It is not a good look when your retail partner is fined after admitting colluding to fix the price of football merchandise. JD Retail, Celtic’s partner, were fined £1.485m when they colluded with kit manufacturer Elite Sports and Newco Rangers to fix the price of merchandise sold to Newco fans. I have received assurances that nothing like this has ever happened at Celtic.
The Competition and Markets Authority, who discounted the fines levied on all three organisations as each pled guilty, found that Newco “became concerned” that fans were able to buy “Rangers” kit cheaper there than at the Elite Sports operated Gers Online and physical shops in Glasgow and Belfast. It does not appear any other clubs’ kit was involved in similar collusion.
JD said, “No directors or senior management of JD were involved in the offending conduct”, otherwise I am sure heads would roll. Elite and Newco have yet to make similar statements. It is hard to imagine any other UK club breaking the law in this manner, but this matter reiterates the need for ethical standards in business at the very top of an organisation.
Football clubs have a right to run retail operations that generate positive income inflows, which helps put a competitive team on the field.
When that drive for a competitive edge leads to law breaking, everyone in the game has something to worry about. You cannot subvert the law of the land to win trophies in Scottish football, how many times, over how many years, do we need to say this?
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Timbhoy163, unfortunately most of industrial Glasgow is contaminated in one way or another.
Glasgow schools were playing at Roseberry Park in the late eighties and going by the reports when the M74 was built it’s a wonder any of us survived
theBHOYfromU.N.C.L.E on 27th September 2022 7:16 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 7:13 PM
Struggling to name them all…..
HH
lionroars67 on 27th September 2022 7:24 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 7:13 PM
Gies a clue, what year is that :)))))
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Ha ha, but can you name the subs bench – put that in your pipe and smoke it? BTW would George Connolly have made it – as a matter of fact, should he have made the first team as he should have done in 70 V Feyenoord?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTLApvYRc4
For the Belfasty Bhoys
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcSr4l5XwAEr8Fr?format=jpg&name=medium
krankie signing the protestant supremacy oath. ⬆️
STV news video of krankie signing protestant supremacy oath, Tims under the bus. ⬇️
https://twitter.com/MikeStewart79/status/1568561643445014528?s=20&t=ZpBG-lIf6EOUZgkEkfkwjA
https://twitter.com/David65429338/status/1533368868999204865?s=20&t=ZpBG-lIf6EOUZgkEkfkwjA
Sir Rod the fraud crawling up the odious BBC`s ass…. ⬆️
Sir Rod “I LOVE OUR ROYAL FAMILY, I`M SO PROUD OF IT, AND MAY IT REIGN FOR ANOTHER 100 YEARS.”
I know BELFASTJOE will like this question:
Which Celtic player is the only player ever to have both played for and against England at international level?
Sorry if I dont get back on the blog tonight, but if Joe does look in – is Thursday of this week a possibility?
HH
No Cults in the Jungle
Scullybhoy
3-3 v Spurs
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Jungle tit you’re a very confused troll.
Do you hate everyone except your Internet “friends “.
MACCARGO @ 4:26 PM
if you needed any further evidence on the reporting standards of BBC Scotland then a look at their headline reporting the shirt fixing should put the discussion to bed. Whilst others correctly led with headlines that all three parties were complicit BBC Scotland went with…”Two Rangers replica kit retailers fined nearly £2M”
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Yip. Article comes complete with a picture of Alfredo taken four stones ago.
Ukraine are out of control in this match.
These challenges are ugly, studs up, has something got their backs up , it was all hunky dory between them in last game.
Any links?
blog no working /
Éire go two up only for Armenia to bring it back to 2-2. Squeaky bum time.
3-2 to Éire now. VAR awarded penalty. Four mins left.
Well done Scotland 👏👏👏👏
0 : 0 phew
Brilliant to finish top for the Scots.
I luv Rod Stewart and Nicola Sturgeon.
Well done Alba on their promotion. Éire scrape a 3-2 victory, despite dominating game, to avoid relegation.
Just finished watching the b(h)oys in green – a win is a win.
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garygillespieshamstring on 27th September 2022 8:06 pm
Scullybhoy
3-3 v Spurs
67
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Excellent!
I know BELFASTJOE will like this question
Which Celtic player is the only player ever to have both played for and against England at international level?
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No-one, and I mean no-one, will get this. Totally legit question btw.
Steve Clarke really gets his non-money’s worth out of Calum.
Another 3 x 90 minutes series for the world’s busiest footballer.
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Garry Delany’s, aka Delany’s Dunky, sad passing.
It would be lovely to see people posting about Celtic, music, Poland and Ireland amongst other things, in his honour.
GiverepetitivepoliticalpostsarestCSC
There’s a few on here who would have signed the oath given the chance
While singing God Save the King……
Almore
If you don’t mind and I can remember, I’ll repost your post tomorrow morning👍
Whites Chemical Works was not far from Shawfield Stadium same for Rosebery Park I played on it in the early 50s For Sacred Heart better known as Pirn Street
Porteous MOTM
https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/4006a923c8c8eaf3a3a875439a3e3fbf
What was the occasion – tough one for even GaryGillespie?
PB:👍💚
ALMORE on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 9:52 PM
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Garry Delany’s, aka Delany’s Dunky, sad passing.
It would be lovely to see people posting about Celtic, music, Poland and Ireland amongst other things, in his honour.
GiverepetitivepoliticalpostsarestCSC
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Foxes,
Knightswood growing up
Dalmuir pubs
A mutual pal he worked with in the 90s.
really really missed on here.
SCULLYBHOY on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 9:51 PM
karamoko dembele, ?
Saint Stivs on 27th September 2022 10:02 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 9:51 PM
karamoko dembele, ?
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Sorry ladson – no.
Porteous coming of age ?…..a freebie in jan ?…could do worse improving..and hates the huns
SCULLYBHOY on 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:00 PM
https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/4006a923c8c8eaf3a3a875439a3e3fbf
What was the occasion – tough one for even GaryGillespie?
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unforgettable for me for a number of personal reasons
celtic 4 honved 0. 1988.
1st round european cup.
Took my youngest brother , main stand front row. Big Mick gave him a ball in a broad yourshire accent, here lad take this. we thought he was irish, lol
Macca scoring the 3rd , right in line with us.
My mams and jock steins birthday, 5th october.
home after the match, i righted a wrong, and have never forgotten it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuJ2BiQARmk
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Scullybhoy
Total guess.
Peter Latchford.
Tenuous in the extreme and assumes Mike England was Wales u23 coach in mid 70s.
(Of which the interweb says nothing)
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/27/uk-cost-of-borrowing-on-international-markets-overtakes-greece-and-italy
Yip.
Worse than Greece.
on watching again, i am wrong honved keeper in different outfir. so maybe werder bremen a year later ?
Back to Basics – Glass Half Full on 27th September 2022 10:19 pm
Scullybhoy
Total guess.
Peter Latchford.
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Sorry, but no. Not only did he play for and against England, he actually scored for and against England!?