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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My opinion on Independence is,I would like it to suceed,I shall be voting Yes,but I have my worries.
I know that there will be an election within months of getting independence.I have never deviated from voting Labour in my adult life,but for the life of me I can’t see me voting Labour with Ms Lamont as Leader ,I get so angry when she opens her mouth,as I got angry when Gray was there before Lamont.
When will Labour chooose an orator, rather than a mumbler,surely there must be someone in the Labour Party that can talk for the labour party,without pausing, or mumbling when reading his, or her lines.
It may come,That Scotland will get Independence and I won’t cast my vote,I would never vote SNP.Tory.Or those half Tories.Or those 3/4 tories UKIP. Labour will have to get someone that can talk for Scotland,so as I can cast my vote.
Mwd
You coming to the shindig on Saturday?
BTW
Allen screws …. ;)
PendanTIC.csc
South of Tunis
Guessing plod kettled them
OT67
Will pick you up around 7pm saturday night .
TBJ Nice one!
Vhman
I use toe clips and they have made a massive difference to the power into the pedals… But you will fall off… Twice.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
10.24
You move me to come out of lurkdom simply to say – What Utter Garbage!
There were no Celtic Supporters in 1965 who thought it was a meaningless bauble and without that win the rest may not have followed. Certainly not as poetically as it did.
We are record holders of the trophy and the fact that we are is a source of pride no matter that we have no love for the Association who organise it nor they for us.
oldtim67
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Like or loathe them the SNP have better orators and better politicians, even Ruth Davidson is better than Lamont but she is an irrelevance.
I also think this is the problem for Labour at large. Miliband is another mumbling idiot and in my view unelectable in England hence the very real fears of a Tory/UKIP coalition.
Another possibility people refuse to acknowledge is that the SNP themselves might split up in the event of a YES vote and we’d get a truer sense of who sits where on a variety of issues.
People also forget that new political parties may even emerge. The SNP do not have exclusive ownership of this issue although they are at the forefront. Other groups include –
The Greens
SSP
Solidarity
The free Scotland Party
The Scottish Democratic alliance
The Jacobite Party
Indpendent MSPs like Margo MacDonald
and
The radical independence movement who heckled Farage last week (one leader Liam O’Hare is a big Celtic man in case that matters to people).
Now these groups may eventually join up or get new members and come to the front of the queue.
Maybe you could vote for one of them.
Snake Plissken
11:17 on 23 May, 2013
So you are looking forward to a separate Scotland with the lowest corporation tax rates in Europe.
Woopie Doo.
Dontbrattbakkinanger – Splitter!
Independence ? 20 years ago would have voted yes and urged everyone else to do the same. Now ? Not so sure. Since I don’t live in Scotland, but am still a ‘resident’ in the eyes of the law (HMRC – still pay my taxes, unlike some ) and will give my proxy vote to one of my Sons since it’s their future, and they both live there.. They deserve a bigger say than I do.
As for the Cup Final…..Celtic are playing, so I want them to win it, and will be gutted if they don’t, same as every game they play. I hope they win, and leave the cup where it is.
Back in the valley after a quick week in Lanarkshire, ma wee Mammy is doing well and was happy to see my wee ghirl and the beautiful Mrs Starry for the first time.
I enjoyed our victory over Jackie Macs Bhoys in the company of the excellent CQN’ers BT and Vogue Punter, great to meet you VP.
Had coffee with our own Hamiltontim on Monday, you Sir are a Celtic gentleman ( mini Starry loved it!!) thanks HT.
Spent the morning read all the Seville memories what a thread one of CQN’s best ever.
The Boy Jinky, it was a shame you weren’t down the KSC on Sunday I would have liked to meet you, I still can’t believe I wasn’t in Seville but family comes first sometimes..
Great to be back on CQN after my longest absence in four or so years..
Missed ye’s so ah did..
new article posted.
Derbyshire
Record holders. For the exact same reason the huns are title holders
I dont think you have noticed that your entire life.
You sound like the worst kind of Sevcopath
Glad I got you out of your slumber .. wakey wakey in the real world now ;-)
HH
derbyshirebhoy
11:46 on
23 May, 2013
Amazingly,I find myself in agreement with Awe Naw.
’65 is the key to your viewpoint.
Then it mattered .Hugely.
Now it is simply a way of paying respect to Scottish footballing institutions.
Could we?Should we?
No significant relevance for Celtic.
Kudos in the land of the bigots.
Who cares?
We`re bigger .We`re better.We matter.
Until the penny drops,THEY are still the peepel.
Treat THEIR institutions with the contempt they deserve.
Snake Plissken @11.17.
You can try to re-write history, however in the 1979 General Election the Scottish people showed what they thought of the “Tartan Tories” shameful collusion with Thatcher when their members were reduced from 11 to 3.
All we hear are negatives from the independence people. Its all Westminster’s fault.
Plenty questions but no answers, trust us separatism will bring Utopia.
Summer will last 6 months, Oil and Gas reserves will last 500 years, our new intellengence service and armed forces will protect our borders. Our new scottish GCHQ will prevent cyber terrorism. Poverty will be eradicated. Life expectancy in Glasgow’s East End will be 90 years. Bigotry and racism will disappear. And on and on.
In football terms, I have never heard how independance will aid Celtic and the wider Celtic family. IMO our quest for entry to the EPL will be over and we must “know and accept our place” in Scottish football. All avenues to leave the corrupt Scoittish Football system will be over. The team from the dark side ( in whatever form ) will be elevated to their ” Rightful ” position and normal service will resume.
Is a leap into the dark a risk worth taking for the Celtic family ? In short,the status quo seems the better of the two options.
HH, Always in Celtic.
vmhan
10:59 on 23 May, 2013
Question for the CQN cyclists.
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I agree with MWD – Shimano SPD pedals and cleated shoes.
Practice keeping right foot locked in at all times. With left in and out when stopping. Eventually, you will have both locked in most of the time.
If you are going to coup over, try not to do it in Shawlands, as the local High School kids are still talking about the time MWD went on his erse…teachers still struggle to get classes to settle :-)
Hehehe
One match suspended for Neil.
In the dug out on Sunday.
All this ‘not collect the cup ‘chat is nonsense.
IF they players win the cup they deserve to go up the stairs ,collect their medal ,and hold that cup up in a celebratory fashion , to the tumultuous applause of our ecstatic wonderful support.
I for one am praying for a Celtic win on Sunday and I would celebrate a Celtic double , just like I did in our Centenary season.
I am taking a 16 year old to his 1st Scottish cup final.
He has already had to suffer defeat at Hampden in last seasons league cup final to Killie.
He is desperate for the Celts to lift the cup.
As am I.
O’ When the Celts go up!
TT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSyrtnPLnM&feature=player_detailpage#t=1695s