Q. So you were a Rangers season ticket holder, when did you stop?
A. A few years ago. I work weekends and was seldom getting to games.
Q. How do you feel about how Rangers were treated in 2012?
A. How do any of us feel? It wasn’t our fault, one guy came in and did all the damage, then sinister forces took advantage. Every last one of us feel the same way.
Q. How do you feel about the League Cup semi-final, are you looking forward to it?
A. Not really, but we need to do whatever it takes to make sure we don’t get embarrassed. Years of being subjected to the effects of what Charles Green called “bigotry” means we need to fight with everything we’ve got. We can’t let Celtic embarrass us, need to stand up to them.
Q. Thanks, Robert. One more question, are you available to referee that game?
A. You know me, aye ready!
The forthcoming League Cup semi-final will be one of the most difficult games to referee and police in the history of Scottish football. The police will have their most experience Match Commander on duty. The SFA will not have their most experienced referee on duty, instead they have given the game to former Rangers season ticket holder, Bobby Madden.
The authorities must be independent and be seen to be independent. Former season ticket holders are acceptable and welcome as referees, but when you face extraordinary circumstances, take extraordinary care in selecting your referee. I don’t know a single ‘Rangers’ fan who doesn’t have animated views on what happened in recent years. They want to beat us next month more than at any time in original-Rangers 140-year history. Why is one of them the referee?
Craig Thomson is widely regarded as unaligned and Scotland’s top official. There must be a story explaining why he wasn’t given the game.
Our team selection for the League Cup semi-final doesn’t bother me. We can have Scepovic, Guidetti, Stokes or Griffiths up front, Efe and Charlie at the back, I’d still back us to win. Can’t say I’m too worried about the other lot either, even if they manage to hold onto all their, ‘stars’.
What does concern me is how the game is refereed. Before it, CQN will write about how important it will be to keep 11 men on the field, not to dive into tackles inside our penalty area, and not to get drawn into a levelling battle.
You can write the script about how this one is going to play out, we’ll be kicked, elbowed and incited, with liberal dramatic tumbles taken in and around our box. In a decade writing CQN I’ve only discussed referees around a dozen times but the selection for this one is alarming. Mr Madden will be scrutinised more than at any time in his professional life. He has an enormous challenge ahead.
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tambourine bhoy of 1967-is Dungcaster married….?
steinreignedsupreme
19:34 on 7 January, 2015The best refereeing performance I’ve witnessed in Scotland was the weekend when the Scottish match officials went on strike.
Yon Mason fae Luxembourg..:)?
Alfie,
The vast majority of religious people live their lives worshipping their God with love and tolerance …….. These murdering fanatics are using religion to satisfy their lust for murder, and must be pursued relentlously by the security forces Worldwide…. If religion wasn’t a convenient excuse, they would find another ……. I feel sorry for the ordinary religious Muslims
Do not be afraid of the religious….be afraid of the ungodly despicable fanatics who pervert religion and terrorise the religious people also.
the glorious balance sheet
19:48 on 7 January, 2015
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The refs have always ensured that there was an advantage for the huns.
This was only challenged recently when Neil had to confront the refs on the pitch leading to the ‘bored’ reigning him in and us, taking our seat at the back of the bus again.
Jobo
Thank you, just read your e mails. Will organise payment and e mail my team tomorrow.
Pitch at Hampden to be watered excessively as required to replicate wintery conditions, pitch size to be reduced to minimum to keep supporters and team further apart
#sounesstacticsforlevellingthegame
Bada Bing.
19.50.
That reminds me of the time, at Tynecastle, when Davie Provan was taking a corner, the Hearts fans were all singing Davey Provans wife’s a whore. We were all laughing as he was a confirmed batchelor at the time. I’m sure it was start of season 1985, the maestro equalised in the last minute.
Clyde super-scoreboard…..
Best call of the night goes to last caller !
!!Bada Bing!! 19:51 on 7 January, 2015
“Yon Mason fae Luxembourg..:)?”
I thought he had a lovely apron. Black brogues though – must be a European thing…
Steinreignedsupreme
19:49 on 7 January, 2015
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Was that no the year that we blew the league at ibrokes when Sammi missed the penalty?
How thick is the CQN dossier on the backgrounds and habits of Scottish referees and who is responsible for keeping it updated
And
Does it sit alongside the dossier on European Refs who have prevented us from sitting at Europe’s top table for all these years
67 heaven it’s beyong parody. No we didn’t pay our NI on time, yes we had to get an emergency loan, yes we need more money to keep going……
But it will all be fine.
Media.SPFL. SFA I uch that’s okay then……
Evening All.
Good Article Paul.
A great guy once said “Retaliate first”. His wisdom applies equally off the park as on it.
Bada bing – Thanks for the heads up. Next 90 minutes of my life now taken care of.
Hail Hail
Tambourine bhoy 67
Scottish football has been fixed at the top for a while!!
Rugby an. Why what happenned?
I complain about every ref every week in Scotland with the exception of europe (juve game apart)
I know someone who worked in one of the bars on St Andrews where they had an annual training camp in the past 15 years or so ago for a number of years. Always descended into a bigoted song fest. Oh for a camera/video phone back then.
I know two refs/linesman at the top level who will not let their kids wear celtic gear because they know they would mysteriously drop down the lists (losing a lot of cash and professional pride in the process). I’ve never asked them outright because they would not say, but that must carry over consciously or unconsciously into their decision making at celtic and the ibrox group of clubs games.
Contrast that with maddens season ticket. Dallas and his rangers training kit. Bobby tait and his after dinner speaking routine which consists entirely of tales of helping the former rangers “I was a grade 1 referee for 12 years, I had a good career….9 league titles, 5 Scottish cups…..etc etc” (numbers might be off I was seething listening to it so can’t recall)
What kicked off the legal review of corruption and bias in Italian football and who conducted it?
whilst i agree with most comments on here regarding the history AND pattern of decisions which go against celtic and don’t appear consistent with other matches – i’ve given up letting it torture me.
The only way this can EVER change is by putting that pressure on the celtic board (and in particular PL since he is our SFA rep) to ensure proper governance and performance measures to which our referees should operate within.
There is no accountability and no communication and no relationship with the current set up – this allows space for corruption/cheating.
don’t waste your energy driving yourself crazy and building paranoia – start a petition:)
JNP
Davie was dating a female friend of mine at that time. She was at that match at Tynecastle. What a slagging she took on the bus home. :))
Glorious balance sheet. Yep as I said beyond parody.
And celtic? Cat got their tongue? I think celtic park must be hounded by a herd of cats……
steinreignedsupreme
19:49 on 7 January, 2015
Ohhh aye the game that was hunnishly postponed at the last minute because of a waterlogged pitch cunningly engineered by the Moray Firth coast guard who caused the tide on the firth to rise by another few metres to cause the flooding
Dastardly plot
KevJungle – No Jungle = rebels replaced by sheep, so sad 19:57 on 7 January, 2015
“Was that no the year that we blew the league at ibrokes when Sammi missed the penalty?”
Aye. The same season. But we still had the Inverness game in hand after Ibrox, and a win up there would have put us two points clear with a copuple of games to play.
The best and most fair ref was eh, em oh wits his name eh ………….
steinreignedsupreme
19:49 on 7 January, 2015
DUNDEE UNITED ‘DOUGIE DOUGIE’ cheating was at a crescendo at the time
Stebhoy. There is no paranoia just a weighty body of evidence to back up the hypothesis that the Huns and sfA are cheating. Aided and abetted by those who run celtic.
Now all together now (to the tune of “sing when your winning”
Back of the bus. Where going to the back of the bus (again).
Back of the bu…..us, where goin to the back of of the bus (again).
Hahahahaha
Hohohohoho
Hehehehehe
Off oot tae the real world, bye.
Torres starts for the mattress makers.
The Spanish club are known as Los Colchoneros (the mattress makers) because their shirts resemble a traditional pattern on Spanish mattresses.
MICKBHOY
Disnae sound so outlandish when compared to the decision to cancel the Thistle game due to a waterlogged pitch. Which looked great 70 hours later.
Jimmynotpaul,
It’s certainly a worry. I was concerned for our players when in the past we played against our old rivals, Rangers.
I can’t help but feel The New Rangers will play with a more ‘determined attitude’ and the ref will need to do what’s right in any given circumstance. He’s got to be sensible, as every referee should. He’s got a tough job with this one, but that’s what he’s paid for.
I’ll not be moaning too much about him getting the gig as I don’t know how he’ll perform. Let’s just hope he does a good, decent job on the day.
HH… -Tambo-
mickbhoy1888 20:03 on 7 January, 2015
No idea why the original game was called off – but Celtic blew it on the night it was played.
Ohh and when we are on the theme of dastardly plots can someone remind of the how the refereeing fraternity engineered it for Scott McDonald to blow our chances on that fateful day at Motherwell a few years ago
steinreignedsupreme
20:08 on 7 January, 2015
mickbhoy1888 20:03 on 7 January, 2015
Aye I was there they bottled it nae excuses
Battered bunnet 16.05.
Had a similar conversation recently.
A very good friend of mine who supported the dead team put a post on facebook saying he was at the home of the MGR*****s.He was with another acquaintance of mine(friend).The game was against Livi.I joked is there anybody else there.His reply was at least we are not getting shown up by top european teams like Astra and Salzburg.I just let it go.
Anyway last Saturday i phoned him to say hello just before he went to see them playing Dumbarton,he said to me he did not know they were playing that day.
Hunbelievable or what.ps he will always be my friend.HH
BMCUW
The F&C canal was flooding behind me in Dalmuir on Ne’erday. Can imagine what it was like at Firhill Basin.
Kdc 19:20
I posted an idea yesterday and the resposes or lack of them makes me now think corruption has won due to apathy which I think the suits were hoping for in this long drawn out cheating.
I remember last year a discussion on here about referees declaring their team and not being allowed to ref the games their team is involved in as they do in england.
Surely fans should be trying to change things like this as well as getting involved in bringing back standing areas etc but as I say apathy rules
Bada Bing,
Actually, I don’t know. I just assumed he would be, what with him being such a handsome and endearing chap!
:)
HH… -Tambo-
Burghbhoy,
Haha, I see what you did there :)
HH… -Tambo-
Sorry fholks, but just finished laughing from around 18:20 hrs tonight when Chris McLaughlin said it’s possible that the Sarver yank “could” pump £30m into Sevco.
Simply put, do these nuggets not stop to consider before they spout this garbage that first and foremost businessmen always look at return for investment – without sentiment…..
AdamSmithCSC
DELANEYS DUNKY
Aye,but they have indoor toilets in Maryhill.