The Spartans Football Club

Um, you know, so they've overcome that hurdle.

Edinburgh City, Cove Rangers, Kelty Hearts, Bonnyrigg Rose, East Kilbride, and the Spartans.

Um, so all of those clubs have, have succeeded through the playoffs.

Um, we also issue guest invitations to clubs in the Highland League and the Lowland League each season, uh, into both the Premier Sports Cup, uh, and the KDM Evolution Trophy.

C- Cowdenbeath is always a s- stand-up comedian's favorite.

So we always used to go and see Cowdenbeath just because who doesn't wanna see the Blue Brazils, basically.

Um, just finally, you talk about Spartans, for example.

Uh, ev- everybody who listens to this pod knows my love of Edinburgh a- as a, uh, as a city.

Members of the American Consortium attempting to buy Shrewsbury.

I've received clearance from the Scottish FAA to hold interests in both Spartans FC and Shrewsbury.

OK.

So Brad Friedel, Scott Davidson, Will Dotson and Craig Graham, they've already passed the due diligence of financial tests set by the English FAA.

of the English Football League, the EFL, and the independent football regulator.

And they own majority shareholding already in the Scottish League 2 team, Spartans FC.

OK, so looks like that takeover is going to happen.

South Korea Captain Lee Ji-hook has apologized for gloating about avoiding mandatory military service after winning gold at the Asian Games.

But the consortium is, it, it's quite interesting actually looking into the, um, Shrewsbury takeover.

Just for anyone that, that hasn't read up on it or, or wasn't aware of it, it's a consortium that has previous experience with Spartans in Scotland.

Uh, they were in the Lowland League, they're now in the SPFL.

They nearly got into League One last season.

But as we touched on there, Sean, no games over the weekend because of the international break.

So we will just go into League Two and finish up the podcast by analysing or doing our best to analyse Dumbarton's 3-0 win over the Spartans at the Rock.

Bang, bang, Darren Lang opened the scoring after just three minutes.

Cammy Russell scored an own goal just after their mark and Josiah Soas, a brilliant goal, completed the route in second half injury time.

A much needed win for Frank McEwen as Dumbarton side are in eighth place with nine points.

The Spartans, meanwhile, are in third with 12 points, but a bad weekend was compounded with news that the long-serving manager, Doogie Simul...

Doogie Simul? Doogie Samuel? Doogie Simul? Dougie Samuel was sacked later that evening there was a short statement on the website I think this was posted about half ten on Saturday night following an independent investigation into allegations of misconduct the Spartans FC head coach Douglas Samuel has left the club out of respect for the privacy of the individuals involved and in accordance with our confidentiality policies we will make no further comment on the specific details of the investigation or its findings Paul Thompson will continue as our interim head coach for the CBO future We really appreciate the commitment.

Christ, Craig, try to learn how to read.

Self-made millionaire from real estate, but he already owns a football club.

He owns the Spartans in Scotland and already got them promoted from the Lowland League into the SPFL League Two.

And he's quite unique, you know, because he's got his own UEFA A License.

Uh, I don't think there's many prospective owners that have one of those.

That's all to come out in the wash.

But, you know, we are hearing lots of people, um, praising Roland for, for apparently finding the right people because the key thing for, for Shrewsbury fans, they want success on the field, but they also want to see the infrastructure built off it.

And we understand that Scott Davidson's built, uh, played a big part in building one of the biggest football foundations in the UK with the Spartans.

Uh, and I think, uh, a lot of fans are, are, are very pleased to see that and hope that the same can be done at Shrewsbury.

I would probably give a...

From a local perspective, I'd probably give Spartans a shout out to the playoffs again because they've actually got a reasonable sized squad and they've got a decent enough spine experience as well.

It's settling off lower league football.

Again, Mark McNulty up front is a good one.

We can't judge too much.

I

think a lot of the problems for some of these, I think Spartans are the same as Celtic, where it's like, they have got quality there for that level, but I think defensively they're just... do you know like the big difference I think sometimes in these leagues it's the ones that can show up a bit better at the back or ones that can hammer them in because Elgin are banging them in I don't know how long that'll last I just think he's called it at the start I think Clyde might be a fair shout to be honest like yeah just the way it's looking

Yeah, so we've done a roundup of the top four divisions.