David Martindale doesn’t want to be disrespectful to Celtic but in a bizarre league where you work out how many points you win for pounds spent Livingston would come out on top of the pile every season.
What he said is probably factually true but equally pointless as sport is about winning contests with Celtic currently sitting with 64 points from 23 matches- twice the amount that Wednesday’s opponents have collected from one match less.
Livingston perform well, their plastic pitch and style of play doesn’t attract many fans or much admiration but their league position does put Aberdeen and Hibs to shame.
Where Celtic fit in with Martindale’s logic is difficult to work out- almost as difficult as the thinking of the Livingston boss that his comments to club TV won’t be picked up elsewhere.
With a 24 hour rolling sports media every club tweet, website report and interview is scrutinised, anything out of the ordinary that Martindale says will be picked up by others, possibly by BBC and Sky Sports who he is hoping to exclude from his comments after drawing with Hearts.
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Hearts probably have six to eight times our budget, Celtic 40, 40 times our budget.
I’ll say this on ours, I wouldn’t say it publicly on Sky television or BBC because I think it’s a wee bit, not disrespectful – because Celtic have earned the right, earned the right to spend that money on players through their success
But you talk about points per pound collectively in the league we win it every year. If you were to split the points into pounds and divide that by the budget we would win the league every single season.
Martindale looks out of his depth with those comments, it is unlikely to draw much in the way of a reply from Ange Postecoglou when he meets the media tomorrow.
Ah wee BENNY Martinjail he never let’s you down,there is probably a job waiting for him at ibrox noise in future,with comments like that.
David Martindale has, without doubt, taken up advanced Bealemooth lessons. There can be no other reasonable explanation for his grossly fatuous ramblings.
Granted, there may be some perverse logic in what he says if you’re a drug-induced student mathematician trying to prove some whimsical and nonsensical, Einstein-type theory of relativity and apply it to football. But Martindale has never been into drugs, has he?
Clearly never did any advanced mathematics courses during his time in the pokey, eh..?
Klown.
Great to see another manager gobbing rubbish about money spent, ask him how the net spend league would look, Celtic champions again.
Then again that would mean putting Ange in a different light, can’t have that…..
Pathetic!!!!
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And if my auntie had baws she’d be my uncle.
Martinjail is just copying his hero Slippy G here. Remember when the scouse numpty said if games lasted 80 minutes sevco would win the league?
The ex? coke dealer is now dealing in utter pish and total bollocks.
And they say never get high on your own supply just listen to the shite he talks.
Delusional and demented, no?
The only money Martinjail is connected to is the money made in Possilpark drugs money and dummy money.
I think he must be taking some of the substances he used to sell with comments like that…idiot