The Old Firm's quest to escape to the land of milk and honey continues with impressive doggedness.
After months of hype and hoopla, Bolton chairman Phil Gartside will present plans to transform the English Premier League into a two-tier system, which would include Celtic and Rangers.
Ahead of the meeting in London, a fresh supply of willing backers have been paraded in the media.
From the heady heights of a top-four spot in the Premier League, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp, bless him, with no indication that he had thought too much about the topic, said: "Absolutely, I would welcome Celtic and Rangers to English football if they wanted to play down here. No doubt about it. I'm sure they would be good for the English game." One wonders if Harry would have said the same when he was at Portsmouth or Southampton.
Moyes, somewhat puzzlingly, played the Scottish card when offering his opinion: "I'd like to see a two-tier Premier League because I am Scotsman; it would be great for everybody to see Celtic and Rangers initially in a Premier League Two." And the rest of Scottish football, Davie? "It would have a detrimental effect on the game in Scotland." So that's all right then.
Former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill, now at Aston Villa, threw his weight behind the plan, saying: "I would be in favour and it would be beneficial to the Premiership as it would make it stronger."
If they were ever promoted in to it, he presumably meant.
And they continued to pop up. Another former Hoops' boss, Billy McNeill, joined the campaign, claiming that England is the only place that the club could fulfil their potential. Strange, coming from the man who skippered the club when they won the ultimate European club trophy in 1967.
All big names in football, of course, and all providing good copy but let's get it right. What people like Redknapp, Moyes, O'Neill and McNeill say or think is totally irrelevant. Transient managers, former bosses or football legends will have no bearing on the strategic future of football north or south of the border unless, of course, they become club owners and even then, that position of power may be on the wane.
Let's leave aside the possible football repercussions of the Glasgow giants leaving behind the guaranteed success of Scottish football to play in an English Premier League Two i.e. no trophies and no European football.
The most obvious problem surrounding a possible invite to England is the popular "turkey voting for Christmas" analogy, again flagged up this week by Burnley boss Owen Coyle, who turned down the Celtic job in the summer.
"Everybody, as you’ll understand, will look after self interests and if it’s to the detriment of two English clubs, then why would they vote for that?" he said. Indeed, as we have witnessed in the past when the Premier League voted 20-0 against the idea of hauling the Old Firm on to their gravy train.
However, moving in to 2010, there are growing signs that the gravy train is on its way to hitting the buffers.
The Premier League has untold and unprecedented levels of finance but it also has untold and unprecedented levels of debt, last heard of around the £3billion mark. Yes, £3billion.
Rangers' debt of £25-£30million is chicken feed in comparison to that of clubs like Manchester United (approx £700million) and Liverpool (approx £280million). There are nervous accountants at most of the other clubs in the top flight. The cost of failure is high. The cost of relative success is often just as high.
When you look past the way the Premier League is packaged and presented, you will see empty seats at almost every game in England.
The product just may be losing its selling power and nothing concentrates the minds of business owners, whether they be of football clubs or builder's merchants, than falling income.
The football authorities have left the door open to league changes within national associations which has removed one hurdle.
And interestingly, there have been stories emerging recently which suggested that television companies, who wield the most influence in football, would not be adverse to spicing their product up.
Those English clubs who have railed against the very idea of the Old Firm in their midst, may find someone having a word in their ear. And sooner rather than later.
Last updated: 11 November 2009, 15:12
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