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That I❤Bale was some poster.
AFTER the Record’s Keith Jackson, yesterday, it’s the turn of the Scotsman’s Stephen ‘Doc’ Halliday to step into the limelight and accept the plaudits for a top class exclusive.
Halliday reveals today that the General Purposes Committee of Stewart Regan’s Scottish Football Association has convened - despite the snow stopping the members making it to Hampden for Monday’s scheduled meeting.
His Scotsman exclusive tells us the business in hand - dealing with comments made by Neil Lennon - was dealt with by the committee members in a conference call.
Now the SFA will notify Celtic of their decision.
In the prevailing surge of secrecy about some things - though not others - we may need some more investigative reporting of the calibre shown by Jacko and the Doc to discover just what the sentence is.
After all, at least two newspapers refused to publish the secret decision to merely censure Celtic after their official website’s “no fair minded person” rant.
On the subject of websites, the SFA’s seems to have undergone a North Korean style touch in recent days. The section with the information of who’s who on all of the SFA committees has disappeared.
Not a good sign, but what we are coming to expect from Regan’s reign.
Leaks, which give all the appearance of being to his advantage, spring up all over the place. But when he is called to account, Regan refuses to speak to newspaper reporters.
And on the subject of reporting, there was an astonishing piece written by Roy Greenslade in the Guardian’s media section which almost bowed down in supplication at the feet of Phil - The Failed Journalist.
However, if Greenslade had grovelled at his feet he would have needed to push the Daily Mirror’s Brian McNally out of the way.
For McNally compared Phil Mac Goilla Bhain to the two Washington Post legends, Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein, whose two years of investigative reporting brought down the president of America.
The Daily Mirror connection is a bit of a clue here. McNally works for it, and Greenslade once edited it. And still on that connection, it was the Mirror which once splashed a Troops Out! demand at the height of the IRA’s terrorist bombing campaign in England and Northern Ireland.
It was also the Mirror which more recently published fake pictures which had been scammed to show prisoners being tortured by the British army, a scam which led to the downfall of its editor and the freefall of its circulation.
The Guardian’s Greenslade also wrote that there is clearly sectarianism in Scottish football. Really? What’s his evidence? Who told him?
Phil - The Failed Journalist? Brian McNally? Paul Brennan? The old hokey cokey man, Peter Kearney? Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all?
STEWART REGAN?
However, I am indebted to Greenslade for one more piece of the jigsaw, regarding the leaking of the Hugh Dallas email.
Greenslade wrote that the day after it appeared on Phil - The Failed Journalist’s website, the story appeared - coincidentally he claimed - in the Scottish edition of the News of the World.
Yet Phil - The Failed Journalist’s byline has figured regularly in the Scottish edition of the News of the World in recent times.
What is also curious is the number of wild allegations - and indeed outrageous lies - which have been peddled on various Celtic websites, and by a number writers who have a Celtic bias.
It seems to many who follow much of this, these claims are designed to muddy the waters. Arrant nonsense they may be, but the world is full of fools willing to believe anything which conforms to their warped view, despite overwhelming contrary evidence.
Indeed, much of what is being written now, appears to some to have the hand of a hidden scriptwriter behind it, including one incredible rant on a Celtic website attributed to someone called Tony Hamilton.
This falls clearly into the category of making wild claims and ignoring overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
One of Hamilton’s claims is the presidency of the Scottish Football Association is passed from one Rangers supporter to another.
This is a blatant lie, and pays no attention to the recent history of those who have held that august office.
When George Peat became president he succeeded John McBeth, and McBeth, in turn, took over from former Celtic chairman, Jack McGinn.
As a matter of fact - I repeat, FACT - McGinn’s reign as president was actually extended by a year by his SFA colleagues.
As for McBeth, I would be grateful if anyone could provide any evidence about the former Clyde chairman’s support for Rangers.
McGinn and McBeth retain their first class seats at Scotland matches and on the Scotland team flights by dint of them both being Honorary Vice Presidents of the SFA.
There was also the piffle peddled on Celtic Quick News which claimed Celtic’s Sir Robert Kelly forced Sir George Graham to resign as the SFA president in the early 1950s.
The facts are that Graham was NEVER the SFA president. During the period quoted by Celtic Quick News, the SFA presidents were J Lamb of Arbroath and Hibernian’s Harry Swan.
As for the Rangers influence in the SFA. Well, there has been only ONE Rangers man to hold the presidency. That was Dougal Mackenzie in season 1897-98, when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
As lies go, these ones did not even need the investigative reporting skills of Jacko and Doc to nail.
Though I am sure they will both have more revelations about what went on which caused referees from numerous countries to change their minds about answering Regan’s pleas, plus the way the General Purposes Committee of Regan’s Scottish Football Association goes about its business.
…AND…
Police are set to be called in to probe a threat of assault made on the Celtic Huddleboard. But the waters are muddied.
The threat of violence is directed at Stephen Hawkings, and the laptop warrior claims he will have no problems attacking him, despite the fact Hawkings is in a wheelchair.
PRICELESS!
The man who is running a campaign against the Stuart Regan’s Scottish Football Association for caving into the Roman Catholic Church and sacking Hugh Dallas, is Richard Dawkins.
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I just texted Il Bomber Destro to see if he still has a copy of his correspondence with Scotsman journalist Andrew Smith.
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Looks like a real carnival atmosphere at Ibrox as the home side receive the Scottish Championship trophy after a 1-1 draw with Alloa Athletic.
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On loan Celtic player, Michael Duffy… refuses to clap Rangers during guard of honour
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Apologies to pedro Travers, but I’m changing my tag to Michael Duffy. 
Edit. I can’t.
Joey Barton is in advanced talks to join for their maiden SPL voyage in August.
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He’d be a fair coup for sevco, a biggish enough name joining a franchise with absolutely zero history and who have never played top flight in Scotland. It’ll be interesting to see if they can stay up next year.
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These cunts are seething
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Sunday, 22 May 2016, 18:36
by Rangers Football Club
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Rangers finds it incomprehensible that no one, either from within the Scottish FA or Hibernian Football Club, has condemned Hibernian’s supporters following the violent scenes at the end of yesterday’s Scottish Cup final when Rangers players and members of our backroom staff were physically and verbally assaulted. We have not even had the courtesy of any contact whatsoever from Hibernian to ask after the wellbeing of those who were attacked by their club’s supporters.
There must be a full independent investigation into the shameful scenes at Hampden. Rangers is also at a complete loss to understand why certain individuals have hastily attempted to gloss over the appalling events which unfolded at the end of Saturday’s final.
No matter how many times Hibernian’s chairman and Scottish FA vice-chairman, Rod Petrie, and certain other biased commentators wish to play down Saturday’s mayhem and violence, the truth must not be distorted. What unfolded on Saturday cannot and must not be put down to exuberance. That is a complete insult to Rangers, our supporters, and those individuals who were intimidated and attacked.
It was clear to most of those who watched in horror that the Scottish FA’s security procedures failed when Hibernian’s fans went over the top in their thousands. It is to be hoped that all of Scottish football will share Rangers’ disgust and any attempts to attach blame to our supporters for the disgraceful and violent behaviour, which led to our players and fans fearing for their safety, will not be accepted or tolerated by this Club.
We acknowledge that a tiny minority of Rangers fans also encroached on the pitch but only after having been faced with prolonged and severe provocation and in order to protect our players and officials who were being visibly attacked in front of them. Any club’s supporters would have done the same. This distressing and deeply disturbing episode would never have happened had Hibs fans behaved properly but as they swarmed across the pitch it became immediately obvious that the security procedures were inadequate and had failed.
These fans were allowed to rush, unchecked, towards Rangers supporters at the opposite end of the stadium – all the while goading and threatening them. This makes it preposterous to suggest Rangers fans were somehow to blame as some commentators appear anxious to do. This thuggish behaviour must be investigated and as many culprits as possible brought to book and formally charged. This is the second time in a year that Rangers fans have had to endure attacks by another club’s supporters.
It must also be said that it was not at all helpful to see leading members of the Scottish Government, including the First Minister whose parish is Govan, passing comment on social media without any attempt to condemn the behaviour of Hibernian’s fans. These failures are unbecoming of our elected representatives.
Certain media outlets have also attempted to distort reality. In the case of the BBC this is, of course, not news. BBC employees, in particular Stuart Cosgrove, believe Rod Petrie’s comments to be ‘balanced’ and others speak of a ‘minority’ of Hibernian supporters. Another, Tom English, who was not even at the match, would prefer the authorities to focus on Rangers fans’ reaction. We will not endure this insult.
So, let everyone be clear on one thing – Rangers demands that players, staff and fans be protected from the violence and hatred of supporters of other clubs. Rangers fully expects the Scottish FA and Police Scotland to take action to provide our people with a safe environment. When players are unable to accept medals at the end of a final because of fears for their safety and our supporters are alarmed and extremely concerned for the women and children among them, then surely every step must be taken to ensure that this is never repeated.
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Its odd there is no video evidence of any player being assaulted
That statement is magnificent. They call out individual journalists in it. 
In fairness to them, if one of the big, well established clubs were making the above claims there would probably be a full investigation. They probably feel that as a johnny come lately club their claims are being dismissed too lightly.
Why were there Sevco supporters on the field after the game?
Did they make any similar statement or apology after running amok in Manchester a few years back?
I appreciate that was a different entity but apparently it was the same set of supporters involved.
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Read the statement, bro. They went on to protect their players and staff who were under attack. There’s a quality photo doing the rounds of some zombie swiping a few Hibees with the corner flag.
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Sevco is being run now by a bunch who just want to appease the rabid fanbase of the former Rangers FC. It will be ultimately be the undoing of them.
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It does smack of sour grapes from the losers. It was more good natured high jinks rather than the all out violence which followed George McCluskey’s extra time winner in the 1980 final. I haven’t watched back on yesterdays proceedings but watching the game live, the only close up of a Rangers player I can recall after the game was a Hibs supporter walking up to their former player Kenny Miller and offering a consoling handshake which seemed to be well received.