Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has managed to register his image rights on the off-shore tax-efficient territory of Guernsey. Income received there for use of his rights everywhere else will not attract the kind of tax mere mortals pay in their daily lives.
Pellegrini, 60, developed a genial personality to combat profound ugliness, an affliction which has affected him for decades, so news that his image has commercial value is a wonderful boon for the multi-millionaire. Manchester City will also benefit as any monies they pay for use of their manager’s image will not attract tax or National Insurance contributions.
Uefa president, Michele Platini, who has never had to worry about ugliness, now has a different challenge. Whether or not to abandon his well-meaning Financial Fair Play aspirations, or get ugly on those who try to usurp his best intentions.
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” one would like a pie – bovril and Phillip – Capri sun for you ?”
tonydonnelly67
It’s no a case of sorting it.
The bhoys who were arrested today, and all the other days have had banning orders, and Celtic will not let them attend games.
So they are guilty of whatever the polis say, justice scoddish style.
I don’t know the in’s and out’s of a banning order, maybes one of our lawyers could enlighten us.
HH
Johann Murdoch
Good evening to your good self, I am coming up to Glasgow on the Train for the Ajax game could I book a seat at your ever popular pre dining experience in the merchant city
Old Tim
Train getting into Glasgow Central at 1301 where will we meet?
George Galloway@georgegalloway8h
Will ANY Scottish MP sign the parliamentary motion condemning the hate-fest at Ibrox involving the armed forces? Or are they feart?
TCN @CelticNetwork1 12m
If you’re in Govan tomorrow please show support for @AXEACTGovan
End this fascist bill and say YES to civil liberties
Congrats to Acacia Milan and manager Doubting Thomas for humping me in the CQN CL qualifiers, despite his lowly league position. :-)
MrsCRC only person in celticrollercoaster household to make the CQN CL group stages
CQN Europa League beckons
HH
CRC
Thomas Rannachan @AXEACTGovan
Campaign number: 07778113934 Please call
tomorrow folks to find out where we are if you
can help out or show support. Thanks
Malorbhoy – let me check
Just checked your on the list !!
” we done need no steen kin lists!!! “
I hear that Barcelona are after oor Sammi
” one would like one windfall ticket please yes you are correct it is me !! “
Zimmerman – sammi in contract talks – oops barca want him – can you see what is it yet? Hh
Hi Ghuys
I have it on good authority (ok, a taxi driver) that her maj will state “i can now exclusively reveal what the sleekit pie man whispered into Neilly bhoys ear recently ,and,I,d also just like to let you all know that I, just like Sevco fc across the clyde, have had a right Annus Horriblis lately.
HH
Phil
Johann Murdoch
Good Mhan
Malorbhoy
Barcelona Want Samaras And This Fan Poll Agrees
I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it.
Graham Spiers @GrahamSpiers
To those Celtic fans who are near-suicidal at
idea of HMRC ‘cutting a deal’ with RFC: it’s
no media figment. Duff + Phelps strongly
hinting.
Rangers are dead who cares if they do a deal with a corpse. lol!
Just signed on and am signing off straight away. Ballads are simply factual stories of various incidents in Irish History. Some might say they have no place in football grounds, that is a matter of opinion. However to arrest people for simply singing an Irish ballad is totally offensive to me. Anyhow I’m off now as I can easily see myself getting annoyed in this type of debate and I don’t want to fall out with anybody. Good Night All Hail Hail.
Roll of honour latest
Barca don’t want Sammi.
The Catalan media want Fraser.
E.T.
Hope your right,
only mentioned it because my son texted me from sunny Spain.
The Roll of Honour – where is the
offence?
Published on Wednesday 9th October, 2013 by
Celtic Trust
As the Police Service of Scotland conduct 7am
raids on the homes of young men who may, or
may not, have sung a song at a football
match some weeks ago, the Celtic Trust
publishes the words of the song and asks,
where does this song offer anyone any
offence? It represents a record of a particular
period in the history of the relationship
between Britain and Ireland (more than three
decades ago); it honours the memory of those
young men who fought for the cause of a
united Ireland (you don’t have to agree with
that to note their bravery) and it represents a
continuing aspiration to an Ireland free from
British rule and that is about it. It does not
use sectarian language, it doesn’t insult
anyone (except a state/system) and it does
not call on anyone to use violence nor does it
glorify violence. In the ultimate irony the
Scottish Government, through it’s national
police force, seeks to criminalise those who
honour men who died to oppose
criminalisation.
In very few conflicts is it ever wise or even
correct to assume that one side was
completely good and the other completely
bad. The thing about democracy is you
cannot say you are offended by someone
having a different interpretation of history or
politics and expect the state to protect you
from that offence, whether in a football ground
or anywhere else. We do not call on anyone
to sing this or any other song but we do say
that it does not offer offence (except where
people choose to be offended by the rights of
others to hold their own views) and it should
not be criminalised. The Offensive Behaviour
Act is anti-democratic and it needs to go.
Anyway, here are the words, so you decide:
Read the roll of honour for Ireland’s bravest
men
We must be united in memory of the ten,
England you’re a monster, don’t think that you
have won
We will never be defeated while Ireland has
such sons.
In those dreary H-Block cages ten brave
young Irishmen lay
Hungering for justice as their young lives
ebbed away,
For their rights as Irish soldiers and to free
their native land
They stood beside their leader – the gallant
Bobby Sands.
Chorus
Now they mourn Hughes in Bellaghy, Ray
McCreesh in Armagh’s hills
In those narrow streets of Derry they miss
O’Hara still,
They so proudly gave their young lives to
break Britannia’s hold
Their names will be remembered as history
unfolds.
Chorus
Through the war torn streets of Ulster the
black flags did sadly sway
To salute ten Irish martyrs the bravest of the
brave,
Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch,
Kieran Doherty
They gave their lives for freedom with Thomas
McElwee.
Chorus
Michael Devine from Derry you were the last to
die
With your nine brave companions with the
martyred dead you lie
Your souls cry out “Remember, our deaths
were not in vain.
Fight on and make our homeland a nation
once again !”
If you’re in Govan tomorrow please show
support for @AXEACTGovan End this fascist
bill and say YES to civil liberties
zimmerman
It’s international week, they need to fill up the papers.
El Mundo Deportivo is pish.
HH
Court Battle!!!
Blue on Blue!!!
Leggat V Sevco
http://t.co/Ba7ItEVO75
Courtesy of Paul McC
Hold yer sides
” one has been told that a special bus will be along shortly for me – sorry what fire? “
I’ll be in Govan tomorrow helping out the FAC candidate. I was there last sat giving out leaflets at Govan cross.
I don’t any of the young men and women who have been dragged from their beds by our Police force. I’ll be there because my children choose to sing Political songs and celebrate their Irish identity.
My daughters could go to any football game in Europe this weekend and sing Roll of Honour, while they may get a bit of hassle if they went the Engerlund game, one thing is certain. In no other country in Europe would you be arrested for singing Roll of Honour at a football game.
Another and probably the most important reason I’ll be in Govan tomorrow is that if my daughters were to sing Roll of Honour while on their way to a Christy Moore concert, then under Scots Law they wouldn’t be committing a crime, yet if they were on their way to a football game, only a football game, they would be committing a crime.
Is it only me that thinks this is crazy?
If you have 1 hour to spare please make yourself available to help out tomorrow.
Zimmerman – hi wasn’t having a go at you – re sammi – I saw same headline on Celtic news now – then thought – hold on wait a minute !! – hh
PFAyr or any other legal minds
I have a question…..
apart from singing offensive songs
The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act states…
6Threatening communications
(1)A person commits an offence if—
(a)the person communicates material to another person, and
(b)either Condition A or Condition B is satisfied.
(2)Condition A is that—
(a)the material consists of, contains or implies a threat, or an incitement, to carry out a seriously violent act against a person or against persons of a particular description,
(b)the material or the communication of it would be likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm, and
(c)the person communicating the material—
(i)intends by doing so to cause fear or alarm, or
(ii)is reckless as to whether the communication of the material would cause fear or alarm.
(3)For the purposes of Condition A, where the material consists of or includes an image (whether still or moving), the image is taken to imply a threat or incitement such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) if—
(a)the image depicts or implies the carrying out of a seriously violent act (whether actual or fictitious) against a person or against persons of a particular description (whether the person or persons depicted are living or dead or actual or fictitious), and
(b)a reasonable person would be likely to consider that the image implies the carrying out of a seriously violent act against an actual person or against actual persons of a particular description.
So with that in mind I take it the man brandishing the knife to Neil Lennon’s throat had his door chapped also ?
If not, why not? Is it because he is an Ulsterman living in England?
The act states….2Regulated football match: definition and meaning of behaviour “in relation to” match……..
(2)For the purposes of section 1(1), a person’s behaviour is in relation to a regulated football match if––
(a)it occurs—
(i)in the ground where the regulated football match is being held on the day on which it is being held,
(ii)while the person is entering or leaving (or trying to enter or leave) the ground where the regulated football match is being held, or
(iii)on a journey to or from the regulated football match, or
(b)it is directed towards, or is engaged in together with, another person who is—
(i)in the ground where the regulated football match is being held on the day on which it is being held,
So does this Act only apply to residents of Scotland?
Can a non resident Scot get done at all?
TET,
That’ll do for me,
johann murdoch,
no problem bud,..just glad its all bollocks.
HH.
My above post is a mess!
Basically I want to know if the Ulsterman living in England can get done for threatening communications of implied violence to a person who is at a football match?
monteblanco
There are no borders within the FOC, they can do me living in a cave in the depths of rural Spain, if they wanted, and there is more chance of them doing me, than there is of them doing a hun anywhere on the planet.
That would be the jist of things, sadly.
HH
monteblanco
You forgot subsection iv ext ii,b where it states:- unless in reference to any football manager wearing any article considered to be offensively green.
eddieinkirkmichael
22:51 on 9 October, 2013
I’ll be in Govan tomorrow helping out the FAC candidate. I was there last sat giving out leaflets at Govan cross.
…………………………………………
I can’t be with you tomorrow Eddie as I am babysitting grandchildren, but will be with you in spirit and hope that Thomas gets enough of a vote to embarrass the SNP.
I objected to the Bill and would support any means to get rid of the Act.
The injustices we are seeing now are the result of government and police forces trying to justify the laws they pushed through despite overwhelming opposition from all quarters. This was predictable.
Have a look at this video of one of the main movers in bringing this Bill on to the statute books.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgKS2CJueU
Then ask yourself if such a man should be in charge of fighting crime in Glasgow? He was Chief Constable shortly after this was filmed.
Scary.
To bed. H.H.
to neil lennon,
if you read CQN……many thanks for the pic of me and you tonight.
my daughter who’s studying in japan was well chuffed.
hail hail
Or to put it even more bizarrely, would I as a Scotsman be able to drive over the border and watch a game on TV in England and be able to sing ROH to my hearts content, live on Skype, without breaking the law?
ipaddy mccourt supports wee oscar
21:59 on 9 October, 2013
Why sing IRA songs at a game of football?
why not ?
Off for a wee sneaky week to Alcudia next week with family. Sun, beer and no work awakes. Bliss:-)
HH
CRC
There seems to be a few Sevconians wanting their names added to the CQN annual list.
Why would anyone who claims to be a long time lurker but has never posted, take such a sudden interest?