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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MIKI67
Wee treat for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbEQ45v6SFI
BMCUW
One winner on the gee gees should just about cover it!!
BMCUW
one keg of guinness would just about do it for HT
CANAMALAR 1511
Sorry,bud,you simply cannot do that.
Not enough humble pie for you and I both to suck up.
Still sticking to my vow never to return while PL is taking a wage after Rennes.
Breaks my heart,and detracts largely from my trips home,but has to be done.
Jee-zoh,nearly in tears thinking about it as I typed………
bournesouprecipe
thanks for the old railway photo, loved the floodlights locating the field of dreams.
Mrs RC not so happy as I keep changing the computer’s wallpaper with your photos :)
HAMILTONTIM 1523
One more loser,and I’ll be hitching a lift!
We are Celtic supporters, faithfull through and through….
BT
Mmmmmmm
Pot….kettle……black!!! :-)
bourne
My mum lived in Whitby Street growing up and the railway station was on Whitby Street, between Springfield Road and Helenvale Street. Can’t wait to show her the pic.
67Heaven…,
A good mhan came on last night and spoke to me like a fellow Tim,
Made no comment about my propensity to shoot first and Sam questions later :o)
Laid out what he thinks is going on and asked me to believe him.
I do, but he also knows I will pay very close attention, I will not follow blindly.
His words, give me hope I will be returning the Celtic park next season.
Hail Hail
it wisnae rangurs, it wiz murray/whyte/greene
Spot the irony?
BLANTYRETIM
Has no-one informed our mutual friend of GUINNESS’ complicity in putting down the 1916 Uprising?
Dear,dear.
BMCUW
What was your opinion of Lenny’s comments re the events in Rennes?
HT/BSR I sat with Roddy yrs ago in section 405 great guy! He missed out big Pierre from his boys name because he was just about to leave! Worked on tv show de a nis. I was asking about him on here a couple of weeks ago after I read that he took the jock stein banner to Ibrox. Anyone on here still in touch with him?
BMCUW
TBH he would drink anything.. o))
CANAMALR
Get back to where you belong,mate.
You have made your point,you have levelled the criticism where it was needed,missed the target now and again,but usually been spot-on.
Go back to Celtic Park,be with your friends and family,and enjoy the rewards that are due to a Celtic man.
Jee-zoh,you deserve that.
BMCUW,
that still sticks in my craw, I can only hope it was part of a strategy.
Struggling with how it fits in though.
Lawwell like Doncaster and regan do their masters bidding
BT
True I did have to drink the pint I bought you last Saturday ya woos :-))
I just had to go and read that McKenna ‘article’ from ‘The Observer’ today….I know,stupid me….but,by the end of it I had the strangest notion that he & Jabba were somehow weirdly related in their near-identical guffery.
Is there some kinda dna vat producing what passes for msm ‘sports journos’ in Scotia today? Is it de rigeur for them to keep singing from the same song….using the almost identical template when talking about a dead club and extolling its pontential phoenixical (is that a real word?) ascension in a flaming vision of celestial splendour,conquering all and vanquishing friend and foe alike in its solitary purity as it storms throughout Scotand’s hamlets and towns until rolling through Europe on a tidal wave of ‘sturm und drang’ !?
Oh deary me…I seem to have caught the verbal runs from Jabba and Co……..sorry. Oops,there goes another unreported word….
HT
Nice one, I like the guy (even though I’ve never met him)
RC
Lazy Sunday afternoons – old Celtic photo’s go well with your
own topical anecdotes.
I was in town earlier and I SAW DEAD PEOPLE in funny gay looking outfits. Then I remembered that it is not THE PEOPLE who are dead. It’s their club. Silly me.
MWD
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 1 July, 2012 at 15:22 said:
Ta!
:-)
HT
at least I was there in body if not mind;
unlike PF, pure wooooos
seemingly I left him a message on his voicemail…. o)))
glasgowbhoy
I’ve seen him occasionally over the last couple of years mostly at away games but not in touch.
BT
Yes I did hear that!!
Ya mad man :-))
the good will prevail
Same here – those Floodlights!
Bloke
Good man it’ll take her back. I’m too young :-) to remember it.
glasgowboy
You’ll know about his Celtic Tattoos as well then.
HAMILTONTIM 1533
I was flabbergasted that there was any reaction to that game.
My Dad,myself and my uncle Jim were right next to the GB,and we honestly did not hear an offending-or offensive-word that night.
It was a magic night,evoked memories of past Euro nights and an unbelievable performance from the team,and Sammi in particular.
Neil would be absolutely 100% correct to decry the alleged offences-he has lived on the frontline,so to speak-and I personally gave up such nonsense 30 years ago.
But here’s the thing,HT.
IT DIDNAE HAPEN!
That pic of Roddy the badgeman….brillant. The mhan looks bulletproof!
HH!
They’llNeverTakeMeAlive CSC
BLANTYRETIM 1535
Magic.
Fed up wi choosy folk.
Emdy want to talk football?
Big game tonight, saw Spain 1-0 , Iniesta to score at 28/1 !!! Nothing can go wrong now….
2-1 Italy for me!
Hamiltontim thanks. I heard a story that he doesn’t go much now, health reasons I think.
BSR he has a huge tattoo on his back? Vaguely remember that. When presenting on de a nis he asked for petty cash to decorate the studio for the Xmas show. Got some grief though for buying loads of green and white decorations! Don’t think he got near the petty cash again!
Think the Spanish will stick the criticism down peoples throats, going for a big score in Spain’s favour. At least 3 maybe 4 goals total in the game. 3-1 Spain.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 1 July, 2012 at 15:37 said:
Took the words right out of my mouth ……. And you get back tae…..LOL
I think we must be getting near the end when all you have is John Brown and The Sunday Post.
notosevco5088 CSC
Who put down the 1916 rising ……..?
I think tonight’s clash will be a belter. Two latin teams with vastly contasting styles….it should be fascinating. I think that whoever scores first (if there IS a goal within 90 mins.) will literally run away with it.
Really lookin’ forward to it.
Pirlo v Iniesta……magic!
HH!
Paddy Gallagher on 1 July, 2012 at 12:24 said:
No players and if bomber is listened to no fans, no league and no chance if putting any resemblance of a football club together in a matter of weeks.
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You forgot …..And nae pies !!