Celtic Are Not, And Will Not Be, Involved In Any Of These Nutty Super League Proposals.

For God’s sake.

Another round of this? Another round of this discredited garbage?

Why? Why am I doing this?

Why am I having to go through this again?

Once again, the press is filled with more of this dredged up Super League fantasy.

Every time the PR company for these people puts out a press release a lot of folk in our media lose themselves in pants peeing excitement over it … and it has the substance of wind.

So they are sounding out as many as 80 clubs are they?

They can sound out 800 of them.

UEFA runs competitions for European football, under the aegis of FIFA and they are not going to allow any other body to set up something like this. The national leagues will fight it with everything they can muster, especially the EPL, even if clubs are allowed to continue playing domestic football, which is what these latest proposals apparently set out.

No-one writing about this today has even approached the subject logically. A minimum of 14 games a season. That’s less than what we played in Europe last season, but there is no room on the sporting calendar for those 14 games unless – and this is the crux of it – we withdraw from the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Domestic football might – just might – carry on as normal, although I wouldn’t put money on that, but European football certainly won’t. This means the end of UEFA’s three competitions and their entire system of rules and regulations like FFP.

If you think UEFA will allow that to happen, or that they should allow it to happen, you are wrong. It’s not just fanciful, it’s deeply immoral, it’s being proposed for suspect reasons by suspect people who aren’t even hiding what they are all about.

They don’t just want to disrupt football in Europe, they want to run it. And if you think that scenario benefits us in the long term you are kidding yourself on.

The idea is dead. Nothing will bring it back to life, and that’s the simple fact of it and it is tiresome having to write this stuff about a prospect that about as real as unicorns. The fascination with it amazes me. It is an idea which won’t leave people’s heads.

Celtic doesn’t support it. If we were sent an “invitation” I am quite sure it would be sent back the very same day with a no, and probably not a polite one. We have been actively involved in the setting up of financial fair play guidelines. We played a role in planning reforms to the UEFA club competitions. We, like nearly every club, are committed to UEFA.

The club is clear on this. Our position is unequivocal.

I cannot over-emphasise this; This. Will. Never. Happen.

Nothing remotely like it will happen, unless under UEFA’s banner.

It doesn’t matter how much those responsible hype it.

They want to dismantle the structure of continental football in Europe. It is a money and power grab. UEFA will protect itself by whatever means necessary, all the way to banning clubs.

The disingenuous bollocks that its PR department is trotting out today about the democratisation of the game and UEFA wielding the big stick does not for one moment hide that what they really want is the rules-based system at UEFA over-turned.

The only reason they’re talking to 80 clubs is in an appeal to greed and to use most of them as pawns.

Anyone falling for it is a mug.

To be frank, that will probably include some chairmen.

The head of La Liga has openly mocked the idea that this is about giving clubs back democracy.

He knows exactly what they are up to.

“The Super League is the wolf, who today disguises himself as a granny to try to fool European football,” he said on Twitter. “But HIS nose and HIS teeth are very big, four divisions in Europe? Of course the first for them, as in the 2019 reform. Governed by the clubs? Of course only the big ones.”

And the head of The Football Supporters Association was no less brutal. “The walking corpse that is the European Super League twitches again with all the self-awareness one associates with a zombie.”

This idea is as dead as Julius Caesar.

I do wish people would stop poking the corpse to see if it has signs of life.

It’s as dead as Rangers.