Pyramid scheme is ripping game apart and clubs are dying
pyramid movers Scottish
fo football already and shakers need to has far too many pipe down. clubs pushing It’s all fair and their t faces up well that the likes of against a the Clydebank, Darvel window w of our
and Kilwinning Rangers appear senior game and being driven
to be keen to smash through by a ‘what’s in it for them’
the junior game’s glass ceiling mindset. but it’s an act of folly which is Meanwhile, amateur clubs based on good old delusion of are folding at a rate of knots grandeur. and here’s a message from a It’s not enough to see the pal of mine who had to release pig’s breakfast which has been a club statement on Facebook left behind in junior football’s a few weeks ago that sounded east region, with a host of clubs somewhat familiar.
jumping ship into the pyramid It read: “It is with a heavy
system and leaving those who heart that the committee have
remained demoted to glorified reluctantly agreed to close amateur status. the club down at the end of Junior football’s something this season. This is due totally which our game should cherish, to the running costs of the a level which retains a club. The falling income and connection with communities. rising costs are not sustainable
Scottish football’s a bit like our progressing into the SPFL weather, it’s one storm after and gaining entry to SFA another. membership and all of the
As soon as you say ciao Scottish Cup access which Ciara, it’s bonjour Dennis and goes with it. once again time to batten down The reality is far grimmer. the hatches. Fewer local derbies, more
This week junior football has long-distance travelling and been hanging heavy clouds over an avenue into a standard of our game. football which is a poor
Without meaning to bore the relative to the one they’re hind legs off you, here’s the leaving, never mind the rise in depressing drift. price of a pie and bovril.
The blueprint for a West of Lesmahagow, Shettleston, Scotland League, running Dunipace and a few notable parallel to the East of Scotland others have all had the and South of Scotland Leagues pleasure of writing Gordon at the sixth level of Scottish Parks on their team-sheet football, has been outlined. so this writer has a personal
Then comes the bickering and insight into the workings of a a breakdown in negotiations junior club. within the Pyramid Working The unsung heroes, the Group, which includes volunteers and people who SFA supremo Ian s see their team Maxwell and the a as something ooa
East of Scotland of a lifeline and League, Lowland a reach out for League and Scottish s sense of
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It’s enough to opt to operate make you scream for outside of the them to stop the bus. p pyramid system wwa a
At a time when will be left behind there’s a clear breakand it would ddj ju down in the delivery decimate the of community sport junior football in this country, the la landscape. Remember that? to the running of the club.”
Clubs which aim to squeeze Sadly Scottish football’s themselves into a sixth tier do pyramid is looking more and so with a pyramid pipe dream of more like a Ponzi scheme.