Wigan Athletic yesterday were the first to fall into administration in the world’s most financially vulnerable league, the English Championship. They were mid-table and on a winning streak, so if they can find the money to complete their remaining games, there is a chance they will avoid relegation, despite the points deduction.
With former owner, Dave Whelan, still alive and still rich, they are probably better placed to recover from this than most in the Championship, but I doubt Dave is prepared to cover years of contracted losses to fill the bank accounts of players.
If the great structural change in football that Celtic fans have been waiting on for decades does not happen in the months to come, it never will.
Most players in the English Football League have had their wages deferred, while some have been furloughed. Taxes have also been deferred, so the crunch lies ahead.
I am not a Mike Ashley fan but the manner in which he trolled yesterday Newco was spectacular. Sports Direct’s Facebook page announced Newco strips would be available exclusively from the retailer they continually believe they were rid of. The club statement that followed was an excruciating attempt to confirm nothing while not contradicting a word of the Sports Direct statement.
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WILLIAMKENTIGERN67 on 4TH JULY 2020 12:10 PM
What street did he live in.
The fatal delusions of Boris Johnston
https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/07/fatal-delusions-boris-johnson
hh
That’s a hell of a price that Bayern paid for Leroy’s Sannies- wonder what his boots are worth?
St.Anthony
@Stephen4_2
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Jock Stein poses with the Coronation Cup which he lifted as captain in 1953, We should never forget the importance of this trophy. This was a one off British championship and the Celts ran away with it. A huge source of pride to supporters of my Dad’s generation in the 1950’s.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcApwNmXkAEvWni?format=jpg&name=small
TBB- Shocking story about Wigan, very easy to join the dots,governing body has a lot to answer for.
AN TEARMANN@12.37
That was a good though disturbing read. I hadn’t heard the Gob5hite Johnson making that speech but it is utterly disturbing that someone in that position can hold those views.
Fasten your seatbelts folks, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Ave Ave
Tony Hamilton from Celtic Foundation on BBC Sportsound at some point before 5pm.
Dismissal
Posted at
90’+4′
Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
PLUS CA………..
TURKEYBHOY on 4TH JULY 2020 11:46 AM
But they won the war, so anything is possible.
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I know that your post was about pubs, Turkeybhoy. But your parting shot was so telling. That Britain won the war is demonstrably untrue. But millions actually believe in the lie. British history over the last 75 years has been informed by this absurd myth. It explains every mad adventure from Suez to Cyprus to the Falklands and on to Brexit
Just watched an interview with Elyounoussi .
Comes across as an articulate , intelligent and personable young man .
https://twitter.com/thekennyscott/status/1279381493312339968?s=12
Trouble at Castore already?
EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! on 4TH JULY 2020 1:57 PM
That was a good though disturbing read. I hadn’t heard the Gob5hite Johnson making that speech but it is utterly disturbing that someone in that position can hold those views.
Fasten your seatbelts folks, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Fintan is a good read C.he excelled with this observation
“The Brexit mindset is a binary of greatness and nothingness. ”
hope you and yours are well my friend
stay safe
hh
Bass
As someone pointed out Sports direct has the exclusive deal. Don’t think you’ll find our gear on the Adidas site.
Bass – Bada
An Tearmann
Among a host of brutally accurate prose, this paragraph stood out. You have to laugh…except their folly has killed additional thousands of our most vulnerable citizens
HH jg
Even in relation to medical equipment, Britain had to be special. It did not bother to join the EU’s joint procurement programme for personal protective equipment and ventilators. (This was “a political decision”, according to the Foreign Office, but a “mix-up” according to the government, prompting the question of how, with the state of British governance, one might possibly tell the difference.) It could not concentrate its mind on the problem of getting enough ventilators into hospitals. Instead of simply licensing existing designs, there had to be special, new British ventilators to serve as exemplars of the native genius for invention and can-do spirit. The government launched what Peter Foster of the Financial Times called “an Apollo-19 style great leap forward type campaign to invent, in six weeks, what had already been invented”.
Gene- Castore disputed the Sports Direct quote,they say it’s their top deal,why not on the website of a small company? Seems strange
Little known facts # 223
Ryan Jack played in the Celtic 9 Aberdeen 0 game
Bada
Probably erring on the side of caution until they check the small print. Big Mikey loves a court case.
Fred
Little known facts # 223
Ryan Jack was on the pitch in the Celtic 9 Aberdeen 0 game
Sorted
Neil McCann talks absolute. Pish
SS- Seconded.
Saint Stivs
Today is Saturday.
Celtic foundation on radio Scotland now
hh
Little known facts # 224
Neil McCann talks absolute. Pish
What’s the wee rat saying?
HH jg
Little known fact #225
Rangers were liquidated and the team playing out of Ibrox is a new club.
Favourite Uncle
it was posted last night that he stayed near the 16 bus terminus on Wallacewell Road.
My cousins stayed in Wallacewell but just at the white walls.
BALORNOCK BHOY on 4TH JULY 2020 4:58 PM
Thanks for that .it was 16 a .Don’t know how old you are but it caused a big problem when 16a came on stream as the original 16 started going through BARMULLOCH and all the people going to STOBHILL HOSPITAL had to get of and walk for miles.
Don’t remember LORD CLARK when he was young i think he must have gone to different school from me.
Favourite Uncle
I remember the 16 and 16A well. I used to get the 46A from the bundy to Duke Street when going to games as a young teen.
Suspect Lord Clark may have went to Albert, like me but all my cousins went to All Saints.
Lost count of the number of times I forgot i had got on a 12 bus and not the 16 bus as it turned from Red Road towards All Saints chapel rather than going to Balornock School. Cue a mad panic to get off at petrol station at the Broomy. Still a wee bag of chips from Ralphs made it not so bad :-)
For Big Jimmy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAE_vac4t78
….and for all those not in Ireland ( or England, I think ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06nA3xSyGh4
jamesgang
hoping you and yours keeping well 😊
Procurement of equipment is a mess.seem to recall Boris giving good brexiteer,offshorist,James Dyson the go ahead to manufacture ventilators.
great you would think?
Dyson moved his manufacturing base to Singapore
Singapore locked down.
even if Dyson could have made them they would only have got as far as a maersk box in the harbour there.
some total fantasies pumped out by them.
smile big man 9 go in for 10 woohoo.😊
hh
….and with all this Balornock , 16 and 16A talk, here is one about a Barmulloch girl especially for Favourite Uncle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e72tG80LmsU
If we are going to have to have BCD games, I hope we have got the Seville crowd scenes for banners. Another possibility might be the 125 game v Barcelona. Thoughts?
HH
Oh Carol, Barmulloch Girl??
What’s the connection?
Little known facts #225
5 players in the scottish cup final in 2016 were killed by marauding Hibs fans at the final whistle.
I stand corrected. #226
Balornock Bhoy
Little known fact #227
Neil Sedaka was from Barmulloch