The seemingly chaotic life of the Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, appears more predictable after First Division clubs made their feelings on league reconstruction known. Significant amounts of trickle-down money is available from the SPL to second-tier clubs from next season if they vote to merge the league organisations, which is likely to result in an 18 team bottom league. Longmuir managed to put a spoke in the wheels of a considerable majority in favour of reconstruction but his hopes will be denied.
Three weeks ago we reported speculation that Longmuir aspired to a job at Newco Rangers. Yesterday he responded by saying, “I know there are different expressions of conspiracy going on but I don’t deal in conspiracy, I deal in fact and honesty”. You can bookmark that for future reference.
I predict that the conspiracy will soon merge with fact and honesty – if Newco can still afford to recruit next season.
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macjay1 for Neil Lennon
04:21 on 5 April, 2013
Unbelievable.
Beatles interviewed in Glasgow ( S.T.V.?) in`64.
Paul Young and Morag Hood (?)
Ignore the banal heading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS35oMwXbjU
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You have so much information. Woe betide anyone who does not take on board what you say.
Kitalba should be back soon, I don’t think anyone could get a better endorsement than Kitalba, especially if that person is percy vere’d to.
The Vatican moving to Jerusalem makes sense.
Muddy Waters,100 years since he was born………
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9970798/Muddy-Waters-Celebrating-a-great-blues-star.html
The Rangers eh……..
When I went to bed, all was well in the fitba world too :-)
Innit great when thieves fall out?
I just wonder if all this dirty washing-or laundry,rather!-is enough for someone to start looking into the possibility of there being an attempted conspiracy to defraud…..
petec
04:32 on 5 April, 2013
Thanks for the compliment,my fellow Tim.
Have noticed the absence of the brave Kitalba.
However,Sydney Tim is back on board.
Holahoops,wherefore art thou?
Jerusalem has been claimed by Netanyahu as the capital of Israel.
I fear further wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Be careful on the march.
Some will see it as an opportunity for mischief making.
And I don`t mean our lot.
Have Celtic had a recent hoops shirt with a green v-necked collar?
Canny remember one,but…..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304037/Osborne-questions-taxpayers-funding-lifestyles-jobless-dad-Mick-Philpott-gets-life-killing-children-fire.html
Welcome back Craig Whyte. You have been sorely missed.
They are truly a condemned club.
Hehehe – stupid huns.
Weather? jobo.
Currently Dry And Sunny In E.K.,With Clear Blue Skies.
Now Where’s My Windscreen Scraper ?
A Big Happy Friday To All…
JoboRobo Jnr. Deputising
Re the FAC “meeting” tomorrow-an interesting article from Tom Shields.
From what I gather,a fair few of those will be older,more “sensible” types who have simply had enough.
Particularly,therefore,the last two paragraphs re Barcelona.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/tom-shields-on/grannies-of-the-world-unite.20696693
I hope it all goes well-wish I could be there!
Tartan week here…
Just saw Frightened Rabbit…. Sublime Band!
NYC full of Scottish stuff for next few days…
Good & Bad. So thought I would throw in some Ugly..
HunTune, SFA Tune…Or Both?
PJBhoynyc
Are you playing in this Cosmos Cup thing I hear about?
The Soccer Cup for ex-pats,as the yanks would call it…..
Who actually heard and reported Neil Lennon? Was it heard on TV a la Boat Race Cox?
I am going out in 10 mins so a speedy reply would allow me to concentrate on my golf 0:-)
JJ
Welcome back craigy the MBB….
He has been missed by all in the car crash viewing at iPox.
£1 m per year he wants bwaaaahaaa
Who has a feeling that admin is just around the corner again? …
As for the £20m worth of investors …
Git it roooooooon yee
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry, bright and mild(er) East Kilbride.
One and a help more sleeps for me and Mrs Baldie and then we’re off for our fist visit to Rome. Can’t wait. Oh and in case you’re lurking BRTH thanks for your fantastic advice for our trip!
The Singing Detective @ 6.51 – that made me smile, thank you. But you stick to the report for Clelland :-)
Jobo
BMCUW
I wish I was a player worthy of an invitation….
SMSM defining Sevco/a>
Frightened Rabbit csc
Later….
JJ
According to media
Two reports were made to Lunny ..by individual complainers ……who sought out footage and thereafter filed his complaint
Complete bollox ..but…..becoming a bit concerned with the attitude of St Mirren fans towards us of late …
BMCUW, 7:01:
I like your analogy.
Of course you’d need to include a few of our more rabid neo-cons as impromptu ‘B Specials’ helping Strathclyde’s finest in the struggle to defend law and order…
:-)))
So the Sun publishes the story that Whyte is behind Sevco and Green admits to knowing Whyte and lying to him etc
It’s interesting that Campbell Ogilvie and the SFA did not due due diligence on Sevco ownership. Compare that with the zeal Ogilvie pursues Neil Lennon with on a regular basis.
Don’t be surprised if Lenny takes the Everton job , due to targeting by Ogilvie and his like minded anti Celtic clique.
Morning all!
CFC made a statement yet about the (latest) SFA ‘witch hunt’ against NFL?
Fatastic news about wee Oscar.
HH!!
Fantastic of course!
HH!!
I don’t know if anyone has pasted the Sun text in, but I will do it here. The Sun doesn’t deserve the hits, not least for telling this story through the distorted Charles Green lens and for allowing him to say that Craig Whyte “so nearly bankrupted” Rangers. Lord, have mercy. “So nearly” bankrupted them that they went into liquidation.
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Green: I shafted Whyte to get Gers
Bombshell as ex-chief in £50m bid for club
Admission … Green says he lied to Whyte to get Ibrox keys
EXCLUSIVE by KENNY McALPINE and GRAEME DONOHOE
Published: 7 hrs ago
CHARLES Green last night sensationally admitted shafting Craig Whyte to buy Rangers.
The Rangers chief said he would have told him ANYTHING to get the keys to Ibrox.
Green, 59, revealed he lied to former owner Whyte so he could buy the club — but insisted it was only to save Gers from the man who plunged them into administration.
In an exclusive interview with The Scottish Sun, Green branded Whyte, 42, “delusional” over claims he was swindled by Green and his backer Imran Ahmad.
He told how Ahmad would sweet-talk Whyte to ensure the deal for fallen giants went through, adding: “Imran might have promised him three Russian girls or whatever — I’ve no idea and I don’t care.
“We told him what he wanted to hear. Imran told him because we needed to keep him sweet to prise the club away from him.”
Whyte — now a hate figure for the Light Blues supporters — yesterday sensationally claimed that Green was a frontman for HIM during the historic Ibrox takeover.
Legal bid … Craig Whyte
And he revealed that he is preparing a £50million legal battle to get the club back — using a file of explosive evidence, seen by The Scottish Sun.
But chief executive Green — who says he WELCOMES any court action — hit back: “Craig Whyte has been making all these claims.
“I liken him to the boy on the beach where you have a group of kids making sand castles and he’s the one who stamps on them.
“He’s back here now trying to damage the club he so nearly bankrupted — and for what purpose?
“It is just complete madness. We had deals with him and what Imran was doing for a long period was, if Craig Whyte asked ‘Am I 6ft 4in tall,’ Imran would say ‘I think you are taller than that — actually. I think you are 6ft 6in.
“I think you’ve grown two inches overnight.”
Whyte fired off a letter notifying Green and Ahmad, below right, that he was prepared to take them to court last December — and he is now set for a court battle after the pair failed to respond.
He claims he and business pal Aidan Earley, 44 — who has previously been declared bankrupt — were behind the Sevco 5088 company which Green used to take over the club.
But Green says he was just telling Whyte porkies so he could get the businessman’s shares — a plan he says was changed when the club was liquidated.
Green revealed Whyte, from Motherwell, is now demanding £1million a year for LIFE — or a quarter of Green’s own shares in the club.
In his plush office at Ibrox stadium in Glasgow, he said: “At the point the Company Voluntary Agreement failed and we moved into the newco realm, the shares and the rest of his indemnity didn’t matter.
“What he believes now, in his mind — and it could only be in Craig Whyte’s mind — is that he is entitled a quarter of my shares.
“Whyte also wants one million quid a year for life. It is not going to happen.
“I’ve not had a day off since I came to Scotland and yet he wants more than what I’m on.”
The tough-talking Yorkshireman added: “People say what goes around, comes around. For Whyte to come out and demand £1million a year for life or 25 per cent of my shares now is ridiculous.”
It is understood Whyte’s legal team are preparing to apply for a High Court writ to serve on Ahmad and Green. He reckons with taped conversations and claims of signed documents, he has a strong case to win back control at Ibrox. But Green last night branded him an “opportunist” and said he was unconcerned by the threat of legal proceedings. He revealed: “Imran received a communication — and I’m not sure it was Craig direct or one of his partners — saying that Imran promised this and that.
“We showed it to the company solicitors at the time and we said ‘Look, there is no agreement in writing. This is just an opportunist trying to pick something up’.
“You know, when Craig Whyte said, ‘Well, I’d like to be an investor’, the SFA would never have allowed it. He is a discredited person. He is banned. So how could he invest? Now whether he’s actually got any money anyway is debatable.
“I know in the early discussions we were saying ‘Well, we’ll probably need £12million or £25million.
“Whyte says, ‘All right, I’ll raise half,’ so we says ‘Okay, go and do it’, but he ever put a penny in.
“There was no agreement. Well, there is not a bit of paper where we agreed this and he needed that and we signed it. We’ve got a club now trying to get back on its feet and he wants to damage it again. Why? Why would anyone want to do that? It could be called blackmail.
“There’s been a whole raft of people who have made claims against the club. We saw it a few weeks ago where people were making claims and put winding up orders on the club.
“There’s a thing called terminal greed and people get envious.
“People see things and they want to be part of it. We know from what we’ve read and what we’ve seen, that Craig Whyte is delusional.You know, he is the man who nearly destroyed Rangers. Why would anyone listen to him?”
Whyte’s claims of his buy-out involvement with Green will stun Rangers fans.
They centre on Sevco 5088 — where Green was a director — which paid £5.5million to buy Gers from liquidation in June last year.
Whyte will argue that he and Aidan Earley were the moneymen behind the move. Green transferred the assets — including Murray Park and Ibrox — to new company Sevco Scotland just days after sealing the deal. Whyte claims the assets were transferred ILLEGALLY because Green did not have the permission of Sevco 5088’s backers — himself and Earley. Sevco Scotland Ltd later changed its name to The Rangers Football Club Ltd.
Whyte’s London-based lawyers will demand up to £50million to cover Ibrox stadium and Murray Park training ground. If Whyte is succesful and Green does not stump up, the assets will return to the original Sevco — which includes him.
Oldco Rangers were plunged into administration and then liquidation last February following Whyte’s tenure. The club was forced to begin life again in the Third Division.
He bought the club from Sir David Murray for a pound in 2011 before racking up massive debts — including unpaid tax of £14million.
Whyte is currently the subject of a Crown Office probe into his time at the club.
He is also being chased through the courts by investment firm Ticketus whose £27million funded his infamous takeover.
WESTWALESCELT
You’re up early,buddy.
You finished the house yet?!!!!
Ah,our neo-cons………
There are some of them playing to the gallery,some playing devil’s advocate,and others-allegedly,haha!!!!!-who only post it to wind us up,surely no-one has beliefs like those……..
We’re a broad church,WWC,we welcome all.
Like Christ,we have a cross to bear.
Sometimes life is good,and as a reward,we get a bear to cross!
HH
PS-I hope your daughter-and everyone she knows-is clear of this measles outbreak. Not nice-the case I had when I was a kid is responsible for my eyes being so light-sensitive.
And that is a tinyminor problem it can cause…….
Fingers crossed,mate.
Ladis, and gentlemen, making a welcome return to the AsbestosDome…
Mr Googly-Eyes himself…
Crrrrrrraaaaiiigggggg Whyte!
‘gg
03:13 on
5 April, 2013
no bad mate……..made me chuckle……keep them coming
now that craigy boy is back
reconstruction of the league set up
a right few chairmen are going to have kittens
longmuir and chuckles will be cast adrift imho
not to mention if sevco go back into administration/liquidation
who was it that issued the club licence to a new club without accounts?
sevco acconts due on what date charles ?
JCGE
jam67
lucky cody at 0741.
I suspect the official attacks on our manager are indeed all to do with wearing him down, so that a middling EPL job offer would look more attractive…
The forensic level of zeal, and the speed with which Neil is brought up before the beaks looks even more ridiculous when you consider this morning’s revelations in The Sun.
Does anyone at the SFA actually know who owns “Rangers”?
Does anyone care?
Or are they simply too afraid to ask?
TALLYBHOY et al
Witch-hunt?
Surely not-the media would be all over such a thing…….
Possibly not-judging by the photo in today’s Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/celtic/9972121/Celtic-manager-Neil-Lennon-cries-foul-over-SFA-charge-for-swearing-during-St-Mirren-clash.html
Cleverly done,I admit-there is no case to answer as the caption legitimises the picture. Disgraceful nonetheless.
I’m no expert but if I was getting taken to court the last thing I would be doing is tell the newspapers that lied to the guy on numerous occasions.
Good morning CQNers,
Celtic_First @ 07.48
Craig Whyte’s revelations may not be news to some in the Sevco camp, Malcolm Murray may have something to say at an appropriate time in the future.
Paul The Spark
Ah,but that,Paul,is because YOU are a bright spark.
But we are talking Whyte and Green here,and thieves falling out……
Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK
Might he not be compromised by his silence at the moment?
In his position,should he know or suspect that something is amiss,he is legally bound to resign and notify the appropriate authorities.
Of course,he might be too pashed to notice!
KEVJ
If yer lurkin’……….
Petec has suggested you may meet up tomorrow for the FAC demo.
If you e-mail me on
bmcuwp@gmail.com
I will forward the details to each of you and you can fine-tune the arrangements.
Enjoy yourself tomorrow. Breathe in the essence of your club.
Rediscover your love for us.
An eskimo asks a priest,
“If i did not know about God and sin,would i go to hell?”
The priest answers,
“No,not if you did not know.”
The eskimo replies,
“Then why tell did you tell me?”
So Chuckles admits to resorting to telling lies to persuade Craigy “agent provocateur’ Whyte to sell him the rotting corpse of Rangers FC. “We told him what he wanted to hear. Imran told him because we needed to keep him sweet to prise the club away from him.”
I am no lawyer but isn’t that tantamount to committing fraud? Also interesting to see that the report in the Current Bun is heavily biased in favour of Chuckles. Scottish MSM reporting at its absolute best.
2 charlatans battling in court over a the ownership of a fetid entity, now that will be interesting. Wonder where the case will be heard England or Scotland?
Sevco FC the laughter just never stops.
peeingmyselflaughingCSC
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
08:19 on
Indeed but this is Scotland where normal rules don’t apply.
CW sends a shiver down the MSM spine! Who else has he recorded?
Chuckles is claiming that he can’t remember signing a verbal contract, Ticketus are looking for their Cally dosh, Jabba can’t find the EBT paperwork, and, ‘what’s that Skippy?, HMRC are sniffing round players contracts AGAIN!?’
Betcha Daly’s agent can’t wait to sign on the dotted!
So craigy bhoy is back in town.
I was wondering why there was a lack of eye contact in work this fine Friday morning.
Hunchback mode has been resumed.
Thems realy are the story that keeps giving.
Hail Hail
Having run out of players to link with clubs down south, the press now linking our manager with a move to Everton should Moyes leave