It Ought To Be The End Of His Life In Football. By Jack Noonan Aug 25, 2020, 7:00am EDT Boston Celtics daily links 8/24/20 Nobody should have been shocked, far less as outraged as the Sevconuts appear to have been.The Chinese shirts, which are about to go on sale, may or may not be the ones that are on sale on Alibaba.com but enough suspicion has been raised about Castore’s business practices thus far for it to be more than just possible.They were caught, let’s not forget, slapping their logo onto cheap school jumpers and selling them to the Peepul at £55 a pop. Many of them had talked this deal up and one, in particular, had … Occasionally, clubs die. It’s our view which is grounded in reality, both in where the club has been these last eight years and where all of football is right now.It’s in the way the club is acting as if they are the only side in the world unaffected by the global health emergency.It’s in statements from their own board, made just last year, when they said it was time to start cutting their cloth to suit, rather than spending what they cannot afford.Sevco is not unique in behaving crazily whilst in financial trouble.In October 2007, with much of the world already reeling from the initial shocks of the banking crisis, the RBS Group, already facing major exposure in that ever escalating situation, were part of a consortium which paid £49 billion for the Dutch bank ABN AMRO. It proves only that the board over there is a reckless as they are incompetent. If that’s your answer, then remember you said it and not me.Because to me, they are a two bob football club from Glasgow with no global reach, no major institution or sugar daddy propping them up and thus are ripe to fall in the current climate where fans aren’t allowed into grounds and every club is contemplating losses.They are not special, they are not unique and so they are not immune.The same rules of gravity, financial and otherwise, bind them as bind us.If our board at times appears “less ambitious” than theirs or less willing to spend money it’s not because Sevco can, it’s because we won’t, and therein lies the difference.The bean-counters at Celtic Park know how this works, and believe it or not they are wholly aware of how close to the edge the club at Ibrox is. If people – or Peepul – want to moan about it they are welcome to. It is a stone cold fact, and there is nothing on the horizon which will change it.I know it because the numbers don’t add up over there and they never have.I know it because it doesn’t matter whether it’s a commercial bank letting them live on loans and overdrafts or if it’s the directors pulling money from the mattress that’s keeping the lights on right now. Sometimes they manifest themselves in the sport’s equivalent of a fire sale, with every first team player available for transfer for under the market value. What does it actually prove though? They know that, for example, one year without European Group Stage football will smash that club as thoroughly as it eventually smashed Rangers … and there’s a lot more than can go wrong besides.Remember this folks, and I never get tired repeating it; it was not some great, crashing event that brought Rangers down.They had over-extended for more than ten years and it was only ever going to take one bad year to bring the club to its knees.It wasn’t Whyte, it wasn’t HMRC, it wasn’t the Grand Conspiracy of the Unseen Fenian Hand.They needed to pay a bill and the money for it was no longer there, and they knew that other bills were on the way and there was no money to pay them either.You saw the list of creditors … that’s what brought them down. Eventually, the consequences do come.It can take years. On Sunday, the Celtics out rebounded the 76ers in the series clinching game. No company with zero experience in mass manufacture has ever been able to upscale as quickly as they tried to without it being a mess, and that’s during normal conditions and we’re in the middle of a global health crisis.It didn’t take a genius to see this coming, just as it didn’t take masterminds to suss that “premium” quality is easier when you are producing small batches than when you’re trying to meet major demand. Then the guy goes home, gets dressed up and returns in a costume and suddenly there are some folk who start to have doubts. Jailbird Joey Barton Has Been A Bad Boy Yet Again. Others might call it a trading standards violation at the very least.Whilst the Celtic bloggers charted every part of this, and had predicted it right from the start, Sevco’s own bloggers were on the defensive.Many of them had talked this deal up and one, in particular, had run interviews and puff pieces with Castore’s two founders. This is a desperate time for them, and their win yesterday did nothing to hide that.That club is a few bad results from a full-scale descent into anarchy.When they can’t even get the names on the jerseys right, this week of all weeks, you have to wonder how unprofessional is the stuff we don’t know about. To continue trying to is to court disaster.Sevco just spent a major chunk of money on two footballers; this is being held up in front of the Celtic bloggers as “proof” that the Ibrox club is financially solvent, or at least in better condition than we’ve been saying. ... An Ibrox Website Has Suggested That Celtic Fans (Or The BBC) Were Behind The Assault On McAllister. The Media's Reluctance To Write Bad News About Ibrox Has Again Cost The Club Playing There. 11th July 2020 Celtic Latest Glasgow Belongs To Celtic As Sevco Fan Group Writes Angry Statement Posted by Darren Hamilton Celtic fans in the centre of town enjoyed a rare treat as an unknown fan managed to hoist our 9 in a row flag above the City Chambers in an act of sheer brilliance that will enrage half of the city.