I heard a Daily Record reporter on commercial radio earlier this week suggest Celtic should “Do the right thing” and pay Rangers, in advance, for tickets for the game at Ibrox on 25 March. I understand that last night another reporter from the same paper told Radio Scotland listeners that, despite today’s Record publishing a robust contradiction from Celtic, that he had evidence Peter Lawwell reneged on a verbal agreement to pay Rangers in advance.
Evidence of a verbal agreement? Perhaps Lord Leveson would be interested in that one.
To be fair to everyone, any old tart can insist Celtic “do the right thing”, even if it’s the wrong thing, the comments section of Celtic Quick News regularly features such crazy notions, but it is alarming that the influence of a pernicious few spreads across such a huge profile of the Scottish media.
Peter Lawwell’s letter published on the club site was unequivocal. Celtic did not renege on an agreement with Rangers, they are not responsible in any way for Rangers staff losing their jobs, indeed, they enjoy a functional working relationship with the Administrators of Rangers.
The fact that Celtic were able to inform fans in advance that today’s Daily Record would publish Lawwell’s letter “In a prominent position” in today’s newspaper suggests the Record acknowledged the legal consequences of failing to do so. Despite this, no correction has been issued and the assertion that Celtic have reneged on a deal continues to be made.
The BBC, who have editorial standards well beyond those found in the red top press, are now embroiled in this mess.
While many Scottish reporters are busy uncovering genuine evidence of the biggest stories in the history of Scottish football, others cannot break the habits of recent decades.
If Celtic have legal recourse they must act but you have a role too. You empower the media, if it was not for your (plural) custom they would be unable to lie about Celtic.
Decades of malpractice in Scottish football is coming to an end, this is our chance to redraw the map and ensure Celtic have, at last, a level playing field.
Do your part.
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Tweets5m Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
· Close Open Details #SPL chief exec Neil Doncaster says all 12 clubs will meet on Monday to discuss financial fair play.
Paul67
“Old Tarts bring Celtic into disrepute”
Sounds like a CQN night out…
BigChipsUK at 11:40
I think that 1995 title should go to Hibs.
They lost 2 more points than Motherwell to Rangers, so that would move them from one point behind to one point ahead.
Surely Ogilvie’s position is now untenable>
Hail! Hail!
Call me paraanoid if you like…… Twice in the last 15 minutes Radio Scotland has reported on this morning’s SFA announcement. Neither report incluuded any reference to this bit:
“We (the SFA) are, however, aware of the most recent allegations made against Rangers FC today by a former director of the club. We shall investigate this matter thoroughly before making any further comment.”
Rickmansworth Bhoy
You a regular in the Coach & Horses?
hh
bjmac
St Martin’s Bhoy on 2 March, 2012 at 12:13 said:
“shut the big hoose forever”
I’m singing that line right now – that fits sooooo GOOD….
pigalle
Som mes que un club on 2 March, 2012 at 12:16 said:
Tweets5m Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
#SPL chief exec Neil Doncaster says all 12 clubs will meet on Monday to discuss financial fair play.
who’ll represent FC Enron?
It just shows the power that rangers and sir minty in particular, had over Scottish football over the the years
if Celtic complained about anything minty would have his lackies attack
paranoid , chips on shoulder, are you trying to say that the ref was biased towards rangers , all the crap that we have had to put up with
then the lackies see that the ship is sinking and sir minty will not be in any position to help them, they start to stick the slipper in
the whole lot of them follow mintys lead , when he was happy with CW , they were happy with him, when he decided the time had come to turn on him he let the dogs out
I really find it difficult to listen to these peepil on phone in shows, they have the cheek to sit and congratulate one and other about breaking stories regarding the hun when the real story is their erses must be sore sitting on all the stories that they should have told
noticed a trend among them and that is they never want to revisit anything that they have got completely wrong in the past and are quite aggressive when anybody else brings it up
I hope that at the end of this mess we will have transparency in the game but also transparancy in the press, will they realise that not reporting the facts over the years they have done more damage to the cloven hoofs
Whatever happens today Re: Rangers redundancies – i hope everyone remembers the manner in which Ally McCoist and Walter Smith conducted themselves on and around 20 May 2008.
Remember who the real villans are.
how can all 12 clubs meet on monday tax dodgers fc are in administration and the administrators have no legal right to attend
The seige mentality will kick in again tomorrow at Ibrox, well for 90 minutes anyway. We’ll get the full repertoire, with the ‘we dont do walking away’ brigade displaying a defiant love for their club. Its all fine and well to ‘love’ your club and stand by it to the hilt, especially in its darkest hour.
The three main things I love my club for are its ethos, its worldwide reputation (brilliantly promoted by its fans) and Celtic being the first non-Latin team to win the European cup.
I would suggest that the three biggest headlines connected to RFC in their entire history are all negative.
1. Being forced to end a 100 year open sectarian policy in 1989.
2. The Manchester riots 2008.
3. Worst of all, the latest debacle, call it what you will, cheating, fraud etc.
….and there’s plenty more, like barca 72 etc.
These three stories have made headlines worldwide from Beijing to Buenes Aries,
How can you ‘love’ and be proud of a club with that reputation?
Afternoon fholks…
I remember the Centenary season,
Paul McStay, has any footballer played at such a high consistent level for a whole season.
If anybody doubted Paul’s talent then that season surely proved just how good a footballer Paul was.
I remember celebrating the double as a 19yr old not knowing i would be nearly 30yrs old before we would win the league again.
When we are rightfully crowned with the titles they stole during the 90’s, will it make up for all the parties i missed in my twenties??…Probably not.
Does that mean i wont enjoy them??
Not in the slightest, i’ll enjoy them even more knowing how much ser huns are hurting.
Regarding ogilvie/sfa…
Now is the time for a live press conference with Regan and ogilvie.
ogilvie has to be asked live on camera if he knows about 2nd contracts at ibrokes.
I f he admits the truth….then he resigns.
If he says no…then we wait till the evidence is released and ogilvie has then to face the music….and it wont be flute music.
LET THE PEOPLE SING
Som mes que un club,
Rangers will be involved in a discussion on fair play?
Meanwhile Harold Shipman will give his views on elderly care and Fred Goodwin will be interviewed on responsible banking.
Surely E.S.P.N. will not be so stupid as to have Hateley on to-morrow, game!
P.S. When we are on the trail of assistants to their folly – Who was the friendly Chartred Accountant who inflated the value of Ibrox by £10m. in their Annual Accounts at the start of this century (and beyond) thus keeping them out of Administration all those years ago?
Paul67
Think it is the older generation who still buy the rag in question.
I would not use it for chip paper never mind a source of news on Celtic. HH
Som mes que un club on 2 March, 2012 at 12:16 said:
Tweets5m Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
‘· Close Open Details #SPL chief exec Neil Doncaster says all 12 clubs will meet on Monday to discuss financial fair play’
Does that 12 include the oldco huns or the newco huns?
This just gets better and better.
As the late great Jimmy Durante said: You ain’t seen nothing yet folks!
Schnozzle also said:
“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”
Maybe Murray should have remembered that when he was dissing Adams.
Since he moved to RealRadio, I have not heard DJ.
Does he still have his ‘Certainometer’?
Remember way back in the day when a deal was imminent, soon, certain and when it would all be settled by Christmas, New Year, end of January?
It shows just how much things have changed that Ragers fans must long for those days to live over again.
Please don’t shoot the messenger…
Only reposting what is appearing from BBC reporters on the ‘ol Twitter….
Pigalle – Happy to help. You can be CQN’s very own Plummer!
Marrakesh Express on 2 March, 2012 at 12:21 said
Suspect you’re right on the old repertoire comment.
Interestingly when they were last together and belted out their hymnbook the new Anti-sectarianism law was not yet in place.
Since it became effective on 1 March will be very interesting to see the Strathclyde Police Match Commander’s tactics. Surely they cannot adopt the old I did not hear approach again.
I say send for Eddie Smith – a man with very good hearing.
FAVOURITE UNCLE on 2 March, 2012 at 12:12 said:
Is that you John? ;-)
I was thinking of celebrating with fellow CQNers, my mind wondered back to last October and then the golf and then that fact I hadn’t kicked anything off for this year – ma heid is hurting now! I think in a very strange way – not to be confused with strangeways… I wasn’t there long.
hh
bjmac
Could this mean Tommy Burns won the league?
Please let that be so.
It wasn’t Goram who broke his heart but a club/sfa full of cheats… do I still need to put allegedly after that?
QB
St Martin’s Bhoy on 2 March, 2012 at 12:26 said:
Pigalle – Happy to help. You can be CQN’s very own Plummer!
CQN will need to build a damm with all this news never mind a plummer!
immci on 2 March, 2012 at 12:27 said:
‘I say send for Eddie Smith – a man with very good hearing.’
But Eddie Smith had an anti Celtic agenda because we humiliated him and his fellow referees over their ‘strike’.
He has no similar grievance against the huns.
Does the SFA and or the SPL have the guts to carry out a fair enquiry?
azbmike
no we wont tire of it
dobbo
aye…but remember the manner in
which they conducted themselves
on 02/03/2011. especially FPLG.
doncaster
another muppet
Is it possible for Wim Jansen’s team and a certain Henrik Larsson to appear in an even better light than they already did? We know now that their achievement was even greater than we thought, that they managed to end the dominance of a systematically financially doped, i.e. cheating, team; that they managed to out-box an opponent pumped up on financial steroids to several weights above his true strength and brandishing a horseshoe in his glove that the referee had willfully ignored. Celtic did it against all odds. They did it by playing the game honestly, skillfully, beautifully.
Dead and Loving it on 2 March, 2012 at 12:20 said:
It just shows the power that rangers and sir minty in particular, had over Scottish football over the the years
if Celtic complained about anything minty would have his lackies attack
paranoid , chips on shoulder, are you trying to say that the ref was biased towards rangers , all the crap that we have had to put up with
Yes no matter how ridiculous they looked or sounded they would circle the wagons to defend minty.
The best for me was their defence of the dodgy vicar mc curry.
Seemingly he would’nt cheat as he was a man of god.
Meanwhile the dodgy vicar is giving his blessing to a teenager from his parish behind his wifes back.
He was nothing but a dirty cheating vicar.
I still hope his wife one day walks out on him an starts singing like a canary regarding his refereeing days.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Valley Exile (Not in Administration) on 2 March, 2012 at 12:29 said:
St Martin’s Bhoy on 2 March, 2012 at 12:26 said:
Pigalle – Happy to help. You can be CQN’s very own Plummer!
CQN will need to build a damm with all this news never mind a plummer!
JT :-) – Now where could I go to hear “Dambusters” played on a Saturday afternoon?? It’s amazing how everything pieces together! :-)
SPL meeting on Monday.
Guest speaker will be Campbell Ogilivie.
when does that clown hatetly write in the record ? is it a friday? i dont buy the rag but was angry with his crap last friday like every other tim. and when is the axe falling over at greyskull approx? just im going for my lunch break walk and it would put a spring in my step on hearing off some orcs getting the bullet.
BJ.
‘Ryan O’D is always looking for a ball watcher ;-)’
In keeping with the club ethos, open to all. I didnt know I had to be a golfer….
Yer no bad for a hun :-)
new article posted.
Paul regularly mentions a fait accompli being presented by Zombie Rangers. I think though that it is us who will be presenting the fait accompli now.
If, as has been suggested many times, the actions of Der Hun run all the way to the top, and everything will be done to protect them, the only way now for them to even attempt to save their scrawny necks and tainted baubles is to liquidate now and hope that process hampers the investigation enough for it to be forgotten.
I think the final Glasgow Derby has already been played.