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The Order Of The ‘Brass Neck’

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Messers Regan and Doncaster are a couple of cards aren’t they?

Worthy of official honours.

Perhaps they should be made Knights of the Order of the ‘Brass Neck’?

They are undoubtedly heroic leaders of our game! Apart from when they say a controversial matter is for the other’s organisation to deal with. Or when they suggest that they simply carry out their members’ wishes.

I have written about them on several occasions:

Reganomics

Football 6-1 Regan/Doncaster

Neil Doncaster’s Cyborg Super-Squirrels

Sawing Neil Doncaster In Half

Once in a while they pop up to remind us quite how astonishing it is that they are still in office. And this week they have both put in a noteworthy appearance.

A few days ago, Neil Doncaster announced his plans to go overseas and save the universe from the wicked machinations of some of Europe’s top (i.e. richest) clubs. As you know, they have been floating the idea of a closed-shop Champions League, which might exclude the Champions from ‘smaller’ nations such as Scotland.

I will leave you to read up on his progress, but I wanted to highlight a couple of things he said in a related Q&A with Keith Jackson

The full Keith Jackson Q&A with SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster on plans to block Scotland’s access to Champions League


“It’s not for me to use such a word.”

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