Menu Close

Celtic Diary Friday September 22: Andrew Dickson; A Good Guy

You know, I have been known to despair at the brotherly love endemic at the SFA, the guys who seem hell bent on destroying the reputation of our game.

In fact, I’ve been a little concerned, as you may have noticed, that not only were they working in their own interests, they were operating what military historians call a scorched earth policy to make sure no one ever found out what they had been doing.

I can now, with a sense of relief, declare that this isn’t true, and I must apologise for using the same brush to paint all of them with.

Andrew Dickson, whilst admitting to being a little short on the minute detail of what happened-but hey, we can help out there-has agreed to join us in a podcast that will hopefully set the record straight on what really happened back in those murky days when secretaries forgot how to take minutes of meetings.

I’d like to ask you a few questions. Sensibly. Any chance of you joining us at for a podcast? 

He’d been having a moan at europcar,

I’ve already been in email contact with you and you have no interest in resolving the issue sensibly. Happy to rip me off instead.

with whom he’d recently done business, and felt they had not been entirely truthful about their end of the bargain. Which, on seeing this, led me to think he’s a man who respects the truth.

And it seems he is…here’s what happened next…

What makes you think your target audience has any interest in my opinions?! 

 And don’t worry. There seems to have been a collective bout of amnesia at Hampden around that time. But I’ll help where I can. Thanks again 

Top man. 

You know something, Scottish football needs a guy like this at the top.

To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Andrew is an honourable man.

I feel quite good about this .

Back at the ranch, and Celtic will warm up for next weeks crucial UCL match with anderlecht with a game at Scotlands new kids on the block, “rangers “.

We hear that the Ibrox legal team are working with another major global corporation in a bid to help each other understand the way in which company law really works…

Toys ‘R’ Us files for bankruptcy protection in US

Toys ‘R’ Us has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Canada as it attempts to restructure its debts.

The firm was once a dominant player in the US toy market, but has struggled against larger rivals such as Amazon.

The move casts a shadow over the future of the company’s nearly 1,600 stores and 64,000 employees.

However, a US bankruptcy judge approved a loan of more than $2bn to help stabilise the toy chain.

The aim is to give Toys ‘R’ Us money and time to prepare for the upcoming Christmas shopping season.

The firm’s European operations are not part of the bankruptcy proceedings and Toys R Us says it does not expect any immediate impact on its UK stores.

Toys ‘R’ Us’s operations in Australia, about 255 licensed stores and a joint venture partnership in Asia are also not included in the bankruptcy move.

Increased competition

The bankruptcy filing is more evidence that traditional retailers are struggling in the US, as online retailers continue to capture market share.

Toys ‘R’ Us said the majority of its stores around the world remained profitable, and would continue to operate as normal through the holiday period, which is when they do most of their business.

But the company is also looking to online sales to secure its future, with recently launched web stores for its products.

GlobalData Retail estimates that in 2016 about 13.7% of all toy sales were made online, up from 6.5% five years ago.

“The past decade has seen a dramatic change in the domestic toy market with new channels, increased competition, and new technology all having a deleterious impact on the sector and traditional toy stores. Unfortunately, Toys ‘R’ Us has not responded effectively to these challenges,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail.

Gary Grant, founder of UK toy shop chain The Entertainer, said people’s buying habits were changing.

“We’re seeing it even in the supermarkets, where the big sheds aren’t being visited as frequently as more convenient in-town locations,” he told the BBC.

“So we’re seeing in grocery the convenience stores are much more successful now than some of the over-spaced units that the grocers have.”


Silly sods.

Had they filed in an Edinburgh court they could simply have placed their stores in a holding company, told everyone to

Image result for fuck off

and carried on as normal.

Sure a few quid would need to be spent on

Image result for succulent lamb

but I can assure them its worth every penny.

They can then issue a share offer, under a newish name, and everything will be just dandy and grandy.

Image result for keep calm and carry on

 

You see, everything is doable, you just have to want it enough.

 

 

It’s Friday, and of course that means its time to announce

Etims Knob of the Week 

And I must stress that its not Andrew Dickson.

And it never will be.

Andrew is an honourable man.

 

This week, we have decided that it goes to a former player, who doesn;t work in the mainstream media, but for some reason he felt thats where he should be.

Ah, wait. Thats not him.

Image result for craig bellamy celtic

Bellamy, a decent enough player, has been in the papers talking about how Brendan Rodgers would not improve his cv by being at Celtic.

Although Rodgers does seem to be dealing with the big time better than Bellamy did.

THE spotlight was intense. About a week after I arrived I made my debut in an Old Firm match.

I had heard all about the atmosphere in those Glasgow derbies and the build-up and the atmosphere in the ground.

I thought I’d take it in my stride. I was used to big games, I had played in other derbies. But everything people had told me was true.

The atmosphere got to me. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I was being watched everywhere. 

Oops.

Just because you can’t handle something, it doesn’t mean you should criticise and demean those who can.

Roddy Forsyth of the Telegraph, a man not noted for any leanings toward Celtic, summed it up quite well.

As surely as the trees have begun to shed their autumnal foliage, the calendar also includes provision for the repetitive claim that no one outside the Celtic and Rangers bubble cares about the Old Firm rivalry

(Apart from that bit, about the Old Firm. If he believes in that, then no doubt he and others will get the money back on their “seats for life ” at Ibrox

Sure enough, just ahead of the season’s first instalment of the Glasgow schism, along came Craig Bellamy to state that when he spent six months as a Hoops employee “nobody in England gave a damn”.

The former Wales forward added that Brendan Rodgers will find it tough to get a Premier League job of the standard with which he was entrusted at Liverpool.

Naturally, as Celtic prepare for the short trip to Ibrox, the matter was raised with the Parkhead manager.

Equally naturally, Rodgers totally dismissed Bellamy’s jibe. “I am not here to boost a CV – I am here because of Celtic,” he said. 

So, a clear and distinct winner this week.

Craig Bellamy…

Etims Knob of the Week 

Yesterday, it appears the standard of entries in the caption competition stepped up a notch

Arsene Parcelie September 21, 2017 at 9:38 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption:

Today…

Image result for stewart regan scottish fa

 

You may have noticed I haven;t mentioned the SPFL decision not to proceed with their inquiry into dodgy dealings.

Thats because I simply cannot find enough swear words to keep my opinion novel and refreshing.

Instead, I will leave you with a picture of Peter, who I am sure is equally as angry as I.

Image result for peter lawwell gif

 

 

 

0 0 votes
Article Rating
55 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Martin67
6 years ago

Caption: and they sang Shang a Lang as the old club died doing doo wop sweet fa!

VooDude
6 years ago
Reply to  Martin67

I sang that as I read it and now I can’t stop. You Bastard.

Still, I’ve got a song now for Ralph to sing next time he’s on the Karaoke and I might just join in.

charlie
6 years ago

is that the real andrew dickson or so called andrew dickson would the real andrew dickson stand up

charlie
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie
Gerry
6 years ago

Caption:
Nicola (to self) -whit a fuckin’ bell-end!!

Honest hoops
6 years ago

Caption; Sturgeon…FFS if I see another bloody union jack…i know what it fecking looks like, and to top it off I’m sitting beside some English twat….

TC
6 years ago

Nicola says-naw ya dafty, they’re tunnocks tea cakes, you’ve got a half a teacake!

Arsene Parcelie
6 years ago

Caption:

comment image

jimmybee
6 years ago

I’m sorry Arsene but your using side letters to win the caption competition surely that’s illegal and gives you sporting advantage over the rest of us. Naw wait !!!!!!

Arsene Parcelie
6 years ago

Aye, just wait til someone gives me the code to post pictures inline…, then video…

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

He can easily be banned for being intelligent,it’s just not acceptable Signed ex-caption winner Puggy67.
P.S.Arsene,are you any good at hacking into companies computer systems?Could be interesting…….Ralph and D.Mond asking ……just in case the CIA read this…..

jimmybee
6 years ago

Caption : Nicola I can only sit for 2 minutes the cricket is on.

charlie
6 years ago

caption nicola thinks thank fuck his mammy put a name tag oan his jaiket the poor cunt disnae know his arse fae his elbow

Monti
6 years ago

” Ross McCrorie is going to be one of the best centre halves in history “- Pedro Caixinha.

FFS….Moussa, Leigh are you reading this?

Monti
6 years ago

Alves out!
Squeak squeak squeak 🙂

Cortes
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

It’s really not nice to laugh at the afflicted, but sometimes (to coin a phrase) “they bring it upon themselves.”

Thus, instead of being a tad suspicious about the greatest defender in Europe doing a Paulie Gatto – see the original Godfather film- there’s the Kiplingometer cranked up for the young guy…

Comedy gold.

TicToc
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

HaHa, Monti, reminds me of old joke: Labourer goes to gaffer:This wheelbarrow’s drivin’ me FN nuts. Gaffer: Why? Labourer: It keeps goin’, squeak……..squeak……..squeak. Gaffer: Your sacked. Labourer: FFS, I’m only tellin’ you about the barra. Gaffer: I know, but it should be goin’ squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak……….. Sorry, 🙂
HH

charlie
6 years ago

get voting tims

charlie
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie
jimmybee
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie

Think this was the game that the board thought deserved a fuckin ban arseholes.

Doc
6 years ago
Reply to  charlie

Done. Some good goals there, some not so good, the Giroud one is a belter.

charlie
6 years ago
Paul
6 years ago

Hi Guys

can you all vote for Dembele for Fifas Puskas award for best goal. link below

http://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/puskas-award/index.html

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Vote confirmed

TicToc
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Already voted on ‘charlie’s’ link.
HH

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: Sturgeon – ” I’d love to be independent……of this cunt next to me “

Alzyerpal
6 years ago

Yes Ms Sturgeon! That is Richard McGinlay “Jetting In” with his new bestest buddy Arsene Parcelie. 😉

TicToc
6 years ago
Reply to  Alzyerpal

Sorry, pal, you’ve lost me with that. Explain?
HH

Monti
6 years ago

Stupid, stupid Huns

VooDude
6 years ago

Does my bum (Reagan) look big in this?

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Remember to get your predictions in(before kick off)for the game against So Called Rs tomorrow.Those correct go forward to Anderlecht prediction.C’mon the Bhoys,oops,I mean,may the better team win…..

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Caption: Whatever Arsene dreams up…..

Bognorbhoy
6 years ago

Caption..
Oh shirt it’s the kisscam

Bognorbhoy
6 years ago

Try again…
Caption oh SHIT it’s the kisscam

Monti
6 years ago

In the words of Liam Gallagher ( ex Oasis ) ” let’s be ‘avin some line ups for tomorrow’s game lads”

Celtic 4-4-1-1

Gordon

Lustig
Simunovic
Boyata
Tierney

Forrest
Brown
Ntcham
Sinclair

McGregor

Griffiths

C…O…Y….B…I…G

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Alternatively,

3-4-2-1

Gordon

Lustig
Simunovic
Boyata

Forrest
Brown
Ntcham
Sinclair

Armstrong
Roberts

Dembele or Griffiths

TicToc
6 years ago

Only lookin’ in now an’ then as very busy….(and had some damage to repair)….could be more on horizon if….

Ralph, I applaud you once more for your consistent excellence;
IMO, you’re considerably undervalued by many of us ETims. Keep it up Pal, you’re one in a million.

Tomorrow we have another Glasgow Derby; our last one having taken place in Maryhill. I used to fuckin’ hate that place (Firhill) as our exit went into a bottle-neck at the bottom of the stairway and was a disaster waiting to happen. The rest of Maryhill? Fuckin’ good place, with top people and the best wee club in Glesga, The Doncaster Club. I was only ever in it a handful of times (Sunday lunch) but what a fuckin’ atmosphere. A great memory.

Anyway, I’m off again but will leave you with this; I fancy us to beat ‘them’ by the biggest score in our/their history, so I’m going for 6-1. COYBIG.
HH
PS We’re fast approaching the 60th anniversary of when we gubbed the bastard parent of the bastard “rangers” by an even bigger score. 🙂
PPS I agree with Monti; the ‘so-called rangers’ is fuckin’ perfect. Good shout Monti.
Oh, and where TF is Charlie S. Charlie S is a fuckin’ good Tim and I just hope he’s well and looking to come back.
BEJASUS, can’t wait for 12.00PM tomorrow; I fuckin’ hate huns. Then, now, forever.

Monti
6 years ago

I’m watching Forest Green v Swindon… and i have absolutely no idea why.

Monti
6 years ago

Weered,
How are our Bhoys in the North tonight?

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Weered,
Grand so, Grand so comrade!

jimmybee
6 years ago

It will be great if our strongest back 4 are fit and ready tomorrow. But more importantly for Anderlecht next week.
So
Gordon
Lustig Jozo Boyata Tierney
Brown Ntcham
Forrest Rogic Sinclair
Griff.
Dembele Paddy and Armstrong to finish them off.
At least a 4 goal victory to the hoops.
COYBIG

jimmybee
6 years ago

Wonder if Brendan would be tempted to go with the same starting 11 as the last game ibrokes.
Gordon
Lustig Jozo Boyata Tierney
Brown Armstrong
Roberts Mcgregor Sinclair
Griff
We have great options and should win easily though they have a better looking team than last time out.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

” better looking “?
They look like the fucking Munsters to me!

jimmybee
6 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Probably the wrong term Monti but better players from last season i meant. we should still hammer them by 4 or 5 though at least.

Puggy67
6 years ago

Caption: Regan: You canny beat getting fucked with a wee ginger cunt.
Sturgeon: It’s dyed.
Regan: Eh naw Gordon.

jimmybee
6 years ago

From the celtic blog
Yesterday the SPFL ended their calls for an investigation into the running of Scottish football, at the level of the SFA.

I said it was gutless. I said it was cowardly. I compared it to playing “pass the parcel” with an armed bomb. The way the two associations are throwing this back and forth to one another is quite pathetic. The way the media is handling it is worse.

The media could have been allies in the effort to get this into the mainstream.

They could have supported us, the fans. Instead, save for a few editorials, many of which sat on the fence or went out of their way to demand thatRangers weren’t part of the inquiry – rendering it utterly moot – they said nothing or supported the SFA.

In the future, when Scottish football fans look back on this period, they will be horrified by what was allowed to go on and they will not believe that the media sat back and allowed the game to be run like this. The evidence is there for any who want to look at it; I am astounded that there isn’t a single journalist here who doesn’t see the value in covering this story in detail. The definitive book about this series of events will be the Scottish sport bestseller to outdo them all.

I am going to go over just five of the areas which need examined by an independent review into these matters; there are many, many others.

The SFA knew Rangers were using EBT’s in 2009. They did nothing.

HRMC informed the SFA in 2009 that they had obtained evidence, during a search of Ibrox in relation to the Stevens Inquiry, that indicated Rangers’ involvement in a vast tax scam which had cost the Exchequer tens of millions of pounds. This was revealed in detailed documents published online recently by RTC, and which constituted just some of the evidence that was heard at the Supreme Court during the big tax case appeal.

HMRC knew of the existence of the side letters.

They would have informed the SFA of those, as they were a major part of the Revenue’s case against the club. They asked the SFA for assistance, which presumably includes a demand to turn over whatever documents they had in relation to what the Ibrox club was up to.

Did the SFA do so? If they didn’t they helped Rangers to keep the EBT scheme under wraps. But we know for a fact what the governing body didn’t do; which was inform the club that it was opening an immediate case against them for the illegal registration of players.

And why is that important? Well for two very big reasons.

The first of these is simple enough; they allowed the club to keep on defrauding the tax man.

Because Rangers continued using EBT’s well into 2010.

But there’s another reason, and this one is deadly to the so-called regulators; when Sandy Bryson got up at the Lord Nimmo Smith inquiry and gave his shocking, rule-breaking, mind-bending reasons why Rangers’ offences didn’t come with automatic defeats in all the games where players with EBT’s played, part of the SFA’s defence of the club was that the registrations were not invalid because no-one knew they weren’t at the time … even if you believe that arrant nonsense, that explanation certainly does not stand up in light of the SFA’s knowledge of side letters in 2009 and on into the following year.

It means that they knew players were improperly registered for the 2008-09 season, and let that continue into the 2009-10 campaign and for all we know into the 2010-11 one … and what do these seasons have in common? Walter Smith was at Ibrox, after walking out of his job as national coach – for which the club paid no compensation – and they won three titles in a row. The legitimacy of all three of those titles is dubious at the very least.

Perhaps the media just doesn’t like the idea of tearing down Walter’s pedestal, but there has to be someone out there with a yard of guts who gets how serious this is?

The SFA knew Rangers didn’t qualify for a European license in 2011. They gave them one.

The SFA has opened an investigation into this affair; I predict that will go exactly nowhere and result in exactly no sanction.

Who is there to sanction?

The club that did it is dead and gone, and although the SFA maintains the fiction the current Ibrox incumbents are the same team I doubt that will translate into punishing them.

It is a ludicrous undertaking, and the final “verdict” in it will drive a wrecking ball through the Survival Lie, not that anyone will pay a blind bit of notice to that. This issue will not go away just because they conduct a sham investigation.

For one thing, that investigation seeks to blame the club. Celtic has known for a while that this was the SFA’s line; they do not believe it represents the facts.

All of this is being palmed off as the fault of Craig Whyte and Craig Whyte alone; Celtic believes there are other culprits, that the SFA knew more than they’ve let on, and that they gave the club a license anyway.

And this makes an odd kind of sense, when you consider that the SFA’s relationship with HMRC is one sided at best. If you accept the governing body played a role in helping the club conceal its tax scam – as you have to conclude in the absence of any official investigation about wrongful registration of players prior to 2012 – then you know their attitude towards the tax organisation is cavalier at best and at worst outright corrupt and you have to be willing to accept that they would have overlooked another.

Rangers very survival depended on European income; I cannot say that enough times.

As we will see, Craig Whyte went to them immediately when the club was knocked out of Europe twice in a month to tell them thatadministration was certain and that he planned to dilute the whole thing. If, in 2011, they had contacted Whyte and asked him about the licensing issue and he told them without one the club would have gone under, what do you think they would have done? Refused it? Not in this lifetime. Not based on what we know.

Celtic knows something dodgy happened here. When Regan tried to suggest that Celtic was happy with their interpretation of events, in the famous exchange of letters between the club and the governing body, Peter Lawwell was quick to shoot that down … we’ve never believed that situation was handled right, and all credit to the club and to the group of shareholders who got hold of this like a terrier shaking a rat and never let it go.

There’s more than meets the eye to this one, for sure.

The SFA knew Craig Whyte was not a fit and proper person to run a club. They allowed him to.

There is little doubt that by the time Craig Whyte took over at Ibrox that the SFA and others were fully aware that he was not a fit and proper person to be in charge of a Scottish club. The evidence was there for anyone who wanted to see it.

The Internet Bampots had found a ton of it, and the BBC was already sniffing around more.

The Rangers board had a dossier on him. Did they offer it during the fit and proper person examination? Of course not, but the club had enough people working with and at the SFA that I am convinced they weren’t completely in the dark. The BBC found an alarming number of things, and the Rangers takeover board was not far behind them, even if both were lagging miles behind the Internet Bampots and what they had discovered.

In fact, even after the BBC announced its findings it took the SFA an inordinate amount of time to actually get on with opening a case against him. There were good reasons why they didn’t do so at once; they were assisting Craig Whyte with a very specific project.

The liquidation of Rangers.

The SFA knew Rangers was in financial trouble, and Whyte intend to liquidate it. They helped him.

Right from the start, from the moment he took over, Whyte knew two things about Rangers; first was that their guilt in the Big Tax Case was established beyond a reasonable doubt and that years of legal troubles were in front of them.

He also knew that one bad year in Europe had the potential to put them in immediate administration.

Whyte knew the only way to cut the wage bill, drastically, and leave the legacy issue of the tax case behind was to liquidate the club and bring it back to life as a NewCo. In order to get what he wanted out of that scenario he knew something else; he knew that he would need the SFA and the SPFL to lend him a helping hand.

There is ample documentation online which proves this beyond all shadow of a doubt.

The SFA and the SPL were supporting Whyte from an early stage; in fact, he alleges he made them fully aware in October 2011.

You can choose to believe Whyte or not … but their conduct after the fact, including public statements from the likes of Regan and Doncaster who made it clear they believed the club was “too big to fail” and would do whatever they could to see that a NewCo played in the top flight no matter what that mean for creditors and the taxpayer, leave little room for doubt. Had they been aware, would they have refused to back him?

When we look back on that period we can be in no doubt that Whyte would have found them easy to deal with and perfectly pliable, as indeed he claims they were when he met them in London in October 2011.

That was Doncaster and the SPFL, but Ralph Topping was there and Regan and Ogilvie had their own wee meeting with him at the Hotel du Vin in December the same year. The SFA were willing participants in Whyte’s decision to defraud creditors and the tax payer. Had they done nothing that would have been bad enough, but ample evidence suggests they were with him all the way and even jeopardised the commercial standing of the game in order to see their scam went off successfully.

I’d have thought the media would have been interested in that.

They knew about Whyte’s connections with Green. They allowed the club to investigate itself.

Perhaps the most incredible moment in this whole series of scandals came when Craig Whyte produced taped evidence that proved he had been a partner with Charles Green right from the start. The recordings, which Whyte gave to a national newspaper, were definitive.

No less damning was Charles Green’s own confession to The Sun, where he freely admitted scamming Craig Whyte and Sevco 5088 in order to get his hands of the assets of OldCo Rangers.

This is one of the most spectacular sub-plots you could conceive of; Hollywood writers would struggle to do justice to this most incredible of twists.

I still believe this will end up in court; Whyte has got a team of lawyers working on the case, and on the surface of it there’s little doubt at all that he’s got one. The original agreement Duff and Phelps had was with a company called Sevco 5088, the company Whyte and Green conceived of together. Yet Charlie boy ended up sitting atop a company called Sevco Scotland Limited, one of the signatories to the Five Way Agreement.

And it has long been believed that the SFA would do literally anything to protect this notorious document, including looking the other way on allegations that they had been at the centre of a fraud. Whyte’s allegations were amongst the most serious ever levelled in the history of the game here; the SFA’s response was criminally negligent at best.

They allowed Rangers – Charles Green’s own board – to investigate these claims itself, and pass the results onto them.

And so was born the Pinsent Mason report, answering a question that had nothing to do with the central allegation and which the SFA nodded, said thanks, accepted and put on a shelf as if this was all perfectly normal.

Which is most certainly wasn’t.

Three current Sevco directors do not qualify as “fit and proper people.” They are on the Ibrox board anyway.

Clubs across the country have had persons kicked off boards or permission denied to join them.

Not at Ibrox.

Only Whyte has ever been definitively banned from holding office at a Scottish football club and that came when the SFA could no longer legitimately do otherwise and he had already led them to the edge of the abyss.

Since then, Dave King, Paul Murray and Alastair Johnson have all been admitted to the board in spite of not one of them meeting the qualifying criteria.

King’s own crimes are known and notorious; he stands convicted of hundreds of offences under South African law which could have seen him imprisoned for more than 80 years. Instead he paid one of the largest corporate tax evasion fines in the history of that country. An association already reeling from two high profile tax cheats at Ibrox should never have allowed this guy to become the third, but they looked the other way.

Paul Murray has some legitimacy in that he was removed from the Whyte board before things really started to get crazy over there, but from 2007 he was on the David Murray board which was up its knees in EBT’s and which was deliberately concealing documents from the SFA. He too should have been banned from ever holding a position with a Scottish club.

Alistair “No Surrender” Johnston has even less excuse and even less legitimacy. Not only was he on the board from 2004, he was its chairman from 2009 and would have been well aware of the EBT’s and whatever else was going on. He, like Murray, has always claimed ignorance; a quite shocking excuse, which would disqualify him from serving as a director in any other field. But in his case it’s worse because he was the chair of the “takeover board” which uncovered Craig Whyte’s murky past before he bought the club … and Johnston never disclosed that to anyone outside Ibrox, although the SFA had to rely on Whyte’s bona fides being established.

Johnston lied to them at the very least.

He too was allowed onto the board anyway.

And this is serious stuff, because the reason directors have to self-certify under the SFA’s ludicrous rule is that they have fiduciary and legal responsibilities both to the shareholders of the company’s they represent and to the legislative bodies which oversee them.

These three men fail by every measure.

And With The SFA There’s Always More …..

This is a taster, just a sample of what we know and not a fraction of what we suspect.

These are five cases where there are serious questions about corporate governance at the very least and where the SFA has serious questions to answer.

Some of these are process issues; some are far more serious and could potentially lead to criminal charges.

It doesn’t get worse than that for a regulatory body.

I understand exactly why the SFA does not want that inquiry.

That organisation is protecting itself from external scrutiny and disgrace.

I do not understand why other clubs are content to live with these questions unanswered, and I certainly don’t understand why the media has never bothered to ask any of them.

These are major issues and I thought that was their job.

Doc
6 years ago

Team:
Tierney
Forrest McGregor Brown Ntcham Rogic Sinclair
Edouard Dembele Aitchison Griffiths

Caption: “If I see a ‘Yes’ badge then you’ll be spending the night in the cells”

TicToc
6 years ago
Reply to  Doc

FFS, give the new huns a chance; same team as above but rest Tierney, Forrest and Griffiths (for Weds.) and play Anthony. He and Olivier will keep them fucking upstarts in their place. With 9 of us then playing 11+1 in black, I’ll revise my forecast to scrape it 4-1. COYBIG.
HH

TicToc
6 years ago
Reply to  TicToc

Slightly more realistic to above, I’d happily go (4-2-3-1):
De Vries,
Ralston, Lustig, Simunovic, Tierney
Brown, Ntcham,
Forrest, Rogic, Sinclair,
Griffiths.
It’s clear both Moussa and Dedryck need some game time so must be involved. Possibly starting instead of Lustig and Griffiths.
Subs (according to starters): Gordon, Centre Back , Roberts, McGregor, Striker.
And it’s goodnight from him………..
HH

6 years ago

http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/boa-constrictor-cobra/

Controlled, efficient, ruthless. More evidence against Dundee that Rodgers’s vision is taking shape.

Monti
6 years ago

GOAL….DEMBELE…….:)

Puggy67
6 years ago

Hope McGregor gets a decent run out 3/1 score anytime is where my £2 going. Celtic 3 Pedrofe Cup 0 1 red 1 penalty 1 goal from free kick. Scattered showers with sunny intervals.

Honest hoops
6 years ago

Prediction for the result today, I’m going to go one better than last season….6-1…. the token penalty against us by the lodge member…

Honest hoops
6 years ago

My nephew just sent me a text..the betting odds for another 5-1 is 28/1…however that’s with sky bet…never giving them a penny of mine..

Yoker Bhoy
6 years ago

Team I’d like to see today: (4-2-3-1)

Gordon

Lustig Simunovic Boyata Tierney

Brown Ntcham

Forest McGregor Sinclair

Dembele

There would be plenty of firepower from the bench with Griffiths, Roberts, Rogic and Armstrong providing excellent options.
Prediction: 1-3 (Forest, Dembele and Sinclair)

COYBIG

Follow us on Twitter @ETimsNet