A Uefa compliance officer will visit the Scottish FA early next week after European football’s governing body were asked to look into what was happening inside Scottish football by people within the German game. Scottish football has been rocked by allegations of improper registration of players for over a month now. The SFA recently concluded an inquiry into Rangers without reference to the allegations while the Scottish Premier League have announced an inquiry, but indicate it will not report anytime soon.
Although the allegations have consequences beyond the SPL, including international and European football, the SFA have failed to actively address concerns which could see 12 years of football results rewritten, prompting interest from Uefa.
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Hector-MurdochauldandHay on 16 March, 2012 at 09:28 said:
So the men in black start to exit the scene I wonder why that is? seems Steve Conroy is blaming the pressure of fitnes tests etc (In Malaga) , Dallas.McVicar etc dont think we can be blamed for this one but would’nt bet on it
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The Herald article on it, discusses ruling out Fortune’s goal against the orcs.
2010 Never Again
Steven Craven
Drip! Drip! Drip!
What a peculiar bid for a massively indebted football club:
Kennedy added: “I hope to get something in by Friday purely as a fallback for the administrators, should the other bids fall over or not be acceptable. If I am going to be in a position where they ask me to press on with it, I want to know more about it.” (From Daily Record)
I see there are American Bankers interested too. Maybe the ones who failed to buy Tranmere.
As predicted yesterday, the fary stories continue.
The only interest any of these people will genuinely have is in being prime position to own the Newco when it happens. And even with that there are so many variables. But never mind, it gives the Others something to feel good about as we prepare for a cup final.
Simple questions for Investors –
Question 1. do you have £100 Million just to get on an even keel? If yes proceed to question 2. If no, thank you for your interest but you’re out.
Question 2. Do you want to see your £100 Million initial outlay again? If Yes then proceed to question 3. If no then thank you for your interest but you’re out.
Question 3. Are you aware of potential legal wranglings over the stadium, training facilities, Ownership of ticket sales, merchandising and catering, get out clauses of the main sellable assets on the playing squad and do you have another £30 Million lying around to get a reasonable team on the park and see the club through what will be a tremendously difficult first season – and remember, you may or may not have full access to our main income stream ie ticket money?
Question 4: Why are you running away so fast??????????
greenjedi on 16 March, 2012 at 09:28 said:
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Can you elaborate TAL
V
‘Brian Kennedy’.
Aye, I’m convinced….
Antifa @ 3.03 (and Maggie McGill who seems less bored by this than the rest of the blog)
My, but you’re a persistent wee creation.
This will be my last reply because it has become tiresome to me. For Maggie, I’ll explain that the gist of my accusation is:-
1) Antifa is flying a false flag. I believe he is a left wing creation, dreamed up by a right wing mind. I don’t have a problem with multiple postings but I don’t have to be gullible enough to believe there is a new poster called Antifa.
2) My evidence for the accusation is the widely varying tone of Antifa’s postings. He started off as a breathless 16 year old Dave Spart wannabee with poor grammar and a low grasp of historical accuracy. Within a few weeks, he was producing grammatically accurate posts and speaking with a different tone before lazily inserting a few of the old trademarks. It looked like he’d aged 10 years in 2 weeks but it demonstrates the tell tale signs of someone not taking enough care of their creation to produce a uniform tone. You can see the same problem in last night’s post where he spells several long words (interdependence) correctly but mis-spells know as no.
Again, I must make clear that I am not criticising the grammar, just the lack of care taken over his creation by his creator.
3) I suggested TSD as his most likely creator because he regularly appeared at times Antifa was on and had fun demolishing Antifa’s “straw man” arguments. I am not 100% on this part of the accusation but we only have a few right wingers here and philvis would have made Antifa a funnier creation.
4) I have no problem with his being a false flag poster as we have many here, I just suggested that he try to be funnier as otherwise there was no point in a right winger demolishing imaginary “left wing” delusions. I offered Declan as an example of how to do it as he is funnier and crafted with more care, but jtitor was done better too.
Finally, I will reply no more to Antifa postings since he seems determined to keep the act up but I am not buying the act.
Oops – question 2 – at the end should have been: If no then proceed to question 3. if yes then you’re out!
d’oh
Advice for Alex Thompson at Ch 4….
In a world where nothing is what it seems………
http://i.imgur.com/tc0Go.jpg
Conroy quits after spending too much time in lower divisions.
That is okay, as far as I am concerned.
We want demotion/consequences for mistakes made, honestly or otherwise, and the only gripe that Conroy may have legitimately is that others have not suffered the same consequences.
Imatim and so is Neil Lennon etc,
One of my fav tunes. Up there with Grace, James Connolly and of course BBB.
The Bluebells version of The Patriot Game is imo the best by far.
Or maybe it’s because the 1st time I ever heard it, it was their version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvnzFfQCk8
Stirring and Emotional.
brimmer
kitalba @ 7 50.
Re —- Sir and ” his borborygmus character ”
Lovely ——suits him to a T .
Think that might be the third time I’ve seen the word being used —-
First time was in the autumn of 1969 . —–My first 1-1 tutorial with a legendary crackpot mathematical physicist —— Climb the stairs to his room , see big notice on his door stating ——-Beware of Alfie ,the borborygmus Gordon Setter. ! -I didn’t have a clue.
I didn’t meet Alfie that day but I looked up the meaning of borborygmus. .. Later encounters with Alfie confirmed that the warning was well merited..
Thanks for reviving the memory.
Jonas Thern
Was he not on mega cash when he joined the gers?
Greenjedi:
Mate there is so much in Celtic’s history to make a man proud for ten life times and more, but one chapter that makes my wee heart swell was the times that Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Alfredo di Stefano, all wanted Celtic to honour their respective testimonials when they could have asked for any team on the globe.
I think most of us have concerns that Rangers will wriggle out of there current predicament and that a bidder will come up with the master plan to save them.However, it is going to cost them a lot of money and a part of me just cant see it happenning.So like everyone else I will be watching the next part of there history very closely indeed.H.H.
kitalba on 16 March, 2012 at 09:53 said:
Greenjedi:
Mate there is so much in Celtic’s history to make a man proud for ten life times and more, but one chapter that makes my wee heart swell was the times that Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Alfredo di Stefano, all wanted Celtic to honour their respective testimonials when they could have asked for any team on the globe.
_________________________________________________________Well said kit,though I do believe Real Madrid were trying to prove
they where the real European champions…………NAE CHANCE.
Hail hail
From Vdeo Celts :
Israeli web-site One Star has claimed that all of the Rangers players that accepted pay cuts have negotiated cut-price release clauses for the summer regardless of whether the club is taken over or survives administration.
After a warning that the club may be unable to complete their fixtures administrators Duff and Phelps announced last Friday that they had struck a wages deal with the players to ensure no redundancies.
Top earners such as Allan McGregor, Steve Davis, Steven Naysmith and Kirk Broadfoot agreed to 75% pay cuts with other lesser paid players taking a 25% cut for the next three months.
Those deals took over a week to negotiate but weren’t without cost to the club.
Every player that has agreed to the wage cut has a written sell-on value in their contract that allows them to quit Ibrox in the summer for a knock-down fee.
Duff and Phelps are expected to begin serious negotiations today to sell the club to interested parties but it seems unlikely that there will be a rush of offers for the stricken club.
With merchandising and catering outsourced and Ticketus due the money for 25,000 season tickets for the next three seasons any new owner faces a massive task to turn Rangers into a viable business.
News that the clubs top players have effectively negotiated cut price transfers in the summer will be a further blow to any potential investor.
With most other parts of the business outsourced; the players, Ibrox Park and Murray Park are the only real assets that a new owner would acquire.
Nice Morning in the Chilterns,
How’s it looking down Hampden Way…
….Yes this is Campbell
How are you spelling that
C-o-m-p-l-i-a-n-c-e
Oh! We outsource that
Murray Inter…….
Oh! How are you spelling that
V-E-R-B-O-T-E-N
Oh!
Neil Lennon@OfficialNeil
Morning all…heavy rain for training this morning…might have to put James Forrest in water wings
Neil is obviously in good humour as he prepares for Sunday!
South Of Tunis:
Troggs social skills— borborygmus? I think so.
(It was the word of the day at work today)
Morning bhoys from a sunkist hun free mountain.
So who do we believe, Paul saying uefa are sending over a compliance officer, or the C4 jurno who tweeted they weren’t, disny really matter either way.
The sfa are the sfa, they have no shame just like their establishment team, they will fight tooth and nail to protect what they have, they will do what’s necessary to protect the closed shop, they have too much to lose.
I wonder if we will get a break in the referees ranks, I do hope so, but I must admit, I thought Craven would have spilt more beans, so I won’t be holding my breath on that one.
As for the hun, they still have debts that would fear ye, and have no way of meeting them, just a tad confused why they are still bumbling along.
They own feck all, this give me massive delight that they will be feck for many years to come, newco or not.
Sort the referees, sort the problem.
kitalba on 16 March, 2012 at 09:53
I agree 100% regarding those 3. Bobby Moore once stated that he’d loved to have played under big Jock, such was his regard for the man.
But in truth most people really only want us at their testimonials for one thing.
brimmer
OK, paper talk aside, how many real bids have there been for the huns?
And how many of them came from Celtic fans at the wind up??
Lovely sunny day -way down south —birds chirping , lizards lounging , butterflies fluttering .
Will today be the first time that Craig Whyte gets to say —–
” Do you think I’m daft ? —— I want at least twice that !”.
Back to planting cacti ,way down south.
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@mccanna7 coz RFC’s the story not CFC – perhaps their time may come too tho, from what I hear
It seems when he asked Rangers fans for their input they have been telling him stuff like Celtic have influence in many SPL board rooms and within the SFA.
There you go. It’s all a Timmy conspiracy.
Don’t think this guy will get too much other than obfuscation and he’ll get sickened and walk away.
If on the other hand he has been hearing the people who run our club have been less white than white I’d be fascinated to know who he got this information from.
Bottom line- Celtic pay their dues and Rangers have not been doing so.
Jock Stein
Alfredo Di Stefano testimonial
Im excited for today should hear if my bid for the huns is succesful.
brimmer
Agreed, but I don’t think that was ever a consideration with those three named.
Also, besides the money that Celtic take to players testimonials, I think the atmosphere we take with us is a big attraction too, players wnat to go out on a high; on a night to remember. Celtic the team and the Support deliver that.
Snake Plissken on 16 March, 2012 at 10:06 said:
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@mccanna7 coz RFC’s the story not CFC – perhaps their time may come too tho, from what I hear
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I posted yesterday that I won’t be getting my hopes up by yet another ‘outsider’ coming up to Scotland and trying to ‘sort out’ the rangers problem.
I hope he is interested in discovering the truth and sees past the obvious attempts to muddy the waters. He is looking for assistance from rangers fans and that is fair enough but it is all too easy to get drawn in to the lazy and tired assertian that we are the heads to their tales. particularly for those who don’t understand the cultural intricacies they are dealing with in Glasgow.
So again, good luck to him but the early signs are not good. If Celtic prosper from Rangers demise it will have for the most part been through the efforts of Celtic people. UEFA, English men at SPL/ SFA and southern journos have all let us down before. I won’t be relying on them now.
I see Roddy Forsyth last night owned up to himself and Ewing Grahame being a poodle. Sounded like the lack of an invite to suck on Murrays succulent hot dog has induced a temper tantrum.
I also think we should monitor the number of ex Rangers employees who were highly likely to have been EBT beneficiaries being removed from the front line in case anyone asks the question “Were you a member of Rangers EBT and did you benefit from it ?
No Hateley / Traynor / keevins column today so I have a bit of time this morning.
I have invited two hun families round to my place on Sunday ok hun husbands. I have done it through their wives and told them to keep it a secret. I have invited their children also. Told them to surprise their partners on Sunday morning they think it is a Derby. Normally both would jump at this chance. I have hardly heard from them recently and the wifes are aware of this and found it a wee bit strange about the lack of contact and want to address this issue..
Really looking forward to Sunday.
We are going to laugh and laugh and laugh again
We are going to enjoy our fine young team bringing home the cup.
We are going to get even more excited about our treble chances.
We are not going to forget what our team, our coaching staff, our club and our supporters have had to endure and face up to all in the name of keeping Timmy and Paddy downtrodden. Yet we will show you all again that is is water of a ducks backside.
We will show the world what football and Celtic is all about.
STANDING UP FOR NEIL LENNON
Hail Hail
No.7 on 16 March, 2012 at 10:14 said:
Im excited for today should hear if my bid for the huns is succesful.
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Will you be using the site of Ibrox as a retail park or some kind of public park complete with floating pitch?
Could I suggest a Casino? That area, I am told, is crying out for one.
Ireland v England at Rugby
Celtic in a Cup Final
St Patrick’s Weekend.
the prosepct of good food and good beer.
what’s not to like.
See you all later.
kitalba on 16 March, 2012 at 10:09 said:
Jock Stein
Alfredo Di Stefano testimonial
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Kit ,hope you’ve got a new telly noo.
Snake Plissken on 16 March, 2012 at 10:06 said:
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@mccanna7 coz RFC’s the story not CFC – perhaps their time may come too tho, from what I hear
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Ultimately there will be some sort of reciprocal look at how Celtic have been ran as a business, and undoubtedly someone will try to stir up scandal. This is very much required for Scottish society to function. Can you imagine what would happen if the axiom “they are both as bad as each other” was to be officially disproved?
Folk would be flingin’ themselves oota windaes.
brimmer/kit
A sad but glaring example of this came in the guise of Tony Adams who originally had his testimonial against Crystal Palace.
When a paltry crowd turned up, it was decided to arrange a second money spinner.
Celtic were invited and the rest is history.
voguepunter :-) Friday night mate and I’m enjoying it.
hamiltontim:
I was at that game.
new article posted.
It really does get worse by the day…… one revelation after the other…
……and all this talk about deadline day being today…….. all their doing is trying to delay the inevitable, until the tax decision is taken…..if it goes against them, get the padlock out for the blue gates…….simple as that