Humiliate your rivals in the Cup Final by putting five goals past them and, if you don’t pay the piper, you pay the consequences. Winning trophies while running up debts you cannot afford to pay is not a viable strategy. The consequences, if you are fortunate enough to survive, has to be painful, otherwise football removes the moral hazard of failure, making Hearts recent experience more likely to happen to other clubs.
Hearts season at the bottom of the Scottish Premiership is the cost of pouring millions of pounds creditors will not receive onto the Hampden Park pitch to hit five goals past a Hibs team, who live within their means. Many other teams were denied progress in the cups, or higher prize money in the league, while the fantasists were building to their 5-1 glory.
Billy Brown’s nonsense about rescinding a punishment for a club who are still in administration is yet another fantasy, but it was fostered in 2012, by the notion that Scottish football can change insolvency rules on the hoof to accommodate a failed club. If you want to change insolvency rules, knock yourself out, but there is near-uniform agreement that you cannot change rules when a favoured club falls foul, in order to benefit them.
This notion that because the rules were not changed to help Newco Rangers into top flight football, Scotland’s reigning Third Division champions would be outraged, is hardly news. The 11 top flight clubs, most of whom appear to be enjoying a competitive ‘Best of the Rest’ league race, and a whole clutch of lower league clubs, would also be outraged if Hearts were advantaged.
In October 2011, when Rangers fate was privately acknowledged, Craig Whyte, Neil Doncaster and SPL chairman, Ralph Topping, discussed this rule change ruse. It should have been a 30 second conversation; declined when first proposed. Instead, Scottish football was put through the real trauma of a fantasy fear of Armageddon. Now everyone who can’t pay their bills think they have the same entitlement to campaign for a rule change – and why shouldn’t they, the tabloids told everyone that changing the rules on the hoof was acceptable.
Hearts fans know this. They are heading for relegation, those I have spoken to have accepted the situation. For them, it’s all about ensuring the club survives and sorting things out for the long term, SPFL results don’t even register. I don’t know any who want to see their club go cap in hand for rule changes, the way Whyte, then Green, did. It’s demeaning and lacks dignity.
This is turning into my favourite domestic season yet. All the ‘They’ve suffered enough’ merchants better get their strategies sorted for the next episode.
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Paul 67
Well said, do you know he was bigger than me??? BT will confirm that. :)))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Beginning to put 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5. Read on here the other day that we were interested in Griffiths. Today I read on here that Wolves reported to be interested in our Bhoy Calum McGregor on loan to Notts County. Could this be some sort of swap deal between Wolves and Celtic?
RumorzRusCSC
theoriginalsadiesbhoy-you just started one mate :)
TheBarcaMole
Our thoughts would be similar on that front..
Rest In Peace Bobby Collins
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
20:27 on 13 January, 2014
See how rumours start…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Sad to read about the passing of Wee Bobby Collins – RIP.
Being a Govanhill Boy (like me) – he was a favourite of mine and my classmates.
!!bada bing!!
20:29 on 13 January, 2014
theoriginalsadiesbhoy-you just started one mate :)
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I’ve got nothing else to do on a miserable Monday night :-)) I wonder if the DR will run with it tomorrow.
Ach, I’ve been reading too many detective stories recently.
Beattie, Donnelly and Fallon
Fernie, Evans and Peacock
Tully, Collins, McPhail, Wilson and Mochan
Only Sammy Wilson left I believe.
One Nil to the Arsenal.
………….. make that 2!
Great goal Arsenal. 1-0 Wilshere.
Arsenal 2 goals in 30 seconds
Make that 2-0. Giroud.
17 seconds between Arsenal goals.
The aul Lambo looks a very worried man, shame too, I like him.
Our youngsters would take them apart.
Winning captains
21st May 79. THE 4-2 game.
My last ever day at school. Finished my Modern Studies Higher, ditched the green blazer and off to get the Busby and Eaglesham supporters bus to the game !
Our bus had its window smashed in by some brick hurling rangers supporters on springfield road. Saved from glass injury by my tricolour.
Got off bus with no concern re how I might get home, only aggravated butterflies in my stomach. Even more determined to shout myself hoarse in the cause of supporting a mediocre Celtic team to fulfill their destiny against this scum.
Took up my place in the jungle and shared the emotions of it all. If ever the team and crowd were united it was that night.
Folk forget we were 7th in the league when we played Aberdeen in March. A very mediocre team needed all the support it could get. Even more after we were down to 10 men.
Still the rest is history and the journey home was the next challenge when I came back down to earth.
A bus legend Charlie Sharkey took me under his wing and the double celebration of leaving school and winning the league with ten men commenced.
A half and half pint in what seemed like every pub from Celtic park to Glasgow Cross.
I have still got no idea how I got from there back to Eaglesham that night though !
Great memories …..
Just a quick pop in Topsy tribute to the Wee Barra, Bobby Collins.
He was so small and compact, that he didn’t appear to run across the ground. He bounced across the surface of the pitch.
He had a ferocious shot, from a size three pair of boots and was totally fearless.
I was very sad when he left us for Everton, but, at least, we got a set of floodlights.
RIP, wee man. A true legend from the era of Legends: Evans, Tully, Fernie , Stein and Mochan.
I’m away to fail The Herald’s Sudoku (difficult) puzzle again.
Winning Captains 19.48
Where do we send them?
TT
starry plough forza oscar 20:30 on 13 January, 2014 ………………
Thanks. This issue has been bothering me ever since the Boxing Day game v Dundee……..
Just this gut feeling that hey we’re being played here……… And that was on the morning of the game!
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
big-cup-winners
20:07 on 13 January, 2014
Saint Stivs19:28 on13 January, 2014
radio scotland off the ball.“are the rangers club the same club”speirs said NO,then said “its insults my intelligence to suggest they are”.the zombies are revolting.Don’t know what the rest of you have experienced, but since their demise I haven’t spoke to any of the Deady-Bears at work or socially about football, nor about their old or the new club. I can’t recall one digging the subject up.No doubt when they are amongst their own they’ll indulge their collective fantasies and try and re-live their own special brand of farce.Honestly, think the ghouls are ashamed and that’s why they wail and moan when the truth is aired.
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Football is never mentioned at my work place… although a couple of TT s have just recently made an appearance. On the odd occasion the name gets mentioned I asked old or new…
Apparently when I left the room one said the once and always tripe…. no happy current.
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
Bobby Collins RIP great player at Celtic and Leeds
Raspberry-weet-P T night out The Lorne Hotel Friday 24th,hope to make it.
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Saw this cracker on Twitter.
TD67
Guidie isnt a hun as such
He’s trying to save his job just like Keevins etc
Sh ***ing themselves
“We are the people we are immortal…”
Brilliant
TInyTim
Post on here or mail to me at david@CQNMagazine.com
Sad news about the Wee Barra.
Bobby Collins RIP
If Benteke doesn’t start scoring soon Villa could go down
What is the date of the CQN 10 dinner?
TT
Evening Paul67 , are there any plans to give the pubs and buildings at the cross and
surrounding areas a facelift for the commonwealth games , and while
I’m on Celtic v partisan 5-4 amazing atmosphere shit ending
WC
Thanks
TT
TT
Friday 14th March.
TheBarcaMole
19:59 on 13 January, 2014
never inferred that I was shocked! Let’s not drag this out over semantics and linguistics.
I am wondering why, and perplexed as to what ‘the authorities’ hope to gain by their invasive tactics, i.e. the probable/possible infiltration of (Celtic’s) radical supporters’ groups, away support, etc.,…….We are not a threat to society at large, so what is/are their long term ‘political’ objectives and what is to be gained from harassing the GB for example??? Who is behind this campaign of destabilization and intimidation???
Focus???
To put it simple, to create the division of the Celtic support, create tension between the support & the board & to make the Celtic support look malevolent in the public eye. I’d say they have been successful in all of the above up until now. I’m surprised they haven’t sent the noise police round to Celtic Park prior to the expulsion of the Green Brigade.
Divide & Conquer!
Hail Hail!
R.I.P Bobby Collins
Nobody in my work talks about football but they all talk to each other about it. Mind you I have only been there for 16 months. Well, two people talk to me and they are Celtic fans. The rest talk to each other about football but do not support anybody!!! Weird isn’t it.