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So to continue this never ending argument, do you have proof that members of the SFL didn't encourage Jim Ballantyne to follow this course of action?
No more than anyone has proof the earth is fucking flat, you halfwit!
What are you, Luna "Just because you can't prove something doesn't mean it isn't true!" Lovegood?
So once again, we shall ask the question, if Ballantyne was encouraged by the SFL as alleged to devour Clydebank, why did they approach UEFA and then subsequently change the rules to prevent it happening again?
Airdrie's debt was serviceable. It's only when the directors walked away and the accountants took over that it spiralled.
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Are you playing scrabble ???
No, but I think the SFA & SFL were...scrabbling around for a solution to their
(That's 64 points, that is...14 points standard and the 50 point bonus for a word over 7 letters!)
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If you are a die-hard fan of your local football club, how the hell can you boycott watching them play???? I have friends who have sneaked into closed door friendly matches, just so they can say that they never miss their team play.
I would if I had such a team.
Clydebank's fans did the "boycott" thing - and look what happened.
I think the Morton fans had the better idea when they had their problems with a wannabe asset stripper, force them to sell up on Health & Safety grounds (ie. their health and safety!)
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Maybe if the league had bent over backwards to help Airdrie instead of suggesting (wink wink) on the steps of Hampden that we should buy Clydebank then John Hall would have got f all..
Do you have a shred of proof that the SFL did anything of the sort? No, because it is bullshit.
The SFL and SFA actually approached UEFA to see if they had any way of stopping it, and were told thanks to the antiquated rulebook they were working under, the answer was no. The fact the rules were changed afterwards to stop it from happening again shows that they most certainly did not approve, let alone encourage it!
Maybe if Bill Barr wasn't claiming mythical amounts of debt then John Hall would have got f all.And please note Airdrie went under for an amount far far less than EITHER of the Livingston administrations.
Bill Barr knew chancers when he saw them, and dealt with them accordingly.
The amount a club owes has nothing to do whether it goes under or not - it's what assets they have and the chance of being able to at least service the debt.
Try to understand the mechanics of bankruptcy before spouting off "it's soooo unfair, they owed more than us, waaaaah!" Businesses operate on a different level to "the change in ma pocket, mon." economics.
You're KKK comments show you up to be an absolute retardActually, your inability to tell the difference between YOUR and YOU'RE (contraction of YOU ARE) show you up to be an absolute retard
Still the only "fans" in Scotland who thought dressing as Jew-baiting racists was funny - even Rangers fans would never have gone that far.
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I don't see how. He hasn't done anything illegal
The same way one suspects they managed to prosecute the scum that deliberately bankrupted Third Lanark.
If you run a Public Limited Company, you are obliged by law to at least try to make a profit for your shareholders. There are rules in place which are intended to stop someone going into a PLC and deliberately attempt to run it down to a fold to asset strip.
As Grey & Dunn the biscuit people discovered, it's all too easy for these to be circumvented, but if you have a clown like Massone in charge who couldn't find his arse in the bath, then the courts could have him forcibly removed and ban him from being so much as a director of a UK PLC for a decade.
There's been too many sinister individuals joining Scottish club boards over the last decade whose sole motive was to kill the club off so they could sell their land for profit - Morton and East Stirlingshire having very narrow escapes.
If this forces the SFA/SFL to change the rules to at least try and put a stop to these characters, then some good might come out of all this after all. Too late for Clydebank maybe, but better late than never.
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Tell that to the umpteen creditors screwed by Livi (again)
You f**kers went bust owing left right and centre, and came back by helping Dr John "Sod" Hall to murder Clydebank when he realised he wasn't going to be allowed to turn them into Franchise FC.
So please, spare us the Airdrieonian crocodile tears for "business integrity" - you hid those under your Ku Klux Klan robes years ago.
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Everyone please be ready for the Livingston Kari-On-Oke!
The Livi fans belting out "I Will Survive!", the Airdrie and Cowdenbeath fans singing "(We're On A) Road To Nowhere"...and everyone else bloody singing the blues - as always!
Still, a Scottish football club is still alive.
Ain't a bad old world, y'know...
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I love these comments from the Airdrie fans about how they'd rather be in the Second Division.
We are desperate to play in the First Division in place of Livy
Yes it is ironic, isn't it Captain - most of the SPL wants you to be playing in the First Division as well...
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You work at Hampden, do you?
If true - excellent news...
...BUT...
...I wouldn't at all blame the Gretna fans if they blew a gasket after what "The Guardians Of Integrity" did to them.
The moral of the story would seem to be, "if you're gonna go up shit creek, do so just before the new season's kick off to buy yourself more time to get your Chairman committed to the nearest Fruitcake asylum."
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Livvy have been saved
Elaborate.
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If all those top Premiership footballers really loved the game, then why don't they buy into a team like Livingston? It would only take a few weeks wages to clear their debts. There are not many British League clubs with the problems of Livingston.
I don't think they would be allowed to, to be honest. They could make a donation, but having part ownership of another club whilst playing elsewhere might be termed a severe conflict of interest, no matter how insignificant Livingston seem in the great scheme of footballing things.
The truth is that the "big boys" only give a flying french one about the "grassroots" when they're old and past it & needing somewhere to top up their pension plans, break into management, or when they become media "pundits" and become all noble about "the little guys".
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I was in the trap, but blondie thompson did use the term 'wind up'
You realise of course that "wind up" does have two potential meanings?
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With Airdrie, Clydebank, Gretna and Livi's woes,
Oor League's cred's taken a dentin',
It won't be long noo before our Euro reps,
Are Third Lanark, St Bernard's and Renton!
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Kevin Harper was born in England but raised in Edinburgh.
Black Scottish-born footballers include Chris Mackie (ex Alloa), Malcolm Kpedekpo (ex Aberdeen), Chris Ogboke (ex Montrose). Callum McRobbie of Aberdeen's U19s could be mixed race?
Cowdenbeath's Joe Mbu has played for Junior Scotland but he was born in London as far as I know. Gordon Lennon of Dumbarton was born in Northern Ireland but I've no idea how long he's been over here - he joined Albion Rovers from Govan juvenile side Harmony Row.
There are a few other black players in the non-leagues such as Dan Gerrard and Max Asante but I don't know if they were born in Scotland either. I think Arniston's Ubong Umatong came up from England and I've no idea where Albion Rovers signed Abou Mansare from - he's now at St Anthony's. East Craigie have a black forward called Josh Perera.
Maybe you could check this one for me, but in the early years of Scottish football, wasn't there a player born in Nigeria with a Glaswegian father called M'Boza Itché?
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Livingston - all the threads merged
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Because that "shitty little town" has over 50 000 people and growing - more than Arbroath (who also manage to sustain two Junior sides as well as a Senior), Brechin and Montrose combined - and so has at least plenty of potential for a decent football club to be in place.
Why do you think they did their best to get the likes of Clyde out to either East Kilbride or Cumbernauld at the first opportunity? It's bad enough that Scotland's sixth largest town (EK) has no league representation without the eighth largest rejoining the vacant ranks as well.
Furthermore, in the current economic climate, they've probably decided that it's best to give Livingston a chance rather than the risk of Airdrie and Cowdenbeath having to completely rethink their season ahead and the already cash-strapped clubs in Division 3 facing the prospect of a month's worth of "fallow" weeks.