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The BBC report that police in England detained four men in early morning raids in relation to an inquiry into the purchase of Rangers by Craig Whyte (not one of the four) from Sir David Murray. This one has been a slow burner so far and although this is a significant step, there are still many layers to be unpicked. It’s been three years since I heard of what was going on in the dying days of Rangers, this step seemed inevitable, but as the years passed I wondered if anything would happen.

Please remember this is a serious legal proceeding, so act appropriately here and elsewhere online. Failure to do so could prejudice future prosecutions – and we don’t want to do that. No speculation on who is involved and what they may have done.

Why are we reading that the European Commission confirmed Celtic did not benefit from state aid? Good grief, if six of you get together and badgered someone into checking if Ronny Deila is in the Norwegian Red Brigade, would anyone subsequently report this nonsense?

Absurd fantasies being denied is not news, unless you’re analysing the absurd fantasists.

I see there are complaints aimed at Ibrox that they are “giving away the family silver to keep the lights on”.

What kind of fool has silver in the drawer but can’t put money in the meter? Football clubs, like all companies, have to keep the lights on and pay all creditors. If they cannot pay, they are legally obliged to sell assets. Failure to do so will result in the court appointing someone to dispose of those assets for them.

This is where Newco Rangers are now. The utter contempt for financial responsibility which has endured at Ibrox for over two decades, means that no one can afford to cherish whatever silver remains. It is perhaps even more futile to blame major shareholders for not accepting an offer to dilute their control and destroy shareholder value – which is an accurate description of Dave King’s recent approach.

Those shareholders were heralded a short time ago for putting their money where their mouths were when the legions of ‘Rangers men’ kept their hands in their pockets. Offering shareholders a deal which would jeopardise their chances of the financial return they expect was a waste of everyone’s time.

Newco is owned by people who have put tens of millions into it and who are looking for a financial return. Any forward plan has to recognise this reality. With trading conditions are severe as they are, the club will sell-off anything they have to compensate these shareholders and meet obligations to tax and trade creditors. Costs will be cut, and if income subsequently falls, cut again.

Having checked out Burton’s online this morning I think I’ve got Christmas sorted. I really hope we see the Sports Direct ‘flash mob’ protests deployed at another of Britain’s major retailers. They are up there along with State Aid campaigns as a productive use of time and energy by people with unparallelled levels of vision and clarity, who really need more focus more/tone down the hissy fits.

I’ve never been one for patriotism but if you’re off to Celtic Park tonight, remember to sing both anthems in the battle of the Celtic nations. This advice may change on Tuesday. It will be great to see Aiden, Shaun, David, Robbie, Martin and Gordon grace Celtic Park one more time. So many great memories…

You can get copies of Caesar & the Assassin, Billy McNeill and Davie Hay’s accounts of managing Celtic from Jock Stein’s departure until the appointment of Liam Brady, here. We’ve stopped taking orders for signed copies, which will only be available at author events going forward.

A CQN’er (and absolute star) has kindly donated two North Stand tickets to Tuesday’s Scotland-England game on Tuesday. He doesn’t want any money, but asked if I could get something for Mary’s Meals for them. Face value is £60 each. Email me before midnight tonight if you’d like them, celticquicknews@gmail.com

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  1. Just Another Tim on

    Lennon n Mc….Mjallby

     

     

    Soft spot for them too. To think what the guy could have done if he lived. Great link too, Bluesy as!

     

     

    HH

  2. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    thelurkintim,

     

     

    For some reason, i always had the first line as

     

     

    O’Driscoll drove with the lash

     

     

    Which always pissed my dad off mightily…

     

     

    But that would’ve suited Brian better

  4. TheLurkinTim on

    jimmyquinnsbits

     

     

    the spider that wis driving….wat?

     

     

    a tractor

     

    a cop car

     

    a banking empire

     

    a telecommunications empire

     

    a CELTIC BLOG

     

     

    i know which one i cherish most

     

     

    H.H.

  7. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    JimmyQuinnsBits

     

    00:17 on

     

    15 November, 2014

     

     

    Jimmy

     

     

    The Host of the Air by WB Yeats.

     

     

    I don’t know when I first learned that poem by heart but I know I was a schoolboy and I chose to learn it instead of it being one of the texts that you are given to learn at school.

     

     

    I have now recited it countless times over the last 40 years or so – the last being only this afternoon and to an audience or precisely no one other than me.

     

     

    It is a poem that tells a rare story and conjures up images in the imagination.

     

     

    Great words indeed.

     

     

    Thanks for posting.

  8. BGX on

    Just thinking back regarding violence in stadiums.. Might need to ask some of the older guys on here but were any of you guys at a match Waterford v Celtic in Dublin?…i was there..

     

    That was violent….

  9. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    thelurkintim

     

     

    The spider is the uillean pipes, which a mate of mine who played them used to say, it was like trying to kiss an octopus

     

     

    Cept he didnt say “kiss”

  12. Tippbhoy on

    I am an irish Glaswegian…went to world cup 1998….but the shit they gave to Aiden and the scottish medias justification of it…especially the moron McQueen an more disappointingly by our own blessed Gordon sticks in my craw…the whole thing sickened me…come on you boys in green…destroy this lot at the aviva

  14. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    BRTH,

     

     

    I once heard it recited on Radio 2, of all places, one morning while driving to work, by some English bloke who, I’m ashamed to say, I don’t remember his name.

     

     

    And he did a very fine job – he obviously got it.

  15. Gordon64 on

    I have seen guys removed from CP

     

    for a whole lot less than i seen tonight.

     

    If Celtic supporters had behaved like Scotland fans did tonight

     

    there would rightly be uproar.

  22. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    Here you go guys.

     

     

    Turn the sound up though

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56hGun0d4Y

     

     

    ‘DRISCOLL drove with a song

     

    The wild duck and the drake

     

    From the tall and the tufted reeds

     

    Of the drear Hart Lake.

     

     

    And he saw how the reeds grew dark

     

    At the coming of night-tide,

     

    And dreamed of the long dim hair

     

    Of Bridget his bride.

     

     

    He heard while he sang and dreamed

     

    A piper piping away,

     

    And never was piping so sad,

     

    And never was piping so gay.

     

     

    And he saw young men and young girls

     

    Who danced on a level place,

     

    And Bridget his bride among them,

     

    With a sad and a gay face.

     

     

    The dancers crowded about him

     

    And many a sweet thing said,

     

    And a young man brought him red wine

     

    And a young girl white bread.

     

     

    But Bridget drew him by the sleeve

     

    Away from the merry bands,

     

    To old men playing at cards

     

    With a twinkling of ancient hands.

     

     

    The bread and the wine had a doom,

     

    For these were the host of the air;

     

    He sat and played in a dream

     

    Of her long dim hair.

     

     

    He played with the merry old men

     

    And thought not of evil chance,

     

    Until one bore Bridget his bride

     

    Away from the merry dance.

     

     

    He bore her away in his arms,

     

    The handsomest young man there,

     

    And his neck and his breast and his arms

     

    Were drowned in her long dim hair.

     

     

    O’Driscoll scattered the cards

     

    And out of his dream awoke:

     

    Old men and young men and young girls

     

    Were gone like a drifting smoke;

     

     

    But he heard high up in the air

     

    A piper piping away,

     

    And never was piping so sad,

     

    And never was piping so gay.

  25. Kevtic on

    BRTH

     

     

    Yeah the knighthood he still hiding behind.

     

     

    Some stories are too big like Saville maybe the truth will only come out after his death.

  32. jeez_I_thought_blinker_was_pants on

    My last Scotland game was in 1990 v Poland @ Hampden, disgusting behaviour by the Scotland support that day, I’ve not been back since, Saying that, still want the team to win despite the ar5eholes and the SFA.

  37. roy croppie on

    I had a horrible night tonight. On the face of it, it should have been good. A few drinks with Mrs RC and then a taxi to a family dinner in a little bistro. No Sevco fans in the company…it seemed to be a safe venue. Funnily enough I was still on edge; 40 odd years of west of Scotland living had me on a kind of alert…sad times.

     

     

    The starters went well. Good company , good craic and at half-time it was 0-0, I wasn’t that bothered.

     

     

    The mains. Scotland scored. Clenched fists and hugs and gestures to me…still not bothered! Then the questions; your referendum vote? where were you born? this is your country…etc etc Aiden McGEADY got aired…

     

     

    I explained all about Aiden and James and the anti-Irish bigotry still present in Scotland today. I recognized the right of football fans to voice their displeasure and showed that I am knowledgeable about various beliefs, but still the barbs came. From Celtic fans…they do not buy tickets but they are Celtic fans. They read the Record and they exist…one attacked me,,,over a game I couldn’t care about…mug!

     

     

    countyourteethCSC

  38. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Tippbhoy

     

    00:22 on

     

    15 November, 2014

     

     

    Every nation has its share of drunken louts.

     

    But shouldn`t be defined by them.

  42. Sandman on

    Two tripped-out classical-jazz-trained uber-musos, a drummer with a chip on his shoulder and the drive to force the movement on, and a man born to die young and live forever.

     

     

    First 9 seconds here – THAT is the Jim Morrison I’ll always love; the wit, cheek and genius; perfectly encapsulated in a glance.

     

     

    And they made a noise, like no other; a beautiful cool noise like this:

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskztPPSJwY

     

     

    Peace out.

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