Neil Doncaster has beaten David Longmuir in the ‘battle’ to become Chief Executive of the newly formed Scottish Professional Football League.
A brief statement on the SPL website tonight said: “The Remuneration and Appointment Committee of the SPFL can advise that Neil Doncaster has been appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer of the SPFL.
“The SPFL looks forward to continuing with the implementation of one representative body and the commencement of season 2013/14 for the benefit of all 42 member clubs.”
The choice of Doncaster or Longmuir proved to be totally underwhelming for the majority of football supporters with both men heavily involved in the embarassing events of the last two years.
Doncaster battled throughout last summer to provide an SPL place for Rangers as they went into liquidation going as far to describe the effect of the top flight without the Ibrox club as Armageddon.
Despite that prediction the 11 member clubs refused to provide the newco with a place at the top table of Scottish football.
Before becoming CE of the SPL Doncaster held a similar position at Norwich City but was relieved of his post when the club sunk into League One.
Since then Norwich have enjoyed back to back promotions and are now looking forward to their third successive season in the Barclay’s Premiership.
Under Doncaster’s leadership there is unlikely to be any innovations in the SPFL with the critical issue of licencing and Financial Fair Play likely to be given a wide berth as recent events at Tynecastle have illustrated.
Until there is transparency and accountability the name at the top of the headed paper is unlikely to increase confidence in Scottish football.
While Doncaster celebrates his success it’s likely that Longmuir will seek a role with one of the lower division clubs.
So ‘See no evil’ beats ‘Hear no evil’! And I had a fiver on ‘Say no evil’.
For me I see Doncaster as ‘The lesser of two evils’ in this instance, a total plonker of a man, but with that Longmuir fella I look at him and the Hunnishness just oozes from him. There is no doubt Chawells Green had him buttered up and on toast..
Unfortunately for Longmuir the shites at present are attempting cost cutting measures so unless he is prepared to get his desired gig at Ibrox then he’ll need to accept peanuts instead.
I listened to the Traynor/McCoist interview earlier..ha ha ha..what a pair of eejits, if no ones heard it yet I recommend, it will make you laugh.. Traynor Foot stomping about journalists going on about them being new club and then backtracking on his front page DR article ( R.I.P 140 years of History)..He growls unconvincingly ‘ Cos Im Angry’.. #OoohAhCouldCrushAPape :'(
I try to ignore most of what is going on in Scottish football/media/Hampden blah blah blah cos it just depresses the soul, I sat down the other night and watched one of my all time favourite movies ‘ One flew over the cuckoos nest’.. And where that poor nurse was sitting in that office looking out observing the asylum recreation area as all the mad heads are all running about creating havoc while being manipulated by one individual, it struck me there is Scottish football/media/Hampden right there all being manipulated by Jack Nicholson AKA SpivCo FC. The loonies have long ago taken over the asylum while we sit behind that pane of glass shaking our heads in bewilderment/anger blah blah blah..
To get back to normal, Them Spivcos need the lobotomy treatment just like Jack got.. #OneOnForTheSurgery
Who decided the choice of our new great leader should be between that pair of numpties?
He should be sacked, followed closely by both his choices. Surely, we can do better than this?
(And as ‘StarofStein67’ brought up movies, there’s no saying “Don’t call me Shirley.”)
Who in their right mind would risk their careers/reputations by putting themselves forward for these jobs, scandal and jiggery pokery going on all around you.
The top job in the Sfa up for grabs yet all the election committe had as an option was A) Ogilvie or B) Ogilvie so automatically he goes back in for another two year contract. Scandalous, then he has the shameless pay hike :O
Prior to Longmuir trying to sabotage the merger at the last minute he to everyone’s surprise recieves a £100k Pentecostal Handshake, then with not an ounce of shame puts himself forward for a job connected to the merger he previously tried to sabotage 😀
I haven’t seen the movie ‘Don’t call me Shirley’ but will make a point of looking out for it bud as Got me curious 🙂
HH
It’s a very old line from the film Airplane:
“Surely, you can’t be serious”.
“I am serious, but don’t call me Shirley.”
It was really funny in the 1980s.
waste o space bring in football men time for uefa to shake up the sfa x or what they call them selves now x time for celtic to leave Scottish football soon as and thenwe can turn the lights out x
Didn’t know it was possible but you can fool all of the people all of the time, fargin sneaky bastages! larota them
‘See no evil’ beats ‘hear no evil’- classic!!