Issue 7 of CQN Magazine is out now! We continue our campaigning focus on the crisis in Scottish football from recent weeks as well as delivering many great articles on Celtic.
You can get a glimpse of the magazine below but go to the dedicated magazine site here to read it properly (which you’ll not be able to do below). Nip to page 64 for my favourite article this month, comparing the age of the current Celtic team to some of our great teams from the past. It’s an eye opener.
A special word of thanks to Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News, who this morning got Uefa to confirm: “We are in contact with the Scottish FA and offering assistance”.
We have tons to talk about in the next couple of days, Brian Kennedy, Sailen Manna – don’t let me forget to talk about Sailen, Athletic (one of the most important cup ties in years?), Kenny Shiels (don’t underestimate this guy) and we have a Cup Final to look forward to! Struggling to fit it in but we’ll try.
We are now shipping hard copies of the magazine from the UK – and sold out last month (unlike Rangers tickets last week). Order your copy by clicking on the link below. If you want a copy shipped overseas (note, seas, not sees) email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com (for Britain and Ireland please use the link below).
Pay by card or Paypal – We don’t do clowns!
You can support the online edition by making a discretionary donation here. Thanks to James, Bart, Bobby and David, all of whom are probably still asleep, and everyone who contributed.
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petec
*total agreement*
HH
Cosa Nostra also means Our Thing…..I guess a fascist criminal organisation would be a fine addition to their portfolio…
…who cares…we’ve got the first third of a Treble to acquire on Sunday!
‘Mon The Bhoys!!!
bournesouprecipe 18:15
:D
I remember a game in the 70s at the swines castle, jardine played for the cousins in his later years, how unusual was that, anyway,during the game he committed an act of gross simulation, the exactness of which i can’t recall, whatever it was it incensed the Celtic support and for the rest of that game the collective cry of “Cheat Cheat Cheat,” was heard ad continuum and thereafter in every game we encountered him in, fair spoilt his later years i believe.
So Sally has had 2 or 3 calls from potential bidders, and there was me thinking football managers were only involved with the football team, not the running of the club ( as is often quoted to us by the misery aka keevins), I think Sally might be talking total maloopa.
Just in; mystery bidder with £9m bid?
Messi documentary
Essential viewing for young kids, older kids and especially adults.
Well appaerntly three bids have been received – but we all imagined the 5pm deadline as two more are expected this evenng.
I guess it’s the usual hun attitude to rules at work.
Ally Mccoist quoted on the Sky Sports website.
“If it was a dangerous situation and I could be of assistance then of course I would I think there are enough people hopefully there who are going to be in good shape to take it where it was,”
Sorry, come again,Ally?
Think the poor chap needs a lie down in a cool, dark room.
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@rangerstaxcase @lawrencedonegan Paul Murray “big tax case a red herring” – so that’s that then. #jeezo
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Is Paul Murray moonlighting as Bluenose the Clown???
I forgot to mention that Mark Hately is not adding his insightful comments in the Messi doc. o_0
The legend that is the WGS talks about the other little man.
Bhoys can someone please please explain to me how they can talk about selling the huns when they already have an owner who has given absolutely no indication that he wishes to sell.
TLWIO,
think it was the knight of the realm mr murray who said that
craigwhitesoptometrist says u have 21/20 vision, is that even possible? on 16 March, 2012 at 18:20 said:
So Sally has had 2 or 3 calls from potential bidders, and there was me thinking football managers were only involved with the football team, not the running of the club ( as is often quoted to us by the misery aka keevins), I think Sally might be talking total maloopa.
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Could be true mate, he might be answering the phones to earn a few bob more after taking that large pay cut.. ;o)
HH
/Bishop B
hamiltontim on 16 March, 2012 at 18:27 said:
HT this was the answer I got to that question :
@gerrimclaughlin @rangerstaxcase The company can’t. Unsecured assets can and those with fixed or floating charge can with holder permission.
Gordhybhoy
possibly so but see direct quote here
“Earlier, manager Ally McCoist was informed by the club’s administrators Duff and Phelps that they were expecting a number of bids to materialise.
Dangerous
“If it was a dangerous situation and I could be of assistance then of course I would I think there are enough people hopefully there who are going to be in good shape to take it where it was,” he said.”
either way I still have no idea what it means. You?
:-)
ppgtips2
I agree also, with one reservation.
We can do it, we did it against Hearts recently, we just lack consistency.
Convinced NL knows what he is doing, but our team is very young and, comparatively, inexperienced.
If we can keep them together, manager, coaches and players, they could grow into what you and the rest of us wish.
Still a romantic and a dreamer regarding Celtic – wouldn’t have it any other way.
Cheers
Alex
TLWIO,
think it was murray interviewed on SSN he was asked if there was any chance
he would get involved again at ibrokes
hamiltontim on 16 March, 2012 at 18:27 said:
Bhoys can someone please please explain to me how they can talk about selling the huns when they already have an owner who has given absolutely no indication that he wishes to sell.
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HT I’ll try and explain it…….they cannae.
Marrakesh Express on 16 March, 2012 at 16:56 said:
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RESPECT.
Hail! Hail!
Celt55.
Agree totally about Stokesy starting.
Imo in better form than Hooper.
But It’s killie. Play them both.
They’ll be faaaar more worried about us.
Brimmer
Marrakesh Express on 16 March, 2012 at 16:56 said:
On the Scottish Government I wrote to them in 2008 as follows.
” There is ever growing evidence that football, the national sport of Scotland is in a serious state of decline at the top levels and little evidence that those responsible for the governance of the game viz: SFA, SPL, SFL and SJFA have the authority, detachment and indeed competency to meet the challenges to be faced.
Football is the people’s game and as representatives of the people I think it is the duty of the Scottish Government to set an agenda for change.
There is a leadership vacuum because no one is responsible for the good of the game itself. What we have are organisations fighting their own corners to the detriment of the game overall.
Using the Gretna situation, the question of sustainability at Hearts and other clubs, the change in climate, the imbalance in resources in overall UK terms that impoverishes Scottish teams and impairs their ability to fairly compete, which deprives Scots of watching the best in terms of player quality, I think the Scottish government would be justified in mounting an Ivo Belet type examination ( see http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pr/631/631110/631110en.pdf )
on the future of the game in Scotland.
This initiative led to a EU White Paper on Sport of which some of the recommendations are relevant to the good governance of the game in Scotland. (see http://ec.europa.eu/sport/whitepaper/wp_on_sport_en.pdf sect 4)
Such an initiative would I think be welcomed by the people of Scotland who watch in disbelief at the decline of the game in this country and shake their heads at the inability of those responsible to effectively take charge and steer football through a difficult time to a better more sustainable future.
I also repeat that I think it is the duty of the Scottish Government to step in and create a new agenda. If cannot run football properly then how are we going to run a country?
They replied
” Thank you for your letter of 15 March 2008 to the First Minister concerning the state and governance of Scottish football. As this division of the Scottish Government has general responsibility for policy issues on sport and physical recreation in Scotland, your letter has been passed to me for reply.
You will know that responsibility for the governance of the game lies with the SFA the governing body of football, however you need to be aware that Scottish Ministers have no authority to intervene in these matters, therefore you may wish to raise your concerns about the governance of the sport with the SFA directly.
I note your comments about the recent difficulties experienced by Gretna Football Club and would advise that this is a situation which needs to be resolved between the club and the Scottish Premier League and it would not be appropriate for the Scottish Government to intervene. However the Scottish Government does support the majority of the White Paper on Sport and encourages the European Commission’s progress.
The primary concerns are within ‘specificity of sport’ and sport governance. Overall, the White Paper is an admirable achievement, however it does not go very far in ‘hard’ or legislative capabilities and focuses on the ‘soft’ measures already implemented in existing policies and programmes. It raises a lot of questions and the Scottish government is aligned with other stakeholders’ concerns, such as UEFA and the EPFL, in regards to a stronger concept in section 4.1 of a ‘specificity of sport’ and the governance of sport. Scotland has a strong history of football and as it is a devolved sport, the Scottish Football Association (SFA) has numerous links in Europe, with and including UEFA and the EPFL.
The governance of sport was a key and controversial issue that was brought up at the EU Sports Directors Conference in Lisbon in July 2007. The Commission has stated its intention to hold a football stakeholders meeting with UEFA, EPFL and associations and national leagues on licensing systems and best practices, which might bring more clarity to what the Commission intends to do with the governing bodies of sport and the future governance of sport at EU level.
Therefore, while you are correct in stating that the initiative led by the European Commission would and has been welcomed by the Scottish Government, there is still a great deal of work to be done on the subject of governance of sport at European Commission level before these policies come to Scotland.
Yours sincerely
NEIL FERGUS
PM appears to be expecting HMRC to accept a CVA and therefore pennies in the pound for the EBT tax case. Why?
I surmise this from his comments to JW on Sky where he said his bid included a provision for this case, of course what White did not ask is how much his bid has set aside for the EBT case.
The more trophie’s Lennons Lions hoover up, the quicker the stake will be hammered through the heart of the beast! IMO!
Hail! Hail!
McCoist was talking about this mythical new owner sacking him and bringing in a new manager.
Now has his trade union rep not told him he has rights under TUPE? Someone should help him out.
starry plough on 16 March, 2012 at 18:26 said:
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@rangerstaxcase @lawrencedonegan Paul Murray “big tax case a red herring” – so that’s that then. #jeezo
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Actually if Murray is bidding to run a Newco then HMRC is a red herring since they will have been shafted by Oldco.
Perhaps Mr Murray has accidently subconsciously tipped the hand on what the BKs are really after?
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 16 March, 2012 at 18:42 said:
Not my field of course but how can PM be bidding to run a newco which doesn’t even exist yet???
Is that like “baggsies” when you’re wee??
I baaaagggsie Rangers when they go bust..
I’m glad I’m not in business!!
C’mon you Bhoys in Green..
HT
Because they are ‘WE ARE THE PEOPLE’.
It’s all bluster in order to string out to FTT.
MWD
Starry
Cheers mate did that make more sense to you than it did to me?!
Must be thick, I just can’t get my head around it (Voguepunter, nae smart arse comments fae you! :-)
BSR – I wouldn’t disagree with that.
BTW I notice Kenny Sheils is playing down Kilmarnock chances in exactly the same way he did before Ibrox a couple of weeks ago.
I’m sure Neil will make sure there is no complacency.
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aldersyde ave
Kilmarnock have been one of our more difficult opponents, but NL went for it at Tannadice. For the first 45 Hooper and Stokes looked like one too many.
I’d be tempted to leave one out.
dessybhoy on 16 March, 2012 at 18:37 said:
HMRC, whilst the entity pursuing Rangers, are not the “owners” of the tax money. The owners are you and I and the UK public at large and as such HMRC do not have a mandate to do pence in the pound deals. It would be legitimising robbery.
HMRC might, under unseen pressure, sanction a full repayment plan but the timescale that would allow a football business to survive would have to be so long it would be politically unacceptable and anything under 8 years introduces risks of the businesss failing (on account of low wages and so lower crowds in an ever decreasing circle) a risk that HMRC could not buy into it.
Rangers Survival Business Case
These bids are all red herrings. They’re no more binding (and possible no more serious) than the pledges some of you made on scavengers.com
hamiltontim on 16 March, 2012 at 18:50 said:
The whole thing is a complete Coco Nonsense Show, if the Blue Knights had the money they wouldn’t be messing around, they would pull it up and pay Whytey Bhoy for HIS club and whoever buys them is going to have very deep pockets, very very deep pockets.
Even Billionaires chuck 100 Mil doon the stank, bluff, bluster and balderdash I say…
I bored senseless now with their blue blue keech, Bring on Paddy’s day and Bring home the Silverware Celtic..
That’ll do me whether the hunnies survive or not…
Show us yer money ya beggers fae Orcdome…
Laughin’ all the way thru’ the weekend..
Starry..
On Sunday like all games we need to win the middle of the park to win the game.
So we should make sure we get control of that area
FF
AM TR CM EI
JF SB VW JL GS
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HH
starry plough on 16 March, 2012 at 18:45 said:
The only way his bid can make sense is for HMRC to be taken out of the picture, in terms of his bid they are a red herring if they are in fact neutered.
Wishful thinking.
timbhoy in spain
I’m interested in subscribing to your Horse Racing info source.
I’ve done a bit of investigative work on tinternet and have found RR at PR.
Is this your man.
For anyone who backed my tip at Lingfield today.
Finished 2nd, jockey gave it too much to do, winner led from the start and was too far in front.
MWD
What is the intent behind waiting for that?
“I’m bored senseless now with their blue blue keech”
© starry plough
Seconded CSC