Celtic Quick News fully supports the decision by the Supporters’ Association Executive Committee to ask an Emergency Delegates Meeting to vote on whether to selectively boycott clubs which vote for a Newco to be admitted directly into the SPL next season.
We discussed the idea of a boycott on this basis towards the end of last season. It appears the only appropriate action if our ‘sport’ can be subjugated for financial ends.
I am sure Celtic fans will not be the only ones considering a boycott. If Newco gains access to the SPL next season there is likely to be a schism between supporters of clubs who opposed the move and those clubs who vote for Newco, despite the wishes of their own supporters.
Kilmarnock might be able to look forward to lower costs for stewarding and turnstile operators, from their own support as well as others. Still, they would be able to open more than one stand when Newco visit.
What a great five days Walter Smith had. His attempts to buy assets from Rangers administrators failed, sigh, but he managed to undermine the guys trying to sell tickets to Ibrox next season, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time. Legned.
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CSA?
Commit Suicide Agency
timgreen-well done mate HH.
Traynor has pissed a fatness test.
As someone far more incisive than I has said here (how I hate to admit it,Philvis!) ,” Hell mend ’em.” I refer specifically to Trigger’s Broom F.C. aka The Cloned Rangers.
KTF!
:-)
Jabba passes slug test.
A true bycott will require all bycotting fans to bycott any live games shown on TV aswell. Any revenue streams that these teams have who are in favour of a newco should also be targetted. Poor TV audiences for a game at Rugby Park or the likes would send a very clear message to any broadcaster wishing to show games.
Prince of Goalkeepers
Let me straighten my facts.
Servco 5088 Ltd are Chunk Greens mob registered in London.
Sevco Scotland Ltd are registered at Ibrox. Sevco Scotland Ltd up until a couple of days ago were registered at the same address as BDO on York St in Glasgow (one floor below BDO).
It is rumoured that Sevco Scotland Ltd own Ibrox stadium and not Sevco 5088 Ltd.
MWD
c’mon the AT!!!!!!
Black and portentous must this humour prove,
Unless good counsel may the cause remove
Romeo & juliet
Paul67,
Surely the GOT will have to then go with another of their cunning plans… getting a share of the ticket cash from Celtic home games ? Whilst this might seem to be a “good luck with that” idea, there’s been a whole load of them so far
HH
Awe naw no the boycott debate anaw noo!!
hamiltontim on 20 June, 2012 at 12:47 said:
Awe naw no the boycott debate anaw noo!!
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And you MUST take part!!!!! ;)))
Just a quick note to congratulate Paul, and this is sincere, on coining a new and long-overdue addition to the internet lexicon. For years we’ve needed a word to describe individuals in football who are overrated by a compliant mass media, deluded as to their own importance, and nasty with it. Now we have it: Walter Smith, legned; Ally McCoist, legned; Joey Barton, legned; Trayner, Chic Young, every single commentator and “expert summariser” polluting the Euro 2012 broadscasts – legneds all.
Sevco is a generic company name that is used to form a whole batch of companies that can then be sold on. Individual Sevcos can then be renamed or used as is. A quick check on the Companies House website shows that there are dozens of Sevcos, past and present.
iPhone
STOP TYPING SERVCO IT’S SEVCO
MWD
Gordon J @ 12 28.
Euro 2012 ——
Italian media are delighted that the English media have assumed that England will beat Italy.
Italians don’t rate Terry and Lescott . Big and strong -yes -footballers -no. Italy will try to play pass and move football against England . They might opt for a 4 -3-3 . Prandelli may opt to play a front 3 of Cassano/ De Natale and the excellent Giovinco. They will aim to keep the ball on the ground and try and engineer situations where the likes of Terry and Lescott will be forced to try and deal with quick feet and quick brains moving around their penalty box.
Jerry Desmond
Great point, because I think that proves that we have to draw a line. I want to attend away matches, I rarely miss one, but I will be boycotting any newco and any club that votes newco in, including matches at Hampden. I would then want to watch games on tv but I take your point. So we’re left with radio (no chance!) or links.
Overall I am not sure about an ‘official’ boycott, as people want to see Celtic. I understand the polemic, I get the situation, but as with the other night when this was debated, there’s more heat than light in this, and the last thing we should be doing is denying the club any support, or any supporter the right to follow the team.
Modern blanket boycott’s is tricky.
DuvetCSC
Yes Gordon.
But Sevco Scotland Ltd previous address York Street Glasgow. Same building as BDO (liquidators of Rangers) except 1 floor below.
I’d be inclined to believe Sevco
Scotland Ltd (without taking too big a jump) are something to do with BDO who are registered at same address befor Sevco Scotland Ltd changed its address to
Ibrox yesterday (or was it day before) rathan being a sub of Sevco 5088 Ltd who’s registered address is London.
MWD
South Of Tunis,
An Italian side with only three defenders – talk about culture shock!
The English media always assumes victory. The headlines before the Ukraine game were all about whether they could avoid Spain, not if they would get through
MWD
Were Sevco not registered at York Street as it’s the address of Green’s solicitors, a normal practice to register a company name at such a location?
Moonbeams WD,
Could be. Or it could be a firm of solicitors in the same building were the ones to register Sevco Sotland Ltd.
Charles Green = Rangers Leech
Auld Neil Lennon …….from previous blog 18th june @ 12.54
Doing a little bit of catchup here. Thanks for the reply to my query regarding the emergence of BT vision into the football market.
Interesting times ahead.
Barcabhoy’s comments the other night prompted me to post something I have been thinking in recent days and weeks.
I’m a Celtic fan and I’ve had all the commemorative family photos and laughs with the jelly and ice cream but throughout this whole sorry saga (and in the end that’s what it is for football in this country) a change has taken place in my outlook. I have a new found respect for the fans of pretty much all other clubs in Scotland. I think it started to really develop when I read Alex Thomson’s blog asking the views of all fans. I was outraged initially at the cynicism of many who simply talk of the ‘Old Firm’ and their woes on income distribution. ‘Bloody Hell!’, I thought. After all that’s happened why on earth are we still stuck in this awful, awful arranged marriage that we loathe. Celtic’s fiscal prudence has been a laughing stock for years, how can that now be utterly ignored and we’re deemed part of a duo with cheats. Out and out fraudsters and cheats.
‘To see ourselves as others see us’ was Thomson’s reply to someone’s complaint that was made along these lines. That was enough to make me stop and start analysing it a bit more rationally.
Actually, when you think about it, to win the league and gain European entry as well as a massive share of the prize pot and also the lion’s share of TV money is all a bit much when we want a competitive league. Bear in mind we also enjoy regular longer cup runs than the rest too. How can the chasm ever narrow? Maybe there should be a re-think on income distribution. Actually, no maybe about it, it’s time. If this is the league we are to play in.
I plan on this respect for the other fans to stay with me. I hope that they benefit greatly from a cheat free league. Their chances of silverware are massively boosted. European football is many times more likely than before. I honestly hope they grab it and enjoy every minute of it. I hope it gives them great memories and days that families remember, special memories that I have. Honestly.
My concern is that this new found outlook is soon rammed back in a box when the Clubs take up the actual vote. That cowardice prevails. The day is not seized, and Chairmen prostitute themselves to Mr Green. I mean him no harm personally but let’s all be brutally honest, there’s not a soul out there who could argue he’s here for the sake of the good of Scottish football. If he gets what he wants there will be an almost seamless continuation of football domination in this country by two clubs. Forever.
And ever.
I could trot out the Braveheart speech now. “When you’re lying in your bed, dying, many years from now, would you give it all away……“
I know fans of their own clubs must be allowed the respect to decide and influence their own Boards but if it comes to open and honest discussion to save the game in this country, if I was in there at the SPL meeting for Celtic I would be offering, not conceding, changes. At the end of the day we are scraping every penny from our neighbours to mount a European challenge every year that will never amount to much more than a couple of good nights until complete European overhaul is undertaken. We complain about the EPL the way Hibs or Dundee United complain about us.
I would be scrapping the handling fee for away tickets. I would spread the TV income more evenly, and I would give serious consideration to allowing the away teams to keep the revenue they get from selling tickets for to their fans for Celtic Park. Radical? Maybe.
Eventually European wide league reconstruction will happen. Scandinavian Super Leagues. A Dutch-Belgian league perhaps. When this happens a negotiated change with a tiered support system for grass roots football would be better negotiated with our neighbours. Why not take Aberdeen, Hibs and Dundee United with us? A new club may or not be born playing at Ibrox. I wish to deprive no one of a football team, and if they work their way back to the top tier with humility and honesty and it is on merit then it will be deserved and we must also bear the responsibility to seek to never again foster hatred. Utopian, but so what.
It may only be for a short period, like the kickabout between the trenches, that we are blind to the colours of the next man and we unite to save football in this country, but I hope not. There is a chance to make the future of Scottish football all inclusive, and for the first time in a generation, fair.
Vote No.
Regarding boycott
Stopped going to ibrokes around 8 years or so ago – Don’t miss it .
Stopped going to all away games around 5 years ago – miss it more recently after meeting some of the guys on here who go and the Green Brigade factor.
Stopped going to cup games at Hampden around 2 years ago , in protest against SFA – hard when we make finals but wouldn’t take a ticket for final away from a supporter who has went to games in lead up to final.
All decisions made by myself , no pressure from anyone else .
Good luck to the guys who go and are now faced with this decision .
SAY NO TO NEWCO
Hail Gail
From Much Ado about Nothing …
Hero [a.k.a. Legned]: “So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.”
May67..
Nice anagram.. ! HH
Tax dodging bull shi&@ing non apologists must make a few words too..
For it s a grand old team!
“What do you think of it so far, Wayne?”
“Ruggish!”
Morecambeandwise SC
Gordon J ——
Changing times mean that Italy doesn’t have the players to play defensively. Chiellini’s absence simply compounds that.
They know they are vulnerable to long balls / high balls. They have no solution to the likes of Carroll. They have little experience of playing against players like Carroll .
Italians are pragmatic . . They believe that attacking England is the best way to defend . The believe they have much better technique than England.. They will try and make England play chess.
Sevco Scotland’s previous address was 60 York Street, same as MacRoberts solicitors.
BDO are at 70 York Street.
Looks like the only connection between Sevco and BDO is geographical.
Paul67 et al
I have to disagree with you on this one. Whether by accident or design the wording of the statement of the Celtic Supporters Association is not so far removed to that of Sandy Jardine of a few weeks back. The proposal in effect states that we, the CSA, will punish any club that votes differently from the way we think they should vote. Or seek to punish. A threat by any other name, hence the Jardine analogy. Now I have not read the Articles of the Celtic Supporters Association but I would be very surprised if such a remit is covered anywhere within them, and if not they should not be surprised if any of the threatened parties takes that on board somewhere down the line. The whole thing has more than an Old Firm feel to it, something I thought we would seek to avoid. It is grandstanding of the highest order, and at a time when the Scottish footballing public is reaching a broad consensus over corruption at Ibrox, completely unnecessary. Let the clubs vote without threat or hindrance from us, the issue is a simple one for them. Integrity or corruption, what is your favoured model?
Just as a break from the endless scandal,and for all lovers of Harlan County,here is,my opinion only,the best songs about that place:
“You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BGyegjiT8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And “Harlan County Line”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8N_YWOELY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Should obviously have been Hail Hail at end of previous post .
Gail , Gail , who the f### is Gail
How the hell does Jimmy Carr earn 3.3m a year to dodge tax in the first place?!
NEWCASTLE LOAN FRASER FORSTER READY TO PEN DEAL WITH CELTIC
Fraser Forster has said he is ready for a move to Celtic
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When the big fella signs can we all send an even bigger GIRFUY to the closet hun Nu-Mad at Vital Football. Although he’s not as vile as he was he nned to be taken doen a peg or nine. (Was a very young Faither in goal the last time Newcastle United won a domestic trophy?.)
timgreen on 20 June, 2012 at 12:39 said:
Congratulations for keeping AT informed. You and a lot of others have played vital roles in flushing out the perpetrators of RFC’s cheating and unique approach to winning trophies.
Well done. While Alex was relatively late on the seen he came up to speed very quickly on the situation and has done sterling work to bring this situation to a wider audience. He has also added the necessary gravitas and objectivity that has been needed. He is one of the heroes.
B/kev- excellent post .I just wish the honest clubs were a bit stronger, especially Aberdeen. My favourite time watching the Hoops was the early 80s; we didn’t win the League every year but the football was competitive, the other teams had some right good players [Sturrock, W.Miller] and the grounds were pretty full.
And the Horribles were spavined gash.
Paul would it not be a good idea if all the supporters groups got together ?
Guys I wouldn’t get hung up on either the name or address of Sevco. There are hundreds of them, the majoroty not connected to Green or BDO. It’s just an intrument used to set up a dummy company.