The wisdom of Hearts owner Ann Budge’s comments to the BBC that “Borrowing money for a particular capital programme you can understand, but running up debts that are prevalent in football is beyond my understanding really” is now, in 2014, surely beyond dispute.
Clubs are at liberty to borrow for infrastructure, or in exceptional circumstances, but in the normal course of business, borrowing for football costs should limited to covering the short-term fluctuations in cash-flow.
This thinking was orthodoxy until Sir David Murray led Scottish football by the nose into a spiral of debt accumulation. The Murray Gospel found many converts among us, those who spoke against it were hounded as heretics. Debt accumulation was the new crusade, the promised land could be reached with just one more brave act, apparently.
Suggesting this was self-harming nonsense to adherents who had supported a debt-fuelled battle for years attacked a fundamental pillar of their belief system. Reactions were seldom considered.
It’s in this light we should consider the real lunatics. Those who encouraged a business model which ended in liquidation, only to come back to the table demanding a fledgling incorporation ‘act like a big club’. There’s a fair amount of research suggesting humans are hard-wired for religiosity. We search for something to believe in, then stick with it as best we can. If you have grown to believe that one more outrageous act will deliver European glory, a good harvest or a rain cloud, part of you will buy into it.
Stewart Regan’s “concern for the Scottish game” at newco Rangers financial position will be genuine, although the “Armageddon” merchant from the SFL has long left the scene. He notes, “Rangers have got a strong economic impact, not just for Glasgow, but for Scotland generally”. Well, oldco sure had an economic impact, on the public purse and several hundred creditors. Mr Regan’s words should be a warning.
This morning Rangers International served notice that their AGM would take place on 22 December, just days within the permitted time period. Accounts are normally issued with this notice, but for some reason, they were not on this occasion. They are required 21 days before the meeting (i.e. within days); I’ve no idea what to expect, but it’s sure to be a quintessential Rangers document.
Some great offers on Celtic books and DVDs at CQNBookstore, a name already telling only part of the story!
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Awe Naw
Genuine best wishes to you mate.
R.I.P Arthur Montford
What a pass,What a goal,What a game.superb.HH
Jmccormick
I was up visiting relatives in Carfin…we trip to The Vaults …thankfully it was open fur the game and closed an hour after ….otherwise my brothers, cousin and I would never got back to my aunts :-))
Awe Naw
That would be a thing of beauty :O) hh
“Today’s Scottish commentators are very much poor relations in the commentary department. Arthur along with Bill McLaren were the best Scottish sports commentators.”
Absolutely.
But to be fair I think there are many really good commentators these days but the viewers enjoyment is spoiled by these co-commentators that just won’t shut up.
“What a Stramash”.One of Arthurs favourites.I remember him commentating the England Scotland game at Wembley.2-0 Scotland.
“Denis Law picks the ball up,goes over to Baxter and says,Its up to you Jim”
A Greenock Morton fan his whole life.
RIP.
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
Just looked back, I get where you are at….just gone through 12 months of “competency reviews” “probation periods” and full on stress to prove I could do a role I had done well for 5 years. How sweet did I feel when another offer landed in my inbox 4 days before my final review? Good on you….I share your joy/luck whatever? Sometimes the good guys get a break and no doubt my mother in laws and my mothers novenas at Carfin played a part. CHEERS,
To Dallas.
Obvs :)
Rocket man
The question was who would you sign from other SPFL clubs. Just gave my opinion. Personally I would prefer 11 players from our own academy in the first team.
RIP Arthur Montford. Can’t remember his commentarys but do remember him fronting scotsport and enjoying his presenting skills. Total gentleman. Another legend gone from scottish sports broadcasting. The lack of broadcasting characters in Scotland is a shame.
LB
pfayr
Good place is Carfin….see my post to Awe Naw..
jmccormick
21:58 on
26 November, 2014
Spent many a weekend in Carfin . Linksview Road 47. A little bit of Heaven as far as I am concerned.
Tell your Mum thanks and if she can start praying now for my place in heaven I would really appreciate it ;-)
HH
HT
Thanks bhud
HH
good luck awe naw in your job move ( no truth in rumour mike ashley headhunting you :-)
good luck
hh
Re Scotsport memories, how many of us suffered when we saw the opening credits and it was being broadcast from Murrayfield Ice Rink? We knew then that there was nae fitba’ to be seen.
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
Get in line….
ruggygman
21:40 on 26 November, 2014
Rocket man…
He did….
Utd snapped him up, loaned him to Queens Park for a season, then he had a great season with Utd last year…. He’s still only 20, so was chased from Celtic at 17 or so.
Surely our scouting team or football department could be humble enough to admit they made a mistake, a show an intent to sign the boy when he’s playing so well for Utd.
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Robertson was released at 14 by Celtic, and picked up by Queens who then sold him to Dundee Utd
Geordie, Derek Rae is the only half decent Scottish football commentator on the go the now. Thon MacLeod clown on BBC is the worst.
The Champions League groups have been mind numbing this year, no matter how poor a so called big team has performed they can still qualify.
Sure i seen some team qualify with 8 points last night and still have 1 game to go, pretty poor stuff.
an tearmann
21:52 on 26 November, 2014
Paul67
belief structure and the debt lunatics
Paul I would argue the debt lunatics burrowed deep into the psyche of the hun firstly and that the belief structure followed thereafter
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Evening big stuff!
Scariest thought among many on this issue? The fact that the biggest debt lunatics were running the banks.
And for all we know they (or there wee successors) still are.
HH jamesgang
Bada Bing
Mrs ZMB has set me up with an interview tomorrow.Give you a clue.I have been involved with this type of seasonal work before.Not Will Farrell more Billy Bob Thornton.
Honestly the lady on the pbone asked me to bring along my CV.PMSL.
Wish me luck.HH.
Dallas
McLeod and Rob McLean sound like a couple of curling commentators, drafted in to a sport they have no knowledge of.
Looking back…. I remember thinking (wrongly)Arthur and Archie were not very good commentators next to the Engerlanders.
The dross we have to put up with nowadays would shame them.
R I P Arthur .
best laugh of the day ….
some carrot on Sevcomedia (yes, I do lurk …’ Deus meus, ex toto corde me paénitet…..’), thinks Swalex would be interested in replacing the sleekit one … and will be given gazilions of pounds by Ashley to spend on players …. even the zombears (zombie-bear hybrid) are laughing at him…
the_huddle
In my opinion, and it means nowt, the entire CL has suffered as a result of sport, FIFA, EUFA and the rest selling their soul to TV. SKY are the main beneficiaries, their “generosity” allows a gravy train of administrators, pundits, suport staff to take money from the actual sport. They are not alone, if SKY were not there the new media moguls frpm the Gulf states and the US will move in. We are heading at a breakneck pace towards an NFL franchise type of game in Europe…..I believe our only hope lies with the German clubs who are less reliant on the TV wedge.
AWE NAW
Much as i admire your revenge tactic after 30 years in
the construction and offshore industry and suffering the
N.R.B. ( not required back ) type of dismissal that went
on there just because someone did not like your face or
beliefs i hope it doesn’t come back and bite you on the
erse as happened to me many a time, they have ways of
getting you black listed, but best of luck on your future
employment, and i would love to be there to see their faces
when you up and go.
H.H Mick
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Cheers for reading (and hopefully a wee donation)
HH
Zico-has Dopey dropped out of the panto?
#likeforlike
delaneys dunky
the boy McLeod is a Sheepy Mehs fan….he canny help himself.
I was in the Tesco on Dalmarnock Road earlier.
There was a motor home with a German number plate in the car park. On display in one of the windows was a Sankt Pauli scarf with a Celtic one next to it then a Bayern scarf next to a Leeds scarf. I assume the guys in the motor home are going to our game tomorrow night.
Its good we appeal to fans in mainland europe.
Arthur Montford R.I.P
What a stramash!
Up go the heads!
A genuine Morton supporter.
Jmccormick
Thought so. I canny listen to him. Earache!
I have two abiding memories of Arthur Montford……
1) He was quizmaster on the televised Scotsport quiz of the early 80’s when the team I
was lucky to play for reached the finals in successive years. He was the ultimate professional making us feel at ease before the cameras rolled ( tho we were still shitting it ).
2) He gave a talk to our local golf club one night and talked at length of his time covering the Masters from Augusta. I distinctly remember him saying that the journalists covering the event were allowed to play the course the day after the final round and not one of them was able to break 100….Arthur played off 8 at the time !!
Delaney’s, those two curling commentators MacLeod & McLean make me hurl & my toes curl.
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Dallas
And Yorkshire. :))
I have a large family of Tims in Leeds.
Stairheedrammy
It wisnae Pearson that scored the winner that day, it was McManus ( he got 2 ).
Hearts were 2-0 up after 20 mins, with skacel and Paul Hartley giving it big licks to the Celtic support….one of the best away games I have witnessed…..
Their support were stunned…..then rabid…..brilliant.
3-2 New Years day win at the wee Huns, I was in Aberdeen with the family walking down union st with the game on the ear phones. Quite forgot myself when the third went in, frosty start to the new year, Mrs C not impressed!
pedrocaravanachio67
Never liked Hartley after that day, remember him doing the cigar smoking gesture after their second goal. Wee dick….a great day out, that mob behind Lubo when he whipped in the free kick for the winner? How sweet was that?
DD,
I reckon you have a large family of tims worldwide ;))