Welcome back, people!
Celtic face off against Dinamo Moscow tomorrow at 2:45 P.M. This game will not be broadcast on ANY outlet outside of Channel 67. So if you are not a Channel 67 member, justin.tv might be the only outlet.
Dimano Moscow, for those of you who don’t know, are the same club “run” by Felix Dzerzhinsky the cute little scallywag who ran the Cheka (Soviet secret police force) back in the good old days of the purges. Oddly enough the club did quite well during that period of time. Also the same club who lost to the huns 3-2 in the Cup Winners Cup.
Celtic are coming off of a successful pre-season winning two cups and letting their B team beat Tottenham. Injuries are still dogging some Celtic players as Wilson (shock), Misun, McManus and Brown all still look to be off the books for the visit from Dinamo Moscow.
So, the season begins without everyone getting together but we will all be of one voice when it kicks off for real tomorrow.
And from our friends at Sports Pro Magazine:
“According to reports, Rangers, the champions of the Scottish Premier League, are expected to sell more players rather than look to expand their squad - despite the fact that the club has not signed a single player this summer.
The report comes shortly after the SPL voted to sign a dramatically reduced broadcast deal with ESPN and Sky, following the collapse of Setanta Sports - a move opposed by the two Glasgow giants, Rangers and Celtic. That decision has added to the sense at Ibrox that this summer will be a low-spending one - a situation that many predicted with the release of the club’s latest accounts.
‘The club’s last set of accounts were atrocious, with half-year turnover to December 31 a paltry £20.1 million - a decline of £13 million on the previous year - and a post-tax loss of £4 million,’ reports The Times newspaper. ‘For context, Celtic’s equivalent income was a staggering 125 per cent higher than that of Rangers for the same period.’
‘There is no danger of Rangers being in any financial meltdown, yet the club appears poorly, with frugality now the watchword,’ adds the newspaper.“
