Being taken for a brainless clown

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I like Alex Ferguson.  He likes his football and cannot hide the respect in which he holds Jock Stein and the great Celtic team of the 60s and 70s.  Like you and I, Alex is immersed in the history of the game here, a history he contributed significantly to at Aberdeen.

So, when questioned by the Daily Record on the potential shuttering of Hampden, his overwhelming reaction was for the loss of history:

“… leaving your history behind you

“You’re throwing away all that fantastic history

“history you are throwing away

“That’s a fantastic history

“history has been formed

“The history of Hampden is riddled with fantastic games

“We need history to tell us where we’re going”

No football fans are more immersed in history than Celtic fans, it sustained us through many a dark day, so these words will resonate with you.  But fear not, there is a solution!

They can raze Hamden to the ground and have another venue BUY THE HISTORY!  Why didn’t this occur to such a great mind?  Buying history is a fairly straightforward issue in Scotland.  I now own the Crimean War, which I purchased from a guy in Edinburgh last week.

The same vendor was selling the Renaissance, which I would love to own, as I would really like to have painted the Sistine Chapel in the 16th century, but he was wanting £1000 for that, and an internal voice told me I was being taken for a brainless clown.

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  1. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    50SHADESOFGREEN

     

     

    I think MAHETHEMADMAN might have advertised it better,and a bit more in advance. I know how long it takes to set up quizzes like this,it seems so easy,but it’s more time-consuming than you think.

     

     

    Maybe-without treading on MAHETHEMADMAN’s toes-he could get in touch with,say 8 or so others,and they could take their time,and take turns at presenting it.

     

     

    At a regular time. Every week.

  2. 50 shades of green on

    BMCUW , I had high hopes for big Nir in the Broonie role, ( still hopeful but not so high), however if we go for young Mcginn I feel he is more Ollie like than Broonie , Ie better attacking mid than a stopper. Would like to have seen more of Kouassie in that role, but I suppose we cant play everyone all the time.

     

     

    Me I am just going to leave it to Brendan :-), and like Sinky I’m sure Broonie will be here for 10 and the rest in a row…

     

     

    As for talking dugs thats just barking mad:-)…

     

     

    H.H

  3. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    So – are fully audited accounts a REQUIREMENT for a UEFA license, or are they not ?

  4. BMCUW

     

    I agree, not about Broonie the Dug, actually that’s got a rymne to it.

     

    I am up early to get out and look at cars I blew my engine up yesterday

     

    Although i am always up about 7am when not working anyway.

     

     

     

    D. :)

  5. BMCW

     

    If our club has intentions similar to Desmond’s public display of praise re everything Rangers I think that hope will be a furlorn one unfortunately.

     

     

    I think it’s the actions of the ordinary supporter which will be pivotal in any adherence to the rules re sevco. Like it was in 2012 when they were trying to launch in the first division. Supporters said ‘ no way ‘ and the clubs listened.

  6. DELANEYS DUNKY on 30TH MARCH 2018 7:35 PM

     

    David66

     

     

    The full Hardgate CSC bus will be there. They helped fund the plaque. There will be as many Celtic fans as Rangers fans there tomorrow.

     

    ——————-

     

     

    Heartening to read , empathy and togetherness for a truely tragic event.

  7. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    Wee prayer for Ray Wilkins and his family – and anyone else who has the shadow of illness over them.

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

  8. Corky

     

    Aye if he was impotent right enough :-)

     

    Just aff oot as they say but afore I go, this is the question that was posed……..

     

    8,,,A king has two children. One of them is a boy. What are the odds on the other being a girl?

     

    As far as I can see he already has a boy, as I said this is the crux of the matter, he already has a boy, so no matter how it’s worded, the chances of the other being a girl are 50/50, end of :-)

     

    HH

  9. 50 shades of green on

    Whats this 3 o’clock on a Saturday kick off time all about, it will never catch on.

     

     

    H.H

  10. Good morning, friends. Today, we AGAIN get a chance to see The Champions play.

     

     

    As I no longer go to cup games, my last home game was 6 weeks ago on February 18th. Can’t wait.

     

     

    The end of the Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs

  11. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    Re: accounts – until Auldheid surfaces and gives us chapter and verse…

     

    …the SFA ‘National and UEFA Club Licensing Manual, 2018’ states the following:

     

     

    “…UEFA Ref A 47

     

     

    Minimum UEFA Requirement

     

     

    Each licence applicant is required to provide a copy of its audited annual financial statements as defined in respect of the statutory closing date prior to the deadline for submission of the application to the Scottish FA and prior to the deadline for submission of the list of licensing decisions to UEFA.

     

     

    Audited financial statements must include the auditor’s report. The auditor must be independent as defined in Annex 01 § 01.3 of Part 4. Comparative figures in respect of the prior statutory closing date must

     

    be provided. By 31 January 2018, each licence applicant is required to provide a self declaration form confirming whether the Indicators apply.

     

     

    Club documents

     

     

    Copy of the Audited Accounts as defined. These shall be forwarded directly to the Scottish FA by 31 March 2018.

     

    The self-declaration form shall be submitted by 31 January 2018 at the latest…”

     

     

     

    Hmmm…I’m not an expert but it looks fairly cut and dried to me – unaudited accounts don’t seem to be sufficient to support the granting of a UEFA License.

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

  12. TONTINE TIM,

     

     

    I’ve been meaning to ask you for some time about the origins of the name “Jungle”. I grew up with my Dad, who always stood in the middle near the “toilet”, referring to it as the Hayshed. I did hear the nname was given to it by the troops who had served in the Far East during WW2. My Dad did his stint in India, Malaya and Singapore but never called it “the Jungle”, as far as I know.

  13. BGFC –

     

    But isn’t the issue here that companies all have different accounting year ends. Indeed, a lot of football clubs draw up their accounts to 30 June. Their last accounts to 30 June 2017 WERE audited. What they published yesterday wasn’t their full accounts but just a trading statement covering the 6 months to 31 December 2017. They would have had an issue if they still hadn’t prepared their accounts to June 2017 but isn’t it those accounts that are relevant here?

     

    What the more significant issue might be is the extent of their borrowing and the fact that the latest statement does nothing to address that, so that particular element of their financial statements may cause them problems in any licence application.

     

    But, as you suggest, Auldheid might well know better, certainly better than a mere ex-weather reporter ;-)

  14. Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league

     

     

    They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork,

     

    They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York,

     

    From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way,

     

    To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.

     

     

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.

     

     

    There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green,

     

    There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there;s ever been,

     

    Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes,

     

    And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.

     

     

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.

     

     

    repeat to fade CSC

  15. If only I had bought / been given shares in Sevco at 1p each. I’d be first in line to sell them to The Lying King for a tidy wee profit. Would certainly make up for all the gardening I’ve had to do.

  16. CRC/DD

     

    Just read your posts from last night. If you need any assistance re Dundee, don’t hesitate to ley me know. I’ll be at the Corner today around 2.30. HH

  17. One Club since 1888 ?

     

    As we mark 130 years since the formation of the Club in 1888, it is important that we continue to celebrate what makes Celtic so special. We are, and always have been, One Club open to all.

     

     

     

    https://twitter.com/CelticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

     

     

    feeble attempt fro, ,e to link pur one club and bob marley through the medium of song, over to you green brigade.

     

     

    ONE CLUB

     

     

    ONE CLUB

     

     

    WE ARE TOGETHER AND IT FEELS ALL RIGHT

     

     

    ONE CLUB

     

     

    TALKING ABOUT CELTIC

     

     

    ONE CLUB

     

    WE ARE TOGETHER AND IT FEELS ALL RIGHT

  18. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    JOBO BALDIE on 31ST MARCH 2018 9:29 AM

     

     

    Hi Jobo – there is a further clause that I think covers that scenario – interim statements. I first thought that’s their get-out clause, but it looks like those need to be audited too.

     

     

    The ‘self-certification’ comments in here make things slightly more murky, but I think that is only really saying which of the two types of documentation is being submitted. The Minimum UEFA requirement is that the interim statement “…must be reviewed (as defined by UEFA) by an independent auditor…”

     

     

    Anyway, I agree – best wait to hear from someone who knows what they are talking about (certainly more likely to get that here than via any SMSM or Hun source).

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

     

     

    “…UEFA Ref A 48

     

     

    Minimum UEFA Requirement

     

     

    Where applicable, additional financial statements covering the interim period must be prepared and submitted. These must cover the interim period, starting the day immediately after the statutory closing date (30 June 2017 in principle) up to 1 December 2017 as a minimum and must be reviewed (as defined by UEFA) by an independent auditor.

     

     

    The auditor’s review report must be conducted in terms of International Standard on Review Engagements (ISRE) 2410, “Review of Interim Financial Information Performed by the Independent Auditor of the Entity”. A specimen auditor’s report is shown in Template Letter A 48 in Annex 03 § 03.2 of Part 4.

     

     

    By 31 January 2018, each licence applicant is required to provide a self-declaration form confirming whether the Indicators apply.

     

     

    Club documents

     

     

    Dependent upon the closing period for the licence applicant,

     

     

    EITHER

     

     

    a copy of the Audited Accounts including the supplementary information

     

     

    OR

     

     

    a copy of the Interim financial statements that meet the minimum disclosure requirements and accounting principles defined by UEFA together with an auditor’s certificate as per Template letter A 48 in Annex 03 § 03.2 of Part 4.

     

     

    Either of the above shall be forwarded directly to the Scottish FA by 31 March

     

    2018.

     

     

    The self-declaration form shall be submitted by 31 January 2018 at the latest…”

  19. The Wolfe Tones – “….take me to your Paradise, I want to see the Jungle…”

     

    Aye,….whit do they know ?

     

    Anywye,…..Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

  20. 50 shades of green on

    I’ve had that Bob Marley tune in my head since I seen the Broonie poster.

     

     

    One love etc etc.

  21. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    SAINT STIVS on 31ST MARCH 2018 9:41 AM

     

     

    Hi Saint Stivs – great minds think alike :-)

     

     

    Me and (not surprisingly) Delaneys Dunkey were suggesting that very Bob song for Celtic the other day.

     

     

    Wee BGFC has started practicing on the guitar – me and DD will be vocals !

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

     

     

    OneLoveCSC

  22. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Lookin’forward to the ole game the day, and trustin’ theBhoys can mark the welcome return of ole Subterranean to CP with an approved 5 nil skelpin’ of the Staggies.

  23. South Of Tunis on

    DELANEYS DUNKY .

     

    start at UN

     

    Your Bob Choon .

     

     

    A big choon for me -bought in the autumn of 68 — about to leave Glasgow and start Uni . Beginning of a new beginning . It travelled with me -safe in a wooden Tonic Water Bottle Box I’d borrowed from the back of Munns’s vaults .Had to stay in” rooms ” for the first term at UNI .. The choon didn’t go down well with those who liked the likes of Iron Butterfly ,Deep Purple and Jeff Beck . Dandruff boogie !

     

    Pound Get A Blow –

     

    https://youtu.be/HH7YkDX5Feo

     

     

    Big up !!!!

  24. I love Scott Sinclair. I love it when players come to us and fall in love with Celtic. He is one. And superb talent. Do you think last season was his peak? No it wasn’t. Next season this guy is going to be electric. He has had his dip.

     

     

    I hope his new wane is born in Scotland. God bless Scott.

  25. No Jungle anymore……

     

    No rebels anymore…..

     

    Now all that is left is, 53,000 reasons why there will not be one stolen trophy stripped, no not one and there never shall be one!

     

    Fudge FC.

     

    Deaer, dear, dear, dear…..

     

    Ach,…..oot.

     

    Zzzzzzzzzzz

  26. I think someone mentioned the other day that the Green Brigade are having a collection today to help pay the legal fees incurred in the campaign to repeal the OB Act.

     

    I would encourage all those who supported their efforts to bring a pound or so today.

     

    Train to catch to the Dear green Place and a meet up in Coia`s with Franky and the Bhoys.

     

    Cheerio for now.

     

    JJ

  27. South Of Tunis on

    Spring has sprung -way down south –

     

     

    25 at 11 am. Hoopoes back — Swifts , swallows and Martins too .

     

     

    On the terrace -shelling beans and peas for tomorrow’s Easter feast .

     

     

    This on the deck to minimise the boredom of the chore –

     

     

    E2 -E4

     

    https://youtu.be/Vq-kovIr2BE

     

     

    Mighty fine Kosmiche from 81 — sampled to death in times to come –

     

    Warning -Full LP !

     

     

    Back to work !

  28. BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 31ST MARCH 2018 9:53 AM

     

    SAINT STIVS on 31ST MARCH 2018 9:41 AM

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Hi Saint Stivs – great minds think alike :-)

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Me and (not surprisingly) Delaneys Dunkey were suggesting that very Bob song for Celtic the other day.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Wee BGFC has started practicing on the guitar – me and DD will be vocals !

     

     

     

     

     

     

    HH

     

     

     

     

    BGFC

     

     

     

     

     

     

    OneLoveCSC

     

     

     

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    get in there, go make it happen, i think its a perfect fit.