The reason a transfer ban was imposed on Rangers is straightforward enough, they bought players and cannot pay for them. Clubs from Vienna to Edinburgh are owed money and have little prospect of being paid ahead of the coming transfer window, a fact which will have an enormous impact on their own competitive challenge next season.
The SFA cannot allow member clubs to continue to splash cash on players while clubs from other associations go without payment. It has a duty to inhibit clubs in violation of the rules from further strengthening while others have been weakened as a consequence.
This notion is tolerated in Scotland (only by those with a vested interest in Rangers flourishing) but is simply untenable. The appeal will be rejected.
It beggars belief that Duff and Phelps complain that Rangers competitive challenge will be inhibited as a result of not being able to sign yet more players, the administrators are the architects of the situation the club finds itself in.
Duff and Phelps devised a plan which would see Rangers retain their squad, or at the very least, be in a position to trade players in the summer. The plan was sold as a great victory, a panacea which would ensure the club would continue to field a competitive team throughout the administration process, something unheard of at other clubs in the same situation.
At significant cost to creditors, they kept players on full pay for several weeks before agreeing to retain the entire squad on reduced salaries. Throughout this period they played teams they owe money to, including Hearts, who they defeated last week while using a player bought from Hearts with an outstanding £800k bill.
For signing players and gaining a competitive advantage, without paying for them, inhibiting competitors’ teambuilding efforts, the only appropriate punishment is a transfer ban.
No disrespect to junior, amateur and lower league teams, but…
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow.
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow…
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Sure,Celtic have some Irish roots….
But as a Scottish team playing in Scotland for the past 125 years,perhaps we should place more emphasis on our Scottish Identity…
Perhaps the Club Badge could be revised,to incorporate the Thistle..as a nod to our Scottish Heritage..?
How about the Thistle Motif central,with a ‘Garland’ of Shamrocks surrounding….still retaining only original Green for the crest….?
Perhaps Celtic FC could launch a competition to see who could come up with the best new design ?
Freshen things up for The Generation of Domination….
BMCW…..
That post sums up how I feel about the ‘myth’ exactly.
This disgrace of a man is more to blame than our hero CW yet the MSM have their heads so far up his bigoted backside to see it.
The myth knew he was spending transfer fee’s they wouldn’t pay.
He knew all about the ebt’s, maybe even had one himself.
He’s been on my party list for years and just been joined by sally.
Thatcher.
Gazza.
Myth.
Sally.
Im happy to wait.
Does anyone have any info on CAS 2011/A/2551 Fenerbahce SK v. UEFA & Turkish Football Federation.
I believe it centres around fenerbahce being denied entry into champs league due to match fixing. The case is listed for 18th June.
An expansive decision detailing responsibilities of fa’s and uefa in this case ans so in turn other cases of cheating would prove very useful to us.
Does anyone have any info on how cas reports? When we can expect the result etc…
Any info would be very gratefully received.
Hail hail.
BBC
Two men who sent suspect packages to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two high-profile fans of the club have each been jailed for five years.
Trevor Muirhead, 44, and Neil McKenzie, 42, from North Ayrshire, sent devices they believed were capable of exploding and causing injury.
The men were found guilty of conspiracy to assault Mr Lennon, former MSP Trish Godman and the late Paul McBride QC.
Sentence on both men was backdated to May 2011.
That last post from RTC by the way. Just c&p’d it.
mark dingwall to shed 10 stones over the coming weeks
a spokesperson for mark said that he is not going on a diet
but all of the fast food outlets round about him are on the boycott list
If Rangers appeal is successful it would appear that the mob rule.
Intimidation and protests are the way forward.
The SFA need to tread very carefully here. If the transfer embargo is lifted then the fans will think there protest has been a success and they will be out protesting against everything.
Can the sanctions be increased on appeal?
Where will the fans march to if they lose the SPL decisions on Monday?
I have a feeling that Sunday could resemble the last visit of England fans at Landsdowne Road. I hope I’m wrong.
LB
off topic.
anyone got any insight into the standing area study.
I take it the fact SB renewals are out allready that they aint going ahead with it ?
or anyone know any different.
Press release from Scottish Enterprise. Great story about three apprentice shoemakers from Govan who made a pair of shoes for Swalex and went down to hand them over.
If I gave you a million guesses you’d never work out what kind of shoes and what colour. Never, never, never.
Clarified later as follows;
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Okay, legal bods, please advise. The security being discharged is an Assignation in Security for all monies due to Bank of Scotland in terms of a bridging agreement for £1,333,333 and is over a Letter of Credit from Bank of Scotland International Trade Services, all in October 2004. Looks like a kind of tidying up exercise, why would they have to expend time and effort to take this security off the record?
Wish they’d just keel over ffs.
A song for all those that have been targetted as a result of sitting on the SFA judiciary: Mogwai – Hunted By A Freak.
Celtic_First on 27 April, 2012 at 11:22 said:
Blue suede loafers?
It is surely now clear that Ticketus’ collateral for the money they handed to Craig Whyte was the deeds to the Big Hoose.
It is not in their interest for Rangers ( IA) to survive.
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5 year sentences for terrorism, no matter how ludicrous, are nowhere near enough. I hope they get passed around C-hall like a jazz mag.
Celtic_First on 27 April, 2012 at 11:22 said:
ruby red slippers ?
ding dong the huns are dead,
which old huns
the wicked huns
ding dong the wicked huns are dead
I wonder if Neil Lennon takes any satisfaction from those two neanderthals being sent down.
If the truth be known I was expecting them to walk.
Anyone know where Bill Miller is? Off growing something horrible in his incubator? Or has he driven off in his tow truck?
Pantaloon Duck
I like your style, but you’re freezing cold.
What colour of corporate taps do you think the three apprentices are wearing in the photo?
Traditionalist, away ‘n raffle yerself! .
It’s my opinion and I am perfectly entitled to hold it without your pathetic mock outrage.
The Irish national team doesn’t even play in a tricolour but for some reason you think it is a good idea that we walk around in one.
It’s tacky in my opinion.
You may think its honouring our forefathers but I think it’s tacky.
Having an H in my moniker is one thing
Singing Irish songs is another
Waving Irish and Scottish flags is another
Wrapping ours players in the national flag of another country is another
Dressing Izzy and Broonie as leprechauns before the old firm game on Sunday is another.
Where the line should be drawn between honouring our roots and being tacky is a personal opinion.
But if it makes you happier, I’ll try following another club where my personal opinion and preferences are accepted. An all inclusive club if you will…. Oh no wait, that’s us!!
Clown.
Hurrah!! for its the weeks end.
Much has happened, and much to get through…just another day when the dignified ” we arra people” glasgow “no surrender” rangers are the talk of the town…what a joke they really are.
What is it with them? They are ill with delusion.Still they feel aggrieved and hard done by here.They cling on to the notion that Scottish football is of a certain death if the rules are applied to them..and there is no shaking this arrogance…They will drown in theyre own self worth.Of that I have no doubt.
On Sunday, when they travel to Celtic park, they will be reminded of what they could never achieve, the very thing which obsessed Davie Murray.The european cup..His ambition to match Celtic and his willingness to break the rules in trying to achieve that at the expense of every team in Scotland has now left him and his club a laughable mess…
As we say here on CQN GIRFUY!!!!
ONE TEAM IN GLASGOW!
Saint Stivs
I like your style too, mhan, but you make the Pantaloon Duck look warm and cosy.
I believe that Fenerbahce have withdrawn their appeal against the decision by UEFA…
The Singing Detective
I would never change the Celtic badge. It’s timeless. It’s a simple design that reflects the club colours and has the most unique emblem in world football.
The four leaf clover is a beatiful emblem and I would never want it changed or tampered with. Rangers for all their supposed traditions change their badge at the drop of a hat. We don’t need to do that. Every icon in the world is a simple design. We have that at the moment and I don’t think it should be complicated any further. I appreciate your thoughts on the badge but we play in Scotland and adding a thistle to the badge won’t make anyone more sympathetic to our team. Hibernian sold out. They had a beautiful simple harp emblem. They have tampered with their badge many times and now have a badge that resembles a coat of arms.
Celtic is inclusive to all and has a badge that supports that. We have a history and tradition that should never be changed and that includes the badge. My old man doesn’t want anything on the Hoops. He would prefer a Lisbon Lions style jersey, no badge, no numbers on the back (numbers on shorts), no SPL badges, no sponsors, etc. Just the green and white Hoops of Celtic that are known the world over and are instantly recognised as Celtic.
No to thistles for me and I am 100% Scottish.
LB
Is it me or is the sentencing of these guys being diluted to a ridiculous degree: “these were not acts of terrorism” eh? i’d have thought sending bombs in the post would fall under “acts that cause terror”
“these are family men, I have no idea why they would do this”; because these ‘family men’ are raving bigots and racists, lets not mince words here.
And to think they have the nerve to appeal this case when they have been caught bang to rights. Disgusting.
It would be ironic if it was Super Swally’s comments inciting the mob which meant the appeal fails, the signing ban is upheld, Ticketus thereby pull out, and the final nail is driven into the coffin.
Hahahahahahahaha
The Singing Detective on 27 April, 2012 at 11:20 said:
Sure,Celtic have some Irish roots….
But as a Scottish team playing in Scotland for the past 125 years,perhaps we should place more emphasis on our Scottish Identity…
Perhaps the Club Badge could be revised,to incorporate the Thistle..as a nod to our Scottish Heritage..?
How about the Thistle Motif central,with a ‘Garland’ of Shamrocks surrounding….still retaining only original Green for the crest….?
Perhaps Celtic FC could launch a competition to see who could come up with the best new design ?
Freshen things up for The Generation of Domination….
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Aye ok, and who do you support?
Out of interest when will the compliance officer announce the result of the charge of sectarian singing at the Killie game.
Then again it has only been 10 weeks…
I prefer David Bowie’s Five Years.
Scottish justice is sadly predictable.
I can’t get the picture of the scarecrow, tin man and the cowardly lion joining them on their totally mental march on Saturday.
I think i’m cracking up.
brimmer
The Singing Detective
What happened to the 5 stars on YOUR team’s jersey?
Ticketus /
Ticketus have an agreement with Craig Whyte . The relevant agreement is governed by English Law .
Under English Law Ticketus has the right to a certain number of tickets over a specific period of time.
Scots Law takes a different view re ” Right ”- —– it tends to see ” Right ” as being more of a personal thing than a legal thing . [ ie- the Ticketus money carries the rights of a creditor but does not carry the right to the seats ]
The lawyers will make a killing . There will be much argument about which Law holds sway . The Law of the Land where the contract was signed or the Law of the Land where the business is situated..
Craig Whyte did most of the paperwork in England .
Just another part of the fantastic mess that is Rangers.-Enjoy !
If the badge was to change,it should be the Shamrock nothing else,as it was before.Irish to the core.Forget your past ,you have no future..
Paul 67
I have been working away & been busy recently and just playing a bit of catch up on the club that keeps on giving.
What i would like to know; regarding the presumed appeal by the Honeys……whta exactly is the point of appealing……….
Let’s say they were allowed to continue to sign players aged 18+…….in consideration of there previous form and financial status, which club in there right mind would have any dealings with them……..even the Juniors will be knocking them back…..
Right Ally here’s yur warchest………Polo Mints & Chocolate Coins
Paddy T
How police cracked Neil Lennon bomb plot
By James Cook Scotland Correspondent, BBC News
Five packages were sent in total, with four being intercepted before delivery
Exactly a year ago Strathclyde Police were in the middle of a major manhunt, trying to track down the men behind a parcel bomb plot which appeared to be threatening death or injury.
It was a time of heightened sectarian tension following a particularly ill-tempered Old Firm football match between Rangers and Celtic.
The cup tie had ended with a confrontation between the Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Ally McCoist of Rangers – images which were beamed around the world.
Within hours of the match, the first of five parcels had been dispatched, addressed to Mr Lennon at Celtic Park in the east end of Glasgow.
Another package to the former Northern Ireland international would follow, this time addressed to the club’s training ground at Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire.
McKenzie was recorded on CCTV shopping for components at a DIY store
It was followed by three more: to the retiring Labour politician, Trish Godman, who had worn a Celtic top on her last day in the Scottish Parliament; the offices of Cairdè Na H’Eireann, an Irish republican group in Glasgow; and the late Paul McBride QC, an advocate who had acted for Mr Lennon and Celtic.
Police enlisted the support of shadowy agencies and covert operatives, but it was old-fashioned policework which cracked the case and led to the would-be bombers.
Two detectives carrying out door-to-door inquiries noticed that the B&M store at the Hawkshill Retail Park in Stevenston, Ayrshire, stocked items similar to those used to make up the suspect packages: padded A5 envelopes, 100ml plastic travel bottles and distinctive cheap sports watches.
The other main component was nails – and two doors down was B&Q.
Using receipts and CCTV, police identified Neil McKenzie shopping with his mother, buying the items for just a few pounds.
McKenzie, 42, is an unemployed builder from Saltcoats, his accomplice Trevor Muirhead, 44, is a van driver from Kilwinning, both Ayrshire.
Both men were steeped in loyalism. They were Rangers supporters with a hatred for Celtic, Irish Republicanism and, in particular, the man they felt embodied both: Neil Lennon.
HOW THE PLOT UNFOLDED
• First package: Sent to Neil Lennon at Celtic Park. Had no detonator but contained 248 nails and putty. Described in court as a hoax nail bomb. Picked up from a post box in Saltcoats on 4 March 2011.
• Second package: Sent to Neil Lennon at Celtic’s training ground. Did not have enough stamps and had a nail sticking out. Was intercepted at a sorting office in Kirkintilloch on 26 March. Contained 40 nails, a watch face and a bottle with a milky liquid. Tested positive for peroxide.
• Third package: Delivered to Trish Godman’s constituency office in Bridge of Weir on 28 March. Contained triacetone triperoxide. Opened by her researcher but did not explode.
• Fourth package: Royal Mail unable to deliver it to Cairdè na H’Eireann’s office in Glasgow on 28 March and again on 29 March. Package was then sent to the National Returns Mail Centre in Belfast. Contained nails and a bottle with liquid.
• Fifth package: Collected by a postman from a postbox in Kilwinning on 15 April. He drove with it in his van for 40 minutes despite smelling petrol. Nails, a bottle and a wire were found inside.
Having identified the suspects, police planted a bug in McKenzie’s car and started following both men.
The conversations they recorded were crucial in proving that Muirhead and McKenzie were involved in the plot.
The plotters were heard discussing two litres of peroxide which they had sourced from Muirhead’s hairdresser son. They had later apparently mixed the peroxide in an attempt to make the potentially explosive substance Triacetone Triperoxide, which was found in the “bombs”.
The conversation ran: “Did you bin all the…” “Aye, I put it all in the bin. Dinnae worry about it.” “And there’s nothing left anywhere else? Everything is in the bin, right? Cannae turn around and say we’ve got peroxide or anything like that.”
They were heard chatting about “planting” something outside a police station and letting it off.
McKenzie added that police thought they were dealing with “a couple of hillbillies”.
Muirhead replied: “They think all the Ayrshire boys are dafties.”
Police then raided McKenzie’s home in Links Road, Saltcoats, and Muirhead’s property in Innerwood Road, Kilwinning.
Officers seized a number of items from the houses, including mobile phones.
A message from Muirhead to McKenzie on 16 April was discovered.
It read: “Sorry about the time m8. Our package was in Pennyburn last night waiting on navy bomb disposal.”
Another text said: “Not heard anything about it must be on its way m8.”
Muirhead had a phone conversation with his son Gordon after reports of the bomb plot appeared on TV.
Both men were steeped in Loyalism and anti-Celtic sentiment
He referred to “more than one” being posted and when asked had he sent them, Muirhead told his son: “Never you mind”.
Muirhead was later quizzed by detectives and pinned the blame on McKenzie for the first package sent to Lennon.
He said the incidents must have been sparked off by a “hatred” of the Northern Irishman.
Muirhead said he was “terrified” of his friend, adding that he could be “really quite violent”.
The jury heard the interview in which he claims to have once been an “avid follower” of Celtic – despite being a former member of the Orange Order and the Apprentice Boys of Derry.
His home was also plastered with Rangers and Loyalist material.
McKenzie told officers he got bomb making tips from watching the A-Team, and he had seen on the internet how to use peroxide to make a flash.
He admitted knowing about the first device sent to Lennon and confessed to buying parts for other packages, adding: “I told folk how to make them.”
McKenzie went on to state he was a Rangers and Barcelona supporter – but took his young son to junior football to get away from the Old Firm hatred.
Prosecutor Tim Niven Smith said in his closing speech that the Crown case was based on the belief both accused thought the packages were harmful.
In the end, the devices were not judged to be viable: they could not have exploded. But police say if Muirhead and McKenzie hadn’t been stopped, they could eventually have killed.
Well said dubaibhoy
DubaiBoy
It was your own ‘mock outrage’ at a hoax football strip that started the debate ya muppet. Funny how some peoples masks slip at the slightest thing.
If you think its tacky nothing wrong with that. But that wasn’t your argument last night- ‘we’re Scottish not Irish’ blah blah blah… And?
You clearly took exception to the top reasons other than the fact you think it was tacky. Nice climbdown, though.
The mock up of the top isn’t even striclty an Irish tricolour but the colours offended you so much you just couldn’t hide it.
Funny how we never meet people like you at games.
DubaiBhoy
As an Irishman I wouldn’t buy or wear a tricolour jersey but I do think from a commercial point of view it would be a great seller and money talks. To ex-pats etc, the jersey would probably be appealing but there is no doubt in my mind that it would also appeal to as someone else mentioned “the lowest common denominator”.
I think we would be hypocritcal to slag off the huns for their “tangerine” shirt while at the same time saying how wonderful a tricolour jersey is for us.
I do also think that reclaiming the orange would be a great thing and I would like to see a jersey styled on this one:
http://www.retrogaa.com/product_info.php?products_id=358
Mort
Muirhead and McKenzie jailed for Neil Lennon parcel bomb plot
Muirhead and McKenzie’s sentences were backdated to May 2011
Two men who sent suspect packages to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two high-profile fans of the club have each been jailed for five years.
Trevor Muirhead, 44, and Neil McKenzie, 42, from North Ayrshire, sent devices they believed were capable of exploding and causing injury.
The men were found guilty of conspiracy to assault Mr Lennon, former MSP Trish Godman and the late Paul McBride QC.
Sentence on both men was backdated to May 2011.
The men’s trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard that the first parcel was discovered on 4 March 2011 soon after a much-publicised confrontation between Mr Lennon and now Rangers FC manager Ally McCoist at an Old Firm match.
Office evacuated
Later that month it emerged that a second parcel had been sent to the Celtic manager at the club’s training ground in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire.
The brown padded envelope was intercepted at the Royal Mail sorting office in Kirkintilloch on 26 March last year when a postman spotted a nail protruding from it.
It tested positive for peroxide, which can be used to make explosives.
Neil Lennon, Trish Godman and the late Paul McBride were all sent suspect packages
Two days later, on 28 March, a package delivered to Ms Godman’s constituency office in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, caused the evacuation of the building.
Jurors heard that liquid inside a plastic bottle within the package had tested positive for the explosive substance triacetone triperoxide.
Before the incident, Ms Godman, who was Labour MSP for West Renfrewshire, had worn a Celtic top to the Scottish Parliament as a “dare for charity” on the final day before Holyrood was due to dissolve, pending the elections.
On the same day as the package was delivered to the former MSP, a package destined for Cairde na hEireann (Friends of Ireland) in Glasgow was in the postal system.
A postman had tried to deliver the package to the republican organisation at the Gallowgate on 28 March.
After failed attempts to do so then, and on the following day, it was sent to Royal Mail’s National Returns Centre in Belfast.
The package was X-rayed and found to contain nails, a watch component, a bottle and a wire. It was also said to hold potentially explosive peroxide.
Nails and wire
The following month, a Royal Mail delivery driver found a suspicious package addressed to Mr McBride at the Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh, which contained a bottle of petrol.
It was collected from a postbox in Kilwinning on 15 April last year. The package was found to contain nails and a wire.
Mr McBride was known to have represented Mr Lennon and Celtic.
A suspect package was also sent to Cairde na hEireann (Friends of Ireland)
The trial heard that none of the devices sent was viable but prosecutors argued that both accused believed four of them were capable of exploding or igniting.
McKenzie told police he had learned how to make a hoax bomb by watching the 1980s TV show The A-Team.
One package did not have enough stamps, another smelt of petrol and a third had a wire which fell out.
Police bugged their car and heard them complain that they were not a couple of “daft hillbillies”.
But the prosecution argued that packages containing explosive substances could not be regarded as hoaxes.
Muirhead, from Kilwinning, and McKenzie, from Saltcoats, both North Ayrshire, were originally accused of conspiring to murder their targets but that charge was thrown out due to insufficient evidence.
Following a five-week trial, a jury of 11 women and four men found the pair guilty by majority verdict of the conspiracy to assault charge.
McKenzie was also found guilty of dispatching an item on 3 March to Mr Lennon at Celtic Park with the intention of inducing him to believe it would “explode or ignite”.
Muirhead was cleared of this charge after the jury returned a not proven verdict.