The land of registration anarchy

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So how about this scenario, Celtic Youths are trailing in their league with 10 games to go when they register three new players, but someone’s ‘at it’.  The players are all over-age but the date of birth on their registration forms have been incorrectly completed, so the players are registered and become eligible to play the remaining games.  Celtic Youths win their remaining games and win the league.

At the end of the season the deception is uncovered.  The people responsible for filling the forms out incorrectly are criticised but one is president of the Scottish Football Association, who give evidence to an inquiry that as the Association registered the players, the results must stand.

Time to “draw a line under it” is the line from the SFA chief executive, hoping with all his might that no one mentions the Scottish Youth Cup games the players also played in, which would invoke a parallel punishment to the one recently imposed on Spartans Youths for exactly the same offence in the same competition.  The chief exec also dismisses attempts to call those criticised by the inquiry to account as scapegoating.

Ridiculous?  Of course, but this is what we’ve just experienced, with another club, of course.

Challenging the verdict, if possible, is a worthwhile endeavour but it will only treat one symptom of the many issues facing Scottish Premier League clubs, who could be forgiven for losing the will to compete within the rules.  Fans of several SPL clubs now believe their best interests are served by playing in an environment beyond Scotland – for a whole range of reasons.

We have to work with fans of other clubs to make the case for the SPL, as a unit, to leave Scottish football (I see cross-club initiatives are already underway).

On a completely unrelated question, if you had £21m in the bank late last year, and you were burning cash at £1m per month, which year would you run out of money?
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  1. Liverpool lost 40m last year!? Debt of over 80m. WTF???

     

     

    When ur guaranteed 30m TV money each year, the bank won’t bankrupt you.

     

     

    EPL so lucky that Sky’s contract negotiators are insane

  2. miki67 You have hero status here, just look after yourself. I trust you are receiving treatment, we are all praying for you. Miracles do happen.

  3. first of the gang to die on

    speaking of richard burton,had 13 brothers n sisters,when he was young he had a paper round and used to deliver the papers every morning and at the end of the week he would collect the papers and sell them to the chip shop for wrapping the fish n chips,clever.his mother died giving birth to the last child.watched an interview with parkinson and he had about six cigs in twenty minutes.lived life to the full.the wild geese is still one of my favourites,burton,moore,harris,kreuger.

  4. saltires en sevilla on

    Big Cup Winner

     

     

    Those were the days – I have one last bus trip in me :-)

  5. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    miki67

     

    22:39 on

     

    4 March, 2013

     

     

    Why not drop them a wee email at weeoscar4life@gmail.com if you have been missed off by mistake.

     

     

    Stay strong

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  6. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    saltires en sevilla

     

    22:44 on

     

    4 March, 2013

     

     

    good to catch up with you on Friday at the lions roar again night

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  7. Karl, a character in Coronation Street tonight, “Why is everyone obsessed with moving on?”

     

     

    Mind you he did used to be in Taggart, so probably knows what’s going on!

  8. PFayr

     

     

    I agree that La Liga is miles ahead of the epl, but Real are imo, no great shakes, manure are good enough to beat them, I hope they do, like Real a bit less than manure.

     

     

    A wee bit like us agin Juve the other week, had Efe not made a bollix after a few mins, I reckon the result would have been so, so different, Lenny decided to go for it, he saw that they were there for the taking, unfortunatly, we got mugged, but hopefully we will learn from it.

     

     

    HH

  9. Pfayr

     

     

    Patrick Harvey is the only politician I’m aware of who has openly called for the closure of Catholic schools.

  10. Miki67-get your email address to me through whatever way it works.I’ve some stuff you would probably like. Nothing too stressful–mostly music of a Celtic persuasion. Would need to post it to you.Keep ‘er lit my man!!

  11. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Everytime I see that guy Haldane hes got a big smirk on his face. :0))

  12. WeeOscar4Life on

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    Celtic Park – 32 Cyclists

     

    Leeds – 7 Cyclists

     

    Duleek – 25 Cyclists

     

    Roscommon – 10 Cyclists

     

    Dublin – 26 Cyclist

     

     

    We will be supported by 16 support team members over the 2 days also.

     

     

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    Wee Oscar 4 Life Cycle’s To Belfast March 2013

     

     

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    This is the one This is the one

     

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    Can I have a raspberry on that

     

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    for donations to WeeOscarLife Cycle’s to Belfast St Patricks weekend March 2013 and helping to smash £2k target with your ever growing donations reaching£2400.00

     

     

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  13. Saltires

     

    Many thanks for the info much appreciated. Enjoy the Chablis.

     

     

    We are due to fly out of Stanstead at 6.30am Weds. Meant leaving home at 3am. After a bit of discussion with the other three we are now leaving Swindon at 9pm tomorrow night, and staying in the bar until our flight is called. !! Not entirely convinced its a good idea but have to go with the

     

    majority. Not told the wife yet.

     

     

    CRC. Trust all is good. Should be up next week for the CQN fives. Book me a spot. I’ll bring my gum shield.

     

     

    HHS

     

     

    Celtfish

  14. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    saltires en sevilla

     

     

    I’m sitting here jealous, just now.

     

     

    My companion at matches these days is my youngest son. He’s 13 so Juventus and their Ultras just wasn’t an option.

     

     

    I took him to the Nou-Camp and he had a ball.

  15. HT

     

     

    he was on the news tonight …..re the OBrien extended news slot

     

     

    I’ve only ever seen him on the TV making anti catholic comment ….I was giving him the benefit of the doubt as being an aggressive secularist

  16. Miki – i am not on cqn that often these days and i tend to scroll through quickly but i always stop for certain posters. You are one of them. We share some politics i think. Mine are rooted in compassion and concern for the little man and i recognise that in yours too.

     

     

    To quote favourite song of

  17. BABASONICOS71 on

    miki67

     

     

    Just read your post from last thread,inspiring and humbling.I hope you like this,if not then up ye,it’s the thought that counts. :)))))))

     

    All the best fhella.

     

     

    Touch it: it won’t shrink like an eyeball,

     

    This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.

     

    Here’s yesterday, last year —

     

    Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast

     

    Windless threadwork of a tapestry.

     

     

    Flick the glass with your fingernail:

     

    It will ping like a Chinese chime in the slightest air stir

     

    Though nobody in there looks up or bothers to answer.

     

    The inhabitants are light as cork,

     

    Every one of them permanently busy.

     

     

    At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.

     

    Never trespassing in bad temper:

     

    Stalling in midair,

     

    Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.

     

    Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy

     

     

    As Victorian cushions. This family

     

    Of valentine faces might please a collector:

     

    They ring true, like good china.

     

     

    Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.

     

    The light falls without letup, blindingly.

     

     

    A woman is dragging her shadow in a circle

     

    About a bald hospital saucer.

     

    It resembles the moon, or a sheet of blank paper

     

    And appears to have suffered a sort of private blitzkrieg.

     

    She lives quietly

     

     

    With no attachments, like a foetus in a bottle,

     

    The obsolete house, the sea, flattened to a picture

     

    She has one too many dimensions to enter.

     

    Grief and anger, exorcised,

     

    Leave her alone now.

     

     

    The future is a grey seagull

     

    Tattling in its cat-voice of departure.

     

    Age and terror, like nurses, attend her,

     

    And a drowned man, complaining of the great cold,

     

    Crawls up out of the sea.

  18. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    celtfish

     

    22:52 on

     

    4 March, 2013

     

     

    HH my friend, hope u get to meet up with Brian in Turin. Remember not to tackle him :-)

     

     

    I will be away the week after, but will pass on your visit to StandupTony who will be in charge that week. Ghod help us? :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  19. HT

     

     

    Certainly seems that way inclined

     

     

    You going to the game on the 16 th march ?

  20. CRC, handsome Mhen one and all.

     

    Email actually said the photo will be out by the end of the week.

     

     

    GoogyBhoy, if your around, 16th a definite for me, looking forward to it.

     

    FB me details.

  21. To all on the road to Turin …. Safe trip and enjoy….. To all the other ppl like me who will be screaming at the telly lets hope for a special night…. U just never know!!!!

  22. Big Georges Fan Club on

    Auldheid

     

    21:13 on

     

    4 March, 2013

     

    +++++++++++

     

     

    I particularly like the clear and definitive Clause 8.13 which governs, with an iron fist, the Entry Criteria in the event of an ‘Insolvency Event’ during the preceding season. This masterpiece of lucid rule-making is sure to keep us all safe from clubs that may be on a slightly shaky financial footing. And I quote:

     

     

    “…A club may meet the terms of the Entry criterion …provided that the club meets certain conditions as set out by the Licensing Committee, at its discretion, from time to time…”

     

     

    Everyone feel safe and secure now?

     

     

    BGFC

  23. I’ve asked and wondered if green kept his word on donating all the money from the Scottish cup tie with dundee utd, as promised?

     

    Popt into hun media earlier an they’re exalting green for donating £16,000…and pledging another £100,000.

     

    Now I’m not sure how much the huns made from the game.

     

    Circa…£150,000. We know green will not honour his pledge..a snake of a man.