We are extremely grateful to Premier Sports for their increased investment into the game, which will bring an additional eight-figure sum into Scottish football over the next five years, meaning further record-breaking payments to clubs.
Celtic are the first victims of Neil Doncaster applying flexibility to the SPFL Premiership fixture card.On June 20 a statement from the SPFL’s newest club announced that Ibrox wouldn’t be ready for the start of the new season with a rogue Asian supplier blamed for the failings of the club.With…
Any other club would have been given a sympathetic hearing from others over delayed construction work but after 12 years of rabble rousing and intimidation John Bennett would be wise to count on no favours for his club’s stupidity over plans to increase their stadium capacity by 600 seats.
It is understood that no solution has yet been finalised as Rangers work through contingency plans that are likely to see them play outside of Glasgow during the first weeks of the term.
No timeline accompanied the Ibrox announcement, the media messengers all went with August only with nothing to back up that claim, September looks unlikely with October about as optimistic as it gets which puts the SPFL in a spot of bother.
Eventually the comic figure that is Charles Green appeared on the scene, a gobby ‘businessman’ from Yorkshire with no obvious wealth who sang like a canary about how he would put the world to right and knock Barcelona and Real Madrid off their perch as the biggest clubs in the…
There are four switches in the top six – St Mirren will host Heart of Midlothian and Rangers for a third time, Celtic will host St Mirren for a third time and Dundee will be at home to Kilmarnock for a third occasion.
What credible firm would want any association with the serial failure that is Neil Doncaster and the organisation that continues to employ him?
The flip side of that is that Dundee will visit Celtic for a third time, as the side finishing in sixth place it is deemed fairer that their fixtures are unbalanced rather than a higher placed club.
Unlike the corner given to away fans at Celtic Park the section for visiting fans at Ibrox has home supporters on all sides and also above within missile throwing range from the upper sections of the Broomloan Road and Govan Stands.