Celtic box clever again, and the SFA know it. Aleks Tonev, who has a strong east-European accent and limited English, denies uttering racist comments against Aberdeen. Did he? He might well have, for all I know, but, with only one person contradicting Tonev, the SFA have no idea either.
When this issue first raised its head I don’t think anyone on CQN made a character reference for Aleks, but we concluded this issue was destined to remain unresolved, as there is simply not enough information to consider the matter. The SFA know this and know that the Court of Arbitration for Sport will find in favour of the player if they persist in trying to ban him for 7 games without collaboration.
Don’t let Barry Hearn fool you, it’s the SFA which is unfit for purpose, not the professional clubs or the SPFL.
It was great to see our very own Mouldy67 on the big screens on Wednesday for his Cycling Santa Appeal. He left London yesterday morning before resting up for the night in Birmingham. All going to plan, he’ll reach Glasgow on Monday.
Mouldy (Paul) is running to raise funds and awareness for Neuroblastoma Childrens’ Cancer Alliance in memory of Wee Oscar. It’s an incredible undertaking and a living example of the Celtic spirit brought to life.
You can follow his journey here, if you’re on Twitter, send him a good luck message, I know it will make a difference. More importantly, you keep tabs on his fundraising here.
I don’t get the notion, apparently widely held and reported by The Scotsman today, that Rangers (sic) cannot afford to sack Alloa McCoist (© Jobo). He’s on a contract which the club can continue to pay, while promoting Gordon Durie to first-team duties for little or no extra cash. They may even have a case to curtail their outlays to him. I can’t see how sacking him costs money in the short term, and let’s face it, that’s all this lot need to worry about.
Knowing where the bodies are buried
Super Alloa has seen the current directors, and all previous regimes right back to Murray, operating up close and personal. He knows which cupboards have skeletons lurking, while all of them will be aware of his contract negotiations, and what he has, or has not, been prepared to do for the club. It’s a classic co-dependency situation. You don’t sack the guy who knows what you don’t want revealed.
There is also the small matter of management priorities. Would the captain of the Titanic have sacked the chef for a lousy meal after they’d hit an iceberg?
If you’ve not been involved with the Celtic Foundation before there’s a great opportunity coming up next week. They’re looking for bucketeers ahead of the St Mirren game on Sunday, 14 December, to help raise money for the Christmas Appeal.
One of the beneficiaries of the Christmas Appeal is Glasgow City Mission, who provide emergency accommodation for the homeless, a dedicated Foodbank and an evening drop-in service that feeds those who are impoverished and in need of a proper meal, for, on average, 130 men and women each evening.
Graham Steven of the Mission said, “We are extremely grateful to Celtic FC Foundation and Celtic supporters for their continued generosity.
“Their much-needed financial contributions make the work of Glasgow City Mission possible. In particular, by funding our Older Men’s lunch club, you are providing a safe space for people to come and enjoy lunch and social companionship.
“Loneliness and isolation are significant factors in many of our clients’ lives – you are helping to turn that around, improving lives and strengthening communities – thank you!”
So next week, you can turn up to Celtic Park a wee bit earlier, get to meet hundreds of cheery Celtic fans, get a ticket to the game, and help to feed, shelter and provide companionship for the city’s homeless.
I spent most of the year not doing this kind of work, so I think I need to be there with a bucket next week. You are cordially invited to pick up your own bucket, email cfcfoundation@celticfc.co.uk or call here 0141 551 4291 now, before you forget about it. More info here. We’re lucky to be on the right side of the bucket campaign.
CQN Annual 2015 will be coming off the presses next week, order yours here in time for Christmas. There’s tons more on CQNBookstore.
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The Son of Agent Orange, as a blogger, seems to pride himself on his erudite and civilised manner – dignified, in fact.
His last two lines from his latest musings …
‘This perfect storm has the potential to sink the good ship Rangers once and for all.
Anyone who doubts that has learned nothing from our recent history’.
I hope it’s not rude or churlish to point out that a ship that has already sunk can’t sink again and that he in fact appears to have learnt nothing from ‘their’ recent history at all.
RudeandchurlishCSC
catch you later bhoys hopefully
HH
Imagine trying tae get a mins-silence for the Pope – in Scottish fitba?
What dick suggested that?
When Pope JPII died – the huns were live on the telly v’s Motherwell.
The BBC had to delay telling the public of the Popes death till – after the huns game.
And, some dick suggests a mins-silence?
south of tunis
10:23 on 5 December, 2014
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70 plus beautiful minutes from the Scottish Archive .
Great sountrack by King Creosote..
Excellent programme/soundtrack and he is well worth seeing live.
Paul67 et al –
Re: the cost of sacking McCoist. There’s no issue here. He will simply become another unpaid creditor. In fact, since he already is – last year’s bonus hasn’t been paid apparently.
LiviBhoy
10:27 on 5 December, 2014 – from last thread
That’s a very good post and I discussing this excessive hatred this morning, I know many Hertz fans who hate us more than hibs !
Oh and my email reply to hertz fans on this subject was:
“All good righteous stuff from Ann taking the high moral ground, incidentally when Hertz came out their CVA how many creditors got stuffed for the penny in the pound pay back?
Just asking like………………………………”
I have no idea if the Captain of the titanic was a principaled man but for the purposes of the analogy we will assume he was not.
For the analogy to continue to be true the chef would need to serve up poor meals which no one wanted, especially on special occasions.
If the chef knew there was a problem with the ship before they set sail and he knew how to schmooze the communications folk on board … And he was given hush money( big salary and cheap shares) and a promise that it would be ok by the Captain. I’d say we would be close to an analogy.
Has the chefs salary actually been reduced?
How much do the ‘bored’ give to the homeless / foodbanks etc?
Or, are the ‘boreds’ billionaires still engaged in their ‘vanity’save world campaigns?
Or, do they just donate Celtic supporters money to the politically correct poppy-pish tins?
KevJungle – Walk-on in the Jungle is magic, just magic
Are you the sandwich board guy from Argyll Street:)))
OG RAFFERTY
The USA would have been considerably hampered following Pearl Harbour had they not refloated many of the ships sunk in the attack.
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Buzz/2012/1207/Pearl-Harbor-resurrection-the-warships-that-rose-to-fight-again-video
But I get your point. Seems a pretty nautical blog today. A few fellas heading to the BV to sink a few,Ally in a familiar rowboat scenario,Pearl Harbour. Huns scuttled and the SFA reeling from a shot across their bows re Tonev.
Meanwhile THE GOOD SHIP CELTICA steams serenely onwards.
The only person they could employ to continue to sell tickets is Walter Smith. Even his unprincipled standard of ethics wouldn’t allow for that. Next to him it’s King Billy.
It would be like one of those pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Will the Green Brigade be ‘huckled’ oot of Fir Park the morra if they display – Nelson Mandela anniversary banners?
Or, will the ‘impartial’ police force wait till Monday morn and lift them from work / Uni etc?
As far as I’m concerned that three members of the panel who first sat in this case have been painted into a corner and it’s very obvious that someone had Coached into that position,and you know that the sheet has hit the fan So that person is no longer there,it wouldn’t be the first time it happened And it certainly would be the last,20 years ago long before the Internet was popular that should’ve been a done deal and everything would be brushed under The Carpet, everything they done those days was done Masonic style and still is to this day, But! The SFA have ran into something they never saw coming and that my friends was educated Celtic Supporters, they jumped all over the Internet in a flash as they found they had a voice and could express themselves without the SMSM saying the P (paranoid) word, HUNS can’t use this the way we use it for fear they may upset a brother or brothers, that’s why they can only use the Obsession word, as they can not defend or say a thing they just sit there and let it happen, you knew of the bat Whyte and Green where not brothers because of what they got away with, look at all the brothers who where board members and jumped ship, no one had a clue where those two came from, and by the time they circled the wagons they where offski with the dough, and this is what has happened at the SFA yesterday they have been caught up to there old larks and the three persons who where on that committee have been left hung out to dry, now you all know me, well most do, I’m a half full guy, and back the board and the club to the hilt if not all then most of the time, if changes have to be ,ade here and names have to be mentioned then so be it, Celtic should be screaming from the rooftops on what the hell the hold up here is, and demand to know what is going on, and also the minutes of the meeting should be public to make sure that no skullduggery has been going on, it wasent a 100 years ago that a certain manager demanded to know all these things, and it was public knowledge the very next day, actually the names are of no concern, I’m more interested in how they got there, and where they are going, because this whole case is absolutely stinking of the old boys brigade club, and more noise needs to be made, back to you Celtic.
starry plough
11:37 on 5 December, 2014
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Aye. Know what it says oan the front of ma new wan?
“Celtic will be on the life-support machine shortly after the huns snuff it.”
Oan the back it says…..
“Don’t shoot the messenger!”
Sorry for double post – gremlins
I have acquaintances who support Rangers, the club formerly known as Rangers, Sevco, newco, Costco or whatever.
They aren’t the closest of friends and that is a sad state of affairs for all of us, because they are in the main on a par with most of my close friends in terms of intelligence, wit, repartee and generally being good blokes to be around……………all apart from the fact that they and us cannot overcome that nurtured belief that ‘they’/’we’ are all thick/evil/misguided/twisted and eat new born weans.
In an attempt to at least try and dent the electric fence that keeps us at arms length I offered to contribute to one of their websites in a positive, hopefully humerous but constructive fashion.
The lads I know thought that would be a good idea and through their own contacts made the initial approach.
They brought me back the response.
Oh how we laughed.
Sad isn’t it.
Hail Hail
Estadio
MULLETANDCO 1134
Never mind the grub,it might not even have been the same ship!
Eerily similar to the huns pretending to be the same,and someone making money from it.
http://m.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9648097._I_can_prove_it_was_not_Titanic_that_sank_/
quadruple post noo, eh:)
I take it the rozzers are keeping an eye on the pedalo bays throughout the country, and have a unit at Alloa’s home to discourage him from going on any boat trips?
Personally, I believe mins silences in football should be for football people only.
Not for Religous, Royal or Political individuals.
Just my opinion.
In the main mins silence\applause tend to end up being about point scoring over rivals rather than the honouring of any individual for the highest % of people.
MWD said AYE
KevJungle – Walk-on in the Jungle is magic, just magic
On the front it says Gremlins R US….
On the back Half Price Bendy Toys:))
TD67
gonny learn to use full stops.
I think you are trying to kill us!
MWD said AYE
Paul67
Not convinced that the delay in the SFA Aleksandar Tonev case appeal decision is neccessarily a good sign, or whether it’s connected to Celtic getting our retaliation in first, with Ronny Deila and his the CAS pledge. I remain concerned that the decision was made in the first instance, and your view that the SFA think they can find it acceptable to produce a guilty verdict, with no evidence.
The situation is the same as it was before the appeal Celtic and Tonev appear to have been judged using a lower inferior standard of proof, for the most serious of charges.
The Celtic stance is therefore inevitable but should be clarified as more than a few posters have set out, when does the SFA switch the rule books used for offences committed in football in Scotland?
Do we have the Tonev rule book using ‘a balance of probability ‘, and ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’ including the criminal ‘Not Proven’ verdict whenever it suits all other clubs?
“We will not be treated differently” © John Reid 2011
starry plough
11:46 on 5 December, 2014
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Aye, whatever :)))
Off oot, bye.
kev jungle 11.19
to be honest I find it very hard to psyche myself up to go to games now , used to have season ticket , now I pick and choose , only been to one game this season but I would have went to a few more but cant get over the fact that we and all other fans have been cheated for years and those responsible still sit in a cushy well paid job ……..clubs have it in their power to do something about it but for some reason choose not to……all very depressing really
KevJungle – Serious question, when you “supported” Celtic, which board was in charge and what great deeds did they do that you agreed or disagreed with ? Which board turned you into an armchair supporter ?
https://twitter.com/JimDelahunt/status/540809386432929793
Hearing charges against players re Zaluska dropped,still to be confirmed
So, sally took the ’30 pieces of silver’ and backed everyone (and anyone) who was paying him his massive salary, (it has been agreed he will get the 50% back later, when they have money …hehe) AND handing him shares for next to nothing …….. Hilarious …. The Judas is one of the peepul …..how ironic is THAT ……. Hahahahahahaha
Hearts have a problem with about 300 extreme right wing fans. The BNP used to have some kind of HQ in Gorgie also.
A possible promotion for Gordon Durie in the sevco set-up?
Absholootely!
Is he not the coach of their Development side who were pumped 6-1 at Minty Park the other night?
HH!!
The LNS p#sh was the cue for all the clubs chairmen to say…”We are all Turnbull Hutton.”
Ye see, as you correctly state that they all have cushy jobs.
All-out rebellion by the fans will ‘make’ the directors do their jobs. imho
Hail Hail
That was for – Roddybhoy
Gremlins again.
The downfall of Rangers and the initiation of Sevco has created a whole new category of creature in Scotland the “ I don’t bother with Scottish football anymores “
IBetYou’veMetAtLeastOne CSC
BMC-UW
As Lew Grade said, cheaper to lower the Atlantic
Prayers and best wishes to Jim Delahunt and his family on the passing of father last night, whilst he was on air @clyde.
p
Paul 67
“currant directors”
Get it right mhan!
HH.