Anyone but Celtic: Inside the culture that created the Lanarkshire Referees Association

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That’s a point so sensible that Walker is left with three options; to offer a rebuttal and a reason why this shouldn’t happen, to agree with it and concede the point or to waffle and try to move the subject to safer ground. Imagine your aunt died and the wee wifey from down the street who she’d bitch about for years turned up at the funeral waving a “Good riddance you old slag” flag – would you accept that silently or would you angrily remonstrate with her?

Its his third book on Scottish football, following By Any Means Necessary and The Asterisk Years, both of which are good enough as stand alone publications, as is Anyone But Celtic, but when you put the three together , perhaps read over a long weekend, you have an enlightening but somewhat dismal picture of how Scottish football is run, and maybe it isn’t such a surprise that we sit , in 2017 at a crossroads where the game is concerned.But really, the only good bit of it for them was the result today and we’re already focussing on moving past that when the international break is over. For now, we have to live with that one and ponder what went wrong. Nothing else is really important. As things stand what else can the Club do? What avenues are open to us as things presently stand? This matter obviously went to a vote and vested interest voted for what suited them and it wasn’t for fair and transparent governance.

There has been a lot of talk, over the last nine days, about respect and how it is paid and how it should be paid. The rush by people in every walk of life to pay homage to the monarch has given some an opportunity to claim that their mood is reflective of that in the nation as a whole. But they speak, in the main, for a very small minority. Especially given that, according to your earlier reports, they had offered him a contract extension earlier in the season and he hadn’t accepted it?

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Whoever the new person is, there is unanimity that a decision MUST be made this week if at all possible. Last thing on the film, its is a great piece and not 1 legal writ has came against Paul or LS86 and you have to say why????

In any other country they would be called out by the media for their bullshit and the authorities would sanction them for bringing the game into disrepute with stuff like this, but sadly the majority of people in this country are either Celtic minded or else Celtic influenced and won't say a word against them for fear of being labelled sectarian, anti Irish, or face having their windows smashed and hounded by these louts. This is how the call opens, with Frank putting his feelings out there. At this stage Walker probably thinks he’s got just another ranting guy without a clear argument, but he is wrong. Didn't know he was the mason for the penultimate game against Killie, thing is it did bit him on the *. That all said I came away from this book feeling a little disappointed. It’s advertised as a story about the culture that created the Lanarkshire Referees Association (LRA) and the majority of it is but it also has chapters on other areas. Lengthy pieces on Jim Farry, Campbell Ogilvie, discussion about Celtic’s current CEO and who may take over from him in the future and how Fergus rebuilt Celtic after 1994. These had a feel of padding out the book a little and came across as more like blog pieces which may well have been Paul’s intention. They were interesting in their own ways but were only loosely connected to the main story and felt a bit out of place. There are also quite a number of references to Paul’s previous books which is ok in context but it started to feel a bit like subliminal advertising after a while. As for Kris Boyd. I know at times he is a wind up merchant, but he talks up our game. Would he be in the Sky studio tonight if he wasn’t such a big personality?After that discussion, the senior people at Celtic were convinced they had a manager for the long haul.