We received clarity from Uefa on some important issues yesterday and not on others. Access to the Champions and Europa Leagues next season will be granted only on sporting merit. This finally nailed hopes of the Null and Void Loyal. If a league was declared void, its standings and results would not hold, so no sporting merit could be determined.
If Newco want access to the Europa League qualifiers, they need the SPFL to award a winner and second place, despite their protests. Our old pal Cognitive Dissonance must keep them awake at night.
It is clear from the Uefa statement they have listened and tried to accommodate several scenarios. Where titles are close, like Italy, where Lazio narrowed the gap on Juventus to a point, Uefa suggest a play-off system could allow chasing teams to make up the difference. AZ Alkmaar trail Ajax on goal difference but the Dutch league is expected to call a halt to the campaign as early as today. There are no truly satisfactory closures this season, least of all for Celtic, who will be denied a title winning game.
What we didn’t get was a hard deadline on when teams have to be nominated for European competitions. After discussions with Uefa, the Italian league extended this season’s Serie A to 2 August, so we know for sure the European draws cannot take place until after that date.
I expect we will see European leagues synchronise their moves; there will be no incentive for any radical undertakings. Those without rabid losers will be first to call time, the SPFL will move with the herd, as it should. Then those who called for independent investigations into why the SPFL acted the same way as the rest of Europe will look like the angry losers they are.
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The mod obviously taking the day off 😉
SFTB,
China : Interesting ‘re foreign travel. If your critical of the state or it’s leaders the privilege will be removed.
Now I wonder how that would transpire to some CQN,’ers if the UK adopted a similar approach.
HH.
Off to bed. Stay safe and keep posting.
HH
awfy braw ….always loved the Coop…
https://twitter.com/LiveFight/status/1254382692722003969
smiley would you like custard with that crumble thing
Braw
Contrary to public opinion. France have won the most battles and are the most ” sucessfull ” country in European Warfare.
Vive la France.
When Henrik scored, to this day,it’s still the loudest noise ive heard at Celtic Park
I’m away to watch something,anything
Only 1 problem with St Pauli St Pauli ………..
Therenawinit
If anyone says ……………………… Bayern München……………..
= Biggamehunter
Almore
Indeed so
Bit of chat about De Valera’s neutrality.
Strange neutrality that seen some sixty thousand Southerners bein allowed to join British Armed Forces.
Strange neutrality tatt allowed British companies, some of them no doubt in the arms industry, to ser up labour recruitment offices in Dublin.
Just saying.
Big Joe
Have they shutdown league two
Been out of practice.
Excuse typos
hey Quonno….
smiley braw to see your moniker thing
Braw
Quonno: Lots of stories about Ireland’s (lack of) neutrality during the Second Great War – nearly all of it favouring the allied forces.
I remember when the use of sweary words on CQN was frowned upon – now it seems to be lauded. Not a fan.
Night all
Hope you are all well bhoys 🍀
all the better for seeing your wee words ….
smiley Dena29 for moderator thing
although you have managed that brawily with out the title …
Braw
used to love this place when football was the chat. Any wonder so many have left?
See what I mean?
Oh to be a Primadonna …
Watching the 98 game on sportscene and still catch myself holding my breath at times,I aged a few year during that 90 mins.
There are very few rules on CQN.
Those that knowingly contravene them are not stupid, they are just attention seekers..
NEUSTADT-BRAW
Just came for relevat CFC stuff..
But seen your post
HH
Had some Perlibackher today. Sober night. Back on duty tomorrow type dont want to do it nae smiley.
HH
LEFTCLICKTIC on 26TH APRIL 2020 7:55 PM
Went through every emotion possible that day. When O’boyle had that header to equalize……..The relief at the end was something I have never experienced watching Celtic since then.
Adi der Dassler …Perlenbacher ,,
from german bier testers it is a 4 from 5…and a very braw drop..
smiley I send you a smiley for relevance my friend thing
blieb locker…
Braw
ANGELGABRIEL on 26TH APRIL 2020 8:07 PM
It’s always somebody else’s fault. For the avoidance of doubt I have seen loads of ” unfashionable” posters slaughtered for contravening the very few rules of the blog.
The clique is indeed alive and kicking.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 26TH APRIL 2020 3:27 PM
Don’t know you Cana etc. but I bet you’re a Nat. The prescient George Orwell said of nationalists, ‘You can take them by the hand , step by step, to the truth. But they will never accept it.
Historically, the USA has committed atrocities. And its misguided post WW2 foreign policy did lead to state sanctioned murder. But it has also, again historically, been selflessly magnanimous. To mention a few: it sent hundreds of doctors to fight disease and famine to the fledgling USSR in 1919. (Incidentally, that was when US Dr Armand Hammer met Lenin to draw up plans for the semi-capitalist New Economic Policy.) The other act of magnanimity never, sadly as yet, repeated was the 1947 Marshall Plan. This saved Europe from a second Depression. Truman extended the offer to the Soviet Union but Stalin refused and prevented his satellite states from accepting.
Trump is a cretin and a very dangerous cretin at that. (Incidentally his mastery of ‘the deal’ halved the fortune inherited from his egregious father. If you believe that China, Russia and the USA are moral equivalents I suspect you have spent far too much time on convenient internet sites.
One more thing and this is a kind of metaphor for your delusion: in 1932 Stalin punished the Ukrainian peasants for resisting collectivisation. He burned their crops and slaughtered their animals. The very lowest estimate for deaths by starvation in just the Ukraine that year is 2 million. Western intellectuals in Russia at the time refused to believe what was happening. They had invested too much intellectual capital in communism to accept the bleeding obvious. George Bernard Shaw was one of them. One odious American communist journalist told the NY Times that the story was a lie. Yevtushenko (author of Babi Yar) didn’t think it was a lie. He was there.
Ondnightinlisbon
I had convinced myself that Kenny Clark was going to award them a pen at first opportunity. :)))))))
So Sevco didn’t like the independant accountancy/auditor firm investigation f FtSFA
I and in fairness Celtic didn’t like the LNS investigation
Can we hold that again
With the new evidence now available
So are you all saying personal opinion is only good going one way 🤔
Watching BBC Scotland and our stopping ten 🍀
Watching Van der Valk (new) on STV. Theme tune modernised, not necessarily for the better, and Marc Warren is no Barry Foster. Still, things are looking up, VdV has just decided to go to a Coffe Shop as it helps him think…😉😉
FRITZSONG on 26TH APRIL 2020 8:19 PM
Malcolm Muggeridge, then the Manchester Guardian ‘s Moscow correspondent, travelled secretly and at great risk to Ukraine. He was appalled at the scenes of mass starvation and heaps of dead bodies that he witnessed and described them in his reports. Duranty attacked Muggeridge and debunked his reports. Duranty was ‘the greatest liar of any journalist I have ever met’, retorted Muggeridge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/04/russia.usa
QUONNO on 26TH APRIL 2020 6:42 PM
Strange neutrality that seen some sixty thousand Southerners bein allowed to join British Armed Forces.
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Probably, if anyone benefited from Irish neutrality it was the British. For example, RAF planes shot down over Ireland were returned to Britain for repair.
I’ve often wondered about the motivation of the 60,000 Irishmen (highest number from any non-combatant nation) who volunteered to fight for Britain. I suspect that a substantial number were anti-fascist. I understand they got a raw deal from the Irish government after the war.
Sevco have the ‘intention’ to share their dossier ‘well in advance’ of a general meeting with every club in the SPFL.
16 days after claiming to have whistle blower evidence of some non specific wrong doing we’ve seen nothing.
We’ve heard calls to suspend the SPFL CEO and legal advisor. Accusations of bias against the SPFL chairman but 16 days later and counting, we’ve seen no evidence.
I’m glad they have the intention to share that evidence at some non specific time in the future.
Sevco have slated the Dundee email vote but it’s taken them 16 days and counting to email their dossier…
They have an intention though…
So I m watching the 9 May 98 game for the second time in a week and I was still nervous before the second goal went in from Harald. Is that normal behaviour?
LEFTCLICKTIC on 26TH APRIL 2020 8:21 PM
Me too. Nerve wracking 90 minutes….
Watching the same game
MACJAY keep giving your opinion
It’s worth something to somebody 🍀