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I’m a bit disappointed RIFC were not in a position to advise their shareholders the results of the votes this morning.  Doing so would not have added 10 minutes to proceedings.  My expectation is that the board would win both votes, giving them a resounding platform this weekend to sell tickets for lower league football.  Perhaps there’s more going on than I thought.

You have to wonder what that expensive legal business in London and Edinburgh yesterday was all about?  Many details of Sports Direct’s deal with Newco are public knowledge, and the void of missing details is filled with pretty stark speculation.  It struck me that counsel for Sports Direct noted the chronology of the new board being appointed, the subsequent leaks and that Newco had not denied they were the source of the leak.  All now on record, in court.  Confidentiality is, of course, a condition of the agreement, which could now be argued is in breach.  That would be a source of regret.  For some.

More on Dave King over the weekend.  He can’t help himself.

You have to admire those who work to expose the absurdity of the Offensive Behaviour Act, designed by the SNP government to “equalise” non criminal offenses with criminal offenses.  Unfortunately, the campaigners are wasting their time, the Act is here to stay, anyone in doubt should read the news this morning that 80% of people surveyed support it.  Ask the average person in the street if they support a law against Offensive Behaviour and they’re hardly likely to say ‘no’.  This type of survey is manipulative nonsense.  Police with guns on the streets and politically motivated laws are a by-product of blind populism.  This is an offensive law and I am horrified.

Robert King is one of the Angola 3, who were incarcerated in solitary confinement in the Louisiana town of that name, and who have become causes célèbres for miscarriage of justice campaigners and prison reformers alike.  King spent 30 years in solitary before having his conviction overturned.  If you don’t know about the Angola 3, go find out.

He pitched up on CNN yesterday dressed in distinctive attire (below).

My relationship with Celtic is different to King’s.  I’m a Celtic fan because that’s the way I was brought up, but I’m pretty sure King’s roots don’t reach back to the Emerald Isle.  Chances are, I’d be a Celtic fan whether we were a club with a social mission or not.  For others, for King, the reasons they wear a shirt on TV, buy a season ticket, or simply share in our joy on occasion, are different.

We are the club of the underdog, a beacon for the downtrodden, a place where they will find a welcome.  No one can plan for this, it either survives over the decades or it doesn’t, so it’s worthwhile telling this part of our story now and again, to set ourselves a core target: Remain the most ethical football club in the world.

To deliver on this you and I need to step forward, this is not a job that can be outsourced to the club, it takes all of us.  You can start here by signing up for the Great Scottish Run for the Foundation.  I know at least 30 runners who read this, sign up before I see you in person!

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  4. estorilbhoy on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    00:15 on 13 June, 2015

     

    Mr PAlfie

     

     

    You are the only poster bringing up IRA ‘tripe’

     

     

    BlockCapitals CSC

     

     

    hamiltontim

     

     

    00:16 on 13 June, 2015

     

    For anyone interested.

     

     

    Tomorrow at 12:30 the annual parade to remember the 10 hunger strikers who died in an attempt to convince the Brits that they were POWs and not criminals will leave from Garnock St in Royston.

     

     

    UTLR

     

     

    —–

     

     

    OxymoronCSC

  9. petec on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    00:05 on 13 June, 2015

     

     

    Glasgow’s Green and White

     

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    It is mad – I have seen a Green and White traffic cone going into Dumbarton tonight.

     

     

    I’ve seen others travelling to work this week. I’d never seen them before. ;))

     

     

    Dumbarton has always been Green and White. :))

  11. Hamiltontim on

    estorilbhoy

     

     

    IRA tripe?

     

     

    I’m highlighting a parade that remembers the sacrifice of 10 brave men. In no way does that promote anything other than respect. Whether anyone wishes to share or honour that respect is entirely up to them.

     

     

    Be careful what you read and post in future mate.

  12. gorbalstam on

    Hamiltontim

     

     

    00:19 on 13 June, 2015

     

     

    I was sitting next to you bud. I am Clouseau.

     

    I left before the end. Nice to have nearly met you.

  15. gordybhoy64 on

    the huddle,

     

    I heard a busker do a version of the Smiths song just the other day in Glasgow,

     

    really good he was too

  16. Alasdair MacLean on

    As a highland Scotsman descended from the cleared people of StrathNaver in Sutherland on my father’s side and North Uist on my mother’s side: and having being brought up in the modern day system of crofting as it is in Sutherland…..

     

     

    I have the utmost respect for the people of Ireland – who spoke and still speak the same language as my countrymen did and still do – much as the British establishment sought to destroy the same.

     

     

    This respect extends to their armed struggle in the 20th century.

     

     

    And this on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

     

     

    One of the things I remember reading is how the women of Harris had to sleep on the moor after being torched out of their houses, and I quote:

     

     

    “Three Waterloo widows slept on the moor that night.”

  18. Hamiltontim on

    gorbalstam

     

     

    I wish you’d said hello mate. SFTB was in front of me and MT behind me.

  21. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    timbhoy in spain

     

    00:25 on

     

    13 June, 2015

     

    estorilbhoy,

     

    you sound like a real good tim (not)

     

     

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    Going on that basis,neither was Jock Stein (a real good Tim )

  22. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Alisdair at 0.07, great advice from Shane.

     

     

    Have you ever saw Shane’s dad. A definite member of the grey brigade.

     

     

     

    Delaney’s, the Pogues have that many good songs , like you, my favourites change from week to week. Young Ned of the hill is a great song.

     

     

    Beating the defunct club on St Patrick’s day then seeing the Pogues at the Barras a few hours later was one of the best days I ever had.

  25. petec on

    Summa of Sammi….

     

     

    00:15 on 13 June, 2015

     

     

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    PeteC..

     

     

    I was Going to Say.. Great Minds and All that.. Then thought Maybe Not..【ツ】

     

     

    The ‘Not’ being Mine of Course..

     

     

    KTF

     

     

    001

     

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    I like the dudes that go against the tide. You m8ty, you do it with tremendous humour. I ain’t even in your La Liga, and I reckon that is still the strongest League in the World because of Doping Financially.

     

     

    I loved yer Support of the Amazing G S.

     

     

    Hail Hail Always.

     

     

    There is something about going to the Southern Hemisphere.

     

     

    Oops up side yer head

     

     

    Wonderful Celts them all.

  27. gorbalstam on

    Hamiltontim

     

     

    00:28 on 13 June, 2015

     

    Know what you look like now, so will do next time. Mighty Tim’s bhoy spoke really well and SFTB is one of the best posters on here.

  29. Delaneys Dunky on

    Petec

     

     

    Dumbarton is the biggest Tim town I know. West Dunbartonshire says no Orange Walks here!

  30. bournesouprecipe on

    estorilbhoy

     

     

    Neat post ( but the parenthesis was on ‘tripe’ )

     

     

    HH

  31. timbhoy in spain on

    Alasdair MacLean,Aye just think my friend it was your fellow Scotsmen who done it for the englush pound & their feckin loyalty to britannia.

     

    bastards.

  33. bankiebhoy1 on

    Respek the Crazy Braezy……………

     

     

     

    Rebels wi’oot a clue……

     

     

    The Harder They Come, The Harder They Fall!

     

     

    ;)

  34. Hamiltontim on

    alasdair maclean

     

     

    00:28 on 13 June, 2015

     

     

     

    Like you I’m a proud Scot. My ancestors came from Appin and were at the forefront of the fight against English imperialism and oppression. On the other side my family came from Monaghan and suffered the same.

     

     

    Obviously I’ve no personal recollection of their struggles but it would be remiss, negligent and disrespectful of me not to continue their fight.

     

     

    UTLR

  37. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    timbhoy in spain

     

    00:33 on

     

    13 June, 2015

     

    Alasdair MacLean,Aye just think my friend it was your fellow Scotsmen who done it for the englush pound & their feckin loyalty to britannia.

     

    bastards.

     

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    You mean,just like the Irish on both sides of the current border.

  40. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    dallas dallas where the heck is dallas

     

     

    00:31 on 13 June, 2015

     

    Alisdair at 0.07, great advice from Shane.

     

     

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    I just watched a You Tube Doco on How a Fairytale of New York came about.. 58Mins..

     

     

    Seeming most People thought they (Pogues) were All Dublin Boys..

     

     

    Guilty..

     

     

    001

  41. Alasdair MacLean on

    timbhoy in spain,

     

     

    I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

     

     

    There were many Irish widows too.

  42. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    HT,

     

     

    Its not English Imperialism, its just Imperialism.

     

     

    There was many a gombeen with a fine Irish name

     

     

    HH and nighty night

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