Uefa yesterday signalled a route for top-flight leagues to be ‘called’, ensuring an access route to the Champions and Europa Leagues for qualifying teams. Their official line – everyone’s official line, including Celtic’s – remains that leagues should be completed where possible, but that outcome remains highly unlikely.
When parties conflict during negotiations or a dispute, one will often have a deadline working against them. Having taken the null and void outcome off the table, the SPFL have given themselves time, unlike their principle protagonists, who have deadlines looming.
If I was Neil Doncaster, I would wait until the final possible moment before the Premiership is called. If the SPFL board called the league on Friday, it would be too late to provide prize money to cover April wages, but it is likely several of the league’s cash-impaired clubs will need this money to be released by the middle of next month.
I would be happy to wait until early June, when every theoretical possibility is exhausted. Do the right thing and be seen to do the right thing. Make Celtic wait, give football every possible chance, there is no hurry. If the SPFL waits, their preparedness in providing for the lower leagues and patience over the Premiership will be unimpeachable.
Maybe Budge and Park could apply to the League for a loan? Just an ideal, to help them through the period without prize money.
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Correct Aipple, there’s a plethora of Dylan lyrics out there that I could relate to, however one that I couldnae lying on my bed on a dreich night on the Bonnie Banks was:
“If your ever in the North country fair
Where the wind lies heavy on the border line”
That is until I moved over here as he lived in Hibbing Minnesota which lies on the US/Canada border with lots of snow.
Hi cqn.whats happening?
:-)
HH
AIPPLE
Thanks for the link to the Edward Snowden interview.
AD- interesting comparison
TT
Where are you now?
FrankTerry
He speaks well. Most welcome.
fffff
Bamboo
“I’m sure been said on here dozens of time – the term “conspiracy theory ” was invented by the CIA and used to discredit people who were exposing their wrong-doings. Its been quite a successful tactic too. ”
The CIA was formed in 1947. The OED dates the earliest definite use of the term was in 1909, though it also appeared in journals in 1870.
Don’t think that theory works either.
Keepanopenmindbutusereliablefilters csc
Great post paul67
Priority one is staying alive.
Priority 2 : attempting to keep the spfl going and not acting in narrow self interests
The spread of covid-19 depends on two factors.
1) How dense the population is; and
2) How dense the population are.
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I accidentally paid for my shopping with my donor card.
Cost me an arm and a leg.
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Hahahahaha
In a small town about 50 kms north west of Toronto Aipple.
TT
Ah, OK.
I’ve to Toronto a few times, pleasant and fun city. Remember is being very clean.
I’m a bit worried about Neil Lennon’s most recent comments on on football here, he says that he would like the games played but if it doesn’t happen he will wait and see what happens, well if we wait and see we will get the worst deal going be sure of that, and anything that wipes the points accrued and goal difference for some sort of shoot out is not on.
So Aberdeen want to restart the league – quelle surprise.
Income mainly made up of
1. match day on site (lots)
2. commercial (some)
3. TV money (a chunk)
4. SPFL prize money (not much)
5. UEFA Europa League dosh (a bigger chunk than people think)
Why try to live on 2 & 4 alone when you can get dough from 3 & 5 too?
To make that a possibility all Aberdeen, or anyone, have to do is angle for matches to restart across Europe (even behind closed doors) … Oh and that includes a televised home game against Celtic !
an dun
One Island. Three Jurisdictions.
Your nose is in your pipe, but you don’t care
Your tattered tweeds and walking cane
All feel real
The monocled face with the knowing eyes
See it all go by
But you don’t care
Fit as a butcher’s dug. She’ll be on the FF banned list now. 🍀😉
https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1252408558798270465?s=21
Buzzcocks
SFTB
I’m sure the two words had been used in earlier times . Way its used today seemed to coincide with people questionings the the Kennedy assignations and much other US skullduggery. Basically its become a worthless expression and its time for it to be binned. IMHO
Hi Bhoys
.To the bliss
In all the lovers eyes that mock you as they kiss
And the lonely, drunken old men
See themselves in you and you see yourself in them
Love and Money
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There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
never get to fall in love
never get to be cool
Neil Young
KEEP THE FAITH
And the misuse of phrase cognitive dissonance.
Too much is lumped into the term conspiracy theory.
But the common thread of anti-semitism, pro-gun rights, and aryan supremacy runs constant through many of the more outlandish ones.
BTW – Pablo, or anyone else …
“Maybe Budge and Park could apply to the League for a loan? Just an ideal, to help them through the period without prize money”
It has been hinted on here that any such loans are dependent on clubs meeting certain conditions. e.g. Audited accounts
Can you confirm?
Is it still a conspiracy theory if it’s proven to be true ?
Anyone heard anything about Scottish football newspaper journalists being furloughed?
No football – no need for them?
nnnnn
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Back to Basics
Most sports reporters self-employed, and they haven’t earned a shekel since early March. The columnists are still getting space, but the reporters are rooked.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the few full timers remaining on the sports desks were getting concerned about furlough, although given the wages paid by the papers, they won’t need to worry much about exceeding the £2500 limit.
Dylan lyrics:
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big bed.
Lay across my big brass bed !
I’ll do no such thing Ron Bacardi. How dare you!
LatteArtCSC
RON BACARDI on 22ND APRIL 2020 4:57 PM
Dylan lyrics:
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big bed.
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Thought you’d been down the scrappy for a minute there.😉
Bob on hypocrisy .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aehwEu8SBSo
Another rangers gutted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52381370
One for the greenoakyins and port onions
QE2 at Inchgreen 1968.
Boundary Street, Bogston, garden city.
https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/resources/images/11272108/?type=responsive-gallery-fullscreen
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 22nd April 2020 5:15 pm
went to see him after 20 mins of him standinding with his back to us and obviously not rehearsed
I left
Prick
Saint Stivs on 22nd April 2020 5:24 pm
thanks for that my parents wandered round it at one of its first ever stops, their home
sent it to my dad who will cherish