John Guidetti has put himself out there by letting us know he’ll score a hat-trick in next month’s League Cup semi-final. I’m not normally an advocate of showing confidence, if not contempt, for opponents prior to a game, but Guidetti’s comments come against a rich canvas.
The player is in a rut and will be feeling the weight of disappointment with each passing chance. He is a goal-scorer, he’ll score again, but he needs to find the spark to fire-up the second part of his season.
You will remember Kenny Miller ran his guts out in his early months as a Celtic player but it was not until a game against oldco Rangers in September that his landmark first Celtic goal arrived. Kris Commons has been a scoring sensation throughout his time at the club apart from his second season, when he took until April before scoring, a delightful chip over the oldco keeper.
Ahead of both of those games I knew it was all going to come together for Miller and Commons. John Guidetti has set himself a target. He will probably score before that game but he knows how important it is to perform at Hampden. He is good enough to deliver on this one, don’t bet against him.
Contrast John’s comments to those last week from newco defender, Steven Smith, who said, “The fans will probably be dreading [the Celtic game]because in the big games this season, we haven’t done well. Everybody has got their opinions and are entitled to them.
“But with the results we have been having and the way we have been playing, I don’t think we can think about it too much.”
You will be hard pushed to find a clearer example of the language of failure: “dreading”, “haven’t done well” and “the way we’ve been playing”. You normally need to work a bit to find a player’s insecurities. It’s good of John Guidetti to mark his card on what to expect. Give me a confident striker over a scared defender any day.
The Second Annual Celtic Supporter’s Féile is on the weekend of Friday 30 January 30 – Sunday 1 February in Philadelphia. The events include live music each day, the US premier of The Asterisk Years, with a Q&A with Paul Larkin and Graham Wilson of Beyond the Waves podcast, as well as live coverage of our first ever meeting with newco Rangers in the League Cup semi-final.
You can find more information, including how to book, here.
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Interesting post Summa – I think that guy sounds genuine, depends who reported the story though but lots of quotes. I prefer that to a ‘source’ revealed!
Hope you and yours are keeping well ma mhan
Hail Hail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3uxZpZXaNY
Ffm…. Do you ever sleep?? Or do you have an easy night shift job?? Ha ha :-)
Some cracking tunes from you as always and that’s the first time I’ve heard of Conor Kelly that proudbhoy posted…. Brilliant song.
Hail Hail
larssonse7en
06:26 on 13 January, 2015
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Great song so it is.. not sure who wrote it.
Not sure where your based but Conor plays in band called Glasnevin who play around glasgow alot i think. Havent saw them myself.
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Can Anyone see My Post @ 6:08am..?
Summa
Cheers proudbhoy I’ve heard of that band but never seen them. Been a few places in the past few years but was Glasgow 7 years before that or maybe they’ve been on somewhere and I didn’t realise… Mchuiils failte or the gallowgate / merchant city
Also… On iPad…. No way am I correcting typos…. Way too long and fussy!! :-)
Summa…. Yes. I also replied a few down. JJ was saying about that earlier…. I think you need to wait for the next page and then go back.
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Larssonse7en..
All Guid here Buddi..
Hope you are the Same..
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Mine disappeared there too…. I think you need to refresh the page
Yes… Just looking forward to getting properly back on track this year.
What device you using?
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Courtesy: Do the Bouncy..
20 Million Reasons for a Public Enquiry
http://www.dothebouncy.com/articles/20-million-reasons-for-a-public-enquiry/
NB:l have removed the Links in Article (Six)..They can be viewed above..Summa
Written by D’Artagnan
It’s good to see that HMRC’s latest failing – being unable to furnish costs of their continual and apparently relentless pursuit of Rangers over EBT’s – has galvanised the Rangers support into a long overdue unified sense of purpose. After a period of unhelpful adjectives and metaphors, which military men would aptly describe as “blue on blue”, we are at long last reminding ourselves where the real enemies of our club are, and it’s certainly not from within.
It is not surprising that HMRC’s latest hypocritical incompetency, and I use that term deliberately in view of the fact we are talking about an investigative government agency who hold both private individuals and companies accountable for failing to keep meticulous financial records, has given rise amongst some of our fans to suggestions of a grandiose conspiracy. I don’t subscribe to such a conspiracy theory, and those who read this blog regularly will know that as far as I’m concerned “Evidence is king”. There appears to be little or no evidence available at this time to suggest any high level conspiracy, instead I will in the course of this article offer you an alternative evidence based theory to explain why HMRC’s pursuit of our club has all the characteristics of a witch hunt.
Before dismissing such a conspiracy theory completely however it is worthwhile pointing out that the South African Tax Authorities have recently discovered what has been described as a rogue unit working within their organisation. Furthermore much closer to home, the families of the Hillsborough victims had to suffer considerable ridicule for suggesting that the Police were involved in some kind of conspiratorial cover up over events that tragic day. Several years later the 160 odd altered Police Statements and deliberate, false and malicious briefing of the press by the Police, are now a matter of public record and the subject of an ongoing enquiry. Therefore despite the absence of evidence of conspiracy perhaps the best course available to us is to at least keep an open mind whilst concentrating on the evidence which is available to us.
Discounting such a conspiracy theory does not however also discount the ruthless nature of this enquiry, nor the attempts by HMRC to deliberately mislead the Rangers support during the course of it. It would come as no surprise to any of us if, in the near future evidence was uncovered which demonstrates HMRC have acted in both an unscrupulous, unprofessional and unedifying manner throughout the course of this enquiry. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Some will note the particular irony of HMRC paying for stolen evidence, given the fact a considerable amount of evidence in the Rangers Tax Tribunal, ended up in the possession of BBC Scotland journalists and proved to be the catalyst to “The men who sold the jerseys” documentary.
However the Redknapp case was not the only one which had brought the professionalism and competency of HMRC under a very public spotlight, leaving it’s investigators with red faces and questions being asked.
I doubt there is a Rangers fan out there who doesn’t feel a sense of the tunnel vision Mr Cassidy alludes to during the Montpelier case. It appears history may well be repeating itself as HMRC continue to pursue Rangers despite a number of failed appeals chaired by some of the most qualified tax experts in the country.
These spectacular high profile failings and questions of competency, integrity and professionalism served to bring HMRC very much under an intense spotlight, most notably by the public accounts committee.
So we have a government investigative agency, with a spectacular series of high profile failures, even despite indulging in some fairly unscrupulous means of obtaining evidence which in itself calls into question the very integrity of the organisation itself, under considerable pressure to re-dress their very public humiliation in a series of failed prosecutions.
It certainly puts into some kind of perspective the relentless and ruthless nature of HMRC’s pursuit of Rangers. Quite simply after so many failings they simply had to get a result.
But if HMRC were in a bit of a hole prior to and during the investigation, rather than stop digging as the age old saying goes, they appear to have taken the equivalent of a JCB to the situation.
Apologies for the following paragraph in advance, as it deals mainly in conjecture rather than facts, but it is worth mentioning all the same. Despite HMRC’s claim to be unable to furnish the cost of the Rangers Tax Case, rumours abound of figures at or around the £10 million mark. Furthermore it is common knowledge that Sir David Murray attempted to settle with HMRC over EBT’s offering anything between 10-12 million pounds. Even taking the lower settlement figure HMRC are now looking not only at £10 million lost revenue, but also perhaps £10 million costs for pursuing a case against a company from whom they will be unable to recoup anything even if they were to eventually be successful in a forthcoming appeal. One wonders what the Public Accounts Committee will make of all this.
Moving on from public accounts to public accountability and the HMRC JCB appears to have been working in overdrive to dig a bigger hole for themselves.
Perhaps HMRC would care to explain to Rangers shareholders, and any other interested parties for that matter, why they allowed Craig Whyte, who they were already pursuing for a sum of £3.7 million and whom they had threatened with bankruptcy as a result of failed tax returns, to take control of an organisation and run it into the ground by failing to make PAYE payments for nearly 9 months. If you cannot hear the alarm bells by now, then you either are deaf or have your fingers, quite firmly, in your ears.
HMRC’s JCB next wrong turn was in the form of a generic reply via correspondence. As thousands of Rangers supporters and shareholders wrote to complain about confidential tax documents and other paperwork appearing in the public domain, HMRC responded by asserting it did not comment or respond to speculation about alleged breaches of confidentiality.
“Speculation”? “Alleged”? The subject of those complaints were The Rangers Tax Case Blog and the BBC Documentary “The men who sold the jerseys” both of which went onto win national awards, with the latter being broadcast on national television.
Journalist Tom English described the Rangers Tax Case Blog as follows:
“If you wanted to know the latest news on their tax travails, rangerstaxcase was a place you went because, unlike newspapers or radio stations, rangerstaxcase was connected to the heart of the FTT and everybody knew it.
It had documents and detail that were beyond dispute. When illustrating one point it was making it would summon up information that could only have come from somebody within, or very close to, the tribunal”
(The Scotsman 25.11.2012)
Why have HMRC deliberately prevaricated and failed to respond to this clear breach of confidential information. How can they justify describing a national television broadcast and an award winning blog, whose plaudits and awards are based around the revealing of confidential information, as mere “speculation”? As others outside the Rangers community have since commented both these outlets of confidential information presented it such a way as to infer the guilt of Rangers FC. Was the same unscrupulous culture within HMRC which saw them buy stolen property in the Redknapp case alive and kicking also in the Rangers Tax Case – a kind of win at all costs mentality?
Whilst the source and nature of those confidential leaks has been subject to many theories and discussions, confirmation about one of the sources was provided courtesy of Lord Nimmo Smith, in his SPL Independent Commission Report.
“Meanwhile, BBC Scotland came, by unknown means, into possession of what they described as “dozens of secret emails, letters and documents”, which we understand were the productions before the Tax Tribunal. These formed the basis of a programme entitled “Rangers – The Men Who Sold the Jerseys”, which was broadcast on 23 May 2012. BBC Scotland also published copious material on its website. The published material included a table containing the names of Rangers players, coaches and staff who were beneficiaries of the MGMRT, and how much they received through that trust.”
(Section 98)
Perhaps not so much a case of “Who sold the jerseys” but more of a case of Who sold the evidence?
That is of course the evidence, or as Lord Nimmo Smith terms “productions”, which was seized by HMRC during the course of their investigation into Rangers and which was presented before the Tax Tribunal.
The question is why the removal of this evidence and its subsequent use in the BBC Scotland documentary aforementioned, was not the subject of a Police enquiry until after the verdict of the tax tribunal, when complaints by both Sir David Murray and myself saw the launching of a criminal enquiry.
It raises serious questions about the safe handling and storing of productions, as well as duties and responsibilities of investigative agencies with regard to the loss or theft of productions. In particular it raises questions about how and why Lord Nimmo Smith was able to arrive at such a conclusions with regard to the source of the material which BBC Scotland subsequently came into possession of.
It’s time for you to deliver Mr Cameron and the Rangers support will not rest until you do. We want a full government enquiry into this whole process and we will not rest until we get it.
We will play to win – and win at all costs
Summa
Fit a lot a pish
Good morning friends from East Kilbride where the town’s inhabitants are waking up to a light dusting of snow. Windscreen scrapeability factor currently undetermined.
Jobo
larssonse7en
06:41 on 13 January, 2015
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Nearly 5yrs since iv been in glasgow… failte or brazen head was always my spots after the games.
Gallowgate for couple of pints if we had time before the game.
The crown creighton was my local…. Still regard it as that but always mobbed before game… Was in the brazen a few times.
larssonse7en,
Sleep, my friend, is for the weak… :))
Nah, I sleep more than I should to be fair.
It’s my awake time that’s away to pot…….
Anyway, typing this with one eye, and nodding off again…. HH
So, let me get this right….the bloggers of a, Celtic supporters blog were the content of the blogs discussions is 99.9999999999999999% about – Rangers, want to make a ‘statement’ to be published in a newspaper which is, kicked-up and down the same blog, on a daily basis by the same Celtic supporters who, want to make a ‘statement’ – informing anybody who can be ersed reading the newspaper in question that, the Celtic supporters from the blog which represents, 00000000000000000000000000.03% of the Celtic support – world-wide that, although their bloggers are – in the main – consumed by events at Rangers, that…Celtic supporters no longer want to be classed as old firm supporters or, to be referred to in any old firm context as – Rangers FC died and dont exist anymore?
Well…yeez urny sheep, dafties, clowns, dicks, deluded…nah yeez are none of that.
Yeez are beyond recall….good luck.
Off oot, tae the real world, bye.
I’m logging off now too mhan…. Catch you later… Hail Hail
Good morning CQNers,
Summa of Sammi….06:49
It speaks volumes the BBC Scotland documentary ‘the men who sold the jerseys’ and the ‘rangerstaxcase’ blog were award winners – all “D’Artagnan” has is bluster and veiled threats, an unfortunate caricature but one that is all too representative of the dead club’s supporters.
What an unnecessary waste of zero’s there ;-)
KevJungle @ 07:33
I look forward to receiving my copy of the Herald that contains the statement from a sizable section of the Celtic support. In England, where I live, my attempts to educate are contemptuously dismissed with you’re as bad as they are. This statement will provide those like myself with the first real definitive unambiguous clarification that we wish to dis-associate ourselves from a media made pairing.
The club may be working to a different dynamic and narrative but the support is attempting to keep them honest and I applaud those guy who got off their arses and actually did something positive.
Cracker Jobo :-) :-)
proudbhoy,
90 Miles from Dublin – lovely. Very difficult song to sing I believe, but that was a joy to hear.
Recognise that singer singing Mind Blocked Shut – will keep an eye out for him.
The Conor Kelly song put me in mind of this fella – thanks for sharing, much appreciated – hope to hear more in the near future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJTPV2clKZs
Sufferin copulatin Aberdonian Canamalarisms!
Fit the pish is this? …
What an unnecessary use of an apostrophe there! :-).
Gotta go but before I do I think congratulations go to the woman who had the foresight to bring the video camera to record the match in which Stephanie Roach scored the spectcular goal that finished 2nd in Fifa’s Goal of the Year
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30786318
There can never be an unnecessary use of apostrophe’s.
Murdochbhoy
No congratulations from me!
She messed up, and cost Stephamessi the award!
No camera behind the goal, or on the opposite side of the pitch, no super slo-mo, no Jamie Carragher to talk about the terrible defending.
What was she thinking about??
Good morning CQN
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl/auction-of-johnny-doyle-s-celtic-memorabilia-1-3658331
Doyle died in 1981 when he was electrocuted while working on his home.
His cap has been valued at between £7,000 and £10,000, with his Scotland jersey set to fetch £1,000 to £2,000. His Celtic shirt – worn in the 4-2 win over Rangers in May 1979 that secured the title for Celtic – is estimated to fetch between £2,000 and £4,000. Both medals are valued at between £2,500 and £3,500.
Other items in the 180 lot sale include a commemorative Lisbon Lions 25th anniversary jersey with 14 signatures, which has an estimate of £5,000 to £7,000.
The Sports auction will run on McTear’s http://www.gallery1842.com website until29th January.
Deila said: “We have too many players and in my mind it’s much better to have 20 to 22 players of a good level and then fill it with youngsters instead of having 28, 29 players.”
Well said Ronny, time for a clear out. There’s plenty you can get rid of.
Prize awaits the first to count the 0s before the point.
FFS, KevJ, yer a meikle muckin offski-er
Off oot myself, see you there….
Bolleaux’s.
RD wants to trim squad to 20-22 with youngsters making up the rest.
Financially- this makes sense for Celtic if the smaller squad can include some better paid, better quality players to allow us to compete at European level.
Whether PL sees it this way however….
I’d get shot of;
Efe
Adam
Charlie M
Beram Kayal
James Forrest
Derk B
Amido Balde
Teemu Pukki
Wakaso
Gary67
08:12 on 13 January, 2015
Deila said: “We have too many players and in my mind it’s much better to have 20 to 22 players of a good level and then fill it with youngsters instead of having 28, 29 players.”
Well said Ronny, time for a clear out. There’s plenty you can get rid of.
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As an RD supporter, even I can see that’s showing a lack of awareness of the annual injury list to be expected from legalised assaults on the average Scottish “je suis blu” football pitch, or “la fee verte” as it might be known here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3C0a7-KTo
Gary 67
Interesting comment from a coach who brought in Berget,Tonev and Wakaso
Then plays a striker ( Stokes) in their position ……
Btw ..I think that’s the way forward …
Morning Timland from a freezing hun free mountain valley.
Really appreciate all you good wishes bhoys, thanks.
PFayr
How many times :)
RD brought in one player, failure agreed, Berget, the rest had feck all to do with him, lay that at JP’s door.
HH