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Celtic AGM -Annual General Malpractice

It’s that time of year again.

The board get together, pat each other on the back for a job well done, then they seek our approval in order to boost their own egos, ach , you know the drill.

Maybe a joke or two at the expense of our friends over the river, and then they’ll all vote for each other to carry on doing what they’ve been doing.

And most of us will fall for it.

After all, there’s ten in a row to be won, and we’re more than a club.

Right ?

Dave King announced today that he is stepping down as “rangers ” chairman, which means he probably isn;t, although if he does, it clears the way for the sale of Morelas and the departure of Steven Gerrard.

The media and the “rangers ” support-technically one and the same thing -have lauded the glib and shameless liar for all he has done for the club, which is actually not very much, and there have been calls for a statue to be erected in his memory.

Amongst other things…

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Maybe the problem is that Lawwell, Desmond and their disciples think that all football supporters are as dumb as that lot.

Perhaps Peter thinks that he, too, will be lauded when he is finally prised out of his office and dispatched to pastures anew.

If so, it shows a remarkable lack of judgement akin to when the captain of the Hindenburg airship told his passengers it was okay to smoke.

 

Resolution 12 is back on the agenda tomorrow.

It was also on their last year, and from Auldheid, here is a small reminder of what took place last year when the Res12 of 2013 was raised during the Q & A session from the floor.

It began:

Lets see if I have this right.

Fourteen months after instigating an investigation, the SFA are assuring Celtic shareholders via the club that something, but we don’t know what, will be referred to CAS but we don’t know why nor do we know when.

The assurances that something unclear will happen comes four months after that CAS referral decision was made and there still has been no referral.

It has been five months since June when the shareholders lawyer (at a cost of £2.5k on top of earlier bills amounting to £7.5k) put a series of questions along with supporting evidence to the SFA copied to Celtic to which no answers have as yet been given.

So the questions I have for The Celtic Board are:
1. Are Celtic actually bound by the SFA JPDT Decision to refer something to CAS and if so on what basis given that Andrea Traverso Head of UEFA Club Licensing in his letter of 8th June to Celtic shareholders said and I quote.

“It is not the general policy of UEFA to write directly to lawyers representing unidentified clients and if this is a matter a member club of the Scottish Football Association ( IE CELTIC ) wishes to take up with UEFA then the club should do so directly.”
Further: can it be explained to shareholders here in the room and at large why Celtic are not asking UEFA CFCB to investigate given:

1. Fundamentally it is a breach of UEFA rules that is under investigation, which is a job for UEFA – and what Res12 requested.

And

2. UEFA’s recent statement of 12 November ( 2018) (and again I quote)

“Should new information suggest that previously concluded cases have been abused, those cases may be capable of being re-opened as determined on a case-by-case basis.”

In summary:
• Why have Celtic from the beginning chosen to eschew direct UEFA involvement?
• Why are they not now taking the new information into account in respect of that choice and reviewing it?
• Given the time it has taken the SFA to decide that CAS should be involved (for unclear reasons) are Celtic willing to wait an undetermined period until the SFA are able to progress the matter or will it be all over by ST Renewal time next April (2019)?
• Would it be possible for shareholders representatives to meet the SFA Compliance Officer and CEO before Christmas(2018) to ascertain progress, to be able to provide assurances based on clarity to those they represent?
• Can we have answers to those questions confirmed in writing please to send to signatories of Resolution 12?

That was then. This is now.

A year later the questions remain unanswered and it will be interesting to find out at the forthcoming AGM, where the proposal to take the matter to UEFA will be outvoted by larger shareholders, just how long Celtic are willing to give the SFA to finish the investigation job they began in September 2017.  

The SFA, remember, are guilty of…

They failed to oversee a fair and robust application process in March 2011.

They had failed to mount any sort of investigation despite being contacted by HMRC from 2006 onwards – they should have had a watching brief and requested regular updates from HMRC directly but didn’t.

They failed to properly monitor that process between December 2010 and the end of March 2011 (remember how clubs were asked to provide pre application info in 2012 – well perhaps that happened in 2011 or if it didn’t it was introduced for a reason).

They failed to monitor, update their records or make specific enquiries between 30th March 2011 and Mid May 2011 when the list of application grants was formally intimated to UEFA – and by which time there was widespread public rumour and speculation about the state of RFC’s tax affairs together with specific legal documents which outlined that there was indeed a tax bill due.

They failed to grasp the situation between March 2011 and August 2011 when the Sheriff Officers were seen pitching up at Ibrox and had still made no enquiry.

They failed to monitor at all with Reagan telling Celtic that once the licence was granted (April 19th 2011 as I recall) all further monitoring and action was the province of UEFA – Not so as pointed out by UEFA themselves.

They failed to monitor through the June 30th and September 30th datelines with the damning e-mail from Keith Sharpe saying hopefully UEFA will be too busy to notice the deficiencies in the latest submissions.

They denied that there were any failures in their procedures and maintained that they had been audited by UEFA during the period when that was not so.

They claimed that not only was there nothing wrong with the grant but that there was nothing for them to report during the post grant period as it was not their responsibility – only later to change their view and say that they could now no longer report anything untoward because they were time barred from doing so. That is a wholly contradictory position.

Post the Craig Whyte Trial, they rejected a public call from Celtic and from the SPFL for there to be a full independent inquiry into all of the EBT years and all aspects of how they impacted on football Governance, and instead insisted on their own internal inquiry into the UEFA licence process for 2011/2012.

They wrote to every club in Scotland to say they were undertaking that investigation and later publicly announced that as a result they were formally bringing charges alleging breaches of both SFA and UEFA rules.

They appointed a judicial panel to hear those charges, determine whether they have been proven or not and then to hand out an appropriate punishment.

That panel have ruled that legally they and the SFA cannot bring, hear, determine and act on those charges and the football club concerned because apparently the SFA have decided and contracted to the effect that that they will not and cannot administer their normal Governmental and Judicial function (which would normally apply to any other club in Scotland and at any other time in the history of the SFA or UEFA) in relation to the acts concerned and the football club in question.

In other words, it has been judicially determined that the SFA cannot as a matter of law enforce its own rules or those of UEFA, and have signed away their entire right to oversee proper football Governance and the implementation of SFA and UEFA rules in this instance.

If that was something that was completely unknown and not realised by Stuart Reagan, Andrew MacKinlay and Tony McGlennan when they rejected Celtic’s call for a full inquiry and instead opted for an internal inquiry which must end in a legal dead end – then that is professional incompetence on a monumental scale.

If the three SFA officers did realise that the SFA had formally signed away their entire legal function but still insisted on an inquiry and subsequent charges which they knew the SFA could not determine yet held out to all the other clubs in Scotland, to UEFA and to the footballing public, and indeed to all potential investors and stakeholders in Scottish Football that this was a bona fides genuine attempt a proper Governance despite knowing privately that process would reach a legal dead end, then that is potentially a criminal act designed to subvert the course of justice and a fraudulent misrepresentation of the true function of the SFA.

Further, subsequent SFA officials, assured the officers of Celtic Football Club that there was no reason why the SFA would not take the matter to CAS and in turn used the officials of Celtic Football Club to relay that message to us as shareholders in the knowledge and with the intention that we would rely on those assurances and would act accordingly. Those actions and those assurances should now be the subject of a wholly separate inquiry.

Since those assurances were made to Celtic officials, Solicitors acting on behalf of shareholders have written to the SFA on no less than three occasions requesting clarification on what the SFA is doing, whether or not the decision from the independent tribunal advising that the matter go to CAS will be implemented, and requesting a proposed timetable when this will happen. All such letters have been ignored or avoided by the SFA.

Subsequently, the current CEO of the SFA has stated that whether or not the matter should go to CAS will only determined prior to Christmas 2019 – which position is a complete volte face from what they told Celtic officials to tell us immediately after the 2018 panel hearing.

In short…

THE CONCLUSION TO ALL OF THIS CAN ONLY BE THAT THE SFA IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE AND THAT THE GOVERNANCE OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL IS SO BAD, SO BROKEN AND SO FAR REMOVED FROM NORMAL JUDICIAL AND CORPORATE BUSINESS PRACTICE THAT IT MUST BE LOOKED AT BY AN INDPENDENT BODY IF THE MATTER IS NOT REFERRED TO CAS.

 

The Celtic board have recommended that shareholders vote the motion down. Effectively, we should ignore all of the above and just keep buying tickets and merchandise and forget all about it.

They haven’t told us why, and tomorrow an explanation for this request must be forthcoming.

And it must be an honest one, although we can be certain it won’t involve the words “Old firm ” and “we need them or Scottish football will die”

Though that seems , on the face of it , to be the reason that the club have all but ignored the cheating and collusion surrounding the Resolution.

Is that how Peter wants to be remembered ?

There was a loss of revenue to the club as a result, and therefore the decision made could not have been in the best interests of the shareholders, which is a significant failure of duty by Lawwell.

Is that how he wants to be remembered ?

Above all, for me, at least, this publicly chanted mantra of Celtic being a stand alone club is complete bollocks. The Tory policy of saying one hing and doing another has infected the board, and therefore the club as well.

Then again, whilst a mans politics matter not a jot to me, so many tories on the board was always going to infect the club.

 

Lawwell is the public face and voice of the club, but he is operated from afar by Dermot Desmond, and it is not known if he will attend what may be a fiery meeting,

He pays Lawwell to take the flak, and Lawwell nobly stands in the line of fire.

 

This time around, he needs to do a little more than that.

We need to know if Celtic were a part of the stitch up that took place in Scottish football in the early years of this decade.

We need to know if the game has been rigged from the start.

 

No doubt there will be an excuse tomorrow, and it had better be good.

Though I doubt it.

The SFa are the bad guys here, and there has to be a reason that Celtic are letting them get away with their foul and unfair deeds.

It keeps coming back to more collusion and more corruption, so it must surely be time for the board to let us in on why they want to put an end to this matter without actually doing anything about it.

No more kicking the can down the road, a policy which may have served Dave King quite well with his supporters, but we are made of more intelligent stuff.

 

The club must demand answers from the SFA. They must demand another judicial review, and those conducting it must be entirely independent from the issue.

The SFA are currently investigating themselves. And they still haven’t reported in.

That is preposterous.

Even more incredible, the club that was once known for its pride in itself has played along with them all the while, perhaps because of the money, or perhaps because the old firm never really went away when half of it died.

 

 

The clubs may well have decided that they all need the blue pound, but the supporters can do without it.

 

The future of the club is at stake tomorrow, it’s reputation is on the line.

 

For those in charge this is the time to ask themselves how they want to be remembered.

Because so far, all they are leaving behind is a nasty taste in the mouth.

 

PS, a nearby DIY and Gardening supplier has asked me to tell you that he’s doing pitchforks on a buy one get one free deal tomorrow….

 

 

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Monti
4 years ago

LAWWELL OUT!

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Monti… Good morning m8

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

Afternoon Weered,
How’s the good lady?

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Monti… Doing very well, all things considered. Thanks for asking.

4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

I’ve just been re-reading the rancourous exchanges on this page. Funny that rancour rhymes perfectly with WANKER. Each and every one of those involved appears to fit that moniker perfectly….
“HE SAID SHE SAID” AD NAUSEUM
FFS TAKE YERSELS IN HAND 😉

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

Go on… I’m listening.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike… If the cap fits etc… if not stay indoors… It’s cold

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

So lets not skirt around.
Are you calling me a wanker?
No more snide remarks, just say it! yes-no.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Sorry for the late reply… Yep…. I’m not snide at all, if you are uncomfortable with that wee element of truth then take heed of someone who is recovering from a bout of depression only to be further depressed by folk, whom I hold in high regard, behaving like a bunch of over-educated,verbose weans… I’ve just described a Tory cabinet ffs… Stay away from Brighton…

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

Disappointed, from one who I once regarded as a pal. If you think that standing up for the basic principles of free speech is being verbose then you are wrong. Although I never agree with C.S. never, but he is entitled to his opinion. Your reference to Brighton- the IRA- Tories, well I will leave it at that, as I have no desire to add to your depression.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike… Of all the posters in here I value your opinion highest.. Always have always will. No slight was intended in your direction. I know that we all have a common purpose in here but at times it goes beyond reason with, what appears to be very personal attacks… We are not huns… We are above all that, are we not!

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

Possibly we are Red, but still we should stick up for what we believe in. I like the CHA he mirrors my own view on most things Celtic. So for me it was not a personal attack, I was just trying to stick up for a person who has a different viewpoint to most of us. So a group huddle across the Irish sea, but no kissing. Sorry to hear about your depression, I hope it lifts and that you and your good lady recover somewhat, for that is my wish for you both.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike… Cheers big ears 🙂

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

😉 > > > This way for the huddle.

arthur
4 years ago

What a whining bunch of thankless self entitled fantasists you lot are.A treble treble under the teams belt and no appreciation. Maybe a bit of a look at yourselfs and a realisation that there’s more to life than football

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  arthur

Like what?

4 years ago
Reply to  arthur

Such as applying the laws of the game,not to mention the laws of the land?

Iancelt67
4 years ago
Reply to  arthur

Cmon peter Lawwell. Surely you can come up with a better tag than Arthur??

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  arthur

arthur, are you a thick hun by any chance?
How much did you put in the cva pot?
I bet you have one tooth in your mouth, brown & nicotine stained, due to excessive consumption of roll up dowps?
Do something positive today, cut your hedge, cut your grass & open your curtains,maybe even take that fridge freezer in your front garden to the tip!

Stupid, stupid huns.

Pensionerbhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Ummmph! My schizophrenic buddy has come out again. Someone close the closet, please, before I flood the place with more monti 🙂 – sorry, pish!!

To be clear – reference to Affer, not Monti.

H H

portpower
4 years ago

Oh,this is going to be interesting.

No Pyro,No AGM.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  portpower

So Super Salary thinks the Green brigade are an embarrassment to Celtic?
Let me tell you what’s embarrassing, when your kid is in hospital, ill & in need of his parents, what were you doing McCoist?
Cheating on your wife, that’s what, when your son needed you, you were in another womans bed.
THAT’S EMBARRASSING!

NOW SHUT YOUR FAT FUCKING MOUTH YA FANNY!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

GOD BLESS THE GREEN BRIGADE
SACK THE BOARD!

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Oh,nice one my son. Wish I’d said that.

R.St.Parsley
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Fat Sally doesn’t have enough warmth and depth to be a fanny (see what I did there?).

4 years ago

RALPH,

It’s a damning communique from the resolutioners. Doesn’t miss and hit the wall.

I’ve just read the article,and it’s easy to see why BRT&H is so well-regarded in his field. He absolutely nails the SFA to the floor,while raising some very interesting and uncomfortable questions about our board and their role in it all.

Of course,that excellent legal brain only deals with the facts of the matter,with actions which have taken place or others that should have but didn’t. It is in what he DOESN’T say that I probably have more interest. And that is

WHY did all this happen?

And why would an outsider like Regan,also highly-regarded in his field (before all this blew up on his watch) allow such blatant jiggerypokery?

It’s all very well and good to get this case bang to rights,but until we can get an admission as to the WHY part,we can never put in place measures to prevent a recurrence. In that respect,I echo his calls that the SFA has to go IN ITS ENTIRETY and be replaced-preferably by outsiders,professional people with no vested interest.

Monti
4 years ago

That would rule out Protestants then!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Wakey Wakey CS,
We are all eagerly awaiting our daily fix of conflict stories & adventures.

Mwahahahahaha

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

🙁

Could you not just let sleeping dogs lie and gie’s peace for at least 1 day?

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Not necessarily. Just dishonest ones. Like the ones currently in charge of Scottish football.

Monti
4 years ago

🙂

Mike
4 years ago

“He’s got nothing in common with Celtic fans and we’ve got nothing in common with him.
Little Brexiteer and indistinguishable with the scum down Ibrox way.” So, he doesn’t conform to the Celtic template, is there a Celtic template? that you must vote a certain way, you must talk a certain way, you must have the same opinions. Next it will be you must have the same religion. Fuck that, that sounds like the Statsi. There is NO Celtic template, good Celtic men died in two world wars,to ensure the liberty that we all enjoy today, the freedom to have opinions, the freedom to vote how we choose, the freedom of Faith (as discussed in the Scottish parliament yesterday, for Catholic schools.) When we deny that freedom to anyone, we betray those good Celtic men who went through the horrors of two world wars for all of our benefit.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

This was in reply to yet another attack on Celtic fans but whatever.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

He is as much entitled to his opinion as anyone else, no matter what he says. I have read your constant attacks on him, you were trying to shut him up. He is also entitled to his political opinions, no matter what they are including Brexit.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Absolute nonsense.

When he posts shite (frequently) and I feel like it, I’ll pull him up on it whether you, him or anyone else likes it.

“Stasi”, seriously? You’ve got his militaristic juices all aflow.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Utter tripe.

You should be taking dulcoflex for your verbal diarrhoea, mind you, your opinions are rather firm, as you are always right and others are always wrong. That is a very dictatorial attitude to have, its rather diffi-cult to be always right.

henkesdreadlocks
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

As the man says, Mm.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

You seem to have a problem with only one person’s opinion but that’s your problem not mine.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

I do not have a problem with anyone’s opinion, none. Well except a Huns. Your post was presumptuous and of exclusion, his. You criticised his political opinion and called him a Hun. That IMO is wrong and it was also unworthy of someone whose posts are usually more intelligent than that one.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

“Your post was presumptuous and of exclusion, his.”

I’m not sure if that makes sense to you but it doesn’t to me.

I didn’t criticise his political opinion, I simply pointed it out and, incidently, its one he’s proud of, which he’s entitled to, although, I suspect, the vast majority on here would disagree.

I didn’t accuse him of being a Hun.

I’m not sure all this rage you have for me is healthy but, obviously, that’s up to you.

4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

“You and the Nationalists”

What an odd comment, as I can’t remember opine about Nationalism, as I’ve not lived in Scotland for 40 years.

What is it about Johnson, Rees-Mogg etc and their commitment to remove TU rights, privatise NHS, scrap Human Rights legislation etc that you find so appealing?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Oh dear

Owen Mullions
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha
Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Presumptuous in that everyone shares your opinion as to what a Celtic supporter is or should be and you have repeated that by adding another presumption about other posters opinions. You may deny calling him a Hun, but you certainly implied it. Incidentally, rage, what rage? It seems that your imagination is leading you into making another presumption, a wrong one.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

With respect, that is bollocks.

I don’t presume everyone shares my opinion and have never stated that.

If you presume that then that’s your presumption.

“Called him a Hun” becomes “implied”.

1. He hates match going Celtic fans; so do Huns.

2. He promotes Morelos and denigrates Eddy; so do Huns.

3. He hated the Treble Treble years; so do Huns.

Based on the above and other observations, I said he shares views with those down Ibrox.

That, to me, is a fair comment based on the evidence.

You’re entitled to disagree and I won’t get hysterical and call you the Stasi.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

The Cha,
I share a lot of your opinions.

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Cheers, comrade.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Cha,
You are welcome.
I find you make constant, consistent & valid points, which enhances the blog.
Keep it up mo chara!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

CS,
Were you at Guadalcanal?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

That CS is a complete lie, i recall you calling Celtic fans ” mugs ” for going to games.

4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Many, many times and much worse.

Still, to some people, that’s expressing your admiration. 😉

Perhaps FACT is an acronym; False Account Counteracting Truth?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Still lying!

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

I must have been on a break, when all of that was said, because I don’t remember reading any of it. None the less, the point I was making has been lost, the point being that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, no matter what that opinion is. The day that we close our eyes and ears to others opinions, our club will be the less for it and I for one will not wish to be associated with it, all the rest is pedantic mince.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

I agree. 🙂

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

The Cha,
It made no sense to me either.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

You’ll not decide what i leave anything to soft lad.
Now go & bid for some medals on ebay.

Owen Mullions
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

‘If you regard yourself as a Socialist do not waste your vote on the SNP in this election.
The Tory Thatcherite scum are on the brink now is the time to silence them.
Corbyn is a good man no doubt and no matter what Labour became under Blair and Brown he is the only viable option’

Be fair, Charlie, you started it last week by telling us not to vote SNP (check back if you don’t believe me). You also attacked those who disagreed with you as ‘frauds’ and ‘socialists my arse’. How is that different from people unfairly accusing you of being a hun?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

The Cha,
Well said!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

I’m afraid there was…..capt Darling.

Mike
4 years ago

“He’s got nothing in common with Celtic fans and we have nothing in common with him. Little Brexiteer and indistinguishable with the scum down Ibrox way.”
So he doesn’t conform to the Celtic template, is there a Celtic template? That you must share the same opinions, that you must vote the same way, that you must share the same values. That sounds like the Statsi. Good Celtic men fought and died through the horrors of two world wars, so that we could all enjoy the freedom to express our own opinions, to vote for whoever we wanted to, to enjoy freedom of Faith. Like yesterday in the Scottish parliament where they discussed the freedom to send our children to Catholic schools. Celtic, a club open to ALL.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

EVERYONE. Incidentally I couldn’t give a fuck what the boards politics, religion, colour, earnings are. What I do care about is how they look after my club.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Must admit,I’m not in favour of the vote thing here. Could be divisive in the long term.

4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Is there an echo chamber here.

I’m denying nobody their say just calling out his bullshit and hypocrisy or am I not allowed my say?

BTW Celtic isn’t a club open to him, as he’s banned himself.

Facts, what they like?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Cha,
It’s not an echo chamber, merely CS in pause!

henkesdreadlocks
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

Convenient. I took this stance at the start of this sorry saga and I distinctly remember you having a pop at me over it. I stopped going to games for over a year but it got to the stage where I thought why should I deny myself my main passion in life. You are making this stance out of convenience.

4 years ago

Reading between the lines it seems like yet another AGM ends up as a damp flare

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Weered

Well yes it was Weered, I have just returned from it, the tractor was overheating, just like my brain. What did I learn from it?
Res.12- Move on, Bankier actually used those words, just like every other SPFL chairman. That UEFA have no appetite for it, just like the SFA. it concerns only old-co. its time barred, that Peter Lawwell has many admirers. That my 1000 shares means SFA. If you vote against P.L. and Wilson, it matters not one jot. Auld-Heid spoke well and his efforts were greatly appreciated, where Res.12 goes next is unknown. I recently read about your wife, so very sorry, Mrs Mike went through the same some years back, its just not the fear, its also psychological, please give her our best wish’s.

Mike
4 years ago

Also John Beaton the Loyalist referee, got a reply to the boards enquiry but could not tell us what the reply said. Other stuff but not very important to me.

SteveNaive
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

“If only there was something we could do to deflect from this… I know, let’s ban the Green Brigade and withhold all their tickets!!”
“Ach , some pesky fans haven’t fallen for it.”
“ Maybe there will be a big drop in attendance versus Rennes, oh great leader, with a corresponding poor atmosphere “
“Fuck them, were through anyway”

Pensionerbhoy
4 years ago

Ralph,

The fascination of the Diary. We all sing from the same hymn book. It’s just that the hymns are totally different. Maybe that’s the essence of football support.

H H

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Peter Lawwell has a fucking cheek saying the Green Brigade have cost the club €500,000, so fucking what?
How much has Lawwell cost the club in lost CL revenue, lost income to a stealing club, lost income by appointing a shite manager ( Deila ) & he takes £3.5m out the fucking club when we fail to reach the CL group stages two year in a row?
Never mind the living wage argument?
You’re a fucking wank Lawwell & it’s you & your fucking board who should be banned from paradise, not the GB!

FUCK OFF OUT OF OUR CLUB!

henkesdreadlocks
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Hahaha, brilliant PB.

Tourtenay
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Hi all, been a while since I posted been watching French TV for a while and they have been constantly talking up Celtic because of the obvious french connection.
A move to Real Madrid for Moussa is being talked up as well which will no doubt enhance the coffers of The Hoops, if he scores against Zenith this evening that talk will increase.
Tomorrow evening The Hoops will be in action against Rennes and that will increase our stock in Europe, do you honestly think that PL is giving a flying F**k about the hun dead?
Sad as it may seem coruption appears to be the norm in national and international sport, not just soccer and Celtic appear to be a part of it.
It is very sad but it is the way of the world.
When I tune into CQN and similar sites and listen to the heartfelt comments for justice and a level playing field, I can only say that it is inspiring.
Knowing that others hold sporting integrity close to their hearts is an indication that truth will out!
Do not falter from your course and hold fast to the old adage that “truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented”
There has been a great wrong committed against all football fans in Scotland by the governing body, press and media and if The Board of Directors of the Mighty Hoops have been found to be complicit in this subterfuge then were does that leave us?
It appears that we are looking at a parochial picture as the bigger picture of leagues across Europe take centre stage.
Sporting integrity! where is it now??

4 years ago
Reply to  Tourtenay

Surely, Mousa reached his zenith when he played for us. 😉

Tourtenay
4 years ago
Reply to  The Cha

I thought so too, he is big stock in Europe!!

Pensionerbhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Tourtenay

Tourtenay,

Sport, on the whole, has become like smoking. Once you get hooked, it is difficult to give it up even when you know it is poisonous and killing you. Most, if not all, football fans are at this irreversible stage of a slow, painful sacrificial demise for the sake of a few fleeting moments of pleasure, methinks.

H H

Monti
4 years ago

Forgot to mention Lawwell’s handling of the John McGinn transfer…..
It’s time for Lawwell to go & he needs to start fucking hearing about it!

£3.5m he took out of Celtic, yet he can’t sign a Hibs player for exactly that amount & personally, will never forgive him for the ” paying the living wage would cost the club £500,000 per year “?

Fuck right off!

Pensionerbhoy
4 years ago

I am grappling with my anger at the moment. Should one ever be angry? Is there justifiable anger? Well, I am thinking we have a temple run by hypocrites and whited sepulchres and I am sure The Lord justified angrily whipping his lot of money-men out the door of His place. Is the boardroom not the same? Does Celtic Park not fit the bill when it come to cleansing?

H H

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Apparently not, I attended todays AGM. and it seems that “Cash is King” and that is a problem, but not for Dave as he has joined the cashless society. I did post on it but a big man stole it and ran away.

Pensionerbhoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Hi Mike,

I am afraid the poverty of king does nothing to assuage my anger over our board’s downright disdain for the club’s rights and the will of the support – who are the club, of course.

Hope your comment appears in time. I have no doubt it will make interesting reading.

H H

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Mine also, there is many different forms of poverty, one is the poverty of mind, the poverty of principle and I’m afraid that, that refers to the board, putting money before truth and justice, that to me is disgusting, but no surprise there. Hope you and your good lady are well. Your viewpoint to me is a reflection of my own, except when you talk about farting. 😉 Keep well and please take care, best wish’s.

tex
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

The more things change the more they stay the same .Have a read of Matt Mcglone,s Emotionally Celtic,this board are no better than the parasites that ran our club to the brink of extinction.

Mike
4 years ago
Reply to  tex

Tex, I fully agree!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

FFS what are you gibbering about ya clown?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Watching ‘ Nazi megastructures ‘ interesting stuff….
I like the stories. Cough.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

” Three decades “?

Woop woop ahahahaha

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

What even through your camouflaged sniper rifle?

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

LAWWELL AND THE BOARD OUT NOW!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

The only thing you could see coming along in your 20’s was me, someone who can see through your bully boy pish.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

I accept your unconditional surrender, capt Darling.

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

No one individual director, should be taking £3.5m per year out of Celtic Park.
Peter Lawwell to me should have been gone years ago, he needs to be removed, in fact the entire board & Desmond need to fuck off!

It’s ironic to me that Peter Lawwell failed to agree the 3.5m fee with Hibs for John McGinn, yet awards himself that exact amount in salary & bonuses?
Fucking poor stuff.
There is going to be trouble at Celtic, it’s coming & it’s the boards doing!
Fuck them!

Get the Green Brigade in their area of the ground, they lads have done fuck all wrong!

LAWWELL OUT NOW!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Aye ok capn!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

There he goes again…..uncle albert mode!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Celtic v Rennes

Gordon

Bauer
Jullien
Ajer
Taylor

Bitton
Brown

Sinclair
Rogic
Hayes

Griffiths

jimmybee
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Forster
Bauer Jullien Ajer Taylor
Brown McGregor
Christie Rogic Forrest
Edouard.
3_1 the bhoys

Puggy67
4 years ago

Speculation that Sinclair is off in January. Our squad is very young avg just over 25 years in marked contrast to MON & GS over 29 yrs. Always a fan of experienced and reliable pros in the squad I think they contribute more than just on the field appearances. I assume it’s his wage at 30 that’s the issue but I’d like to see more experienced players to support our young guns.

Monti
4 years ago

So telling Fascists to fuck off & mocking an evil bastard in Mussolini, get’s folk banned from the ground?

Get tae fuck!

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Fear Dúr Dúr

Iancelt67
4 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Aye it’s fallon young and gemmel they proudly wear the green Clark McNeil and Kennedy the best you’ve ever seen. Johnstone Murdoch Chalmers John divers and John Hughes. And fifty thousand football fans to hear about the news. My kids still sing this song and they’re in their twenties. Aussie bastards
But Tim’s nevertheless

Monti
4 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Quality stuff from Celtic tonight, outstanding & professional.

HH

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