After they hatched their plan to blackmail Scottish Football League clubs into voting Newco into the First Division, Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir might have paused to wonder what reaction they would receive.
You better believe they didn’t anticipate the reaction today from Clyde and Raith Rovers. Rovers chairman, Turnbull Hutton, told BBC Scotland’s Jim Spence, “If we are at the stage of bending rules and accommodating, threatening and blackmailing, we want to give it up.”
“Bending rules… threatening… blackmailing…we want to give it up”.
Hutton went on to suggest heads should roll at the SFL, SFA and SPL. He’s the first from within the football establishment to call for sackings but he’ll not be the last.
An extensive statement by Clyde FC concluded, “The papers include a proposal to allow a Newco to enter the 1st Division. This is contrary to the rules of the SFL and nothing within the papers justifies this proposal.”
Regan, Doncaster and Longmuir will now be contemplating that their bully-boy tactics will fail. SLF clubs will vote against their recommendations and SPL clubs will not stop promotion from the lower leagues based on merit. It looks like abject failure of leadership.
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The Battered Bunnet on 30 June, 2012 at 17:34
Great post.
Personally speaking I believe the football authorities have treated the the oldco FC formerly know as RFC as a club too big to fail and this has been going on for many years.
The football authorities in Scotland i.e. the SFA the SPL stand accused of turning a blind eye, duplicity or gross negligence of duty…take your pick gentlemen.
The people are speaking CSC
HAMILTONTIM 1441
Just for you……….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJSAxxPF-s
Top Corner
Ah heard yur only rentin it.
Awe Naw
There is no ‘tryst’, he’s my bitch!! :-)
Sevco 5088 – Team Bus
Miki 67 …… Pity it wasn’t 1697 ….we could have had a field day with the numbers
Sparkleghirl …… Orange ball…..brilliant
Hesitated to post keevin’s shoite, but glad I did now ……. Let’s everyone seek what a little slug he really is……
Merline Ottey ran for Slovenia in Olympic trial at age 52 [didn’t make it]
Knowing they will soon be facing a combination of the chop or legal proceedings, are they trying to shoehorn the hundead into the game before they go ?
BMCUW
Definitely!!
On the bright side it has stopped raining for the time being.
Do you work on a Friday???
The comical queue of aspirants trying to take control of the rancid remains of Ra Peepul’s club has been amusing & completely satisfying. Little did we think that there was even more ridiculous still to come.
Who could have dreamt up a bid by the PERFECT man for the job ?
Bumbler Brown,.. incoherent, alcoholic, chlorophobic buffoon.
I find it hard to believe that some people want this farce to end soon.
I hope it outruns The Mousetrap.
Parkhead Railway Station closed in 1964.
Bourne
Really interesting, never knew that Parkhead had a train station.
Any idea where it was located?
Last nights Wimbledon commentary team of Tim Henman and John McEnroe had a combined tally of 17 grand slam victories between them.
CANAMALAR 1439
I read back on your feud when I got up this morning-by which time you had hit yer cot.
Good on you,bud.
You might have been hitting the wrong person-because I would not wish the argument to be personal-but you certainly hit the right mindset.
You are not the only person on here who railed against the board selling the fans down the river,particularly at the start of the season,or the refusal to back them over the Rennes fiasco.
A fair few others did too.
But there are few who have been steadfast on it,IMO.
What’s that Latin expression about carborundum?
HAMILTON TIM 1451
Canny really call it working,but I have been known to turn up.
Unfortunately I have to be sober,so,actually,that really IS hard work….
Did anyone listen to some of the words in ff at bombers bash ..?
BMCWP,
Careful now, there’s people out there making lists :o)
If Sky realises it’s going to lose bucketloads of cash they will not try to resurrect the 4 game myth to entice waverers. In fact,they’ll do the opposite. They’ll insist to the sfa/spl/sfl that there be no masonic ‘club’ ghosted in anywhere. They’ll do this for revenue’s sake. Money doesn’t just talk for a corporation : it shouts and stamps. And Sky doesn’t want bad publicity ; it wants money…our money.
Anyway,if ole Rupert (is he a bear?) can buy and sell British governments,ffs,then surely he can do us all a wee penitential favour and utterly demolish any chance of the ugly mob resurrecting themselves in any guise.
:-)
nolite tes bastardes corborundorum?
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice HAS prevailed on 1 July, 2012 at 14:49 said:
>>>>
23 Skidoo!
:-)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 1 July, 2012 at 14:57 said:
“Don’t let the barstewards grind you down”
bournesouprecipe on 1 July, 2012 at 14:47 said:
>>>
Way too big!
BMCUW
Will be in touch I may be able to have that pint with you in a few weeks time.
HT
Whitby St, which is to the east of Celtic Park, the picture (from wiki) depicts the new floodlights which went up in 1959.
“Nil illegitimi carbonara, Rodney, nil illegitimi…”
CANAMALAR 1500
Aye. There are one or two people who believe the battle is won,and others who know that the war goes on.
I don’t quite have your propensity to remember past comments,though I generally remember the tone. Many of the posters you have cause to call to account were also in the forefront of the fight for the truth to come out.
In that respect,we have all won.
But it ain’t won yet.
The Celtic end in the olden days was called ”the Railway end’.
Where have all the hunlurkers gone, long time passing….
Where have all the hunlurkers gone, long time ago……….
Where have all the hunlurkers gone, gone to P themselves every one….
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn………
DBBIA
So was it positioned where Barrowfield is now?
BMCUW,
Nothing won yet, but things look promising, so promising I’m thinking about my apology to the main players and returning to the hallowed field of dreams.
Hail hail
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 1 July, 2012 at 15:09 said:
Naw it wisnae, it wis called the sellik end……LOL
hamiltontim on 1 July, 2012 at 15:10 said:
Naw, it was behind the sellik end…..near the Gallowgate
thanks for the photo bournesoup… reminds me of how a glimpse of those floodlights used to make a shiver go up the spine! They were the sentinels of paradise.
Badgeman
Roddy McKay from South Uist
HAMILTON TIM
Smashin’!
Give me a year or three to save up for it…….
IANBHOY929
Cheers,that’s the one.
Dunno the Latin,mind. First exam I ever failed.
No doubt PHILVISRETURNS will know it as his teachers only conversed in Latin and superiority.
LOL………
Hardly the last,though……….
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 1 July, 2012 at 15:11 said:
GOOD MHAN ………!!!!
Bourne
Roddy drank with us for a while in the Trader’s Tavern in the Barras.
A great guy but nuttier than a squirrel’s jobbie. I believe he worked on TV for a while doing gaelic programmes in the 90’s.
It’s well known that he named his first child after the 11 Celtic players who won the cup in 1995.