THE RANGERS defeated Hearts 3-0 in the second Betfred semi-final this afternoon so will next month face Celtic in a Cup Final for the first time since Founding Father Charles Green bought the assets from the Administrators after a CVA was rejected in June 2012 and the old Rangers headed to its death.
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— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) November 3, 2019
Green’s new club has played Celtic in two semi-finals, the first in the League Cup in February 2015 when early goals from Griffiths and Commons gave Celtic a much more comfortable win that the 2-0 scoreline suggests.
Green’s baby club did much better the next time, in April 2016 when they drew with Celtic 2-2 in a Scottish Cup semi-final and won a penalty shoot-out. However they went on to lose the final to Hibs, who were the last side in Scotland to win a major honour back on a gloriously sunny day in May 2016 when on-loan Celts Anthony Stokes and Liam Henderson played pivotal roles in Hibs’ 3-2 win. The Rangers fans rioted afterwards.
What followed was also the start of Celtic’s amazing cup run which in all 30 domestic cup ties played since that penalty shoot out defeat to the Rangers, Celtic have won. Played 30, Won 30 Drawn 0 Lost 0, Goals for 96, Goals against 11. Adding the league wins to these cup successive over the past three subsequent seasons has seen Celtic complete an historic Treble Treble and the Rangers suffered two or three semi-final Hampden defeats against Celtic within that run.
So a 4-0 win in next month’s first ever Cup final between the two clubs will see Celtic reach a century of domestic cup goals. Before the first meeting between the two Glasgow clubs in February 2015, a group of Celtic supporters placed an advertisement in the now defunct (like Rangers) Sunday Herald, outlining the exact circumstances surrounding the death of Rangers Football Club and exposing the great myth that has been allowed to develop in Scottish football. You can read this Statement at the end of this feature.
Yesterday on The Celtic Star before heading to Hampden we published an article about the earnings that our CEO Peter Lawwell has received from Celtic since 2003. Here is the contents of the article, in case you missed it…
CEO’s Huge Personal Earnings from Celtic reaches £14,870,000
“PETER LAWWELL, the Celtic chief executive, had a £3.55 million pay packet in 2018/19, more than the total wage bill for all staff at Partick, Kilmarnock and Dundee,” The Price of Football has tweeted this morning.
Peter Lawwell, the Celtic chief executive, had a £3.55 million pay packet in 2018/19, more than the total wage bill for all staff at Partick, Kilmarnock and Dundee pic.twitter.com/E4JOyMTto0
— PriceOfFootball (@KieranMaguire) November 2, 2019
One of the supporter comments below the tweet made this point. “And his wages are then 6% of the total wage bill. Are there any other CEs in World Football who take up as a high a portion of the total wage bill? No doubt Celtic are well run but they are underperforming.”
To be fair the £3.55 million includes the HUGE bonus he received at the end of 2018, but it’s still income.
If we go back to this time last year we can check on the total income Lawwell has earned at Celtic, then add this latest £3.55million to get an accurate figure for the money that Peter Lawwell has earned at Celtic.
Here’s a tweet from Price of Football from last year – 29 October 2018 – for you to consider…”Since joining Celtic in October 2003 CEO Peter Lawwell has earned £11,320,000 from the club. Pay rose from £166,000 for the period to June 2004 to £1,167,000 last year.”
Since joining Celtic in October 2003 CEO Peter Lawwell has earned £11,320,000 from the club. Pay rose from £166,000 for the period to June 2004 to £1,167,000 last year. #CelticFC pic.twitter.com/oLqyrr3h4W
— PriceOfFootball (@KieranMaguire) October 29, 2018
So if we add the two sums together, we get £11,320,000 PLUS £3,550,000 to give us a grand total of £14,870,000.
This article was discussed on the fans forum Celtic Noise with one poster arguing that Lawwell had done a good job, could have made more had he gone to Arsenal and challenged us to outline the counter arguments to that position.
The very fact that the Great Myth was allowed just so there could be A Rangers, ANY Rangers, maybe not Rangers but just THE Rangers, answers that particular question on Peter Lawwell. He could have stood up, he SHOULD have stood up, he certainly was getting paid enough to stand up but at the end of the day he was prepared to allow the MYTH to take hold, and boy do they all believe it.
There was an article recently in the business pages of the Irish Times talking about Celtic’s biggest shareholder Dermot Desmond buying a stake in Shamrock Rovers and within this article they look at his involvement in Celtic and the way the club is run under his guidance. It also talked about Rangers who the Irish time stated ‘almost went under’ in 2012 – on the BUSINESS pages, of the IRISH TIMES.
If you tell a lie often enough people start believing it to be the truth and those who piss against the wind by remaining resolute in telling it as it is happened are labelled as ‘obsessed’.
The Same Club Lie was never seriously challenged by Peter Lawwell, that was left to the Celtic support to do, as is also the case when it comes to Resolution 12, another Celtic supporter led initiative.
So to be clear. Celtic will play the Rangers in the Betfred Cup Final next month and it will be the FIRST cup final that these two clubs, Celtic and the Rangers have played against each other. In saying that we’re not looking for an argument, and any Rangers supporters reading this can save themselves the bother, we’re not trying to convince you to believe the most uncomfortable of truths. In your heart of heart you know it. Those fans who bought and paid for their Seats for Life up on the Club Deck at Ibrox know it, more than most, as they deal with the club’s liquidators regarding their losses.
So there will be no pretending that it’s just the NEXT Celtic v Rangers Cup Final. That isn’t possible because Rangers died in 2012. And it was the most dishonourable of deaths imaginable.
Here’s the Statement for Celtic Supporters that was published in Sunday Herald om 25 January 2015, and Bears, if you don’t like the truth, look away now, but before you go, Celtic Historian David Potter is going to look back on the record between Celtic and Rangers in League Cup Finals next up on The Celtic Star.
