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As Rangers supporters we have been subject to a few Peter Decisions this season already. The lines are drawn depending upon the colour of the jersey here in Scotland. It is the path of least resistance to deliberately err on the side of ra Sellik. During Brendan's first spell at ra Stade de Gadd, Referee Don Robertson awarded Ross County a last minute penalty to secure a 1-1 draw, Brendan used the post match interview, "the Ref' will not have a future in the game if he continues to make similar decisions". The last old firm match saw the fruition of Don. Sellik have worked hard at it for decades. Sir Robert Kelly's history of Sellik published in the early fifties has an opening chapter entitled, 'the first disallowed goal'. Sir Bob relates a tale of injustice from a home game against Hearts in 1908. Private Detctives have been hired by the club to follow officials and, when this fail fails, they can rely on an ardent fan, Kevin Dunn from the green leather heated comfy seats to throw a bottle at the Dllas family home. However, Kevin was not finished, he was so upset at his beloved green'n'grey hooped heroes losing the game 0-3 and league to Rangers, he grabbed a golf club and proceeded to smash 13 of the 14 double glazed windows of the house with entire Dallas family inside. We experienced a Referee strike a dozen years past because of increasing levels of Sellik encouraged intimidation. The above Kevin Dunn was convicted in court, was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay cost of damages amounting to £4,000. Kevin owned a double glazing company and after his court appearance he was applauded and cheered back to his North Stand seat. Cheerleading is not restricted to the stands, both the broadcast and print media can be relied upon to emphasise or ameliorate. Last evening in Rotterdam, Sellik lost 2-0 and finished the game with nine men after two red cards. Peter has now taken over an important job in UEFA and the work to rid the organisation of officials with Masonic tendencies will have already begun.Ra Sellik Skipper, Calum McGregor was at his enlightening best in the post match interview, "in UEFA competitions the leniency isn't very high". Calum knows the foul to cards ratio in Scotland is hugely in his club's favour, he is exasperated that continental officials are not yet on message. Michael Stewart is a former employee of Sellik TV and he knows what he has to do to ensure the continuance of his associate membership of PQ CSC, "what is VAR for"? The Rangers hater went further, "what is the point in VAR if it does not recognise wrong decisions"? Michael was adamant the penalty decision was wrong and Lagerbielke should have remained on the pitch. He is alone in this opinion for the moment. Michael is confused because when Lagerbielke dallied on the ball and was robbed for Roofe to score, it was disallowed as he glibly stated, "it is in the rules". Michael prefers Peter's rules to UEFA rules. In 37 Champions League games Sellik have managed one clean sheet, conceding 89 goals. However, what we must remember as they carry the Scottish standard in Europe, they hit the post against Real Madrid. We are five years away from that incident constituting a goal furra Sellik under the ensuing UEFA directive, 'Peter Decision'.

We are one domestic defeat away from people complaining about Kamara being sold.

You have to laugh at these gloating revelations about the weaknesses of a club that has won 10 of the last 11 SPFL championships ...... when we still struggle to compete with them ourselves and have taken to whining about refereeing decisions to deflect from our own inadequacies.

By the time we play this lad he’ll be known as the old Bailey

And we have greater, wider, aspirations (?). Perhaps we should, firstly, aim to best them, and put them in their place, before engaging larger aims.

It is measure of where we are, how far we have sunk, that we seek consolation, and enjoyment, in the travails of others. Mind you, it is a pleasure to see Pederasts FC defeated, and it always was so, even when we were riding high on the hog.

I think the board are happy to write another season off. They'll probably stick with Beale until the yahoos beat us in December, when it'll be too late.

Interesting to see Copenhagen winning 2-0 away to Galatasaray in the CL. I wonder what their budget is compared to ours. Anyhow...here's my team for Thursday for what it's worth. *********Butland********* *********Souttar********* ***Goldson****Davies*** Tav****************Borna ****Lundstram***Cifu**** ********Lawrence******** ****Dessers****Roofe**** Doubt it will happen but God knows we need a reboot/refresh. Our football is slow and turgid. 3 at the back offers more security IMO

Referee - Lawrence Visser BEL Assistants - Rien Vanyzere BEL and Thibaud Nijssen BEL Fourth Official - Kevin Van Damme BEL Video Assistant Referee - Bram Van Driessche BEL Assistant Video Assistant Referee - Tiago Martins POR Missing - Steven Davis (Knee), Todd Cantwell (Knee), Danilo Pereira (broken face bones), Nicolas Raskin (calf); Ridvan Yilmaz, Kieran Dowell, Leon Balogun (not in EL squad ... FFS!!!) Anyone checked what form Betis is in right now?

After our last champions league campaign were the last lot to sneer at others let’s get our own lot fixed before having a go at the beasts

I don't think they care about Europe and instead only focus on domestic success.

My 'Yes' will become even more 'Yes'

This move by Celtic is hardly unexpected and is no doubt carefully calculated but it is fraught with danger, amounting as it does to both an admission of guilt and a sign of real fear about where a court case might lead them.

Considering many are saying we are not a CL level team i think thats bollocks we have mixed it and dished out beatings to many of these teams over the last 5 years. We should be in the CL. This sucks.

27 October 2022: PSV 2 - 0 Arsenal.

Not me Yorkie, I have seen enough terrible MB football.

Me neither.

Sure it’s not kicked by a calf don’t say we’ve signed another wimp

Not I, YB.

Actually, the only relevant evidence we have so far for this Rangers team (PSV) indicates it can't compete. They have it all to prove.

It’s off and running again Newcastle a decent draw at Milan City in comeback mode to beat Red Star Barca firing five against Antwerp and the hooped horrors continuing the Scottish tradition of getting gubbed

So, where is rasellik's move going? Here is the take from today's Times, which has some interesting quotes from the claimants' solicitors. Celtic FC ‘ready to pay out’ millions for abuse claims Lawyers for boys’ club players are set to enter talks Marc Horne Tuesday September 19 2023, 10.30pm, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/celtic-fc-to-settle-claims-in-boys-club-sex-abuse-cases-t5wg9bn97 Celtic are poised to make multimillion-pound damages payments after indicating they want to settle legal claims over systematic child abuse at their feeder club. It comes after evidence disclosed in an investigation by The Times contradicted and undermined the Scottish football champion’s insistence that it was an “entirely separate organisation” to Celtic Boys Club. More than 20 former boys’ club players have joined a class-action lawsuit that was due to be heard in court later this year. Four senior figures connected with the boys’ team, including its founder, have been convicted of sexual offences against young footballers, prompting claims that it represents the largest child abuse scandal in British football. Celtic has previously contested the claims, insisting the boys’ club was a separate entity with which it had “historic connections”. However, Thompsons Solicitors, which is representing the survivors, has halted its legal action after the Parkhead club indicated that it wanted to negotiate a settlement. The Times investigation began in 2019, when it disclosed that Celtic funded the boys’ club and employed the predatory paedophile Frank Cairney, 87, who ran the feeder team between 1974 and 1991. The abusers Jim McCafferty, Frank Cairney, Jim Torbett and Gerald King It also revealed that Jim Torbett, 75, who was jailed three times for molesting boys after the former Celtic manager Jock Stein granted permission to launch and lead the boys’ club in 1966, ran Celtic’s chain of shops selling official merchandise. The law firm said: “Thompsons Solicitors are pleased to confirm that Celtic have indicated their intention to enter settlement negotiations within the context of the . . . litigation. “This litigation relates to cases of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club by the convicted paedophiles, James Torbett and Frank Cairney. “Celtic have not formally admitted liability [nor] made any other formal concessions but their desire to enter negotiations to explore the possibility of a settlement of this action has been made clear. This means that parties will ask the court to adjourn the forthcoming proof to allow work to be undertaken to value individual cases.” A source close to the survivors said that they were delighted by the breakthrough. “This finally destroys, once and for all, the ludicrous claim that the boys’ club was a completely separate entity,” the source said. “We always knew it was nonsense and our tactics finally dragged Celtic kicking and screaming to the negotiating table. We have been vindicated. There is still a long way to go but this is a very good day.” Investigations by The Times disclosed Celtic funded the boys’ club and employed the paedophile Frank Cairney Lawyers acting for the former players argued that the boys’ club and Celtic were “intimately connected” and the senior club was “vicariously liable” for assaults carried out in the youth set-up. It is understood that damages settlements will be negotiated on an individual case-by-case basis, with the expectation that Celtic will pay substantial multimillion-pound sums. At a hearing in February Ian Mackay KC, acting for the survivors, said that lawyers had uncovered evidence of close links between Celtic Boys Club and Celtic FC. He argued that the clubs were intimately connected. “Players played in Celtic strips and wore blazers that were virtually identical to those worn by Celtic FC players,” he said. “Football kit, holdalls and training gear [were] provided by Celtic FC. Celtic Boys Club trained at Barrowfield, the training ground of Celtic FC, and Celtic Park.” Mackay said that in the 1980s and 1990s Jack McGinn and Kevin Kelly, then senior members of the Celtic board, spoke to the suspected abusers and ordered an internal inquiry when allegations of abuse in the boys’ club emerged. “Because of the controlling hand of Celtic in the boys’ club, we say that Celtic FC are vicariously liable,” he said. In January a sheriff found that Cairney indecently assaulted a teenage player in the changing rooms and tea room at the Parkhead ground and a training facility used by the first team. He exploited his position to prey on three boys between July 1978 and June 1989. In 2019 Cairney was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for abusing seven boys over 20 years. During the latest hearing, a police video was shown in court, where Cairney said he had been directly installed as head coach of Celtic Boys Club by Stein in 1970. Cairney said: “[Stein] says, ‘You will take the Celtic Boys Club under-16s. I will put s-forms [schoolboy players] in there and you are responsible.’ It was called Celtic Boys Club but it was Celtic under-16s.” In 1990 Celtic View, Celtic’s official magazine, said the boys’ club manager was on their payroll. It congratulated Cairney, “in his 20th year on the Celtic staff”, and said that the Celtic board had decided to “increase their support and investment in the boys’ club”. A year later Cairney stepped down after returning from a team trip to New Jersey. McGinn, then chairman of Celtic, accepted his resignation and “pressure of work” was given as the reason for his sudden departure. It later emerged that a 16-year-old player had accused Cairney of abusing him in the United States. In March Torbett was found guilty of sexually abusing a 13-year-old player, causing “incalculable harm”. Before jailing him for three years, the judge, Andrew Cubie, told Torbett that he had used the club as “an elaborate front for recruitment of young victims”. He was imprisoned in 1998 for abusing three boys, including Alan Brazil, the broadcaster and former Scotland international. Torbett was jailed for another six years in 2018 for molesting boys between 1986 and 1994. Torbett ran Celtic FC’s chain of club shops in the early 1990s and organised testimonial events for first team players and coaches, including Tommy Burns and Sean Fallon. In 1986 Celtic opened an investigation after concerns were raised about the welfare of young players. It cleared Torbett and other boys’ club coaches, describing the claims as “false and scurrilous”. In 2019 Jim McCafferty, a former boys’ club coach and Celtic kit man, was jailed for six years after admitting 12 charges relating to child sexual abuse. He died, aged 76, in prison last November. In 2018 Gerald King, a former chairman of the boys’ club, was convicted of abusing four boys and a girl. Three other men with ties to Celtic and Celtic East Youth Club, a now-defunct feeder team in Edinburgh, have also been found guilty of serious offences against boys. Celtic was contacted for comment. Comments for this article have been turned off

I would bet that if it were Rangers then Celtic would be leading all the other Scottish clubs crying out for justice by way of striping honours

Michael Stewart and Calum McGregor's comments are a bit contradictory. I guess McGregor was just a bit too honest, after an energy sapping 90 minutes, whereas Stewart is so pre-programmed he's unable to deviate from the set agenda.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My god. That sums my interest in the CL after we got turfed out! Feyernoord 1 up now but look piss poor compared the PSV team we played a few weeks back

Circumstances, since then, have changed. The fhilth's aim, clear for a number of years, is to kill Rangers stone dead, or to render Rangers totally irrelevant. It pays only the most cursory of lip services to 'TOF', as it no longer views that brand as an economic imperative. Its end is to make Scottish league football uncompetitive, and to use this engineer a relocation to a more lucrative arena. It has friends at UEFA, assiduously cultivated, and its eminence grise is on an influential club committee there. As I have said before, rasellik is not a gentlemanly organisation. If it is prepared to conceal, for decades, the sexual abuse of minors, for its own benefit, then it will not baulk at stabbing Rangers....in the chest. I hope that Rangers is sufficiently aware, to do, if circumstances permit, the right thing, and move to kick it out of football permanently. The 64 000 dollar question: is the rest of Scottish football so under the Parkhead thumb as to render Rangrers totally impotent?

Expulsion would be appropriate. To their shame Rangers wouldn’t allow it. Long ago Hibs had celtic just about down. Just needed a wee push from Rangers and they’d have been gone. Didn’t happen then and sadly it won’t happen now.

So what action will the football authorities take or will the Scottish European or even FIFA do nothing someone should be pushing an agenda to get honours stripped from them

Still trying to stuff banknotes into victims' mouths.....

Scummy bastards are trying to avoid the bad PR of it going to court.