SFL delivers as SPL Ltd facing insolvency

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The Scottish Football League today placed an upper limit on which division Sevco can play in next season – their Third.  We must now wait on the company providing sufficient information to complete their application to the SFL and for membership of the Scottish FA.  Although many Rangers fans want Sevco to join the Third Division, chief exec Charles Green was clearly hoping to start life higher up the food chain.

The overwhelming nature of this verdict indicates the solidarity between clubs and fans, throughout the divisions, on how our sport is governed.  This is a good thing but it leaves one burning question on the table:

Is the Scottish Premier League insolvent?

Last week SPL chief exec Neil Doncaster told SFL clubs that the Premier League would be unable to meet its contractual obligations if they did not vote Sevco into the First Division.  Unless this was a shameless lie designed to bully clubs into giving Doncaster what he wanted, the Scottish Premier League Ltd should seek to appoint an administrator without delay.

You can ignore comments about league reconstruction at some unspecified point in the future, Doncaster told us last year that “those who want 16 teams in the top flight are deluding themselves.”

The Scottish Football League does not need the SPL, or its money, to continue to thrive as a community-based sporting entity.  They will flourish.  What happens to the SPL remains to be seen.

As we have observed once or twice before, M. Platini, where are you?  We need the football world to assist with the survival of the game in one of its historic heartlands.

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  1. theglasgowcelticway on

    Smith”Rangers didn’t liquidate themselves,someone else done it to them.”I’m sorry,that club which no longer exists liqiudated themselves.

  2. Where’s Mr St Mirren?

     

     

    ………..hhhidin’ wi’ Mr Airdrie…………

     

     

    Aye.

  3. BT

     

    yep

     

    David Millar

     

    good on him

     

    came out after the race and says he was a reformed “doper”

     

    was 10yrs since his last stage victory

     

    think today was his 4th

     

    nicely done with a 200mtr sprint to the line

     

    1on1 v some other chap

     

    good on these guys

     

    what an effort

  4. FPLG doing his sneaky threatening again…

     

     

     

     

    “I will be carefully monitoring events

     

    and reactions over the next few days and will be making further comments probably early next week.”

  5. obonfanti1888

     

     

    No matter what Martin O’Neill said (mind games) Rangers and their establishment never were, and never will be, the bench mark that we measure Celtic against.

  6. EK Green & White resident on

    One for the diary Sat 7 August

     

    Peterhead v Newhunco

     

    Celtic v Real Madrid

     

    Hail hail happy days !

  7. Smith is an utter buffoon. Though he amply represents what having a connection to Rangers got you in the pre Sevco era of Scottish football.

     

     

    How this intellectual pygmy is viewed as some sort of voice of reason I’ll never comprehend. Just laugh along and enjoy the hilarity as he comes up with his latest cracker!

  8. miki67:

     

     

    OXYMORON…

     

     

    Here’s one for you…

     

     

    What would you label a good looking, intelligent, articulate, sensitive, honest, well dressed and educated hun?

  9. jungle jam67 on

    the best bit in all of this was that ra gers with the help from minty and all the large investors plus all the champions league money still failed as a company

     

    then the football club still could not outshine the achievments of big jock and the lisbon lions

     

     

    oh its good to be a tim tonight

     

     

    jam67

  10. theglasgowcelticway on

    Radio Clyde punter,”ever heard of a new club with 50000 season ticket holders.?”Gordon Smith,”exactly”I don’t either lads but I know of one that’ll probably have around 20000.

  11. KevJungle – Murdo..10 men Championees..1979 on 13 July, 2012 at 18:50 said:

     

     

    Yes AT is on matey.

  12. leftclicktic on

    For smudger from an RTC poster :))))

     

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    Andy says:

     

     

     

    13/07/2012 at 6:43 pm

     

     

     

     

    Smith was unbelievable on clyde incredible that he was at the top of the sfa

     

     

    Rangers started as a football club

     

    The club became Rangers football club Ltd then Rangers football club Ltd became Rangers football club plc then the rangers football club plc were liquidated and their assets sold

     

     

    the evidence is on their gates Rangers football club Ltd

     

     

    there never has been a holding company with the club inside it

  13. To be honest a bit jealous of the Huns and their away days.

     

     

    Macaroon!! Get your Macaroon bars here!!!

  14. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    I am slowing down As the years go by I am sinking So I trick myself Like everybody else

     

     

    The secrets I hide Twist me inside They make me weaker

     

     

    So I trick myself Like everybody else I crouch in fear and wait I’ll never feel again

     

     

    If only I could remember Anything at all

  15. Frankie Boyle ‏@frankieboyle

     

    Rangers don’t do walking away. Because the away games are now hundreds of miles away.

  16. Topcorner – agreed. For the guys that are competing clean, the the TdF is probably, for me, the greatest endeavour in all of sport. The power it also has to entrance a nation for three weeks is amazing.

  17. Snake Plissken on

    Are any CQNers in Glasgow or out and about either tonight or next week and interested in meeting up?

     

     

    Blantyre Tim I’m looking at you here….

  18. snake

     

    I’m hoping to meet oldtim one day next week prob Thursday will let you know.

  19. Frankie Boyle’s on fire tonight lol

     

     

    Frankie Boyle ‏@frankieboyle

     

    @Rabmartin I’m out of date? You’re still using the Rangers crest.

  20. http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20120713/afc-statement-_2212158_2848877

     

     

    Aberdeen Chairman Stewart Milne has given his reaction to today’s decision by the Scottish Football League to accept Rangers NewCo’s request to join the SFL as an associate member and subsequently admit them into the third division.

     

     

    “Following the SPL meeting last week and the vote to refuse Rangers NewCo admission to the SPL we felt that that the SFL clubs should be left alone to decide whether to grant Rangers NewCo associated membership of the SFL and, if this was approved, which division they should be in. We acknowledge that today they have made that clear decision. It is now time to move on.

     

     

    “We will work together with the remaining SPL clubs on the season ahead and ensuring everything possible is done to secure the continuing support of our broadcasting and sponsor partners with Rangers NewCo in the SFL.

     

     

    “Once the season is underway this will offer the opportunity to carry out a comprehensive review of the league structure going forward that will meet the aspirations of the Scottish football supporters, improve the quality of senior football in Scotland, bring about long term financial stability for senior clubs and place football at the heart of our communities.

     

     

    “Finally I would like to address Aberdeen supporters directly. The challenges facing every club in Scotland going forward are severe, not least to our own club. I urge every single Dons supporter to get behind the Club, and the time to do that is now, as we face these challenges that have come about as a result of this situation which was not of our making.”

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