Next year in April will see the 30th anniversary of the Souness revolution.
Scottish Football has appeared to have made another revolution, a 360-degree turn back to the dark days of the pre-Souness days and his early tenure at Ibrox.
That was a time when people would be happy to watch 6 foot brick shite-houses run about like headless chickens for 90 mins and knock fucking lumps out of each other.
It was that environment that Souness brought his array of international stars and led him to remark that Scottish Football was full of “Hammer throwers” as opponents tried to match the skill of the Rangers team with cynical over-physical hacking.
Don’t get me wrong, Souness was known for getting his retaliation in first!
A serious injury from a Terence Yorath tackle as a youth that left him hospitalised and taught him that.
But there was a lot more to Souness’s game than that.
You don’t have the career like he did playing for the great Liverpool team of the 70’s and 80’s.
5 League Championships, 3 European Cups and 4 League Cups
if you couldn’t score a 20 yarder goal and ping a 40 yard baw the way he did also.
But that was what Souness was all about!
You want to make it a fight today?
Then we will fight you.
You Want to play today?
Then we will play.
It was the Latter that the Scottish teams couldn’t live with.
Fast forward 30 years, and we have the 19-year-old Spurs loanee Nathan Oduwa making his début for Rangers against Alloa.
Being threatened after the match by an Alloa defender -whose name escapes me- that if he tries one of his flamboyant flicks again he will be on the end of a kicking, or words to that effect.
This was pounced on by the media and yet again -after the brilliant Rangers display-the back pages of the newspapers were not about the football.
Let me remind you the Alloa game saw the Rangers team score Five goals, two disallowed, hit the woodwork twice with 79% possession.
The Alloa game was part of 4 wins, 17 goals scored with 4 conceded, part of the Warburton Whirlwind.
That has not only seen the Rangers play like a new team compared to the one a couple of months ago, but are a completely new team with 10 new faces coming in.
Make no mistake, this was as every bit mischief making as what led Chris McLaughlin to get his press privilege revoked from Ibrox.
What is these kinds of headlines and attitudes to your fellow players saying to the top teams down south that Mark Warburton is trying to attract some of their best young talent up to Scotland.
It is embarrassing Scottish football to the outside world.
Idiots like what’s his name from Alloa make Scottish fitbaw look like a Harry Enfield self righteous brothers sketch
“Oh I love little Messi and his little flicks and kicks of genius brilliance in La Liga………….
but if he was to come up here …..(seeth)……
and do one of his rainbow flicks playing for Rangers …………(seeth)…..
I would say……
OI! MESSI NO! AND I WOULD GIVE HIM A SLAP!”
It is the latest Rangers loanee Gedion Zelalem I am most concerned with by these type of threats.
You could expect the Arsenal youth player having second thoughts seeing those anti-football headlines, and for a time it looked like the deal was off.
Footballs a man’s game and should always be a contact game.
Barry Ferguson -who if you watch clips of Gedion Zelalem on YouTube has shades off—recalls his Rangers début at Tynecastle, when Neil Pointon nearly took his head off 10 minutes in.
Barry recalls that He smashed Him in the face with his shoulder, elbow and fist all in one go.
But what do you call him at Alloa’s threat has images of the Neil “cunt” Simpsons GBH on Ian Durrant.
If you have seen the scar on Durrant’s leg it was a wonder he walked again never mind was part of a Rangers team that conquered all before them in Scotland and challenged at the very top of Europe.
It is a testament to Durrant’s bravery and courage over Neil Simpson’s thuggish cowardice.
I am concerned for Gedion Zelalem more than I am of the 6-foot plus Nathan Oduwa, who looks like a hybrid of the skill of Mark Walters and the speed and athleticism of Usain Bolt.
Gedion Zelalem plays in the middle third with some deft turns and cute touches.
In fact the little I have seen of him he is a younger, better Scott Allan which is no slur on Scott Allan.
In fact, from the little I’ve seen, he dribbles like Iniesta and passes like Xavi.
With a talent like that in the Rangers midfield, a team that doesn’t need the hatred of it ramped up by thingy-me-bobs from Alloa threatening GBH on her players for showing sublime bits of skill.
He will be a lightening rod for guys like the guy from Alloa to make a name for themselves.
Albeit infamous like the waste of skin, Neil CUNT Simpson of Aberdeen Football Club is!
All we can rely on is Scottish Referees and assistant Referees
Who have been absolutely shocking so far.
Not in a Celtic paranoid way but as a whole
Taking firm action and leaving the Hammer throwers with no room left in the game and leaving it a nurturing ground for talents.
The likes that Mark Warburton has managed to persuade to come north to Scotland to blossom.
30 years on from the Souness revolution which swayed the power balance back in the favour of the sleeping giant that was Rangers
Along with the help of MacWoods , MacButcher and MacRoberts.
We are seeing a Warburton revolution with the likes of MacTavernier, MacOduwa and MacWaghorn.
One thing that is happily changed from 30 years ago is the level of Anti-English racism directed at the English Rangers players that came to ply their trade over Hadrian’s wall has all but vanished.
Well apart from the Scottish National Socialist Party’s atheltic wing the so-called Tartan Army of the Scottish Football Association’s first eleven.
Watch any match from that period, especially the Rangers Celtic games, you will hear booming from the away end
“DIRTY ENGLISH BASTARDS”
Directed at the Rangers players.
Sadly it appears to have raised its ugly head in certain Political parties and Scottish independence movements, which is really….
Graham Spiers, the odious creep. Where does one start with this cretin?
Well for once, I wont. I will let this wonderful post I found from D’Artagnan on Rangersmedia referring a post by a Bear called Jaaz from a few years ago do the talking.
It’s a fantastic Read. It was posted quite some time ago I think originally on Follow Follow and not only does it show Graham Spiers as a spiteful, petty, vindictive Rangers hater masquerading as a so-called broadsheet Journalist. It shows quite worrying that large parts of the Scottish media is akin more to an anti-British propaganda rag like the fascist Sinn Fein/IRA An Phoblacht and that it is infested with anti-British Protestant sectarian Racist bigots.
The members of the Scottish Enlightenment that held the free press as a fundamental cornerstone of democracy, freedom and liberty in this country will be spinning in their graves.
Have a read. I will post from it the words of Graham Spiers that Jaaz has sourced from Britneys bile-filled ramblings in the press in bold italics and I will post any comments below in plain text.
Spiers had started his one-man campaign of anti-Rangers bile long before he joined the Herald. One of my earliest memories was his blatant lie that Rangers fans sang (about German superstar Jurgen) “Klinsmann’s a Klansman” at Ibrox. Complete and utter bollocks. He further claimed that Rangers fans sang songs about the tragic death of former Celtic player Tommy Coyne’s wife. Complete fabrication. Another contention of his was that former Ranger Ian Ferguson had “all the charm of a child molester”. A pleasant analogy I’m sure you’d agree. I would wager that Spiers would not express his strikingly odd views during a face-to-face meeting with our former midfielder.
One doesn’t know if Graham Spiers is being complementary about Ian Ferguson because Graham Spiers expressed his sympathy towards Craig Thomson, the Hearts of Midlothian footballer convicted of lewd and indecent behaviour towards young girls aged 14 and one aged 12. Spiers blames the internet instead of Craig Thomson saying ‘This is what the internet does to kids today.’ Thomson was a 20 year old at the time.
But if your just a 20 year old “kid” and you sing a song Britney doesn’t like. Then the legal and Police athourities should damn well throw the book at you. Talk about getting your priorities in order, seems the ecumenical Britney has the same morals as the Roman Catholic when it gets caught with its pants down.
Now on to you and I, the Rangers support. Commenting on the Manchester United v. Rangers match last year he described us as “A stinking bigoted cesspit of sub-humanity”. Let me remind you that there were NO arrests at the match. A Manchester United publication later described the game as having the best atmosphere of the season due to the visiting Bears. Some other lovely descriptions of you and I from Mr. Spiers:
6/11/03 “Rancid chanting…..total embarrassment……putrid stench…..savages….poisonous singing…..desecration…..cavemen……wholesale yobishness…..vile troglodytes…..stinking, bigoted, religious stuff……backward culture…..almost to a man”.
29/11/04 “David Murray is on the back foot…..at Rangers, by general consent, the sectarianism is worse than it is at Celtic……It was an experience that reminded me again of how widespread and malignant bigotry at Ibrox is……It is folly, not to say a cultural disservice to Scotland, to denounce O’Neill for what he said this week…..Rangers, in particular, have a major problem with bigots”.
“Compare and contrast their shameful behaviour with that of Celtic, who on the road to Seville last season, represented Scottish football immaculately” (I suppose they did, if you don’t include the stabbing in Seville, the riot in Blackburn, the Provo banners, the booing of Porto as they lifted the trophy, planes being diverted to Cardiff etc. etc. etc. But why let the FACTS get in the way of a dig at Rangers eh Graham?)
I think Spiers has made it very clear how he feels about US the supporters’ ladies and gentleman, but what’s his views on our club?
Not to mention the battering of those racist secterian anti-British Protestant Fenian terrorists from the Spanish Police-who have been targeted by E.T.A- at the arport after the Celta Vigo game whilst chanting support for their terrosist cowards in arms
“E.T.A, E.T.A E.T.A”
BELOW (IN BOLD ITALICS) IS A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FROM THE TIME OF IRELAND’S SHAME THE UK’S BURDEN
Celtic to launch inquiry
WED, 18 DEC, 2002 – 00:00
MARTYN ZIEGLER
The Parkhead club have already received a number of eye-witness accounts of the problems which occurred at the airport in Spain and on a diverted flight home on Friday.
Some fans were reportedly struck by the Spanish police as they boarded an aircraft.
And a flight was diverted to Cardiff on Friday after an alleged incident involving some of the club’s supporters.
Now Celtic have asked for further information from supporters who travelled to the game to help their enquiry.
A club statement said: “The tremendous victory by Celtic in the third round of the UEFA Cup has been overshadowed by certain events involving Celtic supporters.
“Eye-witness accounts reported to the club have accused the Spanish police of using unnecessary force in their attempts at crowd management at both the Celta Vigo ground and the airport.
“We have received reports of a number of injuries to Celtic supporters as a result of police-baton wielding.”
Celtic today revealed they have already contacted the Foreign Office in London with a view to lodging a formal complaint with the Spanish authorities.
The club statement added: “In a separate incident, an aircraft, not chartered by Celtic or its official travel partner, was diverted from Glasgow to Cardiff en route from Santiago de Compostela.
“The reason given for the diversion was an alleged ‘serious incident’ on board between passengers and crew.
“This matter is being handled by Cardiff Police and Celtic Football Club has already indicated that it will assist the Welsh Police fully.
“We have received a number of reports which are critical of the aircrew.
“Celtic supporters have a good reputation. It is of great concern to the club that these incidents might unjustly tarnish that reputation and that of the club.
The club say they will appoint an independent individual to lead a separate investigation into three particular incidents, specifically: “The actions of the Spanish police and Celtic supporters at the Celta Vigo stadium; the actions of the Spanish police officers and Celtic supporters at Vigo airport; events on the diverted charter flight.”
It appears the Celtic “inquiry” went the same way as the Paedo ring inquiry and the Rickson being assualted “inquiry”
Has anyone at the BJK camp published it?
In this case it might have actually been Juan Guy.
8/10/02 “Like the Rangers orange strip, the song (‘Follow, Follow’) cannot be listed among the great criminal acts, it merely offends”
Ermmmmmmm Orange is one third of the Flag that Celtic Football Club fought so desperate to keep flying over parkhead that being the foreign fla of the Irish tri-colour.
Incedently those big bad British Protestants Rangers voted in favour of Celtic flying the foreign flag.
and how does Follow Follow “offend”? Thats a big word “offend” in Scotland.
25/4/04 “Nor can I recall Rangers being disparaged in 1972 when they won the Cup-Winners’ Cup; a tournament which, by definition, was painfully inferior to the European Cup, indeed a prize which many placed third in the list of Europe’s club baubles behind the UEFA Cup.”
Way to go promoting Scottish fitbaw Graham!
Right wait there what has Britney got to say about Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen who also won the cup winners cup
12/8/04 “Please can I be spared any whining from Rangers over this and other criticisms?” “(Rangers) the most paranoid club in Scottish football”. Fair to say he’s none to keen on our club either! But what does he say about our biggest rivals I hear you ask? Surely in the interest of neutrality and parity, Celtic are afforded the same malevolence?
23/8/02 “Celtic, though, as a football institution, quite rightly remains a symbol of Catholicism. The Celtic strip, as famed and proudly known around the world as it is, still cannot be divorced from one of its cultural parents, which is the Catholic faith.”
As we all know Rangers were not founded with a clear political agenda nor with the shadowy nefarious hand of a paranoid bigoted church HELL BENT ON GETTING FREE COUNTRIES to become enslaved again by their synogogue of Satan. Rangers were set up by four young lads for the pure joy of playing associated Football during the winter months when the Rowing season was over. Rangers then developed a strong Scottish/British Protestant identity. So why is Celtic sinister beginnings steeped in anti-British politics to be applauded and for Rangers “identity” to be derided?
4/3/04 “Even high-brow Herald readers, hauling their noses away from such works as Jacob Bronowski and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, may have noticed the palaver that is being planned by Celtic supporters in time for Sunday’s slaughter – erm, I mean match – against Rangers at Parkhead.”
25/3/04 “I repeat my main contention: that Larsson’s contribution to Scottish life and culture, via the game of football, has been immense. In a sordid football age, his role-model status has also been impeccable.” (Deliberately breaking Gus MacPherson’s leg aside presumably).
Henrik why are you so good?………….Boak
1/4/04 “Following Sunday’s win at Ibrox I met one Celtic player, a man I remain a great admirer of, and whispered to him: “I fear for some of the alcoholic carnage of you lot over the next few days, it’s been a long wait.” He smiled and looked at me with rivulets of anticipation dribbling from his chops.”
No prizes for guessing it was Neil Lennon Britney was on about. “As long as I have a face Lenny there always be a seat for you at the chip”
6/5/04, 22/1/04, 27/11/03, 4/4/02, 7/3/02, “In one of my favourite magazines, The Alternative View….. the shockingly good magazine, The Alternative View……It was with great joy that I received my copy the other day of The Alternative View, a genuinely enjoyable football magazine of a Celtic persuasion…..the excellent Alternative View, a new mag set up by my old malapropic mucker himself, Matt McGlone….. After 36 years of unchallenged success, the Celtic View at last has a commercial rival…..If I tell readers that Matt McGlone is the brains behind this venture, you may well share my intrigue….. a Che Guevara figure among the fans who helped ease Fergus McCann into place….. I have seen the first edition of The Alternative View, and, I must say, it looks very good. (This is just some of a number of plugs he gave for his bigoted mate McGlone’s failed Celtic magazine in the pages of the Herald).
Any excuse to play this cracker again.
Graham Spiers the anti-sectarian crusader not only see’s sectarianism in Scotland as a one way street but was flatmates with a sectarian bigot and turns a blind eye when he best pal publishes it in his Fanzines as Jaaz goes on to explain.
Current Sports Editor is Donald Cowey, another former editor of the Celtic View (starting to get the picture?), who is in turn served by his Chief Sportswriter, the Corduroyed Crusader himself, the one and only Graham Spiers. Spiers is a friend and former flat mate of Matt McGlone, the Celtic fanzine editor whose publication included a cartoon family who went by the name of “The Dirty Orange Bastards”. Strangely as he travels through life on his anti-sectarian mission Spiers has failed to mention this.
20/5/04 “Lennon’s symphony is music to my ears – My sporting highlight of the past week must be the moment when I was called upon to break the news to Neil Lennon that James MacMillan, Scotland’s most distinguished composer, had written a piece in his honour. It is always a minor joy catching up with Lennon.” (In fact Graham loves “Lenny” so much he excused him his spitting on a Rangers scarf and mouthing “orange bastards” to the Rangers support. A strange stance for an individual who has propelled himself to the forefront of McConnell’s anti-bigotry campaign wouldn’t you agree?)
James MacMillan is another of the fee paying Jesuit College of St. Aloyisis old boys network that keep popping up in the kicking of Rangers when they were down Tax case witch-hunt. In fact on twitter he rather oddly compared Rangers to Liam Neeson and “We” referring to himself and his pals as the wolves in the film The Grey.
“Celtic have a moral right to this league” (on the day before the 2003 title deciders). “35,000 Celtic fans singing The Fields of Athenry made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up” (Seems Spiers likes the “famine, rebelling against the Crown” ditty. Compare and contrast with his viewpoint of Follow Follow above)
WARNING: Please have a basin handy prior to reading the next quote.
22/01/03 “I must admit, if I ever fulfil my ambition of having a very splendid private dinner with O’Neill, it will be the one question I’ll certainly get round to asking: ”Why were you so horrible to us over that new contract saga?”
“A very splendid private dinner with O’neill” Succulent Spam eh Spiersy? Just make sure he kisses you first! Remember youre not a slut Britney.
I’m sure you’ll agree it’s plain as the nose on your face who are Spiers favourite team down Glasgow way.
You might be asking why I’m wasting my time with Spiers? Why kick a man when he’s down?
Look back at when Spiers ramped up his agenda on Rangers backed avidly by his Celtic-minded bosses. It was when Rangers where in massive debt – the type Celtic are in today- Spiers and his ilk have been salivating for what’s happened to Rangers over the last 4 years for years.
But Now Rangers are free from crippling debt, unlike Celtic. Own their own stadium outright, unlike Celtic and are on an upward curve, unlike Celtic. He is trying to ingratiate himself at Ibrox with the fans he so despised, demonised, and dehumanised for year upon year leading up to the Ranger Tax Case witch-hunt.
Tell Graham Spiers his money is no good the next time he comes to Ibrox -if he does which he wont- Turn him away like the Rangers fans he has banned through his ,and his ilk’s politically motivated campaign to get people certain members of the community he doesn’t like -Rangers fans- Jailed for thought crime or should I say what he thinks they mean.
But when other members of Scottish society do the exact same thing, Spiers will say oh its just “faux outrage” theres nothing to see here move along. Like in the piece he did about Scott Allan (a snippet can be seen below) that no doubt got he his free ticket and free access to finger food at Ibrox revoked.
The predictable sideshow has emerged, fuelled as ever by posturing and idiocy on social media. Twitter has lent its usual lunatic fringe to the case, with Allan coming in for appalling abuse from a seam of disgruntled Hibs fans. Meanwhile, some Rangers fans, ever feeling victimised, have seized on this stuff – not with dismay, but with relish – expressing a faux outrage at some sectarian bile directed at Allan.
Let me remind you that Scott Allan and his family were subjected to the most vile public sectarian racially motivated abuse that is actionable by the Law that Britney and his cabal so desperately craved. All because it appeared he was holding out for a move to Rangers. He was threatened with the hope that he would be murdered by a bullet from the anti-British IRA. A threat that has seen jail sentences for people when it was directed to the likes of Celtic’s Anthony Stokes and Neil Lennon.
So what’s different here Britney?
Because its not Rangers fans?
Looking back at this blog the only thing that really shocks me is that its taking so long -over 10 years of repeat offending in the case of Graham Spiers- for Rangers to take the stand with malevolent Rangers hating bheasts that they have now done.
Professor Tom Gallagher, a Scottish historian and Damian Thompson an associate editor with The Spectator both high profile Roman Catholics have in the last year been very outspoken with The Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s involvement in the Scottish nationalist/Independence movement.
They have wrote some scathing and brilliant honest blogs on the subject entitled;
The Scottish Catholic bishops and the Nationalists: a scandal is coming to light.
The Scottish Church showed little statesmanship or common sense during the referendum.
The close relationship between Scottish bishops and the SNP.
Keith O’Brien stripped of the rank of cardinal – an extraordinary disgrace for the Scottish Church
Both as I say are high profile Roman Catholics respected in their community. Damian Thompson was among the many prominent British Catholics like Grand Master of the Order of Malta Matthew Festing, James MacMillan, Michael Ancram, Jamie Bogle who signed the ‘Appeal from the British Isles’ to Pope Benedict imploring a liberalization of the restrictions on the Tridentine rite (duly granted by the Holy Father in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 2007).
I think it’s time they stopped beating about the bush. It’s time they stopped going round the houses and spit it out what it is they exactly know.
Or else the speculation will grow and someone less sympathetic to their opulent, grandiose, gratuitous, in-humane, corrupt, criminal and terrorist money laundering, superstitious, sun worshipping, bastardised version of the bible and Jesus Christ teachings, peadophile protecting, death cult will do it for them.
“Farewell to all your British fame”
“Farewell your ancient glory”
“Farewell even to your British name”
That was the S.N.P devious story
But the R.A.F flys over our Nations land,
And Trident sails to the ocean,
To mark where Britain’s province stands
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Foreign force nor guile could not subdue,
Through many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor’s wages.
The Nazi bombs we could disdained,
Secure in valour’s station;
Now We’re bought and We’re sold for Vatican gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Oh we nearly saw the “Independence”day
That Treason thus could sell us,
Against Our ancestors fought the way,
With Churchill, Nelson and Wellington
I will fight this shower, till my last hour,
And make this declaration;
That We’re bought and We’re sold for Vatican gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
The level of sectarian and racist abuse that was aimed at Scott Allan just because it looked like he was holding out a move for his boyhood heroes Rangers was as disgusting as it was predictable. It shows that the hatred for Rangers has not died down in the years Rangers have spent making friends and funding clubs whilst climbing up the leagues.
It also highlighted that ANTI-BRITISH PRO IRA SECTARIANISM IS NOT JUST A WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND AND CELTIC PROBLEM.
Hibernian Football Club has a history that doesn’t get brought up as much as others.
Hibernian was founded in 1875 by a clergy member of the Church of Rome and members of the Catholic Young Men’s Society …………..and there by being the first football club that polluted Association Football with religion and suspicious anti-British politics.
Thankfully when the club was reconstituted in 1892, still retaining the cups they won and history.
The players no longer had to be members of the Catholic Young Men’s Society. Because of this policy, Hibs have been accused of being the first sectarian football club in Scotland.
But it appears some of their fans are not so progressive.
And its not just your run of them mill thieves, whores and Junkies Hib supporters of auld reekie that are entrenched in this bigotry oh no Dear reader.
Irvine Welsh the millionaire glorifier of drugs and poverty pornographer has a history of this sort of shite and no doubt fills the minds of the skagged out of their head jakeball Hibees that hang on his every word.
In 1996 he grovelling had to apologise to the Daily Record for calling Rangers fans scum. He admitted he sounded like a “sad, bigoted clown” and offered to give his earnings from the single to a charity named by Rangers fans.
Did he?
What the Daily Record -that self proclaimed bastion of anti-sectarianism anti-Racism- failed to mention was that Welsh, author of Trainspotting, launched a sectarian racist rant on a record because the Ibrox side had beaten his beloved Hibs.
Welsh recorded the song with Scots rockers Primal Scream, whose singer Bobby Gillespie is Celtic-minded, on the song – The Big Man Meets the Scream Team and The Barmy Army Uptown.
Warning dear reader this song is fucking utter gash as it is offensive.
“In every hick town in Caledonia, across the pseudo-nation, you can see the most fucked up scum who were shat into creation, where a blue McEwan’s lager top equals no imagination.Think you’re a success. Your psyche’s a mess. Your economy is in distress. You’re Hun-believable.”
What do you think the chances of an author who declared he is a die hard Rangers fan- Not a kid on one like that Scottish Nat-zi prick- getting with a successful career never mind one that called Celtic fans Fenians in song?
This sub-human cunt also played in a punk band called Stairway 13 in London in the late 70’s you really have to look at a society that allows this cunt the time of day. Remember that Bears and Bearettes the next time he tries to flog you his smut.
Not to mention Alex Salmond’s pal IRA terrorist promoter in Scotland Jim Slaven who was locked up for who trying to attack our Queen.
Alan Stubbs -manager of mid table Hibs- Said you cant sell to your title rivals. So that must be why St Mirren sold to them then? You have to applaud Alan Stubbs in his bigoted, bitter, petty stance in making sure Rangers would not get their man. He got a contract extension and a couple of players in for Hibs.
That’s the way to do it Jackie McNamara. Although it’s not clear if Stubbsy gets a bung for the sale of his players like Jackie does.
Speaking of Dundee United. This wasn’t the first time Rangers were foiled in getting Scott Allan. McCoist tried to sign him in the winter of 2011 from the Dundee Hibernian but was rebuffed probably a good thing for all involved at the time.
Sectarian Racist abuse is not new for Scott Allan he has been subjected to it in the past by members of the Club he has now joined. Back in 2012 when young adults were getting their liberty taken away and front page splashes for wearing Postman Pat uniforms and making dark humoured jokes.
Luckily the young lad who would have been 20 at the time didnt rise to the sectarian racist bait.
With this evidence that we have seen above. I wonder if Channel 4’s Alex Thomson will reiterate his call for players to walk off the park when they are subjected to racist and sectarian songs in the case of Scott Allan?
He is quick to get involved in anything Rangers related but once again quiet on this.
In Scott Allans position I would have jumped at the chance to play pro Football anywhere even Celtic -definitely not if Rangers were in for me too- but that was when there was no social media. The Celtic fans I knew and went to school with were nothing like the anti-British pro IRA scumbags you see spouting their shite day in day out with impunity.
It just goes to show the problem we have with apartheid schooling in Scotland. That Celtic fans at non-denominational schools the like of the one I went too are nothing like the ones you see on line. You wonder to yourself what is going on and promoted behind the walls of state funded Roman Catholic schools?
I wish Scott Allan all the best in his career and no doubt his all-inclusive club and its fans will have no objections if Scott Allan, when he does the lap of honour round Parkhead with his fellow colleagues waiving flags from around the world -after winning another one horse title race- waives the flag of the nation of his birth and thanks to the majority of Scots last September still is.
Get enjoyment out it wee man because it could be your last hell you might not even see one as Hearts and Aberdeen seem to have got their act together again this season.
One thing you will see soon wee man is the Rangers and you will get a ring side seat of it warming the bench for Celtic.
Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Frisian exotic dancer and courtesan and spy during World War I.A lethal double agent using her powers of seduction to extract military secrets from her many lovers made Mata Hari an enduring archetype of the femme fatale.
French businesswoman Sevim Cesim has a lot in common with ex Rangers Boss Paul Le Guen.
Both are French.
Both came to Rangers form Lyon.
Both have links to Olympique Lyonnais Football Club.
Both entered Ibrox during a time of backstabbing, skulduggery, upheaval and change.
Both where flying back home on a jumbo jet after a few short months.
In Sevim Cesim case 4 months, from October 2012 to January 2013 to be exact.
But in Sevim Cesim she could be the biggest, most important, short lived impact signing Rangers football club have ever had.
Keith Jackson – who by the way seems to be working on this story like a man possessed after his “wealth of the radar” pish- in the Daily Record on the 7th of August -typical trying to unsettle Rangers on the day of the big game- had the front page…
THE FRENCH CONNECTION. Rangers whistleblower and former Charles Green Ally Sevim Cesim snapped at airport with -a rather shocked and surprised- Ally McCoist after flying to Scotland to be quizzed by cops.
Cesim was a central figure in Green’s original takeover team working on the public share offering that raised more than £22million.
Very well worth noting that Ally McCoist befriended her while other Senior figures, guys like Green, Stockbridge and Ahmad at the club attempted to oust her after she raised queries about how the money was being spent.
Cesim was sacked within weeks of the share issue being completed.
And most tellingly that before all this She had worked with Ahmad and Stockbridge at Zeus Capital, a Manchester firm who backed Green’s buyout.
Its been reported She raised the alarm not only when she was working inside the club but also with the authorities after she had left.
Now that’s crucial lets have a look at when she left. She left in January 2013, shortly after that, the next month to be exact, Strathclyde Police released that they were investigating Craig Whyte’s takeover of Rangers. Believing there had been a major crime committed during.
They had been investigating this since June 2012 so Why did they suddenly make this public? Did they have new key information from a certain little French piece of crumpet?
The investigation had three key areas
1 the legality of Whyte’s initial deal.
2 the movement of money raised from his notorious link-up with Ticketus.
3 what happened to the missing £14million of unpaid PAYE and VAT.
In April 19th of that year Charles Green made a sharp exit from Ibrox resigning under a cloud of Internal Rangers, SFA investigations and “Paki friend” comments. Which I for one don’t believe for a minute when you consider just days later he was reported to the Serious Fraud Office along with Imran Ahmad.
Did they have new key information from a certain little French fancy?
The list goes on from then on with these cretins day after day, week after week, month after month, tarnishing the Great name of Rangers in the papers with Serious crime investigations attached to it.
Keith Jackson followed up his initial scoop days later in an opinion piece that to the casual observer, reading between the lines suggests that Newcastle owner Mike Ashley -who he mentions him by name not his glorified jumble sale sport shops which I find very telling-, former Ibrox chief executive Craig Mather and finance firm Eurovestech were all up to their nuts in financial illegal skulduggery.
Their cash bankrolled Rangers for months before the IPO share offer.
He mentions the magical £300,000 figure and asks the question did Charles Green rob the club to make it up to them?
Thats what I read into it anyway and as far as I know its still up there on the website so the people mentioned must not object.
Anyway its good to see Sevim Cesim after the repugnant treatment she received at the hands of Charles Green, Brian Stockbridge and Imran Ahmad. Was able to dust herself down and appear in the blurred Lines video.
Talking of people blurring the line between legality and illegality
I hope when the Polis go to have a look round Charles Greens French château. I hope they say to him
“Excuse me Monsieur Green have you got frogs legs?”
Too which Green will reply
“of course Officer why do you ask?”
Too which the Officer will BARK
“WELL HOP INTO THAT POLICE VAN CAUSE YOU’RE NICKED SUNSHINE!!!!”
It appears the dark clouds are dispersing and the sun is once again shining on a free again Rangers and Ibrox and lets hope it is not too long before the boys in blue are saying Bonjour, bonjour to the naughty boys.
If the sultry mademoiselle helps the boys in blue screw the cowboys who tried to screw the boys in royal blue forever.
Then Dame Sevim Cesim has a certain ring to it don’t you think Dear Reader?
On Monday the 20th of July 2015, after a nine-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow. A jury of ten women and five men found Anton Duffy, 39, Martin Hughes, 36, and Paul Sands, 32, guilty of planning to murder Johnny Adair and Sammy McCrory in Scotland.
This proved what regular readers of this blog have all known for a long time in Scotland that anti-British Dissident Irish republicanism terror and support for anti-British Dissident Irish republicanism terror has been running amok at all levels of society in Scotland.
It is indeed Ireland’s shame and Scotland’s burden.
To Irishman Anton Duffy Johnny ’Mad Dog’ Adair and Sammy McCrory were the epitome of British Unionist Protestantism. So why was this not described as it was Sectarian and Racist hate crime of the most dangerous kind?
Where was public funded groups like Nil By Mouth? Where was their condemnation? Where was their outrage?
Instead we had the Daily Record disgustingly jokey front page headline of YOU LUCKY DOG
Imagine if this had been someone who idiots believed was the epitome of Irish Catholicism and they were planning through organised terrorism to gun down in a hail of bullets from an AK47 machine gun in broad daylight in Scotland……. SCOTLAND!
Do you think the medias coverage would be the same?
Anton Duffy hail hails from County Donegal which ironically bears the Latin motto of Mutuam habeatis caritatem which in good old Queens English means “Have love for one another”
What possessed and attracted this hate-filled, violent IRA terrorist thug like Anton Duffy to a city that was described at an officially backed Celtic Football Club event as “the most anti-Irish Catholic city in the WORLD” One could only hazard a guess and say that it was said Club and said Clubs Laissez-faire attitude to anti-British Pro IRA terror support.
Whatever it was he has been, very frighteningly, living here amongst good honest law abiding God fearing citizens for a Long, Long time
This wasn’t the first time Anton Duffy has been in the High court in Glasgow, oh no Dear Reader. In 2010 Anton Duffy was jailed for the shamefully low sentence of five years for – and get this- the trifling crime of having in his possession a loaded Russian manufactured revolver in a busy Glasgow nightspot on one the cities most busiest Streets.
Let that just sink in for a minute shall we. He had a loaded gun in a busy night club on a busy Glasgow street and all he got was the minimum 5 YEARS for firearm offences and no doubt was out in 2 and a half. Now put that in perspective with the maximum Jail sentence you can get by being a football fan in a football stadium singing about terrorists with loaded guns is 5 YEARS!!!
At the High Court in Glasgow representing Anton Duffy in 2010 was none other than Celtic’s Legal shamrock the late Paul McBride QC. Paul McBride handed a number of testimonials on behalf of Duffy including ones from a head teacher, a JP and a retired lawyer.
I would love to know what these “professionals” names are especially the head teacher who is worryingly in charge sculpting the minds of no doubt 100’s of young impressionable children.
Mr McBride said at the trial: “Since the age of 15 Mr Duffy has had a significant difficulty with alcohol.
“Mr Duffy comes from a very respectable background. He is someone who is idiotic. While staggering around in a pub bouncers noticed a bulge in his jacket.
“This incident is out of character. This is a man who has the support of his family and his community.”
Fucking whinge whinge whinge
The court heard that Duffy was given the gun to look after by an unnamed man and was too terrified to say no.
*Coughs* BULLSHITE!
It was reported at the time
Bruce Erroch prosecuting told the court: “At around 2.30am an altercation broke out on the dance flooor after a friend of the accused threw a drink over another reveller.
“Two females then started fighting. The disturbance was noticed by the bar manageress, who summoned three door stewards to break up a fight.”
The court heard that while the stewards were breaking up the fight with the woman they noticed that Duffy had what appeared to be a gun inside his jacket.
Duffy then grabbed the gun and was about to pull it out.
One of the stewards lunged forward and used an arm lock on Duffy and his two colleagues grabbed the hand with the gun in it and forced Duffy against a wall. He refused to release his grip on the gun while the stewards struggled with him.
A member of staff went outside and came across two police officers who returned with him to the nightspot.
Mr Erroch said: “The police officers saw the gun in Duffy’s hand and he had still not released his grip.
“The officers were able to handcuff and disarm the accused, at which point he was told he was being detained in relation to a firearms offence.
“Firearms officers attended at the nightclub and seized the gun. When the gun was examined in the laboratory in Pitt Street, Glasgow, it was found to be loaded with seven rounds of live ammunition.”
The court was told that Duffy then shouted abuse at the officers saying: “Faggot” and ” I bet you can’t get it up.”
So not only is Irishman Anton Duffy a pro-IRA, anti-British sectarian bigot. He is a homophobe with a disturbing interest in Police officers erections.
His Homophobic bigotry does not effect his choice in Q.Cs as he was repesented in 2010 by Paul McBride Q.C who was at the time openly gay.
For his trial in 2015 Irishman Anton Duffy employed the services of Derek Ogg QC who Ironically like Paul McBride QC is Openly gay, -totally at odds with both their religions bigoted dogma- A supporter of Celtic F.C., a former pupil of the Jesuit fee paying St Aloysius college and has previously represented Neil Lennon in disciplinary proceedings before the Scottish Football Association.
Irishman Anton Duffy was also charged at the start of this trial for being part of a plan to murder the governor of Barlinnie prison, Derek McGill, in a car bomb attack.
I wonder what happened to that is it still on going it’s hard to know as this trial -that laid bare for the world to see what Scotland’s shame really was -was never meant to be reported due to a failed attempt at censorship.
I wonder why they would target the governor of Barlinnie prison? Could Irishman Anton Duffy be the same Anton Duffy who in 2003 was reported
A PRISONER who had an affair with a female warden has suffered a vicious beating. Anton Duffy was stabbed, slashed and bludgeoned during the brutal assault. The incident happened in Glasgow’s Barlinnie Prison on Wednesday.
The age adds up. It was also reported that
Duffy was serving almost four years for a range of offences and was involved in rioting at the prison. Duffy was serving almost four years for a range of offences. The insider said: “Duffy used to strut about the jail like he was untouchable. “He was really mouthy and was heavily into drugs. He always had a regular supply so nobody gave him any trouble. “But he would go berserk over nothing. He was extremely violent and very difficult to control. “Maybe he thought he was untouchable because he was so close to an officer. That is a very dangerous set-up indeed.” “They would have had to be very discreet to avoid other prison officers finding out what was going on. “The prisoners said they’d known about it for ages. But nobody wanted to say anything against Duffy. He definitely had something over them all – we just don’t know what. “It seems he moved in straight away with Joanna and they’ve been seen out and about together regularly.”
If it is then this would beg the question Is the drug trade in our top prison controlled by Dissident IRA terrorism?
Sadly anti-British Pro IRA sectarian bigots determined to bring terror and violence to the streets of Scotland like Irishman Anton Duffy are ten a penny and growing in Scotland under the SNP’s watch.
It will only get worse with the likes of the bigot Phil Mac Giolla Bhain -who has spent year upon year demonising and dehumanising the culture that Irishman Anton Duffy thought Johnny Adair and Sammy McCrory epitomised -being courted by the likes of the SNP independence movement and Glasgow’s St Patrick festival.
This cretin did the 180 degree opposite journey of Irishman Anton Duffy’s journey, that is a Scotsman going to Donegal to spread -just like Irishman Anton Duffy- his hatred.
It costs £65,000 to imprison a person in this country once police, court costs and all the other steps are taken into account. After that it costs a further £40,000 for each year they spend incarcerated.
Why should the Great British public spend money on this anti-British, Dissident IRA terrorist who despises everything that our proud country represents and stands for?
Let Ireland deal with him and his cost.
I know that Ireland isnt the Celtic tiger it once was -the apple of Alex Salmonds eye- now its more like a poundland pussy but I think Irishman Anton Duffy has more than a fair kick of the baw in the United Kingdom I think its his Irelands turn.
Yes Dear Reader, from Ireland Anton came, bringing nothing but trouble and shame. Well his terrorist-plan is over. Why dont we send him to Ireland to do his Jail time?
Sepp Blatter and the disgraced ex-Pope Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger have always had, to me, alot in common.
Both are O.A.Ps who are heads of extremely powerful, greedy and corrupt organsations.
Both are extremely out of touch with the common man and woman in the street.
Both think the are untouchable, that their organisations have a divine right too spread their message -In the ex Popes case Religion in Blatters case Football- and everyone else is a heretic.
Both are elected by undemocratic men in closed door elections that have a history rife with blackmail, corruption and intimidation.
Both said they would resign but are still hanging about like a bad smell
But is there something else the disgraced ex Pope and Sepp Blatter have in common?
Sepp Blatter was recently in Russia for the draw of the Qualifying group stages of the world cup in said country which is notable for two reasons.
One, it was his first appearance outside his bolt-hole in Switzerland since two separate corruption inquiries being carried out by the FBI and the Swiss authorities into the conduct of senior officials at the world governing body.
Interpol, who are helping the US agencies, put six men linked to FIFA on their most wanted list, issuing international alerts for two former FIFA officials and four executives on charges including racketeering and corruption.
Two, the only place Sepp Blatter can feel safe from the authorities after FIFA is the country of Russia.
Yip it was the first time wee Sepp had dared to leave Switzerland. Which is unusual for the little free loading creep and the rest of his corrupt FIFA officials as They normally turn up to the opening of a letter if they are being treated like Emperors, wined and dined and sixty nined by some “high class” Eastern European hookers -with presumably good gag reflexes if they have look at wee Sepp and his cronies wrinkly auld dinkles- in various 5 star hotels throughout the world all paid by dollar bills stuffed into brown envelopes.
Do you really think Wee Sepp would have missed out on the FIFA Womans world cup and the chance to leer at -as he put it- Girls in tight shorts if he never thought he was gonna get his collar felt by the FBI?
This scenario got me to thinking off the disgraced ex-Pope Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger. HE “resigned” Ironically nearly a year to the day that Craig Whyte/HMRC put Rangers into Administration.
On 11 February 2013, Benedict announced his resignation in a speech in Latin before the cardinals, citing a “lack of strength of mind and body” due to his advanced age. His resignation became effective on 28 February 2013 Ironically the same day the SPL found Rangers not guilty and Rangers kept all their rightfully won titles.Now if God does exist he is quite cleary a Rangers fan.
But like Blatter, Benedict XVI is still here. He has not vanished into monastic silence like he said he would. He’s still offering comfort for those -ultra right wing conservative Catholics- who prefer his vision to that of Pope Francis
Last month Benedict was still giving speeches, dressed in papal robes in the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo with no signs of the illness and old age that saw him make a sharp exit 2 years ago.
So could the once Head of the Roman Catholic church be on the FBI’s most wanted list just like sleaze-ball Sepp Blatter?
This is not a fanciful Idea, this is not mere hyperbole.
In 2010 when the United Kingdom in a time of austerity and just after the worse financial crisis the world has seen spunked between £10 million and £12 million on the Papal visit of Pope Benedict XVI. This was when at a time when a survey by ComRes found that 77% of people think taxpayers should not be funding the trip, while 79% have “no personal interest” in the tour.
Also at a time when hundreds of tickets had to be reallocated by the Catholic Church following the failure of several dioceses to meet their targets for sales.
At the same time Uber-athesists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens were exploring legal options with solicitor Mark Stephens and human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC for then Pope Benedict XVI to face trial in UK for crimes against humanity.
At the same stime a letter emerged from 1985 in which the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged that a paedophilic priest in America not be defrocked for the “good of the universal church”.
This is the advice they were given by their lawyers – solicitor Mark Stephens and human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC. “I’m convinced we can get over the threshold of immunity,” said Stephens. “The Vatican is not recognised as a state in international law. People assume that it has existed for time immemorial but it was a construct of Mussolini, and when the Vatican first applied to become a member of the UN, the US said no. So as a sop they were given the status of permanent observers rather than full members.”
Stephens said there are three lines of approach to put the pope in the dock. “One is that we apply for a warrant to the international criminal court. Alternatively, criminal proceedings could be brought here, either a public prosecution brought by the Crown Prosecution Service or a private prosecution. That would require at least one victim to come forward who is either from this jurisdiction or was abused here. The third option is for individuals to lodge civil claims,”
He said he had recently been approached by seven wealthy individuals who donated money to the Catholic church and were dismayed their money had not only been used to fund abuse but also buy the silence of victims. These people could potentially sue the pope, Stephens suggested.
Writing in the Washington Post on Friday, Dawkins described Ratzinger as a “leering old villain in a frock … whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.”
Without admitting that he had consulted lawyers he added: “This former head of the Inquisition should be arrested the moment he dares to set foot outside his tinpot fiefdom of the Vatican, and he should be tried in an appropriate civil – not ecclesiastical – court. That’s what should happen. Sadly, we all know our faith-befuddled governments will be too craven to do it.”
So have “our faith-befuddled governments” suddenly grown a set and appled the law to the bishop of Rome just like it would do to everyone else?
Is the former Nazi Hitler youth member Ratzinger hiding out in the Vatican just like the stolen Nazi gold from the Jews in the second world war? Is he hiding from justice just like those prominent Nazis hid with the help of the Vatican and were then smuggled in Africa and South America?
Richard Dawkins explains the case better than I could ever do here below.
The pope should stand trial
Richard Dawkins
Why is anyone surprised when Christopher Hitchens and I call for the prosecution of the pope? There is a clear case to answer Sexual abuse of children is not unique to the Roman Catholic church, and Joseph Ratzinger is not one of those priests who raped altar boys while in a position of dominance and trust. But as so often it is the subsequent cover-ups, even more than the original crimes, that do most to discredit an institution, and here the pope is in real trouble. Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the institution as a whole, but we can’t blame the present head for what was done before his watch. Except that in his particular case, as archbishop of Munich and as Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (what used to be called the Inquisition), the very least you can say is that there is a case for him to answer. See, for example, three articles by my colleague Christopher Hitchens here, here, and here. The latest smoking gun is the 1985 letter obtained by the Associated Press, signed by the then Cardinal Ratzinger to the diocese of Oakland about the case of Father Stephen Kiesle, mercilessly analysed by Andrew Sullivan here. Lashing out in desperation, church spokesmen are now blaming everybody but themselves for their current dire plight, which one official spokesman likens to the worst aspects of antisemitism (what are the best ones, I wonder?). Suggested culprits include the media, the Jews, and even Satan. The church is hiding behind a seemingly endless stream of excuses for having failed in its legal and moral obligation to report serious crimes to the appropriate civil authorities. But it was Cardinal Ratzinger’s official responsibility to determine the church’s response to allegations of child sex abuse, and his letter in the Kiesle case makes the real motivation devastatingly explicit. Here are his actual words, translated from the Latin in the AP report: “This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favour of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the universal church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also unable to make light of the detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke with the community of Christ’s faithful, particularly regarding the young age of the petitioner.” “The young age of the petitioner” refers to Kiesle, then aged 38, not the age of any of the boys he tied up and raped (11 and 13). It is completely clear that, together with a nod to the welfare of the “young” priest, Ratzinger’s primary concern, and the reason he refused to unfrock Kiesle (who went on to re-offend) was “the good of the universal church”. This pattern of putting church PR over and above the welfare of the children in its care (and what an understatement that is) is repeated over and over again in the cover-ups that are now coming to light, all over the world. And Ratzinger himself expressed it with damning clarity in this smoking gun letter. In this case he was refusing the strong request of the local bishop that Kiesle should be unfrocked. Vatican standing orders were to refer such cases not to the civil authorities but to the church itself. The current campaign to call the church to account can take credit for the fact that this standing order has just changed, as of Monday 12 April 2010. Better late than never, as Galileo might have remarked in 1979, when the Vatican finally got around to a posthumous pardon. Suppose the British secretary of state for schools received, from a local education authority, a reliable report of a teacher tying up his pupils and raping them. Imagine that, instead of turning the matter over to the police, he had simply moved the offender from school to school, where he repeatedly raped other children. That would be bad enough. But now suppose that he justified his decision in terms such as these: “Although I regard the arguments in favour of prosecution, presented by the local education authority, as of grave significance, I nevertheless deem it necessary to consider the good of the government and the party, together with that of the offending teacher. And I am also unable to make light of the detriment that prosecuting the offender can provoke among voters, particularly regarding the young age of the offender.” The analogy breaks down, only in that we aren’t talking about a single offending priest, but many thousands, all over the world. Why is the church allowed to get away with it, when any government minister who was caught writing such a letter would immediately have to resign in ignominy, and face prosecution himself? A religious leader, such as the pope, should be no different. That is why, along with Christopher Hitchens, I am supporting the current investigation of the pope’s criminal complicity by Geoffrey Robertson QC and Mark Stephens. These excellent lawyers believe that, for a start, they have a persuasive case against the Vatican’s status as a sovereign state, on the basis that it was just an ad hoc concoction driven by internal Italian politics under Mussolini, and was never given full status at the UN. If they succeed in this initial argument, the pope could not claim diplomatic immunity as a head of state, and could be arrested if he steps on British soil. Why is anyone surprised, much less shocked, when Christopher Hitchens and I call for the prosecution of the pope, if he goes ahead with his proposed visit to Britain? The only strange thing about our proposal is that it had to come from us: where have the world’s governments been all this time? Where is their moral fibre? Where is their commitment to treating everyone equally under the law? The UK government, far from standing up for justice for the innocent victims of the Roman Catholic church, is preparing to welcome this grotesquely tainted man on an official visit to the UK so that he can “dispense moral guidance”. Read that again: dispense moral guidance! Unfortunately I must end in bathos, with a necessary correction of a damaging error in another newspaper. The Sunday Times of 11 April, on its front page, printed the headline, “Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI.” This conjures up – as was doubtless intended – a ludicrous image of me ambushing the pontiff with a pair of handcuffs and marching him off in a half Nelson. Blood out of a stone, but I finally managed to persuade that Murdoch paper to change the headline in the online edition. Never mind headlines invented by foolish sub-editors, we are serious. It should be for a court to decide – a civil court, not a whitewashing ecclesiastical court – whether the case against Ratzinger is as damning as it looks. If he is innocent, let him have the opportunity to demonstrate it in court. If he is guilty, let him face justice. Just like anybody else.
Now I started this Blog demanding the answer did BIG KEITH KNOW? months later the most senior Roman Catholic in the United Kingdom had gone along with the Pope.
Now it would be nice to think my bravery and courage in speaking out in Scotland on-line about the Roman Catholic church that could see me and other imprisoned for a maximum of 5 years simply because I happen to be a Rangers fan -agnostic or not- I had played a part in this momentous moment in world history.
But that would mean one thing that the Roman Catholic church actually gave a shit about their own people they abused. Oh yeah they wouldn’t want the financial hit of a law suit and that’s the crux of the matter and why I think it is more to do with the Question why is Pope Benedict XVI hiding in the Vatican.
I mean there’s no point being the so called Vicar of Christ when you cant spread the message around the world is there?
And you can read it dear reader in a follow up blog you lucky things you!
Stand by your ban to paraphrase the late great country singer Tammy Wynette but its Dolly Parton I have more in mind when writing this blog about Chris McLaughlin and Graham Spiers.
What a great big pair of tits we have here!
And they have appeared to have boobed once too many having had their press privileges and club hospitality removed.
Now all this has echoes of Jim Spence who has recently departed the BBC.
Jim Spence caused uproar with Rangers fans and was carpeted by his London bosses after spreading falsehoods -despite overwhelming empirical evidence from respected governing footballing bodies- that Rangers, a football club had died.
Some Rangers fans wanted Rangers to ban him right there and then for it, but Im going to stand up for oor Jim.
During the broadcast he said:
“John McClelland, who was the chairman of the old club, some people will tell you the club, well, the club that died, possibly coming back in terms of the new chairman.”
Oor Jim never even had the balls to say what we all know he and his fellow Rangers hating BBC and internet bigots believe.
He said “some people will tell you the club, well, the club that died”
Some people will tell you!
Well some people will tell you that Mrs Spence is as ugly as sin. I don’t know I’ve never met the woman I couldn’t possibly comment but some people will tell you that.
I better watch what I’m saying here because it appear oor Jim is a bit handy with the fists.
During the afore mentioned BBC Rangers spat Jim alleged he was verbally abused while out with his wife and indeed reported it to the Police.
A scary harrowing tale I think you would concur dear reader but not for oor brave Jim he offered the ruffian a square go to which -according to Jim-said ruffian shat it and ran away.
As far as I’m aware Police Scotland have not found this man and I’m generally concerned for this chaps welfare for all we know he could be still hiding in a cave traumatised or god forbid jumped of the tay bridge in a state of fear and alarm.
The main problem I had with Jim Spence and some people will tell you this, was there to see for everyone during the recent Celtic Dundee United transfers was that for a publicly funded employee of the BBC he appeared very close too the Dundee United hierarchy and acted in their interest more than once.
A bit Ironic for a hypocrite who would crow about Succulent lamb.
Anyway oor Jim has left the Pacific quay building and dispelled any notion that he was an anti-Rangers, anti-British, sectarian bigot by immediately doing an Interview with Phil “tarred with the sickening sectarian brush” Mac Giolla Bhain a cretin he was extremely close to on-line during his time at the BBC.
Chris McLaughlin and Graham Spiers are not the first Journalists to be “banned” by a football club in Scotland.
Hugh Keevins and Keith Jackson were in Hughs case and is in Keith Jacksons case “banned” by Peter Lawwell from Celtic park
And maybe someone could clarify this but STV’s Peter Adam Smith has not been seen since at Parkhead since he bravely asked some tough questions of Peter Lawwell.
Ironically about should Scottish football should adopt UEFA’s standard of strict liability to deal with supporters who are involved in offensive behaviour at games. To which Lawwell said no and makes Chris McLaughlin petty and pathetic match report of a wonderful advert for Scottish fitbaw the 6 2 game even more petty and pathetic.
Peter Lawwell went on to say to Peter Adam Smith
“Two points: We oppose the offensive behaviour act and certainly, I don’t accept that Irish republicanism is in Celtic’s history – anywhere in Celtic’s history. I don’t recognise Celtic being associated with sectarianism. I don’t recognise Celtic being associated with Irish republicanism.
Which led to uproar from mindless sectarian anti-British Celtic supporting bams tweeting in unison words to the effect off
“Lawwell talks shite. Im a sellick fan, Up The Ra! ah wont be back!”
Which led to Celtic releasing a statement saying words to the effect that they were steeped in Irish republicanism.
Sorry to give this cretin more time but Jim Spence was banned by Dundee F.C here was the clubs statement at the time.
Club Statement re BBC failure to cover Dundee FC matches.
In order to clarify things for those fans who have contacted us re the BBC statement on coverage of Dundee FC over the last two weeks, the club would like to make the our fans aware of the our position.
The Board of Directors of Dundee FC understandably maintains the right to limit or withdraw access to the stadium to an employee of any contractor, supplier or partner who do not follow recognised and accepted guidelines or acts in an unprofessional manner while representing their company. In any circumstance, this position is entirely reasonable and appropriate. Following conduct by a member of BBC staff on more than one occasion which the club feels is below these standards, the club made it clear to the BBC that this member of staff would no longer be allowed access to Dens Park.
The BBC management have been aware of this issue for a number of weeks now and know they are welcome to have full and continued access to Dundee FC and Dens Park as they have had for many years now but unfortunately chose not to do so again today.
Indeed staying in the same shity, sorry I mean City Dundee United in September 2013 effectively “banned” not just the BBC but STV altogether after the SFA upheld Gavin Gunning’s original ban for his challenge on Celtic defender Virgil Van Dijk.
Dundee united were unhappy as the incident which Gunning didnt get caution for, was picked up by TV.
A United spokesman said at the time
“We won’t be doing any interviews with the BBC – or STV for that matter – for the foreseeable future. We want to know who is responsible for what is deemed to be right or wrong – the SFA or the BBC? We want consistency.”
“Nothing had been said until it was shown on Sportscene on the Sunday night. “We’ve been penalised for the way the footage has been edited on the television. “There were other incidents which went unpunished so what we really need is consistency. “Joe Ledley stuck an arm out and was spoken to by the referee but nothing has been done about that. It’s not about getting other players into trouble. It’s just about getting consistent decision-making.”
In my Opinion I think the Journos in this story have been let off lightly in relative terms.
In October 2000 Dundee United’s Chairman Jim McLean lamped one right on the kisser of BBC man John Barnes during an interview watching his side get thrashed 4-0 by Hearts.
But it only seems that when Rangers do something proactive to protect their “Brand” all shit breaks loose with the usual suspects on-line and down south getting back on their horses and charging at windmills once again on.
The BBC says it will use agency journalists to cover Rangers matches from now on what a great opertunity this would be for would be Journalists like Angela Haggerty and Phil Mac Giolla Bhain to get some experience under their belts.
With #Phaggertys obsessional hatred of all things Rangers filing a match report, you wont even notice the B.B.C had gone.
My opinion on this whole saga is that we should all ban the B.B.C and tell them to shove their license fee up their arses.
Not because of football but because of a sense of doing everything that is right and just in this world.
Television morality if you will Alistair Lamont
If you paid your licence fee in the last half a century you have been unwittingly helping to fund a very powerful, very dangerous and organised paedophile ring and the Ironic thing in this is your failure not to do so would see you in prison!
YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS SHITE UP!!!
And the disgusting thing was the heads at the BBC were aware of this!
Oh yes brothers and sisters BIG BEEB KNEW!
And they did nothing about it!
We have allegations the BBC’s creative director Alan Yentob ‘tried to halt’ a BBC probe into Financial and serious sex crimes at the Camila Batmanghelidjh Charity Kids Company where Mr Yentob is also the chairman!!
What is it with these ridiculously dressed people with loads of jangle jangle jewellery?
Hiding in plain sight?
Former BBC director general Mark Thompson who is a former pupil at the fee paying Jesuit school Stonyhurst and Opus Dei member did nothing about Papal Knight Jimmy Savile!
HOW’S ABOUT THAT THEN?
I will end with a phrase from a long running BBC progam.
“Please don’t have nightmares”
Post script
By Janice Burns
BBC Scotland staff accused of sex abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, bosses admit
15 Aug 2013 07:22
THE corporation have refused to reveal the exact number of people involved or the offences they committed.
Sex beast Jimmy SavileSex beast Jimmy Savile
Daily Record
BBC SCOTLAND has admitted several staff have been accused of sex abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, the Daily Record can reveal.
But the corporation have refused to reveal the exact number involved or details about the offences they are alleged to have committed.
They described them as a “very small number of individuals”.
They declined to say whether any of those involved are still on the payroll at BBC Scotland, which has 1250 employees.
The startling disclosure that sex crime claims have been made against its staff north of the border now threatens to engulf BBC Scotland in the Savile scandal which has rocked the London headquarters.
It is unclear whether the allegations have come to light because of victims contacting the BBC in Scotland or through internal inquiries by the corporation.
Police Scotland refused to comment.
Politicians last night urged the publicly-funded BBC to give more detail about what exactly its staff in Scotland have been accused of and how many are involved.
The SNP’s culture spokesman Pete Wishart called said: “There has been a lot of public concern following the revelations at the BBC and the best way to restore confidence in the organisation is through taking an open and transparent approach on this matter.”
The revelation comes through Freedom of Information request asking if BBC staff in Scotland have been the subject of sex abuse claims since the Savile scandal broke,
The request for Scottish statistics was submitted after the BBC in London said in May that 150 “allegations of a sexual nature” had been made been made against 81 BBC employees since October last year.
The request asked for details of how many “worked at or were contracted to work at BBC Scotland”.
BBC Scotland’s Head of Public Policy & Corporate Affairs Ian Small said: “I can confirm that the BBC holds this information.
“However, we are withholding the exact very small number of individuals under section 40(2) (personal information) of the Act, due to the risk of individuals becoming identifiable from such information.
“The individuals concerned would not expect their personal data about allegations of such a nature to be disclosed to a third party.
“To do so would be unfair; therefore, disclosure would breach the First Data Protection Principle (fair and lawful processing)”.
When the Record contacted BBC Scotland, they again refused to divulge the numbers involved or any further detail about the sex allegations.
Former BBC Scotland HQ in Queen Margaret DriveFormer BBC Scotland HQ in Queen Margaret Drive
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A BBC Scotland spokesman said of the FOI response: “The content is accurate but we don’t want to say anything beyond that.”
The man who submitted the FOI request, who wants to remain anonymous, said he asked for the information because he wanted to find out if BBC Scotland was involved.
He said: “I’m disappointed that BBC Scotland refused to reveal the full extent of the allegations, the outcome of them, and whether or not that those the allegations were made against continue to be in employment at Pacific Quay.
“For the organisation to move forward I believe there has to be full transparency and such serious allegations cannot and should not be continually swept under the carpet.
“I submitted the request as I wanted clarity as to whether BBC Scotland was in any way embroiled in the scandal that has engulfed the organisation.
“Sadly it has but I am shocked they are keeping secret the extent and severity of these allegations.
“Evidence I’ve seen so far suggests they haven’t learned the lessons from the Savile case.”
In May, the Beeb said they had been “appalled” by the allegations of harassment and abuse that had emerged since the Savile controversy and insisted that a series of reviews were under way to ensure that lessons could be learnt.
Figures showed 25 recent allegations involving current employees had been reported to the police, the majority of which resulted in no further action being taken. Five remained outstanding. Three resulted in no police action but were currently under investigation at the BBC.
Fifteen were not deemed to be criminal in nature and were investigated internally, resulting in one person receiving an informal warning and two people losing their jobs. Two remained under investigation.
A BBC spokesman said: “We have launched a series of reviews that aim to understand if there are any issues with the current culture of the BBC or the historic culture and practices from as far back as 1965 to see what lessons can be learned to prevent this happening again.
“As part of these reviews the BBC is conducting extensive searches of its records and has asked BBC staff and contributors past and present to share any information that might be useful. Their contributions are vital and we are grateful for them.”
The BBC has been embroiled in sex abuse scandals since it emerged Savile had never been arrested for abusing an “unprecedented” number of children and adults.
The Savile scandal sent the BBC into crisis over its handling of the issue and director general George Entwistle resigned as a result of the fall-out only 54 days into the job.
Last month veteran presenter Stuart Hall was described as an “opportunistic predator” after admitting indecently assaulting 13 girls as young as nine and he was jailed for 30 months.
And on Monday an unnamed 80-year-old man was arrested by Savile squad detectives.
He was the 14th man to be questioned as part of Scotland Yard’s Operation Yewtree inquiry into claims of historic sex abuse at the BBC
He was detained in connection with alleged offences committed with the disgraced former Top Of The Pops presenter Savile.
Operation Yewtree was launched in October last year after Savile was unmasked as a predatory paedophile who had been molesting and raping children across the nation for almost six decades. He died aged 84 in 2011.
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