I hear the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have written to complainants confirming they are investigating adverts run by Rangers International Football Club plc, in which they claim to be Scotland’s most successful football club. You and I know that’s not the case, Celtic are Scotland’s most successful football club, followed at a distance by Aberdeen, Dundee United, Hearts, Hibs, Queens Park, Motherwell, Kilmarnock……. and ultimately East Fife.
The confusion has perhaps arisen following the demise of The Rangers Football Club plc, who laid claim to 54 Scottish titles before their failure to pay creditors ultimately led to liquidation. Rangers International Football Club plc have traded for less than a year and would be pushed to justify their claim in the face of Celtic’s magnificent domestic and European history. They cannot, of course, claim to be a now liquidated company.
The Advertising Standards Authority will write to both the advertiser and advert broadcaster asking them to submit evidence in support of their claim. The ASA will then send a recommendation to the ASA Council for adjudication.
In the event the advertiser accepts the complaint and agrees to change future advertising claims the ASA will write to complainers to confirm the matter has been resolved.
Celtic’s claim is simple, we are the champions of Scotland, winners of more leagues and cups than anyone else still kicking a ball in Britain, Northern Europe’s first European Champions and we observe all football, tax and civil laws.
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Not posted in many moons.
I’m not sure if it has been posted already but Hearts v Ross County is live on ESPN at lunchtime on Saturday 6 April and the Huns play QP at Hampden on Sun 7 April live on Sky.
If we can win the league v Hibs will they seek to move our match to another date (and in doing so reduce the impact of the demo)?
Doesn’t look as there is an option for an early kick off on Sat or Sun and the following Tues/Wed/Thu are European nights. Mon night is possible but the Manchester Derby is scheduled that night and SKY may be reluctant.
We may have a fixture pickle ahead and I expect the authorities would like to reduce the size of the demo.
Murray bought the deid Rangers for £6 million quid from Lawrence Marlborough. Didn’t he get over that figure in EBTs? How did that work? Does that mean he never paid a red cent and that actually he did make a £1 profit when he sold to Craigy Boy?
Raymac
He never even bought Rangers. He borrowed £6m from the BoS and never paid it back!
LB
Jobo
either through Paul or by some other means get me your e-mail address– I have something for you.
Cheers
BRTH
aldersyde avenue-I think the Club will want the game on a Saturday,albeit at lunchtime probably.HH
aldersyde avenue
14:28 on
28 March, 2013
they could move it to Saturday teatime (championship game on at that time though) or Friday night if motherwell drop points this weekend
Giovanni Di Stefano is mental , always has been, this is not his first appearance in court for impersonating a lawyer.
The wee videos that he made about the huns plight , priceless.
The thing is that mob got taken in by him, surely the most gullible set of ugly cretins on the planet, or any other planet yet to be dicovered
Grant Russell@STVGrant1m
SPL, if there is one next season, will start on August 3. Celtic have opted out of game on Aug 10.
Potentially 3 CL qualifying games before the league begins. Summer football, or a league starting early July would give us a better chance of reaching group stage.
K33-Aug 10 might be Liverpool in Dublin?
that awkward moment in the office when the little billy starts showing others the Pope and Jim Bowen for a laugh.
Paul 67
give chucky a break willya!
He’s got a lorry load of snake oil to shift.
I’ve pulled this discussion over from KDS because I think it is a summary of where we now are in terms of uniting Celtic against those forces that voted through and are rigorously applying a flawed law, so flawed you really must question why it ever reached the statute book if not to cause the discord in Scottish football predicted. when it was being framed. (framed being the operative word) [I come in at the end]
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mac_bhoy28 Mar 2013, 09:42 AM
Celtic continue to mention this new Working Group that his apparently been set up for the fans, as they do so they back it up by providing the e-mail address for FAC.
I’m not aware of this Working Group even being established yet, as far as I know all fan orgs gave it a wide berth. FAC certainly has no association with it.
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sid188828 Mar 2013, 12:08 AM
Mac bhoy I’ve been a staunch supporter of the GB but now is the time for the fans and club to unite and if that means swallowing your pride and offering an olive branch to the club then so be it. It seems to me that PL and the board have effed up big time over this issue but the way forward is dialogue and contrition on both sides. If we carry on as we are then we’re heading for disaster and division, it has to be nipped in the bud now and that means the GB having the balls to admit mistakes on their part, the Board the same, and both having the courage and goodwill to get round the table to sort it out!
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mac_bhoy28 Mar 2013,
At this moment in time we have zero faith in the club, there is no trust there whatsoever. In the past, despite plenty going on which we had good reason to be upset about, we did our utmost to maintain a working relationship and hold an element of trust regarding certain things. Sadly I think its escalated too far. The club actively collude with the police against our members and even mistreat us/our members off of their own back regardless of the police.
I think it says a lot more that the likes of the CSA and Trust have no time for this ‘working group’ either though, especially the CSA. I think most who have had even just a brief overview of this sorry charade would have very little trust/faith in the club to be honest and who can blame them?
Even as I type the club are pursuing their civil banning orders against some of our members – it makes me sick.
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Auldheid/Auldyin
Looking from afar perhaps had Celtic been dealing with the support groups as a whole as opposed to individually, this might never have reached the present level of anger and mistrust.
But whilst that anger is understandable, what alternative is there but to start working together and to actually agree on something that will be an indicator that something that was agreed will actually happen?
Trust can be rebuilt in baby steps at first on common ground (once that has been identified) but working together is the only way forward.
Celtic’s have resisted in the past CST resolutions asking to explore better ways of working together and this is what happens when folk are not in tune and singing from different hymn sheets.
It seems to me that in getting Celtic to set up a working party,you have made a significant contribution to bringing everyone to the table.
It seems folly to me to throw that all away by not getting around that table and coming up with a better way forward than currently exists.
Give it a bit of time for feelings to cool then get working – together against those external to Celtic who have created the conditions for discord.
14 years for Giovanni Di Stefano or John !
!!Bada Bing!!
15:04 on
28 March, 2013
Looks like it. Not yet confirmed though
Worth a re-post a guy telling BFSDJ how it is-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u-hJxcfY7LY
Sandman
12:59 on 28 March, 2013
‘Celtic’s claim is simple, we are the champions of Scotland, winners of more leagues and cups than anyone else still kicking a ball in Britain, Northern Europe’s first European Champions and we observe all football, tax and civil laws.’
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A t-shirt.
Put that on a t-shirt. Sell a cartload. I’m in.
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Call me pedantic but the statement would be much more effective if written obeying simple rules of punctuation and sentence construction.
As in:
‘Celtic’s claim is simple. We are the champions of Scotland: winners of more leagues and cups than anyone else (other team) still kicking a ball in Britain; Northern Europe’s first European Champions; and we observe all football, tax and civil laws.’
My one may not be correct – I’ve put my head on the block with the colons and semi colons – but one thing is for sure: Paul’s version on a t-shirt would deserve ridicule on a child’s punctuation basis.
Sorry. There are far more eloquent, clever and knowledgeable people than me writing on this board – but the effect of their writing is ruined for me by the breaking of the simple rules of written English.
Wish I hadn’t started now and was just about to delete, but ach, I’ve written it now.
BRTH
I have an extremely sore head today but my sincere thanks for a highly entertaining and educational evening, it was worth this bliddy awful hangover! Take care
St Stivs
Which one?… Place was riddled hehehehe
the obvious one
Kayal
Think we are down to play Levrpool in Dublin that weekend
Aye the kid on buddy !
Look on my LI site the senior Euro folk would be on-side. Big time – say the word!
Alasdair MacLean,
I can see that you are part of the splinter Punctuation Brigade.
Peter Lawwell will need to put a stop to this – or maybe a semi-colon will suffice?
Senga
Eh????? Lost me for the moment.
BRTH
It would be a great help to those of us of simple minds , for one of our legal eagles to list the multifarious forms of existence of ‘RANGERS’ ,along with a brief attachment of the rights and responsibilities of each one. This could then be sent to S.F.A.,S.P.L. and those parts of the Scottish media who are having difficulty making the necessary distinctions.
Coventry docked 10 points, not sure how the Holding Company fared….:)
Challs might offer them a couple of bob for the FA Cup
How did Lance Armstrong feel when he handed back his world record?
Hee hee hee.
BRTH
Sorry I think I’ve made a massive fool of myself, i made an assumption about someone i was in company with last night but obviously i was mistaken. Once again my apologies
Tim Malone Will Tell,
Just a wee lesson to my own…the boys of the old punctuation brigade.
An don’t you go pulling me up for not putting an “h” in there.
I also have to admit to obsessive, compulsive behaviour, but just because I’m that way inclined, doesn’t mean it’s not dirty!
Senga
No problem– I knew immediately that something was up when words like Entertaining and Educational came into the sentence— I am rarely either!
Drunk and with a sore head……… much more likely!
BRTH
auldheid and people like him are well meaning and very methodical in exposing all of this farce and corruption and normally it would be enough to right the wrongs of lying and cheating, and as much as i admire their tenacity, can they not accept that no matter how logical [spock] their reasoning it does not matter one bit, for godsake our own club accept
the very people who are responsible for allowing the corruption to go unchallenged and to continue to attempt to set up and even better way of corrupting and helping their favoured
fabric of society institution, and the very fact that our leadership is conspiring with these same men to form a new farce defeats auldheid and his entirely justified cause from the very start, celtic supporters need to really look with in to see why our leaders will not say a
damned word in all of this, i do not buy in to this say nothing at all, holding your piece is complicit no matter how its played out.
Senga-must have been some session?
St Stivs
Im sure you will put him straight
BRTH
Ha! I love your posts for those very reasons! Nonetheless
Danso-Alisdair MacLean will self combust when he reads that……:)
Mickybhoy1888
Please answer the question.