Last month we heard from one of our community, RalphWaldoEllison (John), whose adult son, Tony Conway, has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the same strain of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) that claimed Jimmy Johnstone almost six years ago.
Tony, John and their families now live in the United States, but they, along with Tony’s brother Martin, are travelling to Scotland this weekend to watch Celtic play Dundee United. They will be here for a total of around 48 hours but I will get a chance to meet them and they are going to the game with Jinky’s son, James Johnstone.
I spoke to James last month and he relayed Jinky’s strong views on research into MND. The fight against this disease will be won one day but there is a great deal of research and political effort required before then. Tony has committed himself to this end.
This morning James Johnstone told me: “My Dad was my hero and I took great pride in the way he fought this horrible disease, it’s great to see the same attitude in Tony. I know how much my Dad loved the Celtic fans and his answer to this would be to help get a cure for MND. Hail, hail.”
I encourage you to visit Tony’s blog dontshrink.com, learn about the condition and leave him a message of support. The Celtic Movement began by putting food in front of hungry children 124 years ago and it remains one of the most able forces for good in the land. We can pick up this challenge.
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Hi Terry – I didnae hear ye as i’m blocked at work but will listen when i get hame later:) They don’t like it up them.
I had a couple (8) of Guinness with Gerry on Sunday and he’s in good form.
slainte
tony
Carroll £35m
I still can’t believe it. He canny even run with the ball.
No card for the Man City defender?
A broadcaster who publicly admits he doesn’t “read the internet or Tweeter”.
Make no mistake, this is the biggest story in rangers 140 year shameful history and yet we have “journalists” who simply refuse to investigate.
Leabrannagh:
100% agree with you mate. Totally.
I have long argued that Scottish football was in reasonable health, even during Rangers crazy spending, up until 1994. Yes, the spending at Ibrox skewed the picture and changed the way things worked … and all of it was money they couldn’t afford … but the game itself was in reasonable health and clubs were in good shape.
Fans were still going to games. The fight for European places was real. There were four, five good teams which you worried about playing against.
What destroyed Scottish football was not Rangers incessent spending, no matter what some might believe. What destroyed the game here was the Fergus McCann takeover and the resurrection of Celtic as a major force. The two-team paradigm was born, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd, Hearts and others, realised the best they could do was finish third and that became the battlefield … and fans voted with their feet.
Who wants to watch that? Who wants to watch a battle for third place?
Had Rangers not overspent massively, money they could not afford, we would not have had to go into huge debt and we too would have lived within our means. Scottish football would look very different today had the two team axis not skewed the picture. Youth would have been the future, good players would have stayed at their teams and everything would be different. Imagine Hibs had kept their great young players, instead of scattering them to the far winds? The Champions League places would have been gold dust to more than just two clubs … and the fans would have been out in force.
The End of Rangers is NOT the end of Scottish Football … if it is done with fairness at the heart, if it is done with integrity as the key, with the rules as the guidestones and with justice as the watch-word, it could be a new begining instead.
These cowardly small-minded men cannot embrace the fact that this could be the best thing ever to happen to the game. They are too wedded to the present system; indeed, guys like Guidi have lived their whole careers within it and simply could not adapt to anything else.
More than anything, the fans who have lost their faith that the game is not straight, that it is slanted in favour of the West Coast Big Two (and there are many, many, many who do believe it) would be invigorated by such a demonstration it was not the case.
Courage, intelligence and vision are what is needed most here, but none of those things is in abundance in Scottish football. Instead, what stalks the hallways of the clubs is fear. The situation is not perfect, it is loathsome and stinks to high heaven, but we must work with what we have to hand. If appeals to the good of the game do not work, if selling a vision of a new Scottish football environment does not succeed, if the idea of a game removed of a club which has brought us to this pass does not hold and if the notion of restoring justice and fairness, and putting it at the heart of everything, holds no appeal … then we simply have to, as a club, as fans, work with the hand we’re dealt.
Which, of course, is that fear. If they claim the game needs us both, then we remove that option from the table. We make it a simple choice between an SPL without Celtic and an SPL without Rangers, and we make them pick a side. If they choose the side of tax cheats, fraudsters and bullies then so be it, and in that case we leave them all to rot.
Bada bing
looking at the clear out get new clubs brigade, would you add any to the following
Cervi
Zaluska
Loovens
M Wilson
Bangura
Rasmuseen
and off course Stokes (He’s no the answer)
stephbhoy says:
11 January, 2012 at 19:55
Main priority team,did you see the bit at the
start ‘MAIN’ of course the fans are right up there
high on my list,but if no team ,what do we focus on?
Building work never mentioned in any of my posts till you brought it up .
If you think erse is a bad word get Paul
to scrub my posts.
Hail hail shelteredlifebhoy
Charlie Adam…. The h*n that got away! Oh who oh who oh who oh who!
Tricoloured Ribbon says:
11 January, 2012 at 20:05
Ron,
The Atlantis was always a Hun hole mate.
I assume that is still the case.
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when I went there in the 60’s and 70’s it was ‘mixed’ in that you knew from living localy who were huns (Rangers supporters) and who were not huns (not Rangers supporters but not necessarily Celtic supporters ), don’t think any supporters buses went from there, I went to the Clydebank home games whenever possible in an effort to keep things going
Leabrannagh says:
11 January, 2012 at 19:49
death of Scottish football now __very competitive when they were gash in early 80s, 2 Scottish teams in euro finals!
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Exactly. When Ragers played by the rules they were – as you say – gash with a capital GA.
But the league was still highly competitive with 3 teams, watched by large crowds, vying for honours .
It was also during this time that Dundee Utd were cheated out of a EC Final appearance.
If the SPL becomes a Ragers-free zone it might well flourish as never before.
Kenny give me that £6million schiedt noose from round your neck…
Your new £35million Carroll noose has arrived.
£35m for Carroll
Newcastle saw Dalglish coming with that one
Then again, £20m for Jordan Henderson?
interestingly all the passion and outrage shown by the media is around the possibility of no Rangers in the SPL
There isn’t even 5% of the same passion and outrage shown over the behavior of Rangers
I don’t doubt there are some Celtic, and other clubs , supporters who would be happy to see Rangers , or any version, never playing in Scotland ever again
That is not however my impression of the vast majority. The vast majority seem to want appropriate treatment given the serious nature of what Rangers have done.
The media seem very reluctant to recognize that Rangers, if found guilty, have cheated. this isn’t the type of cheating like diving or a hand ball or a deliberate foul
This is , if found guilty, structured, planned, and deliberately misleading the authorities.
You can’t get much worse than that. It had an effect on multi years sporting competition, and the Media in Scotland would be outraged if a European team had cheated, year in year out, to the detriment of a Scottish team.
If that European team were then let off without penalty by their home authorities, the media would be doubly outraged.
The Penalties on a Rangers Newco, levied by Uefa, are not an issue They are standard and fixed. The issue is what are the Scottish authorities going to do. The concern is that they will do nothing at all.
That is the area that causes most angst. Rangers will pay a dreadful price if he FTT goes heavily against them. That price will be the loss of their club and History, as well as League membership.
Would it be fair if the History was effectively claimed by a Newco, with acceptance, and probably support from the media. Would it be fair if the League membership was not lost, and in fact continued uninterrupted.
I am sure nobody in the media is stupid in relation to what they expect Rangers Newco, if it comes to that, to try and achieve.
Thats uninterrupted, unpenalised play in the SPL, at Ibrox, playing in blue, with a similar or identical crest, and called Rangers.
Thats the line in the sand for many of us, not just Celtic supporters. `That at the point that many will exercise their choice of the many alternatives for their football fix. Whether it be the EPL or La LIga, thousands, probably 10′s of thousands will be lost to the game in Scotland
Just to ensure that a bunch of cheats receive absolutely no punishment from the Scottish authorities. Because be assured that outcome, no penalty, play in the SPL is precisely what the media want. Guidi and Keevins said so tonight. Not hinted at it, they were specific
The media will whip up a firestorm, to put pressure on every club with a voice , to ensure their preferred outcome
Fairness……couldn’t care less…
getting away with cheating…….not interested
I have posted many times on here that Celtic’s board have serious resolve to achieve fair play. I believe that, however they may have to very seriously consider whatever ways they can to leave Scotland, if the media get their preferred outcome
The media are baying that no Rangers Newco in the SPL would be the death of Scottish football. No Celtic would by that logic also be the death. In Celtics case it would be no Celtic ever again in Scotland. In Rangers Newco, it would probably only be for 3 years
I would rather play in Ireland or Div 2 in England than a corrupt Scotland who bounce Rangers Newco directly into the SPL without penalty
I’m pretty sure I am not alone in that
For anyone who missed Terry here is him vs Keevins
http://youtu.be/zDtSAoN9diQ
Kittoch
Stokes has been best and our most consistent striker this season.
Re the horse in the hoose. I have known a few Horse’s @rses from Back! (One for Nuclear Bovril there)
As for the Clydebank debate I was a Hardgate bhoy myself but left before pub going age, but my Grandpa Sanny’s funeral breakfast was in the Radnor.
Tell me what you would rather spend £55 million on ….
Jordan Henderson and Andy Carroll
or
Ten years of HMRC deficits, fines and assorted interest?
No contest really haha.
Barcabhoy
‘I would rather play in Ireland or Div 2 in England than a corrupt Scotland who bounce Rangers Newco directly into the SPL without penalty’
You are certainly not alone in those thoughts
hamiltontim
Re Stokes, I totally agree, it is a local punchline which clearly does not translate to the Blog.. A little joke even.
Bada bing has obviously fell asleep after a long day of pondering.
BadaB
I fear that we may well be lumbered with quite a few.
I wouldn’t be a money man, and I have the feeling that PL will want to sell as opposed to offloading, which to me is not the way, I would rather take a hit and get them off the wage bill, otherwise we are left with them and still paying their wage, confuses the hell out of me.
Time will tell, but even if we are left with them, we are still in a position to buy what we need.
The hacks on snyde keep saying there is no chance of CL football for the foreseeable, bollix, we would go down the champions route and get diddy teams like the hun got, and I feel confident enough that with what we have plus a couple of quality additions, we would make it, well worth the gamble imo for the CL money, even the europa money would cover the spend.
James Forrest
Don’t forget Glen Johnson at £19m :)
Terry
Just listened to the recording of yourself on Clyde with Keevins.
you won easily, however he constantly wriggles from one excuse to the other and he sounds pitiful while doing it.
Keep it up.
Snake Plissken says:
11 January, 2012 at 20:23
Must be me but what is the big deal about this call to Clyde.
‘Golden Boy’ Gerrard is a very lucky boy to still be on the pitch
He has committed 2 clear yellow card offences
The refs at EPL level are very poor indeed
If rangers are found guilty and go into admin then they are guilty of financial doping in order to gain an unfair advantage over the rest.
They have then CHEATED their way to 12 titles
These alike juventus should be deemed void and struck off the history books.
I couldn’t believed keevins shout if clubs would be ‘stupid’ to want their demise?
How dare he!!!
Other clubs are in financial turmoil due to trying to compete against a side who weren’t on a level playing field!
The only stupid people were those who were unfairly running rangers and those media poodles whom stupidly chose to be controlled by minty through succulent lamb!
Those media whom could have given a hoot when we were nearly out of business!
Those media who ridiculed mccanns business acumen of NOT following Rankers reckless ways!
Nine in a row? Doesnt really hold the same sense of achievement when they are found to have cheated their way to it.
Gon yersell Terry, he ( The Muppet ) say’s, we could get the Jail if we commit ourselves,they should get the JILE fur the Joke of a Program, first sign of what is Fact, yuv goat him by the short and curlies.
Awerabest PJ
Kittoch
My apologies ya swine :-)
Snake Plissken says:
11 January, 2012 at 20:23
Thanks for posting that link…great call from Terry. “I am only interested in fairness”…we should make up T-shirts with his quote. As ever Keevins et al put the boot into the very people they need or say they do. As Jock said, without the fans the game is nothing.
Radio Clyde seem to be hellbent on skirting round the whole Rangers issue and are sh*t scared to go into it in any detail….shame on them as so called broadcasters and journalists. In doing so, they have in fact played a leading role in Rangers arriving at this point as they have applied no rigour or public scrutiny to what Rangers have been up to.
Hope they keep it up and I will say what Terry couldn’t, I do hope to see the death of Rangers. Said that at work the other day and was called a bigot. When I asked what I would be called if I was a Liverpool fan and wanted Everton to go to the wall, I was told that was totally different. That was from a female Falkirk supporter!!!!
BBC gossip column:
“Doubts have been cast over Whyte’s ability to fund Ally McCoist’s £2m signing target Javi Guerra. (The Herald)”
No way!!!!
Man City v Liverpool. Poor game between 2 wealthy but poor teams.
Kelvinbhoy
The signs at the zoo clearly state….
‘Do not feed the animals!!!’ :-))
the point about the call is people who missed it wanted to hear it.
A lot of people on here enjoy listening to the media monkeys’ (copyright Mad Vlad) lame excuses and their cowardice.
We know it in any event but hearing this stuff crystallizes it.
Some years ago I was working with a company which did a sub-contract on a building project for one of the big 5 construction firms.
The work was on the conversion of a country house into an old-people’s home.
In a letter the employer informed our company that the project attracted a zero VAT rating and we billed accordingly, but when our firm were VATaudited by HMRC they were told that they should have charged VAT.
We produced our original quote stating that VAT would be charged at the standard rate and the written response from the employer stating that the project had been zero-rated, but this cut no ice with the VAT man.
He was categoric in his insistence that the onus was on us to ascertain the correct legal status of tax even if this meant that we would be telling one of the biggest companies in the UK (with dozens of lawyers on their staff) that their understanding of the VAT status was wrong.
The charging or otherwise of VAT made no difference to our firm as we were registered. So we simply paid the VAT man the small amount that should have been charged and claimed VAT from our employer/main-contractor telling them we were acting on HMRC instructions. No problems.
As a layman I found this situation crazy. We were a small firm with no in-house lawyers, acting in good faith for one of the biggest construction companies in the world yet the onus was on us and not them to know all of the finer points of tax law.
I thought of this responsibility when reading of the EBT situation with our friends across the city in the event that they go into administration if the tax ruling goes against them and HMRC can’t get their dosh because MBB has first call.
In such a scenario a former employee ( for the sake of argument let’s call him Mr. Smith) who had been given assurances that there was no need to pay tax and it subsequently transpired that there was would be in a queer place.
I don´t think it would do for Mr. Smith to wave a bit of paper saying “a big boy telt me it was O’K”.
No I don´t think that would not do at all, as acting in good faith is no defence in the law, especially when we all know that death and taxes are life´s two certainties.
As I see it, if Rangers go into administration and the VAT-man wants his pound of flesh, Mr. Smith would have to pay up and seek recourse through the courts for any bad advice given to him re the creation of tax- havens for Ranger’s employees.
Any lawyers on the forum with expertise in this area?
Kittoch- All players you mentioned and Jaurez too.
hamiltontim says:
11 January, 2012 at 20:44
Agreed and do not listen but grateful for the posts on here when the monkeys are found out. The numbers listening to RC Phone-in must be a shadow of what they used to be so push will come to shove and they will have to adopt a much more balanced and investigative approach or will fade to nothing. I don’t care either way but they do deserve calls like Terry’s in order to highlight their deficiencies.
Off now to watch the second half of City v Lpool.
Cheers guys.
Kittoch- forgot about Murphy and O’Dea.
Shearer looks like an extra from Brassed Off.
“The tax man has to be realistic” © BFDJ
What about Stevie G as a wee loan replacement?
That would be guid haha