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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Starry
Pogmythonyahun
BMCUW
Thanks for the help regarding pubs to watch the game, will check them out.
Starry
Let me know the dates and if I am available will pick you up, my bhoy will be here and we might be away for a few days if not will try and get you sorted….
Kikinthenakas
TUSKER
Egyptian wheat didnae do the Carthaginians much good.
Do you reckon they were putting sugar in it?
HH
Managed to get a morning off work but its busier than being AT work!
Interesting that for about 10 days ALL the MSM chat is about Sevco. It stops them recognising our euro exploits.
Incredible.
I hope no one on here has had any administrative oversights!?
Dearie me. WHAT a country. We stand united as Celtic supporters. The MSM desire to deflect and split us up.. No,no. We ll not fall for that. To a man and woman we are a smart clever support. Always have been..
Now is the time for us to use our collective intelligence and support of our club.
I don’t want our players to suffer. Granted those before have been cheated but I want to back Lenny and the Bhoys .. We must think of ways to make our feelings heard WORLDWIDE and not upset the team..
HH
Sunny, lovely in Bournemouth.
I’ll be buggered if I’m sitting at home all gloomy. Eff that.
Get my good mrs. to drive me down that beautiful Rd. to Badbury Rings and then get my vintage guitars properly overhauled.
And they are beauties. Believe.
We have an upright piano in the kitchen. That cannot be moved and my wife needs it. Sorry)
An I ‘own’ several sooper-dooper electronic keyboards. I don’t exactly know where they came from?
One of them’s a Yamaha CX 80 workstation. It thinks it’s God. It’s almost there!……( and I have just been told my wife needs to keep it for work. Why are women SOOOOO practical…) but there are other keyboards. Good, modern ones.
And I own several very good amps, and a cd/dvd collection to die for.
Oscar……one day…they’re yours.
I make that solemn promise.
And I have written a guitar piece for you, too. Absolute promise.
Big love to you, my wee friend who I have never met, but know within my soul.
Hail! Hail! Oscar Superstar!
ernie lynch
Aye i know. I’m grasping at straws now but you never know.
Tony Watt ,last couple of weeks playing for U 20s,doesn’t travel to Turin………….
kikinthenakas
I’ll PM you Kickin’ my old Mum is getting out of hospital today but until I’ll speak to her I don’t really know what she needs..
Your boy is coming..great..
Thanks a lot yer a guid ‘un..
MIKI67
Bradbury Rings is just east of the A350 on the Blandford road,aye?
Someone suggested I take a detour there when I used to go to Poole. A very strange place-as is Avebury near Swindon.
Not as strange as the rail line in Poole which someone decided to build across-not over or round- a blinking big lagoon just to prove that they could!
Have a guid dayoot,mate. Lovely day for it down here….
Bada Bing
Regards Tony Watt. I wonder if Lennys thoughts are similar to Brendan Rodgers handling of Raheem Sterling? He announced last week that Sterling would go back to reserve team football for the rest of the season to take some of the pressure off him, and to get him to ‘rediscover’ his love of the game.
miki67.
Badbury Rings ————- enjoy ! .
Say Hello to The Clubmen ——- a wee collective that weren’t Parliamentarian and weren’t Royalist but were that most dangerous of things -independent thinkers.
Allegedly Tony Watt bruised his foot yesterday in training, this bhoy I’d bring mis managed IMO.
Is being.
Ten Men- Thanks for reply,I would have thought this time would be perfect for gaining experience when there is no great pressure on the team currently.Would rather have him than Miku and Lassad too.HH
At least we will last longer in Europe that either Utd or Madrid
I think Watt meeds some regular football as I can see the sense of him dropping down for a bit. I’m sure we will see him back in the first team before the end of the season.
PARADISE FOREVER’S BIRTHDAY TODAY doesnt post much but believe me a permanent lurker HOOPY BIRTHDAY SIS
COYBIG
I wish people would stop posting nonsense on here.
I dont know how many people yesterday reported the zombies losing £1 million a month.
Obviously garbage as I checked front and back page of all tabloids in the shop this morning and not a mention.
HEADINTHESANDRFC
Tony Watt didn’t really ‘show’ in any of his few starts, impact sub is where he earned his new contract, plenty of time for him.
mhark67
09:54 on
5 March, 2013
Well done, I called sky the other day and cancelled and told them why.
The biggest corruption in Scottish football and they get a helping hand, it’s disgusting and I’ve noticed a few good decent people leave because of it.
I will stick around just now and hope the new fans website will remove the corrupt blazers but if not I won’t be back.
I understand others views on supporting Celtic and saying forget them but why should the corrupt blazers bend rules and then they have the cheek to apply rules to everyone else.
Spartans fielded an ineligible player and they got thrown out.
East Stirlingshire fielded an ineligible player and they got thrown out.
I could go on and on but what’s the point, guilty verdict over 11 years and they get a 250K fine which was to be paid by oldco but that didn’t happen.
DISGUSTING.
One…….. is back home at the Palace
5live sports news telling us how romantic tonights CL game is at OT . Sent a text in asking them to tell us the combined debt of the two sides so we can see how much romance costs these days , i dont expect an answer . Tony Watt is a young man and still has a few rough edges to smooth out , give Neil a break, i think he knows what he is doing.
tusker
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trust some Tim to know more than this here brain of Bournemouth!
: > )
Plane headed to Turin
SafeHands CSC
bournesouprecipe @ 11.34
love it
HH
I’d go with Stokes an Hooper tomorrow night, maybe Sammy for last 20 minds if need be. Would have taken young Tony though, he deserves it.
After a 5 hour delay… Boarding.
Off up, hopefully…
TBB – safe journey. It’s the “coming down, hopefully…” bit that I look forward to.
The things ex players say ——
” Lennon is the Scottish Conte ”
Enrico Annoni
” I don’t see Juve losing but they will have to be very careful.—– Juve are absolutely technically superior but Celtic will never give up ”
” Wanyama is very good ——- he could play in Serie A ”
” Samaras can be excellent “.
Sergio Porrini
From rm …….explitives amended
“I know it’s an emotive subject for some, but Charles is right – the media, the Internet bheasts & plenty other b&&&&&&s are lining up to stick the boot in & as it stands, some of the songs are giving these f&&&&&s the ammunition they’re craving.
I’m a great advocate of freedom of speech, but the time & place for protesting against perceived censorship isn’t, I believe, at our games – that’s what these people want, it’s playing right into their hands – they’ve campaigned long & hard to villify these songs & those singing them, so singing “offensive” songs at games is only going to damage the club & get people a weekender & and a court appearance for their touble.
If folk want to sing certain songs they know certain people will use as a stick to beat us with, do it on the bus to the game, do it in the pub before & after the game – arrange a demonstration in the middle of George Square & sing them as a protest against constraints on freedom of speech – that’s fine – it won’t harm the club, but continuing to belt out the old songbook when people are using it as a weapon against us, is doing the Club absolutely no favours whatsoever – certain attitudes need to change, harsh fact of modern football but there you are…”
He just doesn’t get it, does he…..
What times the N A due?
Scottish Premier League won’t appeal commission verdict on Rangers. “It’s time to move on, for the sake of the game from the top down.”
We will never move on, Scottish Football will wither die now that we all know it is rigged for one club only…
T W didnt go where he was supposed to go a few weeks ago. I heard.a function.
Tony Watt is in the best possible hands with Neil Lennon if he wants to develop his game and play in Celtic’s first team..
Hun a hun on ssb last night demanded an apology from Keevins. He didnt.
new article posted.