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Uefa’s incredible playable pitches, diversionary bans

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Having seen European football played on what could easily be mistaken for a swimming pool, I would be surprised if Uefa postponed Wednesday’s game Quarabag-Celtic game. Champions League and Europa League football takes place on pitches which are unplayable every season.

The combination of clubs travelling thousands of miles, crammed fixture schedules, competitors from hundreds of towns, many of which are not in natural grass growing regions, forces match supervisors to turn a blind eye. If the pitch in Baku is truly in a bad shape, the best Celtic can achieve is to have the game moved to an alternative venue., but even that would take an unlikely alignment of stars.

To some or other extent, everyone wants to control what the media reports about them. This is not in itself bad, but there are limits to the extent a football club, or any other group, should take this desire to control. Often for the reason that it will simply not work.

If some numpty reports that Ronny Deila said something off about Neil Lennon, and Ronny said no such thing, the numpty in question would find (found) himself banned from Celtic Park for using falsehoods to cause the club trouble. His newspaper would have to suck it up, as they were in the wrong.

When it comes to journalists reporting an unwelcome fact the rules are completely different. BBC’s Chris McLaughlin, who was banned from Ibrox days after reporting police arrested fans at the Hibs – Newco game for sectarian offenses has been publicly backed by the BBC.

The Corporation eventually backed Jim Spence after he was subject to significant intimidation for using the phrase “some people will tell you, the club that died” in connection to Rangers, but from the outside they appeared to be on the back foot early on.

In his excellent interview with Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, published today, Spence talks about this, saying “It has been and still is a blatant attempt to coerce and ultimately take journalists livelihoods away from them”.

Banning journos work in some circumstances: when they are factually wrong and doing you harm, but if they are factually correct, you’re handing the perceived enemy the initiative, and the high moral ground. A comment about a small number of arrests for sectarian offenses, which few people read, has now been magnified beyond comprehension. It’s a complete PR disaster of their own making, Newco should buy-in some expertise in this area.

Incredibly, when Craig Whyte made himself busy banning journos who reported what he was up to, those who should have been most alarmed were so lustfully delighted at the bans and invitations to demonstrate, they didn’t stop to consider Whyte was diverting their attention.

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  3. Saint Stivs on

    FRANNYB67 on 3RD AUGUST 2015 8:11 PM

     

    MarkGuidi writing for the Sunday Post oh how the mighty have falling.

     

     

     

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    oh how the fatso’s hsve crashed

  5. Jobo Baldie on

    Hrvatski Jim –

     

     

    Brilliant. But bonkers ;-)

     

     

    ps a nice dry evening at the moment….

  8. Malorbhoy on

    TinyTim on 3rd August 2015 2:53 pm This place is a joke at times. Craig Gordon could easily have been sent off for denying a goal scoring opportunity. On this occasion the refs decision went our way. If it had been at our end the conspiratorial nits would have been screaming for a sending off ,and saying that we had been cheated. Celtic were lucky this decision went our way. TT – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/uefas-incredible-playable-pitches-diversionary-bans/comment-page-3/#comments

     

     

    Good Evening TT, are you going to the Dunfermline Legends V Celtic Legends on the 6th Sept and the evening meal at night?

  11. Jungle Jim Hot Smoked on

    I was telling a fellow Tim earlier that I am worried that I am not worried enough about Wednesday.

     

    With about twenty minutes or so to go last week, I thought 0-0 would be enough. I genuinely fancied our chances of scoring Away and didn`t think Qarabag had posed enough of a threat to score against us in their own ground. I suppose thinking 0-0 would be enough has led me to think that 1-0 makes the game safe for us . I know it is not but , as I said at the beginning, I am not worried…….and that worries me.

     

     

    JJ ParadoxCSC

  12. Turkeybhoy on

    Cant see the Huns being too pleased at another cup-tie away from Warbs world.A right few quid down the pan there,as the gullibles seem to be full of hope and fervour once again. Glad to see Hibees signing Mc Ginn.Really good midfield there now.My bet looking a wee bit better.

  13. Cowiebhoy on

    Anyone else think the banning of a reporter, who stated the truth, is just an attempt to get more season books sold at the Bigot dome ?

     

    Has anyone supported the said reporter, who stated the truth, or is this another Jim Spence situation

     

     

    Neganon, some truth in what you posted earlier, Scotlands government afraid to tackle the root cause, and where is police Scotland ? Are they still looking for Moshni to arrest him for assault yet

     

     

    Hail Hail

  14. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Jimmynotpaul, sorry to hear about your allergy scare last week.

     

     

    I’m glad it got sorted out. My allergies are getting up in the morning and working.

     

     

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    Enjoy your trip to London. If you like the Jam there is an exhibition about them at Somerset House.

  16. Margaret McGill on

    Look ones Modus Operandi must evolve with the clubs if we are to maintain these reduced Scottish expectations and maintain living in the past….

     

    1. Nice turnover

     

    2. EPL fodder

     

    3. Still in Europa league by Xmas

     

    4. Wunda whit the Huns are daein?

  19. Jungle Jim Hot Smoked on

    Cowiebhoy,

     

    I think virtually everything they do at the Bigot Dome is geared towards selling tickets. Unfortunately, if the 25 k figure for a LC game against Peterhead was accurate, their methods seem to be working. Unless, of course, with all the free advertising they get in the Scottish media, 25k is not really a particularly good crowd.

     

     

    JJ

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  24. ruggygman on

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  27. Boltonbhoy on

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  29. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Hopefully our players have arrived in Baku by now and will get to their kips soon.

     

     

    I don’t know if the time difference will be an advantage or disadvantage for us or not, the temperature at kick might take a bit of getting used to but we need to have a game plan in place and keep our discipline.

     

     

    Preferably we don’t give the Qarabag players an invitation to hit the deck and do not react to any theatrics or histrionics from them.

     

     

    It would be nice if we could get some success from corners and free kicks.

  31. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Huns ban bbc

     

     

    Any sports editor with a shred of integrity would either ignore them completely or comment only on the injustice of the ban

     

     

    Bbc invite that trumpet Houston onto the show

     

     

    Embarrassing parochial broadcasting ….all for a dead club who cheated to most if not all of their recent trophy wins and who couldnt get promoted from the second tier of Scottish football ….this wouldn’t be sports news in any other country ….

  32. 67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar...... Ipox belongs to the creditors on

    Parkheadcumsalford

     

     

    Chris repoported on 3 bhuns being arrested for sectarian singing at Easter Road …..bhun bored had a strop and banned him, so BBC banned themselves from ipox …. :-)

  33. Hamiltontim on

    Boltonbhoy on 3rd August 2015 9:33 pm

     

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  35. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Bilel Mohsni speaking to Chris Jack of the Rangers News sorry Herald/Evening Times.

     

     

    Mohsni is so proud of helping Sevco get promoted to Scoland’s second division. This has been published in a newspaper. It shows, again, how low alleged journalists here stoop to please the horribles.

     

     

    Another instance of guys like Jack and Lindsay giving us a laugh.

     

     

    Its quite apt Mohsni has signed for a team with anger in their name being quite apt after his post match antics at Fir Park.

  41. 'GG on

    NEGANON2 on 3RD AUGUST 2015 7:40 PM

     

    Very thought provoking and passionate.

     

    Once again I am reluctantly and surprisingly nodding my head in agreement.

  42. Hrvatski Jim on

    BENJYBHOY MUL on 3RD AUGUST 2015 10:00 PM Hyrvatski Jim Are you OK? Pot Still soon?

     

     

    Did my post worry you that much? Early indication of madness?

     

     

    Fine,

     

     

    Could do this Friday but not the following one.

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