This may sound a bit naive but would it not get a bit tiresome having the big clubs play all the other big clubs every year? I don't know but for me it would take the spice out of such contests knowing that they would turn into such a regularity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19924802 Missed the other post on this subject (facepalm) Apologies
What a moron. We've earned the right to play in the PL and play Arsenal, Man City, United etc. I hope Rangers rot in division 3.
Exactly if barca played man u twice every season it would be no different to man u vs Liverpool ior barca vs real... Infact it would be less special. The guy is talking **** and seems like he's trying to insult many people.
Completely agree with what you guys are saying. Why should the smaller clubs not be given then chance if they've earnt it to play the top sides. If these top teams played all the time it would definantly ruin some of the excitement around the occasion. The main reason the champions league is so exciting for me is purely because its games that dont happen every year. Unfortunately it seems, from their not 606 page at least, that the majority of Rangers fans seem to like the outlandish things this guy has said. I guess when this sort of thing happens to a club you can react in one of 2 ways; take a good look at yourself and change the way you do things or blame everybody else and end up with a complex about everyone being against you. Seems that Rangers from the Chief Exec down to the fan on the street have decided that what has happened to them is purely because of everyone elses preducides and because of such in order for a new owner to appease the fans they need to come out with such statements as this insulting other clubs and fans. Makes me so glad that we got the Leibherrs and Nicola. Forget the money. Forget the ambition. At least they want to do things the right way and changed the club into a well run business. Thank god we didn't end up with a bloke like this chap...
Haha. Glad we both had the same reaction to this at least! Take a look on the Rangers board as i posted something about it on there too. Some interesting responses...
Thinking about it maybe you should have posted on the Celtic board. Now that would have generated a response!
To be fair, chaps, most of us Celtic fans are on the Rangers board anyway and vice versa. All the other Scottish team boards are dead
Ha. Considering that I didn't and yet we have still had 3/4 responses from Celtic fans I would guess your probably right!
Some would say that's representative of Scottish football as a whole... How the chairman of a club like rangers can belittle premier league teams, I fail to understand. I'm not even annoyed about it, anyone with an ounce of sense can see that it's nonsense.
You could turn his whole argument back upon him. Why has/is his club been playing the likes of St Mirren, Stenhousemuir, Queen of the South, Motherwell, etc..? It's called COMPETITION. That's what fans want to see and it doesn't matter a jot whether one team plays opposition team A or team B. I think he's completely deluded and he's confusing the business with the game. Besides, if the Premier League wanted to play Rangers and Celtic every week, they would have voted to do so 10-12 years ago when they had the chance. But they vetoed the idea. He realises that there's no big money to be made in Scottish football, that's what he's really concerned about.
I'd like to hear the views of Arsenal fans on this. Green is deluded if he thinks that Arsenal consider Rangers to be their equals. I'm betting the majority of Arsenal fans consider Southampton and Rangers to be equally insignificant.
'tis a bit, sadly. I think what gets us Scots about the English PL is that we (Celtic) are in the top 15 teams worldwide for merchandise sales and, at one point, we had the highest number of season ticket holders in the UK. Our TV income is about £1million a year - our entire squad which beat Spartak Moscow cost less than the money we got for selling them Aiden McGeady (£9m). A disproportionate number of Scots have Sky Sports subscriptions (compared to other home nations) and a higher percentage of the Scottish population go to games than any other country in Europe. But our Sky subscriptions fund the neighbouring league (it can be argued that we constantly lose out on players to Championship teams who can pay higher wages) and it's to the detriment of our own league. This also means that youngsters from Aberdeen and Dundee (for example) no longer follow their local teams but there's never a shortage of Man U, Liverpool or Chelsea shirts in these cities as younger people follow the obvious glamour of the English league. We're batting above our average in the Champions League just now but I'm loving every minute of it - Celtic have to play Moneyball, our best players will need to be homegrown or scouted young then sold on (Ki, McGeady etc). In a weird way, it would make it all the more satisfying if we go further than any of the English teams in the CL
Really stupid comments from Charles Green, does it matter if big clubs don't want to see us play them?, we earned the right to be in the premier league and to play the top clubs, I don't see what his point is.
We won't. He's telling the truth. We are rivals afterall, despite the many leagues in between. He is speaking the truth though. Arsenal would rather play Rangers or Celtic over Swansea and Southampton, go ask them on their board. There is no money in Scottish football but drop the Old Firm teams into the Premier League and they would be challenging near the top.
Another thought..! If I have a wish to be granted today, let it be that Nicola Cortese reads that statement. Please, oh please, please, please, let him do so. We can go back to wishing for world peace, and an end to poverty, tomorrow.
The chance was given 12 years ago. The Football League agreed to it, but the Premier League vetoed it. Just shows how much Arsenal wants to play Rangers, doesn't it..?
