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Celtic move 14 points clear of Rangers
Hail, Hail.
Tuesday was a momentous day for most Celtic fans, the day most of us had been discussing and envisaging for a year finally arrived. Rangers entered administration.
It would appear administration is just the start of their problems, with talk already turning to liquidation. If this does occur then who knows what will happen. It would appear most Rangers fans and the media feel a newco will spring up and replace the old Rangers in the SPL, debt free, massive stadium and same playing staff: basically Rangers with a slightly different name. This would be wrong.
Rangers have only got themselves to blame for the current predicament. As a football fan, I can feel a bit of sympathy for the ordinary Rangers fan and the people who work at the club who might lose their jobs. I don’t feel sorry for anyone who has been involved in the running of the club. The way I see it they have cheated their way to the glories they enjoyed, overspending, not paying tax. The famous quote from an old chairman of theirs that for every £5 Celtic spend we will spend £10 has came back to bite them hard.
If we see Rangers liquidated, be prepared to be told that Celtic need Rangers, that Scottish football will die, I’ve already heard it on the radio and TV. This is their way of getting a newco straight into the SPL. Celtic will not die, Scottish football will not die. Celtic may have to tighten its belt a bit, Scottish football will continue in some form. If a newco is what happens then they should start in the 3rd division and work there way up through the league. What about the TV deal? scrap it and make a new one, where the money is equally distributed amongst the SPL. TV money is only worth approx 1.5 to 2 million pounds for Celtic, nothing.
If they are liquidated it could be a new beginning for Scottish football. If they start in Division 3, no doubt some sort of TV deal will be put towards the SFL, money that they wouldn’t usually generate, larger crowds at lower division games due to Rangers trying to move through the leagues will also generate income. They would probably get back to the SPL in 3 years. I’m sure the SPL can survive that. We could even reinvigorate the SPL, most fans are fed up with the current system, this could be the time to make the changes. Increase the league, maybe play twice a season, reintroduce sectional early rounds of league cup, which would mean we would get to play rangers still!
Remember the 1980s? I can, just about, I was 10 when we won the league in 1988, that decade saw Aberdeen and Dundee United win the league a couple of times. Hearts lost out to Celtic in 85 on the last day of season. The problem that happened was that Rangers created a monster by changing the market for the worse, every other tema overspent trying to catch up. Only Celtic and Rangers have won the league since. I would rather we saw a more level playing field within the Scottish football environment and a new revival. Oh, and it looks like we will win the league now, 14 points clear.
Enjoy.
Posted by Celtic fan Michael Kane
Follow Michael on Twitter @m_gkane
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