The very fact wee Brenda is facing a ban shows you the cunt is rattled. He's come back here thinking we'd keep a youth coach regardless of how it's going and he'd waltz his way to 3/4IAR. We must deliver this league title and end that prick. He's finished when we do.
Wee Brenda's done them a belter he's been trying for months n not quite getting it right, see you in may, every time Rangers are coming, 5 Rangers managers he's seen off(including 9 points better off clement), the rehearsed we'll write our story cringe fest. None of them worked, but he's struck gold with the masons in the black, might even get him another season.
From the Daily Record.
Reporter who broke Celtic Boys Club sex abuse scandal story on decades-long fight for justice
The Record exposed the monstrous truth before the floodgates opened.
For decades, the survivors of Celtic Boys Club abuse scandal have been just that – survivors.
Their lives were blighted by shame, by fear, and in many cases, by failure, because of what happened to them at the hands of serial paedophiles Frank Cairney and Jim Torbett. Many of them were no more than 12 or 13 years old when they played for Celtic Boys Club – innocent, vulnerable children.
Kids who dreamed of one day pulling on the Celtic jersey to play for their heroes at their hallowed ground in Parkhead. But from the moment they were abused by Torbett and Cairney they’ve had to live with the torment.
As teenage boys they were too ashamed to confide in anyone – too afraid to tell their parents what had happened, too worried that by speaking out they would be banished by the club and their dreams left in tatters. So they kept silent. For decades.
They grew into troubled men. Some turned to alcohol to blot out the demons, others got on with their lives, trying their best to get away from the dark places where their memories took them. Then eventually, they spoke out.
was chief reporter at the Daily Record in 1996 when I got involved in the story that has rocked and plagued the club for decades. More than a decade before we were able to tell the story, a Glasgow taxi driver had told reporters he was sexually abused while playing for the club.
I met up with him and he told me how he and others had been taken by Torbett to his flat in Glasgow after training. He gave them sweets and ice cream, and it was there the abuse happened. Even 20 years on, he was upset and shaken by the ordeal he had kept secret for so long.
He told me of other players and it was from there the investigation began with a Record team of Charles Beaton, Iain Ferguson – both now sadly passed on – and me. I went to see a former Celtic Boys Club player at his address and asked him if he had been one of the boys abused.
He denied it completely, said he knew nothing about it although something in his demeanour told me there was more to him. But the door was closed. And I thought that line of inquiry was at an end.
A few hours later I was called by a friend of his who said he had changed his mind and now wanted to speak. I met this former player, who must remain nameless, in a café in Parkhead Forge – in the shadow of Celtic Park.
Tears running down his cheeks, he told me a story that has stayed with me until this day. He had been at a Celtic Boys Club tournament in Europe when he was sexually abused in a kit room by Jim Torbett, as other boys lay in their beds in a dormitory next door.
The burly coach had put his hand inside the boy’s pyjama trousers and fondled him. Ashamed and confused, he went back into bed and never mentioned it. Ever.
He came home that weekend with the player of the tournament trophy but his heart was broken. In reality he was not alone. Over decades, Torbett and Cairney had preyed relentlessly on Boys Club youngsters like him.
There were whispers and rumours but never enough for a newspaper to take on the investigation because, to expose abusers, victims must speak out. I recall years before our exposé, there had been an incident in the town of Kearny, New Jersey, during an annual Celtic Boys Club US tour where the lads, accompanied by Cairney, were put up in the homes of locals who were all part of the Celtic worldwide family.
The tour had been suddenly cut short, we learned, and the entire team were flown home. We found out it was because Cairney had touched a boy as he slept in his bed and the boy had complained. New Jersey police hadn’t been informed, because to do that may have involved all the boys being taken into protective custody thousands of miles from home. So they were brought back immediately and Cairney, without explanation, stood down from his post as coach and manager.
Again, the abuser was there in plain sight but we did not have enough to bring them down. During our investigation in 1997, we were told Alan Brazil, famous former Celt, had been a victim. I travelled to Cheshire to talk to him and he spoke out about being abused by Torbett one evening at his home in Glasgow.
I knew we had a massive story that would shake the club and the football establishment to its foundations. We had a duty to tell it. The story was written up and a shock front page prepared to expose Cairney and Torbett for the monsters they were.
They were doorstepped by my colleagues Iain Ferguson and Charles Beaton and told they were about to be outed. They denied it emphatically. Right up until the presses started running that night, the Record editor at the time, Terry Quinn, was getting calls threatening to sue the newspaper.
One of them was from a senior, respected figure attached to Celtic, who was in the home of Cairney, defending him as a great man and claiming that our allegations were totally false. We could have capitulated but we didn’t. I stood by the story I’d been told. I knew by instinct that these victims were telling the truth.
The editor made the brave decision to publish, and when the Record dropped onto the shelves across the country it sent shockwaves through football. I accompanied the brave player, who told of his abuse as a 13-year-old and made a full statement to detectives in London Road police station the morning the story broke. But that was only the beginning.
The following day, the phones in the Record office were ringing off the hook with calls from men who said they had also been abused by the pair. I took dozens of calls that day, some from men in their 30s and 40s, in tears, thanking the Record for exposing these perverts.
They told stories of being sexually assaulted in the showers at the training ground, of being abused on Celtic Boys Club trips in the north of Scotland. They spoke of their shame but were relieved to now know they weren’t alone. They had wanted to speak out for years but were too ashamed.
Shame is what victims of sexual abuse feel more than anything. The wondering if they in some way invited this attention. In the following years, conviction after conviction followed as more abuse victims came forward, and to this day the twisted pair are still
facing charges.
I’m glad Celtic are looking to settle without the survivors having to go through the ordeal of a court case. The Record gave these survivors a voice and it opened the floodgates for abuse victims across football and other sporting institutions.
But it is a hollow victory. Because these lost boys have waited over 30 years for some kind of closure and, no matter what kind of settlement, the hurt will never go away. A public apology from Celtic may help heal the wounds.
Everyone knows who the senior, respected figure is and as he’s dead why not name him?
Absolute shower of entitled baloons . I work up there and it's nauseating .
I am loving this big time . They are a diddy club and that is indeed a fact .
Remember they chased Del for less cup semi's and finals as close as they'll ever get to a league title at certain times. Now look 😂😂😂
Lennon imo is a cert
Absolute shower of entitled baloons . I work up there and it's nauseating .
I am loving this big time . They are a diddy club and that is indeed a fact .
The sheep are another set of fans more concerned and consumed with us than their own. The way they up their game against us yet down tools every other week is an absolute embarrassment.
Something doesn't sit well with me the way Beale is flashing his knickers at us while Gio is still in a job, coming to a game in the middle of a crisis, doing a podcast predominantly directed towards Scottish Football, saying we would've won the league if they didn't leave.
it was an absolute shambles that we were only four points clear of the tims when they left, they lost 3 of their first 6 league games and drew the 7th, yet we conspired to throw stupid points away against Motherwell, Hearts and Aberdeen all at Ibrox, as well as shiting the bed in the UCL against Malmo at Ibrox which had an adverse effect on our entire season, Beale was the shape guy, he had a big portion of the blame for how we fucked up time after time after time.
Plus if he got the job and did well he'll be lifting that same skirt to EPL clubs the way he's doing for us now.
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