Champions League Playoffs....
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I thought Neil Lennon was a bit out of order calling or implying that Rangers were cheats and asking them to be stripped of any titles because they went broke.
It's not like they ran up the debts on purpose like some nob with a stolen credit card, they were just badly run and in debt like a shit load of clubs. They got punished for it and that has allowed Celtic to have a free run at all domestic titles, not very classy to kick a club whilst their down even if they are massive rivals.
It's not like they ran up the debts on purpose like some nob with a stolen credit card, they were just badly run and in debt like a shit load of clubs. They got punished for it and that has allowed Celtic to have a free run at all domestic titles, not very classy to kick a club whilst their down even if they are massive rivals.
Probably. They are big businesses after all.
Not sure they all use Employment Benefit Trusts to pay their players though.
Fair enough, sounds like you know more than me about it.
I just don't like Neil Lennon and his tax avoidance schemes commenting like that, it's like a player asking the ref for a yellow card and kicking the clubs fans while. they're down simultaneously.
Of course. But then, apart from the average man in the street, who does (pay as much as they should) ?
The point is/was that the SPL (led by Celtic) turfed Rangers out so that they could win more SPL titles and Scottish cups. It was incredibly short sighted and the Death Knell for the SPL.
If they done it properly it could have strengthened the SPL. If the money was split up more evenly among the other sides after the old firm had been destroyed for a few seasons it would have made it more competitive.
But they didn't do that.
Regardless of the Celtic/Rangers thing, I fail to see how Celtic can have any blame put on them for Warsaw (stupidly), playing an illegal player.
Which still wouldn't have replaced the income from the Ranger's matchdays (3-4 in the SPL at that time, I forget which). In addition to which as soon as Rangers were booted out the TV companies abandoned the SPL. The greed shown by the other SPL teams in blindly following Celtic's lead was beyond comprehension.
Either way, I don't know why people pay money to watch the SPL.
Everywhere else I'm hearing that Celtic made an objection (which would correspond to sub-clause 3) of the relevant regulation I quoted above). I can't quote a source for that though so maybe that is accurate and maybe not.
So what?
They weren't the ones that did anything wrong, it was Warsaw. It was stupid of them to play that player, amateur really.
So what isn't the point. It's the morality of it. Who knows who failed to register the player (or thought it wasn't necessary or that they had) fact is Legia didn't seek to gain any advantage from it. UEFA should look at this from it's true perspective .. as they did when including us in the CL despite the regulations.
I initially assumed #1 too however it seems Celtic objected, in which case it could only be #3.
Rules are rules. I'd rather UEFA stuck to them.
Having said that, we all know that this is one of the few times they will do. It may not have happened if the more well known team was on the other end.
None of that is actually Celtic's fault though. Do you have a small agenda against them for some reason given what else you've brought up?
The oversight is even crazier when you see that he actually sat out the games during the previous round and for the first leg of this tie, but because he wasn't registered for the last round, he was considered to have served just one game of his three-game suspension.
Crazy shit really.
Crazy shit really.
Ha ha - yeah, they stole (OK started) YNWA as well !
Didn't you hear? Wage inflation through the roof at Hibernians!
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