Of all the supporter-related offenses Uefa are disciplining football clubs on at the moment the use of lasers annoys me most (with the appropriate caveat for health and safety matters).
Racism, health and safety violations, violence flares are all appropriate reasons to sanction a club but it’s always bothered me that Uefa seem to let the continental fashion for shining powerful lasers into the faces of opposing players and managers was not tackled appropriately.
I was, therefore, pleased to hear Uefa disciplined Olympiacos for, among a rich litany of offenses, their fans pointing a laser at Anderlecht players during their recent Champions League game. The Greek club have been ordered to close the more colourful part of their stadium for their last 16 game against Manchester United.
It will surprise few of us that despite the Greeks being sanctioned for using lasers, Milan have gone unpunished, despite their fans pointing lasers at Celtic players during our recent drubbing.
These games are supervised and televised from multiple angles. If the use of lasers attracts a punishment, and it should, the rules must apply without fear or favour.
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winning captains
19:54 on 19 December, 2013
Ordered the CQN magazine on Tuesday, when should I expect it, in Coatbridge?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Good Evening Timland.
Shocked and saddened at the mirth on here tonight
over the further utter humiliation of a great Scottish,
nae British institution…..ffs, it’s nearly Christmas.
I don’t actually think they’ll walk away…….I think they’ll run away…….doooo doooo
So the club that are deid but really urny in the first year doing business under the auspices of _________ (Insert Tim palpable name here) lost £14m i.e. up until June last year…so at the same rate that would mean they’re running around £21m loss by now. Yup looks like they have £1m left! from last years Tore andre flotation.
June last year=last June..sorry..yes its still 2013.Forgot.
Margaret McGill
20:02 on
19 December, 2013
So the club that are deid but really urny in the first year doing business under the auspices of _________ (Insert Tim palpable name here) lost £14m i.e. up until June last year…so at the same rate that would mean they’re running around £21m loss by now. Yup looks like they have £1m left! from last years Tore andre flotation.
No. Not the club. The company. :-)
Surely there can’t be much of the £1m left in the coffers once Jabba got paid out and Alexander has his case settled?
Maybe enough left for a couple of steak bakes ?
Who is paying for the damage to Falkirk’s pitch?
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Jimbo67
Ah, firgot about the Falkirk pitch.
Nae steak bakes then!
Seeing as we are talking of the new (soon to be ole Rankers mk11)rankers.
How did the Scottish 3rd division teams spend their windfalls from the hordes of huns
with their hunners of cash last season.
Thought I would have read about it ,as we need them. hh
Very strong story from @bbcsport_david across all BBC outlets now – Cardiff manager Malky Mackay told by club owner to resign or be sacked
Hi Jimbo67
How are you? Sorry about the AC Milan game. Turned around and you were gone!
Margaret McGill
I’m okay. I make a habit of losing company before European games! Did the same with BMCUWP’s dad and wee sister outside the Camp Nou last week!
Good to meet you- one thing about the CL this season , I enjoyed the prematch drinks! I hope you are good.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
!!Bada Bing!!
20:13 on
19 December, 2013
Very strong story from @bbcsport_david across all BBC outlets now – Cardiff manager Malky Mackay told by club owner to resign or be sacked
if he has any sense he should resign anyway, disgrace the way they are treating him………I hope he resigns and they go straight back down
I can see where the Malky Mackay thread is going, but
we have a manager!!!
valentinesday wants a Harry Hood dvd for Christmas
20:25 on
19 December, 2013
I can see where the Malky Mackay thread is going
yes, West Brom!!
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way
I’m told NFL is WBA bound……true made up story.
well done sandman
brilliant stuff from follow/follow
hilarious
See the Huns gave pieman a standing ovation lol for winning the 3rd division and getting pumped every time they meet a full time team.
You’ve got to laugh at the dafties
HH
Spawn of Struth statement: “Erm, we don’t know what to do. We await instructions, as this stuff requires some thought.”
Balcony/roof collapse at Apollo Theatre London,casualties reported.
The big spin is on to keep the hoardes on-side……are they really going to fill the coffers which will fill the spivs pockets…?
TBB
Didn’t realise I had to credit anyone with the joke, I got it in a text from a mate!
It’s an auld yin anyways :-)
Two Celtic supporters were arrested in dawn raids today by Strathclyde’s finest for allegedly breaking seats at Fir Park.
Nope they aren’t murderers or rapists or terrorists or drug dealers or house breakers or bankers (sic).
The fact that a press photographer is even more concerning.
But hey ho the Huns are gonnae die again so let’s focus on that eh?!
What Brendan Rodgers said about the Cardiff chairman and board, he could just as easily have been talking about the Celtic chairman and board. Suits who have no idea about football.
Hamiltontim- I thought the same thing this morning when I was shown the DR front page- how did the DR get involved? and surely this is prejudicial to the case of anyone arrested for the Fir Park damage. Are the plod doing this to show themselves in a good light (though dawn raids for breaking a seat seems like overkill to me) or is there another reason?
Did the announcement on which charity the Dundee United boycott game went to get much of an ovation?
All that money donated by these nice Dundonians………I think the charity should be named.
acoustamatix 20:53 on 19 December, 2013
“Suits who have no idea about football.”
I’ve never seen the Cradiff guy wearing a suit.
Bada Bing
Re Malky
Im pretty close to this
The owner’s a W**ker and not very nice
Always has entourage with him
Very superstitious……. Enters dressing room before games and his ‘team’ throw rice about the place when players are gettin ready for game !.
Can imagine the irritation behind yer shin pads ?.
stairheedrammy
20:54 on 19 December, 2013
There ye go I didn’t even realise that it had been in the papers today, genuinely.
What did they report?
And he wont resign
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
20:48 on 19 December, 2013
You can’t die twice, can you?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
tonydonnelly67
17:30 on 19 December, 2013
Micktt
If he had done that without the boards nod, he would be out on his erse in Paisly Rd. West right now as we speak, they need him, he knows it, he is a very big player here in this big change over there, but I will say this, it will all end in tears for him, and I hope he gets what’s coming to him in spades, I have wiped better of the sole of my shoe than that little armpit of a man.
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Agree, dont think he has fooled many on this site, I have never liked him as a person, don’t know him, never met him but see through him. I just wish NFL had come out and told everyone what he whispered in his ear, yep his place is on a shoe…
HH
Front page online with a picture of someone being led out of a house by 2 polis and large headline with threats of further arrests over Xmas
Lennybhoy
Lazarus would disagree :-)
adi_dasler-attention seeking owner,always on the touchline after “he” wins a game.Can see him being mutually consented.What expectation level do these guys have?
Bhoys and Ghirls,
IMO ; A poor £5 to £6 million signing or put bluntly another dud will cause “heads to roll” and result in a major set back for the club in the terms of forward strategy.
Times have changed since MON’s signings. This is why there is reluctance in our coaching / managerial staff in endorsing a player who can still be regarded as a gamble.
Yes a marquee signing who can actually do the business would be desirable and maybe even essential to progress in Europe, but it is ensuring we have the right target. Achieving that aim with £5-6 million is highly ambitious.
Baring catastrophic collapse we will win the SPL, and I mean no disrespect to other teams, it is simply true. This is why there will be no rushed > £5 million signings. Our economic environment and geography hinder us, of that there can be no dispute.
Although the consequences were not so noticeable, albeit on a greater scale even SAF made some poor signings e.g.Juan Sebastián Verón: £28m and Diego Forlán: £7m.
Dimitar Berbatov ( Excellent player ) at £31m was not exactly a major success either.
The point being, teams like Man United ( Man ure if you prefer ) can absorb failed signings far more than we can. We must get it right, hence the reluctance.
In a sense we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.
HH, Always in Celtic.
stairheedrammy
21:06 on 19 December, 2013
Front page online with a picture of someone being led out of a house by 2 polis and large headline with threats of further arrests over Xmas
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For allegedly breaking a seat?!
Incredible and disproportionate.
Wonder where the addresses came from????