Keep an eye on what’s happening at Leeds United. The club is under offer from ‘colourful’ Italian, Massimo Cellino, who will become owner if the Football League decide that his conviction for defrauding Italian tax authorities is not sufficient to make him an inappropriate person to control a football club.
If Cellino is declared unsuitable by authorities in England I am told to expect a coordinated media campaign to have people with similar backgrounds hounded out of the game here. The is a dirty war underway for control of one of Scotland’s newer clubs.
Leeds have historically been a club which it’s difficult to feel sympathy for but I genuinely feel for their fans, who suffered for the lack of a director to say ‘No more money’ amid the clamour to reach ‘the next level’, whatever that was at the time.
Now they are a massive club but lose circa £15m per year, making it impossible for them to compete with clubs far smaller than them. Being subject to the attention of convicts is a direct consequence.
On a completely unrelated matter, I read Phil Mac Giolla Bhain today use the word “Wonga” in relation to Newco Rangers’ recent attempts to finance. That was exactly the word used to me to describe a potential financer who is set to meet the club tomorrow. The campaign to oust the club’s current owners is significantly undermining their ability to do their jobs.
Well done to Big Yogi and the Highlanders for their unconventional route to the League Cup Final. It must have been an absolute sickener for Hearts fans to lose to nine men. Absolute. Utter. Sickener. Oh well.
I read Barcelona lost on Saturday for only the fifth time when Messi had scored. Can anyone name another occasion?
Sean’s Trust, the charity founded by the family of St John Doyle (George Ryan) in memory of Sean, who was stillborn in 2000, is holding a dinner with live entertainment on Friday, 4 July, at the Fullarton Suites, Tollcross Road.
Sean’s Trust aims to raise funds to provide holiday homes to provide respite for families bereaved through stillbirth. The Trust will also raise awareness and tackle misinformation surrounding the issue. To book at ticket (£35, discount for tables of eight), email Linda at lindacroker@googlemail.com
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Martybhoy59
Thanks for the heads up , we’re usually there about 1-30 / 1-45 trying to judge it to neat for meal then upto the game , might just get the wife to drop me and the daughter off
And treat ourselves lol cheers ;))
Are Glasgow City Council H&S Executive going to wait until someone is injured before they carry out an inspection at ipox…?
Ouch…..
Anyways……ahm black….bring it on…
Should read…….ahm back………
Bluuuuudy e pad……
awe naw
Apologies for using your moniker without permission!
HH!!
Smashy…..yoo aboot?
Ahm actually Caucasian …..
Got a feeling it will be Chelsea tonight….
67heaven … i am neil lennon, supporting wee oscar..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
19:54 on 3 February, 2014
Are Glasgow City Council H&S Executive going to wait until someone is injured before they carry out an inspection at ipox…?
I think GCC are fully aware of the issues, especially re roofing and electrics. If that’s what your referring to?
31003 n SANDMAN.
over the top ,hysterical. you both sound like non believers.keep saying CHRIST and OMG. and he will answer you.
MOVING TOWARDS
INDEPENDENCE
Even media-outlets loyal to the British Union are now acknowledging that the direction of travel in the independence debate is from ‘No’ to ‘YES’.
Last weekend Scotland on Sunday carried a new poll showing the gap between opposing sides in the debate has narrowed to such an extent that a further swing of just 3% will secure victory for the ‘YES’ side, meaning Scotland would once again become a normal, independent nation, fully in control of its own future. It’s worth pointing out that Scotland on Sunday is not just a British Unionist newspaper, it is a Tory-supporting British Unionist newspaper.
The so-called mainstream media – print and broadcast – is finally having to admit what those active in the referendum campaign have known for a long time – the positive case for independence is winning. Of course, that fact won’t stop the same media from carrying the ‘No’ side’s scare-stories and from acting as propaganda outlets for the campaign that seeks to keep Scotland controlled from London by a government we rejected at the ballot box.
It is truly remarkable, and shows the strength of the pro-independence message, that more and more people are embracing the cause of an independent Scotland, despite the fact newspapers and broadcasters are almost universally hostile. In Scotland, only the Sunday Herald is open to the independence argument. All other mainstream newspapers are unswervingly loyal to the British Union, a position not hard to understand when we reflect on the fact they are all owned and operated by companies based in London and take their editorial line from headquarters in the English capital.
It is despite the best efforts of a British Unionist media that support for independence continues to grow.
Part of the reason the ‘Project Fear’ message of the Unionist campaign is failing, is because more and more Scots reject the idea that alone amongst all the peoples of the world, it is only us who are ‘too wee, too poor and too stupid’ to successfully run our own country. Scare-stories telling us it would be ‘disastrous’ if we re-take the powers of independence are actually attacks on the intelligence and capabilities of ordinary Scots. The Unionist position is that Scots are so inadequate and hopeless that if we had the powers taken for granted by every other nation on the face of the planet, we would turn that ‘normality’ into a ‘disaster’.
Another reason for the continuing rise in support for independence is that, in the 21st Century, increasing numbers of people get their news and coverage of current affairs from the internet, rather than hard-copy newspapers or mainstream broadcast outlets. London-based newspapers and television stations can completely control what their readers and viewers see, but they have no such control over the web. Pro-independence websites, such as ‘Wings over Scotland’ and ‘Newsnet Scotland’, have built huge readerships and daily articulate the positive case for independence. In addition, pro-independence sites on the internet also dissect and disprove British Unionist propaganda, carried elswhere by mainstream newspapers and broadcasters as if it were fact.
There is also evidence of a particular shift towards independence from what are described as ‘traditional’ Labour Party supporters. These are people whose vision of Labour is the party that formed the National Health Service and championed the interests of the working class, rather than the Labour Party of today, which is currently attempting to out-Tory the Tories by continuing to be ‘intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich’ while getting tough on the unemployed and those workers struggling to survive on poverty wages.
Alongside people who have voted Labour in the past, former elected representatives of the party are also endorsing independence. Alex Mosson, Labour Lord Provost of Glasgow; Sir Charles Gray, Labour leader of Strathclyde Regional Council; John Mulvey, Labour leader of Lothian Regional Council: all have spoken publicly of how they will vote ‘YES’ in the referendum, and of how independence will allow the creation of a real Scottish Labour Party that can shake-off the right-wing, middle-England agenda of the British Unionist Labour Party and can restore the core-beliefs of the movement. ‘Labour for Independence’ is a growing part of the broad ‘YES’ campaign.
We can expect to hear more supporters of the Labour Party speak-out for an independent Scotland over the months leading to the referendum on September 18, including some who previously held very senior positions.
Also making a very interesting contribution to the debate is Jim Sillars, the former Ayrshire Labour MP who went on to join the SNP and won the Govan constituency for the party in a sensational by-election victory.
Jim Sillars is acknowledged and accepted as one of the wisest-heads in Scottish politics and is respected by people in all parties. Now aged 76, Jim has emerged from retirement to make the case that Labour supporters should back independence and rebuild their party in an independent Scotland. The Sillars’ position is that the British Labour Party will never return to its founding, working class principles, so the only way for Scots to have the Labour Party they want is to vote for independence, free the movement from London-control and establish a new organisation in an independent Scotland.
Just last week a local Labour Party activist went out of his way to stop me. He told me he was voting ‘YES’. He said he’d come to the decision because he felt it was the only option that would benefit his grand-children. He didn’t want them to have their future blighted by Tory Governments. He also said it had helped him reach his decision when he realised a ‘YES’ vote was for Scotland and not for Alex Salmond or the SNP.
Independence is simply being a normal country, and the people of Scotland deserve nothing less.
31003
Where aboot’s in Caucasia you fae?
Big cup winners,
I know. It’s our biggest domestic game so far imo.
About a third of our bus ain’t going.
Mindye, most missing won’t pay for a game bar semis and finals. Tight gits ;)
Question:
Is there any reason(s) Leigh Griffiths cant play vs Aberdeen,such as registration timing or Cup Tied?.
I cannot see any problem but not 100%
Here’s a thought…..I think any one of our first team regulars would grace this Man City v Chelski fiasco…..(maybe no Derk….)
Favourite uncle…..never…never…ever judge me on one comment on a cheesy blog…..
excathedra44
19:59 on 3 February, 2014
Question:
Is there any reason(s) Leigh Griffiths cant play vs Aberdeen,such as registration timing or Cup Tied?.
I cannot see any problem but not 100%
I’m sure the b@@@@@@ son of Farry, Bryson is on the case.
31003
cqn = cheddar quick news?
City V Chelsea. Two teams whose fans all inhabit the same post code masquerading as global clubs.
Hope its a keechy 0-0 with no shots on target.
Just wish they could BOTH lose!
Got to love the Man City fans .
They will never frighten teams with their rendition of Blue Moon.
VP
….keep trying to think of a witty answer…..but anything I come up with sounds racist….so no comment…
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
19:42 on
3 February, 2014
Geordie Munro
Yeah that’d be right about the sheep getting more tickets. But it’s our support who ain’t turning up. Saturday is our biggest game but at least 10,000 can’t be bothered going to the game.
Despite its importance, nothing unusual bout apathy over Aberdeen match. What does anyone expect with a 12-45 KO to accommodate. TV Apart from when THEY provided the opposition when was the last tie there was a capacity crowd at CP for a domestic cup tie?
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
19:42 on
3 February, 2014
Geordie Munro
Yeah that’d be right about the sheep getting more tickets. But it’s our support who ain’t turning up. Saturday is our biggest game but at least 10,000 can’t be bothered going to the game.
Despite its importance, nothing unusual bout apathy over Aberdeen match. What does anyone expect with a 12-45 KO to accommodate. TV Apart from when THEY provided the opposition when was the last time there was a capacity crowd at CP for a domestic cup tie?
Tallybhoy
19:55 on 3 February, 2014
LOL
Nae bother !
If only that were true anywhere !!! :-)
HH
gene’s a bhoy’s name
Any….I mean any…blue cheese for me….none o that cheddar rubij
http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2014/feb/03/buckfast-triangle-alcoholic-drink-monks-west-scotland
guardian blog on the buckie triangle , not nice reading
Excath,
I asked same earlier but couldn’t get definitive answer.
I maybe shoulda worked independence, sevco or Peter lawwell into it. ;)
Red Leicester is very…very nice mind you…..
It’s against Celtic’s principle to pay the interest, it’s against Sevco’s interest to pay the principle.
Benjamin Franklin. ( well, it was a quote something like that)
………………….Nevermind we’ll get the tribute act in the next round and all the stayaways can pack the place for the fixture they love and miss
David Silva’s maternal grandfather is Korean!
HH!!
I see Private Eye had a wee nibble at Celtic in its latest edition.
HH
Geordie Munro
20:05 on
3 February, 2014
Excath,
I asked same earlier but couldn’t get definitive answer.
I maybe shoulda worked independence, sevco or Peter lawwell into it. ;)
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I’m just a bit worried we are going to be stung by the SFA et al and its quiet our end because of potential ticket sales.
quonno
By my estimate we will have perhaps 25,000 Celtic supporters at the game. It’s am exciting tie and will be a passionate cup-tie. Just don’t get why Celtic supporters are failing to support the team.
31006
Doon at the Viccy A&E wae the bold Paolo
Think he’s broken his foot….
Like Father like son…..
Was it really 2 years ago? Stookie & Crutches when Ranjurz die
Can anyone give a definitive answer to this…..
I’m sure that if a teams strip clashes with the refs strip…..ie ….black….then the ref should change to yellow….red….or whatever….yet….when Celtic had a black away strip…..a particular ref refused point blank to change his top at a particular game…causing the Blessed Martin. (Sorry fav unc) to comment after a particular game…can anyone remember which game and particularly which ref refused to change…,causing plenty of confusion?
Excath,
There’s something about signing Two weeks before the tie rattling about in my heid.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
19:42 on
3 February, 2014
Geordie Munro
Yeah that’d be right about the sheep getting more tickets. But it’s our support who ain’t turning up. Saturday is our biggest game but at least 10,000 can’t be bothered going to the game.
Given the stellar quality of the last three sides to knock us out of domestic cups, the above smacks of Tribute Act arrogance.
Let’s beat Aberdeen and then talk about future opposition.
Smashy….did he break it bootin yoo doon the road fae the club again?