First , a minute to remember the man, who died on this day in 1985. May he continue to rest in peace.
And then back to the nonsense.
Celtic will receive a £212,000 bonus after Manchester City, Zenit St. Petersburg and Paris St. Germain were fined by UEFA for breaching their financial fair play rules. Half a dozen other clubs were penalised as well, but the Manchester club-well, it’s based in Manchester but thats about the only link it has to the area, were hit with the biggest bill-£50m -which means their oil rich owner might have to sell one of his shirts.
The money is divided between the seventy clubs who have made the group stages of this years European club tournaments, and means that Celtic now need to recover only a further £19, 788,000 to replace the lost Champions League money.
Telling you, spearmint pacers is the way forward.
City owner Shiekh Mansour looked distressed last night when he discovered the size of the fine.
God help us if we ever lose the soul of our club to the money men.
Fitba’s back on Saturday !
It’s a lunchtime kick off !
Another early start, but thats the price we pay for accepting the tv deal with Sky. He who takes the money has to play the tune.
Ronny Deila will have been glad of the international break. It interrupted the run of four games without a win, which hasn’t happened to the hoops since Katie Price was a virgin.
And it meant Deila, who was under a lot of pressure, got time to draw breath and stay in a job.
The next few games will see if he gets to keep it. Celtic face Aberdeen at Celtic Park, and it won’t be easy. Chris Maguire, once of Aberdeen , now of Sheffield Wednesday, explained;
“With their big support and the atmosphere there, it was always great to play at Celtic Park,” he said. “But at this moment in time Aberdeen have nothing to fear. I’ve watched Celtic two or three times on TV recently and I don’t see anything in their team to make Aberdeen afraid.
“As a big Celtic fan, it’s a big thing for me to say that. I don’t think the players brought into Parkhead since the start of the season have been up to standard. They lack quality, in my view. There’s a lot of my mates who are season-ticket holders and when I ask them about the Celtic games they all say the same, that it is not the Celtic everybody knows.
“The Champions League was a big disappointment.”
On his old club, he added;
“He has his own way of playing and they had a fantastic season last year.
“I can certainly see them getting something from the game this weekend.”
Aye, a pasting.
Well, theres always a feeling of optimism after a break. Will we see the new players ? Will Celtic reproduce the scintillating form shown against Dundee Utd a few weeks ago, or was it just a fluke ?
Our early start has put some travellers off, so if you need a lift up the M6 give me a shout.
Beram Kayal has revealed the reasons behind his decision to name his son Pirlo;
“When I was a child my family and other people in the village called me Pirlo. When I had the chance to play against Andrea with Celtic I swapped shirts with him after the game.
“That was a big thing. We like his name and it has a family connection because that’s what I was called.
“We looked up what Pirlo means and it’s something like ‘professional’.
Actually, it doesn’t.
Pirlo : noun,
- An apéritif made from white wine, Campari and seltzer
“My wife was fine naming the baby after a footballer. She picked a footballer for a husband after all!
“It would be no problem for me if Pirlo plays for Scotland one day. I hope so.
Should have named him “Buckfast ” then.
Meanwhile, supporters liason officer John Paul Taylor has given a heads up to all those with the home made badges to get the disabled parking spaces. These badges are available at most pubs and dodgy market stalls.
Due to significant uplift in usage can all fans note that an inspection of blue badges will take place on Sat, badge holder must be present
Shortly afterwards, there will be a brief medical carried out by ATOS, the British government agency , who will judge whether or not they can keep them.
So, thats the disabled joining the ranks of those not being paid a living wage at Celtic Park getting it in the neck.
Although , to be fair, surely it would be easier for those with blue badges to park further away from the ground as they don’t have to worry about getting to work or anything, and usually have much more spare time to amble back to their cars ?
Cue outrage.
Look, theres not a lot going on, and its the only disabled joke I know.
In other news, David Cameron, Ed Milliband and the other one are in Scotland today in a desperate attempt to convince Scots to vote no to removing trident, foodbanks and David Cameron, Ed Milliband and the other one from their lives. In fact, they even have a saltire flying on top of No.10 downing Street, presumably to remind them where they were heading to.
This tweet made me think…
Poignant, but surely a question mark at the end would have helped convince people that we’re not stupid ?
Right, who else can I have a go at ?
New club Second Rangers moved closer to the abyss yesterday, it now appears that their share issue will fail, and they will struggle to pay the wages at the end of the month.
Not really a surprise, and neither is their latest move to find someone with a few quid they need laundering, sorry, this predictive keyboard is a nightmare, I meant would like to invest.. …
Rangers director Sandy Easdale
discusses Ibrox takeover during
lunch with a convicted fraudster wanted by Interpol
Craig Whyte ? Dave King ? No, its
RAFAT Rizvi – who faces a 15-year sentence in Indonesia for banking crime – is trying to help set up a Rangers bailout deal with Malaysian businessman Datuk Faizoull Bin Ahmad.
Oh, he’s a dodgy banker. Nice tio see they are keeping in with the traditions of the old club.
A FORMER Bank of Scotland boss last night hit back at claims he was given “preferential treatment” when nearly all of a £12.2million loan was written off.
Scottish Labour made the claim on Sunday after it emerged the taxpayer-backed bank clawed back just a fraction of the cash they loaned to Dunfermline Athletic FC.
The large loan was made when Gavin Masterton, a former managing director of Bank of Scotland, owned the struggling club.
Yesterday, Masterton defended securing the controversial loan and blamed the economic downturn for most of it being cleared by the bank.
His firm, East End Park Ltd, were given the loan, secured against the club’s stadium, in 2008. The majority of the balance was written off after the firm and club went into administration last year.
That report, from January, refers to Masterton after he left the Bank.
While he was there, he enjoyed an unorthodox relationship with David Murray when it came to loans as well, but not as much as Murray.
Instead of a caption competition, we’ll go with a missing words quiz today.
From this headline, what word, or words are missing ?
________ drank ‘significant’ amount
of alcohol before ___________
David Murray
Giving Neil McCann a £30k a week contract the day after the league win at Parkhead
Allegedly thats why McCann was soon shipped off to Southampton when Murray sobered up!
Such a fuss over a missed ? when you keep using a comma before “and” tut tut:-)
When I do it, it’s known as the evolution of written language, when someone else does it, they are uneducated fools.
Agreed language is fluid a bit like verbal diarrhea but there’s nothing wrong with being creative. One man’s question is another man’s answer or as Confucius says, “Woman who cooks cabbage and peas in same pot is being unhygenic?”
Ralph and midday?
CHARLES GREEN, LAUGHING AND BUYING HIS CHATEAUX…
You don’t need to put a question mark at the end of a rhetorical question.
Er yes you do. The clue is in the word question. Even if it is rhetorical.
Pedantry requires one have one’s own house in order before correcting someone else’s error. To whit, the missing comma after “Er”.
You’re welcome. 🙂
Strathendick and Andy Graham in that tweet utterly convinced me………..Yes………They are stupid.
Nationalists gave us 16 years of Thatcher, criminally stupid is a better label.
NO Thanks, you can shove yer Tartan Tory crud where the sun doesn’t shine.
Also in the diary was a bit about Sheikh Mansour. Man from independent oil rich country can pay £50m fine easily, while men from non-independent oil rich country rely on charity/foodbanks to try to stop starvation.
It was a poor Labour Party that kept Thatcher in power. Voting YES ensures that you will NEVER have to put up with her ilk again.
Scottish voters will have to put up with a great many fictitious claims during the run up to the independence referendum next autumn but there can surely be none more outrageous than that peddled by the SNP yesterday. They’re trying to gloss over the fact that it was them who put Margaret Thatcher into 10 Downing Street.
March 1 was the anniversary of the 1979 referendum on the establishment of a devolved Scottish assembly – it wasn’t called a parliament way back then and would have had nothing like the powers enjoyed by the present institution.
Although there was a simple majority in favour of setting up such a body, the move failed because of an amendment moved by George Cunningham, a Scot representing a London seat, which stipulated that at least 40 per cent of the electorate had to approve the new establishment. And that was that – until 1999 and the setting up of the present Scottish Parliament.
It is easy to understand the Nats’ annoyance at victory being snatched from their grasp 34 years ago but they really should stop telling such a bunch of outright whoppers about the consequences of that long-ago vote.
In a press release yesterday the SNP claimed that instead of getting better government following that referendum, the people of Scotland “were given 18 years of Tory rule.”
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Bruce Crawford, the MSP for Stirling and until recently the party’s business manager, took up the cry, saying: “After the 1979 referendum, Scotland suffered 18 years of Tory rule we didn’t vote for …”
The truth is the Scots weren’t “given” Tory rule by anyone other than the SNP and if they suffered 18 years of Tory rule, it was because the SNP DID vote with the Tories and actually brought on their long years in power.
What Mr Crawford and his press officer choose to forget, or hope that no one will recall, is that it was the 11-strong SNP group in the Commons in 1979 that first tabled the no confidence motion in
Jim Callaghan’s Labour government which led to its defeat in that memorable debate three weeks after the devolution referendum.
Margaret Thatcher couldn’t be sure of beating Callaghan until she saw that the Nats were on her side and once they had shown their hand, she then tabled her own no confidence motion, which, as leader of the main opposition party, took precedence over that of the SNP. She won by only one vote, with all the Nat MPs voting with her – “turkeys voting for an early Christmas”, said not-so Sunny Jim.
In accusing the Unionist parties of peddling fictions about what an independent Scotland might look like it is a barefaced cheek that the SNP should maintain the biggest fiction of all – that they had nothing to do with the rise and rise of Margaret Thatcher.
• Yesterday saw the commissioning into the Royal Navy of HMS Ambush, the billion-pound hunter killer nuclear-powered submarine which is so hi-tech as to make your eyes water just thinking of her capabilities.
Michael Moore, the Scottish Secretary, welcomed her addition to the fleet and pointed out that like her sister boats – submarines are always boats, not ships – Ambush will be stationed at HM Naval Base Clyde, or Faslane to you and me.
He said that the base was Scotland’s largest single-site employer, with a combined workforce of over 6,700 people rising to 8,200 by 2022.
The SNP insists that it will boot the Trident nuclear-missile submarines out of Faslane if it makes Scotland independent and Whitehall has said that if that happens then all of the other submarines – like Ambush – will be pulled out, too.
In that event what will be left at the base? My friend “Field Marshal” Angus Robertson insists that Faslane will be retained as an independent Scotland’s main naval base, but if it doesn’t have any subs how can there be work for all those thousands?
Unless of course he plans to build a fleet of his own. However, at a billion a time Angus had better get saving.
And you dont think there are ficticious claims by the Worse Together grouping?
You really think that these elitists really care about the Scottish people and do you really think the YES campaign is all about the SNP.
We’re voting for independence, not the SNP. I’ve never voted SNP in my life, but will be voting YES.
Hopefully, a YES vote will allow Scottish Labour to become a socialist party once gain, once it no longer has to dance to Westminster labour’s tune.
Time for change, time for a more socialist country, vote YES, you know it makes sense.
Bawsman, it’s been quite clear unless your incredibly thick that Scottish Labour have left no one in any doubt that they are the one and only “tartan Tories”, that’s when they can get their head soot o’ the Tories asses long enough!!
KNUCKLEDRAGGERS MUMS TO BE drank significant amount of alcohol before PARTAKING IN BEASTIALITY
Caption: “Ralph” & “driving from Stoke to Glasgow” – just kidding mate, I know you re the only one in the tarrier not on the sauce.
This 2nd Rangers story is getting so insane now that when you see diretors pictured out for lunch with people on Interpol’s most wanted list it barely raises a smile, never mind shock or outrage.
The soul of the dead club (such as it was) was sold in order to create the tribute act, and there is no doubt some very very unsavoury characters have their claws very deep into 2nd Rangers, and that football clubs, with large cash intakes are very useful vehicles for cleaning money.
What the end game is now is anyones guess.
Some want Dave King but his involvement with Whytes board and his convictions in S Africa would surely mean he couldnt get SFA approval to be on the board.
Mike Ashley is no fool – he has the retail contracts he wants – the ones that generate profit, so can’t see why he’d want the loss making parts, or indeed how he could get through SFA rules while owning Newcastle.
With the share issue collapsing it looks like pay day loans with Ibrox and/ or Murray Park as security just to keep the lights on for a while longer.
The Rangers First thing is in principlpe a good idea, and I ve engaged via twitter in a non goading way and found them open and approachable, but the fact that Hearts have over 7 000 in their fan membership scheme while only 1500 are in that for “scotlands biggest institution” underlines their on going craving for and belief in a big sugar daddy coming along, empty his pockets for the glory of ra rangurz and take the pain away. I also think they are worng to invest in THIS share issue but they took and vote and thats what they re doing.
Sorry its off topic, but, adn I dont know why this is happening, I m starting to feel some sympathy for the decent Rangers fans – we know they exist. The bigots adn tilly Boys can eff off but if it were my club I would not know where to turn – every direction looks like its booby trapped by Charlie and his crew.
I wonder if privately some “Rangers” fans are beginning to wish they could admit what we know: this is a new club, unconnected to the original Rangers and set up to make profit for its original investors by wearing the clothes of the dead, ditch 2nd rangers as non lineage, and start again again with 3rd Rangers created by fans for fans like their original Ranger mk 1 was- this 2nd Rangers has been a disaster and an embarrassment. Live withing their means, clumb the leagues again and with the large fan base they could in time be a serious competitor again.
Anyway, sorry folks for non Celtic post
F*@k them.
Why don’t they rent out murray park to a big team that lives within its means, like Partick Thistle?
Totally.
they’re in this mess, because they couldn’t live without their triumphalism.
They bought 9 in a row and cheated the rest of Scottish football out of trophies.
rangers1 & the SFA also cheated Celtic out of potentially millions in CL money when the SFA granted them a license even though they had an outstanding tax bill, which should have meant the license wasn’t issued.
I reckon the only reason Celtic haven’t pushed this one is that they are afraid UEFA will penalise all of Scottish football if they are asked to investigate.
Their fans are racist, fascist, sectarian bigots and it’s not just a minority. Yes there are decent rangers fans (my b-I-l), but I genuinely believe they are in the minority.
They brought this whole thing on themselves by spending way above their means in order to satisfy their triumphalism lust.
Then when it all went tits up, they blamed everyone but themselves for their predicament.
Threatened every other team in Scottish football with boycotts if they weren’t given special treatment. Have never shown one iota of humility or remorse for what they did.
And then when all the shysters owners appeared, believed that they were money rich and would once more restore them to the glory days, but they would also remember everyone who did them a bad turn when they were down.
Tell me again why we should feel sorry for them.
However, Rangers supporters have accused football board chairman Easdale of destabilising the club with ill-advised comments about the perilous state of finances at Ibrox. (Scottish Daily Mail)
So its his fault for telling the truth is it.
Unbelievable.
andybhoy, its hard to argue against your point of view, there was certainly very little sympathy for Celtic in the early 90s while we were broke & Rangers were spending the banks money.
The whole saga seems littered with very dodgy characters possibly looking to clean money from abroad through the clumpany, reeks of insider trading, discount option shares handed out galore to friends of Charles and “onerous contracts” weaved through its operations to ensure money will always go out of the club.
I could just laugh at it, and often have, and I dont know whats wrong with me, but its got so riduculous now and seems so impossible to untangle all the deals that ensure others will always get their money before the clumpany that a part – small part- is beginning to feel some pity for those non bigotted people who had the misfortune to be brought up supporting the wrong team. As I said, unlesss they walk away – and we know they dont do that – admitting this new club wasnt Rangers at all and they were wrong to follow follow it and go out entirely on their own I cant see any way forward.
I guess I find the whole thing ghoulishly intersting like watching a car crash or an ampuation, but its not my team so, yeah, F@*k em
One last thought, if I were a 2nd Rangers fan Id embrace the zombie nickname – the same way Arsenal fans turned “gooner” insults into their own name for themselves or Spurs fans with “Yid army”. They will always be known as zombies – for as long as there are incarnations of “Rangers”, so they may as well embrace it – but of course they are so touchy and “dignified” they never will, leaving us free to use at will.
Sorry again, back to just celtic chat as normal soon, but its a slow news day for the Hoops- bet zombies would love a few of those at the minute!
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Just went to get the package for Europa league games and found out top deck closed so your not getting own seats for bottom deck.
Told them won’t be taking tickets as it’s happened before when top deck closed and couldn’t get own seats but get there on game night and seats are empty.
So won’t be going as seats offered are to near the pitch and don’t think you get a good view ( my opinion ) and just been text by a good few others that not going as well.
Phone Celtic Park.Same thing happened to me,phoned to complain and found out seats hadn’t been allocated to someone else at all.
yeah im in the top deck and on the cup ticket scheme,they are saying that the lower decks will be sold first,and i will get tickets for bottom tier,this is a european tie what other club in the competition will close down half its stadium
Gazza________ drank ‘significant’ amount
of alcohol before _his driving test!!__________
PAUL GASCOIGNE drank ‘significant’ amount
of alcohol before HE REALISED GE LOOKED LIKE THE TOXIC WASTE SOAKED MUTANT FROM ROBOCOP.
k drank significant amount of alcohol before posting on etims..
Bawsman is right. SNP are entirely responsible for Thatcher ‘law’ those years ago. the working man in the UK still suffers as a result of her legacy. Salmond tacitly admitted as much yesterday when he said Cameron was the worst prime minister he has known in his lifetime. Kudos to Thatcher
you are voting for independence, not the SNP.
Please try to understand the difference.
Cadete’s agent ____________ trying to negotiate a new contract.
Hence the bunnet telling him to ‘come back when you’re sober’….priceless!!
Glass, hell: Raise a keg for Big Jock!
“Should have named him ‘Buckfast’ then.”
Almost spit my coffee on the computer …
Stevo phoned celtic park it was them that told me mine & mates ticket gone were in row ss & tried to give us row n so not on.
Sit and watch on telly it will kill me but what do you do, why not sell the seats that are empty ever week first but then logic & celtic ticket office don’t go hand in hand.
it has to be YES
I’ve raised a couple for Big Jock tonight – God Bless you Big Man, and Hail Hail to you! You’ll never walk alone!! Thank You.
Respect to Big Jock. What a man.
MON THE CELTS!!
MON THE AYE !!!!
FUCK YEAH…..