SO, this is what passes as justice and integrity in 21st-century Scotland? An eminent judge rules that because the deliberate withholding by a business of fundamentally relevant details, conceivably as a smokescreen for the conduct of a potentially dubious parallel operation (… otherwise, why go to such lengths to disguise it …), went undetected by…

SO … at the stroke of his enobled pen, Lord Nimmo Smith, seriously constrained, it has to be said, by the contentious evidence presented to his commission by a pivotal SFA witness, has stood the registration rules that have governed Scottish football for as long as I can remember (and probably a lot longer than…

THUS far, I’ve bitten my tongue over the “Wrestling-Gate” controversy following last Tuesday’s ill-fated Juventus CL last-16, first-leg tie; but this morning’s revelation that UEFA appear to be “irritated” by Celtic’s official protest is the last straw. To be clear from the outset, I do not write this to minimise Celtic’s part in their own…

WE ALL have – and why not?  Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with my dream … but it kicks off at 19.45 tomorrow night at Celtic Park – and God only knows where it will all end up. We are blessed to support a club anchored in hardship, built on hopes and dreams,…

THAT mighty Celt, Sean Fallon, died overnight in his 91st year.  May he rest in peace. A stalwart of the topsy-turvy nineteen-fifties, a decade in which Celtic accrued some of its most memorable and historic moments while underachieving miserably in relation to the talent at the club at that time, “The Iron Man” went on…

WELL, for one thing, John Lennon, ever the most controversial Beatle, took delivery of his eye-catching, refurbished, psychedelic Rolls Royce.  It caused uproar, including the raising of a formal complaint by the iconic car company itself! Lennon had bought the car new from Rolls Royce in 1965 but soon became bored with the bland (lack…

ANYONE with any kind of football brain can see that the big lack in the current Celtic jigsaw is a natural play-maker … a Lubo, McStay, Connelly, Murdoch or Auld-style midfield general with the joint ability to “see” things – and more crucially, to make them happen.  Someone to play with the head up and…

IF ANY extra motivation is needed in the wake of last night’s exhilarating win over the excellent but sometimes nasty Spartak Moscow, to qualify for the business end of the Champions’ League, Neil Lennon could do worse than paper the Parkhead dressing room with copies of the acerbic, condescending, disrespectful, ill-informed article penned overnight by one…