Alex McLeish is busy preparing for his first game as Scotland manager this weekend. It is a gig he will be delighted to have, now that he has confirmation HM Revenue & Customs are on his case for tax due when Rangers paid him through an Employee Benefit Trust (EBT).
The reach of the Rangers’ EBT recipients runs deep in Scottish football. The Scotland manager is employed by people who were promoted during an EBT recipient’s presidency, who refused the SPFL’s request for a review into the EBT scandal. And, his performance will be reviewed by EBT recipients now working in the media.
There are others active in the SFA and the media who had nothing to do with EBTs, but many of these people have been friends for over 20 years. They will not be so indiscrete as to embarrass a friend by suggesting their actions brought our game into disrepute.
The consequence for Rangers were absolute. The consequence for the recipients will vary from an inconvenience, to financial ruin, but we have had no candour from any of them, no mea culpa. I have no axe to grind with McLeish, and I prefer some recipients who work in the media to several former Celtic players, but blindly ignoring their role in the biggest story in Scottish football in half a century discredits us all.
Alex, you are Scotland manager, sit down with a journalist you respect and tell him how wrong this sorry business was.
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McPhail Bhoy
Sorry been out on family duty.
I see Greenwells Glory has posted a link.
The Premium version has a better picture but that is dependent on the download speed at your end.
I’m no techie but thta’s my understanding of it.
They push out the transmission to you in the HD format but you need the correct dwonload speed to receive it.
I’m quite happy with it.
GORDYBHOY 64-hope things are getting a wee bit easier for your family mate.
Now if I could just type properly…
I’m like Eric Morcambe at the keyboard…
All the notes/letters are there, but not neccesarily in the right order.
STARRY PLOUGH-totally agree regarding eck and McFadden.?
If scoddland won’t publicly name, shame and konvict Grimmond McCrummoch, The Busted Flush or Shug then The Cat In The Hat is hardly gonna get a hard time by his fellow muckers in the meeja……..
It’s not that the Cat’s a cheat that wrecks me, it’s the arse-aching cynical, broguery of the blazers that beggars belief.
What does it take to tumble this lot?
BHOYWITHSEETHROUGHEYES on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2018 4:08 PM
I agree with you & the original poster.
From where I sit the differences between them make that objective more like an illusion.
Both would need to give ground that I’m not so sure they’d be happy to concede.
I’m just a supporter who wants Celtic to be the best it can be….
I’m certain that we all have the same view, it’s in the how-do-we-get-there that it starts to unravel.
FTW
Thanks again Fool Time Whistle
FAIRHILL BHOY
I canny stand the international break:)
Got to get on someones case might as well be they two:))
Love the ole Adblocker on the iPhone zero problems since I started using it, I go through Adblockers wee browser and off ye go:))
Wee right snuff fur me tae see without ma binoculars!
Ur ye hame noo fae NYC?
KTF
A CELTIC supporter from Derry was blinded in one eye in an “unprovoked, savage attack” after Sunday’s match against Rangers.
Charlie Phelan (48) also suffered a broken eye socket, cheekbone and nose when he was beaten unconscious in Ayrshire with what he believes was a “knuckleduster”.
Although his attackers were not wearing football shirts, he believes he was targeted because he was wearing a Celtic top and scarf.
Mr Phelan said the man who inflicted most damage was wearing “Union Jack shorts”.
“I had just come out of a fish and chip shop when I was hit. I don’t really remember a lot but I’m told I was hit twice and knocked out,” he said.
His friend Dermot Rogan said: “We had stopped in Girvan for fish and chips as we always do.
“As we came out, a crowd of fellas came running at us from a bus. There were women and children on the bus as well.
“Charlie was the first out and the guy in front hit him and he fell and when he tried to get up, the guy hit him again. Charlie didn’t know what was going on.
“I was trying to get them to stop and the bus driver was trying to get them back on the bus. They were Scottish.”
Mr Rogan, who remained in Scotland to support his friend, said he and Mr Phelan were with 14 other Celtic fans who regularly travel for games and the attack was unprovoked.
“This was an absolutely savage attack on a completely innocent man,” he said.
Mr Phelan, who returned home last night, said he is still trying to come to terms with what happened.
“I have to have reconstructive surgery to my cheekbone and I’ve suffered fractures to my fingers and wrist as well. They could have killed me. I had no chance to defend myself.
“They think he might have had a knuckleduster because the doctor said he must have had something hard in his hand for the damage he caused.
“My face is a mess and it’s sore. The anger hasn’t even sunk in yet. I will not be back.
“I’ve been going over to Celtic games for 25 years and nothing like this has ever happened.”
Police Scotland said officers were called to an incident at Bridge Street in Girvan at about 6.50pm on Sunday.
They are investigating but say they are not treating the attack as “sectarian or football related”.
Starry Plough
Thought that highlight reel did a good job – with Brendan’s words at the start.
Agree with the rest of your comments on it.
Truly awful behaviour from their two front men – that should embarrass any decent fan of their team.
“Red Card” Jack was odious in a different way, even down to his bleating in the red tops the next morning.
He fouled Rogic but only stayed down when he saw how his loss of possession had left his team well exposed. He also stayed down to get Edouard booked over an innocuous foul that had as much to do with the foul on Edouard by Arfield. In both cases he seemed to feign injury & he didn’t come off until 20 minutes after Tommy Rogic “tackle”.
It does make me look at their team strategy & tactics though.
Hard not to conclude that the team were told to rough us up at every opportunity but also to go down dramatically at the slightest hint of an opportunity to get us carded. When you park that bus AND adopt those other tactics you are an anti-football side & deserve to be named and shamed.
Benfica are potentially facing a ban of three years from playing football after being accused of a number of complex crimes, including the alleged ‘infiltration of the country’s judicial system’
i hope scotland get hammered to morrow, they have employed cheats and dont deserve to win sfa cheats
Danso
I’ll second that.
KINGLuBO
This weeks Celtic View
Bertie Vogts got Scotland closer to a finals than either of the EBT recipients Smith and Macleish.
AND…both these shysters benefited from Bertie’s rip it up and start again period.
Marspapa/Fairhill bhoy,
thanks for your kind wishes bhoys,
one day at a time as they say.
listeningto these socalled journos talking about scotland have no shame at all how ncan they keep straight face after what sevco have and are still doing
STARRY PLOUGH-no mate went from nyc to Vegas and now on our last night in Florida.Its been a brilliant two weeks but be glad to get in my own bed sometime sat morning ?
Paul67 et al
The SFA and McLeish are made for each other. A marriage made in hell. A corrupt self serving organisation with a dirty tax dodging cheat for a manager. The concept of mea culpa is anathema to both of them. Best not build up your hopes Paul, aint gonna happen.
FAIRHILL BHOY
Some place America, out with the politics etc
I stayed for six months, loved it, massive gaff tho:)))
I love the road but yer ain bed is yer ain bed:))
Safe home Comrade..
so a ghuy gets nearly blinded for life, and the attacker is wearing union jack shorts and its not sectarian, my god what a feckin country, and now we have lost a good tim because he says I wont be back disgraceful.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
You’re not inferring that an unknown club lets call them Semco in an unknown league say similar to Scotland’s could have far reaching tentacles in the justice system itself are you???
HH
It’s alway the first thing the polis say when its that’s mobs fans involved, ” not sectarian or football related” how they always know that before the investigation is a question that only the paranoid among us will ask.
That poor guy from Derry, his crime supporting his team..
Becoming increasingly despondent at the behaviour of the huns this season already on and off the park..
Are their mob on the Brexit Pills is that what this is??
STARRY PLOUGH-love it mate.We sitting in Millers sports bar and it’s pissing down outside,and we’re talking about next year ?.The wife fancies Nashville?I haven’t a clue why either.?Thanks for the good wishes mate?
How do the police know it’s not sectarian without any investigation?????
As the fella says :
‘Gimme all your lovin’
All your hugs and kisses too
Gimme all your lovin’
Don’t let up until we’re through’
So Kenny Miller just became the latest in a long list of Sevco creditors.
Good luck getting your cash baw face
FAIRHILL BHOY
Ur you getting traded in fur a Cowboy:))
Yee ha boy Nashville:))
Just like it looks in the movies!
So a guy wearing union jack shorts gets off a bus and heads directly to the guy wearing a Celtic top, and carries out a psychotic violent assault.
The police anounce that it is not football or sectarian related.
Were there journlists around to ask, “What makes you say that?”
“What does it take to tumble this lot?”
How about, Celtic players announcing that they will no longer represent the Scottish national team, because the national team are representative’s of a football association that sanctions, enshrines and religiously basques in the cheating of, not only Celtic supporters but, of every Scottish football club supporter, except for those supporters of £50:00 Glasgow Rangers FC. Also, that it has been proved repeatedly in numerous British courts, including the Supreme Court, that £50:00 Glasgow Rangers FC, are allowed carte blanche to cheat with impunity.
Thing is, how would the £50:00 Old Firm Celtic PLC respond to such an action by Celtic’s players ?
Would the PLC throw the Celtic players under the NFL ‘Shame Game’ bus ?
Or, would the PLC stand shoulder to shoulder with the cheated Celtic players and supporter’s ?
Bottom line is, such an action by the players would drag the issue onto the world stage, with a cute approach from the Celtic players, always insisting that, they would love to play for their country, but that they now find it impossible to focus on the national team, because of all the proof, and evidence of the cheating of Celtic supporters that has come to light.
It’s either that, or continue to suck it up.
Them’s the apple’s CSC ;
Who would win, a Fact, or an uncomfortable truth ?
MIKE IN TORONTO
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Hail! Hail! fella.
Mike, i’ll keep it brief.
I aspire to be the guy who washes your car ; √
Take care, and keep yer eyes peeled for any of yon, bear’s that might be running free.
YNWA
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Basques?
I’ll need to google that one.
Not sectarian is one thing – but “not football related” sounds like Inspector Clouseau is on the case.
Was the bus a service bus cos it doesn’t sound like one if the driver shouting at the thug to get back onboard.
This means it was a supporters bus from further south – like Wigtown or Dumfries way.
Now which team whose supprters wear union jack symbols was playing a game on Sunday?
These injuries inflicted with a weapon make a decent case for attempted murder, but they’ll settle on GBH.
Do they have CCTV in Girvan?
Bus details and direction they headed off in?
We all know it is sectarian & football related so maybe when they replace Clouseau with a real cop they can get on with checking on buses heading south out of Girvan with a man in union jack shorts, then bus companies that had private hire jobs on Sunday.
ALASDAIR MACLEAN
A sexy piece of kit worn by interesting ladies of the night???
Asking for a friend:))
Hey af only been away 2weeks and they’ve put the prices up!£50!!! When did this happen ?
Starry Plough,
Well, there are basking sharks…..related to whale sharks…..
But a basquing shark? Hmm, related to a whale sharks as well…for some reason the misty memories of youth are coming back.
At last, at long last, the Resolution 12 issue is coming to a head. And if Celtic does the right thing, the onus will be on the other clubs to see how many of them actually care about a clean game.
https://thecelticblog.com/2018/09/blogs/there-will-be-consequences-for-the-game-if-celtic-fails-to-get-justice-for-the-fans/
Wales fans singing ‘You’re just a shit Northern Ireland’
Irish fans retaliating with ‘You’re just a small town in England’
heh heh
fuggin kafflik schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7DzheCeuQ