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.
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Shrotly I’ll have watched 3 full games this weekend with a total, so far.of just 3 goals. Hopefully the figure will increase significantly in tonight’s 1st v 2nd in La Liga, Barcelona v Athletico Madrid (or is it Messi v Falcao)
Still time to order the CQN ANNUAL in time for Christmas – link is here:
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We have had 100% positive feedback from everyone who has bought a copy and it does help CQN so why not do your bit? Timland in the Gallowgate has some copies left for the very last minute shoppers.
Meanwhile there is a real war or words with Sevcovians going on over on the CQN page on Facebook (link at top of the blog) – be warned it is not for the faint hearted!
tictaewin
just pointing out that celtic are doing well and rangers denise has had little to no impact on your team/ club
funny how the club find a smarter way to operate once hands appear to be tied, yet we were making many players millions with little reward
Advertising revenue is what pays the TV money.
This is largely determined by how much a particular population can be influenced to buy a particular product in the short term, and how a brand image can be built and maintained in the long term.
The North Europeans like expensive cars. Preferably German and Japanese. Moreover, they can afford them.
So I’d throw my lot in with them.
But the gorilla in the room is Germany. If they flex their muscles they could quite easily turn European football on its head and invite the countries on their borders to join them.
Money talks, so we may well find ourselves dancing to the tune of ;
DeutscheBank, DeutscheBank uber a …. ;-)
Hoping forJUve . Direct flights from here .LIke Malaga though small stadium 40k so tix will be scarce
Fholks,
Apologies if already posted but footage of the three penalty refusals from yesterday’s game. First one is debatable. Second one Def a foul on Hooper, whether it was in the box is the debate for me but a def foul and the third one, Kayals, looks a stonewaller.
Strange how we didn’t get any of them :))
http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/celtic/206172-debatable-decisions-could-celtic-have-been-awarded-penalties-you-decide/?
charles kickham
17:24 on
16 December, 2012
I see there is a new big pub in rutherglen – right across from the vougue – some Gaelic name.
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Gaelic is An Ruadh Ghlean=Rutherglen=the red valley ,still not got the same ring to it
as The Vogue.hh
that scotsman piece is a cracker. huns gettin humiliated – laaaaav it!
Crackin game between Galatasary and Fenerbache, some noise, and my goals bet is up :>))
just turned round to the last 40 minutes of ET………….not a dry eye in the house.
What a fantatastic tale and still in my 5 films of all time.
jmccormick
is EBT the sequel – cause it’s got the taxpayers crying
jmccormick
Didny like the joke “how can you tell ET is a hun?”
ET is bloody good bloke ,no way is he tainted.hh
Real 0-1 Espanyol
Do penalties come after ET?
don`t tarnish ET by using Orcs in the same sentence.
Estorilbhoy ……. 2 stonewall penalties……..absolutely ridiculous decisions
Dog ruff today , cheered in part by yesterday’s result, any word on the polish guys some bloggers were talking about yesterday?
Look forward to joining EPL but only if we leave the Sevconians behind!
Hail Hail to all CQNers in this festive season
Jimmci
How could you behave in a fashion that would constitute dissent without adopting an aggressive attitude and/or using foul,abusive or insulting language .?
Absent the above surely he’s just questioning the decision which he’s entitled to do
Dallas must have fabricated accusation re the above two….in which case he lacks integrity and credibility and should be removed immediately
However as we’ve seen from the McDonald saga they and their masters consider themselves bomb proof
Highlights now on BBC site including the majority of St Mirren attacks.
voguepunter
Cheers – the red valley – never knew that
I posted on here a few years ago about Dallas Jnr, I know a ref in the lower leagues (a jambo of course :O) who warned me about Dallas Jnr.
No one wanted to be on his line because whenever a problem happened in the game the linesman would get the blame rather than Dallas. They’d already decided that he was going to the top no matter the mistakes he made. It looks like Dallas Jnr can do no wrong.
As for the other Dallas son, a bitter bitter Hun.
ianinascoli
Did St Mirren actually have any attacks yesterday?
Cant really remember any.
HH!!
re Dallas………apples and trees.
Tallybhoy
They had a shot at goal
The boy jinky
They couldnae attack because they couldnae get the ball nor get out of their own half
Q. What is E.T. short for.
A. Because he has wee legs.
Hello, yees huv been Liquidated …..all the LL collusion / smoke and mirrors in the world ain’t gonnae change that……and, a wee prediction …..5 or 6 of your players will be off in January, resulting in sevco not winning SFL3?….
That agent868 says the sun is running with a corruption story tommorw
SSN………………………………….Paddy Power suspend all bets on Craigy Whyte winning SPOTY
67Heaven is that just wishful thinking regarding sevco departures or do you have some other reason for saying. Apart from a guy down the pub.
Fraser Forster made one save in 93 minutes, the BBC possession stats of 34% to St Mirren were in their dreams.
IWasThere CSC
bournesouprecipe
maybe they kept the ball in the St M dressing room at half time
St Brides was designed by the famous architect Coia, he won an award for it and I think it maybe listed. The lid was put on the wrong way round, hence it is dark and freezing where it should be bathed in sunlight, had it been correctly orientated.
The late great Fr Curly could do a mass in 15 minutes back in day.
monteblanco (who’s gran refused to let him back as an alter boy after gettin a skinheid in Shakeys)
Agent 86 @Agent_868
Have just been told the sun are going to run with this story tomorrow! Groundbreaking stuff!!
I guess we will have to wait and see.
Above from TSFM website, any ideas the contents?
HH
bourne
those possesion stats are well off – i would’ve had celtic down (at the very least) as holding 87% possesion…..unless, ofcourse st mirren brought the ball into their dressing room at half-time?
St Mirren are a dreadful football team I have no idea why Danny Lennon was running his mouth, his players should be sued under the Trades Description Act..
FTSFA
bournesouprecipe
Said to my Bhoy at half time possession must be at least 85% in favour of Celtic, imo St Mirren did’nt gain any more in the second half.
HH
Why the word Sevco matters
Comments: 26
Published on 16 December 2012
Yes, Sevco. Yes, a different club. Yes, it matters.
Debates will, and do, rage about the legal status and definition of a club and there’s a brand new conversation happening in Scotland over which components are required for a club to exist. However, most of it doesn’t really matter in the overall picture, because the heart of this story has nothing to do with combing through football regulations to define a club, at the heart of it is injustice.
This is about injustice, and everyone who continues to use the word Sevco instead of Rangers is standing up to it.
Respect to you all.
Rangers Football Club was founded in 1872 and went bust in 2012 owing millions of pounds to 276 creditors, including the taxman.
Please, read that again. Millions of pounds, 276 creditors. They will never be paid.
The new guy at the helm, Charles Green, took up his part in the pantomime in 2012 when he bought the assets of Rangers for a small £5.5m and formed the NewCo. The original name of the company, Sevco Scotland Limited, was later changed to The Rangers Football Club.
Yes, the new team plays at Ibrox. Yes, the new team plays in blue. Yes, the same supporters go to see them and yes, that is probably satisfactory enough for those supporters to believe it is the same club.
That’s understandable. What isn’t understandable is the turning of a blind eye to the carnage left behind by old Rangers. The mess left by the club was shameful.
Rather than acknowledge the extent of the damage caused by this sorry episode to Scottish football – and society, remember that the taxman was left out of pocket, as were a number of public services – the reaction of the NewCo has been to act with complete defiance and the fans have a renewed love of the “We Are The People” slogan.
Sevco is not a demoted Rangers. Rangers went out of business. The club went bust. Sevco is a new club and rules were created on-the-go by the SFA to accommodate it. Sevco is lucky to be in the Third Division, other small clubs which have paid their dues should have been ahead of them.
And yes, the club has thousands upon thousands of fans and had the SFA followed the rules that were already in place it would have left those fans without a club to follow this season. It is pretty unthinkable, but imagining my local High Street without Woolworths was unthinkable once as well. Me, the customer, I lost out because of a financial crisis that I played no part in. However, rules weren’t rewritten because the situation was unfair to the loyal customers. It’s the ruthless nature of business, it just doesn’t seem to apply to Rangers.
Football is a sport, bending over backwards to accommodate a club, or its many fans, makes the validity of the competition questionable.
The mainstream media is not reflecting the truth of this story and is largely happy to go with the “same old Rangers” line without significant challenge.
Thankfully, Scottish football fans aren’t so forgiving. They see the fundamental injustice of this saga and find the same-club claim insulting.
Now that the internet has provided the platform and the tools to bypass the mainstream media, don’t expect those fans to get any quieter about it.
The word Sevco matters. History is not just about the trophies won on the pitch, it’s about conducting business properly, fairly and within the rules. Rangers didn’t play the whole game and it will be another injustice if we allow ourselves to forget it.