For some, short holidays are over. Batteries recharged, appetites wetted. The international break is not the period of worldwide travel and mockery it is for others. If you think you are champing at the bit to get to Celtic Park on Saturday, Scott Brown and Kolo Toure could probably sprint there from Lennoxtown right now.
For others it will be a chance to put disappointments behind them. A few (well, maybe just Moussa) will return having achieved new heights for their country. As ever, Tom Rogic will pitch with jetlag having played in two continents in the last six days.
You know they will all want to see and impress Brendan. This is the way of it at Lennoxtown right now. They are bursting a gut at training to get into the team. Be alarmed, Motherwell.
You know when your PR is on nationwide TV, intemperate and pointy, that you are in special hands. Asking the same question four different ways lacks courtesy (and a whole lot more), but PR can’t let the journo leave knowing he’s got what he wanted from the encounter. I’m no PR expert, but you know when you see someone mis-control a proverbial back pass.
Still angry at that newspaper’s attack on Celtic yesterday. I didn’t buy it, so didn’t realise at the time they printed Peter Lawwell’s home address. You know what you are doing when you publish someone’s home address. It rarely happens because the consequences are so uncontrollable.
It’s one of the most insidious acts legally possible by a newspaper. It has an immediate consequence of intimidation for the family – that’s a given when you make the decision to print something several hundred thousand times. Utterly deplorable. We are back in the era where attacks were incited on Neil Lennon.
Apologies for issues accessing the blog recently. I’m on the case.
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ernie lynch on 14th October 2016 10:10 am
And the CEO will be involved in tax avoidance.
Doesn’t sit particularly well, does it?
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Aye, well played Ernie; it must be right because you read it in the Daily Record!
You’d get a job wi’ Jabba!
FAC the Act
KTF
tonydonnelly67,
Psychology I reckon Tony.
Imagine the Hun dropped 2 points up there, on a Friday as well.
Motherwell are getting a pasting.
Delaney’s Dunky
So sorry to read about the sad loss of your father-in-law. RIP. Prayers offered for him and your family.
HH
Ernie,
And the CEO will be involved in tax avoidance.
Doesn’t sit particularly well, does it?
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I think that is unfair and basically gives justification to the Daily Record’s repeated story.
Tax avoidance is a very blanket term and legitimate avoidance is legal. In fact as you know ,the government actually encourages us to use avoidance schemes like ISA where we avoid paying tax.
As long as there are taxation accountants and advisors there will be various avoidance schemes. After all, nobody employs a tax planner to pay more tax.
HH.
A piece from JJ blog today, interesting indeed.
The board is continuing to play a dangerous game of Ker Plunk with the three roofs that are hanging by Baron Bouffant’s hairspray enforced G-string. Bach’s “Air on the G string” is now proscribed at Ibrox. Woolgar Hunter have told Murray and Robertson that the three roofs have to be lifted and replaced. My source on this is impeccable and has a structural engineering background. The only question is whether they’ll relocate to Hampden prior to CFC sending round an independent engineer. This engineer would confirm Glasgow’s worst kept secret: the connectors are shot.
However let’s raise a glass to those who cannot attend the FBA awards but have generously paid for a virtual seat. Cheers
Yours in Rangers,
JJ
Modern Day Dogma is Rubbidge
Sol Invictus wiz Robbed By Constantine`s Toss-Up of His Two-Heeded Coin !
“May the Sun Shine Down Your Way”
vfr800a8 on 14th October 2016 10:35 am
ernie has been on here for a long Time. He is an ardent Celtic Supporter.
No need to denigrate.
I ‘d like to hear his reasoning for hating the SNP – Mine is in the Symbol they STILL use.
DD, as with others, you have my condolences and prayers.
KTF
Bo Selecta
BrTh
Yup hugh was wrong for sure:-)
JEEZO
Standards slippin
Rivelino and Souness
In the same sentence
Hahahahaha never mind fitba park
Some team 70 Brazil and italians were no slouches fachetti et al.
HH
The Dembele pass was Scarey.
The Timing and so much more about it.
An Tearmann,
Zico, Falcao, SOCRATES and a few others.
Giants of the Game of Football.
I was raging when Italy knocked them out- they were the best players EVER being a wee guy then.
Celtic
Celtic
It is happening.
Celtic dinnae park the bus well.
It is just 11v11
Belief is pivotal to where we are heading.
I see the new club over in Govan,are looking to join the Atlantic League, good I hope they do,but not Celtic,I’m sure we could get into another European League, and bring Aberdeen,Hearts,Hibs,Dundee utd,with us,
Tierney £60Mill you are WASTING your TIME though.
Dembele £38Mill I hope they are ALL Wasting their Time for at least a Year.
A great Celtic Supporter and a wonderful human being, Bishop John Mone went to his rest in the Eternal Paradise early this morning. I am sure many on here will have met him or have been confirmed by him. Words fail one at a time when a good man dies, but faith enables one to know that after his period of suffering he has gone home to God.
The last thing he said to me as I visited him on Wednesday was “Who did Celtic play at the weekend? ” Even in his dying days, he still thought about the bhoys. Requiescat in pace.
Ibrox board to raise complaints with football authorities re unseen fenian influence over card system
SFA seeking suggestions for when a counterbalancing ‘Blue Card’ should be awarded.
https://t.co/5kq9ftkWuR
Hail Hail
Matt
CONNAIRE12
The Bishop must have been a good friend as well as a good Celt.
R I P
Do Celtic have a Creative Destructive Playa, A Mattuidi type.
Feck World economiciciiciciciiciiciciiciiiiicis?
World Class Forever.
MATT STEWART
FFS,don’t mention the Blue Card!
You’ll get the Brexiteers frothing at the mouth!
Btw,did you see my post/link last night re KWALITYMAN,the Glaswegian superhero?
For the life of me,I couldn’t remember who I should have credited for that.
Chapeau,old bean!
Got to agree with BRTH about the great Robero Rivellino.
I removed my dad wax lyrical about the Brazil team of 1970 and to watch them closely as they were perfect footballers with class physical maturity and thunderous shooting ability
Sounds shoul not be discussed in the same sentAnce as Roberto
I presume Hugh must have been drunk when he made that comparison
I used to be a nerd
CONNAIRE12
Bishop John Mone was a fine, humble and deeply spiritual man and an exemplary priest. RIP
As My Family get more and more Inter Connected….
what
What was I worrying about?
I thought too much about so much.
Still wary about CISCO though.
In Your Face.
Morning all from a slightly overcast Poole in Dorset Englandshire.
Drove down from Ayrshire yesterday with her indoors, who is attending a course/seminar ’til Monday.
Left to my own devices for most of the day so I have been exploring…
Nae sign of Arry Redknapp n dug so far. BMCUW told me to look out for him.
Sincerest condolences to DELANEYS DUNKY on your sad loss.
HH!!
petec on 14th October 2016 10:51 am
Ernie may be an ardent Celtic supporter. It doesn’t, IMHO, give him carte blanche to consistently denigrate other people on here. He has taken the article from the Daily Record and used that as a stick to beat our CEO with; worthy of Level 5 IMHO.
I employ an accountant who advises me on appropriate and legal ways to avoid paying tax I don’t have to pay (both for my personal and company tax commitments). It is wholly appropriate and legal. Does that make me a bad person? I don’t think so.
Those involved with LLP’s and other (at the time) legitimate tax avoidance schemes have nothing to be ashamed or berated about if they have paid any retrospective outstanding tax requested by HMRC when these schemes were revoked.
There is no evidence that Peter Lawwell has any outstanding tax liability therefore I think that the comment was as shameful as the original article. IMHO of course.
FAC the Act
KTF
It won’t be too long before people will cross the road when they see a Non Tattooed person Coming towards them (Sunny Day, Obviously).
WOW.
Kojo.CSC
Aye, sad news about Bishop Mone.
God rest his soul.
Brazil 2- Italy 3 .
Should have been 4 . The great Carlo Antognoni wrongly had a goal disallowed for offside . Antognoni stll holds the record re the number of appearances for Italy wearing the No 10 shirt .
Hat trick for Paolo Rossi . A man memorably described by The Italian Fitba Pink as ” – resembling a bad actor playing a drug addict “.
The Italians really thought they had a chance — pre match stuff on the tele featured the pundits stating that Brazil were careless and arrogant and that ” Paolo the Pickpocket ” was just the man to take advantage of that.
ernie
I doubt that a man of your apparent intellect would use the DR as his reference point for your comment on PL.
Anyway, as far as I know, Tax Avoidance is not a crime. The Children and unemployed who sat at the tables BRT&H mentioned avoided paying tax by virtue of their age and income!
JJ
vfr800a8 on 14th October 2016 11:50 am ,
I Respect Everyone on CQN, well apart from when I didn’t. Sorry for that.
I’d love to spend a lot of hours listening to ernie, unlikely I know, Incredibly Knowledgable person meeting a guy who can hardly Remember a thing – Crazy Talk.
Wren
PETEC on 14TH OCTOBER 2016 10:24 AM
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fascist-Scotland-Gavin-Bowd/dp/1780270526
CONNAIRE12 on 14TH OCTOBER 2016 11:23 AM
I served for a young Father Mone early `60 s in St. Pauls Whiteinch.
May he rest in peace.
Make it Hard
A few of the recent posts on these pages have been about wonderful players of yesteryear.
Relatively speaking, ALL eras produce great players. Do people really believe that the heroes from our youth are without parallel in the modern game? If so, why would that be the case?
I used to have a short poem by Carl Sagan on the wall of my classroom:
” These are the Good Old Days;
Just you wait and see.”
Still true.
JJ
So is the Party Line now that Peter Lawwell wasn’t involved in a failed tax avoidance scheme?
Or is it that the failed tax avoidance scheme is really no different to an ISA?
ernie lynch on 14th October 2016 12:03 pm
PETEC on 14TH OCTOBER 2016 10:24 AM
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fascist-Scotland-Gavin-Bowd/dp/1780270526
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Thanks for the link ernie, I appreciate it.
HH
Celtic is Strong right now.
Cheerio for now,
JJ