The dispute Newco have with the Scottish Professional Football League over their sponsorship deal with car retailer cinch might look a bit ridiculous. The club are refusing to display SPFL sponsor logos and, apparently, refused to permit their manager to be interviewed by BT Sport unless the broadcaster taped over the logos at Motherwell on Saturday.
It’s an odd hill on which to stand, even after considering that cinch are direct competitors to the Newco chairman’s car retailer business. cinch will continue to advertise and gain market share at the expense of traditional retailers, the chairman is called Park, not Canute.
It makes more sense if you consider Newco want to replace SPFL CEO Neil Doncaster with a more compliant individual, think a 21st century Jim Farry. If they can beat the SPFL in the courts, they can push for Doncaster’s removal with some authority. For this, any small hill will be sufficient.
This is a proxy war with the governance of our game is the real tide.
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DENIABHOY
AYE
HH
Bada
Great post.
I hope that you analogy finishes at the cup final and we don’t lose our manager at the end of the season and take 3 years to catch them like it did with their predecessors.
Deniabhoy- yes.
D :)
Fergusslayedtheblues – Dont be trapped wi that BRRB torag next he will want to buy us copius amounts of amber nectar.
D :)
Villareal are a tough, confident and well coached team. Famous last words. 😂
fergusslayedtheblues
Good to know the old traditions are being kept going,
Pickn’mix, along with the old penny tray, a bona fide apprenticeship for the aspiring shoplifter.
Confession the following week, and Bob’s your Uncle
Or in the more modern Caledonia….. Bob’s your Aunty
D66 aye right. I’m an impoverished pensioner. Have ye no sympathy for the poor in Govanhill?
Bada,
Synchronicity works.
Very good.
Liverpool take the lead. Lovely goal.
BIGRAILROADBLUES
fair to middling ,no nerves kicking in so far this week ,although I think watching the semi final back helped
Plus they have lost their best player ,although their new signing from the crown bar looks like he could cause us problems .
HH.
Jeez, I’m completely lost in the latest ‘Better Call Saul’ series.
Liverpool jammy. Deflected cross sneaks in.
2-0.
2-0, two goals in two mins.
Hope Liverpool finish them off here another 2 please
D :)
INIQUITOUSIV – the passing leading to first goal was superb.
DENIABHOY.
True, but Villareal unfortunate. Probably classed as an own goal.
DENIABHOY.
True, but Villareal unfortunate. Probably classed as an own goal.
Weird. I thought that duplicate comments couldn’t happen.
Evening all.
Hope you enjoy tonight’s choice, a bit of celebrating a special Coatbridge drummer.
Ted McKenna, a thoroughly decent man, taken way to early.
https://youtu.be/svSV_G65CF4
https://youtu.be/0E8bHdJ9_4k
https://youtu.be/wWF3S9OgQho
Brian.
Robertson scores but offside.
Liverpool keeper could have a deck chair, and read a book here.
Robertson goal chalked off.
Viaplay in Sky out for internationals.
Liverpool defence just does not allow the ball to get anywhere near Allison.
Villarreal in deep trouble now.
Liverpool 20 goals from corners this season.
Latest from Merseyside will be greeted with much cheer especially in the four Liverpool social clubs that are sited in loyalist areas of Belfast.Shankill x2 and East of the city,despicable people.
If we win league, hope we avoid Liverpool in group stages. Absolutely relentless pressure. Like the idea that we beat them at Anfield in 2003 to remain the most recent memory.
JHB
I do not know the rules and mechanics of how the SPFL arrange league sponsorship but I thought I read somewhere that the SPFL requested a copy of sevco’s contract with Park ,does such a contract exist ?
I would find it strange if Park was not aware of the deal with Cinch from the outset and if the SPFL knew of his objections but carried on regardless .
After witnessing the multitude of court cases involving broken contracts by sevco 2012 ,are we really to believe the SPFL board and the other clubs thought sevco would just shrug their shoulders and say Ach ok guys it’s for the good of Scottish football .
No sorry I smell a rat and I am inclined to agree with some others that it is sevco’s way of trying to get more influence in the SPFL hierarchy
HH
If Liverpool puts Villareal out then we are 1 step closer to big cash.
That’s all that matters.
The fact that Orange bassas will want Liverpool to win this tie, I could not give a Toss.
D :)
Big cash if we get into the CL?
Only relevant if we are not using a sizeable proportion of it to line the PLC pockets😕
DAVID66
No worries. The Submarine are not going through. I expect Liverpool will thump them again in Espana.
Atalanta 4 Torino 4. Game with 4 penalties and one o.g.
Park is still seething after he was made to look a tit in 2020 over his dossier/season curtailing
Liverpool are welcome to Bigot’s,Allison hasn’t had one save to make ,Villiraaral poor this evening .
Van Dijk has developed well, almost as good at distribution as Starfelt
Aaron Hickey played left wing back in Bologna’s 2-1 win over Inter Milan today.
Looks like two EPL teams will contest CL final for 3rd time in four years.
Bhoyjoebelfast
Ireland overall is full of Liverpool fans, most are into Celtic too, so those guys are weirdo outliers