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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Turkeybhoy I have asked the direct question and await a direct response. I want celtic to do the right thing. Always.
If they do not then somehow you appear to want to blame me for that.
Bizarre thinking abounds.
Leftclicktic @ 1125
HH mate!
I also left ML4 for High School in Motherwell – but in ’65. (it wisnae called ML4 at that time!)
I am guessing you went to OLHS?
TC45
TBB
The fact that the media haven’t seriously been reporting the continuous changing of the rules and changing of stories shows they are more than willing to be complicit in all that’s been going
Canamalar
I firmly believe that Canamalar:))
on.
The most obvious reason why Sevco (not Rangers) would never have written to the SFA as Celtic did etc… is because had it been as Sevco striker who headed the ball towards goal, Sevco would have been awarded a penalty and Inverness would be down to 10 men.
And therein lies the crux of the problem with Scottish football.
Fair play to big Sutton
I would imagine they ask him leading questions then email him the story to confirm. He never gave an inch.
I know for a fact that Calder wood instructed his players to play in a 2 3 5 formation when 3 1 down. I wouldny be s uprised if masterton/Murray paid for (at least) the pars end of season jolly.
Another forgotten thing about that day was Gordon Marshalls (Killie goalie)answer when asked about time wasting when Celtic were winning- why should I hurry up so Celtic can win the league
Anyway it was a day that hardened us as Celtic fans.
The Watford centre looks like a good player.
HH
LennyBhoy, I hadn’t received my pack either, hence my haste after the post from VP.
Can’t see any thing online for the instalments option.
TBB, on the button.
Joe’s letter straight from the heart but no surprise in the reply, to get to them we have to be cute so as not to be dismissed. Well done though Joe it’s exactly how I feel.
HH
Thankfully there was no fishmongers strike at the same time as the bakers one.
…nae loaves…or fishes!
Coat on.
HH!!
Thecelt45
Yes OLHS it was :)))
Right of to deepest darkest Wishaw to see my Mam:))))))))
“It doesn’t matter as long as the correct decision was reached in the end”
Hugh Dallas
dougie dougie gate
The thrust of Joe’s letter is not the catalogue of examples of mibbery, but the call to action to deprive the SFA of our cash.
I have been advocating such action for months, as my faithful reader will testify and long before the camel back breaking shenanigans of the past week.
It will take the concerted efforts of all the fans’ representative bodies, including supporters’ clubs to pull it off.
Well done. Soton.
Ref refused FK and breaking ball ended up in the bet.
1-0
Excuse me ghents but the continuous rearranging of the rules is for the benefit of Scottish football.
covoniacsc
the battered bunnet…
In other words…hunism :)
thomthethim for oscar ok
13:15 on 25 April, 2015
Spot on ….I’ve been advocating boycotts and media bans for years ……it’s the ONLY way they’ll all ‘sit up and pay attention’ ……. If we don’t do it, they will continue their utter hate campaign unabated ……it’s as simple as that ……your call, Celtic Supporters….!!!!
I had a mate who was lifted in a baker’s shop for Breach of The Peace .
Much a dough about muffin.
We didnae see it.
I mean we all saw it but it hit his heid-right lads?
Sounds fair enough to me ;-))
Celtic played a bakers dozen last Sunday.
I’m not alone, and some fans reckon they did – but chose not to give the penalty and the red card which would have followed. That takes us out of the realms of a mistake and into much more dangerous territory.
For as long as I can remember, people have been convinced Celtic are discriminated against. I know that, as a player and subsequently the manager, there were plenty of decisions went against us which gave credibility to that theory.
Who said this?
H!H!
BSR-There was actually 2 penalties in the Dougie Dougie incident, and he made Stokes step aside from the resulting drop ball.
TBB…
Meant to say good post mate.
doc
Just checked website myself mate.
So us poor people that can’t pay up front lose out on the chance to enter the competition to have our season ticket paid for nothing. Not very fair in my opinion.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Greenlion2
Happy Birthday big fella…. Have a great day……..
LB-the SB renewal info VP posted, looks like a competition to win the price of your ST back, if you renew before Sunday, I’ve not had any correspondence re renewal so far, either by email or post mate.HH
praecepta
Davie Hay?
HH
Buy a SB….and go to the back of the bus.
Don’t buy a SB….and, bring the ‘look the other way’ Celtic board to their knee’s.
praecepta-Davie Hay?
Some great posts about school days.
We had an Art teacher who gave you belt for being crap at art!!
A bowl of fruit was on display and if your efforts to draw it were poor, you got ‘two of the belt’!
After 2nd year you got the choice of choosing Art or Latin.. I chose Latin
Pax Vobiscum!
Correct!
Jock Stein fought against any and every injustice he felt was served on the club. I like to think I stood up against anything I thought was wrong, too.
Infamously, I came away from the 1986 Old Firm League Cup final convinced we had been treated fairly by referee Davie Syme – who gave Rangers a very dubious penalty, and sent off Tony Shepherd when he thought he had hit him on the back, only to bring him back on when it was pointed out it was a coin thrown from the crowd – and said we should just pack up and head to England.
Ever since, Celtic have been trying to do just that – so maybe I was ahead of my time.
Davie approached me many years later and admitted he had made a mistake with the penalty award.
H!H!
thomthethim
I’d back your Celtic boycott especially if it was at Hamdump, or an away game, but you’ll never stop the Celtic uber supporter, from going to see Celtic, because it’s the Celtic way, yada, yada ,yada and they are more uber than you.
You’ll then have to contend with the other Celtic uber supporters who weren’t even going to the game anyway, before a potential boycott was suggested. They’ll urge everybody to go and see Celtic, because they’re well more uber than boycotters.
There are a gazillion Celtic Internet sabre rattlers, but continuously decreasing season ticket holders.
a faithful reader
SoT
We covered a lot of ground – our route by train was Catania, Etna tour, Taormina, Cefalu, Palermo and Agrigento.
The highlight was staying in a zero horse town in the interior, Racalmuto, where we were nearly treated as celebrities such was the absence of tourists there.
This was only 1 of 2 places that really felt Sicilian as opposed to generic Italian but the island does get a lot of tourists.
The other was a village on the slopes of Etna where the houses put wood outsider in honour of the local saint’s day coming up.
Should have been a NOT in that 2nd paragraph.
Wonder if Davie Hay proof-read it?
praecepta
13:30 on 25 April, 2015
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I thought that Celtic lost ‘that’ final coz, Murdo was taken out of the midfield and had to play at left-back after Tommy Burns was injured in the midweek game v’s Dynamo Kiev.
Murdo at left-back and, Peter Grant at right-back coz, the then ‘bored’ didny allow Davie Hay to buy Stevie Clarke from St. Mirren…imho.
HH
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If Only He was as Guid as Sammi..
The Swedish Anton Rogan..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PAb9q4D2P0s
Summa of FeijnoordDanceDeKuipStaadCSC
Bsr
Very well put. I’ve made my own decision to stop going apart from the odd away trip with the troops. I don’t know if I’d tell anybody else to stop going. Although I think the best way to change things is to stop giving money to a board which only thinks about the bottom line, it’s upto the individual to make their own choice.
TBB
Well constructed mate
Perfectly straight forward and fairly easy to understand
One can only wonder why they continue to fail to apply their own regs so poorly