Today is the day that the Scottish football clubs..and one company….meet to have a go at whatever it is they’ve been banging on about for the last month.
Whatever it’s called on the agenda, however it’s introduced, and whoever forwards and seconds any motions, there is little doubt that the aim of the resolution, brought by those fine fellows at Ibrox, is geared towards nulling and voiding the season and making certain Celtic are not crowned champions for the ninth successive season.
Quite why no one in the media has mentioned this, or even queried it, is beyond me.
Actually, it isn’t.
As this article, in the Scottish Football Monitor , suggests. They’ve got form, and the piece goes so far as to name thoise who had evidence of previous misgovernance in the corridors of power in Scottish football, and who did the square root of fuck all with it.
The article also raises the issue of exactly what the resolutioners expect to gain from an independent investigation, a question dodged and an analysis avoided in the mainstream, as it rightly points out that the venom is aimed at individuals, rather than the organisations. This could be because it’s widely suspected that the organisations are no good at their job, but the systems have served the likes of “rangers ” and Rangers quite well in the past, and it may be that the individuals are unwilling to carry on that tradition.
And we know how much how fond they are of tradition over at Ibrox…
Ultimately, one hopes that today the issue is put to bed and those behind the time wasting accusations are thoroughly slapped about a bit until they learn some manners.
There are, or at least should be, two aspects to todays meeting.
The first is the league itself, and the ramifications for the clubs should the resolutioners get their investigation.
Some clubs have released statements indicating how they will vote, with aberdeen seeming to think one is needed just to clear the air, whilst Hearts and Partick want one for their own reasons, pretty much because they don;t want to be relegated.
The two most revealing staments, however, come from Dunfermline and Brechin, and Brechin seem to have said what most of us are thinking…
In what are extremely challenging times for everyone as we try to come to terms with the consequences of Covid-19 and the lockdown conditions, we are also regretfully facing turmoil in the world of Scottish football.
Members and Supporters of Brechin City FC will doubtless have been concerned and indeed alarmed at the current tirade of negativity towards the Club, and in particular our Chairman Ken Ferguson. This challenges the integrity and reputation, both of our Club, and that of Ken personally. Having remained respectfully silent to date, the Management Committee now unanimously feel compelled to firmly rebuff these claims and set the record straight.
In particular, in the recent dossier released in support of the EGM taking place at the SPFL tomorrow (Tuesday), there is an accusation which is pointed directly at our Chairman relating to his part in the run up to the SPFL vote which took place on Friday 10th April. This states, “It has also been alleged that Ken Ferguson (Brechin City Chairman and SPFL Board Director) called League 2 clubs and told them that Inverness had changed their vote to YES and, as a result, the Resolution was going to be approved and that there was no point in League 2 clubs voting NO.”
This is categorically refuted. Unfortunately, this is feeding the current media frenzy and, by association, Brechin City FC and our Chairman are being subjected to un-necessary scrutiny and wholly unwarranted abuse. In addition to anecdotal evidence from all of the other League 2 clubs, we have in our possession verification from each club that no such call was made. Furthermore, each League 2 club is content to provide corroboration to this effect and has stressed that they are entirely relaxed (and in reality appreciative) of the integrity Ken displayed in his role as an SPFL Director in the lead up to the vote.
The Management Committee will issue a further statement in comings days to fully address other allegations that have been directed towards the Club in the media and online in recent times.
Dunfermline added their bit…. which is protected by copyright, and it too, points to one cub stirring up the pot.
Or, at least, one clubs spokesman.
Scott Gardiner of Inverness is the man fingers are being pointed at.
That would be this Scot Gardiner…
Dundee chief Scot Gardiner turns down Rangers top job as Ibrox board refuse to let him run club his own way
GARDINER confirmed yesterday he would not switch from Dens Park and it’s understood his decision came after he failed to receive assurances he would have absolute authority at Ibrox.
(Record , November 2013 )
SCOT GARDINER turned down his dream job as Rangers chief executive because he didn’t receive assurances he would be allowed to call the shots at Ibrox.
The Dundee chief had been given 24 hours to decide whether or not to take the role, as revealed in Record Sport, and yesterday at breakfast time he confirmed to his American bosses he will not be jumping ship to Glasgow.
I don’t suppose anyone has asked him if he’s been offered it again as a reward for trying to push their null and void agenda…?
In an interview with the Press and Journal last December , one or two indications of where his business loyalties may lie rose to the surface….
Who helped you?
My parents, and especially my dad, who has been a huge influence. My wife, Corrinne, is a rock, giving me the leeway to do whatever I think best, and I learned a lot from businessmen and friends past and present, like Stewart Ford, Chris Smith, Bob Reilly, Douglas Ferrans, Lord Sugar, Daniel Levy, David Murray and Anne Budge.
What do you waste your money on?
Silk ties and brown shoes (brogues).
What do you do to relax?
I walk the Highland forests and beaches with my Westie, Cooper.
Bear in mind that Gardiner went on the radio a while back and said that three clubs were going to vote against the initial resolution to call the season for the non-Premiership clubs, and it was he who claimed that Dundee had been one of them, only to find they weren’t, they’d changed their mind.
Also, bear in mind that had the leagues been voided, and he’d got his wish to have the prize money equally shared, Inverness would be down quite a few quid….
Now that is not acting in the interest of his own club, or company, and that must be a concern to his bosses….
This front page, from todays Record, maybe explains his motive….
The move would have KO’d titles for Celtic….
I think I’m on the point of spotting exactly what’s going on here…..
The second point thats worth thinking about regarding todays meeting goes back, in a loose way,to yesterdays Diary about the correlations of the treatment of the government in Westminster re the Covid crisis , and the treatment of the antagonistic clubs during this curent Scottish football crisis by the mainstream media.
They have a lot to answer for in both instnaces, though the common thread they don’t seem to like looking for any answers that don’t suit either the narratives of their own, their employers or the good of the whole in general.
The SFM article names a few journalists and outlets in Scottish football that were culpable then, back in 2014, and it’s probably not a surprise to see some familiar names and outlets amongst them.
In short, the media have some pretty tough questions to answer themselves, but once again, we can only ask
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Funny how the BBC Scotland Sports news pages make no reference to the Brechin City statement mentioned above. Plenty though on ICT, Partick …
Its the 2nd top story on their Scottish Football page and has been since the story broke last night.
Ta. I see it now – it wasn’t on the banner headlines when I looked this morning.
No it’s not, it’s now 2.23 pm and according to the website time line, it’s been up for 4 hours!!
I put a link on here to the story last night around 9pm , but its still out there in the ether ….
Yeah just looked , the story up now is a slightly different one from last nights. It originally contained the Statement from Brechin , where now its been altered to just tell the story with no statement.
Which suggests the original story , with the full Brechin statement must have been seen by someone at the Beeb as being too damaging to sevco , so they have altered it and cut the Brechin statement.
Great read but very depressing. As Auldheid shows us this has been going on for years. Worse still I cannot see it changing in the foreseeable future.
When it comes to finger pointing I think everyone overlooks the real culprits. I am happy to name them.
Neil Lennon and Celtic.
If they had done the decent thing and totally collapsed after the winter break the rangers* would be clear at the top. The league would then have been called immediately for the good of the game as a whole.
As we know rangers* are working for the good of every SPFL member but Celtic have made this very difficult.
Lenny should be ashamed at the trouble he has caused.
Scott Brown will be sitting with us.
The up and coming`ll be good.
They
ll be called:t open the web page Bhoys.Don
R.I.P. Volunteer Francis Hughes……An absolute legend amongst Republicans.Totally fearless,utterly daring and a brilliant soldier often carrying out attacks in broad daylight along with his comrades.The “forces” of the crown were terrified of him and Mad Dog McGlinchey,putting up wanted posters of Francis.If you aren’t aware of his life story,check it out.A giant of the Republican Movement…your death was not in vain.
I heard many a great story of the brave Francis Hughes and a lot came from a very good pal of mine who was in the army at the time.
He said he was the most feared person the brits had ever known.
Brave, crazy but above all a soldier they respected.
He told me of a time when a udr guy had said to him, that if he seen Francis Hughes coming in a car at a roadblock he would let him through as he knew it would end in a gunfight with Francis.
The pensioners widow fund wasnt worth it.
The bravest of the brave.
Martin McGuinness said:
“His body lies here beside us but he lives in the little streets of Belfast; he lives in the Bogside; he lives in East Tyrone; he lives in Crossmaglen. He will always live in the hearts and minds of unconquerable Irish republicans in all these places. They could not break him. They will not break us.”
TAL
Two wee stories to show you what type of guy Francis was.He would often paint and decorate for those shielding him in safe houses.One day,after wanted posters had been plastered all over South Derry,two jeeps full of Brits passed by him,he gave them a cheery wave and they carried on totally unaware of who they could have tried to capture and he carried on painting.Another time,he and two comrades were stopped by a Brit patrol crossing a field.Francis told them that he didn’t want to use the roads because the IRA were very active in the area and he was being safe.The bold Bhoys walked on and suddenly Francis ran back towards the invaders,only to return with a fag and match he had cadged from the thick as shit Brits.The guy was the real deal and as Jimmybee says,they knew this was a soldier of the highest skill and bravery.GPFH.
“only to return with a fag”
was he a homo
Jimmybee,
Fantastic!
Rob,
Outstanding comrade!
Ah but they have their Quislings, Chris Commons, Nicholas etc following in line backing a corrupt club and individuals for the Queens shilling. Null and Void is not an option but the stupid stupid huns do not get that.
As for the media especially the Billy Boys Club they are so stupid they do not realise the stupid stupid huns hate them.
But soon we will see panic in their eyes as the cash begins to run out. Celtic should ask for games to be played behind closed doors, a few clubs would shut as they have to pay players and staff, with no incoming income bar the Television money as the song goes ‘bye bye Rankers’.
How can “prize” money be distributed in a null and void season? Sounds like a good case for rolling over the prizes to be distributed on completion of the next full season.
Go ahead, Celtic. Give us a laugh and concede the null and void point on condition of rollover. “For the good of the game.”
The Uncle of your Grandson gives you a toy car with a wheel missing. “Here fix it,then buggers off.”
Grandson is reminded who broke it.
It`s, We are the Persuaders.
The SFA`re to bid for obedience.
The most frustrating thing for me is that any conversation about The Ragers absolutely always includes a reference to Celtic. It’s an age old trope of Scottish journalism that probably stopped them getting their windows tanned when Ragers were criticized, but I now wonder if it’s part of the ridiculous PC BBC attempt at ‘balance.’ Every time this topic is discussed on Radio Scotland we get pulled in – even when it is clear we have said and done nothing (in the public domain). It’s Ragers vs Scottish football.
I don’t see this PC ‘balance’ when there’s an anti-Celtic story.
Nah, its from a Hun perspective, always.
Didn
t I hear...You canny make a Gardiner cough his ring up?
Living up to dry bowel motions.
Hes David King`s Coco Pops.
Yet for all,they
re still all.s dobbed in for a pound. Rule.Granny
For the day that is also.
Executed today by the british.
Marchin’ down O’Connell Street with the Starry Plough on high
There goes the Citizen Army with their fists raised in the sky
Leading them is a mighty man with a mad rage in his eye
“My name is James Connolly – I didn’t come here to die
But to fight for the rights of the working man and the small farmer too
To protect the proletariat from the bosses and their screws
So hold on to your rifles, boys, don’t give up your dream
Of a Republic for the working class, economic liberty.”
TAL
English knee skin and blood on a marble stair.
BYO mop.You`re to show standards of cleanliness.
The big hoose volunteered some.
What are you to get for all your troubles?
Goin` for 55.
Going by the probable reaction of the sevconians to the vote result, by their way of thinking, Scotland should be independent and the UK should still be in the EU!!
Though they`re still believing.
Detriment to their all.
Jesus,Joseph and Mary have a pound.(no backside jokes please.)
A blind man is invited in.
If the other two aren
t,youll go out of business.No independent enquiry, only 13 went with the huns, next we will hear screaming that everyone hates them. All these clubs should be bumped to the bottom division in a league of their own with the might Sevco
Shame on the lot of them.
They cared not a jot about financial cheating and collusion between the football governing body and the established club in 2012. Yet with football being the least of our worries at this moment they tried to hijack a just league title away from us with their wee cousins and the advisor of the orange lodges club.
Wee sleekit hun bastards
GIRFUY
Quick quiz.
Iain Mc Menamy, Chairman of Stenhousemuir FC. is also Advisor to…
(a) Tesco
(b) Lidl
(c) The Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland.
I know which one has the most currant buns.
was just about to bhoycot Tesco and Lidl when I read the quiz properly, lol
(d)The Fisherwoman with a handlines in Peterhead.
Then it`s a treble.
Facia double supplies and up stairs rational rental.
“If the meeting prior to the vote we lost had lasted 86 minutes we’d have won it.” Steven Gerrard.
I wont tell you who told me but…
sevco are purchasing a kit bus from China.
They work from anywhere,darling.
Alex Rae has disappeared from his twitter account!! LOL
That gardener in the pic above looks to have the same sleekit hunnish look of ally “gardening leave” mccoist
Having ‘class’ often means to take responsibility and not blame others for your own shortcomings.After the break, Sevco saw us play great football and open up a 13 point lead. This was done on merit, on the playing field. Last year, Sevco lacked enough class not to applaud our title. I suggest that rather than worry about tainted titles they might want to look at Gerrard, Morelos, Kent and others about their ‘tainted’ performances. The Hun variations: Old Rangers, Newco, Sevco have always hated Celtic more than they have loved their own club. Their only reason for all their bizarre behaviour is to try to deny us off the pitch what they could not do on the pitch. If those last 8 matches had been played, I am convinced that we would have won the league by at least 15 and maybe 20 points. Their club was simply outclassed on the pitch, and not just by Celtic. I suggest they act like sportsmen and then do all they can, on the pitch, to stop our ten in a row. If it’s asterisks they want, there was once a club in Scotland that deliberately used improperly ‘registered’ players and should have a string of asterisks for financial doping. Now, that would be real class.
Common sevco transmitted,grab an oar.
Let
s get this enquiry going you hun cvnts,its raining.Luv the 19%.
Ralph in response to the end of your peice
‘In short, the media have some pretty tough questions to answer themselves, but once again, we can only ask ‘
Tom english has responded to the vote result.On the website his drum banging begins with
” And so the spin begins ”
And ends with
” Rangers said at the weekend “this episode is far from finished”. We await their next move. And their next statement. And the ones from different places that come in its wake. Seconds out. Round two.”
You can picture him with his teeth gritted writing it.
Though its easy money , why do any real journalism when you get your cheque for writing crap like that.
” And so the spin begins ”
Who knew Tom English knew irony?
I`m no a bulling though.
Is a cvnt a bully?Too is.
a spokesman for the zombies stated weel squeem and squeem and squeem till yees chinge yer minds ha ha ha ha aint huns dumb
I see that U-hun Murray in the Guardian is backing the revolting Sevco call for an enquiry. I wonder what his view on Res12 is?
He’s “a Hearts fan.”
Oh yes he is.
Turns out that whilst not on SFM list he got the same incriminating bundle as the rest.
https://www.sfm.scot/sweet-little-lies/comment-page-1/#comment-33689
Make grass free.Plastic can GTF.
Regards: Kirk Water.
Partick didn’t vote for the Hun resolution despite media predictions beforehand (shock horror they got it wrong).
Gardiner was humiliated with not a single other Championship club voting with him/Huns.
So to recap:
1. He arranged a gang of 3 (ICT, Dundee and Partick) to sink the SPFL resolution to end the season on sporting merit.
2. He lost Dundee before the vote, so that resolution passed.
3. He’s now lost Partick, so he’s completely isolated in Championship.
We need this man at Ibrox NOW!
Language, Timothy.
So,that`s the fuss…
sevco FC have permission to open a Drive-In theatre in the Albion Car Park.
nacho novo is absolute scum.
A couple of point arising from the SFM blog.
1. Does it not explain the complaint against Res12 that not many supporters knew about it?
The number of journalist approached then and later, even those of a Celtic persuasion, tells you it was a batten down the hatches order, hatches Celtic had no interest in lifting.
2. The same bundle of documents was sent to Eric Riley as a member of the SFA Board in 2014. He was sent the 5 Way agreement draft in 2012 and accepted it. He failed to turn up at SPL Board Meeting that accepted the LNS Decision in 2013 and did nothing with the material that was on his desk in 2014.
So if you want to know why action was not taken that would have set LNS aside and taken titles won by cheating away, ask Eric.
If on the other hand that does not upset enough supporters to demand answers, then there is little point censuring Celtic for their part in something that was a source of anger amongst the support but perhaps diminished by time.