...something to ponder..........
A friend borrows £100 from you......... and when you need it back after asking for it........they refuse and nothing convinces them to repay you the £100 owed.....
You would likely and fairly say .."fine, but I'll remember that and you'll never get another penny from me again, so don't ever ask".
or if.....
A friend borrows £1000 from you......... and when you need it back after asking for it........they refuse and nothing convinces them to repay you the £1000 owed.....
You would likely and fairly say .."fine, but if thats your last word I'll remember that and I'll see you in court, and you'll never get another penny from me again, so don't ever ask".
or if....
A friend borrows £50,000 from you......... and when you need it back after asking for it........they refuse and nothing convinces them to repay you the £50,000 owed.....
You would likely and fairly say .."fine, if thats your last word I'll remember that and see you in court, and" ...................................????
Now, I want you to contemplate what YOU would do IF you were not likely to ever see your hard earned money again. But....
Before you reply......indulge me for the remainder of this post first.
Since the start of season 2 during this and Celtic's march to 9 in a row, I have been a ST holder at Celtic Park with my missus ...and including every home cup game, cup finals, hospitality, travel, fuel and something to eat, I have yearly average costs of just over £6500......missing just 6 home games in all that time....up to the present time.........X 8 years. (+ - Covid disruption).
I put it down to a vested interest in my team, where I hope... Celtic have wisely used my money during that time.....
My dream is to win the ten.......full stop...it is the be all and end all for me.
Honestly, I don't care for being in a football competition where there is little likelihood of winning it, .... eg... European tournaments....it would be good, but with no real chance of it happening....
We all know that cheating abounds on a wholesale scale with referees, the SFA, SPFL, Whyte (the embarrassing partiality of a spineless compliance officer), lying managers and filthy thugs masquerading as opposition fans.
But this season, irrespective of the current indifferent Celtic's cohesion and play, while going for ten, it is obvious referees coupled with our 'governance' are trying their best to steal and cheat us from it with everything at their disposal.
As far as I am concerned there is no difference in cheating us on the park, albeit from my financial investment in Celtic amounting to £50,000 and many years of contributions..........OR refusing to pay me back the same amount of money had they borrowed from me earlier.
Being from Italian extract, my father and uncles 'dealt' with this scenario and borrowing on many occasions which I won't divulge, suffice to say justice was dutifully served.
Before wrongful conclusions are drawn here, it was never a loan paid back with interest, it was always interest free, mostly to Italians and within an agreed period of time.
I grew up with honesty and integrity around me, but justice was always the foundation stone underpinning everything in my youth.
No one escaped. No one.
Thus, justice can never be given to one, justice MUST be taken.
This is the mantra of everything to learn from in life, and as the law inculcates.... is rightfully so.
During today's game it is obvious Dallas cheated us with his refusal to send off a Motherwell player for a career threatening, non-football attack on our player and thus IS helping other teams to progress which detriments our chances of winning, scoring or catching others... ..whatever, and countless times over many seasons.
We would ALL agree with that.
Its maybe a small thing, but while trying to 'appear' fair, honest or even-handed to both teams he AND every other grade 1 referee plan to surreptitiously try to give Celtic decisions and 'things'.....like free kicks and throw ins and mostly in our own half, in unhelpful areas....in the hope of attempting to look fair!...yet hindering us when giving very little decisions in the opposition's half, even though we may have deserved them.
.....they don't even care that we know what they're up to.
They are all at it, without exception.
Many on here think its only a game and we should just let them cheat and steal points from us, making us work unduly hard to get wins we would likely get anyway if balance and fairness reined supreme.
They also think its not worth retribution or payback towards others for robbing us from our endeavours and a potential 10 iar. I think completely different...for a start no-one will convince me sevco rangers wouldn't be completely extinct if not for their threatening of Nimmo Smith, judges lawyers and managers into silence.......threats and violence worked for them.
I don't hold with those of the "but we're better than that and them" persuasion......enough of that shit......come back on here and say that when we are robbed of the league, 10 and its too late.
To conclude; in my earlier post section where I ask "if I was robbed by someone of as much as £50,000 and by whomever, ......I already know what I and most of us would do?......its justice, no more or less......its only many thousands of pounds I've paid out......after all.
Actioning is long overdue......
Referees need to know that we ....Celtic must get honesty AND what we work for..... or else.
In this age of high quality drones, for some even murder can be perfect....
