The great and the good (extensive poetic licence used) of the SPL and SFL will gather at Hampden tomorrow to shuffle the deckchairs of Scottish football. For reasons which no one has, or will, explain, it will be suggested that three leagues, with 12, 12 and 18 teams, will be able to resolve the problems of our game.
There will be no consultation with fans, Uefa or neighbouring associations, and no claim will be made that this reorganisation will be able to resolve a single significant issue.
For all its limited appeal, the Scottish Football League is in rude health. On the whole clubs live within their means and in places play important roles in their communities. This is as good as it gets for the likes of Alloa, Montrose or Brechin City. They could all benefit from a higher solidarity payment from above, but this would be the case no matter what level the trickle-down was set at. Their interests would be best served by ensuring that those sending payments down the pyramid are as fat as possible.
The clubs with most to gain from substantive change are those condemned to compete for second place in the SPL. Dundee United, Aberdeen, Hibs and Hearts have been neutered in recent decades. United and Aberdeen have gone from being the two most impressive clubs in Europe at developing young talent, to clubs who cannot hold onto players long enough to put a competitive team on the field.
Scottish clubs with ample support, stadium and coaching talent have been left behind by smaller clubs in England, from Wigan to Burnley, who benefit from operating in a more lucrative commercial environment.
Hearts are trying to sell shares to raise a few million to keep themselves afloat at the moment. The club would be worth ten times as much if it was located 100 miles down the road, or structural change made it possible for it to benefit from a more valuable environment. Shares in clubs like Aberdeen, Dundee United and Hibs would also be worth many multiples of their current value.
Stephen Thompson has spoken of the financial burden Dundee United place on his family, a regionalised league structure would turn this burden into a vastly more valuable legacy. It beggars belief that Hearts, United, Aberdeen and the rest have not grasped this reality and started to make inroads.
It’s time for some radical thinking.
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C1st
I also agree with you.
Perhaps the best scenario we can hope for is the collapse of the football powers in scotland, and we are taken under the wing of the English FA.
If there is a cover up, ie. no titles stripped, there will be carnage that the game will never recover from.
HH
Moonbeams
If you were Vladmimir Romanov, to use a different example, and the difference in prize money over a number of seasons that you would have got with Rangers’ result amended to 0-3 defeats compared to the cash you actually got is a few million, you would find a way of claiming it. Nothing else makes sense. They cheated their way not just to titles but to millions of pounds in prize and sponsors’ bonus money.
Just as other clubs would be entitled to claim the stripped titles, they will be entitled to claim the cash. It happened to Lance. It will happen to Charles.
estorilbhoy
00:14
Nimmo Smith has already said there is a case to answer. It’s a matter of public record.
as i thought
Why wd any true Celt want to post under a bit part hun player on a Celtic site??
MWD
No mi amigo, you are not paranoid, we never have been, honestly, and your scenario may well be on the button >)
HH
Mwd.
What happened to bryan? Back in hospital for a bit?
jude2005
I wouldn’t, but each to their own I guess. Yoou’ll need to ask bobby russell that I’m afraid.
HELP
Ive got a wee blue wheel burrlin at the end of my pointer. How do I get rid of it?? Keep it clean!!
Will do
Jude
You just opened a door to my childhood with your memoriam to little Moira Anderson.
The distant memory was jogged so I googled.
I remember her face from the tabloids of the time.
Long forgotten by me,but not by you.
Respect.
TET
It will be interesting to see. I suppose it depends on the job nimmo has been asked to do.
If it is to be a paper exercise, he has to word his report in light of Dr poons finding of fact. It’ll be interesting, if nothing else.
Goodnight.
Hx2
So what should Celtic do about it? Bury the huns right now! put a stake through their zombie heart right now! Sue them. Take on the SFA, Campbell Ogilvie and all. Anything less stinks of complicity.
Any Celtic supporter who thinks that Rangers are dead are deluding themselves.
I see nothing out of Nimmo, I see HMRC being defeated, I see the SPL/SFL restructuring
Scottish football for 1690 money ASAP. I see no stripping of any of their illegally won 22 trophies. I see the Celtic bored accepting back the Old Firm with welcome hands. ok that’s a zombie statement. Lets call it the New Firm.
I see no future for Celtic in Europe and neither do the bored and I see no vision from the current bored. Celtic, the donuts play thing. What radical change do “Celtic” have in mind? Gershon maybe? That’s their limit if you ask me.The Donut decides. and as for the bored….
Mr. Slo-Blo, Mr. Yo-Yo Mr. See which way is the winds gonna blow
UEFA will never allow a cross pollination Scottish Dutch Portuguese Danish league.. how would they market the Ballon D’Or? and all the other TV crap? Of course if Celtic beat Juventus I will join Platini and eat my hat.
Time we all gave it up and stop calling it sport. It is anything but.
Margaret McGill –
As I posted yesterday, Nimmo’s report will be a whitewash and Sevco will be exonerated.
Nothing surer.
I cannot bring myself to even write the word r*****s coz they iz 5* zombeez what don’t exist no more and the word itself is at the apex of the worst swearwords to be found on a planetary basis, ad the poor geezer who’s used them in his nom de blog is getting slaughtered.
Perhaps he is an innocent who has stumbled, made a faux pas, will recognise his mistake and change his moniker, and return, a wiser man. Would make sense.
Otherwise……
If Scottish football collapses, what do we do? It’s a reasonable question.
miki67
Or maybe he is wee Declan at the wind up again…..
The guy with that name in his moniker. How are you enjoying having a brand new team to follow follow. Up ye. HH.
I didnae see Kojo at School today..Is he awe richt?
Aye Fat BOB CQN meister. He wiz just aff w/the cauld but he’ll be back the moarnin.
Later..
Ah well Kojo ye’ll no need a line for the teacher the moarnin. She wiz aff tae and naebody marked the register
She’ll no Ken Ahve been oaf then wull she Fat Boab the collective CQN meister wull she?
Next day…
Ahf tae school wi ye Kojo –an here’a a line tae yer teacher
oh-er-thanks Ma!
Kojo devil apparition of the DC Thompson brigande’s hanging over shoulder…..
Keep that letter Kojo..ye could go fishin one day and tak it tae the teacher the next day
Kojo CQN apparition of the CQN sunktomoanius brigande’s on the other shoulder….
No Kojo! That would be dishonest! Give it to your teacher today!
ah cannae mak my mind up oh exclamation mark counter extraordinaire so I’ll hide it in ma school bag meantime!
Help ma boab..its blawn awa in the wind…..that line huz..whit tae dae
chase…chase..chase
It went ower this fence
oh naw ahve ripped ma breeks!
Awe naw crivvens its blawn back again whit a windy day!
Look at it now!
up in yon Tree!
Haw mister ..heh.. official aficionado of the bypassing suit brigande’s
Could you help me get that letter doon Mister spiffingly dressed Mister CQN bored lurker man
oh got it..thanks Mister!
Thanks Mister I dinna ken whit I wid have done if you hadna come along
It must be a very important letter o miniscule Kojo type as I condescend.
Important? I’ll say it is a line from my Ma telling teacher why I wiz aff school yesterday.
Oh yes. That is important!
But seein ye helped me I’ll let ye intae a secret soah will- teacher wiz aff yesterday and diznae ken I was aff too
..chuckle..chuckle…chuckle.
Well yes go on my son….
Kojo devil apparition of the DC Thompson brigande’s hanging over shoulder…..
Go on Kojo
Kojo CQN apparition of the CQN sunktomoanius brigande’s on the other shoulder….
No Kojo. Do not go on!
…so I thought aboot keepin the line from ma then using it the next time I want tae tak a day aff tae go fishin!
Well thanks Mister CQN bored lurker man Im awa in here tae get some sweeties wi ma ain money. Cheerio!
Cheerio!
Back at School…
Haw Kojo, the janitors just been tellin me oor teachers aff again so we’re gettin a teacher from anither school today.
ok Thanks for the info Fat BOB CQN meister.
In Class…
YOU!
Yes and I’ll have that letter o miniscule Kojo type as I condescend.
Hmmm….good job for you you didnt save this till a later day. It’s got today’s date on it!
later….
HUH!
An tae mak things worse Ma belted me on my arse for rippin ma breeks!!
miki67
01:28 on
8 January, 2013
I cannot bring myself to even write the word r*****s coz they iz 5* zombeez what don’t exist no more and the word itself is at the apex of the worst swearwords to be found on a planetary basis, ad the poor geezer who’s used them in his nom de blog is getting slaughtered.
Perhaps he is an innocent who has stumbled, made a faux pas, will recognise his mistake and change his moniker, and return, a wiser man. Would make sense.
Otherwise……
i genuinely didnt know, i will change my blog name but that still doesnt make up for all the abuse i got from some of the absolutely insanely paranoid cretins posting on here. there are some awful gobshites on this site
rangers are not my favourite team csc
01:55 on 8 January, 2013
agreed!
Who cares about servco 5088?
Yup The sparkly new rangers?
The ones who replaced the old rangers…
Who cares ?
Why care ?
ALL THAT SHOULD MATTER IS
CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB
your club
My club
My beautiful club.
We are possibly heading for one of the most successful (on field as well as off field) season in history…
Yet we bemoan our board !
We are financially secure for many many years to come whilst major clubs all round the world are feeling the pinch …
And as you and I fear ….
The worst is still to come with a worldwide economic meltdown heading our way .
Yet our club has planned for this …
They have implemented strategies …
And will flourish when others will die !
Let’s not be naive to think that Rangers FC will be the last major club to die! More will follow .
Times will change …
As will our club to adapt to these changes , because our custodians are well placed and have the knowledge and know how to change.
Some of you keep wishing for Desmond Peter and co to leave!
Well in my opinion ! THAT will be a disaster of massive proportions !
I fear the day that some of you get that very wish …
And our very own Craig Whyte with his billions and visions walks through the doors of Celtic park and lead us to the lowest ebb of Scottish fitba
Oh the media ranger SPL SFA and the rest of our haters will dance on our grave with glee!
Give it up … Gees peace
And support your team !
YOU DON’T KNOW HOW GOOD YOU’VE GOT IT !
pauloantony
02:03 on 8 January, 2013
So the vision is not to go broke and play a bit part ?
I see Celtic as something bigger.
Consider the words of writer and artist John Berger, written 20 or so years ago, but pertinent today: “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash.”
Aye.
Perhaps some would consider me an opinionated gobmonster, but this is an open blog and you will never get on with everybody.
But it’s also a CELTIC blog and the word r*****s is toxic. And for very good reason for many.
They represent, in whatever guise, under whatever tribute name, the bigoted, sectarian, racist, murderous worst of Cruel Brittania. Make no mistake about it.
A big part in what? Margaret?
preferably Scottish and not Irish but would welcome Irish as one would palestinians etc etc. Its all about looking forward. Certainly beats “whit are the huns daein?” I agree.
Margaret McGill –
Without doubt the funniest thing I have ever read on CQN.
I laughed so much I ripped ma breeks.
Thanks for that.
Still laughin . . .
pauloantony
02:09 on 8 January, 2013
BIT part ..not BIG…too many G&T’s I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_part
Looking at the evidence there is surely no way LNS can find them not guilty. AJ has admitted blame(punishment should be slap on wrist) theyre lawyer at the tribunal admitted that EBTs with side letters were contractual and lawyers have found primie facie evidence. Given they have admitted guilt for the wee tax case and no action taken I will be amazed if by the end of this fiasco we are satisfied with outcome/punishments. The SFA is stinking and all the main players are in position to give them ridiculously lenient punishments. Think Bougherra – Callum Murray. The Portugal manager got a six month ban for the same offence.
I care not for lord Nimmo smith
I care not for new rangers
I care not for the SFA
I care not for Cambell ogilvie
I care not for newco
I care not for the outcomes !
I CARE FOR CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB
We need to stop focussing on them now!
For they are now a irrelevance at the moment .
They will come back ..
They always were…
But the are a no mark to me now
Just a distraction for others who allow them to be .
A club with no soul
No direction
And no history
Forget them
Tom McLaughlin
02:11 on 8 January, 2013
yw! :)
pauloantony
02:14 on 8 January, 2013
I hear these days that your flesh is delicious and you have the biggest eggsultations in the wurruld. Is this true?
Ranker
Not everyone is giving you abuse – very few are
Now … about changing your blogname ???
UEFA have regularly handed out fines of between £16,000 and £40,000 for racist behaviour, yet they hit Nicklas Bendtner with a punishment of £80,000 for revealing a sponsor’s name on his underpants during Euro 2012.
Keep your friends close….etc.
Mags 2:59
An tariff –
Beat up a granny and steal her savings -90 days
Rob a bank at gunpoint -10 years to life
Swindle taxman for millions – Knighthood
Margaret McGill
Yep…Frightening…
How much did EUFA fine the good guy’s for singing a wee Irish ballad ???
“Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king” ( Bob Dylan )
Aye, life is grand for us.
But when you have an axe-murderer walkin’ the streets with impunity, you stay sharp-eyed.
Celtic will not appeal against Uefa fine for ‘illicit chanting’
Celtic will not appeal against the £12,700 Uefa fine for “illicit chanting” by some of their fans in the home Europa League game against Rennes.
Uefa’s control and disciplinary body announced its decision on Monday.
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said: “The heavy fine imposed by Uefa is an indication of the seriousness with which it treats such matters.
“We reiterate our position that, however small the minority, such chanting is not welcome at Celtic.”
The fine was in reaction to a report by the Strathclyde Police match commander to the Uefa delegate of instances of some fans “singing offensive songs” during the 3 November fixture.
“Clearly, it is very disappointing and a source of real regret amongst our supporters that Celtic’s proud history of exemplary conduct has been tarnished in this way by such a tiny minority,” Lawwell said.
“However, this is a clear warning that such behaviour will not be tolerated and, together, Celtic Football Club and our supporters will do all we can to ensure that this incident is not repeated.
“We would like to thank our supporters for their magnificent conduct since the match against Rennes.”
“We are proud of the fantastic and positive reputation we have established across Europe over many years, and the club and our fans will be doing all we can to ensure that this is protected.”
At the club’s annual meeting in October, Lawwell urged fans to refrain from singing pro-IRA chants.
He said that the club had been “inundated” with complaints from their own supporters following their 2-0 defeat by Hearts at Tynecastle.
Last Monday, the Scottish Premier League announced it would take no action against Celtic after deciding the club had taken “all reasonably practicable steps” to prevent offensive chanting in their home match against Hibernian on 29 October.
Rangers were fined £13,300 and “severely warned” by Uefa when the conduct of their supporters first drew the attention of Uefa in 2006.
Uefa had originally found Rangers fans not guilty of disciminatory chants at the Champions League tie with Villarreal but that decision was overturned when challenged by disciplinary inspector Gerhard Kapl.