It’s just another story of a player sitting in the stands at Dundee before moving to the bench at Hibs and then a four year contract at Celtic. All in less than four months. Scott Bain is 26 years old and were it not for a personal issue with Neil McCann would still be at Dens Park.
Instead, he will see out his 20s as a Celtic goalkeeper. He is 11 years younger than Dorus de Vries (37) and 9 younger than Craig Gordon (35). He caught Brendan Rodgers eye and is now a development project for the manager. The future is his, if he can grasp it.
Congratulations on your new contract, Scott.
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Oh, did I mention the thousands of pounds supporters were cheated out of back then, unaware they were paying to watch a rigged game.
Not that I need to, as it’s right up there in Celtic supporters’ priorities, isn’t it, never done being talked about on here.
Delaneys,
Google translate. Never let me down yet. Even in darkest Munchen ?
There’s an episode of the Sopranos in which Ben Kingsley appears as himself, being pestered at a Hollywood event by a delusional mafioso who thinks he’s a screenwriter.
Having spent a couple of days trying to avoid him and his ‘Sir Kingsley’ greeting, he manages to get on a flight to New York, palpably relieved, when on comes said mafioso.
His reaction was to exclaim ‘fu-uck’ as he looked at his PA.
That’s how I feel after the past 24 hours on here, but I didn’t swear, as I respect the blog rules.
Bateen
Fits like ye. Early set off fae loon toon for you. Coias breakfast is dynamite though. See you in morn J.
YNWA
evening all, god bless tommy burns.ynwa.hh.
Big Judith lady in red doing the weather tonight wooft HH
JRCSC
okay this just came into my mind while watching one of the you tube videos, i used to pass the louden tavern as a teenager going to parkhead, on my life i never knew it was a hun pub, how stupid was I .if there was a tim pub in govan or helen st, would the hordes have been allright with it.hh.
Beatbhoy
Thanks for the lectures. Never knew I was like that and never thought of all the many points you make. Indeed never once did it occur to me that subsequent to our failure to retain a lead against a weakened team the team which benefited most by our failure was in the midst of the longest sustained, proven cheat in British sporting history.
Or I could say you know nothing of my life in May 2005 or the particular impact that day had on my life. Trust me the knowledge that Rangers was cheating on a collossal scale- and had been and would do for years- has not lightened that day one iota. If anything it has made it worse.
But as I say thanks for the lectures.
Jimbo67
DD,
Early start right enough. Will be leaving here around 6.45 am. With all the average speed cameras now, not worth taking a risk. Last time down before christmas there was a bad accident outside Dunblane which delayed us by an hour.mjust as well i had my driver, and was able to get dropped off right at the Emirates. Made it to my seat just as the Bhoys kicked off.
Not taking the chance of missing my hot rowies tomorrow ?
Looking forward to cacthing up with you too. Been too long ?
BP
Go into the Govan Arms or Tall Cranes pubs near Ibrox. Fenian Govan pubs.
HH
Franny- oot furra beer…..will check Big Judith out on Sky+☺
Bateen
Whit the feck is a rowie?
DELANEYS DUNKY, garry only if you come with me.smiley thing.hh.
DELANEYS DUNKY garry walking f and b today kept singing in my mind am no a billy am a tim, am i going senile.hh.
Good evening good ghuys
Just in from my back garden where the beer was flowing. What a lovely day.
I hope we hump the sheep the morra.
I hope everyone who had or attended Holy Communions today had a good day and evening.
Hope the Coias bhoys have a good breakky..
Been in Coias a lot over the years and it is lovely
Hail Hail
D. :)
Vfr
I might be coming to Coias next Saturday before game.
What time are you planning on being there
Jimbo67
Don’t see how having a different take on that day equates to ‘a lecture’, but sorry if the pain of that day coincided with other things in your life to worsen it.
Our knowledge now of their cheating might not make any difference to you, but I’m sure athletes like Jessica Ennis were devastated at losing out in the Olympics, but being awarded the gold 6 years later when the drugs cheat Chernova was disqualified seems to have been of some comfort to her.
Maybe we should be fighting for some of that recompense ourselves.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2017/07/18/jessica-ennis-hill-will-finally-receive-2011-world-championships/
DAVID66 hope you and cheeko are well, reminds me of my first holy communion 20 years ago when i was7 smiley thing.hh.
Baten Boy, don’t know if you saw it earlier.
The Magnificent 7 Champions Breakfast has been moved forward to 10 or 10:15. As early as you can make it.
WITS I intend to be there at 1. How many in yer party?
KTF
SOM MES QUE UN CLUB
if your lurking
Your pick in the CQN tipster was withdrawn bud
VFR
If you keep making it any earlier, you’re going to have to rename it the Magnificent 7 Champions vigil.
Vfr. Will know shortly.
2 at most I would imagine. The plan is for someone to drop my cup final ticket into you at Coias tomorrow and i collect it next Saturday…but that could all change in the next hour or so. Waiting on a phone call. Will post as soon as I can
I was in same class at St Thomas’s Riddrie late 60s, with Mr Coia’s daughter, Mr C always supplied ice cream for the whole school at the end of every term.
Bada Bing
To a chorus of ‘freezer jolly good fellow’ ?
Bada Bing
Only ice cream?
No jelly?
The Chimes of Freedom.
?
Yes, thanks, I saw that. Not going to bed tonight. Too excited ?
DD,
Rowies are ‘butteries’ or Aberdeen rolls. Food of the gods !?
A lovely family Bhoys.
Beatbhoy
Raw nerve hit with Black Sunday – no need for me to resort with sarcasm which I am kind of rubbish at ( Trust me the first reply was more abusive before I wiped it)
I never said their cheating makes no difference to me. It is the biggest sporting cheat in this country’s history and clouds everything in our game. Everything is sullied by them now as a result of it. The doublethink and outright lies I read and hear every day- some of it from people I know and used to like still annoys me.
I genuinely do admire people who have taken a stance – the nearest I come is boycotting Ibrox- but I have never agreed with the idea that ‘Jist empty the park’ would in the city and country I live in achieve anything for Celtic or the rest of the country’s football supporters who watched a game that was as rigged against them as it was against us. Nothing will change until the Huns change for the better and that is likely as me winning the lottery. And I do not play.
Just do not start me on Rugby Park 2003! I knew that was cheating even then
Jimbo67
Big Packy I hope you Joan and the bhoys are well
Coias ice cream is the business.
Pokey hat or cone what is it bhoys??
Wafer or slider??
D. :)
Beatbhoy
At the risk of sounding like a broken record and a bleeding know all, you are 100% wrong about us throwing away a title while there were 11 improperly registered players playing at Easter Road which should have resulted in an auromatically declared 3-0 result.
I have been battering at this particular door for 5 years now and poor oul Auldheid has had to listen to my ravings.
LNS and all that he said was wrong but everyone focuses on the Bryson interpretation, the No Sporting Advantage arguments, and the totally incorrect premise that the EBT transactions were legal.
Of course, LNS also never considered the Wee Tax Case Tax Dodge and was nominally prevented from doing so because the dates of his remit were changed before he started.
Further, not that long ago there was all this talk of a judicial review of LNS and, with respect to those who came up with and wanted to pursue the idea, this never proceeded because it was legally incompetent and never going to succeed.
So, let’s go back to the fundamentals because this whole thing, in retrospect, is really very simple.
Bryson gave rise to the notion that a player could be registered “properly” or indeed “improperly” and we all know that his evidence was that the players registrations were valid but imperfect.
Seeting aside the argument about whether an imperfect registration can ever amount to a registration, the very fact that Brysin was giving evidence at all must be questioned as he is an SFA an commenting upon an SPFL registration process.
However, the fact of the matter is that a player can only be registered with any football body by a properly and validly licensed club — and that is the big BIG issue that has never been grasped in the last 6 years.
Forget whether players were properly regisitered of otherwise in terms of LNS or without, the big question is “Were Rangers Football Club a properly licensed club” from the years 1999 onwards until liquidation.
As previosuly stated, any kind of licence can only validly be granted by the Licensor if the application is made in good faith, with no material ommissions, and with no untruths. The application istself must comply with the Licensing Body’s rules.
If the application is a sham, is based on untruths, or is false in any way then it should be treated as not having been made at all.
That is an argument which was relied on by UEFA in terms of the case against FC Gianinna before the CAS i circumstances very similar to the Rangers case.
If there was no valid application, made in good faith and with full disclosures, then there can be no valid licence, and if there was no valid licence then none of the players could ever be registered let alone regisitered improperly.
Sitting on the new SFA CEO’s desk is a report from the compliance officer about the Rangers application for a UEFA licence in 2011/12.
It will disclose a letter dated May 2011 in which HMRC accuse RFC of submitting falsified PAYE returns from 1999 onwards. HMRC allege those returns to be fraudulent and deliberate. RFC took advice on this and was advised that they had no defence to the allegation.
If the compliance officer finds that the SFA or UEFA were misled at any time in the licensing process then that licence must fall.
Logically, the same must apply to the dommestic licence.
So, going back to your Sunday commentary, what you should really be saying is that on that day Hibs took part in a non SFA sanctioned match because their opposition did not have a valid licence to field a team in any competition irrespective of any player registration issues.
They simply did not have a licence to play and hadn,t had one for years.
Let’s see what the compliance officer says.
BRTH
okay you ghuys my claim to fame is my music teacher at st augustines in coatbridge was a miss coia.hh.
okay miss coia was in the first and second year, so who was our music teacher in our third year,give you a clue,these are my mountains and im going home.hh.
BP
My childhood pal David66 and I will be your minders when you come to scary Glesca. Bring your lovely dugs wi you please.
By the time all these Breakfast Bums roll into Coia’s I will already have been at Celtic Park for an hour.
Big Packy.
Was it Dolly Parton?
DELANEYS DUNKY it will be a pleasure to meet you and david and cheeko.hh.
DD and BP not a problem.
D. :)