Celtic keeping horrible company – Behaviour more akin to our B-Team soulmates than our own club | OneFootball

This a strange development to say the least. Celtic B-Team, having benefited from a successful debut season in the Lowland League were expected to do so again next season, as alongside theRangers both clubs had apparently reached an agreement with the Lowland League for the arrangement to continue, or at least that was how it had been reported.

Yet now Stephen McGowan in Scottish Daily Mail states that the Lowland League had agreed initially to allow two slots to be taken up by applying clubs – expected to be Celtic and theRangers – but that a third application was then made by Hearts late in the day.

This application it appears has been refused by the Lowland League, resulting in a request being made to the Lowland League by the top flight clubs to change their rules to accept a 19-team league, however Lowland League clubs voted down this option by a vote of 13 to three, and club Chairmen were then expected to decide on who they chose to admit by 6 June.

Bizarrely this refusal to allow Hearts to take part in the competition next season has now led to all three top flight clubs giving the Lowland League an ultimatum, whereby if all three clubs aren’t accepted, then none of the clubs will take part in the competition next year.

And it appears the Lowland League, who have written to their member clubs to explain the change in circumstances, is now expected to revert to a 16-team league next season with no space available for Celtic B to take part in a second season of competitive football action for their young players.

It all sounds a little shambolic, perhaps though not a surprise, considering this is Scottish football after all.

Celtic have certainly benefited from organised football for their younger players, and with no reserve league in place the young Hoops now look as if their career developments could once again be stunted by a lack of competitive football, and with little time to find alternative arrangements this could well be the case next season.

Last season Celtic and theRangers both paid £25,000 for entry into the Lowland League. Next season that figure was expected to rise but with it came conditions attached by both clubs, it appears these conditions haven’t been met with favour within clubs in the Lowland League and now the experiment seems to be over after just one season. Leaving Celtic with little time to organise alternative arrangements.

Could common sense prevail and all of this be rectified? It’s certainly not looking that way at present. What a mess! And without a place in the Lowland League where will the Celtic B team be playing competitive games next season in the absence of a viable Reserve League in Scottish football?

You can certainly see the Lowland League clubs’ point of view. If you have made two invited guests welcome only to be hit with an ultimatum from them to admit their pal or else, then the self respecting thing to do is to turf them out. Horrible company Celtic are keeping here and adopting behaviour more akin to our B-Team soulmates than ourselves.

Perhaps Celtic should clarify the situation and the club’s position on this latest row involving the B Team playing in the Lowland League?

Niall J

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