referees on strike. all scotlandshire league fixtures cancelled next week

[Rod Paradise]

Sorry Rod, Im too busy helping to cover up this National conspiracy against Celtic to go googling my life away

So you admit you were talking pish? (Not for the first time on the thread)

[Hairydude]

Good article:-

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/jimtraynor/2010/11/is-sfa-chief-stewart-regan-out.html

[Rod Paradise]

Good article:-

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/jimtraynor/2010/11/is-sfa-chief-stewart-regan-out.html

Good article?

Only for Celtic fans in that we can sense his real pain. He must be longing for the days when he could happilly write articles about the fine wine & succullent lamb David Murray would share with him for dinner, while outlining the era of total domination in Scotland & Europe that awaited them.

[Hairydude]

Good article:-

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/jimtraynor/2010/11/is-sfa-chief-stewart-regan-out.html

Good article?

Only for Celtic fans in that we can sense his real pain. He must be longing for the days when he could happilly write articles about the fine wine & succullent lamb David Murray would share with him for dinner, while outlining the era of total domination in Scotland & Europe that awaited them.

WTF has that got to do with THIS article? your just starting to come across as what you are: a bitter Keyboard warrior!!!

[Div]

Good article:-

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/jimtraynor/2010/11/is-sfa-chief-stewart-regan-out.html

What's good about it?

[Boba Fett]

Sorry Rod, Im too busy helping to cover up this National conspiracy against Celtic to go googling my life away

So you admit you were talking pish? (Not for the first time on the thread)

Lol no, does it look like an admission of anything?  In case you havent worked it out Im taking the piss.  

[Maxriddles]

I have less than no respect for Lennon, Dr Reid, Peter"Sporting Integrity"Lawell, and anyone else bleating on about conspiracy theories.
 It's pointless for me to post any further on the matter.

With your selective replies & constant chaff to try and cover what's going on at least you got 2 things right Max.

The 'innocents' have possibly been hard done by, as I would because I'd be sacked for the same offense, so I'm not adding my crocodile tears to yours.

Still more to come though - the gun's loaded, but the old saying goes 'never interupt your enemy as he's making a mistake', the current crisis is outing the press, the pen-pushers and all those with an interest in keeping the status quo.....

There's nothing going on though Rod, that's the point. Only in the minds of the most gullible fans in the world is there something going on. The only cover up was the smoke screen created in part to avoid the really hard questions Celtic's shareholders should have been asking Dr Reid and Peter "Sporting Integrity" Lawwell at the AGM on the 18th November.

All that is still to come is the punishment of Hooper, Lennon, and Dr Reid. All three will be treated leniently as the SFA lack the balls to punish them or the club properly. Then again we all know Celtic are big players within the SFA even if you don't like that fact.

[Maxriddles]

I have less than no respect for Lennon, Dr Reid, Peter"Sporting Integrity"Lawell, and anyone else bleating on about conspiracy theories.
 It's pointless for me to post any further on the matter.

With your selective replies & constant chaff to try and cover what's going on at least you got 2 things right Max.

Congratulations Max on making the cover-up team.  Im happy for you.  Lets not let the "truth" get out  lol

Thanks, I am going to get covering up the conspiracy against Celtic added to my CV, should open a few doors for me. 

[celtic]

Happy st Andrews day all.

[Rod Paradise]

Good article:-

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/jimtraynor/2010/11/is-sfa-chief-stewart-regan-out.html

Good article?

Only for Celtic fans in that we can sense his real pain. He must be longing for the days when he could happilly write articles about the fine wine & succullent lamb David Murray would share with him for dinner, while outlining the era of total domination in Scotland & Europe that awaited them.

WTF has that got to do with THIS article? your just starting to come across as what you are: a bitter Keyboard warrior!!!

That sentence just doesn't make sense. Mind you, given your appreciation for Traynor's bitter little diatribe, that shouldn't surprise me.

[Rod Paradise]

I have less than no respect for Lennon, Dr Reid, Peter"Sporting Integrity"Lawell, and anyone else bleating on about conspiracy theories.
 It's pointless for me to post any further on the matter.

With your selective replies & constant chaff to try and cover what's going on at least you got 2 things right Max.

The 'innocents' have possibly been hard done by, as I would because I'd be sacked for the same offense, so I'm not adding my crocodile tears to yours.

Still more to come though - the gun's loaded, but the old saying goes 'never interupt your enemy as he's making a mistake', the current crisis is outing the press, the pen-pushers and all those with an interest in keeping the status quo.....

There's nothing going on though Rod, that's the point. Only in the minds of the most gullible fans in the world is there something going on. The only cover up was the smoke screen created in part to avoid the really hard questions Celtic's shareholders should have been asking Dr Reid and Peter "Sporting Integrity" Lawwell at the AGM on the 18th November.

All that is still to come is the punishment of Hooper, Lennon, and Dr Reid. All three will be treated leniently as the SFA lack the balls to punish them or the club properly. Then again we all know Celtic are big players within the SFA even if you don't like that fact.

Still selectively reading Max, still ignoring the questions put to you? I've tried to draw it out of you, but you haven't the 'intergrity' to address it, simply put if you are still on about Hooper, Lennon & Reid needing punished while ignoring those whose allegations against the referees have been far worse than you show yourself up as a sad little man unwilling to face the fact that no matter how much you may want it to be so, on this occaission Celtic have won the fight.

All 3 you want punished will be treated leniently, reason being - if they aren't we'll screw the SFA to the wall for punishment after changing the rules, and for letting others off with worse. (I know you think we're worse, but that's in your wee heid, until you man up and back your points, your opinion means as little as the rest of the permaragers).

[Rod Paradise]

For Hairydude, the lover of journalism..... little chance of this article appearing in the Scottish rags...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/nov/30/investigative-journalism-scotland?CMP=twt_gu

Blogging investigative journalist who blew the whistle on a Scottish referee


In the English (and,yes, London)-centric world of the British media, it is easy to overlook journalistic triumphs elsewhere.

So I'm delighted to celebrate an example of journalism in Scotland that has passed under the radar thus far.

On 6 November, freelance journalist Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, posted an exclusive story on his website that was to have remarkable repercussions.

It revealed that Hugh Dallas, the Scottish Football Association's head of referee development, had sent sent an offensive e-mail about the Pope on the day the pontiff arrived in the UK in September.

It was a cartoon depicting the Pope in such a way as to imply that he might be a danger to children.

The next morning, the Scottish edition of the News of the World ran the same story. But it was entirely coincidental (as the NoW has generously conceded in an email to me). So it was a genuine scoop by Mac Giolla Bhain.

But scoops pass quickly. The reason we should appreciate his journalism is that the story - and its many follow-ups (examples here and here and here and here) - was part of his campaigning approach to the trade.

It illustrates his dogged determination to expose "the scourge of sectarianism" in Scottish football.

He comes from a hallowed line of single-minded investigative campaigning journalists, but with a new media twist. Though he freelances for mainstream newspapers, much of his work appears on his blog.

He operates through the cultivation of good contacts. But he has been able to put greater pressure on the authorities by posting new material swiftly online.

Anyway, the upshot of Mac Giolla Bhain's work was that Dallas resigned last Friday ahead of a disciplinary hearing.

There has been little recognition, even in Scotland, for what the lone journalist has achieved. But I'm glad to say that two writers - James MacMillan in the Daily Telegraph and Brian McNally in the Daily Mirror - have been gracious enough to recognise his key role.

MacMillan wrote: "The story would not have come to light at all if it had not been for new media, the blogosphere and in particular, a journalist who isn't inside the Scottish soccer system."

Mac Giolla Bhain isn't even in Scotland! Though born in Glasgow, he has lived in Co Donegal, Ireland for many years. New media crosses all frontiers, of course.

McNally was moved to compare Mac Giolla Bhain to the Watergate pair Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, writing: "Dallasgate, as it has now become known, was exposed by a brave, investigative journalist... who, like his more illustrious Watergate predecessors... doggedly refused to be cowed by attempts at a cover-up."

I don't think Dallas's resignation is the end of the affair. More like the start. Clearly, there is sectarianism in Scottish football and I'll be expecting more from Mac Giolla Bhain.

[kinboshi]

Happy st Andrews day all.

[Maxriddles]

I have less than no respect for Lennon, Dr Reid, Peter"Sporting Integrity"Lawell, and anyone else bleating on about conspiracy theories.
 It's pointless for me to post any further on the matter.

With your selective replies & constant chaff to try and cover what's going on at least you got 2 things right Max.

The 'innocents' have possibly been hard done by, as I would because I'd be sacked for the same offense, so I'm not adding my crocodile tears to yours.

Still more to come though - the gun's loaded, but the old saying goes 'never interupt your enemy as he's making a mistake', the current crisis is outing the press, the pen-pushers and all those with an interest in keeping the status quo.....

There's nothing going on though Rod, that's the point. Only in the minds of the most gullible fans in the world is there something going on. The only cover up was the smoke screen created in part to avoid the really hard questions Celtic's shareholders should have been asking Dr Reid and Peter "Sporting Integrity" Lawwell at the AGM on the 18th November.

All that is still to come is the punishment of Hooper, Lennon, and Dr Reid. All three will be treated leniently as the SFA lack the balls to punish them or the club properly. Then again we all know Celtic are big players within the SFA even if you don't like that fact.

Still selectively reading Max, still ignoring the questions put to you? I've tried to draw it out of you, but you haven't the 'intergrity' to address it, simply put if you are still on about Hooper, Lennon & Reid needing punished while ignoring those whose allegations against the referees have been far worse than you show yourself up as a sad little man unwilling to face the fact that no matter how much you may want it to be so, on this occaission Celtic have won the fight.

All 3 you want punished will be treated leniently, reason being - if they aren't we'll screw the SFA to the wall for punishment after changing the rules, and for letting others off with worse. (I know you think we're worse, but that's in your wee heid, until you man up and back your points, your opinion means as little as the rest of the permaragers).

Hmmm, resorting to personal abuse now Rod, inaccurate personal abuse at that, nice. I'll refrain from that, I'm above it.
 
I really shouldn't encourage you but which of my points do you want backed up.

[Maxriddles]

Happy st Andrews day all.