Scottish football is doing remarkably well- especially if you are picking up £350,000 a year plus expenses and on a constant round of UEFA and FIFA jollies.
Apparently today is the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Scottish Football Association but any fan at weekend matches would be hard pressed to name three positives aspects of Ian Maxwell’s reign as CEO.
Despite having the highest proportion of the population attending matches there is no sponsor for the flagship Scottish Cup competition.
Bookies and bevvy firms take on short term deals that are as underwhelming as the television deal that blanked two head-to-head matches last week between the top four in the SPFL drawn from the two biggest cities.
Three years ago Ladbrokes, Betfred and William Hill sponsored the three competitions before deciding against guilt by association.
Most recently on Maxwell’s charge sheet is VAR which he warned would be horrendous for three months. Five months later it gets more horrendous every weekend with the Lanarkshire Referee Association interfering at every turn.
Incredibly, or perhaps remarkably, one SFA member club hasn’t had a penalty awarded against them in 14 months.
That any other meaningful questions were clearly off the menu today as selected media partners lined up to backslap Maxwell.
??????? “Scottish football is doing remarkably well…”
As the Scottish FA marks its 150th anniversary, chief executive Ian Maxwell talks about growing the game, bidding for Euro 2028 & the future of Hampden ? pic.twitter.com/0JYOKpNCMa
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) March 13, 2023
Yeah. Respected all throughout world football so it is. Such a great competitive league with the last team outwith the Old Firm to win it back in the 1984/85 season and the gap now bigger than ever ?
— Hot Nickelz (@gunn_unit) March 13, 2023
What planet does this guy live on? Charging fans on top of what we already have to pay for club football. Meanwhile scotland rugby is free to watch
— James m (@James1111000) March 13, 2023
Thicko
— Robert Martin (@AndyGraysdouble) March 13, 2023
Bloody hell, he is doing a really good comical Ali impression there. It’s a shit show. Terrible sponsorship deals, terrible tv deals, a national stadium that you wouldn’t even race stock cars round it. It’s a shambles.
— Paul Rankin (@beepee2004) March 13, 2023
It really isn’t. We have an embarrassingly bad TV deal. Barely any sponsorship revenue etc. It needs revamped from top to bottom
— G (@garryhood1872) March 13, 2023
Poor tv deal
Poor national stadium
Poor officials
Poor fan engagement
Poor investment at grassrootsShall I go on?
— Simon McQ (@simonmcq) March 13, 2023
Get VAR and the Lanarkshire refereeing cartel tae tuck and then we can clear out those who run the game here!! Corrupt to the core?
— Toucheturts (@toucheturts) March 13, 2023
A national stadium that looks if it’s out of the 60s eastern block. Wales & Ireland both Rugby nations have better stadiums – embarrassing.
— Manky Bianchi (@manky_bianchi) March 13, 2023
? the national stadium is a dump the infrastructure to get there is outdated. The league and cup formats are set up for two clubs only. Strathclyde FA run by Celtic & Rangers for Celtic & Rangers. Biased and corrupt to the core and the standard of refs in the worst in Europe.
— Trojan80 (@Trojan0210) March 13, 2023
Hampden is a dump. 80% repatriated view and caked in bird keech. Knock it down
— Eddie van Haksa (@HaksaVan) March 13, 2023
What do you expect for £350K plus generous allowances / benefits?!
For that package, the SFA could have cherry-picked from any number of very capable and highly experienced professionals – and from any other FA in Europe.
Instead, the recruitment net wasn’t cast very far and wide.
The SFA chose a guy from the nearby Partick Thistle FC.
We don’t know if there was a CEO recruitment process at all:
Maxwell could have been appointed in the Hampden showers, for all we know?
After retiring as a footballer, Maxwell’s business experience was attained wholly at PTFC.
No business related, professional qualifications.
Maxwell was carefully chosen as the SFA CEO for a very deliberate reason:
changing or improving the SFA is not in his remit! 🙁
Maxwell is another BOOZE JOCKEY constantly pished out his nut just look at big red nose of his and then the shite he talks,he’s got to be Jan Leeming.
It’s Comedy Gold with VAR the fact that the refs are sponsored by Specsavers,with all those mistakes being made and they advertise for a place to go to and get your eyes tested.
On another matter tonight on SSB BENNY Killer had a slip of the tongue,he was going on about the form of FATSO and how sevco could have cashed in a couple of years ago when going for the FIRST title his actual words.
The klan will be hunting him down for that.
This clown and all his cohorts are an absolute embarrassment and they should be booted out along with the North Lanarkshire Referees cabal.
They are dragging Scottish football and it’s name through the mud with all the cheating and corruption to try and ensure that Ludge Broomloan remains intact.