Interesting development reported this morning by the BBC that the SPFL have sold rights to a Chinese broadcaster for around £500k per year. With rights for major European leagues commanding premium fees, it seems intuitive that there’s space for lower-cost content, but Scottish football must be starting from a position of practically zero market knowledge in China. Unless Zheng Zhi is a whole lot more popular than I realised.
The other aspect about China to bear in mind is the size and habits of its gambling market. If you are a gambler, you don’t watch football for the thrill of following your favourite team, you watch for the opportunity to beat the bookie, and in this respect, Scottish football is as valuable as any league.
Sport’s relationship with gambling has been a source of concern, especially in the Scottish lower leagues, but when you look up your fixture list and see the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership, there’s no point getting precious about the influence Chinese gamblers.
I see the Bumblebee’s back! This NB know how to push our buttons with the retro look.
I know around 100 of you have/can/will run a 10k or half marathon, and a few dozen have told me you’re signing up to do the Great Scottish Run for your Foundation. You know what it’s about, Health, Education, Learning, Poverty – or in short, it’s about what Celtic means to you and me.
Time to get moving on it. See the Foundation page here for details. It’s in October, so there’s a good chance the rain will stop by then. Let me know when you’ve signed up, celticquicknews@gmail.com
You don’t need to break records, you don’t even need to run the whole course, just get the trainers on and get out there, you’ll be glad you did.
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Gerryfaethebrig:Now that you have your wife and daughter committed I would go and book the flights before either changes their mind:-)
Evening Timland from a hot and humid hun free mountain valley.
You would think that when you pretend to post as someone else, you would at least change your posting style.
Rudi….Rye
One and the same :-)
I’m sure this will have been sussed already, haven’t had time to read back.
HH
Jeekers canamalar
Chill
what is the stars
22:38
There’s only 1 Wincey Willis !!!!!!!!
glendaly
Zheng Zhi has been granted a conditional membership to appear as a clever wielding commentator alongside Kyle ‘deid man’s fall’ Lafferty.
TET
Subscribers posted as multiple personalities is not something new.
Sure look how well Andy Goram did when both of them were in goal.
While I have no problem with today’s Cifti verdict I do find a certain humour in the fact that the cup semi not provens have prevented the SFA hitting him with an even heavier ban. Can you imagine had they been able to take previous offences into consideration? I doubt we’d have seen him in action in the league this season :)
Canamaler..Girlfriend settle pettle, i am not, nor have i ever been a Mason or a facist or a bastard…Or a pagan satanist( sounds nasty)..now remember to take your meds…Coz You kneed to calm…Bless…
Gerryfaethebrig
Try Jean Byrne, irish TV weather woman,fond of the old leather gear
What is the Stars at 22:38 on 20 July, 2015 said –
This obsession with weather girls is becoming tedious
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The Blog is, of course, all about opinions ;-)
Jobo
Jean Byrne csc
GG
Aye, they fair filled up the goal.
HH
almore
22:44 on 20 July, 2015
We haven’t booked anything as family are wanting us to visit them, I have never been over and the fact that I am the youngest and the family from Milford all loved my dad are wanting us to spend some time there, it’s no bother with the wee yin being off school but more my holidays and the good wife’s, but honestly the way she spoke today without me prompting was like its a done deal…
Jobo
In peters and lee style (seeing I’m middle aged :-))
Welcome home, welllll come, come on in, and shut the door :-)
Hail Hail
So, how many games will Nadir serve, 4 or 6 ?
HH
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’m schizophrenic
And so am I
“….. huns Jews Muslims budists and Hindus and every other pagan will rot in hell in eternal agony”……because God loves them.
Goodnight all.
JJ
TET
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Anybody got any idea what the weather will be like in EK the morra, bet it’s not as good as Nerja ?
Rudi any answe on the telling lies or is it only those Catholics that lie ?
(Rhetorical question) fellow Celtic fan
I’ve been having a few wee thoughts about the kind of bets the Chinese SPFL viewers can make to indulge their passion.
What odds on “A penalty for Sevco when they trail by a goal late on?”
Or “The ref chalking off a Celtic goal.”
Or “A Celtic player getting a yellow card for wearing the hoops?
Or Ciftci being a marked man?
WITS
Just checked that out, Jean Byrne is a wee bit like my Mrs
(darling if you are lurking tomorrow you are better looking)
Canamaler Cant find the post calling me a pagan satanist whatever
.what page is it?
Wits
Jean Byrne aint fit to lace Big Judy’s……..
……… knee-length……………… patent leather……..
……………….. riding boots….
;)
bgx,
Awe petal don’t you like it, wee sweet thing like you would never eat raw babies in your nationalistic fervour, only poor scots deserve help, English poor deserve eternal damnation because of where they were born lets desert them.
33* eh
Bless, poor wee thing, needs understanding or a goat and press cover up
Reminds me of the old dave Allen joke about the guy who goes to heaven and is being shown around. So he is being told by St Peter that” over here are the protestants and over here are the Muslims and so on”
They come to a cordoned off section surrounded by a huge wall. The guy asks” so who are behind the wall? “.Shh says St Peter, that’s where the catholics are, they think they are the only ones here
Rudi
don’t listen to them matey, even if you are a wee zombie rocket, you can’t be blamed for being attracted to the light.
Now I ain’t convinced you are a wayward Tim or indeed one of the blighted, but either way, a season ticket for the Celtic, well, it’ll solve all your issues…it’s worked in the past for some wayward wee souls…
Just look at how happy Canman is….
Need further persuasion, huh?
https://youtu.be/enSae4tVYis
JJ
Thanks
HH
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the ’60s, ’70s and early ’80s probably shouldn’t have survived, since:
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint, which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent ‘spokey dokey’s’ on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or airbags – riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, and no Internet chat rooms. We had friends; we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.
We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friend’s homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn’t rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
Our generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
Consider this:
The majority of students in universities today were born in 1983.
They have never heard of “We are the World, We are the children”, and the”Uptown Girl” they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
AIDS has existed since they were born.
CDs have existed since they were born.
To them, Michael Jackson has always been white and John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can’t imagine how this fat guy could have been a god of dance.
They believe that Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible are films that came out last year.
They’ll never have pretended to be the A Team, the Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.
They can’t believe a black-and-white television ever existed and don’t even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.
And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.
Now let’s check whether you’re getting old:
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
7. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too…
Yes, you’re getting older!!!!
HH
In Celtic games the Chinese bookies will be putting short odds on one on one’s with the Celtic goalkeeper,it’ll be called ‘skin the cat’ and is certain to appeal to the ole home audience.
Canamaler…Let it go man..Talk of eating raw babies shows a mind that really should be helped.Lets not Convo in anyway if you please, i wont address you, i would be more than happy if you would reciprocate…Bless
Rudii, Rudi, Rudi….. Rudeeee
That was to the tune Ruby, Ruby Rubeeee
Are you answering any of my posts ?
It’s cool probably better posters than your good self have ignored me
Are you looking forward to Ronny leading us to the CL group stages ?
BT
Do the hotels and cafes in Aberdour not sell nice enough tea and cakes that you and your tearaway pal have to take taxis all over Fife to find an acceptable menu?
I wish the bhlog would call time on our recent rocket arrivals an’ their boosted bro’s…..
………excrucatin’.
There was always the potential for teething problems with a signing like Ciftci….
Gerry….
Even though I simply REPORT the weather rather than forecast it I’d be extremely suprised* if the EK temperature is even half of Nerja’s tomorrow.
Jobo
* – understatement of the year
Weet, weet, weet
Good post but did you really kid on you were in the famous five?
EnidblightonCSC
I remember a school trip many moons ago to Aberdour.
I can’t remember exactly which year it was but it’s certainly closer to 60 than 50.
We were based at an orphanage in Aberdour where we had our lunch, pie, beans and chips, in the refectory / dining room while being stared at by the orphans.
I don’t remember if it was run by nuns or brothers.
Any info would be welcome especially whether it still exists.
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/12227853.html