I got it wrong on Malky MacKay. In August I wrote, “Malky’s unforgivable sin is not racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism, these matters are often overlooked as ‘banter’, after all. He’ll not get another job because he blew millions on players who were useless to Cardiff. That’s the only kind of offence football really tales notice of.”
Then up stepped Dave Whelan, a man who is widely respected in the sports retail and football, largely for not being Mike Ashley, but who has watched his club slip from the Premier League and now sit in a relegation spot in the Championship.
Football is harsh enough without clubs creating their own distractions. Wigan and Malky are unlikely to prosper.
So Craig Whyte faces up to four weeks in jail if/when he is arrested. You have to wonder what his police interviews will reveal. Craig doesn’t strike me as someone to take a fall for anyone.
Redundancies are sometimes necessary for a company losing money and without the resources to pay bills, but Newco Rangers cutting the payroll by 10, none of them from the well paid football department, is pointless tokenism. Savings made will keep the lights on for only a few days more, so why do it?
I have some sympathy for their new management. They need to make significant cuts into football costs, but those costs are contracted to the end of the season, or beyond, these cuts are perhaps a gesture towards what’s ahead.
Management have a problem, how do they meet commitments to creditors and protect shareholder value? No bank has ever extended credit to this club, and I suspect HMRC have them on a short leash. There will be some trade creditors, but they are likely to be of the face painter variety. By far the biggest creditor, and therefore most influential after an insolvency event, is Mike Ashley. He would be in a position to appoint an administrator, and to approve any settlement.
Dave King continues to play an important role, encouraging fans not to support or spend with the club. I fully endorse his views.
King still thinks he is playing poker but his hand has been called and we all know he’s all out of aces. His rantings are not part of a coherent plan. His calls could precipitate the end, but he has no way of transforming this into a new dawn.
Remember to keep an eye on the long-term fundamentals, you cannot operate a large football club with the size of Newco’s infrastructure without regular Champions League income. Nothing that has happened in the last three years has changed this.
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Genuine question : was it the same stewards for the two international games at CP.
HH.
Neganon,
last I saw , in the democracy, SNP was the Scottish Government,
or am I missing something ?
An tearmann step back and think what you have just said to me.
It is a very common thing to demonise and belittle the minority when they complain. I’ve had this before. I am wallowing in victimhood, I am just as bad as the bigots. Tell me why am I just as bad? For pointing out my belief that Scotland is institutionally sectarian. How does this make me as bad as the bigots themselves? Even if I was wrong how does that make me a bigot?
Please answer that question. It’s a serious question and not rhetorical.
I accuse you of being an uncle tim. Of being so enured with this country that you are in denial.
You want proof? Well p rhaps Scotland WAS getting better. Even though the Huns retained their sectarian signing policy up until 1989 and even ignoring that it was only 15?odd years ago my brother had to leave scotland because his age stopped him getting promoted in a glasgow shipyard.
Maybe it WAS gettin better.
The came along the SNP and after a game of football one night in glasgow where ONE side lost its head, they invented the OB act. They admitted it was designed to even it up. To criminalise celtic supporters because some of that Irish stuff they sing isn’t currently illegal. They even made blessing your self a potentially criminal offence. If you did it in the wrong way. The police decide if you do it in the wrong way.
I could throw in the loss or was it destruction of statistics on sectarian attacks which of course showed that attacks on Catholics are by far the majority of sectarian attacks.
So here you have a modern scottish government passing a law designed to criminalise its largest minority while at the same time losing statistics to show that attacks on Catholics are by far the most prevelant.
In the past when scottish football wanted to ban celtic for flying the tricolour at least a law wasn’t passed.
I could of course also point out the corrupt manner in which the Huns demise has been handled? What does that tell you about the police, the law, the government? And why? Because that club is the flag bearer for protestant superiority and the organs of scottish society must protect it at all costs. Whether it’s the banks where scottish banks bankrolled the Huns superiority drive and only when an English bank got involved did things change? Or how about the army who repeated their bizarre commemoration events at Ibrox despite complaints before and we had the rather interesting sight of our army singing sectarian songs in celebration with the Huns.
So tell me how can you argue that Scotland isnt an institutionally sectarian country? Isn’t a,k the evidence staring you in the face? It’s happening now not in the past. And as a celtic supporter you are the prime target.
I look forward to your reply but let me be clear. It is time that we all faced the reality of our position. We live in an institutionally sectarian society. As a celtic supporter you are despised and criminalised. Young boys have been DAWN RAIDED for singing perfectly legal songs. The hyporcracy of Irish freedom fighters being viewed as criminals and scottish freedom fighters being heros has been pointed out.
Scotland will not openly debate these points? Why? Because it would show its hand. It’s beating heart is sectarian in nature.
And the saddest thing is that there are celtic supporters who would call me a bigot for pointing all this out. And our club is helping and supporting the scottish authorities in attacking and demonising celtic supporters. And our club is helping the rise of the hun. All because it’s good for business that celtic supporters resume their role of the victim and go to the back of the bus again.
As I have written this things become ever clearer for me and I am disgusted at you calling me a bigot. Perhaps you will apologise.
ernie lynch
10:32 on
21 November, 2014
If, when polled, a majority of people stated they would like another referendum within 10 years or less, then yes I’d be happy for them to keep discussing it.
To do otherwise would be undemocratic.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
10:28 on
21 November, 2014
So if UKIP get a referendum on pulling out of the EU does anyone think they will win it ?
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now that is an interesting question.
hypothetical, I think they would win it.
Unless big business scare monger the populace.
I have been a little suprised by the ease that the tv news programmes manage to interview people live in the street, at these byelections, who then raise immigration as the main topic.
blacks, indians, immigrants, all easily saying they dont want anymore.
thats england just now.
NegAnon2
10:36 on
21 November, 2014
I’ve stated repeatedly that the OB Act is an abomination, and it is. What it does not do is criminalise being a Catholic.
Wee fra
hope your friend pulls through pal wee prayer heading your way hh
Turkeybhoy. Where have a showed any hatred for yes voters? Give me examples please. The SNP a yes but see my last post.
Greenpinata
10:32 on
21 November, 2014
Genuine question : was it the same stewards for the two international games at CP.
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Yes,I know someone who is a supervisor at CP.
winning captains
Well done on the raffle for the ad. Just bought mine this morning.
LB
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 1m 1 minute ago
Not signing up to be credited as LW employer #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 2m 2 minutes ago
Banker – We will pay £7.85 for permanent employees #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 3m 3 minutes ago
Banker – understand LW is an important issue #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 5m 5 minutes ago
Kick off as usual with a video. Celtic, champions! #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 7m 7 minutes ago
Underway. Apologies from Dermot Desmond and Iain Livingstone #ticagm
Davidopoulos,
Another cracker. I’m enjoying ýour choices this week mainly because you keep picking games I was at! I’ll never forget that Cadete goal. Considering two ends were missing from the stadium the noise was incredible. I seem to remember being told we had blown Radio Clyde off the air but I have no idea if it was true.
Weeminger. a majority want a referendum i another 10 years? Where did that come from?
Of course I don’t expect yes voters to give up. However rather than trying to belittle and blame yes voters why don’t yes voters not examine the reasons wh upy people voted no and address those? Get a clear path to what currency etc we would use? Wouldn’t that be a more positive strategy?
Instead it’s become a campaign to belittle the majority.
ltic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 21s 21 seconds ago
Lawwell – financially stable but no mountains of cash, not afraid to invest #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 1m 1 minute ago
Lawwell-Ronny shone at interview #ticagm
Wish the AGM was the day after legia game Lawell’s bonus was an insult to Celtic fans
Burning_Bush
Radio 5 live were blown off the air that night. My cousin was listening to the game on it. He was living in London at the time and for some reason they broadcast it live. From memory I think the game was a Monday evening and there may have been no other sport on. I think the commentator was Alan Green and he said that it had never happened before. He had never heard a roar like it. What a game that was. The football we played at times that season was amazing.
LB
Saint Stivs
10:39 on 21 November, 2014
Class consciousness is on the wane across the UK.
It’s being replaced by national consciousness. In Scotland that finds expression in the form of the nats, in England it’s UKIP.
They are equally delusional and unpleasant.
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 17s 17 seconds ago
Lawwell – objectives to win everything, every penny that comes in will be spent on team. Prepared for CL qualifiers next year #ticagm
St stivis. Yes the SNP is in government. Your point please?
It’s funny how all my posts are now deemed to be rants…….makes me laugh.
If Celtic have agreed to pay the living wage to permanent employees,I view that as a good start. Accordingly,for once,I congratulate the board on this.
Part-time employees,I suspect,are a difficult area for them as many will be working for ‘outsourced’ franchises. For instance,catering and security.
Next!
Burning_Bush
10:44 on 21 November, 2014
Davidopoulos,
Another cracker. I’m enjoying ýour choices this week mainly because you keep picking games I was at! I’ll never forget that Cadete goal. Considering two ends were missing from the stadium the noise was incredible. I seem to remember being told we had blown Radio Clyde off the air but I have no idea if it was true.
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I was young back then but I remember the excitement around Cadete playing brought to the fans. I’ll need to think long and hard about next week’s choices now!!
lionroars67
10:42 on 21 November, 2014
‘Apologies from Dermot Desmond’
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Get out of here!
Celtic Trust
@TheCelticTrust
Hamilton – work of foundation defines the club #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 2m 2 minutes ago
Tony Hamilton explains foundation work #ticagm
Weeminger. When the SNP a minister was asked could blessing yourself be a crime. She said yes. If it is done in the wrong way. It’s a pretty astonishing thing to say. It’s clearly and unambiguously anti catholic. Even if she was referring to the daft idiots who did that at hun games tell me, why would anyone take offence unless they apwere latently anti catholic. And tell me what good does it do to criminalise the act and tell me what signal does it give to those who are anti catholic? Criminalise the minority. It is a thoroughly sectarian act of parliament.
It is not just badly thought through it betrays the sectarian heart of scotland.
And yet you deny it.
Lawell lying again. Vic money was not spent on the team neither was frazer foster money. Kept in bank to maximise his own personal income
“Wish the AGM was the day after legia game Lawell’s bonus was an insult to Celtic fans”
I wish you were Sydney devine tim.
Then we might be treated to a change of record.
NegAnon2
10:45 on
21 November, 2014
Ipsos Mori Poll – STV News 31 Oct
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 27s 28 seconds ago
Ronny Deila – enjoying living in Glasgow #ticagm
Ernie thanks for attempting to portray me as an apologist for Dermot Desmond
I agree, paying the living wage to permanent employees is progress. Small steps and all that jazz.
Regarding the politics. Seriously, something is wrong when a party once known as the tartan Tories is now perceived to be the most left wing of the major parties. Have SNP moved to the left, I don’t think so, in that case it shows how much to the right, the red tories,Labour have moved.
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 1m 1 minute ago
RD – when we go away it’s a crazy support, it’s fantastic #ticagm
Celtic Trust @TheCelticTrust · 3m 3 minutes ago
RD – Trying to win the treble after CL disappointment #ticagm
Jimmynotpaul
10:55 on 21 November, 2014
I agree, paying the living wage to permanent employees is progress. Small steps and all that jazz.
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It’s more progress than I expected! I expected an agreement to look into it further, so pleasantly surprised.
BMCUW
If we use agency staff we pay the agent who then pays those we use.
So that one is probably outwith our control.
neganon,
you said the SNP doenst believe in democracy.
I said they are the majority party in Scotland.
and form the government.
They could have declared UDI, being in the majority.
they didnt,
they allowed a vote. a democratic decision.
now , i see the flaw in all their policies, they should stand on one thing
“we will jail all the celtic supporters, if we get independence”
vote for us.
surely in this institutional sectarian scotland , that would win it all ?
and there goes ernie again
says the same thing in just about every post, but uses different words from his thesaurus
todays words are ‘delusional’ and ‘unpleasant’
Celtic Trust
@TheCelticTrust
RD – fantastic driven club, suits my values #ticagm
LiviBhoy – Radio 5 Live! That´was it. I haven’t lived in the UK for a long time so had forgotten them. And we really did play some fabulous football that season. If Izzy made one run like Tosh for the third goal it would be goal of the season.
Davidopoulos – there was a growing feeling we were getting a real team together for the first time since ’88. He looked like being the final piece. Sadly it didn’t work out that way but by God we had some games that season.
I look forward to your next choice!
Neganon….beating fellow Celtic fans over the head with the OB achieves nothing ,ok you believe that Scotland is a secterian country,so tell us ,how would you go about changing that,serious question…
Jimmynotpaul
10:55 on
21 November, 2014
I agree, paying the living wage to permanent employees is progress. Small steps and all that jazz.
Regarding the politics. Seriously, something is wrong when a party once known as the tartan Tories is now perceived to be the most left wing of the major parties. Have SNP moved to the left, I don’t think so, in that case it shows how much to the right, the red tories,Labour have moved.
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the programme on Salmond on the bbc other night was very informative about why they went to the left.
quite interesting.