Let’s be clear about what is going to happen on Friday. Monetary inducements are being made to allow a newly created company to advance its football team two divisions up the league structure.
The overwhelming majority of money to pay for these financial inducements will be taken from Celtic, who vehemently oppose all these measures. The SPL will reduce the commercial distribution to the top club in the league and pay-off everyone else. 41 teams will benefit financially from this proposition, only Celtic will lose.
For good measure, the SPL have declined to take gate sharing off the table. Up to 30% of your season ticket money will soon be commandeered by Kilmarnock, Motherwell and the rest, who will take their slice and share some with the lower leagues.
All the while you can scarcely find a football fan of any club who is anything other than disgusted by this shoddy behaviour; Celtic fans are by no means isolated. Most fans of former-club, Rangers, don’t want to see a phoenix assisted by such blatant patronage, lest Newco is forever known as a team which needed rules to be changed and money taken from Celtic to give it life.
Believe me, if Newco exists for 100 years, every day they score a goal someone will say, “They are only there because the rules were changed to help them and money was taken from Celtic to pay for it”.
They will forever be known as the Establishment club with definitive evidence that they benefited from the Establishment’s help.
The once-proud era of Scottish league football is surely over, what we are witnessing is merely evidence of this fact. ‘Sport’ as gone from our football. Fans, clubs and the national bodies must accept this reality and start to make forward plans to breathe the oxygen of genuine competition into our game.
Where is Michel Platini when football really needs some help?
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I will never set foot in Hampden, attend a Scottish Cup or League Cup tie again.
Sorry guys,not at the moment,but I am certainly not on the wind up.
fanandpatriot
if this is about a pie cartel fronted by mcoist fixing the pie and bovril costs across the esspeehell i wont happy
ASonOfDan on 9 July, 2012 at 17:08 said:
I will never set foot in Hampden, attend a Scottish Cup or League Cup tie again.
Although its for differing reasons neither will 99% of the inhabitants of brigtin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSHy01D_DEg
We know that rfcaswas evaded taxes and promoted a culture of illegal contracts. These criminal practices bought the club great success. But the same practices put all rfc’s competitors at a huge disadvantage in both sporting and financial terms.
Now, the Scottish establishment is seeking to impose its own version of ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ – ‘afflict the afflicted and comfort the crooks’.
If Murray, Whyte, Duff, Phelps and Green were all proven to be members of a drugs cartel or human traffickers then Regan, Doncaster and the press would still be defending them – for the good of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HNW-Id3Q2I
Deport the huns…
…I wish life was that simple.
:-)
All my posts are getting lost, bet this one doesn’t tho
fanadpatriot on 9 July, 2012 at 17:08 said:
It’s not Broxi bears transfer to Edinburgh zoo is it
HH
fanadpatriot on 9 July, 2012 at 17:08 said:
If you can’t manage to stand it up there’s always wikileaks.
Good luck bud.
As the old cliché goes – the more things change the more they stay the same.
We were told if Rangers were liquidated it would be the end for Scottish football.
Liquidation happened and Scottish football continues.
We were told if the new club were not allowed into the SPL it would be the end for Scottish football.
The new club were refused a place in the top league and Scottish football continues.
We are now being told if the new club are not allowed into the First Division it will be the end of Scottish football.
The new club will be refused a place in the First Division and Scottish football will continue.
Life is sweet.
We get promised these ole sensational scoops on a weekly basis, but they must disappear into some detour on the ole information superhighway, like the back road to Cumnock.
The sooner the game in scotland is destroyed the better as far as I am concerned.
It’s in the huns genes to desrtoy what they can’t control, we are finished in scotland, the sooner we are under the english umbrella the better.
TOMTHELEEDSTIM I Stay in livingston howden park centre ok ,what have u lined up ,and im sure howden house after all these years is finally getting refurbished
@Now__Football: Big announcement in 5 minutes on the Manchester City website. Could it be Mancini leaving?!?! #MCFC
Roberto Mancini signs new contract at Man City till 2017
Mancini signs new 5 year contract at Man City.
alex thomson@alextomo
HMRC say Rangers Big Tax Case Tribunal decision is “not imminent – not for several weeks”. Why? They’re trying to find out.
can anyone give me Paul67’s email address, unable to find any reference to it.
Cheers.
Just to confirm
No flavour/mode/variety/version/shade/type/kind/make of Hun will be playing professional football in Scotland next season.
Simple
Had a lovely week in Cornwall, no tinternet or texts….then fanadpatriot goes and gets me back on the drink!!
C’mon man tease us some more.
There’s a back road to Cumnock?
leftclicktic – Perhaps HMRC are waiting for D&P to shuffle off and some proper administrators from BDO are installed?
fanadpatriot
Understand you can’t say too much at the moment- can you comment on
1) Reliability of your source?
2) Would this be another jelly and ice cream moment or something more concerning regarding the viability of the season starting in a few weeks?
3) Is it be our way out?
HH
*Could
Is this Man City quick news?
ABZmike
personally i think it is to do with criminal cases to follow BDO & HMRCs autopsy of the carcass that was the huns.
leftclicktic – Could be… If that’s the case then it could be years. The investigation into the chap that got 17 years today for Tax and NI fraud took 5 years. I guess we better not hold our collective breath
fanadpatriot on 9 July, 2012 at 16:53 said:
If what you are saying is accurate, I sincerely hope that it is not going to impact on us playing in Europe this coming season!!!
lionroars67 on 9 July, 2012 at 17:41 said:
Is this Man City quick news?
Obviously not but many of us have a general interest in all football matters.
leftclicktic on 9 July, 2012 at 17:44:
ABZmike
“personally i think it is to do with criminal cases to follow BDO & HMRCs autopsy of the carcass that was the huns.”
I thought that had already been established?
fanadpatriot you know how to wind them up on here,one thing i heard a while back sir willie haughey is going to takeover celtic very soon
I still reckon HMRC succumbed to political/establishment pressure to haud their weesht until the last possible moment and give sevco enough time to get sorted.
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/hampden-vote-friday-13th/2221
sharing gate money from home fans is stupid idea and does not offer real opportunity to prosper for any of the clubs that want to develop and improve their own club.
i do think a greater share of commercial (shared) monies is one way to improve competition. getting a better deal is also a good idea
a larger league, with fewer games against celtic and newco (maybe) would help teams such as hearts, aberdeen etc get some form together, which breads confidence improving consistancy and winning runs, which improves interest from fans which increases income and so it goes on… the current league set up is a fix for celtic and oldco and is one of the main reason crowds have fallen all over the premier league
i think a 3 points for win, 2 points for score draw, 1 point for no sccore draw and 0 points for loss would also help to make the league more competitive and would take away the predictibility of our league, but would generate greater interest.
Foxy_1888 on 9 July, 2012 at 17:54:
“I still reckon HMRC succumbed to political/establishment pressure to haud their weesht until the last possible moment and give sevco enough time to get sorted.”
What do you mean?
Foxy-1888
I’m convinced that the combined lobbying of Salmond, Strathclyde Police and the Glasgow Humane Society are behind the delays in reporting all the outstanding issues affecting them.
WTF!!!!!!!
alex thomson@alextomo
But am told it will all be dealt with “over the summe” (or what passes for summer this year).
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