Rick Roberts article on the SFA report and comments from Spotlight

[BN94]

Somebody Else’s Problem – Comment on the SFA Independent Review

It’s not often I’ll quote or reference Keith Jackson but I will here. And, surprisingly, it’s not that anything he wrote was actually wrong. However, the way his article was presented represents ev…

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Please also have a look at Rick’s other work on the Celtic scandal in the link below.

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[BN94]

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[Simply a Bear]

Really good article and summary of recent happenings regarding this scandal.

 

[Jaws2]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1366705445474361346

Doesn't miss does it !

 

[Drumsdad]

That is an incredible article, it asks all the right questions.
One would expect people in any position of power to act decently and behave with a bit more humanity instead of the shameful and undignified silence that is prevalent.

 

[BN94]

Doesn't miss does it !

I’d urge anyone who hasn’t read Rick’s previous material on this subject then please do.

 

[nemessis]

Also please look at the other work done by Rick on the Celtic scandal issue. Well worth a read.

Somebody Else’s Problem – Comment on the SFA Independent Review

It’s not often I’ll quote or reference Keith Jackson but I will here. And, surprisingly, it’s not that anything he wrote was actually wrong. However, the way his article was presented represents ev…

uppingtheoutput.home.blog

What an excellent article hits the nail on the head 100% the corruption and cover up abounds and a proper free from their interference public enquiry needs done.
We all knew what was coming but what can be done about it ?

 

[47blue]

Excellent article

 

[Grigo Yossarian]

What an excellent article hits the nail on the head 100% the corruption and cover up abounds and a proper free from their interference public enquiry needs done.
We all knew what was coming but what can be done about it ?

Plenty of irons in the fire Nemessis.

We won’t stop until justice is done & people like Rick coming & widening the message so eloquently is just fantastic.

 

[monkey magic]

Its clear that the long-awaited production of this SFA Report into the public square was sleekitly presented and manipulated every step of the way by the Scottish media to deliberately deflect damage away from a certain party in the East End. It was shameful.

 

[Kylegib]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1366705445474361346

As stated before those in power had the chance to expose the cover up with this report regardless of how many uncomfortable truths came to light, unfortunately they have chosen to be part of the cover up and this must be extremely disappointing for the survivors. This appears to be basically the cover up of the cover up however the truth will come out and there'll certainly be a lot of individuals having to explain their actions.

 

[Grigo Yossarian]

Its clear that the long-awaited production of this SFA Report into the public square was sleekitly presented and manipulated every step of the way by the Scottish media to deliberately deflect damage away from a certain party in the East End. It was shameful.

It protected the SFA / Petrie too S.

 

[skorn]

Very good article.

The items listed in the Appendix are incredibly damning -- for them not to have been dealt with in the Report is scandalous.

The phrase that stands out to me from that article is:
" ... but do not hide Celtic’s scandal behind other clubs."

Which is exactly what that Report has done.


There is also the mention of something that I've wondered about on here -- how CFC are using a relentless drip-drip of cases and abusers to delay and stymie investigations into this.
"How convenient that the ones with the most to hide can even use the acts themselves to hide behind?"
As I've said before, it's a blood-curdling and gut-wrenching strategy from them -- one of the few occasions where having a surplus of abusers is working to their cover-up advantage.

 

[Cap10]

A good read - it's awful that the press are attempting to downplay what went on at Celtic by dragging in other clubs that clearly did not have a concerted effort of concealment or an active ring of abusers

 

[northsealoyal]

Fantastic article it’s factual and 100% truthful something that has been sadly missing from Scottish journalism for many many years

 

[DKS137]

Reading that boils my piss. I can’t imagine what the victims and their families think.

 

[nemessis]

Its clear that the long-awaited production of this SFA Report into the public square was sleekitly presented and manipulated every step of the way by the Scottish media to deliberately deflect damage away from a certain party in the East End. It was shameful.

We all knew what was going to happen the thing is the people have suffered again as they fail to get real justice they are the ones I have most concern for and they must know that we can be as relentless as the wrongdoers.
I can't wait for the day when the all the sordid details unfold and the perpetrators are exposed for all to see worldwide, and the victims, survivors and their families can at last feel vindicated and satisfied that justice has been done.

 

[monkey magic]

It protected the SFA / Petrie too S.

Definitely, G. Imagine also, as the article stated, if the media placed EBT use synonymous with a Celtc crest, and if that would be casually accepted. ? This SFA report was written and deviously presented to the public as a generic " Scottish football problem ", when everyone knows otherwise. The contempt shown to victims by that sham of a report is scandalous.

 

[Bluechip]

Well written article, factually true. Will this article be seen anywhere in the rest of the UK?

 

[Hurricane Run]

Excellent article. Those questions at the bottom would make a full public inquiry inevitable, in any normal country.

 

[True Blue Avenger]

Also please look at the other work done by Rick on the Celtic scandal issue. Well worth a read.

Somebody Else’s Problem – Comment on the SFA Independent Review

It’s not often I’ll quote or reference Keith Jackson but I will here. And, surprisingly, it’s not that anything he wrote was actually wrong. However, the way his article was presented represents ev…

uppingtheoutput.home.blog

Superb article. Very well written and hits several nails squarely on the head.

Surely anyone reading that objectively cannot fail to draw the conclusion that this long-in-the-making SFA report is a complete and utter sham. In fact, its very existence is another kick in the guts to the brave survivors of that monstrosity of a club.

 

[Gibby926]

Excellent article

 

[Grigo Yossarian]

Well written article, factually true. Will this article be seen anywhere in the rest of the UK?

The more widely Rick’s blog can be seen worldwide the better mate.

It’s on Spotlight already, which has a range of journalists following it, but the more normal people can spread this the better.

 

[BN94]

You’ll find Rick’s other work on this subject amongst other blogs in this link.

Upping the output

A few thoughts on football, cycling and society

uppingtheoutput.home.blog

 

[Mad John]

well written article and shames people who need to be shamed.

The Jackson article was a horrendous piece of so called journalism.

 

[rupertdabear]

The only way this issue will ever be properly addressed and juctice done for the abused and their familes is through a full public inquiry and taken out of the hands of anyone with influence in Scotland ,no matter what field they practice in.Nothing to hide,nothing to worry about ,right.uhmm .
There is a narative that has been set by ignoring it,shifting blame,persucuting and torturing the victims and their relatives and ,as this article highlights,blame being evenly spread around when its very clear ,not least by the sucessful prosecutions but also by the huge amount of facts and evidence gathered by the tireless work of the spotlight team that only one club was wholely immersed in the disgusted abuse of children .Jackson should hang him head in shame .
I have a feeling this goes beyond a football club though and right to the very heart of the SFA at a particular time in history and maybe even further up the ladder.No other explanation for the people who run the country to blatently ignore and side track the issue .
Keep up the fight Spotlght .Justice will prevail

 

[Aranoid Pandroid]

Stunningly written piece. Forwarded to many.

 

[TheEgg]

The comment regarding Rangers....... "Perhaps they saw something hidden in the report which would take time to digest or investigate?"

I have a feeling there is some truth in this.

I hope we have the balls to through a grenade in the room, with all the info Spotlight has produced, surely we could produce similar, or we come out and demand a public inquiry?

 

[Deleted member 3807]

We truly live in a dictatorship. There is nobody in Scotland to hold anyone to account for anything. Several public inquiries are needed: Celtic and their boys club, Alex Salmond persecution, Rangers v HMRC, the malicious prosecutions during Rangers insolvency event. There is no government body in Scotland fit to order any of these inquiries. We desperately need other areas of the UK to step in and sort out our business.

 

[monkey magic]

The only way this issue will ever be properly addressed and juctice done for the abused and their familes is through a full public inquiry and taken out of the hands of anyone with influence in Scotland ,no matter what field they practice in.Nothing to hide,nothing to worry about ,right.uhmm .
There is a narative that has been set by ignoring it,shifting blame,persucuting and torturing the victims and their relatives and ,as this article highlights,blame being evenly spread around when its very clear ,not least by the sucessful prosecutions but also by the huge amount of facts and evidence gathered by the tireless work of the spotlight team that only one club was wholely immersed in the disgusted abuse of children .Jackson should hang him head in shame .
I have a feeling this goes beyond a football club though and right to the very heart of the SFA at a particular time in history and maybe even further up the ladder.No other explanation for the people who run the country to blatently ignore and side track the issue .
Keep up the fight Spotlght .Justice will prevail

The victims and their families are up against a deeply malevolent and politically powerful strata of society. These evil people will fight every inch of the way to ensure that a full and independent public inquiry is never allowed to take place. My heart goes out to the many victims, who have been treated shamefully.

 

[TerryMunro]

An inquiry is meant to look at facts and make findings on these facts. With Rangers they congratulate them for dismissing him but then add a small article claiming he resigned and got Rangers best wishes; it can’t both be true. Same with whether we contacted the police or whether he went on to other clubs, they gave answers that Kenny Dalglish would of been proud of with his mibee aye or mibee no.
This inquiry is pathetic,more interested with trying to fabricate equivalences between football teams than it is trying to find facts and subsequently findings to allow victims to base any lawsuits. It fails the most fundamentally important people and all for that one sick football team.

 

[bedsblue]

Now why can't the MSM come out with something like that,with the amount of resources they have available to them they should have and a lot more long before this waffled report was published.

 

[Bluethruandthru]

I’d urge anyone who hasn’t read Rick’s previous material on this subject then please do.

Where can I find it BN?

 

[-ZED-]

Unbelievable, the cover up continues and goes deep within the Scottish establishment. Why does no one in the mainstream media have the balls to actually investigate and do their job?

 

[BN94]

Where can I find it BN?

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[Luca Stroppi]

I don’t have time to read that just now and probably won’t bother tbh because it’s abundantly clear that damage limitation for the organisation in the east end is the most important thing in modern day Scotland sadly and that is trampling over the need for justice and an apology to all those who fell victim to the organised peadophile ring that was in operation for decades within Celtic FC.

This gargantuan scandal and the way it’s been dealt with has been a major indicator of the general decline in Scotland overall which is set to continue as there’s just too many bad people in key positions and too many sheep voting in a cult who have played their part in putting hurdles in the way by not including sporting institutions in the enquiry for OBVIOUS reasons, it stinks but the majority of people in Scotland don’t seem to have a problem with it.

 

[alexg123]

Unbelievable the amount of corruption going on within CFC covering up the facts with no regard whatsoever or sympathy for the victims and the SFA have been just as guilty in assisting in the cover up with no regards for the victims in any way . They should all hang their heads in shame
for dragging Scottish Football into the gutter by trying to blame other Clubs for Celtic's shame

 

[bilkobear]

Also please look at the other work done by Rick on the Celtic scandal issue. Well worth a read.

Somebody Else’s Problem – Comment on the SFA Independent Review

It’s not often I’ll quote or reference Keith Jackson but I will here. And, surprisingly, it’s not that anything he wrote was actually wrong. However, the way his article was presented represents ev…

uppingtheoutput.home.blog

This is an extremely well-constructed piece of writing which highlights and pinpoints most of the incredulous machinations which define this so-called report.

The report itself isn't so much an empty vessel as a vessel of malicious deception which has the intention not to inform but to do the exact opposite.

That such a disfigured document surfaces in a State mired in political corruption under the SNP should be no surprise, the only wonder should be the scale of the audaciousness.

Rangers are cornered by dishonest forces in the national government, football governance and a press and media that are so far in the gutter that they will never recover credibility.

There is only one way that this matter can be properly and honestly exposed to transparent and unprejudiced justice and that will be through a public enquiry.
Rangers must call for this and loudly call.
No honest well-meaning people have anything to fear from the truth.

 

[bilkobear]

I don’t have time to read that just now and probably won’t bother tbh because it’s abundantly clear that damage limitation for the organisation in the east end is the most important thing in modern day Scotland sadly and that is trampling over the need for justice and an apology to all those who fell victim to the organised peadophile ring that was in operation for decades within Celtic FC.

This gargantuan scandal and the way it’s been dealt with has been a major indicator of the general decline in Scotland overall which is set to continue as there’s just too many bad people in key positions and too many sheep voting in a cult who have played their part in putting hurdles in the way by not including sporting institutions in the enquiry for OBVIOUS reasons, it stinks but the majority of people in Scotland don’t seem to have a problem with it.

You should take the time to read it as it is extremely well written and very readable.
I doubt you will ever read such an insightful and penetrative exposé in the legacy media.

 

[bilkobear]

We truly live in a dictatorship. There is nobody in Scotland to hold anyone to account for anything. Several public inquiries are needed: Celtic and their boys club, Alex Salmond persecution, Rangers v HMRC, the malicious prosecutions during Rangers insolvency event. There is no government body in Scotland fit to order any of these inquiries. We desperately need other areas of the UK to step in and sort out our business.

There have been many a poster on here that has alluded to dark hands behind the misfortunes that befell Rangers over the HMRC event.
Most of them have been subject to scoffing.
The accepted narrative being that no such Macheiveillian mischief would be tolerated in a democratic country like Scotland never mind capable of being launched.

 

[Taffyblue]

Also please look at the other work done by Rick on the Celtic scandal issue. Well worth a read.

Somebody Else’s Problem – Comment on the SFA Independent Review

It’s not often I’ll quote or reference Keith Jackson but I will here. And, surprisingly, it’s not that anything he wrote was actually wrong. However, the way his article was presented represents ev…

uppingtheoutput.home.blog

Wow, that doesn’t miss

 

[The paisley loyal]

Really good article and summary of recent happenings regarding this scandal.

This article raises a lot of questions, these questions need answered. The people who committed the offenses, and the people who new, that they were being committed, all need to answer in a court of law. Also the people who helped cover up what was going on, need to tell us why they did nothing. Nothing to protect the innocence of these young people, but thought it was correct to defend the undefenceable. All because of a football allegiance. They thought more for a football club, than they ever did for the victims of these vile perpetrators. How could they go home to their own families, knowing what was happening, and doing nothing. I can't decide which was worse, the people who done the abuse, or the people who covered it up.

 

[Speminalium8]

This is an extremely well-constructed piece of writing which highlights and pinpoints most of the incredulous machinations which define this so-called report.

The report itself isn't so much an empty vessel as a vessel of malicious deception which has the intention not to inform but to do the exact opposite.

That such a disfigured document surfaces in a State mired in political corruption under the SNP should be no surprise, the only wonder should be the scale of the audaciousness.

Rangers are cornered by dishonest forces in the national government, football governance and a press and media that are so far in the gutter that they will never recover credibility.

There is only one way that this matter can be properly and honestly exposed to transparent and unprejudiced justice and that will be through a public enquiry.
Rangers must call for this and loudly call.
No honest well-meaning people have anything to fear from the truth.

A first class appraisal of a an excellent piece of writing. Sums up everything I feel about it and what should happen next. The question now is how we can make a public enquiry happen.

 

[Bluethruandthru]

I don’t have time to read that just now and probably won’t bother tbh because it’s abundantly clear that damage limitation for the organisation in the east end is the most important thing in modern day Scotland sadly and that is trampling over the need for justice and an apology to all those who fell victim to the organised peadophile ring that was in operation for decades within Celtic FC.

This gargantuan scandal and the way it’s been dealt with has been a major indicator of the general decline in Scotland overall which is set to continue as there’s just too many bad people in key positions and too many sheep voting in a cult who have played their part in putting hurdles in the way by not including sporting institutions in the enquiry for OBVIOUS reasons, it stinks but the majority of people in Scotland don’t seem to have a problem with it.

No disrespect but I think anyone with a genuine interest in this will benefit for taking the time to read the article.

It successfully condenses a lot of key points in a few paragraphs and acts as a good reference for what's been unfolding in Scotland for many a long year.

 

[Potnbear]

One of the best reads on the subject to date. It's just totally frustrating that with those type of facts available, this subject is constantly swept under the magic carpet

 

[RfcIbrox]

Very clear and concise. Staggering.

 

[sammysun]

In 2012 we seen no end to the trouble we were in, no way forward, they held all the cards and we none, but from the rubble, we found our leaders, men and women who would not let our club die, and now we are on the cusp of victory, it is our foe who are in disarray, and it is so with the victims/survivors, they have their leaders, and they will win thru in the end.

 

[Diehard]

Great, though disturbing read. They really have a grip on all our establishment and hide their dirty linen behind everyone else's.

 

[Deleted member 3807]

There have been many a poster on here that has alluded to dark hands behind the misfortunes that befell Rangers over the HMRC event.
Most of them have been subject to scoffing.
The accepted narrative being that no such Macheiveillian mischief would be tolerated in a democratic country like Scotland never mind capable of being launched.

It seems in Scotland Machiavellian mischief is just another name for standard operating procedures. The more we find out about the way it works in Scotland the more shocked I become. What's even more worrying is how little anyone seems to be able to do about it. Will any Holyrood party have the courage to put investigating state level corruption in their manifesto with a promise to hold those responsible to account? I know it's the media's job, but they are worse than useless in Scotland. I don't know if you could even take a Scottish political party's promise to investigate corruption seriously anymore.

 

[alex0212]

That rancid club and the SFA both need dragging over the coals for this. The extreme lengths both have gone to in the name of self preservation is quite frankly sickening.

Are rest of the country, outwith our fanbase, even aware of the goings-on in relation to this issue??

If they're not......i find it staggering that the msm have been able to coordinate in a way that has prevented the truth from coming out.