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Dammit you are onto me

 

Indeed, maybe you should come to Portugal with me on my next Maddie hunt.

 

Keevins has his say




STROPPY shareholders who want Celtic to report the SFA to UEFA over the governing body’s failure to put Rangers out of business are surely missing the point.

The orgy of self destruction that has been going on without respite at Ibrox would suggest Rangers are trying their level best to do that job for themselves.

But if Celtic’s board are forced to listen to the demented ramblings of the dissident shareholders at their AGM next month it’ll at least prove one thing beyond all doubt.

And that is the businesses who were formerly joined together in disharmony as the Old Firm shouldn’t have fan
representation on their respective boards.

There is a nobility about Dunfermline coming under supporter ownership. And there was a touching acceptance of the responsibility for keeping the club alive expressed by new chairman Bob Garmory at East End Park on Wednesday.

His reference to council-house dwellers taking better care of their property once they owned it outright was a good point well made on the subject of fan control.

And Pars supporters will certainly have to pay through the nose to preserve their club for future generations. Starting with the £17 a head they had to fork out to watch yesterday’s derby with East Fife.

But the Celtic fans already live in what is, comparatively speaking, a detached property kept in immaculate condition.

And with an unobstructed view of the Champions League.

Their club has fortunes in the bank and the satisfaction of knowing their peace at the summit of the domestic game won’t be disturbed for the foreseeable future.

But they’re still not happy.

And that’s because they want the people across the road to be evicted and thrown out on to the street because they lower the tone of the neighbourhood.

This isn’t the reason why Ferguson McCann gambled so many millions of pounds of his own money to make the previously disenfranchised Celtic support shareholders 20 years ago.

He put his personal wealth up to take over a club that was fighting for its life and make it challenge Rangers’ supremacy.

And the Celtic supporters bought into the fact McCann was sincere, trustworthy and clearly had the business acumen to do whatever he promised.

If Fergus was here today instead of enjoying the fruits of his labours with his family on the other side of the Atlantic he’d be appalled to find his main business competitor struggling so badly.

He wouldn’t be organising a shareholders vigilante movement to see if he could put his rivals out of existence altogether.

Corporate governance and the democratic process mean nothing to the kind of shareholder who would lob in a grenade and bringing anarchy to the boardroom.

It’s a boardroom he, or she, will never see for that very reason.

McCann was so smart he left behind the former deputy governor of the Bank of England Brian Quinn to steer the club in the right direction after he’d gone.

And the last two decades have seen Celtic prosper as never before under a succession of careful custodians.

So when the Champions League music plays to a full house of 60,000 before the game against Ajax on Tuesday night, those Celtic fans should offer a silent prayer of thanks for McCann. And leave Rangers to get on with sorting out the considerable mess left by successive business practitioners who couldn’t have fetched wee Fergus a cup of coffee without spilling it.

If former Ibrox chairman Alistair Johnston’s worst fears are confirmed, and the hand of Craig Whyte can still be detected behind the scenes at the club, the salvage operation could take a while yet.

But it has to be carried out successfully, however long it takes, for the good of the game.

In the meantime, Rangers fans can only hope that a win for Ajax opens up the possibility of Celtic getting no points at all from their Champions League group.

Between their games against Brechin City and East Fife, it will need to pass for excitement until something better comes along.

If it’s possible to have the bragging rights while you’re in the state they’re in, then that’s what it will take to see the Rangers supporters temporarily distracted from the business of tearing their hair out.

 

That is rather concerning, it appears Rangers wanted the SFA to release a statement that they have worded.

 

Might have known it Campbell Ogilive again. Starting to think there is something in this.