Monday, 21 January 2013 LAWWELL-DONCASTER POWER GRAB ON NEW LEAGUE SET-UP SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE chief executive Neil Doncaster and his puppet master, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell have hatched a devious plan to cling on to power. (If they are having to “Cling to power” one has to doubt your previous rantings where you frequently suggest that he is “all powerful”) They are refusing to disband the SPL Ltd company, claiming it holds the purse strings and must stay. And that means any Scottish Football League clubs who join any new set-up could be at the mercy of the SPL and have to dance to the tune of the Doncaster-Lawwell Axis and their Celtic cabal. If they agree to the devious demands. (Ooooh how cryptic) And I can reveal that the tool Doncaster is using the try and force this deal through is a television deal which SPL Ltd have signed with Sky Television for the next five seasons. A deal which Doncaster claims, cannot be transferred to any new company. However nobody in Scottish football, apart from the two men who negotiated it with Sky, SPL chief executive and Celtic supremo Peter Lawwell, have seen this mystery contract. (How you know this will not be explained) Yet the Doncaster plan to hand out £350,000-a-year in extra payments to the dozen Scottish Football League teams in the new second tier, is, according to what Neil Doncaster has told one club, based on this Sky deal which nobody in the SPL, apart from Lawwell and nobody at all in the Scottish Football League, has seen. (So, Peter Lawell and Neil Doncaster are the only people who have seen this contract, I find that very hard to believe indeed) A dozen times £350,000 comes to a mind boggling £4.2M a year which the Doncaster-Lawwell-SPL-Celtic Axis is promising they can afford to give away as a goodwill gesture. Every year. Yet that promise is based on a contract with Sky which they have so far refused to give anyone, or anyone’s lawyers, a sight of. (You just know he is making this up as he goes along) While Doncaster is claiming that the only way to protect this deal with Sky is for the SPL to remain as the ruling body even if any new 12-12-18 set up is implemented and rushed through in time for next season. Doncaster says that is because the deal is with the SPL and Sky will steadfastly refuse to transfer it to any new league company. There are many who may believe that sort of threat sounds like blackmail. (Like who? You?) Especially when my highly placed sources in London assure me that Sky will be relaxed about dealing with any new company whuch may be formed to give substance to a new Scottish National League. Others may see Doncaster’s latest bluster as no more than a last desperate throw of the dice from Celtic and Peter Lawwell to preserve the Celtic cabal stranglehold on power, while Neil Doncaster remains as what many see as Lawwell’s willing puppet. Any Scottish Football League club signing up top any such deal – based on what looks like the threat of blackmail - would be taking a step in the dark off the edge of a steep cliff. Any Scottish Football League chairman willing to be marched blindfolded to the edge of the precipice would be seen as a man with a suicide wish. (This is almost Shakespearean in it’s content, Leggo should try his hand at writing ****ey novels…oh wait) The Scottish Football League clubs will talk about the new 12-12-18 all-in Scottish National League when they meet at the end of the month, but there will be no vote and the SFL Board will make no recommendation. When the 12-12-18 plan was first mooted and when it looked as though it heralded the end of the SPL, a senior source told me <laugh> he could not believe such a shrewd and powerful manipulator as Peter Lawwell, such a control freak and street fighter as Lawwell, would give up his vice like grip on top flight league football in Scotland quite so easily. (Was it Charlie Green?) That warning set alarm bells ringing and now my investigations have revealed just how Peter Lawwell intends to preserve the SPL, hang on to power by keeping his puppet Neil Doncaster at the helm and swallow up the minnows of the Scottish Football League. (Does that include Rangers?) And the trail of questions I have been posing has led me to these revelations. Which are.... 1 - The SPL of Neil Doncaster and Peter Lawwell will fight to continue to control any new league set-up. 2 – Nobody in the Scottish Football League has seen the contract the SPL say they have with Sky. 3 – Only Neil Doncaster and Peter Lawwell have seen the contract the SPL say they have with Sky. (Surely this statement is superfluous because of “3”?) 4 – Doncaster claims that contract cannot be switched to any other body, so the SPL must stay in control of all 40 clubs. 5 – Doncaster and Lawwell claim the Sky deal – which nobody else has seen (Yes you mentioned that already)– will fund £4.2M a year extra payments to the dozen teams in the second top tier. And on top of all that nobody in the SPL has made it clear to the 30 clubs in the Scottish Football League just what voting power they would have in any new National League, which would still be run by the SPL and the SPL-Doncaster-Lawwell-Celtic Axis. (Axis of Evil?) Ross County chairman Roy MacGregor resolutely refused to answer when asked by David Tanner on Sky on Saturday just how the voting rights would be carved up. He dodged the question of whether or not it would be one-club-one-vote. (Well if no one knows – as you claimed – why would he know?) My view is that the SPL-Doncaster-Lawwell-Celtic Axis are already be planning some sort of voting carve up which will see the majority of the 30 Scottish League clubs left as a powerless rump, while the powerbrokers of the Celtic cabal among the top clubs – think Aberdeen and Duncan Fraser, Hibernian and Rod Petrie and Dundee United and Stephen Thompson – continue to rule the roost. It is an SPL-Doncaster-Lawwell-Celtic Axis secret plan which must be resisted by the honest men and true who form the Scottish Football League. Just do not expect the Daily Rhebel, commercially gripped as it is in Celtic and Peter Lawwell’s vice like control, to try to unravel this SPL plot to cling onto power. But it could be a chance, once again, for the Sun to shine. (Aye because The Sun and News International are institutions which are completely trustworthy) .... AND.... HARD on the heels of my revelation that two and a half years after he became Scottish Football Association chief executive, Stewart Regan, still does not live in Scotland, comes a fresh revelation. Regan walked out of a vital meeting nearly five hours before it was finished, in response to numerous calls from his wife reminding him he was due to meet her and friends for dinner in Leeds that evening. You couldn’t make it up. Indeed you could and you probably have.
You can tell this fruit loop thinks the world is run by lizard people. Green lizard people obviously.
by the way, did you know no one But Lawell and Doncaster have seen the Sky contract? Just in case you missed that
You just wish Lawwell and Doncaster read this latest blog .... He's be sued quicker than you can say "Lawwell's Celtic Cabal"! The ****s a nutter!
All these years I wasted praying to God... I should have bene praying to Mr Lawwell! Or indeed, selling my soul to Lawwell and his cabal of the Celtic minded!
In fact, send a link of his blog to the local Mental Health Departmnet ... **** will be sectioned! Leggo, in a straight jacket/padded cell, imagining it's Lawwell whose responsible for his meals, accomodation, medication and any visits! Bit like Homer and "Flaming Moe" ...
The only worry I have is that the unhappy Huns will decide to march to the Glen Eagles at the end of this summer. Paul McGinley is Europe's recently appointed Captain and I hope we can keep this as a secret because he is Irish and not a favourite.
New levels of insanity: [h=2]Tuesday, 22 January 2013[/h][h=3]CELTIC BID TO HIJACK RANGERS BLUE CHIP INVESTORS[/h] CELTIC are trying to cash in on the £17M worth of popularity of Rangers with blue chip investors in the City of London. They have launched a bid to effectively hijack the mega-money men who are backing Rangers. Today I can reveal that Celtic have launched a Follow-Follow-Rangers scheme to try to discover why the Square Mile institutional investors poured that astonishing £17M into the Rangers share launch. Celtic also want them to say why they didn't choose to invest in Celtic My information comes from someone who held a senior position as a financial journalist with one of Britain’s most respected media outlets before retiring, but who still maintains contacts in the City. According to one senior City source, it would seem that Celtic were stunned at the success of the Rangers share issue, which was driven by Ibrox financial director Brian Stockbridge. Now Celtic appear to have decided that if a Third Division club can convince blue chip investors to part with £17M, Celtic can cash in too and raise cash by pursuing the same institutions. However, it remains to be seen how they would go about making such a move, for Irish billionaire Dermot Desmond, Celtic’s major shareholder and effectively Celtic’s owner, is unlikely to want to see his power within Parkhead slashed. Which means that Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell and his financial director Eric Riley will have to come up with some sort of wheeze to convince City investors to part with millions and yet have little or no say in running a club which will remain in the iron grip of Dermot Desmond and the man who does his bidding, Peter Lawwell. Someone else, who it is reasonable to assume will be consulted in how best to schmooze Square Mile investment managers, is former Celtic chairman Brian Quinn, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. One thing which the contact Celtic have been initiating with the institutional investors who have backed Rangers to the tune of £17M, even though the club is in the Third Division, appears to reveal is that Celtic may believe they have missed out on millions. There may also be a fear within Parkhead that the new Rangers regime have big plans for further investment and expansion when the club returns to the top flight. ..... AND...... ODIOUS CREEP continues to cock a snoot at and take the mickey out of Herald managing director Tom Blott, who is paying him £500-a-pop for a Big Interview, which is far from being that, in the expensive - £1.50p-a-copy – Saturday edition of the Herald. Last week Odious Creep’s so called Big Interview took the form of quick phone calls to a fellow journalist, the Belfast Newsletter’s Robert McElroy, as well as Norman Watson of the Newcastle United Supporters Trust. Inteviews? No more than, maybe. Big? Do me a favour. It was what’s known in the old inky trade as a gash piece, (ooer Missus) of the sort usually given to a young reporter to do, to give him experience. Yet Odious Creep presented it as the culmination of his week’s work and worth £500 of Tim Blott’s money. No wonder those inside the Herald sports department, reporters and sub editors alike, are furious at the way £500 is being thrown at Odious Creep ever week for his pisspoor efforts. Especially as Blott ruled the Herald could not afford to send a reporter to Australia to cover Andy Murray's bid for a second Grand Slam. There are now also real fears on the editorial floor that Odious Creep’s presence in the £1.50p Saturday Herald, will hit sales of that day’s paper, sales which are vital to the very existence of the Herald. Odious Creep was also on BBC Radio Scotland again on Saturday night, for what looks like being a regular weekly slot on what used to be the nation’s most listened to sports programme, but which is already plunging in the ratings. (Ratings for a non-Commercial Radio Station?) And Creep’s continued presence on BBC Radio Scotland each Saturday night is something else which is causing some disquiet among long serving and long suffering staff journalists on the mismanaged by Tim Blott, Herald. For it means no Herald hack can any longer appear as occasional guests on BBC Radio Scotland on a Saturday, as the broadcaster has a hard and fast rule than no more than one journalist-per-paper can appear on a show.
Dev fair play to you, the first Celtic fan to participate in the Celtic Board Room. Pud, the Rebel, Tom Cat and the rest must be jealous of your promotion, and you are still modest enough to post here.
