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The better quote is from Michel Platini.

Football is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

Have seen another calculation where Hibs won it on goal difference. Canna be assed working it out.

How about the new Darren Mackie?

Nigel Hasselbaink

Watched it a few years ago. The younger guy in it used to/does work in Abercrombie bar and was in a Sci-fi film filmed on Balmedie beach.

It's 100% shite.

Strangely fitting that dazzler signed off his career as captain in a game with no goals.

And missing a couple of sitters.

Today also highlighted Craig Brown's lack of intelligence. Considine was 1 booking away from receiving a 2 match suspension, which he picked up and will now miss the first 2 games of next season. Why play him? I can see the comments next August already. After 2 poor defensive displays we'll have "We've not been able to play our first choice defence yet" and "Andy is back next week, he'll be like a new signing".

The bench was filled with shite. Guys like Clark, Mcardle, Mawene when kids like Smith and McManus should have been given a chance in this match.

And lastly, why not sub off Mackie? Everyone there expected to see Mackie subbed off, to give him his reception and close the door on that chapter. Instead we were left with a rather awkward applause at the end with most folk having left.

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says he is hoping "something stupid" happens to Manchester City to gift his team the Premier League title.

 

City host QPR on Sunday needing to match or better United's result against Sunderland to win the Premier League.

"We can only do our best and try to win the match and hope something stupid happens with City," said Ferguson.

Ferguson urged QPR to emulate his Aberdeen side, who upset Real Madrid to win the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup.

 

"Do you know what happened 29 years ago today?," he asked journalists. "I took a wee team, Aberdeen, to beat Real Madrid in a European final.

"Eleven players, home-bred and the oldest player was 27 years of age. That's QPR's challenge, to do an Aberdeen.

 

"Of course, the odds are stacked against them. City are in good form and at home. It will not be easy for them because the pressure on them will be enormous, the fans will be putting the referee under tremendous pressure.

"It's not going to be easy because on the face of it you expect City to win. And so do I. But as long as human beings are human beings, you never know. You just hope something stupid happens."

QPR need a point to guarantee their Premier League survival.

With reports that wages would be cut in the event of relegation, Ferguson does not expect Mark Hughes' men to be short of motivation against City.

"For QPR, it's the other end of the spectrum," he said. "Probably most of their players will be put on the [transfer] list, other players' salaries will be halved from what I can gather. Things like that.

"It's a dramatic thing for QPR. The effect on their players and the club … they've invested a bit of money.

"So there's two ends of the spectrum which makes it such an important game. But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if we don't win.

"If we lose, we've lost the league anyway, so we've got to win our game. I have to focus on that, that's my job."

Buffel was it not?

In 2002 ITV Digital's TV deal with the football league goes bust, the chief executive of a football league club warns:

 

“If Granada and Carlton are allowed to escape their liability they will put at risk a very large number of Football League clubs. At Norwich we are budgeting for a £12m income next year, £2m of which is television money. Even if we receive that we are heading for a £2m loss – £4m would obviously be unsustainable.”

 

 

But this executive's club didn't go bust, there was some financial unease but the lower leagues survived. And in an interview in 2009 this executive said:

 

 

“At the time ITV Digital collapsed we had budgeted to receive £3million in TV money and ended up with a deal which brought in £1m so over a two-year spell we ended up with a £4m shortfall.

 

“I can only speak from our experiences … and it was very difficult. “

 

“It was a difficult time but the clubs got through it at that time and I think they’re stronger for it.”

 

 

And the name of this chief executive who was predicting the worst case scenario but in the aftermath now admits that clubs got through it and even made them better? None other then current SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster.

Floorboards creaking is most likely due to them rubbing against each other. If that was the case they wouldn't likely need replaced. You can put talc between the boards or support them better by screwing them into the joists.

Depends if its proper floorboards or shitey chipboard too.

Anywhere mentioned how much the Black & Gold thing will cost?

Is he "fit and proper"? The signs point to no.

Impressed with Masson, Smith and Fraser. Hope they get more game time in next few weeks and pre-season. Smith in particular was always looking for the ball when he came on.

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What's the source for this?  From what I can see, exams have been getting easier and easier over the years.

By that you actually mean pass marks have been increasing...

It does bring serious questions about how impartial the SFA/SPL can be when dealing issues like the ineligible players and dual contracts. Are they now immune to any punishment? If the SFA/SPL were to fine Rangers or Celtic, like they did Hearts, what is to stop the Old Firm refusing to pay it? What are the SFA/SPL going to do? They sure as hell won't kick them out.

Doncaster added: "In Scotland we have never had a newco at any time but in England, whenever a club goes into administration, a newco is the natural consequence.

 

"So the likes of Crystal Palace recently and Plymouth in the last few years took their points deduction for going into administration but in terms of coming out the newco was the preferred route.

CRYSTAL Palace took a huge step towards exiting administration this morning when the club's creditors voted overwhelmingly in favour of a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).

http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Palace-creditors-vote-favour-CVA/story-11359699-detail/story.html

ADMINISTRATORS AT PLYMOUTH ARGYLE have prevailed in pushing through a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) at the club. A CVA entails an organisation repaying a percentage of debt over a contracted period of time, but requires 75% or more of creditors (by value) to vote in its favour. The administrators at Plymouth were able to obtain 82% of creditors to approve it.

http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/2068912/plymouth-cva-approved

Took me what, 2 mins to find that? Really wish some of the Scottish "journalists" would look into some of these comments before just re-posting them in articles.

Correct, although I'm sure any extension or new contract would be impacted by Rangers not being in the SPL - just not to the end-of-the-world extent that Doncaster trys so hard to put across with all of his half-comments.

He also blatantly lies about the English clubs coming out of Administration as newcos.

I'm sure I saw Hibs fans claim the 94-95 title. They finished 1 point behind Motherwell so I assume their results vs Rangers were worse but I canna be assed checking.

This rumour was doing the rounds a week or so ago and he rubbished it on twitter. Probably the Record being late to the show.

I was about to say, when I was hoose hunting just over 2 years ago 1 bedroom flats on Rosemount Place were going for over 115k. I did see a couple nearer the 100k mark but they all had fairly major problems which would have taken thousands to fix.

I got a bit lucky. After Uni I was able to stay with my parents for about a year while I saved up for a deposit, and then I bought my flat directly off a family friend for under market value. I doubt that if I was renting a flat while looking to buy that I would have been able to save very much.

Gretna would have been SPL woudl it not as it was SPL fixtures they couldn't fulfil. Didn't we lose 6 points because of it?

 

Then again it's unlikely the huns would be unable to fulfil their fixtures.

No, they completed their SPL fixtures and were relegated but were then liquidated that summer.

As far as I remember all those cases were also in the SFL, not the SPL.

Yeh he's not personally affected by it. He is a professional objector.

Advisor of planning matters to Bridge of Don Action Group (opposing proposed housing scheme at East Woodcroft, Bridge of Don).

 

Advisor on planning matters to The Green Wedge action group (opposing new settlement proposals at Banchory Devenick and Blairs)

 

Advisor on planning / transport matters to Save Our Stonehaven (opposing) proposed major housing scheme at Stonehaven), 1996.

 

Advisor on planning / transport matters to Kingswells Infrastructure First Group (opposing proposed Aberdeen FC stadium on greenbelt site) 2002-2003.

 

Advisor on planning / transport matters to Aberdeen Greenbelt Alliance (opposing proposed new settlement at Countesswells, major housing allocations at Craigton Road / Friarsfield Rd, Cults and Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) 2002 - present.

 

Advisor on planning matters to Pinewood Residents Group (opposing proposed major housing development at Ben Red Garden Centre, Aberdeen) 2005.

 

Advisor on planning / transport matters to Hutcheon Low Action Group (opposing proposed FirstBus bus depot and ‘global HQ’ on protected site).

 

Advisor on planning / environmental matters to Cowie Residents Action Group (opposing waste water treatment plant in historic village of at Cowie, Stonehaven), 2005.

 

Advisor on planning / transport matters to Tillydrone Community Council (opposing the Third Don Crossing, Tillydrone), 2006.

 

Chairman of Road-Sense 2006 – present, opposing the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.