Strathclyde Police seem unprepared to decommission the loose cannon that is providing the regular leaks of largely inaccurate information about Celtic fans to the press. The country’s largest police force have become a regular source of material and hilarity for our media, perhaps best illustrated by their unattributed comment to the Scotland on Sunday, suggesting they plan to “smash the Irish Republican, Marxist, Green Brigade”.
While the police officially claim “these comments do not reflect the view of the Force” the damage is already done. The stage is set for an inevitable confrontation by a group of supporters who now believe they are being unfairly picked upon (for being Marxist, good grief, I thought they all shaved and suited-up under Tony, including the men!), and a police force, which employs someone who has told the press they are picking on the Green Brigade and which is asked by the Government to challenge pro-IRA chanting.
All political chanting must stop, of course, but I don’t fancy being an officer on the ground who has to pick up the pieces after a very loose tongue has set a scene for confrontation.
Make no mistake, the police are being laughed at by grateful recipients of their media comments, who cannot believe the utter naivety of the Pitt St operation, I have heard this laughter first hand from more than one journo, but the consequences of such dire behaviour will be severe.
I would like to thank everyone who bid on the ebay auction for the Jimmy Johnstone medal. I’m really pleased to let you know that the medal has been withdrawn from sale. Thanks again and sorry if you had already bid.
We are not short of history at Celtic, but there are very few occasions a unique memento of the Greatest Ever Celt becomes available. The medal is a 47-year-old slice of Celtic folklore, check it out on ebay.
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Morning all from a very wild wet and windy North Ayrshire. Bad enough just now but there is a great deal worse to come in the next few hours.
Bada / paddy
Does that guys arm not look about 4 ft long or do you he’s related to inspector gadget ?
Think
Did I imagine that?
Record photo
bsr,
thought skoda’s reputation had improved ?
was it a four wheelie bin drive ?
regarding Rangers postponed AGM. As they aren’t going to be holding it within the required timescale, they can be fined if a shareholder objects.
Anyone have any shares in Rangers? Do Celtic still have a small number of shares?
Mort
Bada Bing
Sally has now got vijjo evidence,stop tape at 0.28 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW2iyT_V64
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/rangers/2011/12/08/rangers-boss-ally-mccoist-to-use-picture-evidence-in-bid-to-clear-sone-aluko-s-name-86908-23618885/
Try again!
A howling tempest is rocking North Ayrshire this morning.
And it’s to get worse!
Posting from inside wheelie bin…whhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…!!!!!..lid down
dejavucsc
What weather eh!
Can anyone remember when we last had two or three consecutive dry days in the west of Scotland, say from when time began?
You’ve got to laugh. Just about to drive on to slip road at Hamilton for M74 heading for Glasgow when I get yet another call to say I’ve just to turn around and go home, the establishment will be closing at 10am.
The LL are losing it by publishing that Aluko picture. What it proves – if not doctored which I think it is – is just how far Aluko had already dived BEFORE the hand allegedly touched him.
That said I am sure the Gers will get away with this one and will use the previous from O’Connor as the reason for so doing. To be fair that one was a nightmare decision.
So Jim McIntyre will end up like Neil Lennon in a way.
The guy who was wronged against them gets stiffed while, as in the Cup tie, the guilty ( all H*ns) walk free. Same old, same old. As I said yesterday I hope Dunfermline get relegated on goal difference having heard that idiot and bigot Yorkston try to get Aluko off.
However there WILL be a sea change when a Celtic player is brought before them as one will – probably sooner than later.
Hello from a very very miserable Manchester.
Craig Whyte refuses to call AGM.
GourockEmeraldBhoy says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:28
Bada / paddy
Does that guys arm not look about 4 ft long or do you he’s related to inspector gadget ?
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Morph the plasticine man think.
hamiltontim says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:47
Thank the lord you don’t work on the rigs ;O)
voguepunter at 09:43
Forgive me for asking, but how the heck did you find such an obscure piece of video … ?
This skill of yours is either impressive or disturbing.
FF
Lads any of you seen that picture of martin hardie against sone aluko the diver?
BRTH
Your so vain, you probably think that post was about you…..
For the avoidance of doubt I have no doubt there are people like your goodself who know very well the trials and stresses of establishing such a scheme, the reality check was for the glib comments about Celtic not doing enough generally, and why have they not already done this.
Anyway, to take up the conversation again, and yours and bjmacs excellent posts…..
Early versions have been trialed, I got a high street discount book with a season ticket a few years ago, you get money off your season ticket when you shop in the official stores etc. But here’s the point in today’s market. This Celtic team are marginally better (imho) or worse (according to the stats) than the current hideous Rangers team. We are only ever occasionally worth watching from a football point of view, I think therefore the only people that will tune in to see Celtic these days are Celtic supporters that don’t have better things to do, and to be honest it’s not really worth the fight with the wife or weans if there’s stuff to be done. The pie stalls are a joke. Most people have a complaint about the ticket office. We were overcharged far too many times last year for Cup tickets that it utterly sickened lots of people. Season tickets are down, and still falling. European attendances, even the 8pm kick off glamour tie, are poorly attended. There are no heroes or football pinups in that team. I haven’t even started on the negative outside influence of SFA, media, police or government. The Chief Executive’s bonus thankfully bucks this falling trend as this continues to climb.
A membership scheme needs to have a proposition to want to be a member. The link to the feel good propensity to spend is utterly broken, many fans are fed up with either the way the Club is run, or even just the environment we play in. We are only ever supported by the PLC against these outside negative influences when put under enormous pressure and threat by the CSA and the Trust. To be blunt the fans are disenfranchised. This is therefore the wrong time.
The scheme needs to attract members. To be brutally honest at this moment in time I would not join anything that involved a subscription unless it could be clearly shown that my savings would be substantially more than the cost of joining, whether it was a Celtic scheme or not because frankly we are taken for mugs every single season and my net spend needs to come down. I’d rather we spent time and resources fixing what’s wrong at the Club as it is rather than creating more wealth for bonuses and bulging squads of journeymen, trialists and buy-and-sell prospects.
But if it is to be pursued I don’t see it operating outside of Club ownership. I don’t know what the stats are but from personal experience there are still countless fans who have not discovered or do not regularly partake in the timternet. Those who do tend to stick to a narrow number of Boards.
The way to reach fans is through official channels. The Club website, the View, Channel67, Facebook, through the CSA, The US CSCs, the Trust, the giant screens, trackside advertising, ESPN advertising/partnership, but yes, also the fan sites. The delicious irony is that the best chance to engage the fans is through, wait for it, the Green Brigade!!! It’s all about critical mass (not the 6pm vigil), reaching the number of participants to make it worthwhile. The Club could do a lot worse than engage Paul67! Build a platform, get your audited usage stats verified, engage top tier advertisers. An excellent case study.
Anyway, if there are people pursuing it I wish them every conceivable success and best wishes. My prediction is that there will be a substandard offering that has at its heart the chance to milk the fans for a few extra quid dressed up as an enigma wrapped in sentimental marketing. You’re not a Celtic fan if you’re not a member.
On a brighter note I’ve just seen a chicken lasagna being lifted out the freezer and the weans have just started watching a 2 hour long film so happy days! Off to do some work.
Hail Hail
Paddy Gallagher at 09:44
How handy is that … ? Aluko must be a bit like Buzz Lightyear: having a wee button on his arm that makes his wings pop out and go for a dive.
Not flying (or diving), you understand: falling with style.
FF
The Laughing Policeman
He walked the road along his beat,
Whistling, there’ll be no retreat,
Truncheon ready, taser on max,
Eyes wide open, couldn’t relax.
First a grin, then a smile,
As he walked his favourite mile,
London road to arrest the Tim,
Air mile points up to the brim.
He couldn’t help but laugh out loud,
Stupid Tim would soon be cowed,
No more singing songs of choice,
Because you see, you have no voice!
I remember the great storm of 1968 in Glasgow,sent to school next morn ,roofs ,chimneys
and chimney sweeps lying everywhere.
Come to think of ,I was 7 years old and making my own way ,the social services
would have field day now.
AYE BUT IT WER GRANNNND.
Folly Folly says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:52
That’s a classic movie,saw many of them in the ole Odeon picture house in Ruglen main st.
No apologies if this (from latest edition of Private Eye) has already been posted.
PLANET FOOTBALL
Rangers
RANGERS FC owner Craig Whyte last week admitted that he had indeed been disqualified as a director for seven years in 2000, and that he had not informed the PLUS market of this highly pertinent fact despite being required to do so.
PLUS is now investigating and could fine Whyte and his two co-directors of Rangers FC Group over the information provided to them and Rangers shareholders in a June circular.
Rangers’ unaudited accounts to June 2010 show a £3.27m charge for the smaller of the tax schemes being challenged by HMRC, despite the fact that a case involving the same scheme is now under appeal, having been won initially by the taxman. The charge is greater than the previous provision.
More worrying. “The Company’s auditors have not yet finalised their audit report,” shareholders are told. This does not sound like good news coming from Grant Thornton. The audited accounts must be filed by 31 December.
Meanwhile, it’s worth turning to the matter of Re-Tex Plastic Technology, which was wound up by trade secretary in 2003. Re-Tex, in which a Whyte company was a major shareholder, collapsed in 2001 following the failure of a fund-raising exercise partly underwritten by an offshore company linked to Whyte. It did not make up the £400,000 shortfall, according to the winding-up petition.
One of the reasons given for the winding-up is “involvement of a disqualified director in the management of the company”. Investigators from the Insolvency Service were told by two Re-Tex executives and the company’s lawyers that Whyte, while banned from being involved in company management and living in Monaco, had been running the company: “Financial management of the company was under the direct control of Mr Whyte.”
Re-Tex was duly wound up, but no action was taken against Whyte, who has denied the Re-Tex allegations.
‘Slicker’
Voguepunter
Funny you should say that, girl I work withs dad works on the rigs. He’s been waiting for 2 weeks to get home due to the weather and is beginning to panic as he’s booked up for Udinese!!
Paddy Gallagher says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:44
That Dunfermline player seems to have an abnormally long left arm!!
Photoshop Loyal?
Folly Folly says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:55
I do hope he wasn’t injured :-))
Paddy
I also thought his arm was longer.
Beware of low flying Sone Alukos!!
Ridiculous stuff from Rangers in defending Aluko. They should be fining him a weeks wages.
Soon they will have trouble finding him a weeks wages. But that’s by the by.
The dignity os just hingin’ oot o’ them…..
voguepunter says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:56
I mentioned the very same to my wife and kids this morning. The 68 storms, walked to school up in Castlemilk, avoiding bits of buildings on the way, and still had a game of 15 a side when I got there. Wimps nowadays!!
Kayal33 says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:59
Paddy Gallagher says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:44
That Dunfermline player seems to have an abnormally long left arm!!
Photoshop Loyal?
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With extend-able arms like that he should be in goals :-)
I wonder if Aluko is paying for his own appeal …
Can the SFA extend Aluko’s ban if they deem the appeal frivolous? Or does that only happen in England?
voguepunter
It still surprises me that in today’s H&S climate men are stilled allowed to wear ties never mind being forced to as part of standard code of practice.
MWD
BlantyreKev – Hail Hail to the Kano Foundation says:
8 December, 2011 at 09:54
A major plank of the scheme being looked at is to address the sense of being disenfranchised, quite how that will work out I’m not sure ,but the point has been made and I think taken on board.
RobertTressell says:
8 December, 2011 at 10:01
Maybe Aluko will fine himself for bringing scorn on his most honest employers and from this day forth pay his own wages.