tom_widdows

Suggests to me that it is ll down to losing the opportunity for bumper away crowds from Celtic, and for some clubs the dons, Hibs & hearts. Really poor way to work you finances if yer relying on the league being kind with regards to your home matches and your team making the top 6 or being in a relegation battle in the bottom The whole meaningless fixture argument is void for me. That will happen no matter what the league structure is and a quick look at the bottom 6 shows there are 15 meaningless games between now and May (unless st Mirren lose 5 and dundee win 5) Without the split there would still be the draw of climbing as high as possible (still an outside chance of 3rd for hibs, dons and killie) but apart from the edinburgh derby I cant see any game away from celtic park getting 10000 fans (if that). Did Ross County, Arabs and Caley budget for not getting another visit from the dons? Did the arabs budget for one less dundee derby? etc etc Until the day someone slaps a few heads and says 'this financial system aint working. Downsize accordingly and stop thinking yer a big deal in world football' i predict it will only get worse.

Much better atmosphere if the Germans take over wembley

rhetorical question was a similar threat dished out to the blue meanies last season for say 'NOT PAYING DUNFERMLINE' their share of ticket money?

I was talking about the police

Would explain the even more apparent sectarian singing in and around queen street station last night

1-0 PSG what price them holding on for the next 30mins?

The element of neds in the partick support suprised me (which considering where their stadium it shouldnt) Last minute equalizer and the fans from the opposite corner ran along the concourse, broke down the advertising hoarding and invade the pitch. Couple of them were playing the big man with the queens fans but others were also targeting the Queens players. Noticeable lack of Cops in the stadium too. Counted a total of 1 begind the goal with the queens fans.

I suspect it has something to do with Celtic wanting their first match to be a home game but with the blue meanies also playing at home that weekend Strathclyde Police aint exactly keen on the extra overtime

Cracking game at Almondvale today sell out crowd 2 goals, missed penalty, red card for a headbutt, sudden death penalty shoot out

30000 turned up at Hampden to see them scrap a 1-0 against the leagues only Amateur Club back in December 19000 of them have gone AWOL for today's 4-1 win. Anyone taking bets on how many will turn up at Ibrox for the upcoming Clyde & Peterhead games?

Knew it

So did Barcelona in the last round. Personally I was pissed off the ref didn't start dishing out yellow cards to the Barcelona team for the way they hounded him when he didn't stop play for the 2 Barcelona boys running into each other and then seemingly demanded PSG give the ball back to them rather than take the resulting corner. Really hope PSG stuff them in the 2nd leg

Barcelona making steady progress to the top of my 'teams I cannot stand' league table by apparently lodging a complaint against the referee for his performance on Tuesday night. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22037418

The gift that at the moment just keeps on giving http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22035246 Rangers are facing a legal bill after a panel judged they should pay the expenses of five former players they were in contract disputes with. Sone Aluko, Kyle Lafferty, Steven Naismith, Jamie Ness and Allan McGregor all quit the club when it was placed into liquidation last year. The players refused to transfer their contracts from the old company to the new one, which the club challenged. The panel says Rangers should pay all legal bills relating to the dispute. The panel was established and facilitated under the Scottish Football Association's Articles of Association after agreement was reached by the club and the players over who should represent each side of the dispute, with a chair appointed to review both side's claims. However, the SFA is not directly involved in the arbitration process and has no influence over any decisions taken by the panel.

Because we cant afford to invite a decent club and no one would bother turning up to watch it

New Affluent worker Sure my mum would like the 'working class background' bit

Quick check of the blue square premier Newport and Wrexham currently in the playoff spots and both still in the chance of the title Could be 4 welsh clubs in the main english league set up again. Cardiff potentially 3 wins away from promotion to the premiership. Might put The hordes into meltdown if all that happens

I reckon people will be surprised Got a feeling it will be the arabs that take the last top 6 position

I'd like to think their recent run of form will now go from bad to worse now the 'job has been done' Will they be professional enough to get a result infront of their hordes at Hampden next saturday? Will they still be 'selling' out Ibrox for the 3 remaining home games?

The government will never admit that because it would undermine so many local authority planning policies (even though it would actually be a great get out clause and potential for mudslinging in non tory council areas Glasgow for example: 5 years ago you could take an office housed in a 5 storey former townhouse and convert it into as many flats as you could fit. Now they will only allow a max of 3 and will push you to actually make the townhouse into one massive unit. We have had several applications rejected for one bedroom houses & flats across scotland because the local planning policy was to attract families etc. And of course all those social houses they say they want built? well a one bedroom house or flat isn't worth as much as a 2 Bedroom so developers aren't so keen on them it reduces their opportunities to make cash.

Well that's us safe from relegation for another season Relegation and Championship to be decided before the split?

We cant have summer football because all our clubs would suffer in the last rounds of the euro competitions you know. After all the spl is a major force in world football you know and no teams ever won a european trophy playing in a summer season...... apart from say Zenit St Petersburg Dynamo Kiev (twice) Dynamo Tblissi (back in the days of USSR) IFK Gothenburg (Four times) CSKA Moscow Shakhtar Donesk Not forgetting Malmo reaching the European cup final in 1979