The Daily Record’s political editor today published information obtained from the Scottish Government by a Freedom of Information Request, where Police Scotland note Newco “actively engaged” supporters to break lockdown rules in March this year.
Following Newco’s game with St Mirren on 6 March, Police Scotland received assurances from Newco that they would encourage fans to stay at home. The Police memo stages, “Whilst assurances were given this did not materialise.”
The Police go on to stage Newco made “numerous statements encouraging celebration, including from the manager (Steven Gerrard).”
“Both the Manager and players actively engaged from within the stadium with fans gathered in disgraceful displays of encouragement, in solid opposition to the public safety issues arising, to their responsibilities given the privileges under which football operates, and to the commitments they had made around public communications.”
The Government should have acted on this information in March. Football privileges were being actively flouted by one club but it took further incidents this month before Nicola Sturgeon felt it necessary to take on Newco. This is in stark contrast to her grabbing the mic. when Celtic followed her own rules during their trip to Dubai.
You will see not contrition from Newco. Instead, they will deflect and distract. Let them sink in their own sewage.
Gangster clubs operate across Europe. They stir-up identity sentiment among brutish fans and intimidate politicians who need to fish in the same identity waters. It takes brave political leadership to stop the rot.
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a great one from SFTB
“We have a week left in May to do step 1- Appoint a Bloody Manager”
GENE on 23RD MAY 2021 2:39 PM
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Aye, I will try that also.
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CELTICFOREVER on 23RD MAY 2021 2:45 PM
Aye I could try that also, but most probably I will hit the Head Lines with something like…….” Celtic Fenian DELIBERATELY breaks Covid Restrictions…” ?
Seriously, I will think about giving my MSP that suggestion about ” WHERE to Meet ASAP” ?
HH Bhoys.
Young lad at the Oval wearing his Celtic beanie – Global brand says Athers
Ernie – “discipline” them?? They were kicked from the party! That’s some pretty conclusive discipline. And it worked, tory backbenchers have been meek as lambs since that event.
Ernie
Don’t ignore what he said because it doesn’t suit you.
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Exactly what you just done.
Yousaf has been much braver in his criticism of the bullying supremists than most.We should all be backing him unless of course you(not you Ernie) are a fellow supremist.
Sons of Erin
Ineffective maybe but meek as lambs- there is some counter information
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/03/tory-backbench-rebellion-boris-johnson-covid
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-tory-backbench-rebellion-genocide-vote-b919057.html
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tory-rebellion-coronavirus-restrictions-pass
BIG JIMMY on 23RD MAY 2021 5:44 AM
Now that is a story to conjure with.
When Billy/Stephen came to London to find his fortune he took crap jobs & also busked in Leicester Sq.
The story is that Michael Redgrave saw him busking & “offered him a part in a play”.
Redgrave batted for both sides – as the saying goes & there’s more than a little suspicion that this was the spark that drew him to Billy Millar who was not an ugly man (apparently).
DREW1967 on 23RD MAY 2021 8:13 AM
Good Luck with the new guitar.
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 23RD MAY 2021 9:15 AM
Thanks. The whole aura that the show put round Speirs was fascinating.
HH to all
FAO SFTB…and others who may be interested…?
IF/when I meet with my MSP, and when discussing the Alcohol Party INSIDE on its ” Own Merit”, IF my MSP attempts to inject the discussion with the now Deceased OBF Act etc, I like to think that the OBF Act does NOT Apply in this particular ” Issue”, as it was the Huns Players and Staff involved ( NOT the Public), and its THEIR Conduct and Behaviour INSIDE Ibrox itself, for which Rainjuiz FC SHOULD be held accountable by the Police and the Scot Gov….and not forgetting the Glasgow Licensing Board ?
IF he attempts to raise the issue of Strict Liability OBF Act, then SURELY I can point out some of the reasons why that ACT was Repelled, as it was/is unworkable ?
HH.
I looked in to see if there was any news about a new manager. Instead, the 6th Former with the boring little Trumpite slogans and catchphrases is on. My wife got addicted to CNN in the run-up to the election. Trump loved his little sound bites and thought it was funny to belittle and make sarcastic remarks about those who opposed him. Who does that remind you of? Although he is proof of his own point about cults – people who are in a cult don’t realize it – that’s what makes it a cult.
SONSOFERIN on 23RD MAY 2021 2:59 PM
Can you give me an example, just one, of any SNP politician criticising the party line on any subject whatsoever?
CORNELIUS on 23RD MAY 2021 3:20 PM
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I do NOT know if this story was/is true, but my DA used to tell me that when BEN HUR Premiered in Glasgow ( it MAY have been in the La Scala Picture Hoose in Sauchiehall Street ? ), STEPHEN BOYD walked Onstage in his Dinner suit and Bowtie etc to give a small speech before the Film was shown.
According to my DA….Many Wummin Folk were almost SWOONING and FAINTING in the audience because of his Chiselled Good Looks… ( Maybe some men too ?) LOL.
In his speech Stephen Boyd told the Audience…..” I do not wish to give too much away about the Movie, but there is a Chariot Race in it…but Just to let you all know beforehand….The RACE was FIXED” !
I dont know if my DA’s story is true or not…but I really hope that it is ?
HH.
SCULLYBHOY on 23RD MAY 2021 3:31 PM
‘I looked in to see if there was any news about a new manager.’
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On a Sunday afternoon?
Mmmm.
Has Jack Ross been unveiled yet.
DREW1967 on 23RD MAY 2021 3:14 PM
We should be backing someone who says the club is blameless?
Why?
SFTB – Fair enough, they still have a little fight in them, bless them. Bojo’s purpose with that bloodbath was however clear. He wanted to kill all internal opposition to his brexit withdrawal proposals (the same opposition he had previously lead when directed at Theresa May), replace uppity MPs with placemen/women in the upcoming election, and send a clear message to the rest of the party – Get in line or get out. It was a massive gamble given he was giving up the parliamentary majority, but it worked.
Ernie : “Can you give me an example, just one, of any SNP politician criticising the party line on any subject whatsoever?”
No, I can’t. But then I didn’t say that, did I? I merely questioned your suggestion that SNP are unique in their subversion of internal criticism.
CORNELIOUS…
HOLLYWOOD legend Charlton Heston, star of Ben Hur and The 10 Commandments, visited Glasgow a handful of times.
The most recent was in June 1990, when a huge crowd gathered outside the new Cannon cinema (later the ABC) on Sauchiehall Street to welcome him to the city.
He was in town to cut the ribbon for the official launch of the picture house, on the site of the original Hengler’s Circus building, and to promote his latest movie, Treasure Island.
(Hengler’s Circus stood on Sauchiehall Street from 1905 to 1924, and could boast a seating capacity of 1200, plus Glasgow’s first-ever revolving stage, which could even be flooded for aquatic performances.)
Charlton Heston was also in Glasgow after making the Film ” The Greatest Showman on Earth in 1952 promoting his Book and the Film.
HH.
CELTIC MAC on 23RD MAY 2021 11:28 AM
Anyways well done Josh, you are in great company, Lynch, MacGowan, Buchanan and Watt et al.
*worked with a larkhaw squad in my youth and they used tae salivate over “wee wattie (mcgowan) a good wee bluenose according tae them.
A couple of years later he was opening the St Martin of Tours Garden Fete in the Renton, he had family who were parishioners there.
As the great Bo Diddley once sung “You can’t judge a book by looking at the cover”.
Just watched the Josh Taylor fight.
2 great fighters. Well done to the Prestonpans boy
Diffrent day……………………..
Twelve dead and two kids injured as Italian mountain cable car crashes to ground
Twelve people are dead and two children, aged five and nine, were inured after the cable car plunged from the summit of 1,491-metre Mottarone Mountain in Italy’s Western Alps
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Tragic News
INIQUITOUSIV on 23RD MAY 2021 1:34 AM
There has been some comment on the blog re the infamous Atletico Madrid game at Celtic Park in 1974. I was close to the field directly opposite the tunnel. In the second half, immediately after Ayala had brutally brought down Jinky, then Harry Hood, some of the crowd around me had had enough.
*got that bit back to front, I said he was carded after catching the ball which was a new offence that season, correct he was but it was in the first half near the end of it, he had a bemused look on his face tae.
Most of the support in the Jungle were aware of this rule change though, he did scythe down both the wee mhan and harry harry in the second half but was only carded for this and not sent off, this being his 2nd was why he took the trip up the tunnel, further bemused..
In Toney’s last 14 games he has 2 non-penalty goals and 1 assist.
In the majority of those games he’s played as part of a two, so maybe being the main striker in a 3 suited him better
He looked like he could have played all week and not scored yesterday, he was in the right place often enough but he looked like his confidence in front of goal was shot.
If we were looking to buy him now I’b be concerned at his form in the championship. He looked like a good championship striker but someone who’ll struggle in the premiership.
ernie lynch on 23rd May 2021 3:34 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 23RD MAY 2021 3:31 PM
‘I looked in to see if there was any news about a new manager.’
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On a Sunday afternoon?
Mmmm.
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What a suspicious controlling mind you have – scary.
SONSOFERIN on 23RD MAY 2021 3:44 PM
Ernie : “Can you give me an example, just one, of any SNP politician criticising the party line on any subject whatsoever?”
No, I can’t. But then I didn’t say that, did I? I merely questioned your suggestion that SNP are unique in their subversion of internal criticism.
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They don’t allow ANY criticism or dissent.
NONE.
And there is none. Not one of their politicians has enough courage or principle to publicly question anything.
That makes them unique.
And it’s cult like.
if eddie howe is to be the next manager, i hope he had not part in the forming of the bournemouth defence – amateur defending v brentford – makes celtic defence look watertight
ERNIE LYNCH on 23RD MAY 2021 3:57 PM
Ernie : “Can you give me an example, just one, of any SNP politician criticising the party line on any subject whatsoever?”
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Joanna Cherry. Trans issues.
BIG JIMMY on 23RD MAY 2021 3:33 PM
I too hope that that story is true. I had a fiver on the black horses.
Billy sounds like a cool guy & way ahead of his time.
Heresy to some, but he would have made a great Jimmy Bond.
Away to see if Brendan or Jurgen makes the ECL playoffs.
HH
SonsofErin
I think the SNP have had fewer “internal party discussions” break through into public consciousness, because they have exercised either strong discipline or, more likely, strong loyalty to their leadership/majority view.
I actually think some individual SNP MSPs are sound human beings with a good moral compass. And yet, not one spoke out against the illiberal OBaF Act. Not one spoke out about Alex Salmond’s inappropriate behaviour towards women (and to be fair, a few, but not all, would not have witnessed any). A few like Tommy Shephard and Roseanne Cunningham are commited Republicans but suppressed all evidence of that view once they got into contention for an MSP seat.. They all bowed to party discipline not to speak of such things for fear of alienating any voter.
Some of their supporters see this Strong Party Discipline/Loyalty as a good thing, as having a more coherent and passionate identity than other parties. I prefer my Broad Church parties to be not shy of representing their aisle in that church. I don’t regard public discussion of competing trends within a large party to be a sign of weakness. Blair tried to impose this on the Labour Party so it will be a long time before we fall for that again.
Me, I find such unquestioning loyalty to be frightening and dishonest. They end up supporting policies they do not believe in and have lost the power to speak up about their reasons for doing so.
I take some comfort in the emergence of Alba that there is now an “Independence at any cost” Party represented by the reckless Alex Salmond, and the more cautious “Let’s just be in power and keep pointing out the differences betwen us and England but go slow on the Independence Timetable” of Nicola’s SNP. Alex Salmond claims to have the more left wing part now- Tommy Sheridan joining that Swinging Party is evidence of that- and also claims to be stronger in the drive for Independence.
If Nicola is going to win this battle and I think she will, she will be forced to be more open about the economic costs of promoting Independence now but she’ll be in a hard place. Having rubbished all pessimistic forecasts on the Scottish economy, including her own White Paper which was her first attempt to be honest, she will find it hard to backtrack against the comforting message of “It’s all just Project Fear by those big bad English folk”
We are in the middle of a perfect storm. An incompetent and disliked Tory Government in London locking horns with an ineffective Scottish Government having to satisfy an electorate that has been promised Scottish Milk & Honey but sees no great desire in their “independence hungry” parliament to actually establish BigRockCandyMountainLand.
I fear we will blunder into a Referendum, agaisnt Nicola’s judgement , and it will be a replay of the last one, with everyone who wants to have “more local” government, decrying scientific and informed Economic projections as Fake News and Project Fear 2. I have no wish to impose more austerity on my fellow Scots even if we do get a flag that is not the Butcher’s Apron. But then, I’ve never been much of a one for flying flags anyway.
Members club bans members from criticizing their organisation and other members.
FIFA, UEFA SFA, REFEREES ASSOCIATIONS.
probably all cults.
tontine tim
A knockout blow!
Lady Celts v gers wummin Brogan Hay for the loyalists ….shoooorly a mistake ?
Ernie, do you never tire of posting the same tiresome argument every day on here? Never anything new, never anything thought-provoking, never anything constructive, just the same regurgitated dross, day after day. The sight of you actively posting on the blog makes me log off on most days, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. Is that your aim, or do you really just have that little to say?
Haud oan they have a Reilly as well ????
Our Friends in the big parliament – you know those ones that are protecting us just now.
will the westminster rangers supporters club condemn what happened the last few weeks, will the condemn anti catholic bigory and anti irish racism ?
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Rangers set to ‘host an event at Westminster’ following MP update
8th April 2021 Jordan Carlisle
Rangers are set to ‘host an event at Westminster’ after a Northern Irish MP shared a letter from the club in which an invitation is formally accepted.
DUP Member of Parliament for Upper Bann, Carla Lockhart, recently condemned the racist abuse received by Gers stars Glen Kamara and Kemar Roofe via social media.
The MP praised Rangers’ recent success and offered support to players who have received abuse.
Lockhart has since been in contact with Rangers and took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to share the response she received from managing director Stewart Robertson.
The lengthy letter begins by thanking the MP for congratulating the club on their title win, before moving on to her support of Kamara and Roofe: “The abuse they received has been truly appalling and it beggars belief that people think this is an acceptable way to treat your fellow human beings.”
Robertson then addresses the club’s campaign against “any form of prejudice in the game” and accepts an “invitation to host an event at Westminster to showcase our Everyone Anyone campaign”, which he describes as “extraordinarily successful.”
“Thanks again for your support,” he concludes. “It’s great to know we have someone in Westminster we can turn to for assistance.”
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At this stage, there doesn’t appear to be any set plans for when Rangers’ presentation will take place, with the details likely to be thrashed out in future correspondence.
It looks to be a good opportunity for the Gers to showcase to an important audience all the work that is being done at Ibrox to root out discrimination, though, as they look to show the club in a better light than it is often portrayed in the media.
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st tams
The greatest victory for a Prestonpans boy since 1745….
HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI on 23RD MAY 2021 4:17 PM
So you’re in a cult and don’t like anyone criticising the cult?
Diddums.
SAINT STIVS on 23RD MAY 2021 4:14 PM
Members club bans members from criticizing their organisation and other members.
FIFA, UEFA SFA, REFEREES ASSOCIATIONS.
probably all cults.
*the craft is a cult