There is a degree of public interest in reading about, or listening to, spivs exploit the stupidity of some football fans to bring a club to its knees, but the sight of a tired and emotional looking Malcolm Murray stumbling away from an event is neither entertaining nor of interest to anyone with a sense of humanity.
Have you ever seen a drunk football player or official? I have. It has never been news before nor should it be now. If the man has an actual problem the first response from his club and the wider game must be to offer support for one of our national illnesses.
The fan with a phone camera probably knows no better, but passing-round a recording of when a Frankie Howerd impersonator confronted Murray about his alleged problem is truly awful.
The audio was almost certainly not uploaded onto the internet by ‘Howerd’ but it was his decision to make and distribute the recording. I hope he informed Murray the call was being recorded.
10 years ago today five of us filled a car and drove to Bristol Airport, the nearest available departure point for Scot’s leaving for the Spain; more-local airports were booked out within minutes of the event ahead being confirmed. Bristol is a small airport but the place was full of other Celtic fans who had travelled south for the same purpose. Every departure point in the land was filled by green and white.
A remarkable exodus was underway, it was a privilege to be part of it.
Great news, Willie Wallace has made the long trip from Aus and is now in the UK. Looking forward to catching up with him next week.
I see contributing to Willie’s autobiography has had a dramatic effect on Rod Stewart’s career! He’s just reached No. 1 in the album chart for the first time in decades. Hail, hail, Rod.
You can pre-order the autobiography in Willie’s own words, with Rod’s contribution, Brogan Rogan’s best writing yet, and Archie MacPherson’s fantastic scene setting (“the best team I’ve ever seen”) with the link below. Willie will be signing all copies ordered now just as soon as the presses roll.
Nostalgia overload. Need to hold it together for tomorrow.
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up_over_goal
I agree with your assessment of how fluid the front 3 have looked the last two games. I think it is down to Scott Brown.
I was a critic of his for a few years. Didn’t think his price tag was merited. He has matured the last couple of years though and he is vital to our team. Our captain drives the team forward.
I would go with Samaras.
LB
Bada bing. Piss or pass??
Take care amigo
jude2005
Are you from Viewpark, Uddingston area. I had a lot of cousins from there.
They used to live in Limetree Avenue. My cousin used to work in Harry Hoods bar think it was the Angel.
HH
Seville memories. I am just a few miles south of Sevilla today and if only the weather then had been like it is today we may just have won it.
Anyway I have lots of fantastic memories of Seville ( as I have of Lisbon and, to a much lesser extent, Milan ). However, the morning after the game I came downstairs in my hotel and recognised a young man at reception checking out. He had previously worked for me in London. Turned out he had started a new life in Australia and was getting married in 6 weeks time. He flew from Australia to London. Flew to Madrid and took the fast train to Seville. He had no ticket but watched the game in the park. He simply said ” I had to be here “.
We will have our time again. No fear on that one.
there was an IDENTITY festival in greenock all last week,this is an excerpt taken from a poster.
Mrs mcgarry came from ireland and set up home in port glasgow.she had seven children,one of her daughters had sixteen children,mrs mcgarry ended up with seventy grandchildren and one hundred and twenty great grandchildren.this shows how one woman can have such an effect on the port glasgow population.
also says how the irish community were regularly attacked in the street.
all italian ice cream parlours were also attacked during the war because of italys stance in the war.the owner of the continental cafe in gourock was so fearful for his life he gave a local bobby the keys and never came back.
another poster showed the form you filled in to be a constable,last question,catholic or protestant.no change there then.
re the bowie songs,i know its gonna happen some day was a morrissey song covered by bowie,very badly.
I guess Phil Mac is saying there will be a Third Rangers, when the need arises.
Nickname?
The Lo-Lo’s?
The Ho-Ho-Ho’s? (too jolly?)
The Hey-hoes? (sense of inevitability)
Timmy7_noted
Thanks for the recommendation for the waxer…….
Wales International Gareth Bale is set to announce he has signed a new £130,000-a-week deal to stay at the club, according to London’s Evening Standard.
Am I the only one thinking Spurs should be cashing in on this guy? He can’t get any better can he? His stock will never be higher.
LB
Scotspatsfan, I am holidaying for 5 days in Vegas, thanks greesideup and teuchter ar la. going away with 37 mates.
Is the whole HMRC saga over with now? Is that it? ‘They were legal’ ‘we were found to be innocent’ now the standard comments, but is there more to come? Are all issues in this department over and is it just trivial boardroom squabbles that are left? You never hear of anything anymore, it’s like old news. But is it?
Hearts won’t be relegated.
LB
@BT. Cheers. TBJ is The Boy Jinky I assume?
@ 4xT. Steve Hackett was fantastic. Brought back many good memories of listening to Genesis, in fact I’ve been listening to nothing else since!
The setlist was all Genesis 71-77.
He started off with Watcher Of The Skies which got the audience into it right away and finished with Los Endos.
The Sweedish singer couldn’t have sounded any more like PG.
Absolutely brilliant.
~SPF~
LiviBhoy
I read that his new improved contract has a £50m buyout. Perhaps old contract did not have this and so by getting him to sign a new deal, Spurs can get more dosh for him now.
Mort
SPF
Yes….he will be on tonight probably.
Gagsy
I was looking for some info regarding helicopter trips over the Grand Canyon and Hoover dam. Whether to book it in advance or not and to see if anyone would recommend any particular trip/company.
Thanks.
~SPF~
Mort
Fair point. He may still go then if someone meets the release clause. Decent business.
LB
We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn’t there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
WGS
Gary, jist wants…
well..
Mair Money!
Gie him the Money.. Pierre~
Money , solves well………Everything..
And..
Don’t let anywan tell ye..”It Doesn’t!”
Ah shall noo proceed tae reiterate whit Ah hiv previously explained..
Which is…
Why Pierre should Stump Up wi’ the Pump- Up..
Pierre should Pump-Up Gary’s Weakly .. Emolument.. tae .. a Mair Robust wan.
say..
FORTY THOUSAND..~~
Daeing that wid be damn fine Demonstration o’ Prudent Financial Husbandry… Room 101.
Of Which Ah wull Proceed tae ..well. .. Demonstrate.
If Gary’s Present WEAKLY… Pay-Check.. wiz…say.. Fifteen Thousand..
then an Increase of Twenty Five Thousand.. wid see his Yearly Income .. Vault up tae
…TWO MILLION Pounds of Potatoes.
Making Gary an Instant .. Millionaire.
And .. that Twenty Five Thousand of an Increase.. wid only amount tae onleee…
Pretty Petty..Increase of Three Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand.. over Gary’s New Three Year Contract.
Jist a Mere Bunch of Chump Change,in this Day and Age..
Ah Do Declare.
Noo..think aboot it…
Where wid Celtic Go in order tae Replace a Player of Gary’s ,no mean Caliber.. fur
The Beggarly?? Sum of .. Three Million plus?????
The Barras?
Paddy’s Market?
Petticoat Lane?
Noo that a hiv Painted the Pictur.. fur Ye,,,
Tak a Long Calculatin’ Look .. and Tell Me..
IF Ah am Wrang.
Na.. Ah am No Wrang.. fur
Pierre wull Pony up ..that Lousy Twenty Five Thousand extra a Week..
or Ma Name’s ..
No
Jonson..
(Which it isnae,anywey!)
Howevahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
If Pierre Disnae WANT Gary tae Re-Sign…
Then..
That is a Whole Different Scenario..
As ye wid expect..
But.. Ah am pretty sure the Pierre diz want Gary tae Stey.
Kojo
Still Laughin’
How tall is Steve Hackett?
Greetings from a beautiful morning in Atlanta.
Willie Wallace book ordered, will give it as a gift to my old mate’s old man who the best memories of the Lisbon Lions.
Sure it will tug his heartstrings.
Interesting stuff from Phil today, hopefully he’s on the money again and Sevco mark 3 comes into existence. Would be laugh a minute stuff!
RobinBhoy
Squire,not a problem,couldn’t have the hirsute Squire looking unattractive in the posing pouch.
LiviBhoy
15:12 on 20 May, 2013
Bale would do well to stay at Spurs for a few more years, still lacks maturity
HH
gsu
Hearts ‘spared’ points deduction… WTF!!!
Feckin joke that mob at Hamdump!!!!
HH
/Bishop B
Bale is a magnificent player. Would do well anywhere Barca or Man Utd would jump at the chance to sign him IMHO
DBBIA @ 15 20.
The height of nonsense ?
The ole Fat Lady is still clearing her throat at Swinecastle.
I watched the Spurs game yesterday on the iPad, his all round play was superb and what a goal. Only pity for me was that the North East Huns didn’t score against Arsenal to put Spurs into the Champions League at their expense.
SPL statement –
“The SPL board met today to consider reports from Lithuania in respect of Ūkio Banko Investicinė Grupė (“UBIG”).
“The board are not satisfied, on the basis of information currently available to it, that an Insolvency Event (as defined by SPL Rules) occurred in respect of UBIG during season 2012/2013.”
So Dundee down and Hearts stay in the SPL. Remains to be seen how this plays out and whether they will start next season with a points deduction.
LiviBhoy – I know it’s unlikely but perhaps Spurs want to keep a player who might sustain those standards over a number of years. Keeping Bale may attract other good players.
Perhaps the player/team is more important to them than the money.
The man who sold the World
I actually liked Kurt Cobain’s version of it on “Unplugged”.
Hello all,
Not long back from France haven’t even lurked for a while but I have just caught up with “Wee Charlottes” revelations, can’t really believe all this. I know you guys have been drip fed the revelations over the past weeks but when you read it all at once two questions jump right out of the pages WTF is going on and Why hasn’t anyone done something about this. Throw Hearts and Dunfermline into the mix and the next question that arises, is there such an organisation as the SFA? Who are they, what are they there for.
Strange days indeed!!
SSN……………………………..Peter Lawell grants Hearts ‘stay of execution’
Seville, about 20 of us from the Greenock Celtic were staying in Benalmedena and Torremolinos, my 2 brothers( one had flown in from Canada) and sister, had taken my father with us, he had missed Lisbon and Milan as the 6 kids he had, came before his beloved Celtic, so he loved it. Day after the final, which we all had tickets for, we’re sitting at the pool, he’s got this contented look on his face, so I ask, he says, “ma weans have took me to see ma team way the rest o our family, disnae get any better. Lost him 2 years ago next week, but he died a very happy contented mhan.
Bma
Timmy7_noted
Nearly as good a job as yours ……
I suppose to the letter of the law, the spl are right, if the parent co, are not yet in admin, they can’t deduct points.
Not going to happen, but the parent co might get bailed out.
Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan has described alleged links between former Rangers chief executive Charles Green and Craig Whyte are a “very serious issue”.
The governing body will wait until the outcome of a report, commissioned by the Ibrox club before deciding any action is required.
In April the Ibrox side appointed investigators from Deloitte and Pinsent Masons to look into claims made by former owner Whyte over his relationship with Green during the change of ownership last summer.
Green resigned his position in April but “strenuously denied any wrongdoing”.
Regan said: “We wrote to the club and expressed our concerns on a number of points related to the revelations in the press about the links between Craig Whyte and Charles Green.
“The matter was then handed over to Pinsent Masons under the stewardship of Roy Martin QC and we have agreed that we will wait until that report is concluded.
“The report is being done very much on an independent basis. The club have agreed to share the findings of that report with us so that we can get transparency on the questions that we asked.
“And until that comes out it’s probably wrong to speculate on what might or might not happen.”
In April 2012, the Scottish FA banned Whyte for life from “any participation” in Scottish football for a range of breaches of the association’s rules and regulations.
The 42-year-old claims he was behind Sevco 5088, the company originally designated to subsequently purchase the assets and business of the club.
However Green says he and business partner Imran Ahmad, only told Whyte what he wanted to hear in order to secure a deal with the club’s administrators.
Regan refused to be drawn over whether any alleged dealings would affect the club’s eligibility to play football and the transfer of the club’s Scottish FA membership to Green’s new company, which was agreed last summer.
“It’s unfair to comment on what may or may not have happened on Rangers,” said the Scottish FA chief executive.
“It’s clearly a very serious issue. The club is aware of how serious it is and we have been in discussions with the board of Rangers on that particular point.
“That’s why they have taken the step of appointing Roy Martin QC and Pinsents to come back with the information we seek.
“We fully expect those questions to be answered by the nature of the report. The clubs have shared terms of reference for the investigation and it’s a very thorough investigation.
“We’re expecting the report in the near future.”
STV
SPF
All the larger casino/hotels have a booking kiosk in the lobby, pity its not in 3 weeks time as you would have had the company of 1800 other tims over for the nafcsc convention..