Is Scottish Football Corrupt?

[pete 2,499]

1 hour ago, cooponthewing said:

Father Keevins on SSB tonight says the pitch invasion yesterday was just fans being over exited? Reports of the unwashed running on the pitch having selfies taken during the game were met with similar indifference. Apparently pitch invasions are nothing to be concerned about now. Sickening didn’t cover it?

On Reporting Scotland they said the Fans were nearly on to the pitch and let you see that they hadn't crossed the bye-line.?

[Gonzo79 15,294]

The likes of Graham Spiers, Keith Jackson and Michael Stewart make no attempt to hide their contempt for Rangers.

 

Three gimps.

[ian1964 10,724]

Apparently Murdo McLeod said on Rocksport that Madden has apologised to Brenda for sending Brown off!!

[ian1964 10,724]

 

 

[compo 7,042]

9 hours ago, ian1964 said:

Apparently Murdo McLeod said on Rocksport that Madden has apologised to Brenda for sending Brown off!!

I wouldn't be surprised if the referee gets hauled over the coals by his bosses. 

[buster. 5,194]

There are areas around the game that you could call corrupt and at various levels Celtic (the PLC and the Celtic-Minded politicos on the fringe who are often indirectly linked with the club, eg. CQN, RTC, SFM, etc) have taken advantage of opportunities this decade and forged a path where they hold sway on most things.

 

A poster on FF (the Gub) once coined the phrase, 'Espanyolification' and it has been proven to be disturbingly accurate. 

 

In 2015, when Paul Murray came out with the phrase "building bridges", he was villified by much of our own support (at least online).

Understandably, there was little to no appetite for it.... but I said at the time that he was right and we had to get our foot back in the door at various levels of influence and start building our way back. What the more confrontational approach has done is more or less put us where the Celtic-Minded wanted us and made it easy for them to help grow a general off the scale hatred and contempt for us amongst much of Scottish football, rather than only the other side of the City.

 

Since then, a lot of the clubs reaction to events has seemed to be based in what they think the supporters would like to see and hear at the time.

However, much of the time there has been little in the way of strategy or even tactics wrt follow-up. Although tbf, I think that has gradually changed in recent times.

 

You can shout about it all you want (the timing is down to the poor reslut at the weekend) but it doesn't change things. The club can only go so far with a confrontational approach, as it will eventually take you to a cliff edge of sorts.  

 

The bottomline is that Celtic have taken advantage of the spiv era and now dominate pretty much all areas of Scottish football and our board have to continue to work at the politics with the administrations and BBC Scotland but it's a long game of inches that have to be played with the head in a strategic fashion.

 

As far as the support is concerned, the main thing is the team on the park and that is one area that we can better control.

That said, again it's a difficult game of inches due to relative financial constraints.....and Again, it should be about strategy and not ripping it up every summer to start again and getting no-where.

 

Another thing Paul Murray talkd about in April 2015 was the Football Operation' as a whole and the importance of youth development.

I said last week that this was the area that had to work if the club was going  to make a significant step forward. The more you think about it, the more obvious it is and sooner the better it starts having a major influence. Already Ross McCrorie is leading the way.