A journalist, banned by Celtic, attacked the club in the Daily Record today, suggesting the SFA chief exec Stuart Regan should have told Peter Lawwell to ‘wind his neck in’ and ‘remind him of his duty to the game’ after he wrote asking for clarification after Sunday’s game.
The hyperbole was raised to the extent the notion “Lawwell dragged our game back into a very dark place – somewhere dangerously close to disrepute” was put into hundreds of thousands of hands today.
A dark place, close to disrepute? For writing a letter asking for clarification? Sounds to me like the know the trouble Peter Lawwell is causing to the vested interests at Hampden and they want him stopped.
By remarkable coincidence, this happens to be the same journo who wrote the puff piece for SFA president, Campbell ‘What school did you go to?’ Ogilvie for writing to Uefa demanding a referee was demoted (while circumventing due process) and asking for a player to be banned.
No mention of winding a neck in or duty to the game for a vastly farther reaching letter.
The same paper gives a platform to Barry ‘EBT’ Ferguson to level wholly inaccurate accusations against Celtic:
“By questioning the reasoning behind [the failure to award a penalty]in the name of their supporters, they were nodding towards all manner of hoary old conspiracy theories.”
Conspiracy you say, Barry? Who mentioned conspiracy? An explanation that the standard of refereeing is not good enough and that having 6 officials at Hampden hindered good decision making didn’t occur to you?
Some people are quick to deny conspiracies when a far less controversial response is available.
A concerted campaign has run for days now to ensure that Celtic cannot ask questions without being demonised. When the media demonise those who question authority we are in a very dark place indeed.
This is intolerable. It would not happen in England, where the breadth of media is wide enough to escape narrow seams of authority. It doesn’t matter if it is the government, the Church, the police, big business or sport, if media collaborate with power, you have problems.
Some of it comes from people perhaps bitter that Celtic called them out and banned them, some from those unable to find perspective or consistency between writing about a Campbell Ogilvie letter and a Peter Lawwell letter. All of them are time-served opinion formers who make money from Celtic’s actions.
We are the last superpower in the game, survivors in the battle of the ages. This antagonism isn’t going away. Not until their grandchildren are in place, anyway.
Clubs need to write letters when improvement is needed. I hear estimates that income to Celtic from winning the Scottish Cup would have been in the region of £1m. Football is big business and processes and resources need to as good as they possibly can be. If they are not, the very least you can do is ask for improvement.
On Meekings appeal yesterday….
The player’s appeal was right to be upheld, the case should never have been put before the SFA panel in the first place. The referee Steven McLean saw the incident. That was not disputed. He asked his assistant for his opinion. That was not disputed either.
Meekings representatives pointed out at the hearing that officials are not allowed to re-referee a game after watching TV. This is a central tenant of the game and was accepted by the judicial panel.
Retrospective action is only allowed for incidents which referees did not see. It is not permitted for referees to reconsider an incident he saw. It is blindingly embarrassing to our game that the SFA didn’t know the rules well enough before taking this action. I hear there was incredulity at Celtic when they heard Meekings was banned in the first place.
…… and you wonder why Celtic write letters.
Last call for the Ben Nevis Huddle……..
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The Zapruder tape proves McLean was not acting alone. The real assassin was behind the grassy knoll.
Anyone Who declares as a Celtic man and lives in Dennistoun is in my opinion questionable….Where do you live BGX…eh..Dennistoun….But i dont know lawrie…Honest…
jamesgang…
I know you too well:)
I mind free dinner tickets when I was at school, my ma was too proud and paid for it, thinking back, the stigma attached to it was what must have went through my ma’s head.
It’s sad that forty years on we have food banks, it will only get worse if the tories get in again.
That’s my politics finished:((
Listening to Radio Clyde and then moaning how bad it is?!?
Dearie me.
LB
Take a look at @officialkappa99′s Tweet:https://twitter.com/officialkappa99/status/589916595847303169?s=08What is Muir saying?
let’s look at the evidence..
#loydgrossmancsc
sipsini-i got money for a dinner ticket,and used part of it to buy a ‘free ‘one……..the leftover money was used for midweek games at CP
Livi Bhoy
Thanks for reply.
You are correct about the Hibs not being friendly towards us,as has been posted on here on a number of occasions.HH.
Burghbhoy,
I think most of us are realising it has been us for way too long. We need to keep at them. No more cheating.
Personally, I think too many in Scotland couldn’t care less, provided it is us on the receiving end. Let’s hatch a plan to find ourselves another league where we can enjoy the ole level playing field.
Bada, I never liked the SFA but tolerated them.
The final straw for me was that buffoon, Gordon Duffield Smith, getting the CEO job at Hampden. Was his only qualification being a former sticky player who could speak ‘proper like’.
He had neither the business qualifications nor experience to be the CEO of a bowling club like organisation like the SFA.
His lack of business expertise did not help our game attract investment and improve our infrastructure.
Him and Peat were a totally inept pair of jokers. Them trying to change the date of the 2008 cup final to suit one of the teams playing and not inform the other about moving the game, summed up what they were about.
Smith saying he chucked his Hampden job to spend more time with his elderly parents then was never off the telly and radio. Hmm.
This sunday we need a quick goal or two and see how United react. Get the team set up sorted and get the job done. Hopefully this run of dry weather has improved the Tannadice pitch.
Sipsini…When i went to the Dinny..we paid..it was 3 and 6…about 17/5 pence or 4 and 9…about 30p…Good auld days…Aye Right….Friggin hated The Dinny…
marspapa…
I’m a ganja freeman, or in other words I whitey…so nooo for me.
Give me a bell, young sips asking if the shadow is going :))
burghbhoy
20:26 on 24 April, 2015
Unfortunately, there are no tapes; no transcripts.
There are tapas. Make mine patatas bravas con dos o tres cervezas, por favor.
On Monday Night
channel 4 have a program on the telly about SortsDirect
no doubt it will be controversial with all sorts of dodgy dealings within the organisation .
wish some one like channel 4 would look into the dodgy/corrupt dealings within Scottish football,and the corrupt SFA
that must be a story to be had( go on Alex)
HH
and the
Zico
In most cases they are rivals and I have drank with them after games many times. They just want their own team to win. Nothing wrong with that.
LB
Parkheadcumsalford…..Wheres this Other League you so Desire….We Are A Scottish Club…Champions of Our Country…Where Else Will We Play…….
praecepta
You’ll be the only talent there gorgeous!
Sips
We almost qualified for free school meals despite being in the ‘posh’ end of town. It would have social suicide at a school where we were already looked down on cos we’d never been abroad!
Livibhoy
Bet you’re over there in the eastern bloc with Embramike, prestonpansbhoy and Tam M trying to get a wee scratchy reception on MW261. You’ll get Jimmy Sanderson from 1985 coming through in a couple of years!
BroadswordCallingDannyBhoyCSC
HH jamesgang
Advice for the MIBS.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=george%20costanza%20on%20lying&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QyCkwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dvn_PSJsl0LQ&ei=7Js6VfqnFpTwaMT4gKAB&usg=AFQjCNF384DbMseJ-fUL-z8TLs5gtACsJA&bvm=bv.91665533,d.d2s
Bgx..
My claim to fame was… I was the first to pay the dinny money in pence rather than pennies.
Film to watch and a munchie box to share…who said we don’t eat healthily in Glasgow:))
Sipsini
Naw!! Naw and thrice Naw, a need a break, and so does my bank balance as you will obviously empathise with ;-)
Dallas.
We have discussed Draper incident in work all week. I highlighted here on Sunday. No doubt if it was Nir and Broonie that done that it would be front page news.
Incidentally the Caley fan who I go to tea with can’t believe Draper is getting away with it.
A lot of people in my work following the rugby too. Most started following it about 3 years ago.
livibhoy
20:44 on 24 April, 2015
Zico
In most cases they are rivals and I have drank with them after games many times. They just want their own team to win. Nothing wrong with that.
LB
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You make me sick Livibhoy!
What next? Why not just marry one and have a wean together!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
You are spot on. Almost. Last time I listened to Clyde Sanderson was on it.
Liked Talksport for a while but I mostly listen to radio Scotland these days for sports stuff. I don’t mind most of the panel. Chick is a clown tho.
LB
sipsini
20:49 on 24 April, 2015
Bgx..
My claim to fame was… I was the first to pay the dinny money in pence rather than pennies.
Film to watch and a munchie box to share…who said we don’t eat healthily in Glasgow:))
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Bet you’ll eat the film and then complain there’s nothing good on the box!
HH jamesgang
Sipdini….Ma Da was a Bookie in Possil….i was a 4and9 snob…Fkin hell…i still got Stew wi Fat every where, and Hot Custard….I refuse to eat Stew or Custard….things you never ever forget…laughing…
LB
You’re such a young lookin thing that I thought you’d have to google old jimmy Sanderson!
Imagine if he’d been on CQN!
Though I occasionally feel that he kinda is with some posters!
HH jamesgang
Sipsini…Sorry…for wrong Spelling..Phone…
Hamilton with a smash and grab …2-0
2/0 for Hamilton …
braw
Until a lip reader is sourced to find out what brother Muir is saying,
that to me is the starting point, then we might get somewhere.
We need proof no speculation i feel
mibees no, who knows apart from them at the sfa
Parkheadcumsalford, thanks for your reply.
Draper caught Nir within the first ten minutes and to me, it was to try and make him less influential in the game, without stating the obvious.
Jamesgang, I found the length of time it took McLean to ‘book’ Ross, strange. My paranoia might be about to go into overdrive if an explanation was made to McLean about the situation if Draper was booked for going in late on Broonie. That is another thing that needs explained.
The continual screwing us over by the Sfa and the media will not stop and to those who post on here we have revel in a victim mentality, we are victims of a system which takes every oppurtunity to have a go at us.
Jamesgang
Hahahahaha.
Aye ok big man.
LB
Rather than spend money to move to another league, why don’t we spend money on quality to win everything in SCOTLAND, thereby shafting the people who try to do us down at every turn, and give us a better chance in Europe….. Nah!! our board are happy enough as it is
Can you hear the” Rangers”sing Oh.. oh.. Soon enough methinks :(
Motherwell in serious danger of going down. Should be at least drawing tonight but couldn’t hit a gable end with a basketball from 3 yards.
LB
Box
Semolina… Ahhhhhhhh
School dinners, I remember sitting with a group of my chums looking forward to our pudding, semolina and prunes. someone pipes up “Mmmmmmm don’t you just love baboons baws for dessert”. That was it for me, it was almost as hard to swallow as an SFA Cover Up.
Hail Hail.
dallas dallas where the heck is dallas
It was a very clubby conversation shall we say. A dialogue in pursuit of a mutually agreeable outcome.
With the kind of relaxed and pally facial expressions that are usually kept for private meetings rather than mass media sporting events.
HH jamesgang
Paisley Bhoy
If there ain’t no tapes then we need to employ a lip reader and Michael Mansfield QC to take the case on.
Under scrutiny that mob will crumble.
They ain’t clever enough not to.
Ps Tapas? Who does he play wi?
Could he do a job for us?
Caramel cake and custard……..
#extras