With former Rangers International director, Charles Green, no longer on the scene, Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, has had a sudden change of heart. After encouraging member clubs to reject the SPL proposal to merge leagues, yesterday he congratulated clubs who voted for the merger as “reluctant heroes”.
SFL president, Jim Ballantyne, was less pragmatic, “We are joining their [SPL] company, their organisation. They have swallowed us up. We could use nice words about it, but it is a takeover.”
On this occasion, we concur with Mr Ballantyne, who went on to say, “It will be for others to decide if this step takes us to where we want to go.”
The truth is that while this arrangement will do lots for clubs in the second tier of the game it will fundamentally change nothing, our challenges remain.
News this morning of impending financial doom at Hearts as a result of their lender and major shareholder going into liquidation presents another challenge. Hearts over-reached what looked like a bizarre attempt to spend money like there was no tomorrow. Memories of Zadoc the Priest blasting over the PA system at Tynecastle heralding their access to the Champions League qualifiers in 2006 will seem hollow now.
Scottish football has one perfectly solvent cash cow and nearly 40 businesses teetering on the brink. Send the cash cow off to graze in pastures where it can be fattened in return for writing a cheque big enough to solve the game’s problems.
Willie Wallace will be at the Celtic Store, Argyle St, for late night shopping, from 5.30-7.30 pm tonight (Thursday). Where you can buy a signed copy of his book and have a chat with the man himself. Bring a camera.
Immediately after leaving the Celtic Store Willie and Brogan Rogan (and a pile of books) are heading to the Greenock Celtic Supporters’ Club for a CQN Question and Answer evening. Entry costs £2 (all of which is going to our charity causes). DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!!
Raffle tickets for this fabulous signed Celtic strip cost only £1, you’ve two days left to get a ticket, so fill your boots here.
Tomorrow, while some of us are relaxing in Fife, over a hundred Celtic fans will drive north ahead of a 1254125 Ben Nevis climb and Huddle. Two of our own are then cycling from Fort William back to Glasgow on Sunday…. They need sponsors for their 1254125 campaign. Even if you can’t make it up Ben Nevis you can help out here.
And, if your stuck in Lanarkshire tomorrow there’s a trivia quiz in aid of the Walk Centre, Nakuru, Kenyan, who help children and families of the slum. Quiz takes place at St John The Baptist Church Hall, Uddingston, 7.30 – 11.30.
Order Heart of a Lion below:
790 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- ...
- 21
- »
Kojo
Any chance you know of a reputable (and cheap) Grand Canyon helicopter tour company?
~SPF~
LB,
It was probably two different occasions we saw him as I don’t remember the ‘rolling up the trouser leg bit’!!!
Safe to say he wasn’t fond of us as a Club or a support anyway.
Been good chatting bhoys but I’ve a golf Team Match tonight so I must dash to the course for some much needed chipping & putting practice or else I’ll get a thrashing!
Laters.
UF
bournesouprecipe,
I’m just round the corner grafting away :-)
Was Jim Farry not some kind of gardener as well?
Time ole old TIM got the gig.
What’s happening with the Balde signing? I hope he took a change of pants.
I Heart JFT96 @uppitytaig 3m
This email states all clubs voted. Others telling me no vote as no other candidate. @celticfc please can you clarify pic.twitter.com/4zKSCio3xu
Left work early today, going to an award ceremony for Miss Burghbhoy ( aged 6) who is one of 49 out of 5000 kids to win the writer of the year award.
Rest assured her auld da is keeping her up to date on all things Seccinian and maybe in a few years she can write the story in MSM.
Maybe she will even one day write as eloquently as some posters on this esteemed site!!
Hail Hail
Proudaspunchno1csc
Am I churlish to think that the interval between new strips being released is getting shorter and shorter?
The Argos catalogue aka satan’s rosary.
DBBIA
Time flying by cause yir old.
DBBIA
Have you seen the new strip – oooft.
Swinecastle
As a teenager in the early eighties, there were six of us, two males and four females, walking along a road parallel to Gorgie Rd, when from nowhere appeared four guys in their twenties and started to sing into our faces all the usual orange and anti-Catholic bile.
I thought we were going to get a real beating when another four guys came around a corner, no scarfs on, and set about the Hearts fans. And by setting about them I mean battered them!
In all my time following Celtic, away to Hearts is by far the only place that I would anticipate and witness trouble before and after a game.
I’ll weep no tears if they die.
~SPF~
sips
Crollas Ice Cream CSC
Until I see Owen Coyle’s grossmutter wearin’ the ole new cellick tap I won’t believe it.
Wee fat farry ended up workin for a construction company called AKP. They were based in stanley st near paisley road toll then moved to somewhere in EK. AKP like his fave team are now defunct.
uselessinfo csc
BOBBYCFC
This may be of help………
http://search.comcast.net/search/?cat=web&con=toolbar&form_submit=1&q=irish+pub+Las+Vegas&top_SearchSubmit=
Scots Pats Fan
Hiya,pal..
Nice Chattin’
Nope.. Ah hiv nae Info oan That.
Incidentally.. Thur Hiv bin wan or two.. or more.
HELICOPTER CRASHES.. whilst Hoverin over the GRAND CANYON.
Ah am being serious Noo..pal.
Ah am telling You this because You should be well aware of the dangers of..
WINGLESS AIRCRAFT..
Nae Wings tae Save ye…if the Props Stops!
Take a Bus,tae the Grand Canyon.. if ye want tae see it..
and
Ye kin Go Ride ride doon tae the Boattum of the Canyon… oan a DONKEY..
Ma auld Parish Priest in Calfornia. Told Me that He did that
n he ..
Wiz … TERRIFIED!.. the Whole Trip..in case his Donkey wid. well. TRIP!
So on second Thoughts..
Fuggetaboot the Donkey Bit..
and .
Fuggetaboot.. Seein’ the Grand Canyon..
Buy a DVD of it..
Best way tae see it..and a Hellava Loat..
Cheaper..
And.. SAFER!!!!
Ye wanta go somewhere?
O.K.
Take a bus tae LAUGHLIN.. Nevada,from Vegas..
It has Plenty of Casinos.. which are awe Built along a RIVER BANK..
Nice.
Why Don’t ye jist ..stey put in Las Vegas, Though..???
Plenty tae see and Dae.. even fur the Weans..if they are Coming wi’ ye.
We goat Circus Circus.. fur the Kiddies..
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
Yeah, Swinecastle really is a cauldron of hate.
Remember my dad telling me of the abuse a frail and ill Robert Kelly received entering a midweek game there just before his death.
Pure unashamed sectarianism , mocking a dying man.
No wonder Sir Robert stood up to this unbridled hatred all his days from the great flag flutter and through the remainder of his life.
These people are the very people who broke the silence for John Paul 11 at Hampden.
If Carlsberg did dying/dead football teams……..
Hail Hail
hankray
14:19 on
13 June, 2013
Starry Plough @12.37
You’re correct when you say Scotland no longer produces World class footballers like McGrain, Johnstone, Dalglish, Bremner, Law, Souness etc. There seems to be a general malaise affecting Scottish sport right across the board with the exception of young Andy Murray, the tennis player and I wonder if any of CQNrs has a theory to explain this phenomenon? The Glasgow rugby team, quite successful this season, played over here in the semi-final of the Rab league and could only muster a paltry few fans to support the team.
anyone any ideas??????
i remember the great players scotland had in the early 80s
BOBBYCFC
If you like Italian the Trevi Ceasars Palace is really nice…….
Burghbhoy
Congratulations, tell the wee yin that it is the topic of conversation in the Teuchter household.
Who are the “seccinians”?
Get’s her talent from her Ma…Eh!
Teuchter ár lá
Celtic Gossip @CelticGossip 13m
The re-election of Ogilvie was unacceptable @celticfc must communicate with us, my latest blog http://bit.ly/HVPBPp HH
Teuchter
Thanks bud, I did mean Sevconians but I am on a bus so I’ll blame the fact it’s too bumpy!!
Hail Hail bro
The ole new Celtic strip gets more leaks than a Sevconian Steamer.
Teuchter
Usually when I’m on a bus I’ve a bottle of QC on the go to steady the hand!!
If u know what I mean?
Kojo
Cheers.
If that’s the case with the helicopters, then my wife can go on her own!
~SPF~
Off subject guys .. but if anyone has access to tickets for Joe Longthorne at the Pavilion tomorrow night then can they give me a shout.
They only have tickets available in the gallery and my old auntie can’t make the stairs.
Any assistance appreciated
dancingbhoy at gmail dot com
As someone who was in attendance on the day in question mentioned in the blog below, i find the responses by Police Scotland ridiculous, well done to Ms Siobhán McMahon MSP for trying to get answers from an unaccountable Police force
Investigation into police interference in FAC parliamentary lobby continues
A small number of representatives of Fans Against Criminalisation visited the Scottish Parliament in April. A few days before departure one of the organisers was phoned at work by the police to ask what the arrangements were for the visit. On the morning of the visit, the group were approached in George Square by two uniformed officers just prior to departure to Edinburgh and told ‘we will wait for you coming back’. At the Parliament itself the group were met by 2 officers as they left their coach and a further 4 or 5 officers outside the door of the parliament who were clearly waiting for them. We are advised by MSPs that this is an unusually high police presence even when there are groups of citizens visiting Parliament.
This follows on a very heavy police and security presence at our last visit to the Scottish Parliament on the day the Offensive Behaviour Bill became an Act.
Siobhán McMahon MSP, who invited us to Holyrood in April, met yesterday with the Head of Security in the Parliament, and asked for an explanation for the police presence both inside and outside the building and the heavier than normal security. The reply? She was told that these arrangements were in place because the Police Service of Scotland has specifically requested them. Further evidence, if any were needed, that the the police in this country have a very specific and negative agenda in relation to Celtic fans and their organisations in general and against Fans Against Criminalisation in particular.
Superintendent Andy Bates in response to a letter from Siobhán McMahon asking about the behaviour of his two officers in George Square, tried to imply that it is normal practice to approach relatively small groups in the Square and ask if they are ‘alright’. Leaving aside the fact that this is utter nonsense, it is now becoming very common for individuals association with this campaign to be approached in a variety of circumstances – in the street on a Friday night; in a pub watching a match, travelling in Europe, attending bedroom tax rallies – to be approached by officers to ask if they are ‘alright’. Is it just us, or does that seem odd to you?
We have been repeatedly told over the last couple of months that the Crown Office is going to publish statistics which will show us that the Act is working. We look forward to seeing those, although if the ones already released under question by the tireless Ms McMahon are anything to go by, they will have a hard job using those to justify this level of intrusion into the entirely legitimate, lawful and democratic activities of private citizens….even if they are Celtic supporters!
b2k 15:16 on 13 June, 2013
I always think Hearts are worse on the sectarian issue BECAUSE their club did not have the baggage the Huns had. They also had a big racist element at Tynecastle for many years.
Also, the hatred if their supporters towards us is easily on a par with that of the Zombies.
Of the Hearts fans I have met only one passes the decency test.
BSR
Is malcolm murray a sevconian steamer?
deniabhoy
Your description of CO as Chauncey Gardner is inspired, sir.
Totally funny.
ScotPatsFan
My wife and I got a free helicopter ride doon ‘the strip” was excellent
but missus was a wee bit scared ,I was brand new ,being all manly an that.:O)
Burghbhoy
In all the years I’ve known you, You’ve never spilled a drop – so don’t be givin’ me any of them typo excuses………Next you will be calling all bus drivers -Sevconians.
Tell wee Mhari Congratulations.
Teuchter ár lá
I think that the displacement of some Loyalists, due to an internicene feud in the North, to Edinburgh snd regions, may have added an extra bit of culture to an already obnoxious support.
Talking of Edinburgh regions, I was reading through my two year old grandson’s copy of The Big Book of Dinosaurs, as you do, when I came across an interesting entry.
It was of a reptile, measuring 30 cms., from around 350 million years ago, going by the name of Westlothiana.
Is that interesting, or what?
Parkheadcumsalford 15:40 on 13 June, 2013
“Oh, for those who think Minty and Sounness are to blame for the wrongs of Scottish football, I cannot agree.”
David Murray almost single-handedly destroyed Scottish football. He managed to destroy Rangers – which was almost impossible, and a feat that should never be underestimated. But thanks to Fergus McCann he was unable to destroy Celtic with the help of his friends on the Mound.
We have enough people in the media trying to rewrite history regarding this chancer. Never let it be forgotten the damage David Murray did to Scottish football – he had help from others, but he was pulling the strings.
Teuchter
I reserve that particular description for posties only!!
Na Na scrub that, ain’t opening that can of worms again .
PMSLcsc
Kojo
aka also known for all thins Las Vegas concerned, when we went to Las Vegas last year we took the coach out to the Grand Canyon and did the skywalk, which terrified my sister in law although she made it.
However on the road to the canyon would I be right in saying that the bus travelled on a small part of the Route 66?
Best regards, and wish I was coming back this year.
Off to The SECC
Love to Burn
2.
Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze
3.
Psychedelic Pill
4.
Walk Like a Giant
5.
Hole in the Sky
(previously unreleased)
6.
Heart of Gold
7.
Blowin’ in the Wind
(Bob Dylan cover)
8.
Singer Without a Song
(previously unreleased)
9.
Ramada Inn
10.
Cinnamon Girl
11.
Fuckin’ Up
12.
Cortez the Killer
13.
Mr. Soul
(Buffalo Springfield song)
14.
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Encore:
15.
Powderfinger