I have lost track of who each of the newspapers back in the battle over the bones of Newco. Have the Record always been so critical of Dave King or is this a new phenomenon? Yesterday’s piece in that ‘paper, which left responsibility for Newco’s plight at the door of chairman King, read like a placeholder ahead of more foreboding news.
You and I knew how King’s tenure would play out. We rooted for him as he rallied fans and all pliable outlets to subvert the club into a position he would be able to buy a controlling interest. We want him to stay forever (which in a corporate sense may not be that long).
Now the future is writ so large even those previously sceptical can see it. Towards the end of next month the Scottish Cup semi-finals will take place and season book renewal forms will arrive across the country. A similar scenario convinced the Easdales to give up the fight three years ago; ultimately, they were pragmatic. From what we know about King, I don’t expect a similar abdication. He will stay until it is impossible for him to do otherwise, irrespective of the best interests of the club.
Which is a good thing. His team is so much fun to watch.
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One more from the Bob shelf –
https://youtu.be/RediHHay8YQ
Off oot to Siracusa
DavidO
Why was Hamilton allowed to rape weans in Dunblane? Why was Torbett allowed to rape weans? Why was Louis Mountbatten and his nephew Prince Andrew allowed to rape weans? Establishment coverup.
jamesgang
Grew up in East Dunbartonshire were Hamilton was also active. I remember when Dunblane happened I and all the other boys I knew who went to his clubs shared stories of weird stuff (not strictly speaking abuse I must add) that had gone on at those clubs, but nobody had said anything beforehand.
I think there are a lot of stories that go untold until prompted.
Live!!
Delaneys Dunky
The establishment is more accustomed to avoiding embarrassment than doing what is right.
DELANEYSDUNKY
Files buried for a century? Shocking.
SF tickets on website
SFTB
It’s maybe a good time to raise this difficult topic on the blog.
If there is a thorough inquiry into historic child abuse, it is clear that Celtic will be invited to contribute. Surely our club should co-operate fully with it. I don’t know if a statement from Celtic would help or hinder any investigation.
If Celtic did wrong, then any mistakes should be admitted, and compensation paid to victims. Then we can move on knowing that right has been done, albeit rather late in the day. Celtic may well draw flak from some quarters but this is less important, IMO, than ensuring that the victims of abuse are helped to recover from their ordeals, if at all possible. We are a major cultural institution and employer in Scotland and have a responsibility to ensure the safety of all employees and visitors to our premises.
Perhaps the way forward is to consult victims groups to solicit their views.
DavidO and BMCUW
Saville was knighted ffs
British establishment is rotten to its core. Hope Prince Andrew or Torbett bump into me one day.
Bobbio
Good, god-fearing Kirk attender he was….
DD
You’re a good guy,mate; no chance of you ever bumping into Saville. Andy boy seems to have disappeared from royal duties; perhaps his lifestyle can’t stand much public scrutiny.
Great to see you posting again and I look forward to seeing you before long.
Cup Semi Final tickets now on sale for those who bought tickets for Brechin, Thistle and Morton games via HCTC. Reasonably priced at £20/£10 for East Stand or £30/£15 for North/South Stands
*HCTS
Ger
Andy is a peadophile
His uncle Mountbatten and Ted Heath showed him how to do it. Good men like you and I are vìllified for breaking the speed limit or some other shite. The establishment guys are seen as above the law. Britain is rotten Gerry
HH
JAMESGANG @9.35
“The seventies were—— ” .
Fabulously described and appraised ( IMO)-in this
Francis Wheen — Strange Days Indeed.
SoT
The seventies were……..brown
SFTB
A thoughtful and in some ways disturbing post which brought back memories of one of the worst weeks of my ‘football’ life many years ago. The boys club (the one you gave me some info on last year) I was coach with was going abroad for a tournament. The night before we were leaving I was taken aside and told that the physio from a well known Scottish club who had agreed to accompany us on the trip was, in fact, a suspected paedophile. I was gobsmacked and angry at the same time because I was being put on the spot and being responsible for these boys, Every waking moment, and some non-woken moments, I was on constant guard, making sure that this guy was never, ever alone with any of the boys. Thankfully we were all sleeping in classroom accommodation so no one was isolated, but I was never so glad to get back to Glasgow in my life. To be fair, to date, the guy in question has never been in the news regarding historic child abuse.
SoT
Love The Doors. Strange Days Indeed.
People are Strange when you’re a Stranger!
DD
I agree, Gary. That’s why I’m not hyper critical of our board and its reaction to the blatant cheating by the huns and the SFA. What chance do these guys have in the face of much more serious corruption in other spheres of public life?
FWIW, I don’t think Heath is guilty, rather he has been put up as a distraction from the main perps like Brittain and other members of Thatcher’s cabinet. If senior BBC people suspected Saville and others, then those at the top of Govt knew the full story, no matter how forcefully they deny it. Did Labour cabinet ministers from the 1970s know? If so, and they did nothing, then hell mend them.
Ruth Davidson is an ugly wee fud.
God bless Jeremy Corbyn.
£7 for “secure delivery” what a carve up.
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THE Bhoys are back at Hampden next month (Sunday, April 15) where they’ll face Rangers in the semi-final of the William Hill Scottish Cup (KO 2:30pm).
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SAINTSTIVS
I agree that the £7 is way over the top,and I presume is levied by the organisers of the tournament. That’ll be the SFA,then.
Still a bit cheaper than a league game between the two clubs. Surprisingly.
DELANEYS DUNKY _
Never did The Doors — this apart -only Doors choon I have .
https://youtu.be/CqLdDKy2XUQ.
Went to see them at The Roundhouse in 68 . Dragged there by my big sis .
Hot Smoked, Delays, BRTH – fancy a wee catch up in Coias a week on Saturday before the game? ACGR is in Sunny Spain, so the company will be good! ???
KTF
SS-G67- got my ticket an hour ago, better seats available now……so much for the early bird….
Gerry
My name is Garry
Blair anď Brown can rot in hell
Anthony Wedgewooď Benn and John Smith are the two best Prime Ministers we never had.
Lionsroar67, WWW – thoughts and prayers for good Celtic men!
KTF
DELANEYSDUNKY 947
Knighted by Thatcher,who also made sure he was a regular visitor to Chequers. Along with other alleged perps in the cabinet and beyond. Eddie Shah,for instance. McAlpine,and many more.
She certainly could pick her company.
That’s why I agree with GER57 about Heath. Throw a dead man to the wolves,throw them off the scent.
Jamesgang, also similar occurrences in the late 60s in the football team at Holy Cross. Creepy little b…..d maths teacher. HH
SoT
Break on through is a class record. The Doors have a dozen better tunes imo
VFR
Is that the Ross County match?
See you in Coias
BMCUW
What is your opinion on Andy and Fergie?
Pair of bad yins I think.
Re child abuse.
Let us be under no illusion that systematic child abuse took place ( and still does) across the whole of the UK. There is now far too much evidence pointing to those in power and the Establishment for it to be refuted. I believe that the perpetrators wormed their way into – or were placed – in positions were access to children, especially vulnerable ones, was easiest.
I would argue that there is not a single organisation the length and breadth of this country that hasn;t been affected ( be that football/rugby/athletic clubs , Boys Brigades, Scouts, drama groups, educational centres, Churches etc).
However, such is the cover up and the need to protect those at the top that a few perpetrators are ‘thrown under the bus’ every now and again to assure the public that something is being done. For every Priest and Jimmy Saville there is a high ranking Mason, Police Chief, Education leader, Social Work Director, Law maker going about their business as they’ve always done.
To have the public think this is just a Celtic/Catholic problem is exactly what is intended in Scotland, just like the myth that it’s just a problem of dead entertainers and politicians in England.
SOUTHOFTUNIS,DELANEYSDUNKY
Loved The Doors since the mid-70s. It’s why Mags and I got on so well,I reckon. Nothing to do with our perverse sense of humour(!)
Right to the fore of anti-establishment,and at the right time.
Gimme The Velvet Underground and The Doors,maybe the only US bands I had much time for from that era.
Not to be confused with my lifetime love of His Bobness,of course.
Interesting story from a Bob Marley bio I read…
As a up and coming artist struggling to make his way Marley had signed up with producer Leslie Kong who had a bit of a stranglehold on the music scene in Jamaica at the time.
Kong being a bit of a dodgy geezer didn’t pay Marley for some songs he’d recorded for him.
Marley approached him on his own and asked for the money he was owed and Kong team handed gave him a short shrift.
Marley fixed Kong with a stare and stated before he left that he could see them working again in the future,Kong would gain wealth hitherto unseen by him but wouldn’t be able to enjoy that wealth. This revelation and the tone of it’s delivery left Kong startled.
And so it was some years later there paths crossed again and Kong released a Wailers best of against the bands wishes.
Some weeks after that Kong’s accountant came to tell him the ‘ good ‘ news that he had just became a millionaire. That very day Kong went home unwell and died of a heart attack at thirty something ,with no history of heart trouble the docs were mystified.
Possibly a coincidence but it gave me chills when I read it.
HH
DELANEYSDUNKY
Honestly,I couldn’t say. Heard rumours,nothing surprises me,but as I said earlier,it’s difficult to found accusation.
Of course,we all know how The Establishment tends to work,which doesn’t make it easier.
That’s why I still have my belief in a righteous God. They might get away with it here-A Brief History of Time-but eternity is a long time to have regrets.
Friesdorfer
My Geography teacher at Saint Thomas Aquinas tried to touch me up. I knocked him out and got suspended fae school. 10 years after I left school he was jailed for raping a pupil. I wish I hit him harder.
See you in 102 soon pal.
DBHOY
Wow…
He’ll mend him anaw,btw.
Off to phone another D-bhoy…