The devastating news that Hamilton Accies were scammed out of £750k prompted Hearts to acknowledge their own victimisation on Friday evening: “Heart of Midlothian can confirm it was the subject of an internet fraud earlier this year. The matter is now part of an active police investigation and therefore no further comment will be made.”
What Hearts didn’t say is that the £80k they intended to pay to their supplier “earlier this year” remains outstanding. You can decide if that’s a result of arrogant bloody-mindedness or a financial tightness. I could believe either. The club should accept that whatever crime took place, they still need to pay their supplier.
This type of scam is far from rare, I know several victims and (literally) dozens who have been targeted in this way. Hearts initial reaction – telling no one about it, is the most common, as it averts reputational damage, but the wider interests are better served by making the scam public’ alerting other potential victims of the need for vigilance.
Hamilton Accies do great and expensive work developing young footballers. I hope the club have the wherewithal to continue.
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Nae offers of a che stamp for MACJAY?
Disappointed,lads.
Anyway,a few years back,the much-missed RWE offered to send a page of Jimi Hendrix stamps over,and if anyone wanted one,they could get it from me.
Sheet of 24,IIRC.
No takers,which surprised us both,but I was delighted.
My wee pal down here,mad guitarist and quite excellent too,had just had his first child.
Named Hendrix.
I gave him the sheet,suggested he carefully shrinkwrap it,and have it laminated.
He did better. He laminated it,punched it,hung it from the lamp.
I canny see MACJY doing that wi a Che stamp!!!!!!!!
For Griff.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41612812
Bobby
I will get you a Che stamp
Hunderbirds are Gone You should have got in touch when you were here, or was it strictly a cultural visit??? H H Hebcelt
WHATISTHESTARS
I’m only trying to tease MACJAY out of retirement,mate. But I’d be really chuffed if you could keep one for me.
I think I know where I’ll stick it,and it will have an honourable setting.
I think I know where Macjay would have stuck it.
BMCUWP
If you could get me a sheet of the following I’ll buy awe the drinks at the next Hoot!
British Guiana One Cent Magenta
Thanks in advance!
Second garden panel blown out. Winds getting stronger.
Philbhoy, If you give me one stamp out of your sheet, I’ll buy the drinks for the next 2 Hoots.
PHILBHOY THE PHILATELIST
Nae bother,mate. You can buy it out of the spare change.
Almore
Sounds pretty nasty. I hope you and everyone else get through this okay.
CORKCELT
That’s a deal!
How’s it going there?
Easing up a bit?
Hope I’m not talking too soon but it seems to be calming down a bit here.
Disgusting to see how greed takes over a genuine attempt to wind up a fellow CQNer.
Proud of yeez!!!
BMCUWP
I believe that a single stamp sold for about $9.4 million.
Seems a lot but only adds up to about 2/3rd of what we got for Big Victor.
https://twitter.com/Tam_Selleck/status/919867452313530368?s=08
The Boss’s new car…
About half the price of a round in a few weeks.
I’d better save up!
I’m off to Belfast the week before wi my sisters,I think I’ll buy a cheap guitar and busk outside McChuills,or just drink the dregs when the lads nip out for a smoke.
That’s my plan. Dunno how my Dad’s gonna manage!!
MIT: lots of tales of damage around country but only one fatality so far, thank god. Panels probably needed to be replaced anyway.
Calmer here now Almore, Hopefully the main Storm has passed. What’s the story in Dublin?.
Corkie
I live in the Santry/Beaumont area ( not far from Hospital)
Blue skies
Twister spotted in Ireland
https://twitter.com/BeWarmers/status/919626031547518977
2nd death being reported
Man in Cahir Co.Tipperary
Yep WITS, Heard that earlier but was awaiting confirmation. My daughter Niamh who ye all kindly voted for last week, lives in Cahir.
The Roof of the local LIDL store about 500 yards from my house has blown off , and was blown out on the main road into Clonmel blocking same.
3 or 4 other Businesses have had their roofs blown off as well.
Corkie
Some really serious stuff has hit the South and South West,
Us Dubs are getting away with murder ( as usual says you)
Past experience shows that just so long as it is not a football debt, who cares.
Dublin Fire Brigade is urging those still walking about Dublin city, particularly tourists, to go inside and take shelter over the next few hours as the worst of the storm heads east.
Hould yer wheest
Thats probably good advice
But as you can see from this web cam in Temple Bar lots of people wandering around
https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar
It’s amazing that it seems to have missed ye WITS, I heard earlier that it had diverted a bit to the West, if that’s true it would probably miss Scotland as well.
Corkie
Early days ,we could still get hit
Looks like Bayern swept aside a pretty poor Freiburg. I know they have had a difficult start to the season but I wouldn’t expect anything but a top European side this week.
Heynckes is a double winner of the UCL and has experience managing a lot of this squad. The team has got top quality all over the field.
The only weakness is in goal. Their backup keeper had nothing to do against Freiburg. Hopefully Celtic will test him.
Liam Whelan, who works as a roofing contractor in Cabra, Dublin 7, said that he is offering free repairs tomorrow to any pensioners whose homes have been damaged by Ophelia.
He said: “I want to offer repairs for free and I hope this provides some sort of peace of mind.”
A dacent man!!
HOUL YER WHEEST on 16TH OCTOBER 2017 3:20 PM
Liam Whelan, who works as a roofing contractor in Cabra, Dublin 7, said that he is offering free repairs tomorrow to any pensioners whose homes have been damaged by Ophelia.
He said: “I want to offer repairs for free and I hope this provides some sort of peace of mind.”
A dacent man!!
Maybe one for the Twitteratti mate…
Hould Yer Wheest
Liam Whelan from Cabra
A very famous name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Whelan
Paul67
What has happened at Hamilton and Hearts is simply symtomatic of unprofessional internal administration.
Just what is it going to take for the football industry in Scotland to realise how much deep do doo it is in?
I see folk saying why help Accies and I can understand why, but until everyone understands the interedependent nature of the football business (itself a refection of the general reality of the need for interdendence to create progressive and civil society) then dog will eat dog, before the dog realises that the tasty tail it is chewing on is its own.
Where is the leadership to create something more than what is just an ongoing illusion? Something real that because it is real will endure?
It must be evident to anyone observing the state of Scottish football that it is amateurish and run by amateurs when it comes to governance.
It behoves all clubs to make sure that their competitors are being run on professional lines as businesses and if the industry needs helps to realise that objective then it should hold up its hands and as an industry ask for external help with a readiness to accept conditions on that help.
There are supposed to be regulations in place to ensure clubs do not endanger their competitors via incompetence or even criminality, but we must all realise by now these regulations, in paricular club licensing to national and UEFA standards, are an illusion. When the consequences of applying them are difficult they and the principles on which they are based, are simply circumvented.
That may be why there is no will to involve UEFA in the 2011 Licence saga because the outcome may be to demonstrate UEFA FFP is not up to the job if national associations see their future more likely to be secured from not applying the rules than applying them.
What I’m getting at is that unless clubs (all clubs) are prepared to tell their supporters that they have every faith in the SFA and the way they carry out their responsibilities to ensure fair play, then the club’s have no right to ask their supports to pay to watch unless they include a ” caveat emptor” clause that says we cannot guarantee that in the event of rule transgression those doing so will face the appropriate and just consequences.
Extreme perhaps, but this is what SFA incompetence and unprofesionalism has led to.
They/the clubs seem to be unaware that you simply cannot ask supporters to move on unless you can convince them that those who burglared Scottish football and their means of entry have been identified and the former ejected and the latter closed down. That assurance as matters stand simply cannot be given.
As I said earlier putting Scottish football on the righteous path requires strong leadership as in “up with this failing governance model/ regime, we will not put.”
Bill Clinton postpones NI visit
Storm Ophelia has forced former US president Bill Clinton to postpone a planned intervention in Northern Ireland’s political stalemate.
Aye poor Hamilton facilitating the breaking of the governance rules, Park can have all the shares and power he wants eh it it will not compromise the club’s integrity just like another club whose integrity is beyond reproach.
All schools in Ireland to stay closed tomorrow
I wonder when a decision will be made in the north
The dcision to close today was announced at 10.30 pm last night. A disgrace. Many school principals thought the announcement was a hoax.
So here’s an idea, Celtic should buy shares and finance in as many clubs as it takes to vote out the SFA power brokers there’s no rules for the likes of Park and Ogilvey and both are portrayed as honourable pillars of the sport.