{"id":15525,"date":"2020-04-14T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=15525"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:29:08","slug":"celtic-diary-tuesday-april-14-look-at-the-size-of-that-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=15525","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Tuesday April 14: Look At The Size Of That Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest twist in the SPFL comedy drama came last night when the Daily Record announced, or rather Keith Jackson did, that Dundee had had a wee think about things and decided to vote on favour of the SPFL resolution to end the lower league seasons.<\/p>\n

The lowland League already ended theirs, giving Kelty Hearts and Barry Ferguson the title, which a few weeks ago he said he didn’t want. Whether or not he will refuse it isn;t clear, but the word is he’s already phoned Ibrox to make sure they’re aware he’s won one more title that Gerrard.<\/p>\n

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Thats because when the second entity hits the buffers, they’ll need someone to try to milk the support to pay for the third…<\/p>\n

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It looks like that day isn’t far away, perhaps brought closer by the forced lockdown and no football brought on by the Catholic Coronavirus, which has meant there is no money going into the Ibrox kitty, and therefore they’ve had to ask for a loan , from the SPFL, who aren’t that keen on lending them any money.<\/p>\n

Given their credit history and current status, thats not surprising.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the club\/company doesn’t want their fans to know this, as they might start to drift away and find some other hobby that involves dragging their knuckles along the ground or licking windows, which means the only revenue stream they have left is gone.<\/p>\n

So they’ve manufactured another conspiracy that is based around an incomplete season is not a season, and so therefore must be null and voided, meaning it never happened.<\/p>\n

Something they wish they had thought of when the original club was placed into liquidation, despite the best efforts of the SMSM.<\/p>\n

They have claimed that clubs have been co-erced, bullied, bribed and anything else they think of today, in order to vote for the season to end and prize money to be allocated, and yet the only sign of that is three clubs on a WhatsApp group all voting against it.<\/p>\n

One of them was “rangers “, and they’re in a huff because their plan didn;t work, despite the best attempts of neutral Inverness CEO, Scot Gardiner.<\/p>\n

This is Scot, who used to work for the other clubs who wanted to vote no…<\/p>\n

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this from Linkedin… Scot Gardiner CEO at Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC 5 days ago “What a picture. What a match. What a player Coop was. You were ok as well obviously. Especially that day!”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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A quick glance at his interests on Linked in conforms his neutrality, and in no way should it affect his position of acting in the best interests of Inverness…<\/p>\n

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All of this is now out in the open, and “rangers ” have decided to play the squirrel card and accuse everyone else of wrongdoing. They claim to have evidence the League is corrupt and when called on to show it refused, saying they will wait until the top men are suspended and an investigation is held.<\/p>\n

In the real world this cannot happen, as any fool knows, evidence is first submitted and then a decision whether or not to investigate would take place.<\/p>\n

Simply suspending someone on an allegation without evidence isn’t possible, even the police in the eighties would offer up the old innocent until proven Irish evidence.<\/p>\n

And anyway, “rangers ” can#t offer up the evidence because they haven;t thought of anything yet, although their new PR man, David Graham, will soon find a way to blame the schools, the churches and probably a couple of cardinals.<\/p>\n

It’s embarrasing, and it wasn;t lost on some observers that Ladbrokes, who have declined to sponsor the league next season, have also decided not to continue to operate a betting shop within Ibrox next season, although the wording of the move doesn’t quite say that in this mornings statement… and although the Scottish media have forgotten about the cold shoulder, others certainly haven’t.<\/p>\n

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As long as King is still on the board, no one wants to be associated with them…and they still haven’t got a kit deal….<\/p>\n

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RANGERS Football Club\u2019s contract with Ladbrokes as a provider of in-stadia betting services will come to an end in advance of next Season 2020\/2021.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Director of Commercial & Marketing, James Bisgrove, commented \u201cFollowing a number of supporter enquiries over the Easter weekend, we can confirm the arrangement with Ladbrokes, who provide betting facilities at Ibrox stadium, will not continue next season.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

They were open over Easter to take supporters calls ?<\/p>\n

In anticipation of our 150th anniversary, Rangers will continue to grow its Commercial Partnerships programme, both domestically and internationally.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Some of them are…<\/p>\n

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The decision is simple. SPFL now has to make this season ‘null and void’ after everything that happened yesterday on top of the two days before that. There is NO OTHER way. RETWEET and SHARE this with everyone you know so that this message spreads.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The fourth official, a website that provides light relief from serious football websites, is onside with the club doctrine, and still pushing for null and void, which means the season never happened and no-one can get anything.<\/div>\n
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But for sheer lack of knowledge about how anything works anywhere, this headline of worthy of repeating…<\/div>\n
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With New Allegations Coming Up Every Day SPFL Needs To Make This Season \u2018Null And Void\u2019<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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Just allegations, mind, and thats enough to void a season….<\/p>\n

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They are not the staunchest supporters of the club…..<\/p>\n

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…but they clearly can be depended on to get behind the company.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know how many readers that site gets, but I’ll wager they have to have the articles read to them….<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The SPFL will not receive payments and may even have to pay some money back to sponsors and tv companies if this were to happen, and there are no privisions on the rules, leaving them open to legal action from clubs, supporters, sponsors and anyone else who fancies a crack at them.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0“rangers ” are right about one thing, the SPFL\/SFA do have questions to answer on a number of points concerning collusion, corruption or just incompetence, but the catch 22 is that the evidence they have, i.e. one licence to compete in Europe when they shouldn’t have , would effectively be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0It’s all very tiresome though, there are far more important things to worry about, but it does give us all a bit of a chuckle.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0That reminds me, Puma, I believe, are one of the companies who may or may not do a deal for kit supply with either this Ibrox entity or the next one….and we shouldn’t be surprised….<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Prime Minister Boris johnson is home…. and he’s full of praise for the NHS, saying he now owes them his life as well as \u00a3350m a week since he won the Brexit vote.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0But we hear it wasn’t as much fun fir everyone as he makes out…<\/div>\n
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\u00a0He did compliment the two nurses who stood by his side and helped him through his ordeal, saying they acted professionally throughout, for which they deserve credit, especially as they were heartbroken when their names came out of the hat to look after him.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, thanks to Highland Paddy<\/em> on twitter, we can now go live to Dens Park, Dundee, as fans gather for the result of their vote…<\/div>\n
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