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De Ja Vu Again

Although the  scene is different, Timposter asks if we haven’t seen this film before  

 

 

We are living through unprecedented times, both locally and globally, and football seems trivial in comparison to the pandemic that faces us all.

 

However football does matter.

 

It plays a huge role in all our lives.

 

As Celtic fans it defines us in many ways.

 

As it stands we are on the brink of another 9 in a row. 13 points ahead of our nearest league rival, those newcomers to Scottish Football. This is in the midst of an economic tsunami that is smashing the shores of all nations and football does not go unaffected by it.

 

Football, globally, is unlikely to be played in front of crowds for quite some considerable time to come and as a result many clubs are feeling the impact financially. To the extent that many will not survive.

 

In Scotland the SPFL have attempted to address this by having a vote by all the clubs to bring the season to an end and allow positional payments to be made to try and alleviate the precarious position many of our clubs find themselves in.

 

As it stands we have 85% in favour of the the SPFL proposal.

 

Dundee are said to be voting in favour of it later today or this week, but at the time of writing, it’s 85%

 

However the usual suspects have objected to this and are currently trying to subvert what to most is the sensible outcome of an almost impossible position.

 

As has been always the case in Scottish Football the authorities are bending over backwards to accommodate a team that plays out of Govan.

 

Nothing has changed. Same as it ever was, but it shouldn’t be. This newcomer is on the brink of bankruptcy and it should be allowed to happen.

 

For the betterment of Scottish Football and society at large it would be better if they disappeared completely. Call me a cynic(better than what I’m usually called) but I get the feeling we are about to get done all over again.

 

By we, I mean us Celtic fans. Remember the LNS, 5WA, Res12?

 

We spent our time, from the outside, making our dissatisfaction be known, all to fall on the deaf ears of the Scottish Football Establishment.

 

No surprise there then as we know they hate us.

 

However as time has passed, we now know that even those who were supposed to represent our interests and views, were actively involved in all the machinations of deceit and corruption.

 

Well it’s like Deja vu all over again.

 

The silence from the same actors is deafening and the stench, once again, of corruption is overpowering.

 

I earnestly hope I am wrong this time but every part of my being tells me I’m not.

 

Let’s hope we have game that we can all get back to.

 

Stay safe.

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Mike
3 years ago

De Ja vu, vu, vu,
Love the green and fuq the blue,
Cos its, true, true, true,
Glasgow Celtic we love you, you, you.

Timposter, a bhoy that echo’s my own feelings, we carry the scars with us today of the damage that they have done or tried to do to our great club. We shall not, will not forgive or forget, LNS- the 5Way Agreement- or Resolution 12. or the same club p!sh.

Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Need to stop drinking that Red Bull.
When Fergus left the club’s biggest shareholder D.D. and his placemen ran the club more as a business, you got the feeling that football was secondary. Then 2012, they died, I look back now, at that time and think how naïve was I, in putting my trust into the Celtic board. Since then all the lies of resurrection have emerged, bit by bit over time. Some make extraordinary reading like LNS. only recently I discovered that Vincent Lunny the very first C.O. was involved along with all the other main players, the size of the cabal and its influence was shocking to me. Then came Res.12 and recently the 5 Way a secret agreement that like Res.12 had the Celtic boards fingerprints and complicity all over it. So you see that your trust in this Celtic board was misplaced, the lengths that they will go to and the SFA-SPFL to keep the bigots in situ. is extraordinary. They have all done it before and given the chance they will do it again. We need to keep alert and keep our eyes on the ball to prevent it happening again. But then what? My fear lies down in Newcastle and the sale of that club and his return to Glasgow, because someone like him might just buy into the myth and give it CPR. when all I want is DNR.

BroxburnBhoy
3 years ago

Ralph I think there is a difference this time. The scrutiny is much closer and the new incarnation is at odds with the authorities rather than in cahoots. They have gone for the nuclear options an demanded resignations. Even the basket of assets wont get away with that and I wonder how Uefa and fifa will see this move? If Dundee vote in favor today that will be that. 9 in a row and lets move on to the next season.

The Cha
3 years ago
Reply to  BroxburnBhoy

They’ll be completely isolated if reconstruction is also thrown in.

League winners confirmed – check
Promotion confirmed – check
Relegation avoided – check

That would seem to cover the objections of the other refuseniks.

johnd1888@gmail.com
3 years ago

Whilst the board plays the ‘more than a club’ card at every opportunity it’s no more than part of the ‘brand’ to the board. It’s all about $$$ to them and therefore THEY are necessary – at any cost, as we’ve seen. But, ‘business is business’ and we, the support are merely ‘clients’. Sad.

Cartvale88
3 years ago

They are seen as a necessary evil by many football club boards in Scotland, Celtic being one.
Instead of burying the blue pound once and for all, they continue to put up with the bile, hatred, putrid smell that emanates from the haters.
Scottish a Football would be in a better place without them, remember Reagan and Armageddon in 2012

sfa unfit for purpose
3 years ago

I think we all know that if the Celtic board ever have a say in whether Sevco live or die , they will most probably choose to keep them alive in some form.
I am still puzzled about the Dave king statement when he said that criminals had bought shares in Sevco and that he had proof of this.
Don’t think anyone really investigated this. Was that a squirrel at the time ?

Auldheid
3 years ago

A loan to TRFC should not be allowed to camouflage or allow an administration/insolvency event to be dodged.

Such an event carries a 15 point deduction. Even allowing them 3pts for game in hand putting them on 70pts a 15pt deduction reduces that to 55 under insolvency rules and makes 79 the most they could win (I know)

Celtic stand on 80pts now, so with 24 pts over 8 games left Celtic would be uncatchable.

Make any loan conditional on proving solvency as if season had run its course over 38 games

jimmybee
3 years ago
Reply to  Auldheid

Way too clever Auldheid or even too honest for that to be given any consideration.

highseastim
3 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

It’s amazing how the Huns have forgotten that Hearts and ICT voted against them remaining in the top league in 2012.

CarlJungleBhoy
3 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

No reputable institution anywhere in the world (financial or otherwise) would hand out a loan without either collateral, or some guarantee/proof the loanee is able to repay – unless it’s a charity!

Last I looked the SPFL was a corporation owned by its shareholders – the 42 member clubs.

If the SPFL agree to bail out the Ibrokes club without ensuring proof of its solvency, it will have failed all its other members.

highseastim
3 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

The other thing that is noticeable is the darling of the Scottish sports media Stevie G being hidden away during the last month, obviously wants Liverpool to be awarded the Premiership, but that wouldn’t suit his employer’s agenda!!

Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  CarlJungleBhoy

Dave King, Fit and Proper, Mike Ashley selling Newcastle.

jimmybee
3 years ago

The world record for a European club competition on this day 50 years ago probably never to be broken. Hampden park 1970
Celtic 2 Leeds 1
I got home from school excited and saw ma Da am I going Da, sorry wee man but it’s going to be crazy and too much trouble for ye. My mum said dont worry Celtic will be in lots more you can go to. My heart sank. He got his coat and scarf and went out the door to the pub not looking back.
I got my dinner and was about to go and play football with my pals, where ye going mum said, ach just over the park maam, well mind be back here for half 5, half 5 maam ye kidding it wont even be half time.
Well you dont want to miss the bus do ye, as I turned back round she stood there with ma scarf and flag ma da was only kidding. Yesss I was the happiest boy on the planet.
I didn’t bother going to play as the door got chapped to ask if I was coming out I just stood there with ma scarf and flag ready to go. Ohhh ya lucky get said the pals.
On the supporters bus which was supposed to hold around 40 odd it was bedlam. Ma Da was the bus conveynor and got all the members on first then the non members then the kids there was 4 and 5 to a seat people sitting up the middle of the bus and of course screw taps, lager, and spirits of all sorts passed around. We must have had double on the bus which would never be allowed now.
Off we went to it’s a grand old team and made it to hampden.
I’ve never or ever will see anything like it again. My uncle John and his pals were the only season ticket holders I knew there was 4 of them Arthur Hughie and Danny who had all went to Lisbon together, the tri colour flag I had was given to me by my Uncle John and still had the grass stains on it from Lisbon (still does, never been washed and is now on the wall of my grandsons bedroom)
He said to ma Da we will take him he will be better in the stand. So they took me and I got lifted over and sat in between them. That sight of the fans was the most wonderful thing and i will never see again.
So it started the greatest night of my life as I watched my hero jinky rip terry cooper to bits and the majestic Bobby Murduch run the show from the main stand at Hampden. 2-1 it should have been 7. England your boys took one helluva beating.
God Bless the Celtic
https://t.co/YF5LTwQajf

jimmybee
3 years ago
Yoker Bhoy
3 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

Great read and fine videos Jimmy. Many thanks for that.

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