Celtic Rumours Archive April 17 2012

 

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17 Apr 2012 23:22:29
Collyer Bristow is an LLP which means that even if it lost a £25m it can put itself into administration and liquidation put in place a CVA or pay hee haw to its creditors and the partners can emerge unscathed.
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Nevis

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17 Apr 2012 23:13:25
Everytime a team lose the manager mentions a decision Ed, Kenny does it even when we win! There seems to be a witch hunt against Lennon in Scotland like there is for Suarez in England, so I think every Celtic fan should stay behind him 100 percent, he clearly loves the club.
JFT96
Smithy {Ed007's Note - Careful Smithy, you will end up labelled paranoid mate.}

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Witch hunt for suarez who was charged for racism... {Ed001's Note - no, there was no such thing happening despite the media witch hunt. In fact the FA's own statement pointed out that both they and Evra did not believe he was racist. You are just proving the point, idiots believe everything they read in the papers and see on TV.}

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Well said, the Scottish media are doing such a good job of demonising Lennon even some of the Celtic fans are starting to turn against him, i am sick of people who are saying they are Celtic fans phoning in to phone ins, writing on forums saying that Lennon is a disgrace, he is standing up for Celtic the way Fergie, Dalglish, mourinho, Mark Hughes, O’Neil and Wenger have been doing for their teams for years but as soon as Lennon does it he is totally demonised and branded a bully, the SFA hate Celtic and they hate Lennon even more cause he challenges every dishonest act against him,

C’mon Celtic fans don’t be brainwashed stay behind Neil Lennon 100%

Maesto8

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Very well said. Take standing up further tho.
If there is any ban, Neil and the board should tell the SPL to stuff it and just be in the technical area for Home SPL games, at the very least! And we should boycott all but home games. Sauce for the Goose etc after all

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17 Apr 2012 23:00:13
Does anyone know if Celtic ever have any open training sessions or anything of the sort. I remember an open day last year or the year before or is the best way to get an autograph after the game our waiting outside Lennoxtown ?

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Going up lennoxtown is normally good I managed to get a signed Celtic top after speaking to Charlie mulgrew he left it at reception. It was a nice touch. Best time is toget them when they are finishing at 1

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Cheers for that, I'm out that way tomorrow so I'll take a run up if I can find the place.

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The players are great at lennoxtown.I took my godson last season and every player was wonderful.Autographs and pics a plenty,and a guarantee one wee guy(8) will be a fan forever........green jhedi

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Either that or go to the game Sunday at for park great time to meet the players

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17 Apr 2012 22:58:06
I know what Lennon did was wrong, but I have to admit I found it hilarious.I'm sure every manager gets so annoyed they feel like doing that, but he actually did, good on you Neil lol. You tell the ref he's s**te!
JFT96
Smithy {Ed007's Note - How many managers in the EPL slag off refs Smithy? Have you ever seen so much panic over a manager having run ins with the authorities? You wonder how Brian Clough would have been seen these days.}

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17 Apr 2012 22:56:36
Meant to post the other day but forgot ...when going to the turnstiles at hampden with my 6 year old son and my dad they stopped my any with his newly purchased Champions flag, which was rolled up around the bamboo stick made him open it up so they could check it for offensive messages I assume yet he didnt have a clue what was going on? Ok makes sense to a certain degree but it was bought from one of the vendors about 200 yards away. Fine yet 4 guys who were in front of me in the east stand were drinking a half bottle of the finest tonic wine available (lucky barstewards, 2 quarter bottles of mad dogs one and only orange and blatantly smoked a fag in the stand) they may have been allowed as they were constantly shouting posso fleeto (wee pat any answers) but in all honesty wtf
Bankier bhoy aka canadian pete

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Kind of sums this country up to be honest. On one hand the PC brigade are stopping 6 year olds in case they have managed to scrawl "something offensive" on a flag hes just bought and on the other hand they let a bunch of semi educated, illeterate buffoons in with their liquid lunch. What is this countrys obsession with the bottle??

I got told to dump my can of coke outside in case their was bevvy in it. It was 12.15pm. You couldnt make it up.

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I know, seriously it is the hight of stupidity / ignorance?? What a country we live in.

Oh and celtic park was not much better a few weeks ago against st johnstone. A father had bought his son a bottle of water from the kiosk for his 8 ish year old son only for a steward to shout that he would need to get rid of it etc as it was a bottle

Bankier Bhoy aka canadian pete

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They didnt see the flag in the hearts end which said ....petrov 19 days to go .........sick or what {Ed007's Note - It wasn't in the Hearts end, the pic had been posted on a Hearts forum but as far as I can find out it was actually Birmingham fans that made the sign.}

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17 Apr 2012 22:39:09
Ki's a class act best passer, and will be essential in Europe as we seen when he ran the game against Undinase(spelling) HH

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Sorry.I don't think he is very good at all,been saying it since he arrived,once Kayal is back with brown,ledley and wanyama there is no place for him..time for him to move on

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Shame hes not suited to the spl hes class on his day a wee bit like crosas

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Marc Crosas a great lad but couldn't lace Ki's boots. I am convinced when he (Ki) moves he will be a revelation. I agree with the original poster Ki did well in Europe because he had some space and wasn't constantly fouled. Actually that's a bit like the rest of the team and the reason we did pretty well, save for some terrible defending we would have qualified as that apart our general play was excellent. I notice that has been conveniently forgotten in many quarters!

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Ki is great on his day no doubt about that. Unfortunately he doesn't have many of those days ( semi , final(exc last years wonder goal), old firm games = anonymous). If we had to make a sacrifice it's Ki for me.

Gary

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This has not been forgotten,as you say above, it just wasnt true. The truth of the matter is you only qualified for the group stages on a technicality against a piss poor swiss team when you went crying to uefa. I sincerely hope you are beaten in the qualifiers yet again and spare us all the sight of you humiliating yourselves and our country in the group section of the big boys league. {Ed007's Note - We never went crying to anyone. Sion were warned by UEFA before the ties what would happen if they fielded ineligible players and they preceded to do so. They done what has become known as doing a 'Rangers' in football now, by not caring what the rules are and thinking they can do what they want and get away with it. It didn't work for them and it hasn't worked for Rangers.}

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Ki will be a class act for Celtic.

He needs to be a bit cuter sometimes but he is one of the only players in our team capable of picking a game changing pass. He is very good at keeping posession and against the better teams that is vital. I dont agree with him being annonymous in old firm games either.

Some fans arent happy unless a midfielder is bombing all over the pithch launching into slide tackles. Usually the same fans who thought that Paul Lambert was shyte because he didnt score every week!

Mac

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17 Apr 2012 21:44:09
Its about time celtic allowed their manager to say it how it is and what we all know to be true where did it ever get us keeping quiet desmond and lawell have encouraged him to do it lennon may be a lot of things but he speaks the truth not like the ref who lied to him and was sacked as for dallas still very powerful in scots football hates celtic with a passion and will call on all his bitter and twisted ***** orange friends to stop celtic at all costs so if lennon is punished for telling them there all a lying cheating bunch of catholic hateing b**tards then l am right behind him hail hail

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What are you on.................Its crap like this that helps tom keep the hate and bile flowing, do you think you are any better than the people who spout this type of rubbish from the blue side of glasgow? total tube!
Wibblyblue.

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Couldn't agree more, as long as everybody sticks together, judgement day is coming for them all , remember they need us more than we need them, so I hope the policy of letting the powers that be know we know what they are continues, what they going to do ban all of us, change the rules again ,remember we pay a large percentage of their wages each year.

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Comments like yours keeps scotland in the dark ages mate. Blaming it on orange? Lots of celtic fans are starting to get tired of neil lennons constant tantrums

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Last comment..."lots of Celtic fans are starting to get tired of Neil Lennons constant tantrums " .Is lots the couple of dozen ssb have carefully wheeled out over the last few days?. From what I've seen NL has the support of the vast majority of Celtic fans!

Theres no disputong what dallas is either Wibblyblue or indeed what his intentions are !.....TTTS

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17 Apr 2012 20:56:40
we lose a semi final and everyone turns, eh ed the league was the most important thing Lennon needs to stop blaming ref's
FozzY CSC {Ed007's Note - The league was always top priority Fozzy. It could have been a better season but overall I am happy with it.}

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Happy?? Rangers got deducted 10 points rem ! If that makes you happy I give up!! {Ed007's Note - I was happy winning the league, I was ecstatic Rangers were deducted 10 points into the bargain. I think you will find that most CFC supporters were happy with Rangers being deducted points. It didn't even have any bearing on us winning the league title, it just made it even sweeter.}

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17 Apr 2012 20:27:24
Some bad judgement here guys,Hooiveldt scores again for southampton,why did we let this guy go?He's went to a higher rated league and is shining.I thought he might have done but trusted lenny in his pursuit of wilson.Rasmussen is another who i thought might make a good battering ram,but again zero minutes on the pitch.You gotta ask why?............green jhedi

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Good points.

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Could have been worse. We could have landed his number one centre half target in Sol Campbel.... dodged a bullet in that one.

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Hooiveld never had any confidence big difference playing at Celtic than Southampton. You should know that. Jedi

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Easy with hindsight.

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Must admit mate I thought Rasmussen was going to be a good signing. Thought he might have been similar to big bad john. But each manager has there own players

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He had his chance,injury prone and the Championship is way overerated

Dannybhoy

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I do wonder the same mate. I s'pos it comes down to who Lenny thinks he can trust. His team selections indicates that he sticks to who he knows.

Richybhoy

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Jos hoiveldt are you kidding me on? couldn't tackle ma grannie ffs, poor in the air for such a big guy too, rasmusen fair do probs should a got a decent run imo also but jos? plenty chances i think - talked a good game then came up with very little apart from a twitter account most folk raved at, maybe his playing partner at southampton is the better? yeah he has hit net few times i can agree on that GJ, like your posts but cus usually on the money

davybhoy ktf

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Hoevid could have been given more time but i think in the games he had he looked slow and cumbersome but like all our cb at the time could have been playing while not quite fit, and when izzy is fit i think rogne and mulgrew is the best pairing , leaving loovens wilson and hoevid as cover so maybe this is the reason he went on loan and correct me if im wrong wasnt the transfer money more than we paid ?so before wilson started to look slow and cumbersome this looked a good option , still all ifs and buts , also rasmussen has had game time at his loan clubs and after a couple of early goals at each club he ends up dropped so something must be going on with the boy but in saying that would it do any harm to give him a last chance between now and the end of the season?, these are the two main positions that need filled in the summer so we cant make any more mistakes,,,deep river bhoy

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Got to disagree with you on this one GJ. JH may be scoring goals from corners but can he defend? Loovens has scored a lot of goals but he hopelessly inconsistent and I dont think anyone wants him to stick around either. JH for me when he played his big mates Utrecht when we were gubbed put in a performance so incipid and useless that he should never have worn the jersey again. Not my favourite player and he will be found out big time in the EPL. Sopot Celt

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My issue with this "better league(s)" - sure we have no issue in agreeing the English leagues are of better quality than ours but let's think about this Caldwell - DUD - Captain of Wigan. Maloney - DUD - (when not injured) has been getting rave reviews. McCarthy & McArthur from the mighty HAMILTON always shine in EPL and dare i say it the Rankers reject with Liverpool has done more down there than up here. Only a few examples but maybe these fantastic leagues aren't actually that superior. In direct response to the post Hooiveld was rotten, absolutely rotten for us so no issue with him being sold. Rasmussen has been on loan to a few clubs and sent back by them all, that says something surely.

Gary

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Check out a photo of the Utrecht game after the fourth goal went in.Hooiveld should be angry but he is laughing his head off.I went right off him that night.

Jungle Bhoy.

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17 Apr 2012 19:41:15
just heard dumb and dumber. are suing sir whyte. for 25 million loss of earnings, honestly. bhoys. you could not make this up.

hail hail

Marco1888

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17 Apr 2012 19:26:47
Our daily gift from Dodo FC is:

The administrators are taking court action against Collyer Bristow in the sum of £25m for professional incompitence.

So more legal fees wasted and time delays.

It just gets better and better.

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17 Apr 2012 18:55:53
I will chuck my thoughts in on Mr Lennon. Oh joy i hear you say as you catch a glimpse of the paragraphs that will probably follow. lol

I feel if you are aggreived then you say so.. And he has been rebuffed at any attempt he has made positve, negative calm or angry. so dont blaim him resorting to negative tactics in a sense. He is damned if he does and damned if he doesnt.

I personally dont like seeing him run on the pitch looking aggressive, not a goood image for a football manager at any level.

And this is coming from the guy who had the most penalty minutes in scottish floorball last year! from playing in goal!! which if you know ice hockey rules you will appreciate is a fantastic acheivement. But this is beside the point.

There is no accountability for referees. That can be seen by the everyday fans, there will be procedures behind closed doors and we all have opinions and theories about what these are!. Usually the retort is .. inadequate.

From here on i just want to see Lennon keep his trap shut. Just say we didnt win and thats it. Praise the opposition if needed thats fine. Slate the team if needed. Ignore the referee and their usual ineptitude (not just in Celtic games or in scotland its everywhere) and let the referees decisions speak for themselves. Controvertial or poor refereeing will come to the fore without Neils intervention. He is doing himself no favours although i would probably act very similarly (hence the penalty mins comment) But on the scale of scrutiny he is under, when asked of a decision he could simply say well watch the tv reply and make your own mind up on decision a, b or c. and leave it at that.

No one likes being told they are doing a poor job, even when they are, and the SPL/SFA referees are no different and when they have the level of protection they do from the Hampden pits of hell, then you are hitting your head off a brick wall Neil.

Theres crossing the line and this has not really been done, yes its not a great site seeing him run on the pitch and i feel this is the most out of line he has been all year. Heat of the moment is no longer an excuse.

Let the referees actions speak for themselves, and then at the end of the year he can say over the piece the referees inadequacies had a huge say on the awards dished out and this isnt how the game should be.

Referees need to remember they are there to impliment the rules as they see, and face concequences if they are consistantly wrong. But for too long this has not been the case. A more helpful attitude between teams and refs is a must in order to improve the conditions and make them more comfortable calling it as they saw. I will say it was a poor decision but if the referee says he say it this way or that way, thats the way he saw it, his decision is final afterall and if he sees it wrong there should be something afterwards to review this so he sees things in the right way from there on (and no Rangers fans i dont mean through Green glasses).

Im kindof saying give the refs a break but also give them a hard time. Sometimes silence means more than actions and Neil would do well to try this approach more. He would gain more respect from others outwith Celtic and from refs in general ... maybe. Its not an easy subject to fix and fix quickly, all fans of all clubs think referees are poor in general. But how about trying to support them, and give credit to those that choose to do it cos lets face it how many of us have wanted to be a referee at the top level in any country? Not many thats for sure.

Once again, not sure im Im making sense here.... really need to read things over rather than type what i think and hit send!!... maybe one of these days!

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The day after in the daily rag they rolled out Dallas to give his tuppence worth on it, not sure if they knew he was going to have a dig or not.....the point he made about harry"where is your dug" rednapp not moaning to the ref and making a big deal of it is this.....the ref held his hands up and admitted an honest mistake and made his peace with Harry.
Up here the refs are bomb proof and know this so go about with an air of arrogance that any honest mistakes or otherwise do not need to be explained to anyone....take dougie for example then the cover up attempt by the establishment, Neil I would say very little in after match interviews. I find the best way is just to shake your head a smile it has more effect on them. It just lets them know we know their game. HH

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Evinguu, could you give us all a precise of above in about 50 words LOL Timalloy

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The moral of the story is ,if your dog has a bank account make your peace with the ref ... Dificulty with that is in Scotland the effin dogs are the refs

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This guy bores me to death anybody else
hey pal stick to floorball although you aint no henke,do you think you are some sort of journo, cos your not
Neil lennon we love you(keep sticking up for our club mate),.,.,.kbarry

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Dude no one is forcing you to read are they!! if it bores you fair doos thats your opinion. and the above is part of mine. This is a platform for opinion is it not? Just because i hold a more general opinion on sport and football and its governance as a whole that can be said in more words than "we love neil lennon (keep sticking up for your club), doesnt mean im trying to be a journo. Im just long winded! Nowt wrong with that. If you dont like it ... tough!!

Evinguu

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Kbarry. Is it because it contains long sentences and paragraphs that it bores you? I know it isn't the small caption in the corner of page 3 and doesn't come with any pictures but if you can focus long enough to read it Evingu makes a lot of sensible points: keep calm in the face of adversity and respect for Neil will rise - act like a two year old throwing a tantrum and he will get spanked like one; ref's incompetence will get highlighted anyway; respectful dialogue between officialdom and clubs is the only way forward for all clubs when they feel wronged (remember the amount of trouble Craig Levein got into with SFA and Neil Lennon and Celtic are far higher profile than Levein and Hearts). The SFA will not accept any form of open criticism from any quarter as they see it as a direct challenge to their authority and will clamp down hard, rightly or wrongly, to keep everyone else in check. That is what institutions do to maintain order. By all means fight the good fight if you feel slighted but be smart about it - do it quietly through the lawyers and by presenting evidence proving their incompetence and if it is suppressed for any reason then present the information publicly (leaked by an unknown source if necessary) so we the fans can judge for ourselves. Aggression and 'heat of the moment' reactions achieve nothing other than to get the backs up of the people you are trying to change and widen the margin that already exists. I would say sorry for the lengthy reply but no doubt it is too sensible for you and you returned to your comics after the second sentence. Rational, sensible, objective reasoning Evingu, not enough of that on these sites in my opinion. Enjoyed your post.

Brian

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Brian, Appreciated that dude, thanks! Agree with your summary there aswell

Can take digs etc no problems with that, christ Timalloy and Wee Pat seem to be enjoying that at the min lol. But theres no need to be plain rude. I dont claim to be this morally upright rational guy and im not posting to entertain others. Im trying to entertain myself by either partkaing in debate or getting my own opinion to a wider audience for discussion. fair enough if im wrong you cant always be right dont mind people disagreeing and counter arguing your point, its what discussion is about!., but that post earlier is pretty petty.

Ed i'm liking this Brian guy lol

Evinguu {Ed007's Note - I agree Evinguu. I even suggested the other day that Brian starts classes for Rangers fans called Posting for Adults.}

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Ed is that not a bit too advanced?

Evinguu {Ed007's Note - They need to start somewhere ;-)

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Steady lads, lol! When I first read Ed's suggested class name I had to read it twice to make sure I understood the meaning. My first thought was that I was sure they were more than capable of finding those types of sites by themselves! Too advanced? I am not overly intelligent and don't claim to be better than anyone else but it is far from advanced on both sides unfortunately. Rational and objective thought is colour blind (at least in terms of blue and green) it would appear. I don't envy you your job either Ed. I was trying to read one of the posts a minute or two ago and gave up as the grammar and spelling must have been in 'txt' language and I couldn't understand a single word of it so went and made a cuppa. Sure he was making an 'advanced' point though. ;-)

Brian

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17 Apr 2012 18:38:05
Get off Ki's back eh Bhoys ?

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Sorry mr ki

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Are you serious? Maybe the player himself should follow your advice and stay on his feet instead of trying to con a last minute penalty? If its good enough for Naismith and Aluko surely its good enough for him naw? {Ed007's Note - You got someone talking about a penalty decision, a history of what the OP has ever said about diving and bring Rangers into the thread while comparing it to Rangers players diving, and all that from two posts that have a total of 9 words between them? That is almost a Sherlock Holmes-esque deduction. If you have anything else that is nothing at all to do with anything to randomly add to pots, please feel free. Pay particular attention to Wee Pat's, with your unbelievable powers of deduction I have no doubt even you will be able to make sense of them. Just do what you done here, get straight into the typing, don't think about anything, least of all whether it is relevant or not.}

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Excuse me Ed but which part of my post got lost in translation? It has EVERYTHING to do with SOMETHING... a blatant dive and bad sportsmanship.

No amount of incoherant babbling from you will change that fact. {Ed007's Note - I took the original post to be from a CFC fan who is against the section of fans who want Ki sold. No mention of diving or anything, your input was irrelevant to the thread as it had nothing to do with it, it is not a difficult concept, we do try to keep it simple, although not simple enough for some I guess.}

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My reasoning was in my opening. A play on words to the OP but point taken.

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I am the OP and yes i am serious ! I agree he may find our game to physical sometimes and maybe he would get alot more time on the ball in another league but i believe he deserved more game time this season and has been a great impact sub on many occasions this season . MIKEYBHOY

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17 Apr 2012 16:43:54
If the SFA give Lennie a lengthy ban , then it must be time for the Celtic board to take them full on, I'm quite sure the will have the full backing of the fans, time to call their bluff , give no co-operation to them , let them know they are not welcome at Celtic Park , I could think of a few more like withdrawing from the next Scottish Cup but that might be too much for some people but these people must be taken on , even Craig Whyte laughs at them.

Vatman

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He deserves a decent ban. Get your head out of the sand and be honest. The goal we scored was offside, and other than the 2 Ki headers we rarely troubled the hearts keeper. No excuses, we didn't win because we didn't play well enough.

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Pre post....get out of here, on to your own page! hoopers goal he might be 2cm off but its to close to call and he was on with back foot and 3/4 body onside with his front foot in the air 2cm off. we had most possession tons off crosses and post hit...we took the game to them but did not have the best game...we cant win every time! but saying that it should have went into extra.

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I dnt tink the original post was jus bout da hearts game true we didnt deserve da win n was a bit mad neil runnin on to pitch the way he did bt a 17 match ban (dats almost da same as cantana for fly kickin a fan) if wat ive read on here is true is a bit over the top dats almost half a season dey wud hav bin better off jus askin celtic da sack him fs

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Totally agree no excuses,getting a bit tired of lennon blaming everyone bar himself,neils tacticts are shocking,cant understand some of his selections and anyone who disagrees cant be watching the same celtic ive been watching,we havent kicked a ball since before the aberdeen game,as much as i love neil i dont think he can take us any further.

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I like how you see he was 2cm offside with part of his body? 2cm with any part of your body(other than your arms) is still offside!! yet when the ball bounces off one players hand... onto another players hand... you cry conspiracy

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Hearts deserved the win we were not good enough good luck to both teams in the final

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Withdraw from the next Scottish Cup ??
Probably won't get by the first round anyway, So wouldn't matter one way or another.

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17 Apr 2012 16:36:44
What is all this drivel about broony to Sunderland he won't go he loved winning the league, I have heard a lot of people say he is a rangers fan, I for 1 don't think that's true, let's all do the broony! {Ed007's Note - He was a Rangers supporter growing up.}

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I went to school with Ross mc cormack he was a Celtic fan growing up and now he won't say a bad word against rangers, think he grew to love that club, and I think broony loves Celtic

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I come from the same Fife village as Broony and many of his family still stay there. Ed, Broony is not and never has been a Rangers fan, the majority of his family favour them, although not ardently, lets put this Broony used to be a Rangers fan thing to bed. {Ed007's Note - So who did he 'favour'? Kevin Thomson (his best friend for years) has said on many occasions that Brown supported Rangers and Brown's own mother said how surprised the family and the community were when he was signing for CFC. Although it makes no difference to me it is obviously important to you.}

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Who cares he is with us {Ed007's Note - Exactly.}

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He and his whole family are huge rangers fans . My brothers has been friends with him primary. He also has a rangers tattoo on his ankle. Needless to say he isn't any more. He was winding all the gers fans up at Xmas at my local.

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Ed why do you always think your right when really all your doing is speculating? {Ed007's Note - Speculating over what exactly?}

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Wen did he stoap growin up ed? {Ed007's Note - He is a fine, mature and upstanding member of the community that any club would be proud to have as a title winning captain Pat. He is a model professional and carries himself with a demeanour becoming his position as an idol to millions and perfect role model for any youngsters. As if you of all people needed to ask wee man.}

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Who cares anyway the wrong ones hate him and thats good enough for me, If he was a fan then why sign for us ?. I would never wear a gers top for any amount of money

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Jock Stein, Willie Wallace, Dixie Deans, Danny McGrain, Kenny Dalglish, Murdo McLeod, Davie Provan, Billy Stark, Craig Burley, Paul Lambert to name but a few who grew up in the dark but came to see the light (even if McLeod and Burley seem to have regressed their league champion medals will always say Celtic on them). Don't care who they supported as youngsters, do you think Heart fans care that John Robertson was a Hibee as a kid, or Liverpool fans worry that Robbie Fowler was a blue growing up? If Scott Brown sees out this contract he will have spent 10 years as a Celtic player, most of them as captain. As a Celt he has a full house of domestic medals and looks certain to add significantly to that in the years to come. And remember in heaven they rejoice every soul that comes in, but they celebrate doubly for a sinner that has repented.

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"HE LOVED WINNING THE LEAGUE".
All done now my friend, he knows it was only won because of the problems at Ibrox and it will never happen again in his playing time, a move to a better team in a bigger league for more money, why wouldn't he want to go.
Then he could start cheering for the Gers again like he has always wanted to, after all he took himself off the park at the weekend leaving on a player that cost the game just to stop the double.
ONE TAINTED LEAGUE don't make a season...

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Not a rangers fan? He had to get his Rangers tattoo covered up. Not saying that he isn't committed to Celtic now but I can assure you that he was and is family still are massive Rangers supporters

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Tainted title? we pay or taxes to the queen you sing about, tainted is not paying the face painters the plumbers the paper shop the taxi company. I hope you think about this the next time your at hospital or need the police your lot don't contribute to. tainted YER AXXX.

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17 Apr 2012 14:22:26
Lamentably, NL has walked right into the SFA, media and referees line of fire by confronting the ref on the pitch on Sunday.
With a 'predictable' outcome - 17 match ban!! Half a season! (About the same as Cantona got for drop kicking a member of the public live on TV). In itself, isolated, confronting the ref is not that big a deal. Remember the Man utd players haranging a ref? Ballack against Barca in CL Semi? But they are not managers and sometimes I think when its not going his way, Neil reverts to the mindset of a player.
I would like to seem him use his undoubted intelligence, wit, sense of irony and some sarcasm when dealing with the media up here. Play the game. Their game. Come off t**tter etc and drop some obsessive, strange people in an instant. Eventually we would see that people don't dislike him because: 'he's a wee angry head' 'a wee ned' 'a moaner' or 'the way he carries himself' 'the way he looks' 'the way he speaks' or 'he lacks dignity' or my favourite....'I don't know................there's just something about him....' all that would be left for the haters is the same reason he caused a reaction since the day he signed for Celtic.........
Sadly, its His background and where He is from.............kbt1978

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Exactly what he should do mate, well said! At least then the real reason for their 'dislike' of the great man can no longer be hidden.....bigotry and sectarian hatred!........martyc1888

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We need two things for next season whilst Mr Lennon is in the stand as looks more likely with every passing minute. A German coach to support him and do his job on the touchline until such times as he returns (as Thommo et al aren't up to it) We also need a solicitor to sit with Lenny when he returns to the dugout. He has a bodyguard to protect him from the physical violence he now needs a lawyer to protect himself from the non-physical vile and violent thoughts against him. I think we need a German coach in the interim as they are master technicians and tacticians. BTW Bertie Vogts was a joke in Germany long before he came to the SFA.

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Maybe a long ban is what he needs to realise that he is no longer a player, so he can no longer react like a player, he is in a position of respobsibility and must act occordingly - everyone excepts that people cant hold onto their emotions all the time. But when he comes out and accuses referees of "personal" attacks on him, forgetting his side were "fortunate" to receive an offside goal in the same game... as for being a great man? dont remember big jock, wee martin or wee gordon strachan running after referees, questioning their integrity, accusing them of personal attacks - they did their talking with their tactics on the pitch

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It's not his background or were he is from that makes people dislike him.
It's because he is a total w@n&er...

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17 Apr 2012 14:17:38
I see the anti Celtic media is going into overdrive with there Neil lennon is all things evil drivel, I think it's a sad attempt to try and tarnish our mostly great season. In Lennon we trust.

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When we were 15 points behind if anyone had said we would win the league people would have laughted . now we clawed them back the shame went into administration after that as we would have made wee bhoys of them ......WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

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17 Apr 2012 14:11:34
Ng a life long Rangers fan , says San the Strais Times journalist???

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Sorry, "Straits"

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17 Apr 2012 13:48:20
Hi ed. Just on my lunch there and the highlights of the Aresnal game was on. Mr Wenger was going mental on the side lines. Shows him at least 3 times roaring in the face of the fourth official and waving his finger in his face. If that was Lenny he'd be send straight to stands. I mean he was really going for it. Bigirishmac {Ed007's Note - Wegner has always been a hothead on the touchline, any committed manager is if you watch them.}

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The difference with this although he does get heated with a fourth official the difference between him and lennon is the sheer aggression in lennons face just goes too far! in any other walk of life running 40 yards to confront someone is intimidation

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17 Apr 2012 13:36:47
I wanted to try and sum up my feeling towards the unfortunate situation Lennon finds himself in at present and see if others thought the same.

Casting our minds back a tad, John Reid, Celtic and McBride (RIP) started the process of standing up to the crooked SFA and refused to accept the wrong and currupt decisions that were going against us. For a time we had them on the run and it worked in our favour. Unfortunately since this time, the powers that be have looked for any opportunity to get back at us as we really put their noses out of joint. This of course was to be expected.
However this season especially, our beloved manager has lost his temper too many times giving them the ammunition they need to bring us back down to size and to get away with more baised decisions against us. They know they can rely on Neil being a person they can push a wee bit in order for him to lose the plot. His outbursts then completely overshadow the outragous decisions against us and enable them to throw the book at him, which they will do.
I want Lennon to stay for a long time, I want him and us to be successful, I want scottish football to be held accountable, but until he can keep his temper in check, I hate to say it, it is making us look bad as a club and aiding them to cover up their agenda.
(any thoughts ed?)
Yours in Celtic, WuTangBhoy {Ed007's Note - It goes further back than that, remember SFA Chief Executive Jim Farry was sacked in 1999 for gross misconduct when he deliberately held back Jorge Cadete's registration.}

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"baised decisions against us" you talking about the
Ki dive for a penalty at the end when he should have been booked- that went for you.
The Celtic goal that was offside that you got. - that went for you.
The Hearts penalty that wasn't a penalty i must admit - went against you.
The celtic appeal for a penalty that wasn't a penalty clearly didn't hit his hand.
You must think that no other club in the SPL get dicisions against them and your the only team that the Ref's are against.
You should read the other comments about sundays game on here from Celtic supporters who have a true view on what happened on Sunday without blaming other people. The Officals cant see everything just look at the ball that crossed the line at celtic park this year and wasn't given, thats life get over it and move on.

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What about when the SFA and other clubs agreed to cut Celtic some slack in 1994 to let the new stadium get built? It seems to have been conveniently forgotten that the old Celtic regime failed to make provision for Celtic Park to be made all seated in time to conform withn the MANDATORY provisions of the Taylor Report. In essence, your old board (who had four years notice from issue of the TR) chose to avoid investing in the stadium to the detriment of supporters health and safety. Sporting integrity anyone....................? {Ed007's Note - What slack was cut there, it was a perfectly legal and above board deal to rent Hampden, anyway, that was the old board, you know the way Rangers fans are blaming David Murray now? It was an very expensive favour as well. As for your health and safety argument, I take it you have heard of asbestosis and the problems Rangers are facing with asbestos needing removed from Ibrox, that being one of the reasons they have met with SFA officials about the possibility of renting Hampden next season......where have I heard of that before now????? Surely you are running out of straws to clutch at now, your desperation would be tedious if it wasn't so damn funny.}

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Ed, of course it was the old board, no one is saying anything else.......all I'm saying is that people is glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Fergus McCann and the current regime have shown great acumen and prudence (unlike messrs Murray and Whyte) but ignoring your repost for a moment doesn't take away the actions/ inactions of your previous board. {Ed007's Note - I am still waiting on an answer to what slack CFC were cut to rent Hampden.}

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17 Apr 2012 12:51:14
If rangers were stripped Of titles & other honours what sort of compensation, if any, would teams aim to be getting? Knowing that they are in administration and the likelyhood is minimal.. Just a though but wondering what others think? Pmbhoy

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You cant win them by yourselves so you want 2nd hand trophies you lot are really aff yer heads man..

Tam-Sir 1873 stop makin you and your club look daft celtic people..

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I wonder if all their co-efficient points they earned in europe over those years would also be stripped, plunging Scotlands co-efficient into the depths? {Ed007's Note - It could only do that of other teams were involved in any wrongdoing. Other teams didn't know Rangers were fraudulently gaining points. It also never affected Italy's co-efficient, and that was for match fixing.}

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Should it come to it and titles were stripped...I wouldn't want any tainted trophy and i'm sure Celtic wouldn't either. Mrs E

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Best thing to do is (saw it suggested maybe on this site) strip the record books bare of the tainted titles dont award them to anyone ,just a dotted line ,and let the SPL and SFA explain about Zombie fc (sorry about copyright infringements there)and their scandlous past......TTTS

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Don't laugh to loud their backer Peter Lin is worth a fortune, look him up in the Internet. {Ed007's Note - His name is Peter Lim, not Lin, look up his business associate Joe Sim and their connection with Bryan Robson. Channel 4 done a documentary on them last year about how to make money from struggling football teams.

Note the part 'he said that profits could be made by selling and relocating club's training grounds':

www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/ferguson-dismisses-club-takeover-tv-claims-2316052.html

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Probably the same amount rangers got from marseille being stripped of the champions league...

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You got your compensation this season, The League, Rangers were very generous to let you have it so the least you could do is say THANKS...

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17 Apr 2012 11:26:58
Clyde 1 SSB was pure gold last night (tbh i prefer Roughie!) but to hear RH try to explain that the only reason Craig 'wealth off the radar' Whyte's background was not checked was because 'he's one of those guys that paid to get his records removed from Google'! You could feel HK's discomfort at every question over the airwaves.
It's took a football outsider from England to show up the lazy, sycophantic journalistic style in Scotland. Murray threw them scraps for years. Common knowledge about recent events was shared online - but was not being reported in the 'normal' media. The DRanger journos most likely too busy gorging themseleves on 'succulent lamb'!
I commented on the sycophants on here recently and a reply commented on me being a 'sad man'. I'm not as sad as the 'respected' journalist about to receive a chap at the door for potentially bigoted threats - a presbyterian seeing too - according to the respected C4 journalist and presenter.
The more we hear about Rangers and Murray and the 'establishment' the murkier it gets.
Remember 'Celts in Crisis' with crest split in two after friendly defeats in the USA? You can see it in a different light this morning.
What do you think Ed? kbt1978 {Ed007's Note - There will be more to come yet.}

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Well said that man.I think its about time that every murky deal,handshake,nod nod is brought to light

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Listed to it last night. Disappointed he was only on 20 minutes but Hugh Keevins and Roger Hannah didn't know where to hide. RH made a remark that there is more to come with the Rangers case but he was unable to say due to legal reasons. Whoever the person was who threatened Alex better beware as Strathclyde Police will be coming a knocking at our door and you will be named and shamed as a bigot and charged with sectarian offences. The Scottish Journalists better start to investigate more thoroughly instead of the usual half-heartened approach.

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Alex thomson is an egotistical joke. Passes off stories already in the papers up here as his own then cites what is clearly a spoof twitter account as proof of a threat. He's the damian from drop the dead donkey! Laughable and the level of hero worship is embarassing. {Ed007's Note - It is nothing to do with a spoof twatter account. It's only the gullible Rangers fans that want to believe that. Do you not think the police and the man himself would know what they are dealing with, if it was the alleged parody account it would be sorted out in no time. As you know I don't read any the red tops, so what one of them carried the story about Martin Bain and Campbell Ogilvie using the EBT scheme? Could you post me a link to it, please?}

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Nice retort ed.

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17 Apr 2012 11:37:01
Good Morning ED007, just catching up on posts overnight on Rangerstaxcase and among things that caught my eye was a post from the editor of RTC who said that the Rangers team that won the league in 2005 at Easter Road the ENTIRE team were on EBT's...

He worked out from Rangers accounts published that £14.4m was spent that season, if Celtic were to spend the equivalent on wages it would have cost £28.8m, SDM's boast of a tenner for a fiver comes true. I believe the RTC editor is a prudent man and would not go public with these facts without first being able to prove it with proper documentation...

My point is if RFC(IA) are now found guilty of blatant cheating (an entire team) then surely titles and cups must be taken from them and given to next team.

I also find it strange that not one person from SFA either questioned
this or even looked into it...
Any thoughts ED007? Timalloy {Ed007's Note - I have said all along Tim that Campbell Ogilvie really needs to go public with what he knows and what part he played in these deals. I would think if proven true Rangers would be stripped of titles, I wouldn't be keen on them geting passed onto anyone else though.}

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Agree with you ed - a little * next to each title one and the comments title stripped from rangers for financial cheating & doping

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17 Apr 2012 10:21:26
How much do you think we would want for scott brown if he goes to a premier leauge club in the summer ed? {Ed007's Note - I don't see Brown leaving.}

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I dont see why not he's won the title with celtic he has nothing much to play for ed and he might want to see what its like to play in the best leauge in the world a club like Sunderland or Newcastle would suit him {Ed007's Note - There were clubs in the EPL ready to offer him a contract when he got into the 6 month window for Bosman negotiations. He refuted them all to sign again for CFC. That would have been financially a silly thing to do if he was looking to leave.}

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17 Apr 2012 11:16:24
Scott Brown to Sunderland?

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Hope so Hes not dependable enough when he good hes good but when hes having a bad day he sucks

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Good God kindergarten has closed early today!!

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Should keep him starting to play like a celtic player

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Sunderland would probably be a good move for him he will play alongside cattermole pretty good paring that would be

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17 Apr 2012 07:29:02
sammy heading back to athens today at glasgow airport.
wonder if were gonna see some fringe players the next 2 games before rangers?

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Probably aloud a few days off

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