There’s a gentleman that’s going round
Turning the joint upside down
Stool Pigeon – ha-cha-cha-cha
He’s an old ex-con that’s been away
Now he’s back, no one’s safe
It’s quite likely that David Grier and Craig Whyte had many conversations they didn’t want replayed on BBC Reporting Scotland. Their deal to acquire Rangers from Sir David Murray and Lloyds Banking Group would have required many scenarios to be considered, some of which would certainly be unpalatable. So with this in mind, Grier may have been comfortable discussing strategy with Whyte when the latter recorded their conversation in May this year. They had been in the proverbial trenches together before and at one time would have had a bond of trust.
What frankly beggars belief is that either party would consider this bond to be still in place a month after Duff and Phelps sued Craig Whyte’s company for £25m. It’s even more surprising that Mr Grier and Mr Whyte were on such convivial terms – chatting liberally in a restaurant about such a serious matter – while they were supposed to be on opposite sides of a £25m legal action.
We now know that Rangers administration went miles off track soon after it started. Whyte, as we predicted back in October last year, hoped to present creditors and Scottish football with a fait accompli. Duff and Phelps were to complete the task within days for a fixed fee of a fraction of what they eventually raised.
Instead Duff and Phelps fee increased by a factor of six, Whyte lost control of events and inherited a great deal of litigation, not to mention a police inquiry. Duff and Phelps must now prepare to tell the truth to Lord Hodge next week. There are millions of pounds at play here and anything short of the truth could land them in heaps of trouble.
Credit to Mark Daly and Reporting Scotland for landing the recording. The BBC are taking a pounding this month but this was a stunning item for an evening news bulletin to present.
Craig Whyte, you will remember, threatened to sue Daly last year and managed to convince the hard of thinking that Daly, and the BBC, were victimising Rangers by dishing the dirt on Whyte. Some still adhere to this belief, despite now realising their Messiah was just a naughty boy, it’s a cognitive dissonance thing. Another lesson that football fans are fools for bombast.
After all the talk then they wired him
And he took a walk with his crooked friends
And they joked about the good old days
And he recorded it on a reel of tape
He caught the mug who did in the forgery
And the babe in charge of larceny
We have to wonder what liquidators BDO will make of Duff and Phelps actions when they take over next week. Ha-cha-cha-cha.
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THE BOY JINKY 0653
Think I dodged a bullet there-I got back into work at 630,but had a chat with a colleague before attempting to log on. Otherwise I might have been the one to break the blog.
Cheers,pal!
The modern Stewartfield estate on the northern periphery of East Kilbride was named after the town’s most well known resident, retired milkman Stewart Field.
ernie lynch
08:47 on 26 October, 2012
If parties A, B & C put their heads together to concoct a scenario they know to be untrue, and then present that scenario to the public, with a view to parties A & B gaining a pecuniary advantage, is that a crime known to the law of Scotland?
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I suspect it may have been known to the law of Scotland even before it happened,Ernie.
And nowadays,these things have a strange habit of becoming known……
TBB
Fascinating.
East Kilbride is twinned with Ballerup in Denmark, a former European City of Dullture.
Many happy returns minx1888
Fascinating unfolding of events.
Rotten to the core.
Are you watching SFA or are you implicated beyond the stage of action now?
Scottish football brought to the precipice by one rotten club.
The SFA stands back in light of the continued blood spilling and web of deceit and allows THE Rangerss to operate without financial scrutiny.
SShocking.
Zbyszek
08:54 on 26 October, 2012
Minx1888
Happy Birthday, good lady.
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Zbyszek,
Thanks for the info;I can’t believe she’s 21,and never let on when she joined us for a bevvy-session less than three weeks ago. All the excitement of her forthcoming birthday must have made her forgetful.
Minx88 added some much-needed glamour to the occasion,and a healthy addition to the general levity. Great company on a great night!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again,Minx.
The Battered Bunnet
Are you the Provost of E.K.?
Ballerup….take the ‘S’ train
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2013/matches/round=2000347/match=2009533/index.html
I see UEFA have corrected the stats for the game!
Dontbrattbakkinanger @8.29
What’s wrang wi’ the ‘scrofolous’ this mornin’?
Happy birthday minx, hope you have a great day. Then again everyday being a Tim is a great day.
HH
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/piercing-wall-silence-surrounding-rangers-fans/2891
The latest from Alex Thomson.
Well,that’s me mentioned nearly everyone who was there that night.
The question for the three remaining parties is,will the hush-money (or,in one case,threats) work?
Have I simply forgotten who was there?
Will their alibis for that evening hold up,if required?
Oh wait-that’s a lot of questions. I’m away to check my tape-recordings to ensure I have the names right……
Morning all!
Bloody cold here in South Ayrshire!
Heading back to Italia tomorrow for some better weather!
HH!!
And surely everyone knows the story of EK Thistles famous junior cup win at the now home of Sevco in the early 80’s?
The fans had a marvellously lyrical song specially written for the occassion – it went “EK OK, EK OK” , genius.
Rumours it was penned by EK music legend Roddy Frame are unproven.
The song went to number 1 in the olympia rollerskating, though many struggled to get to grips with the words.
http://oscarknox.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/feeling-lost-and-little-defeated.html?m=1
FRIDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2012
Feeling lost, and a little defeated…
We’ve been in Philadelphia almost 3 weeks now, and what a crazy 3 weeks that’s been. Experiencing extreme emotions like we have done in that time really takes its toll on you.
Oscar is continuing to improve, we were moved out of ICU on Wednesday night down to the Cardiac Care Unit. It almost feels like one foot out the door of this hospital! The plans for a medical transfer (air ambulance) back to Belfast are being put in place, and we hope that with Oscar’s slow, steady improvement, the final “yes” from doctors here is not too far away. However, as much as we are looking forward to getting home, and especially longing to see little Izzie, the “goodbye” to CHOP and Philadelphia is definitely a painful one. The realisation that the door is closing on the hopes and dreams we came here to fulfill, that is hard.
We were probably naive, we truly believed we could “fix” Oscar here, and give him the “normal” life he so truly deserves. We were told before we came that immunotherapy mightn’t be a reality for Oscar – we never really believed that. This is the place that would make him better, take his pain away. Take our pain away.
It goes without saying, the elation we felt when Oscar recovered from being critically ill, that really can’t be put into words. But now new emotions are surfacing. We feel out of control – we felt in control when we worked hard to raise that money and buy him his life back, we could do that. We feel lost – we don’t know where this is going, more than ever we don’t know what the future holds. And we feel defeated – we were cheated of our chance to make Oscar better, once and for all. These statements may not be factually true, but they are absolutely what we feel.
Please don’t think I’m digging (once again!) for complements, messages of support, inspiring statements. I’m definitely not. And I doubt they would work right now anyway. But this blog is a TRUE diary of Oscar’s journey, and I feel compelled to make a record of our (almost) despair at this time.
The other thing I must note is our never-ending quest to figure out what Oscar needs, and make it happen for him. That has not changed. Fundraising will continue, full steam ahead, to try to ensure money is not the issue which denies him a shot at life. We are back to the drawing board, and very much looking forward to fully assessing our new position with Oscar’s fantastic and very supportive consultant back home. We need some time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, and prepare for the next step. Whatever it may be. As always, in the rare times that we feel deflated, we look to Oscar for courage to keep fighting. He gives it to us in abundance! I looked at our “TeamOscar” mailbox yesterday, and couldn’t believe the fundraising efforts of many of you are still flooding in. That inspires our fight more than any words of support ever could.
Final word to Miss Izzie this time – don’t ever think you were left behind in all of this craziness, you weren’t, you aren’t. We miss you so much, and can’t wait to kiss your little face and feel your big hugs again! Oscar tells us he misses you EVERY DAY, and that he is sad that you are not here, sometimes crying. I’ve said before that nights where the 4 of us are under the same roof are the happiest times, can’t wait to have them again Xx
The Battered Bunnet
We might have the Whirlies free in EK now, but there are MAJOR probs on the south side now with a major distributor shut off for two weeks for resurfacing, effecvtively reducing Hairmyers hospital to one access route. Hope no-one has an emergency and is going there by private car.
Happy birthday Minxy. Have a great day.
MWD
Another German player once described Bernd Schuster as having the intelligence of an East Frisian teabag.
According to the ole Dulux chart ..and their fifty shades of grey.is EK “nutmeg cluster” or “soft cinnebar”?
MWD 0924
According to my take on that,immunotherapy is permanently out of the question for Oscar.
If that is correct,then we must hope the neuroblastoma has gone for good.
His parents are now in a truly dreadful position. I really thought that the immunotherapy could take place once he had recovered from his latest setback.
There is no way I can put my thoughts into words at the moment,they would be way insufficient.
Chaps……would any of you think less of me if I told you I was intending treating the Barca fans the same way their residents treated me.
I intend to drape my Celtic scarf around their neck and tell them we’re all friends together, then, when I remove the scarf I’ll dip their shirt pocket and remove their phone. But, I’ll do it in a fashion that they won’t realise I’d taken it….not like their pickpockets. I felt the phone being removed and a quick high volume verbal warning done in the best Glasgow vernacular was enough for my new Barca friend to hand me the phone back…..cheeky monkey that he was. Yes…..I think I will. I know of at least two others who had their phone/ticket/wallets removed.
Kilmarnock : Their Paradise League Hoodoo
Celtic last lost at home to Kilmarnock in the league on December 10th,1955. This must surely be the most enduring hoodoo in the history of Scotland’s top flight. Kilmarnock’s failure to record a solitary win in well over half a century (and over a half a century of fixtures) is made all the more remarkable in that the timescale spans two of Celtic’s worst periods, the late 50s to mid-60s and the 1990s. Even when Kilmarnock pipped Hearts to the title on goal average in 1965 Celtic still won the home fixture 2-0 ( a week before knocking the Ayrshire side out the Scottish Cup).
1956-57 D 1-1
1957-58 W 4-0
1958-59 W 2-0
1959-60 W 2-0
1960-61 W 3-2
1961-62 D 2-2
1962-63 D 1-1
1963-64 W 2-0
1964-65 W 2-0
1965-66 W 2-1
1966-67 W 2-0 (this was Celtic’s final fixture before Lisbon)
1967-68 W 3-0
1968-69 D 1-1
1969-70 W 3-1
1970-71 W 3-0
1971-72 W 5-1
1972-73 W 6-2 (fixture played at Hampden Park, Kilmarnock relegated at season end)
1974-75 W 5-0 (Kilmarnock failed to make inaugural Premier Division and would make intermittent appearances thereafter in top division )
1976-77 W 2-1 W 1-0
1979-80 W 5-0 W 2-0
1980-81 W 4-1 D 1-1
1982-83 W 2-1 W 4-0
1993-94 d 0-0 W 1-0
1994-95 D 1-1 W 2-1 (both matches played at Hampden)
1995-96 W 4-2 D 1-1
1996-97 W 6-0 d 0-0
1997-98 W 4-0 d 0-0
1998-99 D 1-1 W 1-0
1999-00 W 5-1 W 4-2
2000-01 W 2-1 W 6-0
2001-02 W 1-0
2002-03 W 5-0 W 2-0
2003-04 W 5-1
2004-05 W 2-1
2005-06 W 4-2 W 2-0
2006-07 W 4-1 W 2-0
2007-08 d 0-0 W 1-0
2008-09 W 3-0
2009-10 W 3-0 W 3-1
2010-11 D 1-1
2011-12 W 2-1
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79caps
reminds me of a joke – might be lost a bit in translation
Why are Frisians heads flat at the back -because the toilet lid keeps falling on their head when they are having a drink
i’ll get ma coat
Success eluded East Kilbride band The Grey Calder until a punter at a pub gig in Rutherglen suggested they change their name to The Blue Nile. The rest is pop history.
Happy Hoopy Birthday to Minx 1888, CQN’s most effective auctioneer.
Doc
Thanks for the link. At least there is, and remains, one mainstream journalist who is prepared to say what needs to be said…
Ad Multos Annos Minx xxx
I have watched Alex Thomsons interview with Gary Allan QC.
Super Ally is in an untenable position now, sad to say this but if he is a man of integrity he must resign.
Having said that he isn’t and won’t, he will continue in his position, on a sporting level that is great, because he is one of the worst managers I have witnessed.
On any other level it is anything but good, his cowardly actions, asking those sitting in judgement on his club, put people at risk from retribution from Ra Peepul.
He should resign and apologise profusely to Gary Allan and the other members of the tribunal.
Happy birthday Minx1888, have a good one.
If you ever have any doubt of the levels of arrogance, bigotry, delusion on the other side, have a look at what a ‘senior’ FF poster has put up on their board.
davyloyal
We don’t do walking away Join Date: 18-06-2007
Posts: 9,866
Re: whyte – only been confronted once in monaco
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All this talk of being able to go back to Ibrox. Why? You have no love of Rangers. You saw a chance to make money, pure and simple.
And by the way, your shoes are a disgrace to any Protestant.
MWD heartbreaking read mate. When you realise what this wee hero has gone through in his few short years on this earth, it fills you with so many different emotions. Anger that one wee guy can have so much wrong in his wee body, Astonishment that the wee man can even smile and what a smile he has. Pride that you know that he will keep fighting this curse.
Love cause I know and you know that this wee man has all the love of his family and the Celtic family worldwide.
17th November race night for our wee champion should be packed to the rafters.
God Bless and take care of Wee Oscar and his family.
Oscar Knox a real Celtic Warrior Y.N.W.A.
HH
The Pantaloon Duck, McCoist needs to go, putting people in dangers way when there is no consequence to yourself is cowardly and craven.
But that would take a man of integrity, to realise he had made a mistake and be big enough to admit it, apologise and leave, McCoist is not that man.
And yes, it is good to have Alex Thomson, and to be fair Mark Daly on the case, as well as Phil, Paul and RTC of course.
Morning all. Fairly cloudy here in North Ayrshire.
Just read Alex Thompson’s blog. Has the Q.C not grounds for taking McCoist to court for incitement? McCoist, the lowest of the low.
MWD
When you read those words, and look at the photo you posted earlier, it confirms the need to keep on keeping on.
I will try to make the race night, but is there any way to participate remotely?
The SFA’s punishment of McCoist now looks disgraceful.
Gene @ 09.36
Yes, the Germans tend to stereotype the poor old East Frisians.