I’m beginning to believe some of the ‘Unseen..’ paranoia that goes around town myself. Absolutely delighted, and a bit surprised, Fifa ratified John Guidetti’s transfer to Celtic. He’s a player we have tried to buy for three consecutive summer transfer windows; this guy has been watched, courted and pursued by Celtic, Feyenoord, Ajax and no doubt a whole lot more.
Since his marquee season in Rotterdam he’s come through debilitating illness but is now healthy, if in need of some match sharpness.
He is ineligible for the Europa League group stage but will be available for the round of 32 through to the final in Warsaw.
There was a real meeting of minds between player and club on Monday; he liked the way we went about our business and people at the club were impress with his personality. Apparently, he’s another “strong character” to add to the others who have arrived at the club over the last week.
If only we had a song for him….
Guidetti as a teenager in Holland:
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NegAnon2
00:07 on
5 September, 2014
Whatever decision we make as a country I only hope we retain our best qualities and look after those who need the care they deserve.
Incidentally, if it transpires to be a Yes victory, we will need people like yourself, financial industry professionals to help us sail the stormy waters of transition. Have you considered that aspect?
Jimmyqunnsbits. You see these threats of if you vote no then beware.
Really? Is that as good as it gets in Scotland. Vote the way I want you to or else?
My brother was horrified when i told him the No vote have still to play their trumph card and 20k will be marching through his city next weekend to try and convince the undecided. He wasn’t aware of this.
Hai Hail
Just Another Tim
00:20 on 5 September, 2014
NegAnon2
00:07 on
5 September, 2014
Whatever decision we make as a country I only hope we retain our best qualities and look after those who need the care they deserve.
Incidentally, if it transpires to be a Yes victory, we will need people like yourself, financial industry professionals to help us sail the stormy waters of transition. Have you considered that aspect?
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People like neganon2. ha ha ha . Very funny
ryecatcher
The key difference is this –
If we are outside trying to get in we do so on our own and under our own speed arguing for our needs and getting terms that work for us.
If we are in the UK and England’s electorate takes us out when we have voted to stay in then we have no say and it is on their terms not ours.
I happen to think common sense will prevail and it will be done sooner rather than later because of the number of EU citizens currently in Scotland, the fishing rights and they won’t want Scotland to say stuff you and join EFTA.
EFTA is also an acceptable alternative and funnily enough a lot of people I talk to in the EU are really hoping Scotland votes YES because it will lead to further break ups and decentralization.
We are the first domino and there are a lot of people rooting for us.
Anyway, away from this political nonsense and it will be over in 2 weeks. Imagine, just imagine that you desperately need to raise some funds for your brand new footie club that you have recently purchased. So you come up with a great idea that given you have 40k supporters up to their knees in supporting your team, that you decide to sell the naming rights to your stadium…….
….only to find out that the previous owner has already sold it for a £1 for five years….
Bhoy. that is a difficult day :-)
HH
CRC
Cowiebhoy….
Serious question…..
How do your Irish finance guys view the uncertainty of Corporation Taxes in an independent Scotland?
JustcuriouslikeCSC
Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Put A Spell On You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXqtzusIU0
MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar, strange how most of the best cutting edge info comes from yourself and catman, a couple of old johnstone bhoys.
Are you two hotbedding it wi big peter’s missus?
How you doing bud?
HH
lynott67
00:22 on
5 September, 2014
My brother was horrified when i told him the No vote have still to play their trumph card and 20k will be marching through his city next weekend to try and convince the undecided. He wasn’t aware of this.
Hai Hail
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Mate……………you do the yes campaign no favours.
Carry on with your line of persuasion.
Hail Hail
Just another tim. Yes. But I’m afraid I need to look after my children. As I said big decision.
I despair of the quality of debate. We need to be competitive and compassionate.mall this nonsense about left leaning Scotland etc. the world doesn’t care and we can’t afford the promises already made. Infor the record I am a life long labour supporter. Have been lipucky in my career and don’t mind paying taxes etc.
But there has been complete bullshit promised by the SNP. It bears no resemblance to reality.
The sectarian genie will come out of the bottle and won’t go back in.
We are rural and remote fro mainland Europe and have many structural disadvantages.
And what do we gain? I genuinely don’t know. We want to be tied to the pound in s some way so no fiscal autonomy, keeping the monarchy, want to be part of NATO and the Eurpewn union but think we can walk in on our own terms.
We have little indigenous industry. Most of our big forms rely on the massive English market.
None of this is a criticism of Scotland. It’s how the world works.
I’m sure we will survive but I am not sure what it will look like.
Apols if this was posted earlier.
Watch and weep.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/watch-teenage-cancer-sufferer-score-4167241
HH jamesgang
Quantum what do you do for a living?
See the Orange Fear Card being played again tonight. Fear seems like the only card Unionists have.
NegAnon2
00:30 on 5 September, 2014
Quantum what do you do for a living?
Accountant
Probably wasting my time but you never know….
There was a caller on Clyde Superscoreboard obviously annoyed that he perceived Celtic were getting assistance from the SFA on the Guidetti loan signing.
Jim Delahunt to be fair pointed out that any club would have been able to go the same route BUT did not address the misunderstanding on which the call was based i.e the stabbed in the back unfairly treated victim myth from which it sprung. Again to be fair it is not the sort of thing you would be able to do on the spot on the show.
However this myth unless challenged forms the Rangers world view as innocent victims unfairly treated by SFA/HMRC/SPL and it makes it more difficult to move on when the extent of damage done is minimised, damage that the rest of football resents more because of its denial. Anyhow I wrote to Superscoreboard and hopefully they will set the record straight.
Jim
You had a caller on Superscoreboard Thursday evening asking why SFA imposed a transfer embargo on Rangers that was removed because the rules did not allow such a penalty.
The caller’s point was that the SFA were acting against and not supporting Rangers.
The reason for the embargo was that the SFA did not want to apply the sanction that was open to them which was to terminate or suspend Rangers membership of the SFA because of behaviour that was in the Judicial Panel’s own words only less serious than “match fixing.”
Far from harming Rangers the SFA pulled short of what they would have been justified in doing.
There is a stabbed in the back/victim myth taking place here and when Clyde fail to set the record straight they encourage it.
I appreciate this info was not available at the time of the call but you now have an opportunity to inform listeners why a transfer embargo was given and how lucky Rangers were not to have had their membership withdrawn.
It is all in The Judicial Panel Disciplinary Tribunal Hearing
DETERMINATION: DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL
THE RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB plc and MR CRAIG WHYTE (March/April 2012)
NOTE OF REASONS
from which the following is taken.
On any view the matters involved in this case are as serious offences against the ordinary standards of corporate governance as one could imagine. The Tribunal attempted in its exercise of fixing these matters on the scale of offences to identify a more serious offence than those on the complaints, and concluded that only match fixing in its various forms might be a more serious breach. It had no hesitation in concluding that the breaches struck at the heart of good corporate governance and social and financial probity and responsibility. They brought the game into serious disrepute. As such, they required to be regarded as at the top of the scale of seriousness.
Having regard to its view on the undoubted gravity of the breaches, the Tribunal considered whether it should terminate Rangers FC membership of the Scottish FA and concluded that punishment was too severe. It considered whether suspension of membership was a less serious but an appropriately severe punishment, but concluded that too was too severe. Having regard to the circumstances which led to the breaches by Rangers FC and the role of Mr Craig Whyte in their plight as their Chairman and director, it was concluded that a temporary prohibition on registering new players was appropriate. Twelve months was considered an appropriate period.
Snake. You are quite right there are lots of divisionist parties in Europe hoping we vote yes and then Europe ends up all over the place. Anarchists etc. whatever floats your boat.
I am intrigued by the concept of us and we. Is us and we an accident of which side of a fictional border you happen to live on?
Who is us and we? Are we the people?
anyone hazard a guess what Bobby Sands would have said in a YES / NO vote ?
Quantum. In Scotland? Do you work in manufacturing etc?
Neganon….
Very altruistic of you to assert that you don’t mind paying taxes.
We do it because we have to mate, not because we don’t mind.
Anyway…..we do it…..most of us do anyway.
Big cup winners do you mean the orange card in that cos the OO are voting no it must make all no voters like the OO??
anyone hazard a guess what James Connolly would have said in a YES / NO vote ?
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
00:30 on
5 September, 2014
See the Orange Fear Card being played again tonight. Fear seems like the only card Unionists have.
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The fear card is being played by both sides. Fear Labour will lose the next election, fear there will be retribution if its a No Vote.
Its all fear, no sign of love whatsoever on either side.
http://lovemorefearless.tumblr.com/page/2
anyone hazard a guess what that old eejit Michael Davitt would have said in a YES / NO vote ?
Ryecatcher it’s funny about taxes eh. Loads of people try to avoid taxes. I don’t.
I believe in redistribution of wealth. I needed it when I was younger. It saved me. I like to think I am helping others.
So why did the SNP freeze council tax which is very regressive and not raise income tax. They had the power?
After quick read back , 4-2.
Jesus , Finance industry workers all worried about our credit rating … Look forward to the day when self organised , energised country finds a new future and consigns that industry and the tossers that run it ( and it’s apologists ) to the history pages.
Utter bunkum, don’t fall for the old IBM sales tactic FUD , fear , uncertainty and doubt …
Kiptime cfc
And quantum. Like billy bhoy 05 are you looking forward to ridding Scotland of your political opponents?
NegAnon2
00:33 on 5 September, 2014
Quantum. In Scotland? Do you work in manufacturing etc?
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Yep in Scotland – In local government -Previously in Angola in diamond industry
Feel like i’m writing my CV here!
Over an over the same guff. Fear, fear fear.
The real fear is that of the UK politicians losing revenue that Scotland provides.
One small mercy is that the repetitive drivel is not aimed at Glasgow Celtic tonight.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
00:30 on
5 September, 2014
See the Orange Fear Card being played again tonight. Fear seems like the only card Unionists have.
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Ask Neil Lennon about Edinburgh justice?
FFS its been right in our faces how the justice system operates under Scottish rule.
Historical data about sectarian arrests “LOST” then change the law to arrest more Tims to ‘even up’ the arrest figures.
I’m gobsmacked (and amused) the Huns are still sleepwalking to oblivion 2 but terrified Tims are voting for a really bad future if they vote yes.
I have a PACK of cards, I have no religion, i need to sleep though as i have work to go to.
Ellbhoy wow. Good luck with not having a finance industry.
Fecked Scotland inc….
Scotsman
DAVID Cameron ruled out paying a ransom for the Scottish hostage being held by the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Iraq as he opened the Nato conference in Wales yesterday.
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Got a horrible feeling that the I.S. bar stewards may have a time frame in mind.
Saint Sivs,
Interesting question re Bobby Sands MP
Depends on which nation or country was seeking self determination
Interestingly enough…..after the financial crash in 2007/2008 ,which brought the Dublin driven Celtic Tiger to its knees, a straw poll suggested that most Catholics / Nationalists in Ulster would prefer to stay with Westminster.
ParadoxCSC
jamesgang
00:29 on
5 September, 2014
Fantastic video. Cheers for posting that. Hope the young lad beats his illness.
So looking forward to driving no voters away quantum?
For the record, as stated by me previously on this fantastic blog. I also voted yes for the sake of my children. Both are of voting age and I’m pleased to say they are also voting yes as they see their futures being greatly enhanced in an independent Scotland.
I’ve also stated I couldn’t give a shit for the opinions of others on this blog or elsewhere as to my right to vote the way I choose. Anyway, my vote is cast and reading no amount of pish from either side is changing that vote, or my opinion.
Cowiebhoy, I saw your post re your company and the outcome having no bearing on recruitment or position etc. I work for a small consultancy under the umbrella of a large multinational. They’ve not even bothered to comment on the referendum outcome. It’s not even been worthy of comment and post independence, should it happen they will still be employing thousands here in Scotland and across the globe.
There’s some right scaremongering twats on here.
Celtic
Bawsman – i don’t mind what you think mate, i was only passing on info that brother wasn’t aware of. He isn’t interested in football as such.
Perhaps this cultural celebration will help push the No’s over the line.
This may be just the boost they need.
Neganon,
You were the one that said indepence was a massive gamble. I argue that retaining the union is at least equally so. And I argue that the status quo, as we know it, has gone. The political shift in the current uk is changing everything.
Take it whatever way you want, my view is if you vote no, you’re voting for a world which no longer exists, even if you wanted it.
I’ve spent a lot of my 30+ year working life in England and Ive never seen a shift in attitudes like the past year. Could happen here as well, thats the ganmble
Off t bed