EBTs “Gave us the opportunity to get players we otherwise couldn’t afford.”
With those words in the Glasgow High Court witness box yesterday, Sir David Murray laid bare the sporting advantage question of Rangers EBTs. EBTs gave Rangers a sporting advantage. If the loans were illegally executed, the club gained an illegal sporting advantage.
At the time of the Lord Nimmo Smith Commission the payments were regarded as legal, the Commission therefore ruled that no illegal sporting advantage was gained, as any other club could have acted in the same manner. The Supreme Court will have the final say on the legality later this year.
You and I know better than to hazard a guess as to which way that decision will go, but it will be worth tuning in for.
That aside, former vice-chairman of Rangers, Donald Findlay, representing former chairman of Rangers, Craig Whyte, appeared to enjoy questioning Sir David, another former chairman of Rangers, more than old Zsa Zsa in the witness box enjoyed being questioned.
Win a chance to play on Celtic Park this Monday, 1 May 2017
I expect the number of us who have pulled on a Celtic shirt and played at Celtic Park will be very few, but………
There is a club sponsors’ game on the hallowed turf this Monday, 1 May 2017, and those incredible people at Intelligent Car Leasing have given me one of their places in the line-up.
We have an ebay auction here for the spot, benefiting your very own Celtic FC Foundation. It was launched a few moments ago and ends tomorrow around noon, so the number of bidders will be limited.
You will enjoy the whole playing at Celtic Park experience, just as Quinn, McGrory, Johnstone, McNeill, Dalglish and Larsson did before you. You will make fantastic memories, you’ll bore your friends with the photos for months. You will look back on this when you account for the great moments in your life.
Celtic kit will be provided, although you’ll need to bring your own boots and shin guards.
Opportunities like this come along when the pitch is about to be replaced, and that happen only twice in the previous 20 years.
This is a 24 hour listing and the clock is ticking. Bid for yourself, or for someone special.
JOCK STEIN T-SHIRT STOCK UPDATE – Small – 2 left, Medium 3 left, Large only 1 left, XL 11 left and XXL 7 left. Order yours at www.cqnbookstore.com (just click on image above).
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Goooood Evening CQN
And Hello Melbourne Mick :-)
I see Celtic being linked with a young 19yr old Dutch tprigh back
I thought many were impressed with young Anthony Ralston ?
Would it not be an idea to give him a wee chance ?
Hail Hail
Hello COWIEBHOY and lovely daughters, agree about young
Ralston i’d give him a start against the stickies, as someone
else said ” he’s a tank ” he will handle it.
H H Mick
Can anyone post a link to the story last week (was it BRTH / WC ?) about the impact on Lisbon of Celtic fans – about the political situation and how it the people reacted to our fans just being free and happy? I really want to pass that on.
HH
BGFC
I know I get stick in here from some members of the “Clique”,but sometimes I just have to have a laugh at them.”There is no chance Scott Brown will have his appeal upheld”They cried.I said nothing.”We will not be allowed to win the game against the Hun in the Scottish cup”I said nothing..”Celtic will win 4,0 on Saturday”,the more exuberant among them tell us.I say nothing.I listen,I laugh,I agree,I dispute.
Seems that is not enough for the “Clique”.No all of them,a few.I normally only talk Celtic on here.Sometimes I tell them they are talking “Mince”which is normally proved.Does not matter.You have offended one of the “^Clique”so you are blackballed..Other lickspittles will join in,hoping one day,they will be in there.Fill your boots.I will always say what I feel.If this offends some,then a blog is not the place for you.
Moonbeams,you are still a “Snide”.
Classic Mourinho, choke the game.Counter attack,rope a dope stuff is how he has built his career.Defending is a huge part of football , and he does it better than most.Not good to watch though…..
I stated that I was going to have a wee dip into Dangerous Mader. Wow! Entertainment, hatred, violent of thought.
But here is a wee bit of the entertainment. :-@))
Enjoy. selective words and phrases amended within parenthesis for the easily offended.
Baxterboy
First Team
1,447 posts
Posted 4 hours ago
there is (pleasurable act) all point criticizing scottish football or the courts or the government or media.
these entities are not to blame.
we, Rangers supporters, have taken every bit of (poop) these fenian (female organ’s) – republican terrorists and supporters, have thrown at us since big Dunc’s imprisonment – you know the list.
they control everything in this country.
so if they are not the problem or to blame, then who is?
WE ARE THE (pleasurable act) PROBLEM! (I like that wee amendment to WATP)
Because we have laid down like (pleasurable act – ing) (cat’s) and taken it up the (pleasurable act) (bum) for more than 25 years.
changed (pleasurable act – ing) days indeed!
do you think that we would have taken this (poop) in the 60’s or 70’s – like (pleasurable act)!
there would have been armed revolution in the (pleasurable act-ing) streets.
Hail Hail to WITS, in case I forget to thank you tomorrow, I will leave this here.
Had your three earlier selections on a Patent. Great result. As I am unwaged, that is a great boost. Thanks WITS, yer some man … oh! and no, they haven’t suffered enough :))
You scroll back up to have a wee read back and almost the first thing a see is a wee directed attack fae a kabab.
So I think Tae myself, I wonder who might I have offended, Now it couldn’t be a bhoy or ghirl I thought. Na it’d be wan I them. So I scrolled up a wee bit more to check.
Oh Shish! I was right. It was.
Somebody is on the cheap champagne again.
Turk in there Istanbulshoiter.
:-@))
MWD
This is brilliant
@gibbygibbo1: Full and unedited *Rangers tv commentary. https://t.co/s17VJSy5rg
MWD
MWD
Genius. Class. Fantastic.
Aye but enough about you!
;-)))’
HH jamesgang
Where is my friend Macjay?
Surely people would be entitled to a refund at the Etihad for fraud.
They were sold tickets for a football match and instead got to see a group hug in the centre of the park with all the drama of drying paint
who gives a shit about the EPL?
Not me Maggie
MARGARET MCGILL on 28TH APRIL 2017 1:47 AM
who gives a shit about the EPL?
——–
May their soulless financial doping rot in hell.
Good Morning.
John Clark was out at The Estadio Nacional yesterday unveiling a plaque commemorating our triumph there in 1967.
The Jamor webpage can be found here:
http://jamor.idesporto.pt/index.php?s=noticias&id=813
JEREMY of the JUNGLE…
Ah mean,…..
What type of place is Britain when…
a man of peace canny become PM ?
Anyway,…
a hard Tory brexit…
nea human / workers / civil rights…..
hmmmm….?
don’t be surprised to see auld Theresa Thatcher…
bringing back conscription into the army….
with desk jobs at hundump for the huns….
same as it ever was…..
no more Daniel Blake’s !!!….
gie the keys to JEREMY of the JUNGLE…..
and, set old Ireland free !!!….
“JEREMY CORBYN is a man of peace, a good friend
of Ireland, we wish him well.”
said SINN FEIN supremo – GERRY ADAMS.
The flags of, Peace, Hope and Freedom fly eternal…
on the ole JUNGLE roof !!!
Thoughts and Prayers for all
Supporters of Glasgow Celtic.
……off-oot.
Good morning CQN from a not so cold, still dry and high clouded East Devon.
I’m Early this morning, wee Hamish ( border terrier) was breaking his neck.
Hail! Hail!
At a function last night I was told that a director of one SPFL club (not Celtic) is astonished that the current incarnation of the club which plays at Ibrox continues to trade. Losses are estimated at £800k per month with no sign of abating and everything points to a desperate scramble to introduce never ending emergency loans.
I PROMISE !
i promise not to go on and on and on , and I am NOT trying to be a smart arse BUT,
I have not fully read back yet on this thread but, a couple of posters ( rightly or wrongly ? ) have expressed their concerns that other teams ( especially the Huns) will now assault Celtic players with impunity, after Broonys successful appeal ?
Given those concerns ( which I share), and for all we know perhaps some at Celtic also share especially since Broonys appeal ?
Last week on here I was suggesting that Celtic FC should have an “in place Directive” to take our players off the pitch, if opposing players are seen to be deliberately assaulting our Bhoys and escaping appropriate punishment etc /
Some on here claimed it was ” A STUPID” suggestion ??????
They are entitled to their opinion of course, as I am ( without being called stupid !)
However, in light of Broonys appeal, i believe that Celtic FC employees are NOW in the firing line , and at risk of serious injury and being red carded for defending themselves etc, more than EVER before…..or am I STILL being “Stupid” ?
After the assault on Wee paddy by Halliday in the first 3 minutes last sunday ( deemed only a yellow ???)……what if Celtic had lost that game ?…..I gaurantee that ALL those who called my suggestion “Stupid” BEFORE the game, would have been going feckin tonto on Sunday afternoon and Monday and beyond on here.
Now before tmorra’s ” match”……I hope that Celtic FC have considered all possible options open to the Club to protect their employees….or is that too much to ask for some on here ?
HH
HH
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday Derby Eve from a gre,y cloudy but calm and dry East Kilbride.
Celtic FC ” DIRECTIVE” ?
” POPE”………….PROTECT OUR PLAYER EMPLOYEES ?
See what I did there ?
HH
Big Jimmy,
While I agree that managers with the support of their board should remove the team from the pitch if he considers the players are not being properly protected by the match officials, however I don’t believe this Pedro geezer will send his team out to maim, so unlike previous managers there will not be a concerted or co-ordinated effort to damage us. That’s not to say bitter team members won’t take matters into their own hands.
Morning all
A lot of good press for Callum McGregor following his semi final goal. But here is a (still young) player who has been asked to be adaptable all through his career, and has found a way to carve a role for himself. Rodgers is now playing him centrally and although not quite good enough to displace Brown or Armstrong full time, the evidence is he is not learning resistant and will continue to develop. Hope you enjoy Callum McGregor getting the By Numbers treatment:
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/water-carrying-for-galacticos/
HH
Extract from Daily sevco today…Is this Pedro taking the same feckin DRUGS as the Bulls ?
Caixinha said: “You are seeing someone who is clear, frontal and open but everyone has his own limit. When I feel I am not being respected I’m not going to respect. I’m polite, I’m educated but I’m a f***ing tough guy.”
On the issue of his squad he pointed at the club crest on his T-shirt and insisted he has to believe his team and his players are the best in the business.
He said: “What I said is that when I’m defending my club – the way I’m defending Rangers now – they are the best club in the world. My board and my management are the best in the world so that also means that my players and my squad are the best in the world.
“I have explained this since the very beginning. They give the best in the world and they give the best in Scotland. It’s clear now?
erm erm…Sorry Pedro…that is not clear ?
Gonny someone tell him about THEM’s TAINTED TITLES ?
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 28TH APRIL 2017 7:20 AM
Big Jimmy,
While I agree that managers with the support of their board should remove the team from the pitch if he considers the players are not being properly protected by the match officials, however I don’t believe this Pedro geezer will send his team out to maim, so unlike previous managers there will not be a concerted or co-ordinated effort to damage us. That’s not to say bitter team members won’t take matters into their own hands.
CANAMALAR,
You MAY be right about Pedro…but this hun support will be DEMANDING limbs to be torn from able Celtic bodies.
Do you think that Thugs like Halliday, Beerman and many more are intelligent enough not to allow themselves to take the bait, with over 40,000 hun hordes DEMANDING Fenian blood ?
HH
Celtic By Numbers
Love your work and an enjoyable, educational and interesting read as always.
Although Cowiebhoy can sum McGregor up in one word I believe :-@)))
MWD
Judith wearing the green.
Happy days.
We have a so called “Ref” tomorrow…who only viewed Garners assault on Hamiltons Imrie as a yellow card ????????
I won’t go on as I promised, but Celtic FC NEED to take the bull by the horns, and advise the Police Match Commander, and others that we will NOT stand by and allow Celtic employees to be “Butchered”…by these peepil.
HH
Big Jimmy
If that was a Donald Trumpet interview no one would raise an eyebrow.
I think Pedro is not long for the asylum.
MWD
celtic by numbers
Superb analysis. I really enjoyed that!
Word of The Day(Inspired by the Sevco takeover – again!)
vicissitude /vɪˈsɪsɪˌtjuːd/
noun
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs:
4. variation or mutability in nature or life, esp successive alternation from one condition or thing to another
5. a variation in circumstance, fortune, character, etc
Derived Forms
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, adjective
Word Origin and History for vicissitude
n.
1560s, from Middle French vicissitude (14c.), from Latin vicissitudinem(nominative vicissitudo) “change,” from vicissim “changeably, in turn,” from vicis “a turn, change” (see vicarious). Related: Vicissitudes.
KTF
Big Jimmy,
I would never dream of calling you or anybody else for that matter stupid.
However I cannot agree that we should contemplate walking off the park. I have already given my reasons why I think think this is a non starter.
But what makes you think that our players are so weak they cannot fight fire with Fire. If they want to mix it , then fine. I’m sure we can take care of ourselves quite comfortably.
Bring it on. We should never fear a bunch of nonentities.
HH to all. COYBIG.
Moonbeamswd on 28th April 2017 7:54 am
Many thanks – I never waste the opportunity to use 1600 word where one will do!
Davidopoulos on 28th April 2017 7:59 am
Very kind – thank you. I enjoyed writing it as a learned a lot – I hadn’t really studied McGregor before and he surprised me in a good way.
HH
Brendan Rodgers insists Celtic players aren’t worried about lack of summer holidays as he can’t even force them to take a break
While Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha has had to quell a player rift over the length of their summer break, Rodgers says he has no such problems.
HH
Celtic by Numbers
Cowiebhoy antonym to your thesis may change after reading you blog but I doubt it.
:-@))
MWD
GREENPINTA ( and possibly others),
Since last week when I first suggested Celtic players being taken off, I have NEVER accused nor suggested that the Celtic Bhoys are incapable of looking after themselves, for one simple reason….I believe that they can look after themselves, however You could be the biggest, toughest guy walking about…IF some sneaky wee feckin coward hides behind a refs apron/skirt by taking cheap shots, that are almost impossible to see coming….then it doesn’t matter how tough you are /
i also never accused ANY Celtic player of being scared of that mob, or any other mob.
These current Celtic Bhoys are on the verge of an historic TREBLE, on the verge of the most successful ( Invincibles ?) season since The Bhoys from Lisbon 1967,
Surely The CLASS of 2016/017 deserve the right not to be seriously injured, and/or suspended IF they got involved against THEM tomorrow ?
That’s all I am asking……Celtic FC..PROTECT OUR bHOYS !
HH