Uefa’s new funding distribution model, announced yesterday, is a bit of a mixed bag for Celtic. Payments for performance in the Champions League increase, which is a nod to clubs from the big leagues, who always perform better. This will be partly paid for by a reduction in distribution from the TV Pot, currently a significant source of our Champions League money.
On the plus side, income from qualification for the competition proper, which the Scottish Champions are guaranteed next season, will increase from £16.3m to £28.9m, offsetting loss of TV Pot money by a factor of eight.
Solidarity payments to clubs which do not participate in European competitions increase from 4% of the pot to 7%. In reality, due to the revamped Champions League from next season, this will see payments to the likes of Motherwell and St Mirren more than double.
European football faces an existential problem around its diminishing competitive edge. Clubs from Romania, Greece, Serbia and Scotland can no longer aspire to reach the Champions’ Final. Speaking at the European Club Association conference, vice-chairman of the Association and Celtic chairman Peter Lawwell said, “Celtic as the champions in Scotland receive just over £3 million; if you are relegated from the EPL [English Premier League] you get £140 million. The main factor is the domestic competitions.” The haves and have nots grow ever-farther apart.
The road ahead for Celtic is clear, remain in the Champions League proper and riches await. Achieving this, requires us to earn coefficient points at a higher rate than we currently achieve, or hoping to benefit from the performance of other Scottish clubs. If not, we take our chances through qualification.
An enormous leap in European performance is required.
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Kenny MacIntyre on Radio Scotland, telling bygone trips of yore,travelling from Mull to Poundland……..no surprise there….
Bada Bing@1.02
Is that rumour emanating from a mole close to Beale? :)
PCS: I hate ‘Ireland’s Call’ too. It’s a sop to the players (usually from the North) who are of a Unionist persuasion.
Cosgrove and Cowan continue to get a gig in the media because they cater for two significant, large, modern demographics in Scotland; people who celebrate being losers (Tam) and people who denigrate others (Stuart)
We should celebrate that Celtic players do not get ‘overlooked’ these days for Scotland FC. Players have had to fight for it. The Maestro, Tom Boyd, Jackie Mac, Dalglish and McGrain back in the day, Maloney and many others exercised their right to play at the highest level. Not that they got much credit for it though, having to listen for years to McCoist this, Cooper that, Walter this, McLeish that, Roxburgh this, Brown that….
Of course we are not liberated from some of them yet. Sally McCoist, the white Cafu, Grim Reaper Levein and company are in their media prime. And they have got ‘hauners’. S Thompson, the ex beanpole striker has for some ungodly reason become a state-funded football expert!
All for one and one for all , no Stevie?
On last night’s updates on shortie he managed to get two digs in on Che Adams. How it wasn’t his night and his touch was letting him down. Yet Che took the quick throw in down the wing which led to the first goal!! That is a team player, which Thompson of many teams probably never was. I can’t really say however because as Jota on the wing once said “Who is he?”
SOSfrompunditscsc
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 9TH SEPTEMBER 2023 3:53 PM
Bada Bing@1.02
Is that rumour emanating from a mole close to Beale? :)
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Speaking of moles…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0QrBxWcBXow&si=zHwMa5TaOcQVj6JR
Celtic Mac – cheers.
Your last para made me laugh out loud.
For me this is a competence thing.
Do it right and you remove that doubt which can lead to suspicions.
Totally get your point about this cluster of fixtures being a snapshot which, if expanded, presents different facts.
That point is fair.
I’ve just never before seen a stretch of any random 5 league games (13% of the league season) running 1-4. Odd.
I quite like Ireland’s Call.
Used to dislike it quite a bit.
The IRFU is, IMHO, a good example of Irish unity.
When Ireland was partitioned and two countries were established, invariably many existing singular institutions were split into two.
IRFU, in their wisdom … or whatever … decided to stick with the status quo.
80 or 90 years later, looks like they were right?
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Almore on 9th September 2023 4:09 pm
PCS: I hate ‘Ireland’s Call’ too. It’s a sop to the players (usually from the North) who are of a Unionist persuasion.
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I detest it.
Unity within Irish rugby was briefly threatened in the 1950s. A high-profile instance of the northern authorities enforcing prohibition of the displaying of the Irish tricolour came at a match between Ireland and Wales in Ravenhill in March 1950.
A fan who had travelled from Dublin, on exhibiting the tricolour prominently before the match commenced, was chased and attacked by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). A photograph showing the man manhandled by the RUC, with one officer planting his knee on the man’s neck, pinning him to the ground, was seen around the world. Motorists travelling over the border for the match were also ordered to remove the tricolour by the RUC once they entered Northern Ireland.
Rugby was the first Irish sport to see the permanent establishment of a national
organisation that had control over its clubs and competitions throughout the entire
country in the late Victorian era: this was the Irish Rugby Football Union, which was
founded in 1879. Other sports saw similar organisational developments in the period
covered by this special issue: the Irish Football Association was established in 1880, the
Irish Bicycle Association in 1882 (changing its name to the Irish Cyclists’ Association in
1884), the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in 1884, the Irish Amateur Athletic
Association in 1885, the Irish County Polo Club Union in 1890, the Golfing Union of
Ireland in 1891, the Irish Hockey Union in 1892, the Irish Amateur Swimming Association
and the Irish Ladies’ Golf Union in 1893, the Irish Ladies’ Hockey Union in 1894, the Irish
Amateur Gymnastic Association in 1895, the Irish Bicycle Polo Association in 1898, the
Irish Amateur Rowing Union and the Irish Badminton Union in 1899, the Irish
Automobile Club in 1901, 6 the Motor Cycle Union of Ireland in 1902, the Irish Bowling
Association in 1904, An Cumann Camógaíachta (the Camogie Association) in 1905, the
Irish Lawn Tennis Association in 1908 and the Irish Amateur Boxing Association in 1911.
This mushrooming of national controlling bodies for various sports is indicative of the
keenness with which Irish enthusiasts for sport embraced the codification model that
revolutionised sports activity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It also provides an
insight into the sheer variety of sports in which Irish men and women participated in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
GGH- VG
Melvin Udall
😂
Good evening all from the Queens Park Cafe. Braw.
BRRB – Sacre Bleu, Santa Maria.
Look over your shoulder yer fanbhoy from last night is there.
D. :)
Kyogo starts tonight for Japan against Germany. 19.45 kick off.
Not sure that Potter is a fit for Sevco – ‘decent guy’ who needs to be careful choosing his next job.
Frank Lampard on the other hand…
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 9TH SEPTEMBER 2023 5:16 PM
Melvin Udall
😂
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And that is why I should keep my beta to myself!
😂😂😂
P.S. England are pish! They’ll never win a major tournament.
That squad is as good as it gets for them and they were dire tonight.
David66
Naw Davy, he’s in the Garngad with Mad Mitch.
I wandered lonely as a cloud…….and ended up in Heraghtys.
German commentators already saying: the DE defence needs to watch out, Kyogo is a player who only needs one chance.
back to basics
Whatever system the SPL uses it does seem capable of a few “anomalies”
Then again ever tried to play Euromillions?
That computer gets it wrong every time….
Every time
numbersracketcsc
GOAL Valerenga 1-1 Celtic
Kit Loferski
An immediate reply! Just what Celtic needed!
It’s great work from Amy Gallacher, pressing high up the pitch and winning possession off the Valerenga centre-half.
Gallacher stays calm, slips Kit Loferski in on goal, and the American striker fires a left-footed shot past Guro Pettersen and into the bottom corner.
saint stivs
Nearly forgot our Ghirls were playing in Norway
On Celtic TV too
CELTIC MAC on 9TH SEPTEMBER 2023 7:20 PM
saint stivs
Nearly forgot our Ghirls were playing in Norway
On Celtic TV too
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aye real fitba
https://youtu.be/aUaO50nWnvg?feature=shared
🦃bhoy making a James hunt of himself again.usual 👋
Potter to Greyskull wiill be abhorrent to the dementors who frequent the dark horrible place.
Dementors are horrible, spectral magical creatures, hooded and robed, which feed on positive human emotions and leave only the negative ones.
Dementors drain ‘peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them,
Sums the huns up perfectly.
HH.
Melvin
Agree about England
Quarter final team for me unless tournament in England
Brilliant drop goal there🏉
Celtic beat the Huns 3 2 at the masters!
Woman go to extra time
Japanese coach has started a couple of subs now but Maeda and Kyogo are still on the bench. They’re beating Germany 2:1
2 more Japanese subs- Maeda and Kyogo not getting a look in.
Sftb
Good news – no injuries
Good evening from Heraghtys via Allison Arms, Titwood Bar and Kamwah. I need to stop this celebrating malarkey, it could prove ruinous when I apply for the hun job.
Typo
When I ruin the hun.