Stewart Regan is today telling the media that only one club wants a review of what happened at Rangers during recent SFA president Campbell Ogilvie’s tenure as a director of the club. I think we can amend that slightly to read: only one LEAGUE of 42 professional clubs want a review of what happened.
It is utterly disingenuous for the SFA chief executive to portray the SPFL’s request for a review as a one-club issue. Regan is seeking protection in the amateur clubs’ numbers, ALL OF WHOM receive patronage from the SFA, against the wishes of the country’s only professional league.
You will remember how Sepp Blatter used the power of patronage with tiny Fifa nations to secure his grip on due process. Fifa money was spent and magnificent stadiums built where football scarcely had a foothold at the whim of Blatter, who enjoyed unquestioning support from micro-nations’ Associations.
When a chief executive uses the numbers in the amateur game, to outweigh the wishes of the 42 club professional league, for a review into what took place while a recent past president was a director at an errant club, you have all the ingredients for an abuse of patronage.
Stewart, all we’re asking for is a review, don’t pretend the country’s only professional league structure doesn’t exist.
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CQN went behind the scenes with BT Sport at Hamilton on Friday evening and this is all covered in the new CQN Podcast which is out today and includes an interview with Chris Sutton…
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Good Morning Bhoys a big game tonight and this is what the Champions league is all about the Giants of Europe playing one of the smaller European clubs it is not often we would describe Celtic in that manner.One thing the Celtic players must remember it is 11 against 11 and despite all the money PSG have spent they are only human.Celtic need to work there socks off for 90 minutes get in there faces and dont let them settle we must also keep eleven players on the park .We know the crowd will play there part and raise the roof PSG will come out to quiten the crowd so even if we lose a goal or two we must continue a high volume support . We must remember this is why we won the league in order to play at this level and why Brendan Rodgers is happy managing us.So tonight when we hear the CLs theme tune Zadoc the priest enjoy the feeling of pride win lose or draw of our great club competing in this top European competition. H.H.
Marco Verratti
” He’s 18 and is already one of the best midfielders I’ve ever seen . Plays at walking pace and has astonishing vision and technique .He needs to work on two things -accepting that most of his team mates aren’t as good as him and learning that he can’t assume that a team mate has the game intelligence to move there to receive that pass .. That results in giving the ball away.”
Znenek Zeman 2011.
” Wonderful player -wonderful technique , wonderful vision . No pace whatsoever , even less than Pirlo .Defects ? sometimes wants to win the game on his own and takes big big risks.. That can be very costly ”
Carlo Ancelotti 2013 .
” He’s one of the best in the world ” .
Xavi 2015..
” He fully merits the Pirlo comparisons . Amazing completion statistics etc etc . Probably better than Pirlo ever had but I’ll tell you this — I bet you Pirlo never made Hollywood passes to a centre half inside his own penalty half .. You can’t do that . It can cost you big “.
Antonio Conte 2016
oopla -penalty box !
Really looking forward to the game tonight. No real expectations to be honest. We could get humped if we don’t turn up; equally, we could get right in their faces and cause an upset. It could be very tight and end up 2-2 or 3-3 like the City game.
What will happen though is that the special players on both sides will serve up a fantastic game of football and PSG will be affected by the magnificent crescendo made by the Celtic Supporters. A wall of noise is what is required.
KTF
a wall of noise – with harmonies….;-)
Used to blast this out before heading oot to a European game – seemed apt and still does –
https://youtu.be/H9mvRxzsZDg
Keeping the Faith but…
I need something to keep my mind off tonight’s game or I’ll not be able to eat today.
So…
Peter Lawell is still a waste of space, heated driveway loving, bonus collector.
Agree or disagree?
MWD granade launching Celtic is not just for Christmas fan. :-)
Corky/WITS: Enjoy the trip. Would love to be there.
Will watch the match in the Bad Ass with MIT and Peterhebeat? from behind the couch.
Say hi to all the BV casuals.
just did my bet for tonight………….£10@14/1……….both teams to score in both halves.
Bring on the Parisites.
blantyretim.
I checked the timetable and I get in at 12.50 so will go to the hotel I’ll be sitting in the bar area.
MOONBEAMSWD on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2017 10:34 AM
Peter Lawwell steers the course set for him by The Great Desmondo.
He does it very effectively.
You can’t blame him for the direction he takes.
Of the two of them, I’d suggest he’s more of a fan, and has a better understanding of the Club (heritage, history, culture etc) than the other, which is not to say that he’s always happy with how that is expressed by some.
Would have liked to have woken this morning to peter Lawell saying the fight goes on . No surprise there that we are on our own , did anyone really expect ,hearts , Motherwell , killie , Dundee to back us . Disappointed by Aberdeen ,although I fear Milnes Been got at through his business interests . Although thanks are due to the Aberdeen fans who like us are disgusted by the non support for taking action . Hibs now there is a betrayal, if celtic weren’t in the league they would be the club the knuckledraggers jump on . . But again like Aberdeen fans , it seems the hibs fans are incensed by Petrie and his crew . Petrie has been in this cover up from the start, imho . What can we fans do . Stick our hands in our pockets and collect to take these rogues on , and yes I wouldn,t be adverse to not turning up at any match under the auspices of the sfa . ,cup games . Strange that Regans first mouthful was to tell us of all the legal backing he has , did the highest court in the land not bring out admissions from the culprits that cheating went on . Now if I were our major shareholder , I would have my army of legal eagles, on the case as we speak .
Wall of Sound -Phil Spector style
https://youtu.be/e9Lehkou2Do
JOBO BALDIE on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2017 10:32 AM
a wall of noise – with harmonies….;-)
Not from you. :>}
KTF
French / Moroccan Radio station — suggesting
Areola
Alves Silva Marquinhos Kurzawa
Rabiot Motta Verratti
Mbappe Cavani Neymar ..
Pundit added that Silva and Motta are not certs ( injuries )
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2017 10:33 AM
Used to blast this out before heading oot to a European game – seemed apt and still does –
https://youtu.be/H9mvRxzsZDg
A northers soul man at wigans casino on blues :-)) I must have bumped into SOT :-)).
I like out on the floor dobie gray. Do I love you indeed I do Frank Wilson. R dean taylor ghost in my house
And just to keep you in the loop young Anthony Ralston starts tonight and is going to leather naymer in first 3 minutes of the game
Good morning CQN
Bon chance to Celtic tonight wont play prediction game thats for mugs, trust in Brendan to have us give the Qatar team a game looking forward to seeing financial doping hopefully get some karma COYBIG
Sky and English football keep up the ominous financial pressure on Scottish football
Sky to stream midweek English Football League games after new £600m TV deal
Sky will be able to stream midweek Championship matches after agreeing a new £600m five-year domestic rights deal with the English Football League.
All EFL clubs will be able to stream midweek league games via their websites if Sky are not broadcasting it live.
The contract will run from 2019-2024, with the value of the rights increasing by 36% from the present agreement.
Sky will also continue to broadcast the Carabao Cup, Checkatrade Trophy and play-offs until May 2024.
Matches played between 14:45 BST and 17:15 BST will continue to be blocked from live streaming.
From next season, Sky will be able to offer an interactive service for all midweek Championship fixtures.
“These negotiations came at what was an incredibly challenging period in the sale and acquisition of sports rights in the UK,” said EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey.
“Having fully tested the market, we believe that not only has a significant increase in value for our clubs been achieved, but also the very best deal, with the best partner has been delivered.”
The existing EFL television deal runs out at the end of the 2018-19 campaign and is worth £88.3m per season – a figure that will rise to £120m under the new terms.
A maximum of 150 EFL games will be shown per season, including 16 midweek Championship matches and a minimum of 20 League One and League Two games.
With no disrespect intended to anybody, Maybe Peter Lawwell has been totally focused on players signing new contracts and a mega game tonight @ Paradise.
We can cut him some slack – for now.
HH.
Get out to Dumbarton’s ground at 5pm today if you can to support our Under-19s against PSG.
It’s FREE!!
Should be a great game.
CCE-Young Tony is 25/1 with Skybet for first booking,
Off oot –
Being away from home from means I miss my dogs and being able to spin choons like this –
https://youtu.be/eEFrvonTimY
Enjoy the game –Make some noise !!!!
!!BADA BING!! on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:11 AM
CCE-Young Tony is 25/1 with Skybet for first booking,
PILE IN :-)
Bada that’s a great price PILE IN :-))
Prediction
If it’s a home win, I will cry.
HH jamesgang
CCE-Also done Lustig 19s with BetVictor 1st booking,Neymar Part 2…….
Sky are making a mockery of the game here in the UK, if only we had custodians of the game here in Scotland who could save the Scottish game from financial oblivion
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/13204244.State_of_Scottish_Football__Does_the_TV_deal_represent_value_for_money_/
FOOTBALL and television have always had an uneasy relationship.
The need to move kick-off dates and times to suit broadcasting schedules is regularly held up by supporters groups as one of the biggest bugbears of the game. What happened to the days when going to the football meant a Saturday at 3pm every weekend without fail?
Without television income, however, the game would shrink away. Supporters may be inconvenienced and attendances may drop off but in the eyes of the clubs those are sacrifices worth making in order to appease Sky Sports, BT, BBC or whoever else will pay for the right to screen their matches. In Scotland in particular, a national league without a title sponsor probably needs all the financial help it can get.
The feeling, thought, is that when it comes to TV income the game here is being short-changed. To show 86 SPFL games a season, Sky, BT and BBC Alba pay around £15m a year between them after the original deal struck in 2012 was modified last summer. That agreement is set to expire in 2017 although Sky are thought to have the option of triggering a two-year extension.
It is inevitable that eyes will look enviously at what is happening in England where BT and Sky recently agreed a new £5.14bn deal to broadcast coverage of the Barclays Premier League from 2016 to 2019, up from £3bn. Those are the sort of sums Scottish football can only dream of earning.
“This is a further sign of the growing financial gap between Scottish and English football,” said Charles Barnett, a partner in the Professional Sports Group at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP. “If Scottish clubs are unable to buy players from the first and second tier of English football then the game will potentially suffer in Scotland in years to come.”
Geographical proximity means England is the most obvious market to look at – especially when it is the same two broadcasters who are showing the majority of the matches – but it is something of a red herring when it comes to drawing comparisons given the vast disparity in population size.
Instead, for a more accurate take on whether the Scottish football deal represents value for money, it is perhaps more instructive to look at some examples of other small to medium-sized European nations and their football broadcasting contracts.
This has been a season to forget for football in Greece, population 11m, with crowd trouble and various refereeing controversies leading to play being suspended on three separate occasions. Even in a country buckling under stringent austerity measures, however, the terms of the television deal are still more generous than their Scottish equivalent. Clubs in the Greek Super League will share €40m (£30m) per year until 2017, with a two-year extension being negotiated that could take that figure up to €43m (£31m) each season until 2019.
In Belgium, where the population is roughly the same as that in Greece, the terms are even more generous. The Jupiler Pro League last year negotiated a six-year deal worth a minimum of €55m (£40m) per season, a sum that could rise as high as €70m (£50m) each year when foreign rights are taken into the equation. Like Scotland Belgium also shares a border with bigger, more prosperous nations in France and Germany without being similarly adversely affected.
The situation is more complicated in Norway (population 5m) but still very prosperous. Only just last week TV2 (a free-to-air station) bought out the sports wing of loss-making pay-TV channel C More and it remains to be seen what will happen there in future. In the last round of deals, the two channels paid a total of 1.6bn Norwegian krone (around £135m, £34m per year) to show live matches from the Tippeligaen for four seasons of summer football from 2013 to 2016. That sum is expected to fall when the time comes for the next round of negotiations with reduced competition in the market due to C More’s removal from the picture but will likely still dwarf what is on offer in Scotland.
In Austria (population 8m), the figures are more in line with here. A three-year deal that began in season 2013/14 between Sky Deutschland (subscription) and ORF (free-to-air broadcaster) is thought to be worth around €20m (£15m) a year.
It is little wonder, then, that some Scottish football fans may feel they are getting a raw deal from Sky and BT. Those who operate in the field of sports broadcasting, however, have warned that the situation isn’t likely to improve hugely any time soon. There is no clamour among rival stations to show Scottish football, no demand that will drive the price shooting up. The return of Rangers to the top division – whether next season or in future years – would help stimulate interest, but beyond that the feeling is this is as good as it is likely to get.
“I think in Scottish football in a lot of ways missed the boat,” said Colin Davidson,a former executive producer of both Sky and Setanta’s Scottish football coverage now working with beIN Sports in Qatar. “They talked about going their own way before but now they’re at the mercy of BT and Sky.
“Is it attractive enough a product for either of those two to try to outbid each other to get exclusive rights? I’m sorry to say I don’t think it is. And that means Scottish football just has to take what it can get from those two firms. I don’t see other broadcasters getting involved. The last round of talks in England showed that it was all about BT and Sky and I don’t see that changing in the UK market for the foreseeable future.
“We’ve got to stop kidding ourselves into thinking that Scottish football is anywhere near close to the Premier League in England in terms of attraction. We’re just not. Whether people like it or not, without Old Firm games it’s a devalued product. Until they are restored that’s always going to be the case. And you don’t know for sure how long it will take for Rangers to get their house in order to make it a competitive top division once more.”
In 2008, clubs in the Netherlands (population 17m) not happy with the offers on the table took over the broadcasting rights themselves to form an in-house subscription-only channel that showed all matches live. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Sports network bought them out five years later in a €1bn (£720m) 12-year deal that worked out at around €80m (£59m) per season. Davidson believes Scottish football missed the chance to take a similar path.
“They should have had a closer look at the Dutch model,” he added. “They took it upon themselves to get their own TV deal and made money out of it. And their league is no better supported than the Scottish league. They found a formula to make it work. Scottish football could have done the same. Instead they are stuck with what they have got.”
Apparently, Spurs have been scouting young Ralston.
He has 2 years left on the deal. Sign him up on a long-term deal Peter! We could have a right footed Tierney on our hands!
BIG JIMMY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2017 9:49 AM
Maybe Big Jozo will put in a “Kenny Miller” type challenge on that we rat face fink Chump Neymar in the first 5 minutes, and he will run away greetin to his mammy…never to be seen again for a few weeks or so ?
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Do you think we’d be the first ones to try and give a world class player like Neymar a kick and hope he goes away?
The lads need to focus on the task and don’t give away silly cards. It’ll be our job in the stands to rile up somebody like Neymar and hope he does something mad to get sent off…
Jamesgang: Are you Rod Stewart?
CELTIC CHAMPS ELECT .
I was never a big Casino fan . — those toilets / the plain clothes plod /plodettes and a music policy that verged on musical facism . I much preferred The Twisted Wheel but that was harassed out of existence by a combination of plod and Manchester City Council .
A Twisted Wheel choon-
https://youtu.be/APqzyD2NytI.
Definitely oot !
Almore – only in the shower!
HH jamesgang
GREENPINATA 1109
The mineshafters amongst us-well,me anyway!-have only ever requested that the board show some gumption and get as effed off wi the RFC/Sevco situation as we are.
There has been damn little evidence of that in the last few years-or even further back,bearing in mind that Brian Quinn warned Murray that he was evading,not avoiding,tax.
Now,they’ve stepped up to the plate. I’m delighted with that. I’m happy to leave it to the pros,and happy to go along with their suggestions. Also,if the fans can somehow concentrate our fire on our enemies-with a feasible and coordinated plan to do so-I’ll back that too.
The malcontents,I think,can take a wee breather to see how things work out,knowing that we have everyone wi Celtic in their heart singing from the same hymn sheet.
We’ve all waited a long time for this. And I don’t think going off half-cocked is a good idea.
Let it play out,the Pro From Dover has the ball.
HH
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/pitch-perfect-celtic-prepare-paris/
Hope over reality for Hamilton. Simunovic, Roberts, Edouard, Sinclair and Ref Watch. The Accies game by numbers. HH
Re: television deal issue is easily resolved, it’s simple tell that shower of cunts no shared television deals offered if you want it you bid independently.
Allowing shared deals is really just offering a very cheap pick and mix.
Worse case the spfl set up own television channel and we get to talk down the British telecommunications and british sky product as anti-scottish, you see we are different than other territories because we share telecommunication with another nation to be seen as anti-scottish is very undesirable when 15 percent of your customers are from there hh
Bonne chance et bon courage ce soir mon cher Celtic…j’espere que tout ira bien…
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SOUTH OF TUNIS on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:41 AM
CELTIC CHAMPS ELECT .
I was never a big Casino fan . — those toilets / the plain clothes plod /plodettes and a music policy that verged on musical facism . I much preferred The Twisted Wheel but that was harassed out of existence by a combination of plod and Manchester City Council .
A Twisted Wheel choon-
https://youtu.be/APqzyD2NytI.
Definitely oot !
I was to young for the twisted wheel SOT :-)). Good tune dude great taste
new article posted.