Former Newco Rangers director, Imran Ahmad, made a few headlines yesterday, the most disturbing of which was: “I firmly believe Police Scotland have their own agenda and are deeply emotionally connected to Rangers Football Club. In my view Police Scotland have a clear conflict of interest.”
That’s an extraordinary claim but I’m not sure it’s supported by extraordinary evidence. There is certainly evidence that Police Scotland investigate and arrest supporters of the club at football games, where prosecution levels are comparatively high. There is not extraordinary evidence to support the claim, but perhaps that’s the point.
The police go after fans, but how does it shake down when it comes to corporate matters? Set aside issues of corporate responsibility from the early 70s, and there are no concerns of criminal activity at Ibrox until the spectre of malfeasance of recent years.
By speaking publicly yesterday Ahmad is now engaged in a PR campaign. He’s marked Police Scotland’s card. This may be the rantings of a fantasist, but we should recognise that Ahmad has been an insider at Ibrox, where he would have had the opportunity to deal with senior Police Scotland officers on a regular basis. Superficial friendships would have been struck. Ahmad would need little in the way of private support when a director of Newco to substantiate his claims.
The headline grabber from Ahmad, “What the rest of the world will never understand unless they experience it first hand is that Rangers Football Club is a religion, in itself, built on centuries of religious bigotry” is also a curious think to say.
To be fair to Newco, they can bat away accusations of religious bigotry easily. Employment criteria for them has never been questioned, but Ahmad’s stuck his neck out on an issue which I’m 100% sure he wasn’t asked about. What chance he’s made notes during his time at Ibrox of any inappropriate police behaviour, or matters which allude to religious bigotry?
Mr Ahmad is asking Crown prosecutors for a letter of safe passage. I reckon he stands a decent chance of getting one. Now.
No matter whether they are innocent or guilty, the SFA have been landed in a very awkward situation by Ajax, who told Uefa the Association made it clear they saw no ground for action against fans chanting “Fenian b…….”
It’s inconceivable that Ajax have an email to that effect. If they do, it will come out, and Operation Deny and Deflect will swing underway again, but these comments would surely never be committed to record, if at all.
Ajax are also in a hole. They have made a claim and will be asked who at the SFA made the comment. You can put your mortgage on the fact Celtic officials will ask this week.
Prejudice at the police and the SFA. It’s been a difficult week for conspirators.
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I think at times I am guilty of believing the rubbish in the MSM come up with about Celtic forgetting that in this bigoted wee country they have an agenda as far as Celtic and there supporters are concerned.I think im not alone in believing there guff and I believe currently they are churning out all sorts against our great club and why now more than any other time you may ask yourself ? Well it is a long time since the establishment team have looked as strong and I believe they are paving the way for next season so the nonsense will fill the papers and TV and the men in black will make all sorts of weird calls against our team.So what are we doing about it well many of us are having a go at our manager and PL our players and screaming for change which plays right into the MSMs hands.Now is not the time for falling out now is the time to stick together and support all things Celtic we may not have the best team we have seen in recent years but we can still win the SPL but we need to stick together and be faithful through and through. H.H.
This article is an example of ‘deny and deflect’ behaviour.
Who cares about Oldco/ Newco?
Right now we have matters closer to home to concern us.
Imran FFin’ Ahmad:
“Ahmed is playing the cheapest tackiest cards in the pack, but they will be welcomed by another section of our community who play similar anti British cards at the drop of a hat when it suits…
They are a plague on our nation.”
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“He’s a tarrier – no doubting it now.”
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“Very taig like language. Maybe the conspiracy theorists aren’t as crazy as some seem to think.
Given the huge number of what we are told are coincidences that point to tarrier involvement at a variety of levels, then anyone denying it is feckin crazy to me!”
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“Glad the Club made no comments as do not want to give any credence to the ravings of a mad man.”
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“The club probably can’t say anything since there is an ongoing criminal case.”
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“He was always a dodgy piece of trash. Surprised that so many fans welcomed him and Green around the supporters clubs etc. Still they were doing the right thing and being decent.”
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“Hmm – the words and actions of a guilty man.
I can’t fathom however that he sees Rangers as prepetrators of, rather than being affected by, religious bigotry.”
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“Can you not be tried without actually being there? In abstensis or something?”
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY & WEE OSCAR on 15TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:09 AM
In other news Jeremy Corbyn rides a “Mao” styled bike ! Otherwise known as a bicycle reports the Times
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I’m disappointed that we still haven’t had any photographs of his allotment.
Maybe they’re saving them for the Sunday supplements.
MSM rubbish …………why o why do Celtic supporters still buy into their crap
stop buying their papers to kill their life blood and then maybe we’ll get a level playing field in the media
as long as we are buying they will keep producing…………..
C.O.Y.B.I.G.
Very nervous already for Thursday
HH
As has already been pointed out….maybe it would be wiser to deal with our own shambles.
Never mind them
tony
exellent post son
HAIL.HAIL.
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY & WEE OSCAR @ 10:09 AM,
I think these guys are going to make politics much more interesting – I saw a quote that from John McDonnell…
He said “I’m a journalist from the Sun”
I said you can be one or the other but not both.
Hail Hail
I seem. Recall that Socrates, the footballing gynecologist was a 60 a day man. He also smoked quite a lot.
FinbarSaundersCSC
If they want to clean up sectarianism in scotland, the clubs must accept strict liability for the supporters. I’m surprised celtic haven’t campaigned for this.
I like the new CQN format. Articles that are interesting are posted that we can read but can’t blog
This is one of these articles
More important things to discuss
The PL plan that has been failing on the park for a number or years has left us with no Center halfs and one striker
Keep eye on real enemy to the Celtic team and fans
Peter lawwell
Cool more, Celtic can’t because our own element cause us problems.
Chairbhoy, McDonnell’s appointment confirms that Labour are on another suicide mission. This car crash will be hilarious. A spectacular mountain of batsh*t awaits. Stark raving bonkers.
I’m more interested in Thursday, and if the players are going to give their best for the supporters.
Are they going to be “scared” again?
I expect Celtic to be breathing fire against Ajax, we need to show that we are a good team.
No excuses.
I HEARD HE WAS DEAD on 15TH SEPTEMBER 2015 9:01 AM
Are you really that naive. ?
Green man I would be breathing fire against Ajax. So would you and the Celtic team
But the players are just not good enough
Cheap team. No experience. The team that PL built
SYDNEYTIM on 15TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:37 AM
Doooooooohhhhhhhh
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART on 15TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:43 AM
Cool more, Celtic can’t because our own element cause us problems.
Chairbhoy, McDonnell’s appointment confirms that Labour are on another suicide mission. This car crash will be hilarious. A spectacular mountain of batsh*t awaits. Stark raving bonkers.
Labour’s suicide mission began many moons ago, when in an effort to get up Bush’s rectum, aided and abetted by people like John Reid, Tony Blair lied Britain into the Iraq war.
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SYDNEY TIM
At this moment, all we can do is hope that the players show they are good enough.
They should be…considering the hype and money they receive for doing their jobs.
Its up to the players to restore a bit of faith.
As for PL….his time has come.
HH
Monaghan
“In abstensis, or something…”
Aye, that’s right Sammy ya halfwit!
HH!!
messi
https://twitter.com/flahertyno1/status/290940831509139458
It’s interesting that a piece on the SFA in connection with the Ajax “Fenian B…..ds” banner doesn’t deserve blog time but the constant griping at all things Celtica should go on ad infinitum.
We don’t know what the SFA told Ajax, to me the Ajax version of events sound genuine.
We know what they should have said, the same thing they should have said when they were asked to comment on the Kirk Broadfoot ban.
The SFA does not condone racism in any form within Football, we have a zero tolerance approach to Sectarianism.
Why does it find these questions so difficult to deal with? That is key, for me.
Hail Hail
Stairheedrammy
Socrates died in 2011 aged 57.
Don’t know if the smoking did him in though.
” Police Scotland have their own agenda and are deeply emotionally connected to Rangers Football Club. ”
One of the reasons Celtic are more than a Club to me , is because of my belief that the above statement is true. I further believe it to be true of The Establishment in general in Scotland. I cannot remember it having been aired nationally before. Yet, some on here think it is a distraction from their crusade to show how terrible Celtic are.
In spite of the efforts of the CONSTANTLY negative, I still see a successful future for Celtic. This is reinforced every time I go to Celtic Park and see crowds between 40 and 50 thousand . Had those eternal pessimists been accurate, our crowds should be around the 10 thousand mark by now 0:-)
Lovely day for a bike ride.
JJ
PS I see the Griff is arguing as I suggested. ie he was not calling Thomson a cheat; just saying he would have been influenced by the Home crowd. We`ll see how that goes with the impartial footballing bodies!
On KDS there is a few posts about Ronny only(!) earning 2k to 2.5k a week. If it’s true, this is the most alarming thing I’ve heard this season at CFC. Do the board consider our most important person at the club to be of this stature?
Coolmore Mafia
I heard the same plus he gets 60p luncheon vouchers per day.
Training ground spats are an effective and dapper way of keeping your boots clean.
They come with the added benefit of reducing the boots-cleaning burden on the youth players.
A win for both style and substance.
http://www.bodymagazine.biz/articleThumbCreator2.php?path=http://www.bodymagazine.biz/photobank/articles/2011/03/2126/goldtoe.jpg
I was led to believe Ronny was on about £7k a week.
HH!!
To be fair to Newco, they can bat away accusations of religious bigotry easily. Employment criteria for them has never been questioned, –
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I beg to differ.
They still have a selection criteria that avoids the old “whit school did you go to ” question …………..
now it is …………
are you not so handsome – tick.
are you not so honest – tick.
are you a walter mitty type character but with the power to convince other deluded pe-pells, ?
have you no moeny – tick …………
you will do.
each of thse should avoid “fenyins” in the boardroom.
well apart from big mike when he turns up.
right, strange observation of the day
why does the big double decker bus that goes round picking up the kids to deliver them to the “Gaelic School”
say in english on the front
“Gaelic School”
bad start.
Saint Stivs,
Bad start alright.
Gaelscoil.
Árd Macha
The latest Establishment club that plays home games at Ibrox is in trouble,
NEVER had a line of credit from a bank,
Police investigations underway,
Dave King (the chair of RIFC) is ad-libbing, off-piste and causing the implementation of emergency damage limitation exercises,
A former insider at the current version of Establishment club states the Police are biased towards them and the club is deepy ingrained with bigotry.
The disciplinary services manager at the national football association (Scottish Fraudball Association) advise they don’t consider “Fenian B*****d” to be offensive.
These last 3 have all arisen in the last few days.
Who and what would the MSM, and followers of Sevco (and possibly even people paid to do so) would like Celtic supporters to be discussing?
HINT – Celtic have a big game this week and, as inconceivable that as it sounds between professional athletes in a competitive sport , there have been altercations on the training ground.
Saint Stivs on 15th September 2015 11:20 am
Apropos such matters, why are there no schools teaching in the medium of Scots?
It is after all a real, proper language, isn’t it?
As of course is Ulster Scots.
So it is.
Someone told me that qualifications in Gaelic language are not recognised as language qualifications by Universities – does anyone know if this is true?
when applying to universities, that is
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar…… Ipox belongs to the creditors
I just think there are more pressing issues confronting us.
Fixing Celtic is more important to me.
COOLMORE MAFIA on 15TH SEPTEMBER 2015 11:03 AM
On KDS there is a few posts about Ronny only(!) earning 2k to 2.5k a week. If it’s true, this is the most alarming thing I’ve heard this season at CFC. Do the board consider our most important person at the club to be of this stature?
To Celtic PLC RD is simply another employee whose services are to be obtained as cheaply as possible.
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Later bhoys
HH
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART @ 2015 10:43 AM,
Well that could be the case, the a-moral, rudderless Labour Party was failing at every level.
If Jeremy Corbyn gets some real social and economic discussion going on in Westminster then so be it, it was about time something shock their cosy lives.
Keynesian economics provided equality, and Glass-Steagall provided stability for over half a Century. The people who made these pillars dirty words, conned us. We have an Economic system that works for 10% of the people and miserably fails 30% of the people who are quite simply disenfranchised.
Sure, we can’t go back to the thirties, but we can put in place solid economic principles, efficient regulation and a fair tax system.
To make it work, you have to be inclusive and re-energise all in the economy.
Cornyn and McDonell are actually a lot more entrepreneurial than the staid, Corporate failed Tory model.
They’ve got a huge ask to get voted in, but if they can put some of the alternative thinking into the Political agenda, for me it can only be good.
And If you think we haven’t seen the Labour car-crash you haven’t been paying attention, all but wiped out in Scotland the Torys in power in England – by 2020 the Conservatives are going to have their Ayn Rand state.
Labour failed spectacularly… Hope Corbyn et al can bring some life and meaning to the husk.
Hail Hail