Can you believe these Duff and Phelps people? They can’t afford to pay Rangers taxes, or other SPL clubs monies due, but today they tried to increase their payroll today by asking the SPL to register Daniel Cousin. Can you imagine what the out-of-pocket creditors feel about this?
These people are in place to make sure the company trades long enough to repay creditors. They can trade perfectly well with the three dozen or so players they have, what kind of justification could they possibly give to the court for playing Football Manager with other people’s money? No wonder HM Revenue and Customs fought their appointment.
What an absolute shower. It’s almost as though that place is some kind of lightning rod for a special type of competency. It’s not your money you’re spending, pay the club’s bills and stop looking for football bling, that’s what got the last lot into trouble in the first place!
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Aipple – What a treat!
I haven’t thought of that show since I was a kid in the 80’s.
Your video brought the memories flooding back.
How about this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc46Gk-6qrA&feature=related (thumbsup)
Ulster-Celt says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:06
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Christy Moore “The Peoples MP”
You’re not the peepil, you’re not the best, the bluebells are diminishing in colour and your knees appear to be sore from begging for forgiveness-PAY YOUR TAX!
Should THIS be the new Rangers anthem?
kitalba says:
17 February, 2012 at 23:53
Thanks for sharing.
What a Great comment from The Boss.
“‘The thing we would all miss (if Rangers die) are the games. World football would miss that because it is the ultimate derby game.
‘But the ironic thing is that last year we had the “shame game” and everyone was coming out and saying we don’t need the Old Firm. Now everyone’s saying we do need it. They can’t make up their minds.’ ”
A really clever cookie is our Neil. ;)
Interesting…!!!
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds” – Samuel Adams, 1775
It is easy to feel powerless in this world. “Why bother? What can I do?” Even as a student, I did not join protest marches. While most of my generation screamed: “Can’t pay! won’t pay!” about the hated poll tax, I could and I did. Raging against the machine seemed like Sisyphean futility and talk of changing the world was for poets and artists. To me, practical people just got on with it and made the best of events. Cynicism was a uniform I wore with pride. Against such a background, I make an unlikely campaigner and the last person anyone would pick to give voice to a silenced and disenfranchised community.
Yet my blog, rangerstaxcase.com, seems to have done exactly that. What started as an impulse one Sunday evening in March of last year has grown into something of a Scottish cultural phenomenon. Love it or loathe it, few would dispute that this blog has played a significant role revealing the facts and shaping the debate on a subject that has taken on such importance that the UK prime minister and Scottish first minister have belatedly jumped on the bandwagon.
This monster has grown to the point where it is now fielding daily traffic of over 100,000 views, while new arguments and ideas are fuelled by reader comments that are now coming in at a rate of about 1,500 per day. These are odd statistics for discussions characterised by accounting conventions and insolvency law. It is as if all of the cool kids in the playground suddenly want to read the swots’ algebra homework.
In a world of free information, where most blogs die alone and ignored shortly after birth, the very popularity of rangerstaxcase.com carries a message about modern Scotland. It is a story of the unmet need for the straight story, uncorrupted by the sinister Triangle of Trade that renders most of what passes as news in Scotland’s media outlets as worthless. It is the tale of why things went so wrong at Rangers and why the club’s many fans seemed paralysed by disbelief until it was too late.
If you have not spent much time in Caledonia what follows will seem a little surreal. It seems that way because it is. Scotland is a land where nothing matters like football matters – in particular within the west-central region. For over 120 years, Glasgow’s two biggest football teams have engaged in one of the world’s most bitter sporting feuds. With mindless tribalism masquerading as a religious divide, stabbings, live bombs sent through the post, and even murders have been woven into the tapestry of the recent history of Scottish football. Yet I still get challenged over my penchant for anonymity? Football in Scotland is not like football elsewhere – at least not in Europe. (Latin Americans might recognise the poison brought to the surface by the poultice of football, but few other places would understand).
Yet for all of its ugliness, I love it. A large part of my “two score and change” years on this planet has been devoted to supporting my team, Celtic. Actually watching the team would be a very small part of the time expended. The obsession with your team colours many other aspects of life for those unfortunates who find themselves pulled into the vortex that goes along with supporting either of the Glasgow giants.
Football clubs from places like Manchester and Liverpool can lay claim to much more success on the field, but these cities do not get close to Glasgow in terms of intensity of interest. It is this passion that serves as the growth medium for the bacillus that infects the news business in Scotland, which in turn serves as the carrier of the disease that threatens to kill Rangers.
Selling news of any kind in Glasgow has long been a simple business: sales are driven by stories about Rangers and Celtic. If you need a circulation boost to improve advertising rates, you need more and better stories about these football teams. Good news moves newsprint. Bad news sells, too, as fans wallow in the misery of their hated enemy. However, Scotland is not evenly divided between these clubs. Celtic and Rangers may attract similar attendances to home games, but the demographic reality is that there are a great many more people in Scotland who would claim to be Rangers supporters than Celtic. Religious census figures provide a decent proxy for the numbers that sustain both clubs: in 2001, less than 18% of the population of Scotland identified as being Roman Catholic. Celtic’s support base is far from exclusively Catholic, but it would be a little daft to ignore the reality of family religious origin in determining which football team a young boy or girl is most likely to follow in Scotland. Rangers’ demographic surplus has determined the general editorial tone of the nation’s news business for decades.
During the early 1990s when Celtic had their own brush with financial mortality, newspapers sent journalists across the globe to chase down scandal related to Celtic’s imminent demise. Such was the open glee in print, it is a wonder that the English language had to import the word Schadenfreude from German. The lowland Scots dialect would surely have had several words of its own to offer, but I doubt that the acronym GIRUY would have translated as readily across the globe. Celtic’s travails were good for the media business. There was no shortage of Rangers supporters willing to smirk at their impoverished foes while dreaming of European Cup triumphs to come. The arrival of Celtic’s saviour from Canada, the unfashionable Fergus McCann, ended the era of amateurism in the boardroom and also planted the seeds for the great divergence in the fortunes of the clubs. Few could have imagined how much could change in just two decades.
The story of Rangers’ insolvency is already becoming a fireside tale told mostly by those who were not there. Trampled down in the rush of journalists claiming that “of course, I knew all along, but I just could not say anything” are all of the derisive newspaper articles and radio call-in panellists dismissing the risks Rangers were facing. I am in no doubt: Scotland’s media, sports and business desks alike, are complicit in the disaster than has befallen Rangers. They killed their golden goose.
The Triangle of Trade to which I have referred is essentially an arrangement where Rangers FC and their owner provide each journalist who is “inside the tent” with a sufficient supply of transfer “exclusives” and player trivia to ensure that the hack does not have to work hard. Any Scottish journalist wishing to have a long career learns quickly not to bite the hands that feed. The rule that “demographics dictate editorial” applied regardless of original footballing sympathies.
The last vertex of this triangle is the reader – the average football fan. Fed a diet rich in sycophantic rubbish, he lost the ability to review critically what he was reading. Super-casino developments worth £700m complete with hover-pitches were still being touted to Rangers fans even after the first news of the tax case broke. Along with “Ronaldo To Sign For Rangers” nonsense, it is little wonder that the majority of the club’s fans were in a state of stupefaction in recent years. They were misled by those who ran their club. They were deceived by a media pack that had to know that the stories it peddled were false.
In the end, Rangers fans sat back for years and barely raised a word of complaint as their club was abused and misused. Many of these same fans who sat on their hands have had plenty to say about the motivations of my blog. Egged on by spokesmen for those doing Rangers the most harm, it is widely believed that HMRC are feeding me information to do damage to their club. Firstly, anyone reading the blog again would see that my sources of information probably lie outside of the government. Secondly, the blog has been the only dependable source of information about the sorry state of affairs within Ibrox. By revealing what has been happening at Ibrox, I have provided Rangers fans with an opportunity to do something about it. If I was really intent on harming their club, I would have said nothing at all. That this opportunity has been squandered is something for Rangers fans to contemplate. It is in helping expose this Bermuda-triangle-for-truth that I take most pride.
Rangerstaxcase.com has become a platform for some of the sharpest minds and most accomplished professionals to share information, debate, and form opinions based upon a rational interpretation of the facts rather than PR-firm fabrications. In all of the years when the mainstream media had a monopoly on opinion forming and agenda setting, the more sentient football fan had no outlet for his or her opinions. Blogs and other modern media, like Twitter, have democratised information distribution. Rangerstaxcase.com has gone far beyond its half-baked “I know a secret” origins to become a forum for citizen journalism. The power of the crowd‑sourced investigation initiated by anyone who is able to ignite the interest of others is a force that has the potential to move mountains in our society. All that is required is an issue about which others are passionate and feel unheard.
“Why bother? What can I do?” If it is something you care about, you can do anything you want.
From Paul McConville site:
http://scotslawthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/cw-corporate-structure.pdf
Oglach
Respect to your goodself and your understanding of our islands struggles
I look out for your posts
Keep her lit
UC
I’m sure Allo Black is most appropriate tonight.
What is the Stars says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:09
Anyone who can write this gets my respect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNkr86zZaP4
THE EXILED TIM says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:09
Thanks for that. He’ll have his time yet, Vigilance and indefatigability will be required in the weeks and months ahead as every stunt is pulled to deny justice. Auldheid is a stable morally-grounded beating heart around which the online Celtic community should centre.
HH
TLK
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Morning CQN.. Just Woke up.. And l had a Thought Re; Ticketus..
What’s to Stop The Huns from Stopping Buying Season Tickets and Paying at the Door so the Huns get the Money..
If this is My First Ever Thought that Might Work or Makes sense Tae Them.. Can a Moderator Please Delete it..
Summa
Do you think the pipes will play “the flowers of the forest” when that lot are gone?
Methinks not.
As Bob Marley said “Could you be loved?” Well the answer is no, clearly not them.
Three Little Birds, outside my doorstep, obviously refers to the bailiffs moving in and “No woman no cry (or i’ll bust ye)”. Refers to the usual match day experience for a Hun cun!
HH
AoW
Aipple, my new Celtic pal, for you
Occassionally, I cry watching this.
Enjoy
http://youtu.be/HWVkZuPOxb0
TJ
Ticket(us) to ride
Fred C. Dobbs says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:12
If Celtic faced what Rangers faced right now, we would actually face that music and dance to it and beat it. We work to achieve the things we achieve. We have rhythm to everything we do. The Green Brigade!!! enough said.
philvisreturns @ 00:15
Brilliant, my old man would be out working when that was on and it was a treat to watch with my mum.
Tell me you don’t love this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HLX2weZfkA
What is the stars:
Read wiki for bob Marley, he met well known Celtic and his father was catholic British man. Since then he had a leaning toward the CELTS.
Ulster-Celt says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:19
Mo Chara i’m an Ardoyne Exile and an UFB of the 1st order. Keep the Faith
Is é ár lá anois
CRC,
Thanks for staying up – but this is not ‘The End’! ;O) Pour yourself a glass and just reflect on the week that was!
Heard this today and thought, no bad in an XTC, Peter Gabriel styley!?
What do you think
SheikysTICks
Gotcha? ;o)
Celtic_First
You’ve missed nothing.
We’ve just been killing time waiting on you coming back!
:0)
SwanseaBhoy
Tom McLaughlin says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:08
Totally concur and look at how we help others unknown to us but our family, Kano, Reamon, Pablo, Vanessa etc-no other club does this!
Those words have gone back to haunt them deservedly so!!
HH
CRC
petec
I thought that line there got it right up them.
As subtle as hell, they are squirming away into the sewer where they belong, and I mean the jurnos, the southside mob are done for, and not a second too soon.
The change in their direction is scary, they know what is happening, they have known for long enough, and not a single one had the balls to say anything, hell mend the lot of them.
As RTC said they have killed the golden goose.
It is not them we will miss but the challenge on the field.
When they play well we raise the bar.
Can we honestly say without that challenge
we will raise the bar ?
jtsTICks says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:26
The end is for the huns!!
HH
CRC
CQN.
A School to Learn and really enjoy Learning.
Kit/JQB – especially after last year’s sickening events, I would prefer that the club leadership comes from the board and not Lenny.
He and his family have been through more than enough and he should be left to concentrate on football matters.
I realise Neil was probably responding to the usual loaded questions from the laptop loyal, but he should bodyswerve such stuff so that he’s not placed in the firing line….again.
T4
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Rangers administration: make mind up on Old Firm, says Neil Lennon
Published: 18 February 2012
A grim-faced Rangers supporter outside Ibrox. Picture: Getty
By ALAN PATTULLO
AS FAR as Neil Lennon is concerned, it is make your mind up time. Either Scottish football needs the Old Firm, or it doesn’t.
This time last year the club were portrayed as being an embarrassment to the country. MSPs were frothing at the mouth in condemnation of an Old Firm fixture that had become an excuse for domestic abuse and excessive drinking, not to mention the poor behaviour of the players and coaching staff, Lennon included.
Now the Celtic manager hears First Minister Alex Salmond claim that the most important thing, in the wake of Rangers calling in administrators, is that they are able to continue as a football club, since Celtic would not be able to prosper without their greatest rivals. Rangers, the First Minister added, are an “institution”, and he went on to stress how their survival, and that of the Old Firm brand, is crucial for Scottish football’s long-term prospects.
Lennon would certainly lament the end of an Old Firm rivalry which helped sustain him as a player. The fixture is one which Lennon wants to continue relishing as a manager, even if it did cause him a few problems last season as things came close to reaching overkill over the course of seven clashes, with one game in particular leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Holyrood and further afield.
“The game itself is one of the fixtures in world football,” Lennon said yesterday, when asked about the possibility of the Old Firm derby ceasing to exist. “If that eventually happens it would be a loss to Scotland and what’s good about the game up here.
“The ironic thing is that last year, when we had the ‘shame game’, everyone was coming out and saying we don’t need the Old Firm. Now everyone’s saying we do need it. They can’t make up their minds.”
Lennon also registered his surprise at hints from the government, both in terms of Scotland and the UK, suggesting that HMRC should perhaps cut a deal with Rangers. Prime Minister David Cameron, on a visit to Scotland on Thursday, appeared to propose the view that this might be possible, although it was one more explicitly expressed by Scotland’s First Minister.
“I think their [the Celtic fans’] view on it is that there wasn’t much help coming our way in 1994, so why should other clubs be treated differently?” said Lennon, with reference to Celtic’s brush with liquidation in the mid-90s, prior to Fergus McCann’s intervention.
Lennon could certainly not seek to claim he had no interest in events across the city, having made it quite clear that he had sat and watched the eagerly anticipated first press conference held by the administrators on Thursday.
The Celtic manager later tweeted about it, complaining that the answers which had been given were as “clear as mud”. He admitted that it had been a “wow” moment when, a day earlier, he had heard that his side would be getting a “gift” of ten points.
“There was a lot of talk about it for a long, long time but you never think that a club as big as that would go into administration,” he said. “There was shock and surprise and we know the consequence of it – we get a ten point bonus.” Celtic begin the task of protecting this lead against Hibernian at Easter Road tomorrow.
Lennon knows that Rangers’ business is Celtic’s business, particularly since the Ibrox club’s fall into administration means there is a different dynamic at the top of the Scottish Premier League.
While last weekend it was a two-horse race, now it has become a test of Celtic’s professionalism as they seek to do what has to be done to seal a title that most observers believe was handed to them on Tuesday, when that automatic ten point penalty was imposed on Rangers after the club confirmed that administrators had taken over the running of the club from Craig Whyte.
But what exercised Lennon yesterday was this commonly-held perception that both sides of the Old Firm’s fortunes are irrevocably linked to each other. Peter Lawwell, the club’s chief executive, had his say earlier this week, when responding to Salmond’s remarks. “Celtic have a well-defined strategy and a business plan independent of the fortunes of any other club,” he said, re-emphasising comments he had made on Monday following the publication of Celtic’s interim financial results, just hours before news that Rangers were preparing to appoint administrators first broke.
“We don’t want to be tagged with the financial problems that have beset Rangers,” Lennon said. “We don’t have these problems but I think people in England and elsewhere think it is a Scottish problem. But, for us, it is not a problem we have had to endure. We have cut our cloth accordingly, and so we shouldn’t get tarred with the same brush.”
Lennon is continuing to build for the future. In stark contrast to Rangers, he was able to reveal another signing yesterday, with goalkeeper Lukasz Zaluska having agreed a new three-year contract. Talks are continuing with first choice goalkeeper Fraser Forster, whose loan arrangement from Newcastle United expires at the end of this season. Lennon wants to tie him down on a permanent deal.
“There has been a conversation between Peter [Lawwell] and my agent,” said Forster yesterday. “They have had a chat. That is all there has been, but there is plenty of time until the end of the season.”
While Lennon has the luxury of discussing new deals with players, Ally McCoist, his opposite number at Rangers, faces the cruelest of all managerial tasks. McCoist, in all likelihood, will have to begin trimming down his squad, or else find the administrators doing that job for him as cuts begin to be made to staff.
Lennon feels for McCoist, with whom he has made up following their touchline skirmish almost a year ago. “I have great sympathy for my counterpart, having to go through what he is going through at the minute when it is nothing to do with him,” said Lennon. “It’s his first season and I am sure he could never envisage the trouble he was going to get.”
“And for the players, obviously,” he added, with reference to others at Rangers he felt deserved to be in people’s thoughts. But he drew the line at feeling for other, pointedly un-named individuals. “It’s a really tough time for a lot of people at the club and while I have sympathy for them, I have no sympathy for a lot of other people involved,” Lennon stated, firmly.
Summa
petec,
Agreed, thet get angry/angrier, we get mobile.
* they
I’m getting there and the songs are on…
the day is coming fast
and the time is here at last
Paddy Reilly
HH
Gordon64 says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:27
Let those that raise the bar do so without cheating is all we ask.
HH
TLK
The inauguration song of Celtic FC.
1st ever song at Celtic park
Our Manager needs to avoid being drawn into making comments on Rangers and their ongoing problems,given that his statements can so readily be distorted by the media.
It just risks turning the focus of hatred on himself,when he should be concentrating on team affairs,and our European challenge in July.
Leave issues such as stripping of titles from TFOD to others within Celtic FC.
Lawwell and Bankier are the individuals most appropriate to deal with these issues,and timing is everything.
It would be wonderful if Fergus McCann could pop back to lend a hand,but I suppose he is not as interested nowadays…
Scottish Sun running with headline, strip them of titles, forgive me but our manager didn’t say that in his interview.
tommytwiststommyturns says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:28
Know what your saying, but get it up them and who better than from our ghinger manager! He went through the pain last year, so nice to see some diplomatic retribution!
CRC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz9ddxEQnM
We have been advised that liquidation is a certainty! What if this does not materialise, what will we settle for.
Myself: stripped of all trophies in full EBT tenure, 3 rd division reinstatement, 10 point defeceit every year for five years and sued for lost income by clubs that have lost out.
What do you think?