The SPFL’s beneficiary squeezed again

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I know demand from broadcasters is terrible and money is poor. It’s also true that means Scottish Premiership clubs are desperate for cash, any cash, but Celtic are not one of those clubs.

It’s Celtic who subsidise Scottish football, from top to bottom. It’s Celtic fans who are inconvenienced by an 8pm Saturday night kick off at St Mirren next month.

The league’s great beneficiary is Celtic, not Sky Sports, that source of revenue should be nurtured, not inconvenienced.

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  1. CHAIRBHOY on 14TH OCTOBER 2025 7:27 PM

     

    Lionroars67 @ 6:02 pm,

     

     

    I only posted the SPFL viewpoint and latest financial statement

     

     

    It did not mean I agree or support

     

     

    Thanks for the advice on not following spin or hype

     

     

    Even yours

     

     

    Have a good day

  2. Interesting to see Bertrand Russell quoted

     

     

    More of a philosopher, logician and mathematician than a historian I don’t think he’d be using something he said 50 years ago to make a point, he completely changed his views on Zionism over time, for example. Since 1970 we’ve seen 911, the rise of global islamism, globalization. Huge geopolitical changes.

     

     

    He did have some very interesting views on free speech: “ He believed that true freedom of thought meant the ability to express ideas without fear of reprisal, emphasizing the need for skepticism and a scientific temper to advance knowledge and preserve liberty.”

     

     

    You wonder what he’d make of people who make statements like: “it’s my duty to stamp out any negativity about Brendan” or call people names because they put forward uncomfortable arguments.

     

     

    It would be fascinating to know what his views on AI would be. A great philosopher but also a mathematician – he co wrote one of the great mathematical works of the 20th century, which is seen as being part of the foundations of AI, and fundamental in the development of the algorithms that are so important in mathematics and data analysis.

     

     

    Which brings us back to Celtic.

  3. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Good morning CQN.

     

     

    Cloud cover but not too gloomy.

     

     

    Similar outlook for Celtic perhaps.

     

     

    As always, I’m glad that international window is now out of the way.

     

     

    Let countdown to the weekend’s footie commence.

     

     

    😉

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    Celtic40me @ 10:02 – nice one.

     

     

    Fascinating fellow ….

     

     

    … and Bertrand Russell was interesting too.

     

     

    🤪

  5. Anyone still think Hamas are the good guys looking out for the Palestinian people? Executing their own , selfie style, with flegs. That ok? From your couch.

  6. Has to be an alternate future for the people of Gaza and the West Bank that doesn’t involve Hamas or Israel. Israeli people are not the monsters under your bed, if they could have peace with security they would jump at it. They are descendants of people displaced from Europe and Arab league nations, 2 million of the later when there was no mobiles Facebook, AI or any selfies. They live in a small strip of land that is mostly desert. Few on here have a scooby what that means. Give peace a chance. Hamas and Netanyahu must go. The ordinary Palestinians and Israelis need to sort it out, find a way to forgive and move on. They don’t need you putting fuel on the fire.

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    Taurangabhoy – agree with your views on the respective “leaders”.

     

     

    An incredibly unpalatable truth that some people perhaps don’t want to wrestle with ….

     

     

    Hamas and Netanyahu have a symbiotic relationship.

     

     

    They are actually good for each other.

  8. Thank you back to basics , I am glad that their are more people interested in actual peace. Not easy to put your head above the parapet.

  9. spikeysauldman on 15th October 2025 12:40 am

     

     

    While no great fan of Amy Macdonald ( I know she is a hunnette) I would definitely go to see her if I got a freebie. Love going to the Hydro and the before and afters at the rejunvated Finnieston.

     

    My wife and daughters went to see Katy Perry last week, I accompanied them to Finnieston and enjoyed the ambience of the local wattering holes . ( Drew the line at the Katy Perry cocktails though)

     

     

    This is definitely the life.

  10. TBhoy – has anyone on here ever said they support Hamas – from their couch or not ? flegs or not. any more digs ? Israeli leaders and those who further zioinism are most definitely the monsters under the bed. Zionism is a decades long and forever project using and being used by American/Western Imperialists/Capitalists. The US will have as much a say if not more than the people of the Middle East on how things go. The Chinese said the greatest threat to the US is World Peace.

  11. In 2006 I spent a month in the West Bank assisting with the olive harvest and acting as a human shield for the Palestinian farmers, who were (and are still) being prevented for accessing their land due to military checkpoints and settler violence. The group I was with had human rights activists, Rachael Corrie and Tom Hurndall murdered by the Israeli military previous to my visit. Ehud Olmert was Israeli Prime Minister overseeing this apartheid policy, not Netanyahu, so to suggest this racist genocidal ideology is sole domain of the current incumbent isn’t true. A recent poll published in Haaretz poll found that “82 percent of Jewish Israelis support expelling Palestinians from Gaza and 56 percent back the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel — up from 45 percent and 31 percent, respectively, in a similar poll in 2003”

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