Scottish Premier League News 2010/11

[heanjob]

Celtic 1 St. Mirren 0 - Celtic didn't look like scoring for most of the game........the usual 9 men behind the ball.......like Walter uses but Commons came off the bench to score with about 11 minutes left. Good finish but other than that very few chances at all for Celtic. IT's 3 points and now it is over to the skint club in Glasgow. BTW, UEFA is investigating more alleged sectarian shite from the PSV game.

Let's go, Hamilton.

Captain,

How did Freddie do today?

HJ

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Very average, HJ......He was subbed throught he 2nd half. Not much of an offensive threat at all.

 

[Guinness]

Captain, I missed u at O'Hares tonight.
Great pints on tap & a wee Black Bush!

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Nice one, Johnny......ALMOST went there......in the afternoon though but ended up somewhere else for an hour. What brought you in there? THe massive 1-0 win over Hamilton where Rangers looked just as bad as Celtic did in their massive 1-0 win of St. Mirren?

 

[Guinness]

The misses had a party in Richmond to go to, so I dropped her and the wee one off and thought I get a few cheeky ones in at your old stomping grounds!
BTW, nice head tape in the team shot, with Old Regsy on crutches.
Some team, I think it was an Imperial championship?

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Yes, that was 1992 or 93 I believe......busted my head open on the back of Frank Fiddler's head. I don't know why but I was playing center back.

 

[lll]

Another boring game but at least we got the 3 points. St Johnstone didn't play that bad but didn't threaten at all. A bizarre handball incident where the player fell on the ball in the box, grabbed it then moved it with his hand. All right in front of the ref. Everbody stopped but no whistle so they started playing again. From the old firm game a while back, Ally gets nothing, he didn't really do anything but Lennon got 2 games. Bougie and Diouf get off with a fine and no suspension, isn't it mandatory to get at least 1 game when you get sent off, nevermind grabbing a ref twice ?

 

[Buckfast]

Bougie and Diouf get off with a fine and no suspension, isn't it mandatory to get at least 1 game when you get sent off, nevermind grabbing a ref twice ?

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Another boring game but at least we got the 3 points. St Johnstone didn't play that bad but didn't threaten at all. A bizarre handball incident where the player fell on the ball in the box, grabbed it then moved it with his hand. All right in front of the ref. Everbody stopped but no whistle so they started playing again. From the old firm game a while back, Ally gets nothing, he didn't really do anything but Lennon got 2 games. Bougie and Diouf get off with a fine and no suspension, isn't it mandatory to get at least 1 game when you get sent off, nevermind grabbing a ref twice ?

It's almost laughable.......if Boogy was in the VMSL he would have been suspended for at least 8 games and deservedly so. We know that Rangers don't have a squad deep enough to deal with these two filthy pigs suspension so a money fine is all they get. It really is 'laughable'. Fcuking SFA really are a bunch of cheating cnuts.

 

[Captain Shamrock]

III, forgot to post this photo..........this went unpunished..........it is becoming worse with every decision it seems. Winning the league this year would be that much more enjoyable.........

http://sport.scotsman.com/getEdFrontImage.aspx?ImageID=476541

Only one hand, Ref.

 

[Buckfast]

Class. Croatian Blue Noses. WE ARE THE REAL PEOPLE.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/nikica-jelavic-aberdeen-9035815/

 

[lll]

more Celtic Paranoia, but it's from and ex ref, and he's not even Celtic supporter

Kenny Clark has launched an all out attack on the SFA labelling them embarrassing, ridiculous and cowardly.
The former Grade 1 referee acted as an unofficial mouthpiece for referees during their strike action last year and squarely laid the blame for that at the door of Celtic.
Tuesday’s decision not to suspend Madjid Bougherra or El Hadji-Diouf has shocked the refereeing community with the SFA washing their hands of supporting referees.
Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist was delighted to win his appeal against his two match touchline ban with Clark amazed by the actions of the SFA.
He told The Sun: “The decision by the SFA’s disciplinary committee to only fine the Rangers players a pittance in their terms was laughable, embarrassing, ridiculous and cowardly.
“My day job is a defence lawyer but had I come out of court with the sort of result Madjid Bougherra and El Hadji Diouf got on Tuesday I think I’d have retired- it wouldn’t get any better than that.
“It was simply breathtaking and dreadful for all levels of the game. Open season has also been declared for any player being ordered off to grab the ref’s arm or hand. Is that really the sort of unedifying spectacle the SFA are inviting us to have?
“I’ve tried to to make sense of it all but I just can’t. It’s incomprehensible. No wonder the two players couldn’t keep the smiles off their faces walking out of Hampden.
“The SFA said they were both not guilty of serious misconduct. Well how bad does it need to get before they do something that will actually impact on players?”
During Rangers 1-0 defeat to Celtic in the Scottish Cup Bougherra was twice seen to man handle referee Calum Murray.
Clarke believes that Bougherra’s actions were the worst of the charges to come from the match with the SFA’s unwillingness to punish the defender setting a dangerous precedent.
“I can’t believe a player from one of the clubs in the lower division would have been dealt with in this manner,” Clark claimed.
“The Bougherra situation concerns me more than Diouf’s because laying hands on a referee like he did to Calum Murray is totally unacceptable, not part of our game.
“According to the SFA, putting your hands on the ref isn’t a banning offence any more! That’s the precedent being set. So how can any manager at any level be expected to warn to his players not to touch the ref now?
“As for Diouf, when you’re shown a red card you’re supposed to leave the field. Not go on a detour to your own fans and throw your shirt in amongst them.
“He failed to leave the pitch having been ordered to do so by the ref. In doing that he provoked what was already a very heated situation.
“He’s hardly shown any signs of remorse since. Instead he’s just had another go at Calum Murray.”
Clark added: “I also find it odd that Ally McCoist won his appeal against being banned for his full-time spat with Neil Lennon.
“There was no confrontation until McCoist said what he did to Neil Lennon. It would be foolhardy in the extreme to think McCoist didn’t say anything inflammatory.
“Even when Lennon reacted, McCoist didn’t try to calm him down. So I find it strange the SFA didn’t feel there was any justification for action, particularly when he’d been involved in an earlier situation in the match where Walter Smith had to pull him back.
“It doesn’t look smart that they gave Lennon a four-game ban and the other guy walks away with his name cleared.”
“What is the committee trying to do? Provoke that situation again?
“It will certainly reinforce a view that a number of refs have had in the past that they weren’t getting enough backing or protection. This doesn’t smack of a new regime that is going to come down firmly on people who make life difficult for officials.
“The SFA have certainly provided Celtic with more ammunition to raise question marks about the approach and even-handedness of the disciplinary committee.
“What needs to be done now?
“Well I’ve said numerous times that the SFA have to take strong action when players or managers misbehave but yet again they’ve failed to do so.
“I really do think they’re leaving themselves open to criticism and further police intervention in the future.”

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Nothing to see here III, move along. **** the SFA and their bastarding blatant cheating..........Unbelievable that that fat shite gets nothing for grabbing the official. I thought at the time it would be at least an 8 gamer.........you can't be doing that. As I said earlier, the VMSL would have hit the fcuker with at least this many games.

 

[Walks]

Further proof the sewer rat should be public stoned to death

El-Hadji Diouf's virtually unrivalled capacity to attract controversy has once again been demonstrated by his declaration that he admires Colonel Gaddafi.

Diouf, currently on loan at Rangers from Blackburn Rovers, has reportedly told an African magazine that he is friends with the Libyan dictator, who is currently attempting to quell a rebellion that has received the backing of Nato.

Despite outrage over the violence employed by Gaddafi to repress pro-democracy protestors, and widespread condemnation of his rule from across the international community, Diouf says he has sympathy for the man known as 'Mad Dog'.

"Gaddafi is a man who I have always admired," Diouf is quoted in the Daily Mail. "I am telling the truth. I know him, and I know his son Saif as well. They are my friends.

"I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment, but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family.

"I cannot remain far away from what is happening in Libya. I do not know who is in the right and who is wrong, but it is a shame to see so many victims."

Since moving to Rangers in January, Diouf has been involved in heated confrontations with Celtic, but he may also now incur the anger of his own manager Walter Smith after saying that defender Madjid Bougherra should leave the club.

Diouf said of his colleague: "Madjid needs a new challenge at the end of the season and he has to go to the Premier League and nowhere else."

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Fcuking same old shite in Glasgow..........3 red cards for on penalty kicks........

Peter Houston critical of Dundee Utd's three red cards
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E-mail this to a friendPrintable version Willie Collum showed red cards to three United players against Rangers Dundee United manager Peter Houston says he fears for the game if every penalty conceded results in a red card.

Houston did not dispute Rangers' three spot-kick awards as United had a trio of players sent off in a 4-0 defeat.

But he said: "I worry about the game and where it's going to if we are going to have straight red cards for every incident that's happening in the box.

"I am frustrated that we have had three players sent off in a game when there was hardly a tackle put in."

The defeat leaves United nine points behind Hearts and Houston condedes that his side's chances of overtaking the Edinburgh side to grab third spot have all but disappeared.

"Probably non-existant, but I am not even thinking of that," he said ahead of Saturday's visit by fifth-top Kilmarnock.

"I am going to look forward to Saturday. We have a huge game, but we have three players missing.

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Probably three penalty kicks, but I am absolutely disgusted with the way the game's going if that's three red cards
Peter Houston

Dundee United manager
"I am proud of the way the players played. I thought in the first half there was nothing in the game apart from the sending off and a penalty kick.

"They hadn't scored from open play until we went down to nine men.

"Don't tell me there were four goals of a difference in the game."

Steven Whittaker gave Rangers a 22nd-minute lead after Steven Naismith was brought down by Mihael Kovacevic.

Whittaker's second penalty success came after Sean Dillon followed for a foul on Nikica Jelavic.

And, in between late goals from Jelavic and Kyle Lafferty, Whittaker missed the chance of a hat-trick of penalties after Morgaro Gomis was sent packing for a nudge of El Hadji Diouf.

The same referee, Willie Collum, had also sent off Aberdeen's Andrew Considine in similar circumstances in Celtic's Scottish Cup semi-final win at the weekend and Houston said it was a worrying trend.

"I have got to say I think, first and foremost, probably three penalty kicks. I have no complaints," said the United boss, who knew nothing of claims that Dillon's challenge was outside the box.

"The first one, the boys in the dressing-room are saying there is nothing in it.

"The referee's called it and, if there is a goalscoring opportunity and Naismith's going to put the ball in the net and Mihael does it, then it's a red card.

"Sean's made the tackle and you are always risking something. If it is outside, it is something I will need to see.

"Gomis's red card, for me, is unbelievable - a cross coming in, the ball's in the air. Sean Dillon's nudged Lafferty early on and he's not given a foul for the same thing that he has sent off Morgaro Gomis for.

"The referees will say that, by the letter of the law, it is a straight red. You saw the same with Andy Considine on Sunday and, whether it was a touch on Sunday, it is debatable in the opinion of some, but he gets a staight red.

"I feel huge disappointment, but it was a magnificent effort from our players and I am absolutely disgusted with the way the game's going if that's three red cards."



And the worst of the day..........fcuking loyalist scum who did this and the fcuks are nothing less than that........

Parcel bombs sent to Neil Lennon, Paul McBride and MSPBy James Cook

Scotland Correspondent, BBC News


Devices intended to "kill or maim" were sent to Neil Lennon (L), Trish Godman and Paul McBride QC
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"Viable" parcel bombs have been sent to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two high-profile fans of the Glasgow club, sources have told the BBC.

Sources said the liquid-based devices, sent in the past month, appear to have been intended to "kill or maim".

Mr Lennon's lawyer, Paul McBride QC, and former deputy presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, Trish Godman, were the other two people targeted.

The devices were found at various locations in the west of Scotland.

Sources close to the investigation indicated the devices were rudimentary and did not appear to have been made by someone with paramilitary training in bomb-making.


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Earlier this week, media organisations, including the BBC, had agreed to a police request not to broadcast details of the bomb incidents while officers carried out inquires.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said: "Let us be quite clear - there is a major police investigation under way to ensure that the individual or individuals concerned are identified and apprehended, and then brought to book with the full force of the law.

"We will not tolerate this sort of criminality in Scotland, and as an indication of the seriousness with which we view these developments the Cabinet sub-committee met last Saturday to ensure that the police investigation has every possible support to come to a successful conclusion."

The first suspect package was intercepted by the Royal Mail in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, on 26 March and was addressed to Mr Lennon at Celtic's training ground in nearby Lennoxtown.

Two days later a device was delivered to Labour politician Ms Godman's constituency office in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. Her staff were suspicious of the package and contacted Strathclyde Police.

Explosive device

Detectives initially treated the two parcels as "elaborate hoaxes" designed to cause distress rather than serious injury but further analysis has led to them being reclassified as "viable explosive devices".

The third package was addressed to Mr McBride at the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.

It is believed to have been posted in Ayrshire before being found in a letter box by a postal worker on Friday and taken to a Royal Mail sorting office in Kilwinning, where police were contacted.

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Detectives are also investigating another package addressed to Neil Lennon which was found at a sorting office in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, on 4 March but this has not been confirmed as an explosive device.

It is understood that specialist anti-terrorist officers are involved in the investigation but a source close to the inquiry said they were "not linking this to any terrorist organisation".

Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, said that made sense. "I think in terms of the main loyalist terror organisations that are now on ceasefire and say they've decommissioned, I think they'd be frankly embarrassed by this kind of thing," he said.

"They would regard it as a thing of the past and rather as an irritant and an embarrassment to loyalism so I suspect it's an individual or individuals who maybe had bomb-making experience in the past who are disgruntled and looking for hate figures."

For the past decade Neil Lennon has been such a figure.

The 39-year-old Catholic from Lurgan, County Armagh, has endured threats, abuse and violence.

He stopped playing international football for Northern Ireland in 2002 after a death threat, said to be from loyalist paramilitaries.

Lennon has also been the victim of a street attack in Glasgow and several other death threats since joining Celtic in 2000.

In January this year bullets addressed to the Celtic manager were intercepted at a sorting office in Glasgow. They appeared to have been sent from an address in Northern Ireland.

Media coverage

The BBC has been told that the three individuals appear to have been targeted after they featured, on separate occasions, in media coverage.

Mr McBride is one of the highest-profile QCs in Scotland and a well-known Celtic fan.


The Scottish Cup replay between Celtic and Rangers in March was ill-tempered He has acted for the club and Mr Lennon on several occasions during disputes with the Scottish Football Association (SFA).

The advocate has also been highly critical of the SFA in its dealings with Mr Lennon and Celtic.

Ms Godman has a lower public profile than Mr Lennon or Mr McBride but is well known in political circles as an avid Celtic fan.

Until dissolution of the Scottish Parliament last month, she was deputy presiding officer and the Labour MSP for West Renfrewshire.

On her last day as an MSP she was pictured in the Holyrood chamber wearing a Celtic football top.

Rangers and Celtic meet for the final time this season at Ibrox this weekend in a match which could prove crucial in deciding the Scottish Premier League title.

It is understood that senior police officers are concerned about a potential rise in tension ahead of the game on Easter Sunday.

The rivalry between the two Glasgow clubs - known collectively as the Old Firm - is historically tied up in religion.

Celtic were formed in 1888 by Irish Catholic immigrants to raise funds to alleviate poverty in the city's East End.

To this day, most Celtic fans come from a Catholic background, while the majority of Rangers fans are Protestants.

Controversial match

Last month an ill-tempered Scottish Cup clash between the two sides led to political intervention.

The match saw three red cards, several touch-line and tunnel confrontations and 34 arrests inside Celtic Park and 187 outside.

After the final whistle, Mr Lennon and Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist were involved in a confrontation.

Strathclyde Police requested a Scottish government-led summit after describing scenes at the game, which Celtic won 1-0, as "shameful".

Both clubs subsequently agreed to an action plan to tackle Old Firm-related disorder.

The fallout from the controversial match continued, however, when the Celtic manager subsequently received a two-match ban for his actions.

McCoist had an initial two-match ban overturned, while two of his players, El-Hadji Diouf and Madjid Bougherra, were fined over their sendings off.

This prompted highly-critical comments from Mr McBride towards the SFA.

The advocate accused the organisation of being "dysfunctional", "dishonest" and "biased" against Celtic.

In response the governing body described the QC's remarks as "wild" and "inaccurate" and threatened to sue for defamation.

The BBC understands there have since been moves by both sides to resolve the matter out of court.

 

[Buckfast]

eeeeeeewwwww, the conspiracy. Last man back + clear opportunity to score + hacks the guy down = sending off. The exact same decision was made for Celtic's semi-final. The rules suited you then, I'm guessing.

RE; "bomb" scare. the ginger cnut probably sent it to himself. A fcuking sympathy case.

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Well, that pretty well sums you up. You are a fcuktard. Or was that another attempt at being funny?

Great performance by Celtic today against Kilmarnock. I still hope they refuse to play the games.......Amazing how quiet the Rangers camp is on such a serious thing.

 

[Rangerforever]

Refuse to play what games?
I've heard nothing.

Speaking about being quiet:

BBC News - Celtic parcel bomb: 'We cannot let these idiots win'

Fcuking complete eejits is right.
FFS...

 

[Buckfast]

Refuse to play what games?
I've heard nothing.

Speaking about being quiet:

BBC News - Celtic parcel bomb: 'We cannot let these idiots win'

Fcuking complete eejits is right.
FFS...

Do you read the fcuking National Enquirer, also? Let me know when a "Rangers" supporter is convicted. How many papers does this story sell? For fux sakes, RF. I know you haven't seen your cokc in years, but still have faith in the truth. Leave the hand wringing to "I never made it as a pro footballer and I reallly thought i was the business then couldnt make it as a ref, so now I coach girlz oh i hate my life" captain shammy.

Have a great sabbath, Captain. You'll fcuking hate every minute of it. Bless.

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Oh my.........another bad batch.........carry on, Buckie. One day you might not make a cnut of yourself but that is optimistic thinking.