Uilleam

I am trying not to think about it. Many others, too, I am sure, will be of like mind.

Tap the wife for a bob, and you can have a dollar on.

We are trading on having a goalkeeper. And, em, that's it.

He may be right to be pessimistic, but he is German, and brought up on sauerkraut and Schopenhauer.

Wot we need: A decent, entertaining performance; a few goals; three points; a clean sheet; and no injuries. Wot we want: proper officiating. Imagine we got both (it's not easy, granted, even if we try, hard).

We won. Surely you can cut the Drama Queen some slack?

Thaaaaaank Fuuuuuuuck!!

Stick or carrot. The trick is to know which, when

Well, we picked up considerably. Criticism works.

We are poor. There is no disguising this rather brutal fact.

The drugs have started to take hold. (You somewhere around Barstow?)

Neither were we....well, maybe we were.....it was gey hard to tell.

FFS! Rangers cannot -can never- have a manager who anagrams to Colin Wanker!!

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

Do they -does anyone- believe that the world - continentals by the score, Barcelona, Real Madrid, and all- gives a fuck about two bald men fighting over the gap-toothed plastic comb of Scottish football?

Do you suggest that they are not out to show the world what they can do?

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.

And you would win, if anyone was foolhardy enough to take that wager.

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

Indeed. I don't think that the guilty may hide behind such contract in the criminal court.

Perhaps rasellik in Europe merely illustrates the Peter Principle in practice: Scottish fitba' enters its 'champion team', which has reached the top of its league structure, its pinnacle, into European CL competition, which is where that team has reached the level where it can no longer perform with any degree of competence. The outcome: rasellik challenge just Peters out..... Pleasing, that.

A total masticator, then?

You got 'The Fear', yet?