I looked into the world of Scottish football betting yesterday. Betting on Celtic to win the Scottish Premiership is less rewarding than putting your money in an interest bearing account, which, I suspect, is an approximation of what bookmakers will do with any such bets. In short, our league is not so much a sport as a secure investment.
Betting gets really interesting if you meander onto what is referred to as the Without Celtic market, or who will win the league if Celtic are taken out of the equation. Favourites are Aberdeen, closely followed by Motherwell and then Dundee United and Hibs (hmm….).
Can you imagine what a league title like this would do for these clubs? Aberdeen, Motherwell and United actually vying to become champions?
Some hold a notion that Celtic are the great benefactors of Scottish football, which is dependent on you and me for the occasional home game and TV money. This is rubbish. Celtic inhibits Scottish football more than we can imagine. We are a competitive poison making it impossible for historically significant football teams to thrive.
Keeping a clean sheet away from home is an achievement for any team. Doing so twice, in Europe, and winning both games, is outstanding for St Johnstone. Well done. I can only imagine their absence from the top of the Without Celtic betting chart is a result of bookmakers anticipating their run to the Europa League final in Turin will hinder their league challenge.
I have to express my sheer delight at yesterday’s pronouncement by the chief executive of Rangers International FC PLC, Craig Mather. We can be confident of this guy’s credentials and that he is worthy of following in the footsteps of Charles Green, Tommy Cooper and other comedic greats.
Mather issued a statement on the club’s web site noting punishments handed out to Hearts and Dunfermline for entering administration were different from the punishment handed out to Rangers International’s predecessor club (the player registrations and current penalties Newco Rangers were allowed to inherit) – for a completely different series of offences.
Those penalties were imposed for a variety of misdemeanours, including failure to declare the club appointed a director who had been struck off, failure to comply with stock market rules and multiple counts of bringing the game into disrepute. The SFA disciplinary panel responsible for the penalties found that “only match fixing in its various forms might be a more serious breach”.
Would you not feel a wee bit embarrassed by this? Mr Mather asks for clarification but I suggest we don’t trouble him by directing him to the aforementioned SFA panel’s ruling. Better that he operates in the version of reality he is most comfortable with, and that he keeps his followers away from looking into the real issues……..
To that effect, our thanks to all the media outlets who unquestioningly reported the Mather comments without hint of irony, apart from those pesky online types at STV, who had the temerity to address the question. Cease and desist immediately.
Flag Day tomorrow, another historic moment in Celtic history. Get in early, or late afternoon, as it happens. Hoping to see some of our new guys make their claim for a start in Sweden.
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TBJ
They are all fine and starting to lay well again, which is a relief. Don’t want to get defiled here, but, and it’s his words as he was MCing the do, “I am a Celtic supporter, always have been and always will be”. Honest, that’s what he said.
Weefra HH
Snake and ed
Must be a timposter
Your choice is Snyde radio or coleman balls on Shortbread. Choice is overrated.
Clink\o/
Yep, – I was wondering the same and why I quoted corkcelt from earlier ;-)
Tallybhoy,
Didn’t bother answering thon quiz, as I was actually at the game when Willie Fernie returned to Celtic Park and at both Final and replay against Dunfermline. Their goalie had an unbelievable game in the replay. Connachan was it?
Willie Fernie and Bertie were an influence, imo, because they played as inside forwards. Kevin Doyle can’t hold or pass the ball like they could, never mind beat an opponent. Bring back Lubo or even better, Charlie Gallagher, now there was someone who could pass the ball.
The Boy Jinky
Nah, he was the McCoy.
Kept talking about the need to remove Chuckles or they were finished and that there was a world class board waiting to come in to replace the other lot.
Timposters wouldn’t do that. We like Green
kevjungle
I believe he has been drawn to the Dark side for the moola. :)) But he def saig in front of hundreds he was a Tim.
Weefra HH
Shock horror! Realistic hun on SSB! He must’ve been lurking on here!
So – if Cellic fans who work in the media don’t take it upon themselves to go on to the radio / papers etc…..to fight Celtic’s corner whilst – the very folk who are handsomly paid to fight Celtic’s corner don’t either – then it’s the wans in the media who urny Tims ? Hmmm
The sheep who got lost – CSC
HH
Weefra
I am indeed an honest man… and never make idle promises…. buy three times ive said ” till death us depart” and I know am still alive and kicking while am sure 1 , 2 & 3 are alll still breathing :)
I think it’s a very ominous sign for sevconia that Chortles Verdi is back on the scene, even their pathetic timing with fawning MSM giving them their headlines, to coincide with the Kerrydale Gazebo, being open from midday.
FlyTheFlag CSC
WeefratheTim
19:07 on 2 August, 2013
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I think ole Hugo’s agenda is now to run doon the clock n get oot afore Scoattish fitba dies. imo
HH
Snake
Ive never met a zombie with such clarity … all have been deluded freaks
Whos going to the kerrydale bar tomorrow
What is wrong with the Bigot Dome..??? No preseason friendlys, Ramsden Cup 1st round away, League Cup 1st round away, 2 away cup ties in a row, unheard of, the warm ball is usually out first. Have they not been awarded a certificate…???
They must need money so surely they wud hv played a few preseason games there to get the hoards to part with their cash..??
TBJ @1908
Now that’s what I call a glutton for punishment. Hahahahaha
Weefra HH
Was in the ticket office this afternoon, fairly quiet but the ghuy that served me, said season tickets were ‘well up’ on last year.
Anecdotes CSC
Kev. Guidi and Keevins led a vendetta against Celtic during the Barnes era. They revelled in it. Their squalid rag should forever be boycotted.
jonny the tim
18:52 on 2 August, 2013
I think when the huns were predicting “Armageddon”, they never fully realised at the time the implications of “liquidation”, aye their dead right enough and zombie land is where they’re at! ArmageddonTherfc
Happy Friday Celts, in the garden and preparing for a bit of ska music live at the Venue (thumbs up)
V
The thing is, that guy was able to come out and slam everyone from the Charles Green gang and at no point was the usual legal argument put out to halt him in his tracks.
It seems it’s only when us Celtic fans and internet bampots tell them something that it’s the cut off
The guy might be delusional but something is in the air, that is for sure.
kevjungle
I think you are spot on. :))
Weefra HH
TBJ
The first 800 thirsty tims that get there?
john o neil
19:13 on 2 August, 2013
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Well said!
HH
tbj. if he was jusr been followed by his mate who seems to know everything. hopefully lots of nervous huns choking on their blackthorns
Kevjungle – that’s a fair point but a journalist can say stuff that would find representatives if the club in trouble. Neil Lennon can’t publicly criticize a referee but a journalist can. Likewise the club can’t call the sfa corrupt and not fit for purpose but a journo could.
john o neil
I cannot for the life of me remember the last time I bought anything related to the smsm.. The CV does me now. :))
Weefra HH
Parkheadcumsalford
I was 7 in 1961, and wasn’t taken to my first game until the following year.
Never saw Willie Fernie play, but saw Bertie and Charlie Gallagher many times.
The three finest passers of the ball I ever saw in the Hoops were Charlie, Bobby Murdoch and George Connelly.
The maestro wisnae too shabby either!
Oh to have just one of them in the team today!
HH!!
nostalgicauldfartCSC
Good Evening Timland
Re-The two Swedish wummin…..thought I wid run it
by the wummin of the house……..Mrs valentinesday
not impressed,sexist she say’s……..young Miss
valentinesday just a bit of banter………me think’s
the sooner a get her married aff tae one off they
bad bhoy’s in the GB the better.
John O Neil
19:13 on 2 August, 2013
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Keevins – Guidi – McNee – led a campaign to get rid of Barnes / Dalglish and his band of troosers full of Cellic fans loot bandidos – I was grateful for their efforts as the rest of the SMSM had the prayer-mats layed oot aroon Murray n Advocates tables.
You see – Keevins / McNee / Guidi were like me – Hurting Tims !
HH
Likewise Weefra. Stopped buying them during the vendetta time I earlier mentioned. Thanks Vmhan. No more tedious and pathetic quotes from me about the United player..
Could it be that the zombie alarm clock has went off……..their pain is culoable
keevins just described the huns as in chaos. 4 times he used the word chaos. he may be total baloon but he has cheered me up no end tonight
Kev did you like Allan Macdonald? As weeminger says, you have a point about most of us only wanting ex Celts to praise our club but those ‘tims’ were actively deceiving our support.
weeminger
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McNee said – ” It was time to bring in a retired ref from – Spain / Italy to dissole the ‘secret society’ that was the Scottish refereeing fraternity”
That – is as close to losing yer job as i think you could get. imo
HH
dissole = dissolve
typo
sorry
Did McNee really say that? I always said he was a good tim.
A belated attempt by the Blue Knights to stop an insolvency event. Bless…
John O Neil
19:21 on 2 August, 2013
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Not too sure aboot that ?
I think that the biggest decievers will ALWAYS be found sitting in the Cellic directors box. imo