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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3rd death being reported
Dundalk area
22 degrees and sunny in Munich. Nice!
In Ratskeller in Marienplatz. Waiter has just informed us that the famous singer Rusty Watt is attending the game.
Looks like another day off school tomorrow. Blue skies here but very windy.
Canman
The rules would be applied quick enough if we were to do that, and fine you know it :-)
Thing is nobody will take them to task on it, rules, what rules.
HH
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https://stv.tv/sport/football/1400029-mcleish-this-is-exciting-time-for-the-new-scotland-boss/
The same McLeish who walked out, to take charge of mighty Birmingham City, ye canny shame a hun…
Roof blown off the stand at Turners Cross no game for Cork City tonight. Storm force now hitting south Dublin. City streets in Dublin deserted. Everyone staying indoors except the usual gobshites who endanger themselves and emergency services by walking on the seafront.
The International space station will be over the uk in approx. 10 mins. Attached link allows you to see Ophelia hurricane from space in real time
http://www.n2yo.com/space-station/
We were to play in a club in downtown Belfast tonight. The bass player rings up and says to the manager–” The schools and banks are shut, shops are closing, and the transport system is closing as well . What about tonight?”
The reply?
“Sure it’s only a wee bit of wind. We’ll be open.”
I’ve already 3/4 rosemary tiles off my roof.
Me no go.
Me feart.
By the way Corkcelt, I tried voting for your niece last week, but the site refused my email address several times. Hope she does well.
TET,
What I don’t get is eliciting sympathy for a club that’s breaking the rules, might as well be the Huns eh poor cheating huns they do so much for Scottish football
Canman
Yip, I hope they all go bust and we end up having no league to play in and we get an invite from another league, I can but dream.
HH
Schools in the north of Ireland remain closed tomorrow Tuesday 17 October
It’s the thought that counts Raymac, Thank you for trying. If we are beaten by a vote, I’ll demand a recount.
Anyway voting doesn’t close till next Friday, so I might be bold enough to repost the link on Thursday and there may be a few who missed original post who might make up for ‘the lost vote.’
Sun splitting the trees and not a breath of wind in Bo’ness.
Is this the calm before the storm?
P.S. Raymac, She ain’t my niece she’s my daughter and she now supports The ‘tic.’
HEBCELT
I posted a few times, but we seemed to be doing opposite shifts on the blog. Like now :)
We had a cottage at Ballalan, so wi Mrs H having to drive, we mostly had a swally in the hoose. Had a few pints in McNeills on Saturday waiting for the ferry. Nice wee pub.
Will maybe catch ye another time.
HH
Ashley selling Newcastle Utd
Furra pound?
I hope it’s no because he wants to buy Sevco.
Newcastle and newco 2 furra pound
I thought this worth copying over from SFM.
It ties in with understanding of Res12 guys.
upthehoops
October 16, 2017 at 07:20
JOHN CLARKOCTOBER 16, 2017 at 00:10
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But it doesn’t look as if Celtic have asked ( or demanded!) that the SFA should have included themselves in the ambit of the Compliance Officer’s brief, as being alleged to be in breach of UEFA rules.
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John, I wrote recently to the club in my capacity as a shareholder to express my concern that the SFA were limiting the Compliance Officer’s remit to a simple case of did Rangers mislead the SFA.
I received a reply basically saying Celtic have to let the agreed SFA judicial process take its course, and then they will decide on their next move.
As far as I am aware Celtic have every single piece of evidence in their possession that the Res 12 guys worked so hard to gather.
As we all now know, the SFA at the very least have clarification to provide that goes way beyond a simple case of being misled. This isn’t going to go away and the longer the SFA silence on a response goes on leads me to speculate they might be snookered and are struggling to come up with a justification.
As Celtic said to me in their response the release of correspondence between them and the SFA shows just how questioning they have been.
I think it’s time the Celtic Board were given a break on this and in my view people’s ire should be fixed firmly on the other Scottish clubs who were also denied by the licence award in 2011 yet still seem willing to be sh*t upon by the SFA from a great height. If that is not the case, then it is time they grew a set and made that publicly known.
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which was followed by from me:
Upthehoops 7.20 & John Clark.
Yup what you were told is the positon.
No frigging way are the Res12 guys going to allow any attempt by SFA at side tracking to go unchallenged.
They (who by this time surely represent the majority of Celtic shareholders) and Celtic are at one on where matters currently stand.
This is accountability in action.
I personally blame Kafflick skools for the storm.
stay safe irish bhoys – I believe the west got a battering
Talking about Ashley selling. If my memory serves me well he sold some of his hun monkey shares to Clubfoot 1872 and some Chinese dude, who has never been heard of since. Can anybody enlighten us to what said Chinese dude is into, apart from maybe money laundering?
“To be categorically clear I am not going anywhere until we win something.”
Mike Ashley 2015
NEIL LENNON & MCCARTNEY on 16TH OCTOBER 2017 5:56 PM
“To be categorically clear I am not going anywhere until we win something.”
Mike Ashley 2015
The Petrofac Cup to be fair….:)
Newcastle won promotion last season
On a lighter note!!!
Daffy Duck phones the hotel desk and asks for a condom.
Desk says, do you want it on your bill??
Daffy replies, do you think I’m thucking thtupid, I’ll thuffocate
KINGLuBO
Ashley only came second at the Blaydon races.
he was the top weight though…….
Ashley did not count a possible promotion back to the EPL as winning something. He did include Champions League qualification. Ha!
Seeking enlightenment.
Heard story today that some in Norn Ireland are not too happy that Queen is not laying wreath on Remembrance sunday.
Anyone know anything about this?
neither the queen nor phil are laying a wreath
charlie and some hanger on are doing it instead
The Hamilton story is a strange one and one where I world urge caution.
I was told from a very interesting source that Hamilton were run or influenced by gangsters, allegedly.
So if that contained any truth then that would make this news even more interesting.
QUONNO on 16TH OCTOBER 2017 6:46 PM
Lizzie will be watching from the balcony at the Cenotaph with Phil the Greek whilst Charlie, the heir, lays the wreath. It is not a precedent situation as it has happened before on more than one occasion during her reign.
royalcorrespondentcsc
QUONNO on 16TH OCTOBER 2017 6:46 PM
Seeking enlightenment.
Heard story today that some in Norn Ireland are not too happy that Queen is not laying wreath on Remembrance sunday.
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Alternatively, Queen may be playing a gig elsewhere that day. Who knows?
It’s so easy to offend the permaraging.
Sid- a Hamilton manager who was sacked a couple of years ago, was looking for a pay off, his mind was changed after a doing….allegedly…
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE @ 6:45
Poor taste mate.
I would ask the Mods to delete that.
Bada Bing
Cheers, they have a good youth system and loved what they did for wee jay but they were not interested in a review of the SFA, so i can’t support anyone not interested in dealing with corruption.