steelboy

our opponents are owned by a rather dodgy character who is the head of a rather dodgy bank in lithuania.

we might well see a few of those players back at fir park a la craigan, phil, lasley and hammell. you can't really blame anyone for taking the money and having a go even if it didn't work out. stephen hughes was watching norwich play in the leckie the other week

will they even tell us where the refs came from and who they are? we better not get a fucking lithuanian.

looks like the refs will just have to go on strike again next week.

dutch and unbelievably estonian referees have kb'd the sfa now. the refs are growing stronger, celtic are looking stupider and the sfa are going to be forced to take action to sort this out

mcdonald was reprimanded by the referee's committee, any further punishment or him resigning would just signal to celtic and their fans that their current tactics are effective and that they can overturn sfa decisions and hound refs out.

it should be the sfl that get first dibs on the refs as this full situation has been caused by an spl club. it's not fair that spl games could go ahead while clubs that desperately need the money lower down get shafted.

aye but it's actually getting three refs (and 6 linesman) that will agree to go. all top refs seem to know each other through uefa and if i was a dutch ref i'd be wondering if strike breaking was going to harm my own or other duth referee's european and international prospects.

i'd be suprised if they get any foriegn refs. they've been kb'd by all the home nations, eire, iceland, denmark and norway. i can't see any refs from a respected country wanting to be the ones to break the strike and the sfa will be a laughing stock if they bring in albanians or maltese refs. i think this could have been resolved if they hadn't bothered about foriegn refs at all. they were asking other fa's for help before even sitting down with our refs, that can't have went down well.

exactly. the irony and hypocrisy of an organisation who have allowed people to keep their jobs despite doing some henious things calling for dallas to be sacked for that email is unreal.

i think he might have missed up at forfar. i'd still have him hitting one though.

what part of it is stupid? child abuse - cardinal bernard law is wanted in the usa in relation to child abuse. he continues to work in the vatican rather than face justice. holocaust denial - bishop richard williamson was brought back into the church by ratzinger even though he is a renown holocaust denier. genocide - the vatican obstructed justice relating to crimes commited by it's preists and nuns in rwanda. where are the angry emails from peter kearney about this? peter kearney is the same guy who tried to get the hokey cokey banned as it is apparently sectarian, he is a complete clown. why did he email the sfa today and not when the story first broke? did he complain when the image was broadcast on the bbc in the summer? has he complained about any other jokes about the pope - frankie boyle, jimmy carr, patrick keilty ect? where are the emails about that on his website?

in their court case against rangers' fans dundee united stated the costs of staging a match against the h**s was £16,000. you would assume that the costs of staging dundee-motherwell would be less than that figure.

the catholic church weigh in on behalf of celtic. child abuse, genocide and holocaust denial - ok a funny email - string em up peter kearny - get fucked!

tom english, who in my opinion is the only half decent print journo in scotland (probably because he is irish), summed up what celtic wanted quite well. celtic want refs to be afraid of them. if the sfa break the strike then it's a signal to celtic and their fans that the refs have no defence mechanism. if celtic 'win' here the future of scottish football will be broken windows, threatening phone calls, lies and accusations of a sectarian conspiracy every time things aren't going celtic's way. that's why we should all be backing the refs and demanding that our own club takes action to resolve the situation. i also think dallas and mcdonald deserve a bit of credit as it would be easy for them to chuck it but they obviously realise what is at stake here and are willing to stick it out for the benefit of scottish football.

i can't believe that they are still trying to get foreign refs. the message the sfa are sending out is that they don't care about refs in this country, they should be thinking about the ramifications of that at grass roots level rather than focussing on this weekend. if the sfa won't back category one refs when they have been facing abuse and threats what message does that send to guys who are sent out to public parks on their own and have to face up to all sorts of abuse from psychos all over the country. this has came about because mcgeady, hooper, lennon and reid have called refs cheats and dishonest and the sfa have let them away with it. it's shocking they are undermining the refs even further.

it's all coming together now. the conspiracy against tommy and celtic are one and the same, the irish bail out is part of it as well. the royal wedding is nothing but an establishment smokescreen. chief stonecutter hugh dallas is behind it all.

blackman hammell hateley casagolda randolph 7 or 8 months ago jenno would have been one of my first picks but playing in midfield for motherwell seems to completely knacker any shooting ability a player posseses.

wee craig is as accurate as ever. the tv money is distributed two ways. a portion of it is evenly divided between the clubs and a portion of it is awarded as prize money dependent on league position. how much tv money you get in the spl has zero to do with how many times you appear on tv or host televised matches. he's got a point about the corporate cash but a midweek gate would probably be similar to a televised sunday. if our club is so worried about the loss of income then what are we doing to resolve the situation?

he can't say anything as he's employed by the sfa. he no doubt privately backs the strike but due to his position can't endorse it. it's not really a good idea for anyone who will be involved once this is hopefully sorted to be speaking out publicly which is why dougal and clark are the front men for it. anyone else hear regan on the radio getting questioned about gary hooper? he sounds well out his depth and i don't think he's going to be the man to stand up to the inTIMidation.

romanov did but the difference is that the hearts fans had the intelligence to see him for the joker he is and no one took him seriously. celtic fans have a history of attacks on refs and players yet reid and lennon continue to whip them further into frenzy and give the professional agitators the ammunition they need. if the new guy at the sfa has any balls he should sit them down and tell them that mcdonald has been dealth with and the issue is dead.

if they bring foriegn refs this weekend i hope every ref quits.

he didn't blame anyone else. in the lie version he got it wrong and craven corrected him. in the true version he got it wrong and corrected it himself and craven was going to allow the pen to be taken even although he knew it wasn't a foul. the only person who benefited from the lie was craven. i'm no fan of mcdonald but why should he be forced out for telling a lie that had zero consequences. during that game lennon stood on the touchline frothing at the mouth shouting "fucking cheat" and was running about like a maniac. is it any wonder mcdonald wanted to take the easy way out?

i don't see the point in decisons being explained. you have to accept that a foul is given because a ref thinks it's a foul. if you go beyond that then you're just causing problems for no reason as the decision on the field is final. you'd also get arseholes trying to catch referees out and trick them into saying the wrong thing to cause controversy. why should dallas go? i also think mcdonald has been dealt with and that should be the end of it, i don't like the guy but he made one error which had zero consequences. was lennon kicked out of celtic for getting juanjo sent off? did reid resign for his lies about no shots fired, wmd's and dishonest expense claims?? did they fuck. celtic said they would ban the anti poppy protesters, what happened? fuck all. where's the honesty there. why should mcdonald be judged by a harsher standard than everyone else? scottish football is full of liars including our own manager. mcdonald and dallas have to be kept in place for reasons more important than either of them. celtic have to be shown that they are only one club and no more important than anyone else, if dallas and mcdonald are removed that will be a signal to them and the psycho's directing their fans online that intimidation works and they'll make life for anyone who doesn't bend over for them. the annoying thing here is that celtic have no power here. the other clubs in the spl could vote 11-1 against them to put tough new rules in place about the conduct of managers and officials. the sfa are the ultimate arbiters of football in this country and can do whatever they want, uefa will back them to the hilt and if celtic tried to go to a civil court they'd end up banned from european competition. there's nothing celtic can do apart from harass individuals via their phuppets in the media and by working their fans into a frenzy. instead of letting celtic away with constant insinuation they should be brought to hampden and ask to state any issues they have about conspiracies or whatever, after that they should be told tha they can abide by the rules or leave.

micheal kelly on newsnight :wank: celtic can't be allowed to win this, if they manage to get mcdonald or dallas sacked our game is fucked.