FARE at game tonight

[Gonzo79 15,294]

FARE is a nefarious body funded by whom, I wonder.

 

Do they have an Irish bloke, called Dermot, as a benefactor?

Edited August 23, 2018 by Gonzo79

[DMAA 3,658]

Have they every reported Celtic?

[26th of foot 6,082]

55 minutes ago, DMAA said:

Have they every reported Celtic?

Their representative at Rangers visit to Villarreal was Alex O'Henley.

 

Barra born and bred, Alex was the football correspondent for the West Highland Free Press and commentated in Gaelic for BBC Alba. The owner of the WHFP in those days was Brian Wilson MP(Junior Cabinet Minister), the same Wilson that sits on ra Sellik Board to this day. Alex presented a most unflattering report that led to Rangers being fined. We were told at the time that Rangers supporters did not need to know the identity of our accuser. lots of the usual suspects testified to his good character.

 

If FARE do decide to report on Sellik, Alex can simply utilise his season ticket.

[buster. 5,196]

One plus is that Chris McLaughlin wouldn't have been able to take a seat beside the FARE inspector.

 

McLaughlin has in the past often been in close proximity to match delegates and fourth officials, who have went on to be involved in 'exclusives'.

 

Edited August 24, 2018 by buster.

[Franc Ergs 1,651]

54 minutes ago, 26th of foot said:

Their representative at Rangers visit to Villarreal was Alex O'Henley.

 

Barra born and bred, Alex was the football correspondent for the West Highland Free Press and commentated in Gaelic for BBC Alba. The owner of the WHFP in those days was Brian Wilson MP(Junior Cabinet Minister), the same Wilson that sits on ra Sellik Board to this day. Alex presented a most unflattering report that led to Rangers being fined. We were told at the time that Rangers supporters did not need to know the identity of our accuser. lots of the usual suspects testified to his good character.

 

If FARE do decide to report on Sellik, Alex can simply utilise his season ticket.

From their website.

 

Who are the Fare observers?
The Fare observers are experts who have been recruited through an open process from across Europe. All have background knowledge in anti- discrimination issues and fan scenes.

All observers speak the language of the teams they have been appointed to observe and are familiar with the corresponding fan cultures. The observers are working on a voluntary basis and are committed to being unbiased. They are not appointed as an observer at a game involving a team they follow themselves as supporters, or a close rival team.

 

To my reckoning ,O'Henley should've been nowhere near our games.

[DMAA 3,658]

1 hour ago, 26th of foot said:

Their representative at Rangers visit to Villarreal was Alex O'Henley.

 

26 minutes ago, Franc Ergs said:

They are not appointed as an observer at a game involving a team they follow themselves as supporters, or a close rival team.

 

To my reckoning ,O'Henley should've been nowhere near our games.

Definitely a conflict there. Being from South Uist he's definitely a Celtic fan, although Celtic fans from there don't hate Rangers the way Glaswegian Celtic fans do, they share a highschool with the Protestant North Uist.

[Walterbear 557]

FOI is not applicable to FARE. FARE are subsidised by UEFA. They are nothing to do with UK govt or public authorities. 

 

Reading the link below would suggest that it is wide open in terms of abuse by match observers and given there are strict guidelines on who can be an observer it is absurd that there is no transparency between UEFA, FARE and the clubs they observe in terms of at least the clubs being able to know about and comment on the background of their observers in the event they be charged by UEFA. It is clearly a left-wing sympathising group and as they have a political bias they should be nowhere near positions of ‘neutral observer’ status. 

 

From a neutral perspective it is quite sinister reading tbh. I’m all for stamping out extreme behaviour but the rules only seem to apply to clubs like Rangers who are a club disliked by the Celtic supporting wife of their founder and chief exec. 

 

http://farenet.org/get-involved/report-discrimination/observer-scheme-faq/

[Walterbear 557]

4 hours ago, DMAA said:

Have they every reported Celtic?

No. Don’t be ridiculous. Celtic have the best fans in the world who believe in respect for all traditions, that is when they are not glorifying the perpetrators of the murder of children of places like omagh and Warrington in their songs, hanging Protestant effigies and singing anti Protestant songs, declaring on banners that Hun scum should know their place, brandishing banners encouraging the killing of all Huns etc. 

 

FARE principles are not intended for clubs like Celtic except to give them further reason to feel victimised and to perpetuate the myths around their origins and to demonise and weaken their biggest rivals. 

 

 

 

 

[buster. 5,196]

29 minutes ago, Walterbear said:

FOI is not applicable to FARE. FARE are subsidised by UEFA. They are nothing to do with UK govt or public authorities. 

 

Reading the link below would suggest that it is wide open in terms of abuse by match observers and given there are strict guidelines on who can be an observer it is absurd that there is no transparency between UEFA, FARE and the clubs they observe in terms of at least the clubs being able to know about and comment on the background of their observers in the event they be charged by UEFA. It is clearly a left-wing sympathising group and as they have a political bias they should be nowhere near positions of ‘neutral observer’ status. 

 

From a neutral perspective it is quite sinister reading tbh. I’m all for stamping out extreme behaviour but the rules only seem to apply to clubs like Rangers who are a club disliked by the Celtic supporting wife of their founder and chief exec. 

 

http://farenet.org/get-involved/report-discrimination/observer-scheme-faq/

A lot of FARE's conflcted links have been known about for years but if UEFA have their backs, it makes it more difficult to expose them and probably the reason they still operate with impunity wrt to 'offensive' against Rangers. 

[BEARGER 1,830]

Has anyone who emailed them had a reply? I've not even had an acknowledgment.