One of my earliest football memories was the euphoria at seeing Glasgow Celtic defeat Internazionale in the 1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon.
Celtic, with a team made up of players born within 30 miles of Glasgow, had defeated the Italian side despite the obstacles and machinations always associated with the Milan side in the sixties.
What would those heroic players think of the state of Glasgow Celtic now?
In this article, we exclusively reveal the takeover of an English League Two team by secret investors linked to the Glasgow giants for the purpose of getting Celtic into the Skybet Championship via Trojan Horse strategies and we suggest another club, intimately linked to this League Two side, that may well be the vehicle for SEVCO to achieve the same target.
Dermot Desmond, the Celtic majority shareholder, speaking last September stated that he thought it inevitable that Celtic and SEVCO would be playing in the English Premier League within the decade: "We would like to compete in the holy grail in England."
This bold assertion was made just weeks after the finalisation of the secret investment strategy.
For secret investors closely linked to the mighty Glasgow Celtic have taken over League Two side OXFORD UNITED.
Richard Scudamore is on record as spitting: "... we are a league formed for clubs who play in England and Wales. I don't see that ever changing. I don't see that changing on my watch... there's more in it for them than there is for us."
So.
What's going on?
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Rangers (prior to their liquidation) and Celtic were both keen to explore the possibilities offered by the European Super League (ESL) under the auspices of the old G14 power grouping of football teams.
The G14 was then superseded by the European Club Association (ECA) in 2008.
In 2009 Rangers' CEO Martin Bain spoke up in favour of the ESL: "The time is right for it to be looked at in detail. It is also important to emphasise that it would not necessarily involve us leaving Scottish football behind."
However, as fate would have it, it was Scottish football that ended up leaving Rangers behind following their demise in 2012.
Also in 2009, Peter Lawwell the CEO of Celtic let it be known that he was reconciled to the club's future being in Scotland.
At a private conversation with Lawwell in September 2013, the ESL was openly discussed covering both the inevitability of such a league and it being divided into two divisions.
We made it clear to Lawwell that it was essential for Celtic to perform to a high level in the near future in the Champions League to avoid missing out on the formation of the ESL (Celtic had just survived a scare against Shakhter Karagandy of Kazakhstan in the Champions League Play-Offs).
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Unfortunately, Mr Lawwell disagreed with our strategy and Celtic have failed miserably in Europe in the intervening period due to a lack of investment and a dearth of analytical knowledge - Group Stage exit in 2013/14 followed by Qualifying Round defeats to the might of NK Maribor and Malmo in the last two years.
The result of this underachievement has been both a decline in Celtic's status as a European club and a marked decline in the UEFA rankings of Scotland as a nation.
When the ECA announced that the ESL 1st Division was only open to the top four teams from Spain, Germany, Italy, France and England, Peter Lawwell flew to Geneva to confront ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Lawwell even attempted to form an alliance with the hierarchy of Ajax Amsterdam to fight against such plans - however, given the structural and fan antipathies between these two clubs, this was always an odd reaction.
But worse was to follow as the Netherlands are cutting Scotland out.
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Under a Belgian plan, the ESL 2nd Division would only offer places to two teams from each of the next 9 ranked countries in the UEFA rankings - Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Greece and Belgium.
As Scotland stand in 25th place, they wouldn't even make any third tier (if established).
We bet Lawwell wished he had invested in European performance now!
Celtic meanwhile developed parallel routes associated with BT Sport via board member Baron Livingston of Parkhead (with all the integrity issues that linking to such an entity entails) and, more recently, individuals associated with the club have developed a Trojan Horse strategy relating to taking over a club in the lower English leagues and working their way up to the Skybet Championship regardless of the thoughts of the Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore or the UEFA hierarchy.
That will teach the English clubs to vote against allowing Celtic (and SEVCO) boarding their gravy train!
It is our belief that there are two Trojan Horses - the first club taken over by secret investors linked to Glasgow Celtic is OXFORD UNITED, the second club is ###################
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The evidence of the takeover of League Two promotion challengers Oxford United is entirely robust, being based on intercept files, linkages to Premier League team West Bromwich Albion and numerous other constructs that we have no need nor desire to release in this place at this time. ############################################################################
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The private equity individual behind Oxford United is the excellently named Darryl Eales (Mr. D. Eales geddit?).
The parent company is called ENSCO 1070 with current directors being Eales, Frank Waterhouse, Michael O'Leary and Michael Ward.
The linkages to West Bromwich Albion are numerous as are the linkages to Glasgow Celtic and both are detailed below.
A primary catalyst in the shenanigans is football agent John Colquhoun who has linkages with Celtic, West Bromwich Albion, senior staff at Oxford United, Eales, the second Trojan Horse club and the 'secret investors'.
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Further details will be released in period ahead.
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Increasingly in recent times, Celtic and SEVCO have been co-operating behind the scenes (and presumably against fan wishes) to work together for the future of the financial kingpins of Glaswegian football.
Unfortunately, the demise of Rangers and the strategic inadequacies of Celtic have hamstrung this co-ordination via short-termist thinking and illicit machinations.
Of course, they had previously undermined any such strategies by energising policies of mutually assured destruction leading to a precipitous fall in attendances and revenue streams.
But the two clubs are caught between a rock and a hard place.
The loss of European money will be a body blow to Celtic and a nightmare for SEVCO's cashflow projections while the strategy to climb the English leagues is illegal under Football League, Premier League and UEFA rules.
Will the League Two sides change their names and colours?
Will agents energise third party ownership structures between the clubs as the Pozzo family do with Udinese, Watford and Granada?
Will the primary Celtic club agent continue adding SEVCO clients to his roster and will players even move between Celtic and SEVCO for the proprietary advantage of agents?
When are Celtic going to come clean to their fans about this secret investment?
And when are they going to come clean with the English football authorities?
Of course, all the shenanigans in Scottish football in recent years have shown scant regard for the other Scottish clubs and their fans and recent ownership regimes at SEVCO have been undertaking cyclical systemic asset-stripping of the club while Celtic have not even consulted the fans over how they might feel about travelling to Exeter City, Gillingham and Brighton for away matches if this turns out to be the future of the club.
The fans don't matter at all.
If these machinations succeed, what will remain of Scottish football?
Semi-professional games played to the benefit of whichever bookmaker is currently sponsoring the charade?
From the Lisbon Lions...
... to this shoddy state of affairs.
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The Sting
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