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Morning All.
I am not one for spending any great deal of time thinking about the team from Ibrox but certain things should be recognised and considered.
No one can doubt that as a player Steven Gerrard has seen it all. He worked under good managers and coaches and some of their tactical and strategic nous will have rubbed off.
The stated aim of the Ibrox club is to catch Celtic or, if you will, stop nine in a row or ten for that matter.
There are two ways in which you can do this.
The first is to be better than Celtic, beat them home and away and if all else pans out you become champion’s.
But realistically that may take money – an awful lot of money if Celtic go about their business properly.
The second way is to be better than everyone else and to be better against everyone else than you were before.
That should not take so much money and may be achievable if Celtic themselves misfire or are not at their best throughout the season.
The club at Ibrox has amassed a huge squad – some say an unnecessarily large squad which costs too much money.
My feeling is that money will come from somewhere if there is any encouragement or hope that they will prevail this season. It will be borrowed and sourced with no regard to the consequences.
One of the lessons to be learned from the EBT years was that the use of EBT’s allowed the old Rangers to recruit better players AND more players with their money and so they were not hamstrung by injuries and suspensions over the course of the season.
A similar lesson is on the horizon now.
Their squad is not full of players who are better than the Celtic equivalent – they don’t need to be.
It is full of players who just may be able to do the business week in and week out against what some have already identified as weaker Aberdeen, Hearts, Kilmarnock and HIbs sides.
Obviously, it may be that there will be slip ups against other teams but we can’t rely on that at all and so we need to look at radically refreshing our ranks with players who can and will see off all of those clubs and take care of a rejuvenated and encouraged Ibrox side.
Our team has to be motivated, tactically smart, skillful and as strong as a bunch of bulls for the full season ahead.
Gerrard said a year ago that they could win the league without ever beating Celtic.
They only need to be better than the rest which they should be with a far bigger budget and a far bigger squad – and by bigger I do mean bigger in every way including physically. There will be competition for places at Ibrox with players competing for not just a start but a future whether that be in Govan or elsewhere.
The challenge and the tactics are obvious.
We have to be alive to that, prepare for it and simply be better than the team from Ibrox at being being better than the rest.
BRTH
We were poor last year.. and have been severely weakened……board don’t care about team..or fans..just money… PS what happened to res 12?? Over a year since any mebtiin.
All the referees are squeaky clean how silly of of Boyd.
Message to that Sevco Scotland supporting Sky sports Employee Keith Downie.
Have a wee read below as this was posted on twitter by @bhoab
Scottish referee Stephen Brown steps down after sectarian, discriminatory and homophobic social media posts including abuse aimed at Neil Lennon emerge
By Stephen Mcgowan For The Scottish Daily Mail.
Stephen Brown has stepped down after offensive social media posts emerge
The Scottish referee has expressed deep regret over the 2010 Facebook posts.
Messages seen by Sportsmail were concerning Celtic manager Neil Lennon. A top Scots referee has stepped down over historic offensive Facebook messages concerning Celtic and their manager Neil Lennon and apologised for his actions.
Stephen Brown, 35, posted a series of unsavoury sectarian, discriminatory and homophobic social media posts. The messages, seen by Sportsmail and now deleted, date back to 2010.
Written shortly before the Scottish FA sacked former referees chief Hugh Dallas for forwarding an offensive email concerning the Pope, the governing body were informed of Brown’s indiscretions in 2014 and the matter was referred to the Judicial Panel.
Stephen Brown has stepped down as a referee after offensive social media posts emerged
The independent panel issued only a censure following a disciplinary hearing and Brown’s immediate offer to resign was turned down by his local referee association. It’s understood the SFA were ‘surprised’ by the tribunal outcome but bound by the independent finding at the time.
Progressing through the refereeing ranks the official became eligible to officiate at games involving both Celtic and Rangers when he reached Category 1 status this summer.
But, under the governing body’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plan the position of one of the rising stars of Scottish refereeing has effectively become untenable – with Chief Executive Ian Maxwell clear that the historic baggage would make it impossible for Brown to take charge of matches involving or with implications for the Old Firm.
The messages, posted on Facebook in 2010, concerned Celtic manager Neil Lennon.
On Friday night, Brown stressed he took ‘full responsibility for the posts, made during a period of great personal difficulty.’
He added: ‘I expressed deep regret and remorse at the time and the person I am now is unrecognisable to the person I was then. I am embarrassed by what I wrote but there were personal issues I was dealing with that, while they don’t mitigate that behaviour, explain it.
‘Refereeing has given me a second chance in life and I am grateful for that opportunity. I am devastated that my actions from the past will prevent me from fulfilling my potential as a match official but appreciate that perceptions linger, regardless of how much sorrow or regret I express.’
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 19TH AUGUST 2019 8:01 AM
A fine post. I also fear they have ‘the hunger’. Which we seem to be lacking atm.
The corrupt/complicit media have allowed the biggest corruption story to pass without investigating in the EBT scandal and they want to preach to us about morals? Laughable.
John Beaton and Andrew Dallas are the new go to guys in the new Sevco Scotland’s hour of need when they are struggling this is why they are being defended at all costs.
FRED C. DOBBS on 18TH AUGUST 2019 11:14 PM
The Hoops are for life.
Not just for Christmas.
Hail Hail.
John Beaton a referee in Scotland attends a staunch loyalist pub after Celtic play Sevco Scotland Ltd and they are slating Tom Boyd? No bother boys 👍
From @toptim77
@TEnglishSport Tom Boyd accurate as usual. He doesn’t pander to the media agenda and same club myth. Self proclaimed sports journalists can’t deal with that.
My friends in Celtic,
Many of us are disillusioned at the moment. If there is such a thing as long term kneejerk reactions, I don’t think it’s time for them.
Our season is not over by a long long shot., in fact it’s hardly begun. On Thursday we can get back on track.
We are lucky to have this opportunity and we must take it. No excuses.
Playing in a ” poor” league we desperately need European football. It is where others judge us and subsequently it defines our inward transfers.
We all want quality and only European football gives us that platform.
One of my many worries at the moment is that clubs may not trust NFL for quality loans.
However imo, an ambitious enquiry should be about the availability of Victor Wanyama. It would require bursting our wage policy, but in this case it would be necessary. In fact more prudent and urgent than when we paid mega bucks for Craig Bellamy or Robbie Keane.
Come on DD and the board. Demonstrate that your commitment and ambition matches the paying supporter.
HH. The journey must continue.
Is anyone surprised at the attacks on Tom Boyd? This is Scotland. Did any media report the sectarian bile coming from the Dunfermilne “support” on Saturday? As Paul67 said the other day, we are alone, in this sad sad country, especially this year.
So if we were keeping tabs on the numbers of penalties ” awarded” or “denied” and had a wee look at the Officiating hun responsible………….where would we be in relation to thems?
If ever there was a job for the most excellent Celtic Quick News’r……..Celtic By Numbers………..
An overlay of when said decisions were made would also be helpful.
I’d take a punt and say that by and large the huns get thum more and partikularly get them when they need thum….and we get them less and usually get them when we don’t need them………
Fix Fitba’, Empty Hampden.
HH
NORRIEM I too remember all the failures
But he informed everyone after that Peter lawells remit was to find players to sell to EPL within two years
He has hand capped
maradominic – who do you play for ? I’m siding with Boli.
From FrPaulStone
The media – “It’s outrageous to suggest that Scottish football and refs are bent.”
– Jorge Cadete
– Hugh Dallas email
– UEFA licence
– Same club
– Jabba Traynor
…etc etc etc. I could go on… https://twitter.com/record_sport/status/1163322198880391168
This is going to be another missed opportunity of a transfer window.
I feel like we have signed decent players in Elhamed, Julien & Boli but we are still short at fullback. Just sign Adam Matthews and Greg Taylor and be done with it.
Dave King is an idiot but even he has the sense to have a director of football.
HENRIK1967 on 19TH AUGUST 2019 9:05 AM
From ETims
Great post from E Tim’s. But surely they are playing the MSSM game by mentioning a political opinion on the Scottish ” Independence ” referendum.
That subject conjures up division, hate, polarisation and supremacy on both sides.
HH.
In ither news…………………
Tom Boyd castigated by hun jeerleader…………….
Just when the Club needs most support, some take the clickbait and go for the vainglorious windmill tilt at
“r’at Pee Ell See..”.
We are always alone in this, now more than ever. I’m sticking with Tom Boyd and Celtic Football Club – we can’t be divided – this ain’t the 90’s, no matter how much some would like to see themselves in rebel garb leading a charge in the wrong direction.
Fitba’ in scoddland is broken, Scotland needs to fix it.
GREENPINATA on 19TH AUGUST 2019 9:24 AM
I asked Paul to remove it buddy because of the swear words in it especially at this time of the morning.
HENRIK1967
Ta for share – seems pretty balanced, fair-minded and well-reasoned. Resonates for me.
CORPORALJONESCSC
From ETims.
CELTIC DIARY MONDAY AUGUST 19: DON’T PUSH US….
August 19, 2019 · by Ralph Malph · in Diary, Latest
Alright, let’s get one thing perfectly clear.
I wanted Neil Lennon, Peter Lawwell and probably even Hoopy the huddle hound sacked last Tuesday night as well.
But then I calmed the f**k down and looked at the issue rationally.
Post Dunfermline, I was coming back round to the idea of just ripping it up and starting again.
But then I calmed the f**k down and looked at things rationally.
Celtic lost one game. They struggled in the next one.
I think we can safely say there’s been a little bit of an over reaction.
There is a fairly obvious campaign , driven by the media, encouraged by the authorities , to stop Celtic winning the league this season. Anything that can be used to drive a wedge between support and club is being grasped frantically and utilised to its fullest extent.
We knew it would happen, and we’ve fell for it.
Hook , line and Sinclair. By the way, if Scott Sinclair isn’t getting a game, there will be a reason for it. It may be that he has refused a move and is being frozen out, but lets not jump to conclusions.
Thats just what they want us to do. And we’re doing it.
Celtic beat Dunfermline, and if you watch the players reactions at the goals, there was an insurmountable sense of relief. Same with the support, who didn’t leap over the hoardings to celebrate, there was no dancing on the disabled section and declarations of victory.
Just a sense that we’d got out of jail, should put it all behind us and move on.
However, the media do not want us to put it behind us and move on. They are stoking the fires of unrest in the hope that it becomes a full blown revolution, in exactly the same way they didn’t do when their favourite club cheated all and sundry before hurtling into oblivion.
Or, indeed, when a hasty sale of assets to avoid paying fiscal liabilities demanded investigation, they simply ignored it, declared it was the same club, and in that instance, we should all move on.
The Celtic support isn’t as gullible as their neighbours. We know when we’re being played. We’re being played now.
Sure, we know that there are one or two problems right now as the manager changes the way the team is set up to mirror his own thoughts as opposed to those of hos predecessor, and it’s perhaps unfotunate that the wheels that were spinning so sweetly pre-Cluj appear to have stuck a bit, and as a result, the direction we’re going in has become maybe just a little unclear.
But just as quickly as the crisis began, it can be rectified. and that terrifies the SMSM, because they..and we..have already seen what this side is capable of.
And it’s early yet.
The negative spin is quite frightening, and I’m just as guilty as anyone else, to an extent.
Instead of being patient enough to allow Lennon to overcome what is surely a glitch, I’m of the mind that every game now could be his last.
And that’s ridiculous.
If you stand back and consider only the facts, then you will see it’s ridiculous as well.
Already, there is a genuine fear of the trip to Ibrox in a couple of weeks. Where exactly has that come from ?
We’ve had one duff game.
Even against Dunfermline it cannot be called duff-Celtic dominated the game, it was just difficult to get past the 9-1-0 formation the Pars had set up.
But Celtic did, it took a while, but they did, and the relief on the players faces told you not only of their effort, but, as Lennon said, of their character.
“Rangers ” will not set up like that at Ibrox. Although, like Dunfermline, it’s a big .big game for them. For us. its just another three points up for grabs. Despite the hype attached to it, nothing will be won or lost that day.
We need to calm the f**k down and let those who can get the train back on track do so.
By the way, Stockholm lost at home to lowly Kalmar at the weekend.
I’m quite sure the Swedish papers aren’t full of demands for their boss to get it sorted…
And i’m also fairly sure their fans aren’t screaming from the rooftops.
But supporters cannot be blamed for sometimes joining in with the doubts and the criticism. It’s not so long ago they whipped up similar antagonism against Fergus McCann, which resulted in the great man being booed at the unfurling of the flag that stopped the ten.
Never underestimate the power of the mainstream media, just look at the lies told during the Brexit campaign, and further back to the Scottish referendum to dissolve the union with England, which itself was described as an independence referendum. A union is different from a subjugation, although in practice thats what it turned out to be.
The mainstream media is more or less a loss making industry. The days of respected newspapers fighting for the truth are long gone. Now, it’s just a collection of stenographers copying and pasting news agancy releases, with clickbait opinion columns thrown in.
And it’s the columns that do the damage, as you will recall when John Beaton refereed the last game between “rangers ” and Celtic at Ibrox.
He Performed badly if you view the game as a neutral. To avoid criticism, the PR machine went into overdrive, as Andy Newport of the Press Association put it out that he’d had abusive text messages.
As we saw at the time, that metamorphosed into death threats that required police protection for his family.
Beaton was in charge of the Dunfermline game, and sure enough, he showed that at best he’s incompetent, and at worst he’s a cheat.
Under new rules, Celtic should have had a penalty after a Pars defender blocked a shot with his arm. It’s also worth noting that a player being substituted must leave the pitch at the nearest point. Eight times on Saturday, Beaton ignored that.
Maybe he’s not familiar with the new rules, which is a sign of incompetence, or maybe he was deliberately ignoring them, which is cheating. In fairness, he was equally bad for both sides, as he ignored the rule for both.
An insider tells us that is, in fact, the case. Beaton has promised to get up to speed with the new rules, just as soon as he understands the old ones….
so, another inept performance by Beaton, and guess what ?
Massive deflection from the media.
Again.
You see, Tom Boyd has disgraced himself…not Beaton, who has proved yet again he’s not fit to carry the whistle, but Boyd, who pointed out Beaton’s “mistake “, and added another truism after…
during the Celtic TV broadcast of the game, thanks to VideoCelts, we can consider the conversation between Tom Boyd and Gerry McDade, as the incident surrounding the penalty claim is discussed…
Gerry McDade, Celtic TV: That looks like handball
Tom Boyd: Ah referee, he’s got to give it, it’s a penalty
GM: Is he giving it?
TB: No he’s not, he’s bottled out of it
GM: A strong challenge coming in, Scully on Jullien, it looked like handball, we’ll need to get a look at that one again Tom. Let’s have a look at it again, Christie swings it across, challenge comes in, a clash between the two players
TB: That’s a penalty, it’s a penalty kick. His arms are up, in an unnatural position, it’s a stonewall penalty and once again Celtic denied by a decision by the referee, the referee has bottled that.
GM: That is the best save of the afternoon, I say that with all due respect to Ryan Scully who has been in excellent form for Dunfermline this afternoon, that should have been a penalty to Celtic 12 minutes into extra-time
TB: That is an absolutely scandalous decision by John Beaton, we’ve seen that before on many occasions
GM: Coley coming in, unquestionably a handball
TB: It’s unquestionably a penalty as well, a handball, that was a stonewall penalty kick as clear a penalty kick. In the light of day he is putting his hand towards the ball, heading towards goal.What does John Beaton not know about the new rules. If he doesn’t know that that should be a penalty he should not be in the middle of the park refereeing a football game.
CTV: You heard it from Tom Boyd, telling it as it is
TB: Probably welcome down his pub tonight, again
Boyd, playing to a paying audience of Celtic supporters, merely said what we are all thinking. In his role as summariser, he summarised it pretty accurately as far as i can see.
Let’s examine what he said, and put it into context…
It’s unquestionably a penalty as well, a handball, that was a stonewall penalty kick as clear a penalty kick. In the light of day he is putting his hand towards the ball, heading towards goal.What does John Beaton not know about the new rules. If he doesn’t know that that should be a penalty he should not be in the middle of the park refereeing a football game.
There’s no argument from me on that one. It was a penalty.
And if he doesn’t know the rules, he shouldn’t be a referee. It’s right there in the job description. Referee wanted. Must know the rules of Association football.
that, however, seems to have escaped our media. They, instead, are concentrating on this bit.
TB: Probably welcome down his pub tonight, again
That would be this pub, where Beaton enjoyed the company of some people who were rather pleased that he didn’t appear to know the rules of Association football at ibrox either…
Tom Boyd simply told the truth…as he saw it.
But that gave the media a chance to deflect from their best hope of “rangers ” winning a trophy for the first time in their short history…
Celtic ambassador or embarrassment? Tom Boyd’s John Beaton outburst has dangerous connotations – Keith Jackson
Here we go again…remember…
Jai Bonar
@jai_bonar
Replying to
@Derstenchnewco
@Richiestoke
and
@CelticF1rst
The difference being that their cheerleaders are in the mainstream media. Ours are on our own club channel.
Which is an excellent summary of the situation ..
Anyhoo, here’s what Keith had to say…
…Which is precisely why the heart sunk just a little bit on Saturday afternoon when Tom Boyd appeared to make a rallying cry to the most combustible elements in Celtic’s support, live on the club’s own online TV channel.
As part of his co-commentator duties during the Betfred Cup win over Dunfermline, he took it upon himself to launch into a hugely regrettable and wholly vitriolic attack on match official John Beaton after the ref had failed to award Celtic with a fairly blatant looking penalty kick.
That Boyd had every right to feel unhappy about the decision is not really up for debate. The newly drafted handball rules made this one a stone-waller and, therefore, a bad one for Beaton and his assistant to miss.
You’ll note that Jackson doesn’t dwell on this. Beaton, again, shows a dazzling level of incompetency, but the real story, according to the hack, is…
But, by going one step further than the situation required, Boyd predictably pandered to the lowest common denominator.
“Probably be welcomed down his pub the night again,” bemoaned Boyd with heavy hint of snide.
To be clear, what Boyd means is that Beaton is a Rangers supporter who goes out of his way to disadvantage Celtic in return for the adulation of his Rangers supporting pals.
Those words almost conjured an image of Beaton and his mates bowling around their local like characters from T2 Trainspotting and Boyd should be fully aware of the damaging and dangerous connotations which come with his comments.
But the media, it seems, are completely unaware of the damaging and dangerous connotations of complicity where this man Beaton is concerned.
As they did with the story of Rangers and their eventual collapse, and the desperation to bring them back and pretend nothing has happened, the media are afraid to confront the truth, to apportion blame where it is deserved.
And look how that ended up.
This on the day when Tangled Up In blue, Stephen O’Donnells work on that particular scandal is published, which does the work that of the hacks had done way back when , the whole fiasco might well have been avoided.
Coincidence ? Possibly.
That is the same media that is fuelling talk of a crisis at Celtic, but we’re on to them this time. They’re pushing us too far with their bulls**t
There is one way to hurt them, though.
Get behind the team, and show them what we are capable of on and off the pitch.
Let them know that we aren’t as gullible as some I could mention, and that quite simply , we have had enough.
Don’t buy their papers, don’t even react to their clickbait. Turn off the radio phone ins and above all, cancel Sky TV .
F**k the lot of them, I know whose side I’m on.
And when they push us, we push back.
From @MinogueTom
The last time I heard the MSM rise as one to berate someone for making wild aspersions about an SFA official was when Fergus complained about the Cadette registration. How did that pan out? https://twitter.com/TEnglishSport/status/1163049656173125632
Some dafties in the meeja reckon they can call out some things but stay schtum on other more important, significant and decisive ,matters. Scottish football is a victim of hunguffery.
That Bam English is very good at creating waves but keeping the boatmen safe.
Henrik 1967,
Excellent E Tims article,
I suppose Tom Boyd,as a TV Commentator,and Ambassador,was displaying, like all on here,his confirmation bias for Celtic.
Confirmation bias,apparently, is a trait not found in the refereeing fraternity(pun intended),according to all media outlets,
I have long pondered this phenomenon,are they pre-destined to be a referee then?
is there a surgical/mental procedure to have it removed on entry to their local Refereeing Association?
did Big Tam just make an “Honest Mistake”in reference to Beaton`s drinking den in Bellshiill,if so, shirley Keek the jeerleader will be big enuff to forgive and forget,after all he has forgot Liquidation 2012.
HH
Boli for Captain.
The storm over Tom Boyds comments is hilarious, pathetic and sinister all at the same time.
I’m sure everyone is welcome down their local pub unless they have previously been barred from entry so he was only stating the obvious ;)
What I’d like to know is who in the media has a Celtic TV subscription.. I do hope they accessed the service legally…
HH
Tom English (like Neil Cameron at the Herald) is somebody who is paid to cover football but has nothing but disdain for football fans
From @RhebelRhebel
It’s amazing how many of those in the media having a go at Tom Boyd, defended Campbell Ogilvie throughout his reign as @ScottishFA even though he was an EBT recipient, signatory and administrator before being involved in the sham Nimmo-Smith review.
It’s his unreliable disdain for reality that strikes me most………………
His consistent unreliability is remarkable.
What Tom Boyd saw?
That Bam English has the mind of a Rugby Ball.
I’d guess the fitba’ just pays the bills.
Just catching up – was it Tom English that brought Tom Boyds comments into the public domain, or has he just decided to make a meal of it?
HH
“Chief Football Writer”………………..must be rhyming slang……………..
Trad – I don’t know who went first but the main thrust was pedalled by Keech You-know-Who……………
Just when the SFA thought it was fine to sneak the odious John Beaton back into Celtic Park in a low crowd cup tie, the brazen wee serial offender, couldn’t help himself.
His compatriot was cute enough to slag the new rules beforehand and made sure he complied, in which case he wouldn’t have failed to call the Celtic penalty either, would he?
If it says Celtic they’ll attack it, that includes Celtic by Social Media, twitter, hesgoal, Celtic TV or Celtic anywhere.
The club fell silent when John Beaton’s was exposed last season, and if Saturday’s inability to play by the rules, is a a fore taste of more of the same, buckle up for the ride.
Tom Boyd CSC
From @CelticBlog2018
Since the weekend, the media has focussed much of its ire on Tom Boyd. The game on Saturday almost went disastrously wrong for the club; the one satisfaction some of our fans got was that they didn’t need to listen to the gloating anticipation of that on Radio Scotland.
Instead, they got CelticTV commentary, and Boyd. I know who I would much prefer to listen to.
And during the game, he made some comments about John Beaton and his failure to award a penalty to us.
At the same time, he suggested that Beaton’s performance would make him the toast of his local.
As so the hacks are in a strop.
I’ve read the sneering commentariat on this and I’ve listened to Boyd’s words myself, and as far as I can all he’s done is go where they are too afraid to.
He’s told it straight. He’s told the truth.
What is it with our media?
They are gutless beyond belief.
Boyd has said nothing that many of the rest of them shouldn’t have said.
The scandal here isn’t that he had a dig at John Beaton but that John Beaton still referees Celtic games after the club publicly slated his performance at Ibrox last year, after which he was photographed jollying it up in a bar full of their supporters.
Had something like it happened in England, the media would have been screaming that his getting any further matches involving our club or theirs was a nonsense.
In Scotland, they barely covered the story, although the Celtic blogs all ran with it.
The implications of it are obvious, but our spineless press never pressed the issue.
They ignored a glaring, obvious, news story in favour of silence.
Whose interests were they serving by that? Certainly not the game’s as a whole.
John Beaton shouldn’t be near Celtic matches as a referee.
Even if he’s not biased, the optics of this are dreadful and the SFA should have taken the old “even Caesars wife must be beyond reproach” stance on this and kept him well away. Boyd’s comments were the public expression of what some inside our club have said in private; that’s a fact.
Just because the press won’t say it doesn’t mean we all aren’t entirely aware of it.
Boyd was not, in any way, trying to distract from what was the deeply embarrassing spectacle of us being held at home to Dunfermline. His analysis of the penalty incident was spot on and his comments about Beaton were a reminder of what it is that we have to put up with here.
Beaton was photographed in a NewCo fan’s bar just hours after he gave a number of mystifying – some would say scandalous – decisions against us in a match against that side.
That is a statement of fact.
That the media chose not to make a story of it – imagine the situation were reversed – doesn’t change it.
Those, and in particular Tom English, accusing him of attempting some kind of deflection are, themselves, deflecting.
Keith Jackson, this morning, suggested Boyd “take off the tinfoil hat”; and his suggestion that comments made on Celtic’s own members’ only TV station – and which would never would have been broadcast to a wider audience without all this media flap – have “dangerous connotations” is far more ridiculous than anything Boyd has ever said or ever would. It’s an incredible suggestion from a hack who defended the Ibrox fans after the Hampden riot by telling outright lies and who pushed conspiracy theories involving the SPFL’s Murdoch MacLennan.
Boyd said what they ought to have.
Their pitiful efforts to go after him over this only reveal their own lack of backbone, their own cowardice.
From CelticDave
@CelticBlog2018 I seem to remember mr waistcoat dignity himself questioning an officials Irish sounding name and not an eyebrow was raised. One tommy Boyd
Celtic’s Tom Boyd rightly points the finger at malpractice….and Celtic’s Tom Boys is targeted by MSM…………………
see when folks call for the Club to speak out ……………..there’s what happens.
Tom Boyd CFC…CSC
HH
If I recall correctly The Auld Indulged Ned drew specofic attention on the actions of a ” Mr Murphy……”???
Now, this was from the comfortably well-off, brown-brogued dinosaur who never had to fear anything vaguely challenging or interrogative from any of the Chics, Dicks, tams or various bams……….
This is what we alone, face.
Back The Team ,Back The Bhoycott.