Bigwigs acted after a top cop flagged up alleged offensive behaviour by fans during the match against Rennes at Parkhead.

If the hate song claims are found to be true the Hoops could be fined or their fans banned from European ties.

Last night a club insider said: “Celtic could be in big trouble over this. UEFA can hand down heavy punishments. The club have already pleaded with fans to cut out IRA songs at matches but it looks like some won’t listen.”

It’s understood a senior Strathclyde officer working at the match earlier this month approached UEFA delegates with the chant claims.

A spokesman for the governing body said last night: “We have opened a disciplinary case against Celtic.” It will be heard on December 8. In April, Rangers were fined £35,500 and their fans banned from their next away Euro game after they were found guilty of discriminatory chanting in a Europa League tie.

Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3931165/Celtic-UEFA-probe-over-hate-songs.html#ixzz1dVFmsv58

Rant over….

Now many people keep going on about its a beta, well lets look at the facts. The game has been in production for a few years, its less than 4 weeks away till it goes live and I can guarantee that the vast majority of the bugs found in the Beta will NOT be fixed.

I have listened to the Battlefield brigade harp on how bad the Call of Duty community is and how their game is sooo good compared to just about everything. Well I have some bad news for you lovers of BF3 it’s a major fail and I cannot see how they can pull this game out of the fire without some casualties. We will see on Oct 28th and Nov 8th who will win the sales war, I predict a landslide for MW3, what do you think?

On both occasions the admin did nothing not even a warning for the clan blatantly breaking the rules. The whole system in ESL is severely flawed and you would imagine that they have a rather large budget to make the system easier to manage but no it’s remained the same crappy system for the last couple of years. So all in all ESL is shit, it’s getting closer to Clanbase every day and they will soon be as crap as each other.

So my advice for any clans wanting an enjoyable game do not join CB or ESL.

Now this moght not matter to many people but today in world football it seems most players actually don’t mind cheating, yes thats correct cheating. In any other sport if you get caught cheating at all you get banned in some instances its for life. A player who takes drugs will get a ban from anything from a few months to a couple of years, now I think diving in a penalty box to get a penalty kick and sometimes a player sent off is much more harsh that taking drugs. Take Scotland for example that penalty kick that was’nt could cost the team not to go to the european championships and for Scotland this is a big thing.

There have been lots of more instances of goals that affect matches, come on FIFA get your act together.

Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer update is one of balance, consideration and intelligent rechanneling of existing systems. There is no revolution here, but that doesn’t mean familiar and – some might think – sacrosanct mainstays haven’t been up-ended, divided, multiplied or simply been given their marching orders.

One Man Army and its cheeky mid-game class swap? Out. Those epic Last Stand pistol shots from the floor? Gone. Shotguns as secondary weapons? Game-ending Nukes? Goodbye and good luck. That bloody awful Commando perk that gave a soldier’s knife arm the reach of an orang-utan? Let’s pretend that never happened…

Perhaps the biggest change comes through a Kill Streak shuffle. With hindsight the totting up of kills without dying providing explosive rewards only truly worked well in TDM – exotic modes where massacres didn’t necessarily mean good teamplay never quite gelled with the system. Weaker players would continually die streakless through the bombardment of others, and objective grabs simply didn’t always require multiple vanquished enemies.

Points towards death-machine rewards can now come from capturing objectives, flags and good teamplay, then, rather than simple examples of man’s inhumanity to man. What’s more rewards are now all subdivided into three potential Strike Packages: the streaks for each of which are built up differently. Assault will be familiar – you build a streak of kills without dying, and earn your chosen offensive rewards. Beyond this, the ways you earn your pocket money gets a little more unfamiliar

Choose the Support Strike Package and you won’t lose the points you’ve amassed when you’re inevitably riddled with bullets – meaning that you can happily run into the danger-zone for the benefit of your team. Support Strike rewards are those that benefit your whole side – UAV, SAM turrets, Recon and the like – meaning that Objective-based game modes will have far less lone wolves operating with their growing killstreak arsenal in mind and not necessarily the team’s well-being.

Well. Kind of. Those with truly astounding skill may well plump for the Specialist Strike Package – which ropes you off from the rest of your team, denying you all those wonderful toys, but showers you with a chosen order of perks as you murder your way through the map. Get a streak of eight points and you’ll get every perk available, but take a bullet and you’ll drop to the foot of the ladder. Meanwhile, of course, your team-mates will be running around earning strafe runs of attack helicopters, controllable heli-drones, turrets that take out incoming missile-fire, drops of juggernaut armour, bomb-disposal robots draped with machine-guns and countless other new streak bonuses – so the cards are very much stacked against you.

I took to the streets of Paris, a German shopping centre and a fictional underground stop called Middleton Station (other COD-english stations IW have dreamt up include Wrong Shoes St. and Felafel Lane) and can report these systems work, and work well. One of MW3’s new game mode’s, it seems, will be oddly familiar if you’ve been around the block in terms of Quake and UT mods – as indeed will the mutator-esque game mode creator that will come with the package.

Kill Confirm sees dog-tags fall from crumpled bodies as you take them down. Collect the tags and you confirm the kill and earn your side an extra 50 points – collect the tags of a fallen ally and you deny your rivals those same points. With kill-stealing avoided by a generous donation for both parties if someone else collects your prey’s tag (and a sudden urge to throw grenades wherever you see your buddies fall) it’s a neat twist on TDM that’ll certainly go towards broadening the casual play-list.

After the ‘buy everything, try everything’ ethos of Black Ops MW3 is also, thankfully, rewarding specialisation – going so far as levelling up your weapons the more you use them; at intervals letting you improve their kick, range, number of attachments, stability and the like. Add into this a selection of bonuses you can select when you prestige, a far higher top-level and unlocks of challenge-sets and certain perks far extremely late into the levelling progression and you start to realise that this is very much a MP update built to satisfy MW3s legions of dedicated acolytes. Activision are tying their aficionados closer to the war machine than ever before.

Call of Duty Elite is clearly the dual assault in this particular pincer movement – its premium service now confirmed as a $5 per month affair that over time will provide twenty smaller care packages of DLC (that’ll be stacked together in the now familiar, later and pricier bundles for non-premium users) alongside ranked clan support, refereed competitions with real prizes, expert strategy analysis and weekly videos made by (people who work for) Ridley Scott and comedy-types Will Arnett and Jason Bateman.

Facebook integration (so now you can play Search and Destroy with that girl you used to fancy from College!), grouping, stat-whoring, heat-map playback and the ability to fiddle with your load-out on an app during your daily commute are all free, however, which even the most seasoned of Acti-sceptics will have trouble in sneering at whole-heartedly.

For all its bluster, silliness and exploding helicopters – the systems that lie deep within Call of Duty are complicated and occasionally tangled affairs. Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer is very much Infinity Ward (and friends) getting their house in order – streamlining, affording for different play-styles, smiling on players of mixed abilities and generally making their game a more pleasant (if slightly more complicated) place to point loaded guns at people. It is not a revolution in multiplayer, nor is it the PC-love haven that is Battlefield 3, but it is nevertheless a well-thought iteration designed to ensure that the COD Empire’s world domination will endure throughout the ages. Look upon its works, ye mighty, and despair

Now I wouldn’t mind but 99% of these calls are people who are just lazy they have no willingness to find the answer themselves but would rather phone a support desk and get them to do it. An example would be a person who calls and asks us to add an addon domain to their package. After about 5 minutes of asking the person to login to cPanel I gave up and added the domain myself. They then asked for me to add another which I refused as it would be better for them to learn what to do rather than relying on other people to do it for them.

Other examples would be ‘I have a problem with a script’, now this is fine if they have exhausted every possibility and came to us a last resort but the thing that angers me is that they send in a support ticket which might have took 5 minutes to write and all I do is put the error into Google and get about 30 pages of answers. Why oh why did they not do that in the first place.

The thing that angers me the most is people who just cant get it, you tell them 10 times and they still come back for more. Which directory do I upload my website to, how do I add an addon domain, my Blackberry wont connect to your email, how do I add an email address and how do I get to cPanel.

That’s enough of my rant for the day, ttfn

Johnston and director Paul Murray were sacked after refusing to resign.

Chief executive Martin Bain and finance director Donald McIntyre were suspended pending an internal inquiry.

“I’ve been disappointed by comments regarding the takeover made by former board members who are clearly reluctant to embrace change,” said Whyte.

Whyte’s Wavetower company – now renamed The Rangers FC Group Ltd – assumed control of Sir David Murray’s 85% shareholding in the Ibrox outfit on 6 May and Johnston issued urged Rangers fans to “remain vigilant and continue to exert pressure” on the club’s new owner.

Johnston had expressed doubts during Whyte’s protracted takeover of of the club expressed concerns over Whyte’s plans for Rangers to BBC Scotland, saying: “He needs to walk the walk and not just talk the talk.”

However, Whyte has responded with a statement on the club website, urging calm and restating his intention to invest in the club.

He also insisted that the changes in the makeup of the Ibrox board were a perfectly normal business process when new ownership is assumed.

“It is a huge privilege and honour to have become the majority shareholder at Rangers football club,” said Whyte.

“My commitment to take the club forward is unwavering and like all Rangers supporters I want to build on the tremendous success achieved by the team in recent years.

“It is not uncommon to bring fresh thinking to an organisation in an effort to deliver greater success and that is the fundamental reason that changes have been made to the composition of the board.

“Further board appointments will be announced in due course. It would be inappropriate for me to comment on the suspensions of the chief executive and finance director at this time.

“I believe most Rangers supporters understand that, as a result of the takeover, the club’s debt to the Lloyds Banking Group has been cleared and I have repeatedly stated to the board my intentions to invest in the team.”

The Motherwell-born venture capitalist also insisted he had spoken to the new Rangers manager Ally McCoist and would begin the process of acquiring new players in the coming weeks.

“I have had discussions with Ally McCoist regarding his ambition to secure players already playing for the club and also to bring new faces to the squad,” said Whyte. “These discussions will resume when Ally returns to Ibrox this week.

“These are exciting times for Rangers and the club’s supporters.

“This past season’s achievements were truly great and I am determined to continue that success for Rangers and our supporters around the world.”

He said the US and its European allies would stay “indispensable,” in a speech to both Houses of Parliament on the second day of his UK state visit.

But he said that leadership would need to “change with the times” to reflect economic, security and more challenges.

He is the first US president to address MPs and peers in Westminster Hall.

Mr Obama got a standing ovation as he began his speech – which covered a range of issues including foreign policy, economic development and international security.

As he began, Mr Obama acknowledged that the relationship between the UK and US was forever being “over analysed” but added: “There are few nations that stand firmer, speak louder and fight harder to defend democratic values around the world than the United States and the United Kingdom.”

‘New chapter’

President Obama also told politicians gathered at Westminster Hall – who included in their ranks the former prime ministers Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – that the two countries had “arrived at a pivotal moment once more” following global recession and years of conflict.

He said with the winding down of operations in Iraq, progress in Afghanistan and having dealt “al-Qaeda a huge blow by killing its leader Osama Bin Laden” it was time to enter a “new chapter in our shared history” with new challenges.

But he rejected arguments that the rise of superpowers like China and India meant the end for American and European influence in the world.

“Perhaps, the argument goes, these nations represent the future, and the time for our leadership has passed. That argument is wrong. The time for our leadership is now,” he said.

“It was the United States, the United Kingdom, and our democratic allies that shaped a world in which new nations could emerge and individuals could thrive.

“And even as more nations take on the responsibilities of global leadership, our alliance will remain indispensable to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.”

Libya questions

But he added that leadership had to “change with the times” and the days were gone when an American president and UK prime minister could “sit in a room and solve the world’s problems over a glass of brandy”.

In his speech, Mr Obama also:

• Acknowledged differences in the US and UK approach to deficit reduction but said the end goal was the same.
• Insisted the allies were preparing to “turn a corner” in Afghanistan – allowing Afghans to take the lead against the Taliban and stopping the country from becoming a haven for terrorists.
• Warned North Korea and Iran against flouting their obligations on nuclear weapons
• Vowed to worked for a resolution to long-running conflicts in Sudan, and in supporting a “secure Israel and a sovereign Palestine”
• Defended action in Libya – saying it had “stopped a massacre” there

President Obama also said the US and UK must invest in nations like Tunisia and Egypt which were making a transition to democracy, through trade and commerce, while “sanctioning those who pursue repression”.

“We do this knowing that the West must overcome suspicion and mistrust among many in the Middle East and North Africa – a mistrust that is rooted in a difficult past,” he said.

He acknowledged that the West had been accused of hypocrisy in its dealings with the region but said the West must “reject as false the choice between our interests and our ideals, between stability and democracy”.

He stressed the shared values of the US and UK – about the rights of the individual, regardless of race, and the rule of law.

And he got a round of applause as he struck a more personal note, saying that the example of the US and UK had shown “that it’s possible for the sons and daughters of former colonies to sit here as members of this great Parliament, and for the grandson of a Kenyan who served as a cook in the British Army to stand before you as president of the United States”.

It took the president more than 10 minutes to leave Westminster Hall as he stopped to shake hands with the ranks of politicians and other prominent figures who had lined the building to hear his speech.

Earlier questions about the strategy in Libya featured heavily during a press conference at Lancaster House.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said there was no future for that country – which has seen two months of intense fighting between pro and anti-government forces – with Col Gaddafi in power, and said he and President Obama “agree we should be turning up the heat in Libya”.

But while Mr Obama said there would be “no let-up in the pressure” on Libyan leader Col Gaddafi, he warned: “Ultimately this is going to be a slow, steady process in which we are able to wear down the regime forces.”

On a personal note, Mr Cameron said he had come to know the president well over the past year and had come to “value his leadership and courage”.