The SFA are entitled to ask Neil Lennon to explain his conduct at Ibrox on Sunday but I doubt he has a case to answer. Neil accepted a warning during the first half from fourth official, Iain Brines, for contesting the decision to send off Cha Du-Ri, Brines did not regard this protest as sufficient to call the over referee. Neil then spoke to referee Calum Murray at the end of the first half without incident or caution.
Murray clearly did not regard Lennon’s comments as worthy of dismissal from the technical area at that time and was did not call Neil to the referees’ room during the interval. It was left to fourth official Iain Brines to deliver the news to the Celtic manager that he was ordered from the technical area.
Murray and Brines appear to have let the occasion get the better of them. A referee must be clear in his mind before ordering a manager from the technical area and must take the correct steps necessary in doing so. He cannot mutter a statement of intent to caution a manager without actually doing so.
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TinyTim
I vote for Malceye or Paulie Walnuts.
Top chaps both.
ASonOfDan on 27 March, 2012 at 15:31
Cheers, I’m away to point vigorously in the chest and face of a couple of huns at work!
Mmm ——
Mention of the ex model reminds me that he was involved in a wee fuss in France which related to him buying a pad in the South of France using money which had been” gifted” to him by an ” interesting ” Serbian football agent.
Anybody know how it concluded ?
JinkyvJohnGreig-saysitall
Just hit the b*****d’s! :)
HT
Well done on your poll..!
Allows me another opportunity to gloat on my enthusiasm of Mulgrew’s arrival.. Not shared by all on CQN at the time.
I also correctly predicted Aluko could haunt us to much CQN derision.
So bhoyed by that I’m going to make a bullish prediction..
I nominate Kari Arnason for Celtic POTY 2013 – only if we sign him :>)
Police influence?
Just like last season before the League cup final the team was visited by the police last week. The next time the police try to visit our players in the run up to a Rangers match they should be refused. :-)
OG Rafferty
C4 is about to reveal details of evidence that has already been considered by the FTT or is it something new ?
C4 reports so far are about one year behind CQN.
HH
Hold the front page, it won’t be on tonight.
There’s too much to get ready for this evening and there is a lot of legal stuff to sort out. But it is a game changer
the undercurrent of the Police visit last week was – hey Celtic it might be a very good idea if you let Rangers win this Sunday.
I invited two friends over last night to watch a re-run Sunday’s game with me. The first is a Mexican, who has coached on many different levels for over twenty years. The second is an “American-Italian” that grew up on both sides of the Atlantic and is generally football obsessed. He is a mad Juventus fan, and understandably can spot unlawful shenanigans a mile off. Interestingly enough this madcap Italian also has his amateur ref’s liscense.
The consensus from them, without dwelling on particular incedents is that rangers should have finished with no more than eight men on the field had the laws been applied fairly.
No doubt as he was in the Marines for a tour of duty, the Italian stated firmly that Celtic had been “ambushed” on all fronts, on the field and off. We were never going to be allowed to win that game, in his opinion.
My Mexican friend just shook his head and said he now understands why Scotland never qualify for any tournaments.
I’ve just seen the Brines dugout photo for the first time and I’m angry.
What makes me angry is asking myself the question-
Would a match official approach Walter Smith like that or would he have waited beside the dugout on Walter getting up,composing himself and asking what the problem is?
That photo says all you need to know about the attitude towards Neil Lennon,he wasn’t given the chance to have made the situation look in anyway dignified and forced attention on the situation especially in such a hostile environment.
Whilst the referees committee is bombproof in this country Scotland can never hold its head up.
A bad time to be hoping for a deal with Hector…
When Darlington went into administration in 2009 – the second of three times the club has now done so – they owed HMRC tax arrears of more than four hundred thousand pounds.
As part of the deal that led to them coming out of administration, unsecured creditors, including the tax man, received 0.0009 per cent of what was owed to them. In Darlington’s case on this occasion, they owed tax of £404,376 in tax – and paid £3.64.
This is just one of the extraordinary facts revealed in an official HMRC document about the financial knock-on effects of English clubs that go bust and leave huge debts behind.
Sportingintelligence has obtained a leaked copy of the 106-page document, which was prepared by HMRC for its ongoing legal battle against the Football League and Premier League to have the ‘Football Creditors Rule’ scrapped.
This rule allows bust clubs in England to guarantee some creditors (“football creditors” such as players and other clubs) t0 be paid in full while other creditors get just a few pence in the pound, or nothing.
Between 2000 and 2010, there were 53 incidents of clubs in England entering administration and the HMRC document includes official breakdowns of what clubs owed in 21 of those cases.
15 clubs owed a total of £40.26m to the taxman – and more than £39.5m has never been paid or remains unaccounted for in those cases alone.
Darlington’s £3.64 repayment in 2009 came after they’d previously committed to paying only £1,596 of a prior £215,631 tax bill in 2003.
The biggest tax debtor on the list is Portsmouth, from their last administration (not the current one), when £17.3m was owed. Informed sources say that although Pompey agreed to pay 20 per cent of that back over time, not a penny has actually been paid.
Leeds United, meanwhile, agreed to just pay two per cent of a £7.7m tax bill in 2007, shedding more than £7.5m tax liabilities in the process.
It was in 2002 that HMRC lost its ‘Preferential Creditor Status’, meaning it became an outside party alongside the likes of small local traders and the St Johns Ambulance service – all of which are often paid next to nothing.
The full loss to the taxpayer will be much higher than £39m when all 53 cases are considered, not to mention non-English cases; infamously Rangers are awaiting the outcome of their ‘big tax case’ in which HMRC is claiming tens of millions.
Sources north of the border expect some form of compromise on repayment of that, as and when a ruling is made on precisely what Rangers owe.
There were 53 incidents of clubs entering administration from 2000 until November 2011, and already this year Portsmouth, Port Vale and Darlington have entered administration, as have Rangers.
Football finance expert Professor John Beech, from Coventry University, said: “The return to the offensive against football clubs mounted by HMRC since 2009 is hardly surprising and neither is their fight to see the Football Creditors Rule overthrown.
“Seeing the taxman as a soft touch for what is in effect an easy overdraft is neither good business practice nor fair to other taxpayers.
“Failure to hand over VAT promptly strikes me as particularly indefensible. After all, the money has been collected on HMRC’s behalf”.
HMRC are currently waiting for the High Court verdict on the Football Creditor’s Rule after opening a case against the Football League last November. A decision is expected over the next few weeks.
Speaking at the case last year, HMRC’s Gregory Mitchell QC, said: “Whenever the football creditor rule is applied, there is always a loss to the taxpayer, which is why we bring these proceedings”. He added that the football creditors’ rule represented “the ugly side of the beautiful game”.
The Football League has argued that unlike Premiership football players who are paid millions, the football creditor’s rule was set in place to protect players’ earnings in the lower leagues.
However Professor Beech adds: “The defence of the Football Creditors Rule that is habitually trotted out – that the integrity of the league must be maintained – is unreasonable in my opinion.
“I don’t see how the existence of the rule can be justified as a means for buying and selling players on credit when the buying club is well known to be on shaky financial grounds, and the selling club can, in effect, expect the public purse to act a guarantor for payment.
“The rule is shameful, and reflects extremely badly on the whole football club business sector. In my view it’s counter-productive as it’s one of a number of factors that have contributed to the spiraling cost of transfer fees, which is hardly helpful to clubs”.
It has come to the attention of the Board of Directors of St Mirren Football Club Limited that a meeting took place in our Boardroom in November 2011. This meeting was attended by Mr Ken McGeoch, Mr Paul Davies and Mr Gary Withey, Company Secretary of Rangers Football Club Limited. +
During the meeting Mr Withey had sight of and inspected commercially sensitive documents of St Mirren Football Club. At one point during the meeting the Club’s General Manager was brought into the meeting and asked various questions including whether or not the Club used Employee Benefit Trusts (E.B.T.s).
As a Director of the Company, Mr McGeoch had every right to inspect such documents. The Board, however, consider that his decision to show these documents to an Office Holder of another SPL club is a serious breach of trust and an error of judgement.
In light of the information available to the Board, they have asked Mr McGeoch to resign his position as a Director of the Company with immediate effect. Should he fail to do so within the next 48 hours, we regret the Company shall be forced to call, at the Club’s expense, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to consider this matter further.
+ The selling consortium of St Mirren directors were not informed of Mr Withey or Collyer Bristow’s involvement with Mr McGeoch until January 2012, at which point it had concerns over the involvement of Mr Withey.
wow, anyone seen st mirren’s statement today? http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=11389
the plot thickens
It has come to the attention of the Board of Directors of St Mirren Football Club Limited that a meeting took place in our Boardroom in November 2011. This meeting was attended by Mr Ken McGeoch, Mr Paul Davies and Mr Gary Withey, Company Secretary of Rangers Football Club Limited. +
During the meeting Mr Withey had sight of and inspected commercially sensitive documents of St Mirren Football Club. At one point during the meeting the Club’s General Manager was brought into the meeting and asked various questions including whether or not the Club used Employee Benefit Trusts (E.B.T.s).
As a Director of the Company, Mr McGeoch had every right to inspect such documents.
The Board, however, consider that his decision to show these documents to an Office Holder of another SPL club is a serious breach of trust and an error of judgement.
In light of the information available to the Board, they have asked Mr McGeoch to resign his position as a Director of the Company with immediate effect. Should he fail to do so within the next 48 hours, we regret the Company shall be forced to call, at the Club’s expense, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to consider this matter further.
+ The selling consortium of St Mirren directors were not informed of Mr Withey or Collyer Bristow’s involvement with Mr McGeoch until January 2012, at which point it had concerns over the involvement of Mr Withey.
What on earth is going on?
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo, 15:47
This is information that can be backed up, in the public domain for the first time
From Video Celts
Celtic’s youth side leapfrogged Hearts to the top of the SPL table with a convincing 4-0 win over Dunfermline at Stirling University.
John Kennedy’s youth side were never in any danger of slipping up as they swept to their tenth successive SPL victory to move into top spot for the first time since November.
A win in any of their three remaining games will clinch the title. If Hearts fail to take a point away to Hibs on Saturday Celtic will be champions for the third year running.
Celtic opened the scoring in the third minute when John Herron was on the spot to net from a Jackson Irvine header that struck the cross bar.
Ten minutes later Celtic doubled their lead with a similar strike. Marcus Fraser’s header appeared to be handled onto the post by a Pars defender but Paul George wasn’t waiting for a penalty and tucked the ball home.
Tony Watt completed the first half scoring in the 34th minute when he netted from 15 yards following a Patrik Twardzik pass.
Irvine came close to finding the net a few times in the second half but the visitors had to wait till the last minute to complete the scoring when a Callum McGregor shot got a slight deflection and flew high over the keeper into the net
CELTIC: Fasan; Fisher, Jones, Fraser, Chalmers; George (Johnstone 80), McGregor, Irvine, P Twardzik (Gormley); Watt 71(Alabi)
BRTH @ 12:23
Have you had this in a drawer since Sunday??
O.G.Rafferty on 27 March, 2012 at 15:52 said:
All sounds very interesting, explosive even….
When can we expect to see said information in the public domain?
From the ET
JAMES FORREST is struggling to recover from his ankle injury in time to take part in this weekend’s potential title-clinching game against St Johnstone.
The dynamic winger suffered heavy bruising to a bone near the end of the Scottish Communities League Cup Final defeat to Kilmarnock.
Scans confirmed he had not suffered any fracture or ligament damage.
But he failed to respond to treatment in time to line up against Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday.
Now Neil Lennon has confirmed he does not expect the 20-year-old to be ready in time for this Sunday’s match at Celtic Park.
Lennon said: “James was too sore to consider playing him at Ibrox, and he may be another week or so. We don’t know at the moment.”
Celtic will also be without red-carded Victor Wanyama and, possibly, Cha Du-Ri, after he appealed his dismissal at Ibrox.
But there is some good news as striker Gary Hooper – who sustained a dead leg at Hampden and only managed to come on as an injury-time substitute at Ibrox – should be ready to return against Saints.
“Gary was about 75 per cent fit on Sunday, so we were able to put him on the bench at Ibrox,” said Lennon.
Noticed Hately commenting on the Juve Inter game on Sunday. Most Italians who remember him, mainly Milan fans, still call him “Attila”. Funny old world, eh?
SSN…….. We have all the latest in the Neil Lennon gingerist abuse.
Why would Withey be so keen to hear if St Mirren had used EBTs? I thought Rangers were not concerned in the slightest and were comfortable that their use of these would be cleared at the FTT?
archdeaconsbench, 15:56
It has to be cleared with the lawyers tomorrow.
And some interesting names mentioned too
The SFA should be investigating the behaviour of one of its member clubs – the huns, in relation to the St Mirren statement.
Árd Macha
*Rather than carrying out a campaign against our manager.*
Árd Macha
Posted about St Mirren last night and that the rangers company secretary got to look at all the players contracts last November and compile details of how the club was run.
Football in this country is rotten to the core…
Don’t know a lot about them, but if the use of EBT’s is not a vehicle for tax avoidance/dodging etc. why go to the bother of setting them up.
toscanabhoy @ 16 04
Hately ?
Milan fans who remember him , love him for his headed winner in the Milan derby of Autumn 1984 . The famous picture of him towering over Fulvio Collovati can be seen in Milan supporting bars all over Italy.
He did little else of note but scoring the winner in the game in which Milan beat Inter for the first time in 6 years made him a hero.
Some called him Conan but most called him Attila
Yet again….
The campaign of vilification against our manager moves up a gear.
Like everyone of us, he may get it wrong sometimes but the man’s heart and refusal to kow tow to these bigoted pricks makes me proud to have him as our manager.
God Bless Neil Lennon…
Was there not some talk on CQN recently about Whyte wanting to use St.Mirren as the foundation for his Newco Rangers or have I been dreaming ? H.H.
Orc next door decides to come out and cut the grass.
Spontaneous whistling of Jelly n Ice Cream tune.
big nan
Looks like Rangers were exploring taking over St Mirren.
Suggests not a lot of confidence in staying as Rangers, or is it contingency planning?
The corruptest wee country in the world.
bournesouprecipe on 27 March, 2012 at 16:23 said:
Orc next door decides to come out and cut the grass.
Spontaneous whistling of Jelly n Ice Cream tune.
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Strange, most of the ones I know just let the Goat keep the grass trimmed…….
Auldheid – it is clear to everyone bar the Scottish Sporting Hacks that Whyte’s plan from day 1 was liquidation and making his money selling on NewCo or leasing back Ibrox.
What has changed from then until now?
Nothing.
He has his men in place as administrators, they are burning the cash reserves, the press are gobbling up the PR statements and (for any hacks reading this)
HE STILL OWNS THE COMPANY AND ITS ASSETS
D&P cannot make him sell his property to anybody. He hasn’t played his cards yet.
The game is still well and truly on…..
Auld Neil Lennon heid –
When I asked a buddies pal of mine what he thought about getting over by them, his said “Get takeover by them?! I wanna play them every week!”
O.G Rafferty @ 16.09
Would one of those names rhyme with ‘palace’?
Ard Macha/ Asonofdan
I wonder if this was the huns looking at likely buy-out options for when they go “pop”