Can there be any surprise at tonight’s news that police are now investigating alleged harassment of members of the SFA Judicial Panel? On the way home tonight I almost drove off the road when I heard Scotsman journalist, Tom English, on Radio Scotland tell us Rangers knew who sat on the judicial panel a day before Ally McCoist demanded to know who they were on Rangers TV.
Now the SFA inform us the panel members’ identities have been “compromised”. There was no suggestion their identities were hidden until McCoist fanned the flames on Tuesday, these individuals were not subject to a witch hunt or harrassment. The Association added “all three panel members have reported intrusion into their personal and work lives, including abusive and threatening communication.”
In Scotland we now have an Offensive Behaviour and Threatening Communications Act. The Act criminalises “behaviour likely to lead to public disorder which expresses or incites hatred”. We’ll now see how the law works in this country.
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hebcelt – Aye, well I used to. I fell doon those 3 wee steps at the side of the Snaffle Bit because the stairs were obviously wet!
However, my mate mistook the cellar for the toilets and went down all 13 steps and he couldn’t get out. I left cos i thought he had went home!!! :-)))
To fit in I used to call myself Hamish and my mate called himself Dougal.
I don’t think that anyone noticed we weren’t locals. ;-)
HH
I had a stressful day at work today.
It didn’t once cross my mind, however, to publicly encourage a gang of right wing extremists to intimidate innocent workers.
The press are already gearing up to gently condemn McCoist but qualifying it on the grounds of the “terrible pressure” he is under.
Nonsense. If he can’t cope then he should walk away.
Oh, wait…
Summa of Sammi
They can get the greatest manager in the world if they want there’ll be nothing to manage.
Summa of Sammi
Your tickets are sitting on my mantle. You getting all excited yet?
MWD
Summa
That’s always been a worry for me as well, swally must be the worst manager I have ever seen in my life, he is clueless.
They deserve each other…
They won’t withdraw any appeal because they have no shame.
Tim Malone Will Tell on 25 April, 2012 at 23:01
What was the gist of Billy’s article?
Two fantastic CL semi finals. So much for an El Classico final.
Both Chelsea and Bayern gave manly displays and the biggest two sides in the world couldn’t match them. Chelsea gave an old fashioned English perormance while Bayern were typically Germany focussed and strong mentality.
Chelsea’s first goal was the best I’ve seen in a long long time. Drogba for all his playing acting in the first game played like two men. Fantatic performance when it mattered.
Barcelona over the past week have badly missed David Villa. And the reason it isn’t an all Spanish final is down to the standard of forwards both teams have supporting Messi and Ronaldo.
Not been a good year for the favourites in semi finals
Surely McCoist is due to be subject of a report to COPFS? Cynical incitement, planned and coordinated from the off. You could smell it with the ‘Lennon’ references all day yeasterday.
This whole episode is a ghastly synopsis of why it’s long overdue time to close Rangers down. Wipe the whole festering, malignant boil off the face of Scotland.
Our kids deserve better than this. Far better.
Over to you Mr Salmond. Show us what Leadership in Scotland is all about.
the great irony of all this is that mccoist’s moment of madness has probably alienated the one organization that would give them a sympathetic hearing
surely the SFA will want to be seen as standing strong in the face of intimidation and threats?
HebCelt
we discussed that very pub after the St johnstone game..
speaking to a ghirl from Barra last week.. Park bar was robbed of £10k last week..
Moisty is WAY out of his depth. Being asked to explain himself in front of a sherrif may be of some assistance.
Eric
Ernie
Is that you fessin up there? ;-)
HH
Yet to hear the press talk about mcoist managerial record…..1 win in 4 different cup competitions…to lowly arbroath,,hardly what you would call wining the”big games”…desperately trying to get all worked up about the 1 year ban on signings and loan deals.If they go down to the 3rd div.surely they will be on equal par with the other teams..2 or 3 players might leave…or maybe they cant wait to get get back to there old ways making signings which arent going to be on a level playing field with the other teams in the league.surprised he hasnt been found out yet..Walter wouldnt have behaved like this.
hebcelt on 25 April, 2012 at 22:54 said:
AOW/Blantyretim you ghuys ever frequent the Snaffle Bit or the Park Bar close to Sandyford Place? Both favourites with Tcheuters like myself. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Aye the Snaffle was a favourite for the Bhoys. Back the 70s.
Good night Timland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz9stPeGbn4
HAIL HAIL
Super Ally eh? what a guy.
Media darling, super joker, Scotland’s pin up, Question Of Sport etc etc.
A man who has had doors opened for him repeatedly during the last 25 years.
When the going gets tough you see what people are really made of.
A crass opportunistic low-class chancer who is now merely reflecting the attitudes of a huge body of that club’s supporters.
Watch yourselves on Sunday.
Hail Hail and Good Night.
Honest Cover Up – see below….
THERE’S an old saying, you should be careful who you trample on your way up, because you might need them on your way back down.
Rarely has it applied more than in the meltdown of Rangers Football Club.
There’s an element at Ibrox who, when they were flying, wouldn’t have peed on the rest of Scottish football had it been on fire.
If you’re not with them, you’re against them. Do, say or write anything they don’t agree with and… well, they all know what you are.
That element went all the way up to David Murray and all the way down to guys like Mark Dingwall, who’s gone from running an abusive website to casting himself as spokesman for a generation.
Between them, they’ve left anyone and everyone in their sights without a name.
So what makes them think that now it’s all gone pear-shaped, the world will drop everything and help them out of the s***?
Which is not to say I believe the rank and file of Rangers supporters deserve what’s happening to their club. I’m not saying they had this day coming. Nor am I convinced the SFA’s ruling is the right one, because they shouldn’t be trusted to run a bath, never mind the national sport.
The transfer embargo makes sense, as it’s the debt run up through vanity signings that has — in part, at least — taken them to the brink of oblivion. But demanding money from a business who has none? Anyone who’s ever been hit with a £30 surcharge for going overdrawn knows how illogical that is.
What is fair? I’m not sure. All I know is that to give in to rabble-rousing mouthpieces like Dingwall and let them reinvent themselves without punishment because it’s The Rangers, is a non-starter.
Where were they when Clydebank and Airdrie and Gretna were dying, when Motherwell and Dundee and Livingston were in administration?
Hitting the phone-ins to sneer that no one should weep, because there were too many clubs in Scotland anyway, that’s where.
But I’ve long since warned the excrement would really hit the extractor when a big club went belly-up, churned endless columns about how Murray’s ego-driven, My Tenner To Your Fiver bravado would end in tears. So fans’ groups can re-write history all they like and pretend everything was dandy until that nasty man Whyte got his hands on them. But they’re only kidding themselves.
Yes, the SFA’s investigation centred on the chaotic reign of this chinless, gutless chancer.
But where’s the probe into Murray’s role? When are the fans going to turn their anger on a man who saw HMRC coming over the hill like a million Apaches and palmed the whole shooting match off to that chancer for a quid?
It might make the punters feel big to boycott William Hill and Vauxhall because they put cash into the SFA, but that’s going to solve nothing.
Rangers are rooked because Murray — aided, by the likes of his namesake Paul, who sat there as they unravelled, yet now claims he’s their saviour — hurled money at foreigners with no sell-on value, who took the club no further up the European ladder than they’d been with a team farmed in Kinning Park and Bellshill.
None of this is the fault of the SFA or their sponsors or journalists or anyone else on the most-wanted list of the No One Likes Us We Don’t Care brigade.
It’s 100 per cent at the door of men they followed blindly because they promised the earth.
Rangers, as a club, are the ones who did the crime. Now, they have to do the time.
And the worst they get is not being able to sign players for 12 months. They’ve got off with probation.
There is no way that Alistair can be charge with incitement. He knows exactly how the lumpen bigot will take his remarks but he can say that all he is after is transparency in the decision making process.
Similarly Spiers saying that Craig Whyte should stay away from Glasgow and Govan if he values his life can be construed as a tacit acceptance of violence by the Huns but can also be seen to be voicing genuine concern for our Craigy boy.
Though the way Spiers said it was matter of fact and supports the former interpretation in that there was no condemnation of this sad fact of life in the best wee country in the world.
You mess with Rangers you might die!
A Question Of “Sport” ?
Aye!
There is the occasional reference to the grief process and the stages, but one of the outcomes of going through that process is the world view being held can be transformed by the experience itself.
Long held beliefs are re-examined after they collide with reality and we are witness to such a collision. Viewed from that perspective the grand design of life can be seen unfolding, you can almost tell what will happen next but not the timescale (hence the need for patience.)
This one from The Prophet perfectly fits the bill. (If you have not read The Prophet give your soul a treat and get a copy).
Then a woman said, “Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.”
And he answered:
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.
Paul 67 – well said, I just twittered the same sentiments before logging on to CQN, it will all be the fault of a certain Mr Lennon from Lurgan no matter what, all of them a bunch of complete fuds. Wee Conor’s ears tested today, passed with flying colours, he can even hear the Huns dying
HH
Paul67 – any idea what the usual punishment for being convicted of this is?
Paul67:
Inference – deduction – supposition – conjecture – presumption – assumption – suggestion – implication!
The Media have pandered ………… and certain parties have been all too compliant over many years when feeding them.
I await their demise and hopefully penitent and accountable journalism!
I think McCoist was under pressure and guided in an ill thought interview by Rangers Media, aka Lindsay Herron, trying to emulate the infamous Jim White Laudrup interview…..
Ally, show us why you are so good…
Stupid PR stunt.
The Appeal cannot succeed now.
Can it?
BT
56/57 Real 2 Fiorentina 0- Bernabeu
64/65- Inter 1 Benfica 0- San Siro
Man U won in Wembley 68
Ajax in Rotterdam- 72
Liverpool- Wembley 78
Juventus- Rome- 96
Dortmund- Munich 97
Roma, Barca & Man U have lost finals on home country soil
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Moonbeams..
Getting Exited..You Bet..Not as Much as My Nephew..(Are you taking Your Bhoy to that Match.?)
Off to the Rooftop Pool Again..Thanks Estadio Nacional..:O)
Summa
Ernie,
I agree with your take.
I am also certain that it will lead to a fan representation on the board debate. That this is never countenanced leaves the natural deduction that these matters have been discussed
Phil has also published such rumours where the club moved quickly to rebuke him.
Until the infornation vacuum is removed then such speculation I percieve as healthy and I dont accept the dogma of those that may wish to stifle such speculations.
It is cake and eat it stuff from our policy makers and another indication of the WWF raising its dumbed down spectre.
Not good
HH
Any chance of a comment from Grimmond………….?
Sir Paul,
Ah Note that the Police are Investigating… these Public Threats, which hiv bin made, concerning,the Future Well-Being, o’ the Three Wise Monkeys.
Personally, Ah don’t believe that there wull be any arrests made,as the result of this.. Investigation.
Boattum Line…
Coisty, has accomplished whit he set oot tae dae…
Which, wiz:
Pit …Public Pressure oan the Three Members .. who , Momentarily, furgoat, Jist WHO they wur dealing With.. when they
Blithley???.. handed doon that Punishment..
Noo… Those Three Recalcitrants.. hiv Goat the Message.
And Hiv Bin.. Abruptly.. Brought Back,intae Line.
So..
Oan The Appeal.. Those Punishments will be suitably Amended..
Tae the satisfaction of All Parties..
Which ur..
The Three Relieved.. Members.. and the Also, The Much Mair… Relieved…. Fitba’ Team, Which, is the Darling o’ Scotland’s Establishment.
Kid, WE canny Win .. Them Awe…
Though, so far.. We hiv bin Daeing..
Purty Purty.. Good!
Kojo
Still , Laughin’
60 first ffs?? Thats the house measures slowin me down!!
SFTB
thank you sir…
Anyone hear Dalziels comment on SSB last night that if Whyte came back to take his seat at Ibrox he’d need the same plastic surgeon as some actor, whose name now escapes me unfortunately.
Cue great hilarity among the panelists.
Who’re the bampots again?!
???
HH
The Battered Bunnet on 25 April, 2012 at 23:05 said:
They had a half-decent chance of coming out of this wounded but still walking. They have totally lost it at all levels and have doomed themselves. There’s no way back for them.
10 years in the SFL will do them some good. They’ll probably have been banned from Europe for that time anyway. :)
Eric
the female giving salmond a grilling on STV isnae missing him and hitting the wall..
only person she missed out on was minty…
night bhoys
may your god go with you….
Off topic if I may, a birthday mention to as good as Celtic supporter as you could ever meet… and a very thought provocatng poster MONTEBLANCO
Its all downhill from here Des….. ::))
Appeal result will be :- 12 month ban on player signing reduced to 12 month ban suspended for 2 year, which, based on their current plight, is meaningless.