Ciftci, Stein, and the Audit

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I’m pleased to read Ronny Deila ask for patience with Nadir Ciftci, the player needs a bit of support right now. Had Nadir knocked a goal or two in against our Icelandic opponents, Stjarnan, he would have been in a different zone at the moment, but he missed a few chances – not uncommon among players newly arrived at a club, and has since found opportunities limited by a domestic suspension.

Dundee United started training after Celtic, so Nadir was behind the curve during those games against Stjarnan. Without a full 90 minutes in a month, he will still have ground to make up when we resume after the international break, but he’ll hopefully feel the benefit of the work he’s put in on the training field in recent weeks.

Remember the Jock Stein Charity Match, which takes place at East End Park, Dunfermline on Sunday, kick-off 2pm. There’s a host of former players are playing, including Tom Boyd, Chris Sutton, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Neil Lennon and Stiliyan Petrov, while several from the Hollywood set are also playing, including James McAvoy, Martin Compston and Gianni Capaldi.

Funds from the event go to the Celtic and Dunfermline Foundations. You can pay at the gate to mark the 30th anniversary of Jock’s passing. There’s going to be a lot of memories on that field.

Three years after football fans in Scotland became experts in insolvency law, we now have to become familiar with Serious Organised Crime (I had to look up what it was today). The Scottish Government suggest it involves “drugs, human trafficking and fraud”.

Fraud is one of the small number of crimes where a life imprisonment sentence can be imposed on someone convicted of the crime in Scotland (it carries a maximum of 10 years in England). Even if you were 100% innocent of all charges and the possibility of contamination from dubious characters, the sheer scale of the matters in hand would be an enormous worry.

My hunch is that conspiracies and criminal plans to subvert information are difficult to maintain under the weight of these charges.

I’ve been looking all morning but cannot find what I’m searching for. Does anyone know of an enterprise which operates in the shadow of a Serious Organised Crime investigation which has been able to raise money which didn’t come from the proceeds of Serious Organised Crime?

I’m sure the audit will be just fine.

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  1. Morning all,going for Si Senor 2.20 Kempton.Good luck all……except for that bassa

     

    Bada ..sunning it up in Portugal .

  2. It’s a mug’s Yankee today for me :

     

     

    Maljaa, Manaafidh, Tawwaq… along with the nap :

     

     

    Adaay (3.45 Haydock)

     

     

    Here’s hoping that Hanagan’s the man again !

     

     

    :)

     

     

    fleagle1888

     

    (Dubai CSC)

  3. Hmmm… is anyone familiar with dead-heat settling rules ?

     

     

    :)

     

     

    I think it is half the stake onto the winner and half the stake is a loser

     

    – is that correct ? … anyone… Bueller… anyone ???

  4. Fleagle……Dubai???

     

     

    Re dead heat, in the event of two horses finishing such the stake is halved on the selection. E.g. should a winning horse dead heat at say 4/1 the returns would be 2.50 to a I pound stake. i.e. 50 pence at 4/1…….

     

     

    Today’s choice, SYDNEY RUFFDIAMOND 5:40 Ascot………. Need it to win for a nice wee double!

     

     

    Regards & Hail Hail

     

    TBM

  5. Ah well, the losing streak continues from afar……….

     

     

    Fleagle, spent many years in Dubai; happy days!

     

     

    Regards & Hail Hail

     

    TBM

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