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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Mike in Toronto
Dharma Bam
I’d like a piece of Philbhoy too.
mike in toronto
I know that mhate,I was thinking playing in same decade :O)
mike in toronto
Think handshakes;))
HH
patmcgrath ….. ssshhh!
The first rule of CQN fight club is that you dont talk about CQN fight club ….
which, I admit, makes it kind of hard to arrange (particularly, on a blog) … but, hey, I dont make the rules.
bournesouprecipe
16:25 on 20 May, 2015
Name the three brothers that played in the same Celtic side?
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I could be (probably am) wrong but I don’t think Raymond McStay played for the first team.
scullybhoy
Correct, – McStays were not the three brothers in this side.
Bmcuw
well said earlier mate,we are one support,
my first memory is being taken to see The big cup coming home to Celtic
nearly 5 years of age,as i jokingly say its been downhill since then:-)
but never has it been allowed to be conflated with anythin of the hun
not then
not now.
it never will be.
it helps not having a conditioned mind that is addicted to conflating our clubs policy with them in any way shape or form,
we know they are cheats.
i have known that since the days of Lawrence,hope etc(my era oldyins :-)
suprise at that decision yesterday-no,
will it affect my contribution to Celtic,be it £1 of several-no
keep on keeping on bhoys,
dissent and differing opinions is what our club is about and is a rich seam of our heritage,
you know where to go if you want drone like adherence to being one point of view.
hope alls good :-)
Hail hail
I have no inclination to buy a new Celtic jersey. The last I bought, I got from TOFFS. They are from the past. I would be much more likely to get one if it had “Mary’s Meals” on the front.
Mike in T
Mum’s the word and that reminds me: would it be all right to bring me Mam to CQN Fight Club?
4 brothers to play for Celtic : Stein Evans and McPhail.
have a good night Celts :-)
HH
weet weet …. you have piqued my curiosity with that. I’ll admit that I dont have a clue what it means, but my curiosity has been piqued!
parkhead … as I get older (and fatter), I tend to buy less jerseys … (Celtic track suits hide things better) … but, like you, I would definitely buy one if MM was the sponsor.
bournesouprecipe
the TRIALIST bros ?????
Prediction for tonight: Distant Second to beat Distant Third by at least two goals in the battle to play the second poorest team in the top-flight.
BSR
brogan ? Jim,Frank and their other brother ? 8))
I’m going to bring her. She can hold my jacket and put leather patches on the worn elbows while I attend to Philbhoy.
I think Pat , Joe and Owen Coyle may have been at Dumbarton about 1984/85
Not that it has anything to do with the hoops
Favourite Uncle
Nope
BT
Nope
patmcgrath … absolutely not! Given the age of some of the posters on here, it would be bad enough getting skelped by them…. but, getting skelped by their mammies?! Not sure I could live that down!
BSR
Gies a clue, which decade then I can cheat by reading my Celtic companion as I’m home now
Corporations own everything these days, even a great deal of the “charities”.
The Celtic jersey sponsor is not Magners, it is the giant global corporation Diageo which is headquartered in London, Magners is merely one of its many subsidiaries.
The same behemoth owns Guiness too and many of our own distilleries in Scotland.
Mike in T
You said you didn’t make the rules! She’ll be bitterly disappointed. I can see her already spitting out her cheroot and double-knotting her wrap-around pinny in frustration. And there’s the matter of those leather patches.
BSR
Didn’t Larry , Curly and Moe play in the seive?
we already know the controversial decisions in these games will not favour Hibs. This will be enough to see sevco into the play-off final.
Watch the linesmen very carefully – they become more influential when they play!
i’m concerned hibs will be rusty after 18 days – if they can stay in touch after ibrox they have a chance.
Are we about to witness corruption of the highest order?
Mike in Toronto….
The cqn fight club…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N2BBD94faU
I before e ?
Mike…
Go to plus three minutes.
Blantyre tim is praying for knox family.
The 3 Coyles at Dumbarton at same tome were Joe, Tommy and Owen.Joe and Tommy good lads.HH
Was there 3 Brogan bro’s bournesouprecipe?
The original celtic jersey is on TOFFS website and it is braw as is often said on here
Roberttressel @12:43
Roberttressel@12:43
“Making celtic strong financially keeps us ahead of the game. The weaker we get the more the cheats get to influence the outcome.”
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Who wants to be ahead of a bent game?
I bought a season for years during the height of their cheating.
Ignorance being my excuse.
What excuse would I have now?
I’d be physically sick looking at the bird shit marks on Sevco’s shirts shoving the unpunished cheating right in our faces.
Cheat me once. . . . . . . .
Calum Murray drafted in for refusing Hearts a stonewaller v Sevco in his (last) game ever?
Paranormal CSC
BSR
Was it Stein, Peacock & Evans all masonic brothers ?
Magners ,who own Tennents now,aren’t a Diageo brand.
Zico
Thanks mate
Hail Hail
Patmcgrathtakesapenalty,
My mammy is bigger than your mammy a d I’ll fight you over it.
In fact, I’ll fight you just on account of how difficult your name is for spellchecker!
If ma mammy let’s me
Burgas
Brogan’s – ruled out.