thems got w a t p on the back of thems team bus?!! Did you hear me Jon D? Thats you one of them.
Glad ur not related to me!!!
Whats the latest on Victor?
68 pens. 65 goals, just checked it on google, and there is a lovely pic. Of this nice we guy with a Rangers TIll I DIe t-shirt, lovely wee man, aye right.
All this talk of polis cost’s fur the walk’s…….lets
no forget all the poor A/E staff who hiv tae deal
with the drunkin hun on hun violence……..if truth
be told……..don’t mind that so much.
Blindlemon,
Loved hearing praise for Johnny Hubbard.
He is one former RFC player who could never be thought of as a Hun.
Lovely, modest, decent human being.
He was a beautifully skillful player & probably the best penalty-kick taker I ever saw.
Wish him all the best from Geriatric CFC.
I think they even got a penalty in the 7-1 game. Tee hee
Johnny Hubbard briefly taught PE at my old school, St Michael’s Academy in Kilwinning, back in the early 70s.
Nice man.
Told the story of his fellow South African, Don Kitchebrand, who somehow managed to join the huns despite being a Roman Catholic and attended mass in disguise.
HH!!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
13:38 on
29 June, 2013
As I sit overseas and remember all that sectarian stuff which used to be perceived as “normal” I find it extraordinary that it is still tolerated.Like a walk into the past.
K.K.K.,Apartheid,and the Orange walk.
Truly confronting that sanity has not prevailed.
People who are in areas affected by next week knuckle draggers walk in Coatbridge have received letters telling them what streets will be closed off. There have been thousands of these letters sent out. Is this what my Council Tax payments are squandered on?
They want to walk? Then they PAY!!!!
Siesta time.
Ps
Roll over on the lotto tonight Bhoys you never know. My pal Tam did and won £1,2 million 2 months ago.
Adios
TD
I think he read the team sheets pre match.
Paranoid tim.com..o))
Vintage hun and wee Hubbard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDp4NJlQKpw
Jude
Your best pal you mean..
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ 14:07:
Fortunately I was not one but I will be self-confined to my House, can’t think of a better place to be…Strawberry Fields for ever…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TONYDONNELLY
With respect,photo notwithstanding,I’ll remember him as a lovely fella.
MACJAY
My brother-in-law is from Brisbane. Large family. My niece is hell-bent on being part of that family.
I find it very difficult to give her a reason to stay in the UK.
Have I logged on to Zombie Media by mistake ??????
Maybe we should become like our short-sighted neighbours & HATE every guy who ever played for our bitter rivals ??
We wont.
We are a different species.
I remember a guy having ago at my mate for clapping Henry off the pitch when we played Barca. Only for several to turn on him and remind him that as fans we celebrate great football wherever it comes from.
As all of us on this side of the water rejoice in the Culture, it is comforting to know that my daughter and her son are stuck in a traffic hold up in Larne, cue to a highway closure.
Never even got as far as the first roundabout off the ferry.
One hour and counting.
blindlemonchitlin
13:36 on 29 June, 2013BMCUWPAs if Mrs Blind would let me out to a pub, even one run by an ex Hun RB. Although, saying that, wee Johhny Hubbard, gentleman of the first order and who walks his dog on the same beat me and the Blindhound often take, was invited to speak at a sportsman’s evening there recently and urged me to come. When I told him that would be an ecumenical matter he seemed mystified. Maybe South Africans have no sense of humour.MickIt was a ten this morning.Why does your good lady go and you not? We should be tellt!
My current parish is St Mary’s star of the Sea, she stays Prestwick, me don’t, although, I think that may change soon, so she tells me lol
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
14:22 on
29 June, 2013
I would never advise about emigration.Pro or Con.
You take on too much responsibility.
However,if you`re choosing a location then Oz must be up front.
40,000 boat people in the last 6 years can`t be wrong.
Options in life are great.Give it a go,and if it doesn`t work out,nae worries.
Besides,the world has shrunk dramatically in recent years.
It`s not as if you`re burning your boats.
Hail Hail
Boom…..
The tic are 1…0 up….. Commons
Bigjoeindaaaahouse
I was at a sportsmans dinner a couple of years ago, I pick and choose them..! But on this occasion Willie Henderson was the speaker, so I thought ok I’ll go like listening to that generation. Was a really good night and WH was really interesting. Told a story of basically how he was ditched by the deid club…
HH
MACJAY
I will always tell her to stay in Scotland,but I doubt seriously that she will.
I will miss her dreadfully,of course.
Her Gran,my Mum,will be desolate.
Sometimes modern communication falls well short of the real thing.
new article posted.