I’m sure many of you will remember the home game against Dundee in April 2001. We needed a win to be able to secure the title the following week, at home, against St Mirren. After the game Martin O’Neill sounded irritated at the anxiety in the crowd, oblivious to the fact that the loss of a late goal would have denied many of us the opportunity to be there when the title was won.
If you’ve been there for the highs (Aberdeen) and lows (Kilmarnock) of the league season you’ve earned a ticket to the party. Let’s hope the SPL deliver a home game next, as reported.
Apologies for the extended downtime yesterday. Plans are afoot for five new servers to load-balance CQN (which sounds a lot right now but we’ve had similar thoughts before).
Let the record show that the death of Margaret Thatcher brought CQN down longer than when Rangers did the decent thing. Was hearing the news a ‘JFK moment’? I was in the wee room at the time, a treat for all the senses, so I’m not sure how my memory will handle the situation…. mostly audio.
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Surprisingly, one of the better comments made since MT’s descent intae the bad fire….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher
And as the whole sorry mess goes tits up, a white haired man is spotted, hastily exiting the big hoose with “the history” stuffed inside his cardigan.
South of Tunis et al
Just read the Dortmund v Malaga match report in the ‘Gazzetta’ – as you probably have.
‘Disastrous’ refereeing by Thomson and his assistants;
Assistants (linesmen) just as bad as Thomshun;
Goal-line assistants like ‘statues’;
Thomson awarded 3 / 10 for his (totally inept) ‘performance’ – even worse than Collum in the Fenerbahce v Lazio game in the EL last week!
HH!!
gordon_j backing neil lennon
10:24 on
10 April, 2013
He is also admitting that his new club is unable to cope with the giants of the Scottish game it faces in the lower leagues ……..
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No one has asked Ally why he needs £10million at that level of league.
iki
To be fair to Sally he’s been up against a very strong Stirling Albion team…
THE BARCA MOLE 1045
Erm,?……
Spill,old bean.
I find it hard to accept that even though John Brown was claiming that Charles Green did not own the deeds to then bigotdome that Ally McCoist claimed at the weekend it was all news to him.
Really?
You would wonder how someone like John Brown who was not connected to the club in anyway knew more that the manager (and apparent saviour)of sevco 5088
If only we had a journalist to turn to?
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam)
John Brown not as daft as he looks then?
Again the hordes believe what they are told even though commen sense should have told them otherwise. They really are stupid!
LB
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam),
And we are also asked to believe that McCoist didn’t simply phone the bold Bomber to ask him what he knew.
Livibhoy
More like CONMEN sense if you ask me! :-))
Studid huns deserve ALL they get! …and more!
HH!!
NatKnow – “We welcome the paper-chase…”
I have been told that it will be fixed by close of play today
But at least the employee’s have been paid
Thanks for the offer of help
Love
It seems like only yesterday that the cheeky chappie stood in front of the TV cameras and claimed in a corporal Schultz manner “I know nothing”.
One wonders if this is really an accurate statement and how long did Ally and (Mr) Smith know all about what was happening
Secondly when walter and his real billionaire pal from weirs tried to buy sevco/sevco5088 from Charles Green it became apparent to me (and I suspect to walter and his pl) that Green didn’t own the club to sell it in the first place.
How long has Fat Sally known that
a) Green did not have outright control
b) Green was whytes frontman
I’ve said for a long time that Craig Whyte will eventually make a lot of money out of this whole mess. We might soon see how. And I think Ticketus still have a role to play …
How ironic would it be if Charles Green has to transfer Ibrox and Murray Park back to Craigie boy who in turn has to pay Ticketus £17.5m. CW would might be forced to transfer the assets to Ticketus to settle the £17.5m so Ticketus end up owning Ibrox and MP . Ticketus could then either charge a rent for ever more to who ever owns the ‘club’ who are playing there or alternatively they could sell.
No one in their right mind would pay Ticketus £50m to operate as a football club but they might if they wanted to build flats. If only!
DBBIA,
You’re dead right about John Park. The best signing we have made in years.
TAMRABAM
I don’t think it matters to them who owns it in the interim,as long as they are still playing and not been Third Lanarked.
If the patient is on life-support,that’s fine by them-while they bide their time to get it back after letting the suckers take the fall and the debts have disappeared.
Problem for them is,historically,we are the experts at the long game-they are looking to have ballsed theirs up.
I hope!!!!!!!!
Five remaining games; five lunchtime kick offs. And they wonder why attendances are dropping.
If Craigy Bhoy has been ordered to pay squillions of quid to Ticketus by the London courts and if he can still, theoretically, lay claim to the deeds of Ibrox, the car park etc isn’t it plausible that the English courts will sieze his assets, including the deeds to the home of a dead football club, and sell the aformentioned properties to pay off his debts thereby scuppering any chance of anyone else picking up the bones of RFC on the cheap?
Is this too simplistic a scenario?
may67
11:35 on
10 April, 2013
And 4 of them on a sunday. The game is run by idiots!
As Agent Whyte feels he is owed his pound of flesh from Sevco is he not within his rights to call for a winding up order as the far east investor did only a few months ago?+
He knows his name is mud with the Zombies so he would have nothing to lose.
Just a thought! ;o)
HH
/Bishop B
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam)
11:22 on
10 April, 2013
It seems like only yesterday that the cheeky chappie stood in front of the TV cameras and claimed in a corporal Schultz manner “I know nothing”.
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It seems like only yesterday that the cheeky chappie stood in front of the TV cameras and claimed in a corporal Schultz manner “I know nothing about football management”.
Bhoys
Made a hamfist job of posting the link to the Scottish Government’s Detect Cancer Early Initiative for Bowel Cancer yesterday.
This is bowel cancer awareness month so I will try to do it again. It is aimed at getting children to discuss doing the test with their parents or grandparents.
This made me laugh out loud it could have been done by Eric Idle.
http://youtu.be/UrwA_p8H6WY
Tell me what you think. Is it:
a) Bad
b) so bad its brilliant
c) brilliant
d) Genius
However if you get the Bowel Cancer Test kit in soon if you are 50+ please take the test.
Kayal
I think it’s truer to say the game is run by, and for, television. You’re not wrong about the idiots, by the way.
If we do get another re-incarnation of the huns sometime soon, maybe their new name could proudly commemorate the names of defunct Glasgow teams from the past – Third Rangers?
iki
10:54 on
10 April, 2013
gordon_j backing neil lennon
10:24 on
10 April, 2013
He is also admitting that his new club is unable to cope with the giants of the Scottish game it faces in the lower leagues ……..
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No one has asked Ally why he needs £10million at that level of league.
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Great point.
I think it panders to their superiority complex,the “We deserve better” mentality.
AKA WATP…
Tallybhoy
Craig Thomson et al —–
” They didn’t want us in the semi finals —–After it went to 2-1 for us, there were so many refereeing mistakes. We were impaired by the Officials ”
Manuel Pellegrini — Malaga Manager —-post match media conference 9/3 /2013.
Note that Malaga’s owner is continuing to mouth off about Thomson et al. It looks like he intends to hound UEFA re why such incompetents got the gig .
BBC news
Craig Whyte has been ordered to pay £18m to the finance firm Ticketus after he lost a claim against him at the High Court in London.
The firm, which provided nearly £27m to help the businessman purchase Rangers Football Club two years ago, said it had also been awarded interest and costs.
The former chairman of Rangers has until 26 April to lodge an appeal.
The court battle has no effect on current operations at Ibrox.
Kayal33
11:38 on
10 April, 2013
may67
11:35 on
10 April, 2013
And 4 of them on a sunday. The game is run by idiots!
No not run by idiots. Totally run by TV companies who will drop the game like a hoot tottie when their profits dry up.
Robert Kelly was castigated by all and sundry when fifty years ago he forecast that TV would ruin the game.
The can talk all the reconstruction numbers they like. However, the priority is to do something about the stranglehold TV has on football.
Kayal
All 5 are played on Sunday lunchtime preceded by this Sunday’s lunchtime semi final.
6 in a row.
When is the SC final and at what time?
EC67
” Can we play you every week”
The Mighty Binos fans when playing Sevco…
Eurochamps67
SC Final is a Sunday due to CL final.
I reckon it will be 3pm tho.
LB
Tim Malone,
Third rangers? He he
Sunday football?
Pretty sure Celtic pioneered it-a cup game v Motherwell which ended 2-2 in front of nearly 50,000.
Since that was back in the 70s,we were all classed as bona-fide travellers!
LIVIBHOY
Lucky we lost to Juve then,eh?
How would we have managed two games in 16 hours,400 miles apart?
Or the hangovers………
I guess the Ticketus ruling explains why CW has held on to the Sevco 5088 issue until now. All parties knew it was potentially dodgy and therefore neither wanted to see it settled in the courts. Seems like the Ticketus business has forced CW’s hand, now chuckles is throwing down the gauntlet, just how much dirty laundry do you want aired in public?
However it seems CW has now got nothing to lose.
Going back to the asset sale last year, I was always convinced that a sale of the assets was subject to a sole and exclusive bid from Sevco 5008. The administrators were seeking a CVA offer, not an offer for the sale of the assets. In this respect all other bidders (plus any other parties who may not have been interested in a CVA deal but would have been interested in the asset sale) were placed at a distinct disadvantage, in that they weren’t given the opportunity to bid for the assets alone.
Sevco 5088 simply chose to add the asset sale as an option to their bid as a “variant bid” without any prompt from the administrators. When the CVA was rejected, given that this was the core aspect of the requested proposal and no variant bids were defined or requested, the entire bid should have been rejected.
FORMER Rangers owner Craig Whyte is facing bankruptcy after losing a court battle with Ticketus over a £17.7 million dispute.
• Craig Whyte loses legal battle over £17.7m Ticketus deal struck in 2011
• High court judge rules Whyte lied to Ticketus in order to secure deal
• Ticketus ‘unaware’ of Whyte’s seven-year directorship ban
Whyte has been ordered to pay the sum back to Ticketus after a High Court judge in London ruled in favour of the company, who were suing Whyte for luring them into a deal on false pretenses.
The Monaco-based businessman must also pay an additional £700,000 in interest and legal costs after his bid to counter-sue the company failed.
The dispute centres on the contract agreed between Ticketus and Whyte, the latter of whom had agreed to sell three years’ worth of season ticket sales to the company for £25 million, some of which he used to fund his takeover of the Ibrox club in May 2011.
He spent a further £18 million paying off legacy debt to Lloyds TSB, owed since Sir David’s Murray’s stewardship of Rangers.
Ticketus are understood to have sued Whyte because they were unaware of his seven-year directorship ban. A court source told The Sun that Ticketus would never have agreed to a deal if they had been aware of Whyte’s disqualification. The company had hoped to make a £7 million profit from the season ticket sales.
Sports finance expert Dr Chris Brady told the Sun: “Basically he’s got to pay the money back – if he hasn’t got it then he’s effectively bankrupt.
“They will try and acquire his assets. But any assets that are held abroad would be out of reach – they wouldn’t be able to get a hold of that.”
Whyte’s seven-year company directorship ban ended in 2007, but he will never set foot in Scottish football again after the SFA handed him a life ban and a £200,000 fine, which the league body are pursuing the Motherwell-businessman for through the courts.
Craig Whyte relinquished control of the club to Charles Green after Rangers were liquidated last year.
Scotsman
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
We aren’t in the final yet!
LB
Check this out.
mrs j and her friend went to a local club where they play bingo and have a drink. Her friend told her she found a lucky pig a late friend had gave her some time ago. They rubbed it on the bingo books and won the snowball.
Offers over £1000 will be considered for the pig. lol