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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lennybhoy-knew that,should have said HH
TBJ , when we started 3 years ago , one of our main points was that we were/are supporters and as such pay our way . As long as we are season book holders we have a right to be offered a sb the following year. Any matching process could result in that offer no longer being available if attendances/circumstances improve.
We’ve been in regular contact with Celtic over the last few years but don’t want or expect to be treated differently from any other fan.
Sanna
!!bada bing!!
16:41 on 22 May, 2013
Stan Petrov takes up Villa coaching job
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WOW …. What FABULOUS news …… Well done VILLA, and STAN ……..
Ogilvie is a disgrace
An embarrassment to Scottish football
Resign you arrogant embodiment of a conflict of interest
EDL threatening a show of strength tonight according toC4 news.
Could get ugly later..
Sanna
I get that… and its your ball
But if theres empty seats .. poor atmosphere … why not fill them with the future
Btw .. went on the site and donated £50 but not sure it went through. Can you check for me please
MHARK67
AAARRRRGGGHHH – RUSH – I am utterly green with jelousy !!!!
Have a brilliant night mate – wish I was there with you!
BT
Nice pun ;)
Got a few dafties on fb posting about getting out on the streets tonight
tallybhoy
astonishing !
Not a bad evening weather wise. My first Scottish Cup Final was the Provan and McGarvey one, can still remember it so vividly. Hope all the young hoops lucky enough to be going have great memories after Sunday. I’m sitting smiling as I remember Provan curling that ball into the net. Watching the TV later, thought Archie McPhersons commentary of it was brill……Could this be a piece of history….It is…!
HH
sanna,
have arrangements for sunday been sent allready ?
MickTT
19:58 on
22 May, 2013
My first Cup Final was 1972, Celtic 6 Hibs 1. A small rotund forward scored a hat trick, what price a repeat on Sunday??
ralphwaldoellison remembers als victims jimmy jonstone & john cushley
17:32 on 22 May, 2013
Immense, gut-wrenching, and a petrol can full of despair
Thanks for posting
Just in case the Scottish media need a wee hand filling any space.
A few wee questions someone might like to ask. Probably not, but just in case.
1. Why did a company based in Panama City hand over £2.5 million for five million shares in a newly created company with links to the liquidation of Rangers?
2. Why did a company based in Grand Cayman hand over £2 million for four million shares in a newly created company with links to the liquidation of Rangers?
3. Who are these people?
smoke and mirrors
19:09 on 22 May, 2013
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/scottishnews/4143012/Police-Officers-No-Surrender-badge.html
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That bear displays the demeanour of bhuns very nicely……….
Googybhoy at 16:48
I know it was copy from another media but for the clearance.
It’s true that Everton are interested in signing Aiden McGeady.
There was no major bust up between him and the club and it’s not true that Aiden McGeady has burnt his bridges.
Aiden McGeady has been given four games ban for striking Bozovic and got plus two games ban for making offensive gesture to the crowd.
There was appealing meeting today in Disciplinary Committee in Moscow. During the meeting there was proved that: 1.Aiden McGeady did not make any offensive gestures to the crowd. Two games ban was cancelled.
2. Aiden McGeady kicked Bozovic but before that Bozovic provoked Aiden. The Committee changed four games ban to two games ban which Aiden already suffered.
No gestures from Aiden. Therefore, there could not be any riots on the stands caused by Aiden’s behavior.
McGeady was at the meeting today, together with Spartak lawyers.
Aiden McGeady with his lawyers, today.
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Belter, but he has to come up and buy everyone a pint the day after, hahahaha
A LONE WOLFS TONE.
secured tickets for sunday, not been able to connect with you.
Let me know on moby txt if you can make it.
btw, that wasn’t me I just saw it on twitter about the Dortmund fan.
Sannbhoy….I also complete a ‘form’ for the £50 SB, pressed the Submit button, but didn’t submit …advice ..?
blantyretim
Just seen the coverage. This is a horrific development which could mobilise extremists on both sides.
Let’s hope not.
Celtic Mac
19:33 on 22 May, 2013
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You maybe right it may have been about our friends from the North of Ireland if wrong I do apoligise.
Was AS statement about RFC then them being part of the fabric of our society?
TBJ , you’ve got mail
St Stivs , not yet.
Sanna
I was talking to a Hibs fan today
He is a season ticket holder , his old man as on the board etc…well in at the club
We got to discussing the cup final …I was surprised to find him fairly confident of his teams chances …he did however tell me that McPake the CB is really struggling …he is getting a painkilling injection …but will be far from fit
I told him he was kidding himself on …we’ll see …he said
Tb
It’s dreadful a police should get this disease, hatred , intolerance, narrow, justification of bad acts, a police,
Djbee
Great story
Auldheid @Auldheid 3m
Levering SFA Notonewco are looking at sponsor angle http://notonewco13.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/drip-drip-drip-time-to-sort-the-tap/comment-page-1/#comment-183 …
suggested draft for a WHill petition at http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/the-existence-of-laws/comment-page-33/#comment-52029 …
Djbee
Absolutely fantastic story about the Dortmund/Celtic supporter.
Celtic fans truly amaze me with their generosity.
It is indeed a privilege to be a Tim.
Contrast that story to that of a Deidco fan of whom I was an acquaintance.
The guy was a decent lad who didn’t really go to the games.
Around about 88 he got a ticket to go to a zombie game, may have been his first.
He looked in the local paper, found a supporters bus and went.
Unfortunately for him the Zombies lost and so on the way back thought they would amuse themselves with the newcomer.
They shoved newspaper up his backside and set fire to it.
SCUM
Hail Hail
Ps.
The guy was shaken, but ok.
Couldn’t sit down for a fortnight but.
Don’t think he ever went to a game again.
SCUM
Tony Cassidy @TonyCassidy123 2m
@Auldheid William Hill – Gareth Davis, Chairman – Ralph Topping, CEO – Lyndsay Wright, Director of IR – Tel: +44 (0) 20 8918 3614
sanna
i no longer do the pay pay thingy can I sponsor a seat through online payment to the bank details given on tkf site?
Tb
at least the regulatory bodies in Scotland will deal with such unacceptable representations of extremes by public servants
St. John Doyle
Not me you should be apologising to, it is Alex Salmond. He did use the fabric of society description mind you, but that works both ways too, if they represented the fabric, looks like Scottish society is fraying at the edges. Re the remarks re our friends in the North, I have been given an explanation that Alex Salmond was referring to Ireland as a whole and to the Scottish and Irish Nations, not to some perceived Scotch-Irish part of the Irish population. That needs to be verified, by Salmond himself, but it is plausible.
PF Ayr. I met a fellow Celtic fan down the town today he is convinced Hibs will win on Sunday he thinks Pat Fenlon has done a great job and it will be there year. However,if we perform at our best I think we should get the double but it is surprising the no.who fancy Hibs. H.H.
Burghbhoy
Sometimes known as the chicken run ….
Stolen from Paul mc C’s site
SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE
Fell asleep on the beach, watching the sun sparkle on the Ionian Sea. Had a weird dream…
It started with flashes of Rangers winning 9 in a row and the press celebrating Rangers’ domination – “Rangers Are The Greatest Team In The World” was the cry and journalists were tucking into succulent lamb. Then fast tracked to an image of SDM grabbing £1 from some dude with googly eyes. There was wild cheering from the hordes at Ibrox: “He Has Wealth Off The Radar!” Fast forwarded again and the dude with googly eyes was taking £1 from another crazy looking dude with big hands. The googly-eyed dude kept talking into his lapel. What was that all about? Loud cheers once again from the mob at Ibrox: “Charlie’s Our Darling!”.
All these deliriously happy Rangers fans can only mean bad news for Celtic and Scotland. Maybe Rangers won the Big Cup or re-instated their century old anti-Catholic employment policy. Then – and you won’t believe this bit! – Rangers went bust!! Bloody hell. Celtic were set for years of domination: “Celtic Are The Greatest Team In The World”. No, that wasn’t the msm headline. The press weren’t happy at all. Domination is bad for the game, they wailed. Doomed, we are all doomed! No more succulent lamb. Armaggeddon for everybody. Except for a new SFL 3 club called The Rangers 2012.
Apparently Rangers are breaking world records and will soon be the richest team in the world, back were they belong on top of a league that they say is all doomed in a shrinking market where there is no money to buy players or compete with teams in lucrative leagues and where no one will come to watch a successful Celtic play “utter shite” every week, winning championship after championship and beating teams like Barcelona and Spartak Moscow but will turn up in their droves to watch this new Rangers achieve world domination losing championship after championship to Celtic and not beating teams like Barcelona and Spartak Moscow.
Then it got really bizarre. It was like a scene from Sex, Lies and Videotapes, but without the sex bits. The dude with big hands got rid of a Catholic footballer who blessed himself – he was taped talking to someone. Then a nice dude called Malcolm asked the dude with big hands who asked the Catholic who blessed himself to leave Ibrox for being taped talking to someone was asked to leave Ibrox – he was taped talking to someone. Then the nice dude Malcolm who asked the dude with big hands who asked the Catholic who blessed himself to leave Ibrox for being taped talking to someone who was asked to leave Ibrox for being taped talking to someone was also asked to leave Ibrox – he was taped talking to someone; he was also caught on video heading home after a night out (?!?!).
Then the people who taped other people were being taped at meetings. The place was bristling with professional camera equipment, technical assistants and make-up artists everywhere. Why are they all taping and videoing each other? Has Ibrox become a film studio? Is Brad Pitt re-shooting scenes from World War Z?
Then the dream picked up pace. Lots of audio recordings, video tapes, spivs exiting, crooks lining up, a new internet porn site with somebody called Charlotte showing her knickers for free, talk of membership withdrawal, gratuitous alienation, HMRC, the police. The club was the talk of the town. No, not The Rangers, but Celtic! What the F***? Surely my team had not gone bust as well! No, but there was a call from Rangers internet bloggers to examine Celtic’s virtuous and laudable road to success. Perhaps at last they want to learn how to make friends and develop a winning football team utilising a responsible, moral and community-enhancing financial model:
– Why are you intererested in the biggest scandal in the history of football?
– Nothing to see here. Move along.
– I’ve just popped in. I’m glad I’m not a Catholic. WATP.
– What about your massive, unsustainable 10p debt?
– How can you be happy just winning the SPL league every year?
– Here’s a thousand undeniably negative facts about Celtic.
– Your annual opportunity for glorious European football comes around only once a year.
– Your turnover increased by 71% to £50.06m and you reduced net bank debt from £7.05m to £0.13m. You’re ruined, f***ing ruined!
– Your 40,000+ season book sales at full price are a f***ing disgrace.
– Does everyone agree that if Rangers had all the money in the world then ergo the moon is made of green cheese?
– Your team is utter shite! Getting to the last 16 in Europe, beating Barcelona and Spartak Moscow, is clear evidence of Armaggeddon. Wake up and smell the coffee.
– Winning every year does not a summer make.
– You should be embarrassed about your prudent financial management.
– We know where you live.
– How can you honestly donate money to charity and not feel ashamed that you did not pocket it?
– Take away your success and you are a failure. That’s a fact of English.
– Having a hard-working, innovative scouting system, developing young players and selling them on at a decent profit is only for teams with a long-term interest in football and financial sagacity. How the f*** can our shysters make a quick buck with that system?
– Get a job and pay yer taxes and debts like everybody else except us because WATP.
– Your manager, who was beaten up and suffered death threats, is a Catholic!
– WATP who descriminated against Catholics, sang bigoted songs, fought and rioted everywhere, dodged our taxes, sold our club to spivs, paid these spivs to fleece us, refused to pay our debts, got liquidated, fight with each other because we have run out of people to fight with… WATP: the club with no class.
– Since Rangers went bust you want clubs to live within their means and win competitions without cheating. You want a good, honest league. That type of thinking will kill off corruption in this game. That’s a fact of English.
– Armageddon… Armageddon… Armageddon… Armageddon.
Then I woke me up. So, what’s been happening back home?
Mick McManus finally submits…RIP