I didn’t comment on reports earlier this week that the SFA would allow Rangers International to complete an internal investigation into alleged links between Craig Whyte and Charles Green as I thought this was the appropriate course of action.
The SFA acted correctly: they wrote to Rangers International expressing concern over the matters in hand, and received assurances that their questions would be answered by an independent panel. Last year the football authorities were slow to enforce compliance with predecessor club, Rangers, but we can hope they apply a little more pressure this time.
News, released last night, suggesting after it was established Craig Whyte had been struck off as a director and would therefore face disciplinary proceedings, he had dinner with SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, and president, Campbell Ogilvie, is far more concerning.
Mr Regan assured us that Mr Ogilvie, who he admitted was “heavily conflicted” by matters concerning Rangers, would remove himself from matters concerning the club he was previously a director of. This is meaningless if both parties met to discuss disciplinary matters with Mr Whyte before formal proceedings were underway.
What is increasingly clear is the co-dependency between so many characters in this play, including Regan and Ogilvie. They exist to keep each other in a job. This co-dependency will be jeopardised by the one man so many are attempting to paint as the only villain of the piece. Craig Whyte has them all taped and will not go down quietly.
It will be a frustration to many that the bottom half of the Scottish Football League clubs have held out for a bigger share of the trickle-down pie. Odds on a schism opening up between community and full time clubs have to be high.
Many thanks to everyone who has ordered (below) Willie Wallace’ autobiography, Heart of a Lions. It goes to print this week and will be with us soon thereafter.
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G64
Who Fallon or Che? lol
zimmerman
22:03 on 22 May, 201
I am quite fond of Wulliam
Tinmhan
It was certainly an opportunity to say something along those lines, and maybe that is what he was trying to do, not many votes in it for him by pandering to the Unionists over the sea.
jude2005,
mr fallon ;-))
Dontpatmadug,
Me too,
He’s still a moron though…lol.
Rumours that a mosque in London is on fire.
kelvinbhoy
thanks got a lump in throat now, but some happy memories flooding back.
will have to head to bead now, appreciate it if you post arrangement’s when you hear, thanks again, need my bed badly now grandwains have worn me out!
HH
Celtic Mac
Anyway, certainly don’t think he was talking about Rangers
Jude
Fallon ??
I know he’s been a bad boy in the past, is there something new?
Tinmhan
No, I think we can agree on that.
Salmond has a habit of blurting out the truth from time to time.
The ‘blood of our blood, bone of our bone’ line showed up the SNP’s so called civic nationalism for what it is, a sham. At root they are ethnic nationalists.
His ‘we didn’t mind the economic side so much’ was another example. The guy is now a liability for the SNP and he’ll be out on his ear as soon as they lose the referendum.
http://www.dailyedge.ie/20-signs-youre-a-hardcore-celtic-fan-883120-Apr2013/
Ped & G64
No just his past. He did help me give up gambling years ago when he got done. Racing is corrupt to the core and has been for years.
celtic mac-so he said the bone of our bone stuff then?
Tinmhan
22:06 on 22 May, 2013
‘Celtic Mac et al
I think he may have been referring to the fact that Scotland takes her name from the Scots tribe from northern parts of Ireland that settled in Argyll in the sixth and seventh centuries and not to the Plantation of Ulster’
And if you believe that you shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.
Auldheid@Auldheid8s
About EPL introducing FFP in the EPL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcrMSR0wkM …
Soft salary cap mentioned which might help Celtic a wee bit.
Zimmerman
He’s a right hoot. Love it when he comes on. Was there not 3 Jims 2 Gordons and a couple of Marcs too?
Tinmhan 22:06
The quote references a country called Northern Ireland. It does not reference Ireland or the North of Ireland or Scots tribal emigrees or Argyll or Celtic for that matter.
That would appear to be a very specific reference?
HH
!!Bada Bing!!
22:42 on 22 May, 2013
‘celtic mac-so he said the bone of our bone stuff then?’
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I remember him being interviewed on TV, it may have been by Paxman, at the time of the SNP questioning the Supreme Court and the application of the ECHR to Scotland.
He said that because Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe* the guy who drafted the original convention was Scottish, Scotland didn’t need Johny Foreigner to oversee how the convention was applied.
It was a ludicrous, even bizarre, thing to say but it did give a shaft of insight in to how he thinks.
*Born in Scotland, educated in England, trained and practised in England.
From earlier
leftclicktic
18:50 on
22 May, 2013
Fat sleekit Ecks quote of “They are the blood of our blood, bone of our bone”.
Was in connection to donating bottled water to northen Ireland.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/give-scottish-water-more-powers-says-salmond-1.1077461?localLinksEnabled=false
Till later all
My grandson Josh might be out for a few weeks. Got hit with at least a yellow card tackle v Raith Rovers last night. Thot his ankle was broke but its only soft tissue damage. Was in the Royal Inf for about 3 hours but got first class treatment.
Bada Bing
I already knew he said it, and in what context, unlike St. John Doyle. Then again he is the politician, not me.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
Think there was a couple of mammy daddy’s in there too ;)
What I find strange about the referendum debate is that those in my family shouting loudest for a yes vote live in england or abroad…
Go figure
BT
Why say yes … when you can say
No no… no no no no..no no no no .. no no theres no rangers ;)
leftclicktic 22:52
It is though a very dramatic and disproportionate thing to say in relation to sending over a few bottles of water on a ferry?
HH
Ernie
I would maybe take you more seriously if you could find it within yourself to make your points without being rude.
Just maybe
Great to see the Aberdeen team win that trophy that doesn’t exist anymore…
………..apart from those ones who played for the Huns.
Tinmhan
23:05 on 22 May, 2013
You seem to be confusing me with someone who gives a tinker’s fart about what you think.
Ernie
Think you just made my point for me
Thanks
A day late, I have to recount my own Seville experience.
Like many on here, I have not been able to bring myself to watch the full game. A couple of years after the event, I watched Henrik’s two magnificent goals, and in 2011, I visited Seville , staying right next to a football stadium …the other one.
My own journey, was a real planes, trains and automobiles trip and would fill a couple of pages, including blagging my way into the executive lounge at the airport, staying in Madrid the night before the game, and Cordoba the night of the game ( I do recall sitting in a plaza in Madrid drinking muchas cerveza, and I am sure Saltires in Sevilla was part of the crew.)
One day, Celtic will screen a re-run of the match on the big screens, with all money to charity.
The entry criteria will be that you needed to be in Seville, but you haven’t been able to bring yourself to watch the game.
This will be your cathartic moment and it will be a sellout.
ROW Z – Let Celtic Flourish By The Cleansing Of The ‘Den!
23:05 on 22 May, 2013
‘leftclicktic 22:52
It is though a very dramatic and disproportionate thing to say in relation to sending over a few bottles of water on a ferry?’
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It does however make sense if you are an ethnic nationalist, like Salmond.
For you Wishy Bhoys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKqICiEDSM
Ernie-ta,Celtic mac was quick to tell me and another bhoy we were wrong.
For BGFC And Blindlemonchillin
RUSH gig was top class
they opened with subdivisions and varied tracks from power windows and signals for first third
then switched to a good set from clockwork angels before finishing with the YZZ closer to the heart,Tom sawyer, 2112/temples of syrinx…. Etc
I believe they are in Glasgow next Thursday if you can score tickets this Bhoy recommends it very highly … Knackered noo on train home
hail hail all
Morning bhoys from a warm hun free mountain valley.
Weird weather these days.
On the 17 th of may. just last week, Madrid was the coldest capital city in the world.
UslessinformationCSC
!!!Bada Bing!!!
Never took you for a grass. Grass skirt in Seville maybe, or was that another CQNr?
ROW Z – Let Celtic Flourish By The Cleansing Of The ‘Den!
I totally agree with you.
IMHO going by what I have seen in my lifetime and especially over the last few years with Salmond and his cohorts i.e grahame
and her ilk,If they were given complete control of Scotland.
I would consider wrapping my belongings and kids in a blanket and fleeing for the border.
As I say only MHO and I only have one vote.