The testimony of Gary Allan, QC, to Channel 4’s Alex Thomson, on the threats and intimidation he received after sitting on the SFA tribunal which imposed a 12 month player registration ban for various financial misdemeanours while the club was in administration, is stark.
The details of what Mr Allan went through is available on the Channel 4 website, it is so gruesome I’d rather not bring it here, but these are not the action of football fans. This is a criminal subculture which has attached itself to elements of the game. It would be an enormous mistake for anyone to pander to those elements, only chaos will result.
It is painfully evident the damage which can be caused by inflammatory comments but unfortunately I predict further incitement ahead. A great deal of wrong-doing went on in the Scottish game over a long number of years which subverted our competitions. This has now been disclosed and disciplinary processes are underway. It is too late to stop this process, nor should it be stopped.
Those who subverted the game are entitled to a fair hearing but the rest of Scottish football are entitled to demand processes are followed.
Gary Allan is a mere water carrier of the Rangers-group-of-clubs troubles. The architects are being protected, as best they can be, by their former lieutenants.
It’s been a good week for the broadcast elements of the mainstream media.
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HB minx btw and Massive Thanks for your efforts on wee Oscar’s behalf.
CQN needs more Mothers being forthright on this excellent site.
A strictly roots…
I remember Althea and DonnaBrattbakkinanger down at the…………………………………..
Reuters Top News@Reuters
ITALY’S BERLUSCONI SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS IN JAIL IN MEDIASET TV RIGHTS CASE
Happy birthday Minx1888 enjoy ur cheeky chardonnay
Silvio Berlusconio sentenced to 4 years in jail
DBBIA,
The Third Eye Centre is now called the Centre of Contemporary Arts.
I had considered dropping in this evening to hear a reading of the works of the eminent Kazakh poet Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov but I think I’ll just go home & watch Strictly – It Takes Two instead.
Happy Birthday MINX1888 hope you have a great day
lionroars67
15:15 on 26 October, 2012
Reuters Top News@Reuters
ITALY’S BERLUSCONI SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS IN JAIL IN MEDIASET TV RIGHTS CASE
Happy birthday Minx1888 enjoy ur cheeky chardonnay
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Seriously?
Wow, there are serious GeoPolitics going on now.
Old Silvio sent down for 4 years. Well I never. Bunga bunga etc.
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud #c4news
Sir Minty ,maybe your next…………………..?
Happy Birthday Minx1888.
Just popped back on-my BMCUWP radar picked up the word pedant,so I thought I was being talked about.
Then I realised my ears weren’t burning,so I assumed it was Ernie…..
Anyway,wrong on both counts,it happens.
Flicked back a bit,so couple of comments on it.
1-Leave Kev alone (the offending comment has gone,so cannot comment) He probably had too much Irn-Bru and made an ill-judged comment. It happens. I doubt he meant to impugn Tommy’s memory.
2-Kev,you might be well advised to apologise.
3-The Exiled Tim is right;we will only see justice being done if it suits an agenda,and it won’t be real justice. It will only be another battle in a war where the aces are held by those who have always held them.
4-Again,happy birthday,Helen.
5-MWD’s 0924 post has kinda put a mocker on things for me at the moment,so all I can add is
GOD BLESS OUR WEE FIGHTER FROM IRELAND. HE’S JUST LIKE THE FIGHTER FROM IRELAND HE WAS NAMED AFTER.
PS-hands in pockets time,folks.
I bet Silvio Berlusconio wishes he was scottish
Gee whiz,
TV rights? What about an illegal war?
Had a laugh at the local bigot the other day (fortunately, not too many of them where I live)…
Called him a ‘necro’ …. he looked puzzled, so I explained that sevco fans are ‘fawning over’ (I’m being polite here) something that I said in my best John Cleese voice, “is no more”, “has ceased to be”, is “bereft of life, it rests in peace” … took him a second, then his face went like thunder, and he stormed off. Me and Derry (my dog) had a good laugh all the way home.
Paul, I tried to keep it clean… hopefully no yellow card!
I see on the Thommo blog, someone using the inadequate security advice given to the QC as proof that it was not taken seriously, rather than condemning the advice as inadequate.
Why was his mail not being screened and delivered by the police ?
Electronic Tims@ETimsNet
Italy’s greatest Millionaire Silvio Berlusconi jailed for 4 years. I wonder if Scotland’s greatest millionaire Sir Moonbeams will beat him.
Alasdair MacLean 13:53 on 26 October, 2012
“I know this has probably been done to death, but what are the likely scenarios with UEFA if The Rangers win the Scottish Cup?”
It’s straightforward. As a new club they are not allowed to play in European competition for three years.
Uncomplicated – and clarified by a UEFA spokesman on Sky about six weeks ago.
Silvio Berlusconi failed to see the obvious get out – all he had to do was run onto the pitch and gub Neil Lennon…
Silvio Berluscmurray
Sir David Berlusconi
Both will get the pokey
For stealin’ the taxmans money!
Ceiler.
My nephew is getting married on July in Edinburgh castle to a lovely girl who’s family hail from barra.
Itl be a good tim do.hail hail
Berlusconi jailed for 4 years.
I think the appeal procedure in Italy is long and drawn out. But it’s nice to see a cheat squirming.
It was my birthday on September 17th and not one of you wished me a happy birthday
Berlusconi ———-
The absurdities of the Italian Legal system mean that being sentenced to imprisonment does not necessarily result in the individual going to jail..
Very limited number of tickets left for the Spartak Moscow game.
It was also my birthday exactly a year before and not one of you wished me a happy birthday then either…….
….or the year before that….
Just dropped back in to say…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
15:19 on 26 October, 2012
Just popped back on-my BMCUWP radar picked up the word pedant,so I thought I was being talked about.
1-Leave Kev alone (the offending comment has gone,so cannot comment) He probably had too much Irn-Bru and made an ill-judged comment. It happens. I doubt he meant to impugn Tommy’s memory.
2-Kev,you might be well advised to apologise.
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Yer right.
To ALL CQNer’s who were offended by my comment’s earlier that seemed to, tarnish the late TB’s memory….this was not my intention. I’m SO SORRY !!!
I apologise UNRESERVEDLY.
BMCUWP – Thank you for being there for me.
God Bless
Hail Hail
Irn-bru – CSC
laters…
….or…..
bournesouprecipe
15:33 on 26 October, 2012
Thx for the heads up.
I know the feeling 31003, I got the same treatment.
MinceCFC@CelticMindedcom
Does Barlinnie have wheelchair access?
corkcelt……its ridiculous….
Lennon warns Celtic players
Neil Lennon: ‘At this club we see everyone as equal’
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Neil Lennon has warned his Celtic players that they will be sacked instantly if they are found guilty of any form of discrimination.
The issue of racism is back at the top of the agenda in England and the Professional Footballers’ Association, after criticism from some leading players, have come up with a six-point action plan which includes making racism-related offences punishable by the sack and the introduction of a scheme to boost the number of black coaches and managers.
Asked about the football version of the ‘Rooney rule’, which was introduced by the NFL in the United States in 2003 to ensure qualified ethnic minority coaches are on interview lists for job vacancies, the Celtic boss said: “I don’t have a problem with that at all.
“We are an open club and we have been since the club was formed 125 years ago.
“I have a zero tolerance rule. I have spoken to the players about this before.
“Any sign of any sort of racism against colour, religion, background will be an instant sackable offence.
“I don’t have to really speak to my players about that. The spirit and respect they have for each other is tremendous but they have been made well aware of that before.
“There is no place for that (discrimination) in the game and there never should have been.
“At this club we see everyone as equal and all I see are footballers and men and we treat them that way.”
…..didn’t people on here used to talk about the CQN Clique?
Belated happy Birthday 3103:))
Happy Birthday – but shouldn’t you now be 31004 ?