All it took was one man, Eddie Smith, who joined the referees strike a year ago as their body became embroiled in allegations of lying, bullying and sectarianism, to make it his business to report Celtic fans to Uefa and the SPL, and the support are besieged on two fronts.
After decades of the police turning a deaf ear to illegal and offensive chanting elsewhere this might appear opportunistic, but Smith’s motivations are irrelevant. We have endured ‘the songs debate’ here for years, the only thing universally agreed upon is that as long as a single Celtic fan sings political songs at a game, this day would come.
I sincerely doubt that Celtic fans sing anything illegal, which perhaps explains why the police encourage observers to ‘police’ the stands, but no one denies many people, including a number of Celtic fans, find such singing offensive. There is, therefore, scope to mount an attempt to discipline the club, and an easy route to inflict reputational damage on each and every Celtic supporter.
The Debating societies will be exercised on the freedom of some to sing racially-hostile God Save the Queen, or the militaristic, Flower of Scotland, and wait for the reaction to what is euphemistically known as ‘the marching season’. In this vein I would encourage the Celtic delegation who meet Uefa next month read aloud a transcript of La Marseillaise, which becomes a logical target if Uefa prosecute our club.
I predict Uefa and the SPL will reprimand Celtic with a cease and desist-type warning which will include specific instructions to remove and ban ‘offenders’. Efforts will be made to prosecute ‘offenders’, which I expect will fail, but not before a few individuals are brought before the court.
Neil Lennon, Jock Stein and since Fergus McCann, the club, have asked fans not to sing political songs. Many agreed but some will not waver, so it would be an act of vanity for lesser mortals to suggest restraint. The slow train-wreck will happen.
Don’t take the notion that attempts to prosecute are likely to fail as legal advice. In my experience, lawyers become a lot less certain once proceedings are underway.
On a separate note, I was pleased to read Iain Blair of the SPL differentiate pro-IRA chanting from sectarian chanting. Lazy jounos everywhere take note.
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Canamalar
Gonnae just answer the question please…
Good morning CQN,
In a break away from the illicit chanting business I’ve started doing profiles on the 2 or 3 players we’ve had out long term recently as they begin to return in the next couple of weeks.
First up is Scott Brown.
http://fritzagrandold.blogspot.com/2011/11/returning-from-injury-profile-1-scott.html
Thanks as always for checking it out if you do.
South Of Tunis says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:08
‘ Your Father is Muslim – Your Mother is a Jew
Your brother is a Junkie– Your sister is a Mongol.”
Regularly chanted by a section of the Catania support —-directed at supporters of deadly rivals -Palermo ——
Political ? Offensive ?/ Sectarian? / Discriminatory ?
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A wonderful example of an integrated community?
hamiltontim,
I have, pay attention, actions speak louder than words.
This board are in colusion with the authorities to punish the Celtic support and beat us into submission, if you cant see that thats your problem.
Oh and Quinn was another mason
MURDO MacLEOD joined a Celtic side in which religious persuasion was an incidental and playing for the jersey was a fundamental.
He was part of a team that was half Catholic, half Protestant, and totally committed to Celtic.
That’s why the Record Sport columnist could speak with such passion yesterday when he went under the skin of the reasons why the club is being investigated by the SPL and UEFA for ‘illicit chanting’ at a league match against Hibs and a Europa League tie versus Rennes at Celtic Park.
There are no taboos for MacLeod because his background wasn’t ‘Celtic minded’ but the commitment he exemplified during his nine years at the club established him as a hero in the eyes of the fans.
And his alarm over the consequences of failure to stop chants in support of the IRA has prompted him to speak out about what must be done by the club before UEFA sit in judgment of them on December 8. Murdo’s manifesto includes…
A rethink on a standing area inside Celtic Park.
Appealing to fans to self-police when it comes to ending offensive singing.
Celtic strongly condemning those who are destroying the club’s reputation.
Saturday’s live TV clash with Inverness being free of embarrassing chants.
MacLeod went to Celtic from Dumbarton in 1978 and stepped into an environment that made an immediate and lasting impression on him.
He said: “I was in the company of men such as Bobby Lennox, a Celtic legend and a Lisbon Lion, Danny McGrain, Johnny Doyle, Tommy Burns and Andy Lynch.
“We knew each other’s backgrounds and it was possible to kid each other on, but division among us was an impossibility.
“Religion was never mentioned in our dressing room and the songs that were sung on the terracing when we played were totally overlooked.
“It was regarded as part of the 90 minutes and everybody went home afterwards without giving it a second thought.
“But we live in a different world now, one with boundaries that can’t be crossed or else the game’s authorities, at domestic or European level, will take punitive action.
“The Celtic fans who insist on chanting about the IRA have got to step away from what they’re doing and understand the damage they’re inflicting on the club they’re supposed to hold dear to their hearts.”
MacLeod backed up Strathclyde Police’s appeal that rather than blame match cop Eddie Smith for blowing the whistle, the fault instead lies with the Celtic fans who belt out pro-IRA songs.
He added: “There’s no justification for pointing the finger of blame at Eddie Smith because he reported the illicit chanting to the relevant authorities in his capacity as match commander when Celtic faced Hibs and Rennes.
“Eddie was only doing his job and there’s no substance to the allegation the former ref was a Scot cliping on a Scottish club.
“Eddie was just the messenger and you don’t criticise him simply because you don’t like the message he delivered.
“Those who persist in singing these songs must look at themselves, nobody else.”
MacLeod doesn’t need clarification on what songs are illicit or otherwise. He wants it understood that reason and reaction are the best answer to Celtic coming under UEFA’s microscope.
He said: “Surely it’s time for all of us to move on from this kind of behaviour? Ireland has moved on from a troubled past, why can’t we? “Celtic could conceivably be fined by UEFA for offensive singing but a ban would quickly follow unless it stops.
“For the first time in a long time the name of Celtic, revered throughout Europe, has been besmirched and that should be the last things the fans want to see.
be bigger The small the a bigger should minority the have to until t exist’ “They have to start self-policing and do what they can to quieten down the people who want to keep the club imprisoned in the dark ages.
“The vast majority of Celtic fans know right from wrong and appreciate that what was once tolerated is now against the law.
“A reputation for respectability can’t be allowed to be tarnished.
“The Celtic fans must be bigger than this. The small minority causing the bother has a bigger voice than they ought to have.
“If the minority is embarrassing the majority they have to be driven out until they don’t exist any more.”
MacLeod has put the onus for change on the shoulders of those responsible for running Celtic’s affairs on a day-to-day basis, starting with a review of the proposal to install a standing area at their ground. He said: “The club has a feasibility study ongoing where that matter’s concerned.
“But now it might be thought that a standing area could actually do the club a disservice if it’s going to be a magnet for people who want to sing the kind of songs that are drawing attention to the club in a negative way.
“I’m a father and a grandfather and it depresses me on a family level that we’re still having to deal with the problem of sectarian misbehaviour as we approach the last days of 2011.
“Offence is being caused. Problems are being created. Surely it’s time for all of us to move on? “I have no idea why there’s been this upsurge in songs about the IRA but I do understand that it has the potential to drag people back into the dark days of the past, and I’m not for taking that journey.
“What the fans causing difficulty must realise is that a great club remains once we’ve all gone. They should think better of the institution than to harm its name.
“I don’t like to see reports of Celtic being reported to UEFA on TV, and that’s why I’d like to see a standard of good behaviour set in the Highlands on Saturday.
“I don’t want to tune in to Celtic’s game against Inverness and hear the airwaves polluted by the songs which will get the club into more trouble.
“It’s time for Celtic to come out strongly and campaign for what’s right.
“When I worked with Wim Jansen in Celtic’s management team and we stopped Rangers winning 10 in a row, the subject of religion or politics was never raised.
“Wim was a Dutchman and all he wanted to know about was Celtic’s history and how we could write a new chapter in it.
“Now the present is important. And that involves everyone associated with Celtic having a good look at themselves and reviving the times when UEFA gave the club prizes for good behaviour.”
‘Supporters have to be bigger name of Celtic, Europe, and up than this.The small minority causing the bother has a bigger voice than they should have. And if the minority is embarrassing the majority they have to be driven out until they don’t exist’
DANIEL Majstorovic made a bit of unwanted history last night as he condemned Sweden to defeat by netting England’s 2000th goal.
BSR :)
I have absolutely no doubt that this board will welcome punishment fro uefa, it will help with their political agenda.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:17
‘MURDO MacLEOD ‘
Is he still supporting the tories?
Paddy Gallacher and whoever else
Just to let you know that the big dirt Hun polis who banjoed Ayala in the tunnel at the end of the Atletico Madrid game in 74 him and his fine sons are still season ticket holders at Celtic Park
Copy and pasted from Celtic Fanzine
Although the first leg had been shown live on Spanish TV, Atletico quickly got to work after the match with their propaganda campaign. They claimed that they were the victims of a concerted and orchestrated campaign of abuse at the hands of Celtic, the referee and, of all people, the Glasgow Police. They alleged that the Feds had come into their dressing room and beat up their players. It was preposterous, as anyone who has ever had any contact with the Glasgow Police will know. As was the assertion that Celtic had bribed the referee. If only the Spanish people had realised how difficult it was to prize open Desmond White’s Biscuit Tin to pay our own players never mind find extra money to give backhanders to the ref.
Meanwhile…..any other big stories in Scotland like a major tax tribunal or a big club teetering on the brink of insolvency? No?
Canamalar
Your argument lacks credence. Quinn is no longer on the board.
Do you know for a fact that he is/was a mason?
bournesouprecipe says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:10
Good morning CQN
Great news for insomniacs – only two more sleeps to Christmas.
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Spooky. I got that joke in a text from N90. He said that he does remember you.
Do you owe him money?
http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/20111115/club-statement_2262950_2516574
Club Statement
15 Nov 2011
Hibernian FC moved to dismiss suggestions by Paul McBride QC that Hibernian supporters sing songs in support of the IRA.
Club Chairman Rod Petrie said “The suggestion by Mr McBride QC on national radio is wide of the mark.
“I am pleased to say that religion and politics are not part of the fabric of our club and they are not part of Hibernian supporter singing and celebrations at Easter Stadium.”
Hibernian FC and its supporters are not complacent in their quest to ensure a match day atmosphere free of sectarian chanting or other offensive behaviour. Supporters groups and the Club work very effectively together with the Police, to eradicate offensive behaviour of any kind at Easter Road Stadium.
Any supporter attending Easter Road Stadium who indulges in offensive behaviour, is immediately dealt with by the Police and Club, as the swift action against eleven individuals following the Sunderland match earlier this season clearly demonstrates.
Hibernian FC is also currently working positively and productively with the police and Scottish government as part of the consultation process on the proposed legislation focused on sectarian and offensive behaviour.
By Stuart Bathgate
Published on Wednesday 16 November 2011 01:19
HIBERNIAN have rejected a claim by Paul McBride QC that he has heard IRA chanting at Easter Road. The club posted a statement on their website to deny the lawyer’s assertion, while supporters suggested he had made the claim to divert attention away from Celtic – who, it was revealed yesterday, face an SPL investigation into their fans’ chanting as well as one by Uefa.
Speaking on a Radio Scotland discussion programme on Monday night about football and sectarianism, McBride twice referred to the problem in relation to the two Edinburgh clubs. “It’s not merely confined to Celtic and Rangers,” he said on the first occasion. “We’ve got Hearts fans singing ‘Rangers-lite’ sectarian songs. We’ve got some Hibs fans singing that as well.”
Later, after two replies from listeners were read out, McBride returned to his theme. “I’ve heard them at Tynecastle singing ‘We’re up to our knees in Fenian blood’, “ he said. “And I’ve heard songs being sung at Hibs about the IRA as well.”
Hibs fans responded indignantly to the suggestion on message boards, and several emailed club directors to ask for an official response. That came yesterday afternoon on http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk, when club chairman Rod Petrie said: “The suggestion by Mr McBride QC on national radio is wide of the mark. I am pleased to say that religion and politics are not part of the fabric of our club and they are not part of Hibernian supporter singing and celebrations at Easter [Road] Stadium.”
The website statement also reiterated Hibs’ commitment to stamping out all offensive behaviour from their ground.
It read: “Hibernian FC and its supporters are not complacent in their quest to ensure a match-day
atmosphere free of sectarian chanting or other offensive behaviour.
“Supporters’ groups and the club work very effectively together with the police to eradicate offensive behaviour of any kind at Easter Road Stadium. Any supporter attending Easter Road who indulges in offensive behaviour is immediately dealt with by the police and club, as the swift action against 11 individuals following the Sunderland match earlier this season clearly demonstrates.”
Hibs supporters welcomed the club’s statement, with one saying McBride had simply been mistaken to say he had heard fans of the club singing pro-IRA songs. “No, he’s not,” said Frank Dougan, the former treasurer of the Hibs Supporters Association.
“In the last 30 or 40 years of going to Easter Road, I’ve never heard any sectarian chanting from the Hibs fans. Hibs fans take great delight in not being sectarian.
“Yes, Hibs are very proud of their Irish ancestry. But I’m very friendly with a lot of people who go to matches, and I think very few of them are from that background.
“There was a problem way back in the 1960s with songs, but even then they were not meant in a sectarian way at all. And they died out around 1969 or 1970 when the troubles in Ireland started. “And Paul McBride is what, 45? He can’t possibly remember that. He’s just trying to spread the muck around.”
Mike Riley, chairman of the Hibs Supporters Association, was heavily critical of the club at last week’s annual general meeting for their record of managerial appointments.
Last night he, like Dougan, said that on this issue he was completely in agreement with Petrie.
“It’s an absolute disgrace to say Hibs supporters sing IRA songs,” Riley said. “I’ve been going to Easter Road for the best part of 50 years and I’ve never heard them.
“I back the board 100 per cent on that and I’m delighted with the statement the club have made. We’re not a sectarian club at all. The club has had players of every creed and colour, and it’s the same with the supporters’ club as well.
“I’m disappointed in Paul McBride – I think he’s just trying to switch the blame away from Celtic and on to other clubs. It’s a shame, because we have a good relationship with Celtic and never have any bother with their fans. All good Celtic supporters don’t sing IRA songs.”
The SPL inquiry into pro-IRA chanting at Celtic Park will focus on the recent match against HIbs. The league’s operations director Iain Blair said that police match commander Eddie Smith had notified them following the game, a goalless draw on 29 October.
“Eddie mentioned there was pro-IRA chanting, but we need to find out more about what happened,” Blair said. “It was included in the report and is subject to an ongoing investigation.”
The Uefa hearing is into alleged “illicit chanting” during Celtic’s home win against Rennes in the Europa League tie. That will take place on 8 December.
• In Monday’s edition of The Scotsman, a headline stated that ‘Celtic must satisfy Uefa on sectarian songs charge’. This was published in error, with the Uefa charge referring to “illicit chanting” and making no reference to songs of a sectarian nature. We apologise for the misleading headline.
hamiltontim,
yes,
I have a list of all masons in scotland england ireland and wales, thier names addresses with lodge and membership number.
Do you want a copy.
mickbhoy1888 says:
16 November, 2011 at 10:59
Paddy Gallacher
Me personally I know more of the so called pigs who hold season tickets for Celtic Park than I know of anonymous Internet bloggers who hold tickets
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Tells all you need to know about this poster.
Do not feed.
Árd Macha
I want a copy
Canamalar.
Thanks.
I’ve learnt something new today.
Cheers.
HH.
Paddy Gallacher
I apologise did not have the time to scroll fully back but I had seen another post directed at you which made reference to pigs
My mistake
Ernie Lynch @ 10:43
“The scientic definition of hun is of course:
‘a hun – a Rangers fan’”
I concur 100%.
Thats why i dont understand Celtic fans relating the term to hearts, murderwell, killie, airdrie as well to name but a few!
They may well be wannabe huns, but “huns” are rangers fans and them only in my book!
Its been my argument that the term hun is not and cannot be sectarian as it refers only to rangers fans. It is not only Celtic supporters who refer to the “huns”, Aberdeen, Murderwell, Hamilton, St Mirren fans that I know personally all do likewise and each of the guys in question are of a Protestant upbringing!
We are “Tims” and that mob are Huns.
It’s as simple as that.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
South Of Tunis says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:08
Your point is well made but remember UEFA only take action over incidents during UEFA competitions. Leaving domestic games up to the relevant domestic bodies. That said if the Italian FA were doing nothing about these chants and UEFA felt there is a case to answer then they’d contact the IFA.
Canamalar
Does your list include any CURRENT board members?
fritzagrandold says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:12
Good read Mate, we are players back now, imperative that we keep our run going..
Canamalar,
Please publish your list on here.
Anything that will remove the cloak of secrecy from these people would be most welcome.
Unless, of course, you too are a mason. Then it would be counterproductive.
Will check back later.
TTT.
What you said.
HH.
ttt
He’s no a mason……
HT
…probably more ‘currant’ Board Members…….
(Hat, coat and galoshes…..)
:)
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:18
DANIEL Majstorovic made a bit of unwanted history last night as he condemned Sweden to defeat by netting England’s 2000th goal.
Blimey, what score did it end up?
ernie lynch says:
16 November, 2011 at 11:12
:))))
hail \o/ hail
I have lived as a white among blacks…a christian among muslims…and as a catholic among protestants…I am a son of immigrants also…but I have never felt seriously persecuted. Perhaps it’s because I’m not Irish.
Lads please read and pass this on below.
Subject: POST FROM CELTIC QUICK NEWS ABOUT BEING REPORTED TO THE SPL BOUT SINGING
Well this is one helluva bad day for our club.
I think it’s obvious now that we’re engaged in the fight of our lives off the pitch. Literally. I don’t know whether we have the stomach for it or not, but the fans aren’t united behind any course of action, so in my view we’re going to lose it. Whether the board wants us to lose it or not is another thing, but it’s perfectly obvious that we have some serious things developing behind the scenes, things that go way beyond football.
Before I say another word about it, one quick thing on the publicity whore who is Paul McBride.
Now, I liked what this guy had to say about Lennon, and he defended Lennon brilliantly. But I would think twice about hiring, for my defence, a lawyer who wants to INVENT new laws criminilasing presently legal behaviour. For him to take a public forum and actually condemn people who are not breaking and laws, and to wish for new laws to be put in place to target them, is a disgrace, and he ought to be drummed out of the legal profession for it. His hissy-fit resignation from the Tory Party for opposing the propsed Scottish Parliament legislation was pure attention seeking nonsense, and if I was someone up before the beaks with this guy as my lawyer I’m afraid I would want to question him long and hard about whether he thought I actually deserved my fate.
This man’s behaviour is so egregious, I’d like to know, lawyers present, if it violates the code of ethics in some way, and creates a conflict of interest, and if it does I’d like to know who I make a formal complaint to.
But to move on ….
The people here who want us to stop singing the songs, I understand that some of you feel we’re better off without them, but if we look at the way in which this whole affair is being handled, I think it is abundantly clear to everyone that this is a vendetta against Celtic.
Last season was an astonishing year, in many ways. We fought our corner hard, we took some high profile scalps, and the referees response was astonishing and then laughable. To claim they believed their lives were at risk, to have Hugh Dallas attempt to use the situation to leverage the SFA into letting him keep his job after sectarian emailing, to demand protection … and then to allow Madjid Bougherra to manhandle one of their own as the season came to a close … no matter that their credibility should have been in ruins after all that, it was a victory for them in every way. We saw indirect war declared against our club from those at the top of our game.
This year it is the turn of officialdom itself, aided and abeted by one of those former referees, and the only surprising thing is that anyone is surprised.
As a club we must fight our corner harder than ever, but I wonder if we will. I sense there really is no stomach for this fight, no way in which it can be fought and won unless we are willing to go all the way, and thus I think these are dark days for Celtic FC.
Those fans who condemn our own, who believe we’ve somehow brought it on ourselves, are wrong to a degree which is stunning. They are naive beyond comprehension. One only has to look at where this offensive against us first took deep root – in the aftermath of the so-called “Shame Game”, where three Rangers players were sent off, hundreds of their fans arrested and our manager provoked to an astonishing degree in a year where he’d already had his life threatened. The only people punished in its aftermath were our people, Lenny and our supporters.
It is not our songs they want to eradicate. It is Celtic Football Club itself.
We live now in a country where if you have a high profile and wear the Hoops your life is at risk from bombers. Where the national Parliament wants to criminalise us as fans. Where the police, lacking the powers under the law to take the action they would like, and “crush the taigs”, are circumventing the law and trying to put pressure on the football authorities to take the action they cannot. Where the media hates us with a passion that I have never seen surpassed, safe in the knowledge that with few enough of us even buying their rags they are safe even from boycott.
This is all-out war against our club.
Do you, any of you, really believe that this will end with the singing of Republican songs? This will not end as long as there is a Celtic, and with Rangers in existential crisis – and more bad news folks, don’t count on a ten point deduction saving our season, I don’t think they’ll go into administration whilst this season lasts – the forces arrayed against us will fight harder than ever to assure if they go they won’t go alone.
This is, literally, a do-or-die season. If only we were united against this I think we would be strong enough to win. But we’re not
bankiebhoy1
:))
You’re safe it appealed to me…
tomtheleedstim says:
16 November, 2011 at 10:45
Tom, I am alive and well, you may have missed my post last Friday after our small libation. Give uncle John my regards, and I hope he got his loaf.
HH
Celtic set to escape punishment in fresh ‘pro-IRA’ chanting probe
Celtic are unlikely to face punishment as a result of a Scottish Premier League investigation into offensive singing during their recent match against Hibernian, it was reported last night.
The SPL’s operations officer Ian Blair confirmed that, in his role as match commander at the match at Parkhead on Oct 29, former referee and senior policeman Eddie Smith complained to a match delegate about songs sung during the goalless draw.
“Eddie mentioned to our delegate that there was pro-IRA chanting from one specific section of the stadium,” Blair told the Daily Record. “It was included in the report and is now subject to an ongoing investigation.
“I am currently gathering information about what happened during the match when the arrests were made.
“Eddie has mentioned that there was pro-IRA chanting but we need to find out more about when it happened and what exactly went on.
“We also have to establish that Celtic, as I am sure they will have, co-operated fully with the police in the aftermath of this event.”
It is understood that consideration of these factors, which relate to steps taken by Celtic to try to prevent offensive singing, means it is unlikely that further action taken when the investigation is concluded.
It is also believed that the specific songs in question may not be detailed in the match delegate’s report. While some song or chants may be deemed to be in breach of the rules, reports are more likely to include general reference to “pro-IRA songs” or similar.
Celtic are already facing disciplinary proceedings from Uefa on Dec 8 over “illicit chanting” during their Europa League tie against Rennes at Parkhead on Nov 3. It has been widely reported that Smith made the complaint to the Uefa delegate on the night.
Meanwhile, Hibernian have dismissed suggestions from QC Paul McBride that their fans sing songs glorifying the IRA.
McBride alleged on BBC Scotland’s Sportsound that offensive chanting was not isolated to the west of Scotland.
“I’ve heard them singing at Tynecastle ‘we’re up to our knees in Fenian blood’,” McBride claimed. “And I’ve heard songs sung at Hibs about the IRA.”
But Hibs chairman Rod Petrie replied: “Suggestions by Mr McBride on national radio are wide of the mark.”
He added: “I am pleased to say that religion and politics are not part of the fabric of our club and they are not part of Hibernian supporter singing and celebrations at Easter Stadium.”
Meanwhile, Gary Hooper insists there will be “no excuses” if Celtic do not win all their matches until the Old Firm clash with Rangers on Dec 28.
After a sticky start to the season the Hoops appear to be back on track after victories in their last two games against Rennes and Motherwell.
However, when asked if a clean sweep of wins was needed before Rangers visit Celtic Park at the end of the year, starting with the trip to Inverness on Saturday, the 23-year-old striker was forthright.
“We have got to win every game, no excuses,” he said. “It is very important [we win on Saturday]. We will go there like we did at Motherwell and get the three points. That’s the main thing.”
Pat Fenlon has emerged as the new front runner to become the new manager of Hibernian.
The Bohemians manager began the day as 20/1 outsider at the bookmakers but has moved to just 1/5.
The 42 year-old has been in charge of the League of Ireland side since 2008 and was close to becoming Dundee United manager in January 2010.
The tax tribunal dealing with Rangers’ dispute with HM Revenue and Customs has been postponed until early next year.
The First Tier Tribunal was expected to conclude this month but will now take place on Jan 16-18.
Former Hearts captain Robbie Neilson is to join Dundee United until the end of the season.
The 31-year-old full-back, capped once for Scotland, will complete his switch to Tannadice on Tuesday afternoon.
Hamilton Accies are the latest club to be added to a pilot scheme to play Scottish Football League matches on Friday nights.
Partick Thistle will travel to New Douglas Park on Friday Jan 13 for a 7.45pm kick-off. The match was originally scheduled for Saturday Jan 14, with Hamilton keen for a switch.
ernie lynch ——
There isn’t much evidence of integration in Sicily / Italy.
hamiltontim,
there are 5 board memebers on the list
Anyone who calls themselves a CELTIC fan must stop singing songs that are going to get the club AND themselves in trouble.
Sing other songs, sing old favouries (Holy Ground, Sailing etc), sing new songs (if you want to sing about Ireland how about Give Ireland Back to the Irish as was mentioned yesterday), just don’t give them any excuse to do us and yourselves!