It’s kicking off in all directions today but keep an eye on the English Football Association proposals to introduce a series of changes to lower league football. One option on the table is for Premier and Championship sides’ “B teams” to compete in a new structure with League Two and Conference teams.
The FA are eyeing an opportunity to allow the best young English talent, often cosseted in the youth squads of top Premier League teams with little chance of first team action, to be exposed to competitive games. The proposal includes a geographical split of northern and southern teams.
While the FA Premier League is bust by any known measure, the Football League is in an even worse financial state. Average income in the lower leagues is remarkably high but the steep pyramid-model, which has clubs chasing huge increases in revenue in the Premier League, leads to excessive over-spend.
With these proposed changes on the table the Scottish FA could do worse than discuss their own game’s future with their English counterparts. Well run Scottish clubs are hamstrung by their better-funded neighbours cherry-picking their best players for a relative pittance. Scottish Premiership clubs regularly cannot compete financially for players in England’s fourth tier.
It’s surely time to federate the top Scottish league with the English league structure.
Information slipping out of Switzerland this morning that Manchester City and Paris St Germain are each facing a fine of circa £50m for breaching Financial Fair Play rules is encouraging – if Uefa are able to deliver on the deal.
When you consider financially punishing an entity which owns the oil wealth of a sovereign nation the figure needs to be a big one. £50m just about hits the mark.
Apparently the Great Sevco Shakedown began this morning when the club’s first every goal scorer, Andy Little, was released. The news is harsh on the player but the club needs to learn the lesson – income needs to match expenditure.
Imran Ahmed’s court hearing today against Rangers International comes exactly three years after liquidation expert, Craig Whyte, was triumphantly welcomed into Ibrox, an ominous anniversary, for some.
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At last we have a kick off time for the U20 game today
Lennoxtown 3:30pm
JOHN Kennedy says Celtic Under-20s will be aiming to repeat their fantastic feats in their last meeting with their Rangers counterparts when both teams go head-to-head this afternoon (Tuesday).
The young Hoops overcame the Ibrox side 2-0 at Murray Park at the end of March thanks to goals from Connor McManus and Joe Thomson.
And the coach has set the Bhoys a target of repeating that performance as the sides clash at Lennoxtown in a league decider.
“We dropped a few points after that, but going into the game, Rangers are on a good run of form and we’ve picked up again as well,” said the coach.
“Obviously having the added value of the previous result against Rangers, especially being away from home, it will give us confidence. We need make sure we try and replicate that performance with the same enthusiasm and the way we kept and moved the ball, and created chances. That is what it will be all about.
“The most important thing is to concentrate on our game-plan, how we want to play and make sure the players are relaxed and confident.
“Regardless of whether it’s Rangers or anyone else in the league, the most important thing is that you earn the right to play.
“We are not expecting to turn up in the game and being allowed to get the ball and do what we like – we need to earn the right by, first and foremost, winning the battles on the pitch and when the game settles down then you can play good football, which you want to do.
“It’s important to get a result but if we play in the right manner we are more confident we can create enough chances, and if we take them then we have a chance to win the game.”
And Kennedy reckons having home advantage can aid the youths in their quest to play their preferred passing style and ultimately collect three points.
“Obviously, being used to the surroundings here at Lennoxtown will probably help us,” added the coach. “We are used to the pitches and the pitch we are playing on is in immaculate condition so it will suit us to get the ball down and pass it. That’s what it’s all about and that’s what we strive to do.
“We want to be a team that tries to control the football and play out from the back if possible, if not then get our midfield and forward players in positions where they can go and express themselves.”
Kick off at Lennoxtown is 3.30pm and there will be live updates of the game on the club’s official Twitter feed: @celticfc
CELTIC (4-3-3) Fasan; Herron, Kelleher, Fraser, Waters; Lindsay, McManus, Henderson; McMullan, Johnstone, F. Twardzik.
Subs: Hart, Donnelly, Twardzik, McCart, Tierney, Hendry, Hill
If you think about it the last time round the huns case was that they’d be flush when the season tickets went on sale, so the arrestment wasn’t justified.
Well the season tickets are now on sale, so either the arrestment won’t kill them, because they’ll have lots of dosh, or it will kill them because they’ve no dosh, in which case the arrestment is justified.
So on a balance of convenience the arrestment should be granted.
Olde English and Acid Drop Spangles.
I could trip out on memories of these.
HAppyHoopy birthday Paul67 and all others who share the day.
….. Soor plooms for me..
HH
Celtic Football Club@celticfc·19m
Celtic U20s starting XI: Fasan; Herron, Kelleher, Fraser, Waters; Lindsay, McManus, Henderson; McMullan, Johnstone, F. Twardzik (MH)
Subs: Hart, Donnelly, P. Twardzik, McCart, Tierney, Hendry, Hill (
ernie lynch
I don;t think they have the money in the bank to allow it to be arrested.
Can see no chance of the judge giving an arrestment in this case.
LB
Paul67
Where to start?
UK FA. Why not? Unity is strength it says somewhere. Time to test the theory?
UEFA FFP. Use the fines as solidarity payments to the league’s most harmed by player wage inflation to develop home grown talent. No brainer in any intelligent industry, a claim Scottish football would be hard pressed to justify.
TRFC. Evidence of aforementioned lack of intelligence – what more can be said?
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BSR
The Courtroom Sketch Artist:
http://youtu.be/rZtJG7NFQZs
:-)
Syd Negakev
14:45 on 6 May, 2014
Does anyone see any outcome in the courtroom today other than Sevco slip sliding their way out of another crisis?
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Yes – out of the frying-pan that is today’s crisis and back into the ole AyeBrokes firesale crisis. :-)
So what is the test in the Ahmed case – does he have to show that on balance of probabilities he wouldn’t get his cash without the arrestment?
And can the fact that arresting the money might force the club into financial trouble be considered as a factor one way or the other?
Gold Coast Tom
Early retirement? Stay off blogs, especially CQN.
It’s a black hole that sucks in the seconds, minutes , hours and days. Before you know it you will be getting a telegram from the Queen or a phone call from Peter Lawwell.
Worse – BRTH starts to slag you for verbosity.
It’s brilliant. Go for it.
Penny dainty for me
If you dropped it,you just said the devil licked it God blessed it and stuck it back in yir gob
HH
Syd Negakev
14:45 on 6 May, 2014
Does anyone see any outcome in the courtroom today other than Sevco slip sliding their way out of another crisis?
Cant see any other outcome, too much masonic influence coupled with season ticket sales deadline months away..
I just had to repost Kenny Miller unphased by transfer talk:))
That was posted by BSR last night
http://abload.de/img/screenshot2014-05-05a3wjyq.png
happy birthday paul!
Gordon J
I think it is what BRTH would term a chronological poultry decision. What comes first the chicken or the egg.
TBB
I’m always wary of any confection that has to shorten its real name to fit it on the size of the bar on which basis it is sold.
It feels to me as if I’m being done.
It’s clear wee Imran is a tad concerned that Sevco is going the way of the pear, and with it, his £500K plus counsel fees.
Given Sevco has brought along its entire senior executive team, it’s equally clear that an arrestment scares the bejaisus out of them.
Even poor old S. Easdale has apparently provided a written statement disclaiming his comments regarding ‘fragile finances’ and whatnot.
No bank will deal with them. Many of their customers are unwilling to buy from them, and those who are willing are unable to thanks to the bank withdrawing card services.
It all points the same way.
Auldheid
15:10 on 6 May, 2014
Gordon J
I think it is what BRTH would term a chronological poultry decision. What comes first the chicken or the egg.
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Should get in some expert advice from WeeFra then. Ask what came first – the chicken or the egg and he’ll tell you straight. “The lamb”, I imagine he’d say.
The other wee vexation for Imran is…
…an arrestment is ineffective in the event that the debtor becomes insolvent within 60 days of order.
Hoopy Birthday Paul67…..and many happy returns!
High noon for Sevco is 4.00pm
http://www.dontshrink.com – tony
15:09 on 6 May, 2014
happy birthday paul!
Hi Tony
Followed the instructions to post on your site,still canny dae it
Think I must be an IT diddy
HH mate
High Noon by Tex Ritter – One of ma da’s favourite films alongside Ben Hur:
Lyrics to High Noon
Do not forsake me, oh my darling
On this our wedding day
Do not forsake me, oh my darling
Wait, wait along
I do not know what fate awaits me
I only know I must be brave
For I must face a man who hates me
Or die a coward, a craven coward
Or die a coward in my grave
Oh, to be torn twixt love and duty
Supposin’ I love my fair haired beauty
Look at that big hand movin’ round
Nearin’ high noon
He made a vow while in state prison
Said it would be my life or hisn’
I’m not afraid to die but oh
What will I do if you leave me?
Do not forsake me, oh my darling
You make that promise as a bride
Do not forsake me, oh my darling
Although you’re grievin’, don’t think of leavin’
Not while I need you by my side
Wait along, wait along
Wait along, wait along
Ahm gonnae mosey on out and take the dug fur a walk pardner.
God bless the delectable Emmylou Harris.
Voice of an angel.
HH!!
As for DBBIA’s executive decision making process which involves cooking sweet niceties — hmmm — I always find that if I get my underwear on the right way in the morning then it is a going forward day.
If not, then the day tends to be more reflective — or should I say Backsides forwards kid of a thing.
Decision from the court at 4pm apparently!
I am curious about the evidence in this case. Last week Wallace could not show where any of the missing money went because those who were responsible for that money were no longer at the club. Now, if that is so, who from the club is now going to stand up and say that Ahmed is not de facto due his payment as presumably anyone who knows if he was due the money or not has in fact left the building!
So, who will be his contradictor at a full hearing?
The Mind boggles.
I am away to check my pants.
@celticfc for anyone wanting to follow the U20 on Twitter.
I will copy the tweets here. Well any important items.
‘Actor John Wayne disliked the film because he felt it was an allegory for blacklisting, which he actively supported. In his Playboy interview from May 1971, Wayne stated he considered High Noon “the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life”Wayne went on to say he would never regret having helped blacklist liberal screenwriter Carl Foreman from Hollywood’
In 1959, Wayne teamed up with director Howard Hawks to make Rio Bravo as a conservative response. Hawks explained: “I made Rio Bravo because I didn’t like High Noon. Neither did Duke. I didn’t think a good town marshal was going to run around town like a chicken with his head cut off asking everyone to help. And who saves him? His Quaker wife. That isn’t my idea of a good Western.”
Lifted from Wiki /EWLM/EWTB.
John Wayne.
Gggrrr.
fin75
The striking theme to High Noon is the constant cutbacks to the time.
Tick tock tick tock.
It’s like the time ticking down on today’s verdict.
1 Celtic get the game underway. C’mon the Bhoys!!!
Have to say I am quite disappointed with the Turnbull Hutton line on TSFM and the easy ride he was given by an admiring interviewer.
Turnbull’s basic message is:-
1. We have to move on and not analyse what happened in 2012.
2. It was more cock-up than conspiracy because Peat, Farry etc; are all good guys.
3. A stephbhoy like longing for the pre-Bosman, pre-TV money days of the 60s which are not coming back any time soon.
This all happened in 2012.
We are not talking about the Jacobite Rebellion, the Easter Rising, or even the Suez Crisis. This is still current. If there was no conspiracy, then why the secrecy of a 5 way agreement? Which Sports Administrative Body has ever had to regulate under conditions of secrecy? And if they can do so once, they can repeat the trick.
The play has always been to ride out the storm and hope that the fans forget.
And, I fear that stupid plan is working.
We have fans staying away from CP and, I believe that, for every one that is doing so because of a sense of alienation from the club’s silence on these matters, there are 4 more, who are just missing the thrill of a competitive league or complaining that Celtic are not splashing the cash, even though it would be to no good effect.
There will be further Zombie fatigue. That is the necessary logic of just put it all behind you; it’s in the past.
You don’t need to bother your pretty little head as to why Rangers were granted a license or why the rules that had governed Third Lanark, Airdrieonians and Gretna were not sufficient for this 2012 situation, because we’ll just reverse those decisions too and have them back playing under their old names with their records intact, if you give us more time and the benefit of your amnesia.
You don’t need to know why the SFA thinks it unimportant to clarify, under what rules, TRFC are a continuing club, because Mr. Regan has already said it is just a matter of semantics. You don’t need to know why there was a closing of media ranks around the narrative of club continuity because Daddy knows best. Your job is to shut up and pay up. Just pretend all this never happened; Rangers just went somewhere else for 3 years and now they’re back and we can go on as before. Come on, you know you are going to like it. We know you miss them. And, promise, we won’t let them away with anything again, not that we did, you understand. You can trust us. After all, haven’t we always told you the truth and nothing but the truth?
And anyway, Celtic get all the decisions going too. One’s as bad as each other. That’s your lot.
Excellent GG, Great updates mate.
KLV
5 Telfer shoots wide for the visitors from distance. Both teams battling for supremacy in the opening minutes.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
15:34 on
Gggrr indeed……Marion Robert Morrison off screen does not a pretty picture paint!!
In fact….I think he would look perfect in a Sevco strip!!
HH.
High Noon is a superb filum – it is run in real-time.
The film starts at 11:00 and rruns for an hour till ……. High Noon.
How can you trust the judgement of a man who lurks in the shadows and shoots Liberty Valence.
‘GG
15:35 on
6 May, 2014
Indeed….what I always remember was ma da telling me “look son, there’s Lee Van Cleef he’s one of the baddies but never says a word” and that “Lone Chaney Snr is in it son, that was the Wolfmans da”
Happy days….they don’t make them like they used to.
The undead have started strongly putting us under pressure apparently
8 Burrows aims to reach the byline with a burst down the right but strong defending from Fraser earns the Bhoys a goal-kick.
9 Gallagher also tries his luck for the Ibrox side but his shot fails to trouble Fasan.
Well like hell I will
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