The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

Not that i'm a local but there's nothing i've ever read giving me an indication any of the other clubs will ever catch up. Seems to me the best option would be attempting to join the EPL, or at the very least division below and attempt to qualify.

 

It would be the best option for the survival of Celtic as a "big" club, certainly... It will never ever happen... The English FA doesn't want it, the clubs overwhelmingly do not want it either, especially the clubs in the lower leagues that are fighting for a spot in the premier league...

Outside of Murdoch saying "I demand Celtic be accepted into the FA or I will pull the plug on the TV deal", I can't see any scenario where Celtic actually get accepted ... Celtic and Rangers need each other in the SPL in order to justify their size

 

And, no, the other clubs won't ever catch up. There was a time when some of them did... The SPL was once a very good league producing numerous clubs who were either successful in Europe or at the very least very competitive ... TV money and the, what would you call it? foreignization of European clubs has made that impossible... You are a promising young striker from Ghana, two clubs are interested in you... one of them is Aberdeen, the other is Crystal Palace... It's a no brainer that you are going to CP... But if this was 1983, you wouldn't be saying that because Aberdeen would be one of the best clubs n Europe

 

What if they try to force their way in?

Buy all the front row seats at an EPL match. The entire Celtic squad occupies them wearing full kits. The whole time they can hurl insults at the players. Then at some point during the game when a ref is not looking one of them runs onto the field and smacks a player upside the head with a steel chair. It would create a bunch of animosity and the team would want their revenge on the field.

 

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Again.....Ra Sellik have to create a united front with all the other big clubs in similar positions. Benfica, Porto, Sporting, Ajax, Feynord, PSV, Rapid Vienna, Brondby Anderlecht, Brugge, etc etc etc. Combine forces and kick up stink. Boycott tournaments, set ourselves on fire, bomb the tory party conference.

 

Yup

It is preposterous that clubs like these are essentially glorified minnows in modern continental football... It is obscene that Southampton is a "bigger" club than RSC Anderlecht

 

Feebes/Irish - every day in the guardian they have caricatures of david cameron covered in what looks like a big red condom. It makes him look like a lobster or something. What does this mean?

 

He's a dickhead!!!! :: And its red because his face is always red.

I'm a touch retarded with this sort of lateral stuff. Very linear, so i am. Got there in the end though.

 

Having looked it up out of curiosity, I can understand your confusion... Pretty abstract

 

I dunno....can it be as simple as him being a dickhead?

 

Cartoonist Steve Bell reveals in the Guardian today why he draws the Prime Minister with a condom on his head.

Bell writes: "When I first drew David Cameron at a party conference I saw smoothness and a distinct air of plausibility... the more I saw of Cameron, the more his smoothness seemed to develop and encompass all his other features."His well-upholstered, upper-class plumpness and his big, watery eyes were bound up more and more in his baby-bottom complexion. His smoothness soon seemed to take on an other-worldly quality, a kind of androgynous sleekness that accompanied his transformation of the erstwhile "Nasty party" into the Sunshine, Springtime and Fluffy Cloud party...
"Then came the prolonged expenses scandal and Cameron's energetic protestations of complete transparency. The only fully transparent organism that I could think of was a jellyfish; either that or, what was it about those odd folds of skin from his ear to his neck? A balloon that's been twisted.
"This January the Tories' first election billboard appeared, with Cameron's supposedly airbrushed face looming large on the left. But I knew, having inspected him at close quarters, that he really was that smooth. He was going to cut the deficit, not the NHS. Total moral opportunism combined with a complete, engorged and erectile sense of his own responsibility. Thus it was that the condom unrolled over his smooth head. It seemed so perfect and so apt, to me at least, and so after some initial opposition, I elected to run with it."
Bell recounts how he met up with Cameron during the general election campaign at a service station. "We shook hands. He asked me: "The condom . . . where does that come from?"
"A dozen things passed through my mind, such as: "They have machines in places like this . . ." I thought for a moment. What I said was, "It's to do with the smoothness of your complexion," though actually at the time his face was looking a little raw. He seemed genuinely interested and claimed to have enjoyed the one I'd drawn of him in that day's paper as a large sausage on a butcher's weighing machine."

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The byzantine prevarications of a man who can't just say - 'because he's a dickhead!'

 

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LOL @ Nick Clegg ::

 

Oi Hut. Psst. Look over here ...

 

I think we were a better team under Mark Hughes, I really do. 'arry has had his time now I think. Too many below-par performances and too many excuses coming from him. We are more like a team of strangers. I'd rather see Tony Pulis come in. He'd organise that team and get rid of the rubbish and bring in players who may not be high profile, but are willing to get stuck in and give 101% to the team. I knew Rio would be a failure and this has proven to be the case.

 

It's begun:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29532934

MTF

 

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I like the thought of somebody spending half an hour to draw that ::

 

Mesut Ozil out for 12 weeks, which in Arsenal time is 8 months. I really hate the medical staff. Worst injury record every single year.

 

Trying to find a non-shouty 5 panel hat is murder. 'LOOK AT ME AND HOW COOL & CREATIVE MY HAT IS!' they all say. 'IT HAS PINEAPPLES, TULIPS AND KNIVES!/HASH LEAVES!/PSYCHEDELIC CURTAIN PATTERNS!/KNOWING SHEPPARD FAIRLEY REFERENCES!'. i just want, like, a hat, no.

Also, whiskey: here're some handsome tims taking over Westfalenstadion in 1992!

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Hut, which game on Saturday are you more interested in? Is it the Republic of Ireland vs The Mighty Gibraltar or Scotland ... brought to you by IRN-BRU vs Georgia?

 

I want Scotland to win enough games that their inevitable failure to qualify makes some members of the tartan army cry. And I guess the whole gibralta thing is semi-interesting. Beyond that i really dont care.

 

I think Scotland (brought to you by IRN BRU... IRN BRU, It gets you through) would probably face a tougher test against a team from the US state Georgia

 

the wartorn former soviet republic would probably be a nicer away trip though.

 

agreed

 

This is the dangerous squad England play today:

 

have a feeling that 4-4-2 will resemble an 8-1-1 once England have possession for more than 30 seconds