Something strange happened today.
The Daily Radar reported accurately on troubles at Sevco.
I know, I know.
You might want to take a moment dear reader…
There was indeed a free and fair exchange of post-match views between Mr Greg Docherty and Señor Alfredo José Morelos Aviléz in the tunnel at Hampden.
Word reached upstairs to the Sevco High Command that the ambience in the light blue dressing room had turned ugly.
Mr Bomber, it is fair to say, was in a less than Zen-like state after the humping.
He was very pointedly told that the dressing room was out of bounds to him.
It was the opinion of the Blue Room chaps that reasoned mediation might not be in his skillset.
Consequently, a senior functionary of the Sevco High Command was dispatched to calm the situation.
He did his best to intervene, but let’s just say that he is more middle management than middleweight.
Let us just say that the chap became collateral damage in the ensuing scholarly debate.
That psychologically broken squad now have five remaining matches to avoid dropping below their ambitions of being “Simply the Second Best”.
Remember dear reader that is all that Sevco can be.
This is what an epoch of unipolarity feels like.
I stated in the autumn of 2012 that it would be several years before the full significance of what had just happened at Ibrox would be fully felt.
The euphoria of the Off Licence Putsch in March 2015 and the failures of Heated Driveway Productions the following year at Hampden gave The People some hope.
However, it was of the false variety.
Today they know to be true that even if they cannot admit that to themselves let alone to those out with their dysfunctional subculture.
Apart from trying to secure second place, their season is over.
Now a squad comprised of loan signings and duds has to be renovated over the summer.
Across the Clyde, a well-oiled machine is already calmly proceeding with a long-term strategy, both on and off the field.
The application to buy land from the City Council for a Fan zone and the plan for a hotel on the Celtic way is evidence of that.
This morning a well-placed agent told me that Celtic had made a very good offer to Abel Hernández, currently at Hull City.
The Uruguayan striker is not short of suitors.
However, I’m told that he has a three year deal on the table from the biggest club in Scotland.
This news was further confirmation to me of the business-like approach of the Parkhead club.
It is in stark contrast to the grisly carnage at Ibrox.
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It’s all gone quiet at Hampden. Replacing Regan appears to be just as difficult as the Ibrox club hiring a new manager.
Is the Compliance Officer on extended sick leave?
Is not having a CEO in place the excuse for the CO not publishing his review of SFA licencing procedures?
Has he passed his findings to Police Scotland having discovered that the 2012 UEFA licence application was, as we all know, fraudulent and a criminal act has been perpetrated?
What is going on, 5 months down the road and counting when the facts are indisputable?
Bad enough refusing to have an independent enquiry but a 5 month review which should have taken 5 minutes as all the facts and paperwork were to hand is taking the piss.
Let me help you out Mr McGlennan.
Who signed off on the UEFA licence application from Ibrox?
Did they tick the no taxes overdue box as they self certified?
That’s it in a nutshell, job done,so whats the problem, please tell?
It’s all kicking off as the fall out continues from Sunday.
A Fenian conspiracy, too many Celtic minded people at Ibrox, the vetting procedure is not working, the SNP is green through and through, Corbyn is a republican mole, we are losing our Presbyterian values…
Where do you start with that mindset?
Miller and Wallace at war with Murty as was Halliday and Candeias.
The dressing room is a disaster area and a trip across the city on Sunday week must be giving them kittens.
No surprise to see Miller leading the backlash against Murty as he was well to the fore when Pedro was cut adrift.
Perhaps he still has ambitions of a job on the coaching staff as his playing career runs down but hasn’t had the offer he thinks he deserves?
I can see them turning up at Celtic Park with whoever is in charge taking a pragmatic approach and parking the bus a la Walter style and hoping for the best.
How ironic would it be that a 4th place finish would only deliver European football if Celtic complete the double treble.
Just imagine all those Gers fans roaring on Celtic on Cup Final day!
Oops hold on, of course they won’t be tuning in, the Royal wedding will be going down, cue street parties.
Highly irresponsible of The Rangers. I have insomnia and it’s hard enough to get to sleep without pissing myself laughing at the huns all the time.
Ha Ha Mikey Bhoy, so right, keep them coming!!!!
So good to be a tim.
Hail Hail
Being Airdre.
If the result had been close with Celtic scraping through the media and Rangers players would be telling everyone that the gap had closed.
Barry Ferguson would have chimed in with a Celtic were lucky article and Chris Jack would have wet himself with excitement.
However Celtic turned up for the first time in weeks and it was a no contest.
Not one of the players in blue would be in the Hoops squad.
With finance at a premium there is no prospect of bringing in the quality required to turn things round.
The loanees and Docherty are all getting pelters from the fans as not being good enough.
There is still the wreckage from Warburton and Pedro’s reign to move out but many of them are sitting on contracts that won’t be available elsewhere.
If the on field situation is bad enough there is the small matter of recruiting and financing a box office new manager to compete with Brendan.
Failure to do so in the next few weeks will surely impact on ST uptake.
Then we have King’s wee issue with COS/TOP, the bad news just goes on and on.
It’s crystal clear that the concert party have neither the finance or skill set to run a succesful football club. Slowly but surely even the most gullible in the fan base are seeing through the fibs and fake news being fed to them by the club and the Scottish media.
Another hosing in the upcoming league game will be the final straw for the fans.
The plan, if ever there was one,was to take from Celtic the one CL qualifying place and all would be well.
The earliest for that target to be achieved is season 2019/20.
The last financial year resulted in a £6m loss, the current financial year is likely to be worse with a bloated payroll, added to by the new loanees and Docherty plus the recall of their own players out on loan.
No word of a share issue nor any major merchandising deal to boost revenue.
Gone are the days when SDM was announcing deals right, left and centre with some of the new partners happy to pay large sums of money up front. Funny how no one is queing up to repeat that generosity.
Every regime that has run Sevco & Newco for the last 20 years has been crooked & corrupt i.e.
Murray, Whyte, Green & King.
Others such as Ashley, Johnson, Murray the Minor & the Easedales have dabbled but the gang of four have run things.
Murray the Major has DOS,EBT & sundry other blemishes.
Whyte aspired to be a barra boy.
Green was a grown up Whyte.
King is a less sophisticated Murray the Major.
All bent, all screwing Rangers fans for every penny & ounce of good will & hope for the future.
There are decent folk there – there has to be, but it seems a bit like a Trump presidency. They’ll be sacked if they demur so they sit tight & hope to ride it out.
Sadly, there’s a sound case to be made for Newco trading while insolvent & failing to meet Uefas FFP requirements. They have consistently failed to meet any standard of financial probity & propriety.
The SFA are agents of UEFA in these areas but they still have to comply.
Definition of compliance becomes important.
HH
Someone on BBC Scotland tonight suggested that the sum sevco were contributing towards the salary of Pena, was MORE than the entire Motherwell first team squad put together. I really do find that one a bit hard to swallow.
Three terrific posts today Phil and after yesterday still got a smile like a Cheshire cat. If McInnes does take the job at ibrokes would Stuart Milne still demand that they put the cash on the table before allowing him to talk to them , the bigot’s want a RRM at the helm but split with those who just want a good manager who would do well for the club . I believe SC at Kilmarnock who is a Killie fan but leans more towards Celtic would really need to look closely at the small print as he would definitely get a better position in England regardless of the size of the club . The boardroom clusterfuck really has the deranged Benny’s crying for Kings head as there forums are crying out for him to be tarred and feathered as they appear to be tearing apart his cunning plan to fleece . One even commented on his “promise” of £30 million warchest of which I believe there has been more sightings of Brigadoon . Tonight much debate on what would happen if they finished 4th , and most of them would want us to create history if it meant them getting a little progres in Europe again , couldn’t make this shit up . Thanks again for brightening up my day even more , take it easy amigo ??????
I see over in ibrox noise wee Coco at his best .He has blamed all the shambles over at the bigot dome on celtic and on celtic minded appointments. .This clown seems to make more an arse of himself on a daily basis than we thought possible. Let’s see what comedy he has in for us later tonight or early doors tomorrow.
Are they still on course for a European trophy by 2020?
Well we certainly out them back in their box, lets hope we screw the feckin lid down in 2 weeks time.
I can see mad bomber getting the job at ibrox .At the interview they could ask him what would you bring to this job .Mad bomber would answer a bootle of Buckie &6 cans as he has an alcohol problem he only has one mouth .But give him the job anyway as he is good at getting clubs relegated.
Thank you Phil for your prodigious and entertaining posts today.
The grisly carnage on the turf and afterwards at Hampden yesterday mirrored the chaos going on in the blue room. The tribute act were treated to a master-class as Broony strutted his stuff without breaking sweat and led the bhoys to a victory that laid down an insurmountable marker for next season’s sevco, whatever form they take. Their chairman being held in contempt, debts owed to moneylenders and no financial security surely doesn’t bode well for the future. Players versus players and all the in-fighting between the board portrays the club as a rank amateur two bob outfit and that is how the rest of Europe will see it. The one thing that is a certainty is that they have been well and truly skelped and will keep on being skelped by the mighty Glasgow Celtic. It’s time the hype from Jabba and the SMSM stopped as they have a serious amount of egg on their faces after this fiasco. Live and learn or just die out sevco. HH
A striker from Hull City.Im sorry but after our humiliations in Europe this year I expect better.
All these profits and yet again we are far from the top table.
I am merely reporting that I find.
Barring injuries, he’s a class act who has represented his country at the highest level and is available for free. What’s not to like?
Unfortunately there are no guarantees that even spending £10m on a player or players would have made any difference to our CL results where we are up against teams with a front three worth around half a billion between them.
Hi Phil
Things are so bad at Ibrox now even Celtic supporters don’t know what’s happening
You perhaps expected better than a £650,000.00 signing of a misfit from Feyenoord in 1997?
Sometimes it’s about how that certain player will slot into a style of play that suits them and the club, not his price tag.
Or an unkown £300,000 Slovak from Duisburg signed by Dr Jo Venglos as an old pals act over a “proven talent” like John Spencer for three times that amount.
what do you expect ?…. Wolves are paying 18million for players these days …we can’t compete with that
I thought the Daily Mail nailed it properly in their first report of the beasting when they stated that Celtic went on field of play, stood on their throat and terrorised them, dear oh dear the indignity of it all… Todays’ gers forums are well worth viewing, so much tragedy in one place, and sunshiine, to read of the gap closing most successful team in the world being discribed as a blind three legged tortoise was interesting..
I have a sore throat and wet trousers now thanks to those comments about Mr Bomber…
Zen-like state had me going but at least the board have the ability to spot that “mediation is NOT in his skillset”.
They should have just let him loose!
I feel a pang of guilt at enjoying other folks misery! But a sip of red and a giggle and I just think …No.. This is just the start of the fun!
My favorite movies are ones that involve grisly carnage. Dave King, however, is no Sam Peckinpaugh …
Grisly carnage. Brilliant description of the shambles masquerading as a football club down Govan way.
Long may it continue.
What a shame. It surely would have been comedy gold having the bomber making his views known on the games outcome.
It was heartening to see a relatively sound refereeing display, though only after the tie was dead and buried at 2-0 did Bobby Madden see red. It was also encouraging that Mr Douglas Ross MP was not on the touchline, since he has real difficulties sorting out green, blue, red and yellow (a habitual difficulty for folk who climb into bed with the DUP ).
Celtic coasted though not without a few silly mistakes that might have seen Morelos score his first against Sevco’s city rivals. Murty, on the sidelines, had the Cheshire Cartsmile of someone who really wasn’t fully present… I’ve no doubt he will find a better, hopefully less pressured role in the not too distant future.
To hear that Ntcham gets less than Dorrans suggests Celtic need to re-evaluate Olivier. He’s worth far more, in coin and ability, and was one of the 13 standout performers yesterday, none of whom were playing in blue. Rationally, this victory was predictable. That is was so emphatic comes down to the relative abilities of the managers involved. Brendan now faces a further test… can Celtic regain their invincibility post-split and put some of the ghosts of this campaign to rest for good? We’ll see.
Don’t think for a nano second that Celtic need evaluate their wage structure based on the over priced dross plying their trade at servo ….. to suggest such a thing is contradictory terms in the extreme .
And synonymous of sevco’s blatant disregard of appropriation of wages pro rata to actual worth …. a basic flaw that will see them you belly up once more .
Olli will , like the rest of the Celtic squad , see his wages amended in line with his progression and in line with the club’s structure , a structure that is both manageable and realistic
Excellent! One of yr best.
Phil, a hat-trick of great offerings today. Why not go for four like the champions? Something to really finish the peepul off. Still chuckling at Bomber’s zen-like state. Cheers!
Seen a thread today with Rangers fans angered that their players did not physically assault brown and Griffiths in an attempt to ruin their careers once they were 3-0 down … oh dear
I read over where the bears have a sore hear that Morelos, Wes and Windass should be sold and the resultant £10-12m be used to bolster the squad with some cash to spare. I fear if Dodgy Dave thought he could get anything in 7 digits for the trio he’d chew the hand off.
Not many of the loanees are getting pass marks any more. I think McCrorie might demand a couple of mill in the championship.
Halliday has surely played his last for his boyhood heroes. I can see him getting a move to the lower English leagues then ending up at Airdrie.
Whit’s Airdrie done tae deserve that..?
Being Airdre.
Ha Ha Mikey Bhoy, so right, keep them coming!!!!
So good to be a tim.
Hail Hail