The word of the day is anosognosia, def. a deficit of self-awareness.
While discussing his Fit and Proper examination by the SFA, Dave King told the media that “If the level of detail that was applied to me was applied to Craig Whyte then he would never have taken over the club. The club would have had a chance.”
It was Dave King’s job to examine Craig Whyte’s Fit and Proper status, not the SFAs!!! Dave King was on the board which approved Whyte’s takeover. The SFA were not and should not have been involved in determining the suitability of Whyte’s appointment, which was the exclusive responsibility of the Rangers board.
The SFA subsequently sanctioned the club for failing to carry out its duty in this respect.
Let’s look at that quote again and allocate responsibility:
“If the level of detail that was applied to me was applied to Craig Whyte [by me, when it was my job to do so]then he would never have taken over the club. The club would have had a chance.”
There is no Fit and Proper test. Criteria are published to allow clubs to determine the suitability of appointments. Whyte did not meet the suitability required. If anyone on the Rangers board had taken the trouble to check Whyte’s credentials (which they had a fiduciary and SFA obligation to do so), and informed the SFA of their findings, Craig Whyte would have been stopped in his tracks.
A note to my friends in the media:
Guys, ignoring stuff like this is why people said you were compliant with Whyte, Green and Murray. Don’t come back a year from now and say you didn’t know.
Dave King is a gift. You know what he’s going to do, you know how this ends.
As most of you will know, RWE lost his son, Tony Conway, earlier this year to MND. 12 of Tony’s friends are walking 100km tomorrow and Sunday, from London to Brighton. If any CQN’ers are local, they’re looking for moral support more than money, so here’s the route they’re taking. They start on Twickenham Road at 9:40 tomorrow morning, hoping to reach Brighton around 7:00 on Sunday.
Tony appears to have inspired a lot of people, which is a none too shabby legacy.
It’s season ticket Deadline Day!!
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Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
11:22 on 22 May, 2015
Anyone else getting pop up ads from betting companies when opening a new article?
I’ve got the Ad Blocker extension running on Chrome and they are still getting through.
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I don’t get the pop up on Firefox with Adblocker, though I do at work (internet explorer).
You should be able to use Adblocker to block the pop up when it next happens so in future you don’t see it.
Congratulations again to the young Celts who won the Youth Cup at Hampden last night, easily beating The Rangers by 5-2. We have a match report and after match features elsewhere on http://www.cqnmagazine.com but we thought you’d also like to see our photographs courtesy of CQN’s match day photographer Geo.
Look out for Lisbon Lions, Paul the Tim, the Celtic captain Scott Brown and Ronny Deila in the crowd. Hope you enjoy…http://www.cqnmagazine.com/?p=5440
Posted this in reply to Glorious in the previous article and missed the new one – being so slow at typing!
I share many of your concerns regarding the cheating and avoidance of taxes that went on at the bigotdome.
However as someone who has been a ST holder since the 1980s I cannot agree with your decision to withhold money from the club.
As you point out we were cheated on the field by a team using players they would not been to sign without the use of EBTs, and even using them they still went out of business, although many seem to overlook that!
Yet we were not the only team that was cheated – I don’t hear any other club stepping up to complain. Many of these clubs shared the same banker and it seems had confidential information about their finances given to the dead Huns by that very bank! In some ways they have even more to complain about than us!
You say that we have proof that they are a Phoenix entity – if they are that’s the responsibility of HMRC to tackle – not the board of CFC.
So we are all faced with a choice – support our club or walk away!
Where we ever cheated on the park in the past? We all know we were.
Did our forefathers walk away? No they stayed because they wanted to carve out for themselves and their families a place in the country they had ended up in.
They faced not only some cheating on a football park but systematic and institutional discrimination on an industrial scale – where would we be if they had walked away from any of those obstacles?
We might all be frustrated by the pace of change or in this case the pace that this saga unwinds but it will get there in the end!
In some regards I don’t care how long it takes because I know that it will eventually – in the same way that I know the old Huns are dead.
My own dear father passed away on the 1st of June 1994 in the middle of a very bad time for us as a club!
He started his working life in a steel mill in Motherwell, went on to do his time in Harland and Murphy’s (one of the very few Catholics), worked in RR during the Second World War and then went in to teaching, where he worked in some pretty difficult schools like the Candy Rock and Maryhill. Throughout his life he loved his family, his church and his football club.
He was just about to retire when he could first afford a ST for the old stand and it was his pride and joy to go and watch his team. He saw all the greats going back to the late 1920s right up to the Centenary season. Him and thousands like him supported the club through times when it was looking bleak. He helped run a bus to Dundee for the game that saved our position in the top league in 1947/48. He was at Easter Road during the Second World War when the air raid sirens went off and a German plane came in to view. He took me many games growing up and would rebuke me if he thought I was out of line!
We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants and for me it our task to keep OUR club alive and well.
If we can carry others with us to change – then great – if not – so what ?
We didn’t need any help from anyone – we built this for ourselves by ourselves!
The Huns could never ever say that. – they were always handed things on a plate – that’s part of the reason they are in this mess yet again!
We come from different stock – tempered by different circumstances. That’s why we are still going strong and the Huns are consigned to history. Like many on here I wish that my parents and grandparents were alive today to witness what they have helped achieve – from the fantastic new stadium and now the whole area around it withe Celtic Way to the whole hilarious destruction of the Huns!
That’s why I would urge anyone who can in today’s difficult economic climate to back the club and that means more than just the board or the players, that means the support and the history and heritage of the club!
Apologies for rambling – yours always in Celtic
HH
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Nice wee moral victory over at Hampden last night. all our lads looked great on that big park apart from that keeper with the foreign name.
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I had full fuidgeciary obligation at the time of the dispicable googly eye one. I fudged it well with SFA in our pocket obligation.
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timaloy29,
I actually believe the football on the pitch is improving and will be very good in the new season, it seems to be the only thing that is improving at Celtic park and that is enough for most. And who can blame them after some of the shit we’ve watched over the years.
But Celtic park is no longer a friendly place to go which has discouraged plenty of good Celtic supporters, why should they risk a criminal record for a game of football, the establishment are winning at driving away good tims, with this boards blessing.
Great to see Scott Brown involved with the Youth Squad,turning into an outstanding Celtic Captain.A bhoy had an idea to ‘do the Broony’ on the 8th minute on Sunday,to show our support for his contribution,great idea IMO
COOLMOREMAFIA
Fools Gold was a great book. Not read it since my teens. I remember a vivid pink cover,btw.
Heller was a genius,but I admit to having tried to read Something Happened about a dozen times and canny get past about halfway.
I’ve still got a copy-I don’t of Fools Gold-and maybe it’s the book which when I finally finish it and fully understand it,there is nothing more.
Hmmm. I reckon I’ll let it gather dust!
Fools die,ffs.
Thought Paul would have mentioned the great result and performance from the young Hoops last night.
Not really bothered about the lying king, we know how it will end with the orcs favourite team anyway.
https://youtu.be/Rao-4ty1joA
Faithful Through and Through
The Tommy Burns Story
FamilyFaithFootballCSC
“If the level of detail that was applied to me was applied to Craig Whyte then he would never have taken over the club. The club would have had a chance.”
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Er, sure Dave. But you still haven’t said how you would have ran the club in the Craig Whyte season. You know – when you were running an £8m per year deficit without CL money.
Yes Something Happened – it’s a heavy book with the heaviest ending. I almost split with my girlfriend after reading it
Croppybhoy,
Two questions
What do you mean “withholding you money”
Who were the first team to help the Celtic project get off the ground ?
PHILBHOY
Bevvy session?
Ffs,you shoulda said-I’d be there like a shot!
I should be home this weekend,tbh. But I gave one of the team a fortnight off for his 30th Anniversary. He asked me last October or summat.
Nae bother.
Then I realised it was the same fortnight I needed to come home for my sister’s significant birthday.
Lesley,I know you’ll have a great birthday. And all the better for not having to worry about yer daft brother pouring through the door at stupid o’clock for a fortnight.
XXXXX. And HH
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon – I ended up doing a system restore as multiple pop ups appeared whenever I opened any new web page, spent at least 6 or 7 minutes closing these before I could read any article…PITA …
Scottish football just like the kid on country rotten to the core,and some half wits wanted independence,and then voted for the bigoted racist SNP, the sods who have a long record of voting with the tories in councils and westminster,rember 1979 , absolute scum the lot of them
CROPPYBHOY
That’s a disgraceful post. Zbyszek quite rightly took Post of the Decade at CQTEN.
Don’t you feel embarrassed to have made such an early stab at the prize of CQTWENTY?
croppybhoy
That’s telling them , shit or get off the pot, well said my man, well said.
Paul67
Please enlighten me.
What is Dave King going to do, and how will it end?
TT
TheClumpany
Really enjoying your blog mate, good stuff..
Croppybhoy…quality post..
HH
canamalar
12:17 on 22 May, 2015
What a load of pish.
The ole Mr Brattbakk back on Sunday.
http://www.celticfc.net/news/8326?
Lennon’s passion
great counter argument, that must have taken you a while to get all those big words together eh
ONEOFTHESEVENTYPERCENT
We got gubbed. End.
You won’t persuade people to return by insulting them,nor by insulting their intelligence.
It was an overwhelming show of support for a party for which I have no time at all. And a severe-and life-threatening-kick in the baws for one I do.
I want that reversed. So do you. I must say though that I doubt the efficacy of your methods.
croppybhoy – You should ramble more, great post…
CANAMALAR
Biter bit,in fairness. You’re no stranger to such short retorts. And in a similar vein.
winning captains
Thoroughly enjoyed the young Hoops performance last night.
…and the photos following the result.
Fully expected Ronny to be there, which he was.
Was anybody else there?
Plc directors?
Other members of the first team coaching staff?
First team players – apart from Broony?
Bertie and John Clark were there of course.
Embdy else?
HH!!
BMCUW,
I think I’m usually more pointed in what I think is pish
Now is the tam improving or not ?
Is Celtic park still a friendly safe place for Celtic supporters ?
Have the board been handing out details about supporters without requesting just cause ?
Team even
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It’s nice to see a few loyal to the crown unionists on here
Nice! Feelling right at home.
Does Dave King’s £20m investment in Sevco include travelling expenses and court fees?
roy croppie many thanks for the Henrik montage,never tire of watching his goals,just how good was he? Hail Hail Hebcelt
Right. I have had enough of being Dave King :)
So to renew or not to renew?
What you say bhoys n ghirls?
MWD said AYE
Paul67 . anyone.
Why was it the Ibrox Club`s Board`s responsibility to examine Craig Whyte`s suitability but the SFA`s re Dave King?
Genuine question as I am certain there is a difference.
JJ
croppybhoy
12:16 on 22 May, 2015
Respect to you. And you Father. And the many like him who Kept the Faith.
HH jameagang
Here and I thought it was mags
Good lunchtime, friends
MWD
“So to renew or not to renew?”
Is that you suffering from that anus snoggin ya that Paul67 is going on about it?