I think I live in a different world than some people. In my world the manager of Celtic has endured an incredibly stressful month. Yesterday he would have dealt with news from a serious criminal trial after a bomb was sent to him.
Today he is being taunted in a newspaper by a former referee who suggests he “explodes at the side of a park”. Even for a former SFA official, this is astonishingly poor taste. The article goes on to betray enormous hostility towards Neil Lennon and, for reasons which appear opportunistic, Peter Lawwell.
Our manager will get through these difficult weeks and will hopefully never have to endure such stresses again. SFA officials, current or past, cannot meaningfully lay a glove on him. He can pay their fines and will continue to manage a winning Celtic team.
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The Scottish Football Association have tonight responded to a claim by a Rangers supporters group that SFA chief executive Stewart Regan “disgracefully” walked out of a meeting with them at Hampden yesterday.
Regan met with the Rangers Fans Working Group (RFWG) on the same day it was announced that the SFA had adjourned their hearing into Craig Whyte and the administration-hit Ibrox club until next month after Whyte’s lawyers asked for more time to prepare a case.
The hearing came as a result of Lord Nimmo Smith’s independent inquiry into Rangers which ended with the SFA charging the Govan club and owner Whyte with seven breaches of its rules.
The club is charged with five offences and Whyte, ruled unfit by the SFA to be a club official, with two.
Rangers still await the outcome of a Scottish Premier League investigation into the alleged non-disclosure of payments to players since 1998.
An SFA statement released through Press Association Sport claimed that “unacceptable” conduct by some members of the fans’ group led to Regan cutting their meeting short.
It is understood that Regan was also unhappy with continued reference to SFA bias.
In the statement, an SFA spokesman said: “We agreed to meet the Rangers Fans’ Working Group at their request, in good faith and in the interests of openness and transparency.
“The discussions initially focused on the proactive work of the Rangers Fans’ Working Group in addressing unacceptable conduct, especially relating to singing and chanting.
“The group were keen to understand what the Scottish FA were able to do to address this issue across the wider game.
“The group then focused on the current financial plight of the club, their lack of leadership under the administrators and the potential disciplinary matters being addressed by both the Scottish FA and the SPL.
“They were keen to understand how the Scottish FA could assist the club and struggled to accept that it was the governing body’s responsibility to address breaches of the Articles irrespective of the club’s administrative status.
“Ultimately, some of the group’s own conduct at yesterday’s meeting proved unacceptable.
“It was a major disappointment to the chief executive that a cordial meeting descended into the type of questioning and intemperate language more suited to internet forums.
“The chief executive reiterated during the meeting that he was not prepared to endure comments that implied bias towards the Scottish FA and its staff.
“Despite this, a further comment about there ‘not being a level playing field’ was made.
“The final straw was an embarrassing outburst from one member of the group that served only to undermine their credibility as a collective representative body supposedly serving the best interests of the wider Rangers support.
“It is disappointing that this behaviour ruined what should have been a constructive introductory discussion.”
Night night fellow Tims.
Stan in prayers the night.
Peace One and All.
some game on espn
dortmund v stuttgart
dortmund 2 up, stuttgatrt score 3 in 9 minutes to go 3-2 up
dortmund score twice in the last 8 minutes 4-3
give me german football over the overhyped epl anyday of the week
stuttgart equalize in injury time 4-4
alex thomson@alextomo
Watch for that on the website – plus Neil Doncaster denying there’s a cosy revolving door culture between RFC and SPL/SFA
THE EXILED TIM, 21:15
He has that.
‘Bit’. ‘Between’. ‘Teeth’. And that was two weeks ago before he had anything substantial to chew on.
Right, answers to round 1 coming up…
Ach, just kidding! Catch y’all later…
Jobo
ElDiegoBhoy on 30 March, 2012 at 21:12 said:
I would suggest they were the only club to abuse the EBTs to this criminal extent, through desperation and greed ………
alex thomson@alextomo
Also – with luck an exclusive with someone truly at the epicentre of the mess that is RFC…
Mort on 30 March, 2012 at 12:53 said:
Thank you very much for printing those facts my friend.
antrimkev on 30 March, 2012 at 21:15:
“they will still have the bigot fest cup over here v linfield”
Nah. They won’t exist beyond this season. They are completely finished. A busted flush. As dead as a Dodo. An ex-football club…
Meanwhile, at Bain Towers… http://www.greenforall.org/blog/more-federal-subsidies-for-fast-food-chains/image_mini
Steinreignedsupreme on 30 March, 2012 at 21:24 said:
aye but the newco still will
until i can dance on their grave, they still exist
If Thom,o want someone at the centre of the Huns mess to speak, he’d best lay off twitter for a bit, and let things simmer, rather than boil over.
Threats and violence are never far behind the rangers story. We have seen the outcome today in court.
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 30 March, 2012 at 21:08 said
Last 50 secs most revealing, tax man setting a precedent, one would say, dog with a bone,and for good reasons. .
What a shame :)
antrimkev on 30 March, 2012 at 21:25:
A new club is likely to be formed. I would not bet on them being around at the start of next season.
There will be scores of legal issues to sort out at the end of this mess and it could take at least a year to sort it all out.
I wonder if Middlesbrough have been working the shredders recently?
A fine version of a great song!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3O-UgjGRco
Nacho Novo re-releasing his updated autobiography …… “I Said No Tax”
Steinreignedsupreme on 30 March, 2012 at 21:29 said:
i know all this mate
and enjoying this as much as i am, i want them dead
not before the end of the season though – we cant have them winning the last ever Glasgow derby
Iain Anderson played that last night on Radio Scotland. I wonder if he’s put his job on the line by play it??
Steinreignedsupreme on 30 March, 2012 at 21:29 said:
And if they ever had any hope of parachuting straight back into SPL they had to be ready for the start of next season, so thats that notion more or less blown out of the window.
Bhoys surely Sir Walter should be asked if he had an EBT.
Round 1
When Celtic beat Rangers on the 17th March 1991:-
1) Who scored Celtic’s two goals?
2) Who was the first player sent off?
3) Who were the 3 huns sent off?
4) Who was the MIB that day?
What a day. Started the day with a meeting to hear the company want to send work to India meaning 400 redundancies. Next came the news about Stan then the guilty verdict and then Alex Thomson blows the lid off the Rangers story.
Overall a bad day but it was looking a lot brighter by half 7.
Did anyone notice the Polis feast after HT at the bigotdome? Since we don’t buy the grub they hand it out to them, found that out when I went for a pee at the 50th min.
Had to ask how they got the grub when the shutters were shut and they explained!!
Steinreignedsupreme on 30 March, 2012 at 21:19 said:
The Scottish Football Association have tonight responded to a claim by a Rangers supporters group that SFA chief executive Stewart Regan “disgracefully” walked out of a meeting with them at Hampden yesterday…….
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Well posted in light of tonight's revelations on C4…….HH !
Just been reading back……….it’s all coming to a head now…….the C4 exposure is having the required effect….hurting bhuns….it’s coming to them soon ……….TICK TOCK
) Who scored Celtic’s two goals? Creaney dobcheck ??? crap spelling
2) Who was the first player sent off? Grant??
3) Who were the 3 huns sent off? Walters Hately ??
4) Who was the MIB that day?
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hen1rik @ 21:33
You don’t think for a moment the man with no contract was working for free? Funny also that the calls for his knighthood have gone quiet. I wonder if that has anything to do with him being in on the EBT.
1) Who scored Celtic’s two goals?Creaney
2) Who was the first player sent off?Grant
3) Who were the 3 huns sent off?hurlock,Walters,Hateley
4) Who was the MIB that day? John Paul II
aye and Hurlock!!
Thomson is on to them.
He sees the establishment
bias.
I hope he sticks at.it.
He can bring them all down.
Don’t usually do this, but
1 Creaney?
2. Peter Grant
3 Terry hurlock, scott nisbett
4 Andrew Waddell?
G’night CQN ~~ Prayers for Stan.
HH Gerry
Ach no, Nisbett was the week after?
googybhoy, 21:42
Thomson loves it. The corruption, the football, a bit of the old sectarianism, the succulent lamb. Grist to the mill my good man, grist to the mill
antrimkev on 30 March, 2012 at 21:31:
Aye. It would be nice to give them one more skelping…