Let's All Laugh At Celtic Thread

[bennett]

Part two

Dear Mr Regan,

I’m sorry you found my previous mail not to your taste; I’m elected

by the member branches to represent their views and try to fulfil their

hopes and aspirations. The mail i sent you had the full backing of our

Executive Committee.

You are relatively new to Scottish Football, and i had hoped you

would have been a refreshing change to what we had been used to previously.

I met with you early in your tenure when we were about to boycott

Kilmarnock; that boycott was called off because you promised us a new era of

transparency and accountability.

So based on that; why don’t you or your match officials come out and

explain what happened on Sunday afternoon with regards to the missed penalty

incident? Now if that had been a match with only a single match official;

namely a referee i could accept that an incident can be missed; but we had

six officials; and three of them in close proximity to the incident; so if

all three are saying they missed the incident; then i would conclude at

least one and possibly more are not telling the truth.

I believe the conversation between the officials is recorded. For

the benefit of all concerned; and to be totally transparent why don’t you

release a transcript of what was said; because it is clear on video that

Alan Muir was certainly speaking into his microphone; or is it another

“Dougie Dougie” situation?

Mr Regan, you can get upset all you want about the content of my

mail; you are not the one being cheated. How many “Honest Mistakes” are we

supposed to just accept? And in particular in cup semi’s and finals.

Everyone knows that human error is part of most sports, and we have

had the benefit of that too; but not as often as it has went against us. But

for the officials to claim not to have seen the incident; and the Supervisor

John Fleming to claim no-one is the stadium seen it in real time beggars

belief; i was seventy yards away and saw it.

You have now compounded the situation by suspending Josh Meekings. I

have no sympathy with Mr Keetings; by his actions in trying to con people

into thinking the ball hit him on the head; he was complicit by his actions;

but i have never known any player to be suspended in a similar situation.

So at the end of the day the officials just carry on. Managers lose

their jobs because of some of these incidents but the officials carry on

with impunity. Supporters see their team denied the opportunity to win

trophies; but the officials just get more games and more money; no wonder

the supporters are sick of it all.

Finally Mr Regan. I will continue to represent my members and the

Celtic Support in general to the best of my ability; thankfully i don’t need

your endorsement to do that. I was here a long time before you; and if God

spares me I’ll be here a long time after you have gone.

Regards,

Joe O’Rourke,

General Secretary,

Celtic Supporters Association.

[TheScarf]

Joe O'Rourke SEEMS UPSET.

[Ross.]

From: Stewart Regan

Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:53 AM

Subject: Re: Cheating.

Dear Joseph,

Given the scurrilous accusations contained within your letter - which is not

befitting a general secretary of any organisation - it would be

inappropriate to continue this correspondence any further.

Stewart M. Regan

Chief Executive

The Scottish F.A.

No denials from Stewart. He's clearly in on it.

[k1ll13k1d]

Joe O Rouke seems like fun.

[nsr]

He's just upset because he misses The Rangers.

[AberdeenBud]

Glorious.

Cheers, benny.

[AberdeenBud]

Joe O Rouke seems like fun.

Is it a code name like P. O' Neil?

[54_and_counting]

I met with you early in your tenure when we were about to boycott
Kilmarnock; that boycott was called off because you promised us a new era of
transparency and accountability.

I wonder if Mr Regan has met with any other General Secretarys of any other Supporters Clubs

more to the point, why the f**k is Regan pandering to lunatics like O'Rourke, especially after he posted a certain comment

[Twinkle]

Im shocked to see that he doesnt look like a complete trumpet.

Nope, no siree

[sjc]

Nobody should be surprised that he has the intelligence of a brain transplant donor as he's from Port Glasgow.

[Heywood Floyd]

Joe O'Rourke SEEMS UPSET.

This made me LOL

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Dear Lord, they're going all out to regain that MOPE Title, aren't they?

[Monkey Tennis]

What a complete and utter moron that O'Rourke bloke is.

An inarticulate, spoilt, childish fool.

Do people that thick really get to hold down positions of responsibility among supporters?

Just incredible.

Edited April 24, 2015 by Monkey Tennis

[Hammer Jag]

You could tell which team O'Rourke supports after taking one look at him.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

nt, why the f**k is Regan pandering to lunatics like O'Rourke, especially after he posted a certain comment

Too soon?

[bennett]

Sunday mail grows a pair.

GORDON says there is no excuse for the appalling standard of refereeing in last week's Scottish Cup semi-final, but reminds Celtic fans that it's their club's supremo who helps call the shots at the SFA.

IF I was head-hunting a chief executive for my club, Peter Lawwell would be top of my list. Numero uno.

Driven, obsessively controlling, politically astute, manipulative. A master of the dark arts.

There’s nothing he won’t do to get Celtic what they want. No-one he won’t attempt to control to get it.

Exactly the right type.

Which makes him exactly the wrong type to be on the SFA’s board – because he wouldn’t recognise the greater good if the Green Brigade wrote it on a 40-foot banner and hung it on his office wall.

And why the minute he wrote his letter demanding an “explanation” of referee Steven McLean’s decision in the Scottish Cup semi-final, he should have penned his resignation from the game’s governing body right alongside it.

Because his conflict of interests is clearly too much for him to handle.

Everyone and their auntie knows the ref had a howler at Hampden. Tell us something we don’t know.

The Josh Meekings handball, Lukasz Zaluska cleaning out Edward Ofere, the Ross Draper ‘booking’.

Shockers, the lot of them.

But the standard from almost all of the whistlers has been 90 degrees south of shameful all year long.

So as the man with the power, he could have said: “Y’know what, I’m sick of officials getting it wrong. They’re awful. Every week. Time to sort it.”

He’s inside the tent, right?

A member of the Full Board. An over-arching influence on every facet of the Scottish game. He could have had a crack at sorting it for everyone.

But no. That wouldn’t have sold any season tickets, would it?

It wouldn’t have appealed to the chip-on-the-shoulder victimhood of those convinced the establishment is out to get the Parkhead team at every turn. Forgetting all along that their man and their club ARE the establishment.

Instead Lawwell approved the same read-between-the-lines garbage they trotted out five years ago with the dossier of decisions they claimed had gone against then in Tony Mowbray’s reign.

Again ignoring every other decision that had gone for them.

And then he trotted out John Collins to pour a little more fuel on the fire in midweek, cast a few more aspersions, hinting just enough that there MUST have been more to McLean’s blunder than met the eye.

Presumably because, as was proven on Friday, his manager wouldn’t entertain the idea.

The last time Lawwell did this, back in February 2010, he famously said: “We look forward to continuing discussions towards a positive outcome.”

And for positive outcome, read “getting our way, every time”. This time, on Thursday, he said: “Probably everyone preferred this not to happen. The unfortunate consequence is we’re now going through this process.”

You mean the process YOU set in motion? There’s no way he didn’t know the chain of events he was starting.

Celtic claim they’re entitled to question bad decisions.

After the precedent they set five years ago, every club is at it.

But what exactly does anyone expect to hear when they ask a ref to explain?

That they’re corrupt? That they’re looking at split-second decisions trying to work out how they can cheat teams out of points or wins? Really?

Can they not just see that the current crop are simply rank rotten? The explanation is clear. They make mistakes. Too many of them.

Okay, the SFA and compliance officer have since compounded the mistake multiple times, but the point remains that if McLean had come out, held up his hands and said: “I made an a**e of it” – how much further would it have gone?

Sure, that wouldn’t have satisfied the frothing-at-the-mouth merchants.

But most sane people would have taken him at face value.

As Stefan Johansen says elsewhere in these pages – another voice of reason straying from the party line – he’s human, therefore he’s capable of human error.

For some reason, though, that’s not good enough for Lawwell.

He needs more than that to satisfy his clientele. And knowing he would never get more, he plunged down the only road he knows, Innuendo Avenue.

Events since? Tony McGlennan’s role, the judicial panel’s verdict embarrassing everyone concerned, saying it should never have been brought in front of them in the first place?

Cringeworthy. It raises more questions than answers – and it’s all been avoidable if only everyone had done the right thing in the first place.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Who's head of the SFA, Vicky?

Desperate, desperate stuff. "Big club wields undue influence shocker"

[bennett]

Its not like Norman to take the huff over a dig at Celtic.....

[P45]

If we are clearing out people in Scottish football than only have self interests then Doncaster and Regan would be much higher up the list than Lawwell.

[54_and_counting]

Can they not just see that the current crop are simply rank rotten? The explanation is clear. They make mistakes. Too many of them.

hate this line about current refs, i have no doubt that the refs are rotten at times, however they wont be any worse than previous generations, only difference is that this generation has to put with about a million camera angles, slow motion replays, and the rest

imagine we had a compliance officer back in the 80's and early 90's when all they had to go on was a main stand camera angle from fucking scotsport