It's TIC TOC for the tic.

I heard that he'd had an almighty bust up with lawell over Samaras leaving. That came from a neighbour who's a died in the wool tim.

samaras did say something about lennon wanting him to stay and lawell said no

tbh im quite glad hes left im not sure what others make of it , he had a few good game but time for a change

Their scoffing posts remind me of the guy with terminal cancer berating his neighbour because he caught a cold. Seems like they have forgotten the events of the last few years and need reminded…again:

Rangers were Scotland's shame; it was the beating black heart of Scottish football. It was the establishment club that was, ironically, determinedly anti-establishment: for much of its inglorious existence it operated an anti-Catholic employment policy, sang bigoted songs with impunity, sought out sleekit ways not to pay their taxes on an industrial scale, boasted about leaving creditors out of pocket, and rioted home and abroad at the drop of a bowler hat. They died from the excesses of Thatcher's Capitalism.

The replacement club has become a mecca for criminals and spivs intent on relieving the dismal and dismayed Govans of their dole money. Scotland looks on bemused as these poor demented souls miss Apprentice Boys marches to parade around an empty Ibrox instead and post their silly Billy red cards through the letterbox….oops, there's no letterbox! They fete a convicted tax cheat as their saviour and they express their love for the club they are loyal to by boycotting it so that soon it will go bust like its predecessor club.

I have a message for gurning Govans: have you ever thought of suggesting your "dignified" clubs should pay their social taxes, pay the emergency services and pay local businesses for their work?

This is from 2010

Frank McAveety is Labour's former Sports Minister who championed the case for Sportscotland's HQ to be relocated from Edinburgh to the Parkhead site of a new National Arena, despite 90% of Sportscotland's employees expressing their desire to stay in Edinburgh,

Ron Culley is a former Labour Party candidate for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. He is also the former Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise and former colleague of Stephen Purcell of GCC, who is on the board of Scottish Enterprise,

Jack McConnell is a personal friend Former Chairman of Scottish Enterprise is Willie Haughey. Haughey is Scotland 's biggest single donor to Labour Party funds. He received £16 million of tax-payers money, approved by Jack McConnell, to relocate his business to facilitate the M74 extension......to Parkhead.

Culley is a season ticket holder at Celtic Park , as are Haughey, Purcell and McAveety. McConnell is a regular guest. Culley visited Beijing to study transport systems to "help Glasgow 's bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games". Culley, Haughey and McAveety were at the forefront of the campaign for the M74 extension which improved Road links to Parkhead. 3 days after McConnell and McAveety announced the relocation of Sport Scotland to land adjacent to Celtic Park,

Culley as Chief Executive of Strathclyde Passenger Transport) quietly issued a low-key statement declaring the intention to build a new £20 million train link to Parkhead jointly funded by SPT, GCC and The Scottish Executive. More recently Culley announced plans for a Glasgow Underground extension to Parkhead.

Key historic buildings at Parkhead Cross are to be refurbished as part of a drive to breathe new life into the east end of the city. The Heritage Lottery Fund has given £1.4 million – one of the largest single donations it has ever awarded – to specifically restore the 100 year old Edwardian style buildings that frame the Cross. Three former bank buildings, will be renovated to bring empty floor space back into viable use and improve the overall streetscape.

The Parkhead Townscape Heritage Initiative is a £4 million five year plan, with the aim of repairing and bringing back to use landmark buildings, vacant shop units and enhancement to the public realm . The partners in the initiative include Glasgow City Council, East End Partnership, East End SIP, Communities Scotland Celtic Football Club and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow . £50 first prize to the first caller to name me a link between Glasgow City Council, Celtic Football Club and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.

In the mid 90s after Celtic FC had submitted plans for the re-building of their stadium. Glasgow District Council sold the club significant tracts of land namely Kinloch Street , Janefield Street and Dalriada Street for the princely sum of 1p. The Planning Committee consisted thirteen members, eleven Labour, one SNP, and one Tory. The SNP member was so disgusted with the dealings of his own committee that he informed the Herald that "of them eleven Labour councillors on the committee, they are all either season ticket holders or share holders at Celtic Park. Eight of them are both". He further noted that,"if these eleven councillors were shareholders in ICI and they voted for lax planning consent on a petro-chemical plant , there would be a criminal investigation". (This scandal was also reported in Private Eye's "Rotten Borough's" column).

Okay, we have established Glasgow District Council sold three streets( Dalriada Street ,Janefield Street ,and Kinloch Street ) to their beloved
Sellik for a penny. Next, the combined efforts of the Board of Scottish Enterprise(Glasgow) ie Paul Cooney, Wullie HeeHaw, Charlie Gordon, Stephen Purcell, ....etc and the then First Minister and Sellik season ticket and share holder, Jack McConnell ensured the Commonwealth Games would be centred on Sellik Park . It was first announced by McConnell to Snyde's Paul Cooney on the evening of the home leg of the UEFA Cup tie against Liverpool. Subsequently, it came out that the Velodrome would be constructed across the London Road and the various Administrative blocks would house Sports Scotland (currently located in Edinburgh ).

Those Admin' blocks have to be filled and the next vetted and fully on message tennants are Culture and Sport Glasgow . The Chief Executive of this public funded body is Bridget McConnell, wife of Jack. Of course, Bridget only received her in excess of £100,000 per annum designation because of a piece of horse trading by philanderer, Jack. He could not keep it zipped, got caught, ended up on the front page of the Record, and Bridget only agreed to respectibility if Jack ensured she was over promoted several grades. In football parlance, Bridget was a youth team stalwart who immediately assumed Captaincy of the first team.

Really, it all makes sense to centralise all the decision making process. All those MPs, MSPs, MEPs, Councillors, and Chief Executive of Public Funded bodies can watch their hooped heroes then walk across London Road to decide whats best for the peoples of Glasgow, Truly,the establishment Club.

I wonder if Bridget's and Jack's brother-in-law, Robert McLuckie will be first on the guest list? Pehaps I should try and explain myself further for those questioning why certain contributors raise the possibility that this proposed "Eat End Redevelopment" and "Celtic Triangle" may be of considerable benefit to Celtic FC - and indeed, that this is a primary factor in the plans we've seen released this week. Until very recently, Glasgow had not had a non-RC Lord Provost since the early 70s. A completely disproportionate number of staff at Glasgow City Council – including those at top end of the salary scale such as Bridget McConnell – are RCs. Nearly all Labour councillors are RCs and few councillors are members of any other party. Roman Catholic ex-Lord Provost Dr. Michael Kelly questioned the reasons behind this phenomenon a few years ago live on radio, the inference being the situation had arisen out of bigotry. Credit to him for being so open and honest.

A recent Lord Provost, Alex Mosson, was an IRA sympathizer who was responsible for inviting Gerry Adams to Govan Town Hall , while the Provisionals terror campaign was in full swing. Mosson had a novel interpretation of wealth redistribution; he had several criminal convictions for burglary, two of which lead to custodial sentences, including one case which involved tying up an OAP.

Mosson's wife was certainly not prepared to let taxpayers' money go to waste during her husband's stint as Provost, insisting on an increase in her dress allowance from £8,000 to £14,000 p.a. When questioned, she justified this by famously claiming "the people of Glasgow wouldn't want to see me wearing the same outfit twice".Mr. Mosson was the inaugural Chairman of The Celtic Trust and perhaps unsurprisingly, made sure that the official limousine was at hand for his regular trips to Celtic Park, a policy that was also questioned by political opponents. Strangely, he never took the opportunity of visiting Ibrox.

Perhaps it is not surprising, therefore, that some query the motives behind those at the forefront of the Commonwealth Games bid – such as Jack McConnell, Ron Culley, Steven Purcell and Frank McAveety – who are all regulars at Celtic Park .There are huge question marks over the £288m budget (80% to be paid by the Executive), given that the cost of the `indoor arena' alone has recently escalated from an original £24m to £70m. McConnell's handing of the M74 extension affair, in which he met City Refrigeration Holding boss (and ex-Celtic director) Willie Haughey before an initial £7.4m compensation award was increased to £16.5m – with Haughey subsequently donating £330,000 to the Labour Party – hardly dampens suspicion.

In contrast to the largesse being bestowed on the East End of Glasgow , SPT instructed Rangers that the club would have to fork out £500k if the old Ibrox station on the Central-Paisley line was ever to be re-opened.

A lot is spoken about `sectarianism' in Scotland I contend that there is far, far more to this problem than songs sung at football matches and that it is time the Scottish people wakened up.

When is one of our elected representatives going to ask some searching questions regarding the various deals surrounding East End regeneration, the Commonwealth Games bid, the M74 extension and the proposed rail/subway extensions? They may also care to question why the bulk of the "regeneration" seems to centre around a one mile radius of Celtic Park.


http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/former-celtic-director-brian-dempsey-3175564


http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/celtic-fan-jailed-for-racist-tweets-to-rangers-duo-1-3428339

The tide is turning and now these incidents are no longer washed away by the media in Scotland ,this is not a Typical Celtic fan as the vast majority are decent but no longer are the media ignoring their reporting duties and the tide is turning but when will they address celtic ,GCC and the Scottish goverments collusion ?  when will the real truth be told ?

@hattersfanny
Thanks for the advice and let me offer you some - %%%% off

You accuse Rangers of hatred and bigotry in a post that is filled with ... erm ... hatred and bigotry
Look up irony and try to engage what little brains you have before posting in future you numpty.

i wonder if hatter the  No1 hater lives in the  beautiful liefy capital 

mountains of evidence of evidence been submitted for the STATE AID INVESTIGATION

this cannot be swept under the carpet ,some very serious allegations and they are not going to go away .


tick tock ......

They really are a funny tribute act - for a wee while at least.

benalder the head in the sand man. TIC TOC

The gcc/co-opdome getting a spruce up courtesy of gcc.

The punishment is the loss of trophies won during the period of state aid. Here's hoping it goes back to 1967

You have to laugh at the sevconians going on about land deals etc.  They are so desperate for a story to come out.  Move on as there is fook all to report.  Word on the street is that HMRC are coming after ur new club for unpaid tax for the tax year 2013 - 2014

is that the word on the marble inlaid street outside CP ?

Yet another Rangers obsessed fan joins the debate.
It really is all about Rangers the Pride of Scotland.

Great? You finally saw the light?

What disaster? Maybe lower ST sales but at a higher cost giving us a similar pre-season income to last year plus the added revenue of those who did not renew but will still turn up and pay at the gate.
So the future is bright and no State Aid needed. TIC TOC yer in for a shock.

YIC TOC
The vultures are circling over the gcc/co-opdome.

Been reading back through this thread and cant  help but think the attitude from the pacific shelfers is  blasé ,who will care if we are up to no  good ,no one will listen or act,its just a bit of old land ect   .Its got me thinking that there is substance to the claims of nepotism and corruption that need investigated by independent bodies   .The way statements have been issued suggestion claims of STATE AID are ludicrous and all the right people are coming out in their defence(but not giving accurate accounts ) it  really tweaks the attention ,a reckon this is  major  Aka .

Hope we have raised some awareness and hopefully a few others might have a look at the evidence and ask some questions .

Dropped Ukip some info about the case  .

Emailed  MPs in Westminster and got some encouraging replies ,wont bother with the doo shed at holyrood .

The smug attitude is what will nail them  ,they think they are untouchable .