Although football has been suspended for now, there is no indication that the 2019-20 season has finished.
Fair enough, it all but has at the top and of the table, and perhaps would have been even closer to conclusion had Celtic played “rangers ” tomorrow, but it’s all very complicated and things like relegation, prize money and European placings have to be settled in such a way that all of the clubs are happy and no one can accuse the SFA or the SPFL of not acting in everyone’s best interest.
Celtic said;
CLEARLY, today’s decision to postpone our match against Rangers FC this Sunday is regrettable. However, the health and well-being of supporters, players and staff will always be of paramount importance. This will always be the focus.
We attach the SFA/SPFL Joint Response statement for our supporters’ attention. CLICK HERE
We are sure our fans will understand that this is a situation which is changing all the time.
Please note, the Club will update supporters with regards to our fixture against St Johnstone FC on Saturday, March 21 and all further fixtures as soon as possible.
By March 21, we’ll all be sitting in our houses eating tinned food cooked over a camping gas stove.
Should the league not be concluded, and as far as Celtic are aware it will resume in May or June , “rangers ” will be allocated the champions League place, because they need the money, and Celtic will be relegated to the bottom division because they don’t, and their journey back to the top will spread a few quid around to help the little clubs.
The players have been told they can have a long weekend, with training suspended until Tuesday at the earliest, but as the current health crisis continues, that’s kind of subject to change at any moment.
Some outlets claim that the season could be voided, which it won’t , causing merriment among the supporters of one club/company as in their minds it puts a stop to nine in a row, although even if it is declared null and void, it just means nine will have to wait until next year.
This must be their new kit for next season, as there is little sign of any interest in their vacnacy for a kit supplier next season.
While there is conformation that Adidas are taking their turn to produce sub standard kits for Celtic fans to complain about.
Then again after the piss poor quality from Nike and New Balance, they would have to put in supreme effort to be even worse.
It would be nice, however if they could produce a replica top that lasts longer than the new deal that was announced yesterday…
CELTIC Football Club is delighted to announce that it has agreed a stunning new five-year partnership with adidas starting July 1st, 2020. adidas will become Celtic’s official kit supplier, covering both the men’s and women’s squads, in a deal which is believed to be the biggest kit sponsorship ever to be announced across Scottish sport.
adidas will create and manufacture first team kit, trainingwear as well as all supporter replica kits.
Treble Treble winners and current Premiership league leaders Celtic will be teaming up with the global leader in football. adidas is the official supplier of the most important football tournaments in the world, such as the FIFA World Cup™, the UEFA EURO 2020™ and the UEFA Champions League.
The sports brand already partners with some of the world’s top clubs including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal, FC Bayern Munich and Juventus.
Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell commented: “We are delighted to enter this new, long-term partnership with adidas, one of the world’s leading sports brands. We warmly welcome adidas to the Celtic Family and look forward to an exciting and successful partnership.
“We know through our discussions with adidas that they, as a prestige brand, were eager to be associated with a Club of Celtic’s stature and proud history – to be connected to the passion and commitment of our supporters and to Celtic’s wider vision and values.
“Likewise, everyone at Celtic is delighted to be partnering with one of the dominant names in sportswear manufacturing, an organisation which represents quality and excellence.
“This is a hugely significant new partnership for Celtic and our supporters and allows us to look to the future with confidence. To be able to create this fantastic new relationship demonstrates the strength and stability of the Club and the power of our enduring story.
“I would like to congratulate everyone at Celtic and adidas who have worked to deliver this fantastic new partnership between two of the world’s great sporting institutions, in particular, our Commercial Director Adrian Filby.”
adidas added, “Celtic’s successful football history and future ambition make us hugely excited to be working together to create a new chapter with one of the most famous football clubs in the world.
“We are obsessed with helping athletes improve their game, life and world and as such we look forward to supporting Celtic’s players on the pitch as they continue to create new levels of success, and we are confident their legendary fanbase will love our designs.”
I’ve got my doubts, as you can see in the article, adidas doesn’t have a capital letter, like a club/company we all know and love…and , of course, their cuddly support…
In the big scheme of things, it’s not really that important…none of it is.
What is important is that the game has been cancelled tomorrow, and supporters no longer run the risk of contracting an illness at Ibrox that could possibly be life threatening, and when you add the Coronavirus into the equation, it’s clearly the sensible thing to do.
At times like this we look for calm and sensible leadership from thise in society that we have chosen to make decisions on our behalf…
When the Daily Mail says to it’s staff…
and to it’s readership…
We are probably a week or so away from an emergency national government, unless there was something on the plane that flew into Lombardy from China a couple of nights ago carrying medical experts and plasma from survivors, and we may well be entering a phase in history after which things will never be the same.
It’s curious that the British government has adopted a policy of letting everyone catch the virus in order that it won;t be so bad the next time round, which they claim is based on the science, when in fact it’s purely based on economics.
After the illness comes the recession/depression, and with the stock market tumbling quicker than a Colombian forward they are terrified that they will lose all that money they so doggedly stole from us over the years.
So, what can we do ?
Traditionally in times of crisis, the diary has always adopted the stance of laughing at those less fortunate than ourselves when we don;t feel so good.
So, why should today be any different ?
With European games cancelled as well, and lucrative tv money not available to “rangers ” for their last hurrah in Leverkusen, as well as all the money lost due to the cancellation of the game tomorrow, it may be that things begin to enter a downward spiral for the club, as it appears the £20m investment from Asia is not all it seems, though there already has been a trial run of around £1m … ( see diaries passsim ) from the same source, and it was all good and all clean.
Well, it was when they got it back. Or some of it.
Some of this tittle tattle can be quite outrageous at times, and we only tell you about it so that when you hear it elsewhere you can say you already know it’s made up nonsense from the master of made up nonsense on the interweb.
But fair play to them, all the food and other perishables that they had ordered in ahead of sunday’s game will be handed out to foodbanks and other charities, and not sold out of the back of car boots on sunday morning.
Oh wait, that’s Hibernian.
| We’ve distributed the fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products and perishables that were meant for tomorrow’s postponed game against St Johnstone to local charities and community groups.
Elsewhere, and Kris Boyd, the man paid to offer his views on Scottish football placed his foot firmly in his mouth again when he declared live on television that;
“We enjoy sport, whichever it would be that you’re associated with.
“You enjoy it for what it is, and nobody wants to be going and watching their team behind closed doors.”
Presumably he doesn’t understand what “closed doors ” means, which is consistent with his understanding of football in general.
Caption competition from yesterday…
Today…
Caption: Trump That Hat!
Caption can you hear the rangers sing?
Caption: Corona virus? Nae fear. Zombies are already deid!!
Caption: ya couple ah fanny’s!
You’ve taken that too far
And when we get behind closed doors
And I’m left outside the ground
And it makes me sad ’cause I’m a fan
Only Kris Boyd knows what goes on behind closed doors.
Feck me, it was Mike the other day and now you.
Who knew that Charlie Rich would soundtrack the End Times?
Correct Mike the other day, i.e. first.
Charlie Rich and me are like this.. X.
Caption: Huzzah, huzzah,
We are the Bullingdon boys
Huzzah, huzzah,
You’ll know us by our voice,
Daaaahhh, wibble, we’re up to our knees
In hedge funds that will prosper
When you die
For we are the Bullingdon hedge fund boys.
Winner winner winner^ look Ralph, look!
Thanks
The fight for title number 9, has gone from the pitch to the tabloids. But there can only be one outcome and that is that it is Celtic’s title. The Corona-virus has huge implications for everyone, it will be a big challenge but peoples health is paramount and Shankley was wrong.
But it could have several benefits too, for example, players could get to rest tired legs, heal the wounds of playing, rest from the mental pressure of winning.
This is a chance for the governing bodies to re-look at league structures, the number of clubs in each league, possibly even amalgamation, because some clubs might be forced out of business and have to re-evaluate their circumstances. A good governing body would do all of that and look to progress the Scottish game. Sometimes out of bad things good things can come, now we can use this time, do it for the good of the Scottish game.
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Ian St John looks at the two clowns in front of him.
The desperation by the hun media corpse to call the game a bogie is desperation, ignoring the blue elephant in the room, two to three months of no football, will see the roof at Crumbledome fall.
Ralph looks like the lower case a in adidas is part of their brand, in fairness those indistructable 70s t-shirts had a small a, although the yellow one was so bright it was hard to focus. Shite weekend to launch the partnership but there you go.£30 million over 5 years.
Don’t worry aboot coronavirus. Ra peepul won’t die. It’ll only be wur holding company that’ll die.
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…the gap was this big says boris…just give them the title..
As Trump readies his best backhander
In response to the t-shirt
Oh oh oh
It’s magic, it”s true
Corona will kill rangers 2
I like solutions and you have come up with a cracker here. Ticks all the boxes. It is so logical that the SPFL can’t help but refuse it! LOL Surely, Charlie Saiz, in all the articles, rules and regulations, a shortened season (for whatever reason) must have been detailed earlier, somewhere. For me, playing 30 games as Celtic has done,is more than a quorum for a season? It would be different if it was ten games or even 15 but 30 is a sizeable chunk. Only Sevco and St. Johnstone have played 29. Let them play that match closed doors then end the season. The Scottish Cup ties can be played in June or July. Corona virus? My wife is severely disabled. We are pretty isolated, both over 70 yet the Tories are quite happy to use us as Virus fodder. I have always hated the Tories and never need reminding why. They don’t value human life unless it is rich and upper class! Anyway pal, your idea is excellent. Well done.
Devoy,
No he hasn’t came up with anything, this is a man who is incapable of the thought process.
What he has done is this, someone has read sonething on another blog, then posted it to CS, who then claims he thought something up.
He didn’t.
Caption: Edgar and Johnny Winter perform the new Sevco anthem “Frankenstein”
Great statements from Celtic and New Balance regarding the end of the 5 year kit deal. How adults should behave, unlike the unwashed from across the city who seem to think every kit deal has cheated them!! Haud on……… they have!! LOL
If we play the remaining games at the start of next season and scrap the League cup or play each other less we can do 9 & 10 in the same season with the potential for quintuple trebles next May. Simples.
Gents, Research is coming out of Italy stating under no circumstances should you take Ibuprofen if you suspect you could have COVID 19. It makes sense to anyone who knows acute asthmatics because they advised against asthmatics taking it. If you have decided to become a hermit in the woods beware of the ticks waking up, nobody wants Corona and Lyme.
Bollocks, the only place you should be taking advice from is official sources.
Here in the UK, official health advice is here:
www nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
I wish people would stop spreading crap like this, which simply makes a horrendous situation worse.
The Stevie Chalmers collection, sold on Friday at McTears. https://youtu.be/yhnWwEPBk-c
Posted on here ^ ^ Stevie Chalmers Celtic collection that was sold at McTears auction house yesterday the 13th. Currently-
Awaiting moderation.
Was in Asda earlier and people seem to be panic buying??
My other half eventually found me in the beer aisle, carefully studying the offers.
Hi Monti, reminds me of the old W.C. Fields gag:”Waa in the jungle but we ran out of life’s essentials and sustenance. Unfortunately, I was forced to live on food and water for a week…”
🙂
Caption………
Cheats and liars down at Ibrokes, who’d a thought it?
CAPTION
Do you wish you were still a journalist, Boris ?
FFS Donald, I wish I was still a Liberal.
Caption:
Cubic zirconia`s in the rough.
All this “finish this season later in this year” talk forgets that loan players will be gone, FF & Ely for starters, unless we buy them.
If we continue the league then there will have to be no summer transfer window as the leagues, as per the rules, will need to be finished with the squads as at January 31st 2020.
Can you imagine the complications trying to implement that one? Who pays wages whilst players are not playing, especially loan players? Extend their loans?
The season finishes “as it stands” now.
We have a global pandemic and I’ve got an endless procession of EBT tax criminals who cheated every man, woman and child in Scotland (including all the public services) telling me the season has to be null and void.
These crooks and the media outlets that employ them can F**k Right Off!
Imagine Sevco were 13 points clear? The same crooks would be screaming for an as it stands finish right now.
Well said!
So MCG, generally good points raised but do you pay your BBC TV licence, or tell them to fuck off whilst explaining why? Or do you just let off some steam now and then?
There’s MUCH wrong, some of which I’ve worked on (as Ralph knows) and some which has still to be finalised. Point is: a rant on a site like this is just THAT, a rant on a site, forgotten in 48 hours MAX. My plan is to highlight and prosecute ALL parties guilty in the living lie of “rangers” continuation and with no-one spared, REGARDLESS OF PROFESSED AFFILIATION TO CELTIC FC or anyone else. For clarity here, anyone being a high-level Director/Orchestrator of ANY SPFL football company (including the SFA and SPFL) will be scrutinised and highlighted in the event of perceived wrongdoing and WILL be made accountable for the aforesaid “wrongdoing”. Of course, the Law has 1st bite, but humanity is well capable of dispensing ‘justice’ when the Law fails to achieve that same.
Why are you specifically having a rant at me? Seriously? With some of the nonsense that gets spouted on the comments on here you feel compelled to “RANT” at me.
I’ll answer you though.
I don’t pay my license fee, I wrote to the BBC and told them why. I haven’t even received a threatening letter, admittedly I may have missed one or it has been mislaid at my house in the midlands or my apartment in south lanarkshire.
I also had three seats in the Jock Stein lounge at Celtic Park and following the shameful events of 2012 I relinquished them because I felt my own club was expressly complicit in the cheating of its own fans.
I wrote to the chief executive to inform him why I was relinquishing said seats and that if I had the wherewithal I would sue Celtic for failing their shareholders and supporters (my family were shareholders prior to the new issues after Fergus took over).
I don’t buy any printed newspaper, I don’t listen to Radio Clyde and I try where absolutely possible to avoid clicking any links to them.
I cannot avoid many headlines as they are reproduced on supporters blogs.l daily. Hence why I let loose with the odd online expletive and “rant”.
My father used to go to all games but decided in the late 70’s that the only way to try to change things was to deprive the other clubs of income by refusing tickets to away games.
It took me until 2012 to agree.
I will never set foot inside another football stadium in Scotland until titles are stripped and reparations are made. I guess I’ll never set foot inside another stadium in Scotland then.
I’ve been back to Celtic Park four times as a guest since 2012. I paid to get in to the Kilmarnock game to pay tribute to Billy McNeil and I have been at three cup finals as a guest in the Baird Suite.
I suppose you could call me a hypocrite, but, trust me, smiling at really angry bitter dirt in SFA shirts and ties has a certain feeling of satisfaction about it.
I agree with you so please don’t shout at me. In the meantime, with your permission, may I please have the odd rant?
I’ll let you carry the torch for the rest of us though, I getting old, but till my dying breath I will never let them forget they cheated and died and the new lot are worse than the previous lot and our board have stood back and done nothing.
MCG, I thoroughly appreciate and welcome your response which needs no advisory nor defining addition. I wasn’t having a “RANT” at your “RANT”, it was ALL about bringing into general cognisance the subject matter. I seem to have upset you a touch, and for that I happily apologise. I’ve said for “donkey’s years now” that the written (typed) word is a poor way to communicate, and demonstrably it is. My heart-view is for ALL Tims world-wide to get together, get behind our team, get the fucking leeching scum of Desmond and Lawwell and their like OUT of Paradise and go forward as a Club, a Team, a Socially-involved charity and just be what we are, THE CELTIC.
Hail! Hail! Pal.
FC not PLC
PS If I’ve got anything wrong (typos et cetera), put it down to; Guinness it’s far too nice, as is Weston’s. McEwans Champion Ale is not called that for nothing and Jamesons is a helpful end to a fucking bad day and I’ve just had one.
HH one and all.
PS to self; Jamesons has NOT got be be “SWALLIED” like beer……pour quoi…… #on the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, on the trail of the Lanny wine….#
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“Here Prentice, never mind they two fannies in front of us, what do you think of my Rio Ferdinand impersonation?”
I honestly thought the blond in that picture at first was a female Sevco fan!
MCG and all, the MAIN point I am trying to make is this (and I’m a bit pissed but can still think): Across all of us on here (like/dislike) the POINTS/RANTS et cetera are only alive for a negative curve of hours. NOT EVEN FUCKING DAYS!
And regardless of its quality or otherwise.
This site, incredibly well run by Ralph and co (mostly Ralph), IMHO is unsurpassed in information, satire and, I dunno, just eTims.
For all you tight cunts out there whom beg for your Daily Diet of the Diary, consider this: there’s an ad on the site to send a few bob; I’ve never needed it as I am not very good at free-loading and hence will find a way of making a contribution. eTims is a Diamond for all of us whom visit here…..appreciate Ralph and his “pissed-up” sources, even THEY need our support.
HH