The Gang of 10 SPL club who will meet next week will decide whether or not we have a morally sound and ethically administered league. The meeting wasn’t announced three hours before overtures were being made on terms a Rangers Newco would be prepared to agree to in order to win their backing.
Effectively, the other 10 will asked to hold their noses, put all moral judgement aside and tell Rangers Newco the terms they need to agree to in order to get back into the SPL, retain their history and limit consequences of the alleged improper registration of players. Some of those hoping to front a Rangers Newco are prepared to do whatever is necessary to get back on a level playing field with those who have spent the last 20 years playing honest football and paying their taxes.
The question to be considered is not just what is ethically right in sport; it’s more personal than that. This is about what is going to happen to your money, the football club that defines who you are, and your relationship with the game for the rest of your life.
The schemers and cheats are not beaten and they are not going to give up. There is no honour, no ‘dignity’, no moral compass that understands there are consequences for decades of rampant abuse. All there is, is a sense of entitlement that I struggle to comprehend.
That sense of entitlement is about to promise bucket loads of your cash to someone else in order to restore the old certainties. This time, they are not even going to use the tax man’s money, they are going to use YOUR money. The money you put into the game will be distributed and used to flush the smaller clubs, who will in turn restore Rangers to their position of ascendency.
This is not sport, it’s a disgusting abuse of Celtic fans. You are not even being asked, you are being expected to open your wallets and pay whatever price it takes to put Rangers back on top.
I have never called for a boycott of a newspaper, never mind a football game, but this is not football anymore. We cannot be party to this. It is not a passing-issue either. Rules are being made with consequences that could last 100 years.
You have suffered from decades of malpractice and have earned the right to go to Ibrox in two weeks to enjoy the reflection of honest endeavour. After this, our next away game will be at Kilmarnock. If the Gang of 10 attempt an insurrection using your money, join me in a picket outside Celtic Park when these tickets are available for sale, and outside the away gates at Rugby Park on game day, to explain to Celtic fans the consequences of supporting the clubs who would use your money to establish a new Rangers.
Unite and bring the full power of Celtic against those who would rather do a deal with the devil than establish an honest, even, playing field.
If the Gang of 10 give Rangers Newco their way, using your money, we cannot go back to an away game, not this season, not ever. We must demand this discipline from each other and insist the club refuse all away tickets.
Having paid our taxes, registered footballers in an honest manner and brought international acclaim to Scottish football, the Celtic Movement is being corrupted by the lowest common denominator.
Our magnificent sporting institution is being destroyed. For the love of all that is decent and meritocratic in the game, we need help from England, Europe or wherever to move out of Scottish football.
I am just about finished with the entire, corrupt, shambles that masquerades as a sport.
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Not really,bud.
You are living in the land where I was born.
I used to enjoy winding up my hun mates in Kilwinning by reminding them that,strictly speaking,I was more of a hun than them.
Born in Germany,under a Union Flag,and 10 mins before the twelfth.
I look forward to the day I have no hun mates,just FHM,haha!
Have a blinding weekend,mate-there is a lot more of this story to come before everyone just bows to the inevitible.
A question to Motherwell:
The huns inability to qualify for Europe has given you a chance to play in the Champions League next season. The opportunity to finish second in the league has given you both higher gates and the opportunity to earn more prize money.
So why would you want to let a Newco into the league when it would be against both your footballing and financial interests?
I don’t think EUFA/FIFA want 4 seperate Football Associations in the UK, they’d like to see one, with one international team and reduce x number of CL and UEFA Cup berths accordingly.
If Team GB can turn up for the Olympics, and the SFA (and the English FA to some extent) showing that they’re not up to the task of running football in this country, do you think there may be pressure applied to merge the Associations?
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 9 March, 2012 at 14:44 said:
Spot on, I can also see the SFA being forced to serve Dignity a 12 month suspension coming out of the EBT / fiasco due to the enormous amount of cheating.
This will fit neatly with Dignity extracting itself from legal issues (they will not be ready to be licensed to play next season) and will allow a re-constructed league and tv deal to put together, I suspect Dignitynewco will be admitted to an SPL 2
chillpillcfc
Good article from Hearts supporter Ewan Murray in the Guardian:
Chaos at Rangers should not diminish scale of Celtic’s achievements
With all the attention on Ibrox, Neil Lennon has turned around Celtic’s season in remarkable style
Celtic’s manager Neil Lennon has clawed back a 15-point deficit in the league and is now chasing the Treble.
The never-ending scene of chaos at Rangers has unquestionably cast a cloud over the Scottish season. It has also probably had a negative impact on wider perceptions of the SPL. Yet the occasional whisper – thankfully it remains just that – suggesting Celtic’s imminent championship win should have an asterisk alongside it, or be classed as tainted, is among the more ludicrous in what is seldom a sane environment.
It would be folly to claim Rangers’ off-field problems had no impact on Ally McCoist and his players. The manager continues to act admirably in what have regressed into shambolic circumstances. Still, there are elements of Rangers’ support who believe McCoist’s early-season failings have been all-too easily masked over. Even when Rangers established a league advantage, they seemed to toil for so many of their wins. There was a sense, even among their own fans, that a stumble would be forthcoming; the key was if and when Celtic could kick-start their own form.
Neil Lennon didn’t have to look far to find detractors during those opening exchanges of the campaign. Given the scale of the Rangers story is obvious across Britain, it is perfectly understandable that such narrative dominates Scottish football’s news agenda.
As a quiet backdrop, Celtic face back-to-back cup ties that will determine the size of their end of season honours list. Lennon, who seemed in such a hopeless position with Celtic 3-0 down to Kilmarnock in October, is in close pursuit of a rare domestic treble. Lennon believes Celtic haven’t been handed due credit for their touch, a statement that has merit.
The scale of Celtic’s achievements shouldn’t be ignored, regardless of events at Ibrox. For Lennon, recovery from that half-time scenario at Rugby Park is as astonishing as it was unforeseen. Even before Rangers entered administration, Celtic had clawed back a 15-point deficit in the SPL to lead by four. At that stage, few onlookers believed Lennon’s team would be halted. Had Celtic trailed at the juncture of Rangers’ points deduction, the debate may have more value.
Celtic have played the best – routinely entertaining – football and have a clutch of increasingly courted players who are rightly regarded as the most superior in the country. Charlie Mulgrew has emerged so strongly in the Celtic defence that he has strong claims on Scotland’s player of the year titles, with Gary Hooper’s all-round game showing improvement almost beyond recognition.
Such matters highlight good management, as do the relative lack of funds spent by Celtic last summer and in January. The emergence of a consistent — and now highly valuable — James Forrest is just another of so many positive aspects of Celtic’s season. To claim progress, which will now return tangible reward, should somehow be diminished by events elsewhere bears no resemblance to reality.
As Rangers cantered towards nine titles in a row from 1989, nobody thought about talking down that achievement or qualifying it in record books by looking at the financial picture elsewhere.
It was Falkirk who bundled Rangers out of the League Cup and Dundee United who handed them an early departure from the Scottish Cup. Celtic travel to Tannadice for what promises to be an enthralling Scottish Cup tie on Sunday, before meeting Kilmarnock at Hampden in the League Cup final a week later.
Celtic’s statistics paint a picture. They haven’t lost a domestic match since 2 October with the draw last Saturday in Aberdeen ending a 17-match winning SPL streak. In the Europa League, Celtic could consider themselves a tad unfortunate not to emerge from a strong group.
Too often, matters of the Old Firm are viewed in black and white, with “failure” too common a term. Celtic had a fine league season of 2010-11, claiming 92 points; Rangers clearly excelled in making it to 93.
Lennon’s picking up of the mess inherited from Tony Mowbray has continued apace. That alone is worthy of appreciation, whether roundly offered or not.
I think a lot of u’s may be jumping the gun on this one guys. Mainly because of the following reasons. For these plans to go through they need to firstly get the filth to agree to terms that are not set to their own agenda- not ever/never is going to happen, it’s not in their genetic make up. Secondly if the proposed plans is to take a large chunk of ticket sales I can’t see them agreeing to that considering ticketus already have claim to the best part of the ticket monies already. Me thinks a bit of scare mongering is a happening.
I do not go to away game have not for many years mostly because of they way we are treated by the local police.The other reason was the inflated prices when we came to town.So I of course agree to an away game boycott.All I would say lets not get all worked up about until we know what comes out of this meeting.Then again Paul you are probally correct in your what you say.What a shitey wee country this is, wish I had some Irish heritage
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 9 March, 2012 at 15:37 said:
I doubt you’ll remember this, Awe, but Eintracht Frankfurt put les huns to the sword in the EC to the aggregate tune of 12-4. That was 1960. Commenting on it, McKenzie, the Jabba of yesteryear told Express readers that ‘Rangers are still the best team in Europe.’
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 9 March, 2012 at 15:56 said:
I’ll send my bank details you can deposit £1000 to start with :o)
Yes, do that…send me you bank details. I promise to clean your account out…er, em, aye, sorry, em, lodge the money.
:)
Hail Hail
fritzsong on 9 March, 2012 at 15:39 said:
Thomthetim
I was one of the early boycott advocates, qualified by the fact that I am a non attender.
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That is a qualification. Very honest. But it renders you kind of ineligible to vote.
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Damn, I missed that vote!
IF a boycott comes to pass, it will be the front line troops who carry the fight.
Many a campaign has been fought with support from behind the lines.
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If 3 years accounts needed to become member of SFA, how do NewCo Rangers join SPL or SFL?
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And that’s before the question of WHERE?S THE MONEY COMING FROM NEWCO!!
No Mercy, No Newco!!
We Shall Not Be Moved.
Football is no pantheon of morality and none of us really expect ethical rectitude in the football world but there has to be a moral line drawn where even football will not cross over for fear of derision and ridicule from the wider world. Now we know the predatory bankers in Wall Street and the City of London have as much moral fibre as a deranged psychopath- incidentally the main players in the hun soap opera all share that city “ethos”- but in general we know that in order to have a decent civilized existence we need rules, law and ethics. Without these “basic” (almost fiducial) principles then we have meaningless chaos; we have “nothing” but an empty hollow imitation of true civilized existence ( a bit like the shallow superficiality “normality” a psychopath adopts in order to deceive normal people).
Footballers themselves feign injury, spit, cheat, lie, foul, roll around like a wounded ballet dancer shot by a sniper; they have every last minatiue of their lives organised for them so they forever remain Peter Pans and so acting like spoilt five year old taking tantrums…or that money, as it does with everything it touches (particularly when its unaccountable money) eviscerated football of any morality it ever had. The Scottish establishment told us that the “shame game” set a bad example for people yet we are allowing widespread endemic cheating to go largely unpunished- do you get that?
The “Price” we pay for genuine free existence is responsibility- that is the “cost”. As Heidegger says we cannot have authentic existence or being without responsibility; life then becomes a sham, a similacrum, or as Sartre called it “bad faith”. Sometimes its better to do the honourable thing- like Belfast Celtic did and just resign rather than play along with a cheats game- you don’t play for money at a rigged casino do you?
It can’t be like the old Groucho joke: “These are my principles. If you don’t like them I’ve got others.” There is no compromise with morality or justice or Truth…
Some things are more important than football. This is one of them. Indeed morality IS life. Without moral responsibility, a sincere dedication to Truth, there is no life, merely a drab treadmill existence of drudgery…I would rather Celtic die entombed in the Pantheon of all that is good, true and just than for them to limp on surviving on a lie. It would set an example to others in our debased bigoted little nation of mediocrity, compliance and paper chasers.
But then that’s just me and it may no come to that.
Sorry for length of last post…bit of a rant.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
All warfare is based on deception.
HH
fritzsong
Nothing Changes !!!!! Catholic Schools you know
Hail Hail
WONKYRADAR 1607
Good and noble sentiments,undoubtedly.
But THEY would still have won with our demise,and you know who writes history.
The victors,so it would all have been for nothing.
Re: the Bhoycott.
Don’t be coy about it, be specific – put it out in the public domain: Support the Zombie Huns SPL parachuting and you’re bhoycotted.
Force the collaborators out from under their stones, LIST the clubs the Celtic support should bhoycott.
For instance, the odious Johnston and his Ayrshire Huns, yet Pittodrie and Hibs okay if they can prove they went agaisnt the propositoon.
Don’t let them hide among a ‘unified’ cabal proclamation; use the power of the green pound to split their tenuous allegiances to each other and make them stand alone and declare their positions. Separate the masons from the men.
Looking at the response of supporters of the 10, I’m begining to think, there was no need for a call to bhoycott, it looks like these clubs coul suffer a backlash from their own. Any bhoycott could actually distract them from this train of thought.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9 March, 2012 at 15:56
Have a great weekend !!
Rangers players have started putting their signatures to deals which will see structured pay cuts across the squad for the next three months.
STV understands several contracts are still to be signed, with a number of players still holding talks with administrators over individual agreements late into Friday afternoon.
Lee Wallace’s agent Gary Mackay has been at Murray Park since early morning trying to agree terms. Andrew Little is one player known to have signed, together with Steven Naismith and Steven Whittaker.
It is understood the agreements for players such as Naismith and Whittaker will see a 75% pay cut for the next three months, which will be unaffected if the club comes out of administration before June 1.
The deal will see the club’s top earners take a 75% reduction in their salaries for the next three months. Mid-earners will take a 50% cut, with low earning members of the first team squad accepting a 25% deduction.
Administrators Duff and Phelps have outlined they must make savings of £1m a month and warned they would make job cuts if a deal could not be struck by the end of the week.
the other 10’s supporters opinions don’t really count for much unless they boycotted their owns clubs.
AWE NAW 1612
Will do,nightshift first.
Last slurp from our previous sponsor,then bed.
I’m out,as the saying goes!
So the Daily Record say that Ticketus are backing Paul Murray’s takeover? Does anyone actually know what the hell is going on? The MSM tactic seems to be contradict logic and previous stories until everyone is so confused that they forget how much crap has been published in this whole saga, or until everyone forgets why they don’t want a newco back in the league.
Today has just been mental.
My opinion is unchanged; Rangers will be playing in court next season, not in the SPL.
Asked whether he would consider trying to bolster his Aston Villa squad with any Rangers players, McLeish said: “I wouldn’t get involved in that.
“Rangers mean too much to me to do that. People have approached me, don’t get me wrong, but I couldn’t do something like that.
“If there’s one or two players out of jobs then that’s different but I certainly wouldn’t be going in and plundering Rangers.”
Wonder if Randy Learner will be asking Big Feck why he is more worried about the huns than the club that is paying his wages?
Could all the posters claiming I am ineligible to call for a bhoycott, please refrain from singing about fighting and dying for my country.
That includes our national anthem.
Thank You.
Árd Macha
TICKETUS have emerged as shock backers of Paul Murray’s Blue Knights consortium who are trying to buy Rangers.
The news will stun fans after chairman Craig Whyte admitted selling future Ibrox season tickets to the London-based company and using the cash to buy the club last May.
Administrators Duff and Phelps are determined to clinch a deal for the club soon and insist there are a number of parties interested in a purchase.
Murray and his Blue Knights are among those high in the running but news that Ticketus are also part of the group will amaze the Rangers support.
Whyte stated that Ticketus paid £20million in return for ticket revenues for the next three seasons in a confession which enraged a fanbase who had been previously been unaware of the dealing.
However, with the club falling into administration last month, Duff and Phelps are seeking buyers for the stricken club and Murray’s Blue Knights are understood to include Ticketus.
Users’ Comments (4)
If we fast forward to a time when Ranjurs have been re-admitted and the boycott has been in full swing for weeks or even months. The gang of 10 are on their knees financially and the MSM are portraying us as the wreckers of Scottish football…what happens next?
A team admitted legally (although immorally) to the league just can’t be dumped out again.
I therefore can’t see it getting to this stage and, in my opinion, just the threat of a boycott is all it will take to concentrate minds at this point.
ARD MACHA 1616
Ouch….
Nice one.
Chris McLaughlin@BBCchrismclaugReply
Some #Rangers players have a clause in their new deals which allows them to walk away for free if Craig Whyte regains control of club
As a few of you have already noted, Paul is swinging from one extreme to another in his postings – what’s to say after another bit of crisis news from over there we’ll be back with the green tinted glasses on?
I fully back the passion and the anger being voiced over the dangers we are facing – but I don’t believe they will not get massively punished for years to come if they somehow survive. Until PL, NL and/or DD say something different then I remain confident our leaders will ensure we will not be screwed over for being the one club that did the right thing. Some of you seem to think everyone who is not one of us is one of them, thankfully that is not the case. Football fans all over the country want to see justice, we have more friends than many of you think.
Seems to me Murray just wants rangers to survive. No thought being given as how to finance them in the future. They will be a U19 team playing to a mostly empty ibrox…
One in and one out for Sunday. Scott Brown is fit again but Mikael Lustig misses the match.
johnybhoy on 9 March, 2012 at 12:33 said:
Paul67
Took a while to catch your post.
A few days ago I posted that it is time for Celtic to consider doing a Belfast Celtic and leave Scottish football and society to wallow in the cesspool that is Scottish Football.
We might then find out just who needs who.
Paul’s article today merely reinforces the above view.
jock steins celtic,
I wouldnt be too sure about that, their opinion will dictate how their board act, if as on the st mirren site enough cry the games a bogey, their board will have to consider their piorities very carefully.
If the news that Ticketus back Paul Murray “stuns” fans then they obviously haven’t been paying attention.
Ticketus own future season tickets- they will support anything that keeps the show on the road and avoids them having to go to course to fight for their money. Let’s see if this asking is with ‘cash’ or just err….encouragement.
If it goes pear-shaped though you can bet they will be in court scrapping with everyone else.
If the huns die
the marching season will
begin in February and end in November :o)
Hail! Hail!
BBC Sport Chris McLaughlin
“Some #Rangers players have a clause in their new deals which allows them to walk away for free if Craig Whyte regains control of club!”
So the administrators have agreed to short term savings in exchange for losing the asset values they said they were protecting? Why not just make a few redundant and save more money now?
Rangers will come out of this through a cva,paying back pennies in the pound.