Lots going on today, we’ll maybe have a second blog this evening on Craig Gordon, but for now….
Last month I wrote that Dave King’s Fit and Proper issue was a faux precipice. If he was not found Fit and Proper he, “could easily appoint his own people to the PLC board, he would be able to attend board meetings and bark whatever orders necessary.” This issue would not prevent King from investing in the club, or from gaining the kind of influence Mike Ashley had until recently.
There are no SFA rules which could prohibit an unfit and improper person from being the 100% owner of a club. The matter is in the very literal sense, a formality.
Still, in passing such a tainted convict, who has already sat on the board of a club which sailed into liquidation, was subject to considerable criticism from an SPL judicial report, and had his honesty derided by a South African judge, the SFA, have made an improper decision. It’s a marginal call whether our man is better working on the inside or taking nothing to do with it. Neither option is satisfactory, the only permanent resolution to this scourge of the ages is to leave Scottish football behind.
For what it’s worth, I think King is utterly brilliant. Sounding a bit like Rhett Butler in an interview with the Daily Record, he said, “Quite frankly I don’t give a damn what people say or write about me. I will do whatever I think is best for me. The media and the fans will make no difference to my success or failure.”
Stand down all you psychological profilers.
The guy is perfect, how did he convince so many fans he was good for them? Wait, I remember. In the same article he said:
“The only way we can access that revenue is to compete with Celtic. To do that, in our first year back we are going to have to treble our wage bill as a minimum. Depending on how Dermot Desmond responds we may need to make it four times bigger.”
“First year back……. treble our wage bill…… minimum….. may need to make it four times bigger”.
He went on, “I have lost £20m in Rangers already and I’m happy to lose another £30m because I love the team”.
£30m. Go for it, Dave, we’d all love to see it. That would teach Celtic a lesson.
Here’s a few predictions. The No Surrender to a perceived enemy days will be back in spades. They need to dislodge Celtic, its influence and its support. Expect bad PR when a fan illegally disposes of litter and the onslaughts against our CEO to continue. They have not been able to lay a glove on Ronny for months, but wait until we draw a game at home. Players should avoid camera phones, and Scott Brown should never sit down in public. Anthony Stokes will be cautioned against use of a flagrantly Irish accent.
Whatever money is available will flood into the coffers in a desperate attempt to close the gap with Celtic, but there will be no trebling of wages or £30m investment. Instead, the fans will be asked to stump up the big numbers. In the event Mike Ashley is held in abeyance, the window between now and the money running out is critical. I expect nothing more than a shambles, they don’t have the money or the intelligence to take Celtic on, but this is their one big play. Celtic are ready.
Fancy winning two tickets for premium seats in the Jock Stein Stand for Trophy Day on Sunday, courtesy of Magners? To win, email me the name of the Celtic keeper who won Sportswriters’ Player of the Year this season. Put the name in the SUBJECT field of your email and send to celticquicknews@gmail.com
COMPETITION CLOSES AT 21:00 tonight, 20 May.
There was some stunning news today. Mary’s Meals, a charity founded in Scotland 13 years ago, now feed over 1m children each day. Almost three thousand of them are in schools funded by you in Malawi. While entering the competition you might want to donate £1 to the Mary’s Meals pot here.
This success is partly yours, so read what you’ve done.
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Fred c dobbs
Yer on yer own, kiddo. Still a (no I won’t degrade myself. )
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
WeefratheTim
00:16 on 21 May, 2015
I have livestock to attend to, and a proud owner of a TUP, whom we have called YODA.
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Yoda, brilliant. You’ve got to now dye him green. ;))
WeefratheTim,
On my own? Cos am no in the clique?
FFS
Now you know why my time on here is finished, and I mean finished. Pricks like fred c dumps get away with slating anyone who disagrees with him. Yer on yer own. One visit to the corner to pay CRC, and that is my final contribution to CQN. My love of Celtic will never change.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
WeefratheTim,
Read back tomorrow and see who insulted who.
Fred c. Dobbs
There isn’t a clique, mate. We’re all Tims. Same as you.
Goodnight all.
Its awe gone radio rental on CQN.
Is that because we are about to have a nuclear accident on the Clyde?
Saint Jude pray for us.
I only stopped in to pick up my Waldorf salad.
Weefrathetim.
You can’t fek off.
Wee BGFC hasn’t met you yet.
Cool it – hang fire – chill – cool the beans – keep the heid – etc. Scroll past folk that you don’t want to engage with – ignore them.
HH
BGGC
#failedrhymingslang CSC
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy,
Aye right.
Hail Hail.
…and Fred C Dobbs, that’s not a dig at you. Just saying that some folks don’t engage with / agree with / enjoy debating with certain specific other folk.
Ignore each other, and enjoy everything else about the blog.
HH
BGFC
Big Georges Fan Club – Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar,
I made a joke and was called a prick and told to piss off, by Weefrathetim.
Yet he moans about abuse on this site!!!
Hail Hail.
Why has the Irish guy blown the whistle on Faslane and the Trident fleet?
Freakin me out.
Why is he shouting???
Ach well – bed it is then. Keep the peace people.
HH
BGFC
Morning Timland from a very warm hun free mountain valley.
Scanned back the blog, the usual on, a few newbies, welcome M1888, and the other usual attention seekers.
Watched the hun game till they scored, that was enough, all te hate and bile came flooding back.
Scottish footy is finished, has been for some time, you will reap what you have sewn mi amigos.
I have never been an advocate of depriving the club of funds, I did write to Pedro a while back, even sent it registered letter, still waiting for a reply, waste of a few extra bob so it was, feckin cheapskate.
Anyways, still those who reckon that the club are no complicite in the 5 way thing, dearie me, get a feckin grip.
We are OF all the way, give us your money, nothing else matters, and the other clubs are riddled with huns on their boards, what feckin chance do we have, feck all, feck all chance of any meaningful change.
Your cash is what they want, they will steal it every which way, they will prosecute you, they will lie to you, they will cheat you, they will break the rules, but you will fall into the line that you must support the team, aye,, carry on.
KevJ is right, he is spouting what I have been saying for years, they only want your money, and you slag him off, you are the mugs.
Thomthetim has been saying for years that with holding your cash is the answer, as I have, as KJ has, yet you contribute to the charade, then you come on the blog and bitch about the injustice and the corruption, and the saddest thing is, you actually reckon yous are educated, feck me, it would be easier to educate a hun, and I am serious.
Withhold your cash, then they will listen, till then, they are bending you over, open yer feckin eyes.
The game is fecked, we still ave a chance to change it, or do we, talking will change feck all, action works, withholding cash works, your choice mi amigos.
Sleep well Timland
HH
PS
Sampled neighbours harvest from last year, oh dear, far too much for me, Mrs TET had to take me home earlier, getting to old for this >:)
The Exiled Time
Thanks for the welcome ^, glad to be here HH
Tim*
Matthewl1888
I forgive you :-)
HH
PS
What’s the l bit after the w ?
A bit thick btw
Matthewl
Good night God bless. Meet you Sunday. :)
TeT
How you doin bro?
The future is unwritten!
delaneys dunky
See you Sunday ;)
TeT
It’s an “L” for my second name, not thick at all just confusing ;-) HH
Good night CQN good guys.
The game is fixed.
FTSFA
Weefra
Calm doon mate – Fred C was only havin’ a wee laugh.
Check that ye’ve no got yer painkillers mixed up wi the crabbit tablets :-)
HH
Asked question couple hrs ago about latest on scott mcdonald and also guidettis sfa charge
Nae reply
think i may start posting some absolute drivel to start gettin replies
Works for alot of posters
Back to work time
The Holohan sisters
Proudbhoy
Guidetti got censured (slap on the wrist) and Motherwell are appealing the red card. What do you mean You “might start” posting absolute drivel :-)
Never saw your post earlier.
HH
Well it looks like Plan Z, get the zombies promoted through reconstruction will be unnecessary.
The Hampden Coven can put the plan back in the drawer for another couple of seasons.
“What about Motherwell,” you all say in chorus?
Well what about Motherwell?
How was their record against the newcomers?
In a word, DISMAL.
The only hope Motherwell have is that the Mullet will freeze as he did when he managed Lanarkshire’s second best team, maybe even third if you consider the Rovers.
Queen of the South, Alloa and Raith have better records against the newcomers.
The chances of Skippy’s appeal being successful are slim to none, and Slim just left town.
They will hear the appeal next week and maybe reduce it to two games, at best.
Or more likely increase it to four.
God help us all when the hordes cross the city.
If you think the atmosphere was putrid in the past, attend holding your noses and covering your ears.
Well until half time when they will all be leaving.
Muhammad Al-Hussaini
GG
I share your frustration mate but it’s better for the health to laugh at them than let them get inside the head.
C’mon the Hibs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTY8A1hBiP8
HH Bro
Evenin’ times
Hoops boss Ronny Deila has recently acknowledged that he would like to bring another striker to the club, particularly since it would appear that John Guidetti’s future lies elsewhere.
However, he also insisted he would be happy to trust Griffiths with leading the line in Europe, and the player insists he is capable of holding down such a position of responsibility – and he wants the shirt number to go with it.
“If I’m the main man to lead the Champions League qualifiers I will be delighted,” said Griffiths. “The John Guidetti situation has not been resolved yet, and if he signs here, then great.
“But if not, I will be banging on that door to get the number nine jersey because that’s the jersey you want as a Celtic player.”
Griffiths had a candid chat with Deila, as well as John Collins earlier in the season, after he found himself on the fringes at the club.
Deila made it clear exactly where he felt the striker was falling short and since taking those pointers on board, Griffiths has been rewarded with a place in the starting line-up – and the goals have come.
Since March, Griffiths has scored 11 of his 19 goals, and his reward for such consistency has been a call-up into Gordon Strachan’s Scotland squad for the friendly with Qatar and the Euro 2016 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.
“It just shows that I have been working really hard since the turn of the year and playing on a consistent basis,” he said. “Ross McCormack and Jordan Rhodes will maybe feel a wee bit hard done by – they’ve been scoring goals down in the Championship. But from a selfish point of view, I’m delighted to be back involved.
“I said before that Celtic was my bread and butter, and I wanted to be established here before any international call-ups came. You don’t get back in the Scotland team if you’re not playing well and, since the turn of the year, I’ve hit form and scored goals.”
Griffiths’ next ambition is to carry on where he has left off at Celtic this season, but also to replicate that form on the international stage.
The 24-year-old has been entrusted before by Strachan when the Scotland boss put him in for the shock 1-0 win over Croatia in a World Cup qualifier two years ago, and it is now a matter of trying to establish himself at international level for the player.
“Training will be intense, but I’m looking forward to it and, if you train well and the manager picks you, then you have to be ready,” he said. “Scotland normally use the same formation that we do here, so if he calls upon me I’ll be ready.”
Getting the starting jersey will mean wrestling off Steven Fletcher, the player whom Griffiths once spent his days looking up to.
“Yeah, I used to go and watch him – then I played with him at Wolves,” he said. “He is a great lad and he has been a great player for Scotland.
“I was delighted for him when he scored his hat-trick against Gibraltar because he took a lot of stick before that saying he wasn’t ready for the international stage and had not scored enough goals.
“But he showed against Gibraltar exactly why he is the main man. I texted him after that game just to say well done.
“But I’ll be vying for that number nine jersey in June because it’s one spot we are fighting for. Scotland have a lot of good strikers and there are four of us fighting for that one spot.”
There will be a few familiar faces in the national team for Griffiths, and none more so than Celtic skipper Scott Brown.
The Edinburgh-based pair share a journey to training at Lennoxtown every day – but Griffiths will not be requesting a room share with the midfielder.
“When I first signed here it was like wakening up as a kid at Christmas driving in with Broony,” he said. “He’s a great guy and he’s my good friend now.
“He’s done it for years for club and country. He’s an inspirational leader and he gives 110 per cent in every game. He wears his heart on his sleeve and if you want to look at anybody for international recognition, it should be him. But share a room? No. He’s too hyper for me!”
Good Morning Timland.
Congratulations to big Craig on his well deserved award,
even though the SFW aren’t what honest fholk would call
a reliable source.
The hun are on the horizon,nae time fur shrinking violets,
so man up…away tae work,full of happy huns,I’ll be chipping
away all day at their new found contentment with the truth.
Have a great day cqn.
Hibs?
Couldn’t send them for saltwater to Barassie.
Jings, we have been linked with so many signings already we could sign an entire new team.
Repeated mention in the gutter press about our superiority in terms of wages.
The same wallopers weren’t reporting anything similar when ole minty moonbeams was in charge over at the asbestos dome were they?
Oops got that wrong way round!
Good morning CQNers,
I read with interest this morning that FIFA ‘expressed concerns’ </body. to the English FA about their fans singing anti-IRA songs during the recent Italy/England friendly in view of the forthcoming game against Ireland.
The English FA have urged their fans…..
“ to show respect and not chant songs that could be regarded as insulting to others, particularly from a religious or political perspective.” </body.
http://www.thefa.com/news/england/2015/may/follow-england-away
Does anybody know if the SFA has published the same instruction for the Ireland/Scotland in Dublin scheduled for the following week or indeed for any matches under their jurisdiction?
Ayrshire Tim here. Ah ken whit yae mean, so ah dae.