I OCCASIONALLY contribute to the excellent SCOTTISH LEAGUE website, run by David Ross, a fine man who is quite happy to pontificate on the failings of Scottish football in general, and Kilmarnock in particular, from his seat behind the goal in the Camp Nou. Well, if I could live in Barcelona, I would.
David currently has a thread running on the forum, entitled: League Reconstruction, Part 96; although, after this week, he might have to move on to part 97.
I refer to the efforts of probably next season's SFL1 membership to fast-track themselves into the SPL, or, at least an SPL2.
Given the way the failing, indeed failed SPL is currently organised, with that ludicrous 11-1 voting structure in place, the decision of the ten clubs, apparently made at a meeting at Hamilton's New Douglas Park on Thursday night, is surely another instance of turkeys voting for Christmas.
If they think the tiny coterie of Hampden Half-wits who effectively run the SPL - Messrs Lawwell, Petrie, Milne, Thompson and Doncaster will give these suckers an even break, or anything like a mandate to influence the way the SPL is run - then they have another think coming.
The SPL has been a failure from the day and hour it was set-up. Certainly Scottish football back then was ripe for change; equally certainly it is over-ripe for change today, but, ten clubs walking away from the SFL into that failed entity the SPL is not the change the game needs.
I cannot, honestly, see this happening. I don't think they have read the rule book properly, but, if it does, they will quickly regret their actions.
Real change in Scotland has to involve ALL the clubs, not just ten not very good ones with an inflated sense of their own importance. Bad move this.
I CANNOT help thinking - what a pity Charles Green has gone. His reaction to the ten-club breakaway might well have been gold dust to the hard-pressed foot soldiers of the mainstream media in Scotland.
I would love to think Charles would immediately have announced that Rangers were leaving for England and set this move in motion. That would really have set the cat among the pigeons. As it is, I don't see the current Ibrox hierarchy thinking along these lines, but, let there be no doubts, just how Rangers react to this move could have a crucial bearing on events. Money after all talks.
Well, it will make for an interesting close season.
I HAVE sympathy for Neil Lennon, caught-out on a technicality by "breaching" his touchline ban at Motherwell at the weekend.
Should the full might of SFA "justice" - no tittering at the back there - fall on wee Neil, it will be a disgrace. It also in a way justifies Celtic paranoia - "they", whoever "they" are, really do have it in for, if not the club, then wee Lenny.
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