DON'T you just love Neil Donkeycaster - Grupenfuhrer of the new Scottish Professional Football League. The man, from his latest pronouncements, is clearly a fanatical follower of the Goebbels principle - repeat a lie often enough, it gets believed.
The dictionary definition of a league lists it as an organisation set-up to pursue a common purpose. OK, if we accept the idea is to wheedle as much money as possible out of the pockets of the poor, deluded Scottish football fan, the SPFL meets that definition; but, common purpose - come off it.
Celtic want it, so they can lord it over the rest and make hay while Rangers are down.
Aberdeen want it, so they can suck-up to Celtic.
Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell, Dundee and Dundee United want it, because it's their "right" to be top teams.
Kilmarnock, Inverness CT, St Johnstone and St Mirren want to be up there with the big boys.
Ross County, the new boys last season and the ten SFL First Division clubs want it, because they believe they are every bit as good as the afore-mentioned teams.
The Second and Third Division SFL teams from last season want it, because they are "senior" clubs and have to hang-on to that status, also, it's the only way they stand a chance of drawing the Old Firm in the cup and getting a pay day which will keep them going for a couple of years.
Rangers DON'T want it - they'd rather be in England, but, lack the will to challenge their exclusion from England on grounds of restraint of trade, don't want to go down the route of clambering up through the English pyramid and, in any case, they and Celtic have a mutual need and reliance which demands they get back to the top flight in Scotland ASAP.
So, 42 clubs, seven different common purposes. It cannot work.
The formation of the SPFL was a take-over of the SFL and, what happens in take-overs? The entity taken over will suffer more when it comes to retrenching. The bulk of any redundancies will fall on the former SFL employees; again, the former SFL branches are the more-likely to close and with the former SPL men in charge, the former SFL people will suddenly find they are second-class citizens.
The SPFL will not work, it cannot work. I foresee huge problems ahead, which is bad news for the recovery of Scottish football.
We have too-many clubs, too-few true professionals, we are too-ready to accept dross: once again, I have to conclude - WE ARE AWE DOOMED.
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