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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merseycelt loves Neil Lennon and the Green Brigade but despises the anti irish/catholic bigotry inherent within the organisations who constitute the scottish establishment says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:07
Fuddle, I love it!!
oglach
If he’s in Slovakia, I’ll buy him a pint.
TBB
I thought that too for a while until I realised it wasn’t me.
He certainly isn’t a clever dude.
KINGOH – You should be hoping we win it by 1 goal on goal difference then. ;-)))
MWD
blantyrekev – see this ring fencnig stuff do you really think that is how this is happening. this scotland mate. all the coat and dagger stuff you are talking about only happens on the tv. it is all out uin the open now we know exactly what is happenig. the guys in the papers and on the phone in say they are going to escape this. we need to prepare for that to happen. i think this is all a big plan from sir david all along and he will appear the hero of the week
Sorry Bhoys but still doing the Broonie and SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMINGGGG with laughter
On pinstripe legs the taxman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for David Murray shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom
and suddenly a movement in the corner of the room
and there is nothing I can do when I realise with freight
that the taxman is having me for dinner tonight
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closser now closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are around me and his tongue in my eyes
Be still be calm be quiet now my precious hun
don’t struggle like that or I will only love you more
for it’s much too late to get away or turn on the light
the taxman is having you for dinner tonight
And I feel like I’m being eaten by
a thousand million shivering furry holes
and I know that in the morning
I will wake up in the shivering cold
and the taxman is always hungry
http://www.magistrix.de/lyrics/The%20Cure/Lullaby-16676.html
got to be in the soundtrack for the Jelly and Ice cream movie
Hail Hail
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:48
BlantyreKev – Parcel=> says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:36
Anyone think the Rangers – AC Milan charity match will be a grand farewell occasion?
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Does anyone think that the money raised for the game has already been spent? Will they also owe AC Milan money? Would they stoop so low as to misappropriate funds from a charity?
CRC
I thought the TITANIC sunk on the 15th of April 2012.
MWD
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
A hypothetical one for you legal types. If someone knowingly provides false documentation to a Tax Tribunal is that very naughty?
Is Phil tweeting or uttering?
Ah. Just read your last sentence.
MWD
Rangers will cry, lie, sigh & die.
http://i.imgur.com/Q7Aiz.gif
HH
BigChipsUK – We’d still be top even if they’d had 10 points added instead! says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:31
In the 90s, the Huns funded their ill gotten and tainted titles by using other peoples monies
MIH (now tax payers money)
BoS (now tax payers money)
Dave King ( Hectors cousin in SA tax payers money)
ENIC( daft hun)
It was only when this run out he decided to use EBT (tax payers money).
Bit of a common theme here!
No wonder Hector and is family are spitting feathers!!!
HH
CRC
Declan is a star of CQN, while Moonbeams is a … well, a moonbeam I suppose.
is daniel day lewis not that disabled boy from my right foot. he couldnt play me i am not disabled. whatever smart boy has made that suggestion has just gotten egg all over their chops. welll done
hail hail
Snake Plissken says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:49
oglach
If he’s in Slovakia, I’ll buy him a pint.
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Snake, if you see him Splease shake his hand for me will ya?
The mere fact that a clown like Mark (urm, err) Hateley is given a platform in a national newspaper and sports tv channel says it all about this country. These companies pander to the most base element of the hun support and know idiots like Hateley are what the peepil want to hear from. If they need ex-huns for their paper/channel why not ask guys like Artur Newman (who had remained in Glasgow) to contribute? Answer: he won”t come up with any of the tripe which has appeared in today’s Daily Record.
Good afternoon all
Paul67 that is one of the finest articles you have written yet and the standard has been extremely high since I first logged on and in particular over this last few years
All of us know what the likes of mark hately is like and as you say how much he is hurting right now.
My good friend and I, only had the conversation yesterday about how huns show their real colours when they are hurting and by god those colours are being hung out for all to see right now.
It shows the measure of a human and a community, that they can be so upset by a set of supporters singing about jelly and ice cream when their rivals die,
yet make no comment at all when their own ‘fans’ only response in their hour of need, is to revert back to being ‘up to their knees in fenian blood’
It is so good to be able to distance ourselves from the huns right now (both on and off the pitch) and my only wish is that this whole episode will show the rest of the world how different we are to ‘them’
Hail Hail
If we win the league at Parkhead is there any chance we could get Craigy bhoy to do the Paradise Windfall draw at half time?
Standing ovation from every corner of the ground.
Mind you don’t let him present the cheque to the winner.
frankabignalecsc
HECTOR – Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Eating Jelly & Ice Cream. says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:52
Good shout, but you were just 100 years out!!! :-)
HH
CRC
“all this coat and dagger stuff”
I’ll get ma cloak!
Hately = Hurtin Hun
Simple as that really. Best not to let him get to you. His rants seem pretty typical of any hun in any workplace in Scotland.
Loving the minimalist, straight to the point comments that our club are making, keep it up!
No need to get into longwinded arguments, financial doping is cheating. Cheats get punished, and stripped of medals, titles etc etc.
Rangers have been a virus on the game in Scotland for far too long. They may even still manage to kill it! But our club will survive, and so will anyone else who has been playing fairly, I would expect. Although I do feel sorry for any clubs owed money by the cheating scum, who stopped at NOTHING, to try to get one up on us.
Tainted titles, lol. The last 3 must be the most tainted in the history of our game in Scotland, if not the world…… Never mind the wages and transfer fees paid on a ‘shoe string budget’, (that was higher than any other team in Scotland). They had to cheat with financial doping, dodgy ref decisions, (you might know them as honest mistakes), and a football association, supposed to be looking out for all the teams in Scotland, who were happy to bend over backwards to help out. (Anyone remember the hefty punishments handed out to Boogey, Spit and Swally, being just the tip of the iceberg)
We all said whats next. I for one remember watching a perfectly good goal being chalked off, and the now Scotland manager, then Dundee Utd manager, screaming at the ref, something along the lines of ‘If you had just phoned to say we had no f***ing chance of winning, we wouldnt have bothered coming’ I thought, thats it, it cant get any more blatent than that! But it did. They cheated so much, it seems some of them thought they could discuss it live on air, (2 contracts), and that no one would pay any attention……
They have cheated so much, and for so long, that it seems Hately, and other hurting huns, actually seem to think, they were not doing anything wrong! Well they were, and still are, but its all over now. The stinking, rotten to the core temple that they worship, is coming tumbling down, crashing around their ears. The noise of which is going to reverberate around the world. They will be shown up for what they are. I just hope, that the game in Scotland, can somehow survive this. We know they want to take everyone with them, over the edge of the canyon and into the abyss, thats their mentality, thats the limit of their thinking and imagination. Celtic need to stand tall, proud and to be there to help Scottish football. But above all else, we need to make sure, that whatever is left, whatever remains to carry on, is honest, is true to the rules and sportsmanship, that the game needs.
I read/heard that the EBT XI v Milan was cancelled, due to an administration problem.
Declan Is Neil Lennon 1888 Hates being 2nd says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:53
Re: Daniel day Lewis
Apologies, my fine friend, for I am that very poster who suggested this thing.
I merely meant that such a fine actor would be crucial in portraying the richness of character
and depth of soul and open personality that you share with us all here regularly …
No offence meanted….
pigalle
Paul67 (12:48), does that mean that we are about to clinch our 12th SPL Title in a row?
Jelly And Gelato (12:48): “I hope we win by 10 points and +1 Goal Difference”
Surely it would be better to win by 10 points and -1 Goal Difference?
The tragic thing about Hateley’s article is the week his son will play for an SPL team that may move in to a Champions League position but a sub-Vanguard Bears level attempt at petty points scoring is the best thing he has to do with himself.
for anyone who phones clyde tonight…
tell them there is only 2 qualifying rounds for
scottish teams fot the CL proper and not 3 as they suggest.
and
tell them EBT’s were still being used last year at the latest and not 3 years ago as dawill states.
oh i miss the kiss of treachery the shameless
kiss of vanity the soft and the black and the
velvety up tight against the side of me and
mouth and eyes and heart all bleed and run in
thickening streams of greed as bit by bit it
starts the need to just let go my party piece
oh i miss the kiss of treachery the aching kiss
before i feed the stench of a love for a younger
meat and the sound that it makes when it cuts
in deep the holding up on bended knees the
addiction of duplicities as bit by bit it starts
the need to just let go my party piece
but i never said i would stay to the end so i
leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
screaming me over and over and over i leave
you with photographs pictures of trickery
stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
songs about happiness murmured in dreams
when we both us knew how the ending would
be…
so it’s all come back round to breaking apart
again breking apart like i’m made up of glass
again making it up behind my back again
holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
holding it up behind my head again cut in deep
to the heart of the bone again round and round
and round and it’s coming apart again over and
over and over
now that i know that i’m breaking to pieces i’ll
pull out my heart and i’ll feed it to anyone
crying for sympathy crocodile cry for the love
of the crowd and the three cheers from
everyone dropping through sky through the
glass of the roof through the roof of your mouth
through the mouth of your eye through the eye
of the needle it’s easier for me to get closer to
heaven than ever feel whole again
i never said i would stay to the end i knew i
would leave you with babies and everything
screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
screaming me over and over and over i leave
you with photographs pictues of trickery
stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
songs about
happiness murmured in dreams when we both
of us knew how the end always is…
how the end always is… WITH THE TIMS ON TOP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLGYSydUgE
Declan, stop it!
What a brilliant parody of a hun in tim’s clothing are you!
Reveal your true self, you comedy genius!
EBTs still gettin used by them ?
Rangers: still crazy after all these years.
pigalle
This post may just be about clarity for myself, but it does no harm to lay out in simple terms the layers of ‘cheating’ from our rivals.
Using illegal tax dodge to afford themselves more and better players than they could otherwise afford over a significant period of time – back to the 1990’s in fact.
Knowingly stacking up huge debts to buy more and better players than they should have been able to afford using bank debt while knowing that there was a potentially massive tax bill heading their way.
A different tax scam from the early noughties which resulted in the ‘wee tax bill’ and which was not chellneged by rangers until it became expedient to do so in order to get their UEFA license
Getting UEFA licenses while in full receipt of at least one and possibly two tax bills at least one of which they had accepted as being liable for in full.
Continuing to buy players who they could not afford, extend contracts they could not pay and operate on money which was not theirs while they knew financial armageddon was on it’s way.
Stacking up anywhere between £9 million and £15 million in unpaid tax while recruiting players.
Playing incorrectly registered players on their way to winnig trophies and collecting Champions League money. Allegedly.
So there we have it. Any one of those reasons is enough to warrant a full and frank inquiry, calls for trophies to be stripped from them and possible criminal investigations to be called.
As James Forrest was asking the other day: what is hard to understand about this?
Every one in Scottish Football apart from Rangers have been shafted by Rangers. Their shafting is hopefully on the way – because justice demands it, no more no less.
The bizarrely dressed newspaper columnist, ex ranger and possible beneficiary of rangers dodgy dealings needs to lift his head out of the sand, tilt it to one side to remove the offending grains, smell the coffee, see the woods for the trees and get a new ghost writer!
celticrollercoaster says In Neil we trust – When you mentioned muppet and Walter, I was thinking you were talking about somebody else, until you mentioned being brought up by humans :-)
The Legned wasn’t brought up at all, he sprang like Athena, fully grown and be-cardiganned, from the astounded forehead of Sir Moonbeams.
Speaking of parents, how annoyed must Mr and Mrs Smith be right now?
The thought they had finally gotten their 57 year old son out of the house for good. (thumbsup)
BigChipsUK – We’d still be top even if they’d had 10 points added instead! – 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!
And now the blue meanies are green around the gills. (thumbsup)
merseycelt
you wouldn´t like him if he revealed himself …. not your cup of tea I think ;-)
Hail Hail
rt rev,
A+ on the EBT point. As Our Hero told Tom English he was the man that brought the scheme to an end. A curious move considering they were meant to be 100% legal but like Hugh Grant on Sunset Bouley I’m sure he had his reasons.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic and Integrity says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:52
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
A hypothetical one for you legal types. If someone knowingly provides false documentation to a Tax Tribunal is that very naughty?
Is Phil tweeting or uttering?
Would be charged as an attempt to pervert the course of justice – a common law offence which, in theory, can attract life imprisonment.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – My favourite CQNer would have to play Minty he´s so suave and convincing.
Thank you, but I think my rugged good looks would be better served playing Gerry Butler. (thumbsup)
if craig whyte does the paradise windfall draw…
what odds will paddy power give me that the motherwell born winner will be bug-eyed and domiciled abroad???
Wll said Sneddoni but, perhaps, if the orcs bring down the crumbling edifice which is Scottish football, perhaps, this represents our best chance of escape from this hell hole!
HH
Declan Is Neil Lennon 1888 Hates being 2nd says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:50
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SIR David? Are you still pretending to be a Tim? Dear oh dear.
Still denying the inevitable. That’s what got you in to this predicament in the first place. Carry on.
philvisreturns says:
24 February, 2012 at 13:05
Are you bald ? ;-)
Btw you never got my gobber joke yesterday
HAil HAil