Fergus McCann v David Murray

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How Celtic Turned the Tables on their Glasgow Rivals by Stephen O Donnell: A Review by Auldheid. Stephen’s previous publication, Tangled Up In Blue provided a detailed history of the rise and fall of Glasgow Rangers FC PLC from 1872 until their demise in 2012. Clearly a lot of research had been done to cover … Read more

The Last Thing Scottish Football Needs Right Now ..

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.. is More Secrecy We all now know Lord Clark’s judgement on Friday has kicked off an arbitration process to solve the case raised by Hearts, Partick and their sleeping partner, Stranraer. He seemingly had no option and did this because it is the “pre-decided” SFA procedure for football disputes. Accordingly three qualified persons will … Read more

Sweet Little Lies

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Tell me all your sweet, sweet little lies All about the dark places you hide Tell me all your problems, make them mine Tell me all your sweet, sweet little lies The stridency of Scottish journalist/pundits, particularly coming from those on the BBC Sportsound platform from where they cry out for an investigation into what … Read more

Les Says It is Time to Ask The Audience?

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Saying the last couple of weeks has been colourful for Scottish Football would be an understatement. We are now in a position where we have a Taskforce co-chaired by the heads of two clubs to look at what needs to be done in the Covid 19 landscape right now and into whatever future unfolds. Representatives … Read more

SPFL Myopia Flares into Civil War

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The Covid 19 Pandemic is a truly serious game-changing situation for us all.We are all currently staring into a future with no declared road map exit ofhow we might move back to normality and the certainty of disruption now andlong into the future. Against the background of lockdown to curb the virus spread we have all … Read more

Own Goal Time in Scottish Football?

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In these difficult Covid 19 dominated times with no apparent roadmap for escape we are all on the cusp of financial pressures that will only get worse for our clubs and football communities. Ahead of writing this I spoke with a couple of club insiders this morning looking for extra insight. No surprises that both … Read more

A Lie for a Lie

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The “Lawwell Letter” is trending everywhere this week. To elucidate, it is email sent to (among others) Peter Lawwell and Eric Riley of Celtic on 26 July 2012 by SPL CEO Neil Doncaster. The email came with an attached copy of the Five Way Agreement (hereafter “5WA”, the deal between Sevco, Rangers, the SFA, the … Read more