It was only in February this year that the proposed Russia-Ukraine joint league first reached the stage of formal meetings between clubs to discuss the viability but tonight a showcase tournament between top clubs from each country gets underway tonight. It is hoped the formal joint league will start this time next year when the top nine teams from each country will form the Unified First League.
Despite discouragement from Fifa, Uefa have insisted only that proper procedures are followed to give their ascent to the league. Gazprom, the Russian energy giant and Uefa Champions League sponsor, has underwritten the project with a commitment of 1 billion euros per annum.
As we know, in football, money talks, and the Russian and Ukrainian clubs, together with their national associations and Uefa, have been talked happy to make change possible.
In order to become competitive with their rivals in the west while meeting Uefa Financial Fair Play rules, Russian and Ukrainian clubs need to increase income, which the Unified First League would go a long way towards. Uefa president, Michel Platini, has long accepted that regionalisation was a viable way forward for domestic leagues, while former powers in smaller leagues have become disenfranchised from the game’s top table.
What does it mean for us?
Well, we don’t have a Gazprom, not yet, anyway, but once Gazprom’s financial and political muscle establishes the principle of regionalisation, that principle is available to all. Former Yugoslavia countries are already in talks, while Scandinavian countries have already had a few abortive attempts at (underfunded) regional cup competitions.
The British region.
Welsh football has managed to retain its national identity, provide an infrastructure for provincial and community clubs, while federating with the FA in England to allow their larger (sic) clubs to find their competitive level.
The model is already established for Scottish football, which has realised living with one (or two for that matter) massive club which completely invalidates their league competition as a ‘competition’ is no longer the best way to order their affairs.
Financial recklessness caused the collapse of one club a year ago while the recklessness of a Lithuanian bank has put another in jeopardy. A handful of other top-flight clubs now realise their financial commitments, not to mention sporting objectives, are no longer viable, with or without the crumbs from the table thrown in their direction when TV cameras and a few thousand fans arrive a few times per season.
Federate with England, just as the Welsh did. It will bring ‘competition’ back to our competitions, put thousands of everyone’s gates and provide access to viable commercial contracts.
Why are our leagues and Association not speaking to the English about this right now? The Football League in England is every bit as much a basket case as Scottish football right now, they also need to change the structural model and, unlike the equally lunatic (English) Premier League, appear to be self-aware in this respect.
Go talk to the Welsh FA, Cardiff City, Swansea, Wrexham or New Saints FC (!) and ask them what organising their game along the lines of the Scottish model would do to them.
Scottish football must federate or it will die. As such, if we stand on the precipice of crisis, let’s make it a good one. It’s the only thing which will get things moving.
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CF, good post showing clyde radio for being hun loving criminals. I gave up listening to that trash when it became obvious Celtic callers were not being given an equal percentage of air time. The ones who were allowed through were either sanitised or were hun plants, the ones who bled their hearts out over missing the dead club. King, Keevins and co are a disgrace to their so called profession.
Celtic supporters should avoid tuning into this hun propaganda shite. Its like RM on air.
The Hamilton chairman and Oldco fundraiser Ballantyne will be on the board.
They have another of their men in place.
TT
Celtic_First,
You put the SMSM to shame.
What motivates Keevins & his ilk :O(.
Keep on doing their job.
Acgr it seems we are increasingly dependent on Celtic Quick News not lazy journalism the extent of Radio Clyde’s collusion is extremely disappointing
JOBO BALDE
It is a sign.
I Tell you.
Kojo is going on about Victor not being important anymore, wow Neil is happy to ship him.
;)
How Good are we going to be this season when the Window slams shut?
Will we be happier next season than this season?
If we are happier next season than this season, will we be happier the following season than ……..
I just can’t get enough, we need creativity, perhaps we will have to spend 10 Million, when we are in the Groups to get that real up and coming gem?
If Victor goes any place? ;))
Now that we are cooperating with Cisco to install hi density wifi at CP, will the live action match update threads be a thing of the past?
Paul67 will be able to provide instant updates and maybe even goal highlights from his perch high up in the Gods.
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=4194
Petec, I remember when radio Clyde was launched. Tiger tim was the man. I don’t know if he was a real Tim:-). I assume the jimmy you refer to was Sanderson? When he left the planet, unbiased west coast Scottish football journalism left with him and we went into the one station for the hun period that we’re still in now.
Clyde was then over run by huns, and eaters of lamb and their hingers on.
P.S.
The first song I heard on clyde on my wee transistor radio was seven seas of rye by queen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErGpa9IM6-8
I think I was about seven at the time.
Auldbassa.com
TET @ 00:01
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNm_9TWCYAADUZQ.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNm9XHKCAAAEGfk.jpg:large
Explanation for this is simple.
That’s not a weegie coach. It’s a NASA funded expedition-vessel to Mars to test the warfare capabilities of any possible indigenous Martians against unintelligent aggressors, disguised as a coach so that muppets such as Elbows and Moisty pay their £2 busfare and disembark not knowing if they’re visiting Stenhousemuir or the Anunaki Martian base.
a ceiler gonof rust
00:59 on 28 June, 2013
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We need to get as many callers on to Clyde as possible at the start of the season.
Each panelist should be asked to state whether or not they received payments from the club previously known as Rangers.
Follow up should be asking them if the Clyde editorial position effected their reporting, attitude and response to self inflicted crisis at Ibrox.
They should also be questioned on direct payments in cash or in kind.
I can imagine the spluttering about legal issues.
Beram Kayal was in the £8 Mill bracket when he was starring in the SPL, done by a no skill Hun.
canamalar ;) (I know I know it is not admissable)
Emilio was also in that range.
I don’t blame the Celtic Board for accepting a lower figure than his current value….
grassroots.csc
Acgr think tiger tim was later a stadium announcer at Celtic Park
unew mike, if idiots like keevins and his bribe taking radio journo’s told me it was dark I’d open my curtains and check. They are not to be trusted, you know they’re lying every time their lips are moving. Evidence is mounting that they were all under the pay of rfc. It appears as though they still are.
I believe nothing, absolutely nothing, certainly about Celtic unless I read and see it verified here or on the club site. Even the BBC fail to report the fact? On Tuesday at 16.00 on BBC Scotland they reported that Wanyama was sold to Southampton. It turned out to be factually incorrect. FFS, I stopped on my way home from Aberdeen to call my bro and ask him what the deal was with the Kenyan fenian………..
The only thing I believe and take as unquestionable fact are Jobo Baldies EK weather reports………………………..and his occasional golfing brilliance:-).
Celtic
ACGR/ unew mike,
BBC Sport Scotland is a good testing ground for how stupid the TV licence paying public are when it comes to matters of a more serious issue than Minty’s £1000M tax dodging scams.
It’s almost worth recording News 24 for a few nights, just to compare the difference in how the same news is reported in daytime once the PR gurus have got their paws on it.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
01:08 on 28 June, 2013
Petec, I remember when radio Clyde was launched. Tiger tim was the man. I don’t know if he was a real Tim:-). I assume the jimmy you refer to was Sanderson? When he left the planet, unbiased west coast Scottish football journalism left with him and we went into the one station for the hun period that we’re still in now.
Clyde was then over run by huns, and eaters of lamb and their hingers on.
P.S.
The first song I heard on clyde on my wee transistor radio was seven seas of rye by queen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErGpa9IM6-8
I think I was about seven at the time.
Auldbassa.com
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Looking forward to spending Time with yer guid self over the Course of a Season.
I’m getting the young fella into Snooker on the Big Tables – he is amazing on the 5 ft table with very small balls, the table accommodates rail shots so you can imagine how difficult Snooker is for him and more so me. :P
canamalar –
Just been reading back and hope you can clear something up for me.
You seem to be suggesting that Celtic shareholders should ask the club for sight of the shareholders list and that if they refuse, said shareholders should “get the police”.
Are you REALLY suggesting that fellow Celtic supporters, when not happy at a response from the club, should run to the police?
Seriously. Is that what you are saying?
Hale in one stones tomorrow in East Kilbride :O).
Night Bhoys.
GG, I like your idea but seeing as Clyde is infested with huns I doubt the vetting process would let any more genuine Celtic supporter through than they already do.
The last time I listened it was “celtic supporters” professing to be missing the old firm games, give rangers a chance to get back, they’ve been punished enough etc etc. Hardly credible given the absolute contempt every Celtic supporter I know and communicate with views the despicable behaviour of rfc and its current reincarnation.
Five years ago I was just another paranoid tim!!!
As I said on January 7th 2013
So what should Celtic do about it? Bury the huns right now! put a stake through their zombie heart right now! Sue them. Take on the SFA, Campbell Ogilvie and all. Anything less stinks of complicity.
Any Celtic supporter who thinks that Rangers are dead are deluding themselves. I see nothing out of Nimmo, I see HMRC being defeated, I see the SPL/SFL restructuring
Scottish football for 1690 money ASAP. I see no stripping of any of their illegaly won 22 trophies. I see the Celtic bored accepting back the Old Firm with welcome hands. ok that’s a zombie statement. Lets call it the New Firm.
I see no future for Celtic in Europe and neither do the bored and I see no vision from the current bored. Celtic, the donuts play thing. What radical change do “Celtic” have in mind? Gershon maybe?
Thats their limit if you ask me.The Donut decides.
and as for the bored….
Mr. Slo-Blo, Mr. Yo-Yo Mr. See which way is the winds gonna blow
UEFA will never allow a cross pollination Scottish Dutch Portugese Danish league.. how would they market the Ballon D’Or? and all the other TV crap?
Of course if Celtic beat Juventus I will join Platini and eat my hat.
Time we all gave it up and stop calling it sport. It is anything but.
TOTP from 1978 on bbc4 right now. Jeez, I was 20 then :-o
Petec, where do you play, or more importantly where can we play on a match day?
I was a bit of a snooker hall hing oot in my younger day. I don’t think my boy has ever played on a full size table so it would be good to meet up for a game, some lunch, a couple of beers (get the young uns drunk) and take their money off them at snooker.
Double voddy for you and make mine a fine rare malt.
GCT,
Hope you’re keeping well, and good to see you’re still posting annoying nonsense :))
In response to your question to Canamalar, what would you suggest a shareholder do when a financially empowered board deny the rights of a less well-off shareholder? I think the comment was made in jest, but it was an important reference to the failings of the Celtic Board to work in conjunction with the Celtic Support and smaller share-holders against a malicious political and judicial environment.
Youz nightshift guys from outside the UK….if you don’t already have access to bbc iplayer etc. through proxy servers, I would recommend easy-hide-ip.com. I’ve been using it for over 3 years in various countries and it works a treat. Only costs 20 odd dollars.
unew mike, it’s good to know that when I was listening to tiger tim on my wee tranny when I was seven years old that I was listening to a real tim.
What happened to him? Was he taken outside, beaten and shot when the hun took over their airwaves at Clyde, or is he in hiding?
Deterioration.com
GG
01:16 on 28 June, 2013
What if they lie?
I tend to find that’s a habit liars have.
Mags,
Sadly agree. The only way we can maintain our status is a club is by strengthening ourselves financially amidst a financially corrupt bog. That’s not only against our own ethos, but we also have the SFA there to lend a helping hand.
While I’ve no doubt we’ll come out of it due to the strenght of the Celtic Support, it will always be a rough ride.
No easy answers.
Modern day snooker experience in Glasgow ain’t what it used to be.
I started, as most children of the fifties did, in the Mitchell Street tables with the leccy meters. Also the green hut in Georges Road (off Byres Road).
Then we had the Steve Davis, Reardon’s etc. which had fantastic new tables, private rooms, waitress service, good food etc.
Sadly things have gone backwards and we have “The Reardon’s” newco snooker/pool hall in Hope Street, which I frequent every Friday for a few belts. Not sure about the Q club though, it might still be OK.
Tweet from the Forfar Chairman
RT @chairman_forfar: Just home 0125hrs – what a day. Farewell to SFL.
He doesn’t sound too sad.
Richie, Mitchell lane had a lot to answer for. I never got a drink there and I never turned out to be less than talented at snooker:-(( That was a dingy, dark hole of a place.
I had some fun on the way to games though in the late 70’s.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
01:40 on 28 June, 2013
Petec, where do you play, or more importantly where can we play on a match day?
I was a bit of a snooker hall hing oot in my younger day. I don’t think my boy has ever played on a full size table so it would be good to meet up for a game, some lunch, a couple of beers (get the young uns drunk) and take their money off them at snooker.
Double voddy for you and make mine a fine rare malt.
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I don’t really know Rivita
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Unfortunately Tiger has MS. Not sure what he’s doing these days but there was a terrible hoax a few years ago that he had died.
Hail Hail Tiger
FFM, good luck to you on your gig at Ardlui. Check and see if my tub is still there please. I do worry about my wee toy.
Next time bruv, give me some notice.
HH
The DEEDS, Mavis the Deeds.
It is a conspiracy.
Richie
I was a wee dabbler on the green beize as well.
Pink in the middle bag.
http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12073
Richie, I’m really sorry to hear that, I hope he’s living life like a diamond ring.
Here’s a wee clip with the man himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlNMuWxqCEg
That’s my wee brother Pedrocaravanfillmeupman67 in the tight lycra trousers, top right of the picture at 23 seconds in. What a mover my bro is.
Tigertims.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
02:06 on 28 June, 2013
Richie
I was a wee dabbler on the green beize as well.
Pink in the middle bag.
http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12073
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Aidan’s best break so far has been 3 reds and 2 blacks, he has had 3 and 4 ball combinations quite regular but the way he puts the ball home when he “is on his game” it is very good IMO.
His cueing action isn’t even normal, he digs in to the cue ball too much because he is used to the cramped space to play most shots in the home.
I don’t think it is doing him any harm really but it is hard to get him to look right along the cue now after playing that way for 7 years or so. ;))
Petec, John Brown turned up at the Dobies Garden Centre just outside Monifieth on Tuesday last week.
He splashed his super lager all over the place and was head to mutter “show’s ra seeds”.
petec
02:17 on 28 June, 2013
A wee bit of “cramping” can be good.
Don Bradman used to practice his batting by hitting a golf ball against the wall with a cricket stump.
Affoot,pal.
I really quite like like John Brown (apart from him being a hun twat). I met him a couple of times in Arbroath before he was a player for the deid heids.
I’ve not seen him for twenty or so years but I met a guy who was on the same south pacific tourist holiday as JB. When they landed on Easter Island John ripped off his seat belt as the plane was coming to a stop, pulled the orange tab thing that opens the door on the plane and sputtered with a malevolent look on his face “Show’s ra heids”.
That’s a true story.