In the most significant development towards the regionalisation of European leagues yet, Russian Premier League chief executive, Sergei Pryadkin, has announced plans to merge the Russian and Ukrainian leagues. The plan has been driven by CSKA Moscow, Zenit St. Petersburg and Anzhi Makhachkala, who have formed a foundation committee.
Russian clubs already deal with the rigours of playing across a vast geographical area, so adding a huge nation like Ukraine would present further challenges, but top sides from Russian and Ukraine know that if they are to become genuine top tier clubs they will need to play in as strong a league as possible. The plan is likely to involve feeder national leagues working below the confederated league.
Uefa president Michel Platini has already given the green light to the regionalisation of leagues. The most important question for Scottish football fans, is whether SPL clubs would like to feed into a confederated British league.
The hoary old claim that SPL clubs need Celtic and Rangers has been shown to be a complete falsehood this year. SPL clubs didn’t need Rangers and they don’t need Celtic either – if only those running our game had the balls to ask fans their views on this matter they might reinvigorate our game, instead of managing inevitable decline.
We are not wanted or needed by fans of Motherwell, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Inverness, Aberdeen or Dundee United. These clubs are competing in the best SPL ever with only one problem, a bloated club from Parkhead.
If Scottish football wants a way forward which will see a well-attended and competitive top league, ask the fans, do they need or want Celtic? Do they want an opportunity to feed into a regional league? Any reorganisation which fails to take the views of the paying customer into account will be a disgraceful failure.
Ordered the CQN Annual yet? It is a product of literary brilliance. Get it here in time for Christmas!
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Sorry for the double-post,folks.
And for breaking the blog,PAUL67.
Think I’ll go to the pub before I break anything else…..
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
10:52 on
17 December, 2012
Sorry for the double-post,folks.
And for breaking the blog,PAUL67.
Think I’ll go to the pub before I break anything else…..
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Any blinkin’ excuse!!!!!!! :-)
Starry
Sorry I missed you while you were over but things have been hectic recently for me.
We’ll definitely sort it next time and I’ll bring the coffee ;-)
BMCUW
Bonucci ?
Please tell the Torygraph that Bonucci is a defender .
I was at the game in question . His dive was greeted with sarcastic applause and cheering ..
He was charged with being involved in match fixing at Bari . He was cleared.
He is also ” famous ” for administering a hiding to a lu -lu with a gun who made the mistake of trying to take some bling from him .
He can play football . Fabulous passer of the ball .
There is a 5 nights a week TV program which satirizes life in Italy . It regularly pokes fun at the divers . — Top 5 Dives of the weekend etc.
Top of the morning to you all on this sunny, mild and pleasant day in Fife.
Challs says “don’t worry about the fans share issue not being taken up I will buy up the lot if necessary”, and then is surprised when the stingy Sevconians take him at his word!
Wonder if any of the institutional pledges were conditional on the fans weighing in the same way as we did in 94?
I have heard a rumour that the news that will rock Scottish football concerns a young lady who has a son by the name of Michael Mountflorida ******** (apparently named after the place of his conception) who is about to sign a contract with a top film maker to have her sordid story told.
The film will deal with sexual debauchery, Royal Black Preceptory rituals, Masonic malpractice and refereeing corruption. All in the best possible taste of course.
Big Nan
Whit?
Is it me or is the BBC Sports Personality Show gradually becoming a Pomp & Circumstance affair, three members of the royal family, acholite establishment figures and the armed forces! what is this becoming.
Glad to see BW pick up the prize but no place for Mo Mo Farrah, shocking, just an opinion. HH
Just as well all those institutional investors will swoop on any unwanted shares from the allocated fans’ portion
fitba couldn’t cope with a second Armageddon in one season
The Mayan prediction for 21st only referred to Yucatan then …G51 will be spared
Mebbes ..
Hamiltontim
It was a bit busy with my family too HT, I spent most of the time with the Ole Starry Mum and very fine that was too, next time for sure I was a regular in Costas doon the street!!
Hope yer well Mate..
Gordon_j
I think you are onto something – especially now that jabba is on the inside managing the Newsfeed. Cue triumphant proclamations of success, even if the share income falls short but is significantly higher than 2 million.
S
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lennon n mc….mjallby
09:46 on 17 December, 2012
The abusive tweets Angela received yesterday from that lot was absolutely disgusting including so called women.
Henrik
She’s a star and you know she’s in the right when all the dirty’s are abusin’ her.
The majority are right behind her.
Has Sevco made up any songs yet?
I think the word ‘Sevco’ is going to benefit all the switchin’ huns with it having less letters in to tattoo on the forearm.
lennon n mc….mjallby
11:43 on 17 December, 2012
Another thing I noticed about the zombies, when someone tells them the truth they say your mental you need help lol.
Got a link to the Angela article so that I can congratulate her on stating the bleeding obvious so well.
We shouldn’t avoid the Sevco word and it is testimony to the MSM’s black propaganda that to even mention the fact, as Montrose did in their programme, that the bird lying dead on the bottom of the cage is an ex-parrot, is controversial.
Big N
Try this: http://angelahaggerty.com/why-the-word-sevco-matters/
FF
With apologies to John Cleese.
Rangers are not pining, they’ve passed on. They are no more. They have ceased to be.
They’ve expired and gone to meet their maker. They’re stiff, bereft of life, they rests in peace.
If the SFL hadn’t have nailed them to the perch at the bottom of the Irn Bru League they’d be pushing up the daisies.
Ranger’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
This is an ex-football club that was once the mighty Rangers!
Just dropped int to say…
“It’s far better being a – lurker :o)”
Off oot
Hail Hail
God Bless
laters….
Big Nan – I read on KDS earlier that their new nickname is “The Tonight Matthews”
Brilliant.
Afternoon bhoys from a warmish hun free mountain.
So, no revelations in the media today then !!!
Glad I never held my breath………
Won’t tomorrow be a very interesting day ……. We can all SHARE the news ……..
From the CFC website:
Search is on for Paradise Windfall winner
By: Newsroom Staff on 17 Dec, 2012 10:54
ONE lucky Celtic fan could be sitting on a Paradise Windfall ticket worth FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS. Because Saturday’s half-time prize has yet to be claimed. Ryder Cup golf caddy and Celtic fan Craig Connelly made the Paradise Windfall draw on Saturday at the St Mirren game.
The winning ticket is P1162 and, to date, no-one has come forward to claim the prize.
The ticket, P1162 was sold by a Windfall seller in the South Stand at turnstiles 82 and 83. The person who has the ticket would have been sitting in either ES1 or ES2.
And it could prove to be the best Christmas present ever, if you’ve got the winning ticket and can claim the first prize of £15,000.
If you’ve got the winning P1162 ticket, then get in touch with the Celtic Pools office at 0871 226 1888* (option 5) to claim your jackpot prize.
The Paradise Windfall, sponsored by The Kitchen Depot, is the biggest half-time draw in football. So make sure you get your ticket at this Saturday’s match
I’m not much interested in freemasonry and think its influence exaggerated. I was once invited to join, but that’s another story.
However, I do have a wee bone to pick with those masons who claim it has nothing to do with religion and the orange order.
I’ll give you a small example, if you’ll bear with me.
When I was a wee bhoy in the Townhead in Glasgow, I never once set foot in St Mungo’s Cathedral, for fear that the Protestant practices that went on in there might mean me never seeing my mammy and daddy again. I gleaned this knowledge from the big bhoys in primary 7, whom I very much respected. We occasionally strayed into what we called John Knox graveyard, but that all came to an end one day when one of my pals impaled himself on a metal spiked fence, put there by the Protestant God for the very purpose of ensnaring wayward wee Catholic bhoys. We knew this instinctively.
Forty years on I had just about overcome these fears and paid a visit to St Mungo’s Cathedral, which for centuries now the good and the great of Glasgow have been trying to rename Glasgow Cathedral.
It was a worthwhile visit, and I’ll go again.
I’ve enquired of the Cathedral authorities on this one, and received no proper answer. I’ve researched and know there is no technical reason for the following.
In the 1950’s many of the stained glass windows put there during the Victorian era were removed and replaced by windows which are blatant representations of freemasonry. They’re at the back, downstairs, east side of the Cathedral.
You might want to check it for yourself one day on your way to the game. It’s not much of an area around the Cathedral, but I do remember the now demolished Manx Bar used to serve one of the best pints of Guinness in Glasgow.
The 1950’s. A time of austerity, shortages of materials and labour etc … Some windows were replaced before the end of rationing. This at exactly the same time as these very same people wanted to crucify the Lord Provost of Glasgow and his disciples in the Art Gallery for “squandering” the Art Budget on a Catholic painting by the living, latter day anti-Christ, Salvador Dali. A painting which very quickly paid for itself in postcard sales and which has been a nice wee earner ever since. The canny Scottish buyer having made sure Glasgow owned the copyright.
In one of those delicious twists of fate that painting came to hang in The Museum of Religion, barely a stone’s throw from the Cathedral they stole from us with its nice new masonic windaes.
It has since been returned to Kelvingrove.
But if you’re passing near Cathedral Square you could do worse than pop in and buy some of the various sized, high quality reproductions. Italians in Italy to whom I have given such gifts were extremely pleased with them.
I meandered and digressed.
So back to my original point. Proof that Protestantism and freemasonry are connected in Scotland. Or was I seeing things?
clarification – pop into the Museum of Religion and buy the postcards, not the Cathedral.
Starry
Your mum will have been delighted to have got the opportunity to have you to herself no doubt!!
I’m grand mate just lots going on these days.
Definitely Costa’s next time you’re over.
Can anybody tell me if Tommy’s phone ins are avalable as a listen back podcast?
Morning Bhoys,
as I said when first mentioned, the meeja have been playing their pwn game with us for a wee while now concerning major scandals about to go into print, I was babbling to a meeja mhan last night who told me he’d heard nothing about any such articles but did say there were murmers about a compliance officer earlier in the week, now that could never be a complialce officer who issued a license to a team with outstanding social tax issues, probably not but we can hope eh :o)
I know I’m almost certainly being really dense, but can someone explain The Tonight Matthews for me please.
Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be……….
Bryce Curdy 12:35:
Matthew Kelly used to host a show where joe public became a start for the night e.g. Cher,Neil Diamond etc…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
lennybhoy…supporting neil lennon and cfc until i die
12:39 on
17 December, 2012
Bryce Curdy 12:35:
Matthew Kelly used to host a show where joe public became a start for the night e.g. Cher,Neil Diamond etc…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Think Aunt Sally was on that show. He was impersonating a manager. Was it called “Pies in their Eyes”
Ntassoolla
I was home last weekend for a funeral of a good man, he and his wife were regular churchgoers and the Minister gave an excellent sermon at the church and at the crematorium.
Both readings Ecclesiastes (theres a time etc) and Corinthian 13 (Love is patient etc,) picked by the widow, a lovely woman, are favourites of mine. There was a big turn out in recognition of the deceased’s goodness to others (and he had tragedy in his life to deal with) and many there were masons, some in their regalia and he received what I was later told was a dignified freemason’s farewell at the cremation..
I had no idea he was a mason in the time I knew him and knowing him it would not have mattered a jot. But there definitely was a visible connection between Protestantism and Freemasonary on the evidence of the day.
(PS In the late 50s I used to run up the Drygate to The St Kentigern dinner school at the top to get at the mince and tatties .)
“Tonight Matthew I am going to be a Celtic striker.”
Wayne Biggins.
Followed by howls of laughter from the ‘crowd’!
HH!!
Ntassoolla
I’m an old Townhead boy, went to St. Mungo’s in Parsons St, -P4 1970. Lived in James Orr St, and spent half my days in the “gravy”. Left in 1970, aged 10, to live in the glamorous suburb of Barmulloch.
Great memories of happy days!
HH
LOL. from @henrikvegetable on twitter, a baby bear gets his christmas present!!
http://i.imgur.com/vTQGp.png
Freemasonry and Christianity.
A guy I have known for over 20 years is a Hibee from Embra, and a divorced Catholic who remarried a few years before I met him.
He still attends mass occassionaly but does not receive communion.
He is also a mason, and has been for about ten years now.
Lives in Ayrshire.
HH!!
Tonight Matthew I will be, Scooooooby Dooooo!!!