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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BigChipsUK – We’d still be top even if they’d had 10 points added instead! says:
24 February, 2012 at 12:31
…Had Rangers been transacting all their player signings and paying those in an entirely transparent, legal and ethical way, would Hateley (Gascoigne, Laudrup, De Boer, etc.) have ever signed for them and helped them to their (tainted) 9 in a row?
I know the reports have been suggesting that Rangers’ financial irregularities took place between 2001 and 2010, but does anyone believe that they could really afford guys like that on the income from Scottish football?
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The money that Myth spent during his part of the fake 9:
91/92: £7.2m
92/93: £3.7m
93/94: £5.2m
94/95: £7.2m
95/96: £11.6m
96/97: £8.5m
97/98: £14.5m
..and since his return (just because)
06/07: £2m
07/08: £10.5m
08/09: £18m
09/10: –
10/11: £6.5m
Insane amounts of money in an era before CL payouts were bigger than a single game’s gate receipts, not that it’s at all relevant. I understand the orcs turnover in those days hovered around £18-23m per season, depending on whether they were knocked out of the CL in the first or second round of qualifiers.
I still find it hilarious that the orcs, whilst being a tad unhappy (understatement) with David Murray’s spend, spend, spend attitude (although it should be pointed out: they still can’t reconcile that such an attitude was what won them all those trophies – they genuinely seem to think these details are unrelated), they’ve yet to ask what happened to the ‘infrastructure’ funds from ENIC and David King.
This is particularly amusing, as Murray, despite taking all that money in and spouting he would build this, that and the next, continuously sold off parts of Orc FC instead.
TAL
philvisreturns says:
24 February, 2012 at 13:05
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)
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I heard you are a ringer for his erse……….
It’s like the symbol of the snake,consuming itself.
And I’ll be there to “stamp the dirt down”.
Excellent article Paul, Hateley always was and is a muppet of the highest order
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – I get jokes.
:-) (thumbsup)
RobertTressell – What’s wrong with referring to Sir David as Sir David? (thumbsup)
Awe Naw – Gerry Butler has just gone into rehab.
RobertTressell – I heard you are a ringer for his erse……….
And yet you were strangely aroused… (thumbsup)
For every £5 Celtic spend I’ll steal a tenner…
I forgot about this wee gem, think the money will going elsewhere now right enough…
A host of Rangers greats will entertain AC Milan Glorie in a glamour charity match at Ibrox Stadium on Friday 30 March 2012 with the Rangers Charity Foundation and AC Milan Foundation set to benefit from the match and a Legends Dinner at the Radisson Blu in Glasgow on Thursday 29 March 2012.
The Rangers Charity Foundation has arranged two unique events that are sure to capture the imagination of the Light Blue legions as some of the finest players ever to feature for Rangers and Serie A giants AC Milan will pull on their boots once again for charity.
The Rangers Legends side – managed by Walter Smith and captained by Richard Gough – will feature fans’ favourites including Brian Laudrup, Ally McCoist, Mark Hateley, Paul Gascoigne, Andy Goram, Lorenzo Amoruso, Jorg Albertz, Michael Mols, Trevor Steven and Arthur Numan. AC Milan Glorie will field a team drawn from a host of world class names such as Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Jean-Pierre Papin, Alessandro Costacurta, Christian Panucci, Gianluigi Lentini and Zvonimir Boban.
Rangers Manager Ally McCoist commented: “This is a fantastic initiative by the Rangers Charity Foundation and I know the match and charity dinner will really appeal to our supporters.
“It will be a pleasure to pull on the boots once again at Ibrox and it will be all the more special as I will be playing with lifelong friends against an AC Milan squad that features some of the greatest players every to grace a football pitch.
“It should be a fantastic few days in March and I know our supporters will turn out in huge numbers to support the work of the Charity Foundation.”
Philvis – I don’t know of any Tim who would. Sorry, any normal Tim you are obviously excluded because of your well documented political insanity.
And what is wrong with calling him Sir? Personally I don’t agree with the concept of ‘knighthoods’, OBE’s, MBE’s CBE’s etc etc etc. Nor do I agree with Papal knighthoods and other honours.
I would never ever refer to someone as ‘Sir’, ‘Ma’am’, ‘My Lord’, ‘Your eminence’ or whatever.
It is archaic, it is elitist, it is snobbery, it betrays my republican and socialist principles and I know very few Tims who disagree with me.
awe naw
It’s not you, is it?
Come to think of it, you have a wee bit of a hateley obsession, do you not?
So you are yourself, of course! Declan, Paul67, kojo and bontybhoy.
Paul67 excepted, the others are obviously made-up characters.
I’m just amazed it has taken me so long to work it out.
Who else are you, oh master of disguise?
HH
philvisreturns says:
24 February, 2012 at 13:11
RobertTressell – I heard you are a ringer for his erse……….
And yet you were strangely aroused… (thumbsup)
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LOL
Excellent stuff from Paul67 last few days.
(Also good to see Declan’s posts back. This guy can see the big photograph, he’s all about grey sky thinking).
Afternoon cqn
Paul67 et al
Justice.Justice.Justice……………..
Something the Huns do not understand
1.rules
2.honesty
3.response ability
They have broke everyone of these to win……
And hateley and the media have the brassneck to say the title was won by default
The quicker the rANGERs are dead the better for Scottish football
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex csc
As it is a Friday I allow myself a chocolate bar as a celebration of my 6 day abstainence from what is my 1 addiction since giving up smoking 9 years ago.
Today I chose to enjoy a Mint Chocolate Aero.
By Yoda it was good. On breaking off the first piece I looked at the lime green bubbling mint chocolate centre and it reminded me of how the away end at Easter road looked on Sunday.
Can someone tell me if mint chocolate Aero bars are banned within the HUNbowel.
I do hope so because I think it could be the very thing that would have them tip over the edge of the precipice.
MWD thought for today.
never liked hately when he played with Rankers no need to alter my view……..he cannot and will not even begin to accept the position of the rfc plc ( in administration) supporters association, whose spokesman wee Dingwall accpeted that they had made a mistake and must pay the tax bill.
I have a memory that Hatley had to leave Scotland under a cloud and at the point of his welcome back and hand up by the MSM they really annoyed me at the time, for its low life approach to helping such a vain individual.
HH better times coming !
I’m a wee bit surprised to see CQN giving oxygen to the Record article. It’s by a yesterday’s man in a moribund title and it’s a classic provocation piece. Best ignored.
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 13:07
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
Very true! Something I have certainly thought about. But maybe, just maybe, without them, its not a stinking hell hole……??
There might just be a way back to Scotland being a good national side, that even qualifies for major competitions, and Celtic and other teams from Scotland, might make their way to the later stages of European competitions again. If thats possible, I want us not just there, but leading the charge!
It’s surely not dificult to understand that a club that can pay higher wages has an advantage. That a club paying no tax has an advantage. And that both of these advantages are manifestly unfair in sporting terms, never mind the legalities involved.
But they have such a superiority complex that it doesn’t matter to them that they cheated. They know that they deserve to win and that’s all that matters. They don’t care how it was achieved. They don’t care who got hurt in the process. The important thing was that The Peepul came out on top.
While 100% accepting that HATEley is a buffoon I reckon he is more of a buffoon for allowing himself to be used by the laptop loyal member who ghost wrote his “article”.
The LL are in full scale save the Hun, deflect and distort mode.
Each day they will invent ways to detract from Lenny’s achievements and possibly more importantly the Huns criminal activity leading £100M + fraugulent activity.
The nonsense about names, newco, history, institutions etc etc, etc is all because they couldn’t sell the Hunguffery that was “Scottish football needs the Rainjurs sh**e”.
It will continue. That is why Paul 67 is doing such a magnificent job.
There must be no respite, no remission in the pointing up of FACTs that Paul has done so excellently.
We, the Celtic support, must ensure that at no time, a Hun goes unchallenged when spouting their revisionist hunguffery.
Keep up the pressure, don’t be seduced by too much jelly and ice cream, as their end is nigh, if we stick to our task.
EC67
Had to laugh at the following interchange,brilliant stuff!
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hamiltontim says:
24 February, 2012 at 11:26
What’s the 70s?
YoungdudesCSC
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voguepunter says:
24 February, 2012 at 11:27
hamiltontim says:
24 February, 2012 at 11:26
Any mair cheek ,an you’ll no make them.
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AWE NAW’s comment shortly afterwards deserve a mention in dispatches too.
And not only because he teched me yesterday-cheers,bud!
Mort @ 24 February, 2012 at 12:04
I think perhaps the CQN wing of save oor rankers need to up they’re game a tad, may I suggest that in lieu of penny donations put millions, that’ll do it, rankers will be saved afore their tea’s oot.
V
HH
merseycelt
Not guilty !!!
Hail Hail
BMCUWP
;-)
HAil HAil
From Evening Times
The SaveRangers website has already received backing from Ibrox legends Graham Roberts, Terry Hurlock, Craig Paterson and Hugh Burns.
Rangers Supporters Trust spokesman Mark Dingwall said: “We are delighted that things are going so well. It shows the lengths the Rangers fans will go to, to help their club.”
The four names above have all just pledged £2000.00 each… :)
Just been made to promise that I will not roll the window down and do the broonie again while we are out shopping!!
Hail Hail
ASonOfDan (13:13): “A host of Rangers greats will entertain AC Milan Glorie in a glamour charity match at Ibrox Stadium on Friday 30 March 2012”
At the end of the game it’ll be a bit like the end of The Blues Brothers (how ironic!). The PA system announcer will utter something down the lines of “We’d just like to welcome all the members of HMRC and the Strathclyde Police force. It is so good to have you here tonight.”, as the “host of Rangers greats” slip off into the Govan night through some secret hidden exit, before they are taken in for questioning about their Rangers contracts…
while driving
HAil HAil
in other… important… news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17150054
perhaps predictable, but highly significant nonetheless.
Wasn’t today Admin day? Postponed yet again?
McCoist saying they are no longer pursuing the signing of Daniel Cousin – oh my God, no way……
The press in all their glory are now clear to see. Whyte the pantomime villain and Moisty the hero of the hour giving Churchillian speeches and buzz phrases to rally the troops on and off the field .How they look after their own these journalists they just love to love him.One year ago Neil went through an experience that would make most of us walk away from a job, very few people spoke out to support the man and his family and when they did it was a long time coming.Yet through all the hate and trouble this new manager did his job and lost out by only a single point. Across the city we have an individual who is likely to loose the title with a margin of 30 points possibly more.They cant come out quickly enough to praise his stoasims. Nothing to do with the calamitous signings no its the circumstances you see.Neil was never given that consideration last year nor would he accept it even adding his battle with depression into the mix yet incredible he came through it and united a fan base that saw what the press could not,namely backbone.So Moisty what are you,well your an imposter you are the court jester you are quite simply the man that wears the emperors new clothes.
Am I possibly right in thinking that thon airhead, Hateley, might be having a visit from HMRC because of EBTs? Jail’s the only place for people like him.
ASonOfDan 13.22
Yeah Davie Cooper and Jim Baxter have pledged £2,000 each too.
ASonOfDan says:
24 February, 2012 at 13:22
From Evening Times
The SaveRangers website has already received backing from Ibrox legends Graham Roberts, Terry Hurlock, Craig Paterson and Hugh Burns.
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That’s the world-beating, stratospheric, iconic, memory-conjuring type o’ guys you need! I wonder who’ll collect the pledges?
Sneddoni says:
24 February, 2012 at 13:17
Until Scotland creates its own version of a truth and reconciliation commission, there will unfortunately always be the need of another Rankers.
Rankers were not a big club in their early years. They became big because of the indignity felt by the many bigoted presbyterians who couldn’t bear to see a principally irish-catholic club succeed.
These people still predominate because of the shocking absence of education within their families, (non-catholic) skools , the meeja and the government about the problem!
Inclusion to these people means the Famine Song and the Billy Boys.
Opposing racism meant booing Bobo Baldie every time he played for us (when was that ever reported in the mainstream)
Justice to these people means creating laws to criminalise law abiding Celtic fans.
The huns dying will not change much of this.
I think it’s called apartheid.
I blame Neil Lennon and catholic schools myself!
HH
Wattie Nosurname has offered to rip up his EBT if it helps.
Chief Superintendent Andy Bates, on SSN, says Administrators have given a written assurance that they will pay for the policing costs as is the arrangement for every other SPL team in Scotland. The fact that the new people in charge at Ipox are the administrators would make is sensible for the police to re-negotiate with those now in control. Why could SSN not get the info from Duff n Phelps !
However, will the administrators be able to deliver, on the policing costs, would be the question that has yet to be answered.
HH
RobertTressell – How narrow minded of you, Robert.
You are entitled to your opinion on the honours system, etc. but Sir David is a Sir.
It is his title, bestowed by our much beloved Head of State (God bless her), and it is churlish to disrespect Her Majesty by pretending that he is not a knight of her realm.
Just as Paul McBride QC is a Queen’s Counsel and our esteemed former chairman Baron Reid of Cardowan is a peer.
Interestingly, John Reid once held opinions similar to you own, but he outgrew them and look where he is today! Being a communist got him nowhere. That’s something you should consider, maybe one day you too can become part of the British establishment.
One might harbour negative opinions about the medical profession, or academia in general, but it would be bad manners to refuse to address someone who is a doctor as “doctor”. Similarly whatever one’s views on religion, refusing to address a priest, a minister, or a rabbi by his proper title would be improper.
Civilisation is founded on civility. (thumbsup)