Last night when Neil Lennon told BBC Radio Scotland that Norwich’s second offer for Gary Hooper was “not as high as £6m” and that despite reports, the club had not tabled a fresh contract offer to the player, you would be forgiven for thinking the entire transfer saga was a product of fantasy.
Neil also confirmed Gary’s contract offer from Celtic is due to expire on 1 February, when I understand the player’s current representation deal also expires.
None of this counts where it really matters. Gary continues to perform like a player on top of this game. St Mirren next, then he can start the countdown to Juventus. Put the Italians in their place and he will attract attention from more than a plucky green and gold tribute act.
A corner of Glasgow stood still today to bid farewell to Sean Fallon. Sean’s 19 grandchildren delivered touching bidding prayers while son Sean recounted many of the times and habits which shaped his father’s life. It was a fitting tribute to such a great life, marked by sincere and loving words from Sir Alex Ferguson.
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Charliebhoy
Very best wishes to your young yin and you!
Please let us know how the op goes.
God bless.
senga
Welcome!
You are, of course, quite right in expressing your disgust at the posts you mention. They have no place on a blog such as this.
However, you are obviously aware that the vast majority of cqnrs are not like this.
You seem an intelligent and articulate individual – in no small part due to the fact that you are half Italian! Which half ‘tho?
Personally I am a full-blown Tally, ‘tho born in Greenock!
Keep posting!
By the way – are you a hun?
HH!!
senga
Good first post, welcome.
HH
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bankie
I agree about Paul and time etc, there are mods though, but sometimes you have to look to what the majority feel.
Posts of that nature will denigrate the blog.
I was under the impression that abuse of fellow posters was a no no, obviously not, as he/they have been getting away with personal abuse for some time now.
TET
No moderators on here.
If a post has upset anyone they should email Paul67 who may or may not be available to address the problem.
However, if you upset barcabhoy you are immediately censored.
TET
Fair point big man…….
HH.
JFH
I couldn’t agree more with what you said.
TT
Bikini Attol, naw, that wouldn’t do, it’s already contaminated………???
singing detective should be starved of attention so he just withers away…
Bada Bing,
Ba should’ve been booked for diving.
On the two fascists, scroll by.
Email Paul with your concerns, ( which I share Btw).
Same as MSM, they can only survive if we indulge them.
Semi Final on Sunday. Killie on Wednesday, seeing the hoops 4 times in 11 days, magic.
EC67
1st time post. Hx2 bhoys and ghirls. Had decided earlier today it was time I got involved with the blog but was having 2nd thots after reading what the goebbels twin (how very apt kickinthe) had to say for himself. Thank you vhman for convincing me that I shouldn’t let his/their behaviour drive me away before I had even started, cos if that’s what he/they want, I won’t let indulge him/them Oh n btw, the answer is no to the obligatory welcome ain’tnofunbeingahun csc
senga-Welcome,are you sure you’re not a ……?:}
Eurochamps67-I thought he caught him mate,maybe the exaggerated dive didn’t help.HH
Oh what a tangled web they weaved to protect the cheats by deceitful ways.
That stench you’ve been smelling throughout Scottish football – for all these years – has finally been isolated and narrowed down to just two areas of Glasgow; Ibrox and Hampden. Both these areas completely ran out of air-fresheners some time ago but, they’ve been frantically telling anyone who would listen that the rancid odours assaulting ones nasal passages were actually just the whiff of the finest succulent lamb being prepared in the respective kitchens of both establishments.
Having failed spectacularly to convince anyone over the source of said stench, they then did what any self respecting liars would do by trying to redefine what actually constituted a ‘stench’ in the first place. However, should that cunning ruse fail to convince, they have decided to just reconstruct the various levels of stench so that the manure foundation doesn’t taint or constrict the new weed which they want to grow and prosper at the expense of all the other flowers in the garden.
It makes no difference whether it is a statement from the SFA, SPL or SFL because every utterance that slithers its way out of their shared offices at Hampden is either an outright lie, an embellishment, a direct threat, an intended bribe or a deliberate exaggeration of the facts.
There is nothing that Neil Doncaster, Stewart Regan, David Longmuir, Campbell Ogilvie and Jim Ballantyne (amongst others ) would not attempt to pervert in order to give Sevco Scotland Ltd as soft a landing and at as high an altitude as possible.
The sheer scale and depth of the collusion and complete disregard for their own rules is best exemplified by SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, and SFL President, Jim Ballantyne, both being shareholders in the tax cheats and dual contract specialists formerly known as Rangers FC.
Most shockingly of all, though, Oglivie was actually a significant beneficiary of the Rangers EBT scheme yet is still allowed to influence this charade as President of the National association. With the full backing of his shameless Chief Executive, Stewart Regan. I might add.
Allowing the con and scam artists at the SFA, SPL and SFL to continue to oversee this is akin to asking Al Capone to police himself, prosecute himself and then decide on what punishment he should receive before finally announcing that, seeing as he has since changed his name to Sevco Capone, he now has no case to answer! And should, in actual fact, now be parachuted into a position as a Supreme Court Judge – where he would then rule that he also be allowed to keep all the ill-gotten gains of Al Capone (deceased and now sleeping with the fishes) because ‘it is in the best interests of criminals everywhere’.
The SFA had already corrupted their own rules, regulations and articles of association by granting Rangers a licence to play in last seasons competitions – both domestically and in Europe – when the small matter of the outstanding ‘wee tax bill’ was deliberately ignored, then fudged, and then shamelessly excused with a nod and wink and a handshake when this blatant breach was inconveniently pointed out to them.
It should also not be forgotten that it was this issue which led directly to Stewart Regan blocking people from his Twitter account. Lie, deny, deflect and then block.
Lets now look at how that first licence lie then snowballed into a ever increasing series of Rangers cluster bombs:
Denying other member clubs European places and monies.
Trading whilst insolvent.
Competing whilst wilfully withholding all tax and national insurance contributions.
Not paying football debts as they fell due.
Failure to produce up-to-date accounts.
A club – and administrators – happily sticking two fingers up at authorities and creditors alike.
The cowards in those shared Hampden offices had all the facts and evidence to kill Rangers off, once and for all, at the end of last season. That they all chose not to do so merely underlines their shared complicity in the ongoing Rangers Protection Racket and the corruption at the very top levels of our game.
Still no action taken over the use of dual contracts and the improper registrations of players. Still no action or punishment for taking the National association to court. Still no action against various representatives of Rangers/Sevco issuing threats and attempting to incite mob violence against employees and directors of other member clubs.
No, instead of finally getting around to taking any action against Rangers/Sevco the Scottish footballing authorities instead decided to drop any pretence of impartiality and actually joined Rangers/Sevco in issuing direct threats to the member clubs of all divisions.
That simply cannot be allowed to go unchallenged and unpunished.
I hope that supporters of all clubs will continue their great work by banding together to take those at the SFA and SPL, who were directly involved in this scam, to a court of law – where hopefully they will all be held fully accountable for their actions.
You see, the thing about lies is that once you start telling them you are then left with no choice but to continue to perpetuate the initial lie – unless you admit the lie, of course. But the SFA don’t do admitting liability. That’s because they are the liability. And the only way a liar can later deny a lie is by telling an even bigger lie in an attempt to reinforce and cover for the first one. The SFA are past – and present – masters of this dark art.
Regardless of what the coming days and weeks may bring, it is those sordid, Rangers protecting dark arts that have killed the Scottish football.
Who wants to hear more from Charlie……..
annochside RSC @tannochside_rsc
Charles Green believes when he leaves Rangers we will NOT be playing in Scotland
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Tannochside RSC @tannochside_rsc
Charles Green asked Mike Ashley if we can buy/loan Newcastle players in future. Talks still ongoing.
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Tannochside RSC @tannochside_rsc
Calderwood RSC ask “are the club at present operating in profit?
Tannochside RSC @tannochside_rsc
Charles Green says “no as we have very high running costs”
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Tannochside RSC @tannochside_rsc
Charles Green says he could make profit by Friday but it would be a “blood bath.”
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Tannochside RSC @tannochside_rsc
Jim Trainor reckoned we have only made £10mil on share plan
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lets see how quickly MSM pick Jabba’s comment up
Philbhoy
Aye, I remember >}
I thought for some reason that winning captains was a mod, probably wrong, so nothing new there then.
Thank you HT and very many Happy Returns to you, I saw you on the telly chinning that ball! Good grief my stomach was churning posting, still is but I couldn’t let it go. There’s no need for resorting to that debased nonsense, I don’t want to say anymore about it other he is one disturbed individual. Have a lovely evening and enjoy your celebrations.
Hello Philbhoy, I’m not your Mum thankfully for you. I think your Mum might be a tad offended by that, I’m probably old enough to be your granny! Have a good evening Philbhoy
greenyinfurrafenian
Welcome!
Two new posters in the space of a few minutes?!
Is this a world record?
Are you half Italian?
HH!!
i did make the top 10 this afternoon,after that i posted another wee story about my son and i,however it seems to have got lost in the ether.i posted in the wee hours this morning about my son in the southern general and told a wee story about his early life (its on page 2 of the 4-0 comments) i was adopted into a wonderfull couples house in easterhouse and when i was seenish i cycled to parkhead and got a lift over couldnt do either now imagine the scandal. charles and his three siblings always new i was adopted and after the passing of the two wonderfull people who brought me up pessured me into tracing my natural parents when i got my original birth certificate through my given name was Ian Vincent Doughtery charles’ response to that was”at least you have always been a tim” my natural mother came down from the islands to meet the family nd soon after my half brother came came to visit us in hamilton…i had no prior knowledge of his loyalties but took him to the celtic v aberdeen game,thinking he’ll support one or t’other he turned out to be a lifelong tim but this was his first visit to paradise.celtic won 1-0 and a great time was had by all, happy birthday ht and mrs starry and my sincerest thanks to all the ghood folk on cqn for their thoughts prayers and good wishes reguarding charles’op tomorrow ill keep you all posted hh and charles YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE ktf
Kinglubo
Who wouldn’t, weird isn’t it-imagine scoring for Celtic and not wanting to do it again, but wish him all the best if he goes
Hello Bada Bing. I’m I a hun? Nah but I might be Philbhoy’s surrogate granny
greenyinfurrafenian
Well said and welcome
HH
seenish=sevenish
notthebus-Charles Green says he could make profit by Friday but it would be a “blood bath.”
Selling his stake or Lee Wallace?
The blog seems more than a bit tetchy at the moment – it seems cyclical imo – any theories anyone
senga-Stick around,the good guys win.
Bada Bing
I just never want fortune to favour them unless of course they were playing deid them.
roy croppie
19:34 on 23 January, 2013
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Thanks for posting that. Its not the first SAF has shown his class, the man is a true gent, at least away from the fitba.
Rest in Peace Sean.
charliebhoy
What a lovely story!
Lump in the throat here!
Best wishes to you and the bhoy, and to all your family!
HH!!
Paul67 et al
So farewell then to Sean Fallon. Thanks for all those who linked pictures and videos of todays’ funeral, appreciated. Sean represented the best of all the links between Scotland and Ireland, and I for one will be forever grateful that he made the connection, and the journey from County Sligo to Glasgow. Humble to the end, but one of the Greats.
A Great Celt indeed.
Thanks tallybhoy. Sorry no italian, mostly scots/irish peely wally
1-1 Arsenal -W Ham
SAF spoke very well at Sean’s funeral……….
EC67-Good game so far.
The most remarkable thing, for me, about Stewart Regan’s catastrophic tenure as the chief executive of the Scottish Football Association is that he’s managed to make it this far, and last this long, whilst completely lacking any discernible spinal column. I can only surmise that he leaves the coat hangers inside all his coats and shirts just to enable him to assume an upright position.
The man has been a spineless, useless, clueless, bumbling, stuttering excuse for a chief executive of our governing body since the day he first arrived at the Hampden school for performing clowns and dark arts in July 2010. He clearly bottled the ‘Dougie, Dougie’ farce – a farce which should have seen Hugh Dallas’ conspiring head roll, there and then. Regan’s spinelessness over that shameful episode then led directly to the men who masquerade as Referees in this country going on strike.
The ‘strike’, incidentally, was only called because referees were absolutely outraged that their long-standing – SFA sanctioned – anti-Celtic agenda had finally been exposed before the eyes and ears of sports fans across the world. Needless to say, the Regan rolled over on that one too, although he happily allowed George Peat (then President of the SFA) to portray Celtic as being the bad guys and the cause of those poor bitter referees having to take strike action.
That the ‘spite-strike’ was nothing more than a wilful act of pure rage was wonderfully highlighted and exposed when neither the men-in-black themselves nor any of their vacuous spokespeople could even begin to explain exactly why they were actually going on strike. Who knows, maybe they wanted parity of esteem?
No. Cowardly, snivelling referees and match officials, ably backed by a discredited FA – through bitter balloons such as George Peat and Campbell Ogilvie – brought the Scottish game into disrepute by their shameless actions after being caught red handed trying to cheat and lie and conspire their way out of a totally innocuous non-penalty decision which just happened to involve Celtic.
Forget the later Dallas-gate fiasco, which eventually saw Hugh Dallas lose his job over a crass, bigoted, email, because had Regan been in possession of a spine he would have handed Dallas his jotters for the major role he played in that earlier ‘Dougie-Dougie’ conspiracy. That was Regan’s first real test and, not only did he fail it in spectacular fashion, he actually managed to exacerbate things and allowed his weakness to then be exploited by a refereeing fraternity which had, at that point, been fatally holed below the water line.
As sure as Succulent lamb is followed by a big helping of dignity pudding, the rats in the Scottish media; press, tv and radio, tried their level best to whip up an anti-Celtic frenzy – although when the laptop loyal close ranks and begin their squealing and squawking the collective term to accurately describe them is; Hurricane Hurting-Fanny.
Now, whilst this may be old news I am using it to demonstrate Stewart Regan’s previous spineless behaviour in his position as Chief Executive of the SFA. By simply looking at his previous record when faced with a major dilemma or problem, it was not really too difficult to predict how he would react when faced with similar problems in the future. And, his every action and utterance and act of procrastination since the club formerly known as Rangers slithered into its grave has only underlined his penchant for spineless incompetence and his complete inability to grasp at the last straw of reality left in the box.
The man has no redeeming features. None. He’s barely literate or comprehensible in print and manages to limbo dance his way under the bar marked; stuttering, inarticulate and gormless when attempting to speak on camera or into a microphone. He squirmed like a worm on a hook when Channel 4’s Alex Thomson asked him a few straightforward questions during an interview earlier this year. Mr Thomson had this fools card marked from the beginning, and he was not alone. He was far from alone…
But hey, if you don’t like Regan’s opinion, or, more likely, you can’t understand what his opinion actually is on any given subject or question that is put to him, then just hang around for a bit, because he’ll soon flip-flop and pretend he actually held a differing and contradictory opinion all along. Honest guv. Either that or he’ll tell you that it was actually everyone else who picked him up wrongly and that he is really just a misunderstood captain of industry. Perhaps the biggest indictment against Regan is that he manages to make the SPL’s equally repugnant Neil Doncaster appear positively statesman like by comparison. A minor miracle in itself.
Seriously, is there a factory somewhere in England where they churn out detestable trumpets like Regan, Doncaster and Green? Perhaps there are three English village councils currently offering rewards for the safe return of their village idiots? Although I’ll wager the villagers themselves will be offering even larger rewards for them not to be returned.
Embarrassment and ridicule, in equal measure, follow Regan around like a circus clown with a stink bomb stuck to the sole of one of his big clown shoes. Yet his complete lack of self-awareness combined with a staggering level of arrogance and self-importance has him believing that he’s actually done a good job and that he should also be allowed to continue with his ‘great work’. Which, quite frankly, is a self-deluding bag of bollocks.
His inherent weakness, indecision, deflection, procrastination and general roll-over-ability was patently self-evident long before he launched his own personal save-the-gers campaign – a campaign which itself consisted entirely of lies, intimidation, scare tactics, exaggeration and blatant deceit. Heck, even when the dregs of the Sevco Zombies ( McCoist, Green, Murray, Jardine and Brown ) were systematically taking it in turns to stick two fingers up at him and spit directly in his face, Regan’s spineless nature meant that he just kept backing off and allowed these Sevco cowards to repeatedly undermine him, and his plans to ‘save’ them, at every turn. Talk about the Ungrateful Dead?
Lets not forget that the only reason Regan is still in office is down to Rangers shareholder and SFL president Jim Ballantyne blocking a move by the chairmen of the SFL clubs to hold a vote of no-confidence in him.
The thing is, this isn’t a nightmare where the dreamer is perpetually stuck inside The Eagles song Hotel California – this beast CAN be killed. In fact, this particular beast should have been killed off – for good – at the end of last season. The Zombie beast in question hasn’t been given so much as a minor flesh wound far less been stabbed repeatedly with steely knives from the SFA staff canteen. Although I hear Campbell Ogilvie ordered that all the steely knives be removed and placed in the bottom drawer of his desk for safe-keeping.
The bottom line at the big Hampden hoose is that all of this – absolutely all of it – is the direct fault of the spineless Stewart Regan. Had Regan simply applied the SFA’s own rules – without fear or favour, as he said he would – Sevco and Green’s deal would never have happened, or if it had still gone ahead they would now be plying their trade in one of Scotland’s junior leagues. Just like any other new club with absolutely no history and no accounts for the previous three year qualifying period would have been forced to do.
Campbell Ogilvie – he of EBT and apartheid signing policy fame during his time at the football club formerly known as Rangers – still being allowed to hold the position of, and also collect the salary of, president of the Scottish Football Association, and all with Chief Exec Regan’s full backing and conspiratorial blessing.
Sevco, an entirely new company and football club, being given an unprecedented temporary licence that they were neither eligible nor fit to be granted. Don’t be shy. Step forward, Stewart.
Sevco being allowed to transfer the membership of a liquidated company and football club to an entirely new company and football club – against every rule and article of association, not to mention common bloody decency. Yes, it’s multiple award winner Regan taking yet another gong.
A transfer embargo that was staggeringly then un embargoed so that Sevco ( who had, and still do have, outstanding football debts both at home and abroad ) could give unsustainable contracts and wages to a bunch of new players. Our Stewart is a real card. Isn’t he?
Honest football clubs who play by all the rules and pay both their debts and taxes being bent over and shafted by both the liquidated club and then by the entirely new club – all dreamed up, supervised and then signed off by Hampden’s very own rubber man himself, Stewart Regan.
All actions and punishments against the Liquidated Rangers, and misconduct charges against McCoist, Green etc. being conveniently put into some kind of SFA suspended animation, as well as Sevco being able to do and say and get away with anything with total impunity. Okay, there must be two Stewart Regan’s, because even I am doubtful that one man could have created such an unmitigated cluster-feck of this scale and scope.
Stewart Regan has single handedly subverted and perverted Scottish Football whilst simultaneously blowing bubbles up the collective bums of every club and football supporter in this country. The biggest problem for him is that he fooled absolutely no-one. Unless you count his own reflection.
However, what Regan and Ogilvie really have to worry about is the desperate, flailing arms of David Murray, because that man knows where each and every skeleton is buried and he will take everyone and anyone who was involved in the EBT scam ( amongst other things) down with him.
And the SFA have had a long list of “everyone’s” and “anyone’s” in their direct employment over the years. Oh Noes…
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Senga
I like you already. Polite, repectful and good humoured, you’ll fit in nicely!
doctor whatfor
20:39 on 23 January, 2013
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Dr W, having some probe with home email. I’m over in Ireland for the weekend of the utd game but hope to make the Dundee game. There’s no rush mate, 125 days are up on 5th May….. loads of time yet.
V
senga
My Mum’s name was Agnes, but she was called Senga.
As they did in those days.
She is long gone now, but did more in her life than most.
A lovely lady.
Welcome to this great site.