There’s lots of understandable media interest in the anticipated parting of the ways of ‘Greatest (only) Ever Rangers Manager’ Ally McCoist and newco. McCoist, as ever, has let it be known that he’s looking for a £400k golden handshake, which will almost certainly have the club offer more of its commercial assets to Mike Ashley if it is to be funded.
I hope he gets everything he asks for, bleed them dry, Ally, even if they need to sell more of their IP.
Irrespective of the final settlement, the most important outcome of the termination meetings is whether or not McCoist agrees to a silence clause in return for his cash. More than anything else, this club needs some straight talking from trusted sources who know where the bodies are buried.
The cash will be tempting for Ally, but his open and frank voice going forward is of vastly more value to his club, if not to him. The most debilitating scenario would be an Ashley-funded settlement with a silence clause. Go for it, Ally.
I know at Christmas your thoughts are never far from Billy No’well. Billy has broken new ground in the Bampot stakes and released a DVD with 17(!) of his videos. Full details here.
You can also order the CQN Annual and DVD bundle here. It’s a great offer, check it out – tons of great reading and photos on your favourite indulgence.
If you’re late on the blog, there was an earlier article today.
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TONYDONNELLY
Buy me a pint and I’ll think about it.
SFTB sorry did,nt see it will scroll back. Hail Hail Hebcelt
I didn’t get the Nike thing? You not like them?
Anyway, no more from me, I’m off oot for a wee smoke and dram in a grand storm to think if I can think what Tonev is thinking right now after I’d been branded a Racist without proof or testament beyond my word against his. Then I’m going to go to bed and plan what I would do in the desert of retirement at 23 years of age. (It’ll be a long dream)
You boys be gentle on the huns now, don’t you know they’ve been punished enough.
the exiled tim
15:33 on 17 December, 2014
But I’m not common…..!!!!
The SFA will have discussed decided amongst themselves, and Celtic may have abstained from that decision …… anyway, oim going to check the foekin’ thing out before it comes out the wash …..hahahahahahaha
Imagine for a moment where we would have been if it were not for the fans & bampots intervention & input.
Kitalba
Stay well and fighting fit sir.(all it takes is for good men to say nothing)
Till later all
Standard Operating Procedure
Confidentiality Agreement
No such thing as free money
Anyway, there’s too much chess yet to be played before Ally toots his bugle…
U
https://twitter.com/stellaceltic/status/545187932647464961
67Heaven
Go on then, check it out, you will find that Celtic were 100% behind the agreement.
HH
Be All You Can Be .
A super yukky advert for the US Army ——– it was on American tv stations for years . If you were lucky it would pop up in the advertising breaks on programmes like MASH.
A slogan so yukky ,it has to have been used by Blair or The Great Panjandrum.
CMS Advisory Group appointed corporate secretary of Sevco:
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/liam-o-donoghue/25/6a0/910
Santa here early, fat Sally still driving the sevco bus,
Irish Post 16/5-2001
Of soccer and sectarianism
Peter Carberry reviews the ill-fated history of Belfast Celtic.
Sixteen years ago the bulldozers moved into Celtic Park – known to its fans as Paradise – and flattened the remnants of what had been a cornerstone of West Belfast life. Imagine Rangers without Celtic and you get some idea of the catastrophic loss suffered by the domestic game when Belfast Celtic was forced to withdraw its membership from the Irish League in April 1949.
It’s a poignant irony that, while the patrons of Glasgow’s Celtic Park prepare to salute a domestic treble with this Saturday week’s Scottish Cup final against Hibernian, their numbers will be swollen by a travelling support from Northern Ireland who once had their green-and-white-hooped heroes a little closer to home.
Padraig Coyle’s Paradise Lost & Found: The Story of Belfast Celtic, the paperback version of which has just been published, is a salutary reminder of how football is never “just” a game when club and community become inextricably entwined. Formed in 1891, three years after its Glaswegian role model, Belfast Celtic quickly established itself as a beacon for the city’s working-class Catholics and the biggest rivals to Linfield, the standard-bearer of the Protestant establishment.
Belfast’s version of the Old Firm attracted sell-out crowds. But the sectarian and politically unstable nature of post-World War I Irish society ensured that Celtic fans were literally marked out as targets:
“Anyone showing visible support for the club would be assumed to be a Catholic and could, unknowingly, have their coat marked with chalk. As they made their way home through the infamous Dee Street that led from the Oval [Glentoran’s ground], they would be set upon by Protestant adversaries.”
Such common episodes of violence during a time of civil war on the island led Celtic to quit the league in 1920, unable to guarantee the safety of officials or fans. They left as champions and returned four years later to embark upon a run of incredible success, winning the title and wartime regional league
15 times between 1925 and 1948. Coyle, though, is understandably eager to cut to the chase and arrive at the defining moment of Celtic’s history, the 1948 Boxing Day meeting with Linfield at Windsor Park.
Two Linfield players carried off, one from each side sent off, a late Celtic penalty and an even later equaliser for eight-man Linfield proved too much for the home fans, who invaded the pitch at full-time. They attacked the Celtic players, breaking the leg of Jimmy Jones while the RUC looked on either unable or unwilling to intervene.
It was the final straw for the club’s directors. Within four months they had sold off their most valuable assets – including Ireland international Bud Aherne to Luton – and had thrown in the towel. First-hand recollections of the affair provide the bones of what would make a cracking screenplay, and if Jim Sheridan fancies directing it, may I suggest the working title My Left Footers? Jones was once on Linfield’s books but was not rated enough to be given a contract.
He left to join Celtic, where he became an instant hit. He was then approached by the Linfield secretary Joe Mackey, who tried to get him to leave “those Taigs” and come back to his “natural” home. Jones, a Protestant, was disgusted and gave the official short shrift, a response that was to have grave repercussions during the Boxing Day encounter.
An innocuous challenge involving the winger and Linfield’s Bob Bryson resulted in the latter being carried off with a leg injury, but Mackey put a dangerously different spin on affairs when he commandeered the PA system during the interval. “Mackey was guilty of inciting the crowd for more or less laying the blame on me for Bryson’s injury,” recalls Jones.
Little wonder, then, that the Celtic man found himself the chief target during the ensuing violence.
He was lucky, to a certain extent, in that a double-fracture did not stop him from resuming his career. The club had no such reprieve. Perhaps the directors planned a temporary exile, as had happened in 1920, but the conditions for a return were never quite right and, come the civil rights protests of the 1960s, there was no way such an overtly Catholic and nationalist sporting body could have survived the social upheaval. Sad to say, nothing’s changed much on that score.
Paradise Lost & Found: The Story of Belfast Celtic by Pádraig Coyle is published by Mainstream, £7.99.
Notice the Sevco shares are down to less than 18p. Five for a pound, five for a pound. Get your ole Sevco shares for Christmas for someone you love.
SKY SOURCES: It’s buisness as usual for Ally McCoist following today’s board meeting. He is preparing for the game v Livingston @RangersFC
Thank you god, the fat boy is staying
HH
Horriffic news if true.
The feeling on hunmedia :)))
You couldn’t make it up.
HH
Just caught site of a s*n lying about the canteen.
Front page spread for Tonev.
Can’t be much happening in the world.
Absolute scummy rag.
Anyone on here paid for one?
Away for a shower.
Bada,
He must think he’s a chance of outfoxing a club without a manager :)
#quitonahigh.
The Snowman still hasn’t melted yet…:))
Robinbhoy
cheers my friend, unfortunately fortunately the op last year didnae work but heho..
hope you have a great time mate…
He’s screwing them for every last penny :))
Celebrations in Timland and utter dejection fae the huns
Well played sleekit
Southside,
The grumpy old tom at work was going mental about it earlier.
Over 100 dead in tragic school shooting and Tonev is the big news.
Disgusting.
Great news
Fat sally is staying! Phewwwww!
Tom = Tim.
New phone ain’t got all my vocabulary saved yet :)
As 67 would say hahahaha.
Monty Python – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
So, Ally’s flounce wasn’t an actual flounce, just an attention seeking ploy.
Good news.
Sipsini, I’ve just been on hunmedia.
They’re going spare about the chubster. But for bile to the power ten, the thread about Neil Alexander taking them for £84 grand is top of the pops:-)
Good on you Neil, get yer snout right into the trough.
!!Bada Bing!!
16:00 on 17 December, 2014
SKY SOURCES: It’s buisness as usual for Ally McCoist following today’s board meeting. He is preparing for the game v Livingston @RangersFC
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What is “buisness”? :-)
From Deadco media
“Business as usual according to jim white ally went in our manager and left our manager sickening stuff”.
It’s the last CQN 5s of the year tonight so just heading off to that via Celtic Park, where I am not playing football but dropping off more copies of the fast selling Caesar & The Assassin. Apparently flying off the shelves!
Anyway for everyone who contributed to the CQN Raffle to crowd fund our advertisement in the Sunday Herald in January. We are going to draw the Raffle tonight and Celticrollercoaster is going to dress up like that guy who checks everything is in order at the National Lottery so that he can draw the five winners.
The main prize is a very special, limited edition bottle of Elements Whisky, a Speyside single Malt donated by a very generous CQNer – we have bottle number 67 and also a CQN Festival goodie bag worth over £50.
Four runners up will get the same goodie bag and we will get everything in the post tomorrow.
Celticrollercoaster will post the winning numbers after he ‘s played football.
Kit Alba
keep saying your piece,and never have any parameters set when talking bout Celtic,
everything is open to debate.
hh
!!Bada Bing!!
16:06 on 17 December, 2014
The Snowman still hasn’t melted yet…:))
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Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle
But put me in summer and I’ll be a……………….happy snowman!
Shares in Greggs reach record high.
Business as usual, does that mean there getting pumped again #getitrightupyou
Oh dear….