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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Greetings from a (non masonic),Great Wolf Lodge, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Some Bassa lifted ma black tap from beside the pool today…….. Is that an omen?
Teuchter ar la
Teuchter ár lá
03:00 on 23 May, 2013
Some Bassa lifted ma black tap from beside the pool today…….. Is that an omen?
…………………..
Shouldn’t be hard to spot.
HH
Teuchter
Check ebay for the area just in case.
HH
Lovely wee article on Danny McGrain
http://m.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/sport/football/interview-danny-mcgrain-still-going-strong-at-62-1-2782594
A coupla months old,mind…
ralphwaldoellison remembers als victims jimmy jonstone & john cushley
Blinkin’ flip, that was some post explaining yer moniker!
Absolutely horrific and inhuman.
Glad RWE recounted it though,lest we forget.
I expect a few of the lynch-mob had recently fought the nazis-and learned nothing.
Snake…,
Like the rest of your independence crew, you have refused to address any of my concerns, which are the concerns of most Catholics, just glib replies about labour no addressing the issues either, which is why you will loose and why the Catholics feel safer in the UK than Scotland, there is always a higher appeal authority than the bigots in unelected positions in Scotland.
And don’t start babbling about European appeals, you don’t know if will be accepted, none of you know, which is why it’s another issue covered with glib sweeping generalisations.
Morning cqn.
Canamalar.
Is this a UK where no member if the crown can narry a RC or kead the country as PM?
Look at the uproar when the speaker MIchael Martin was elected.. (too earky to br sure it wad him)
I am not a nationalist as you know…
Enjoy your weekend…
Morning Bhoys and Ghirls ,
quiet night-shift last night . last day today before a drive up from CV4 and a 4 day weekend .Oh a Cup Final to boot – aint it tough to be a Tim ?
If anyone is going on Sunday and can spare half an hour or so , pre-match , we’d be really grateful if you could help hand out some leaflets around Hampden.
Contact me @ sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com.
TBJ , Doc, BMCUW , RWE and anyone else who promoted and pushed our ‘Its a Grand Old Team to See’ initiative – thank you so much . Yesterday alone , we got sponsorship for at least 10 of our seats . That’s enough to take over 200 kids to see Celtic – just from CQN – on one day .
I’ve said it before but i never tire of repeating myself (Ed: I know) – I’ve constantly humbled and proud of , but never surprised by (well , not any more) the generosity and compassion of our family .
The last couple of days on CQN have been wonderful – the Seville stories – poignant , funny , tear-inducing but so powerful and supportive . Makes me feel part of the greatest group in the world.
Here’s to you all . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN90xB7DswE
Thank You
Sannabhoy (perfectday csc)
Good morning friends from a dry, grey and windy EK.
Just 3 more sleeps and 80½ hours till the teams come out.
excludingpowernapsCSC
Jobo..excitement building nicely.
Minx1888. Llet me know if you’re on this morning.
Dishwater dull grey sky the day, not a day to send any child out without her dinner money.
DBBIA
Agreed.Mrs BT has been reprimanded
John reid on bbc breakfast show regards terrorism
TBJ
Not fit for purpose. ..
He should have used that comment in relation to the SFA
BT
Glad to see your spelling has improved since 6:19 … ,)
Sanna
Maybe you should start a cqn list :))))))
morning cqn.
great story from twitter about a dormund fan martin,martin regularly posts on “celtic minded”and is a regular. visitor to Celtic park..he was asked if he had a ticket for wembley which he didnt as150,000 dormund fans has applied..so one of the guys on cm had saw two tickets on e.bey for £700 ..so 70 of the celtic minded bhoys chipped in £10 each and purchased the tickets for an over the moon dortmund fan…one of the cm lives in london as is putting both up in his home…fantastic story about the Celtic generosity helping a fan in need h.h
TbJ
Meds taken.
BTW after seeing that pic on your FB you won’t be taking mini to football in the near future. ;-)
Women’s champions league final at stamford bridge tonight.
Uefa handing out loads of free tickets as game is very short of a sell out…
Hmmmm… charlie is a trend setter
BT
I had the opportunity to kidnap mrs and mini bt.. but I knew you needed them both to support your convalescence.
Btw.. loving the fact a lot of people actually think its really me lmao
When do we have the press conference and go away to prepare for the final?
A wee lurk onto zombie media reveals a brilliant thread
Social media damaged our club
Ok… so not sdm craigy or chuckles… not tax evasion .. not overspending or debt dodging.
Facebook and twitter users hang your heads in shame ;)
BT
Ssb and shortbread are being broadcast from bannockburn saturday night ;)
TBJ
Freedom of the press……;-)
Morning,
I found this interesting Written by: Joe McHugh
There was one significant absentee
when Cammy Bell was paraded
yesterday as a signing for Rangers
International- Ally McCoist.
Having complained for months about
the limitations of his squad and
questioning the registration ban
agreed with the SFA it would have
been expected that the manager
would be on hand to welcome the
new arrival.
McCoist however was nowhere to be
seen as Bell discussed his dream
move to the Third Division
champions from Kilmarnock.
As criticism grew of the current Ibrox
side word began to emerge about the
circumstances in which players were
signed suggesting that availability
and timing were the key issues rather
than ability- clearly an attempt to
distance the manager from the
process.
Now however, with time to plan his
transfer moves, there was no sign of
McCoist within Ibrox as Bell spoke
about his transfer without mentioning
the new manager he’d be working for.
Dont let Sally go!
ArranmoreBhoyLXV11, 00:55
“People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didn’t see him today – I saw Henrik Larsson.
Two times he came on – he changed the game, that is what killed the game – sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Eto’o and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight.”
Thierry Henry, UEFA Champions’ League Final 2006 (Arsenal 1-2 Barcelona)
Should be a cracking CL final on Saturday, then roll on Sunday for the main event
;o)
Sevcomedia Free night & not freedom for them Saturday night
Hail hail
Daily record Headline…….
Goalkeeper Cammy Bell: Doctors reckoned I’d never play again…now I’ve joined my Rangers heroes
There’s a joke in there somewhere.
The Only Way is Billy— Bairds Bar and other Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvqefbhLn2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaxE1fmz-VM
Good morning CQNers,
It’s great to be alive on this fine sunny morning, even more so when you’re a Tim watching our failed imitators imploding.
They shoot horses don’t they
Mhark 67
Thanks for the details about the Rush show. Not going this time up here, sad to say. Mrs Blind and I argued about it around Christmas. She loves them but thinks that they did nothing good after Moving Pictures and was holding out for Neil Young tickets. I was debating the wisdom of that, pointing out that NY’s gigs were unpredictable and that most of this tour was his new album.
By the time we agreed, after mutual discussion, reasoned analysis and head punching that she was right, both gigs were sold out. Ha, she didn’t like them apples!
Sounds like they are on form as ever. I’ll just dig out my Beyond the Lighted Stage DVD and be done with it.
BGFC, have a good one and give us details, details , boyo, after you’ve been.
Anoraks, you can’t beat them.
DBBIA, you bought Raising Sand and liked it, dintcha? One of your guilty secrets. I made Mrs. Blind take me to see Ol’ Percy touring that album with La Belle Krauss in Cardiff in 2008. She was unmoved and attributed my enjoyment of ‘that rubbishy steel guitar stuff’ as further evidence of my slide into musical dissolution, merely compounded by the discovery of Emmy Lou CD’s in the car on the way back up. My counter argument to the effect that music was organic, T Bone Burnett was a walking, twanging history lesson and that Americana was the new Heavy Metal didn’t find favour with the Court. She didn’t talk to me until we got to Penrith and I took her for fish and chips.
Oops !
Damn HTML tutorial….I’m gonna give up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l4L6HW5mQE
bt,
Agreed, but do you think the anti racist/sectarian legislation would have been passed in Scotland, in the same timescale ?
The Boy Jinky.
Are you picking me up on Saturday?.
Canamalar
If our unionist party had governed Scotland properly then the snp wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be in power fora second term don’t forget..
Oldtim
Email either jinkster or myself your postcode.
Morning all. Bright (so far), cold and windy.
Just listened to Radio 4 “Thought for the Day”. The lady talking has obviously never experienced life as a Catholic in the West of Scotland. Why do our politicians not have the guts to face up to the bigots who parade past and (occasionally) attack our place of worship and even members of our faith? Of course, I realise that some of our politicians share the hatred and others are either cowed by them or feel the need to pander to them.
Auldheid,
Just signed the petition.
I have missed another SNP debate. No secret that 70% of the members of the SNP voted at a conference to abolish Catholic Schools if they gained independence.