There is something demeaning about Celtic putting out daily messages asking fans who have zero interest in attending Celtic Park on Sunday to stay away from the game at the insistence of the Scottish Government.
They have been forced into this by Government muscle flexing. The Government have zero intention of cancelling the fixture but cannot control that information from leaking through their ranks. This pantomime will continue until the First Minister, or perhaps her Justice Minister, will concede that Celtic and the visitors have ‘done enough’ to allow the fixture to go ahead. Celtic’s messaging has been crystal clear for 12 months; we are not the transgressing party, but we are useful to deflect from the core problem.
If only the Government had been as keen to act last March. They froze when they should have made a decision, allowing 50,000 fans to attend a Europa League game in Ibrox, including thousands of visitors from Germany. Despite first hand access to the scientific evidence, they continued to divert their eyes until football took the unilateral decision to call a halt to the sport, two days before another 50,000 were due at Ibrox. A year on and your Government has matured into faux grandstanding around the most important issue of our lives, mark my words, the game will go ahead, this is all false.
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Tough racing today short prices again on many of the Mullins runners forcing you into doubles and trebles.
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all.
Dessyboy..im going for the e.w value again today.
Gonna make another million today
Jesse Marsch latest name to be linked. Don’t think it’d happen but we need to forget the likes of Roy Keane and look to these kinds of options.
DREW1967 on 17TH MARCH 2021 7:19 AM
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I had TWO winners yesterday in Ante Post at bigger prices…HONEYSUCKLE won at 11/10 ( I think ?). I have it on Three lines weeks ago at ” 11/4″ along with some others for today and Friday.
I was angry with myself yesterday for backing Remastered in the 4.50……as I FAILED to notice the Trainer of the Winning horse before the Race, and IF I had noticed, I would have been on it…but that was obviously my own fault !
LOL.
Among other bets for today I have backed 2.30 GRAND RIO at 13/2 and in the 4.50 THREE STRIPE at 15/2 in Singles and Each Way Double.
Same Trainer and Jockey for both horses ( Irish).
I also think that the Gorgeous Irish Girl Jockey ( Rachel Blackmore ) could have at least TWO Winners Today…
so maybe the Irish will have a GREAT St Patricks Day ?
HH
St Patricks day massacre article bringing back lots of memories for this auld Tim today, great day!!
If you look back at that game check out our red card versus theirs, refer a tad biased as usual.
Shakem up’Arry- 2.30 25/1
Notebook – 3.05 28/1
Glen Forsa – 4.15 25/1
Ach ye never know! Worth a silver shilling or 2
Happy St Patrick’s day and good luck to all who are having a bet or two later today.
Big J
Seen Tiger Roll at 5/1 there..great champion and loves cheltenham?
Drew
E W is the way to go today, good luck to all.
Ive taken Chacun and Kilcruit as a single and double main bet, about 7/2 the double
Beannachtaí Na Féile Pádraig oraibh go léir. 🍀🇮🇪💚🇮🇪🍀
Happy St Patricks day to ALL the Celtic family HH
Guard of honour? That’ll be feqqing right. The Bhoys should be out on the park first and as soon as the currants come down the tunnel, ignore them and start the huddle with The Celtic Song blaring out.
St Stivs agree with you 100% about Syd Tim. Don’t know if he wanted the job before PL or was PL’s long lost b*****d son and was not included in his will. Time will tell
HH
Lord Advocate’s wife advised Rangers after club’s financial collapse
LORD Advocate James Wolffe QC conceded that the Crown had maliciously prosecuted two administrators of Rangers FC, then paid out taxpayers’ money of £21 million in damages and £3m in legal expenses.
Now it has emerged that his wife, judge Lady Wolffe, advised the Rangers administrators Duff and Phelps after the club’s collapse in 2012 and was paid a sum at the time said to be in the thousands of pounds.
The National can reveal that the then Sarah Wolffe QC gave advice to the administration team. It was said to include issues surrounding the 2011 purchase of Rangers by Craig Whyte using millions provided by Ticketus.
It was this transaction with the ticket mortgaging agency which later led to Whyte going to trial and being acquitted on fraud charges in June, 2017.
Others who were charged included Duff and Phelps personnel David Whitehouse, Paul Clark and David Grier – the first two have already received apologies, damages and their legal expenses after the Crown admitted malicious prosecution, while Grier is currently suing the Lord Advocate for £5m Neither Whitehouse, Clark or Grier would comment as they are awaiting the outcome of cases against the Lord Advocate, but Whitehouse’s spokesperson confirmed that Lady Wolffe acted for Duff and Phelps in 2012.
The involvement of Lady Wolffe very early in the administration and eventual liquidation of the club was not registered as a conflict of interest by the Lord Advocate who as a member of the Scottish Government is subject to the ministerial code.
READ MORE: Crown Office opposes release of files in £24 million Rangers prosecution case
Sarah Wolffe was made a judge in March, 2015, and her husband became the Lord Advocate in May, 2016, when he inherited responsibility for the case from his predecessor Frank Mulholland QC who is also now a judge.
Law journalist Peter Cherbi, who is in the ninth year of his campaign to establish a register of interests for Scotland’s judiciary says the case of Lady Wolffe and her husband proves the need for a register of interests, and says that questions must be asked of the Lord Advocate over his failure to acknowledge his wife’s prior involvement, either to Parliament or the courts.
Cherbi revealed in December 2017 that Lady Wolffe had been scheduled to be the judge at a hearing in the long-running case of Whitehouse and Clark versus the Lord Advocate before officials realised that would mean Lady Wolffe sitting in a case involving her husband and transferred the hearing to another judge.
A spokesperson for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: “There is no basis in fact to the suggestion that the Lord Advocate has breached the Ministerial Code. The Lord Advocate was named in the civil actions taken by Mr Clark and Mr Whitehouse and was obliged to respond to them. He was advised throughout by senior counsel and an independent legal team.”
They added: “None of the matters at issue gave rise to a conflict of interest for the Lord Advocate, whose register of interests is published by the Scottish Parliament.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19165210.lord-advocates-wife-advised-rangers-clubs-financial-collapse/?ref=eb
por cierto
Happy St Patrick’s Day to one and all.
Please: no guard of honour, a contradiction of terms in respect of the deid team.
POR CIERTO on 17TH MARCH 2021 8:40 AM
Murkier and murkier.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all.
Gonna plant my tatties today.
Guard of honour – No way … phoney, made up pash. Never saw the point of it, always felt embarrassed when other teams reluctantly lined up for us. When did this nonsense start anyway. Sky wouldn’t have anything to do with it, could they?
POR CIERTO on 17TH MARCH 2021 8:40 AM
Evidence that Scotland is quite a small country, with quite a small population, certainly. But evidence of a conflict of interest? Bit of a stretch.
You have to remember that the whole shit show surrounding the huns has been a job creation scheme for the legal sector for years and the list of lawyers involved in one way or another must be a long one.
HRVATSKI JIM on 17TH MARCH 2021 8:52 AM
POR CIERTO on 17TH MARCH 2021 8:40 AM
“Murkier and murkier.”
And the more they try to murky the waters, the clearer it becomes, por cierto.
ERNIE LYNCH on 17TH MARCH 2021 9:06 AM
Agreed.
But a register of interests, for the Scottish judiciary, is surely something that needs to be addressed
Guard of Honour ????
SHOVE IT!!
Timmy7_noted
Ye never attached the link.
I presume this -or similar – is what ye wanted to post.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/m/page/1991-03-17%3A+Celtic+2-0+Rangers%2C+Scottish+Cup
30 years ago today, jeezo, I remember it like yesterday.
First wedding anniversary it was; Squire-ess was most accommodating in allowing the celebrations on the Saturday, giving me a pass for the Sunday gameday
Which I maxed out.
https://youtu.be/NiLif_3oxgU
Who’s the Mason in the wig?
POR CIERTO on 17TH MARCH 2021 9:12 AM
ERNIE LYNCH on 17TH MARCH 2021 9:06 AM
‘Agreed.
But a register of interests, for the Scottish judiciary, is surely something that needs to be addressed’
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Maybe, but would that extend to having to name every client that they have ever acted for or provided advice to? Because if it doesn’t then it would have made no difference in this case.
And how would you square having to publicly name a list of clients with the clients’ right to confidentiality?
Love watchin highlight of that game.Tommy noised them right up.
The hun wall at 2nd goal is about 8 yrds away
Tommy Coyne
Hail Glorious Saint Patrick you’re Erin’s great pride,
Watch down on the Celts on the banks of the Clyde,
With green and white banners a cross and a prayer,
Where Erin’s green valleys look down on Parkhead
@ H.T. Thank you for your recent submissions from the Brave Bobby(R.I.P.)
Happy St Patrick’s Day
didnt have any bets on. will have a few today
u?
A fine day in Glasgow for St Pats☘
Have a safe but great day!
Here’s a few:Pat and Celtic related.
1)Born in 1891 played for Eire and the north?
2)Played for Celtic 93/94,and in a Scottish league cup final for Ayr United?
3)Cousin of Charlie Gallagher?
4)Derry Pele?
5)Both played for the Hoops,but faced each other in 1972 Scottish League Cup final?
STILL CELTIC
didnt have any bets on. will have a few today
u?
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oops
how the fek did i post that on here?
it was meant as a reply to a txt message
im losing it – and i havent even had my first beer yet!
anyway, Happy St. Patrick’s Day
🍀🍀🍀
ERNIE LYNCH
Yes, great points, hadn’t thought that through at all, por cierto.
Happy St Patrick’s day to all, my mum would have been 86 today if alive. Gone but not forgotten😄
Jesse Marsch quoted as being interested, we need to follow it up and ask the question.
!!BADA BING!! on 17TH MARCH 2021 11:37 A
You would imagine that he would come if Rangwick was getting the DoF job.
I would imagine that a German DoF and American head coach may be a bit too demanding for the liking of our Blue Pound-loving EPL fanboy Absentee Landlord
new article posted.