Dramatic and ambitions developments in European leagues, in this instance Russian and Ukraine, who have taken Michel Platini’s endorsement for the regionalisation of domestic leagues, should inspire the imagination of every football fan and administrator in a league with problems.
Scotland has a league with problems.
Our clubs and national association are committed to reorganisation but neither proposal from the Scottish Premier League or Scottish Football League does anything to halt the inevitable decline and marginalisation of our clubs.
In the 60s, 70s and 80s well-run Scottish provincial clubs regularly beat leading teams from big European countries but since then our small domestic market TV market has made most Scottish clubs also-rans, both in Europe and at home. We have a league system where the battle for second place is competitive and interesting but does not carry a meaningful reward; only one club is capable of winning the league.
Before making any changes to our league system we need to consider what changes are happening elsewhere in Europe and have a mature conversation about regionalisation.
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Usual morning routine was,
Shower, shave etc, get to work for 8, have a carry on with colleagues for five minutes while making the coffee, round to my room, check emails, log on to CQN for Celtic update.
Last part is now becoming depressing.
Morning JoBo, what’s happening in Celtic?
EC67
Page71
David Low has just said on Radio Scotland that he expects them to raise £5million. If they have only raised less than £2million so far, isn’t that way beyond what is likely?? Mind you, he is an expert….
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Can’t Remeber Why but My Auld Granny told me 30yrs ago Never Put your Angry Feelings in Black & White as they Will be Used against You ..at Some Point and they are there Forever..
Use the Guid Scottish tongue that God have You..She said..
Very Wise words in 2012..
Summa
Celtic F.C. replacing all the Christmas presents ripped off from Gt. Ormond St. Hospital.
miki67
14:50 on
16 December, 2012
We are currently having to play in the most bent football set-up on the planet.
I say this, not because of any comparison to ,say, the financial shenanigans in Italian football or the match-fixing in Chinese football, but because of the bias towards bigotry, sectarianism and outright broad-spectrum violence epitomised by one single club and its rabid followers.
This is compounded by the rot infesting the governing bodies, and the blatant crassness of the match officials who appear to go out of their way to green-light, at every opportunity,fouls on our players with no hope of recompense in any form; thus we have once stellar signings like Kayal and Izzaguire sidelined for months and then having to limp back to a form which will forever be compromised.
And the strange way our fixtures are determined will be a perennial problem as long we allow ourselves to be so disrespected.
And you’d think our achievements, coming from such a small country, prevailing against truly super-massive opposition, would bring us plaudits from every corner of domestic sports criticism, but that just doesn’t happen. The best we can hope for is to be damned by faint praise.
( I won’t even expand on the brickbats our manager has had to contend with. Unheard of in the global annals of football.)
Meanwhile, a proven criminal organisation is constantly pumped up by spurious world records and struts its 140yrs. of psychopathy with impunity.
Only in Scotland.
_________
Kayal was done twice,don’t forget,the brutal assault carried out on him on that fateful day at Inverness,where our players were butchered with impunity.This was long before the Elbow’s incident.Only now is he beginning to get back to his best.
Liam Kelly nearly crippled wee James Forrest at Hampden Park in the League Cup Final.Everybody seems to forget about that ridiculous challenge,that went unpunished.And it has set the wee man back,big time.
Horrific tackles on our players are being tolerated.It has to stop.Maybe the club should go after the MIBs and hit them in the pocket,sue them for failing to protect our footballers ,wages and insurance fees that are costing the club a fortune,plus denying us the talent of these injured players.
Remember the outrage when Bobo broke a wee guy’s leg? The public outcry,the witch-hunt? It was a national scandal,made front page headlines.
Yet our players are the subject of blatant and dangerous foul play on a weekly basis,and there is not a word about it.
He goes like aht,
but ah wiz like – awe naw man
an ah never saiz that
but he wiz pure, awe aye man
so ah sez No Way’n then
he pure goes Oh Aye
so ah wiz pur clamped!
Nicky Campbell on R5 has just said that Celtic FC will replace presents stolen from Great Ormond Street. An excellent gesture…
Scottish champions
Last 16 Champions League
Kano Foundation
Tony Watt
Aberdour and CQN golf
Wee Oscar appeals, bucket day, race night RTC
CQN badges
Fraser Forster
Watching us beat Barcelona
CQN magazines
CQN annual
BRTH posts
The Huddle
Broonie
Guess Who in the last 16
The Gazebo
BSR one liners
Being a Tim
and many more I’m sure
Miki67:
From Burnley FC
Well done Celtic..A story this morning that 20 Christmas presents meant for sick children have been stolen from Great Ormond St Hospital…[decent presents…wii…X-Box and similar] Local police described the theft as ‘unbelievable’
Celtic Football Club have stepped in and said that they will immediately replace all the stolen presents.
I know they can afford it[?]but good effort all the same.
miki67 – That was a brilliant post btw chief.
Click on the film on the right hand side of this page. Should test the memory of our older fans.
colour
ABZMike
Looks like an admission of guilt. Have we lost track of Tony Stokes again?
Silver City 1888
:-)
It’s nice to know I have one fan.
16 roads – neil lennon walks on water.08:46:
>>>>>
I watched the Barça v Atletico Madrid game from the weekend and I was struck by the quality of the refereeing. Yes, he was human, and he made a few errors, but at the forefront of his and the officials minds was the safety of the players, and any dangerous play was dealt with very quickly.
When we see howteams in Scotland set out to play Celtic it is obvious that one of the tactics used by many of them is anklegrinding, because they are well aware that the officials (hah!) will do very very little about it.
Of course, nothing will be done about it.
Nice to jump in before the moneybags clubs of London
Well done, Celtic, tepping in after the Great Ormond Street incident …
Good stuff, on all sorts of levels.
FF
ArthurConanDoyle.CSC
miki67
08:59 on
18 December, 2012
I could not agree more.
£3-£5 Million Loooool!!
What happened to the £21 Million pledged?
What happened to the guaranteed £10 Million?
zombies are an epic fail once again. I hope Chuck has deep pockets…
Well done Celtic. We are more than a football club.
asonofdan
09:08 on 18 December, 2012
£3-£5 Million Loooool!!
IS THAT FORMALLY CONFIRMED …..??
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibrox
belongs to the creditors
Straight from Chucks mouth and they are struggling to even achieve that.
EPIC FAIL!
Ole Chuckie’s Mum sewed up his pockets before he headed North!!
The refereeing when we played in The CL was one of the reasons we could actually move forward, one of the reasons we could actually compete at the highest level. It was about football, as opposed to violence, which, again,is epitomised, characterised and encouraged by t’rankers; they seriously needed to get the permanent boot from football.
Instead, there they are, at the bottom of the set-up, spreading their poisonous brand of thuggery from the base, up.
And the absolute ineptitude of the masons in black has been entrenched since the Dallas days hammered that ethos permanently into Scottish football. And instead of being hurled into the wilderness, the compromised rogue gets a secure position within uefa to further expand his twisted agenda.
Well, masonry has never been deterred or constricted by boundaries, physical or moral.
Just heard about Celtics very kind offer to replace the stolen presents. Maybe the sevconian regime (not sure that’s what they are called now) could do likewise with them millions they will rake in by 1 pm today ;-)
Very well done by the club
HH
Well done Celtic replacing the stolen presents… We should have a check down the back of the sofa and see if there is enough loose change to buy an ex football club for the kids..
“When you pull on that jersey you’re not just playing for a football club, you’re playing for a people and a cause”
Tommy Burns
Hopefully Tony Stokes gets his act together soon.
I know that he is a wee bit of a rogue at times,likes the odd pint,a punt and the birds.But there is no harm in him,the injury obviously left him with too much time on his hands.
He’s a good kid,and a good Celt.
Slan.
Maybe Paul should set up some kind of Antipodean bitching board so that the rest of us don’t need to be subjected to this childish,ridiculous bickering,away and geeze peace.
Morning all!
Marvellous gesture from CFC to replace the presents that were stolen from Great Ormond Street Hospital – the thieves should be flogged in public.
I am not a violent person – but I would volunteer to do the flogging!
HH!!
Parkheadcumsalford
08:41 on 18 December, 2012
How reliable is the £2m figure though?
If the huns know they’ve bombed they might have put out the rumour of £2m so that £5m would be seen as a relative successful result, rather than the ignominious failure it actually is.
We’ll find out soon enough.
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar.
Thats a belter thank God I was not eating at the time though…….
;-)
ernie lynch
You trying to say Crazy Chuck would massage the figures to hide a failure of a share issue?
Perish the thought!
Liverpool close to signing Tom Ince from Blackpool for £4m
16 months after Dalglish let him go for £250k
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Antipodeans are bound to be strange. Their heads are upside down. I don’t really care.
You know what? I love our club. I love Celtic F.C. Something to be truly proud of in a crazy world. Go take a look at the main page of the official website: what’s not to like?
It’s that time of year again ‘May the Parcel Force not be with you”
Royal Mail CSC
The One o’ Clock Gun to The Head time is rapidly approaching. This is what it sounds like in the sevco hive-mind right now : ‘tic ‘tic ‘tic ‘tic……
Hehehehehe….