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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Mick
You’re only kidding yourself, I’m no biting
News of this appointment to foreign news outlets might stir up some, incredulity
CRC, if it’s as empty as Inrox nowadays, we’d be fine:-)
Ibrox ffs.
BCW
to quantify your question give me your definition of a tim
Or give the money to a Celtic gaff.
Doc
Hopefully I’ll be ok for 17th.
Wonder often what Stephan Mahe thinks about bonkle fae dallas mason.
mickbhoy1888
Ok, a wee police constable trying to rise up through the ranks……
Or just answer the question………….
Delaneys Dunky
22:50
Sorry mate off the drink and fags.
Cowiebhoy, still doing ok. Not missing drink yet as I don’t drink much during week anyway but cigs are a different matter, still determined to succeed and although it’s tough this time I wont give in.
DD
If ye had been oot here today, you would know wit that means. Whoooooooooo. :-)) and yes, all the animals are safe. Just getting prepared for the main storm on Friday morning. Lol. But hey ho, that’s the beauty of living in a remote area, NOT. HAHAHAHA. Nae wunner a KTF. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
I would dread to think the procurement of Maloney will be used as a cheap shot for the loss (maybe) of kris Commons!
Programme on about bristow, erse of a man
eddie
That’s me 10 weeks come Monday. Still no struggling too much. Keep at it kiddo. :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Anyone who thinks it was down to honest mistakes is not being honest….the bias / bigotry in Scottish Football destroyed oldco, when it was, in reessence, all carried out to destroy us …… but they reckoned without the ‘Mad Fighting Irish’ culture of the Celtic Support …. we resisted to the point of enjoying it….and what a bonus in 2012, when ‘our day came’
CRC
I thought you would be busy trying to recruit
LMS entrants ( the magic 88/100)
After all Doc did whip yer ass selling the Badges :))
WeeFra, if you are past 10weeks, if you go backwards it’s not addiction, it’s habit.
That is not to say it’s easy mind.
Keep it up.
67 heavens
Bang on
MarsPapa, and I’ll do it again next time:-)
Sipsini- The naked cyclist? Too cauld for that!
We’re not going to sign Shaun Maloney are we ….???? …. what a signing THAT would be
doc
23:07 on 7 January, 2015
Ibrox ffs.
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Ipox ffs…sorted that for you Doc
Sips, I stand corrected:-)
Dallas:
Hmmmm, I’ve posted before about the referee’s allegiance to him. I was at a football league meeting attended by a Referee delegate. This guy was from The Stirling Refs Association. He thought it was funny to mention Celtic never getting a decision……….dunno if this was a banal attempt at humour, akin to Tait’s after dinner guffaws.
But what really struck me was the allegiance he had to Dallas (this was at least 18 months after his departure), he was in thrall to the bigot.
Now we have Dallas Junior on the scene, fast-tracked beyond his years and experience.
Weefra
You, your lucky lady and all of your God’s creations are added to my pre sleep prayers. God bless you all.
kdc
23:17 on 7 January, 2015
Chuckle………. and HH
Doc
That’ll be me on the subs bench noo haha !!
lynott67-
Yep, that was the Davie Robertson goal, no idea why it was chopped off, the kind of decision that we would never normally get at Ibrox. I think that was Dallas first Celtic-Rangers game. That was the game where Andreas Thom walloped a 30 yard screamer into the net right in front of the ugly ones in the Copland Rd end.
I remember Dallas also being the ref in the New Year 1998 derby where Burley and Lambert scored as we beat Rangers 2-0. Laudrup had a claim for a penalty in that game, I think he went down under slight contact from Stubbs, but Dallas waved his claims away. Some refs of the time – Tait, Young and McCluskey – may have been inclined to give the penalty.
So he seemed to be refereeing these games without any obvious anti-Celtic agenda to start with.
There was a story in the Sunday Mail that claimed that Dallas applied for the Celtic General Managers job in 1997 but was passed over in favour of Jock Brown. It may have been that he carried a grudge about this. If he did apply for that job then it was a strange move given his position as a referee and his family`s pro-Rangers leanings.
Have we had someone with 3 stints at the club ?
MarsPapa, I’m oot injured so you’ll get on.
Night all.
Thoughts with the poor families suffering in France tonight.
Have we not got enough talent in the stands……
WeefratheTim
23:15 on
Well done mate, remember you saying a while back that you had stopped. I’ll use you as my inspiration.
HH
Night y’all
Really impressed with Craig Gordon off the pitch as well. Appears to be one of the “go to bhoys” for comments for the “meejah”and given their agenda and demographic he handles them well. Don’t know why but I feel he gets the Celtic vibe.
He’ll be up for corners next. …..
:)
Night this time
Eddie
Fancy a McCallum doon the front and I can pay for my Inter ticket?? :))
Weefrathetim and Edddieinkirkmichael
well done on staying off the coffin sticks
HH
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Nite Doc :))