While all the talk around Resolution 12 seems to centre on the Guardian and other media outlet’s refusal to carry this advert…

….everyone seems to have ignored the fact that the much promised and much anticipated statement from Celtic FC has failed to materialise.

Thats because it isn’t going to happen.

CQN magazine , who have nobly carried the fight, tweeted somewhat vaguely yesterday,  when asked if there was to be a statement,

not sure tbh. They said they would but landscape has changed. They played their part.

As the site has consistently hinted at a staement that would appear first of all on their pges, it seems a little unusual that CQN are now “not sure ” , and claiming the “landscape has changed ”

Well, if they are “not sure”, should they not check ?

And if the “landscape has changed”, can they not ask how ?

And if “they played their part “, can we not have some clarifcation on who “they ” are, and what “part ” they played ?

Because I’ll tell you how it looks from here, and I’m seeing this rather clearly, I think, the new guy is in, the books have been sold, and Timmy can fuck off now.

Is that a realistic assessment of how the “landscape has changed ” ?

The support haven’t forgotten that we have been cheated.

We haven’t forgotten that the club hinted they were going to do something about it.

We won’t forget it if they don’t.

The SFA colluded in cheating us.

The club are doing nothing about it.

The club seem quite content for us to return to the pre liquidation days of accepting the uneven playing field, because one way or another it will return.

And have joined in with the all encompassing silence on the issue.

Completely unforgivable.

Completely unacceptable

But there is some good news

Your season book will still be valid under the new board. 

For Celtic to meekly accept, and therefore appear to  condone,  the behaviour of the SFA back in the last days of the old Rangers is unacceptable. To my mind, it is a gross neglect of their duty of responsibilty towards shareholders and supporters alike. 

But lets be honest, deep down we sort of expected it. 

Celtic. A Club Not Like Celtic Anymore 

At the time of writing, the fixtures list for the new season hadn’t been released, but our roving investigative reporters can reveal that Celtic will face pretty much the same teams as last year, though probably not in the same order, with the exclusion of Dundee United, who went down the way, and new club “rangers ” who came up the way. good luck to both as they start on their new adventures.

Rumours …rumours ….rumours.

If you say it three times one will appear.

We love a good rumour as much as anyone, so when we hear one, we’re happy to pass it on, regardless of the veracity, and it had to be said, this one appears to be completely devoid of veracity, and yet due to a shortage of good , old fashioned tittle tattle, we’ll go with it.

Air guitarist and Welsh international Hal Robson Kanu has agreed terms with Celtic and will join the club after the euros, or after his holiday after the euros, but before the champions League qualifiers. Or after them but before the League starts.

We aren’t sure of the details, or, indeed, the facts.

But apparently thats what his wife has told the babysitter, who then told someone who knows we know someone.

Even our rumours are better than the usual “I had that Zlatan Ibrahimovic in my cab the other day “-which , co-incidentally, was another one of ours.

If you missed any of our shite first time round, don’t worry, it usually pops up as someone elses exclusive sooner or later.

You’ll notice that the Diary, and indeed the site, very rarely gloats about anything it gets right ( theres a reason for that-Ed ) but what has started to get on my nerves are stories such as the one above.

We reported a few weeks ago that Carlton Cole was going to leave Celtic this summer and that has come to fruition, as reported by the Daily Record   

I can’t remember exactly how long ago we told you he’d disappeared from the ground and gone AWOL, and  I can’t remember when it was we told you he wasn’t coming back, but I do remember talking with journalist Ian Archer about it. On a landline telephone, and I had to wait for my neighbours to finish their conversation before I rang him.

And don’t get me started on the sporting website HITC, which I believe stands for Hoovering In Total Crap.

Mind you, we should be grateful for small mercies, as Accident and Emergency units all over Scotland were full to the brim with suspected heart attacks this morning, all because of a semantics failure at the Record. It made me look twice as well.

IT looks set to be yet another busy day of transfer news as Rangers close in on Clint Hill and Robert Lewandowski is linked with a move to England.

Two separate stories joined by a  a conjunction which would normally indicate a link between the subjects of a sentence, and suddenly there’s a load of bears keeling over clutching their chests in excitement.

From a possible hoops signing ( Robson Kanu) to a definite one, Ronny Deila legacy Kristoffer Ajer has been looking forward to joining Celtic…

As we reported exfuckingclusively a few weeks ago,  ( Look, I can do that too ) the hoops are back in training on Monday, and the Norwegian superkid ( look, I can do that as well ) has spoken to the official website, or at least, to someone who works for the official website who had a pen handy.

“It’s an advantage that I have been playing football so recently, and I was at an international tournament that went very well, so I feel in good shape. I’ve had two weeks off as well now so I also feel ready to play football again.

“I had two great years at IK Start and played a lot of games but this season we didn’t perform well as a team and now I’m just looking forward to joining Celtic and to start winning again. Now I am in top shape and ready to perform well in coming to Celtic.

“Brendan will decide where I play, but for me I have played well in the national team in my favoured position which is central midfield or as a deep-lying midfielder, But I will play anywhere I am asked although I feel that is where I am best.”  

It’s good that he will play anywhere he’s asked, as I wouldn’t be surprised if he was asked to play at Easter Road, for Hibernian.

“I’m travelling over to Glasgow on Saturday and we are going to look at flats next weekMy Mum and Dad will join me so they will stay here for one week and then I will go out to Slovenia they will come back. (sic-he probably means go back.  The same guy at the Record who wrote about Lewandowski presumably works for the official website as well )

“I feel really ready. I have trained so hard since I signed for Celtic and now I’m ready to play with some great players and be able to develop here and play some good matches in front of a huge amount of supporters at Celtic Park.”  

Of course, I hope the guy does well. And I hope he lives up to Ronny’s reccomendation, it would be nice for us to have something to remember the Norwegian manager by. something nice that is, but for me, there’s something else….and its a kind of landmark in my Celtic supporting career…

Kristoffer Vassbakk Ajer (born 17 April 1998) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Celtic in the Scottish Premiership, having previously played for Lillestrømand Start in the Tippeligaen.

He’s the first player to join the club from outwith the youth system who is actually younger than my youngest son….

Which means the inevitable isn’t far away, when I go to games like this…

as opposed to this…

Depressing or what ?

Still, big Chrisbhoy has already adapted the tarrier carrier…

I can already hear him saying , as we storm northwards on the M6..

” Who left the back door open ? ”  to be told..

“We all did “

As the years have gone by, long term Lennon CSC members have often joked about the day when we attend games with the tartan rug and wheelchair, laughingly discussing who will be pushing who,

The fact they’ve gone by so quickly means we must be having fun…

Someone we hope has fun in Blackburn, a notoriously difficult thing to do with out some form of artificial stimulation, is striker Anthony Stokes, who is away to join the Lancashire club on a three year deal.

We wish him well.

Anyway, its Friday , and as you know, that means it’s time for ….

Knob Of The Week! 

But first, here’s Ruth Dudley Edwards, who received the award last week, looking a little benused by her esudden rise to the A list of Knobs…

It’s been a tough one to decide again this week, with Gordon Smith setting the bar so high last Sunday, right up until this morning when Peter Lawwell staked his claim with his silence on the Resolution 12 issue, but the latter, along with the rest of the board,  is clearly aiming for an even more prestigious lifetime group non -achievement award.

Fair play , Peter, you and the guys are certainly putting the effort in.

At risk of upsetting one of my heroes from yesteryear, and on the park, its debatable whether Charlie nicholas would have been so succesful had he not started out alingside this guy, and so for that we must be a wee bit thankful, but it seems there’s something in the soup the media serve while interviewing these people, because Frank McGarvey has certainly ingested something, and so this week, after his spectacular ramblngs, some of which we recorded here, it gives me no pleasure, and I mean that,  to name this weeks

Knob Of The Week! 

as former Celt Frank McGarvey, pictured here with his book about rhyming slang.

Speaking fo books, the fifth and final copy of the Secret Assistant Manager is up for grabs today, and to win it all you have to do is to come up with a caption to go with a picture proving you can be  wittier and more topical than anyone elses.

And the competition is tough, as yesterdays entries showed… as great minds pored over what was really going on here..

But a winner did emerge, and it might not be to everyones liking, but i thought it was funny…

Now, that picture for today….