Being responsible is not always easy, especially when it comes to running a football club, where playing to the gallery offers vastly better short-term returns, and no doubt a rush of endorphins.
If your fans are engaged in an activity which regularly brings them to the attention of the courts, and your club into disrepute, it doesn’t matter what you think of the apparent offense. You may chant an offending song in the shower every morning month, but your only public comment on the matter can be to chastise and urge fans to desist.
Clubs in Scotland voted against what is known as strict liability. This means they are not held responsible for transgressions by their fans – and who wants to be held responsible for the actions of others who protected from personal liability by hiding in a crowd.
Part of the deal on not having strict liability is that clubs must demonstrate that they take all steps necessary to dissuade and educate their fans from carrying out criminal or regulatory offenses. It’s simply not possible for club to tell fans their illegal actions were justified, as this would place the club itself in the firing line.
The nonsense following the Scottish Cup final is all background noise as far as we are concerned, but be aware the contagion will spread beyond those you could consider highly dysfunctional operators.
Solving Kids Cancer in memory of Oscar Knox
Our own Bundoran Bhoy will run the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday on behalf of Solving Kids Cancer. He has put in an enormous amount of work ahead of the event, for a cause which you are only too familiar with.
26 miles is a long way to run. You can give him some encouragement on his Just Giving page.
Good luck, Tommy.
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GLENDALYSTONSILS on 29TH MAY 2016 2:25 PM
Two thoughts from last nights game;
What would Pepe be like if he got a REAL slap
and
Did Torres fail to turn up because he was too busy trying to get his hair band right?
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Funny I made similar comments to my son. Both of us thought Athletico played with 10 men.
Torres – what is the point?? What was Simeone watching?
Big George
WC just dropping hints and saying things are moving along nicely from the Res12 brigada
BGFC
A mate of mine texted the other day when you were posting about Plains. Thinks he might know you.
He lives in Bicester now,having spent a few years in Swindon.
Mad Tim,of course. Big lad,forties,white hair. Ian W.
Ring a bell?
BGFC
Its like the CQN X-Files.
Mystery heaped upon cryptic clue.
Doing my head in:)
HH
BGFC
And dont mention the word ‘Fenians’:)
The Prawn Sandwich Brigade will be on your case:)
HH
POGMATHONYAHUN
If the football authorities had any appetite for a clean sporting contest then Pepe should face a ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
They of course no that they cannot do that to the real power in what is starting to have no resemblance to an actual sport.
Also the referee knew that even though he called Pepe out on both simulations if he had followed the rules and sent him off it was a career ending move.
The sooner all pretense of it being a level playing field is dropped the better.
It has now become a rich mans moneymaker and since there is no way the present income can sustain this financially doped sham then they should just instigate their plan and hijack the sport ofr pure profit.
Pepe is a cheat in a what was once a sport that at one time would not tolerate such.
Bale and Renaldo both constantly dive and commentators justify as per instructions.
Football is now in wrestling territory .
A corrupt sham run for maximum profit.
The peoples game has been stolen.
TGM
Cryptic clues
Missing posts
Those dam fenians
This place is worse than the masons
:-)
TGM,
Huv you not got a thesis to write…..mibbe you should do one on the history of internet bampottery…..yerself excluded ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
A compromise that might lead to peace on the b!og. In recognition of the fine people who make up the Celtic support, or fine yins, we should entitle the song Brendan Rodgers fine yin army. Yes?
Excellent stuff from The Clumpany!
Wishing all bhoys & ghirls a joyful day and a successful season under Brendan Rogers! HAIL HAIL!
-Tambo
Fred C Dobs 12.34am
Don’t worry about thick ignorant drunk keyboard hard men. Most blogs have them…
Cheers guys fro the replies.
Bobby – might it be Wallace? I just turned 50 in March, so ages would be about right. I’m from what’s known as the bottom scheme (who were better at fitba, and more intelligent and handsome than the tap scheme wans).
Green Man – I think it would be like King Canute trying to turn back the tide. Was at Celtic Park when Brendan was introduced – the chant started, and that, as they say, is all she wrote …. :-)
HH
BGFC
PS
Don’t know if any CQN folks have been up at Strathyre Folk Festival over the past couple of days. Cracking event, about 20 acts over the three days. My wee band was playing yesterday – went down a storm!!! Kept it sensible – mixed company ;-)
HH
BGFC
Tuned into the CL final last night, and found it so rivetting that I fell asleep midway through the second half.
Missed the end of it.
Never happened when Celtic are playing,
HH!!
STAIRHEEDRAMMY
Not such a bad idea,bud.
The original chant-Paddy McCourt’s…Fenian Army-was superb when executed properly. But for me it doesn’t work just because someone is Irish.
Possibly as suggested earlier,Green and White Army. Wi the bonus of reminding the huns of two of the men who destroyed their club!
Burnley78
Open to all
GFTB
Sevco victim card strategy…follow, followed by cash warning, court cases and res 12 to come.
Plenty of laughs to come.
The Lurking Tim
My Thesis lives….just:)
Scoddish History….John Knox and the Reformation…..The Tartan Taliban:)…The Union of 1707, Disruption of the Church of Scotland….Industrialisation and Kaffliks….War…..Wee Nicola……Done and Dusted, Easy…but Boring.
But…of course…..that would be too easy:)
Still throwing the occasional gag into the narrative:)
Taking a break from my writer’s block…which is like Frankenstein’s monster:
HH
Had a wee search for the WC post.
Was it written in invisible type face?
MWD
BGFC
Yep. That’s the man!
Funny wee tale,BILLYBHOY05 moved there for a while early last year. I met him and his missus for a wee dayoooooot in Oxford.
He was bemoaning the fact that he couldnae find a Tim pub in Bicester-and that I must know sumdy from there!
Anyway,I had lost Ian’s number so was describing him so he would recognise him if he met him.
Ian walked past the pub window as I was doing that! I was outa the seat like a flash!!
Great lad. He lurks on here occasionally too. I’ll let him know you got him right away.
Cheers,mate. HH.
MoonbeamsWD
WC’s post is now in microdot form….somewhere:)
HH
Neil Francis summarising on radio 5 on the Barnsley v Millwall game, love listening to the wee man he knows his stuff
TINYTIM on 29TH MAY 2016 9:51 AM
Good point…
Under 17’s clinch title with 5-0 win.
Hope young Jordan Larsson scores soon am on Gothenburg with both teams scoring 2-0 to Gothenburg, surely Larsson will do me a wee turn……his dad certainly did
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 29TH MAY 2016 3:16 PM
You from the Plains?
To the two Bhoys that replied to my request about selling Shares thank you.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Murray wins first set
TAMBOURINE BHOY OF 1967 on 29TH MAY 2016 3:15 PM
Excellent stuff from The Clumpany!
Did he find the missing 1.53?
BMCUW,
Give my best regards to Billybhoy05. We had many spats during the Indy referendum, but I have nothing but the highest regard and best wishes for him. A good Celtic man who I would love to meet for a pint.
Hail, Hail to the all inclusive Celtic.
Passed your number to TBJ.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
All those ‘so- called journalists who ‘swallow’ the tripe coming out of Ibrox and from Traynor and Jackson – you know the ones I mean, namely:
Waddle/Cameron/Lindsay/Ralston and the like, and then print their own barely altered accounts, should be called the GERD = Garbage Esophegeal Reflux Desease.
Tripe and succulent lamb regurgitators.
Cheers young Jordan for setting up Dahlberg to notch for Helsinborgs, probably a good chance JL will now make it 2-2
Lennybhoy don’t sell your shares they will be worth a fortune when Brendan leads us to a massive 50year anniversary European final
Cheers for giving TBJ ma number, good man
TGM,
Eh?…..your writers block is a combination of cobbled together body parts….given a life of it’s own…..which is just misunderstood ;-))
FTSFA
where’smypitchforkCSC
H.H.
GREENPINATA
Bill is alive and well,living on the sunny Costa Ardrussin,as its locally pronounced.
He can be found frequently in a shore-front hotel bar which begins with L. Along wi my Uncle Jim and a few other fine fellas.
As you say,a guid lad if politically unsound(!)
I’ll get away with that,because he canny access the site until I explain how to turn off JavaScript on his iPhone!
BMCUWP
Apologies if I woke you up earlier M…..in mitigation…..a wiz bored ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
The Lurkin Tim
My writers block, according to my er..advisor…Professor Liloleman…is..’sheer procrastination’:)
He is probably right:)
HH
THELURKINTIM
You didn’t,bud. That phone was on a much-needed charge!
I’ll call you tomorrow if that’s ok. I wasn’t sure if you’d be up earlier.
FAN-A-TIC on 29TH MAY 2016 3:11 PM
In a nutshell.
Aitchison fires in a hat-trick as Celtic U17s seal league title https://t.co/ixoStbzrrA