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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Lennybhoy
From Celtic wiki:
Bertie to Tiny Wharton(Referee): “If I call you an a*sehole Mr Wharton will I get booked?”
Tiny: “Yes Mr Auld. You’d be in trouble.”
Bertie: “What if I just thought you were an a*sehole, what would happen?”
Tiny: “If you just thought it nothing would happen”
Bertie: “Well Mr Wharton, I think you’re an a*sehole”
Macjay
In the abstract you call it a “red herring” but it remains exactly the same colour of fish that Trump was seen enacting.
In the concrete, if Trump was to practice his unwelcomed, articulated and actioned lust on anyone you hold dear, I doubt your abstracted thoughts and emotions would hold.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:35 PM
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Fair enough.
Thank you very much for the considered and civil response.
HH.
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:07 PM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:04 PM
Macjay
Illegal aliens cannot vote!
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Oh yes they can.
Oh yes they do.
Particularly in Latino California .
With booths manned ( sexist ) by Latinos.
Damo Lennon
You could say James Madison was a rather persuasive man.
Who had a very real fear of popular democracy.
Of course the ‘best men’ would be him and his brothers.
HH
I’m dont think I’m a Marxist but I was close to Karl for a few years.
He didnt speak to me though.
With Trump its a wait and see.
Damo Lennon,
i have no particular like/dislike for Trump,
but would you be so flippant if the woman he “touched up”
was your wife/sister or mother
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:12 PM
Trust me on this one
You’re talking garbage there is no way illegal can even register to vote
The Exiled Tim
Where did that McKay /Tierney piece come from?
Bamboo
Watch those Trotskyists dont get you:)
HH
Maggie
Macjay talking garbage….about politics ????
Surely not !!!!
Lennybhoy – Hugh Dallas red card for Chris Sutton in the League Cup Final 2001 against Kilmarnock is often forgotten about.
One of the worst and most blatant instances of cheating in recent memory.
The game was goalless at the time – Dallas undoubtedly attempted to influence the result.
Fortunately Celtic and Henke went to town, and the rest is history.
Henke’s 3rd goal in said game was superlative.
Laters.
HH.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:10 PM
Macjay
In the abstract you call it a “red herring” but it remains exactly the same colour of fish that Trump was seen enacting.
In the concrete, if Trump was to practice his unwelcomed, articulated and actioned lust on anyone you hold dear, I doubt your abstracted thoughts and emotions would hold.
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I`m perfectly comfortable with my children being lusted after.
That`s , imho , far preferable to the alternative.
Survival of the fittest means survival of the fittest to reproduce.
A healthy normal natural aspect of the human condition.
Having said that , the law should take an unemotional stance on these matters.
Glass2/3
The record
HH
16roads
Thanks pal,she is a wee Maryhill Fenian Fighter wi a huge heart.
Hope oor paths cross again soon J.
HH
Starry Plough
Moving Targets was the LP. I think. My pal Mick could probably trump anyone when it came to seeing female celebs near the Apollo when he claimed to have seen the lead singer of the act supporting Television in May 1977 in the nearby chip shop immediately after the gig.
I hope you still have that sticker. Great live band.
Jimbo67
Good Evening!
“When You Can’t Say The L-Word”
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/when-you-cant-say-the-l-word/
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:15 PM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:12 PM
Trust me on this one
You’re talking garbage there is no way illegal can even register to vote,
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They don`t register.
They`re just passed through on the nod.
I don`t think you even have to prove your identity to vote.
You certainly don`t in Oz.
J.F.K.
Chicago.
Mafia.
Remember that series; “Cracker” I think it was.
When the Liverpudlian guy was excusing all his excesses on Hillsborough?
Big Robbie Coltrane cut through his bs.
How?
Well that is what it is getting like for me on here unfortunately, more and more and more.
CELTIC CELTIC CELTIC CELTIC
HH
Eurochamps67
JIM PAYNE
Not Mick from Paddy’s Market was it??
DD
Money,..Get back, im alright jack, keep your hands off my stack
Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today:)
HH
THE GREENMAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD
I am being serious. The year after Celtic lifted the big cup I found myself very close to the great man – KM that is.
No contact of any kind with Trotsky though.
What am I talking about?
You…Yes You, Stand Still Laddie
macjay
You are comfortable with them being lusted after, fair enough.
But that was not, surprisingly, what you were asked to consider.
Are you just as comfortable with lusting personages grabbing them in their private parts without an introduction having been made or any words exchanged? I’d love to see you practice such self-restraint. Forgive me my continuing doubts that you would be so sanguine.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:10 PM
Cheers…as I posted, Wee Bertie told it better…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 19th January 2017 10:23 pm
I voted here. Im familiar with the process. There are no “nods”.
Its very difficult to vote here. In fact its not very democratic at all.
Illegals cannot register to vote. Citizens without drivers licences find it difficult to vote.
You sound like the res necks here.
They took ur jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGlbnfeClc
Bamboo
Communist Manifesto, Roy of the Rovers, Billy the Fish, Anarchist Clown Army
Take your pick…but id suggest the Anarchist Clown Army….you can keep your hand in with a serious flanning attack on the Nazi’s, and they love to crack a gag:)
HH
Starry Plough
Alas no. Just a mate from the era and still sometimes see at CP. Over a pint he has been known to embellish an anecdote that I have always struggled to believe
Jimbo67
red
obvs
Bamboo
Did you wake up in Highgate cemetery with a sore head, no recollection of the previous 24hrs and a red rose stuffed in your “No entry zone”?
A guy sitting in Australia says illegals voted ini California.
Uses Trumpspeak as in if he said it then it must be true.
It is not easy to vote illegally in the USA despite what anyone says.
There are plenty of safeguards put in place mostly by the Republicans to stop legitimate ethnics voting.
Even the Republicans themselves have said that Trumps assertion of illegals voting in California was nonsense.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Yes you! Stand still laddie
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:23 PM
‘They don`t register.
They`re just passed through on the nod.
I don`t think you even have to prove your identity to vote.’
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Who needs facts?
DD
Im listening to ‘Animals’…Floyd
Brilliant Album.
Waters lyrics are brilliant
HH
JIM PAYNE
Ah one of the great Celtic attributes, the embellishment of a story:))
It’s great living in Switzerland you can tell them any ole shoite:))
HH
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH JANUARY 2017 10:30 PM
Have you ever heard guys boasting about their sexual exploits ?
Did you believe them ?
Would the hearsay stand up in a court of law ?
Lusting personages.
I`ve been on the receiving end.
Wishful thinking csc.
Take a sad song and make it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=020ZqFsT2-Q
MacJay
What about the evil of McCarthy though?
Was he a nice man?
HH