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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GL2
Happy birthday mate
Glasgow Celtic way
I live in clang .. Heard that last week about the Charlie gig .. In a town where they appear to have an orange walk every weekend from around now to September it’s not really a surprise
Must run…
Good Morning Timland.
GL2,TBJ…….yesterday at work I heard a heard a horrible wee
dob saying he was marching down your way today.
heard it twice ffs.
Chris ‘Hun Skelper’ Sutton back to doing what comes natural ‘Skelping Huns’. In this instance skelping a person of Orange Hue and outlook – Jimmy Calderwood.
Big nan / Latchford
Scottish football gets what it deserves from Ogilvie
I vowed not to renew both my STs if he was re elected without CFC objecting …..I have missed many great games at CP
Away from the great Scottish Football Scandal for a minute….
My Grandson, 11, has a school project I’m allowed to help him with. The subject is ‘what was school like in the 1960’s’.
Just gave him the first three things that came to mind, one of which was discussed last night.
… Poor kids with holes in their shoes (and not just the odd one)
… Every boy playing football playtime and lunchtime. Lassies playing ropes or beds.
… School dinner tickets. 4/9, 3/6, 2/6, 1/3 and free. (I think).
I was going to mention a bad memory, like getting two of the belt for dogging Mass the day before, or being in a line up of ten frightened kids awaiting the belt for not doing homework. Left that out.
Having said that, they were happy days, made special by memories like celebrating your team being crowned European Champions the day before.
HH.
theglasgowcelticway
08:06 on 25 April, 2015
Cambuslang is a orange hole always has been, best thing I ever done was leave the place
Well done Sutton.The only guy who didn’t fall into line with all in the media and their “it happens to all sides” nonsense. Last weeks incident had two explanation. One: cheating was involved.Two:incompetence of such magnitude that the three officials in that area shouldn’t be allowed to referee such a high level match ever again.
Huns dreaming up fantasy football dream teams again going by there wanted lists, they just don’t get why the old club died, live beyond your means and you won’t live long- simples HH
marrakesh express
It would probably be best if your grandson never asks me about that subject, that’s all I’m saying :))
Marrakesh Express,
I left St Michael’s Primary in 1962.
My memories match yours in most ways.
Miss Brogan (my teacher in 6 & 7) is a legend to generations of Parkhead children. Tiny and hard as nails. She taught us things like spelling, reading and writing, mental arithmetic that helped me (and many many others) pass my “O” grades. Getting the strap was a daily hazard. But I still think she is the best teacher I ever had.
Actually, I think it would be true to say that all of Miss Brogan’s children would rather have had Mrs McMillan, who played the piano for Glen Daly. She had the reputation for being much gentler. Whether she had the lasting effect Miss Brogan has had is another story.
See thae kafflik scules an’ at………………..Cannae beat them.
So mccall says his club wouldn’t have complained since it was an obvious hib error ……hahahahahahaha ….bless them all …. his club would have asked for names ……… …Hahahahahahaha
marrakesh express
09:03 on 25 April, 2015
Away from the great Scottish Football Scandal for a minute….
My Grandson, 11, has a school project I’m allowed to help him with. The subject is ‘what was school like in the 1960′s’.
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School Milk, which always had ice in it during the winter months, eventually stolen by that witch Thatcher.
Coloured plasticine which always turned brown when you mixed the colours together, I still remember the smell.
Being marched down to the Chapel every First Friday.
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
I know last weeks incident is getting boring but can someone answer me one question? How can the player be let off because one or more of the officials saw the incident but thought it hit his head, yet ,the compliance officer can only initiate proceedings against him after he’s confirmed from the officials that none of them saw the ii?
TD67
Maybe you can spill the beans to your Sunday club. They’ll understand. ;0)
Marrakesh, as an aside, Miss Dower in my primary one who kept her belt in one of those big chocolate boxes you used to get with a photo on the front and a ribbon across it. Imagine giving the belt to a primary one child these days? You’d end up in the jail!
Marrakesh:
Every single kid walked to school
School never ever closed because of snow
Three different games of football i.e. Six teams could play a game on the same pitch.
Morning all.
Seems Regan is the latest in the line of fire. Anything to protect Ogilvie and all he stands for.I hope they get their wish and when he goes he tells his side of the story. Of course, they’ll probably pay him off with a confidentiality clause stopping him doing just that.
We gotta get out this place…………………
theglasgowcelticway
It’s all lies, there has been a different story every day this week, no two the same, it’s a fekin stitch up plain and simple, Fleming said none of the officials saw it, then it all started getting sillier, not heard from Fleming since,.
So they just wheel out Jimmy Calderwood, predictable.
I wonder what ex Huns will be wheeled out today?
To tell everyone how bad a club Celtic are?
Sutton will get his jotters at the DR soon for telling the truth, and BT Sport possibly, given Collymore’s treatment over the gang.
marrakesh express
Some of there stories prob. Worse than mine, lol.
Stuart Dougal still on holiday?
Bada,
Nah, he’s out washing his car, as he does every Saturday morning.
Phyllis
I swear my school pitch must have had 5 games going on at one time, that’s ten goalies, 5 balls and over 100 kids.
That was an hour after the Lisbon game.
I’ve never felt so inspired to do anything in my life, like play football that night.
Me and thousands more.
That’s two days in a row no articles from Michael Gannon in the DR, .
I wonder what happened to him, good writer I thought?
Mccall putting his 2 Bobs worth in, don’t worry mccall the huns will never have a decition like that against them so no need for a letter ya clown
TONYDONNELLY
Re-education camp,I reckon…
If the situation had been reversed and it was ICT who were the beneficiaries of this injustice would the rage, anguish and rabid frothing fury in the media be a) beginning to ever so slightly sort-of subside, b) continue to plateau or c) maintain an ever upwards trajectory and continue to be revisited and replayed interminably until the end of the world as we know it?
Some of the balls we played with at school ffs, yon light plastic ones that on a windy day if it went up in the air it would land in Dundee, burst bawls never stopped a game either, and burst Mold masters mended with some clever guys auld man, who would melt an old wellie on to the hole wi a poker, and that was it get in there, the play ground was great but that bell? I hated it .
Greenlion2
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY Birthday.
Canalamar
Thank you and others for all your efforts ,
lubo of the lamp
Well said that man.
tonydonnelly67
The Bell the bell the B.E L
Tell the teacher I’m no well :)))))
leftclicktic
09:46 on 25 April, 2015
tonydonnelly67
The Bell the bell the B.E L
Tell the teacher I’m no well :)))))
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The bell, the bell, tell the weans I’m no well!! :-)
At least you lot are away from it, my working life is still dictated by the bloody thing!
Hope yer wee mammy is recovering well mate.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
I can honestly say with out fear of contradiction, I learned nothing at school, no one was interested,ergo neither was I, I learned more the day I walked out that door at the age off 14, and wow what a place this world is, my ignorance then was my was my hunger to learn.
Marrakesh Express,
We all sat in rows; all of us in the school uniform, which was demanded by the Heidie, Mr Dawson.
Now don’t take this as an attack on all teachers, all I’m saying is mine where crap and only where interested in the clever kids in the class, slow guys they had no interest, I’ve said this before, and and stand by it, but I’m not pigeonholing anyone present day.