Celtic Diary Friday April 3: Heroes And Villains

You have to give credit where credit is due.

The Westminster government has managed to get the old Dunkirk spirit back into the country’s psyche, with thousands of lives lost and tons of equipment abandoned and beyond use.

The latest wheeze from the spin doctirs at number Ten is to ask footballers to take a pay cut, as they are all very rich and can afford it.

Health Secretary

tonight: “Everybody needs to play their part in this national effort and that means PL footballers too. Given the sacrifices many people are making…the 1st thing PL footballers can do is make a contribution, take a pay cut and play their part.”

There’s no mention of the people who pay the footballers, the wealthy, being asked to do the same thing.

In fact, the billionaires are asking for bailouts, because a couple of weeks of lockdown has left them a bit short, and they’ve had to lay people off.

Not as short as me or you, i hasten to add.

I’m at the stage now when I open the back door the birdies throw bread to me.

For the seriously wealthy, which includes most of the Government and their donors, this tactic is a much needed deflection.

Jonathan Walters, the Ireland international, offered a different point of view…

What contributes more to the government, the NHS/police…etc….. A PL player taking a pay cut that stays with the clubs owners or paying more than 45% tax through PAYE on a large salary which goes directly to the government?..

Let’s take a look at the average PL player- £3m a year…£1.4m goes directly to tax Let’s cut the wage by 80%- £600,000 a year…£270,000 goes to tax Now x500 players £1.4m = £700,000,000m in tax £270,000 = £135,000,000m in tax Which one is preferred? 

How about the government asks certain people who own airlines and are worth billions to start paying tax, or the sportspeople who are tax exiles. Now what about bankers? The majority of players I know give a lot of money to charities and help communities… 

However, as most of the seriously wealthy contribute what money they have registered in this country to the Conservative Party, the government are unlikely to bite the hands that feed them.

All it would take is a simple proposal to link bailouts to tax paid in this country to turn attention to the parasites at the top, although that won’t happen.

Instead, pressure is on players ….

There is no equivalent letter to billionaire Richard Branson, asking him to consider actually paying his staff, although it should be the reply to his bailout request.

Meanwhile, over in Belgium, Bruges have been declared champions with eleven games to go.

No fuss, no debate, it’s done and thats that.

What we need is someone who understands how things work over there to see if that should affect a decision in Scotland, someone preferably with a working knowledge of legal matters…

Former Celt Mikael Lustig, who used to control the defence when he was in the team has been missed this season, but he made a valuable contribution to nine in a row when he said;

“It is not any surprise that I think Celtic deserve to win the league and be named champions.

“I know Celtic would prefer to play the rest of the games and to win the trophy after that but that doesn’t look like it is going to be possible.

“As things stand, Celtic is 13 points clear and they deserve to win the league. 

“There are going to be other teams who want the season to be null and void but Celtic are well ahead and deserve to win. 

One of their fans was furious…

Er, that was quite a loose interpretation of the word “facts “…here’s a better one…

The media will maintain the line that mathematically Celtic have not won the league, claiming the new club/company still have a chance, which is odd, because this time last year one Ibrox cheerleader conceded the title when the new club were thirteen points behind unlike this year, when they all want it scrapped…

“Hopefully, that will be the final decision and Celtic will be named as Scottish champions again.” 

The SFA are waiting for others to lead the way so they can say that they are doing what everyone else is doing, largely so they don’t draw any attention to the clusterfuck that is Scottish football.

Incidentally, there is kind of a pattern to how the media spin the bad news at Ibrox….

As we know, they are skint again, and recruitment could be a problem, so the Record thinks it’ll be Gerrards contact book that will save them..

which it appears is a prerequisite of being a “rangers ” manager…

Thanks to James ebt Kirk on twitter for pointing that out…

The National lottery have upped their game, and it suddenly became worth the two quid a ticket it costs, and can no longer be seen as just a tax on poor people who have vivid imaginations…

Stay safe, and for fucks sake don;t take any notice of the shite thats eminating from Westminster.

We’re on our own here.

Do what it takes to look after yourselves and your own.

I’m considering an open letter to boris johnson, in the hope that I’ll get a similar response from him to the one i got from Peter Lawwell to talk things over.

If I get in a room with Johnson, kids will learn about me in school…

Yesterday, we had this…