Referees' Strike - for those interested!

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Enough of this charade. This is a smoke screen and you know it. How many of the fans involved in the poppy protest have been banned from Ra Sellic?



Oh that's right, none, even after Dr.Death promised to move mountain and earth to ban those involved. How hard is it to correlate a seat number with a season ticket?

Celtic promise to ban fans responsible for displaying anti-poppy banner - Telegraph

Some investigation. Whitewash more like. Scotland's shame.

It is what is is, a political point. They never pissed on Winston Churchill's monument, they never swung from a flag hanging from the cenotaph, they never poked Camilla. A quiet, dignified display of political belief which you disagree with. Yet you are still upset weeks later.

Celtic fans a politically aware, Rangers fans are just grunts who cannot hide their hatred of Catholics.

Is there any point in arguing what is the truth?

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I'd be more worried about your own club and their complete failure to prevent the singing of banned songs, the takeover that looks to be stalling again, their desperation to flog their top scorer in the january window to placate the bank and HMRC, and the fact that they can't rustle the money together to fix a burst pipe or two.
Let us hope dodgy dave has not let his insurance policies lapse.

Reigning champions
Top of the league
In Europe post Xmas
Humped our main rivals last game at their pigsty
Main players coming back for January
Manager not sent to the stands for next OF game

Which of those above can the Dhims claim.

I'll give you a clue, it's the same number as has been banned for the shameful poppy banner.

Mind The Gap

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Looks like it is all kicking off again this morning.

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Scottish Football Association chiefs accused over second child abuse spoof - The Daily Record

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Ahem.

CELTIC'S LUCK HOLDS

HAD referee, Micky Tumility done his job properly at Tannadice, Celtic would be going into Sunday's Old Firm game at Parkhead without a proper right back.

However, Micky made what is often referred to by those with Celtic DNA as an "honest mistake," in deciding Wilson's terrible tackle, which scythed Craig Conway, was not worth a yellow card.

For that would have been Wilson's second yellow and would would have led to a red, which would have ruled him out of facing Rangers.

Even Neil Lennon admitted the offence was worth a caution, with Wilson revealing he knew he was lucky he was to stay on the park.

As I have said in the past, referees make mistakes, and they are all of the honest variety. Celtic, and their supporters, always appear to question this, with the club often seeking clarification.

No doubt there will be no request for clarification this time. Micky Tumilty got it wrong and Celtic got the benefit.

It is, as everyone outside of Parkhead has always known, swings and roundabouts.

However, what happened on their latest controversial visit to Tannadice, merely served to underline why I believe Celtic will win the league.

One reason is that they are playing well. And another is that they are having the luck of the devil these days.

For instance, their opening goal against Dundee United took a massive deflection, as did their second. And then came Wilson's great escape, courtesy of Micky Tumility's honest mistake.

Good players, playing at the top of their form, and good luck, plus honest mistakes, is a potent brew, and right now Celtic have all of those ingredients and look capable of sweeping all before them.

In fact, it is difficult to see how they can be halted in their tracks, and with the venue for Sunday's game being Parkhead, they have the added ingredient of home advantage.

Granted, this has not come into play so far this season, with Rangers winning there earlier in the campaign, while Celtic triumphed at Ibrox in the league and were unlucky not to win when the team drew there in the Scottish Cup.

However, the edge so often gained by being on home territory in these matches, must assert itself soon, and Sunday could well be the day it does.

And, should Mark Wilson, who has at last found the way to goal after years of seeming not to know its whereabouts, scores a decisive goal against Rangers, then Tumilty's honest mistake will have played a part in helping Celtic to win, not just one, but two games.

Games that may very well prove to be the ones which decide the destination of the Scottish championship

leggoland

So Dhimmies, what do you reckon, Celtic to seek 'clarification'? My arse.

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Ahem.



leggoland

So Dhimmies, what do you reckon, Celtic to seek 'clarification'? My arse.

Plagiarising FollowFollow now?

Desperate or what?
Getting your excuses in early I see.
Wilson's first booking was for exactly the same thing Whittaker did last week at the Bernabile without censure.

RunningScaredLoyal

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Ahem.



leggoland

So Dhimmies, what do you reckon, Celtic to seek 'clarification'? My arse.

This is the chap who locked himself in the Bowling Club Toilets for 4 days.

A Scottish man is flushed with emotion this week after being trapped in a toilet for four days.

Retired teacher David Leggat was locking up his local bowling club in Aberdeen when he popped to the loo before heading home.

Unfortunately, the door jammed and the outside handle fell off while he was in the cubicle, leaving him trapped inside with no mobile phone to call for help.

Because he had previously been on a survival course, the enterprising 55-year-old kept warm by dipping his feet in hot water, although he admitted he could not sleep much because it was so cold.

Sustenance came from sips of cold water, until the club's cleaner finally heard Mr Leggat shouting for help.

"At least there was a toilet to use," the optimist told Aberdeen's Evening Express newspaper after his ordeal.

"The only thing I regret is not getting trapped behind the bar."

Some sanitary statistics released to coincide with the launch of the World Toilet Association last month revealed that the average man spends three years of his life sitting on the bowl, a figure which may need to be adjusted after Mr Leggat's toilet trauma.

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Plagiarising FollowFollow now?

Desperate or what?
Getting your excuses in early I see.
Wilson's first booking was for exactly the same thing Whittaker did last week at the Bernabile without censure.

RunningScaredLoyal

From the donkey's arse, so to speak:

This wasn't their only "what if" moment, as Wilson (already booked for his post-goal celebration) admitted that he should probably have received a second yellow card when he fouled Craig Conway for the free-kick which produced United's goal.

He said, "It was a bad tackle. I can only thank the referee for not sending me off because I feared the worst. It was probably worth a booking."

The Courier - Match report: Dundee United 1 Celtic 3

However, I'm not bleating about the fact Wilson stayed on the pitch, I'm pointing out the lack of bleating from the Dhimmy's about this 'honest mistake.' No conspiracy this week then?

If we lose, it'll be due to the SPL fixture pile up, that's my excuse and I'm getting it in early. Just like last time, 4 games in 8 days will lose us the league. We will be punished for being so successful.

Who cares though, we do quite well in the Europa anyway and we all know the Dhims get stage fright come Champions league time. So whilst your debt goes up, ours slowly comes down.

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However, I'm not bleating about the fact Wilson stayed on the pitch

Nor should you be. The pitch was extremely sodden and Wilson's momentum carried him through the tackle more than normal. Presumably the Ref made allowances for the conditions.
What was probably of more importance however was the fact that Conway did not make a big drama out of it, angrily gesticulating in the Ref's face for a card to be shown, in the time-honoured Rangers stylee!!

If it rains on sunday expect most of those wearing blue to be falling over like indignant skittles right left and centre.

Oh and finally, it won't be a fixture congestion that loses you the league, it will be the fact that most of what passes for talent in your paper-thin ageing squad already has one eye on the exit door. That and the fact that we have a younger, stronger, fitter, deeper, and much more committed group of players than you.

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Priceless!!! A letter to the Rangers Owner David Murray regarding RFC Tax matters.............


Dear Mr Murray,

I am writing to you to express our thanks for your more than prompt reply to our latest communication, and also to answer some of the points you raise. I will address them, as ever, in order. Firstly, I must take issue with your description of our last as a ‘begging letter’. It might perhaps more properly be referred to as a ‘tax demand’. This is how we, at the Inland Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy; traditionally referred to such documents.

Secondly, your frustration at our adding to the ‘endless stream of crapulent whining and panhandling vomited daily through the letterbox on to the doormat’ has been noted. However, whilst I have naturally not seen the other letters to which you refer I would cautiously suggest that their being from ‘pauper councils, Lombardy pirate banking houses and pissant gas-mongerers’ might indicate that your decision to ‘file them next to the toilet in case of emergencies’ is at best a little ill-advised. In common with my own organisation, it is unlikely that the senders of these letters do see you as a ‘lackwit bumpkin’ or, come to that, a ’sodding charity’ . More likely they see you as a citizen of Great Britain, with a responsibility to contribute to the upkeep of the nation as a whole.
Which brings me to my next point. Whilst there may be some spirit of truth in your assertion that the taxes you pay ‘go to shore up the canker-blighted, toppling folly that is the Public Services’, a moment’s rudimentary calculation ought to disabuse you of the notion that the government in any way expects you to ’stump up for the whole damned party’ yourself. The estimates you provide for the Chancellor’s disbursement of the funds levied by taxation, whilst colourful, are, in fairness, a little off the mark. Less than you seem to imagine is spent on ‘junkets for Bunterish lickspittles’ and ‘dancing whores’ whilst far more than you have accounted for is allocated to, for example, ‘that box-ticking façade of a university system.’

A couple of technical points arising from direct queries:

1. The reason we don’t simply write ‘Muggins’ on the envelope has to do with the vagaries of the postal system
2. You can rest assured that ’sucking the very marrows of those with nothing else to give’ has never been considered as a practice because even if the Personal Allowance didn’t render it irrelevant, the sheer medicallogistics involved would make it financially unviable.

I trust this has helped. In the meantime, whilst I would not in any way wish to influence your decision one way or the other, I ought to point out that even if you did choose to ‘give the whole foul jamboree up and go and live in India’ you would still owe us the money.

Yours Sincerely,
H J Lee
Customer Relations
Inland Revenue (Tax Office)