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Since I’m in a critical mood I am astounded of forehead at criticism direct at our host.
My granny told me I had always to be polite when invited into someone else’s house.
If I was asked to eat I shouldn’t complain about the food.
Yet I see Paul coming under criticism for producing leaders which apparently are toeing the company line.
Whatever topic is introduced as the leader, there is never any compulsion to adhere to it and very often the blog goes off at many tangents.
Additionally I see no guidelines saying we must agree with his thoughts.
We are all Celtic fans and we should respond to all accordingly.
Now those guilty have to go to bed without your bowl of gruel. :-)
Sorry guys, I know I said goodnight, but I just spotted this on twitter, night night.
@jimphil27: Trainspotting ? choose sevco http://t.co/pkmZoTtI5r
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Anthony Stokes @ Rugby Park.
Think comrades, think.
Cast your minds back to that most significant of days.
Three in a row, potentially ten.
Good enough for me.
AlwaysrememberCSC.
Score goals obviously, problem is they are not good enough, as I said, it depends on what sid eof the fence you are on.
If Lenny was in charge of the signing policy, and he signed Blade, he would be plaing, think about it.
Read back to when bangura was signed, he was never in a million years a Lenny signing.
HH
HH
Exiled. Agree with you 100%. It’s PL and JP that control who comes in, the cash drain of our present strikers must be put at the door of those 2.
I also agree that a striker won’t Come in
But with pukki He was signed as a last minute panic buy as a striker
My mates in Germany watch Shalke. When we didn’t not get him 1st time. My mate said. “Phew. Out of jail there. He is a waste of a jersey. Does not run , tackle or score goals” Sadly we signed him on last day
Nearly 3m in transfer fees and 2m in wages Poor poor business
Mrs ‘GG was watching Titanic this evening and I was struck by the many similarities it bears to the pickle the err bears find themselves in.
Built and supported in Belfast
A lack of foresight to see the dangers ahead.
The arrogance thinking they were unsinkable.
A sense of privilege.
The building of a vessel that didn’t have enough lifeboats.
The ignoring of warning of icebergs in their way.
I could go on but the scene with the priest saying a Hail Mary as the ship sunk took the wind out my sails.
Saw your comment earlier about the best scoring midfielder – buggered if I can be bothered chasing stats but I’d have thought that King Kenny and/or Naka would’ve been up there.
Today’s highlights
http://youtu.be/wcvvXocn0QA
Enjoyable 8 minutes or so
‘gg
01:59 on 19 January, 2014
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Indeed.
The only place on God’s green earth where they celebrate a disaster.
Two things, one… They proclaimed that the said ship was unsinkable.Bad idea to begin with, tempting fate and all that there and all.
Secondly – They painted “Kick the Pope” all over the boat.Could be a myth mind you, but unwise to mess with the spiritual all the time same.
Why Scotland why,did ye bequeath upon us this most horrible, obnoxious tribe that ever existed?
Why?
I don’t have a list of favourite movies but if I did this one would be up near the top:
Gifted Hands
Dia daoibh
so if PL and JP say which players come in or not why does NL travel europe and beyond to watch players?
BB
Pot noodle for a week.
York done my coupon.
Hail hail . Good result today.
An earlier poster about poor Mikaeel was insulted . The poster was right in this very sensitive issue and should not be insulted .
Good result today. HH
Coupon down again…bloody York !
Dr. Benjamin Carson’s Amazing Speech
Article from the Sunday Telegraph…..no succulent lamb here…..At last the TRUTH…..Is the dam about to burst?
Very ominous now if this stuff going to print…..
Rangers manager Ally McCoist has blamed rogue traders, whose investment in Ibrox was solely for short-term gain, for the club’s current plight.
Embarrassed and saddened by the fact that chief executive Graham Wallace had to ask the players in midweek whether they would accept a 15 per cent reduction in their wages – an offer they felt able to refuse – McCoist has come to a conclusion many independent observers reached a long time ago, namely that many of those investors were interested only in their profits and completely unconcerned by Rangers’ losses.
Venture capitalists do what they do: they make money not by providing jobs or generating wealth for others but by exploiting vulnerable companies and individuals. Rangers was a prime case.
Sir David Murray, the prime mover in the club’s downfall, bought success with the Bank of Scotland’s money but, when Lloyds took over that failing institution, he could no longer depend on his cronies to continue extending credit with which to fund his lavish spending.
The new fiscal prudence at Lloyds and his decision to sign players he could not afford, brought Rangers to their knees. He then claimed to have been duped by Craig Whyte when he sold the club to him in 2011.
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Within a year Whyte – who had sold four years’ worth of season tickets to an outside agency in order to pay off the £18 million debt to Lloyds – had driven Rangers over a cliff, wilfully withholding tax deducted from staff salaries and refusing to pay bills in order to keep the club running. They were plunged into administration in February 2012 and ceased to exist in June of
that year. However, a new consortium fronted by Charles Green was given exclusive rights by administrators Duff & Phelps to buy the business and assets of the old club for £5.5 million that summer.
A share issue 13 months ago raised £22.5 million which, like Green and his colleagues such as Imran Ahmad and Craig Mather, is long gone.
There is the real prospect of the new club facing insolvency in the near future and last week McCoist asked Wallace where the money had gone.
“The chief executive at the moment is aware that some of the problems are there because some of the decisions were made for the short term, maybe a year ago,” he said.
Asked whether he believed that those decisions were made for other people’s benefit, McCoist replied: “Yes. He [Wallace] didn’t go into great detail. He just said some mistakes had been made. I don’t know enough about it. Who do you blame?”
It was pointed out that someone must have authorised the signing of a host of players on long and expensive contracts and led him to believe that finance was not an issue. “Absolutely,” he said. “I just went about my business signing players. The chief executives that I have had so far, Charles was the first one then Craig came in. I was wanting to bolster the squad and that’s what I did. No one said it was a problem.”
The thought that Rangers’ budget in the third and fourth tier of Scottish football was not only unnecessary but unsustainable never entered McCoist’s head.
“Not really,” he said. “Not being an accountant. Maybe I have it totally wrong but, with the player budget coming down this year, I was looking at it – wrongly, obviously – season tickets, costs I’m doing on the back of a fag packet and it kind of fits.
“We had a lot of money in from an IPO [share sale] and we had two amounts of season tickets but I was obviously wrong and I obviously am wrong.”
Rangers have amassed 58 points ahead of their game at Forfar, but should they descend into administration, they will face a deduction of 28 points, almost
half that total. Such an outcome could deny them automatic promotion and possibly even see them miss out on the play-offs but McCoist is refusing to press the panic button.
One of the many criticisms levelled at him by supporters is that he has endorsed every chief executive he has worked with, including some who were unlikely to have had Rangers’ best interests at heart.
Even so, he could not bring himself to say that he regretted publicly backing Green at a time in 2012 when season-ticket sales were sluggish.
“A lot of things go through my head when I think about Charles,” he said. “He came in and he was the first potential ally I had, so I had to – I don’t think I was in a position to do anything other than what I thought was best for everybody. And at that time there was nowhere else to turn.”
ryecatcher
03:42 on
19 January, 2014
:-)
No gloating.
Just a quiet comforting satisfaction about the management of decline.
Ad multos annos.
It’s one of those names/words that Belfast people cannot pronounce properly,for some unknown reason.
Anthony.
The letter H is the problem, I think.
Full title would sound like antnee, or antnay.
They will try their utmost to shorten the name with Anto,Tony or Tone…subconsciously,obviously.
It’s that unique mix of Irish, English & Scottish where nothing makes any sense.
Nothing is ever simple in this life, all that a person can do,is to try to explain.
They are all Kings here anyway,each and every Celtic player.
Stop ditching them for the sake of it.
Winners they are, winning.
AppreciateTheCFCcsc.
Macjay….
Have been involved at the sharp end of crisis management in more than one business in the past.
This lot have broken every rule and principle in the book.They have caused obfuscation and chaos at every opportunity to reach their end game.Fat Salary is complicit in all of this but too thick to realise it IMHO.
Jock Stein killed Rangers.
The date their terminal illness started was 25th May 1967.
The advent of new media on the internet finished them off.
I never knew that we stole KTF from the Northern Soul movement…but sure,cool is cool & imitation is the highest form of flattery:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7QqJWdqZ4
Aaaaawwooooooooooooo……
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-Tn1ro02I
Rangers took just over 45 years to die from the date they contracted a terminal illness called ENVY.
This illness was contracted on 25th May 1967,but lots of other peoples money kept them alive until they flatlined,liquidated and eventually died in June 2012.
Rot in Hell you Cheating Bassas.
The 60’s eh?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQaUs5J2wdI
ryecatcher
04:09 on
19 January, 2014
Macjay….
Not in business,so I can`t identify or even pretend to understand crisis management.
I do understand budgeting,however.
As far as the future of Rangers is concerned,having lived through humiliation at their hands over many years,frankly,my dear,I don`t give a damn about them.
I have only one concern at the moment about Celtic.And that is the attempt by some of our supporters to stick their personal and selfish agenda on our Club and our supporters.
Recent steps taken by the club have reassured me that they are very much aware of this problem,thank god.
The enemy within the stockade is the most dangerous.
The hun we have always been aware of.
ryecatcher @ 3.42
Wow! Looks like someone’s grown a set at last!
An honest and accurate appraisal of the story so far, even blaming Minty! FFS! Is the tide finally turning in the MSM? I aint holding my breath!
Have you ever read or listened to such crap that comes out of McCoist’s gub? As I posted earlier today, what a lot unintelligible gibberish that man talks!
I hope he gets a testimonial!
HH
Hmmmm….Tom English growing a set as big as Ewing Graham in my last post?
Something big going down this coming week?
The dam is bursting in MSM…..
LAST summer, when Ally McCoist’s request for nine new players was granted by his then chief executive, Craig Mather, who was at fault? This was a club that had financial problems, that didn’t have the luxury of adding players to an already gob-smacking wage bill and yet added them anyway. Who was to blame?
It wasn’t McCoist. Managers everywhere will push their luck from now until kingdom come. It’s part of their gig. They go to their boss with a sob story and a cap in hand and hope for the best. Sometimes they get a result and sometimes they don’t. And McCoist got a result. You cannot blame the Rangers manager for recruiting but you can most certainly blame Mather and his financial director, Brian Stockbridge, for allowing him to recruit.
McCoist looks after matters on the field, the others were supposedly monitoring things off the field. They flunked it. They looked at the state of the finances and either mis-read them or ignored them and added to a wage bill that was drastically in need of a cut. This, of course, has been the way of things at Rangers for far too long. Mistake follows mistake. Irresponsibility follows irresponsibility follows irresponsibility. The names change but the hubristic decision-making remains the same. Mather and Stockbridge are guilty in this instance, but only one of them remains. Quite how Stockbridge is still in his position is a wonder to behold.
That’s not to absolve McCoist, whose public comments over the past would indicate that he hasn’t fully grasped the situation he is in at Ibrox. Or maybe he has and is railing against it, like a man raging against the dying of the light. A week ago, McCoist said this about the Rangers way of doing things: “It makes sense to me that we continue to have a higher wage bill than the opposition that we’re playing against.” Higher, yes. But how many times higher? Ten times? One hundred times? A thousand times? It brings us back to the old question: why spend money that you don’t need to spend? That’s a question that too many at Ibrox – Graham Wallace, the chief executive, excluded – continue to struggle with.
McCoist, pictured left, continued: “I didn’t give the contracts out and it would be unfair of me to comment on previous people within the club who made those decisions. I would certainly not be critical of them.”
Wouldn’t be critical of them? Well, he should be. He should be very critical of them. McCoist was given permission to bring in players on wages that Rangers could not afford by executives who should have known better, executives whose decisions have landed Rangers in another desperate mess. He’s almost duty-bound to criticise them. Mather was a disastrous chief executive for Rangers but his was just another ill-advised appointment in a long series of ill-advised appointments.
The Rangers manager said on Friday that he now understands the “severity of the situation”. That’s progress at least. The first step towards fixing a problem is to accept that you have a problem in the first place. Mather never could. Others, too, some of whom are still at Ibrox.
McCoist was right in supporting his players over the pay-cut proposal but only in so far as that the cuts should have been made higher up the tree first. The executives should have taken a pay cut and should have announced it publicly.
That would have been good leadership, but good leadership is not something this Rangers board – or many that went before it – would recognise.
The bottom line is that costs must be cut – and players and suits alike need to take their share of the pain. McCoist has too many players offering too little and being paid too much. He needs to accept that. It seems he’s still struggling with the concept at the moment. And he’s not alone at Ibrox. Wallace has much work to do. In many ways he is fighting against the mindset of the club’s past in an effort to secure its future.
Marvellous:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zh8v6R9PZng
morning champions….from a grey but dry Lower Saxony …..reading the Sundays will cheer our Hun pals up ,looks like their wee bank accounts are being primed early for ST money….hahahahahaha stupid stupid huns ……braw
what a marvelous time to be where we are …..awfy braw …
macjay1,
Are you talking about the Green Brigade or the people who brought the resolutions 10, 11 and 12 to the AGM?
AR
Well said Ewing Grahame of The Telegraph. A straight up acknowledgement that RFC “ceased to exist”.
ttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/10581698/Rangers-manager-Ally-McCoist-blames-rogue-traders-for-clubs-plight.html
“They were plunged into administration in February 2012 and ceased to exist in June of
that year.”
Oh dear that wont go down well at Castle Grey Skull, another one for the banned list?
Kevin Mckenna
Scotlands Police state
Scotland’s SNP government has adopted a curious approach to showcasing the nation’s qualities ahead of the independence referendum. You certainly can’t accuse them of purveying a rose-tinted image of auld Scotia. For it seems that the country has, at some point in the last seven years, turned into the most illegal small country in the world and the SNP appear to be revelling in it.
For no apparent reason that I can recall, the SNP in 2007 committed itself to providing the country with an extra 1,000 police officers. There didn’t appear to have been any great popular clamour for this remarkable and expensive job creation scheme for the plods. I don’t remember any cataclysmic increases in violent crime across the country, certainly nothing which a disciplined, properly focused force operating under good leadership couldn’t cope with. Since then, we have discovered that our police force has been anything but disciplined, focused or properly led and for this the rest of us have had to pay a mighty price in money and civil liberties.
Last March, the numbers of police officers in Scotland reached a record high of 17,496, according to Scotland’s chief statistician, and the nationalists crowed that another election promise had been met and just in time for the birth of the new single police force. Huzzah! The problem, though, with providing this small and reasonably well-behaved wee country with an extra 1,000 polis is this: how do we keep them all occupied week in, week out? Easy-peasy… we simply criminalise lots of law-abiding people. And if we don’t actually criminalise them, well… we can just treat them like criminals instead.
Thus was the Offensive Behaviour at Football Matches legislation introduced in 2012, which sought to target young, working-class men from Glasgow’s poorest districts for espousing tribal sentiments in support of Celtic or Rangers. Hundreds of previously law-abiding men have been subject to Stasi tactics by the police and dragged through the courts for singing age-old songs about the war in Ireland. Others have been kettled and intimidated by foul-mouthed cops for daring to march together peacefully to a game.
Last week, we discovered what the second part of the SNP’s hitherto covert criminalise the punters strategy looked like. Between April and December last year, the police conducted almost 520,000 stop-and-search procedures on members of the Scottish public, almost 2,000 a day and twice as many as are carried out by London’s Metropolitan police.
The Scottish police claimed that this strategy of suspecting just about everyone of being a criminal was a success because nearly 20% resulted in a positive result. The previous week, we had discovered that Scots police were much more likely to go after people using mobile phones in their cars than those who had committed a sexual assault. Compared to modern, lawless Scotland, Snake Plissken had it easy in Escape From New York.
It’s all nonsense, because the crime figures are provided by the Scottish police and thus must be treated in the same manner as you would an economic progress report from North Korea. Increasingly, the Scottish police are themselves operating above the law with the impunity of a general’s private army in a banana republic. And it also seems Kenny MacAskill, the cabinet secretary for justice, without telling anyone, has transferred his powers as justice secretary to the unelected Stephen House, Scotland’s new chief of police.
In the last five years or so, we have learned that several hundred police officers actually have serious criminal records or been accused of serious criminal offences. Among the allegations are rape, sex attacks, violence, wife beating, theft, fire attacks, abduction, stalking, football disorder, racism and data breaches.
Meanwhile, despite almost 150 police officers being reported to prosecutors for alleged corruption, only six have been convicted. The alleged corruption included serious assault, bribery, blackmail and gangland activity. Unlawful access to secret files and lying in statements (an old police favourite) were the least of it. Strathclyde police, Scotland’s biggest force, refused to provide figures on the pretext of cost. At this rate, the public will soon be given stop-and-search powers over the cops. God knows what would come tumbling out of their high-vis tunics.
Last week, according to the Independent, we learned that secret groups of Freemasons have been used by organised crime gangs for years to corrupt the criminal justice system. This echoes a chilling declaration by Strathclyde’s deputy chief constable recently that 27 organised crime gangs were attempting to infiltrate the force by planting recruits in the ranks and grooming others. Yet, in Scotland the government has always resisted calls for membership of secret societies to be deemed unacceptable for all serving police officers and judges.
The abuse of their powers by the police is part of a wider picture of police corruption and lawlessness throughout the UK, which had remained unchecked despite nasty little episodes such as the Met’s Flying Squad porn baron scandal of the mid-70s. The thuggery displayed by police officers during the miners’ strike in 1984 at places such as Orgreave and Polkemmet was virtually sanctioned by Margaret Thatcher as she vowed to destroy those whom she called “the enemy within”. The Birmingham Six, the Hillsborough cover-up and the Stephen Lawrence inquiry all pointed to a force that had been allowed far too much respect by government and judiciary.
In Scotland, a supposedly enlightened, progressive and democratic administration has made the police virtually untouchable and handed the force wide-ranging and discretionary powers over the people. Yet all the evidence and anecdotal experience points to an organisation that has itself turned feral and is almost beyond state control. MacAskill, now in reality acting merely as bag carrier to House, should be brought to account for allowing this to happen on his watch. An independent review of the customs, practices and recruitment policies of the police must be undertaken before the people say enough is enough and sort it out themselves.
In the meantime, let’s put all talk about membership of the EU aside. For, at this rate, if Scotland does gain its independence in September we will merely become the newest member of the confederation of independent police states.
Comments will be switched on later today
match of the day on a Sunday morning is great – I get a chance to see the bits I missed by falling asleep in front of the tv last night
Good morning few from a damp, grey but still East Kilbride.
Lionroars
The most accurate description of MacAskill penned
The man is an incompetent …and is easily influenced by others who run agencies which should be accountable to him …..not he to them
From HenryClarson
Strong Rangers
44 Votes
There’s a recurring myth which needs to be addressed, viz, the myth that Scottish football needs a “strong” Rangers.
Let us see first of all how this “strong” Rangers has worked in practice.
For the best part of the last quarter of a century, Rangers’ “strength” and apparent success lay in their ability and determination to outspend every other team in Scotland.
They fully played their part in contributing to the collapse of the Bank of Scotland in order to finance transfers and wages for players which no other Scottish team could even countenance.
Using tens of millions of pounds from a bank which would ultimately collapse and pass on its debts to every man, woman and child in the nation, “Strong” Rangers signed prominent internationalists from England, Holland, Denmark, France, Scotland and elsewhere to fill every place in their starting eleven.
After SDM took control of the club, Strong Rangers went on to win 16 titles. Five of these went to the last game of the season – strongly, I’m sure – even though Rangers, uniquely, were allowed to use fortunes of the doomed bank’s zombie assets to boost their “strength”.
And despite the media propaganda that tells us otherwise, Strong Rangers’ recent title successes were still claimed by the most expensively assembled squad in the country, underwritten by tax-payers who have been saddled with the tab for the reckless practices of the failed banks.
Question One: How many titles might Strong Aberdeen, Strong Dundee United, Strong Hibs or even Strong Partick Thistle win if a tax-payer owned bank now decided to give one of those clubs a credit line that would allow them to outspend their nearest challengers by a ratio of “ten pounds for every fiver”?
Strong Rangers, not content with having used everyone else’s money to buy their nine-in-a-row (which was obviously a Good Thing for Scottish football) then apparently decided that having to waste money paying the income tax of their expensively assembled international mercenaries was too much of a handicap to their future ambitions. So they strongly rejected this practice and availed themselves of more tens of millions of pounds which the rest of their competitors were too honest (“weak”) to steal from the nation.
Question Two: How many titles might Strong Aberdeen, Strong Dundee United, Strong Hibs or even Strong Partick Thistle win if any one of them was allowed to compete for the signings of top players without the inconvenience of having to give millions of pounds to the taxman each time they offered a contract to their potential employees?
If Scottish football needs this kind of “Strong” club, let’s be absolutely honest about it in unequivocal terms.
Let the government propose the formation of a new club for the good of Scottish football.
Its name doesn’t matter much but let’s not actually call it Strong State Supported Football Club For The Good Of Scottish Football.
Let it simply be called Babylon Establishment FC.
For the good of Scottish football, Babylon Establishment FC must have a line of credit with the nationalised bank of its choice.
The credit limit must be raised if Babylon Establishment FC struggle to dominate the Scottish league.
For the good of Scottish football, Babylon FC will not have to pay taxes on the wages which it offers to its players. Otherwise those players might choose to sign for another club.
For the good of Scottish football, there must also be some kind of constitutional arrangement in place which guarantees that Babylon FC will always play in the top division of the Scottish league, even if other clubs have to go to the wall as a consequence.
And for the good of Scottish football, the press must clear all of their copy about Babylon FC with the government before it is published.
The alternative is unthinkable; it might herald a return to the dark days when Weak Rangers languished in mid-table while Dundee Utd, Aberdeen, Hearts and Celtic were competing for the championship title. Clearly, that was a Bad Thing for Scottish football.
Who would want a return to the misery of watching Scottish clubs horsing Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Hamburg, Sporting Lisbon and others out of European tournaments, year after year. That was self-evidently a Bad Thing for Scottish football.
And heaven forbid that Scottish international teams might ever again go head to head with the likes of Brazil, Germany and Holland in the World Cup Finals or the Euro championships.
So let’s not accept the false paradigm of the need for a Strong Rangers. If there is to be a debate on the principle, let’s be clear and honest about the terms and parameters which pertain.
Let there simply be a Babylon Establishment FC which is exactly what it says it is on the tin instead of straining to maintain the pretence that Strong Rangers was anything other than Babylon FC by another name.
che
08:06 on 19 January, 2014
“They were plunged into administration in February 2012 and ceased to exist in June of
that year.”
Oh dear that wont go down well at Castle Grey Skull, another one for the banned list?
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Point of order. Castle Grayskull is where the good guy habits i.e. He Man. Snake Mountain is the baddies domain i.e. Skeletor.
From StevieDoyle75
GoosyGoosy TSFM
I Predict
Wallace has no intention of making the draconian cuts spouted at the AGM. He needs the crisis to continue until the the Gullible are in a state of acute anxiety. So he publicises nonsense options like the 15% pay cut which have zero chance of happening
His real aim is to get the next ST round brought forward “To save TRFC from Administration and Liquidation” ……………..because there is no other option
As son as the Gullible swallow this guff he will declare that the ST appeal has failed and put TRFC into Admin pocketing the ST monies and the assets as payment of debts owed to RIFC
Its that simple
The Guy`s a Spiv
He works for Spivs
He`s well paid for his Spivery
All his actions are Spiv actions
Admin is coming
The Fans will be blamed for not buying enough STs
And it won`t end there
Some of the less competent business minded Rangers men will form yet another consortium
They will ask the Gullible to fund a bid for the “brand” in a rented Ibrox with no MP for training
Meanwhile
More astute Rangers men with money will bid to form a new Club prepared not to play at Ibrox until the ground is sold for a pittance
SuperSutton
profuse apologies, can we settle for the Doomdome?
via @pmcn888
Reply posted by notthehuddlemadcontent
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The MSM tell us “Celtic need a competitive Rangers”
they don’t realise there was NEVER a competitive Rangers in the past 15+ years.
Since Celtic stopped their bid for 10 in a row, they have had £50M of debt transferred to MIH/BOS/you and me!, £40M from Enic, £20M from Dave King, £15M from NTL, £3M from the wee tax case, £14M from CW’s PAYE/VAT scam, £54M from the BTC – plus all the other creditors that were shafted in liquidation. So, at least £200M
Thats about £13.5M of “dubious” financial doping to make them competitive – EVERY YEAR
On top of the 7 “tainted” titles won in those years, they would have had a number of years in the CL and income from UEFA to boost their income…not to mention prize money for winning the league.
That is your competitive Rangers for you
Before then, Rangers had a wee run in the early 90′s as Celtic imploded, needed Fergus and the fans to oust the old board and build a new stadium , in the 80′s Rangers struggled behind an impressive Dundee Utd, Aberdeen, Hearts and celtic, and in the 70′s, Celtic dominated the domestic scene to the extent that the league had to be changed to a much reduce premier league set up
So, when was there last a genuinely competitive Rangers?