Do you remember the early days of Celtic Quick News when one wit suggested this was a blog for accountants? Our early years did a great deal to bring a wider understanding of accounts and finance to Celtic fans – which was a good thing.
Today your fan of Scottish football needs to know about more than the game and amortisation, a semester or two in law school is an enormous advantage. We touch on legal matters here but last night I enjoyed reading the forensic analysis on the wonderful Duff and Phelps on the Web 3D Law blog. It’s worth 10 minutes of your day, each day, the most recent blog especially. I also assume you are all keeping an eye on the substantial thoughts on Paul McConville’s blog. If not, I want to know why.
So much for accounts and the law, today I want to discuss philosophy with you.
When football-types talk about morality and hypocrisy they are usually worth listening to, if only for comedic value. Anyone experiencing the Scottish media will not doubt that morality is subjective and chameleon in nature. This question has exercised great minds for centuries, if only they had the benefit of our effervescent radio luminaries.
Despite being metaphorically surrounded by morally opportunistic hypocrites, Ally McCoist felt so secure in his demands for Rangers that he didn’t dodge the issue yesterday.
When asked if Rangers should be kicked out of the SPL he accepted it “might be the right thing to do morally and people will have their own opinions on it, with differences far and varied.
“There’s an argument the right thing to do is for Rangers to go down to the Third Division and that might be the case if it’s a Newco after liquidation.
“But is it the correct thing to do for Scottish football? Probably not. Everybody’s got a dilemma and that’s why there are so many opinions on it.
“Whether people like it or not, Rangers and Celtic are different because of the size and magnitude of the two clubs.
“Supporters of other clubs and some Old Firm supporters say you can’t have rules for some clubs and not for others.
“In an ideal world, that would be 100 per cent correct. I would absolutely and totally agree with that.
“But the fact of the matter is we’re asking if it would be good for the rest of the SPL if Rangers went down to the Third Division? The answer has to be no.
“I don’t envy the people who have to make that decision. I can understand the hypocrisy of it but Rangers and Celtic are different.”
Rangers are different – no dispute about that, Ally. Celtic are different again, but if it is hypocritical and morally wrong to provide support for these clubs which has never been extended to a smaller club, we cannot subvert our sport – and remember, the word SPORT implies that outcomes are determined on a level playing field – Rangers must be treated no differently than Gretna.
And just one correction for Ally: liquidation-and-phoenix would not see Rangers drop to the Third Division. A Newco in the Third Division would not have dropped from anywhere, it would be a new company and new football team. Rangers would, in these circumstances, go pop!
One* team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow.
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow.
*excluding, juniors, youths, lower leagues, amateurs and Celtic Ladies.
Pop! And they’re gone!
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Tom McLaughlin 3.52 says:
Let us make no mistake. This Celtic support would not have sat idly by and watched their club stick two fingers up to creditors and cheat and steal at every opportunity. This Celtic support would have had the people responsible run out of town.This Celtic support would have taken the medicine and DEMANDED that their club be duly punished, even through demotion to Division 3, and that every last penny of the debt be repaid in full.
In a nutshell,
THERE is the difference.
Good morning from a Brigh and sunny lenzie ; a perfect day for some Hun skelping.
Good morning from a bright and sunny but chilly Perth. If anyone has a spare for today it would be greatly appreciated.
HH
garcia lorca on 29 April, 2012 at 07:06 said
Peru ain`t so safe either.
I`m told Sendero luminoso are worse than huns.
Doubt it myself.
Good Morning from a bright and super sunny place that won’t steal Jobo’s thunder
We’ll meet again don’t know where don’t know when
but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day.
Enjoy today bhoys 3-1 to the good guys.
Kayal to start
♪ ♫ This could be the last time, this could be the last time ♪ ♫
Not sure if I’m going to watch. Part of me is thinking about the expectations of the last 3 biggies, Ibrox, LC final and SC SF. The other part of me is saying it will be 90 minutes of joyous celebration whatever the outcome on the park
Hope you all have a fantastic day wherever you watch it (or don’t watch it) and hope you’re all still safe and well when it’s all over.
Do not let a handsome hun flatter and beguile you for he’s wearing a mask and only after your credit card details.
Lying and cheating are essential elements to the balanced hun.
Goodbyee
Warning : features British soldiers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVavtX80m3Q
Happiness is having all the huns in a wee enclave in one hemisphere and me on another planet.
The hun is the intellectual equivalent of V8 vegetable juice.
I think Jobo could still be dancing. I hate derby day normaly. Always awake waaaaayyyyyy to early.
CELTIC
Celtic
CELTIC
Celtic
C’MON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
C’mon you Bhoys in Green
C’MON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
C’mon you Bhoys in Green
GLASGOW’S GREEN AND WHITE
Glasgow’s Green And White
GLASGOW’S GREEN AND WHITE
Glasgow’s Green And White
MWD
Scott Brown in the squad? Thought he was injured. IF he’s fit, he must play – him, Vic and Joe in the middle, Commons behind Hooper and Sammi, back 4 of AM, TR, CM and EI, with Forster in goal.
Hope he is genuinely fit. We have a history of fielding half-fit players based on their past performances, with disappointing results. If not, Paddy time.
hows the head MWD?
MWD ……. Me too …..LOL
6.20 I woke up.. o((
there is a cracking pic of the Thai Tims meeting my nephew on Friday..
Wee Marco the bhoy i was telling you about last year who had his legs broken to try and help him..
Rangers fans… they hate – therefore – they are.
A diamond-bright, clear, clean, sparkling morning here in North Ayrshire.
A day for the good guys.
Celtic weather.
Come on the Bhoys!
Kit
They have nothing but hate in them…
Good Morning Bhoys,
Absolutely buzzing’ this morning for a couple of reasons –
1. It’s my birthday.
2. I got a ticket at approx. 11pm last night.
The last time we played the ‘baddies’ on this date was in 2001 when Lubo notched a brace and Henke got his 50th of the season from the acutest of angles in a 3-0 skelping. A day to remember that was.
I’m pretty sure today will be the same.
C’MON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
UF
happy birthday uncle fester…
Cannot sleep. I really hope we skelp it into them today.
Football over Thuggery.
BT they have a depth of optimism and a remarkable sense of humour, I hear the Rangers Fighting Fund has gone all in to a five year, high yield, Greek Government Bond.
BT
Not to bad. Service was slow so drank half of what I normally would.
MWD
Beautiful morning on the southside. Sun splitting the sky.
A good sign.
Enjoy it today cqners, do us proud, the last glasgow derby
If God had wanted the huns to be accepted and trusted he would not have made them such vulgar cheats.
Happy birthday Uncle Fester. I hope you are right.
Keep safe everyone who is going to the game.
Lubo.
My first hun game……………7-1
Our last hun game…………..?.
God,how I like a tidy desk.
A place for everything and everything in it`s place.
Fairy tale time?
Lenny understands our needs.
Onyersel,son.
What’s the odds on 5-2 for the last ever Glasgow derby? That’s how it started, so it would be a fitting end.
Song for today :
You’re DEAD and you know you are…..
T4
If there is a statute of limitation on debt then the day after it expires the huns will be born again.
Just a wee aside… the huns might win today; stranger things have happened. It has become painfully obvious these past few months that the huns don’t do adversity good. I know we can always do better.
Kit
You`re on form.
Can sense your anticipation in your short sharp posts.
See them off,Lenny!
Put them out of their misery.
Oh,the bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling for you ya ………….
It’s alright for you guys back home.
We in Oz have been up early too, unable to sleep, but for us the kick-off is 9:45pm, so we have had all day to clock-watch and count the minutes.
kitalba –
I am enjoying your little nuggets of philisophical wisdom.
Keep ’em coming.
Hail Hail.
Looking forward to the game today, will enjoy the walk to paradise from Glasgow city centre, as i stroll up the gallowgate my thoughts will be full of the generations of Celts before us who made the pilgrimage to paradise my god how would they have would have loved this moment in time we will have today, celebrating being the league champions and the possible imminent death of the bigot club, what a day to be at Celtic park cant wait
Me and the two youngest going today. The youngest’s first and last game against them. My first was the 69 cup final. (George Connelly) 4 – 0 has a nice ring to it. No huns ever again has an even nicer ring to it! Wrap it right round them celtic!!!! HH.
Excellent post you are certainly in the zone today Kit
kitalba on 29 April, 2012 at 04:12 said:
they shall not, they shall not be missed
they shall not, they shall not be missed
not by the hearts, the hibs or the ce——eltic
they shall not be missed