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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Richie
You can buy Horses & Jockeys.
I have 8 of each to sell for £5 each. You get to name them and win a prize if your horse comes in.
I’ll speak to the ghuys to see if there is any other way to participate remotely.
MWD
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/piercing-wall-silence-surrounding-rangers-fans/2891#comment-36677
Guys
With regards immunotherapy treatment, although it is not now an option in Phillie, Stephen and Leona are investigating new options in Germany were another type of immunotherapy may be available. This is the reason why we need to keep up our fundraising as a fair wack of the pot was soaked up to care dor the wee fella in ICU and now Cardiac care in Phillie.
WE OSCAR 4 LIFE DON’T DO WALKING AWAY
MWD
Gary Allan QC interview on AT’s blog. Dynamite.
He basically says McMoist is a liar or an idiot.
Or both.
In a professional career that dates back to 2007, former Oldconian John Fleck – AKA ‘Scotland’s Messi’ – has scored a total of 3 (three) goals.
Will any of the laptop loyal ask Fat Sally for an explanation?
GA: “I was astonished when I saw a recording of Mr McCoist demanding that the names be disclosed and declaring he did not know who they were, and felt he ought to know and Rangers fans ought to know.”
AT: “Astonished because he was lying?”
GA: “I don’t know whether Mr McCoist was lying. That is, of course, a possibility, but I’m happy to consider other possibilities, that he was simply completely misinformed.”
“I’m also prepared to consider that he overlooked the opportunity to ask his director of football administration, who was at the tribunal. Because that gentleman sat across the table from me for five days; engaged in discussions with me for five days; introduced himself to me with a hand shake for five days. As did his solicitor. And as did the representative for Duff & Phelps (the Rangers administrators), who was in attendance each and every day for every session.
“Now, it may just be that Mr McCoist didn’t think about his first port of call to find out who the tribunal members were – he just didn’t think he could ask his director of football administration, or the club’s solicitor, or the representative of Duff & Phelps. Maybe he just doesn’t know how to go about doing these things.
“But I think there is room to think that Mr McCoist’s behaviour wasn’t through oversight, that there was an agenda he worked to. But if there were to be any suggestion that Rangers did not know who was sitting in judgement of them – that would be a completely misleading and groundless suggestion.”
His views are put more succinctly by the chairman of Raith Rovers, who suffered a variety of threats from Rangers “fans” this year, up to and including the alleged payment of two men to burn down the club stadium.
“Rangers actually knew who was on that panel, and Ally McCoist demanding to know who these people were actually inflamed a situation that didn’t need inflaming.”
The issue with Ally McCoist has now been dealt with by the Scottish Football Association, and Mr Allan merely wished to put his side of the story on the record.
Channel 4 News sought an interview with Rangers and Mr McCoist over the issue of threats. The club declined that invitation but issued a brief statement saying:
“..Rangers Football Club, like every other responsible club, does not condone any form of anti-social behaviour.”
McCoist MUST be banned from every level and corridor of football for at least 10 years if not for life.
Has Gary Allan QC been TERRORISED with credible THREATS AGAINST HIS LIFE?
YES.
Where is UEFA???????????????
Apologies for inadvertent omission of ‘scrofulous’ from previous post re cashstrapped scrofulous billies of the ole hill.
Top of the morning to you all from a sunny Fife.
Where to start with the latest developments:
Craigy boy playing a binder but he needs to get a better mini tape recorder.
Alex Thomson’s blog and the QC interview must prompt the First Minister or Justice Minister to make a statement and have the COPFS step in to have McCoist interviewed.
Don’t expect McCoist to do the decent thing. He is a complete fraud.
alex thomson @alextomo
#c4news 32 journalists threatened in Scotland since December, during Rangers meltdown
DBBIA
Fine save
Tryng to catch up after not being on all day yesterday.
The latest Craig Whyte revelations seem to mean that everyone lied to everyone else. That about right??
Theres a place just outside Auldhouse
It’s a place thats known to few
where the Motorola workforce
are signing on the bru
And they are forced to drink in Hundsons
The Murray and the ‘tache
but the bhoys who love the Celtic
give the Yoeman all their cash
Yesssssssssssssss
1000th post……….
AboredBigJoe
The ‘hard of thinking’ are barking on Alex Thomson’s twitter account – very funny.
Disgusted by the stereotyping of EK this morning……..:-)
stewartfieldcsc
Cooler today in the costa………….
And it’s to chill down all week
BigjoedoonatthePort
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
Pretty much, Amazing the corruption and deceit that surrounded rangers and the subsequent zombie.
The huns never apologise dontchano?
I think unfortunately big Victor has shown his intentions very clearly by turning down his new contract offer he doesnt want to stay at Parkhead but wants a move to the SPL.If it were me I would take the best price that is offerred for him in the January transfer window there is no point in keeping a player who doesnt want to be part of your future.We are fortunate that Kayal can replace him or big Efe we should ask for overs over 10 million and test the so called interest of the big clubs.H.H.
O.G-Im sure some of the threats on journalists came from fellow journalists.
Joe Filippis Haircut 10:19 on 26 October, 2012
Victor has made a lot of comments and not said he wanted to leave once.
His agent on the other hand …
The Rumble In The Jungle : Zippy Takes A Dive
Today is Oor Chris’s 45th birthday. He is quite a calm individual now that he is comfortably ensconced in middle age and his trips to Celtic Park are becoming increasingly rare since handing on the ever-burning torch to his progeny. However he has had his moments….
I recall one afternoon in particular in the mid-80s when we were playing Aberdeen at home and I was standing alongside the mutton munchers in the Sevco End with my dad and then-girlfriend. From our vantage point we could see what appeared to be sporadic disturbance in the north enclosure. During the second half a large hole appeared in the middle of the Jungle where obviously a couple of ghuys were doing their best Ali-Foreman impressions. The polis were quickly on the scene and order restored as the silver medallist was stretchered out The Jungle and ferried by the St Andrew’s ambulance guys around the ash track behind the goal at the Sevco End.
And there he was …. Oor Chris….. oan the stretcher… like something out a Wilfred Owen poem…. “with beauty, with majesty…we saw him !!”
It’s fairly unusual to see one of your siblings being stretchered around Celtic Park and something struck me about this tableau as being not quite right. He looked too wounded; like a Pieta without a grief-stricken maw. In any event his da was going to kill him anyway for bringing untold shame on the holy family.
To no-one’s surprise Chris was the first person we met on returning to the Irvine’s double-decker – Resurrexit Sicut Dixit indeed….his wounds ill-dressed and all around a pool of Buckfast. He seemed neither up nor doon. It had all been a cunning ruse. He had taken a dive in The Jungle and feigned serious injury nae concussion in order to avoid being arrested by Strathclyde’s finest. Don’t see the holes in his hauns, don’t see the gap in his side, dae see a hole in the north enclosure, dae see the gap in The Jungle. He truly lived to fight another day.
Happy Birthday, Chris – we will never be defeated while Irene has her sons !
Dontbrattbakkinanger
10:10 on
26 October, 2012
That scrofulous hillbillies quote never fails to make me smile,even though i have read it so many times before.
Another quote that used to crack me up was the God bless her majesty…s revenue & customs.
LittleAmusesTheInnocentCSC
Steinreignedsupreme
10:22 on
26 October, 2012
Joe Filippis Haircut 10:19 on 26 October, 2012
Victor has made a lot of comments and not said he wanted to leave once.
His agent on the other hand …
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what he said!
steinreignedsupreme- One of the joys of twitter is watching Tomo effortlessly swat away the flies on his account. Popcorn in the micro.
Doc
The words “McCoist” and “man of integrity” do not sit well together in the same sentence…
On the other hand…
The words “scrofulous” and “hillbillies” do sit well together in the same sentence…
Wonder if Keys and Gray on Talksport will pick up on the McCoist story.
Wonder if I will win the euro millions (odds 23,000,000-1)
There is more chance of the second happening i think.
Alex Thomo. Legend. How sad NO Scottish journalist has his consistent and persistent integrity , skill or courage.. on this matter..
Then again – given the threats, you can see why!
HH
Many happy returns to Minx and Chris.
May your day be rich in cash and free of scrofularity.
That interview is ghastly. The level of mental torture that family must have gone through for the father doing an honest job is horrendous.
McCoist – a coward and a liar?
I’m shocked … not.
The hero of the zombies…
A cowardly whisperer, who stirs up hatred and then does not have the courage to apologise or the intelligence to even realise he has done something wrong.
GREATEST SEVCO MANAGER EVER!!
Back home ——
Barca ?
Better than I’d feared but no cigar .
Sat next to an Espanyol supporter who’d drawn the short straw at work and was doing his bit by entertaining two visiting suits from Dallas . Espanyol man went ballistic when Celtic scored.
Barcelona —–an expensive city .
Had a fab curry in the ever so imaginatively named —— Veg World India —— vegan but really really good and by the standards of Barcelona an absolute bargain..
I badly miss curry ———really looking forward to my next one —– in Lisbona – near the Gulbenkian Museum ..[ a real good one !]
That festering Hun corpse sure attracted some blue bottles. The consequent maggots are now wriggling . .
Dead Huns —— stinking to the max .
2525:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7Ks3CKVAk
Gordon_J
‘McCoist – a coward and a liar’
When speaking of him, your above quote should follow every mention of his surname
To put that man’s family through by dint of what he said, he should be utterly ashamed of himself
A despicable individual
!!Bada Bing!! 10:21
Interestingly many of those threatened had no direct link to the Rangers story at all.