The world looked so different for Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, back in March. He convinced half of the member clubs to reject a deal which would earn them considerably more money next season, while enjoying the accolades of Rangers International chief exec, Charles Green.
Green remains a controlling director of Rangers International, but Longmuir’s actions infuriated First Division clubs, who have now applied to join the SPL, furious at his attempts to subvert them earning what many see as crucial income next season.
To suggest Longmuir acted in the interests of one Third Division club to the considerable detriment of all First Division clubs would be stating the obvious. These shenanigans still go on in Scottish football, even now, after all that happened last year, but it is reassuring that the overwhelming majority of voices have, again, said, ‘On your (boardroom) bike’. We are rapidly becoming one of the least corrupt countries football is played in the world. Good luck to all in the First Division.
I read the leaked document, Rangers (sic): the way forward, yesterday afternoon. It was so ludicrously lacking in anything which remotely resembled substance I assumed the leak was an attempt to discredit Charles Green. Then I heard BBC’s Chris McLaughlin say it was Green himself behind the leak. The fact that the Rangers International director categorically recognised the club is lumbered with a lame manager hardly passes for insight. The document was embarrassingly inept.
“The team will work for each other and press the opponents when not in possession.
“Most of all, players will come off the park knowing that they have done their best.”
In a high-level policy document this is cringeworthy.
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Cayenne pepper- nothing else will come close.
TET, no I don’t think the clubs would have, as I said in my post, they did, some because their fans forced them, they never the less they did.
They now know how their fans feel, I think they know sporting integrity is a crucial element in the game, a lesson taught to them by the fans.
The SFA is the problem.
BT
It has to be Scottish Pride plain bread.
21.16 The little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.
Go to the members photos and listen to the song that play whilst looking at them.
No wonder they wouldn’t allow them to record the singing.
They are sectarian to the core.
Donald Findlay is a disgrace.
TT
Emdy know anything about printers?
A wean in this house, old enough to know better, decided she knew cartridge x would fit our printer. It didn’t and now we can’t get it out from the wee slot and the game is a bogey.
Rubbish dinosaur technology that deserves to be consigned to history, but in the meantime, does anyone have any suggesttions? Mrs First is on children’s liturgy at Mass in the morning and had prepared some stuff that needs printing. We are at a loss.
eldiegobhoy
19:38 on 4 May, 2013
As a successful businessman I sometimes wonder what Dermot Desmond thinks of the hun ways of running a business.
Murray is to blame for their mess. Had he kept things at least on an even keel, meaning far less league titles, fancy dan players etc. then Whyte and Green wouldn’t have happened.
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Now that had never occurred to me but what the hell,EDB,let’s keep battering it down their throats!
Seriously,mate-it is news to them…..
a ceiler gonof rust
Hope to catch up with you again , had a great time last week .
HH
Get the Breville sandwich maker out.
Sliced apple in the middle of the cheese toastie.
TT
gordon64
22:30 on 4 May, 2013
BT
It has to be Scottish Pride plain bread.
You ate right there although Warnurton Toastie is not to bad for us Mancs.
Disgusted but not surprised by swally the hypocrites desperate outburst to curry favour with the tribute acts minions !
Another example of a secret cabal trying to manipulate the media and the BBC will conform and capitulate kissing mc moists erchie and the rotten mob claiming another moral victory against the worlds anti zombie agenda !
Good luck to our Bhoys in Dingwall tomo and also to the Moyesiah and the mighty blues against THAT RED KEECH !
For it’s a grand old team to play for …..
gordon64
Totally biased, but, read up on the man, find out who his best friend was, who he was a double for, why Rod Stewart would not sing after him. A true gent, a true Celt, from a true Celtic family. Hugh Mac did not have a look in. Night, loved the man, his spirit still burns.
Anyway got some square sausage in th fridge. So that will do nicely.
Strong cheese makes my eyes sweat, not tears but the tissue round the eye sockets comes out in a sweat.
Weird, but a sign of a good cheddar. Keeps the complexion good too.
celtic_first
22:31 on 4 May, 2013
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Don’t know where you stay but ASDA are doing a wireless HP printer for £29, the ink cartridges alone cost £24!
You could also try moving the jammed cartridge GENTLY sideways, until it is free.
Failing that go to Google type in make of printer and model number followed by ‘jammed cartridge’
Good luck!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
22:15 on 4 May, 2013.
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Sorry, BMCUW, but don’t really understand your point.
It surely does not demean Jesus Christ in any way that he spent the last moments of his life in the company of two thieves.
Good luck.
TT
DF has always been a disgrace.
How can a self proclaimed bigot hold such an esteemed
position in our society.
Oh aye in Scotland nae bother.
Celtic_First – I would email the document to a friend with a functioning printer and get them to print it out.
You can can then sort yours out tomorrow.
TinyTim
It always amazes me the number of Huns employed by other clubs who are happy to talk the Huns up.
If I was a supporter of Cowdenbeath, Motherwell or Dundee I would be very unhappy that my club officials seem pre-occupied with the Huns.
On a related note, if I lived in Cowdenbeath I would be generally unhappy, worst place I’ve ever worked. Not just full of Huns, full of mental Huns.
TinyTim
22:34 on
4 May, 2013
Get the Breville sandwich maker out.
Sliced apple in the middle of the cheese toastie.
I’ve never met you TT, but you strike me as an utter pervert.
TET
Email reply sent.
crushed nuts
Thanks. Gentle? Me? That could be the problem. But well worth a go. Thanks again, amigo.
Strong cheese can have ab effect on one’s digestive system later in the night,
I could say more but I think that’s enough information.
C1st
save to a memory stick and take to C house tomorrow before mass?
surly there will be q printer there..
G64
indeed…
Doc
The sfa can do anything they like if the clubs allow it, and that is what they are doing.
As long as the fans are giving the clubs their money, nothing will be done about the corruption.
It’s a catch 22.
I’m not advocating boycotts, not in a position to do so, but the only way the clubs will act, is if their income stream is taken from them.
gordon64 for you, a wee piece. Scum in 69, scum still
The Scotsman, Friday, May23, 1969
ANIMALS OF OUR FOOTBALL JUNGLE
NOT so long ago, we were talking of football animals from another continent and sneering about moats and wire fences to keep them in their compounds; then, suddenly, at Newcastle there was the need for the moat or a fence and the realisation that here in Britain there was a football jungle.
There should have been no surprise, for the frenzied ex¬tremists who have attached themselves to the Rangers Football Club have grown in numbers, in arrogance, and in ferocity—and they seemed to be all in Newcastle.
The road to St James Park from the station was an ominous journey for those who could read the signs. From the pubs along the way spilled frenzied drunken supporters. In their hands were clasped the clear-glass beer bottles with the patent heavy brew peculiar to the area.
MOB LAW
Policemen patently not used to such characters were pushed aside with contempt and seemed terrified to exert any authority, and so mob law was established.
In St James Park there was a like situation. The trouble area was easily identified, yet the police left it almost uncontrolled. Glasgow police would have been quickly in among them I and arrested a score or so just to show who was the boss. There were ample wild characters misbehaving suffici-ently before play began to warrant multiple arrests.
In the final break-in, the police tried pathetically to coax the roused invaders back on to the terracing, and it was not until they were hurt and bulled that they got into the mood to be sufficiently tough to get results.
HEAVY PRICE
I have been under fire in a football riot in Montevideo, caught up in a night of terror and hate in Cologne, worried in the wild Prater Stadium in Vienna, but never so sickened as I was in Newcastle; It was hard to stomach the pseudo-front of religion and the wild singing of Ulster party songs that was the front for unbridled disorder.
The hooligans who invaded the field did so flying the Union Jack and the Lion Rampant of Scotland, and the air reeked with hypocrisy and ignorance, sacrilege and arro¬gance. Rangers are indeed paying a heavy price for the traditional religious policy of the club; and the worst is yet to come, for the extremists who have attached themselves to the club grow in numbers and in viciousness.
NO JOKE
And then after the match there was the walk back to the hotel and, for the first time; fear. Drunks prowled the streets in packs hunting for trouble, and suddenly I remembered that often I am mistaken for Jock Stein. Usually that is fun, but in that scene of havoc such a mistaken identity would have been no joke.
And then in the hotel there was the usual telephone call to report home and my wife, who had watched television, asked: “Where are you?” “In the hotel,” I said, “Stay there!” she ordered; and I did.
John Raffferty
lars9707
22:11 on 4 May, 2013
Get my e-mail from Paul or most of the long term folk on here if you know any.
I am willing to help you get out of Gods town
Praecepta
something you asked and I missed was relayed to me.
Answer is yes know a few in Scotland and down south and many in Europe
I am sure you will be able to get in touch if need.
midfield maestro-hope you are well my friend
whitedoghunch
Cheers – will ask P67 to pass on my email address.
Am meeting the Spanish down in London in 2 weeks time.
H!H!
Wee Maloney might just have kept Wigan in the EPL with those 2 crosses.
burghbhoy
21:00 on 4 May, 2013
Usual Saturday night without a Hoops game to celebrate.
Mrs & Miss Burghbhoy glued to the incessant number of singing shows, Burghbhoy junior on play station .
Find myself searching You Tube for old Celtic clips…….
Came across one from last year when the CFC squad visited John Thomsons grave in Cardenden.
After the guy from the grave society spoke about the Prince of Goalkeepers Neil spoke.
What a wonderful , wonderful ambassador Neil is for our club, he spoke with warmth, passion and compassion about John and our club and the punters.
I thought I could not think more highly of Neil, a mhan I have admired as a player, coach & manager for many years.
I was wrong, he is the heart beat of our club.
We are all Neil Francis Lennon.
God bless all here.
Miki 67.keep up the good fight bud
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Neil is the best man we could possibly have at the moment and a longterm legend.
IMO we are lucky to have him and frankly I would not swap him
Midfield Maestro
Thanks.
Absolute quality.
Well said John Rafferty a true Scottish journalist.
Sad that nothing has changed much since.
HH.
Plain bread roasted red cheese or a very mature white & coleslaw and white pepper or ginger powder. Yummyyyyyyyyyy
Plain bread enders if possible!!
Jude
Ginger powder is interesting.
But coleslaw is a no no.
Gordon64
22:30 on
4 May, 2013
BT
It has to be Scottish Pride plain bread.
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OOOOOOTSIDERS :))
ps as long the clubs dont speak out about people like Campbell Ogilvie being in his job, Nothing will change quickly in hunland.
Pps did he get challenged for presidency of the SFA this year?
Good night all
I would wrap Kris Commons in cotton wool till the cup final csc
Unidentified man in the Parkville this evening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPiRcTRigs
a ceiler gonof rust
21:51 on 4 May, 2013
Great to meet you and your other very tall team mates last week. I doubt they would put pictures of such good looking fellows as ourselves on their sites, their wummin might see what they,ve been missing.
HH
P.S. Next time ma cat gets stuck up a tree, I,m calling on your service:-)
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Absolutely brilliant…..
I dont care if they do put the price of vodka up to £25.
I’m still going to party like its £19.99.
just got that by txt. An ahm no really cos i’m aff the bevvy.