Jock Stein didn’t get it all right in Lisbon 50 years ago. He told his players Inter’s weak point was their goalkeeper, Giuliano Sarti, who passed away within the last day, aged 83. How wrong could he be? Sarti played the game of his life, resisting Celtic for an hour, and then keeping his team in the game until the end.
Inter’s famed defensive structure was unable to adapt to Celtic’s ability to create space, but a combination of Sarti and the woodwork kept the scoring down. Twice the keeper benefited from the West German officials, once when he stretched behind to claw the ball out of the net, and once when he grabbed Willie Wallace legs inside the six-yard box.
Sarti was Inter keeper throughout the Grande Inter period, when they twice won the European Cup and Serie A title. He earlier won the league with Fiorentina, as well as the Cup Winners’ Cup.
Great, though he was, he was no King Canute, and could do nothing about Big Tam’s tidal wave, which changed the course of football.
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MARGARET MCGILL on 7TH JUNE 2017 3:30 AM
Mate.
Bin Laden………..Just an manifestation of lawless Pakistan.
Nothing to do with Paul Mc Bride whatsoever.
If you`re not phobic about the Quran , then you should be.
I`m not phobic about xenos. I married one.
I was waiting today but no one noticed it in the whole CW trial.
Why was there no Grier?
No Duff & Phelps.
No King, Johnson or P. Murray called to the stand?
No Bain who left the country to hide out in Turkey and Israel and now returns with his half million fenced off bonus.
why no Imran Ahmed (oh yeah thats right he is in hiding in pakistan).
Why did Mcbride die in a different hotel from his famous Scottish pakistani friend he went there with?
3 weeks after liquidation.
Just like the recent terrorist attacks in England prior to an election.
i smell shite.
Dont you?
Skeletons skeletons skeletons.
Quran
Quran (2:191-193) – “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing… but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 7th June 2017 3:34 am
I have religiophobia. All of it.
MARGARET MCGILL on 7TH JUNE 2017 3:42 AM
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 7th June 2017 3:34 am
I have religiophobia. All of it.
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Don`t blame you in the slightest.
Macjay
Your mum was a lovely organist in Saint Paul’s
As well as working on the training pitch, Celtic will take on BW Linz in Rohrbach on Wednesday, 28 June, before facing Rapid Vienna in Amstetten on Saturday, 1 July.
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/celtic/celtic-announce-details-of-pre-season-tour-1-4467919
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Three weeks …………..
DELANEYS DUNKY on 7TH JUNE 2017 3:48 AM
Macjay
Your mum was a lovely organist in Saint Paul’s
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Amazing you could remember her.
Good Morning CQN
Re my post of last night, the point is that David Murray was told for years (by his own financial people) to ditch Rangers as it was a business that made continual losses and made no financial sense whatsoever.
It was, in many respects, the weakest part of his business empire and continually haemorrhaged cash.
Murray, however, would not listen to his own advisers and for reasons of ego or whatever kept the Rangers business until 2009 when he openly sought a buyer at any price.
There were none for obvious reasons and, as Donald Findlay pointed out, the business was headed for the rocks irrespective of whether Craig Whyte bought the business or not.
Many people in financial circles could see this. Paul67 in repeated articles predicted that the business was not sustainable and that was especially so after the financial crash of 2008.
The same people can see that the current Ibrox corporation is headed the same way no matter what the press or any other set of ill-informed punters with a pen tell you.
If you recall, one leading sports journalist said after Rangers went bust in 2012 that a major regret was that no business journalists had been around to point it out to the sports journos that Rangers were headed for the rocks.
Presumably the same sports journalist was never told to keep his hands away from the fire when he was a baby.
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A CEILER GONOF PROUD OF THE LISBON SCLABAWERS on 7TH JUNE 2017 12:31 AM
Lisbon Sclaffbaw: Last and final update:
After collection of monies and paying all outstanding’s we had a surplus of app 135 euros. This has been made up to £150 and transferred to BRTH for the Road to Lisbon fund.
Take a bow everyone who helped. This includes participants, some weird spectator dude from Canada and some guys who donated prizes who didn’t even attend the event.
This was a great wee Celtic event and the Belas Club De Campo staff also deserve a mention for allowing us to host the Spirit of 67 Lisbon sclaffbaw event at their course, and for bending the normal rigid rules of sclaffbaw etiquette and allowing me to play in a dress code that was pertinent to the day.
Thanks once again to everyone for proving once again……..
WE ARE CELTIC, and we had a great day.
HH Celtic Men and Wummin
So, David Murray, after a 25 year Mibbery Swindle…
gets to……walk away ?
that’s got be better than anything….
that Celtic did in Lisbon…..shoorly ?
anyway,……..
………….off-oot.
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
Good morning friends.
The incessant rain of the last few days has finally stopped and I awake to find clearing skies and sunshine, but with a strong wind for company here in ole EK.
As for the scrofulous hillbillies, well……………
Scrof and Hill were duped by Billy!
Good morning CQN from a cool, bright, dry and very breezy East Devon.
For those interested in what the latest court ruling means for Res 12 and the wider debate about the running of Scottish Football and the competency of its own rules, procedures and personnel I invite you to take the time to participate in a little exercise.
It will be time-consuming but illuminating.
First, print off and read the detailed analysis of the evidence provided at the first tier tribunal of the Big Tax Case by Dr Heidi Poon. Forget her summation of the law, merely look at her recording of the evidence.
Secondly, read the report of Lord Nimmo Smith in detail and in particular focus on that part where he refers to the FTT decision and considers how he relies on that decision and hi assessment of that evidence.
Thirdly, print off and read James Doleman’s twitter feed reporting on the evidence from the Craig Whyte trial.
Fourth, stop and consider the previous statements issued by Stewart Regan re the granting and maintaining of the UEFA licence granted to Rangers in March 2011 (to be precise it was granted to Rangers on 18th April but based on circumstances pertaining as at 31st March and it was intimated to UEFA on 28th May 2011) and then the letter addressed to shareholders solicitors by Mr Traverso of UEFA.
Finally read the full decision and arguments presented to the Court of Arbitration for sport in the case of UEFA v FC Giannina.
There are many other documents I could refer you to but these will do for now.
Briefly, what can be taken from all of the above is as follows:
1. The details of football, tax and other rules are important and they are designed to bring about a system which makes the admnistration of football and tax affairs are uniform and fair.
2. Where those rules are not applied or conformed with (whether deliberately or by accident) then the rules fail, chaos follows, and prejudice and illegality results.
3. In the FTT it was clearly established that Rangers PLC and MIH deliberately witheld side letters from HMRC and that Mike McGill and Sir David Murray in particular lied to the appropriate tax authorities as to the existence of side letters which would have clearly scuppered the admitted tax avoidance scheme.
4. It has been repeatedly admitted that the same tax avoidance scheme was entered into for the purposes of securing the services of players which the club could not have otherwise afforded.
5, No other Scottish football club has ever participated this unlawful type of tax scheme nor stood accused of having their directors or officials lie to HMRC or any other official body.
6. It is now a matter of admission that an earlier tax avoidance scheme was wholly illegal and was instigated by the former Rangers employee and past SFA President Campbell Ogilvie.
7. It is a matter of admission that officials of Rangers PLC (a considerable number of whom are still involved in the current Rangers club) deliberately witheld side letters and other material information from the SFA and the then SPL for fear that disclosure of that information would result in (a) Rangers being found to have broken footballing rules and so sanctioned by the SFA and (b) Rangers being found to have breached tax laws and so found liable for past taxes.
It should be noted that despite their fear of sanction and the deliberate decision not to disclose for fear of sanction, Rangers continued to use the practices in question.
8. In the course of her FTT assessment of the evidence, Dr Poon is scathing in her assessment of the accuracy, reliability and veracity of the evidence provided by various Rangers personnel.
9. In the course of his cross examination in the Whyte trial, Donald Findlay was scathing in his assessment of the accuracy, reliability and veracity of the people in charge of Rangers at the time of the sale of the club to Whyte (late 2010 early 2011) and went so far as to question their business competence describing them as hopeless .
10. In the course of his summation to the jury (and later emphasised by Lady Stacey) Donald Findlay relied on internal memos from within MIH and Rangers PLC which showed that David Murray was hell bent on selling the club and was prepared to do whatever was needed to get the deal over the line.
This included failing to disclose the true finances of Rangers PLC in or around February/ March 2011 and a complete failure to disclose the existence of The Wee Tax Case and the accepted liability arising out of an accepted unlawful tax scheme as at February 2011.
Thus far, we have a clear practice of deliberately failing to disclose to HMRC, The SFA, The SPFL and Craig Whyte.
11. In the course of the trial it became apparent that David Murray was promised that if he sold Rangers and had the Rangers debt to the bank cleared in the process, he personally stood to gain from the repurchase of part of his metal business at a knock down price.
However, in a letter to Rangers Board Members David Murray not only failed to disclose any of this but specifically warranted that there was no such benefit accruing to him or MIH. Accordingly you can now add the directors of Rangers PLC to the list of people who have had material information witheld from them.
12. As part of the sworn testimony in court, it was accepted that the liability to HMRC was accepted by the club as being due as early as February 2011. That acceptance was binding on the club and it is clear that HMRC were treating the liability as overdue and were claiming tax and interest going back to 2001.
13. That liability was neither questioned or appealed by the seller or his advisers, but the interest charged was supposedly appealed by Craig Whyte and his advisers several months later. HMRC never treated the appeal as valid or timeous.
14. At various times, Stewart Regan has stated that at the material times, the wee tax case liability was either (a) not overdue or (b) was the subject of an extension of time agreed between RFC and HMRC and so did not breach UEFA licensing regulations.
HMRC have never accepted either of these propositions and it has -reviously been stated that when it comes to matters of disclosure, accuracy and truthfulness in relation to disclosure Rangers personnel have openly admitted they witheld the truth and failed to disclose the truth.
At no time have the SFA or the SPFL ever investigated the truth or accuracy of the submissions provided by Rangers PLC regarding the wee tax case and both decided to deliberately remove all reference to these matters from the LNS enquiry.
15. In a letter to shareholders of Celtic PLC, the head of licensing at UEFA has stated that as at 28th May 2011 there was no reason for UEFA to suspect that there was any cause for concern in relation to the licence granted by the SFA to Rangers PLC.
16. It is unclear if UEFA have ever been informed that the board of Rangers PLC, and the owners of the club through MIH and its officers, have been repeatedly condemned and found guilty of repeated failure to disclose material items when making submissions or in answer to enquiries.
17. It is unclear whether or not UEFA were made aware of the fact that officials of Rangers PLC accepted there was a tax liability outstanding in February 2011 and which remained outstanding as at 31st March 2011, nor is it clear if they were made aware of the fact that this liability was not openly disclosed to the eventual buyer of the club and was witheld from him at the material time.
18. Stewart Regan of the SFA is on record as stating that having awarded a UEFA licence to Rangers in or around March/April 2011, all subsequent procedures regarding UEFA compliance had nothing to do with the SFA and were for UEFA to deal with.
19. In his letter to Celtic shareholders, Mr Traverso contradicts 18 above quite clearly.
20. When writing to the Chief Executive of Celtic Football Club, Stewart Regan states clearly that the procedures and processes adopted by the SFA in relation to the grant and award of UEFA licences during the course of 2011 was subject to UEFA audit with the result that UEFA stated they were more than satisfied with the SFA processes.
Official UEFA reports state that the SFA was not audited at all during season 2010/2011 or season 2011/2012 in relation to licensing processes.
21. While Stewart Regan has maintained that the SFA played no part in monitoring compliance with UEFA licences, Mr Traverso of UEFA has stated in writing that not only were the SFA monitoring compliance in 2011 but were contemporaneously monitoring events for season 2012/2013. Both statements cannot be correct.
22. Mr Traverso from UEFA has stated that during the course of season 2011/2012, UEFA were advised by the SFA (at some unspecified point and for reasons which have never been disclosed) that Rangers PLC no longer complied with UEFA licensing provisions.
23. The facts stated at 22 above were not disclosed to the chief executive of Celtic PLC in any coorespondence between Celtic and the SFA, and the chief executive of the SFA would appear not to have disclosed that they informed UEFA that Rangers PLC no longer complied with licensing provisions nor why the SFA reached that conclusion.
24. It is plain from the testimony at the High Court and elsewhere that it was essential in 2011/2012 for Rangers to gain financially from European competition failing which administration (which had been discussed by the board in 2010) was inevitable.
25. From February 2011 onwards the HMRC position that the wee tax case was overdue remained consistent and it never changed. No money was ever paid to this liability and it was clearly accepted as being due in the share sale and purchase agreement signed between Murray and Whyte dated 6th May some three weeks before the award of the licence was submitted to UEFA with a condition being added that Whyte would undertake to make payment of the sum due.
26. No payments of the sums referred to in the Share sale and purchase agreement were made as at 30th June or 30th September both of which are key dates in the UEFA monitoring processes.
27. Despite all of the above, Rangers PLC draft and provisional accounts continued to refer to the Wee Tax Case Liability as a “potential” liability and former Rangers PLC Chairman Alistair Johnson repeated the mantra that the liability was potential despite fellow board members agreeing with HMRC that the sums were actually due.
28. In the case of UEFA v FC Giannina the court determined that when a company board accpeted that a tax liability was due in writing then it was immediately due and or overdue irrespective of the technicalities of national legislation or any other documents. This would then mean that the wee tax case liability was automatically accpeted as at February 2011 and was overdue.
29. In the case of Uefa v FC Giannina — the stated UEFA position is that when any club fails to disclose material information in any application for a licence or in support of an application for a licence or in any set of financial accounts required to support an application for a licence, then the failure to disclose and the submission of inaccurate accounts and information will immediately make that application or the accounts concerned null and void and as if no application had ever been received at all with there being no need for UEFA to investigate each and every circumstance or potantially serious breach of the rules.
In other words if you seek to cover up any dishonesty or any failure to comply then the application is automatically rejected for that year and for every year that a club failed to disclose.
30. FC Giannina failed to disclose that they had side letters and contracts with their players, failed to disclose their full wages to the Greek FA, failed to pay all their taxes on the sums due to the players as a result of payments made to those players, failed to properly disclose the true nature of sums outstanding to the tax authorities in Greece, attempted to deceive the Greek FA by not disclosing the whole truth re the position with the Greek Tax authorities and had the UEFA licence initially awarded to them by the Greek FA in season 2011/12 withdrawn within a matter of months. They were then banned from European competition for a period of time.
31. At no time have the SFA ever commented on the impact of the case against FC Giannina in relation to the wee tax case or the big tax case, nor the findings of the SPFL enquiry which ruled that Rangers PLC had deliberately failed to disclose certain material matters and that the registration of players was technically correct but incomplete in material terms (Giannna would suggest that this is the wromg approach) nor a previous finding during which the panel described the actions of the then Rangers board as being ” as close to match fixing as you can possibly get” or words to that effect.
Finally, I would add that Stewart Regan’s pronouncement yesterday that the SFA would take legal advice about chasing a man who has previously been made bankrupt for an unpaid £200k liability ranks as one of the most obvious squirrells in the history of PR.
Regrettably, the MSM in Scotland failed to ask him how a bankupt could ever be forced to pay a debt having been declared bankrupt in the interim and so appear to have swallowed the squirrel hook line and tail!
No one has botherd to ask them if they will be reviewing their own procedures and the submissions made to the SFA by what Jack Irvine described as aRangers board which was a “snake pit of rumour, innuendo, lies, intimidation, fraud, corruption and these are just the good points”.
The full quote from Irvine, describing the outgoing board headed by Alistair Johnston which made the application for the UEFA licence in Mrach 2011 reads as follows:
“The events of the last couple of days will by now have convinced you that the business side of [the] Glasgow-based football club is a snake pit of rumour, innuendo, lies, intimidation, fraud, corruption and these are just the good points.”
When read in conjunction with the observations of Dr Poon it is an assessment which is hard to disagree with.
At the time concerned the business side of Rangers was run by inter alia Dave King, Alistair Johnson, Paul Murray, Andrew Dickson and others.
It should be rememberd that when the chief executive of Celtic Football Club wrote to the SFA Chief Executive about SFA practices and procedures, the SFA Chief Executive drafted a reply and sent his draft to Ibrox for comment before releasing a final response to Celtic.
The SFA Chief Executive’s draft reply was rejected by the then powers that be at Ibrox on the grounds that the reply could raise questions which would be “Embarassing for both of us!”.
It’s amazing how some will pull the context that defines the passage for their own agenda.
For Macjay I include 2-190, 2-194,2-195 as his search for hate speach will not have thrown the passage up.
Quran 2:190 – 195
2:190 Fight in the way of God those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors.
2:191 And kill them wherever you find them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah [Persecution] is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
2:192 And if they cease, then indeed, God is Forgiving and Merciful.
2:193 Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah [Persecution] and [until] worship is for God. But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.
2:194 [Fighting in] the sacred month is for [aggression committed in] the sacred month, and for [all] violations is legal retribution. So whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you. And fear God and know that God is with those who fear Him.
2:195 And spend in the way of God and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]. And do good; indeed, God loves the doers of good.
MWD
BRTH. 7.08
Thank you for puting that all together, a fabulous read.
Regan going on about the fine and the press publishing his ramblings without challenging them, tells me how sycophantic and pathetic the press still are. Rangers died, partly because the press wouldn’t print the truth, 5 years later nothing has changed.
Regan has become a joke figure, how he still holds his position is incomprehensible to me. Right away when I read his statement, I thought, aye good luck with that chasing up money from a bankrupt.
Hail Hail
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/the-12th-man/
Good morning – seasons review time – the managers performance scorecard for starters. HH
BRTH at 7.08am
Thank you for an excellent summation deserving of a wider audience. Pity that our media is failing in its duty to inform. HH
BRTH
Thanks for that excellent summation.
But, and you know there would be a but…
If Celtic do not pursue Res12 then it’s deid. As in proper deid! Not Rangers type deid.
MWD
hi bhoys good morning from a slightly overcast west cheshire had to go into liverpool on business yesterday driving down london road in liverpool coldnt believe it thought i was back in glasgow traffic is stopped and suddenly ther they are full regalia drums and flutes some with the old carling rangers tops only consolation bhoys they were fuc—-ng soaked to the skin.
Brogan, thank you for your post.
A nice way to start my day, an excellent account of what has happened in the last seven years and how the myth is being allowed to continue.
Thanks again.
I hope your stomach condition is better,
BRTH
That is a quite brilliant summation. The must be a wider audience for this. Surely there is one decent investigative journalist left in the U.K.!
Effectively Knight of the Realm has escaped a multi million pound debt to a bank which was owned by the taxpayer whilst simultaneously offloading debt to the taxman and creditors by offloading Rangers – House of Cards is a game of Snap by comparison.
If this can happen in full view with warning being posted for almost ten years, what the hell is going on in the dark recesses of commerce!
The chairman of Rangers Football Club, Dave King paid a “hacker” for confidential information a court has been told.
https://www.byline.com/project/72/article/1713
Surely Whyte has a legal case against King, putting aside the fact King should be prosecuted?
BRT & H
Thanks for taking the time to put that together. As has been mentioned, it deserves a wider audience. Have you considered sending it to Alex Thomson at Channel 4 ?
Others may know of a journalist somewhere who would be willing to advance the information contained in your piece.
Well done regardless,
JJ
BRTH chapeau doffed sir what a fine piece of writing. How many hours are in your day? Wish I had your energy and intellect, epitomises the best of this blog. H H Hebcelt
BRTH
Excellent post ! Needs a wider audience !
It is indeed great to have a mhan of the stature & intellect of BRTH on our side.
As much a Celtic hero as lads wearing the Hoops on the field.
Word of The Day (Inspired by Craig Whyte)
Brummagem /ˈbrʌmədʒəm/
adjective
1. showy but inferior and worthless.
2. (sometimes not capital) cheap and gaudy; tawdry
noun
1. (sometimes not capital) something that is cheap and flashy, esp imitation jewellery
2. an informal name for Birmingham Often shortened to Brum
Word Origin
C17: from earlier Bromecham, local variant of Birmingham
KTF
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 7TH JUNE 2017 7:08 AM
I can’t help but wonder whether there will come a point at which Celtic’s refusal to do anything meaningful about this issue will cause you or any of the others involved to question their good faith.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 7TH JUNE 2017 3:40 AM
The Koran seems to be a Holy Book full of incompatible and contradictory statements.
I wonder where they got that idea from.
BRTH – Great work, well presented and concise information.
HH
https://twitter.com/jamesdoleman/status/872321942078009344?s=08
Fit and Proper?
First-class summary of events to date from BROGANROGANTREVINO&HOGAN. Of course,we expect no less(!)
Well done,and my grateful thanks.
It seems though that Reagan disagrees-link from DR,so don’t click if you don’t want to.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/sfa-right-hand-rangers-euro-10574539
I dunno,all this conflicting evidence,who to believe,eh?
Well,it sure won’t be the lying pile of poo who works from Hampden and has just got a promotion to UEFA.
Buenos Dias de Calnegre por cierto.
Brogan Rogan
You are ‘some man’ …..thank you…!!!!
… and they called us paranoid …… we live in a Country which puts money / establisnment protection before truth and justice ….. truly disgusting …… would they have given Celtic FC this protection ……. ? at least we now know the environment we live in ….. we are ‘living with the enemy’, who detest everything Celtic, Irish and Catholic ……. ‘bigotry exposed’
Quran (4:11) – (Inheritance) “The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females” (see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.