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.
This year’s CQN Golf Open will be held on Friday 24 July at Aberdour Golf Club. This is our 11th annual event and looks set to be a cracker once again. We shall be raising funds for one of our nominated charities and there will be a number of fundraising activities both on the day and in the weeks leading up to the event.
Please keep an eye open for details. Cost for the golf day is £80 including the meal at night. There are a limited number of night time places for non-golfers, cost £45.
To apply for a place, please contact cqnopen15@gmx.co.uk
837 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- »
sipsini
22:34 on 27 April, 2015
Einstein lynch…
What a derogotive post.
I’m undecided on voting labour or snp, your post has probably made my mind up…goodnight.
###
As I said, nationalism appeals to emotion rather than the intellect.
You’ve kind of proved my point.
BRTH
The huns are dead. Long live(?) the Zombies
HH
CRC
ernie lynch
22:54 on 27 April, 2015
Nationalism appeals to those who will not be dictated to, or ruled by, foreigners …… Simples
BRTH..
I’ve been called a Fenian b*****d on many occassions in the past, I just retort I’m not a b*****d.
When is chucking oot time at the kerrydale on Friday?
Night all Night wee Oscar my hero god bless x x
Please remember all those poor people in Nepal in ur prayers tonight Bhoys. I reckon we have the best climate in the world here in the UK.
Weefra
Take care and good night :))
HH
Politics, it is like a mind control experiment on the masses now the way things are Changing radically, everywhere / Change is going on everywhere.
Confuse us – There is no doubt maximum chaos is in action. It is easy to see what is happening when you look through a certain lens, at all levels.
Fire in the Minds of Men – Revolution – so what was it they wanted at the start, that they have to get everyone going relatively crazy, Globally and locally?
It is something they couldn’t possibly get away with unless everything was out of control, and the normal person has been tormented into a position where they OK a ridiculous solution.
Respect the Hardcore who are holding firm with Original Beliefs, both Religious and Political, and it certainly disnae matter what side you are on on either, in my mind.
Ernie,
And what if I vote labour…am I still an idiot?
Brogan. . .
” It’s first elected member — Sir Compton Mckenzie was a catholic.”
Don’t know the answer, so do you mind, elected to what?
Serious question to folk who say they will be doing cartwheels if/when SNP clean up at the election. Will you still see it as a great result if it means the Tories end up the largest party and we have a Con-Lib coalition for another 4 years?
Always thought the SNP were thin on talent in the party outside Salmond and Sturgeon. The inadequacy of some SNP candidates who have massive leads in the polls during recent interviews has been frightening. People should remember they won’t be sending 50+ Sturgeons to Westminister. The old saying about Labour putting a chimp in a suit to stand in Scotland and win comes to mind.
Latchford
There are justifiable reasons for Res12 moving at a snails pace.
Having gone through them I’m not sure it helps the Res to achieve its aim by setting them out right now but it would be totally wrong to think the time taken meant reluctance on Celtic’s part to pursue it.
At some point a fuller explanation can be provided.
BRTH,
A very thought provoking post, which I will have a good think about.
Good points made.
I use the word, but I never used it face to face with anyone.
The finest Celtic supporter I ever knew was my father’s old pal, Andy.
Andy was a Dennistoun born, Presbyterian Free Mason, but his love for Celtic was strong.
They were his team.
Although we described them as huns, neither my father, brother or myself ever referred to them by that name, in is presence.
I’m not really sure why. Perhaps, subconsciously, we inferred a sectarian element to it, but I think it was more because his son actually was one: and out of deference to the father, we refrained.
In my simple mind, I still can’t equate any reasonable minded person of my generation, supporting that team.
They were fully aware of EVERYTHING that club stood for and rejoiced in it.
Being aligned to the Establishment, the so called “better” supporter could always wear the mask of affability in our presence, until sooner or later, the mask slipped.
It always did.
Bigotry was ingrained.
Those who were not of that mind, supported Third Lanark, Clyde or Thistle.
So, perhaps you are right and by referring to them as huns maybe brings us down to their level, but until a more apt term comes along, we may be stuck with it.
Good night sports fans and balladeers.
What Happens if i Vote Tactical…I mean Vote SNP as the Quickest way to Independence..Then…
When we are Indepentent(inevitable)..Vote Labour…Does that Make Me An Idiot…
ACGR…
Awe feck you back on the scene :))
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
22:48 on 27 April, 2015
I’ve never suggested the SNP was anti Catholic.
I’ve said that the swamp it emerged from was anti Irish Catholic.
Many of the founders of the SNP regarded the Scots as a separate race. It sounds ridiculous now, and to be fair, this was before the Holocaust, so maybe it’s unfair to judge them too harshly.
To them indigenous Scottish Catholics were OK, being Scottish. Protestant Irish immigrants were OK, because they were of the Scottish race. Irish Catholic immigrants were an inferior race and threatened the purity of the Scottish bloodline.
And I assume that when you say ‘those within its ranks’ you include a former leader of the party, the guy who supported the Falklands war on the grounds that Argentina is a Catholic country.
Yes truly it’s a mystery as to why they were ever known as Strictly No Papes.
The Honest Cover-up
People in Scotland are sick and tired of sending Labour MP’s who are “thin on talent” to Westminster who do nothing for the people of Scotland and who condemn hundreds of thousands of innocent women, children and men to death through their support of illegal, immoral and indefensible acts of war terrorism.
ACGR
Nice to see you easing yourself back in with a gentle post :-)
Good to see you posting and hoop you are well?
HH
CRC
The honest cover-up
That’s what Sturgeon wants.
It will give her the excuse to claim that Scotland is stuck again with the Tories, repeat the mantra that Scotland didn’t get what it voted for yet again, and use that as an excuse to agitate for a second referendum, ignoring the fact that Scotland did in fact vote to remain as part of the UK.
So she can try and deny Scotland what it voted for.
When I get called a Fenian Bas**rd I always reply ” And don’t you forget it!”
Thank goodness the Labour dinosaurs are almost extinct. What a sorry bunch. Gutter politics.
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar…… Ipox belongs to the creditors
22:58 on 27 April, 2015
ernie lynch
22:54 on 27 April, 2015
Nationalism appeals to those who will not be dictated to, or ruled by, foreigners …… Simples
###
Sad, and just a bit pathetic.
A Scot with that mindset will vote SNP. An English person will vote UKIP.
TheHonestcoverup….Serious question mate…Do you Think SNP give a frig if the Tories and whoever make the next gov…I doubt they do…Its Win Win all The Way for SNP…IMO..
Captain Beefheart
Same to yourself; truly interesting times in Scotland but a few harsh lessons to be learned from all post devolution. Not ironed out yet.
Ernie,
Talking of Blueshirts, Lucinda Creighton (ex Fine Gael and now has her and her pals own party, cos she didd’t get her way) has just shown on RTE that she is now free of the FG spinmasters and express her hard faced Thatcherism out in the open. They will last one election and be gone.
Despite the pay freeze for years in the public service, she wants perf related pay on the old natural distribution curve pish that all HR people spout.
Take out the underpaid 10% for not working till 10pm like the guys in the financial sector who earn 10 times more.
Why do so many people born into money hate hard working people who don’t have as much?
James Connelly was right when he said not to lay down the ICA guns whoever was in charge
Sorry lads, rant over – it breaks my heart how right wing Ireland is. Hard to go to work every day when everyone thinks you represent everything they despise
Hail hail
hetimreaper
22:51 on 27 April, 2015
‘Btw Ernie Jim McColl is pro union now apparently he changed his mind.’
##
He’s still an economic adviser to Sturgeon though is he not?
I see nothing wrong with the word Hun used in a football context.
To me, it means a blind, bigoted, anti Catholic, anti Irish fan who refuses to accept their team is dead.
However, a genuine fan who bears no resentment or bigotry is a bear, or berr depending on where you were educated.
I would never use the word Hun to describe anyone of my acquaintance, or the bears who were my parents’ neighbours and best friends. My old man would have cuffed my lug.
beatbhoy
23:14 on
27 April, 2015
Are Scotland not rightly having a say in the UK? Surely this is our right as being part of better together.
HH
CRC
acgr
Brilliant to know you are well and hope you had a wonderful time worrying all the koala bears, kangaroos and the ole crocodiles. Great to know you are well, and hope to meet you soon. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Captain Beefheart
23:15 on 27 April, 2015
‘Thank goodness the Labour dinosaurs are almost extinct. What a sorry bunch. Gutter politics.’
###
What, specifically do you regard as gutter politics?
Beatbhoy…Dont know Where you live mate
.But For Your Education…The Scottish People will Decide WHEN the next Referendum is….Thats if the English Mps [ depending on the make up of the next Gov]..dont beat Us to it…Either way…Its Coming..And it will Be YES…no doubt..
beatbhoy,
Sturgeon is a very clever cookie, very smart.
She may even be a genuine Politician, Hopefully. She is just a figurehead to something bigger though.
Getting Independence to join the EU. WTF?
BRTH
With regards to the SNP I need only refer to the OB act and their slip in admitting why they passed that bill. It was because celtic supporters singing irish songs were not acting illegally. Therefore to even things up they wanted to criminalise irish songs. That’s what was said and that’s what Happenned.
Denying this seems strange to me.
With regards to the point on the word Huns. Sure it’s a derogatory term. My goodness football is strewn with them. It is however not in any way sectarian, racist or bigoted. Like you in conversation I wouldn’t use it with sevco fans. That is simple common courtesy. But singing it at games. That’s fine.
But as per the OB act now derogatory terms for sevco fans are being outlawed and celtic fans criminalised. Will it be illegal soon to call them scum or any other word. But in Scotland it’s only a bit of fun to sing the famine is over.
It is quite breathtaking to me that we choose to appease the racism being pursued in Scotland. But there you go.
Fried order and weefraethetim evidence? Why don’t celtic and PL just deny it?
BRTH
Re HUNS
“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.”
Firstly, Mad crazy deluded Gers fans……..are there any other kind?
Secondly, there are Sevco supporters and there are HUNS who support Sevco. The first category I would not refer to them as HUNS and would have no wish to offend them as like us they support their team.
The second category are Huns because they act like Huns. Their support for Sevco is nothing more than a vehicle for their hatred of all things Celtic. I take delight in offending them at every opportunity and when they stop acting like Huns I will stop referring to them as such.
HH
Ernie…
I think there is a massive gulf between ukip and the snp, a cheap shot.
Btw… As said before I’m still undecided, I know you are a labour man, you must admit they have let us down badly in the past.
Most I know has voted labour religiously in the past, the majority of them will be voting snp in the coming election, mostly down to weak leadership…ie the wrong brother voted in, a massive mistake.
Like yourself, all I want is the Tories out and I am thick :)
BRTH
In our daily struggles against a sometimes overwhelming bias directed at our club, families and culture, the word Hun is very important.
It can be a pressure relief valve, unleashing levels of stress which could be very damaging to ones health.
They do not like the word HUN – I know that. That is why I call them Huns.
It is a word describing their behaviour – unlike respect I have for friends of all persuasions.
In times of anger levels reaching fever pitch, I have sometimes used the add-ons – Monkey Bas***ds, and believe me, I really felt a lot better.
The only time I feel a wee bit hypocritical is when I hear the furore over a certain song their hordes belt out……….Haven’t we been telling them to go home for years?
Aye mate, Hell mend them :-)
BGX you accused me of being hunlike. You love to mince words but I dont. You called me a hun. Better than you have done that.
As for democracy I think it’s an absolute scandal that the SNP are refusing to rule out another referendum in the next parliament.mits disrespectful of the healthy majority that voted against it. The fact that the SNP haven’t even tried to address the concerns of that majority says it all. Being to,d they are pursuing a fairer scotland while singularly failing to do so in the year.s they have had is breathtaking to.
But it seems scotland is intent to largely vote for the SNP in this election. But democracy means we live with the consequences. So be it.
CRC
When did Scotland not have a say in the UK?
The previous Prime Minister was a Scot, there are plenty of Scottish MPs in Westminster and there always have been, and they helped establish that great Scot John Smith’s Scottish Parliament.
Scotland’s voters have made it clear they do not wish to have a Tory majority in Westminster, and there hasn’t been one voted in in the last 23 years, extending to 28 by the look of it.
Just seen gg post @ 23.18. Could have saved myself some time there……