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The club (Rangers fc) will also question UEFA over whether or not they act on reports submitted by people other than official delegates and police

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I wonder where they got that argument from :rolleyes:
That was a tactic used by Rangers fans a year or so ago. A few of them send a letter to UEFA, complaining about Celtic fans behaviour at some game in Europe. Then they informed the news services that UEFA have started an investigation into complaints against Celtic fans. The BBC website even carried such a headline on a news report.
When you read the BBC news report, getting past the headline 'UEFA investigates Celtic fan's conduct' , yes UEFA received the letter and they had opened it before filing. Apparently, the UEFA action of opening the letter, satisfied the BBC definition of "investigation".

this gave me a chuckle (from tonights game Celtic v. St. Johnstone)

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1802: An early interruption to play with several footballs kicked onto the field from outside the stadium. A bizarre opening in Perth.

1801: The match starts with Celtic kicking off.

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In the St.Johnstone V Celtic game, the ref had a total brain fárt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=V9XBBK6C_-U


Please excuse the profane title.

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Originally Posted by SkStu

this gave me a chuckle (from tonights game Celtic v. St. Johnstone)

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It was a mini demonstration against the early kick off 6pm because the game was televised and you can't televise a game at the same time as a uefa cl televised match, which was news to me.

Brines the ref had a shocker right enough.

Murphy played a full 90 with Stokes dropped to the bench and I was pleasantly surprised by his performance, nothing outstanding but showed a lotmore than I thought him capable of. Reminded me of Quinner in his heyday....

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Originally Posted by Junior

It was a mini demonstration against the early kick off 6pm because the game was televised and you can't televise a game at the same time as a uefa cl televised match, which was news to me.

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http://i54.tinypic.com/34gpx8i.jpg


"Balls to 6pm"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzK1sdVFlQY&feature=player_embedded

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Originally Posted by geysir

In the St.Johnstone V Celtic game, the ref had a total brain fárt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V9XBBK6C_-U


Please excuse the profane title.

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Does it show the push on the back of Duberry by the headless chicken Samaras when he fell on the ball? Strange ok that neither decision was given :)

You know what they say about owls and sight :rolleyes:
I seriously doubt your ability to analyse a simple bit of video as it presents itself:D
Samaras might be headless but he is no chicken and anyway that has no bearing on this case. He did not push Duberry in the back. He placed his hand gently against Duberry's shirt. There is no pushing action.
It was not strange that the ref did not blow for that as there was no foul, it was a blatant dive by Duberry.
It was more than strange that the ref did not blow for the hand ball. It was a brain fárt. What you don't see was Samaras repeatedly pleading with the ref for the handball. The ref had not blown for a foul on Duberry and had waved play on, at the same time as witnessing him handle the ball twice on the ground.

The storm in the administration of scottish football has been well and truly stirred by the lawyer Paul McBride who had represented Neil Lennon at the SFA disciplinary hearings.
The SFA is now considering, with the benefit of legal advice, whether to sue just Paul McBride for damages or whether to also sue other parties.

After the SFA let McCoist off on appeal, McBride said
"The SFA are tonight officially the laughing stock of world football and they have been shown to be not merely dysfunctional and not merely dishonest but biased because McCoist, who undoubtedly said something that provoked a reaction from Neil Lennon that caused a four-match ban for him, has received no punishment at all."

Bougherra and Diouf - both shown red cards that night - escaped with fines and a warning about their future conduct after facing the SFA's disciplinary committee to answer a case of "misconduct of a significantly serious nature".

Retired Grade One referee Kenny Clark
"I suspect most referees will be shaking their heads in disbelief. I think they'll be wondering if people have very short memories in relation to what happened earlier this season and their withdrawal of services."
"It's an extraordinary decision, particularly in relation to Madjid Bougherra, that's the aspect that worries me most."
"Players must know that it is entirely unacceptable to lay hands upon match officials. This decision from the SFA disciplinary committee sends out the wrong message to players at every level."
"If the disciplinary committee had applied common sense to this situation, they would have recognised that everybody regarded the conduct of both Madjid Bougherra and El-Hadji Diouf as extraordinary - and I mean that in a bad sense."
"The SFA labelled it serious misconduct, but the punishments meted out don't seem to me to treat it that way."
"I would say the disciplinary committee are not living up to their name and have conducted themselves in an incompetent manner on this particular occasion, especially in regard to Madjid Bougherra.

6 months or so ago Chairman Reid came out with the following statement directed at the footballing authorities in Scotland.

"We will not be treated as less than anyone else...those days are gone."

Now Paul McBride, Celtics Legal Counsel has had the SFA by the balls on a number of issues of late and he is not for letting go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbYiA2OX4hQ

The best bit is that he hammers the SFA and the SFA have nothing to use against Celtic. And to all and sundry, it is just as if he is speaking on behalf of Celtic.

As pr goes, it is a piece of art, priceless.

In the recent embarassment of the SFA - They claimed to be unable/unwilling to waste money on futile legal battles or words to that effect. In other words they had fecked up massively and had to go back and revisit their own law book and re-write accordingly.

What has changed in the last couple of weeks? Is it possible to make the same sort of clanger with the last one so fresh in the mind? Idiots.

Looks like McBride and the SFA have kissed and made up.......

McBride, who was the target of a parcel bomb found in a Kilwinning postbox on Friday, released a statement saying:

"In the course of an interview given to BBC Scotland on April 12, 2011, I made a number of remarks which followed the decision made at the disciplinary hearing involving Rangers FC players and their assistant manager.

"Following discussions with the Scottish Football Association, I recognise that offence has been taken to my remarks by the Scottish Football Association as an organisation, its council and its staff, and for that I express regret.

"I have a lot of respect for many individuals within the SFA, not least Stewart Regan.

"Under his leadership, I anticipate many reforms which will be welcomed across Scotland."

As a result the SFA have had an errrr rethink on their legal case against McBride

Regan, who will put his major overhaul of the SFA's disciplinary procedures to clubs at the organisation's AGM next month, welcomed the statement.

He said: "Following constructive discussions with Paul McBride, I can confirm that the Scottish FA will not proceed with either a defamation case against him or a complaint to the Faculty of Advocates.

"Whilst anyone is entitled to criticise the Scottish FA, we cannot allow our integrity to be challenged.

"Now that this issue is behind us, we can concentrate on the internal and constitutional reforms which will benefit Scottish football going forward."

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Originally Posted by geysir

You know what they say about owls and sight :rolleyes:

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They can see in the dark?

A lot of channel hopping last night. Kilmarnock vs Celtic, Spurs vs Arsenal and Madrid vs Barca. Celtic got their tactics right last night. Kilmarnock like to play from the back so Celtic pressed right up on them, caused them to give the ball away in dangerous parts of the pitch and thus conceded soft goals. Job well done by Celtic.

Looking forward to the Old Firm game on Sunday. Rangers are much improved from the team Celtic beat at Ibrox. All to play for.

Powerful tribute paid by the Celtic fans to Neil Lennon last night, during and after the game at Kilmarnock. The result, important as it was, paled into the significance at the end when Lennon went on to the pitch.

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Does it show the push on the back of Duberry by the headless chicken Samaras when he fell on the ball? Strange ok that neither decision was given :)

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Why give the penalty to Samaras? 3 goals in 30 games or something like that. Stokes bottled it because he had missed a peno recently I think.

Lennon is his own worst enemy reacting to the boos of the Rangers' fans as he left the pitch. Ignore it like all professionals do when being booed.

Old Firm games are almost as exciting as Steel City derbies :)

You are a real moaner Owls, Lennon has to dismantle a bomb before breakfast every morning and you moan about his sense of professionalism in front of the manic hordes. Next you'll be saying that Celtic should not win in Ibrox because of the effect it would have on the Ranger's fans :)
Samaras has scored 6 this season. He is the a player who gets the 'penalty taker appointment'. He has taken them for Greece and even scored one at Ibrox in January.
If Carling had sponsored that Glasgow Derby, Samaras would have converted the late penalty. And after the game, Lennon would have strolled over to the centre circle and stuck a small tricolour in there.

Cupping your hands to chants of "What's it like to live in fear....", is now a 'crime' ??

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Cupping your hands to chants of "What's it like to live in fear....", is now a 'crime' ??

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Obviously what the rangers fans were chanting is wrong and what happened to lennon recently is very wrong. But the man really really does not help himself.

His reaction after the match was stupid, just stupid. And his reaction in the press conference after was equally as bad. The man has no sense. He is well paid in a high profile influential role. He needs to set an example and not in the manner that it has in two recent old firm games.

It's not about setting an example, I think. He just really shouldn't be bating them when his life is in very genuine danger :/

Someone sent me a link for this. At least it cracked me up.

Sammy the Tammy blows Raith away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZSrd4y1c-E&feature=player_embedded#at=37