Our man on the inside, Charlie Green, seems to have upset a few people over the weekend. Charlie was playing to the gallery with his “bigotry” comment; it is not credible that the 35 clubs who voted against providing Sevco access to an elevated league are demographic significantly different from those of Rangers (1872/3). Although, there is a good chance that each of those 35 clubs will have a more mixed profile than the former club.
Green is still fending off interest from people with far greater pull with the Rangers (1872/3) support than he has (genuinely hope he succeeds here). He needs to sell tens of thousands of tickets to prevent his new club slipping into the hands of one of the other consortiums still trying to buy a piece of the action. I always caution Celtic from playing to the gallery, it delivers short term populism but is surely the alternative to a strategic plan. I am sure several clubs will express their alarm at these comments to the SFA.
Unfortunately, since the SFA failed to take action on either of Ally McCoist’s earlier inflammatory outbursts so they can expect more of the same from Green and others.
Attempts are being made to convince thousands of people a bigoted bogeyman has been out to get them. 99% of the target population will do no more than complain loudly but it’s the unpredictable >1% who exist in every community we should be concerned about.
To the best of my knowledge no Scottish club has ever accused others of bigotry, not even during ‘that’ 80 year period. If this is the new acceptable standard, the SFA are welcome to it, but it will be better for all if we go elsewhere to play our football. Our game has been potent for a century but it has now become dangerously unstable.
Let us go now, before this is whipped up any more. Anyone wanting to hold Scottish football together in its current form has a lot of explaining to do.
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RTC…………….
Roll of honour, Sir.
You did your bit.
HH
RTC
LEGEND
WILL BE MISSED
think our season ticket sales will be up on last year so just keep the faith and say tata to the hans
http://www.celticfc.net/tickets_season_buy_today
Shame that RTC is hanging up his boots, looking forward to his book.
Well done sir.
As he says, the pressure still needs to be applied, can’t ease up on them.
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 30 July, 2012 at 19:39 said:
Jungle Jim- Celtic have had world class players- D.F Mcgrain was the last [IMHO];I think it’s harder in the current financial climate.
Henrik?
Team for WED!!
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Matthews,,,,,,,Lustig/Rogne,,,,,Charlie,,,,,,,,,,,,Izzy,,,
Commons,,,,,,Ledley,,,,,,,,,,,Wanyama,,,,,,,,,,Brown
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HH
ibleed
Commons won’t make it, more the pity
A gazebo on Snyde? Indeed.
There will never be Snyde in The Ole Gazebo. Promise
Is Commons definitely out?
THE EXILED TIM on 30 July, 2012 at 20:13 said:
ibleed
Commons won’t make it, more the pity
Is that Official mate???
HH
Well done RTC for keeping your blog concentrated on the issue you chose to discuss.
However I am a bit bemused you proclaim yourself the source of discussion, I think you’ll find most irregulaities were already being discussed by other blogs and sites, in fact I think this blog has been discussing the irregularities since its inception, quite a while before you decided to wade in.
That aside, you brought a lot to the table and did manage to control the direction.
Hail Hail
ibleed
Wouldn’t argue with your team.Really hope Commons makes it.
Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley on 30 July, 2012 at 20:10 said:
henki was world class
boruc was world class for 2 maybe 3 season
king kenny was world class
think victor has the potential to be world class, but dont think he’ll be with celtic at that stage in his career, mores the pitty
Greeninbingley- henrik was certainly Continental class ;/)
Supposing he was here right now, how hard would the Board try to keep him?
Henrik was special in lots of ways, probably pound for pound the best signing in British football since the War, and unlikely to be replaced for the financial outlay the Club will put out these days.
dbbia,
I quite liked Henke and thought there was something about him
Oh and Sammi is world class
“Let us go now, before this is whipped up any more. Anyone wanting to hold Scottish football together in its current form has a lot of explaining to do” paul you make it sound like it’s the clubs decision if they want to leave theycan. where will we go and when will it happen? i have wanted our club to leave scottish football for a long time now and i really hope we do. do you know something we don’t?
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 30 July, 2012 at 20:12 said:
i am all for putting 12 on the pitch, hope the referee cant count!!!!!!!!
RTC………….bravo
The Holy Goalie was nowhere near World class!
sammys no world class but he a hell of a left mid when he’s on his game
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Dontbrattbakkinanger on 30 July, 2012 at 20:19 said:
He only cost £650,000 and was irreplaceable imho.
Advice bhoys please,on a course in Penicuik next week,looking to stay overnight on Wednesday and hoping to have a pub nearby to watch the Helsinki return game,thanks in advance.
any london bhoys suggest a watering hole for wednesday for me and my kano scarves ?
World class Celtic players in the past 50 years-
J.Johnstone
B.Murdoch
D.Mcgrain
There are a few at a lower level [Larsson, Dalglish, Hay] but to be genuinely World class is meant to be a rare accolade.
It’s part of the rubbishness of moden life that phrases like ‘World class’ get thrown about like confetti and are consequently cheapened.
It’s not just with Celtic, and it’s not just with football.
so its all subjective, modern world class (Larrson) is rubbish :o)
Intrigued to see RTC go out with a whimper rather than a bang!
Having teased out documentation (and inside information) these past 12-15 months – seems strange that he should pull the curtain down before the final act!
Has his source dried up? If so – one would have expected him to summarise his revelations and then allow others to pursue the encore!
MystifiedCSC!
On the Celtic will play in the English League debate.
Eddie Pearson of the Celtic Underground Blog alluded to meeting someone with very good Celtic connections in his Podcast 181 that he and Harry Brady met “a very credible source” with Celtic connections. In fact stating “There are few more credible sources” that “There is a strong suggestion that we will be playing in England this time next year”
The conversation starts around 14 mins but please listen to the music at the start, it’s the Liquidator by Harry J All Stars, an absolute classic forever and now!
Who was that person he met that night, we demand to know!
JD
Bada Bing 20.26
All I know is that there is an army base in Penicuik,in my experience,that usually means its not the best place to watch Celtic games in pubs.
I think Boruc had the potential to be world class but never fulfilled it.Henrik,well we were blest to have him.Remember Henri’s comments at the end of the Champions League final?Lubo,world class player which most of the world seemed to miss,thankfully for us.
RTC – thanks for all the work and the truly excellent journalism.
Sad loss, but echo Ulysses McGhee’s post.
Knowing when to quit is the hardest thing to look in the eye.
Worthy winner of the Orwell Award.
praecepta on 30 July, 2012 at 20:30
said:
agreed praecepta, I’m sure rtc stated that he would reveal all his/ her documentation once the ftt had returned.
was looking forward to all the gory detail in a childish, ghoulish kind of way.
sanna
RTC,the double wide Kaiser Soze of Timdom.
A glass will be raised.
I hope the pre-match tunes on Wednesday can be timed just right I always like the playing of Walk On to start just as the teams are coming out the tunnel, to have the effect of intimidating the opposition as much as possible.
They have an average home gate of around 4000 so our atmosphere will be important to help us to victory.
I know the UEFA have rules in the group stages on when stadium tunes have to end and it is the CL theme tune, dont know if that applies in the qualifiers, if not get the Walk On to scare them in the tunnel get them rattled.
I am confident we have enough quality to ease past them.
Hope the Green Brigade are on top form.
Canalamar- yes, subjective covers it ;/0
But as you will remember when they had a poll amongst the Celtic support[ if you know the history!] for the alltime greatest Celtic XI Jimmy Mcgrory didn’t get in [only all time top goalscorer] Alec Mcnair didn’t get in [ only all time record for league appearances] and John ‘the Prince of Goalkeepers’ Thomson didn’t get in!
I consider world class to be this…a player who would be first choice in his position or competing for that position, in a world eleven.
Therefore imho Danny McGrain is the only player who can be called world class.
Jinky Kenny and Henrik are right up there but I dont think they’d have got into a world squad in the time. Too many greats in front of them.
hh