Setanta – The Ba’s on the Slates

Setanta today missed the deadline for their payment to the Premiership in England. The clubs there have simply torn up the deal and put the TV rights for the games up for auction to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile in Scotland the SPL clubs are shitting themselves unconscious “locked deep in talks” with the company whose rescue [...]

S.P. Hell

The inauguration of the SPL ten years ago was heralded as the saviour of the top league football clubs in Scotland.
The chairmen of these clubs led by then Hearts supremo Chris Robinson said that without such a new structure they feared for the future of the top level game in Scotland.
They were henceforth to negotiate [...]

Well Done Rangers

For winning the SPL title with some style this afternoon by virtue of a convincing 3-0 victory at Dundee United who were themselves needing points for a European place. A league title is won over the full season and despite all the various bits of turmoil going on at Ibrox this season, Walter Smith and [...]

Political Football

Taking a stroll the other evening, I passed a newspaper vendor where I observed the headline “Henry to oversee re-vamp of Scottish football”. My imagination stared to race.

A little while later whilst calling into the general store to buy some pickled herrings, I saw the Evening Times headline “McLeish returns to shake up the game”
I [...]

Well Done Celtic!

Tonight’s results (i.e. a 1-0 win for Celtic and a 2-0 defeat for Rangers at Dundee United and Aberdeen respectively) mean that Celtic have secured the SPL title for the third year in succession. They finished the season with a seven game winning sequence whilst Rangers stuttered amidst their fixture logjam. Perhaps now the “doubting [...]