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Celtic Diary Sunday October 27: The Day The Old Firm Returned

So, late on Friday night, when most of us were still walking on air after a tremendous result against a Lazio side who turned out to be much better than we’d all hoped, Peter Lawwell and his gang of liars, thieves and charlatans announced that there was going to be an AGM on the 27th of November.

On a Friday night, in exactly the same way another Glasgow club releases bad news so as to counter any reaction.

Within that statement was the news that Resoltuion 12, which demands action on the cheating and collusion between the SFA and Rangers to obtain a UEFA licence to compete in the Champions League was to be voted on in the room.

The Celtic Star sums it all up here, in an excellent article under betrayal.

Betrayal

I don’t even want to read it again.

It leaves me with a sickening feeling deep down in the part of my stomach where the sickening feelings occur.

Especially this bit…

As the premier football club in Scotland, Celtic have made a consistent stand, over many years and covering many instances, for fairness and transparency to be at the heart of football governance. The Board of Celtic PLC considers that the best way to ensure that these principles are safeguarded is continued and constructive engagement with the Scottish FA, the SPFL, UEFA and fellow clubs. In respect of this particular issue, the Board engaged with the requisitioning shareholders over a significant period of time. The Board has further engaged, over the same period, with the relevant football authorities, according to their respective responsibilities. The matter currently sits with the Scottish FA.

The Board does not consider it to be in the best interests of the Company to take the steps proposed by the resolution. The Board recommends that you vote against this resolution.

Let’s look a little more closely at this particular piece of prose..

As the premier football club in Scotland, Celtic have made a consistent stand, over many years and covering many instances, for fairness and transparency to be at the heart of football governance. 

I cannot think of a single example.

There has been no demand to investigate the allegations within the requisitioners evidence.

And it is evidence, evidence that was given, on request, to Lawwell.

He called it the smoking gun, and presumably his idea of “fairness and transparency ” is to keep it hidden away from those who would use it to prove that misdemaeanours leading to misgovernance had taken place.

He also said, and the requisitioners are aware of this, because I told them, that he felt the requisitioners had decided to make the issue all about them, a classic case of playing the man in order to deflect from the ball.

I once questioned what Lawwell would like to be his legacy when he left Celtic.

I think we’re on the point of spotting that quite frankly, he gives not a toss.

The Board of Celtic PLC considers that the best way to ensure that these principles are safeguarded is continued and constructive engagement with the Scottish FA, the SPFL, UEFA and fellow clubs. 

Seven years down the line, this policy has delivered the square root of fuck all.

The priniciples he refers to were not safeguarded then, and there is suspicion they are not being safeguarded now. The chairman of one club, incidentally, the predecessor of a club which flouted the rules that have led to where we are today, is now a phariah in the world of finance. His club/company is being encouraged to pretend it is the same club that is currently in liquidation.

According to its accounts, which are the accounts of a company that is delisted on the stock exchange , they are trading whilst insolvent.

The authorities believe that he is a fit and proper person to run a football club.

Pray tell, Peter, at which point do you believe this is ensuring

 ” that these principles are safeguarded is continued and constructive engagement with the Scottish FA, the SPFL, UEFA and fellow clubs. ” 

 

In respect of this particular issue, the Board engaged with the requisitioning shareholders over a significant period of time.

The Board has further engaged, over the same period, with the relevant football authorities, according to their respective responsibilities. The matter currently sits with the Scottish FA. 

That’s because the “board ” do not give a flying fuck about the interests of fans, shareholders or the image of this club.

Quite simply, the dollar is king.

The Old Firm didn’t go away, and for Celtic and it’s current custodians-and I stress the word current here- the Old Firm is seen as the cash cow.

We are indeed two cheeks of the same arse at corporate level.

 

The Board does not consider it to be in the best interests of the Company to take the steps proposed by the resolution. The Board recommends that you vote against this resolution. 

Exactly in whose interest ?

What is it about Resolution 12, and the promotion of fair play, transparency and sporting integrity that the board wants us to ignore, as it is not in their interest ?

What have they done, or been aware of, that they really don’t want us to know about ?

A few questions spring to mind… one in particular.

What sort of Chief Executive allows his company to be denied a high level of income because of fraudulent actions from authorities or individuals, and then has the temerity to ask that his own shareholders condone it ?  

It therefore follows, and not without reason, that Celtic must have been a part of, or at the very least, been aware of this misgovernance from the very start.

At the very least, they have turned a blind eye to it, and one has to question the motives behind that.

 

Have Celtic , at boardroom level, decided that the loss of income from the non existence of  Rangers is needed for them to flourish ?

It appears so, and it appears that the Old Firm have circled the wagons to ensure that it continues to dominate Scottish football.

No ?

Well, ask yourself this, how much of the scandal that Resolution 12 attempts to deal with would have been in the public domain had it not been for the diligence of the requisitioners and others ?

 

And for Celtic to ask it’s shareholders and supporters to ignore it, and pretend nothing has happened is nothing short of disgraceful.

 

For me, and for many others, Celtic has been the one constant in our lives.

Partners come and go, families come and go, we move house, to different cities and even countries.

Jobs and careers change, as we get older our health changes, and so hobbies, interests and circumstances change.

But one thing, at least up until now, has remained the same.

The one thing that we could selfishly call ours was our club.

It stood for what we are, who we are and who we would like to be.

Over the years, our own dreams played out there on the field in front of us.

Whether we were lucky enough to be in the stand, or had to listen to radio stations that filed the air with static, we wanted to be there, we wanted to be a part of it.

And we felt that we were.

 

For me, something slipped a little when I read that statement, something told me that my life long friend had moved on, and become someone else.

 

Someone I was no longer all that keen on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4 years ago

RALPH

I genuinely believe that voting down Res 12 will not harm the board in the medium to long term as they already know that many or most of us hold them in contempt anyway. Yet we still turn up. They want this out of the way,simple as that.

Nobody cares,mate. Well,not enough that will do anything about it like not renewing a season ticket. A f…..g disgrace,but that’s what our custodians are now.

Mike A
4 years ago

And you’re surprised? This was always going to be the case. They care only about money….yours, so keep on going everyone and paying into a fixed and corrupt sport because guess what? The Board are part of it and happy for it to be continued. The media print endless stories attacking us, our ruling body are bent in favour of one particular team; the fixtures are organised to help one particular team; the bunch of masons who ref all our games support one particular team and what is our Board’s response? Sweet FA. It will continue if the fans continue to turn up and pay in. This obsession with 9 and 10 in a row suits the Board perfectly. Keeps the “mugs” turning up.

Ian Mcguigan
4 years ago

Absolutely disgusted with the Celtic board of directors. They are in on the carve up as much as Sevco 5088.Fans should mobilise and call them out. Corrupt bastards.

4 years ago
Reply to  Ian Mcguigan

Ian,
You are right but the team must not suffer!

Whitearra
4 years ago

Ok, small gesture, but I’ve just voted for Resolution 12 by proxy.
By the way, who says that all the masons are on the OUTSIDE of Parkhead. Remember the K of St. C.

Joe McDonagh
4 years ago
Reply to  Whitearra

The KSC are not in any way masonic and have no influence on anything other than as a charitable organisation. There are only 4000 or so mainly older members. If one was to liken the cold hands of Freemasonry to an F1 racing car the KSC would be as a child’s go cart.

4 years ago

That board statement has to be the final nail in their coffin lid.
I’ve been saying for years we need ” Lawwell out “, he has done good things at Celtic but quite simply, he has allowed our club to be cheated of millions of pounds, he has cost the club millions in CL revenue by failing to secure transfer targets.
He takes a lot of money out of Celtic every year, whilst denying managers quality signings.
He should have been forced to resign when he fought against paying the living wage.

It’s time to force him & the rest out!

As for those calling Celtic men & women ” mugs ” for going to see their team….go and fck yourselves!

“They are there,they are always there”- Tommy Burns.

Celtic first & Celtic last & Celtic overall!

Back the team, sack the board

HH

4 years ago

CS not been on yet?
He’ll be on hun sites telling them morelarse is better than Edouard.

Yoker Bhoy
4 years ago

Spot on with everything Ralph. Great diary today. Our contempt for Lawell and his band of shysters grows more and more as the days go by.

Lee welsh
4 years ago

Time for RES 12 banners at all televised games and a Tifo at European games, to engage all fans and force media to ask questions

TicToc
4 years ago
Reply to  Lee welsh

Hail! Hail!, Pal, James Connolly would be proud of you and me both!
UTLR
FC not PLC,
make TB Lawwell history!
HH

alzyerpal
4 years ago

Something ‘slipped’ for me, personally, a few years ago (at about the time the board began kicking res12 into the long grass). We have all become wrapped up in 10iar and this has been a godsend for the board, a distraction to focus our attention elsewhere. Ask ourselves though? Is it really any sort of achievement (even should it be allowed to happen in a corrupt league, where referees and the SFA are becoming bolder in their efforts to stop it, uncontested by our complicit board?)when we all know that the competition is built on a foundation of lying and cheating?
November 27 is make or break for me. If we allow Resolution 12 to be voted down, and out, then we truly are as stupid and gullible as the Huns, and the ‘Old Firm’ really does still exist, because we care more about beating THEM than we do about principles and fairness.
I will not spend another penny on my club, a club I have supported for 53 years, until this situation is resolved and Scottish football is run fairly, and without fear or favour, to the benefit of ONE (two) club.
Feck them all. Time to make a stand!

The Cha
4 years ago

This might be a shocking development but its no surprise.

This was always the likely option in my opinion ie the board wouldn’t do what they were told to do (in the minds of the requisitioners) and they would oppose the retabling of the motion.

The big question is what happens now but given previous supporter motions I’d expect the motion to carry the floor but to be defeated on a card vote with about 90% opposing it.

The board will spin this as being the will of the majority of Celtic fans.

The fact that this is largely corporate investors and the fans are likely to vote, at least, 90% in favour will be lost in the fog of war.

The question then is what, if anything, can be done next?

I don’t think any kind of supporter boycott is a realistic proposition and any calls for such, without a groundswell of support, are in danger of setting fan and against fan.

Depressing maybe but we need to deal in realism and leave unrealistic fantasy to the hordes.

Mike
4 years ago

Well said! The only good thing about the statement is that we now know for certain what their response would be. You can make a guess about what their motives might be about their lack of action, but now we know, its the bigot pound that has won against honesty, openness and transparency. Looking back to witness the fraud and the corruption in Scottish football is one thing and to remember to fix it would only take some simple actions, like an acknowledgement of the truth that the old club died and a new one emerged from the ashes. But no, nothing like that happened, only a complex rigmarole to hide the truth, the lies and the secret 5way agreement, costing Celtic millions of pounds. What kind of future can Scottish football look forward to? only hidden truths and decisions always based on a secret agreement. No company, no business can be ruled over by secrets and lies, until this fraud, this corruption is removed Scottish football will forever be tainted and so will the Celtic board who failed to act on the truth. Res.12 support it.

bongo
4 years ago

why does peter lawwell alwYS GET THE BLAME ON HERE????? ONE MAN HAS THE SHARES AND THE POWER TO VOTE THIS DOWN YET THIS SITE NEVER SAYS A BAD WORD ABOUT HIM – WHY????

Level 5 plant
4 years ago
Reply to  bongo

Lawwell should keep his mouth shut about smoking guns then shouldn’t he?

bongo
4 years ago
Reply to  Level 5 plant

YOU MAKE MY POINT – OBVIOUSLY HIS MASTER HAS TOLD HIM TO SHUT HIS MOUTH – YET NO ONE EVEN MENTIONS HIM – JUST ALL PETER LAWWELL’S FAULT.

Level 5 plant
4 years ago
Reply to  bongo

He was simply stringing us along

Bawsman
4 years ago

I came to the conclusion we were involved in the 5 way agreement (stitch up) in 2013. I didn’t renew my 2 season books from that point. I always thought we would be above that shit, naively thinking we were a beacon of sporting integrity. Mug.

Level 5 plant
4 years ago

Our board are a group of tor y right wing bassas. I knew Lawwell and co from the start were stringing us along. GTF the lot of you!

Peter (not that one)
4 years ago

I have been reading the response to the boards statement on several forums this morning and there is a lot of anger out there, on the way this resolution has been treated. Part of this is that celtic do not have the support of any other club on this issue. These are clubs who depend on the celtic support for a large amount of their income through ticket sales, corporate hospitality and even tv deals. It is obvious they only tolerate us for our money, as look at the way our fans are herded like cattle into enclosed pens and abused by the local suport and police scotland. Well maybe the time has come to stand up and say no more. Time to get organised and stop funding them, when they wise up and realise that we will no longer fund them, then maybe they will question why and take appropriate action regarding the SFA and only then will we get the level playing field we all desire.

Eastman
4 years ago

An excellent article. Copies should be printed and handed out to all supporters at the next home match.

We cannot take this without response. A demonstration should be arranged at the AGM to prevent the board from denying the Requisitioners justice.

Sancheto
4 years ago

Disgusting!

I don’t know where to start with that statement from Celtic PLC!
If and I am sure it is right and that all that matters is the £ notes then let’s do something about it to show our collective displeasure. It will not be easy and it will take a lot of coordination and commitment from all Celtic fans, but we have done it all before in the not to distant past.

After the shit hit the fan in 2012 with RFC being liquidated and we started to uncover the facts as to what had really being going on regarding the relationship between RFC (IL) and the SFA/SPL etc I vowed to hit these bodies where it hurt, in the pocket, and I have never attend any matches organised by them, so no Scotland internationals, Scottish Cup or League Cup. Now, this will not be easy emotionally not to support our club but we have to start some where show how we feel. So what next?

1. It’s Christmas so how about not buying any Celtic merchandise? That will hit the club in the pocket and start to show our intentions
2. Don’t buy tickets for the LC semi final – that will hit the club and SFPL in in the pocket and if that is to late don’t buy final tickets if we are lucky enough to get there!
3. Don’t buy tickets for any Scottish Cup match. Again I am sure you get the picture!
4. Don’t take any tickets for away games and we will soon see these club chairmen asking that SFA/SPFL questions
5. Don’t attend games at Celtic Park. Now we know this would be very difficult for every fan to get onboard with so we could start by self closing certain sections of the ground for example the GB no not go into the ground on mass as stay outside still supporting the team, the following week would be a different section and so on until the whole stadium is empty!

None of these is or will be easy but If we as fans were to do the above, what would the broadcasters/sponsors say about a half empty stadium. The news would be why did the Celtic fans not turn up, well there is our platform for R12 and professional PR/Legal firm to tell the story of incompetence/corruption/collusion at the highest level in Scottish football!

If money got the PLC into this situation in the 1st place then money and us the fans by withholding it will surely start some sort of reaction and bring then to the table for a proper discussion about who,why, how’s of this whole mess.

We as Celtic fans have to decide if we pay our money and make our choices as it would appear that money does talk!

4 years ago

Money talks… BIG MONEY SHOUTS

4 years ago

Does it aye?

How’s the bears den this morning?

Iancelt67
4 years ago

Celtic masterclass out there albeit with little resistance. I don’t think they’ve won one second ball. Sublime passes from rogic the last goal the pick of the bunch.

Iancelt67
4 years ago

Tell rebus. He thinks he’s shite. Different from Christie. Doesn’t have his engine or quickness. He’s got a battle to get Christie’s spot.

Cartvale88
4 years ago

Well Charlie Saiz what can we say is Eddie at times not unplayable or is Fredo a chocolate bar?

Watching it on telly, your view, still do not figure where you are coming from from, or are u a stats man, not a Scotsman?

Brilliant team performance, ABZ a team of bully boys, Beathun must be boking

4 years ago
Reply to  Cartvale88

You are a clown!

4 years ago

4 more in round 2

BroxburnBhoy
4 years ago

The Board have a fiduciary duty to follow the money that was lost to cheating by the liquidated rangers and the authorities who allowed them to continue without sanction. A replacement resolution would be worded such as above. What were the reasons that the Board allowed our club to be defrauded of revenue when they have a fiduciary duty to protect the income of the club? That’s a resolution they have to answer. If they were party to secret deals that allowed the club to be defrauded then they would be in breach of what their actual duties are. In that situation this Board has failed to carry out its duties and should be replaced.

TicToc
4 years ago
Reply to  BroxburnBhoy

Broxburn, underneath various differences between us, I ALWAYS considered there was more in agreement than discord.
Your above comment has given me absolute faith that you are what I oft suspected; a good guy in heart (and brain).
I’ve had a comment hooked, quel surprise, but will hopefully arrive later. It’s now the time and the place to take The Board apart, assuming, which is not beyond them, that they see this coming and try to dodge it. Well let me say this to the Board; you can run, but you can’t hide. NOT ANYMORE.
FC not PLC
HH
PS I must rush. I hold my few shares via a broker (not in paper form) and need them to arrange my attendance on the 27th, or whenever, if the tory scum re-arrange the AGM. I’ll email them now.
PPS I’ve slated you before for being a “tory so’n’so” and Lawwell apologist. I’ll happily take that back as political philosophy vs decency, then decency wins every time.
I believe and trust your comment to be decent.
FC not PLC
HH

BroxburnBhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  TicToc

Cheers Tic Toc there are some things we must hold the Board responsible for this is one.

TicToc
4 years ago
Reply to  BroxburnBhoy

BB, I don’t fall in love easily, not online nor otherwise, but I do love your recent comments.
I’m glad that the obvious, bigger picture over-rides any differnces we may have/had. I’d prefer we had none, just as I’d prefer to get on with every Tim out there. That’s difficult and fine in equal measure, IMO.
Cheers BB and Hail! Hail! I do hope the Winter’s kind to you as I do my old life-long Pal in Niagara, whom I met up with just a coupla weeks ago.
HH

bgbolingoli
4 years ago

superb celtic

bgbolingoli
4 years ago
Reply to  bgbolingoli

yup

see he was getting slaughtered for his midweek performance on twitter. unless he is beating 10 men or scoring from 40 yards he still gets it in the neck

Puggy67
4 years ago
Reply to  bgbolingoli

His neck is a tricky target

bgbolingoli
4 years ago
Reply to  bgbolingoli

the young rb coul dbe the most exciting signing in a while

bgbolingoli
4 years ago
Reply to  bgbolingoli

aye that boli doesn’t seem to be able to play a simple 5 yard pass

I don’t see what he offers

Yoker Bhoy
4 years ago

Well done lads. That game was just a stroll. The Dons only had one effort on goal during the full 90 and that wasn’t even on target. Pretty shocking from their point of view. An easy 3 points and onto the next one against the Paisley Buddies on Wed.

4 years ago

Not as good as eeeeeee alfredo tho eh?

Friesdorfer
4 years ago

Can we get a vote of no confidence in the Board onto the AGM Agenda? 100 signatures required, as per Res 12, is there time, haven’t seen any papers for the AGM as yet.

Patrick O Hara
4 years ago

I have an abject apology to make to CHARLIE SAIZ.
In my reply to your text it was not meant to be sarcasm. I thought it was reasonably funny,but I realise it could be misconstrued. 1) I really did laugh out aloud. 2) A Titterer is an occupation, the same as a Fluffer. The most famous Titterer was Tolouse Lautrec.He was employed as as a titterer at the Follies Bergere. A reporter asked him how the renumeration was for the job and he replied “it’s very good I only have to pay them 2000 Francs a week.”
Finally Oscar Wilde was at a party where Whistler was telling a joke and the crowd laughed hysterically. Later Oscar said to Whistler “I wish I had said that.” Whistler replied ” you will, Oscar, you will.” Apologies again. I am a rather old man and my brain? wanders. I did not mean to hurt.sorry.

Iancelt67
4 years ago

Just been to see “The Joker”. My mind has been warped like never before.

TicToc
4 years ago

Sorry, I was having a great day, watching us win 4-0 away after an exhilirating but hard to watch match on Thursday night. And, after another wee setback, I get to the Board’s statement. The fakkin tory scum of a Board whom promised to investigate and act properly and just kicked the can down the road. I screamed out then, all those years ago, that Lawwell was at it! AND HE IS.
My view, but ONE suggestion, is that we swamp the AGM on the 27th November (and look out for any late change of time/venue for “safety and security reasons” as that filth will pull any old trick to stop dissent. Anyway, to swamp the AGM, to make our voices heard, both inside and outside the venue and to show this up for what it is. The Financial Conduct Authority may have a role here as any form of fraud, which IMHO this is, can be tackled by them as well as her majesty’s finest ‘officers’ in Police Scotland.
A REAL protest, encouraging foreign (or genuine) journos to attend. I suggest the RES 12 is ‘aired’ immediately and we all walk out of the AGM to join our comrades outside and give this tory scum a lesson in decency and Democracy.
Fakkin day ruined (again) by that disgusting filth that are collectively known as Our Board. THEY NEED A LESSON ON WHAT “OUR” MEANS.
TT
FC not PLC
HH

TicToc
4 years ago

eTims, FFS! Yet another important post gone and in “importance” terms this is 10/10. FFS!
TT
HH

Cole Burns
4 years ago

What about the supporters who paid good money to watch fixed games over those thieving years?

Every single one, including myself, should put a claim into Celtic for the stolen revenue. It is immaterial whether or not Celtic lost millions: hell mend them, they should be forced to act. They could then retrieve it from the SFA.

It should be made plain to them at the AGM that the fans are fighting for themselves and not for Celtic.

In my own extended family alone we paid thousands on season tickets alone and I, for one, will be submitting a claim to Lawwell if they vote down the resolution.

TicToc
4 years ago
Reply to  Cole Burns

I think I may have (above) retaliated first here Cole. That’s irrelevant. The relevance comes to fruition when petty internet, one-to-one squabbles are replaced by unification of word and deed. This AGM can never be repeated. Like me or loathe me, I’ll be trying my utmost to call out Lawwell and his Board. It cannot happen alone.
But it CAN and WILL if we stand united and dismantle this rogue (to Celtic) Board.
FC not PLC
HH

sfa unfit for purpose
4 years ago

On a weekend when our board seem to be taking the proverbial. I had another run in with Ladbrokes. I tried for over 50 minutes to get a price for a penalty in the Sevco Motherwell game. No odds available. The sponsor of the Scottish Premier league , a Bookmaker cannot supplw any price for a penalty at a Sevco home game.
Are the SFA , OUR BOARD and the BOOKIES all in this together ?

Collusion and Corruption.
Plain and simple.
Anybody heard from Auldheid in regards to a way forward from this setback ?

Puggy67
4 years ago

Spot on (pun intended) I was again keen on punt on a pen at Ibrokes. No joy. The book is seldom if ever closed, simply you are offered odds that make the gamble unattractive. Collusion.

portpower
4 years ago

sfa unfit for purpose,

Auldheid has commented on CQN, Aberdeen v Celtic, Live updates.
Page 15.

I`ll try a copy/paste separately and see it`s not moderated.

sfa unfit for purpose
4 years ago

I have a feeling if anyone is gonna steal money at Celtic , it wont be as easily found as that .

Transfer deals and fees , land purchases through brokers , these are where you steal from. Not a charity .
But who knows ?

John mchee
4 years ago

Just wait untill celtic lose the league to sevco if thats when the celtic fans will start their moaning cos we are on top just now..

4 years ago
Reply to  John mchee

John Mchee,
I smell a hun here….should you no be over on the bears den with Charlie Saiz?

Sancheto
4 years ago

Bhoys & Ghirls,

Fantastic performance (1st half anyway) and result today but let’s not it cloud the main issue, that of Res12 and the boards complete inaction to blatant wrong doing by one team and the mismanagement of the situation by the Scottish football authorities. For me this is not a RFC(IL), they had to do what they had to do right or wrong and that’s it whether we like it or not. The issue is with the SFA/SPL in that they did not follow their own laws/rules to benefit one member club to the financial detriment of another member club. This situation definently had an impact on CFC PLCs financial position and subsequently CFC’s share price and that in itself I would have thought constituted a fraud/deception and should be investigated by the City of London Police/Financial Authorities. I am sure that the Res12 guys are already looking into this and looking at options. Now for me the difficulty is that we as supporters are never going to have enough share/voting power to overturn the boards/owners/institutional investor share power no matter what we think is the right and proper thing to do. So what do we do? Well, we know what motivates the board, £ notes and guess who gives then those £ notes, we do. Now imagine if 55k season ticket holders did not renew their STs then this 55k would overpower the millions and millions of shares held by board/owner/institutional investors and would quickly bring the board to the table to discuss the fans genuine grievances re Res 12. These actions all have consequences. The downside of these actions would be to unsettle the team and the club something no fan/supporter would want to do lightly but if we believe that this is an issue we should persue then these are the actions we need to adopt if there is going to be any chance of getting the result we want.

4 years ago

Anyone thinking that a boycott would work as we go for 10 in a row is dreaming. It simply wont happen. I called on a boycott of hampden a few years ago semi finals and finals I refuse to go but no chance too many waiting to jump on the glory years.
It’s easier to boycott when you are losing. The board know they have the supporters by the short and curlies a boycott as we approach history isn’t going to happen sadly.
Auldheid and his gallant crew have delivered if the shoe was on the other foot Sevco would have buried us. I wonder what Fergus thinks and if he has been asked by anyone.
Great stuff today well done bhoys.

Bgbolongoli
4 years ago

Who’s in town on Saturday for the semi? Rumour has it that Monti is buying lunch…

4 years ago
Reply to  Bgbolongoli

Alfredo.

Bgbolongoli
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Yes. I will take a Fredo, thanks

4 years ago
Reply to  Bgbolongoli

Bg,
I’ll get you a happy meal.

Bgbolongoli
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

🙂

Rob O'Keeffe
4 years ago

Shock,horror! Scottish football is corrupt.One particular club benefitted from this corruption for decades.Everyone knew it was going on.Nothing was done.Celtic was run by the Whites and Kellys,into the dilapidated ground.
The Rhebels fought and saved Our Club.The Sooside Sectarians have turned up with their delusions about being the same club etc.However,we know the Truth and the excellent fact is,so do they.Business is business.Without them about,Celtic would be the only game in town.Attendances would tumble and players wouldn’t be interested in coming to a one team league.8 league titles in a row,hopefully at least two more.Treble Treble.Their suffering is monumental.Peter Lawwell is simply passing through,Celtic are Forever.Look at Thomas Cook etc and talk about liars and thieves…..Res 12 was always bollocks because the corruption has been endemic for decades.If you go to the games/buy merchandise etc you know exactly what you’re buying into.A lot of Celtic fans these days ought to get a grip of themselves,bleating on about the naughty Bhoys of The Green Brigade and heated driveways…..

TicToc
4 years ago

Big Fraser said after Thursday’s victory, something like: at the end I could’ve bawled my eyes out with troubles over the last 18 months, winning and then the response of our supporters. Awwwww. Note “our”.
He was ALWAYS a Tim since he came from Newcastle, wasn’t he? Brilliant Fraser, we love you too.
But the Great big wall,
Should NEVER bawl,
As winning is our habit,
Jist keep daein’ whit ye’re daein,
Pullin’ hats frae oot Brer Rabbit! 🙂
Just Magic!
HH

TicToc
4 years ago

If I may indulge? :
Brexit was borne in Etonia (by Cameron and Osborne).
It was argued for/against ? by May.
Then we get another ‘campaign’, driven by scumbag liars like the far right, Farage, et cetera.
And the starters and continuance tactics are ALL old Etonians, aided by heartless scum like Banks, Fry?, Cunnings (not a typo) and co. So, in response, a wee poem-type thingy:

So if Bo Johnson,
“Dies in a ditch”,
There’ll be no joy,
That’s bigger,
Unless per chance,
That I was there,
And ’twas me,
Who pulled the trigger!
TAL
HH

4 years ago

Did sevco bring forward poppy day today ffs.

4 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

Jimmybee,
Was the big gun firing live ammo?

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Wish it was mate right into the Copeland road

4 years ago

TicToc – Glad you saw that interview with BFF. He got very emotional about being back and playing for Celtic. It really struck home to me how highly he regards playing for “us”. I hope we can resign him at the end of the season.
Nice poem too.
JF Jeremie Frimpong

TicToc
4 years ago

Cheers Iain, ah’m as “bright as the settin’ sun” as ma Mama used to say. Yeah bhoy, she knowed that there sarcasms too!
There’s something so endearing when a ‘foreigner’, a big Englishman gets all emotional about The Celtic. Ha, he’s joining the heavily initiated to our wide-rangeing family.
Ah’d bet he’d be sayin’ tae his Pals in top-class football, “if/until you’re allowed to play in the Hoops in Paradise, you’ll never understand me as a Mhan, nor as a Tim.”
Verbatim (that’s ma name) not necessarily what ah bin told, but THAT big Mhan knows what it means to be Celtic.
As do you and I and there may even be others on here…. 🙂
Hail! Hail!
FC not PLC, AGM: the year is THIS year, the month is NOVEMBER, the date is the 27th….by hell or high water, in person or proxy, attend and relate to your wider family that “I” was there when the tory, freemasonic Board of Celtic FC was over-ruled, found-out and then chased from the prmises, within an inch of their lives (in fucking Clarkston etc.)
BRING IT ON.
HH

Magdalena’s Chestnut Gelding
4 years ago

If I had the wherewithal I would sue Celtic.
I sold my shares and gave up my seats after we sat back and did nothing about being robbed and cheated blind.
Before anyone mocks in our own support or from other teams I ask you this, can you imagine if Celtic had perpetrated any of the litany of rule breaking, tax cheating and fraudulent misrepresentations that have emerged and been declared in court? Just imagine.
There would have been no stampede to place a new Celtic in the top division or pleas for clemency. We would have been rightly slaughtered for our crimes.
I was cheated blind. My family were shareholders in the original club, we sat in the Executive Club to the tune of £2250 per seat per season (every paying supporter in every part of the stadium was ripped off). I was deprived of celebratory days with my long since deceased father. Days I will never get back. Days that have been proven by City of London Police, HMRC and the Supreme Court to have been a fraudulent sham for the “victors” whose name still sits aside these trophies and championships.
It sickens me, I will never financially support the ignorant trash in our boardroom who care not a jot for the turnstile fodder who buy the horrible corporate pyjamas masquerading as Celtic strips and all manner of hideous tat that are sold in the shop.
They are as guilty as the cheats and football authorities who have done nothing. I guess they are scared of bullets and bombs in the post and attacks in the street that Lenny has had to put up with.
I hate them for their lack of action.
I watch the team from afar and I await the next 28 league games and the following 38 to hopefully sock it right to this country that favours bigots,cheats and fraudulent criminals.
It is about principles. Too many people involved at Celtic have none. All the rest of the clubs in this backwater have none too because nearly all of their directors harbour desires to ascend the marble staircase and they will not stray off the square and level.
Shame on Celtic for not standing up to corruption, fraud and crime.
Shame on Celtic for ignoring the fans who pay their wages and letting the lie that is Scottish Football to continue.
Shame!

4 years ago

MCG,
Outstanding post m8, well said!

TicToc
4 years ago

eTims, can I encourage, even fakkin plead with you, to have a separate thread for the AGM/RES 12? A THREAD THAT FUCKING WORKS in terms of conversing/communicating?
We’ve a chance here, a BIG chance to stop the FN rot.
But we must have EVERYONE in concert.
‘THEY’ (the Board) can do as they please, but NOT if a few hundred TicToc’s are nearby. I rest my case.
FC not PLC
HH

TicToc
4 years ago

RALPH, get that fakkin akismet tae fuck or this site’s ruined.
GITF. Ggrrrrrrrrr!
FC not PLC
HH
Does everyone know that their personal data can be extracted from here and sold? Has anyone watched “The Big Hack” ? Has anyone watched “Brexit: a very (not sure) could be British War? Laundromat? A potentially great film directed by a fucking clown, plausibly/possibly? And more?
Or are you just Celtic-orientated, brain-dead fucking clowns?
Your children, and your children’s children don’t matter?
FFS, like Global warming, the elite are becoming more and more elite. The futuristic programmes that your children/grandchildren watch are PUT there. They’re being brain-washed for future slavery/servitude.
And most of you seem to want to do NOTHING? You’re so fucking stupid you’ll shoot the messenger? OH, FFS.
My grandson will have, unidentifiable to neither himself nor me, a ‘map’ that he found. Due to this he will prosper. But what about your children/grandchildren? Don’t think that far ahead? The victims are already abundant, the policy’s already in place. Difficult to ‘turn back the tide’.
Questions from the hungry slaves: “Grandad what did YOU do to stop this?” A: Oh son, left it tae yer Dad. Q: An’ Daddy, what did you do? A: Ah son, ah wiz workin’ 18 hours a day with no sick pay or pension, I thought yer Granda’ was watchin’ out for you. Mammy? MAMMY? Leave’er alone you bastards, MA-A-A-MMY, why are THEY taking you away?

TicToc
4 years ago

Well, sometimes shit happens and you’re kinda in a bad place, you na, to do antyhing about it.
Then we get the spin-off scum from facebook, twitter, google, amazon, Cambriidge Anal-fucking-itica and all the rest of it. But we can DO something here. But ONLY if we suck on the correct tit(teat) whilst feeding it money you wont have for long…..is their view. My arse.
Starve them of custom before they starve YOU and your family, current and future, of the necesseties of life.
BIN Facebook, What’s App and ALL their ancilliary tendrils, CUT off their blood supply of advertising. They’re fucking leeches who need to be removed without care.
We DO NOT NEED mobile phones, instant messages, they’ve got you to THINK you do. DROP this shit now, or answer to your CHILDREN and your CHILDREN’S CHILDREN.
Let’s be clear here, if I propogate that point of view publicly, and I will, I’ll attack and destroy the 1st motherfucker who smarts up with “but I wont be here then, why should I care”. That’s a promise.
CUT OFF the right-wing ‘populism’ (nazi-ism) now, because tomorrow will be too late.
PS I’m starting to get more and more ‘direct’ advertising, effectively telling me they know who I am and almost where I live. It’s not too nice. BUT, FFS tell ALL your family, start by dumping facebook (what’s app) etc. and google how wide facebook reaches, bin using amazon, uber, for fuck’s sake use your imagination; if it’s SMART, bin it. Oh, and google
There’s a window here to regain human control. Otherwise, as I’ve been saying for YEARS, the scum-elite will control you, and your descending family with AI robots, almost like ‘futuristic’ films. ACT NOW by removing ALL facebook and its apps, twitter and its apps, et cetera.
WE CAN CROSS-WIRE and BLOW THIS SHIT OUT OF EXISTENCE, or we can lie down like lambs and watch, from some drugged-up hill, our children and their issue being led by the nose until they expire from exhaustion on the site of their life-times labour. Donkeys? Aye, but mibbaes not that well treated, eh?

TicToc
4 years ago

See from the best bar none site, eTims the epitome, we’ve degenerated to this. Just another tory-led, data-sucking shower of arseholes.
THAT FUCKIN’ HURTS.

TicToc
4 years ago

See from the best-bar-none site, eTims the epitome, we’ve degenerated to this. Just another tory-led, data-sucking shower of fucking arseholes.
THAT FUCKIN’ HURTS.
But it wont hurt me for long, well, not all of me. (ask Monti)
I’m a survivor, but moreso a thriver…..a ducker’n’diver to boot, ah look cool as fuck, in a Saville Row tuck, but in Jeans ah’m just out of this…..and the bend in the road cost us all of his load, as the Natterjack Toad just looked bye, the cunt of a driver, eternal survivor,escaped whilst the ‘cops shot their load.
If I need (a necessity only exchanged between one of me) then I will achieve.
Monti was right early on, “there are a lot of Vinnies”. Ah’ll plagiarise peas’n’barley’s patter an’ say “ah concur”

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