I’ve read sanctimonious nonsense about how Celtic fans are enjoying these times, on how they should feel instead, and on how they will feel, one day. I’ve also read what utterings our chief executive and manager should limit themselves to.
Our manager and directors have so far said very little on the subject of Rangers, only responding to direct questions or when you, the Celtic fans, were brought into the debate, without reference to any of us, by the First Minister. Their response to Mr Salmond brought a swift and appropriate retraction.
It concerns me greatly that Scottish Premier League championships could have been won by a team playing improperly registered football players. It would concern me even more if my concerns, your concerns, were not shared by the people charged with speaking on our behalf. It is the responsibility of Neil Lennon and Peter Lawwell to leave no Celtic supporter in any doubt that they will vigorously pursue our supporters’ historical and future interests.
Mark Hateley’s piece on today’s Daily Record betrays a lot of hurt. He concedes this season’s title to Celtic, which he regards as “tainted”.
As someone suggested in the CQN comments section this week, “We don’t need your stinkin’ 10 point penalty”….. we have another 10 point lead in reserve.
Hately suggests you should have the “good grace” to move on as his club “attempts to battle for its very existence”, adding, “There is no need for the likes of Lennon and Peter Lawwell to continue to sink the boot in”.
We will move on once justice has been done and is seen to be done. Anyone who suggests otherwise, that somehow justice, the maintenance of ethical standards in the game, or even legality, are not things football fans, managers or directors should concern themselves with, has perhaps headed too many footballs in his time.
The coup-de-grace from Hateley was “So let Celtic get on with celebrating their title – a title they somehow failed to win throughout the last three years of financial troubles”. Does anyone believe Rangers would have won three leagues had they paid their tax instead of singing Jelavic, Lafferty, Davis, Edu, Naismith or Bougherra?
I think this guy is missing the point. If the First Tier Tribunal report confirms already-made allegations that Rangers improperly registered football players, this bling that Hateley is flashing in your face is ill-gotten.
The Celtic manager, directors and support, together with most others in Scottish football, have to ensure that Fifa rules on the registration of football players is not subverted.
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Rangers are rank & down the stank
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HH
BigChipsUK – We’d still be top even if they’d had 10 points added instead! says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:31
I would love nothing more. I understand that this period might have bee Murry just throwing his money about, helped by the lack of european footy for English clubs. One he got a taste for it though he couldn’t stop – and see how it ended up.
Imagine it though – i would make them all walk up to the door of parkhead and had the medals over in front of all the world.
cavansam \o/ says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:29
The CQN movie. Jelly and Ice Cream
Who would play who ?
Paul67 would be the Elliot Ness of the HMRC variety
I bags the role of Jabba … I would need to borrow the the costume of Bubbles Devere from Little Britain but I think I could pull it off
My favourite CQNer would have to play Minty he´s so suave and convincing.
Truth1690 would need to get the Chic Young role
who else now ?
Whyte will be this generations Lord Lucan… :0)
Rangers chairman Craig Whyte is believed to have gone into hiding just as his football club hovers on the brink of collapse.
Under-fire Whyte, 40, is said to have gone abroad while Rangers struggles with the threat of running of money. It went into administration on 14 February.
Fans have protested at Rangers’ Ibrox stadium in Glasgow and at Whyte’s home in Grantown in the Highlands about the club’s mismanagement of taxes.
In a statement before he disappeared, Whyte said: “Like other Rangers fans, I don’t do walking away.”
The Mirror reported that sources claimed Whyte could be in Costa Rica or Morocco.
Rangers were forced into administration over an unpaid tax bill of £9m. BBC Scotland later reported that the tax owed to HMRC was more than £13m and may rise to £15m by the end of February.
Oi Hateley,
We’ve paid our taxes, we’ll do what we want…..
Is it possible that Mark Hately was a beneficiary of the EBT scheme?
Putting the boot in?? Peter and Neil have been wearing baffies when answering questions with honesty.
You were a dirty b on the pitch hateley and a dirty “tannedgerine” b off it!
philvisreturns, the whole concept of a cinema advert which starts with an entertainment business closing down due to a lack of funds, and then the performers selling their souls to ORANGE in order to survive just tickles me PINK!
I hope we win the league by 9 points.
Anyone think the Rangers – AC Milan charity match will be a grand farewell occasion?
How poignant that the team assembled that could not be afforded and began their demise will see them out.
It is also the midweek after the Celtic game and I predict the pitch to be taken at full time as thousands of souvenir hunters rip the place up.
oglach
Leaf Decwan alone. He is a heinous. Absolute heinous. Most defo salt and pepper of the earf.
MWD
Duffield bleats that Whyte wouldn’t let him do his job,why did he not resign then? More dignity.
Paul67 – Nicely put as always. You really do have a great way of expressing what I am sure the majority of Celtic fans feel. In particular the last 3 seasons according to Britney et al are not tainted because they were not EBT years – conveniently overlooking the fact that the tax debt was ignored.
Can I ask though, are we, is anyone, certain that the regestering of players incorrectly (2 contracts) is as big a deal with the SFA as it is with UEFA.
Are the SFA not likley to simply dismiss it as a technicality of no real importance?
Do you think Mark Hately could even spell EBT?
Tonight I meet up with the delectable Miss Margaret Mc Gill and I will be whisking her off to the Haagan Daas for a plate of schadenfreude cream delight. I wish I was fitter so we could go on the ran dan. ;-(
Hail Hail
The Gate In The Wood – Episode 44
WG’s new/Arthur Lee’s old mobile sounds wi a tune fae some 80s band naybdy’s ever heard ay – our hero makes a mental note to replace it with The Seeds’ Pushin Too Hard
FA: Hewo, may I speak to Winston Bwegkamp Gemmell ?
WG: WinninGemmell speaking, who’s calling ?
FA: It’s Sir Fergus Awexanderson
WG: How in the name ay the wee Jinky did you get my number ?
FA: Catwiona gave me a sewection of phone numbers fwom your bank wecords and those of your fweinds and acquaintances. This one is supposed to bewong to Affa Wee.
WG: Aye, it’s Arthur’s auld moby – your masonic cronies confiscated mine ye might remember. Huv ye stoapd stickin the heid oan folk yit ?
FA: What are you wefewwing to Winston ?
WG: Boaby Murdoch. 1969. Eftir Big Billy loast yi for the first goal. Ah’ll niva forgive ye fur that.
FA: Winston, pwease wet bygones be bygones.
WG: Bygones ? Ye were gonnae stick yir pwick in mi.
FA: It was onwy part of the witual.
WG: Ah’ll nicholas witual ye. Anyway whit ur ye waantin ?
FA: I just thought I’d phone to wish yis all the best for the match against Viwwaweal.
WG: Who ur ye tryin tae kid ?
FA: I want all the Bwitish cwubs to do well and quawify for the watter stages.
WG: Whit dae yi really want, Brother Alexanderson ?
FA: It is my sowemn obwigation to pursue your ewevation to the Degwee of Entered Appwentice.
WG: Brother Fergus, Ah huv is much inclination tae be a freemason is Ah huv tae be Broxy Bear.
FA: You could awways be our mascot, Fwed The Wed.
WG: Fwed The Wed ? Ah hate Banchester United, Ah hate the Stwetford End n Ah really really hate YOU. Ah’m a Tim n a Gooner. I despise freemasonry, Mancunia and all they represent.
FA: What about the foafcoming match at Old Twafford ?
WG: Ah hope we gub yis six-wan and ye cin tell that cheating wee tramp, Giggs, tae stey oan ays feet this time.
FA: I will wemonstwate wi Wyan, see what I can do. Anyway I have taken the wiberty of posting four executive passes to your home addwess in Wanackshire. They entiles you to fwee hospitawity in the Howy Twinity Wounge.
WG: Look, Brother Alexanderson Ah’m no interestit in yir hoaspitality or yir Holy Trinity Lounge or…
FA: Cafe
WG: Ah thoat yi said it wiz a lounge.
FA: No, my wife, Cafe
WG: Whit aboot hur ?
FA: She’s the hostess in the Howy Twinity Wounge.
WG: Big deal
FA: She’s a gween gwape as well. I’ll tell her to keep your gwasses overfwowing.
WG: Ah’ll be declining your invitation, Bwuwa.
FA: Faiwenough but if you decide to use them I will see you at the Theatre of Dweams.
WG: Don’t haud yir breath – in fact dae haud yir breath.
Kingoh
So you have something to moan aboot.
Can you imagine Sydney Tim (embdy seen or heard from poor ole grumpy ST lately) going to town on the Bhoys for that.
MWD ST come oot come oot where ever you are.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:38
Do you think that Mark Hateley benefited from EBT´s
Keith Jackson might want to keep his hurt to himself
HAil HAil
basilfawlty (12:34), I didn’t realise Murray had any money. Isn’t his business “empire” something like £90M in the red?
is limbo no a Catholic place !?
More nostalgia next week fholks but fact really is funnier than fiction
WBG
winningemmell says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:38
Great to see you back and being so prolific …. it´s like Christmas morning
Santa has taken the hun away and left a Winningemmel Annual 2012 :-)
Hail Hail
I assume Declan is a witty Tim’s impersonation of what Hateley might say if he was pretending to be one of us?
HH
Lay off Mork Hitley. dyslexia is not to be laughed at.
That said, 2 dyslexia plumbers, one says to the other:
“You smell gas?”
His buddy replies,
“Ah can’t even smell ma own name”
Administrators have reached agreement th police over future matches! Spacehopper seen leaving Ibrokes with two men who are not required to say anything, however if you later……
Where is Craig Whyte and Rankers missing loot??? List of countries that do not have an extradition treaty with the UK. Wouldn’t it just be the topping on the Ice Cream if he was in the Vatican state?
Not sure how up to date or comprehensive the following list is
Abkhazia
Afghanistan
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Botswana
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
China (PRC) People’s Republic of China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo Republic of the Congo
Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
C te d’Ivoire C te d’Ivoire – Republic of C te
Croatia
Cyprus
Cyprus Northern
Czech Republic
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Faroe
Fiji
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Ghana
Grenada
Guam
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Honduras
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland Republic of Ireland
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
K
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea – North
Korea – South
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
L
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia Republic of Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Moldova Republic of Moldova
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nagorno-Karabakh
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestinian territories
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis – Federation of Saint
Kitts and Nevis (federal state, Commonwealth Realm)
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Somaliland Somaliland – Republic of Somaliland (de facto independent
state inside Somalia)
South Ossetia South Ossetia – Republic of South Ossetia (de facto
independent state inside Georgia)
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Norway Svalbard (overseas territory of Norway recognized by international treaty)
Swaziland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Timor East
Togo
Tokelau
Transnistria
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Western Sahara Western
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
MWD
I thought originally that you were Declan. There’s certainly a shared sense of humour.
Declan is excellent.
He will be played by Daniel Day Lewis in the forthcoming movie.
pigalle
MWD
I want the 10 points to matter. I want then to feel cheated. I want it to hurt them. Is that a bad thing?
My favourite date is 14 February, as I am a romantic. Ah yes, Happy Adminstration Day is very close to my heart, but I am now having doubts about being too hasty about this date.
As Gordon_J mentioned last night, 100 years ago the Titanic sank. Oh so fitting that another ship is soon to sink.
Let’s hope the adminstrators can keep the good ship I-broke afloat until 15th April (in around 7 weeks time!!).
HH
CRC
BigChipsUK – 24 February, 2012 at 12:39
As far as I understand it he is skint beyond belief. Just working on the assumption that he was considerably less skint when he first started wasting his cash on football he MAY have been able to afford some players within the bounds of legality.
The Battered Bunnet says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:44
Admit it. You thought Declan was MWD due to the similarities in their spelling!
I want us to win the league by 39 points.
Aye, that’ll do it.
jock steins celtic says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:40
I think it shares its border with “Pugatory”
HH
CRC
BlantyreKev – Parcel=> says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:36
Anyone think the Rangers – AC Milan charity match will be a grand farewell occasion?
pppppppppppp
I remeber in the 80s when American police forces would send out tickets to Culture Club concerts to people who were on warrants. these tickets were issued as ‘prizes’. When the schmucks turned up they would be arrested.
So all the stars from yesteryear have been invited back to dear ol’ blighty for a charidee event?
Coincidence? You decide!
I hope we win by 10 points and +1 Goal Difference
I think one of the teams mentioned will be removed from the list. European League here we come…
The European Clubs Association (ECA) say recent discussions with the world governing body have been “disappointing” and that they have turned down an invitation from FIFA to attend a summit on the calendar in Zurich on March 5.
ECA spokesman Marc Schmidgall said: “We have had discussions with UEFA and we are close to finding a final agreement but talks with FIFA have been disappointing and we have decided not to attend FIFA meetings until further notice.”
The ECA is made up of 201 clubs including Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal, Aston Villa, Everton, Fulham, Newcastle, Tottenham, Celtic, Rangers, Hearts and Aberdeen.
In September, the ECA called for the number of internationals a season to be slashed from 12 to six. Manchester United chief executive David Gill, an ECA board member, said last year the clubs were especially keen to get rid of international friendly dates in June and August.
He said: “In an ideal world, we’ve been talking about six double-dates over the two-year period.
“It’s a reduction but still gives the right balance to the requirements of the national teams and what the clubs want.”
ECA president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – who is also the Bayern Munich chief executive – has said claimed clubs are sick and tired of losing players for “nonsense” fixtures.
The ECA also want FIFA to take out insurance to pay for the salaries of players injured on international duty.
WG, always a classic.
pabloh, thanks.
Steinreignedsupreme, yes, the worst has still to come.
ASonOfDan, he is indeed.
unfitforlife, welcome.
unew mike, indeed.
Philbhoy, perhaps.
BigChips, there is a lot more to come out on the subject or Rangers.
bankiebhoy1, aye.
BlantyreKev, 12:33, well spotted. I wondered why HMRC set the frozen money against the newer debt. Agree, a personal liability is the most plausible notion.
The Idiot, don’t let anyone tell you EBTs were not part of the last three years. They have been recorded in Rangers most recent accounts (to June 2010). We still await last year’s accounts.