As a consequence of items relating to lies told by former referee Dougie McDonald’s no longer being found by searches through Google’s UK portal, while reaming available on the US portal, a suspicion arose that McDonald has used recent EU ruling to have these items expunged from the search engine.
During a Dundee United-Celtic game in 2010 McDonald awarded Celtic a penalty, then quickly changed his mind. He lied to Neil Lennon after the game, and to the SFA supervisor about the circumstances which caused him to change his mind. Celtic Quick News published an excerpt from the supervisor’s report, which was based on information McDonald subsequently admitted was false.
Having admitted to a lie, and under pressure from Celtic, McDonald resigned later in the year, but the greater stench was that of cover-up. Having set the chain of events in motion, McDonald realised his error and admitted what he did to the SFA on the day of the game.
Having lied, he quickly came clean, but the actions of the SFA were far more serious. With knowledge of the lie, the SFA were now in ownership of it. They should have told McDonald to apologise to Neil Lennon and the referee supervisor. Instead, they publicly reaffirmed the lie.
Even after the cover-up came to light, the SFA continued to close ranks on Celtic, faces were set to stone. If Celtic didn’t know their place when it came to the dark arts of the SFA, they became acutely aware of it then. Nothing could ever be the same again.
I have sympathy for McDonald. He made a mistake but quickly did the right thing. His name is tarnished largely as a consequence of the actions of his superiors. If he called Neil Lennon the next day to extend the apology he gave to the SFA, the matter may have ended there and then. He was not an innocent victim of an SFA cover-up, but he was a kind of victim.
The fight to change the SFA goes on. Peter Lawwell is now on the board and some of the faces have moved on, but it is not a healthy body. The vast majority of the 93 member clubs are not conspiratorial in nature and have no ill towards Celtic or any other club, but overhauling the labyrinth of committees, with vested interests which have been decades in the making, will look like pushing water uphill to anyone committed to reform.
Our interests are best served leaving the SFA behind, and we’re not alone in that.
Excitement builds as the 10-in-a-row CQN Charity Golf Day takes place tomorrow in Aberdour, with Frank McGarvey and Len Murray!
This year we are raising money for Glasgow the Caring City and The Cookiejar Foundation. We have two copies of this magnificent canvas, signed by Billy McNeill, one is available to the highest bidder on ebay here.
The other is available for raffle. Every donor to this JustGiving page gets an entry in the raffle. The minimum donation is £1, which we can all afford to participate in, although you can donate as much as you want. Our thanks to @BarryMcGonigle for the image on the canvas and OPG Graphics for creating the work.
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Aff oot for a couple of beers…..
Last orders midnight………
Ramadan must have been tough for a few on here today.
Humidity was uncomfortable.
Hail Hail……nite nite
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…………and that didn’t take long, did it?
Cowiebhoy –
thank you, slowly but surely. But the fact that she’s letting me out to ply tomorrow (and overnight!) is a good sign!
Happy 71st Birthday to my Dad and converted lurker, Donegal Bhoy
Hoop you enjoyed your day?
Good luck to the CQN golfers tomorrow. Have a great day and night.
CQN World Cup Predictors: Don’t forget to send in your predictions for the quarter finals. Deadline: 5pm tomorrow.
HH
CRC
wc
ah….or rather arrrggggghhh….the nineties.
Take that decade out of the last half a century and in each of those decades we won more titles than the club that died.
Here’s to OUR next 50 years.
CRC
Send me a email as i will still donate mucker as i fecked up with the predictions
And HP to your DA
Love
HB
jude2005 @ 22:21….
Tony Watt did not feature tonight.
Celtic fielded 2 entirely different 11’s in each half.
Well done to the sheaps the night.
5-0. Not to be sniffed at.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
21:03 on 3 July, 2014
Yer birthday suit?
HH
CRC
Jobo Baldie
22:06 on 3 July, 2014
Oh and if there’s anyone needing a lift through to Aberdour tomorrow I could squeeze 2 little ones in my wee-ish car. I’m heading through early though in an effort to try to fit in a quick coffee at our very own Taggsybhoy’s deli. So planning to leave EK around 8.00 and happy to pick up if en route…
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Jobo
Watch you dont get cought up in Lizzies cavalade coming over the bridge
Oh, very Hooopy Birthday to Daddy Rollercoaster, better known as Donegal Bhoy :-)
KING’S FUND TO BE DISBANDED – from FF…sale and leaseback?
The 1972 fund was launched to provide supporters with an alternative use for their season ticket money. The plan for the fund, backed by former captain Richard Gough and former director Dave King, was to only release the money to the board in return for season tickets if the directors provided legally binding undertakings that Ibrox and Murray Park would not be used for security against borrowings.
Despite a meeting with Wallace and other directors, and ongoing correspondence, no agreement could be reached, so the fund is to be disbanded and UoF are urging fans to only buy tickets on a game-by-game basis.
“Despite repeated attempts to engage with Graham Wallace and the board over the issue of a binding legal commitment not to sell or lease back Ibrox or Murray Park, we have been unable to come to any agreement.
“It seems the board are happy to continue to alienate the thousands of fans who have supported our efforts through the Ibrox 1972 fund.
“We are left with no option but to release all those who have supported the fund from their binding financial commitment. We urge fans not to give their money to this regime in a lump sum payment via season tickets and to support the team on a game-by-game basis.”
celtic dawn –
is there a time for that?
bankiebhoy1
22:26 on 3 July, 2014
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…………and that didn’t take long, did it?
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I should have made my appearance earlier :-)
CRC
Please wish your da many happy returns mate.
Jobo
Best of luck tomorrow I may make an appearance but I pwomise I won’t wear a onesie :-)
HT
I remember the Michael Moody game well, George McLuskey flick :-)
Was only a young Bhoy at the time, in the old north enclosure next to them, stood leaning on a stanchion, turned around and no one near me, as the vermin ran past.
When I left the stadium, I walked out a gate into a no mans land, right in between both sets of fans, with bottles and what not flying over my head, quick aboot turn, back in, and oot the next block of gates a wee bit further along
Hail Hail
HT
;)
Hamiltontim – No onesie for me either although I will be very green. If you do come along are you playing or is it just for the (ahem) networking? I think there were a couple of late call offs from the golf so you’d probably be able to sneak in?
beauty sleep beckons……
Before i go…..i was wondering about these blackball rules.
5.13.1 – Pocketing Opponent’s Ball – It is a foul to pocket an opponent’s ball without also pocketing a ball from your own group.
Does that mean that it is ok to pot an opponent’s ball(lets just call it a hinger eh)as long as you pot 1 of your own?
I cannae even grasp that.
How does Auldheid do it?!!!
Hamiltontim
Michael Moody RIP, is my cousin.
A lovely guy who has been taken from us far to early por cierto
Thunder Road
See you in 2020
LOve
Well done to Marspapa who was on the winning side again tonight at CQN (sauna) 5s.
That’s 3 games in a row now (before that nil victories) and it’s all happened since he switched his allegiance from the green to the yellow bibs.
That tells you something!! :-)
HH
CRC
Night all Night wee Oscar my hero. God bless x X
Cowiebhoy
I was 9 and it was my first experience of a Celtic v Huns game.
We used to ‘watch the motors’ when games were on at Hampden and we got in about 20 minutes into the second half.
I watched with childish excitement as the fans battled thinking that this must be the norm at the Glasgow Derby.
Over the years I’ve met countless guys who were on the park that day. I keep telling them it wasn’t a patch on Middlesborough :-)
winning captains,
That’ll be why thems got hertz at home in the their first game and hibs in the teeny weeny cup at home?
The pay as you go huns will turn up for those games and others but hopefully, when the results don’t go their way, even with the help of the officials,from top to bottom, they will evaporate.
Jobo
I’ve got chores to do and I’m designated taxi driver at night so if I can make it I’ll only be there for a quick hiya and no doubt to laugh at some of the fashion gurus :-)
Just in to say…
Hamiltontim
22:03 on 3 July, 2014
Don’t know if any of you have ever watched the footage of the Hampden Riot after George McCluskey’s screamer in 1980.
Well there’s an almost iconic image of a red haired Celtic supporter fighting with the Huns in the middle of the park and getting to his feet.
The Bhoy’s name is Michael Moody and tomorrow he’ll be buried out of Sacred Heart Church in Cumbernauld.
Spare a prayer or a thought. RIP Michael.
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Sad to hear that news pal.
Michael Moody will always be looked upon by myself as a ‘true’ Celtic LEGEND for his gallant performance on the Hampden pitch after the SCF 1980.
The hun-hordes had never been greeted by anything like this before in all their years of, intimidation, wrecking cities, winning european finals by intimidating the Moscow Dynamo players, invading pitches and getting laps of honours ‘banned’ etc, this re-action from the Celtic support was a new experience for me as a 15 year old fan who’d watched huns waiting outside the Celtic ends of – Celtic Park, Ibrox and Hampden after many of our victories.
I had always experienced a Celtic support who would need to be ‘extremley” provoked into a reaction
before, 1980 was different.
Michael Moody RIP
por cierto
I hope you didn’t mind me mentioning Michael, I know that the family have had a tough time over the last year.
If tonight is anything to go by he’ll get a fitting send off tomorrow mate.
Very good result for Celtic today against a Russian team that put Feyenoord out of the Europa League last season.
Callum McGregor took his goal very well. Hopefully a sign of things to come.
Well done also to Aberdeen; a 5-0 win in Europe against a team well into their season is not to be sniffed at. Time for the other Scottish teams to do their bit to improve the co-efficient.
Jobo:
Decided not to stay I am returning on the calton tongues Bus instead.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Michael Moody Rest in Peace
Hail Hail our departed brother.
Ayrshire is Green and White
HT/Cowiebhoy
My first game against that dead team was in November 81. 2 weeks before my thirteenth birthday, as I was not allowed to go these games prior.
Here is the report courtesy of The Celtic Wiki, 3-3 BTW
Celtic gave young 18 year old defender David Moyes his Old Firm debut, in the unusual position of right back, in place of the injured Danny McGrain with Mike Conroy in place of the injured Tommy Burns. Rangers gave a derby debut young striker Gordon Dalziel and both young men were to have a major influence on the proceedings.
Celtic started well and Peter McCloy made a great save from Dom Sullivan, low down at the right post. From the resultant corner Davie Moyes headed goalwards for Tom McAdam to glance a header into the net at the far post.
Two minutes later Gordon Dalziel equalised with a low header from six yards after Derek Johnstone had headed down a Cooper cross.
Celtic regained the lead in 10 minutes when Davie Provan sent Moyes keenly running down the right wing. From his deep cross Frank McGarvey rose to send a glorious header looping over McCloy.
To their credit Rangers fought back and sensationally took the lead with two goals in as many minutes.
Firstly, Dalziel took a pass from McDonald and jinked his way to the bye line before crossing for Bett to head home. Seconds later the Celtic defence got in a fankle and John McDonald’s effort barely crossed the line before Bonner, trying to scramble it clear, ended up in the net with the ball.
In 51 minutes MacLeod equalised with a glorious right foot volley, which went in off a post, after Moyes had headed on a Provan corner from the right.
Understandably both teams tired late in the game and there were no further goals allowing fans of both sides to draw breath.
HH
CRC
The Celtic Board are not Celtic.
They are temporary custodians.
Before Celtic were a PLC they were bled dry by the Kelly’s. Nice little earner. The support were assumed to contribute for the cause because “we” are Celtic. They let Celtic rot.
Fergus bailed Celtic out via the PLC route. Did what he said he would and left leaving Celtic on a sound financial basis and superior stadium. Hero.
Enter DD and cohorts.
When DD EPL dreams failed it has been financial conservatism ever since. The demise of Huns has made the cohorts even more conservative. The Celtic support are just customers. They will not bleed Celtic dry but they will run Celtic as accountants/bankers till their bonuses begin to dry up and will leave.
They have no long term ambition or vision. How could they?
Why some Celtic supporters think these guys are explicitly Celtic is just a conceptual difficulty based on archaic good guys v bad guys mentality. I.e. If they represent Celtic they must be “wan o us”.
I don’t see it that way.
In my opinion Celtic has currently been hijacked by self serving technocrats under the PLC umbrella.
Unfortunately there are many archaic clowns who perceive Celtic as a religion of some kind and that the board are some kind of bishops with a pope and in a way they are and just as self serving.
Jobo Baldie,
Do you mind me asking if Taggsybhoy;s deli is in Fife? Might try a visit if it is.
Good luck tomorrow!
EastEndBhoyWhoNowLivesInFife.csc
CRC
I never got to see a Glasgow Derby with my old man. Knowing the man, I don’t think he’d have wanted me to see him in that environment.
A more Celtic man you would never, ever wish to meet.
That’s why I smile on here when I see the ‘happy clappers’ because if he’d known his right finger from his arse, he’d no doubt be posting the same!
Despite that, I know he loved my rebellious nature :-)
Mag’rit,
FTP?…………….
KTF!