Clubs receive Fair Play payments

[Anchorman 0]

Any thoughts on what we spend the £5k on?

 

Rangers site claiming we had THE BEST record in all the divisions.

 

If that is our claim to fame these days I despair.

[Anchorman 0]

It will probably struggle to cover lunch at nandos.

 

Probably covers the excess we had to pay on the burned out bus. Which ironically probably came about because of the levels of hatred towards us, in which the SFA played no small part.

[pmu 0]

First instalment to george letham perhaps?

[Ser Barristan Selmy 222]

There will be a RNS released on Monday stating the money has to go to Brian Stockbridge!

He deserves it. Look at what he did according to the IFSA website:

 

He was also instrumental in rescuing Rangers Football Club from certain collapse at a time of unprecedented crisis. Working as finance director of the Club – under intense media scrutiny and without the support of a full board for months – Brian restructured the club’s finances, oversaw the flotation on AIM, which generated funds of £22m and secured Rangers’ future.

 

Brian left Rangers in January 2014 to concentrate on the growing demand for the unique service provided by IFSA. As part of this work, he continues to advise high-profile sports companies and clubs on a range of financing and expansion opportunities.

 

They seem to have missed out the part where he left us financially destitute and in need of a loan just to make it through the season.

[der Berliner 3,886]

Any thoughts on what we spend the £5k on?

 

Rangers site claiming we had THE BEST record in all the divisions.

 

The SFA page shows how they came to their evaluation in each division ... and there's no surprise that the Yahoos still lead the way here. How they arrived at their Total Discplinary Points Total is anyone's guess, at least from the tables they provided.

[der Berliner 3,886]

Actually, the SFA said the Yahoos played 41 games where that disciplinary stuff applied. A quick check tells us that they received 72 yellow and 4 red cards during those games. We played 46 games and received 66 yellow and 2 red cards.

 

By the looks of it, their games excluded the CL campaign (12 games), ours included the Ramsden Cup. It might be of note that they received 22 yellow and 2 red cards during those 12 CL games not supervised by Scottish referees.

 

Edit: Number of games changed.

Edited July 18, 2014 by der Berliner

[forlanssister 3,114]

Actually, the SFA said the Yahoos played 51 games where that disciplinary stuff applied. A quick check tells us that they received 72 yellow and 4 red cards during those games. We played 65 games and received 66 yellow and 2 red cards.

 

By the looks of it, their games included the CL campaign (12 games), ours the Ramsden Cup. It might be of note that they received 22 yellow and 2 red cards during those 12 CL games not supervised by Scottish referees.

 

When did we play these 65 games?

[BrahimHemdani 1]

Actually, the SFA said the Yahoos played 41 games where that disciplinary stuff applied. A quick check tells us that they received 72 yellow and 4 red cards during those games. We played 46 games and received 66 yellow and 2 red cards.

 

By the looks of it, their games excluded the CL campaign (12 games), ours included the Ramsden Cup. It might be of note that they received 22 yellow and 2 red cards during those 12 CL games not supervised by Scottish referees.

 

Edit: Number of games changed.

 

One could argue that our games were less competitive because we were so far ahead of most teams in our league ergo unbeaten record, so perhaps less competitve equals less bookings. Of course much the same could be said of Celtic in the SPL. Also most people would concede that European games would be more competitve and from my perspective refs in European games are more card happy but I don't have stats to back that up.

 

Anyway it's an SFA award, it wouldn't be appropriate to include games not under their jurisdiction.

 

UEFA award 3 places in the UEFA Cup for fair play by national and club sides combined: Kilmarnock got a Scottish place in 1999 and Motherwell in 2009. However, we were 8th of 54 last year, not too bad and in some way reflects Celtic's fair play record in Europe.

 

Interesting that Norway have won it in 3 out of the last 4 years and they and Finland and Sweden have a terrific record; but Clubs from these countries are not very successful in European competition.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Respect_Fair_Play_ranking

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/General/02/10/25/58/2102558_DOWNLOAD.pdf

 

However, France, England, Germany and Netherlands appear in the top 10 in both the fair play (which includes national teams) and the club coefficients whilst Germany, Netherlands and France are in the top ten FIFA ranked countries in the World. This seems to prove that it is possible to be both fair and successful at the same time. The opposite also appears to be true if you look at some of the countries at the bottom of the fair play table: Armenia, Malta, Luxembourg, Liechstentein etc; whose clubs are not successful either. Perhaps there's some kind of relationship between small countries, disciplinary records and performance as well.

 

http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/

[pete 2,499]

One could argue that our games were less competitive because we were so far ahead of most teams in our league ergo unbeaten record, so perhaps less competitve equals less bookings. Of course much the same could be said of Celtic in the SPL. Also most people would concede that European games would be more competitve and from my perspective refs in European games are more card happy but I don't have stats to back that up.

 

Anyway it's an SFA award, it wouldn't be appropriate to include games not under their jurisdiction.

 

UEFA award 3 places in the UEFA Cup for fair play by national and club sides combined: Kilmarnock got a Scottish place in 1999 and Motherwell in 2009. However, we were 8th of 54 last year, not too bad and in some way reflects Celtic's fair play record in Europe.

 

Interesting that Norway have won it in 3 out of the last 4 years and they and Finland and Sweden have a terrific record; but Clubs from these countries are not very successful in European competition.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Respect_Fair_Play_ranking

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/General/02/10/25/58/2102558_DOWNLOAD.pdf

 

However, France, England, Germany and Netherlands appear in the top 10 in both the fair play (which includes national teams) and the club coefficients whilst Germany, Netherlands and France are in the top ten FIFA ranked countries in the World. This seems to prove that it is possible to be both fair and successful at the same time. The opposite also appears to be true if you look at some of the countries at the bottom of the fair play table: Armenia, Malta, Luxembourg, Liechstentein etc; whose clubs are not successful either. Perhaps there's some kind of relationship between small countries, disciplinary records and performance as well.

 

http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/

 

I would think better players time tackles better and therefore less cards are given out in the higher leagues. Just a thought not based on any research.