There are sooooo many secondary benefits from winning the league last month. Take a look at current crop of international fixtures, which for Scotland, continues until 14 June, seven weeks before the third Champions League qualification round.
Our significant body of full and Under-21 international players would have little time to rest and recuperate before having to reach full fitness ahead of potentially four weeks of crucial fixtures. This is not how an athlete’s body is designed to work. It has consequences for performance and injuries.
With the Scottish champions likely to gain automatic entry to the Champions League group stage for several years to come, the responsibility of using this year’s qualification to further strengthen is paramount. It was a tough shift for Celtic, carrying Scotland’s coefficient burden single-handedly for all those years, we need to make the most of whatever help other Scottish clubs are happy to give us now.
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I was 5,but I hope a lot of you recall.
special to think,Alfredo Di Stefano,retiring a career that seen him win luggy 6 times and we were there,fresh after winning it once.the renown and fame worldwide in the football world echoed our own triumph.i feel envious of those who seen Di Stefano,real pioneers who took football forward,I suppose today’s gen are Messi Ronaldo.
Wee jinky,what can you say.
https://twitter.com/LilZe_7/status/1533946841234038784?t=eH0Tsm7DEAD0SFk1WAmv8A&s=19
:-)
HH
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Iniquit: absent any fitba to discuss, you have initiated a great argument to debate:
“you will see 2 commas, one at either”
You must agree with me that they are upper and lower blue dots 🔵, not commas as you claim in your otherwise helpful post.
Have to say the gentle tap advice has changed my life…..
Not that I couldn’t do it, just never did it gently – ooh err missus.
INIQUITOUSIV@1:23am
Thanks for that info. Guess I was just too stupid to ask someone.
Is it ok to insult yourself? Asking for a friend
Good morning all from Govanhill.
Good morning from a dry, bright North Staffs – perfect for a bit of gardening later.
The article on Lawwell’s lad was interesting. I suppose we’ll see.
INIQUITOUSIV
Thanks for that .👍
Are they dots?
Are they commas?
Are they mini speech bubbles?
Do different devices show different options?
Today’s debate could be tasty!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-provisionally-finds-illegal-price-fixing-of-rangers-fc-merchandise
“The CMA has provisionally found that Elite Sports, JD Sports and Rangers Football Club broke competition law by fixing the retail prices of certain Rangers-branded clothing products.”
Screwing their own fans now. The statement will be interesting
I’ll take the CMI as being the bad guys
We all know they don’t mind a bit of criminal activity but fleecing the fans is a new low
If we had a half-honest mainstream media this would be a PR disaster for the Huns. Unfortunately serious investigation is limited to Paul67 and a few other outsiders.
Whenever criminals get caught you can be sure it’s a small amount of what they’re up to
Unless they’re just not very good, which is also a possibility
Re: U21 Ireland etc
The system here in Ireland is that promising players at local club level get sent to a LoI academy at a certain age (not sure which) and they are charged with developing the talent and getting a chance in the first team. Scouts from England regularly monitor them and whisk a few away and they seem to be good enough for a game there too. Nathan Collins (Burnley) is from my town and Andrew Omobamidele (Norwich) is also – and played for the local youth team. Seems to be working
Scotland have schools which SFA make centres of excellence (i think Patterson was sent to Holyrood for this reason) but not sure about how this works on the way to senior clubs.
If confirmed, the companies involved can expect to face fines.
The provisional findings are:
Elite Sports and JD Sports fixed the retail prices of a number of Rangers-branded replica kits and other clothing products from September 2018 until at least July 2019.
Rangers FC also took part in the alleged collusion but only to the extent of fixing the retail price of adult home short-sleeved replica shirts from September 2018 to at least mid-November 2018. All 3 parties allegedly colluded to stop JD Sports undercutting the retail price of the shirt on Elite’s Gers Online store.
At the time, Elite was the manufacturer of Rangers-branded clothing and also sold Rangers-branded products directly through Gers Online Store and later in bricks-and-mortar shops in Glasgow and Belfast. The only UK-wide major retailer selling those products at the time was JD Sports.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) alleges that Rangers FC became concerned about the fact that, at the start of the 2018-19 football season, JD Sports was selling the Rangers replica top at a lower price than Elite, which was seen at the time as the club’s ‘retail partner’. This resulted in an understanding between the 3 parties that JD Sports would increase its retail price of the Rangers adult short-sleeved home replica shirt by nearly 10%, from £55 to £60, to bring it in line with the prices being charged by Elite on Gers Online.
The CMA is also concerned that Elite and JD Sports – without involvement from Rangers –colluded to fix the retail prices of Rangers-branded clothing, including training wear and replica kit, over a longer period. This included aligning the level and timing of discounts towards the end of the football season in 2019, to avoid competition between them and protect their profit margins at the expense of fans.
Elite and JD Sports applied for leniency during the CMA’s investigation and confessed to cartel activity. Provided they continue to cooperate with the investigation, each will receive a reduction on any financial penalties the CMA may decide to impose. Any business found to have infringed the prohibitions in the Competition Act 1998 can be fined up to 10% of its annual worldwide group turnover.
Michael Grenfell, Executive Director of Enforcement at the CMA, said:
We don’t hesitate to take action when we have concerns that companies may be working together to keep costs up.
Football fans are well-known for their loyalty towards their teams. We are concerned that, in this case, Elite, JD Sports and, to some extent, Rangers, may have colluded to keep prices high, so that the 2 retailers could pocket more money for themselves at the expense of fans.
These are the CMA’s provisional findings and the companies involved now have the chance to make representations to the CMA before it reaches a final decision.
Good morning from a cloudy Northumberland, gin nearly finished ‘holiday crisis’ 😱
Second story on the BBC 5 Live national news!
I guess there’s not much of a story for the Scottish mainstream media. Convicted criminal engages in small time retail fraud.
Strangely nothing on the bbc Scotland or bbc Scottish football websites
Prestonpans, get doon tae the offy!😂
Prestonpans
No minimum pricing in England so fill your glass
Yes noted the drink offers in Morrison’s was not the same as Edinburgh👍👏
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/20191693.rangers-reveal-record-season-ticket-sales-update-ahead-giovanni-van-bronckhorsts-first-full-term-ibrox/
Quick work by hun PR to push the price fixing story down the headlines in GT.
Read the article as my curiosity was piqued as to how they could have sold record numbers of season tickets when they had sold all their season tickets last year.
It turns out it is a record number of sales by the deadline day, (that has been extended twice but they don’t mention that) and unsold tickets will be released for sale after relocations have been processed.
So not really record numbers of season tickets after all.
Quelle surprise.
I wish some would just shut the Fek up about the Son Of Lawwell.Is it really so hard to give the guy a chance to prove himself?.Seems so for some.The name is enough for them.Funny thing is,they keep mentioning the failed signings,never the blockbuster ones that earned the club a fortune,that He who must not be named, ,signed.
If he comes up with some great signings,will they come on apologising?.Will they hell.Just bump their gums in advance of the window even opening.
Does my head in.
GGH,
How can it be record ST sales?Unless they have been telling us lies before,when they told us it was sold out.
Still 10,000 below us.Which is nice.
Turkeybhoy
You’ve got it all wrong.
Peter Lawwell only signed the duds and failed projects. The successes were all signed by the managers. :)
Celtic40me
From gov.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-provisionally-finds-illegal-price-fixing-of-rangers-fc-merchandise
HH
Turkeybhoy
Exactly.
It turns out that they haven’t even sold all the season tickets at all. Just another invented story to generate a positive headline that deflects from the bigger negative story about robbing their own supporters.
It will be interesting to see if the competition authority’s findings that Sevco conspired to rip off their own fans will actually cause some of them to question their board. Being as how many of them were happy to pay over £60 for Europa league game tickets, I won’t be holding my breath.
Felt dirty but had a look a sevco news now probably for the first time.
You should see how the story is reported on there. Spin spin spin.
On a seperate note, on Celtic news now there’s so many creepy msm stories negatively trying to affect our support.
Sevco news now is total la la land. Everything is amazing there apparently 🤣😂🤣 Not many toilet bowl stories….
price fixing is on BBC Scotland main page now
It seems a bit unfair to be blaming the club for price fixing when it was obviously the holding company that was the guilty party.
BBC reporting that Rangers have been “accused of price fixing”.
Infact they’ve been found to have done that.
BADA BING
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1028911578018307?fs=e&s=cl
new article posted.