Decanted Newsamble: Hibs(h) Part Uno
Summer time in Scotland brings out the strangest behaviour. It becomes ok to take yer top off to revel a pasty white body, sit wearing a tight pair of shorts in a public park, from 11am, while getting completely rat-arsed on whatever the offy had on offer.
Drive around any town, village or city on days like today at around 7pm then you will see the female of the species half undressed and bright red, the male of the species top of and bright red, both will be pished and fighting wie either each other or fighting wie their next door nee'bor, best pal, best pals dug or hamster.
We are northern Europeans. We are mean't to be peely wally white. Sit in doors and dinny annoy us. As sitting oot in the sun does daft things to us Scots. I mean what aboot this week and the behaviour of Scotland's "Establishment" club. A club that is second only to the Church Of Scotland.
First off, they sell their reaction to a daily tabloid newspaper. A paper that is on it's arse sales wise and lost all creditability around 20 years ago. So we have a national newspaper backing one club in oor country. A national newspaper nailing it's colours to the mast all for a few dollars more.
On Monday it started wie musings on a doon market radio phone in. Musing that hinted at a "sting in the tail", rumours of the Cup Final being moved being muted. I was thinking at that point, the Cup Final canny be moved unless the SFA say it can be.
Then it all became clear when this story broke. This was a clear indication that The Huns had used this media ootlet to peddle a story to influence that days meeting and had contacted the SFA- when the SPL refused to budge- and like a spoiled child screamed and screamed and screamed that it was unfair.
No matter what happened after this, this was the point that the guilty parties proved that were trying to cheat the rest the Scottish game.
George Peat, Gordon Smith, James Traynor, Keith Jackson and David Murray have the blood of the integrity of the Scottish game on their hands.
Ok, cards on the table here. I understand where The Huns are coming from. They have a busy period coming up and maybe they wanted a bit of leeway to help themselves. Turkeys don't vote from Christmas so I understand them wanting to do the best for their club.
It's the way that they have done it that sticks in the throat of many. From them not seeking an extension when they were obviously working behind the scenes to get one. When they got the extension, the following outcry they had from that, has only been drowned oot from what has happened today.
I said here after the inital balls up that the reason that they were annoyed was not as they said to help the Scottish game as they wanted the SPL to help them to win the league. Getting to the UEFA Cup Final again allowed them to play the "For the guid of Scotland" card but it wisnny washing wie anyone by this point.
It was for the guid of themselves and fuck everyone else.
The laughable statement from Murray when he states that the SPL made them the laughing stock of Europe holds no sway. Europe couldnae gie a flying monkeys shit regarding what happens to r*ngers or their remaining fixtures. The only peepil made a laughing stock are the peepil peddling this shite.
Murray did his job well though. On an English based Radio Station they had Gordon Smith moaning that he could do nothing to change the SPL's decision but HE was not at fault. We had a radio host saying if we won the SPL it would be devalued as it wisnny a level playing field.
All this pish was spouted by ill-informed DJ's and people reeking of self-hunnishness. No mention of the facts as better put here and on ETims. Or also that Boro played 8 games in 21 days during their run to the semi final(see comments for post from KDS).
In all that I have heard or read NO ONE has come up wie a solution that up holds fair play. Yes, the SPL have made a complete tit of it and prove they couldnae run a brothel that was full of supermodels but.....they have 12 vested teams interest to think aboot not just one. They have followed their members wishes who also if they were a turkey widnae vote for xmas.
The FACT is only one club wanted an extension. That club only wanted to an extension, which they did get but it wisnny to their liking, and that was only to help themselves. That Club bought a media ootlet to peddle their propaganda and tried to call in favours from a football governing body.....
Sounds like something that would happen in Eastern Europe. The Establishment club trying to cheat but this time finding the times have changed.
Some questions that need to be asked? What would have happened if Scotland had qualified for Euro 2008 and the season needed to be finished early? And why is George Burley sticking his red nose in? What does he care? The Huns made a mockery and a fool of him when they withdrew 4 players for a friendly last time oot, which again was for their ain guid...
Seems to be a theme developing here.
Forza
Drive around any town, village or city on days like today at around 7pm then you will see the female of the species half undressed and bright red, the male of the species top of and bright red, both will be pished and fighting wie either each other or fighting wie their next door nee'bor, best pal, best pals dug or hamster.
We are northern Europeans. We are mean't to be peely wally white. Sit in doors and dinny annoy us. As sitting oot in the sun does daft things to us Scots. I mean what aboot this week and the behaviour of Scotland's "Establishment" club. A club that is second only to the Church Of Scotland.
First off, they sell their reaction to a daily tabloid newspaper. A paper that is on it's arse sales wise and lost all creditability around 20 years ago. So we have a national newspaper backing one club in oor country. A national newspaper nailing it's colours to the mast all for a few dollars more.
On Monday it started wie musings on a doon market radio phone in. Musing that hinted at a "sting in the tail", rumours of the Cup Final being moved being muted. I was thinking at that point, the Cup Final canny be moved unless the SFA say it can be.
Then it all became clear when this story broke. This was a clear indication that The Huns had used this media ootlet to peddle a story to influence that days meeting and had contacted the SFA- when the SPL refused to budge- and like a spoiled child screamed and screamed and screamed that it was unfair.
No matter what happened after this, this was the point that the guilty parties proved that were trying to cheat the rest the Scottish game.
George Peat, Gordon Smith, James Traynor, Keith Jackson and David Murray have the blood of the integrity of the Scottish game on their hands.
Ok, cards on the table here. I understand where The Huns are coming from. They have a busy period coming up and maybe they wanted a bit of leeway to help themselves. Turkeys don't vote from Christmas so I understand them wanting to do the best for their club.
It's the way that they have done it that sticks in the throat of many. From them not seeking an extension when they were obviously working behind the scenes to get one. When they got the extension, the following outcry they had from that, has only been drowned oot from what has happened today.
I said here after the inital balls up that the reason that they were annoyed was not as they said to help the Scottish game as they wanted the SPL to help them to win the league. Getting to the UEFA Cup Final again allowed them to play the "For the guid of Scotland" card but it wisnny washing wie anyone by this point.
It was for the guid of themselves and fuck everyone else.
The laughable statement from Murray when he states that the SPL made them the laughing stock of Europe holds no sway. Europe couldnae gie a flying monkeys shit regarding what happens to r*ngers or their remaining fixtures. The only peepil made a laughing stock are the peepil peddling this shite.
Murray did his job well though. On an English based Radio Station they had Gordon Smith moaning that he could do nothing to change the SPL's decision but HE was not at fault. We had a radio host saying if we won the SPL it would be devalued as it wisnny a level playing field.
All this pish was spouted by ill-informed DJ's and people reeking of self-hunnishness. No mention of the facts as better put here and on ETims. Or also that Boro played 8 games in 21 days during their run to the semi final(see comments for post from KDS).
In all that I have heard or read NO ONE has come up wie a solution that up holds fair play. Yes, the SPL have made a complete tit of it and prove they couldnae run a brothel that was full of supermodels but.....they have 12 vested teams interest to think aboot not just one. They have followed their members wishes who also if they were a turkey widnae vote for xmas.
The FACT is only one club wanted an extension. That club only wanted to an extension, which they did get but it wisnny to their liking, and that was only to help themselves. That Club bought a media ootlet to peddle their propaganda and tried to call in favours from a football governing body.....
Sounds like something that would happen in Eastern Europe. The Establishment club trying to cheat but this time finding the times have changed.
Some questions that need to be asked? What would have happened if Scotland had qualified for Euro 2008 and the season needed to be finished early? And why is George Burley sticking his red nose in? What does he care? The Huns made a mockery and a fool of him when they withdrew 4 players for a friendly last time oot, which again was for their ain guid...
Seems to be a theme developing here.
Forza
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During the last month I've been alarmed, but not surprised, by the myths
and lies peddled by Rangers and the Scottish Media. Indeed, not one hack
has dared to speculate that the predicament Rangers are in is mostly of
their own making, or has offered a non-jingoistic catalyst for a change to
the schedule.
What I've tried to do here is have a look at the most common soundbytes
often dished out as incontrovertible evidence.
Lie: Rangers have had no help from the SPL
The season has been extended by the best part of a week to accommodate
Rangers' fixture congestion. As far as I can work out, this is
unprecedented in the modern era... indeed, Celtic played three games in
four days at the arse-end of their 1974
one-sub-each-no-such-thing-as-squad-rotation title challenge.
But that's not the only help that they have had from the SPL this season :
Armed with a piece of paper saying, “Lyon huv hud heir game postponed,”
Rangers petitioned the SPL, aiming to have their match with the mighty
Gretna put back until a later date. As we know, it succeeded.
QUOTE (BBC)
3rd Dhttp://blockedcontent/ “And, with Gretna giving backing to the
request, the decision to postpone was taken by SPL chairman Lex Gold and
secretary Iain Blair.
The SPL pointed out that the French authorities had allowed Lyon a similar
weekend off, cancelling their tie at Caen.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ers/7122365.stm
However, it came to light that Lyon hadn't had their game postponed at all.
In fact, they applied for the cancellation AFTER hearing the Huns had
bought themselves a free week.
QUOTE (BBC)
6th Dhttp://blockedcontent/ Lyon have failed to have Saturday's league
game against Caen postponed to give them time to prepare for the Champions
League clash with Rangers.
"We requested the postponement in order to be at the same level as our
rivals who succeeded in postponing their Scottish league game against
Gretna," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ers/7131441.stm
Further questions should have been asked about the subsequent scheduling of
both this Gretna match, and the St. Mirren match postponed prior to
Scotland's Euro Qualifier against Italy. Why weren't these matches played
at the first available opportunity? Rangers had free midweeks pre-Christmas
- Celtic managed to play their home match against Falkirk in between their
Champions League and SPL fixtures. Indeed, Celtic were able to play FOUR
matches in ten days at the start of December, dropping four points in the
process (Hearts and St Mirren).
Myth: It's all someone else's fault
Nonsense.
Gretna, and dodgy fixture re-scheduling aside, Rangers have had ample
opportunity to fix out their own congestion.
The failure of Scotland's Heroes (© Daily Record) to beat Hibs and
lower-league Partick Thistle at the first time of asking have padded out
their fixture fulfilment requirements.
The match against East Stirling was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
On the face of it, that seems perfectly reasonable in the Scottish winter.
However, when the next unchallenged soundbytes emit from President Murray
about lowering the Ibrox pitch again to cram more seats in, shouldn't
someone - anyone - point out that they are pissing distance from a major
river?
Obviously the free weekend after the tragic death of Phil O'Donnell was
thrust upon them. But it is worth noting that Dundee United, the team they
tried not to play this Saturday, were forced to complete their next fixture
at the time, despite watching a friend and opponent die in front of them a
few days previous. Placed beside that, Rangers' recent request and
subsequent petulant outburst looks embarrassingly trivial.
Lie: “This will make the SPL a laughing stock”
Seriously, the world doesn't care about the SPL's fixture list. Truly.
Take Middlesborough in 2006, they managed to get to the UEFA Cup final.
Here was their fixture list.
CODE
March
Thu 30 20:45 A FC Basel UEFA
April
Sun 2 15:00 A Manchester City PREM
Thu 6 20:00 H FC Basel UEFA
Sun 9 15:00 H Newcastle PREM
We 12 20:05 H Charlton FACP
Sat 15 15:00 A Portsmouth PREM
Mon 17 15:00 H West Ham Utd PREM
Thu 20 20:45 A S Bucuresti UEFA
Sun 23 16:00 H West Ham Utd FACP
Thu 27 20:02 H S Bucuresti UEFA
Sat 29 15:00 H Everton PREM
May
Mon 1 20:00 A Man Utd PREM
Wed 3 20:00 A Bolton PREM
Sun 7 15:00 A Fulham PREM
Wed 10 19:45 H Sevilla Futbol UEFA
Let's have a look at some highlights and see how many of Rangers, “Laughing
Stock” boxes it ticks...
Middle of April, four games in eight days.
A run of three away games in a row at the end of the season.
Not only managed a game on the Saturday preceding a midweek AWAY tie
in Romania, but squeezed in a cheeky match at home to West Ham on the
Monday before they flew out.
Away to Fulham on the SUNDAY before the UEFA Cup final. Not the
Saturday that Rangers are being asked to play on, but the FRICKING
SUNDAY.
Now, according to Lord Murray's self-declared rules, that should mean we
all consider the English Premiership the joke of world football. Don't we?
Anyone?
Secondly, and non-Middlesbrough related this year, the FA Cup is scheduled
four days before the Champions League final. Is Darth Murray seriously
trying to tell us that this would have been moved should Chelsea or Man
United have been gracing the Wembley Turf?
Myth: The SPL should follow the Russian FA's lead
Yes, the Russian FA have postponed Zenit's matches before the UEFA Cup
final, and fair play to them. But this being cited as a precedent is
completely insane.
St. Petersburg, literally Baltic, play in a summer league, meaning that
they are only a few games into their season... they have the luxury of
playing with a whole year's fixture list. If only Walter could turn back
time and ask for some games to be frivolously postponed to help Rangers.
Ironically, the two postponements this year, “for the greater good,” were
Rangers at home to Lyon, and Scotland at home to Italy. Both were humped.
Secondly, and covered above, have Zenit actually had their fixtures moved,
or are Rangers trying to pull the same Lyon trick again?
Lie: “We're doing it for Scotland”
Just like Rangers had Scotland's best interests in mind when they tapped-up
and poached Scotland's manager, in the middle of one of their most
spectacular attempts at qualifying for a finals tournament in many years?
And where were the media when Kenny McDowell admitted that Smith had
offered him a job at Ibrox BEFORE Beloved Walter had even handed in his
notice at the SFA?
Were Rangers, “doing it for Scotland,” when they withdrew five players from
the squad to face Croatia. Weir managed to evade even being called up, but
four were out injured, including Christian Dailly with a BROKEN FOOT;
luckily, a trip to Lourdes healed everyone enough to play in the league
match the following weekend.
Lie: “It's to help win the UEFA Cup”
If Rangers want the UEFA Cup so badly that they want to inconvenience the
other eleven teams, then why can't they now play a play a back-up team
against Dundee United so that only they are inconvenienced? Or, failing
that, move the Dundee United game to after the UEFA final, and play their
last four games in a week, finishing on the Thursday?
Remember, Bolton deliberately got themselves knocked out of Europe to
concentrate on league matters. Rangers made sure that they deflected
extension talk as long as possible until there was no other alternative but
to extend the league. I speculate that their current tantrum is a much to
do with them shampooting it over the league slipping away a it is to do
with the party line. And where are the journos putting these questions to
Rangers?
QUOTE
“We never have, and we never will ask for an extension,” Walter Smith
“We want an extension,” Martin Bain
“It's a fking joke we never had an extension,” Emperor Murray
Lie: “Celtic got help in the Seville Season”
Again, Rangers and the press are trying to cite Celtic's similar up run as
another precedent.
In 2003, the season was NOT extended. In fact, Celtic were forced to play
all pre-split games before the split, a decision that made Ian MacLeod
consider taking the league to the Court of Session. Compare and contrast
with Rangers, who get to play St Mirren (one of their pre-split games)
after the split.
In that season, only one game was brought forward, Celtic v Dundee – and
that was thanks to Jim Duffy at Dundee, not SPL politics and shenanigans.
Only one team was inconvenienced by that shift, not eleven.
And while we're on postponements, this is how other teams get on at the
SPL.
Aberdeen were not allowed to move their pre-Copenhagen match in 2007. This
was despite Rangers having done so a few weeks earlier.
In October last year, Kilmarnock had to play a match in October with only 5
subs (3 of whom were too injured to play).
Mentioned earlier, Dundee United were told to get on with it a few days
after Phil O'Donnell died yards away from some of their players.
And, my favourite, from September 2000:
QUOTE (bbc)
Rangers have denied the club have been deliberately obstructive by
refusing to postpone their Premier League match against Hearts on Sunday.
The Tynecastle club return back to Scotland late on Friday afternoon after
their Uefa Cup first round game against Stuttgart.
Hearts had asked the Ibrox club to put back the game, but Rangers turned
down their request after consultation with manager Dick Advocaat.
But in a similar situation last October the Edinburgh outfit agreed to
switch a fixture between the two clubs to help Rangers' Champions League
campaign.
Anyway, I'm a Celtic fan, so this is obviously biased and one-sided. I'll
leave this poorly-penned nonsense with a few words from someone more
qualified than I:
"I don't know what they're (Celtic) complaining about, they should just get
on with it, I wish we were in their position," Alex McLeish, 2003.
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Wow, woe and thrice woe! :-) That`s too much information for the knee jerk football people in this wee country!
I`ve had about enough of all this and I still haven`t recovered mentally from last seasons very lame run in. The SPL is a laughing stock, only two winners since 1985 AND who above all others raised the stakes to give us this state of affairs? Sir DM, that`s who! Between now and the
22nd I will only bother about the Hibs game and the CL final. As for this site, I`ll be here! :-)
Forza
Banter!
Hopefully people will the Celtic Ladies player Jo Love alone! She scored two for the team in the 3-2 win against Aberdeen. She`s a good player who has played for Scotland.
Good luck to her! Only thing though, doesn`t she know who the REAL manky mob are? :-)
As for George Burley, it could be said he`s only there (surely unfairly) because of who the other two candidates were. :-)
Only kidding!
Excuse me, I meant `leave` Jo Love alone. :-) Off to listen to Classic FM. `Dumdy de de dum....`
She better score two goals after that bebo shit!
Only four points in it now but it`s a lot closer than we thought it would be at 2pm last Saturday. I just checked the score at 9.40. That is as much as I will check on their scores.
Ian: Correct, the information put oot by the media ootlet whore only put oot the information it’s paymaster wanted. Nice to see other outlets quoting some of the facts.
Like the huns dropping 10 points oot of 15, winning their 1st game in 8 last night and the FACT if they hudnae been beat twice at CP they widnae be bleating like wee spring lambs.
Correct as well aboot the Mint. He caused the Scottish game to be the laughing stock. We are just glad Fergus got the measure of him.
Nice to hear you are hanging around Ian.
I never watched their game last night. Didnae find oot the score until 10pm, like you I found it easy not to watch. Wonder if I will do next Wednesday in the lesser European cup final…..
There is only one Joe Love!!!!!! Love it….looking over the ladies results she scores a few goals.
Burley, yes the other two didnae want the joab and kicked wie the wrong foot.
Matt: I think here Bebo shit will be changing very soon.
Listening to XFM……How so so is the new Frattellies song? Canny see CP bouncing to a song aboot Mable…..
Just to get this right before the weekend. What we want is:
- Dunt to take something from Ipox (unlikely)
- Aberdeen to take something from Quagmire Park (unlikely)
- Us to beat Hibs at home (erm, likely).
Ach, well, it beats winning the league at a canter, n'est-ce pas?
`to beat Hibs at home` I`ll go along with that! :-)
KTF
Said to the windae cleaner there (while saying I had no money to pay him for the second night in a row, guid joab he is a Tim) I expect DUNT to take something from Ipox.
Of any team from the top six I reckon they could do it.
But a win for us is a must.
Is it true that Henrik LARSSON's 6 goals in the UEFA cup wi' Helsingborg is more than the Huns have scored getting to the final?
HAW HAW HAW !!!
YES, It's true.....
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