If you were in any doubt about what we’re up against when it comes to developing Scottish football, former St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour’s incoherent rant in one of today’s newspapers, that Peter Lawwell is running Scottish football, paints a clear picture for you.
Peter Lawwell’s club, your club, PAYS for Scottish football. Fans of this club pour millions into the bank accounts of others from Dingwall to Kilmarnock. Those same clubs earn TV money and trackside advertising to viewers who tune in to see that very same club play football.
Each SPFL and SFA member club has only one vote, and Peter Lawwell is out-voted and frustrated on many issues. What he brings to the table is experience of the game, business, commercial contracts, risk and strategy that no one else in our game has ever enjoyed.
He will be the person who brings evidence-based insight into the value of our game’s commercial properties. This is not because Peter Lawwell is some unassailable guru, he simply has experience of running a business which is greater in depth and scope than anyone else in the history of Scottish football. The fair-minded acknowledge this and are thankful for it.
If your skillset is more suited to a bowling club committee than a business turning over tens of millions of pounds, and you have an unfortunate attitude towards Celtic representatives, all this might rub you up the wrong way.
You may think the last person you want illuminating Scottish football is some educated ******. Believe me, these attitudes persist in our game.
Gilmour, you will remember, was in charge of St Mirren when Charles Green (then the darling of Ibrox), was invited to New St Mirren Park for a Celtic game. They all wanted a piece of Peter then, but there was no courtesy offered from the Celtic contingent on the day.
This is a call to arms by those who want to encourage clubs to obstruct Celtic in every way possible. Peter Lawwell is their bogeyman. They are still sore that they didn’t turnover Celtic (and the rest of Scottish football) in 2012, and they blame Peter for not getting what they wanted.
Now there is a fresh reality to worry about: Celtic making their own way in the world, with the consent of Scottish football. Others will find their place in the game, while one club would wither on the vine without Celtic to feed off.
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TURKEYBHOY on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:04 PM
‘ why would I get hot and bothered by who they want as their President.Its called democracy.’
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Apparently the way it works is this.
Every citizen of the US gets to cast a vote, they then count up all the votes, and the candidate who gets fewer votes is the winner.
Mysoginistic ?
Lust is now mysogynistic .
Donald Trump talked dirty.
Bill Clinton did dirty.
And there`s old Hill still standin` by her man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U48VjCJkowE
Starry Plough
American Marxists…..MC5….Kick Out the Jams.
HH
Paul67 et al
With the Ringling Bros having had their last show some in the USA are talking about the end of the Circus. Mmmm
You ain’t seen nothing yet !
Stand by your beds.
Major Whataboutery on board!
TET,
it was only reading that a second time that i realised it aint a wind up,
or is it?
16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 19TH JANUARY 2017 8:39 PM
TGM – Same old Leftists in all their various guises – the disciples of Karl Marx never went away, and were never defeated, they simply continue to reinvent themselves.
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Entryism , mate.
The print media .
The visual media.
Universities
Media courses at colleges.
Celtic F.C.
Same old .
Same old.
Yup most Americans still think blow jobs is part of NAFTA
Where were all the critics of the American democratic process when Obama was elected ?
Twice.
Gobs firmly shut.
MacJay
Hows it going comrade.
No left or right now….just information war, oil, the dollar, corporatism.
Sky, RT, Google, Amazon.
HH
SFTB – I distrust Donald Trump, same as I distrust the vast majority of politicians. Can’t help thinking that Donald heavily involved with the Zionists whom rule the roost from Manhattan.
James Connolly and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are both heros to me – champions of the poor and downtrodden.
Both unfortunately were shot dead.
TGM – Rules for Radicals.
The Bolshevik Revolution was contrived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and funded by Internationalist bankers in Wall Street.
There are dozens of prominent Marxist groups whom attempted to influence the result of the US election, many of these groups are funded by the globalist George Soros.
It was a New York Marxist whom paved the way for Castro to seize power in Cuba, believe it or not.
HH.
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:19 PM
Yup most Americans still think blow jobs is part of NAFTA
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I`m coming round to that point of view Maggie.
Eh, Obama won the popular vote.
Margaret McGill
Skull and Bones Chapter 322
You know the rest.
HH
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:17 PM
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Indeed.
Critical Theory in full effect.
HH.
TGM
I researched your source on Hilary Clinton after I last met you. Seems the US got the lesser of two evils in Trump. Beelzebub Clinton lost.
16 Roads
Council on Foreign Relations
HH
macjay
We have been over this.
It was not lust or locker room banter. It was sexual assault. Unwelcome, unasked for and perpetrated by someone who saw himself as too big to be ever called out on it.
There was a time when Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris et al felt similarly.
Jimmy Carter, I recall, confessed to lustful thoughts. Donald boasted about his immunity from acts of sexual assault.
I make no defence of the sexual exploitation of the intern Monica Lewinsky but I do not recall any complaint by her that the actions were unsolicited or unwelcome.
That complaint has been made by several women against Trump. He should have stuck to getting his kicks from his Russian porn adviser and ex-KGB Marxist apparatchik who now has the levers of the white house.
I always felt you guys were protesting too much against Marxists and reds- great disguise as you sneaked Vlad in by the back door (not a sexual reference BTW).
Gordybhoy64
No wind up, it’s a hun blogger who gets a gig in the record, as I said, it’s the reason they are where they are, as thick as.
Surprised you couldn’t give a price on The Donald getting assasinated, well odds on me thinks :-)
HH
DD
Glad you got on that.
Some piece of work Hilary.
Makes the Donald look like a wee boy.
Shocking what they done in Haiti.
But its all fake news…isnt it:)
HH
Macjay
It’s to do with the popular vote
Gore Obama twice and Clinton won the popular vote
The electoral college is a Gerry Mander scheme favoring republicans in close calls like bush and trumpet
Check it out
DELANEYS DUNKY on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:24 PM
‘I researched’
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Let me guess, you watched something on YouTube.
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:26 PM
There have been five occasions when the POTUS didn’t win the popular vote. They were all Republicans.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:21 PM
Hows it going comrade.
No left or right now….just information war, oil, the dollar, corporatism.
Sky, RT, Google, Amazon.
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Mate.
Hope I read you right there.
No right / left.
Individual issues should determine our stance.
I`m prepared , with some trepidation , to give Trump a chance.
However , I could not and do not support his stance on Israel.
Delaney’s Dunky
Check your e-mail re Lisbon.
Ernie Lynch
What sources do you want, there are plenty out there
Take your pick.
HH
I see Ernie is still prattlin on about the popular vote, still can’t get to grips with simple sums eh Ernie.
It’s a bit like the brit electoral system where politicians who get less votes than their opps get elected, but that’s ok cos it’s the torys who are getting elected, them unionist torys who you so admire.
It’s enough to give one the dry boak so it is.
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:26 PM
Mate.
I`m well aware of the popular vote going to Clinton.
Same happened in U.K. with Thatcher , I believe.
But , the time to whinge about electoral systems is before the election , not after.
If the system was wrong , Obama had eight years to fix it.
Starry Plough and others
Very envious of you speaking to Gaye Advert. I thought I was fortunate to have been stood no more than 7 feet from Siouxsie Sioux in a shop cOct 78 but you totally trump my small near brush with fame.
Penetration supported t’Buzzcocks at the Apollo the night after Scotland lost to Peru in 78. I thought they were dire and much better on record. Miss Murray’s fetching leather trousers seemed to enhance the reception she got.
Jimbo67
Macjay
There is no left or right in the traditional sense anymore.
Its about geopolitics, oil, technology, resources, information, etc
HH
EL
Naw. I read the work of an investigative journalist.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:25 PM
macjay
We have been over this.
It was not lust or locker room banter. It was sexual assault. Unwelcome, unasked for and perpetrated by someone who saw himself as too big to be ever called out on it.
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What sexual offence has Trump been convicted of ?
16 Roads
Agree re Connolly.
I think JFK is a bit of a plaster saint though. A princess Di figure in whom we invested much sentiment and policy that he never actually possessed himself. It was great to see a Catholic elected after nearly 2 centuries of Nativist Know-Nothing anti-Catholic sentiment in the USA.
But it was the corrupted good ol’boy WASP, LBJ, who eventually reversed the escalation started by Kennedy and increased by himself and it was LBJ who moved Civil Rights on to a whole new level that the golden boy never managed as he was gunned down.
Speculation as to who did it continues. Oswald’s Soviet links point the finger at the communists but JFK had enemies in the Mafia and others, capable of mounting an assassination.
I have still not read a convincing and compelling account as to who the perpetrator(s) are or were. Your guess is as good and bad as mine.
THE EXILED TIM on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:31 PM
With all due respect, I think you might be out of your depth here.
Ernie Lynch
Shall we do a list of reputable journalists and run them by you first?
FFS
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:32 PM
Well there is a little minor thing in the way called congress. The house and the senate that stop these pernickety little things that keep cropping up like election reform gun control, health insurance reform and education
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:32 PM
Agree absolutely .
Ted Heath ” The unacceptable face of capitalism .”
As I have said in the past , I absolutely agree with many of the stated aims of socialism.
I simply disagree with how those aims are achieved.
No profit , no welfare.
Viz. the ” Eastern ” block , Warsaw pact countries.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 19th January 2017 9:25 pm
There’s no way Trump would have made it over the final step without some help from his friend Putin.
I think the Republicans knew there was no way they were going to beat the dream of a first woman president. The only way they had to win was to be as moronic as possible and appeal to the…. disenfranchised.
HH
Dan Q