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You can set your watch by it.  On Saturday, when discussing the reaction to Celtic’s goal against Hearts, I wrote, “Celtic will face the consequences of Thursday’s decision.”  And how.  They faced a litany of incorrectly flagged offsides at Tannadice yesterday.  The appropriately named Calum Butcher’s studs-first assault on David Turnbull did not received the red card it clearly deserved.  Referees have clearly been cowed by the coordinated reaction since Thursday evening.

Despite one over-eager pundit on Sky Sports, TV pictures of the goal on Thursday were inconclusive.  Celtic were denied a good goal when they met Hearts earlier in the season in a game they would go on to lose.  Clearly wrong decisions happen every week, commonly at some grounds.

However, the outrage over this particular incident tells you all you need to know about how Scotland works.  The assistant referee who judged the goal good has had his religion and heritage explored online, the media have had a feeding frenzy and SFA Head of Referee Operations (HoRO), Crawford Allan, chose to depart from protocol to say that in his opinion, Celtic were advantaged.

Allan’s intervention in this incident is without precedent.  He was not running the line, nor on the Review Panel, therefore he is not competent to comment on the incident.  When asked, a passive response is all that he is entitled to give.

Instead, he ramped up the pressure on his officials when refereeing Celtic, permitting the officiating we witnessed at Tannadice yesterday.  Perceived injustice rattling about a media echo chamber that drew in the SFA HoRO created a false impression that Celtic unfairly benefit from referee mistakes.

Crawford Allan’s job is not to re-referee Celtic games.  His position gives him a responsibility to comment on specifics with propriety.  I have no prior beef with him, he may otherwise be an excellent HoRO, but you knew, and I knew, there would be severe consequences for Celtic for some in the media deciding they ‘got away with one’.  He should have known the result of stepping outside this remit to pour some petrol on the flames.

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  1. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    This ban on Sevco fans travelling to Lyon is a clear infringement of civil liberties.

     

     

    I hope they defy it in huge numbers.

     

     

    What’s the problem?

     

     

    Anglo-French diplomacy is in rude health post-Brexit.

     

     

    French respect for the UK’s sense of identity (and it’s enforcement of it) has never been higher.

     

     

    Sevco fans are the very personification of that UK Identity

     

    (they must be – Richard Wilson says so).

     

     

    I’m sure if thousands of Sevco fans make the trip ….

     

     

    …. they will experience a welcome completely commensurate with the current bilateral zeitgeist …

     

     

    … from the citizenry, gendarmerie, army and justiciary of French.

     

     

    Allez Les Bleus

  2. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    PS – they shouldn’t wear masks either.

     

     

    Except in cases of extreme uglin ….

     

     

    Ach, Ok. They should all wear masks

  4. Saint Stivs on

    Sevco fans are the very personification of that UK Identity

     

     

     

     

    (they must be – Richard Wilson says so).

     

     

    ——————–

     

     

    EYE DONT BELIEVE IT

  5. Hot Smoked on

    ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 6:54 PM

     

     

    “Higgins was enforcing SNP legislation introduced to even up the score against Celtic fans.”

     

     

    I wholly accept your statement above. What I think you are missing, though —and it is very important — is HOW that legislation was enforced by some of Higgins` officers.

  7. Saint Stivs on

    BERZ BERZ BERZ BERZ,

     

     

    calm doon calm doon enough of that now, i get where your coming from.

     

     

    so here is my proposal, i will take the racing club de paris bike, from the inner chamber of the marble temple, and i will pedal myslef all the way to france myself. ………………….

  9. An Tearmann on

    St.Stivs

     

    Re LinkedIn

     

     

    It was good Celt Martim1980 who suggested that.seem to recall my search not coming to anything at the time too,tho I thought that may be down to the closing date having passed.

     

    :-)

     

     

    HH

  10. Saint Stivs on

    whit you talking aboot sammy, its the em ….. the em, och, ok , you take the racing bike, after all racing bikes are named, and why we the rangers have 15 tour de france trophies in the asset list of the club not the company.

     

     

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    15/3/06

     

     

    Dear Sir,

     

     

    On a recent visit to Ibrox, I queried the statement, made by the guide, that the bike displayed in the Trophy Room was gifted by St Etienne of France. I said to the gentleman, not he quiet, “you’ve got that wrong sir, it was the Racing Club de Paris who gave that bike, because I remember seeing the small plaque on it, during the 1970s, when I visited the Trophy Room then.”

     

     

    Anyway, the guide was adamant. No sir, it was St Etienne, so I said :- well sir, no disrespect to yourself, but I’m going to write to the club about this, because this is not correct re. the story the fans are being told.

     

     

    Imagine my consternation, when I got a letter back, from the club, saying, that they had checked with Mr Sandy Jardine, and he had said; the guide was quite correct. So I decided to write to you for verification.

     

     

    What I think happened is:- Rangers FC, re-modernised the Trophy Room about 10-15 years ago, and the card from “Racing Club de Paris” was lost. I hope you can get this cleared up because, one of the things I pride myself on:- I have an excellent memory for Glasgow Rangers history.

     

     

    “Aye Ready”

     

     

    Your sincerely,

     

     

    SAMUEL MORRELL

     

     

    I had a quick chat with Robert McElroy, the editor of the Rangers Historian, last night and he reckons the two matches, home and away we played against Racing Club de Paris may have come about due to the fact former Ranger Albert Gudmundsson, had also played for Racing Club, 1949-52. Albert would go on to serve as Iceland’s Minister of Finance and Minister of Industry. Furthermore, Albert had also been at Arsenal and they had a long tradition of playing Racing Club for the benefit of ‘war invalids’ – http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rcparsenal.html – that may prove to be a bit speculative.

     

     

    Growing up, the story my generation had was that the bike in the trophy room was a gift from Saint Etienne when we played them in late 1975 – they would go on to lose the European Cup Final against Bayern at Hampden in May 1976. There were two slightly different versions of why they presented a bike – one was that the winner of the Tour de France was a local lad, the other was that a stage of the Tour had gone through St Etienne that year.

     

     

    Either story is not unreasonable – in my time deal with French rugby teams they often make presentations during the Protocol featuring gifts related to the town, region or the home village of the captain. As such I’ve seen wine, calvados and trays of tomatoes presented!

     

     

     

     

    Willie Thornton’s book “Blue Heaven – The Ibrox Trophy Room” details the presentation of an “attractive and imaginative gift of a genuine French miner’s lamp was presented by our opponents in the second round of the 1975/76 European Champions’ Cup.”

     

     

    A Rangers News clipping from 1975 suggests the bike was indeed from St Etienne and the firm who made it, Manufrance, “sponsors many of the French side’s domestic games.”

     

     

    Two threads on our old FootyMad site discussed the bike and the earlier ties against St Etienne in 1957 – which are well worth reading, some fantastic memorabilia on display in the 1957 thread.

     

     

     

     

    OLD THREAD – http://forum.rangers-mad.co.uk/showthread.php?1089279-Bike-in-the-Ibrox-trophy-room

     

     

    ST ETIENNE 1957 THREAD – http://forum.rangers-mad.co.uk/showthread.php?1027164-Rangers-v-St-Etienne-1957/page2

     

     

    The evidence is fragmentary and contradictory – were there two bikes from French clubs? Why would St Etienne present two gifts? As ever, we ask the readers of Follow Follow to search their memories and archives to see if we can get a definitive answer.

  15. Almore on

    SAINT STIVS on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 8:24 PM

     

    berz, berz, bers, calm doon, calm doon,

     

     

    😂😂😂

  27. IniquitousIV on

    BACK TO BASICS @ 8:19 and

     

    SAINT STIVS @ 8:24

     

    2 LOL moments in 2 successive emails!

     

    Unusual, but tres enjoyable!

     

    Thank you!

  31. Sionnaigh on

    “For it’s a Grand Ol team to play for” ringing out on the tannoy and from the stands at Goodison Park tonight.

     

    Well played the St Domingos!

  34. JHB on

    HOT SMOKED @ 8:29

     

    ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH DECEMBER 2021 6:54 PM

     

     

    “Higgins was enforcing SNP legislation introduced to even up the score against Celtic fans.”

     

     

    I wholly accept your statement above. What I think you are missing, though —and it is very important — is HOW that legislation was enforced by some of Higgins` officers.

     

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    If we go down that avenue, and of course some do – we should look at something more serious involving the SNPcult as an example.

     

     

    Sturgeon says she & her politburo were acting on “clinical advice” when she & Freeman nodded through the transfer of 2500+ elderly patients from hospitals to the petri-dish environment of care homes and ultimately to their death at the start of the Covid spread in Scotland.

     

     

    No matter what advice is given, or, received, ultimate responsibility for implimentation lies with the lawmakers – the decision-makers.

     

     

    Sturgeon & Freeman in other circumstances could/should be charged with culpable homicide – not those who filled out paperwork, or, the porters who ferried those souls to and from transport, or, the ambulance drivers, or those receiving into care homes.

     

     

    Higgins was one of those charged by the SNPcult in Holyrood to carry out the discredited OB act. A piece of legislation dreamt-up once again inside the Nationalist’s politburo and designed to be vindictive & targeted. Higgins was a foot-soldier, like NHS staff & ambulance drivers.

     

     

    SNPcult government turned regional Police Forces into a de-facto national guard in order to exert maximum political control and shorten the lines of communication. Higgins and others like him were/are closely

     

    & politically controlled.

     

     

    Those agitating against the Higgins appointment should think things through – they won’t because they are wilfully SNPcult-blind on all things.

  40. Hot Smoked on

    Does anyone know why Glasgow City play in orange?

     

    Surely it is not because of that infamous Order?

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