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The football industry is busy with its twice-a-year transfer jamboree this week but there will scarcely be a player, manager or executive in the country who isn’t daily checking on Harry Redknapp’s on-going court case into his alleged tax arrangements.

Harry, of course, is one of the game’s popular figures, everyone likes him, including me, but his evidence yesterday, that he’s been told “The problem with you is you’re named Harry and you have a cockney accent”, will have the nation pondering if he’s another victim of the systemic prejudice against white, wealthy, indigenous-named, senior and successful people from London.  There must surely be a support group he can join.

I’m sure Harry’s innocence will be established but the law and tax authorities are right to pursue any doubt that exists in the running of the game, without fear or favour.  Where appropriate, pursue the guilty through criminal, not just civil, courts.  Only then will the innocent be sure of a level playing field. Lock ‘Em Up, as a Cockney may observe.

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  1. Gordon64 on

    CQN MASH unit

     

    Hamilton Tim & Moonbeams

     

    They will fix you up and send you back into battle.

     

    HH

  2. Lennybhoy...Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die on

    tommytwiststommyturns says:

     

    27 January, 2012 at 00:07

     

     

    Outed…:):)

     

     

    hamiltontim says:

     

    27 January, 2012 at 00:07

     

     

    Aye, right, I’ll crack the jokes and the pink is now green…:)

     

     

    Paddy Gallagher says:

     

    27 January, 2012 at 00:08

     

     

    Thoughts and prayers for your uncle Tom. Remember and let us all know when your next in town.

     

     

    Right up at 05:00, need to get my moustache press on…:)

     

     

    Until we meet again…

     

     

    Keep the Faith!

     

     

    Hail Hail!

  5. Teuchter ár lá on

    Paddy Gallagher @ 23.47

     

    Great story :)

     

    Reminds me when my father took us to Mullaghduff in the seventies in a wee Morris 1000 – the fanbelt broke and we were taken to a neighbours byre to see if he had any ” auld ” belts lying aboot.

     

    We found one from a VW beetle and we were assured that it would fit. Cousin Willie was not so sure and said that a Morris was a Morris and a Volkswagon was a Volkswagon and the belt couldn’t possibly fit a car from a different manufacturer.

     

    Very soon there was about 6 or 7 appeared to join in the discussion about the possibilities of this VW belt being suitable for the repair.

     

    After about 20 minutes Willie had heard enough…..For god’s sake…If you had a Dog and he was sick..You’re tellin’ me that you would try and fix it with parts of a Cat.

     

     

    God Bless God’s Country

     

    TAL

  13. TopCorner on

    Paddy Gallagher

     

     

    a good Drogheda lad for you Paddy…

     

     

    big David Harper…

     

     

    twitter…

     

     

    @Harper1888

  22. Kojo on

    My dear,dear,dear,friend.. Daniel Fergus McCann

     

     

    Well.. thanks a Heaping Spoonful, fur

     

    yer Nod..Pally.

     

     

    Ah am sure that Ma Mammie must, Assuredl, Must be asPleased as Judy..

     

    and Ma Uncle Lou, as Punch…

     

     

    when She or He.. reads Ma Wan o’ Ma Submissions, oan here..

     

     

    As Ma Deathless Prose, which is embedded,therein… is Lastin’ Testament tae

     

    awe that Money, which they Spent..in order tae

     

    Gie Me.. such a Quality Education.

     

     

    D’ye no agree???

     

     

    Kojo

     

    yer pal.. who likes ye aloater.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    She must be

  26. Kojo on

    Gotta Shoot the Craw

     

     

    Good Night Scotland

     

    Good Night Ireland

     

    Good Night Wales

     

    Good Night England

     

    Good Night Canada

     

    Good Night New Zealand

     

    Good Night Australia

     

     

    and

     

     

    Good Night, Ronnie Anderson ,wherever You are.

     

     

    Kojo

  29. Tommy Joad on

    Gordon64,

     

     

    Respectfully, I sense you are a generation removed from me?

     

     

    I am 31 but I like to think I know the history. My old man is 40 years my senior and lived through the barren 50’s and swears by the Lions as the best team in history.

     

     

    But surely, even as celtic diehards, we can acknowledge that planet earth has never, ever seen anything like this Barca team from 2009-2012? Granted, there are interesting parallels, Jinky and Messi, Xavi and Murdoch, Iniesta and Auld, but in truth, to football officianados, we are living in unprecendented times, Barca have, in my humble opinion, transcended football and made it an art form.

     

     

    I’ll be making the pilgrimage in March before this team starts to break up.

     

     

    TJ

  30. thomthethim on

    Ulster-Celt says:

     

    26 January, 2012 at 23:46

     

     

    Árd Macha has a wallet!!!!

     

     

     

    I e-mailed a picture of the damage to Bournesoup, so perhaps when he comes ashore he may post it on here.

     

     

    I can’t do links and any of that clever stuff.

     

     

    I also sent it to Noel, whose mother lives over here.

  32. hamiltontim on

    Bundoran

     

     

    £100 to you but…shooooooosh :-)

     

     

    Hope you and that brother of yours are well mate.

  33. James Forrest is Lennon on

    First up ….

     

     

    A nonsensical piece of propaganda disguised as commentary by Daryll King tonight. First, we’ll deal with his demand that RTC “reveal himself.” Why should he? The boy has done sterling work, and unlike some people isn’t sitting on his fat backside getting paid for doing sod all. The fact is, King wants a chance to rake through his bins, attack his credentials and probe his private life … you know, al…l that “good journalism” stuff they didn’t do with Craig Whyte … charlatans.

     

     

    His assertion about it being “perfectly normal” for a lot of players to have two contracts is disingenious and might fool some of the less informed/poorly educated Daily Mail/Sun reader section of his audience, but for the rest of us there are two issues which rise from it.

     

     

    1) He mentioned image rights, which no-one here is talking about. We’re talking about salary details, basic stuff. There shouldn’t be two seperate contracts for a players salary, and he knows if full damn well. If it were “perfectly normal” for players to have two contracts why have clubs been fined and relegated for the practice in other leagues?

     

     

    2) And even if he was CORRECT about this, which he isn’t, the issue would then be one of DISCLOSURE, and when one considers that those “side contracts” revealed that the club was engaged in a tax fraud, are we really to believe those contracts would have been handed over? Absolute garbage.

     

     

    He also said this is an SPL issue, not an SFA issue, and believes that because he was told about it. Bollocks. He was either misinformed or lied to, and he is too sodding lazy to check it out. It is the SFA who grant the national club licence, and part of their responsibility in that field is to make sure all this stuff is up to snuff … and that’s all available on their website for anyone who wants to look.

     

     

    We either have the most ill-informed, lazy media in the whole of the western world or we have liars, publishing disinformation on behalf of people who have got something to hide, and either way they have earned nothing but contempt.

     

     

    Secondly ….

     

     

    Congrats, Ziggy, for a cracking scoop which the Scottish press has now nicked.

     

     

    http://www.express.co.uk/football/view/298235/Russians-are-ready-to-swoop-for-Jelavic

  34. thomthethim on

    Fred C. Dobbs says:

     

    26 January, 2012 at 23:55

     

     

    thomthethim,

     

     

    Mrs Dobbs, she says no…:O(…

     

    share

     

     

    ***

     

    I must have one of them open marriage things, or else haven’t been caught looking!

  35. TopCorner on

    Kojo 23:42

     

    thanks for your kind words, sir

     

    very generous of you :)

     

    hope to catch u17 on Sat

     

    v Partick in Glasgow Cup

     

    away, i think

  36. pauloantony on

    I hope the Jorge Molina story materialises.

     

    He is a big target man indeed though his quick feet,excellent ball control and vision will also make him a perfect partner for either stokesy,hoops or sammi.

  37. hamiltontim on

    G64

     

     

    My old man maintained that Murdoch was the best player he ever saw, even better than Jinky.

  41. Kingoh on

    Just catching up with ra gers latest trialist…a striker in name only it would appear…1 goal in 13 games….6 in 44.

     

     

    Makes Danny McGrain look prolific.

  42. Tommy Joad on

    Kojo,

     

     

    You must leave it to the manager.

     

     

    Come on now. Rest.

     

     

    For every Sandaza or El Aglui, there are numerous 12 goals a season men:

     

     

    Darren Jackson

     

    Chris Killen

     

    David Fernandez

     

    Derek Riordan

     

     

    I would be surprised if there is a manager in the UK who has unearthed so many hidden and hitherto unknown gems.

     

     

    Kojo, yer patter is gallus, but Lenny knows best. Leave him be and he will deliver.

     

     

    TJ

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