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Celtic Diary Wednesday May 16: Res 12 : Charges Brought, But Where’s The Report ?

The Compliance Officer has decided that there is a case to answer, and as a result, Rangers-or it could be “rangers “, he hasn’t specified-will be charged with cheating.

The most accurate report -and thats a relative statement- comes from STV.

Rangers have been charged by the Scottish FA with breaking the governing body’s rules over a tax bill subsequent to being awarded a licence to play in European football in the 2011/12 season.

The governing body has brought two charges against the Ibrox club, relating to their reporting of the ‘Wee Tax Case’ in paperwork submitted to Hampden.

In September 2017, the Scottish FA instructed its compliance officer to investigate the circumstances surrounding Rangers UEFA licence application in 2011 and its own decision to grant the club permission to play in Europe.

 

Nine months later, after reviewing documentation from the time and evidence given during the Craig Whyte trial, the Hampden official has decided that Rangers have a case to answer over the “monitoring period”.

UEFA rules state clubs applying to play in Europe should have “no payables overdue” to tax authorities, but do allow applications to progress if amounts are in dispute.

Rangers said at the time of their application in 2011 they had no overdue payables but that they were in dispute with HMRC over their liability from a Discounted Option Scheme, known as “the Wee Tax Case”, which was in use from 2000 to 2002.

However, in court testimony given during the Craig Whyte trial, Rangers and Murray Group directors stated the club knew the tax bill was overdue in November 2010, months before their UEFA licence application. 

Following the court case, the Scottish FA took legal advice from a QC before referring the matter to their compliance officer to investigate whether the governing body had acted correctly when processing the licence application.

That has resulted in two separate charges, due to the change in the governing body’s own disciplinary rules from Articles of Association to a Judicial Panel Protocol.

The first charge relates to failing to comply with “the articles and any statutes, regulations, directives, codes, decisions and international match calendar promulgated by the board or by a standing committee, committee or sub-committee thereof, or by FIFA or UEFA or by the Court of Arbitration for Sport”.

The second alleges that Rangers did not follow rules that: “All members shall:- (a) observe the principles of loyalty, integrity and sportsmanship in accordance with the rules of fair play; (b) be subject to and comply with the articles and any statutes, regulations, directives, codes, decisions and international match calendar promulgated by the board, the Professional Game Board, the Non-Professional Game Board, the Judicial Panel Protocol, a committee or sub-committee, FIFA, UEFA or the Court of Arbitration for Sport; (f) behave towards the Scottish FA and other members with the utmost good faith.”

Sanctions for the second rule breach range from a £1,000 fine up to “£5,000,000 and/or ejection from the Scottish Cup and/or exclusion from the Scottish Cup and/or any player registration restrictions and/or suspension and/or termination of membership and/or any sanction or disposal not expressly provided above”. 

A response from Rangers is due by May 22, with a principal hearing date set for June 26.

Regardless of the outcome, UEFA are unlikely to take any action over the matter, having a five-year limit on dealing with historic cases.

Today’s charges also raise the question over whether the Scottish FA will approve the appointment of director Alastair Johnston.

Rangers director Alastair Johnston has been serving as a member of the club’s board since June 2017 but has yet to be approved as a “fit and proper person” by the Scottish FA.

Johnston was Rangers chairman at the time of the 2011 licence application and the Scottish FA board had parked a decision on his fit and proper status until it had clarity on the events surrounding that process. 

Effectively, Rangers-or “rangers ” – or perhaps even both, are being charged with something where they have already admitted guilt, in a court of law. although its important to remember this SFA charge is not a law issue, merely a sort of committee meeting to sort out bad behaviour.

Even the SFA cabal would have found it tricky to drop a case where the accused has screamed “we did it ” when everyone was listening.

Which makes the statement from Ibrox even more bewildering than the usual guff to be released from there…

THE Rangers Football Club (“the Club”) was informed today by the Scottish FA  (“SFA”) that, after an eight-and-a-half month investigation, the SFA will not be proceeding with a Notice of Complaint in respect of the submission made by the Club to the SFA at the end of March 2011 with regard to the issue of the Club’s UEFA licence for the following Season. 

The club, not the company.

The Club is unsurprised that it has now finally been accepted by the SFA that the accusations made against the Club were groundless. The Club questions whether the time, cost and expense of this investigation was justified and was a good use of the SFA’s limited resources. 

What does the company think ? Will they be releasing a statement later ?

Disappointingly, and presumably rather than accept that the investigation was a waste of all parties’ time and resources, the Club has been served with a new revised Notice of Complaint relating to the monitoring period subsequent to the grant of the UEFA licence. This new Notice of Complaint neglects to properly capture the provisions of prior agreements made between the Club and the SFA. 

Now those would be an interesting read…

The Club will fiercely resist this reconstructed Notice of Complaint. Unfortunately, monies that should be available to Scottish youth and grassroots football will be diverted into another rehearsal of seven-year-old debates on the rights and wrongs of events that the SFA should have prevented at a time when doing so would have served a useful purpose. 

Similar to when monies raised through taxation of players earnings could have been used to build schools, hospitals and filling in potholes.

Curiously, the club are accusing the SFA of not preventing the club from cheating, a defence which most lawyers would advise against.

Thats like Harold Shipman blaming the BMA for not stepping in when he  murdered a few hundred of his patients.

It seems that Scottish Football is, once again, being directed by individuals intent on harming the Scottish game, Rangers Football Club and its supporters by pursuing a course that has no sensible purpose or reasonable prospect of success. 

When they say it has no reasonable prospect of success, presunmably they have forgotten that they’ve already admitted the offence.

In the same way they forgot a lot of things over the last few years…

The general response over on the enlightened Follow follow forum is to “name these bastards “.

Happy to help.

David Murray, Alastair Johnston, Campbell Ogilvie, Andrew Dickson, Stewart Regan, Paul Murray, Dave King…all of whom were on the Ibrox board or at the SFA during the period of the offence.

Not a single one of them has as yet been called to account for the damage done to Scottish football by their actions.

go get ’em guys…

 

But there is more to come. This is only the beginning, and all the Compliance Officer has done, as any prosecution counsel would do, is select the charges that will stick, charges which already have a confession.

What matters now is what else was in that report, and when it will be made public.

It is unacceptable for Celtic, or any other club, not to release details to shareholders and supporters.

It’s taken seven years to get this far, and before we all start leaping around predicting a change for good in the way the game is run, with the introduction of honesty and transparency at Hampden, we need honesty and transparency now, and so far we’ve had neither.

The charges were unavoidable, the guilty had admitted their guilt.

Publicly.

Sure, its a start, but thats all it is.

A start.

And you’ll be pleased to know we don;t have to worry about time bars..

For all their crimes though, perhaps this report, from the BBC shows us exactly what kind of people we are dealing with, and the lengths they will go to to avoid accepting any sort of responsibility for their own actions..

A former youth footballer who says he was sexually abused by a Rangers coach has been told by the club he should pursue his complaint with liquidators.

The man claims he was abused within the Ibrox stadium by Gordon Neely who was head of youth development in the 1980s.

But the alleged victim has been told by lawyers for Rangers that the duty of care is not with the current owners.

They said that when the abuse took place Rangers were owned by a different company which was now in liquidation.

The man, who is in his 40s, was offered help in accessing counselling services, but no apology was made in correspondence from the club’s lawyers.

We should have left them to rot when they went under.

 

Back at the ranch, and Scott Brown has been a little forthright about Graeme Shinnie, the latest player to literally try to kick him out of the game…

Hardly inaccurate, but its not going to endear him to his fellow professionals, and perhaps it would be wise to hurry along the move for John McGinn.

Patrick Roberts, as we know, is going back south. Probably to Leicester or West Ham. We wish him well, and although the lad can play a bit, he found out this season that the competition for his place in the side is a little stronger than he had perhaps hoped, and not being able to get a game for Celtic in the Scottish league isn’t going to do his career down south any good at all.

Peeling a hidden onion, he said;

“It’s been great, I’ve loved my time here. Everyone knows I love the club and I’m just grateful to get the opportunity to play here and I’m thankful to every fan out their for their support.”

Jock Stein once said if he could take a wee bit of Charlie Nicholas’s cheek and give it to Paul McStay, McStay would have been a world class player.

Well, I’ve arranged for a fitness transplant between these two. which would have a similar effect…

We had a debate on the bus on Sunday, and that was prompted by me saying I’d rather have had McCourt in the side rather than Rogic, as both had similar attributes and fitness levels.

I was in the minority, preferring the Derry Pele, but its interesting to see how Rogic is accommodated whereas McCourt was sent away.

Maybe it was all about attitude, or resale value.

Wonder how much we got for this guy when he skipped across the city …

No doubt the move comes as a surprise to Griffiths as well.

The Edinburgh News reports..

A glitch on the Rangers website has suggested that new manager Steven Gerrard has been busy in the transfer window – signing players from the club’s rivals. John Souttar, Leigh Griffiths and John McGinn are just some of the players with profiles as the Hearts, Hibs and Celtic squads have found their way onto the Ibrox club’s website.

Looks like their media and PR team are suffering from overwork, and perhaps too much time away from the real world.

Although they could be having a wee in house competition to see who can come away with the biggest pile of doggy do for their fans consumption, which in itself presents a wonderful image, although they have a ways to go to match the statement covered at the top of the page.

Meanwhile, the Evening times has outed itself, showing its true , er , colour…

Dennistoun Flute band who celebrated 45th anniversary lose hall and instruments in East End fire

We know exactly what these bands stand for, and what they encourage during their marches.. and the Times has sealed its fate with this…

A Go Fund Me page has been set up online to help them buy instruments and well-wishers have donated over £600 so far. 

You can donate to the page here https://www.gofundme.com/ 

I’ve not included it, obviously, but they have given the address for a funding appeal which promotes anti catholic and anti irish sentiments.

Tomorrow, they’l be doing a feature on a KKK member who lost his job, a former Auchwitz guard  who needs a wheelchair, and a Conservative party member who has been forced to live next door to a single parent family.

Do not buy this paper.

Ever.

 

Then again, its not just the papers…

A Scottish college has sparked outrage after cancelling a religious celebration on campus just two days before it was due to take place.

City of Glasgow College last week revoked its decision to allow its own Catholic Chaplain to hold an Ascension Thursday mass for members of staff and students.

The college has a prayer room that can be used by all religions and has previously allowed its Catholic Chaplain to hold religious services on the campus.

The mass, originally scheduled for May 10, had been approved by the college’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) department almost a week before it was due to go ahead.

But those planning on attending the mass were left outraged after an email from the EDI on May 8 announced that an appropriate policy was not in place at the institution in order for them to allow the service to go ahead.

Scotland, the best wee country in the world.

Yesterday, we showed you this picture,

Image result for queen elizabeth and prince harry

puggy67 May 15, 2018 at 10:33 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption: Oh dear it’s her father again, I believe they sell the lead to a scrap merchant.

 

Today…

 

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Puggy67
5 years ago

Caption: Down with sticks and up with bricks,
In with boots and up with roots,
It’s in with suits and new recruits,
It’s build…

Admin
5 years ago
Reply to  Puggy67

God bless this post!!

The second best Housemartins song after Flag Day!

puggy67
5 years ago
Reply to  Desi Mond

Yip it’s my fav Housemartins song – superb production.

Una
5 years ago

Caption

Giant rabbits leave their mark on the pitch.

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Una

Una,
Do you keep Rabbits yourself?

henkesdreadlocks
5 years ago

Caption…….

The Jungle toilets get a well earned airing.

R.St.Parsley
5 years ago

The No-Irish Rover

On the fourteenth of Feb two thousand and twelve
We set sail up the Clyde for Ibrox
We were on our way there with a cargo of shite
From a man with big hands from near York
What a ramshackle craft!
She fooled only the daft
Or those to whom truth was a stranger
But the press were convinced
When we served them lamb minced
And they called her the ‘Glasgow Rangers’.

We had sailed several years when reality struck
And our ship ran aground on the rocks
And our fake ‘Rangers’ crew
Was reduced by the crooks,
To ‘loan Rangers’, free transfers and crocks
We could not reach the bank,
Our coach walked the plank,
Our sails were condemned as a danger
Bookies cancelled all bets
And we drowned in our debts
We’re the last of the ‘Glasgow Rangers’.

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  R.St.Parsley

Quality!

Mike
5 years ago

There is a big opportunity for the incoming SFA C.E. Ian Maxwell to return the Scottish game to being more open, honest and transparent. He would be welcomed if he followed the path of David Taylor who was an honest Chief Executive and was the last C.E. to show integrity, not like the peepil who follow followed him. (Ogilvy and Regan). I am quietly hopeful that he, as an ex football man, he will know how important that an honest game is to ALL supporters, only time can tell us that though. I would love to know if they have spoken to the “keeper of the secrets” Regan, but I am pretty certain that he was an integral part of the cheating and the cover up, so will not expect too much from him. Irrespective of all of that, there should be a full review to show all the facts, because another “gloss over” is totally not acceptable. Well done the Resolutioners, who discovered and opened our eyes to the cheats and the cheating. I sincerely hope that all your magnificent endeavours are not just acknowledged but acted on, its the very least that you deserve.

Admin
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Hi, I fear he will come along, stand there say “It’s a shame what happened before but don’t worry Im now here so lets start afresh from tomorrow..good day to you all!”

I just noticed “now here” and “no where” are basically the same bar space…mindblowing!

Mike
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Its surf and turf, at the new Mary Berry Third Lanark rest-ure-antie.

Bognorbhoy
5 years ago

Caption ..

Hearts prepare pitch for game against celtic..

Mike Annis
5 years ago

Caption: The Rangers fans, finding their toilets condemned, use the next best available space. “Beats watching the normal shite”, said Billy McMason.

James61
5 years ago

Caption
Levein has his crop in early from tynecastle to feed his animals for another year.
HH

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago

Cheating orange bastards no matter which way they try to dress it up.

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Noel Skytrot

Noel,
Exactly fuck the lot of them!

Monti
5 years ago

WHERE’S THE REPORT?

FUCK THE SFA
GOD BLESS THE POPE!

I take it that scummy orange hall wasn’t full to capacity at the time of the erm, unfortunate fire?

TIOCFAIDHARLA

Honest Hoops
5 years ago

Caption; the bonnet instructs the hard hats to start the vision for 10 in a row and back to back trebles…’ This is what it’s like to be Celtic’

Admin
5 years ago

The back of the Metro today

RANGERS RAGE

Don’t BE the story…OWN the story!

portpower
5 years ago
Reply to  Desi Mond

sevconian in-hoose ekky-thump of a different kind.

sevco kung fu klan kapers FC.

Admin
5 years ago

The biggest laugh I got at that SFA statement yesterday was it basically saying “We will pick this up after we have all had some fun at the World Cup!”

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for severe repercussions, although if they reject Alastair Johnston then he might ask for his million quid back and others could follow his lead… wishful thinking though, I expect a low 50k fine to be paid back from participation monies earned over next season in cups..case closed…lets all move on.

portpower
5 years ago

Hastily-engineered SFA nasties.

Lucio Fulci for SPFL Chief Executive.

sevco gutter FC.

Admin
5 years ago

I was hoping not to get involved in this poor abused guys issue but can I just say this:

This “The Company are legally responsible NOT the Club” could really post a horrible precedent. Not just for abuse cases but for all and any matters affecting people, including crowd issues, employment issues, abuse issues and basically anything involving a person or persons and any football institution.

It really should be on the SFAs radar as it could lead to massive implication down the line and this case is a clear warning something needs addressed.

TonyB
5 years ago
Reply to  Desi Mond

In the case of the old club there was no club/company separation since it was an incorporated entity.

The company WAS the club, so this bullshit deflection does not hold, and wouldn’t in any Court of law.

Mike
5 years ago

Actress Saoirse Ronan an Irish American born in the Bronx N.Y.C. a golden globe winner. Her mother Monica (nee Brennan) her father Paul Ronan, Ballykeel. She briefly lived in County Carlow where she attended the Ardahin National School. She now resides in Greystones, County Wicklow.

portpower
5 years ago

Go get ’em guys…shirley!

CarlJungleBhoy
5 years ago

The one thing that stands out for me from that latest Ibrokes statement is how quickly they spat it out after news of the reconstructed SFA complaint notice was released to the press. Surely it would be normal to firstly seek legal advice before replying publicly to such a charge? Call me cynical, but might I venture to suggest that *Rangers were well aware this re-alignment of the goalposts was coming, and the timing , and the details, and given time to get all their ducks lined up waiting to paddle?

CarlJungleBhoy
5 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

BTW Good stuff Ralph !

CarlJungleBhoy
5 years ago
TicToc
5 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

CJB, I’d already read the hun statement on another site and ended up seeing the Rossvale story. I scanned that about Rossvale with growing stupefaction; how genuine they were in refusing to take a soft option by their opponents forfeiting the game and thereby handing them the league title etc. Their honesty/integrity was genuinely jaw-dropping in its sincerity. And this by a pub team full of huns? How could this be? How could they support the scum and yet show this decency? Then I noticed it was ROSSvale and not ROSEvale, i.e. the Rosevale Bar, a hun shithole in Partick. D’oh! 🙂
HH

CarlJungleBhoy
5 years ago
Reply to  TicToc

🙂 I was one of many that RT’d that Rossvale story on Twitter congratulating them on showing integrity that’s missing elsewhere. I ended up blocking a Hun going about me having no integrity, taking “cheap shots” about them and being “obsessed”.Of course, the irony of him tweeting me out the blue to pull me up, dissing the Rossvale action as “attention seeking”, when I didn’t even mention his club was lost on him.

TicToc
5 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

Aye, Carl, we have to remember they’re not only the most horrible fans on the planet, they’re also the dumbest. 🙂 Hell slap it intae them.
HH

portpower
5 years ago

Caption:
It`s loamly at the Top.

Cortes
5 years ago
Reply to  portpower

It’s turf at the top.

puggy67
5 years ago
Reply to  Cortes

It’s a sod at the bottom.

Devoy45
5 years ago

Good reporting Ralph, thanks.
Who knows where this will lead? It is always heart-warming to see cheats brought to justice.
Caption: Craig Levein hopes his new pitch concept will meet approval with Brendan!

Gash67
5 years ago

Ive got some of that grass in my back Garden

TonyB
5 years ago

What were the ” prior agreements between the club and the SFA ” referred to in that statement from sevco?

These need to be made public.

charlie
5 years ago

ffs ralph av been leapin around aw night ………………………….no matter a wis gettin puffed oot anyway ha ha

Admin
5 years ago

Almost missed this

One lung Paddy McCourt or 60 minute Rogic

Just one question needed:

How many big games did Paddy win for us?

Super Paddy is a footballer who headed towards being a great 5 asides player…Tom Rogic is the reverse..a five a side player who is heading to become a great football player.

FredDDobbs
5 years ago
Reply to  Desi Mond

mccourt was minging

Martin67
5 years ago

Caption: Be careful bhoys it’s a jungle out there

portpower
5 years ago

SFA statement:

sevco FC are to be fined their 3st place winnings from this season minus £95000 for Rod Petrie`s dinner money.

CarlJungleBhoy
5 years ago

Caption: Phase 3 of the improvement to the pitch at CP – big lumps to intended to slow opposing players intent on kicking big lumps out of Scott Brown – is now well underway.

1888fc
5 years ago

Caption – the exact moment when the celtic park reconstruction project attained the current level of safety certificate held at Ibrox

Brencelt
5 years ago

Caption: seeds are sown for Celtic domination

Sevco statement says “has no sensible purpose or reasonable prospect of success”

Pretty much sums sevco up

Cortes
5 years ago

Cunning plan by the SFA to stymie the double treble as revealed in today’s Grauniad:

“ Mourinho also has his beady eye on Kieran Tierney but Tottenham, Bournemouth and Atlético Madrid have their gimlet gazes trained on the Scotland defender too, leading to the appealing notion of a gaggle of European scouts desperately hoovering up tickets for the Celtic v Kilmarnock Scottish Cup final. United are also considering a punt on Nottingham Forest’s 16-year-old left-back Matthew Bondswell”

Mike
5 years ago

Caption, Leigh Griffiths new environmentally friendly hair transplant
designed to attract awe ra burds.

portpower
5 years ago

🙂

Caption:
Peter Lawwell`s grass stands.

portpower
5 years ago

It must be grand weather of lately with-in Scotchland?

There seems to be a protrusion of unique oddity nipples and knee-caps for all to bare publicly.

sevco denude FC.

puggy67
5 years ago

On their further bad news this week I will say only this. Child abuse is a tragedy and our only concern should be for the welfare of the victims and the punishment of the perpetrators. I’ll leave the BJK faction to reflect on their comments and actions over the years and how, in some way, they have actually perpetuated the acts of the abusers for those affected.

portpower
5 years ago

O`ffs,they`re going to be wheelin` out Gordon Smith till next season starts.

FredDDobbs
5 years ago

We feel that it is right to move in a different direction. We aim to appoint a high-calibre figure who we feel will lead the club into an exciting future.

everyone knows moyes is a low calibre tosspot

Mike
5 years ago

Sorry to see “The red Baron” being charged for his aeroplane antics and the Zombie chanters who caused the aerobatics, the reaction is charged but the cause is free to continue with its sectarian chants.
“The Zombies” Let me tell you about him,
the way he fly’s,
Oh let me tell you about him,
the way he cry’s,
Its too late to say were sorry,
why does it matter,
nobody cares,
There not all there..

TicToc
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike, Neil Lennon needs to call ‘them’ out to the SFA to make it public and formally complain. He is bad-mouthed in a sectarian manner by the scum flies on the new shit, every time they play regardless of the ground. This is his chance to get even.
In answer to his own ‘charge’, whatever TF that is, he should just say he felt really excited at the end of a dramatic, teriffic SCOTTISH football match and was celebrating to the world our wonderful game. Then give that fucking clown Doncaster a call and tell him THAT’S how you draw in the crowds and the TV money. COYBIG. Fuck the huns.
HH

Mike
5 years ago
Reply to  TicToc

Tic Toc, How sad it is, that Lenny is left on his Todd to call out the sectarian bullies. “The Billy Boys” is banned they tell me by UEFA
but.. we hear it every weekend from the scum. You hear it and then, the volume is turned down. If that is not complicit, I don’t know what is. It is tragic that, that wee fella has to tackle this on his own, tragic, when the powers at be, allow it, tragic that no public body is challenging this.. abomination its 2018, no fucking 1690 and yet the funny marchers, march daily. And don’t start me on the state sectarian monarchy, cos if I do….. He should NOT have to be the lone voice, yet, hear we are.

TicToc
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike, there is a golden opportunity here to shut that scum up once and for all. Lenny needn’t stand alone and shouldn’t. He should seek assistance from Celtic where he knows one or two and from the Board at Hibs, Celtic and any other friendly face he can find. Time to hit these bastards with both barrels.
ALL he need do when he’s called to account is MENTION the sectarian abuse that’s thrown at him, even when that scum visit his club and the chanting which can be proven every week wherever that scum presents itself. But, he does this as a DISPARATE issue whilst telling them as I said in my earlier comment about celebrating the wonderful SCOTTISH match and the excitement and ultimate jubilation at getting the late equaliser and what a fantastic ‘product’ we have, if we only had someone capable of ‘selling’ it for its real value, unlike the clowns we have now.
Weered, YES, I’m glad you noticed; it IS a plan and the SFA have brought it all on themselves. Neil will appreciate the irony here. 🙂
HH

TicToc
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Ralph, I replied to Mike and Weered and I feel it’s a really important issue, but it’s gone into the ether.
Seems to be happening a lot.
I’ve often wished I could have obliterated a comment AFTER It’d been ‘published’ but that’s a bridge too far……. 🙂
Anyway, please do yer best to find it. Cheers.
TicToc.
HH

FredDDobbs
5 years ago

We feel that it is right to move in a different direction. We aim to appoint a high-calibre figure who we feel will lead the club into an exciting future.

everyone knows moyes is a low calibre tosspot

FredCDobbs
5 years ago

good to see moyes getting pumped.

If it smells like shite and looks like shite its probably shite

FredDDobbs
5 years ago

if

FredDDobbs
5 years ago
Reply to  FredDDobbs

it looks like shite and smells like shite its probably moyes. get it up ye ya hun wank.

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  FredDDobbs

Moyes kept West Ham up in the Premier league…that was his task…he achieved it!

Mike
5 years ago

The Bam Busters. DA DA DA, DADADA, DA DA DA DADADADA. As search lights shine upwards from the new Celtic park lighting, bathed in its new green white and gold LED lights. Provo snipers are situated in the roof, sniping away to there Hertz content at everything in bloo.
“Ya Fuckin Beauty” cries volunteer Jimmybee as another drone- ing Hun bites the dust. Leigh Enfields at the ready take aim Leigh and shoooooot. “Goal”. Its no fucking Puggy AGAIN FFS, who he yells Rob, its the son of Satan, the mahn from Stoke, Stoke FFS naebody sane steys there, too troo, bouyoh. Saido Mane mibbee.

Tommybhoy
5 years ago

Caption: There is sod all to see in this picture so there will be no caption from me.

Monti
5 years ago

Caption: Una leaves the lawnmower running, after being distracted by the deadly combination of excessive mobile phone use, puting the kettle on & Jeremy Kyle omnibus starting.

BroxburnBhoy
5 years ago

I am indebted to Celts Are Here for clearing up a puzzle. It seems that as part of the 5 way agreement – Sevco agreed to be liable for some the the sins of the old Club as a condition of entry back into the leagues. That is why the SFA are going after the newco because someone there managed to slip in a very wise condition as they must have known the skeletons in the closet would be found eventually. Puzzle cleared. It also explains a bit of the visceral reaction by Sevco as this initial charging could be followed by others which could pose an existential threat to the newco I.e a ban from Europe not to mention having to strip titles and havebthebituer clubs open to go after the oldco and maybe newco for potential revenue lost through admittance of the old club to Europe on a dodgy foundation. There is more to come on this for sure.

Pensionerbhoy
5 years ago

Ralph,

I am blessed with a lazy afternoon and it is freezing outside. That gives me the perfect excuse to not just read the Diary but to make what is now a rare, and predictably insignificant, comment.

I just might see the end of the end after all or the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning or the end of the end of the beginning or the beginning of ……..or perhaps just SFA (not the Scottish Football Association). Still, one step at a time even if there might be two back in a month or so. I think the essence of the problem is to be found in a far wider context than football in Scotland. While a lopsided mentality exists in Scottish society – it must or we would have heard multiple objections and calls for justice by now – the bias and bigotry will flourish in Scottish football. The issues of the latter cannot be resolved without the demise of the former.

I had a discussion on the “rangers” topic with some of my English “neighbours” (sadly they all support the striped candy balls lot and I hate that inane, glaekit grin you get from them when you say you support Celtic. I did not realise till I came down here just how much pro-Govan and anti-Celtic feelings there were in that toon. I must say, I do not think that is the majority. I probably just keep the wrong company – aul bassas). When they heard the full circus story, they were astounded. I asked them what they thought would happen in England and with one voice they acclaimed such a team would be obliterated. They believed that, at the least, other clubs and supporters would go ballistic and the FA and EPL would hang, draw and quarter the offending club. At least, that was my interpretation of what was a lot of English swearing which my delicate ears did not take well to hm, hm!! After all, if you are going to call them bastards, at least roll the rrrrrs!! And, if anyone has heard of a “coont”, can you let me know what it is because there seems to be hunners ae them doon here. In fact, one guy says I’m a Scottish one and it would be nice to return the compliment.

Anyway, back to the serious stuff. Any setbacks should not detract from our admiration and praise for the Res 12 guys and others, like yourself, that have given so much personal time and support to fight for justice on behalf of all Scottish football fans. No matter what the outcome, you deserve our gratitude.

By the way, did you detect an air of cynicism in Desi’s comments earlier? You should get him a half-full glass of the auld golden nectar when you next see him (make sure he pays just to keep him nice and sour-pussed). I used to have a shelf-full of half-empties but found they just give you ulcers, even if they do contain historical truths.

Caption: “Ross County stack the turfs ready for next season’s underground heating.”

H H

Pensionerbhoy
5 years ago

Ralph,

The dozy monitor must have thought I was Rangers cause he has stolen my obituary in the hope I am still alive. If it appears, be afraid, very afraid! 🙂

H H

Admin
5 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Welcome back!

puggy67
5 years ago

Caption: The away team’s pre-match tackling Broony exercise causes a few problems for the groundsman.

henkesdreadlocks
5 years ago

Fuck All Fuck All

Oh the Sevco they are finished
No foreign lands to see
Where the greedy (big) hands of Charlie Green
Spirited aww yer funds away
6 miles away from £1brox park
There’s a place called Paradise
Where the Tims all laugh and take the piss
Cause we know your old club died

Fuck all fuck all
You’ll win fuck all
Cause Charlie stretched your hole
No need for lubrication
As you gobble Kingy’s pole
Old squinty eyes has set his sight
Without a nervous twitch
You stupid orange bastards
Sure Karma is a bitch

In your shitty part of Glasgow
Sure it’s written on the walls
Celtic get to 8,9,10
That’s when the big hoose falls
Then we’ll truly own our city
And laugh at your demise (again)
No more of shameful Sevco
No more sectarian cries

Chorus

Monti
5 years ago

Decent Henke, decent!

Una
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Zz

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Una

Batteries running out dear?

Rob O'Keeffe
5 years ago

Could I just say C’mon Celtic,please seal the Double Treble on Saturday! As for Paul McStay,WorldClass and a gent.Have we had a better midfielder since him?
As for all the Sevco nonsense,don’t care anymore,except for Strip The Titles! But won’t hold my breath….

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