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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Gallowgate
Not semantics. I was simply making the point that no country is run by the ” ordinary ” people;
greenmaestro
Likewise. The ” British” as a population only felt the way they were told to feel.
Winning Captains: You Ol` rascal you!
JJ
sipsini
There’s not many left
bournesouprecipe
13:09 on 10 October, 2013
Tried that number and got through to Sevco Accountants.
WC
meant to add…….” and now I will have to buy it to see if you were joking 0:-)
HH
A dubious record becoming a pre requisite down Sevco way..
The SMSM sensationalise dodgy dealings and batter it in equal doses, but down Sevco way they are blind to it..
Don’t buy the SMSM..
HH
Celticlover
Asked a few times but whatever became of “one star means more” the best blog name ever IMHO:))
bournesouprecipe
Darn it! I tried that number but thought the 5 at the end was an 8.
Under what criteria will a Sherriff make a judgement on the ROH?
http://www.celtictrust.net/?func=d_home_article&id=435
bournesouprecipe:
sic transit gloria CQN
bournesouprecipe
They’re still here, just shadows of their former selves.
googy
Pinsent Masons?
Winning Captains
If it’s no too late. Stick ma monicker doon please
Moniker?
kit
Memento mori
Jungle J
Close call.
I’m in the Apple Store testing CQN
*note to wife*
greenmaestro
12:59 on
10 October, 2013
Did the local minister ever take assembly etc? Ours did and yet the local priest did not(as far as I recall) – both Balfron Primary and Secondary. In that case it wasn’t non-denom.
I’m behind a movement towards state funded non-denominational schools but it has to be completely across the board. Religious instruction (as opposed to education) should be done in your church, not your school.
Bournesoup
Bet she buys you an orange now! :-)
MWD
bournesouprecipe:
I know.
bertie vogts tried to get w rooney to play for scotland
because he had a scots granny .
some jokes write themselves :-))
Guy with goatee beard, Salvador Dali moustache, cords and cord sneekers tried to sell me an iPad mini.
I get very frustrated reading all the comments that attempt to sully the name or intelligence of anybody that believes independence is the way forward for Scotland.
We are a resource rich, intelligent nation that just needs to believe in itself. We have the opportunity next year to do things differently. There will be far greater opportunities to influence change than if we remain with the current status quo.
I , for one, want to take that chance.
Moonbeams
Ha – Should have read
*note to boss*
johnston on king
“His agenda, experience and the care and attention he pays to the financial matters would serve Rangers well.”….. What the…..someone needs to ask the South African TAX authorities about THAT one…….incredible ….hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Are you watching, SFA ??……fit and proper person, my erchie……!!!!!!!!
NEILBHOY
neilbhoy
how so ?
ernie lynch 11:33
Please accept my apologies for the delayed response but I have been out to lunch.
Both Scotland and Ireland have historically been dominated & ruled by our much larger neighbour, England.
It is to Ireland’s great credit that the people rose up and overthrew the English ruling regime, to the extent of taking-up armed struggle when it was required.
The fact that it has taken the Scots much longer to reach the stage were we can overthrow London rule and re-take our independence is not something that should divide Scots and Irish. It should unite us.
Scots of Irish descent – like myself – should fully embrace the move to Scottish independence as it reflected in the journey taken by our Irish forefathers in pursuit of Irish independence.
It is illogical for anyone who supports the right of Ireland to exist as an independent nation and then deny the Scots the same right to Scotland.
Employee of indeterminate sexual orientation now following me in Apple store
Well I stayed out of politics yesterday but I cannot resist this one.
“A Yes vote is not a vote for the SNP” (though we seem to reserve the right to say that a vote for the status quo is a vote for Rangers/UKIP/Union Jackery/chinless wonders & anything pejorative we can associate with that flag).
Strictly speaking, the first premise is true. The Yes camp have supporters who are not members of the SNP, albeit a small proportion. The No campaign have some supporters, albeit a minority, who will support or advocate things from the above pejorative list, though they will use different, less pejorative terms. So far, so good, and so much fluff.
However, the idea that the SNP will disappear afterwards does not stand up to much scrutiny. Let me suspend my disbelief that there will be any strong Yes vote, and imagine the aftermath of a Yes vote. We are all agreed that there will be an immediate SNP government, charged with negotiating the break up of existing arrangements and the structuring of new independent structures. The first premier/president will be Alex Salmond. The Head of State will be The Queen or some other Royal. The first cabinet will be almost exclusively made up of current SNP members.
We are then asked to believe that this group will somehow cooperate in their own removal of power so that George Galloway or Tommy Sheridan may run the government and represent our “natural” socialist tendencies.
That bit I don’t buy. South Africa, after winning independence chose Nelson Mandela and the ANC still win elections. George Washington served for 8 years, but it was the more right-wing Federalist party rather than the slightly more left wing Democraic-Republican party that won power after he left office. The more modern example of Slovakia is a mixed message. The negotiator of the break up, Vladimir Meciar won power with his People’s Party, a populist national conservative party which was the Leading Party of Government for 10 of the first 18 years of Slovakia’s existence. They lost all seats in 2010 but they are still around.
There is no clear template that says the party that “wins” independence will wither and die. Even, if it did, there is no strong evidence that Scotland will vote for more left wing policies once it has to face the realities of self-rule and the powerlessness of the nation state in face of global forces (see Ireland and Iceland’s financial manipulations).
What is “natural” about Scotland’s socialism? In the first half of the 20th century we voted for lots of Tories- was that our natural state? For the past 50 years we have voted more for left wing policies but we still bought up privatised share issues, fell for the “bus wars” tricks, and bought into the right to buy scheme. I fear some people like to exaggerate our “natural left wing” tendencies in order to differentiate us from the English who, apparently, are naturally right wing, much like the Tartan Army gave up hooliganism because they looked too much like the English (and Celtic did to avoid looking like Rangers fans).
It can be called scaremongering but it is a reality that there will be lots of costs involved with a negotiated break up. There will be internal resistance from Orkney and Shetland to any assumption that they form part of the new proposed boundaries and, if Independence movements start up there, how could the newly won independents argue against their right to self determination.
Of course, for some nationalists, it is unimportant whether we will financially thrive or struggle post-independence, it is more about doing it for ourselves. That more romantic, less hard headed approach I have no quarrel with, but the over-optimistic view that Scotland, buffeted by global capitalism will be a vanguard of socialism and a worker’s paradise does not bear much scrutiny, in my opinion.
My last word on politics today. I will now move on to cheering Scotland at fitba tomorrow. I am one of those derided “90 minute patriots” (not my term). Margo McDonald hated the likes of me. I quite liked Margo. She sounded like a good laugh over a pint. Just so long as we steered clear of politics, of course.
P.S. One last political statement to Macjay in Oz. When you were writing Niemoller’s verse in the context of the USSR you omitted from the list of those persecuted by the communists, the very prominent and early oppression of socialists who favoured democratic policies. They always come first for the socialists.
neilbhoy
13:24 on 10 October, 2013
‘We are a resource rich, intelligent nation’
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The SFA and BBC Scotland, two areas of public life where Scots are doing it for themselves, don’t exactly fill me with confidence.
But you carry on with your whole Tomorrow Belongs To Me shtick.
*refrains from saying off oot – but ambles away for train*
Winning C – don’t forget me!
Neilbhoy…me too ;)
I don’t want a privately owned central bank creating my currency, I don’t want a Monarchy, I don’t want to be a member of the EU, I don’t want Warheads based in my country, but these are compromises I am prepared to make in order to gain an independent Scotland.
Hail Hail.
Interesting article about football chants in Italy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/09/italian-football-fans-abuse-milan-napoli
Very well put Vespacide
bournesouprecipe
13:23 on 10 October, 2013
Guy with goatee beard, Salvador Dali moustache, cords and cord sneekers tried to sell me an iPad mini.
>>>>>>>
Is that the bloke in the EE shop in argyle st?
new article posted.