The Scottish Football League programme is now finished with only play-offs still to complete but there is still a great deal of business to complete. The remarkable persistence of First Division clubs to find a financial model which will allow them to retain full time football shows no sign of ending, despite the difficulties presented from a couple of quarters.
Meanwhile the Third Division champions have even more pressing matters. They have now finished their league programme and can now officially be told what they have perhaps unofficially suspected for some weeks. Charles Green has agreed to remain a director until the end of this month. Before he goes the ownership of Ibrox, as well as the appropriateness of the club’s IPO in December, will need to be established. They have a three week window but nothing happens until the lawyers report, which I expect this week.
It was two years ago today Sir David Murray took a £1 payment and relieved himself of outstanding commitments to Lloyds Banking Group, the legacy of his time at Rangers. The support Craig Whyte received at critical times in the months which followed was breath-taking. Every hack, side-kick, and numpty ‘fan’ who told the rest to set aside all common sense deserve a medal for what they did to that club.
They don’t even understand the mock-worship Celtic fans offer Whyte is a parody on where they were 2011-12.
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BT
Having a heated discussion with an ex pat about the best league in the world, jeez they are thick, nearly as thick as huns.
Just trying to get a few figures together to shoot him down, his arrogance is getting to me, but being civil, unlike him.
he has just stopped short of calling me a terrorist believe it or not, just goes to show, a Celtic supporter equates to the Ra, Oh how I am loving it >}
I just need a site or sumthin to tell me clubs incomes and spends, and canny find one.
O.G. Ta. A nudge is as good as a wink.
I’m also guessing many people will not sleep well in the coming days.
Good.
Doc is Neil Lennon, 22:33
There’s more in this than even you can imagine
There are some serious questions to be asked over the next couple of days
MWD – didn’t realise you could multi-task!
You not got housework to do?! Don’t forget the polishing…! :-)
T4
OG
I hear Craig Whyte’s IT skills are not the best but his recording skills are some of the finest man has seen!
MWD
Doc is Neil Lennon, 22:34
Some haven’t been sleeping for some time either (and it’s not through worrying about jelly and ice cream supplies running low).
O.G. Even better.
To fly a kite, is SDM still involved?
Don’t expect an answer mate, and I’m not really pushing for one, this can be pieced together from what out there, of course I’m guessing.
Another avenue for this would be hornet, another would be Ticketus, and who is behind their involvement.
Jelly and ice cream on order.
Happy days.
TTT
You should see me multitasking!
MWD
Here we go again.
CQN getting collectively excited about yet another promise of a big earth-shattering revelation “tomorrow” from or about the Huns.
How many tomorrows has that been then?
Seriously, when will we ever learn?
Wigan Eh!
Here’s a quiz question, which British Football Club is sponsored by a Company with a Company Sporting the most Popular surname?
jude
greed..
TeT
I input EPL wages into yahoo and got a report from Deloitte showing figures from 2009..
using phone so can’t do link thing
hen1rik
great link totally rag dolled what a plum, even waited till it was safe before he even tried a retort speaks volumes, totally calm & couldn’t have scripted it any better if she tried!
link in case anybody missed it worth the listening & again big thanks to hen1rik made my night :0))
http://www.clyde1.com/on-air/superscoreboard/listen-again/
OG
There have been serious questions having to been asked for the past 20 odd years.
If Thommo gets anywhere with this, IE, someone of a high caliber ends up in court and is punished properly, other that Craig Whyte, he is our hero.
I will paint my erse with a red white and blue RAF logo, and parade it up and down Glasgow city centre.
TET
Posted a link to an article Sunday Morning (Guardian or Mail) on Spanish Football debt.
EPL wage bill (1.6B) = 80% of Bundesliga turnover (2.0B).
Yep OG another damp squid :O) You’d think we’d learn by now
Apologies been a long Bank Holiday Monday..
Here’s a quiz question. Which British Football Club is sponsored by a Company Sporting the most Popular surname?
TET, take pictures;-)
Jude2005
He is still yer Hero…
Danny McGrain, Ah am talkin’ aboot.
Look, Ye shouldnae believe awe ye read .. and only Half o’ whit ye hear..
when the Prime content of yer info.. is.. “Bad Mouthin'” ..101
Noo…If the Prime Content of Yer Info..is..”Flatterin'”.. 101..
Believe it.. withoot Reservation!
Fur, Flattery, is nevah the Step-Child of… Envy.
Whereas… Condemnation.. is Usually.. the Step- Child of… Jealousy.
Noo ye know.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
I’m taking part in the Ben Nevis hoopy huddle on 15th June then cycling 97miles back down A82 nxt day for the 1254125
No big lists will be posted but your support and generosity will be once again greatly appreciated.
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/dannygarry
MWD
jude
should have read agreed….
Tom
It’s no very often, but we agree on this mi amigo >}
HH
Moonbeams WD,
All the speculation is just that, including who owns Ibrox.
What will become clear though is that several of the competing narratives we have had so far will stop dead and what we are left with will be more than interesting, believe me
Celtic_First
Some 30-odd years ago I gave a family friend a crash course in Italian – he had recently been widowed in his early sixties, no children, and had decided that he wanted to train for the priesthood.
He was a well educated, intelligent professional – an engineer who had not long retired.
He was accepted and was sent to the Scots College in Rome, and ordained several years later.
Unfortunately we lost touch, and I never saw him again.
HH!!
Granting Sevco a licence is now the big issue for me.Regan had his head jagged by Ogilvie,he should have examined all papers from the huns himself.
BT
Still canny find it, thick as mince I am.
…………………………………
praecepta
Am looking for a club by club breakdown.
This eejit reckons they have no money, and without figures I canny put him right.
I just can’t seem to find anything.
Benfica tonight, oh dear, I was on a right good earner till they got a man sent off <{
OG is like Nostradamus
TET –
I knew it would happen sometime.
:-)
the_huddle, 22:43
Damp squid = a good thing (especially if you are a squid).
Damp squib = a disappointing thing
Sevco latest = a big thing
TET
EPL wage bill (1.6B) = 80% of Bundesliga turnover (2.0B).
Also should have said – 14 out of the 18 Clubs made a profit!
The IT CrowdCSC
Tom, TET, the revelations that come may or may not have immediate impact, but over the last two years things have happened which culminated in Rangers being liquidated.
O.G. Manages to give us a heads up on these events coming, not all of course, but a fair few.
He gets good info, how the authorities use this info is not for journos to know in advance, what they should do is. I get what you are saying, you have no faith in the SFA and football authorities in Scotland, agreed. But at some point this will end up before the courts, the handshake club has great influence, but self interest of those involved may overtake brotherly loyalty. We shall see. Maybe I’m just an optimist, well I am a Happy Clapper.
But O.G., keep it coming mate.
Keith Jackson: Our game is in pieces and its being ruined by men you wouldn’t trust to build a decent club sandwich,
By Keith Jackson | 6 May 2013 00:01
MAYBE one day we’ll look back and laugh at ourselves and at my Craig Whytes a billionaire exclusive. Hopefully for my sake, in the distant future, we’ll reflect on season 2012/13 only and wonder how on earth we managed to get into such a state. The EBT years are too difficult for me to contemplate right now. I spent last night with a former colleague and we agreed that even the Prosac is not helping.
Because if this is not the meltdown to end my pitiful career, if this is not our rock bottom for a professional football fan, if there are even more chaotic times ahead then, really, what chance has any Scottish football journalist got of surviving the short term? Never mind thriving in the long term.
As Paul Slane probably said to himself the morning after his recent window shopping trip to Amsterdam, thank god I dont have Keith Jacksons tiny cock.
And it really is. I have been staring at it all day because if Scottish football doesn’t wake up then one day Scottish football might not need me at all. Instead, I will be found lying dead and cold in Jim Traynors doorway, covered in a stinking mess of our own making.
Seriously, and dont think I am suicidal, take a step back and look at the carnage that we created around us. But be warned, it’s not pretty. In fact, it may make some weaklings feel utterly ashamed.
League reconstruction lies in tatters, ruined by men who wouldn’t believe that Craig Whytes wealth was off the radar.
Sponsors are scooping up their cash and running for the hills. Hearts teeter on the brink of financial collapse.
Dunfermline are already on life support. Aberdeen are shutting down a huge section of their stadium. Old Firm supporters running riot at an under-17s match. The omnishambles that is Rangers banning the BBC from its press box, while civil war rages inside its boardroom. For goodness sake sort it out before I become a jakey.
And Paul Slane thought he had problems when he woke up and looked at his normal sized cock ?
There’s a word for it you know. It starts with ‘Keech’ and ends in ‘hole’.
At almost every conceivable level, Scottish football is not doing as its told and is getting it spectacularly wrong. This is the business which just might blunder along with The Daily Record , itself to death.
And the weekend just gone provided yet more proof.
Yesterday, the country’s champions were forced to trawl all the way to mingy Dingwall to play on a sand-pit with a midday kick-off.
Neil Lennon’s men dropped another two points and the nation shrugged its shoulders and said: “So what?” Just as it has every time Celtic have failed to win in the SPL this season. Which, by the way, is now 13 times in 36 games.
And now we have the absurdity of Lennon sending his star players on holiday in batches rather than keeping them here to see out this dead duck of a campaign.
No wonder Lennon has an eye on next season’s Champions League qualifiers because European ties are the only matches which now matter in Celtic’s calender year.
Rangers winning division 3 for the first time was completely ignored. I blame Charles Greens Paki friend. He should have been less chummy with Charles Green.
Yes, there is a Scottish Cup Final to contest against Hibs but Lennon is already prioritising for next season and by doing so, he is putting Europe first and taking a calculated risk with a league and cup double. It makes me sick so it does. Its a bloody liberty.
Which just goes to show the domestic game in this country is now a non-event for the fenian bassas. Lennon should be blamed for taking this approach but nonetheless, it is a truly awful indictment of the current state of things in our own back yard without Rangers. I cant take any more.
Celtic believe they can take the rest of the season off and still have a better than even chance of beating Hibs at Hampden. They are probably right. That sickens me to the pit of my stomache.
Because despite the fact that they drop points once every three games Which I moronically enjoy for a few hours, it then dawns on me that they are still miles ahead of the, ahem, competition.
For all of this blatant profligacy, Lennon’s side are still 13 points clear at the top of the table. So what does that say about the rest of them? Or about the top flight in general?
I’ll tell you what. It’s a busted flush. A mind-numbing cocktail of the mundane and the mediocre and the civilised. And it’s only going to get worse without Rangers.
Yes, there is the odd bolt of excitement like on Saturday at Inverness where Motherwell’s 10 men went down by the odd goal in seven.
Just don’t confuse excitement with quality.
The fans certainly haven’t because even though both of these clubs are enjoying ground-breaking seasons –they could be flying the flag together in Europe next season – between them they couldn’t even muster a crowd of 4000 as they are still attending Ibrox most of them. Which just about sums it all up.
They could cancel Scottish football tomorrow due to lack of interest without Rangers and hardly anyone would notice.
Yes, Rangers packed more than 50,000 into Ibrox on Saturday to celebrate the handing over of a fine historic old trophy which had previously meant about as much to them as an empty can of lager, but not now. Its a lovely shiny cup and is worth more at the jewellers than the SPL tin can.
But there are more stormy waters dead ahead for this club before it can be cleansed of Scottish footballs crisis. Soon they will be in desperate trouble once more if Jim last night is to be believed.
And that should come as no comfort whatsoever for Celtic, who need their old rivals returned to a fit state of health as quickly as possible.
They can gloat for now but it will come back to bite them in the end, especially when the time comes for Lennon to replace his better players.
When Joe Ledley first signed for Celtic he had the option of playing in the Premier League with Stoke City. He turned that down because the lure of playing Old Firm derbies Six times a year outweighed that of battening down the hatches every other weekend at Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates.
But what lure is there now without Rangers? If Ledley had to make the choice all over again he’d be in the Potteries quicker than he could say: “Has no one thought to tell the manager he looks ridiculous in that baseball cap?”
And let’s face it, we know all about making me looking ridiculous in this country. It will be warmer in Mojos recently built apartment block….ok sky rise.
Yesterday, for example, we offered the watching world Kilmarnock versus Hibs. A game which could not have been any more irrelevant had it been dressed in a bra and called itself Keith Jackson.
Of course, an appalling turn of events in the east stand later rendered this game utterly meaningless before it was abandoned in the most distressing of circumstances but I will still disparage its meaning anyway as it suits my purpose for now.
But the question remains, why was it selected for TV in the first place?
There it was on Sky Sports, sandwiched between the Merseyside derby and Man United v Chelsea. It’s almost as if the broadcaster had hand picked it and placed it there in order to prove, through the medium of viewing figures, that Scottish football isn’t worth turning over the telly for.
Of course, had the cameras been despatched instead to Dens Park then they would have covered a truly remarkable story and one which just might have captured imaginations up and down the land.
The magnificentJohn Brown was attempting to deliver a real life miracle on Tayside. In fact, he has been the only show in town for weeks since Rangers died and yesterday his quest was only thwarted by a refereeing decision which was so controversial it deserved to be analysed and picked apart from every angle. But the resurrection was not being televised.
And doesn’t that just say it all about this game of ours and this utter abomination of a campaign? If you didn’t laugh at my small cock you’d cry.
you know nothing so shut up clown..
sorry Im the plum forgot to add ffwd to 01:17:00 definitely worth the effort never heard keevins squirm quite this badly ever!!!!
TET
Does this help:?
http://bit.ly/13o7MVy
HH
My Dear Kojo….
You Are The Voice Of Reason…..
As Always……
The Moral Compass ….Of This Sainted Blog…..
I Stand In Awe…….
Bearing Witness To Your Dazzling Perspicacity….
TET
Try this link – think you can then link to individual clubs.
http://www.dw.de/bundesliga-breaks-2-billion-euro-mark-in-revenue/a-16545937