The biggest story in the Deloitte money league table, out this morning, is that of Milan and Inter, 14th and 19th place respectively. Inter are stuck between Everton (pining for a new stadium to remove the biggest inhibitor on revenue) and West Ham (soon moving to a new stadium).
Juventus are 10th and Roma 16th but that’s it for Italian clubs, who were able to attract the top talent from Law to Ronaldo and all generations in between. The fabled ‘lure of the lira’ wasn’t replaced by the lure of Italian stocked euros. Football in Italy is still a huge business, but the TV market is not as generous as the deal in the confederated league in England and Wales.
It’s not so long since Celtic regularly featured in Deloitte’s report but our TV revenues have stagnated while those elsewhere have grown considerably. We’ve recognised our place in the food chain, but next to slip off the list when the new English TV deal kicks in will be the big Milanese clubs. Good.
Celtic were first to suffer the consequences of the TV and football markets cartels. There’s little we can do about it alone, we need big clubs in big countries to also be unhappy at being pushed out of the tent.
We’ll soon read that Crystal Palace earn more money than Inter Milan. Experience suggests that football clubs, once disenfranchised in this manner, become advocates for change. Even those near the top, like Karl-Heinz Rummenigge’s Bayern Munich, are talking about a European league, as their domestic TV deal is holding them back.
Magners Ticket Competition
Fancy two Premium Seats in the Jock Stein Stand for Saturday’s game against St Johnstone, courtesy of Magners? You can win by answering this question, which will hopefully bring back some memories:
We said “Cheerio to 10-in-a-row” on 9 Mary 1998, but just before halftime that day, a St Johnstone player went within inches of equalising with a header. Who was that player?
Send his surname in the subject line of an email to celticquicknews@gmail.com to enter.
And while you are at it, why don’t you put a £1 into our Mary’s Meals school kitchen appeal here…
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Hehehe, last 16 of the CL
http://videocelts.com/2016/01/blogs/latest-news/tommy-wright-lashes-out-at-disrespectful-warbo#eof48pqt6LpFg8ZT.97
Did islam Feruz ever play a 1st team game for us ? Just wondering like
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Former Celtic youngster Islam Feruz has drive ban trial adjourned due to work committments http://bit.ly/1S8NvgT
Mike Ashley v Dave King: Sevco chairman cleared of contempt of court in long running battle with Sports Direct owner
10:27, 22 JAN 2016 UPDATED 10:35, 22 JAN 2016
BY RECORD SPORT ONLINE
A JUDGE has ruled that the attempt to have King found guilty of contempt for breaching a gagging order should never have been brought and was an abuse of process.
Sevco chairman Dave King has been cleared by the High Court of committing a contempt of court over his dealings with Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley.
It’s another blow to the Sports Direct supremo in his bitter dispute with the Ibrox club having already previously failed to persuade a judge that King should be jailed over the dispute.
The judgement, from the High Court in London, has been issued this morning.
Ashley’s side claimed the Rangers boss was in contempt of court by breaking a confidentialilty agreement by discussing the terms of a merchandising contract between the two sides in a media interview.
But in an earlier hearing, Mr Justice Peter Smith, had dismissed Ashley’s claim saying: “I am not going to send a person to prison on an inference.”
The London legal battles, estimated to have cost some £400,000 so far, are the latest development in a conflict which started when Mr King took over running Rangers and centres on the commercial arrangements between the club and Sports Direct and its subsidiaries.
News Scottish News James Forrest
Celtic star James Forrest in the clear over claims he flashed his manhood in nightclub
08:42, 22 JAN 2016 UPDATED 10:25, 22 JAN 2016
BY RECORD REPORTER
FORREST was arrested in November 2013 after an incident in Prestwick but the case has been shelved due to a shortage of evidence.
CELTIC and Scotland star James Forrest is in the clear over allegations he flashed in an Ayrshire nightspot.
The 24-year-old Parkhead ace was arrested over an alleged public indecency in Elliot’s in Prestwick in November 2013 . He also faced accusations of a sex assault on the same night out in the Ayrshire town.
The case has now been shelved – but prosecutors say proceedings could be revived should new evidence come to light.
A Crown Office spokesman confirmed: “There are currently no proceedings but we reserve the right to raise proceedings should further evidence become available.”
The news will come as a huge relief to the player who became a regular feature in Gordon Strachan’s Scotland side last year.
Ard Macha
That must be the most bespoke and esoteric
question ever asked on here!
A real test of the breadth and depth of CQN and might bring someone back on to answer and they post again.
Hope it works out , sounds really annoying
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has declared that Chess is forbidden in Islam.
I don’t know what they have against Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley…
Coneybhoy,
Thanks. Here’s hoping!!!
I’d actually be disappointed if I don’t get a reply. There have been cures for gout and other ailments on this blog.
Árd Macha
Rangers chairman Dave King has been cleared by the High Court of committing contempt of court over his dealings with Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley.
In the latest chapter of a bitter dispute that has embroiled the Ibrox club, Mr Justice Peter Smith ruled on Friday that the attempt to have Mr King found guilty of contempt for breaching a gagging order should never have been brought and was an abuse of process.
Mr Ashley, the owner of Newcastle United, has already failed in his bid to persuade the judge that Mr King should be jailed over the issue.
The hearing continues.
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY & WEE OSCAR on 22ND JANUARY 2016 10:45 AM
Did islam Feruz ever play a 1st team game for us ? Just wondering like
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Former Celtic youngster Islam Feruz has drive ban trial adjourned due to work committments http://bit.ly/1S8NvgT
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I love them running stories like this – it demonstrates how desperate they are.
James Doleman @jamesdoleman · 1m1 minute ago
Judge says that “ironically” he had to correct press “misreporting” of original hearing, shows media not always accurate
Árd Macha
James Doleman @jamesdoleman · 4m4 minutes ago
Judge notes Sports Direct provided no proof quotes from King in Sky article were made by him and King cannot recall if he said them or not
Árd Macha
“King cannot recall if he said them or not.”
Glib and Shameless Liar CSC,
Árd Macha
Hope James can put it behind him now. It has been dangling too long.
I am confident he will be be able to pull it off.
Jamesie probably out celebrating.
He’ll be well hungover tomorrow.
Geordie….,
A bit slow today sorry
One aye :)
Wee Jamesy is way too off the cuff, it’s a wristy game he is playing..
Tommie20
morning Celtic fans what is left on this site.
Paul67 this blog is going downhill quickly
with the so called Celtic people.
I have lost a lot of good friends from this
site one dear friend B.M.C.U.W.So please
Paul clean it up and get the good bloggers
back that have left H.H.
Hope we don’t get too many loose balls from him tomorrow.
A hat trick and he will be clock a hoop.
I think that club in Prestwick was members only, in fairness. Well done to James for beating off the charge. No flies on our James….
Time for James to stand up straight and get on with the job in hand…
Poor Jamesy, I feel sorry for the wee man.
Sorry,
Cock a hoop
Wouldn’t have been the first time he had been seen limp.
CONEYBHOY
I’m not sure it’s members only, but some of them seemingly do hang out there…
Bloody foreigners can’t speak English from the Home Office as well :))
pic.twitter.com/No4HZQfffi
Whoops
https://twitter.com/SophyRidgeSky/status/690483177517912064
He’ll be rarin’ to go tomorrow.
Their full back wears the number four. Skin him, Jamesie!
@ Paul67 on 22nd January 2016 10:25 am
Many thanks, email sent.
I wondered if Jamesie would get off. I kept thinking…..”Willie, or won’t he….?
I’m glad things have cum to a head for Jamsie. I think someone in the club in Prestwick was trying to shaft him.
Ard Macha
If you want tickets for the East Kilbride FC v Celtic Scottish Cup tie, register interest here: http://www.ekfc.co.uk/make-enquiry-ekfc
(It’s unlikely the SFA mandated venue wil be able to cope with demand. The more folk that register interest today, the more likely that the venue will be shifted to a ground with a greater capacity.)
Police investigate Rangers fan site over threats to journalists
But blogger distances himself from fans he regards as ‘jihadists and recidivists’
The Herald’s online report about the police investigation.
Roy Greenslade
@GreensladeR
Friday 22 January 2016 11.34 GMT Last modified on Friday 22 January 2016 11.38 GMT
Further to my posting yesterday, about Rangers fans launching a petition calling for a BBC sports reporter to be axed, the Glasgow-based Herald reports that police are now investigating its organisers.
The change.org petition is in the name of a group (quite possibly, just an individual) called Bears Fightback. A blog with the same name was also launched. It was complaints about its content – since deleted – that prompted police action.
Written in the first person, it included what could be deemed as threats to journalists regarded as making unfair comments about Rangers. The blogger complained that the club had been “battered” by “the governing bodies, the media, politicians and opposition fans.” It continued:
“This blog, therefore, has been set up to defend the honour of the club and its supporters. To all the haters heed this warning. Your articles and comments are being noticed… If the club are unwilling to take action then we will.
We will look into the history of each and every individual or company embroiled in this hate fest, and we will look to hurt you in any way legally possible.
If you lose your business, your home, your husband or wife, your children or your freedom, don’t say you weren’t warned.”
BBC Scotland decided not to send staff to report on Rangers’ matches or press conferences after the club banned one of its reporters, Chris McLaughlin.
He was originally banned in August last year on the grounds that he filed being “misleading and unbalanced reports” about Rangers.. The BBC responded by boycotting the club. That ban/boycott lasted for a month until a compromise was reached.
A second ban on McLaughlin was imposed on 11 January and the BBC reacted as before, by imposing a boycott. The corporation said it would rely on agency coverage instead.
Many Rangers fans clearly wish to distance themselves from the Bears Fightback approach. One of them, johnjamessite, criticised that blog for making an “alarming threat”.
Unlike those who wish to see the Rangers of 2016 as a continuation of the Rangers that existed in 2012, he accepts that the club is a different entity.
He writes: “The more informed and intelligent Rangers supporters know that the current company, technically and legally, is not the same company that ceased to trade in 2012.”
Instead, he sees the new Rangers as “the spiritual successor of the company I followed as a boy.”
Then he berates those Rangers fans who sing “the odious anthem” known as the Billy Boys, which contains a line that upsets the many thousands of people in Scotland from an Irish background: “We’re up to our knees in Fenian blood.”
The blogger concludes: “Rangers are not an annexe of the Orange Order, or terrorist organisations… I am a Rangers supporter. I defer to the Queen and I am a unionist. These are my traditions.
“If Rangers wish to be accepted and respected in Scottish and European football we must distance ourselves from the jihadists and recidivists.”
The Battered Bunnet on 22nd January 2016 10:23 am
Straw poll – I’ll be taking a trip to the cup-tie, easy train journey. Don’t anticipate it being tricky to pick up a ticket around the ground.
PF invokes the popular police phrase in the JF case.
“Move along, now. Nothing to see here.”
Bears Fightback blog guy is called David Provan. No surprises there then
HH
If JJ wants his ” spiritual successor” club to be respected across Scotland and Europe, then he and the other “more informed and intelligent R Supporters”, should bombard the media and the SFA/SPFL with the reality of the deceased club and end, once and for all the newco nonsense.
thomthetim
har har, that was my favourite so far!
grand67
Welcome wee Ellie!
Hope everyone is well!