Another great blog by David Laggat!!

THE BARON REID OF CARDOWAN'S TANKS ARE PARKED

AS Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Defence, the Baron Reid of Cardowan was well versed in the deployment of armour.

It seems those skills have not deserted him in his current role as chairman of Celtic, for there are many who believe the Baron Reid of Cardowan's tanks are parked right outside of the Hampden headquarters of the Scottish Football Association.

Of course such metaphorical weapons of war may not really be needed, for there are others who believe that the man who recently joined the SFA as its chief executive, Stewart Regan, is a liege man and true to the Baron Reid of Cardowan.

Certainly those predisposed to seeing a conspiracy between Celtic and Regan were given ammunition when Regan was reported to have scurried off to Parkhead for a very private meeting with his opposite number at Celtic, Peter Lawwell.

There is nothing wrong with such a meeting taking place, nor anything sinister in its content being kept secret. Though it is just about the only thing which has not leaked from the Scottish Football Association since Regan arrived.

No, what did seem to be wrong was the breach if protocol. The meeting should have taken place at the offices of the game's governing body, not within the portals of a member club.

Why it took place at Parkhead has never been explained by Regan. Nor has the breach of protocol been properly highlighted and questioned by newspapers.

What Regan's journey to the home of Celtic did was present the appearance that he was dancing to Celtic's tune. And there are many on the lunatic fringes in Scotland who formed that opinion.

Which leads us nicely to the way Regan sacked Hugh Dallas within 72 hours of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland ordering him to do so.

Does Regan always obey instructions from the Roman Catholic Church? Is he aware where such apparent obedience to such a powerful outside organisation - whose figurehead is a Head of State - could lead the SFA, with regards to FIFA?

All of these questions should be being posed by newspapers and their columnists. When? Where? Who? What? Why? And the greatest of them all is...... WHY?

These are the questions drilled into anyone on their first day in a newsroom. Ask them, every young journalist is told. And keep asking them until they are all answered.

It seems too many within the newspaper industry - not on the back pages, but at what is known as the front of the book - don't know how to ask these questions.

For surely it cannot be that they are afraid the answers will reveal something which may be at odds with their personal agendas?

WHY, for instance, has Stewart Regan spoken out so much about sectarianism being a blight within football?

WHEN was this discussed with him?

WHERE did the discussion take place?

WHO gave him their views about it?

WHAT view did Regan form?

It appears, based on what he has been saying, the view he has formed is that sectarianism is directed against Roman Catholics in Scotland, and that this is reflected in the way football deals with Celtic.

But what does this Englishman really know of Scottish Establishment and its links to Parkhead?

Does he know how many Roman Catholics have been Lord Provost of Glasgow over the last 35 years?

And that one of them, Michael Kelly, was a Celtic director who is descended from the club's founding fathers?

Does Regan know how many leaders - those who have the real power - of Glasgow Council in the last 35 years have been Roman Catholics?

He must surely be aware of the many powerful UK Government Cabinet posts held by the Baron Reid of Cardowan.

But is he aware that another Celtic director, my old press pal, Brian Wilson, is also at the heart of the Scottish Establishment and was also a member of the UK Government?

And that the man the Baron Reid of Cardowan succeeded as Celtic chairman, Brian Quinn, is a fomer deputy governor of the Bank of England?

Or that Eric Riley, who earns £222,000-a-year from Celtic as an executive director, is viewed by many as one of the most powerful and influential voices within the Scottish Football Association?

Does Regan know?

If Regan is aware of all, or even some of the above, he can have no sane reason for believing sectarianism works against Roman Catholics in Scotland, or that it mitigates against Celtic.

Unless of course Regan is a dupe. And he appears too clever to be that, as his intelligence will tell him, any such dupe will be quickly unmasked.

I hope all of the above is of some help to Stewart Regan, and aids him to form a wise view of what he is dealing with, and what is a stake.

For unless Scottish Football Association president, George Peat hears Hugh Dallas' appeal ,starts acting tough instead of merely blustering, and reinstates Dallas, Scottish football's baw is well and truly burst.

The lunatics, and not the Baron Reid of Cardowan's tanks, will have taken over what, since Regan arrived, looks more and more like the SFA asylum.

 

"For unless Scottish Football Association president, George Peat hears Hugh Dallas' appeal ,starts acting tough instead of merely blustering, and reinstates Dallas, Scottish football's baw is well and truly burst".



That's why this moron has not got a job in the press (amongst other reasons), he ignores facts.

Dallas "resigned". How do you reinstate him if he's resigned?

Hugh Dallas tenders resignation as head of the referee development department

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ad-of-the-referee-development-department.html


If you start using Leggat as a source of import then you are really clutching at straws because the man is a joke, he always has been. His bigotry is always just bubbling below the surface and on occasion it erupts because he can't help himself.

What school did you go to David Leggat?

 

em why don't you ask him on his blog page http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/

 

I've read it, I can show you at least 2 articles on there that talk about people who have criticised Rangers and/or their fans, he makes a big deal about what schools they went to. Guess what? The people who he mentions went to Catholic schools.


JUDGE ANDREW BLAKE and the IRA BOMB

Surely it could not have been a lack of knowledge. For, if anyone should know the history it is Judge Andrew Blake, born on 18 August 1946, and educated first at Ampleforth College and then Hertford College, before graduating from Oxford with an MA in history.

http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html


ARCHIBALD GERARD KANE, LLOYDS AND RANGERS

WHEN even such a clever man as Alistair Darling admits to being hoodwinked by them, then you know just what they are. Bankers!

But there is something about one particular banker which perplexes me. Why is the man responsible at board level for the activites of Lloyds Bank in Scotland so seemingly reticent? And why is the nation's media so shy about telling us the life story of Archibald Gerard Kane, the banker who can call the shots over the debt owed to his bank by Rangers?

After all Archie, as he's known in that ''bible'' of the famous, Who's Who, or Archibald on the Lloyds website, is a classic rags to riches story. The sort of' '' lad of pairts'' tale usually so beloved by our newspapers and broadcasting organizations. And, given his relationship with that other great Scottish institution, Rangers, I find it hard to comprehend just what is going on.

On numerous occasions I have mentioned this to a number of senior people in journalism, and none of them has been able to give me an answer for the silence. So, for their benefit, and for the information of those interested in such stories, here is what I know about Archie Gerard Kane, as his entry in Who's Who calls him. Kane, it tells us, was born in the 16th June, 1952, and his parents were Archie and Rose . He was, by his own admission, from a poor background. In an interview with Alasdair Northrop in the serious and respected Insider Magazine on June 11th this year, Kane reveals how, for the first six years of his life he and his parents shared one room in an aunt's house in Hamilton.

Clearly he still feels an affinity with Lanarkshire as his public address is listed as being Bellshill. Those humble origins were nothing out of the ordinary in those days, as I grew up with my mum and dad in a room and kitchen in a Maryhill tenement in the 50s and 60s until I was 12 and we moved next door to a two room and kitchen. Therefore I understand his comment about those years of: ''When you are young you don't think much about it.''

Quite right!

In the interview he went on to praise mother, Rose, as the driving force in his life, adding:''My mother encouraged me school-wise, and to go to university. My dad did everything from being a bus driver, to a wages clerk on a construction site and was well read and knowledgeable about politics and history.''

For the rest, the interview , as you would expect given the nature of the Insider Magazine, is as dry as dust, concentrating on the world of high finance and banking. Certainly Kane is a man well qualified to talk about such subjects, despite having no banking qualifications, having studied accountancy at Glasgow University, emerging with a BAacc. For, as well as being the executive director on the Lloyds Board, responsible for Scotland, Kane has 41 different relationships with his fellow board members in nine different organizations across six different industries.

Who could possibly argue against such a busy bee being worth the few quid short of £1.5M he trousered last year from a bank which was rescued by the taxpayers? As I said, a classic rags to riches story, the sort usually documented in minute detail in newspapers and on radio and television in Scotland. Yet, despite extensive research, there appears to be nothing known about Kane since he and his mum and dad moved out his aunt's house when he was six in 1958, until he graduated from Glasgow University, probably some time around 1972-ish.

Maybe some of his old school pals or fellow undergraduates, who sunk of a few pints with him in the Men's Union can fill us in. Somebody must remember him. Strangely there are no newspaper reports of this local boy made good returning to his primary school in Hamilton as the guest of honour on prizegiving day. Nor the hint of him addressing the present day pupils at whatever secondary school where he studied so hard, encouraged by mother, Rose, to win a place at Glasgow University.

In fact Who's Who is as much in the dark about this period in the life of the man who holds sway over Rangers, and who works for a taxpayers' funded organization, as I am. Prime minister David Cameron lists his school as we all know, as Eton, and Gordon Brown tell us he went to Kirkcaldy High School.Tony Blair even goes so far as to list Durham Choisters School before he went to Fettes, while Nick Clegg is a product of Westminster School. Good grief, even shamed Fred the Shred - Sir Fred Goodwin, - owns up to having gone to Paisley Grammar School.

Of course perhaps Kane is ashamed of his humble origins. After all, Edinburgh is Scotland's banking centre, and when the folk there ask what school you went to, they are trying to uncover your social status, revealed by whether or not you attended a fee paying school.If that's the case then shame on you Archie Gerard Kane ,though I find that hard to believe of a man who, despite having come a long way has still admirably kept his Lanarkshire roots.I know a wee bit about Lanarkshire, as my dad, Andrew was born and bred in Coatbridge, before having the great good sense to marry a Maryhill lassie and move there.

So I know only too well the obsession of Lanarkshire's young men with sport in general and football in particular. Which is why I find it strange that in Who's Who, Kane lists his hobbies as golf, tennis and ski-ing. Hardly tastes he would have cultivated growing up in Lanarkshire in the 1950s and 60s. But then again, as former Chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted, they are slippery customers. Bankers!


Leggat should just start every article about anyone with the question "What school did you go to?"

He seem to think everyone who went to a Catholic school is out to get Rangers.

As I said, he's a drunken joke.

 

Come on Dev the guy is old school, If you go to to Catholic School you are a tim, but you go to protestant School you are a blue nose, Some of his stories are based on that, as for calling him a drunken joke, its not his fault he got locked in the toilets http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1572051/Man-trapped-in-bowling-club-toilet-for-four-days.html

 

So he thinks Judge Blake is a Celtic supporter because he's a Catholic? He's English ffs. Leggat should just call himself Bigot and be done with it.