There’s always a bit of trepidation before Celtic play a meaningless game, like they will do in Turkey tomorrow, the propensity to pick up injuries feels higher, although this is possibly not borne out by statistics.
Before Sunday the team look like they needed a break but no injuries, please.
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard allegations that some or other council are controlled by, and for the benefit of, an ethnic or religious minority. This is an old-time prejudice, up there along with allegations of criminality or the personal hygiene habits of the minority. But like Corporation buses, they come in groups.
Anyone can report Celtic for whatever they like, and believe me, many do. Which is a great pity, as there are real targets worthy of attention elsewhere….. For years, while others were buying football bling, Celtic were acquiring land, all appropriately, as is their borrowing. More importantly, they have been able to establish all of this without question. Confirmed.
Just because one club was an omni-shambles doesn’t mean any others are. Enjoy the laugh.
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This land is your land, this land is my land,
Form the council office, to the Celtic coffers
While the Tims mined rich seams, they were conned with moonbeams
This land was made for you and me
guyfawkesaforeverhero
Love it can see him going out the window but forgets it a few floors up lol
MONAGHAN 1900
These peepul to whom you allude are unfortunate victims of a vile campaign to blacken their well-earned reputations.
It will all come out in the wash.
And they will come out whiter than Whyte.
GrabmecoatCSC
I have a cunning plan
why don’t Celtic build a hotel and a casino at lennoxtown oh and an underground car park and a pitch that can be removed (in a wheel barra) and a heli pad too
och yees all know im havering don’t yees and not one of you would be so stupid as to print it in a daily newspaper
eejits and bigots combined.
if their taskforce all chipped in their combined brainpower they couldn’t come up with a half wit
“Errza Sevco sherrs, 3 furra powend” ( and the day, ye’ll get 5 1/2 p change!)
As someone posted yesterday, you’ll soon get more back for a ginger bottle!
Hail Hail
TAMRABAM
Half wit.
An unfortunate expression as wit has three letters.
Has there been any information on how yesterdays meeting with Joe Ledleys agent went ? will he go or will he stay or is it another Celtic secret ? H.H.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
13:34 on
8 January, 2014
They’ll need a new shade of black.
monaghan/bobby Murdoch
don’t ye mean whyter than whyte
today task force revelation from planet hunheid could be refferring to the greene belt
Jimtim
I used the Glasgow to Carrickfinn service a couple of months back. If you’re going to the Rosses or Gweedore areas or nearabouts you can’t beat it. £110 return.
Reading that story about the Hampden driver earlier, my daughter and her pals got a taxi after the bells. A distance of 1 mile. (It was in a people carrier all the same) They were charged more than £14. When I phoned up to query the price I was told people carriers prices start at £9 and cos it was hogmany (fare and a half) he told me the price started at £13.50. After I phoned their base the girl who originally phoned for the taxi was blocked. Must have just been coincidence.
Steinreignedsupreme
13:22 on
8 January, 2014
An Tearmann 13:05 on 8 January, 2014
Ole Ruprecht Graham does the dirty deeds for the other PR company associated with Sevco.
Bill McMurdo’s son does Jack Irvine’s dirty work. Son of scruffy McMurdo does not not get along with Ruprecht, although they are both total loons.
you have me laughing here SRS,I now envisage both in a formal debate with Delusion
and Stupidity as their topic :-)))
TET
very stupid
as you assert , they are being systematically ripped off , yet they continue to ignore it and concentrate on others:-
claiming Dunfermline are receiving state aid and accussing them of stealing money from the public ….
and now this unfounded nonsense re CFC
do they tar all with their brush or are they so dillusional that they think they are actually hard done by
mentalists
jimtim – ya wee chancer!! Retired, sitting with yer feet up and got a load of CQNers running around for you when they should be working! Never heard of Google?! ;-)
How’s the not working thing going?!
If you’re going to CQTen, then I’ll see you there!
HH
TTTT
i have respected alex thomson as a broadcaster for years, thought he was always impartial
that is why i am so disappointed with his latest blog on celtic, pure ill researched sensationalism
come on alex you can do better
and the way you lambast the succelent lamb journalists
your article equating celtic to millwall was no better
11:43 on 8 January, 2014
Zombie Grief Cycle:
1.Stupidity
2.Anger
3.Deady-ness
4.Anger
5.Liquidation
6. GOTO 1
Hun Grief Cycle
1 Anger
2 Anger
3 Anger
4 Marching
5 Anger
6 Anger
7 Angry Marching
An Tearmann 13:46 on 8 January, 2014
The best double act since Mike and Bernie Winters.
#awfecktherstwoofthem
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Found a Wee Geko..Made Him a Wee Hoose and Named him Geko Georgious..Yorgos..
Summa of GeorgiousTheGekosGreenAndWhiteCSC
Celtic dodgy land deals with GCC people with Irish catholic sounding names shocking!
Meanwhile over Govan way, we have a 21st. Cent. Version of the Steamie being acted out from the staff of On The Busses, …..get the popcorn and the Mivies out, angle yer recliner, and sit back and enjoy, any lurking Huns? GIRUY.
TET- had a wee look at your website last night. Not bad old yin!
Was viewing on the s/phone so still to check it proper on the pc.
Just a wee point, try and have easy links all over the place for navigation back to main titles/products as your average consumer has no patience these days.
Will nitpick some more when i finish work.
HH
http://www.crystalsandcollars.co.uk
From @celticresearch
Those of a sevconian persuasion may wish to look through company announcements at the bottom of this http://t.co/HdIymPMcmX
Dot joining.
Reply from RhebelRhebel
@CelticResearch Chris Morgan wasn’t he an original investor in the ‘Charles Green’s Consortium’,
This is absolutely hilarious, two book ends have lifted my midwinter spirit. I had to call off going to the panto this year but things are looking up. They must be desperate to create a non story such as this……..and yes it does look like its directed from Sevco’s media house.
To what avail ?
Also gave me a wee sensation of that stuff that goes with jelly and ice cream, schadenfreude…….its like hunners and millions
HH
For CorkCelt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZzfrH7KhU#t=43
tonydonnelly67
…..get the popcorn and the Mivies out..
I always thought Mivvie sounded rude, ooh er missus.
Land deals eh? Has somebody has opened a can of worms?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-16411195
AoW
Thanks, I want as much feed back as possible.
This is very new to me.
HH
I’m think of going to Italy in the summer. Could someone please give me details of all flights going from any UK airports to any Italian airports between June and September? Also, a lift to the airport would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your help CQN.
*Sits back and scratched baws*
This is quite interesting.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/legal-challenge-could-shake-up-an-unbalanced-transfer-system.23117243
Legal challenge could shake up an unbalanced transfer system
Geoff Pearson
Wednesday 8 January 2014
Footballers, it turns out, want the same rights as everyone else.
Gareth Bale broke the transfer record when he was sold for �85m
If you or I want to move jobs, our new employer does not have to pay anything. Should football players be any different?
To gain this freedom of movement, FIFPro, the federation of football players, recently declared its intention to challenge the football’s transfer system by “all necessary means, including legal action”.
Let us briefly remind ourselves of how the transfer system works. For many players, particularly elite performers, when a transfer takes place during a contractual term their former employer will demand the payment of a “transfer fee” from a proposed new employer before they agree to release their registration. These fees peaked this summer at the reported £85m paid by Real Madrid to Tottenham Hotspur for Gareth Bale.
The problem is that these transfer fees potentially infringe European Union (EU) law. All workers within the EU have the right to freedom of movement: an Italian is free to work in Manchester or Berlin, just as a Welshman can move to Madrid. However in football, especially at the top level, this clearly is not the case.
For an elite player, transfer fees narrow down the options. If Cristiano Ronaldo wished to leave Real Madrid he should technically be able to work anywhere in the EU, but only a handful of clubs in just a few countries have the tens (or hundreds) of millions it would take to buy him before his contract runs out. His chances of moving back to Portugal, for instance, would be remote and, even if he were to forgo most of his wage demands, Real would still want their £100m fee.
The nature of these fees also means that smaller clubs are less able to compete for the best players. This in turn is a possible breach of EU competition law as the system limits the access of smaller clubs to the market for elite players and, as a result, their ability to challenge for the top honours in the sport.
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), such infringements of EU law can be justified for two reasons: when there is a legitimate aim being pursued, and when the means being used to achieve it are appropriate.
FIFA and UEFA have long argued that the system rewards those clubs that develop young players and that the fees provide a financial lifeline for smaller clubs. They argue this in turn redistributes wealth from the bigger clubs and means the smaller ones are more able to compete in competitions against them.
The CJEU has accepted the legitimacy of these aims in a number of sports cases, not least the Bosman case of 1995 (which outlawed the payment of transfer fees for players whose contracts had expired). So breaching EU law can be justified, so long as the transfer system fosters competition and rewards smaller clubs for developing young players.
After a legal challenge by the European Commission, a reformed transfer system was introduced in 2001 which allowed players to breach their contract as long as they paid compensation to their previous club. However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ordered a series of very high compensation awards that essentially reintroduced transfer fees under the post-Bosman system.
In one example, the Brazilian midfielder Matuzalem unilaterally breached his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk to join the Spanish club Real Zaragoza. CAS took into account the “market value” of the player when determining compensation payable and made Matuzalem and his new employer liable for almost €12m in compensation. As a result of this and other cases, FIFPro became increasingly frustrated with its failures to improve free movement of its members.
It seems that a European Commission report into the workings of the transfer system which was published in January 2013 was the final straw. The report revealed serious – although not unexpected – shortcomings in the system’s ability to achieve its “legitimate aims” of encouraging investment in youth player development and increasing competitive balance between clubs.
The report suggested that the amount of money that was actually redistributed to the lower league clubs was tiny, in comparison with the large amounts being paid to mid-level and top clubs. And rather than making it more competitive, the system was actually reinforcing the dominance of the top clubs.
For football players wanting freedom of movement, the EC report may prove crucial. It means a legal challenge to the existing system under either free movement or competition law would be likely to succeed. A formal complaint to the Commission may lead to the system being declared incompatible with EU law, although since 2001 the EC has been reluctant to challenge player regulation. A second route would be for FIFPro to find and support a “new Bosman”, a player willing to challenge the transfer system for impeding his freedom of movement. If such a case made it all the way to the CJEU, it could dwarf Bosman’s impact on football.
The most likely outcome is a negotiated compromise between FIFPro and the governing bodies which would grant more rights for players to unilaterally breach their contracts and would also ensure that more of the money filters down to clubs producing the elite players.
This article first appeared on theconversation.com. Geoff Pearson is a senior lecturer in Sports Management and Law at University of Liverpool. He received a European Commission grant to investigate the legality of the Home Grown Player rule.
Another investigation pointing fingers at Sir David again, the ole Teflon tadger will breez through this one AGAIN. I predict a ludge meeting.
Mr Clash
I always find that Skyscanner is a good site to find a range of flights – here is a link to their map, which is always helpful http://www.skyscanner.net/cheap-flights-map
Although I live in NW Italy, I fly to Nice – depends where you are going of course.
Buon viaggio
JC
Why don’t you go to France?
JC
Whereabouts are you thinking of going to in La Bel Paese?
Someone just text me there, Sevco shares now 32p, 2p more than an empty ginger bottle, heavens to Betsy ;) lurking Huns, GIRUY.
Im loving the land deal thingy-its just like an episode from scooby doo with ole PL in handcuffs and his mask being stripped off at the end as he shouts “damn those pesky bears!!!” HH
Johnnyclash
Jet2 fly from Glasgow to rome Fumicino.
Always thought the best description to separate the way rangers did and Celtic do carry out business was this;
“Whilst Celtic relied on a former director of the Bank of England for financial advice, rangers took theirs from a bloke who made porn films”.
Twitter.
HMRC: To investigate the pheonixism of The Rangers Football Club (1872) by Sevco 5088. http://t.co/6xwt0OyX6b via @UKChange
JohnnyClash
14:50 on 8 January, 2014
I’m think of going to Italy in the summer. Could someone please give me details of all flights going from any UK airports to any Italian airports between June and September? Also, a lift to the airport would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your help CQN.
*Sits back and scratched baws*
Am I the only one chuckling at this post? :-)
TCC
“Whilst Celtic relied on a former director of the Bank of England for financial advice, rangers took theirs from a bloke who made porn films”.
I have mentioned that to quite a few people down in York and most of them think it’s a joke and stand waiting for the punch line…