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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For the worst refereeing decision ever, surely Les Mottram has to take the biscuit.
http://youtu.be/xKuLtLXl7FI
AR
Listen ghuys , our club have been silent on the biggest corruption in football so why would we comment on the appointment of a referee ?
ANTIPODEANRED
Cheers,bud. That’s the one. GORDON even ran towards the spot-from outside the area,watch him-and pulled most of our players with him.
I was in the enclosure that day,seething. On the way back,my Dad’s mate,big fella called Rab McLaughlin,asked what I thought about it.
Gist of my incoherent reply was that ‘it was never 3-1,shocking’
He said-read the papers the morra. It was 3-1. Get used to that,but never lie down to it.
Sensible fella. Wise advice.
Antipodean 1417
that was a shocker but perhaps the only genuine honest mistake quoted so far.
Antipodean Red.
1978 game.
That was the first game v them that I was allowed to go to with my pals. I was 14. I came home raging about that decision.
My dad just shrugged, gave a look that said I’ve seen it all before..
However a year later in 1979. Well that and 1986 remain my favourite games that I have attended.
Hearts v Rangers, Kirriagos (sp?) falls over in the box right next to Dallas, Dallas plays on, linesman Davis (40 Yards away) awards penalty. Rangers win league on that call, Hearts go ballistic.
Each and every one of us can remember at the drop of a hat COUNTLESS decisions against us or for the Huns.
I challenge you all to think of ONE poor decision against the Huns that has cost them even so much as a point…………….Roy Aitken throw in does not count :-)
STOP CHEATING
is it so difficult for you
Those refs do like their initials in their name, don’t they?
The next set of referees being considered for promotion to Grade One do not offer us much hope:-
H. Andy Mason
F.N. Ian Hater
H.E.S. Arpet-Hunn
I. Love-Bears
Ian Marchseason
jimmynotpaul,
I was not there in 78 but was at both 79 and 86, among two of the best Celtic supporting days of my life.
AR
Bawsman
Wrong.
Tait’s decision to add three minutes injury time at Ibrox against Kilmarnock was a shocking decision that cost them three points and the league.
The permaragers should be, well, ragin’ at that still.
:-)
saint stivs
Lurking quietly here.
Colin Hunfavours
Willie Guisapen
I.I.I. Ready
Winning Captains 13:17
That is the end of rangers.
The media know
http://itsanewclub.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/not-new-club-then-by-retroscot-140.html?m=1
Anything after is a new club.
Liquidation.
Doncaster knows this, wouldnt be suprised if as ceo to spl he signed papers to that effect during this time there.
Football law must operate within the law of the land, not be made a laughing stock by implying liquidation never took place.
Their fantasy will continually be corrected as 140 years of goodwill were toileted by dave murray in 9minutes.
:-)
HH
the long wait is over
14:27 on
7 January, 2015
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That decision was meant to benefit them though………..not counting that.
Cant be @rsed with all this.Have heard and watched it all before.Bobby Madden,a Hun fan!!!!!!!!!.Shock ,horror.Anyone think he is the first to ref one of these games,or the last?.
At the start of the season we had it all on here.The Hun will canter the league because the MIB will see to it.They HAVE to be promoted.
December.The corrupt SFA will bring in League reconstruction,because the Huns are so far behind in the league.Madden refs the Hibs v Hun game.A 4-0 drubbing.No mention of him being a Hun.Tell you bwhat,if I was refereeing a Hibsv Celtic game,that we HAD to win,we would have!!!!!.
Some things we should be paranoid about,a Hun supporting ref is not one of them.
I said this week we need to start making noise about the biased refereeing we’re seeing being ramped up again.
We also need to challenge the biased media coverage
We don’t need to be quiet on these things. They take out silence as being weak
The Green Man
14:15 on
7 January, 2015
When the SFA pull strokes like this, and there is silence from the Celtic PLC, I just despair.
What is it going to take for these spineless cowards on our board, to challenge the blatant cheating.
No wonder CP is half empty.
It just makes me sick that they can get away with this.
The SFA is a putrid hovel of masonry and bigotry, its time something was done about it.
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What do you suggest ‘Celtic PLC’ do about it?
the long wait is over @ 13 46 .
My personal Oh Wow is the Cadete goal at Ibrox .
For the absurd decision and the nature of the media effort to airbrush it . . Live tv commentary featuring guest pundit Gordon Smith claiming Offside , then a foul and then a ” he must have seen something “
Interesting and pertinent read.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/176357-paranoid-rangers-feeling-the-tension
From oor Phil today
The kindness of Rangers
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It is always good to give to worthy causes.
The chaps who have recently bought shares in Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) over the last week have made good some of the losses of Laxey Partners and the institutional investors who sold up.
I am sure these hedge fund folk are very grateful.
Anyone who wishes to take control of RIFC and run it will find their lives revolving around making regular donations to Big Mike, Charles of Normandy and some shy offshore chaps.
Of course The People think that Dave King will be a sugar daddy, but these monarchy fixated chaps would really love a Lord in the Blue Room.
However Lord Sugar won’t be their guy.
The star of ‘the apprentice’ was asked by some fellow n Twitter if he would like to invest in ‘Rangers’.
His answer was unequivocal:
“@Lord_Sugar @meiklerfc RT: fancy investing in Rangers big man?……simply answer NO”.
Now here IS money to be made from the current Ibrox entity, but only if you are one of the beneficiaries of an Onerous Contract.
If there are other emotional types who wish to keep it breathing then that’s even better.
Indeed, it can be all Brogues, Poppies and Loving Cups in the Blue Room for all these guys care.
For them it is a dripping roast for as long as RIFC is alive and the contracts are in place.
Removing those legally binding agreements will be costly, difficult and time consuming.
The stenographers mistakenly believe (gasp) that this about controlling a football club at Ibrox called Rangers.
I doubt if Big Mike has ever set foot in the place and if he has it meant nothing to him.
As long as he controls the advertising space and the retail side of things then he’ll be happy with whoever is sitting in the director’s box at Ibrox.
Particularly the retail deal, that’s really his thing.
Unless it was a small emotional donation then anyone who bought RIFC shares at the Initial Public Offering in 2012 made a huge error and most of them of them know that now.
If they do not then they are too stupid to be in business.
Similarly the people now buying RIFC shares, despite their background in business, are emotionally driven to purchase them.
That’s their problem right there because they’re up against a guy who does not like to lose and doesn’t care a thing about the Ibrox culture.
One of the stranger things in this series of the saga is the fact the biggest shareholder in RIFC now is the very chap who had been telling people not to do business with them in the normal fashion.
The season ticket fund last spring, although it was a flop in itself, probably contributed to the fall off in sales.
Then there is the on field shambles.
The Fitba experts I speak to all cast doubt on this current Sevco squad making it out of the championship.
If that is true then even more cost cutting will be required next season.
Unfortunately many of The People want a front loaded war chest dragged up the Marble Staircase.
Indeed some of them are already indulging in message board discussions about what star player will be first on the Dave King shopping list.
At the moment they have hope.
However The People now have a billionaire with wealth off the radar as their sworn enemy.
That’s a nice twist by the scriptwriters there.
However they have opened the door to a better future for The People in the next series.
That’s very charitable of them.
Chapeau.
madden is a Rangers fan. their died!
Wits the problem. We urny playing Rangers (cause their died). we are playing this new hingamybobbyhingamyjiggerypokery lot.
Even if he has reaffilitaed his support of teh old died mob in the new metamorphisis lot do yeez really hink Celtic PLC (we want your cash so f****** give is it now and we’ll pretend we like yae) ur gonny say sumit?
there is mare chance a worldchampion professional synchronized singing and swimming pigs flying to the moon and setting up a base camp called Tulip.
MWD said AYE
Mjallby header at Fir Park that nearly hit the back of the net – no goal. Don’t know the MIB
Geordie Munro @ 2:57
Is this the same Madden who officiated in the recent 4-0 hun gubbin at the hands of hibs?
Or the semi defeat by utd last season. Or the 1-0 defeat from Stirling?
Geordie, fair points and I for one am not that bothered about Madden getting the gig because Paul’s article brings out into the open the nonsense of the SFA. This might in fact curtail Madden’s more extreme behaviour (though I wouldn’t bet on it).
Jungle Jim Hot Smoked @ 13:51
Chris VC and others. Thanks. I asked because I was unaware of any and, had one existed, I would have thought our Media would have made sure we were all made very aware of the fact!
I`ve got a feeling Collum is reasonably fair but unreasonably useless.
JJ, two points in reply. In his first ‘Old Firm’ game (the one of the penalty given with the special eyes in the back of his head) in the run up to the game the media were not slow to ask the open question about how an R E teacher in a Catholic school would handle the pressure of such a match. His performance showed, in my mind, that Gollum had done plenty of reading of the press before the game. Secondly I agree that he is useless, but I personally don’t know any Celtic fans who think he his fair. IMO he would have been the worst appointment for the game because, after his non-penalty award for us in the Hearts game he now owes us a big decision against us and that game would have been the very one to do pay back.
Soyh of Tunis
That was the one that convinced me I wasn’t paranoid after all.
Turkeybhoy
“Some things we should be paranoid about,a Hun supporting ref is not one of them.”
Pretty much all of the available evidence would suggest to the contrary.
Madden has not got the toughest gig going this season, just wait till the playoffs for SPL place comes round.!!
Both games must be at Ibrox to handle the crowd.
Rangers to receive 90% of tickets as they have had capacity crowds all season!!
1nd games on the first Saturday in July, kick off after all bands arrive.
2nd game to commemorate armed forces day or poppy day, or Charles Green day.
BBC will cover both, with no interviews of course, no fee for these games demanded by the SPFL as it is in public interest..
Opposing team to have 5 players banned before 1st leg and 7 for second leg.
Why do we know Willie Collum is an RE Teacher in an RC School? Because it was printed in the NEWS pages of the Daily Record/Sun.Does anyone know the profession of any other Grade 1 referee? If not,why not? Product placement of sorts,to suit the hun hordes agenda.P67 is quite right to highlight the appointment of Madden IMO
I’d rather have Madden than Gollum. If it had been Gollum do you think thems would have been permaragers based on his place of employment?
I’m more worried about the pitch. Just relaid at Hampdung. Played on 24 hours before at this time of year. It will be a bobbly ploughed field severely restricting our game but ideal for howfin it up the park to Daly or McCulloch.
Have we ever been able to play a semi on an unplayed surface at Hampdung?
HH
Come on guys the more we bleat about referee appointments gives credence to the same club myth.
I was in a wee discussion online regard Alistair’Nero’Johnston.
I researched back on him and came across this cqn piece by Paul and TheBatteredBunnet
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=8222
Quality.
HH
personally i think celtic fans should boycott the league semi to show the sfa and the celtic board what we think of their collusion in keeping this mutated rangers alive for the last two and a half years. time we as fans acted in unision and finally put a stake through the heart of newco/oldco/sevco/bigotryco’s heart
if we as fans dont try to polish this new ranger abomination off, who else will
the world will be alot nicer place!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F.A.B. Virgil 1903 v 1909 and 1888 v 2012 14:39 on 7 January, 2015
was at Celtic Park on Saturday, never seen the pitch so bare, lots of sand, lots of bald patches, little grass, lights on 24/7, not doing any good.
West of Ireland,
How on earth can you find a link between Rangers and today’s latest Islamic fascist outrage?
It’s a game against a club that was parachuted into the 3rd division from a position of non existence, leapfrogging other clubs to get there.
They shouldn’t be anywhere near a league cup semi in the first place, let alone what help they had in getting there.
On top of that, they shouldn’t be competing this year as they are having issues paying their tax bills due to over-spending – a repeat offence if the SFA insists on recognising them as the same club.
Regarding this fixture, there’s a lot more to it than the game itself, when you consider the context – Focus and the SNP review due from Stirling uni, SFA & SPFL apparent infighting, Sevco shunnanigans etc etc.
Who knows what they have in store for our supporters and the club’s reputation at this fixture – that’s what worries me.
Regarding the refereeing, those who insist on repeating the mantra, just pump them on the pitch, and those that might care to repeat the paranoia accusation from during Operation Hun Rescue, where we had to play them 7 times in one season, how did that pan out?
It’s too late to do anything about it all now (although personally I’d tell the “authorities” to stick their cup where the sun doesn’t shine).
If John Reid’s promises had amounted to anything, we wouldn’t have the above concerns and would be looking forward to a good cup game regardless of who the opposition was, that our supporers could enjoy without harrassment or slander.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
14:21 on 7 January, 2015
ANTIPODEANRED
Cheers,bud. That’s the one. GORDON even ran towards the spot-from outside the area,watch him-and pulled most of our players with him.
I was in the enclosure that day,seething. On the way back,my Dad’s mate,big fella called Rab McLaughlin,asked what I thought about it.
Gist of my incoherent reply was that ‘it was never 3-1,shocking’
He said-read the papers the morra. It was 3-1. Get used to that,but never lie down to it.
Sensible fella. Wise advice.
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Bmcuw. How you mate . Unfortunately that’s what we have done . Lay down to them . I can’t really understand it , it’s surely in Desmond and the plc boards interests to have celtic flying . One thing we can be sure of , when they are back , and with investment , they won’t feel sorry for us .
Michael duberry playing basketball for st Johnstone ( think it was brines )
&
Big mark Antoine’s great header against the beast ( can’t remember who the ref was )
2 belters
The ref shouldn’t matter, we have huge financial advantages over Scottish teams.
Referees.
Dont care we will gub them.
New club
Gonnae get gubbed
That referee paranoia is so oldclub lol.
HH