At some point today those who believed Rangers have, or should have, impunity from the law of the land, as well as the rules and regulations of Scottish football, will awaken to the realisation that this is not the case.
Soon thereafter another thought will arrive: what about the impending Improper Registration of Players charge?
Over a decade of subverting every competition they have played in. Denying clubs who register players correctly the right to compete on a level playing field. Grabbing prize money and the abundant financial rewards of Champions League football rightly due to others – more on this later in the week.
This charge brings every domestic and European competition they played in into disrepute and is several times the magnitude than that which Rangers were punished for yesterday. Then consider bringing the game into disrepute by chasing football bling instead of paying taxes, a separate issue from player registration.
The toxicity of these charges is enormous and if upheld will bring punishments appropriate for corrupting over 700 football games. A whole raft of disciplinary procedures has still to take place. If the misdemeanours of the Craig Whyte era have caused distress, those of the old board, including Ogilvie, Johnston and the Murray twins, will soon establish Rangers current owner as a mere footnote in the club’s demise.
Show of hands, who sat on the board that spent £4m on Jelavic two years after the HMRC investigation into EBTs started?
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The CL qualifier might be one for ole Bert Kassie.
I wonder why the SFA investigated and reported today on Rangers more recent wrongdoings, i.e. those committed under Craig Whyte.
Why not investigate and report on the longer term dual contracts, EBT and financial skullduggery, under Murray’s reign, as the priority issue.
If it had been done in this order, and the scale of their wrongdoing revealed, then we might be spared their atrocious violin playing and their rendition of “poor poor pitiful me”.
The SFA seem to have played into the hands of those wishing to believe that if it hadnae been for Craig Whyte, rangers would be squeaky clean.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/240412/clipid/240412_4ON_cosgrove_24
Stuart Cosgrove
notthebus on 24 April, 2012 at 22:53 said:
Did you notice that the Rangers Channel actually put a caption up with Ally McCoist’s name on it!
He must have put on a hell of a lot of weight, if they’re no’ sure that ‘the people’ might no’ know who he is!
Can I just say thankyou to all of those who have pledged money for Niamh Curry– I get e-mails telling me that CQN must be full of the most charitable people on earth!!!
Sorry for posting this again but please read, donate if possible and please please sign the petition. It really could make a huge difference to hundreds if not thousands of people.
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I am sorry to labor this but have a look at the following names:
Bailey Sarwa aged 12
Leighton Cook aged 4
Jack Morton aged 4
Adam Bird aged 8
Fae Spearman aged 4
Robyn Higgins aged 9
Emily Hubbel aged 4
Braden Hoffen aged 8
Niamh Curry aged 5
Vanessa Riddle aged 10
All of these kids suffer from Neuroblastoma.
In Bailey Sarwa’s case the dreaded disease came back after 7– yes SEVEN– years.
This is a living nightnmare for families especially in the realisation that if the disease comes back there is just no protocol for treating the disease in this country, and so you get bozo’s like me boring everyone to death with it and asking for people’s hard earned cash when that money could be doing something else.!
This is a national disgrace. Treatments are available which would avoid all this fundraising and which would give these kids and their parents some surety that there is a life saving treatment without having to raise phenominal sums of money to save an innocent’s life.
Everyone knows that cancer of any kind is aggravated by stress and distress. The cost to the NHS in ancillary treatments for family and friends must amount to a fair sum.
So please sign the petition below and bring as much pressure as possible to bear on Government who seem to be oblivious to the fact that the treatment needs licensed here in the UK– or even Europe which is much closer than Philadelphia.
Please Raise awareness of Neuroblastoma by Government funded high profile national campaign – Sign the Petition http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42787.html
In march of this year, 18 month old Sophie Atay lost her battle with Neuroblastoma and sadly died. Not every story has a happy ending but it is down to us to try and do something so that there is never the need to print a list like that above on CQN again!
God forbid that Oscar’s treatment does not deal with his condition successfully. If not then we will all be out running 10k’s, going to bake sales, selling jerseys and whatever else for Oscar.
Let’s not wait till that is necessary. Please sign the petition and remember Niamh– and all the others.
Thanks
Brogan
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ernie-full name Stuart Joseph Francis Cosgrove,SJFC indeed.
BT-KK
Aye, ok, I know when I’m beat :>)))
Ragers done for sectarian chants in Europe.
Response: Fare? Who are these people? They must be exposed.
And they were.
Ragers knew the answer to their own question.
Ragers Aluko done for diving by Review Panel.
Response: Panel? Who are these people? They must be exposed.
And they were.
Ragers knew the answer to their own question.
Ragers done by Judicial Panel.
Respnse: Who are these people? They must be exposed.
And will they?
Ragers know the answer to their own question.
Moonbeams WD. Kano \o/ Neil Celtic FC. We are the Champions. Ignore the WARTS. on 24 April, 2012 at 22:52 said:
First instalment:
O.G.Rafferty on 24 April, 2012 at 19:57 said:
Lennybhoy, 19:39 said:
I think what may be coming their way soon will render that appeal meaningless.
Second instalment to follow:
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Aston Villa have organised two matches against Celtic in aid of Stiliyan Petrov.
The Bulgarian international’s two British clubs will face one another as part of their pre-season preparations ahead of their next two campaigns.
The games will be played at Villa Park and Celtic Park, preceded by matches involving former players from both clubs.
It is expected that the money raised after administrative expenses will go towards Leukaemia research.
Petrov also organised for Villa’s first-team to contribute to a benevolent fund for the club’s former players – despite just having heard the diagnosis about his illness.
A source said: ‘It was the action of a true captain.’
Re Chelsea and hun debate part of it goes back to when both sets of fans had an association with the ICF ( Inter City Firm ) a very scummy organisation, those were the days of the Chelsea headhunters. I have personal experience of getting a kicking off 4 of them ( 2 huns and 2 Chelsea fans) at the Oktoberfest in Munich. 1989 was the year and the huns played Bayern, the Chelsea fans had travelled to support the huns. In 25 years of Oktoberfests that is the one and only time I ever had trouble at the beer fest. Never liked Chelsea since, never will!!!
I just watched Stuart Cosgrove on C4 playback. Both Cosgrove and Tam Cowan have been, by far, the most honest pundits on the Hun situation. Both have ridiculed their pals in the media for their protection of Moonbeams.
Ha ha – Dingwall & Speirs on STV
Speirs: ‘Manchester Utd Supporters Trust has 170,000 members, whereas the Rangers Supporters Trust has . . .(looks to Dingwall)
Dingwall (rolls eyes upwards): ‘Er, 1500’.
On Chelsea.
The pub that Rodow1, The Honest Mistake, myself and a few others watched the games in for the last couple of seasons is a ‘Chelsea pub’. All decent folk, but like many Londoners don’t miss an opporchancity to point out the similarities between a Walt Disney mainstay and the SPL. Ho hum.
However, some of the aforementioned decent folk also mentioned more ‘hardcore’ pubs around the place that even they feared to use.
The linky thing with RFC(IA) was – according to older-timers – forged by the arrival of BFDJ at Chelsea in 1980something at the height of the bad times on english terraces.
Visiting Huns (was there a testimonial/friendly game attached to the deal?) and the Chelsea hardcore – gates of 15,000ish – found common ground. So I’m told.
Went to that friendly against Chelsea a few years ago. Unwisely took public transport wearing the Hoops. Came quite close to a serious assault on a couple of occasions that evening.
But then, back in the bad days at Chelsea they were one of those teams that had never really had a black British (or otherwise) player when every other team had had a few, until Paul Canonville became the first and took a serious amount of grief for it.
Now it’s entirely commonplace to see black Londoners in Chelsea colours.
Lots of Battersea folk I know that support Chelsea have a proud Irish heritage. They just support their local team.
I think the ‘orrible right-wing fringe at Chelsea is far too entrenched to ever wither away, but it is mostly a fringe these days.
Maybe some of that makes some sense…:)
Hail, hail
For pity’s sake bring on the liquidiser!
Orange juice? Anybody? Anybody?
What will this page look like in 6 months time?
http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/club=50121/profile/index.html
This page should be pulled, pending investigations by local autorities.
Moonbeams WD. Kano \o/ Neil Celtic FC. We are the Champions. Ignore the WARTS. on 24 April, 2012 at 22:52 said:
Second instalment.
O.G.Rafferty on 24 April, 2012 at 21:06 said:
Lennybhoy, 2012
There was a meeting held today that has the potential to deliver them, and especially their backers, a serious blow.
He later added that not to get too excited as it is likely just another nail in the Coffin.
On new Sponsors, the orcs announced theirs today, Mothercare…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is now a legend.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/240412/clipid/240412_4ON_cosgrove_24
At 1:40, describes their fans as ‘the little people’ without a hint of irony. Then describes them as being ‘engaged in all sorts of shenanigans. Go on, get up to some.
S
celt55 on 24 April, 2012 at 22:59
Defo benefits a Widescreen for Supper fatty
Yapping dogs as the Circus rolls out of town
Just watched the FPLG’s pathetic inflammatory interview so here are my thoughts:
The Rangers support should ask themselves two simple questions:
1. Did you cheer for Craig Whyte when he became the chairman?
2. Did you scoff at the BBC documentary?
If the answer is yes to either of above then you have no point of reference and you deserve all you have had since.
If you say you were duped because Keith Jackson wrote PR lies down as facts then let me asked you another question:
If Keith Jackson told you you could breath underwater would you try it?
We now have the Fat PLG telling us that the English FA helped Portsmouth to survive – but only when they went in for the second time, not the first time, you rocket.
His language in that interview about fighting back is inflammatory in the extreme and had Neil Lennon said anything like that he’d have been hung drawn and quartered by the impartial Scottish media.
What you think you can do fat man and what the neanderthals you call supporters will do if they can find the bus fare are two different things.
Protest all you like. It will make no difference. Big L coming soon.
What the Rangers fans and the Fat PLG don’t seem to get is the SFA will get lent on by UEFA if they issue a paltry little sanction. If they reduce or retract this punishment and the EBT/double contracts comes up with Rangers guilty of yet more cheating – what will happen then?
Remember Ogilvie knows all about EBTs and will have told the SFA his full knowledge since Alex Thomson started asking them basic questions.
AS for McMoist,
This guy is now sitting there blaming Craig Whyte for everything. He is as bad as the hacks who turned on Craigy boy. Scratch that. He is worse. He actually knew all about him. He spoke to him. He knew his budget, he knew there was no war chest and he worked day to day with Whyte and said nothing to the excrement hit the fan. Now he’s the martyr. Tripe.
No Super Swally. You and the cardigan before you spent money on players that you did not have and that would never be paid in full. These were players that your club and Blue Knight Paul Murray who no doubt kept you in the loop vis a vis transfers (with an undisputed Tax bill of 4M quid) allowed you and yours to sign players last season to win you a league you should have been nowhere near. You drove yourselves into deep debt to stop the Celtic juggernaut from 4 or 5 or 7 in a row as without the EBTs and the 32Million quid spend you’d be facing 9iar Mark 2. Were you a total failure at school or are you bereft of a calculator to do the math on how much in total the team you have on the park actually cost? Well obviously you are as you, the cardigan and the halfwit players ran around with Nae dough three in a row T-shirts while outspending Celtic.
Therein lies the very essence of the Rangers folly. They honestly believe and believe that Walter Nosurname spent nothing to bring them success. They love the truth, it’s facts they cannot stand.
They all sat and took Murray’s one man band (no pun intended) style of running Rangers and lorded it over everyone and now they get an owner who treats them as bigger fools than Murray knew them to be but who does a bad thing for them they want disassociation of club, fans, management and players with this owner. Sheer hypocrisy and sheer denial in equal spades.
No Dark Mingwall, FPLG, Dawwell King and every other apologist and buffoon out there. Rangers did this to themselves COLLECTIVELY.
You all cheered for Murray and his Moonbeams
You all cheered for Whyte and the Fakeover
You all jeered the BBC and protested
You all waved tenners at Celtic fans
You all tried to discredit CQN, Phil McGhiollaBhain, RTC, Alex Thomson and Paul McConville AND every online Celtic supporting internet bampot
They were right.
You were wrong.
And now you want a free pass without anyone from your club offering an apology to any creditor, supporter or member of the general public who may have been affected by on-field cheating and the withholding of Tax.
Well all of you can go and do one.
You have so many bills go and mobilize your worldwide support to pay it if they love the club so much.
If you can pay, you can stay.
The SFA did the right thing for a change and now you canny stand it.
Welcome to a level playing field.
Those of us with long memories will remember Cosgrove being part of a St. Johnstone group booked by the police at Queen Street Station for singing ‘offensive’ songs.
There was a mention of one particular ditty,..’ Have you seen a handsome Hun ?’
Cosgrove tells it as it is on C4 news …………howeverrrr he is a no friend of Celtic- fact.
He never misses a chance to put Celtic down .
One of his favourite gripes that he mentioned time and time again was that Henrik was a dirty player.
He believed the king of kings had deliberatly crocked an St Johnstone player??
Him and fat Cowan use their radio platform to regulary attack Neil Lennon and the hoops.
Sorry to be such a pain, but is there a youtube link to the C4 news tonight, can’t get any links to open, and it’s no my computer, other things are opening no bother.
Thanks in advance
Mmmm, let’s see . . .
Neil Lennon argues with and shouts at refs (poor wee souls).
McCoist demands people are named and have their anonymity destroyed.
I still don’t like ’em mind:))
Bloody London huns…
brucecassavetes on 24 April, 2012 at 23:04 said:
Ha ha – Dingwall & Speirs on STV
Speirs: ‘Manchester Utd Supporters Trust has 170,000 members, whereas the Rangers Supporters Trust has . . .(looks to Dingwall)
Dingwall (rolls eyes upwards): ‘Er, 1500′.
I actually thought he said 1300.
Re Chelsea again – ah well it is their night ! Good summing up from Tooting Tim. Met a lot of Kilburn second generation Irish who are Chelsea fans. Most big English clubs have different facets to their support, they aren’t all as 1 dimensional as us !
bamboo on 24 April, 2012 at 23:11 said:
Cosgrove tells it as it is on C4 news …………howeverrrr he is a no friend of Celtic- fact.
I agree with that, but I don’t mind guys who support other teams not liking us. I’ve got no time for any team other than Celtic and I don’t care if others feel the same about their team.
I was impressed with Cosgrove and his refreshingly honest opinion on Ch4 tonight. As pointed out earlier, his accent was somewhat more cultured than we hear on his radio show!
Meanwhile, if Rangers get any more nails in their coffin, there will soon be more metal than wood!
quonno/brucecassavetes – do you think Speirs actually knew the figure (well he knew the ManU one) and was just taking the piss?
I hope so! :-)
HH
Have to love you and leave you.
Take care and god bless Timland
HH
KTF
Somos el Celtic
quonno
He may well have done – I started laughing when I saw his facial expression change. It was a ‘how the hell do I make this sound like a decent number?’
Regardless, happy days are here.
Alex McLeish: LOL!!!
Shame for Villa though, a good club let down by a mad appointment by their owner.
Anyone else see this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2134673/Stiliyan-Petrov-Aston-Villa-Celtic-agree-pre-season-friendlies.html?ITO=1490
Tooting Tim,
I was at that Chelsea friendly too– a thoroughly horrible atmosphere with Celtic fans getting a police escort into the ground for their own safety. Hundreds of Chelsea fans shouting “Get into these IRA murderers” etc and so on.
Deliberately left early that night and was talking to an older scot who was a season ticket holder at the Bridge who said that atmosphere was nothing compared to the visits of Man Utd and Arsenal!!!
Big Evander played a stormer that night and I thought we had signed a world beater!
celt55
Completely agree with that. There is nothing wrong with football rivalry, I woudn’t go so far as to call it healthy but it does make the the game the global success it is.
Don’t have a problem with opposition fans disliking us intensely so long as it’s for footballing reasons and nothing else.
IMHO all this should have been taken outwith the remit of the SFA long long ago . I cant understand why UEFA havent got involved , all thats happening is that regan and co are making a mockery of the whole of scottish football . time for him to bow out ,oh and hope he takes ogilvie with him . a joke a complete joke of a football authority .
jimtim.
Really go to go this time.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Quality Scotland tonight,
Couldn’t have picked a more stereo typical Hun to represent the fallen myself!
If this is the RST muscleman ,Mark Dingdangdowan we can be assured that they have no strength,no stratigy and no leadership to move forward.
Dead they truly are!
Just for the purpose of talk and hilarity I pose a question ? Or a few!
How would Celtic And their support deal with their situation?
as we have never had a neglectful ,unremorseful ignorant directorship steering our ship this is a hypothetical question( not!)
How would we move forward when faced with liquidation?
Not that we know
Would we claim that our misleadership are a separate entity from our club even if passed on from a leader who lapped up the glory and praise whilst clearly driving the wrong way up the road illegally then hand the batton to a fellow fellow knight who is of BILLIONAIRE status and loves the club like no other( I try not to piss masel when I think of the £1 transaction)
How would we deal with this? Riot( I predict a riot) or demonstrate peacefully whilst ensuring no damage to property or man!
GIRUY