Someone take the hit and copy and paste the article. It doesnt deserve the hits from here.
After 131 days of not being able to watch Celtic, the record equalling 9-in-a-row Scottish champions take to the field tonight in a pre-season friendly against French side Nice in the Veolia Trophy. But for some in the Scottish media it is the right time to highlight the horrible crimes committed at Celtic Boys Club once again.
Once more we are seeing a trial-by-media mentality within the Scottish media when it comes to Celtic Football Club fuelled by an ambulance chasing lawyer — who is doing all he can to avoid the courtroom — and a venemous fan base from across the city looking to stop Celtic, from continuing their dominance, by any means necessary.
But now former Talksport and BBC journalist, Adrian Goldberg, looks to produce a documentary on the crimes committed by those at Celtic Boys Club and links to Celtic Football Club, with a date of September for publication.
Sadly for Goldberg and Laurence Lennard — director of the documentary — it has already been hijacked by bitter and twisted Rangers fans who ploughed donation after donation into their GoFundme page raising £15,000 in the process. Not that they’d care who donated given they have reached their total in record time.
While I cannot testify to the reasons behind Goldberg and Lennard’s production of such a documentary, there are plenty of reasons why Rangers fans have in their thousands donated £15000 to their fundraising page and it has nothing to do with justice for the victims.
There are also question marks around why such a documentary is focusing firmly on Celtic Boys Club and links to Celtic FC, rather than encompassing abuse in Scottish Football or British Football as a whole — given the huge number of victims and perpetrators across the game. I’ve asked Goldberg the reasons behind this but have yet to receive a response from him.
Adrian Goldberg has raised £15,000 via GoFundme to produce a documentary on the Celtic Boys Club scandal.
Goldberg has already dipped his toe into the Child Abuse scandal at Celtic Boys Club on his podcast two weeks ago, racking up over 5000 hits in the process. The biggest listenership of any of his podcast episodes to date. From a podcast show with only 57 followers on Soundcloud that is pretty impressive — until you look at who is boosting the numbers from his usual listener base. The same people donating to his documentary. The same people weaponising child abuse for their own sick agendas, the same people who ignore the crimes committed by their own club employees [Neely, Dunn, Chalmers & Watson] while venomously spewing their bile about crimes committed at Celtic Boys Club.
Goldberg, in quotes to the Evening Times today, claimed: “I’m conscious some elements of this story have been told before. I want to take it somewhere else and tell something new.
“I want to drive towards there being positive things in this story, no matter how hard it will be. These terrible things have happened, but how can we stop that happening again?
“I want to do justice to the victims, the survivors. I want to give meaning to their stories and to bear witness to their stories.
“People have offered their money and put their faith in me. I feel that obligation seriously and we want to deliver the best film we can.
“They feel Celtic FC and politicians haven’t always given them the respect they deserve.”
The people that have offered their money to Goldberg are not the victims of Child Abuse, they are the victims of Celtic Football Club’s dominance of the Scottish game and of their club’s inability to muster anything other than firing blanks each season when they are supposedly challenging for the title. They are the victims of their own Napoleon complex — where they believe they are superior to everyone else and that anything that they say and do is gospel. They are the victims and the perpetrators of their old club’s demise and now their new club’s inability to muster up a challenge — minus the tax dodging scams of yesteryear — has led to them weaponising the suffering and the horrors that Child abuse victims endured at the hands of the likes of Torbett, McCafferty and others for their own gain.
While Goldberg will almost certainly profit from his one-sided documentary, the profiteering for Rangers fans is trying to stop Celtic from winning 10 in a row. Trying to stop them from winning 55 titles. In the hope that anything that comes out in the media and the courts — when the ambulance chasing ‘no win no fee’ lawyer decides to eventually take his cases to the courts rather than the usual suspects in the press — will bankrupt Celtic. Will end Celtic.
The people that have put faith in Goldberg and his very one-sided documentary are not looking for justice for the victims, they don’t care about the truth. They don’t care about the rule of law or innocent until proven guilty. They don’t care about the continued suffering of the victims or their families. They don’t care that their lies and baseless claims being peddled on their forums or on social media could cause damage to potentially upcoming court cases — all they care about is ending Celtic like Rangers ended themselves thanks to their tax dodging scams, orchestrated by David Murray and his lawyer-turned-porn-actor.
Goldberg then goes on to speak about politicians and Celtic not giving these people [I guess he is now speaking about the victims and their families] the respect that they deserve. Where to begin with this claim?
Celtic have left the dealings of what happened at Celtic Boys Club to an independent investigator and the Police to uncover and investigate — without prejudice from the media, from anyone in the club, from ambulance chasing lawyers, and from bitter & twisted Rangers fans looking to weaponise every little thing negative about the club, its players, management, and fan base.
As a club, Celtic have issued a number of statements denouncing the crimes committed by those at Celtic Boys Club and have already paid compensation to one victim because of the abuse by Jim McCafferty, not because he was a coach at Celtic Boys Club, but because he worked at Celtic in their youth setup — which was and is separate from the boys club — the club were liable for that once abuse case and a court found in the favour of the victim after proceedings were undertaken and evidence heard.
Is Goldberg really wanting the rule of law and court cases to be ignored and circumvented?
We live in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty and to date no court in this land or elsewhere has found Celtic as a club, or as an institution, guilty of a cover-up or of being party to a paedophile ring — if you believe the bile that is posted on a daily basis from Rangers fans who can’t talk about football for 5 seconds without mentioning their obsession for such a sickening crime.
This is the same stance that the likes of bandwagon jumping SNP MSP James Dornan and Tory MSP Adam Tomkins have taken also, looking to ignore and circumvent the rule of law to pressurise Celtic into paying compensation out to victims — whether they are liable or not.
Rangers supporting Tory MSP Adam Tomkins has played party politics with the Child abuse scandal and ignored crimes at Rangers