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Strict liability when playing to gallery

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Being responsible is not always easy, especially when it comes to running a football club, where playing to the gallery offers vastly better short-term returns, and no doubt a rush of endorphins.

If your fans are engaged in an activity which regularly brings them to the attention of the courts, and your club into disrepute, it doesn’t matter what you think of the apparent offense.  You may chant an offending song in the shower every morning month, but your only public comment on the matter can be to chastise and urge fans to desist.

Clubs in Scotland voted against what is known as strict liability.  This means they are not held responsible for transgressions by their fans – and who wants to be held responsible for the actions of others who protected from personal liability by hiding in a crowd.

Part of the deal on not having strict liability is that clubs must demonstrate that they take all steps necessary to dissuade and educate their fans from carrying out criminal or regulatory offenses.  It’s simply not possible for club to tell fans their illegal actions were justified, as this would place the club itself in the firing line.

The nonsense following the Scottish Cup final is all background noise as far as we are concerned, but be aware the contagion will spread beyond those you could consider highly dysfunctional operators.

Solving Kids Cancer in memory of Oscar Knox

Our own Bundoran Bhoy will run the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday on behalf of Solving Kids Cancer.  He has put in an enormous amount of work ahead of the event, for a cause which you are only too familiar with.

26 miles is a long way to run.  You can give him some encouragement on his Just Giving page.

Good luck, Tommy.

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  2. 16 roads - Celtic über alles... on

    CB – Thanks for the considered response, however a lot of other people believe that some of the senior players were out to undermine the manager from the beginning – for one reason or another, and this before any of them picked up the injuries.

     

     

    Ronny is gone now, so it doesn’t matter.

     

     

    It’s a new start and we all want the club to be as successful as possible.

     

     

    HH.

  3. WWW(GBWO) on

    Bed time

     

     

    Think this is better than Ayr united’s efforts ;)

     

     

    My favorite tic scarf

     

     

    https://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0WTTKulbkhX83AA3Vfy3olQ;_ylu=X3oDMTIzbHBqaDkzBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM3NTQ1NmVhNDdhMTBiZjQxZTA2MWVmMjQ4NzI2YzQxZgRncG9zAzk2BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.images.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DGlasgow%2BCeltic%2BFans%26fr%3Dyfp-hrtab-903%26nost%3D1%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D96&w=312&h=425&imgurl=www.diarmuidandsusie.talktalk.net%2Fhumour%2FMissCeltic.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diarmuidandsusie.talktalk.net%2Fhumour%2Fjokes.htm&size=17.6KB&name=Ever+felt+you+were+being+extremely+unlucky+at+football%3F+Probably+not+…&p=Glasgow+Celtic+Fans&oid=75456ea47a10bf41e061ef248726c41f&fr2=&fr=yfp-hrtab-903&tt=Ever+felt+you+were+being+extremely+unlucky+at+football%3F+Probably+not+…&b=61&ni=108&no=96&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11p9h8r3l&sigb=13ggs37qf&sigi=11nseijht&sigt=128dsj42h&sign=128dsj42h&.crumb=H5NbR5f3UxN&fr=yfp-hrtab-903

     

     

    HH

  5. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 27TH MAY 2016 11:25 PM

     

    TT/BGFC – That’s fair enough.

     

     

    The past is the past though, and there is no room for sentiment.

     

     

    ——-

     

     

    Not saing anything either way about CM in terms of his future role for Celtic – just saying that the comments about him that night were bollocks :-))

     

     

    HH pal

     

    BGFC

  8. Hoop hoop Hooray on

    SAINT STIVS SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 27TH MAY 2016 11:10 PM

     

    “Dear Stewart Robertson:

     

     

    Bigoted chanting has haunted Rangers FC for decades.

     

     

    Pluck up the courage: condemn it outright. Offer no excuses.”

     

     

    Graham Spiers on Twitter.

     

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    Spot on.

     

    If they were singing about being up to their knees in nig***s blood or some other ‘racist’ term fo you think it would be passed off so lightly

  9. Cowiebhoy on

    16 Roads

     

    Agree, should have been gone in December though :-)))

     

    Given Brendan a bit more time to get us ready for Champions league qualifiers

  12. sipsini on

    Moonbeams…

     

     

    Tgsl was tipped the wink from his money launderer about getting the smsm on board from the off, of that I have no doubt and I wouldn’t be surprised if his old comrade in arms has his finger back in the hun pie.

     

     

    Shocking treatment from the huns against a lady telling the truth. HH

  14. sid on

    TinyTim

     

     

    Yes, but it happens, most players use physios they trust and have known through their careers.

     

    Some might use the national teams physio simply because he likes and rates them better, highly personal when it’s your body.

  15. roy croppie on

    Stewart Robertson and his cronies are part of the foot-tappers and shunters club…they see no harm in thousands of their supporters bellowing bigoted songs. It’s letting steam off. And within them they feel that rush of triumphalism when the crescendo is reached.

     

     

    Bigots.

  16. Turkeybhoy on

    John James does not miss them with his latest piece on “The Billy Boys”.

     

    Great read.

  18. Bobby Murdochs Ankle supportin Oscar Knox on

    WC,

     

     

    As a wise man once said……………..feck em, they deserve it, every feckin thing that’s comin tae them.

     

     

    BMA

  20. topkat on

    Just been speaking to my nephew who lives out in Australia…..mad Chelsea fan by the way…….seems Sevco have been getting a rough time about their wrong doings during the cup final day…….most notably their sectarian singing and goading towards the Hibernian fans….some papers said it was just normal routine with them….ie business as usual about their behaviour problems……and why doesnt their respective footballing body do something about it…Well what can you say really !!!

  24. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Turkeybhoy

     

     

    Our happy clapping days will keep us smiling

     

     

    Roy C….being a good tim fae Holehills & surrounding areas usnae the worst :-)

  30. topkat on

    In normal circumstances ….lets say in an other country a club would have a 3 point deduction if their fans continued to sing the outlawed song the billy boys..then would come a time when they could find their team mid table in their respective league……disgruntled fans will point out the trouble makers who can then be ejected and banned from the stadium……its a straightforward process………………………………..but its never going to happen as every football fan in Scotland knows they the sfa and sevco are one and the same corrupt outfit.

  34. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Roy C

     

     

    You know me so well…..

     

     

    Cheers ….the song Grace is a wee tiny compliment, but I can assure you when you are in the blog it cannot be beaten…., keep the pictures and tunes acoming.,,,. It’s saved on that iPad thing but sounds better fae an Airdrie rebel

  37. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Every time WC posts a cryptic clue I get a ragin stauner.

     

     

    Iz I gay?

  41. james1955 on

    A Ceiler Gonof Rust on 28th May 2016 12:28 am

     

    Every time WC posts a cryptic clue I get a ragin stauner.

     

    Iz I gay?

     

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    Cut doon oan the Viagra.

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