Decent(ish) article from rabid Bheast McKenna

[Virtuoso 27,180]

Forgetting his liquidation digs for a minute, he has this spot on. Still a hate-filled wee cunt, but....

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It is never a pleasant experience watching your football team being well beaten by your oldest and keenest rivals in a match your team was expected to win comfortably. At the end of such encounters, you head sullenly for the exit, bitterly resenting refereeing decisions and your manager's tactical myopia while wondering why your highly paid defenders were made to look like Teletubbies. Several hours later and only with deep reluctance might you be forced to acknowledge the other team's superior skills and desire to win, your mood having been softened perhaps by the caress of South American liquor.

Last Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final between Celtic and Rangers was a bit different. Long before the end, even though Celtic took the game to penalty kicks (football's version of Russian roulette) you knew that they had had their arses well and truly skelped by Rangers all over the park. Midway through the first half, when Rangers were giving us a lesson in movement and one-touch passing, something happened that I'd never before encountered in a game involving our two great clubs.

All around me high up in Hampden's south stand, Celtic supporters were espousing grudging admiration in low growls for the manner in which Rangers were playing. 'When was the last time you ever saw a Rangers team playing the ball out from the back like this?' 'We look like the lower division team here.' 'That's the way we're supposed to play.' An industrial-strength challenge from the Rangers left-sided midfielder Barrie McKay, the best player on the park, would normally have been met with howls of rage. Instead, there was respect. 'I wish more of our players had that attitude.' Obviously, I have omitted several words beginning with the letters 'f', 'c', 'b', 'd' and 'w', lest you think that the most passionate club match in the world had become gentrified.

In the end, a Rangers team that, following financial ruin and liquidation, had spent the past four seasons playing the likes of Peterhead, Alloa Athletic and Arbroath had shown what can be achieved with a proper football coach and a strong unity of purpose. In doing so, they might also have rendered Celtic a massive favour as well as a dose of reality.

During this period, many Celtic fans have done little more than obsess about the legal status of Rangers while mocking the hubris and sense of entitlement that led to their financial downfall. Would that there had been a similar level of scrutiny of Celtic's financial arrangements in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s before Fergus McCann arrived to save the club in 1994.

The Rangers pantomime has averted our eyes from the catastrophic mismanagement of Celtic in recent years. It has taken a historic defeat by a Rangers team playing in the lower leagues to show that Celtic are in turmoil and have been for a while. The first casualty of this, inevitably, was Celtic's hapless young Norwegian manager, Ronny Deila. By the middle of next month, he will probably have delivered a second successive league title, but in a league shorn of Rangers' presence and with a budget dwarfing that of every one of their opponents, this was the least that could have been expected of him.

Celtic's hardest task is finding spare seats for all the expensive flops who do nothing more than top up their pensions

His two-year reign has been characterised by a style of football best described as leaden. It has seen Celtic beaten in the big cup competitions by Ross County and Inverness Caledonian Thistle and humiliated in Europe over and over again. The first team squad is bloated, with so many players that a system of shifts must now operate to use the dressing room showering facilities. The most difficult task at the end of the week is finding spare seats for all the expensive European flops who have gathered in Glasgow's East End to do nothing more than top up their pensions. At their training academy in Lennoxtown, on the outskirts of Glasgow, I've been told that the atmosphere is unpleasant. With one exception there has been no pathway into the first team for the disillusioned young native talent that Celtic rear to go out on loan to their rivals.

Deila is a rookie manager, a low-budget appointment who I hope might yet blossom into something better. He was appointed because Celtic thought they could hoover up all the prizes in Rangers' absence for a minimum outlay. The blame for Celtic's decline lies squarely with a board of directors as dysfunctional and out of touch as any that have ever served this great club. Celtic have one of the poorest and most socially disadvantaged fan bases in British football, yet they still refuse to sign up to the national living wage campaign for their lowest paid employees.

The club's majority shareholder is one of the UK's richest men whose name cropped up in the Panama Papers. They market the myth that they are 'more than just a football club', implying that they are St Francis of Assisi in a world of Donald Trumps. Last year, club chairman Ian Bankier said some fans were criminally racist for daring to criticise his fellow director, Ian Livingston, a Conservative peer who had voted in favour of cuts to tax credits, a measure that would have adversely affected many of the families who support Celtic. This occurred at an annual meeting presided over by a chief executive on a salary and bonus package of £1m a year.

I welcome Rangers back to the top flight of Scottish football; I've missed our passionate, dramatic and occasionally ugly encounters. Ours is a rivalry based on culture, politics, ethnicity and faith. Many of the men and women who participate in it have had their identity and dignity stripped bare by the political classes, whose gerrymandering of wealth and influence in this country has silenced and subjugated them. These people condemn the inevitable antisocial consequences of the Celtic/Rangers games while refusing to address the deep-rooted health and social inequalities that proliferate in those communities where the rivalry is most keenly joined.

In 1993, a grassroots, supporter-led organisation called Celts for Change was established and succeeded in overthrowing a previous dysfunctional and incompetent board regime. The leaders of that campaign are all still happily with us. Perhaps it's time they got together again.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/24/glasgow-rangers-celtic-scottish-football

[FSM 20,892]

I really liked the part where he admitted they are the smelliest tramps in Britain.

[eejay the dj 31,964]

When any rodent beggars have had something to say about us these last 3 years .

I have not cared a jot .

Now we are now humiliating them in a semi final . I care even less about what a rodent beggar thinks .

[RFCRobertson 11,792]

Can I get a TL;DR version?

[WATP-FOREVER 5,231]

Quote: Celtic have one of the poorest and most socially disadvantaged fan bases in British football, yet they still refuse to sign up to the national living wage campaign for their lowest paid employees.

How can he say one of the poorest - without question they are the poorest - but they are not British - in fact they are the only club in the world never to have played a home game.

WATP - FTP

[Ben10 2,294]

Good read that

[willief 8]

9 minutes ago, WATP-FOREVER said:

Quote: Celtic have one of the poorest and most socially disadvantaged fan bases in British football, yet they still refuse to sign up to the national living wage campaign for their lowest paid employees.

How can he say one of the poorest - without question they are the poorest - but they are not British - in fact they are the only club in the world never to have played a home game.

WATP - FTP

You can also include the spoon burning, pox ridden junkies of Leith - a team whose very name is that of a foreign country. rancid little diet Tims.

[WATP-FOREVER 5,231]

9 minutes ago, willief said:

You can also include the spoon burning, pox ridden junkies of Leith - a team whose very name is that of a foreign country. rancid little diet Tims.

 

Suppose so - and the way dundee utd are going, they could be added too. But the most rancid of all, is the club from the east end of Glasgow.

[ianferguson 2,619]

"Celt*c are an Irish team playing in Scotland "

Billy McNeil.

[WATP-FOREVER 5,231]

4 minutes ago, ianferguson said:

"Celt*c are an Irish team playing in Scotland "

Billy McNeil.

If I was a relative of a timmigrant, I'd do all I could to distance myself from it - change my culture, surname, club and most of all timmigrant attitude.

[Ryju84 3,170]

3 hours ago, RFCRobertson said:

Can I get a TL;DR version?

It's all about the Rangers

[bornabear 6,221]

By fuck, the truth hurts.

But he missed the part about why delia was appointed on the cheap, that was down to losing £10m a year, due to not playing the Mighty Rangers.

Also, their majority shareholder is not one of the UK's richest men, he's an oirish mick.

[RFCRobertson 11,792]

14 minutes ago, Ryju84 said:

It's all about the Rangers

Good to see things never change with the bheasts. 

[Blumhoilann 6,712]

4 hours ago, WATP-FOREVER said:

Quote: Celtic have one of the poorest and most socially disadvantaged fan bases in British football, yet they still refuse to sign up to the national living wage campaign for their lowest paid employees.

How can he say one of the poorest - without question they are the poorest - but they are not British - in fact they are the only club in the world never to have played a home game.

WATP - FTP

hahahaha,brilliant

[Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 299]

Kevin McKenna is a cunt, and the only reason he's fitting compliments about us into his piece is to show how much Celtic need to change. He's scared by us, and is trying to promote growth at Celtic by encouraging a radical overhaul, one of a similar nature we have undergone.

He's still a bitter prick.

[bluedylan 11,555]

That was a good piece by Mc Kenna to be fair

[AlBear. 8,499]

An article about the taigs in the Bears Den? How refreshing.

[Siam69 27,293]

Our semi final win has been a wake up call for many taigs, a dose of reality, away from their howling at the moon with their obsessed sevco pish.

They should have been miles ahead, but they are now realising exactly what state they are in.

Good enough for the cunts, many, due to their jealousy and naked sectarianism, hate us and obsess over us more then they love their own Club.

Payback's a bitch, eh

[barcodebear 85]

25 minutes ago, bluedylan said:

That was a good piece by Mc Kenna to be fair

He's an excellent journalist. There aren't many about.

[bluedylan 11,555]

1 minute ago, barcodebear said:

He's a an excellent journalist. There aren't many about.

 

1 minute ago, barcodebear said:

He's a an excellent journalist. There aren't many about.

He has previous so to speak,check out why he was sacked by the Celtic View,alleged comments made about the Enniskillen bombing

[Virtuoso 27,180]

21 minutes ago, bluedylan said:

He has previous so to speak,check out why he was sacked by the Celtic View,alleged comments made about the Enniskillen bombing

Alleged fuck all. He was caught on tape making the comments in question. From an article at the time:

 

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Long-term readers of Follow Follow should know that McKenna has a history of running his mouth off after a few sherbets. This piece of human waste is a former Troops Out Movement member and Irish News journalist who told Grandmaster Suck in Vesuvio Restaurant that the Enniskillen atrocity was “a legitimate act of war” and that Protestants were “low-life’s” and “bred illegitimate children like rabbits”.

Unfortunately for him, The Grandmaster was armed with a tape recorder. He was subsequently dismissed from his position by his Celtic View bosses after a Sun expose.

 

[bluedylan 11,555]

14 minutes ago, Virtuoso said:

Alleged fuck all. He was caught on tape making the comments in question. From an article at the time:

 

 

I said alleged because to my knowledge Mark Dingwall has never made the recording public

[Virtuoso 27,180]

2 minutes ago, bluedylan said:

I said alleged because to my knowledge Mark Dingwall has never made the recording public

It was made public for the expose in the Sun. That's why he couldn't and has never denied it and why the Celtic View were left with no choice but to jettison him (although he may have resigned his position so that it looked better on paper).

[bluedylan 11,555]

Just now, Virtuoso said:

It was made public for the expose in the Sun. That's why he couldn't and has never denied it and why the Celtic View were left with no choice but to jettison him (although he may have resigned his position so that it looked better on paper).

[siddiqi_drinker 14,635]

16 minutes ago, bluedylan said:

I said alleged because to my knowledge Mark Dingwall has never made the recording public

You'd have thought he'd have been able to sell it to someone, then again if it was recorded surreptitiously all bets are off.

Actually a fail decent article by McKenna thought he seemed to be using Rangers as a stick to beat the current cltic regime.