When Tony Mowbray was in charge of Celtic the club wrote to the SFA regarding the standard of refereeing in Scotland almost on a weekly basis. The outcome of this correspondence was not constructive, if anything, some at the Association hardened their stance.
A lot has subsequently happened.
Yesterday’s Sunday Mail referred back to Celtic’s dialogue with the SFA during Mowbray’s tenure, which I found interesting. Soon after, when a referee was found to have lied to Neil Lennon (and his supervisor), the association were vulnerable. Wounds opened at that time which have not healed.
The ‘paper suggested Peter Lawwell is “Driven, obsessively controlling, politically statute, manipulative. A master of the dark arts. There’s nothing he won’t do to get Celtic what they want. No-one he won’t attempt to control to get it”.
Quite a character assassination. I wonder what they’re worried about?
We are also told that our chief exec has “An over-arching influence on every facet of the Scottish game. He could have had a crack at sorting it for everyone. But no. That wouldn’t have sold any season tickets, would it?”
Those of you who bought a season ticket on the back of Peter Lawwell’s letter must feel the club went to extraordinary lengths to win your business. The article shared the fantasy many football fans have that Peter Lawwell being on the SFA board means Peter Lawwell controls the SFA. He doesn’t, but he is a formidable advocate of reform.
So what are they worried about? From my perspective, pretty much everything. The old ways were liquidated, we’re living in times with only one Super Power. The old ways are gone and they are never coming back.
Calls for Peter Lawwell to resign from the SFA board because he “wouldn’t recognise the greater good” are laughable. Those who interpret subtext will know this reads ‘Lawwell is an animated asker of difficult questions’.
What started five years ago with DVDs arriving at Hampden showing Robbie Keane yards onside has gotten a whole lot more serious, and personal, judging by the sustained attack on our CEO. If you think this is about Celtic writing a letter about a referee decision a week ago you couldn’t be further from the truth.
Never try to manipulate a master of the dark arts.
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Aw Naw
Of course they bloody did. We could ride out the TV cost of losing Rangers. They couldnt.
Who were we going to play against? Montrose?
It’s the interdependent nature of football. It explains away a lot about decisions taken.
I dislike all that we are up against but I’m not blinded by it.
friesdorfer
Mike in Toronto,
I have a little insight into how Celtic/Lawwell use people incl the most learned Supporters of the club. So I remain ambivalent about this out to get Lawwell story.
Actions speak louder than words and I have not seen too many from our CEO in support of
– OBB and young Celtic fans with a criminal record
– kettling of Celtic fans
– transparency on 5 way agreement and Celtics involvement
– snail like progress on RES 12
I agree with the main article the letter on the penalty decision is a red herring. As a Celtic supporter I would like to see the club be transparent , the very thing we rightly accuse the SFA off.
Put the facts on the table in a business like way and take the discussion. We should have nothing to hide ….
Negannon2…lets get something straight..I do find you Negative…also i doubt if i have ever used the word Hate..i Do Accept democracy, my Country voted no, but im 100% sure that in the future it will voteYES..
Goodnight Timland
HH
ernie lynch
Im talking rank and file bigots.
Serious question,
What does it matter to us and how would it affect us if King got the SFA Seal of Approval?
Would we not rather have another in a line of Carpetbaggers, Snake Oil Salesmen and Conmen, than someone who knew what they were doing?
What needs to be done is to sort out the SFA, bring in proper financial controls and and have the game properly monitored and audited.
I thought this was an April fool at first. Whatever next?
http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/apr/audi-e-diesel.cfm?
Ps I think the German Federal Minister for Education and Research should change his name …….. to Ima
Ginger. No sympathy at all. Keep them down as long as possible. We do stand alone. We don’t needthat shower. Hail hail fella.
James gang
Nice wee bit of adopted victimhood there.
Of course the point was not about needing permission to bark but the earlier failure to bark. That’s why I said, ernie gets it tight for responding to posters that the Yessers give full backing to.
I wasn’t complaining about your reaction to ernie but the lack of earlier reaction to the Yes dialogue love in. Not one Yesser seems willing to call out their own side.
Night Dena
HH jamesgang
Negannon2…where did i call you a hun…i never have…
jamesgang
just when ye think your out :)))))
bonan nokton
love or should I say AMOR
GoogleCSC
Hamiltontim
ref the two Hamilton fans.
If you don’t carefully pick and choose your battles over this odious OBaF Act then your whole case is weakened. The scenario as you outlined it had nothing that was particular to the contentious parts of this act, but instead would have had these two knuckleheads lifted 50, 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. The absence of anyone in their immediate vicinity is irrelevant, since they were outside a Motherwell pub apparently trying to rouse up those inside just after horsing their team back to the Championship playoffs. And they do it with the polis watching or they were so fuelled up they were oblivious to their presence.
The process of how this legislation was enacted needs scrutiny as do the really oppressive parts of it. I think you waste your energies otherwise, just my opinion.
HH
Captain Beefheart
21:49 on 27 April, 2015
Just to add.
Yes aspects of Irish nationalism could be extremely primitive.
It was not a coincidence that no while no more than a handful of people from the UK and the USA volunteered to fight for Franco, Ireland managed six hundred.
friesdorfer
22:19 on 27 April, 2015
NegAnon2
Show us the evidence. Or give Celtic the same consideration that you wish to be shown to you (us).
HH
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sorry about the last feck up.
These guys really have to be called to account. Put up bone fide evidence, or shut tf up. End of. I can guarantee not one of them will produce proof. My ST is secured. I don’t really give af what anyone else thinks.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Sftb
Shame you couldn’t see my wee face.i was smiling at/with you when I posted.
Apols but I’ve not had time to fully read back.and if I took the time to respond to all the daft posts on here I’d never have time to write my own daft posts!
You might see me as a Yesser. I don’t. I also don’t see you as a No-er. Just see you as a fellow Tim with a differing view from me.
;-)
HH jamesgang
Sftb
And I don’t think saying goodnight to Ernie in Esperanto will have hurt his feelings too badly!!!
Night Leftie!
HH jamesgang
latchford ….
you better watch out…. too many emails agreeing with me, and you’ll be blotting your CQN copybook for sure!
Auldheid… still pals? I know that you know I appreciate the work that you and others are doing… just my age and experience makes me question those in authority. Been doing this for too long…. makes people cynical.
But I would really hate to see Celtic compromised ….
corruptio optimi pessima … that sort of thing.
B B
Ta for that. Their carry on at corners was unbelievable . Josh scored from a corner when they played them in the Ajax tournament a few weeks ago. Finished one all tho!!
Leftclicktic
I think TBJ raised a very valid point earlier
Play offs for that other mob, charge £25 for a programme, which you need to gain free entry to game at danger dome – how will other clubs and SPFL react to that ?
Hail Hail, and need to be talking abooot the Celtic
Auldheid,
No I do not suggest that Lawwell and the SFA are in cahoots. Lawwell is part of a Board and will have allies / enemies on any given topic. For whatever reason Paul67 has been given the green light to publish this article by Lawwell. I don’t have an insight on why this is the case.
I don’t see what the SFA have to gain by forcing Lawwell out. They would effectively ostracise the most powerful club in the land that is respected across Europe. A touch naive even for the SFA. Celtic can play hardball on TV deals, Player releases, Refereee performance etc. If Celtic so choose they can bring Scottish football to its knees.
If I was Lawwell my full energy would be on securing CL qualification and the £30M jackpot. It’s never personal just business.
Concerning not winning the treble, cup games can be quite hazardous as they are a one off, even the deid team struggled in this trophy in the early years, even though they started out at least 15 years before us their name is actually NOT on the cup.
Also their one and only title win was followed by our six-in-a-row, however, the black arts ensued that this was going to change, somehow and somewhere a rival had to be found for the upstart Irish side from the east end of the city.
After they were dedicated to the goatshaggin fraternity and the influx of black north work force to Govan the great orange hope was born.
Although numerous teams won the Cup in a span of 25 years between huns wins including Third Lanark, Hearts, Dundee, Falkirk, Kilmarnock, Thistle, Morton, Airdrie and St Mirren, between the end of WWI and the start of WWII the hun would claim 16 Championships, coincidence? Govan Shipbuilders sporting division also won the 1st post war title.
Einstein lynch…
What a derogotive post.
I’m undecided on voting labour or snp, your post has probably made my mind up…goodnight.
Josiebee
Correct ,the last two and a half seasons have shown that we don’t need or want them
Their whole existence is based on hate
Second existence, that is
Images from last night’s Celtic POTY Awards.
Click on the images to see properly.
http://www.cqnmagazine.com/cqn-images-from-celtic-poty-awards/
This Place is Gonna be o so quiet when king gets his ass kicked , the huns dont get promotion and labour….na i wont go there…Thats takink liberties….
latchford
the man to succeed PL?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7zkd0kRS4
What does a zombie become when it dies ?
I suppose we’ll find out later this week .
Coney, have a good evening. Were I an Irish nationalist, I would blow up all ‘Irish’ theme bars around the globe. Just watch those bicycles crash from the roofs.
Ernie, I love it when you use the word ‘reactionary’. It is so 1980s. Thankfully your hard left pals took a doing which they haven’t recovered from. Your best bet is the Greens but they are stark raving mad.
The Labour Brigade(old) fighting a rearguard( no laughing) action tonight on CQN…bless
Ginger. They died and they know it. All u get from them is old firm this and that. It’s hilarious.
Wonder if we’ll see a George Square style rebellion after the polls when the union is back on the ropes.
Good Evening.
CQN is a funny place sometimes.
At the risk of starting all out war on these pages can I pose a question or two?
1. I was speaking to an elderly lurker a few weeks ago and we got around to talking about politics. The man concerned, an ex seminarian, asked why some on the blog felt that the SNP was institutionally anti Catholic?
He pointed out that its first elceted member to anything was in fact a Catholic and that history shows that Catholics were involved in the very foundation of the SNP. It’s first elected member — Sir Compton Mckenzie was a catholic.
Further, some of those who founded the party were former Labour party members and indeed its first honorary president was the remarkable Robert Cunninghame Graham who had been elected as the first socialist MP prior to switching to the National Party.
An interesting article on the SNP and where it stands with Scottish Catholics appeared recently in the Scottish Catholic Observer and I link it here http://www.sconews.co.uk/opinion/10479/charting-the-electoral-winds-of-change/
Whilst I am aware that there have been those within its ranks who have made remarks in the past which are “questionable” to say the least – I know to my own perosnal knowledge that I have heard similar remarks from those who support the Conservative and indeed the Labour party.
However, with the huge upsurge in SNP support and membership there will be many Catholic voices within its ranks.
So the question I pose on this 2015 night is where are the anti catholic policies in the SNP manifesto. If they are there I will be interested in reading them and asking some questions.
2. I read a long and lengthy debate today on the use of the word HUN.
I see there is a campaign to have the word declared offensive if not sectarian. Now it is clearly not sectarian in my opinion, but let me ask a question.
Does anyone reading these pages ever use the word as a compliment?
When you here someone say ” Oh he’s a hun!” do you ever get the impression that the person being talked about is a good guy?
No me neither.
I am sure that loads of people reading this have some good friends who are fans of the club that lives down Ibrox way. Now, we wall know they are poor demented fools perhaps, but they can be friends nonetheless.
So, what if one of those friends said ” Do me a favour, don’t refer to me as a hun please. I know it is maybe intended just as a bit of banter but I find the term annoying, possibly even a bit offensive. Sorry to be a pain but it is just how I feel.”
What would you do?
Personally, I try not to use the term at all because it just might offend someone and in all truth I don’t really want to offend anyone — even mad crazy deluded Gers fans.
Its just not me, so I don’t use it though I know others do.
So here is my second question:
If the word HUN is used as a derogatory term and some do take offence to it — why would anyone want to insist on using it? I genuinely don’t get that. I don’t understand why any Celtic supporter would want to do that simply because I have always believed that we, as a club and a support, should not be seen to be denegrating anyone – even befuddled supporters of The Rangers. We are better than that.
I know I am probably out on a limb of my own in this point of view but I genuinely don’t get why we should care about the word HUN at all.
By the way I saw someone earlier discussing the use of the word fenian in context and was reminded of explaining to my son why I was annoyed when banks of blue shirted supposed football fans were shouting ” Are you watching fenian scum”.
I explained to my son that if I ever caught him calling anyone “scum” he would be in for the roasting of his life, and that as for being a fenian, well it would no doubt surprise some of them to hear me declare that I was indeed a fenian and proud of it!
But I don’t get why we would want to hang on to HUN or use it in any context at a football match.
No doubt I am about to find out.
Captain Beefheart
22:35 on 27 April, 2015
It causes me a certain wry amusement when someone who doesn’t know their arse from their elbow attempts to patronise me.
Btw Ernie Jim McColl is pro union now apparently he changed his mind.
What a disturbing documentary is Himmlers chronicles. Switching it off and hitting the hay.
I’m sure it does Ernie. I’m sure it does.