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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Dena 29
All I can offer is a remote translation service, if it helps.
You are welcome to ask Paul for my email address and I will give you a mobile number. Your sister is welcome to send me as many text messages as she needs or wants and I will translate and send a message back immediately.
DeniaBhoy
11:22 on 25 October, 2012
I remember it well I was a little older at 19 never saw Kid Creolle.
No Ayrshire coast for me either I was too busy surfing at the Lanarkshire riviera,surf was high on Wishy beach.
It was amazing how the temp would rise 10-15 degrees as you made you way up to Wishy from Motherwell.
;-)
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning!
13:24 on 25 October, 2012
macjay……….
….why don’t you give yourself up then?
Statute of limitations.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon 13:20 on 25 October, 2012
Most of us act like daft wee laddies when we are young – but unfortunately when this stuff goes unchecked, certain individuals mistake that as a signal for more sinister behaviour.
Celtic_First-A fine offer sir.
anybody know anyone still in barcelona
worried about sister
she stayed on bench outside holding cells last night ,where she was staying has no availability for tonight and if nephew isnt released b4 12.00 noon tomorrow she will also need somewhere to stay tomorrow because flight is 3.30pm next one saturday
nightmare
Henrik1
A very interesting blog and well worth the read
That’s the thing about zombies – they just can tell fact from fiction- FACT!
Celtic_first thanks for that I’ll get back if she needs to avail of that thanks
macjay
The difference is that the songs this guy were singing weren’t only ‘offensive’ they were also sectarian in nature.
Geordie Munro
A Kirkcaldy man?
A67
HT,
You got CQN up on the smartboard? :))
ASonOfDan
13:32 on 25 October, 2012
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
“I don’t get the feeling there is a true level of contrition.”
I think he has shown up in court acting the toughie and p1ssed the Sheriff off.
Political correctness gone mad.
Sentence determined by Sheriff being pissed off.
Stuff the law.
Am I having a bad day?
If he were a Tim,I`d be outraged.
He`s a hun.
Still outraged.
Without fear or FAVOUR.
estorilbhoy
I really did laugh out loud there.
Primarily because that very thing has happened on a number of occasions!!! ;-)
Great stuff, Paul.
Popular music lyrics to illustrate the scenario – got me thinking over lunch;
We need the movie version.
Of course, a ‘quintissentially British’ low-budget production and the soundtrack for Our Hero Whytie’s return to the fray, well, surely none other than Johnny Cash, ‘The Man Comes Around’?
MWD
Don’t think the original Whelk/mussel shop is there anymore ?
Dundee Utd facing armageddon…
“Our supporters have responded to the recent challenges in magnificent fashion, culminating in a significant increase in season ticket sales.”
Bank debt was down from £5.4m to £3.93m and United say that a further £225,000 reduction was made in July.
And the club added: “Since the end of the financial year, the club has made progress in significantly reducing its overall wage costs and this will be reflected in the next financial statements.
“A further sign of improvement concerned the audit report which last year included an emphasis of matter paragraph concerning the going concern status of the club.
“No such paragraph has been required this year, which highlights the continued efforts of the Board to reduce the club’s debt and improve the working capital management of the club.”
celtic_first thanks again she is on route back into barca from airport where the police told her to go even though they cant tell her when he will be released, and airport cant do anything flights are lost and from her phone calls so is she.
I am very worried for her, alone again tonight dont even know the area for the holding cells and if she is safe
@Finbar67: “@gerrymcculloch1: Dundee utd post annual results to June 2012. Net profit £1.45m” < Were we not told this club would die without rfc? LIARS
hamiltontim
14:00 on
25 October, 2012
estorilbhoy
I really did laugh out loud there.
Primarily because that very thing has happened on a number of occasions!!! ;-)
—
You could put it up and ask CQN’rs to post questions for the kids, would be a unique learning opportunity:))
Ps no guarantee what mental state the kids would be in at the end of the day though!!!
So it’s perfectly OK to sing ‘eff the Pope’ and refer to Celtic supporters as ‘fenians’??
Deary, deary me…..
Sorry,boys.
Can`t agree.
Three months in the slammer?
Butterfly on the rack.Circa `67.
Hamilton.
We`ve had our disagreements.
Nice to talk to you harmoniously.
Anyone else can’t get ‘stool pigeon’ tune out their head? Thanks Paul.
estorilbhoy
Despite the advances in interactive learning and the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland, I don’t see my own HT agreeing to such a forward thinking approach just yet ;-)
I’ll suggest it our next meeting though…..
Paul67
Would not have figured you for a kid creole fan…. (although just about all of the lads back then was quite taken with the coconuts)…. nuff said.
macjay
You’re a Celtic supporter so there’s a huge part of you that’s OK in my eyes mate ;-)
Hamiltontim
14:07 on 25 October, 2012
You call me a fenian,I`ll take it as a compliment.
Sure he should have been arrested.B.O.T.P.
My only problem is the sentence.
I’m not sure what ‘Political correctness gone mad’ means.
I always thought it was a stock phrase for people like Dick Littlejohn when they couldn’t come up with a convincing argument.
zombie in work just said we had created our own record for the least possesssion in a CL match. First time he has talked football in 7 months.
I told him there were about 1200 passes in the match and Celtic accounted for over 300 of them. How can we have 25% of the passes but only 10% possession?
I also told him about the 5000 missing fans at ibrokes.
He is not talking anymore…
Hamiltontim
14:15 on 25 October, 2012
Family disputes can be painful.
Your open heartedness is the essence of our Tim culture.
My hat doffed to you.
macjay
Three months for singing ‘eff the Pope’ and ‘fenian b’s’ does seem a bit disproportionate.
Anyone got the keys for the tower? ;-)
I thought comming fae Carluke was punishment enough.
any new lurkers on who havent seen my earlier posts?
does anyone have any contacts in barca. sister stuck , alone and clueless as to what to do next. may sound a bit drastic but am panicking a little
please help
dena29 – my thoughts are with your sister and nephew. Terrible situation. I’m sorry I can’t further but to empathise!
ASonOfDan 14:19 on 25 October, 2012
You should have told him Celtic had a 100% strike-rate with shots on target.
Regards the wee Hun getitng 3 months for his antics:
We’ve all seen or been on the end of that venom; that eye-popping fury driven by illogical hate, ignorance and a ‘guid staunch Protestant upbringing’.
That sort of behaviour has been their ‘battle-cry’ for generations. Even in the rural surroundings of Inverness it’s their first resort in triumph or defeat, and not a hooped Tim in sight.
It is endemic, a disease of their low-caste filthy little minds; their kids grow up with it, as this 19-year-old has done, seeing it as the natural progression, to become the hate-filled, hate-fuelled adult Hun.
Neil Lennon and his family suffered hellish times of anxiety directly becaue of Scottish society’s tolerance of such Hunnic behaviour. Such a mindset deems a man ‘deserving’ of fatality due to his perceived religion, no matter that he’s in no way a practicing member of the faith.
Such behaviour is exhibited by regimes like Afghanistan’s Taliban; complete intolerance, oppression, blind ignorance, mob rule.
That wee Hun got what was coming to him. Got what the rest of them will now fear.
Time for them to evolve. Time for them to overcome their inbred limbic hatred, their numbing xenophobia. Time for them to try and be human football supporters.
Meantime, build a jail especially for them. Call it ‘Shawank Penistentiary’…
ASonOfDan
14:19 on 25 October, 2012
The BBC website is reporting Celtic possession on Tuesday as 28%…I don’t see where they get the 10% figure from…
Mike in Toronto – I hope you are well my friend? Did you make it home with your brother or is that still to come?
I’m heading out of the office soon to take advantage of todays weather on the links:)
i hope to see you soon.
slainte
tony
Sounds like yet another “record” they’ve just made up…