Leggo : New celtic man joins SPL Powerbrokers

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THE Celtic connections are already mustering as part of a Scottish Premier League Task Force which looks like being aimed at doing in Rangers....

 

 

Again!

 

 

It is a measure of just what a close firm and vice like grip Celtic have been allowed to take on Scottish football in the decade since Peter Lawwell moved into power at Parkhead that there is nothing surprising about Celticâ??s latest power grab for the future of top flight football in Scotland.

 

 

Just do not expect to read about it in the nationâ??s newspapers. Or at least not the one neutered by Celtic after entering into a commercial deal with Peter Lawwell, the Daily Record.

 

 

And not the one whose chief sports writer and chief football writer blindly follow the Lawwell line, the Scottish Daily Mail where spouting bile about Rangers and about Alastair McCoist is second nature to two most powerful by lines on the paper.

 

 

However, today, I can exclusively reveal that it has not taken Celtic long to get their new company secretary, Michael Nicholson, the guy from Harper MacLeod who was previously the SPLâ??s attack dog against Rangers, Rod McKenzieâ??s sidekick at the legal firm which represents Celtic and the Scottish Premier League, parachuted into the SPL negotiating team which is in talks with the honourable men of the Scottish Football League about the future of football in Scotland.

 

 

And guess who I am told lawyer Nicholson will find sitting alongside him on the SPLâ??s side of the negotiating table? Why none other than Celticâ??s £2500,000-a-year financial director Eric Riley, a man who pockets that salary only if he dances to Peter Lawwellâ??s tune.

 

 

And who else? Well, surprise, surprise it is Rod Petrie, someone who is apparently so keen to do Lawwellâ??s bidding that he needs no financial inducement. No thirty pieces of silver. Rod Petrie seems to be happy enough doing Peter Lawwell and Celticâ??s bidding for nothing.

 

 

Is there no one on the Scottish Premier League who will speak out about about Celticâ??s stranglehold? Nobody from, for instance, St Mirren, Ross County, Inverness Caley, Kilmarnock and Motherwell?

 

 

For they are the clubs with the most to lose if a Celtic stitch up to keep control of any new set up emerges on the back of financial promises to those who will form any new 12-team second tier, based on extra money being handed over by such as St Mirren, Ross County, Inverness Caley, Kilmarnock and Motherwell. Money they can ill afford to cough up.

 

 

It seems there is nobody at any of those clubs willing to speak out about what many believe to be the morally corrupt Scottish Premier League.

 

 

And it is a forlorn hope to even hint at the idea Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster would speak out. For, as far as many are concerned, he is buried deep inside Peter Lawwellâ??s back pocket.

 

 

Doncaster appears willing to accept a man, a lawyer who is Lawwellâ??s latest puppet, Michael Nicholson, who has not been working in Scottish football for five minutes, has earned a seat at the top table in talks with the honourable men of the Scottish Football League about the future of Scottish football.

 

 

My view about Doncaster is that this is just the latest in a long line of supine acts which add up to a consistent and appalling dereliction of duty. Not his apparent duty to Peter Lawwellâ??s wishes. That he seems to have no problem fulfilling. But his duty to the wider good of Scottish football. Which is the duty he is actually paid £200,000-a-year to fulfil.

 

 

Goodness knows what sort of plans the under Peter Lawwell orders and paid for by Celtic, Michael Nicholson and Eric Riley will hatch with Lawwellâ??s pal, Rod Petrie.

 

 

But of one thing we can be certain. They will not be good news for Rangers.

[Juancornetto 1]

Get us out of here ASAP Charles.....it's overrun with sellickminded.

[ian1964 10,448]

Get us out of here ASAP Charles.....it's overrun with sellickminded.

 

Nothing or no-one seems to be able to stop them!

[RANGERRAB 3,299]

Nothing or no-one seems to be able to stop them!

 

The reality is they're everywhere in Scotland. They're over-represented in politics(councillors, MSP's, MP'S & MEP's), the mhedia( BBC Scotland, Radio Clyde, Daily Rebel etc) and various professions such as the legal profession where just about every solicitor/lawyer seems to be one of them nowadays.

Not bad for a section of the Scottish population which is supposedly less than 20%. Small wonder they're now more or less running Scottish football's governing bodies too.