First Minister Alex Salmond has acknowledged Celtic’s stunning win over Barcelona in the Scottish parliament.
Praise and congratulations has poured in from across the world of football after Neil Lennon’s side beat the Catalan giants with Coatbridge teenager Tony Watt scoring the decisive goal.
Salmond has never been slow to jump on a populist bandwagon such as Olympic medals and finally went on record to record his praise for Celtic in the Scottish parliament yesterday.
Earlier this year the First Minister had expressed his concerns for Celtic should Rangers go into liquidation but those fears have proved groundless as Neil Lennon’s side square up to Europe’s elite.
In February he told Al Jazeera: “The most diehard Celtic supporter understands that Celtic can’t prosper unless Rangers are there.
“The rest of the clubs understand that as well, therefore you have to have cognisance of these things when you are pursuing public policy.
“Obviously HMRC have got to pursue in the public interest, taxation. Equally, they’ve got to have cognisance of the fact that we’re talking about a huge institution, part of the fabric of the Scottish nation as well as Scottish football, and everybody realises that”.
While Celtic’s win has raised the profile of the club and Scottish football across the globe Salmond seems more concerned by the tax troubles at Hearts.
The Edinburgh side have been running close to the wind with the tax authorities over the last few years and have sent out a plea for supporters to plough in £450,000 or the club could face closure next weekend.
A spokesman for Salmond said: “Like any Hearts supporter, the First Minister is concerned at the current situation at the club. All clubs facing financial difficulty must be treated even-handedly.”
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wank of a man
lets ensure that he is not invited as a guest of celtic to wembley when we reach the C L final in May.
Prefer for him to remain silent. I for one do NOT want this individual to be in anyway connected to our great club.
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Why dis anybody expect that fat rat of a man to say anything good about Celtic he’s like all the rest that thought the game in Scotland would go to the wall when rangers were in trouble . Hope his team hearts fold and the snp get a no vote as this man has an agenda which he has not let slip yet but he will as all fat arrogant mp have
who cares,any praise from him would be a lie anyway.
Wee fat tit
nob.
we dont need his thanks this was celtic’s victory f**k him
This being has already nailed his colours to the mast in his vociferous support for the cheats both east and west.I certainly do not want my club to have anything to do with him,now or ever.H H. PJ44
At least he is consistent with his inconsistency!
you can rammit baw heid!
Would have said it through gritted teeth, fuckin jambo bastard!!
not for much longer hee hee
The man is a wast of space Would not belive any thing that come out of his fat little face
You reap what you sow Alex,
you had laws to deal with racism and sectarianism, but Unfortunately that didn’t suit your agenda. Shame on you.
Horrible wee hun prick