16 May 2020 11:35:06
How come the Dutch league has been called null and void with no titles, promotion or relegation with Champions League and Europa League places based on current positions? Ajax were miles ahead but their manager has said that although it is a pity he fully understands the decision and has sympathy with the authorities stating there are more important issues than football at the moment.
Meanwhile, here we have a divisive and corrupt organisation run by one club who's board, manager, players and captain pull all strings possible, including bullying, coercion, and even threatening clubs with no fee payments if they don't vote a certain way, and then when they do vote the 'wrong way' their vote is inexplicably lost only to reappear, among promises of league reconstruction and glamour friendlies, as the opposite.
Then, when my club, along with others, call for an egm to put forward a proposal to carry out an independent investigation into the corrupt organisation, we are castigated, ritised and ridiculed from every quarter, even though we have publicly stated that we will pay for it.
Then, a third of clubs, ones who were obviously concerned at the goings on within this organisation and were not afraid to speak up (like the rest) voice their concerns and nothing can be done about it. How wrong must that sound to people looking in from other countries? Doncaster, McLennan and McKenzie don't even need to try and hide their affiliation to one club anymore.
It is so blatant it would actually be laughable if it weren't so criminal. I really hope we are fully committed to a legal challenge with this. Otherwise we would be better getting used to just assuming the position as this will only be the beginning. The only funny thing about this is the proposed *8.75 in a row. Forever to be referred to as this.
16 May 2020 12:03:46
Biggest joke Clyde saying needs an investigation then abstain from vote either a friendly Against or loanees from Mhanks.
16 May 2020 12:41:54
Very true Seeker these corrupt bas###ds need taking down big time ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó ´ó ¿ðŸ‡¦ðŸ‡ºðŸ˜Žâš½ï¸ðŸ‘.
16 May 2020 13:44:35
Ok Seeker we’re all annoyed by the whole situation but if you’re going to go on a rant at least try and get the facts straight. Ajax were not miles ahead, in fact they and AZ Alkmar were both on 56 points and only separated by goal difference and the team in third were only 6 points behind so the situation in Holland was quite different.
Yes we all wish things were different but realistically would we be actually be happy with needing a global virus and the league being cancelled to stop them winning? I for one would rather beat them on the pitch and stop them that way. And before any of this started we were all raging about how we’d gone and thrown the league away since Christmas.
Yes the spfl is shockingly run and yes the people running it clearly favour them, unfortunately we are currently in the opposite situation to what it was like in the 90’s when David Murray was the big shot and had the major influence. Now it’s them and Lawwell that are able to call the shots. It’ll be a long road to change that but the best way for it to happen is to start winning again on the pitch and become the dominant force once again.
We used to laugh at them for all their wailing moaning and nashing of teeth and called them stupid and paranoid for it. Well now unfortunately It’s us that are acting that way.
16 May 2020 16:32:22
Gers 1978 this is one of the best posts I have seen on this forum and is the perfect antithesis to some of the paranoia on here. The SPFL are poorly ran and their is incompetence within those employed however it was club chairmen arguing with each other in the lower leagues not the Premiership that caused the issues. Can we stop saying this is Celtic controlling things. As you guys saw in the 90's when you are winning everything there is no need to cheat or force any issues and you are in the ascendance and did the talking on the pitch. Now Celtic and are in that position and don't need any help off the pitch as they win everything on it.
16 May 2020 19:17:35
Paranoia my azz, blatant cheating, with refs on the park and people in positions of rule off it, I’m not forgetting all that referee decisions in a hurry, WORSE CORRUPTION I've EVER WITNESSED IN MY LIFE, and people called me paranoid when I said I wouldn’t be surprised if Marseille bribed CSKA Moscow in 1992-93.
16 May 2020 19:41:33
Seeker, nail on the head, if my ipad didn't keep uploading i would have put up a post identical to your op, mate, let's face it when we were coming back, up the leagues all of the premier teams would except the fight for second place, without opening there mouths about the corruption, for fear of getting the same treatment as.
We got, back to bottom league, fought our way back up, because i'd imagine lawell, mcllenen, and co will know they disagreed with celtic, pal.
16 May 2020 22:43:14
I must have read the Dutch information wrongly gers1978 as I thought Ajax were well in front. As for the SPFL and celtic, the situation is far from what it was during the Murray years imo. It is so blatant and I can never remember such skullduggery as getting votes changed and bullying and coercion. It is now so out there that I fear it will hardly matter what we do on the pitch, everything is loaded in their favour.
Even the so called impartial compliance officers have had Rangers players suspended at the top of a hat while their players get off with doing the very same things. When one of them does get 'done' it turns out he's out injured anyway so why bother, unless it's to appear impartial. This is corruption of the highest order and it is time there was a clearout. Pass the laxatives.
17 May 2020 05:32:33
Aye we were certainly controlling things in 2008 when the governing body bent over backwards to help us during that momentous cup run to the UEFA final. 4 games in 8 days. Well done! And compounded by an ex SPL board member years later telling the press he had been approached by another club's chairman imploring him not to help us in any way. Wonder who that was?