On the Old Club vs New Club (OCNC) debate, the SFA’s silence has been arguably the most damaging factor with respect to the future of the game. Of course people get frustrated when there is a deliberate policy of silence on the part of the SFA which results in the endless cycle of arguments being trotted out again and again with no resolution or closure possible.
The irony (it’s only irony if you assume that the SFA have gone to great lengths to create the conditions for the unbroken history status of the new club) is that the mealy-mouthed attitude they have adopted has actually polarised opinion in a far more serious and irreconcilable way than had they just made a clear statement when Sevco were handed SFA membership. A bit of leadership, with a decision either way at that time would have spiked a lot of OCNC guns very early on, but as history shows, they were afraid of a backlash from wherever it came.
I am now convinced that Scottish Football has passed the Event Horizon and is broken beyond the possibility of any repair that might have taken it back to its pre-2010 condition. Rangers fans will never – no matter what any eventual pronouncement from Hampden may be – accept that their next trophy will be their first. The trouble is that no-one else – again despite anything from Hampden – will cast them as anything else other than a new club who were given a free passage into the higher echelons of the game. Furthermore, they will forever force that down the throats of Rangers fans whenever and wherever they play. A recipe for discord, threats of violence, actual violence, and a general ramping up of the sectarian gas that we had all hoped, only a year or so ago, was to be set to an all-time low peep.
There is a saying in politics that we get the government we deserve. It works both ways though, and the SFA will get the audience it deserves. In actual fact it is the one it has actively sought over the last couple of years, for they have tacitly (and even perhaps explicitly) admitted that Scottish Football is a dish best served garnished with sectarianism. They have effectively told us that without it, the game cannot flourish, and they stick to that fallacy even although the empirical evidence of the past year indicates otherwise.
That belief is an intellectual black-hole they have now thrust the game into. They have effectively said that only two clubs actually matter in Scottish football. The crazy thing is that to put their plans into action they have successfully persuaded enough of the other clubs to jump into the chasm and hence vote themselves into irrelevance and permanent semi-obscurity.
That belief is also shared by the majority in the MSM, who despite their lofty, self-righteous and ostensibly anti-sectarian stance, have done everything they can to stir the hornet’s nest in the interests of greater sales.
Act as an unpaid wing of a PR company, check nothing, ask nothing, help to create unrest, and then tut-tut away indignantly like Monty Python Pepperpots when people take them to task.
Consequently the victims of all the wrongdoing (creditors and clubs) walk away without any redress or compensation for the loss of income and opportunity (and history) – stripped of any pride and dignity since they do so in the full knowledge of what has happened. But even as they wipe away the sand kicked in their faces, those clubs still insist on the loyalty of their own fanbases, the same fans whose trust they have betrayed with their meek acceptance of the new, old order.
The kinder interpretation of the impotence of the clubs is that they want to avoid the hassle and move on, the more cynical view that they are interested only in money, not people. In either case, sporting integrity, in the words of Lord Traynor of Winhall (Airdrie, not Vermont), is “crap”.
The question is; which constituency of 21st century Scotland subscribes to that 17th century paradigm?
Sadly, this massive hoax, this gigantic insult to our collective intelligence, is working. Many will leave the game – many already have in view of the spineless absence of intervention from their own clubs – but many, many more will stay and support the charade.
If you doubt my prediction, ask yourself how many tickets will be unsold the first time the New Rangers play Celtic at Parkhead? That my friends will be final imprimatur of authenticity on just exactly who New Rangers are, no matter the proclamations of both sides of the OCNC argument.
bryce9a says: (37)
November 26, 2013 at 10:38 am
. . . a little voice would be saying to me…
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b,
I’ve been listening to that same little voice of yours.
For a while now, it’s been saying –
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(Translated, that means ‘Nothing’.)
manandboy says: (333)
November 26, 2013 at 5:01 pm
-. — – …. .. -. –. means nothing, fixed that for you
Sorry getting silly now
bryce9a says: (37)
November 26, 2013 at 1:59 pm
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…but in doing so, your resigning from the rational debate and admitting that a club’s existence is a function of how mean or nice they/their fans are – need i explain the problem with that!
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If I’m one of those you’re referring to, you’ve really missed the point. I have absolutely no problem with any newly-formed club adopting the heritage of a previous club that demised. The non-rational debate is coming only from those, like yourself, who persist in their denial of verifiable, historical events.
It is perfectly logical to conclude that the current Sevco-Rangers are the natural inheritors of the previous club. Why then is it so difficult to accept the break in the historical timeline? One thing ended, another thing began.
The current club began in 2012. Its fans believe it carries on where the club now in liquidation stopped. I don’t see the difficulty with that. Technically, TRFC have one trophy and title. The stars on the shirt are fakery and a nonsense.
Want to be the same club? Pay the football debts — in other words, all the debt, because all of the money owed financed the previous club. It was ALL football debt. Make a long-term plan, 10 or 20 years, but repay. Doing that might help people forget that the current Rangers are Sevco Scotland under an assumed name.
Some of our best brains are being hijacked.
Hi Jack.
In the OCNC topic, for me it is now rather simple. Campbell Ogilvie regards TRFC as the same old club that he helped to its end. That is sufficient for me to regard them, TRFC as a completely new club. Simple. I often have not quite believed, naively, how guys like Blatter or Samaranch climbed to the top in Sports governing bodies like FIFA or the IOC but one only needs to look at Ogilvie and his seemingly untouchable position to see how it happens on our own doorstep. Anybody with a modicum of decency or integrity would have done the ‘honourable’ thing a long time ago, given he is so conflicted in the Rangers/SFA mess. Being oblivious or just simply arrogant is so far beyond contempt. He is still the President of the SFA. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a national disgrace.
wottpi says: (1287)
November 26, 2013 at 4:27 pm
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looks to me as if a whole load of new 1pence shares are about to be issued to those that are already qualified to hold 1 pence shares,
Danish Pastry – if you are not careful, Bryce will make the mistake regarding, to quote Malcolm Murray, which side of the fence you are on. And he will be wrong of course!
Bryce … I’m sorry, I’ve skim-read the last couple of pages since last night, but if you didn’t come up with an answer to the question below which relates to why Rangers did not play in Europe following their 2nd position placing in the SPL, would you care to comment on it?:
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And the lack of a Rangers presence in Europe, following their apparent qualification?
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Again, I think some of us are jumping down Bryce’s throat simply because he challenges long-held perceptions in an intelligent and restrained manner and with generally decent reasoning. Well done to those who are keeping up a level-headed debate instead of demanding that he admits to saying WATP. For those insistent on bringing this up and labelling it as bigotry – have you never referred to a Rangers supporter as a “H*n”? Glass houses etc. :rolleyes:
(Bryce – in the interests of disclosure, here’s one for you. Budapest Honved. Go and look up their history. Wikipedia is a good enough start.)
Of all the possible things to pass comment on in the context of the Celtic v Milan game, what does Chick Young come up with? – the state of London Road, implying that it’s somehow Celtic’s fault that work for the Games is underway, and tut-tutting like the silly wee man he is at what UEFA and the world will make of it!
Aah, the good old days when due process was followed, dangerous precedents were avoided and the story was reported without fear.
Airdrieonians
And this Guardian report
John Clarke
I just hope his own teams stadium is ready for their part in the games ,oops ,deliberate mistake there.
Bryce9a has illuminated the dividing line perfectly.
I, and I am confident the vast majority of Scottish football supporters, see football as a sport. Sport is played within rules.
bryce9a seems to view Rangers as having been, and Sevco currently, however temporarily, outwith this remit and only governed by the law of the land, and more than that, only the laws that they like. Any inconvenient rule did not need to be adhered to and woe betide anyone who dare question it.
I am quite comfortable lining up on my side of that line.
In his desperate twisting and turning to claim English precedents for his “same club” nonsense, Bryce has inadvertently uncovered a truth. Football does indeed regard the clubs which underwent insolvency events in England as the same clubs — despite FA regulations making it clear that, legally, they are totally different entities.
The reason football is happy to do so, Bryce, is that none of these clubs ever achieved success by employing a sectarian employment policy, none of them ever embarked on the most sustained period of financial doping on a failed bank’s money ever recorded, none of them ever augmented that policy with illegal discounted option schemes, and none of them ever replaced that scheme with an EBT payment scheme that stayed within the letter of the law (so far), but broke every football law on remuneration disclosure. For all those reasons, football will never regard you as anything other than the most disgusting entity in the history of sport.
Apart from that, you’re doing a great job of manoeuvring those imaginary divisions from your bolt hole in the bunker.
Naive question alert. Genuinely looking to be educated though. 😕 😕
There is the letter of the law.
There is the spirit of the law.
My knowledge of the legal process is severely limited, so can someone illuminate me as to when there is scope for interpretation of a law so as to match the intention of those that drafted it, and when it is necessary that the law be followed to the letter, even if it makes a mocker of original intention (and possibly common sense)?
I ask because I see the following examples (amongst others):
LNS – relying upon a frankly weird interpretation of the SFA regulations (provided by Bryson) resulting in a decision that most here would probably feel denied natural justice.
AAM – where the most recent verdict appeared (to m uneducated eye) to widen the interpretation of the law so that it could avoid a judgement that failed to serve natural justice.
I do realise that LNS was not sitting in a court of law, but I assume that his verdict was based upon legal norms??
So is it possible to give a generalised view of when there is scope for interpretation rather than blind following of the letter? I think it would help me make sense of some of the discussion going on at the moment.
john clarke says: (1398)
November 26, 2013 at 6:50 pm
John, Chick is really not worth the effort, don’t give the wee nyaff the satisfaction of getting to you
Taken from CQN
Sad news
captainmoonlight supports oscar & dam bhoys
18:18 on 26 November, 2013
Good evening CQNers,
Just found out Paul McConville found dead this morning.
R.I.P. big man, a true gentleman,
just spoke to him on Friday evening after the Q & A at the Columba Club
Eternal rest, grant unto him O’Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him,
may he rest in peace, Amen.
blackjacque says: (10)
November 26, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Utterly shocked and saddened.
Angus,
I don’t need you to tell me whether or not I should be interested in whether or not someone has a supremacist, bigoted view of life so that I can then decide if I should pay attention to their views on RFC*. The fact that Bryce is avoiding the question like the plague tells me all I need to know, so I won’t be asking again. Hope that pleases you.
Re the h*n thing, no I haven’t – that sort of banter expected in the classroom and the dressing room is why I stopped caring about the tribal loyalties of following a team and try now just to enjoy football. I said on here before that having to be happy that my friends’/teammates’ team had lost was a turnoff for me.
Just picking up some tweets about Paul McConville on my timeline. Very sad and untimely, a relatively young man.
A great bampot, I will miss his blog greatly. RIP.
blackjacque says: (10)
November 26, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Sad news indeed, thoughts with Paul’s family
blackjacque @ 7.29 pm
Thoughts and prayers with Paul’s family
Whats happened to Paul MC ?
Brenda? Im not on twitter etc?
ianagain says: (42)
November 26, 2013 at 8:17 pm
See earlier post.
blackjacque says: (10)
November 26, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Sorry missed Jaques.
Another fine man gone.
Jack/Bryce
Read ALL of this and understand what happened and where your headed.
Start May 2011
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/
On yersel Paul. I’m off for a drink.
Paul actually published 3 of my articles. Very sad to hear of that news. I respected and enjoyed reading his analyses but more important than that he came across as a good guy and a family man.
If true ..Awful news about Paul McConville..a very brave man raising his head above a very dangerous parapet in this poisonous wee land of ours
I suspect we all enjoyed his classy and professional posts which with appropriate humour repeatedly humiliated the well known offenders in our biggest ever sporting scandal
I for one will long remember his contributions and hope for his sake the well known criminals are truly brought to justice!
Paul, Requiescant in Pace !
Paul McConville- a great human being, a fine mind, and a true journalist. I feel for his loved ones tonight. I will say nothing more right now, just very, very sad.
Sorry to hear the sad news about Paul McConville.
I always read Paul’s Blogs, he seemed to have his finger on the pulse, and often in a humorous way!
So sorry to hear the sad news tonight, he will be sadly missed. My thoughts are with Paul’s family.
Shocked and saddened to hear the news about Paul McConville.
His wit and good humour above all will be sorely missed.
My sympathies to his family and friends.
Paul McConville RIP.
Just read it on here, such a shock and disbelief.
A huge loss, a brilliant blogger.
Thoughts and prayers for him, his wife and family.
AC Milan played some football match tonight, looked to me like the opposition failed to turn up. Back to ye drawing board…
It’s not long gone that Paul McConville was opining on the untimely loss of Paul McBride. Two fine legal minds lost from this world too soon. Paul Mc C provided so much illumination on this story, and made the finer legal points easy to understand for the likes of myself. I loved his blogs, even if the comments deteriorated to unreadable at times. My sympathy to those connected & affected by this tragic loss.
scapaflow says: (1190)
November 26, 2013 at 9:35 pm
Booooooo!!! 😉
R.I.P. Paul ,goodnight and god speed
Whether you support Celtic or not, it’s actually important for football as a whole that they do well in Europe. BY no stretch of the imagination is this doing well in Europe, so, sorry but it is time to go back to the drawing board.
Shocking news about Paul McConville. Puts all our worries and woes about chicanery and poor performances on the field into perspective.
Requiescat in pace!
Paul McConville rest in peace.
Thank you for your insight and for continually battling to bring out the truth surrounding the Rangers tax case and the emergence of Sevco.
I hope that Paul’s work and the gratitude that many here feel for his efforts is a source of strength for his family and friends.
Football and all the other arguments are secondary when a young man known to us mainly by way of his internet bampotery is gone and leaves a young family to cope with their loss.
Bill Shankly was wrong – Football is not more important than life.
RIP
Sad to hear about the passing of Paul McConville.
Sometimes longwinded but always informative, thought provoking and best of all entertaining.
R.I.P
Exiled Celt says: (817)
November 26, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Bill Shankly would be the first to agree with you.
You honour the man by continuing the work.
Just heard of Pauls passing.So sad.Puts the game into perspective.
Thoughts and prayers with his family.
RIP Paul.
RIP Paul McConville. Some will rejoice his passing. The rest of us should rejoice the memories.
might have missed a reply regards this ,but can anyone tell me why the wording of the AGM new members of the board to be elected differ ,1&2 are worded differently from 3& 4 .
I never met Paul McConville, but I felt I’d known him for years. This is down to how much of himself he put into his magnificent blog. Rest in Peace Paul, and may the good Lord be with your family always.
Had a quick peek at the sfmonitor whilst watching the game tonight and could not believe what I was reading, seemed to take ages to sink in. My head was elsewhere and I lost total interest in the game, tragic news about Paul. A voice of reason in all this madness that surrounds us. It’s a times like this you realise that old Shankly’s quote about football being more than life or death is nonsense. RIP
I came home from Celtic Park tonight really down in the dumps about many aspects of the game, not least that my team simply were not good enough. However, the very sad news I read about Paul McConville once again reminds me of the true perspectives of life and the place football actually occupies in it. I never met the man, but thoroughly enjoyed his writings – may he rest in peace.
It is of course absolutely the case that there are far more important things in life than football, or sport generally.
One of these more important things is truth.
Truth is not dependent on feelings, or emotions, or partisanship, or specious and false arguments.
Paul Mc Conville, God rest his soul, was lawyer enough to ask relevant questions querying the grounds of other people’s assertions, and trying to establish the facts, in precise legal terms, and how those facts were to be viewed in terms of the ‘law’.
He did us all a great service in that respect.
I am not competent to judge his capacities as a lawyer.
But I can say that I have personally learned an enormous amount from what were in effect his’ tutorials’:
for example, his insistence on the need to look at what the ‘law’ actually says, whether’ Law’ in capitals or the Articles of Association of the SFA/SPL/SFL/.
His readiness to cut through the quasi-legal garbage uttered by the football authorities as well as the absolute crap (to use a long-established and hallowed legal expression) uttered by insolvency experts and sundry barra-boys from Yorkshire or Paisley or South Africa or London or Jack’s media empire was truly inspirational.
I did not know him personally.
I think that was my loss.
A second-hand loss, and not to be compared with the loss experienced by family and friends. But real, nonetheless.
Paul McConville, may you rest in peace.
Re: Paul McConville
Several years ago I submitted a family claim for compensation as my late father had been a miner and had suffered industrial disease during his 52 years in the pits. Paul dealt with my claim expeditiously and, as a result, the family received a generous figure from British Coal.
Once Paul commenced his blog the Rangers / Sevco supporters were relentless in their vile castigation of him over the miners’ compensation claims. It was always my intention to drop him a line giving him my support in his blog and thanking him for a professional job well done when he acted for my late father.
Sadly, that opportunity has now been denied to me. I offer my condolences to his family and at the same time I pity those poor souls who were obsessed with blackening his name simply because he was trying to shine a light on the skulduggery at Ibrox and Hampden.
May his soul rest in peace.
Auldheid says: (1054)
November 26, 2013 at 4:10 pm
scapaflow says: (1185)
November 26, 2013 at 3:39 pm
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I can’t be alone in loving the wonderful , airy badinage of this blog.
I declare to God( just finished reading a wonderful a book where characters say that kind of thing) , it’s like being in a nice wee quiet pub where you can hear each other talk and see the facial expressions of the other guys.
Very sorry to read about Paul’s passing.
Would appreciate if anyone could post details / link to his obituary / funeral arrangements.
R.I.P.
http://henryclarson.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/paul-mcconville-a-tribute/
“I can’t adequately express my dismay upon hearing of Paul McConville’s sudden death at the age of 47.
Paul was a brilliant and prolific blogger whose meticulous analysis of the legal complexities surrounding the collapse of Rangers FC is unequalled in the public domain. There is no better repository on the internet for consistently well-informed, clearly thought out, professional commentary on that subject’s legalities than scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com.
I hope that his site will remain online both as a fitting memorial to his peerless efforts and as an invaluable resource for further research.
But Paul was much, much more than a legal dude who wrote extremely long, informative posts which brought some clarity to complicated matters of Scots Law. He was an exceptionally warm and friendly person, unfailingly courteous and pleasant. I will always treasure the memory of the time that I spent in his delightful company as well as our numerous exchanges via blogs, tweets, emails, texts, phone calls,etc. He was invariably good-humoured, a splendid conversationalist on many subjects and a true gentleman.
Paul went out of his way on many occasions to offer free advice on legal matters to very many people who turned to him for help and the concern which he showed for them was genuine. If anyone needed help, he would do his best to supply it. But Paul himself knew what it was like to go through bad times. Some years ago, he suffered a serious bout of depression which took a heavy toll on his career and led to a professional rebuke. For the avoidance of doubt (as the Great Man himself was wont to say) it should be made absolutely clear that his integrity was never questioned in any way.
However, to his immense credit, Paul never shied away from his personal responsibility for his own mistakes. He sought no excuses. He took his medicine like a man and gradually restored his position through sheer hard work and dedicated professionalism. He gratefully and unhesitatingly acknowledged that he drew great strength in those challenging times from both his family and his personal religious faith.
Paul had great personal charm. He was self-effacing and truly modest in spite of his own considerable erudition and intelligence. He was the type of person who effortlessly made others feel that he was genuinely pleased to see them. He was also a very good listener. Even when Paul was unquestionably the smartest person in a group (which he frequently must have been!) he had a knack of making the others feel that what they had to say was more important than his own views.
He was generous with compliments but genuinely self-effacing when praise was returned. Nevertheless, I believe that he fully understood how worthwhile his blog was and he was more than entitled to be quietly proud of the impact that it made on so many people, including myself.
I will miss him greatly.
I wish to express my deepest sympathy to the McConville family at this dreadful time. They will be in my thoughts and prayers in the days ahead.
May God rest you, Paul.”
nawlite says: (194) November 26, 2013 at 2:15 pm
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If you want a view on Bryce’s beliefs, he showed his thoughts on Hearts Jambos’ Kickback forum a month or so ago with the attached post in answer to a query of why he posted on a Hearts forum.
http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/134157-the-sevco-existential-debate-see-admin-note-in-post-1/page__st__500#entry3869768
briggsbhoy says: (747)
November 26, 2013 at 11:32 pm
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Bill Shankly’s quote served only to give Journalists, past and present, a go to quote every now and then to supplement an article. I’d imagine a man raised in the harsh realities of life in relative poverty didn’t actually believe it himself.
Very sad news about Paul McConville.
I praise his courage and persistence. Unlike most of us here Paul used his own name and put himself directly in the firing line of many vile and deluded individuals who mounted sustained attacks on his character and integrity. Only Phil, of the internet bampots has had to endure more.
A great loss to the blogosphere; a much greater one to his friends and family.
I am shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Paul McConville.
I just found out this morning and was shocked.
It was through reading his intelligent and often humorous blogs that I discovered the world in internet bampotery and he was most definitely one of the best. I owe him for that.
My thoughts are with his family and friends.
RIP.
captainmoonlight supports oscar & dam bhoys
18:18 on 26 November, 2013
Good evening CQNers,
Just found out Paul McConville found dead this morning
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Just heard the extremely shocking and sad news about Paul Mc Conville. This unfortunately puts all the Rangers new/old club debate into perspective….Paul was an educated man who laced his detailed and thorough blogs with his own brand of humour. My condolences to his family. RIP
Very sad news about Paul McConville, a man who made things simple for us bampots
I can’t help thinking about Corsica this morning also
Although I didn’t know them personally, I am truly sorry at their passing
Two stalwarts of the blogosphere taken far too soon
RIP Paul, Thoughts and prayers with all of his family and friends
Good Morning.
Extremely sad to see the passing of Paul.
My thoughts and condolences are with his family at this sad time.
R.I.P
The premature passing of Paul McConville is sad indeed. Paul’s blog educated and entertained many of us and he will be missed. Condolences to his family at this dreadful time.
Rest in peace.
I’ll miss Paul’s blog. He always provided an interesting and well-written analysis of the latest developments from a legal angle, cutting through the surrounding gristle to get to the point and often doing his best to suppress his personal views.
At this point, his singular perspective seems irreplaceable.
RIP.
Very saddened to hear Paul McConville has passed away. I loved his blogs, which were always humorous and illuminating. He refused to respond to the vitriol he got from some posters in response, but still believed in everyone’s right to speak. He educated and entertained thousands of people in this saga and allowed us to question and think. That’s something those he helped to expose do not and have never wanted.
I send my deepest condolences to his family via this blog. Your loved one Paul McConville is held in the highest of regard by thousands of people.
RIP.
Meanwhile, another TRFC marketing email …
http://e.rangers.co.uk/4OiZigM4kbkPZCG6I8nylKCy2Rw08TET9Vutpu7TR4Y/WebView.aspx
I wonder why, firstly, they feel the need to remind the Orcs that there are some football games coming up that they may like to part with their cash to attend, and, secondly, why I feel slightly disconcerted at the use of words like “battle” and “shot” in large type and close proximity?
I can’t think of anything to add to all that has been said on here about the sad passing of Paul McConville. Having just read Henry Clarson’s post of 6.00am he sounds like someone I would like to have known. He really will be greatly missed.
R.I.P
Henry Clarson says: (19) November 27, 2013 at 6:00 am
That’s a delightful and fitting eulogy for Paul McConville. I greatly enjoyed his blog and his personality shone through it always. I also learned a lot about Scottish Law. The fact that I had my 48th birthday on Sunday makes his passing at only 47 years all the more poignant to me.
RIP Paul.
Some lovely tributes to Paul McConville and his passing is very sad indeed, especially to his family and being such a young man with so much of his life ahead of him.
Like many on here, I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but greatly valued his skills, knowledge, acumen, humour & light touch that his writing had.
He also explained succinctly & simply, the complexities of the issue that has brought us all together in this place and other places………and that alone is a mark of distinction, which I will never forget
Rest in Peace…..
I firmly believe we will see days when, one after the other, the villains that have abused our sport and robbed the nation are brought to justice. It may be a long time coming, but I am firm in that belief.
On those days we will remember most the contributions of those members of our bampot community that are no longer with us. Paul McConville will be right up at the top of that list in the company of other friends we have lost along the way.
As has already been said, the best way to honour his memory is to continue the struggle that he put so much intelligent effort into.
Condolences to his family, friends and all who are touched by his passing.
Deeply saddened by the appallingly untimely death of Paul McConville, some years younger than myself!
Thoughts must be with his wife and family and his passing puts all this scandal/nonsense/omnishambles into proper perspective. May he rest in peace.
May we all enjoy the memories in times to come
McBride…Corsica…McConville….!
The Lord has called some great minds…I do hope they can all blog together, then perhaps some good will come out of all this.
I echo all the sentiments expressed about Paul McConville. I have only been reading his blog for a couple of years but I have marvelled at his analysis of the omnishambles,his frustration shone through at times only to be tempered by a flash of humour. He told it as it really was,not always as we wanted,that’s called integrity.
He will be sorely missed.
The news of Paul’s passing is the kind of thing you convince yourself is not true.
A very sad loss to us all.
Paul was inspirationally informative to me and I guess many others on all sides of society.
Condolences and thoughts to his family.
Never knew PMcC, brought legal opinion to guys like me and for that I thank him.
As previously stated, a courageous man, there have been so few.
Deepest condolences to his family.
RIP Paul. Thanks for the education.