Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has managed to register his image rights on the off-shore tax-efficient territory of Guernsey. Income received there for use of his rights everywhere else will not attract the kind of tax mere mortals pay in their daily lives.
Pellegrini, 60, developed a genial personality to combat profound ugliness, an affliction which has affected him for decades, so news that his image has commercial value is a wonderful boon for the multi-millionaire. Manchester City will also benefit as any monies they pay for use of their manager’s image will not attract tax or National Insurance contributions.
Uefa president, Michele Platini, who has never had to worry about ugliness, now has a different challenge. Whether or not to abandon his well-meaning Financial Fair Play aspirations, or get ugly on those who try to usurp his best intentions.
Sean Fallon biography available here:
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Thanks macjay and googybhoy.
My punters in the pub don’t seem convinced that Hay and McGrain played together loads of times in the hoops, but the ’73 Cup Final reference has won me a fiver.
SCF 1980….
Nae Bobby Murdoch??
Nae Jimmy Johnstone????
Nae Bobby Carroll?????
To name but a few.
weeminger
11:54 on 10 October, 2013
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Yer right sir.
I think that the game is going full-circle back to what it was before
the arrival of the ‘beast’ in 1986.
Morrissey the 23rd
11:56 on 10 October, 2013
‘Billy Bhoy 05 @ 11:16
The choice is UKIP right wing Tory English rule or self rule. Yip! I’m for breaking up the union.’
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That’s not the choice though is it?
I don’t think you’ve thought things through.
corkcelt,
Neither my name, RioSkorrie or OHITS are on the list.
Hope none of us are on your list of 2? :)
Understand people who have passed away or very I’ll getting a mention in the CQN book. But why is everyone getting there names added to a lust is a vanity thing. I’m lost why people do this.
Philbhoy – Bring it on!!!!
12:00 on 10 October, 2013
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Hi there – I only remember Jinky and Bobby sketchily from the 7/8/9 in a row years
I was only 8-10 years of age then :o)
List even.
lennon’s passion
Keep oot ae it you!
Oh I would bet the ranch Hay and McGrain , played a right load of games together?
SCF1980….
Apologies my friend!
I am as you may have guessed awee bit older than you!
I was carried to the ground in the early 50’s by my doting Dad, God bless him.
Look forward to BBC responding to the following complaint, under the bias heading.
During a heated discussion with Tom English with regards to the current financial crisis at Rangers, Chick Young clearly stated on the broadcast that everyone who was anyone knew that at the time of Craig Whyte’s Ill-fated acquisition of Rangers that he was a rascal who was having his Google information cleared up and tidied. This was done by a company called Media House by inference.
I am a regular listener to this programme and recall;
Many interviews by Young with Whyte where he “toadies” up to Whyte since this is what Young does to Rangers “people”.
The most serious complaint I have that I have NEVER , EVER heard Chick make this observation before. Even during the farcical, ridiculous and unprofessional spat he had with James Traynor one Saturday as they yelled at each other as to who was the bigger Rangers lapdog or poodle. ( that said that spat was, in some respects hilarious in its degree of farce.)
Please have a listen as Chick also advises us that Walter Smith is described as a knight of our realm by Chick who is now regularly displaying levels of professionalism and bias that are reaching ridiculous lows and completely embarrasses whoever is hosting the programme.
In short, Chick is wasting my licence fee money and giving the BBC a very bad name. His pro-rangers bias is astounding and embarrassing to listen to.
Has Scottish Leaf heard about the job yet??
I barely slept last night.
Just listened to Chic Young on BBC Sportsound trying to stop the true tide of history coming in on Walter Smith by repeating “the debt was coming down” line and it was Walter who said the banks were running Rangers.
Chico ignores that it was Walter and SDM who gave the banks cause to run Rangers with their foolish spending in 2007/08. The latter made worse by the arrival of the £24m tax bill for EBTs in 2008 for which some provision should have been made.
All the supporting figures for Tom English’s Scotsman column are posted earlier at
http://www.sfmonitor.org/2013/10/scottish-football-administration-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-12/#comment-68385
Rangers downfall started in 2007 when Smith was recalled by SDM to replace PLG and debt replaced EBTs as a method of funding Smith’s team and common sense was shown the door along with PLG.
Nothing appears to have changed.
Philbhoy – Bring it on!!!!
12:07 on 10 October, 2013
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There’s not much to better the grand ole memories that can never be removed.
Yer right, God bless doting Celtic Dads.
KTF
It’s been grand CQN
cath you all the next time.
Bless.
Arrangements for George Ryan’s Funeral:
Sunday 13/10/2013, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow, 18:30
Monday 14/10/2013, Requiem Mass, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, 10:00
Daldowie Crematorium, 11:45
City Chambers, Coffee and a chat, 13:00
Family have requested Flowers only from Family and close Friends, they suggest a donation to a specific charity very dear to the Ryans.
I will explain tonight about the charity and what we will do in supporting it.
If and when a new thread starts will somebody please repost this as I am on lunch and may not be on if new thread starts.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
catch even :o)
Let’s get the facts right here a vote for independence is not a vote for the snp. So some on here because of one badly thought piece of legislation would rather keep the union.
My god I despair, let’s keep shiny Dave, Gideon and the rest of the Oxbridge toffs in charge of us because they have a really empathy with the Scottish people.
Paul67 once wrote this about a good guy who used to come here…
If we should remember them all. Easy said, I know.
*real empathy.
Oops.
Auldheid
12:11 on
10 October, 2013
I love that he was nearly in tears at Tom English having the temerity to criticise Walter Smith.
the hooped crusader
You are of course correct that a vote for Independance does not mean a vote for the SNP , my problem is that if we do vote for Independance we are left with a bunch of idiots to choose from to run Scotland.
They will be a different bunch if idiots to the ones running the UK just now but still a bunch of idiots.
Lennon`s Passion @12.03
I can see why you would think that but from the point of view of sales of the CQN annual , it is a good idea. Also, those who wish their names to be included could just as easily be doing so to show that they want to be seen as a part of the CQN community.I am not sure, anyway, that any ” vanity” would be fed by having one`s name among hundreds at the bottom of a page 0:-)
I have not asked for my name to be included as I am already vain enough 0:-)
JJ
the hooped crusader,
The SNP’s primary purpose is to achieve independence, so voting Yes is a vote for the SNP.
A Yes vote is not a vote for the SNP to govern, any more than a No vote is a vote for the present UK government.
the hooped crusader
12:16 on
10 October, 2013
Let’s get the facts right here a vote for independence is not a vote for the snp.
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Couldn’t agree more.
I’m also sick of the no campaign’s constant sniping, and woe betide if you vote for indy. Smacks of the same propeganda used as the old british empire disintegrated. Where natives were not intelligent or mature enough to run their own affairs. I’ll be looking to buy a new edition of “The rise and fall of the british empire” in 2015 with a new chapter on the end of Union and what the future holds for England, Wales and NI.
The former manager deserves all the respect for what he achieved in the game, but in the on-going crisis at Ibrox, he is not blame-free. Rangers are still stuck in a financial time-warp. And many people have allowed it to happen.
he only achieved it by cheating !!!!!!!!! ffs
mihal:
McGrain and Hay played together on 40 (and maybe more) occasions for the Celtic first team.
lennon’s passion – it makes you proud to be a CQN’er – have added you right up the top behind BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS!
Morrissey the 23rd – that’s cheating! You are already on the list!
Have added –
tonydonnelly67
Dubaibhoy
Green Lantern (((((0)))))
Celtic_first
Mickybhoy
Kano
Ramie
Knoxy2000
3mick3
“Where natives were not intelligent or mature enough to run their own affairs.”
GreenMaestro
If by `natives` you mean the general populace, can you give me an example of any `natives` who have run their own affairs?
JJ
didn’t the tories virtually end the powers of the unions? ……so why are they so keen to keep this one?
the hooped crusader
12:16 on 10 October, 2013
‘Dave, Gideon and the rest of the Oxbridge toffs in charge of us because they have a really empathy with the Scottish people.’
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They have empathy with the rich, whatever their nationality.
The idea that they have empathy with a school cleaner in Liverpool or a nurse in Dagenham or a shop assistant in Birmingham is so ridiculous that it must be obvious even to the most boneheaded nat.
FourGreenFields supports Wee Oscar
12:22 on
10 October, 2013
the hooped crusader
You are of course correct that a vote for Independance does not mean a vote for the SNP , my problem is that if we do vote for Independance we are left with a bunch of idiots to choose from to run Scotland.
They will be a different bunch if idiots to the ones running the UK just now but still a bunch of idiots.
Hopefully a bunch of left wing idiots rather than right wing land of hope and glory idiots
Jungle Jim – added!
weeminger
12:21 on 10 October, 2013
Auldheid
12:11 on
10 October, 2013
I love that he was nearly in tears at Tom English having the temerity to criticise Walter Smith.
Chick has been Walter Smiths bitch since “that” interview some years ago when they got pumped. Chick is grateful, as any slavering dog is, for the scraps he’s thrown. Smith is the main scrap thrower. I’ll assume Tom English is off his Christmas card list now.
philbhoy – bring it on!!!!
12:05 on 10 October, 2013
lennon’s passion
Keep oot ae it you!
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Very sensitive today mate. I know you all like your lists seems pointless to me. But if that’s what makes you happy then go for it.
Jungle Jim
12:29 on
10 October, 2013
“Where natives were not intelligent or mature enough to run their own affairs.”
GreenMaestro
If by `natives` you mean the general populace, can you give me an example of any `natives` who have run their own affairs?
JJ
Semantics??????
gallowgate mad squad
12:30 on 10 October, 2013
Could not agree with you more……!!!!
There is no way this Country will ever gain independence, though…