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GlassTwoThirdsFull, That evidence is enough to take to court to start and action by a Celltic shareholder
The charlottefakes email trail can be easily traced by any Journalist
As Gordon_j pointe out they print kies 99% of the time …why worry about this now.
I will take part in no campaign.
Clearly very few – especially on here – have realised that the authorities dont give two tuppeny ducks what you think. I include Celtic plc in this.
My only hope is that the authorities have been told to back off. If so I hope they have managed to gain some personal guarantees.
In the meantime …. Why would anyone give their hard earned cash to help provide these chancers, proven liars with a lucrative salary.
I have ditched the windbag route and I am firmly ensconced in the financial boycott route …as many may have noticed recently.
Every post I have made about the 5 way agreement has been FLATLY ignored on here. Well over 10 times since Celtic plc used Phil after the boxing day match.
If you want to watch a corrupt competition with Celtic plc obvious compliance then good luck to you.
Personally I think your turning our club into WWF plc.
Boycott at any level you seem fit but if you dont boycott now then please just accept it.
The reel of Old Firm is still very much in the air.
I believe our clubs stance is
Campbell do what you must, dont involve us, we will not interfere. As we have deen so far.
The loss of our only business model is too kuch for them to take. In fact that loss might have to see them getting involved a few hours every week.
Celts for change badly needed
HH
Key Charlotte info I am waiting on –
Audio from the dinner between Whyte, Reagan and Ogilvie.
e-mail from Murray on the takeover.
Reel=reek
mullet and co
10:28 on 9 June, 2013
Barcabhoy, Can the Charlotte Fakes leaks not now be published due to the interest in them? Is there no legal loophole. I frankly don’t believe that this stuff is not in the interests of the common man.
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I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t provide that answer. I do believe that the BBC are our best hope of getting exposure on these issues. Not because the BBC are the only ones interested in getting the truth out there, but because the BBC legal advice will be weighted more public interest than commercial self protection
The leaks are potentially devastating for some individuals and some people could face criminal charges based on what we have seen so far, if the information provided is genuine and has not been adapted to alter the original content.
Should the email that was leaked last night, suggesting a government official could be bribed to provide confidential government files, turn out to be accurate, then thatis a very serious matter indeed.
Whether anyone took up the offer or not doesn’t matter. If a nutter offers to have someone shot in return for a payment, then that’s a very serious criminal offence. I would have thought that making an offer like that to a lawyer, who didn’t then report it to the authorities , would be a problem for the lawyer as well. Does Lawyer client privilege still apply when the Lawyer is the client ?
The SFA denied myself the opportunity to watch my team in the CL and therefore diminished the product I had paid hundreds of pounds for.
Do I have a case for seeking financial compensation from the SFA?
BBC Scotland is so badly compromised by this story
See Jimmy Saville
HH
By David McCarthy | 9 Jun 2013 08:20
NEIL LENNON last night admitted he would
stay at Celtic for the rest of his career if he
could be guaranteed a crack at the Champions
League every season.
The Parkhead manager has been linked with
the jobs at Everton, Stoke and Wigan this
month but is adamant that nothing would
tempt him from Glasgow’s East End if he knew
he’d been leading them into Europe’s elite
competition each term.
But despite last season’s heroics, which led to
a place in the last 16, Celtic have an extra
qualifying hurdle to negotiate this summer
and Lennon knows there are no guarantees
that his team will get to the group stages.
The 41-year-old admits he is ambitious but
believes that regular Champions League
nights under the floodlights at Parkhead and
around Europe would satisfy his need to prove
himself at the top level.
He said: “I’d like to stay consistently in the
Champions League. There is a big emotional
element at this club for me, I’ve been
ingrained in it for 13 years.
“It would be a massive wrench for me to go
elsewhere.
“If you could guarantee me being in the
Champions League every year with Celtic then
I would have no aspirations to go anywhere
else.
“There would be no better place to be and that
would satisfy me, absolutely.”
Celtic have three qualifying rounds to get
through and will know their first opponents,
whom they’ll play on July 15 or 16, when the
draw is made on June 24. Lennon knows that
with Rangers still out of the SPL, the need to
be involved in the Champions League is vital
to maintain a strong competitive edge in his
players.
He said: “The qualifiers are dangerous games
because you don’t know what’s out there.
“The most pressure I’ve felt last season in any
game was Helsingborg because we knew there
was so much riding on it.
“This year the pressure is alleviated a bit
because of what we did last season, but on
the other side the expectation is higher.
“It’s difficult because the coefficient works
against us. We had to play two qualifiers last
year and this season we’ll have to play three.
“They are very fraught because they are
competitive games and a hell of a lot hinges
on them.
“Getting to the group stages again would be a
huge shot in the arm for our season.
“When Rangers come back, the Scottish game
will get an edge again, but until then we’d like
to be consistently in the Champions League
groups.”
He described watching Celtic take the lead
against Barcelona in the Catalan capital as a
‘wow’ moment and wants more of that and
the feeling he experienced when his team
defeated the Spanish champions at Parkhead
later in the campaign.
“You are standing there in the Nou Camp
watching your team and you see your team
take the lead,” he said. “There are 10,000
Celtic fans there on the third tier and you
score to go one up.
“You look around and go ‘wow, have we just
done that?
“For the 90 minutes you are engrossed in the
game and then to go and beat them at Celtic
Park.
“That exceeded expectation.
“When your team is doing what you want
them to do and you’re getting results from it,
there’s no better feeling.
“I want to be in management because I love
the game and it’s the next best thing to
playing.
“I’m in a privileged position because it’s the
only thing I’ve known since probably about
seven years of age.
“So I know I’m privileged to be the manager of
a football team – and a great football club.
“All this talk of being linked with this, that or
the other – I’m not as blase to think that I
would ever go or be asked to go.
“It’s such a precarious job and I love what I
do. It gives me something to get up in the
morning for and challenge me every day.
“You have bad days, there are stressful days
but you wouldn’t want it any other way.”
Lennon has been linked with a host of players
but believes that having striker Anthony
Stokes available next term will be like having
another new signing – if the Irishman agrees a
new contract.
Stokes missed the first half of last term but
ended the season in great form and Lennon
believes he can shine in the next campaign for
club and country.
He added: “He is the quintessential lovable
rogue. He’s had discipline problems but they
were minor problems in terms of promptness
and stuff like that.
“I’m not big on discipline but I expect players
to respect the rules of the club.
“In fairness to him, there has been a huge
change in his demeanour this season. He’s
always had the talent, he’s got great
movement and is good with both feet.
“He’s developing, he’s 24 now and is coming
into his peak years. I think we’ve got a good
player on our hands.
“He scored seven goals in 12 games when he
came back from injury and had his best game
in a Celtic shirt at the cup final.
“He’s a big-game player when he puts his
mind to it – a very good finisher and I’d love
to see him play for Ireland.
“He needs to hit the ground running next
season. He’s definitely got the talent to play
for Ireland.
“What he needs to do is find consistency and
I’m sure he’ll do it.”
AWE NAW @ 10 53.
” Clearly very few –especially on here —have realised that the authorities don’t give two tuppeny ducks what you think , I include Celtic plc in this “.
Bang on ! .
The 5 way agreement stinks.. Corruption always requires a bi-partisan consensus . In Scotland it seems to require a tango for 5 .
If there was a equivilant sporting scandal in England or other countries would there be a news blackout like we are getting here?
I very much doubt it.
Get it roon ye Pat Nevin!
ITV have beaten the BBC to secure highlights of Scotland international fixtures for the next four seasons.
The new £53m arrangement will begin next August with the opening qualifying matches in the 2016 European Championship qualifying ties.
SOT
Aye for old Rangers read old Firm in the 5 way agreement
HH
Establishment power and money are what is holding back the truth being outed, Money in circulation sales and establishment connections with tabloid owners and editors, secret societies of whatever form within the establishment control what we read in the tabloids
We witnessed cheating during the Mowbray year, in its most blatant example Craig Thomson at Ibrokes allowed Watties mob to kick us all over the park, then after match discussions with his mentor Dallas Thomson decided to apologise for a penalty not given, the job had been done. Neil Lennon was no Tony Mowbray he faced the SFA establishment head on and dougie dougie was the result, Neil paid a heavy price, the tabloid media consistently waged a war on Neil portraying him as a snarling, angry, violent individual, Neil and his family suffered as the SFA establishment used their contacts in the MSM to wage war to break Neil Lennon, it is unforgivable what happened to Neil at the hands of the tabloid press, it continues to be a major embarrassment to them professionally and personally as they continue to ignore what is happening at Sevco and the SFA, their sales continue to decline, i will personally be happy to see their demise
Barcabhoy
10:02 on 9 June, 2013
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Best ever summary of the whole sorry fiasco that our so-called MSM journalists are afraid to address.
Clear, concise, unembellished.
Well done & Thank You.
So the SFA punish BBC Scotland for getting banned from Ibrox and now banned from hampdump
HH
Awe nae …SoT
Quite so
How Ogilvie remains in situ is incredible
The role that the SFA and ALL Scottish clubs have played in allowing sevco a place in their structure is shameful
All football clubs are equal but some football clubs are more equal than others
Lions Roar
The “you are Sevco, that’s what we are saying” tape was published by The Sun. That was the end of Green as Rangers CEO. There was no conspiracy of silence. Alex Thomson as just tweeted the concerns for the media over Charlotte Fakes is hacking. Not anything else.
That supports my earlier posts from today, regarding the Media’s difficulties. What it won’t stop however is any Police action. The Police are obligated to investigate evidence of a crime, and I doubt will have any issues over how the evidence was obtained. The exception might be entrapment with Police involvement , although that looks highly unlikely here.
Lionroars
Their demise cannot come quick enough
They are an anachronism….
Slow death….of a thousand cuts most of them self inflicted
Pfayr
I disagree. With our plc’s acquiescence Ogilvie is quite simply the only man with the qaulification to do the job of saving the Old Firm.
Why do you think Pest and Smith were expunged for Ogilvie to come in completely unopposed.
The man has the experience and connections, of that there is no doubt.
He also has personal EBT payback motivation to brush it all under the carpet.
If he can award his C.E.O such a massive pay rise. One SFA bonus will easily allow him to pay back any unduables.
Campbell was brought in for this purpose.
HH
I have read the debate re the MSM lack of pursuing the CF leaks. There are a million legal ways for the story to be pursued. But they are in absolute radio silence on this. They all wants the story to go away. They are all implicated in this.
It really is quite remarkable and vindicates all our views on corruption in our game. And to think they still try and call us paranoid!
What we need to do is ask the questions that our so called Journalists won’t ask. They will try and ignore this and let’s face it we have seen the so called institutions of Scotland attempt to defend the indefensible.
It is celtics role in this which troubles me most. Paul has accused me of wanting celtic to grandstand. I don’t agree. Celtic and the celtic support have been directly impacted by al of this. It isn’t good enough for celtic to sit on the sidelines and do nothing.
THIS CESSPIT REALLY NEEDS CLOSING DOWN…..THIS IS CORSICA’S REVELATIONS ON SALLY’S IDIAO WHITE WATER RAFTING TRIP FOR CHARITY….THIS CLUB IS ROTTEN TO IT’S VERY FOUNDATIONS…
Is Ally up s**t creek without a paddle?
Just another quick post to follow up some previous twitter comments.
Ally McCoist has embarked upon a £10k fundraising campaign for the Rangers Charity Foundation. Good stuff!
He is aiming to achieve this by navigating some white water rapids in Idaho (the River Salmon) with a team of Rangers Charity Foundation supporters.
My interest in this was piqued a couple of weeks ago when I noticed that he had only raised £219. I therefore raised awareness of the event in my blog and subsequently on twitter (I am not claiming credit here for now getting him to the £8,000 he has currently raised).
What I found particularly strange was that the target seemed so low. Mr McCoist is a wealthy man through his footballing and media endeavours as are many of his associates, friends and colleagues. Indeed, I would have anticipated a target of £100,000 to be more appropriate especially when one considers the costs involved in this wort of thing. I decided therefore to keep an eye on this.
My curiosity was further raised by a tweet from Ally McCoist’s son on Thursday, 22 May in which he stated that the airline had given away their business class seats because they were late. Business class seats on a fundraising trip? Hmmm…
So I have followed the redoubtable Mr McCoist junior and it transpires that he spent 3 days in New York City in a hotel overlooking Times Square. Then he flew out to Denver before catching a connecting flight to Boise, Idaho and then another connection to Salmon, Idaho. Following the rafting, Mr McCoist junior has helpfully informed us that he will be in San Francisco afterwards although it is unclear for how long or if this is part of the charity programme or, em, personal business.
A wee friend in the travel agency business did a bit of research for me and priced the flights only package at £4,500. A hotel in New York overlooking Times Square would set you back about £300 per night. So that’s at least £5,000.
On top of this, of course, one has to add the cost of the white water rafting. I am reliably informed that the RCF party are participating in a five day experience costing £1,500. So we’ve now got a running total of £6,500 per head.
Yes folks, Ally McCoist has gone all the way to America to raise £1,500. If Mr McCoist is indeed employed on an annual salary of £750,000 as rumoured that 1/500 of his annual salary or about half-a-day; not quite a tithe, eh?
Anyway, I digress. Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted that I mention both Ally McCoist and his son. They may also have spotted that I mentioned that Mr McCoist is leading a team.
Now, I could be mistaken here but I’ve trawled (yes, it is an obsession) Just Giving and I cannot find a single entry for Ally’s Idaho Challenge other than that under Ally’s own name. There is no account in his son’s name and there is no other account specific to Idaho.
That’s very strange…I mean where are the funds being raised by other rafters? You don’t think they could all be in one Just Giving account, do you? But, but, but, but that would mean that the charity is now paying everyone to take a holiday at its expense! Surely not?
Maybe those nice, responsive people at the Rangers Press Office or the Rangers Charity Foundation itself can reply and let me know (they’ve got the email address)?
If they do decide to respond perhaps they could also let me know how they plan to ensure that the insurance policy they’ve obviously taken out to protect the rafters is legally binding if it hasn’t actually been legally executed by the board of trustees?
NegAnon2
totally agree with your last post, the clubs stance and silence troubles and disappoints me.
barcabhoy
10:02 on 9 June, 2013
I don’t believe many journalists have an emotional barrier to writing stories. It may be tougher or easier if its about a club you have strong feelings for, however there will be very few journalists indeed who say to themselves , “I’m not touching that , because XYZ FC were my boyhood team”
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I would imagine journalists would also have been worried about their personal safety, and that of their families…….and still will be……
Masty
Cardihun done One last year
Same charity ?
HH
The Celtic support had a perfect opportunity to raise worldwide the SFA corruption at last months SC Final. Instead we had a packed Celtic end who couldn’t even muster a song protest against the powers that be.
Ogilvie + his cohorts must have been pissing themselves laughing in their boardroom after the game.
The Charlotte tapes are a complete + utter waste of time as nobody will act on them. It baffles me why people get excited about them.
Awe naw
I agree with you ….my comment re Ogilvie was predicated upon considering the matter out with the cozy establishment SFA bubble
We are acquiescing in his continuation
awe naw
I am sitting at the laptop and catching up with CORLEONE on sky+ cosa nostra up to their necks in corruption,but the huns make them look like the salvation army..
neganon2
11:32 on 9 June, 2013
We have, indeed, been impacted…but positively…….they are deed…..!!!!
…..and their tribute act is heading in the same direction (once the spivs can ‘cash in’)
As a Celtic Supporter, I have never been happier……..let them live out their (doomed) charade….
Kilbowie Kelt
Thanks, the benefit we have on this forum is that Paul allows us to express an opinion , as long as its not defamatory or uses language you wouldn’t use in front of a small child.
It’s a matter of regret that the mods of TSFM, which is a multi fan forum, decide to delete posts which are neither defamatory or use offensive language. They do so on the basis that they and they alone will decide what you can write about.
When I post , it takes time and a fair bit of thought . I’m not alone in that , there are many excellent posters on here who also post on TSFM , who run the risk of wasting their time and effort in contributing to a debate on TSFM. The Mods there are every bit as bad as a paid for PR firm, when it comes to censorship.
I decided to stop contributing there as I wasn’t prepared to submit to censorship on work which was neither defamatory or offensive in language. I hope the others who contribute there do not have their time and effort wasted by a Mod with a control issue.
If they do, then they know that this site is one of enlightened openness
barcabhoy
forgive my ignorance…TSFM?
TMWTL,
I agree … You have to be buttoned up the back and have lived in an isolationisme tank for 20 years if this is a confirming experience for anyone.
Lets not forget Craig Whytes motivations; Greed and avoiding becoming the patsy.
HH
masty is neil lennon
11:35 on 9 June, 2013
The only thing that would trouble and disappoint me is if our Club / Board behaved like the zombies board / club did ………..
Barcabhoy
11:27 on
9 June, 2013
This is the newspaper which was frightened off from serialising Phil Mac’s Downfall, taking part on whomever’s game plan by rubbishing ole Chuckles after he had got the share issue through and sold the season tickets is by no means proof of no conspiracy to silence, its the exact opposite, maybe i will be made to look foolish by daily exposes by the Sun using all of Charlottes material, then again maybe not
As for criminal prosecutions i will wait and see
Isolation tank
This predictive text is very annoying
HH
The Scottish Football Monitor…..
Barcabhoy
Proud to say I have never contributed to TSFM and stopped lurking when they gave Crosgrove a platform
HH
masty is neil lennon
11:42 on 9 June, 2013
The Scottish Football Monitor…..sorry, going fast