lol shuda.

dude, I'm sure their fans will advertise themselves this Sunday, especially if Boughera's bestest buddy fails to save them from a doing. Celtic fans should take fire extinguishers with them.

It's not club, it's CLUBS...and that is complete heresay that it is Celtic.  I am not surprised they all want out, it is a joke league and a joke standard of football.

I think letting them in the Blue Square would be in an insult...let them start in the non-league north regional league's....they might have a chance at getting a few points then

i dont care what league it is in England. The SPL would fall apart without us. Would love to see it happen

The entire structure of national leagues in Europe is a complete joke. Clubs with massive fanbases like Celtic, Rangers, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Feyenoord, Ajax and Anderlecht are ridiculously disadvantaged simply because they play in sh*t leagues. It simply isn't fair.

Europe should adopt a Brazilian model whereby they run a national league, and regional leagues, and teams have a place in both. Of course the equivalent would be a European league and national leagues respectively.

All that having been said, clubs that go into administration should face automatic relegation - no ifs, no buts, and directors who lead their clubs into administration should be banned from the sport for life.

Can't stand Rangers or Celtic, for what it's worth. I cannot think of a set of supporters who are worse behaved or have more of a sense of entitlement than those two without going as far away as Serbia.

"The SPL would fall apart without us." Would love to see it happen.

I'd love the spl to fall apart. Constant bottom six, player exodus every year, dreadful football, poor value for money for long suffering fans, players stolen on the cheap if showing a hint of ability, directors couldn't give a toss. It's all a pointless waste of time.

FFS, we've had the "old firm bias" now we've got the "old firm fans". Maybe it's just Scotsmen you hate.

Nah, I get on well with most Scots, there were tons of them at uni.

It's only Celtic and Rangers fans - it's the borderline lunatic sectarianism, and persisent sense of aggression, persecution and entitlement that riles me. No problem with the rugby fans, or those of other Scottish teams. One of my best mates is a Partick Thistle fan.

Personally, I'd like to see the Scottish League absorbed into the English League, at least the top division. Then teams could find a level commensurate with their fanbase, which would probably be along the lines of - may have got some of those in the lower divisions a bit wrong...

Pre: Celtic, Rangers
Cha: Aberdeen
L1 : Dundee Utd, Dunfermline, Hearts, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Motherwell,
L2 : Airdrie Utd, Ayr Utd, Dundee, Greenock Morton, Livingston, Partick Thistle, St Johnstone,
BSP: Clyde, Falkirk, Inverness CT, Raith Rovers, St Mirren.

In truth, I'd also split League 2 and the Blue Square Premier into a North and South division.

One of the charges against against Rangers was bringing the game into disrepute - Rule 66. Our punishment?

The Tribunal found Rangers FC guilty in respect of Rule 66 and imposed the maximum fine of £100,000 payable within 12 months. In addition, the Tribunal imposed a prohibition in terms of Article 94.1 and 95 of the Articles of Association, prohibiting Rangers FC for a period of 12 months from the date of determination from seeking registration with the Scottish FA of any player not currently with the club, excluding any player under the age of 18 years.


Rule 66: No recognised football body, club, official, Team Official or other member of Team Staff, player, referee, or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall bring the game into disrepute.



Now the charges against Lennon for his antics in the match against Hearts in the Cup.

Name: Neil Lennon, Celtic FC
Match: Celtic v Heart of Midlothian (William Hill Scottish Cup) - 15th April 2012
Disciplinary Rule(s) allegedly breached: Rules 203, 68 and 71
Principal Hearing Date: Thursday, 10th May 2012

Mr. Lennon has until Thursday, 3rd May 2012 to respond to the Notice of Complaint.

Rule 203: No member of Team Staff shall commit Misconduct at a match, including but not limited to committing acts of the kind described in the Schedule of Offences in Annex C (including where there is aggravation by any factor, including but not limited to prolongation of the incident; combination of different offences; continued use of offensive, abusing and/ or insulting language and/or behaviour; calling a match official a cheat and/ or calling a match official’s integrity into question; failure to comply with a match official’s requests; adoption of aggressive behaviour towards a match official; any racist, sexist, sectarian and/or otherwise discriminatory element; and the degree of any physical violence), breaching the Post Match Protocol and committing Unacceptable Conduct.

Rule 68: No recognised football body, club, official, Team Official or other member of Team Staff, player or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA, shall in an interview, a ‘blog’ on the internet, on a social networking or micro-blogging site, or in any other manner calculated or likely to lead to publicity (i) criticise the performance(s) of any or all match official(s) in such a way as to indicate bias or incompetence on the part of such match official; or (ii) make remarks about such match official(s) which impinge on his character. For the avoidance of doubt this rule applies (i) whether reported to the Scottish FA by a referee for misconduct or otherwise, and (ii) where remarks are brought to the Scottish FA’s attention, or of which the Scottish FA becomes aware, by whatever manner or means.

Rule 71: A recognised football body, club, official, Team Official, other member of Team Staff, player or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA shall, at all times, act in the best interests of Association Football and shall not act in any manner which is improper.



WHY IS LENNON NOT BEING CHARGED UNDER RULE 66? BRINGING THE GAME INTO DISREPUTE.

ANOTHER SLAP ON THE WRIST NO DOUBT.

THE SFA ARE CORRUPT

please miss...he did, she did...

HATELY, what a MUG 

Christ Hateley the 42 teams including Rangers agreed to an independent, anonymous tribunal to make the decisions and Rangers had a delegation there.

lol Brian. I think the only thing that will satisfy them is if the SFA pay off all their debts and claim the money back from Celtic in the shape of a 150 million fine for Neil Lennon.

History Maker, I think you need to do some research. I don't think you're being malicious but your comments are definitely naive. Rangers in Manchester wasn't that long ago. Can you tell me on what basis you're lumping the Celtic fans in with the likes of that? One other thing, Celtic are not a sectarian club.

Personal experience, and the rants of various people on internet forums, including this one. It doesn't help that one of my friends was assaulted by three Celtic fans for the crime of being "an English c*nt" in a Glasgow pub.

Also, no matter how you try to dress it up, Celtic may not be a sectarian club, but they have largely sectarian support. Otherwise, why the utter seething and claims that it would provoke violent disorder when Paul Gascoigne did his stupid flute celebration?

I appreciate the fact that Celtic fans haven't misbehaved en masse recently like Rangers fans did in Manchester, and that not all fans should be tarred with the same brush, but the never-ending ability of both sets of fans to feel insulted by the behaviour of others is extremely tedious.

As I said, I'd like to see them both in the EPL. I think that it would cool the rivalry a little, and contrary to the view of most English fans, I think that both would be a beneficial addition to the league.

SIR Walter to you

Also, no matter how you try to dress it up, Celtic may not be a sectarian club, but they have largely sectarian support.

I would dispute that as well. Our venom is directed at those who hate us. Would you call a black who hated the KKK a racist?

Feck .. do British soldiers hate Celtic

        does the  Queen  hate Celtic..

        do all protestants hate Celtic, how does the song go .. soon there be no protestants at all

few more if you want them

^ I concur

Another agreeing.

Utter paranoia and total blame culture amongst their fans. Whenever they have done something they deserve to be criticised for they can never accept any blame and just point towards the other team like a child "yes, but look what they have done".

Just when you think one is more paranoid the other fights back. The last few weeks must be the most utterly embarassing and cringe worthy period in Scottish football and it can only get worse.

It's not just Rangers/Celtic fans that are racist/sectarian- The JT's posting on this would do well to remember the incidents with their fans - banana's at mark walters? attacking Celtic manager? hibs players- All teams have their @rseholes!!

Very true Troy there are idiots associated with all teams and all these things have been quite rightly condoned. However I don't remember the clubs and their fans taking the stance that it was everybody else's fault and that they were the victims in these cases.

looks like  rangers have been a gravy train for  25 plus years   .all gravy is  gone  . and hard to take  ,somebody  connected to club allowed all this debt to pile up during their watch  ,,come home to roost ?

strangely  celtic got  of the hook  at  a last minute  ,with a fraction of the debts rangers have now  ????  taken on and signed for by a man with credability  ,who sorted it out over 5 years and  gone  ? 

white knight ...blue knight  ... sign for the  dough , outstanding  and let these poor  administrators off the hook ,

the clock is running and every day adds costs to the pile  thats outstanding ... more so  from administrators .

well past sell by date   ,almost an impossible c.v.a.  to  deliver as it is at moment  .
Is there an answer  ... squabbling makes it worse  .

must be a bluenose , who can come forward with plenty assets to  rescue  similar to  what  mc  cann did  ..

doesn't need to be a footie man  ... a  real  deal business man  who can walk away  with a  handsome profit  like  what happened at neighbours  celtic  .......Leaving it on a sound footing..???