“We’re only here for the party”. Hearts fans taunted us with that on 24 May 2009, the final day of the Premier League season, the day Celtic failed to achieve four titles in a row. Most of those who travelled west that day will be in the stands at Tynecastle on Sunday. They will see a different kind of party.
Chances are, you, like me, don’t have a ticket for the game. There are no tickets to be had for Celtic fans, and unlike 1988, when a few of us paid our way into the Hearts end under similar circumstances, even that will not be possible this time around.
I might not have a ticket myself, but I do have TWO TICKETS for the Celtic end of Tynecastle on Sunday to raffle for Mary’s Meals, courtesy of Celtic sponsor, Intelligent Car Leasing.
You can enter here, for a minimum donation of £5. Please email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com with the word “Party” in the subject line to confirm your donation and entry. And include as many contact details as you think prudent to ensure you hear about your win (it wouldn’t be the first time someone didn’t catch their winning notification until after a game).
We win lots of leagues, but we don’t win them at Tynecastle too often. How sweet it would be to be there to celebrate and congratulate the team.
The good news is the competition is only open for two days, so there isn’t a lot of time to enter. If you donate after 22:00 on Wednesday – thank you – but your entry will not be considered.
13th Annual CQN Golf Open
This year’s CQN Golf Open will take place on Friday 28 July, again at our regular Aberdour haunt. It is always a magnificent Celtic occasion – and always oversubscribed. If you would like to attend, email Taggsybhoy, cqnopen@gmail.com
Beneficiaries of the night will be Walk with Shay and the Celtic FC Foundation, cost for the day’s golf, and evening meal and festivities, is £80, or £45 if you are an evening-only guest.
See you there……
Thanks enormously to Intelligent Car Leasing for their incredible support. What a magnificent organisation to be supporting the club, and our charitable efforts. Two tickets, competition only running two days, money going to Mary’s Meals, fill your boots!
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macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 28th March 2017 12:53 am
TRICOLOURED RIBBON on 28TH MARCH 2017 12:42 AM
AULDHEID on 27TH MARCH 2017 9:44 PM
Deila was clùeless.
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Others skirt round the issue.
That was the essence of the problem .
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Irrelevant to my point. S A was a player who was always just a little bit off being what he was now.
That might have been down to RD but my point is the lad had talent and not enough patience shown by some to let it show last season. I’m always pleased when a player “makes it” I just thought SA was always going to do that even when not at his best.
TRICOLOURED RIBBON on 28TH MARCH 2017 1:01 AM
Macjay,
It was a cheap move by the board to try and cut corners..
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Departure of Lenny.
Arrival of Deila.
Heard all the speculation.
The facts would be interesting.
I really hope that Griffiths is not injured.First name on the teamsheet for me..
Lenny/Mjallby getting the boot followed by the Delia Debacle was Lawwell micromanaging his pension until DD trumped him
AULDHEID on 28TH MARCH 2017 1:12 AM
The whole atmosphere for our two years under Deila was one of underachievement with no prospect of improvement.
A few of the players who left during that period now also seem to have improved their performance.
The common denominator ?
Does anyone know how much salary BR gets from Celtic?
Delia got?
Lenny?
BTM?
TRICOLOURED RIBBON on 28TH MARCH 2017 1:16 AM
I really hope that Griffiths is not injured.First name on the teamsheet for me..
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I agree , but I get the impression that Brendan is ” on his case.”
There seems to be an element of the loose cannon about Leigh , going by his colourful history.
Perhaps Brendan is channeling him towards safer conduct .
MARGARET MCGILL on 28TH MARCH 2017 1:20 AM
Does anyone know how much salary BR gets from Celtic?
Delia got?
Lenny?
BTM?
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No , but we do know that P.L. agreed to forego his bonus one year.
http://www.thenational.scot/sport/15185383.Opinion__Dave_King_facing_an_uncertain_Ibrox_future/
Macjay.
I’ll take a guy who will bulge the rigging 40 times a season guaranteed .
That includes Dembele.The Griff for me.
I know wans will cackle at that.
John Brown and Pedro Myxomatosis
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 28th March 2017 1:25 am
for all 4 or just BR?
TRICOLOURED RIBBON on 28TH MARCH 2017 1:30 AM
Macjay.
Dead right.
He`s a natural striker
His instinctive shot from the edge of the box which hit the post against Slovenia underlines that .
BUT sometimes he needs learn to play in others who are in a better position than him.
Just realized tonight that we have a lot to thank Hitler’s contribution to world peace and the survival of the human species. It’s good that old Soviet Union and American oligarchs now have coalesced to form the greatest tax robbing conglomerate in history. Maybe now there will not be any nuclear holocaust. That’s a good thing in my opinion.
My biggest fear is the rise of the bitcoin and there is no more maneuvering for corporate liars if they have their finger on the button.
Just my tuppence worth.
Cyclone Debbie hammering Queensland.
I pray any posters are tucked up nice and safe.
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-cyclone-debbie-queensland-australia-late-march-2017
Slightly off topic….
This was lifted from article posted by Macjay re the mendacious one…
History tells us that we should watch closely the actions of the authorities in their dealings with King. They have already been responsible for misleading the public with regards to their treatment of King. Despite King failing the SFA’s own ‘fit and proper’ criteria, which states that no person having held a directorial position with a club having undergone administration and liquidation in the preceding five years should be permitted to be a Director, they continued with the assessment of him. King and TRFC Director Paul Murray were both directors of RFC when it was put into liquidation in 2012.
Reminds me, how the hell did the SFA get away with such an obvious breach of their OWN rules???
Was there ever any official explanation to justify this???
‘GG on 28TH MARCH 2017 3:05 AM
Cyclone Debbie hammering Queensland.
I pray any posters are tucked up nice and safe.
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Thanks for your good wishes , mate.
Mooloolaba boy may well be closest but is well South of Airlie Beach which is the area of most concern.
DBHOY on 28TH MARCH 2017 3:15 AM
A law unto themselves , pal .
Macjay
Apparently so, it still amazes me though, the brazenness of it
BTW I agree with your observations about the huns loosening grip of power in certain areas.
Suttons overt criticism of them is something I’ve never seen before. Small victory maybe but it’s refreshing to see.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4351628/Cream-Celtic-crop-rises-occasion-Scotland.html
Pro Celtic story in Scottish daily mail shocker…
Does the Broxit mean that the runway has been cleared for Ashley’s Jumbo.?
TT
Or is king trying to remove his concert party to try and argue against having to resign or buy out all of the shares?
TT
SOMETIME in the next few weeks and months, the history of Rangers Football Club may have to be re-written. Dave King, chairman of Rangers International Football Club plc, also faces an agonising fortnight that will define, or perhaps even end, his time at Ibrox.
Let’s deal with the latter situation first. As has been widely reported, King has been ordered by the Takeover Appeal Board to make an offer of 20p per share for the holdings in Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) that he does not own or control. This is because despite denials all round, he was found to have acted in concert with George Letham, Douglas Park and George Taylor to buy 34.05 per cent of Rangers and take control, removing the then board in March, 2015.
t is worth noting that the Appeal Board’s judgment showed that King’s acquisition of shares was done through a British Virgin Islands shell company New Oasis Asset Limited which is wholly owned by King’s Sovereign Trust International Limited, set up by King in Gibraltar in 1992, and which is trustee of Glencoe Investments, the King family trust he established in Guernsey in 1996.
The Takeover Appeal Board has ruled that King has a deadline of April 12 to make an offer to the other 65 per cent of shareholders at a price of 20p per share. King says he has not decided what to do.
He would have to pay himself for a Judicial Review of the decision, proceedings which haven’t happened for many years, and the courts have made it clear they won’t entertain such requests – a non-starter, then.
King must make the offer within a fortnight and at 20p per share that could cost him north of £10m including the arrangement cost. Even then it would need 50 per cent acceptance.
As of yesterday, shares in RIFC were trading on the JP Jenkins platform – Rangers can’t list on the Stock Exchange as they have no Nominated Advisor – at 27.5p per share. Why would anyone accept King’s offer when it would mean they would lose a third of their potential income if they sold their shares today?
Nor for various reasons will Mike Ashley of Sports Direct – still fighting King and Rangers in court – or the Easdale brothers or numerous other investors sell to King, and that would stop the offer dead.
The third choice is this – King could sell his shares to someone else, probably at a profit, and walk away from Rangers. He’s come too far to do that, so the bet has to be that he will make the 20p per share offer and it will be refused, but it’s still a huge gamble for him. It’s complicated by the fact that while he has plenty of money in South Africa – his Micromega Holdings made a profit of more than £40m last year – he seems unable to extricate it.
Either way it’s not good news for King. Much more importantly for Rangers, however, the decision on the Big Tax Case will soon be given by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC). You’ll recall the oldco’s use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) to pay players and staff has already been declared unlawful by the Scottish courts.
It will end at the UKSC, hopefully, and if the taxman wins, the implications are horrendous for Rangers.
For a start club legends as well as the man who brought in the EBTs, former owner Sir David Murray, could face demands to repay the multi-million pound ‘loans’ they were given under the scheme which oldco Rangers operated between 2001 and 2011 despite being told by HMRC as early as 2004 that the EBTs, which cost the taxman £72m including interest, were highly questionable.
The big tax case does not financially concern the current ownership of Rangers, but there are implications for the club and its history. For if the taxman finally wins the case, three things must happen or Rangers and Scottish football will be forever shamed.
First, it must be acknowledged that Rangers gained a massive financial and thus competitive advantage they were not legally entitled to, certainly after 2004.
The current ownership has already acknowledged that by eventually paying, with reluctance, the £250,000 fine imposed on it in 2013 by Lord Nimmo Smith’s Commission that investigated the EBT scheme and the ‘side letters’ which were blatantly against football rules.
The big tax case does not financially concern the current ownership of Rangers, but there are implications for the club and its history. For if the taxman finally wins the case, three things must happen or Rangers and Scottish football will be forever shamed.
First, it must be acknowledged that Rangers gained a massive financial and thus competitive advantage they were not legally entitled to, certainly after 2004.
The current ownership has already acknowledged that by eventually paying, with reluctance, the £250,000 fine imposed on it in 2013 by Lord Nimmo Smith’s Commission that investigated the EBT scheme and the ‘side letters’ which were blatantly against football rules.
The big tax case does not financially concern the current ownership of Rangers, but there are implications for the club and its history. For if the taxman finally wins the case, three things must happen or Rangers and Scottish football will be forever shamed.
First, it must be acknowledged that Rangers gained a massive financial and thus competitive advantage they were not legally entitled to, certainly after 2004.
The current ownership has already acknowledged that by eventually paying, with reluctance, the £250,000 fine imposed on it in 2013 by Lord Nimmo Smith’s Commission that investigated the EBT scheme and the ‘side letters’ which were blatantly against football rules.
Secondly, that Nimmo Smith Commission must be recalled. The Commission acted “on the basis that the EBT arrangements were lawful”, in its own words, but if HMRC wins, they won’t be lawful.
After the HMRC warning on EBTs in 2004 up to 2011, a heavily-indebted Rangers won four SPL titles, two Scottish Cups and four Scottish League Cups with players and staff they couldn’t otherwise have afforded.
If the taxman wins, the Nimmo Smith Commission must think again and, yes, take those titles and cups away from Rangers’ history because the club cheated.
Thirdly, for operating an unlawful tax scheme for years inside Rangers and other companies, Sir David Murray should be stripped of his honor.
If HMRC wins the case, these three things at least will be necessary to assure everyone else in Scottish football, and a considerable number of Rangers fans, plus the taxpaying public, that justice eventually gets done.
http://www.thenational.scot/sport/15185383.Opinion__Dave_King_facing_an_uncertain_Ibrox_future/#articleContinue
I think it only right that all the tainted trophies should be eradicated from the dead club’s list of honours.
The dope fiends must have cost other Scottish football clubs untold millions in lost revenues as well.
Obviously Celtic were the main victims of the cheats, however very few clubs weren’t affected by their dishonesty.
Rangers died so there’s no way any club is going to be compensated financially, only kind of justice will be the rewarding of those trophies to the rightful winners.
The sooner Ibrox is razed to the ground, the better.
HH.
Good morning CQN from from a dull and mild East Devon.
Good morning friends. I’m afraid that other than confirming that it’s slightly damp underfoot, there’s no weather report available for East Kilbride this morning due to the thick fog.
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Morning all.
Professor Tom Devine on RS after 8.30 talking of Indyref2 and Brexit. Should be worth a listen.
16 Roads
No chance of Rangers being stripped of titles.
Not a hope in the fires of Hades.
Zero
Zilch
Etc etc etc
Some daft reason will be given like ah……they are now illegal but they weren’t illegal at the time will be given and that will be that.
Even after all that happened and a new club was formed, they are doing whatever they want to and the SFA are even rubber stamping it.
Why would they suddenly look to govern our game properly?
Absolutely no way will any of them do anything about it.
Its stunning to think we are where we are as a club despite what goes on here.
HH
Sevco have got away with being regarded as the same club, and have inherited the honours of the dead club.
In that context title stripping is irrelevant.
EL to whom? Aye Right!!
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 28TH MARCH 2017 8:02 AM
Morning all.
Professor Tom Devine on RS after 8.30 talking of Indyref2 and Brexit. Should be worth a listen.
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Go on then. What did he say?
Was it that there isn’t going to be an Inyref 2 until after the next Holyrood election in 2021, and even then only if the SNP (and their Green Party poodle) win an outright majority?
Word of The Day (SA’s performance on Sunday)
Ubiquitous /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/
adjective
1. existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent:
2. having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once
Derived Forms
ubiquitously, adverb
ubiquity, ubiquitousness, noun
Word Origin and History for ubiquitous
C14: from Latin ub ī que everywhere, from ub ī where
adj.
“turning up everywhere,” 1837, from ubiquity + -ous. The earlier word was ubiquitary (1580s), from Modern Latin ubiquitarius, from ubique. Related: Ubiquitously ; ubiquitousness.
KTF
My friends in Celtic,
A few early morning observations.
A very good and interesting post from the Donald re Danny McGrain and Kieran Tierney .
If the Supreme Court does not rule for HMRC, how should we react. Do we just accept it as we would expect the Huns and football authorities to accept a HMRC verdict.
Who now represents the 36% of SNP voters who voted Brexit ?
HH.
Dia daoibh uilig ar maidin.
Árd Macha
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY on 28TH MARCH 2017 1:27 AM
http://www.thenational.scot/sport/15185383.Opinion__Dave_King_facing_an_uncertain_Ibrox_future/
https://videocelts.com/2017/03/blogs/latest-news/call-for-title-stripping-goes-national/
GREENPINATA on 28TH MARCH 2017 9:07 AM
The 36% have to accept they’re in a minority and move on ;). What they do from here depends on whether they believe more strongly in an independent Scotland, or a Scotland out of Europe. If it’s the former they vote/campaign for that, then work on the latter.
Frankly we’re all in for a hard time economically whatever happens. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.
ERNIE LYNCH on 28TH MARCH 2017 8:56 AM
I don’t know if I can be much bothered about the Indyref2 debate on here this time round, I think everything that needed said was said 1st time around. Given that none of the promises made by BT were fulfilled, I’d hope that nobody falls for the same tactic again.
The SNP and Greens hold an outright majority right now though, why should they need to wait for the next Holyrood elections? Both parties had a commitment to Independence in their manifestos.