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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Theoriginalsadiesbhoy,
I suggest you buy a ticket and cancel your family weekend if you want to be taken seriously :)
HH… -Tambo-
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy,
… and THEN boycott, of course I meant to say!
HH
tambourine bhoy of 1967
17:37 on 7 January, 2015
I agree very much each to their own and I will support any Tim who regards this game as merely another chance to support his team.
I’m taking a short skiing trip when the game takes place. I’ll be up in high altitudes, amid the splendour of the Rocky Mountains. Of far more import to me personally than the hatred, cheating and aggression that will be evident on the day.
Sevco boss Derek Lambiass gives personal guarantee to SPFL chief Neil Dungcaster: “We will not go bust !!!”
Mr Dungcaster: Hello Derek! So sorry to bother you, really really sorry, but anything to report?
Mr Lambiass: Oh, hello, Donkey. No – everything spiffing here.
Mr Dungcaster: No nasty little, teensy weensy insolvency events on the distant horizon?
Mr Lambiass: Donkey – I’ve already told you!
Mr Dungcaster: Oh, thank you, thank you. So sorry to have bothered you, Derek…
Um, Derek…?
Mr Lambiass: Yes !?!
Mr Dungcaster: I love it when you call me “Donkey”!
Hee haw hee haw…
bournesouprecipe
17:50 on 7 January, 2015
Won’t be long till going to a Celtic game is seen as a crime to some on here HH
Uber supporter
Kylie McMullan must be a Tim, shirley?!
…or married to one, possibly?
HH!!
sixtaeseven
Any ideas what reassurances were given by Mr Imbiss?
Lotto numbers forthcoming, piggy banks to be empty, the rubber million from Scotland’s very own Messi?
Surely it’s no doon to Mike The Tim to weigh it on again?
HH
San Diego Bhoy,
I wouldn’t usually say skiing is safer than attending a football match… but this one’s different!
Enjoy.
HH… -Tambo-
So……………………..the talk today Sputnik is the huns ……………………whatya think? -)))
http://tinypic.com/r/5mxu29/8
Why are we concerned about having a former rangers season ticket holder ref our semi. I can see the point if we were playing rangers but we ‘re not
The worst refereeing display recently was Willie Collums first Celtic Match after his eyes on the back of his head, Broadfoot dive.
Celtic complained about Collum and he was out for vengeance.
Celtic drew 1-1 against Hamilton. Mensing scored standing in a clearly offside position, Forrest was red carded for a yellow offence, McGinn was booked for diving for stonewall penalty, and also had a goal ruled out incorrectly.
Celtic lost the league by one point that season.
Bhoys, bhoys, what’s the panic?
Have any of you seen Sevco play in the last 3 years? They are woeful. Alloa played them off the park, never mind QoS, Hearts and Hibs.
Celtic will comfortably dismantle Sevco on 1st Feb no matter who the referee is, assuming of course that they don’t liquidate again. (See what I said there.)
So, sevco are looking to appoint a Spanish manager ….. The gift that keeps on giving ….. We’re into real spin now, Bhoys
Tambo, I’m probably a little less trusting that you
HH
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon ….The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
It’s got be Jesus De Le Timmo…
SFTB
Re the Hearts supporting ref
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/the-day-we-put-rangers-to-the-sword-1-1312472
As I said, key issue is the guy should not have been on duty that day.
sixtaeseven
17:59 on 7 January, 2015
Brilliant ……. Dungcaster = a tall chic young
According to ole STV VVD is rated at £8million?
No wonder Celtic aren’t selling.
starry plough
18:12 on 7 January, 2015
Hahahahahahaha ……
John Beaton, referee, Albion Rovers, winning one nil at Ibrox 11 minutes remaining, Moshni bundles the goalkeeper into his net, goal, Sevco. Clear cheating.
Met James Ward, Albion Rovers manager a couple of months ago and he said John Beaton privately admitted his mistake. Also said he told the press that Beaton had admitted his mistake but was never printed in press.
Alex Neil gets Norwich job. Cue STV showing Hamilton goal against us, not once but twice!
Celtic supporter asks ssb pundits why they are trying so hard to get sevco into the SPFL, with all that’s gone on, and continues to go on …..they completed ignored the question, waffling wildly…..hilarious
I have tried to retrieve but cant find
A edict from the Nawnisland F.A
saying rederees need to disclose which team they support.i think it came about after a linesman was found to be a brother/supporter of a player in one of the teams
HH
Paul I could not agree more – I posted the below on Monday
I was referring to the Kilmarnock game but the Huns game applies
67ECW
67 European Cup Winners
16:05 on
5 January, 2015
Am I the only one worried ??
If ever I decided to become a referee and I got the job (in the old days) of being the ref for my beloved Glasgow Celtic against the Hun I would try and maintain some moral dignity and a degree of professionalism and ref the game fairly – but deep down I know I would overlook one or two things in favour of Celtic and blow against the Hun
And if (heaven forbid) my team was mismanaged and went out of business I would weep and contemplate suicide – but I would continue to be a referee
And if the Hun was now dominating I would grind my teeth and suffer in silence – unless a “Northern Challenger” tried to knock the Hun from his pedestal
If I was a Ref I may look favourably on the Northern Challenger and encourage a challenge to the Hun (I would want anyone to win but the Hun)
So my point is tonight plastic pitch – Celtic will get the wrong end of a decision and will need to be at their best to win – I expect a problem because a referee does not change his mentality – the more pressure they can apply to Celtic the more they will
Am I the only one worried??
67ECW
glendalystonsils 18:25 on 7 January, 2015
“Alex Neil gets Norwich job. Cue STV showing Hamilton goal against us, not once but twice!”
In this instance Hamilton have never played Sevco – although they have scored more than one goal this season.
It’s a familiar routine from Scottish TV channels – in a changing world you can still be assured some things will stay the same.
Oh ma sides, Chris McLaughlin….dear
Dear dear, just mentioned that the yank could pump £30m into Sevco….jeez when will these people learn…
Madman as ref – – No problem at all. We KNOW what to expect,FFs so it will be a doddle.
Maintain discipline despite all that’s going on and it will be a cricket score. I mean, what can anybody do if we “keep the Heid”, nout at all.
I’d add, it’s not a game for Broony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hail Hail
KINGLuBO
Dope on ssb, purporting to be a Celtic fan ….. If he is, God help us…..
long haired yins man
Whit the Yank that they jist said naw tae or just any auld loaded Yank who just happens to be passing???
An tearmann
They tried to bring it in here but the SFA said naw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/scotland/9196192.stm
HH
If Scottish refs were made to declare which team they supported we would be amazed by how many Clyde and Ayr United fans there were.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
Or maybe even fellow St. Mirren fans like….er……wee Chic Dung?
67heaven
They ignored me on SSB… As soon as I declared I was a Celtic supporter.
A fantastic 80 (Eighty) entrants now for Last Man Standing 3. Anyone who made contact in the last 24 hours – you should have received a few emails back.
Absolutely loving the response, even though I have little feeling left in my fingers with the constant emailing ;-)
cultsbhoy
18:58 on 7 January, 2015
You should have asked them what they were doing supporting a deed club, and hung up….. hehe
Or Motherwell, Gordon diesel.
Both the referees at Dens Park and Love St on the last day games in season 85/86 were well known Hearts fans from Edinburgh.
Bill Crombie took charge of the Dundee-hearts game and Andrew Waddell ( who had had an angry touch line confrontation with Billy McNeill at Tannadice in 1983) was ref at St Mirren v Celtic.
Waddell was a police pathologist by day and is still involved in referee development/ assessment at the SFA to this day.
Having Hearts fans in charge of both matches was outrageous even by Scottish football’s low standards. As with Tait at Ipox 12 years later the cheating was to no avail.