Talk of trebles can disappear over the space of 90 minutes, and Ronny Deila will be forced to learn new patter if his team cannot regain the edge which was lost on Wednesday night at Celtic Park. The challenge will be all the greater for the absence of cup-tied Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven, with others, including Kris Commons and Emilio Izaguirre.
Dundee United have fallen apart in the last few weeks, the departure of Armstrong and Mack-Steven has probably had something to do with this, which means they will be hurting. Make no mistake, Celtic harmed their season by signing their best two players five weeks ago. United will have an edge to them.
Just loving the celebrations that one of the world’s richest 400 people no longer controls a Scottish football club. He still controls pretty much all profitable revenue streams, and holds security over assets, but he’ll no longer be asked to provide loan players, or loan cash. They have swapped an ‘off the radar’ wealthy man for a glib and shameless liar.
Ashley repulsed many. He was the archetypal fox let into the Ibrox hen house. The juxtaposition of Celtic announcing a £29m shirt deal with New Balance, rights Ashley bartered for £1 at Ibrox, gives you an idea of how impaired newco are. But allowing him to walk off with all those revenue streams, without the responsibility of running football operations, which will always lose money, is inexplicable.
I know people in the game who were concerned about having an opponent with the resources of Ashley. That blocking SFA decision was crucial. I don’t know anyone concerned about King, in fact, there is quiet delight at how things transpired.
Farewell Big Mike, thanks for all your work.
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Good morning friends from a dry, fairly bright though cloud covered East Kilbride.
Morning timdom
Excellent articles by Auldheid and James Forrest. (JF I think you cite Jim Spence as being an aberdeen fan. He’s a huge wee Arabs fan. Fix that typo and it’s a ‘A’ from me!)
One challenge we face is the soundbite world we live in.
Both articles are detailed and lengthy. Effectively legal and academic studies.
What we(e) Tims on the street need is a list of 5 or so killer questions/points that are killer 1 liners.
HT. If we score and I don’t see you going mentol I’m gonna call you out for the undercover Stickie you are!!!
HH jamesgang
Charles Kickham,
Yes, but someone has to put the question to LNS, regarding his rulings, in light of Auldheid’s excellent work.
Someone has to ask, ” had you been given ALL the relevant information, would you still arrive at the same conclusions”?
EC67
SQUIRE DANAHER
I found the clip with Big Tel kicking the dressing room door. It was the Scottish Cup tie in 1990, we won 1-0. Tommy Coyne scoring the goal.
I actually found a you tube clip with about 10 mins match analysis, which included the door incident. And also Jack Charlton in the studio.
Also, in the dying minutes, Packie Bonner standing on the edge of his box, waiting on the ball coming to him, while Ian Ferguson (I think) chases it. Packie picks it up as Ferguson gets there a split second too late. He then proceeds to tousle Ferguson’s hair. As if to say ‘maybe next time son’. Ferguson wisnae happy.
Good times
HH
Morning all
Windy but dry & bright today
Do you think it’s too early to cut your grass ?
1 Are we on the telly ?
2 I am a big fan of King being in charge. To give us supersalary then King is generosity beyond belief
3 great stuff those article italia bhoy
4 still laughing at ‘I’d take elbows as a coach as long as he doesn’t play anymore ‘ on FF
5 There must be some development potential in albion car park – marquee, burger van, caravan for king to sleep over
Hamiltontim……you may clap if your team scores,but not in
a exuberant manner.
SFA RULE BOOK
rule 1690,sub section 2
If the match officials fail to do their job,and Glasgow Celtic
score a goal,their fans will be allowed too clap in a orderly
and polite manner,if they are over exuberant the match official
should disallow the goal and make contact with the match
commander and ask for the riot squad to be deployed.
Cliftonville…………..
Not “too early” but I’m guessing that you are living in Hibernia and therefore……..
“too wet” still……..
Giooooooooooood morning bampotnam.
Just read Auldheids piece on The Scottish Football Monitor.
First of all, congratulations on a fantastically constructed article and commiserations on the pain it must have caused you in pulling it all together.
Second of all, it deserves a wider audience. I think it’s time Paul 67 brought your work to the headline items on CQN. It’s bound to bore the pants off the naval gazing politicos but deserves a headline. God knows Paul tried but Auldheids thirst for the truth to out should be rewarded. We need to get behind this and force an answer from Hampden.
Our club has been cheated. Everyone that bought a ticket for a game during 1999 and 2012 was cheated out of their money. It was a fix.
One wonders what will happen should the English authorities return in favour of HMRC. The wee tax case has been buried in paperwork or lack there off. The big tax case has been punted up the chain to the highest court authority but will they do as the government wish and return a result that allows HMRC to go after the rest of football.
I think this was more of a worry for Reagan than anything, potentially the EPL is liable for a multitude. UEFA would have maggots on their plate to pick through before they could sort the past out with respect to European and International results.
jamesgang
The leg is still sore so it might be a mental hop!!
nye bevans’ rebel soldier
09:37 on 8 March, 2015
Ggggrrrrr pesky rules!!
RobotsAreWeCSC
bankiebhoy1
09:38 on 8 March, 2015
Cheers mate that’s my mind made up
Think I’ll go out and watch the match after training instead then 8-)
The condition of the pitch is a concern for me today What little I saw of yesterday’s games north and south of the border showed poor conditions all round. Our passing game suffers when the ball doesn’t run across the ground.
Saying that, we should still have enough to beat Utd. the midweek blank should be a wake up call – we need to continue to work hard for results. Our away form has been very good and f we can continue that we should win today. A draw isn’t a disaster, but another game into the schedule isn’t ideal.
Good Morning.
There is a small matter of a football match to look forward to today. It is the kind of thing I like to discuss. Who will play? What the formation will be? What are the strengths and the weaknesses of our team given that we have two first team squad members who are cup tied and so on.
However, before the game I have a meeting to chair and some work tasks to perform – there always seem to be work tasks to perform these days and that was not the plan.
However, before I wander off for the day in search of matters fitba, I would just like to point out that the world of Scottish Football is a very different place today than it was three or maybe four years ago.
In the intervening period, many of the footballing populace, and even some of the MSM journalists have turned to, or been forced to turn to, the internet and blogs like this for factual detailed analysis of what is actually going on behind the closed doors of football clubs.
There has been a shift in the means of managing news because the newspaper and press outlets have been shown to be bendable in terms of truth and spin if not actually corrupt.
This does not extend just to Scottish Football matters, as more evidence emerges showing that HSBC made concerted attempts to silence newspapers and Radio stations from mentioning the activities of its Swiss Bank account activities and services.
Yesterday showed that the likes of Paul Murray and Dave King have not learned from or possibly heard of this change in emphasis. On BBC Radio Scotland, no less than Graham Spiers pointed out the similarity of the welcome afforded to these two by the Daily Record to the welcome afforded to Charles Green and Craig Whyte by the same paper and everyone knows where that ended.
However, the comparison to David Murray is the greatest bennchmark and as Mr Spiers pointed out in his Sunday Times column ” The press want King” – they actually welcome him.
Note that this is a different thing to Rangers and Rangers fans wanting him – as that may well be a very different story altogether.
There is enough mileage in Dave King for the newspapers to have a field day if they so choose, and there are enough Rangers fans who are understandably desperate to go out and buy a newspaper which regurgitates all of the innacuracies that Paul Murray spouted yesterday.
Equally, there will be enough Celtic fas who will run out to but the same newspapers when they eventually get round to pointing out that all was not quite as Mr King and Mr Murray said.
For the moment, I would urge everyone to read what Mr Kind said whilst being interviewed in South Africa some 6 years ago.
The interview can be found here:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sars-has-made-me-look-like-a-crook-king-1.289079#.VPwS_fmsWSp
Remember his words when you read it.
You may think that the words reported raise some interesting observations and questions?
You may think that some of what he says sounds like a previous Ibrox incumbent and indeed you may very well think that ……… but I couldn’t possibly comment …….. at least not for now!
But = buy and of course Mr Kind is Mr King — silly typos!
cliftonville celt from belfast
09:34 on 8 March, 2015
Morning all
Windy but dry & bright today
Do you think it’s too early to cut your grass ?
Far too early mate. Wait at least till after lunch time ;-)
Buona Domenica tutti.
Cloudy and cold – way down south.Yet more ******* hailstones.overnight.
The Banter – Sicilian radio stylee.
Pundit # 1 .
“Saw Mancini yesterday saying that Inter will be challengers for the title next season ”
Pundit # 2
” Which title -Serie A or Serie B? ?
Charles kickam
Lns came to the conclusion he was told to by his next door neighbour, 1 david murray, his mate whom he socialised with on a weekly basis
Has embdae broke the news to King,that he disnae own the stadium? Minty Park as well,when Ashley pushes the button.
Eurochamps67
09:31 on 8 March, 2015
My point exactly
masty
10:12 on 8 March, 2015
well we knew it was a set up from the start but he can claim deniability but not being given all the relevant information – in his eyes his hands are clean
Lovely Sunday morning, and it will be a lovely Sunday afternoon / evening also ……. wee swim before the game to loosen off the tension / excitement ( for any huns lurking, ‘excitement’ is anticipation of / hope for a good result …I appreciate you don’t know what a good result is)….
SARS has made me look like a crook.
Love that one Mr King.
That’s a bit like the old story:
“My wife said to me, ‘does this dress make my bum look fat?’ ”
“No! No!” says I, “it’s all those cakes and chips that do that.”
Sevconians, you campaigned and campaigned for this guy.
You deserve everything that’s coming your way.
Enjoy it.
We most certainly will.
Marty is the man
09:59 on
8 March, 2015
cliftonville celt from belfast
09:34 on 8 March, 2015
Morning all
Windy but dry & bright today
Do you think it’s too early to cut your grass ?
Far too early mate. Wait at least till after lunch time ;-)
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I cut my grass on Thursday. Checked the 10 day weather forecast first and no sign of frost in my area. (Bo’ness, West Lothian)
I also edged the lawn, scarified it, turned the borders over and tidied up my winter flowering plants.
Garden looks wonderful in the mild spring sunshine!
Auldheid
That’s a cracking piece of writing and it does deserve a wider audience.
A Woodward and Bernstein morning to you and many thanks for never giving up..
Bring on the Utd..
AC Milan 2- Verona 2.
A 40 % full stadium.Booed off at full time..Berlusconi selling 30 % of the business to a chap called Mr Bee from Thailand..
How the mighty have fallen.
Who on earth cares about Rangers other than Rangers and Celtic fans?
We flopped in Europe this year. Perhaps an analysis of that would be more fruitful instead of the Rangers obsession.
Phil………ya spoffer!
I heard you lived in the high flats in Knightswood.
;)
Marty is the man
09:34 on
8 March, 2015
SQUIRE DANAHER
I found the clip with Big Tel kicking the dressing room door. It was the Scottish Cup tie in 1990, we won 1-0. Tommy Coyne scoring the goal.
I actually found a you tube clip with about 10 mins match analysis, which included the door incident. And also Jack Charlton in the studio.
Also, in the dying minutes, Packie Bonner standing on the edge of his box, waiting on the ball coming to him, while Ian Ferguson (I think) chases it. Packie picks it up as Ferguson gets there a split second too late. He then proceeds to tousle Ferguson’s hair. As if to say ‘maybe next time son’. Ferguson wisnae happy.
Good times
HH
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Any chance of you posting that link, Mate?
HH
Charles Kirkham
Eurochamps 67
I e mailed LNS quite some time ago. Also one of his colleagues on the Commission.
Nada, Zilch.
There cannot be anyone in Scottish football authority or smsm who does not know about the evidence of dishonesty kept from (then) SPL lawyers.
One journo of 14 replied saying the case was sound but silence since then.
AT has more important matters to pursue and I’m ok with that.
Jamesgang.
Your point re detail and length is something I was aware of in its construction and I’ve been giving some thought about how to get it out there in smaller doses and what to get out there.
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There is one point I would like to make. I think all the folk involved in handling Rangers demise did what they did for reasons that seemed right to them. They thought they had an industry to protect and did it their way.
I think they were mistaken as do many supporters who took an interest but a contributing factor was lack of transparency and accountability.
That made it easier to tackle the problem in the way that they did.
Had the SFA had supporter input as part of their business structure, their thinking that buried sporting merit would have been still born.
It’s about transparency and accountability.
In today’s world it is inevitable and takes many forms.
Thanks for the compliments everyone
trevino and hogan supports oscar knox, mackenzie furniss and anyone else who fights neuroblastoma
09:54 on 8 March, 2015
Great post, as usual…..the meeja certainly have a ‘will’, and are frantically searching for a ‘way’, to position ming positively……but the proof will be in the pudding, and the desperate ‘spin’
Incidentally, ming = ming…….hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
The return of Hearts and Rangers to the Premiership would probably lead to a small rise in TV revenues, but simply having Rangers back will benefit Celtic to the tune of £10m. Lawwell said: “There might be more money available going forward and that could depend on Hearts and Rangers coming up. It would certainly help. It’s about quality of product and competition. Hopefully there can be a new beginning here.
“Do I hope Rangers come up? The positives you miss the negatives you don’t. They have to sort themselves out. It costs us £10m a year without Rangers – if they came back up we’d progressively get that back.
“It depends on their ownership. Everyone would agree the ownership there has been questionable in the last three years.”
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A I was saying on Friday. The usual cake and eat it stuff.
Only three years Peter ?
And with the same old hun board in situ.
HH
Congratulations to Auldheid for a prodigious piece on the
scandal that pervades Scottish Football.
PTFC pal reports this Glasgow bus conversation.-
2 bears discussing their new Messiah.Not happy with the cheap suit , the crossword eyes and the look of exhaustion.
” He looks knackered .Bet his wife is always at him re seeing somebody on the side “
captain beefheart
Obsession my arse, if we are not vigilant with this mob then the games a bogey, who cares? I care, I wont a level playing field and at every opportunity on the Internet I will take, what I wont take is my soup, and sit at the back of the bus, not happening, you on the other hame can talk about how big a flop we where in Europe? Seriously ?
Auldheid
10:33 on 8 March, 2015
keep up the good work – quality article