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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JAMESGANG on 31ST MAY 2016 12:13 PM
Not a scrap of evidence to implicate the C.I.A.
MACJAY
A few years ago,TIME printed a tale of MLK.
It centred on “The Dream”
MLK seemed to be struggling to get his speech across to the masses. Who knows,perhaps he had stage-fright at the sheer numbers arrayed in front of him.
Perhaps the concern that nothing he could say that day could make them proud they were there that day,that for all his attraction for them,he was powerless.
He froze. Faltered. He was losing “the moment” and had certainly lost his momentum.
And then,from the bleachers beside him,a voice.
What a voice in song,but in speech,soft and insignificant.
But wow how incredible that voice was for history.
“Tell them about the dream,Martin. Tell them about the dream!”
Mahalia Jackson.
Her place in history is as assured as many others who fought for rights in their own ways.
She did it in less than a dozen words.
A fine CQNer has my copy of that magazine. It’s in a good home.
A wonder if they kept any of JFK,s??????
CIA.
Central
insemenation
Agency.
Braw.