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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snake plissken
12:09 on 5 April, 2013
For me the interesting thing is two articles on the same day. Claim and rebuttal in the same edition of a newspaper is somewhat unusual.
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they got to sell papers to the zombies
the msm will be sick right now
everyone and their goats at the msn have backed green and how big sevco are
some will believe now the whyte is still in charge and all the staff leaving or sacked
the sign of a sinking ship imho
get your gear and head for the lifeboats there is an iceberg ahead
Stupid stupid zombies
glasgows green and whyte
WANT A BET THEY DONT YA FAT SLEEKIT COWARD.
From RM
In the meantime, McMoist has again been left to face questions about boardroom SHENNANIGANS, and the manager said: “I’ll definitely be meeting Charles and having a grovell.
“But without doubt again the main people I feel sorry for are the deluded supporters who think they have kept this club going in the last 18 months.
“I definitely feel for them because just when we seem to be getting a bit of clarity something else comes from left field.
“I’ve got no doubts the press and media will be asking questions(no laughing at the back), as they never do, so I’d be very hopeful that once again our supporters can get answers they deserve.”
Sorry about the poor AWE NAWing
Ogilvie for one stated he would resign if asked , the question is has he been asked and if not why not, this would not need fan power, to me the football authorities want the reorganisation[ one governing body] more than the supporters, again why would that be too many skeletons?
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Can’t stop laughing @corsica1968 Protected account 15m Another wee Corsica reminder: Green, Whyte, Ellis & King all met in Switzerland last year pre-CVA fail.
@corsica1968 Not forgetting common property interests outwith Ibrox…
HH
talk bout bad timing. Noticed front page of herald.
RANKERS aim to grow business opportunities..
Never mind the continual use of R name.. The rest just shows their agenda of relentless spin.
Rumbled by chuckles himself ..
JCGE
I cannot believe greengo has said ” We told him what he wanted to hear” (SSN)
That’s it then……finished, done, caput…..The illegal takeover of a company…by deception !!!!
YYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS….(eat your heart out, Keevins….you little liar…LOL
Jungle jam67
If you owned a paper, you’d put the two big stories on subsequent days. Spread the peak in sales over a longer period.
In any normal country, delaying the first story then running both on the same day makes no sense. Who’s pulling the strings here as the Whyte side of the story obviously couldn’t be blocked but the supposedly free press is colluding in managing the agenda.
S
Sports law experts believe the spate of investigations into alleged breaches of state aid rules by football clubs and public authorities herald a new era of tension between sport and European regulators.
State aid is any form of financial assistance given by central or local government, or other publicly funded bodies, to private companies that might distort a free market.
News that Real Madrid are in the regulators’ crosshairs, however, escalates matters considerably.
Real’s relationship with the local authority has been the subject of debate ever since the Spanish giants sold part of their training ground to the council for £23m in 1998. Half of that sum was paid in cash, the rest coming in property.
Real Madrid hope to make the Bernabeu the third largest top-rated football stadium in the world by boosting its current capacity to 93,000
The updated ground would feature a retractable roof
Plans also exist to build a hotel and shopping centre to help foot the £200m expansion bill
The Spanish club sold some of that property and developed the rest of its training ground. The proceeds enabled Real to embark on a period of extravagant spending on “Galacticos” – players such as Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane – and win a record ninth European Cup/Champions League title in 2002.
But, in a move described by Spain’s El Pais newspaper as an “inexplicable error”, some of the land given to Real in 1998 did not even belong to the council at the time. This was not discovered until 2011.
The council’s solution was to take back the land and compensate Real Madrid in a deal that included new parcels of land at their new training ground and stadium, as well as prime assets elsewhere.
The total value of this compensation was more than £19m, a 54-fold increase on what the original land was worth in 1998.
Not only did this represent a windfall for a club struggling to compete on the field with a resurgent Barcelona, but a series of property swaps between club and council left Real owning the land it needs to substantially upgrade the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium – a £200m plan that includes putting a roof on the ground.
Real have denied any wrongdoing, telling The Independent newspaper that the valuation of Las Tablas – an area of land in the north of Madrid – was done by the council, and was therefore “independent”, and any increase in the value of its property portfolio could be explained by rising values across the city.
And on Thursday, Madrid’s mayor Ana Botella said the city’s dealings with Real were “scrupulously legal”.
But one expert on EU law based in Brussels, speaking off the record, told the BBC “the Real issue seems an obvious candidate for state aid concerns”, and added the commission appears keen to pursue football clubs as a “populist way of showing it is doing useful work in this area”.
London-based lawyer Alex Haffner, a senior associate at Dentons, said the commission was clearly “very engaged with the issues in the Real Madrid case”.
He added: “The key issue will be the application of the ‘market investor test’, which looks at whether a private investor would have acted in the same way.”
“In view of these developments, it is no exaggeration to say that all football clubs that have previously entered into commercial property transactions (with public bodies) are now under the regulatory microscope.”
Good job the ‘Masterplan’ failed…
October 2008
Glasgow City Council has approved Rangers’ plan to develop the land around Ibrox Stadium.
The estimated £350m plan will see flats in the Hinshelwood area transformed into hotel and retail outlets.
Rangers chairman Sir David Murray anticipated approval when he spoke at the club’s annual meeting on Thursday.
“We have a masterplan which will hopefully be of financial benefit to Rangers,” said Murray. “The funds will go to the club, nobody else.”
The club will now seek partners to work on the project and there are also plans to create a local community football pitch.
“This is a significant step forward in an exciting project that can have a major impact in regenerating the Govan area and delivering real benefit to the whole of Glasgow, particularly in view of the Commonwealth Games coming to the city,” said a club spokesman. We still have a plan to redevelop the stadium and we will do that in consultation with our supporters
Rangers chairman Sir David Murray
A spokesman for the council added: “The Ibrox redevelopment proposals are part of the overall regeneration plan for the Govan area.
“At times when markets are experiencing difficulties, the council needs to be more adventurous about how it uses its own land to encourage economic development and generate investment.”
The council has asked Rangers to provide detailed timescales for the development.
Meanwhile, plans to increase the capacity of Ibrox appear to have been shelved for the time being, with current economic conditions being blamed.
“A year ago, Martin and I had been looking at Lyon’s plans as they look to build a new stadium,” Murray added.
“But, at the moment, our plan, to be quite honest, doesn’t stand up financially in this climate. MY SPORT: DEBATE
Do Rangers fans want to see Ibrox expanded?
“With that said, we still have a plan to redevelop the stadium and we will do that in consultation with our supporters.”
Murray has also reiterated his intention to eventually sell the club with the majority shareholder having spent the last 20 years with Rangers.
“I think it’s a bit unfair to say I’ve not been committed, I spend four or five hours a day working on Rangers,” he said.
“I have made it quite clear that eventually I have to go, I don’t want to be doing this for the rest of my life.
“I’ve got a huge business to run and my business needs me as much as Rangers need me.
“I could have sold the club two or three times but it’s not about money for me and I’ve said that repeatedly.
“I’ve only got the best intentions for Rangers. It costs me a lot of money – I have the most expensive seat in the house.”
This surely must be the Smoking Gun.
Depending on how football reacts will determine whether the gun is pointing at Them or Scottish football.
This game ain’t big enough for the two of us!
Anyone who thinks C Ogilvie is not is on this whole scam to protect Murray ,Sevco and THEIR SFA cohorts(Passed & present) is not looking at the facts,IMHO
This is bigger than Whyte & Green IMHO.
Till later
Does anyone else think that no matter what they do or say its of no consequence because they know they will get clean away with it? The SFA, still run by an ex bhun, whilst they should be all over the mess that is rfc are in fact all over Neil Lennon for swearing, Lord Nimmo Smith, no sporting advantage, some nutter attacks Neil live on telly, admits it and is found not guilty, David Longmuir, SPL 2, an onside MSM promoting rfc into the top flight at every opportunity, now Charles Green openly admitting to all and sundry that he’s a liar who would say anything for profit, will he get away with it, will they get away with it, is Scotland run by masons?
Before I Go :))
Reading CSC @readingcsc 11m @CelticNetwork11 Useful advice for anyone going to #FAC demo on Saturday: http://scalp.noflag.org.uk/legal-guide/
PFayr – hola amigo, just saw yer post and have already given BMCW the go ahead to send you my email addy. I arrive on the 18th and leave on the 29th. Would love to see all my CQN buddies, hope to see BT although i know he’s going in to have his wallet removed from his hip:)
slainte
tony
I wonder if next blog will be about Green and White Versus Green and White or Green versus Whyte? :)
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 21m Sun releases first set of secretly recorded Craig Whyte/ Charles Green conversations. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4874544/EXCLUSIVE-The-
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4874544/EXCLUSIVE-The-Whyte-Tapes-Recording-1.html
They died…… but this reinvention of identity lark is nearly as funny
SFA- This clubs licence,how it came to be,now needs to be blowin wide open.
How will the city respond?
If Craigy is the subject of a criminal investigation,should not Chucky be in there?
they will implodeCSC
The Moon Boys
I’m reckon that this time there can be no hiding place. It will no longer be the supporters of other clubs asking questions of the SFA, it will be the supporters of ALL clubs asking who is responsible for protecting Scottish football from spivs, even the msm at large should be doing so.
When the SFA told Alex Thomson
” The SFA insist they are football’s umbrella body in the game but have no jurisdiction over the running of the SPL or any league for that matter:
“The Scottish FA has no jurisdiction over the competition rules of league bodies. Through the Professional Game Board, we can provide a forum for debate on matters such as league reconstruction.”
‘So they say they exist to provide debate on matters like league reconstruction but cannot interfere directly, they say they have no powers to do so.’
was it a Pontious Pilate act?
It is no longer acceptable to dodge responsibility (because that makes them accountable by being responsible) and if ever there was a reason to debate the role and purpose of the SFA in governing our game that time is now.
Lots of good advice here!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
Meant to add
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
doncha just love graigy boy.
Sorry about FAC link got it off Phils twitter but not working
How did they get a license, where are the old accounts and as the Dundee manager would say where ur ra deeds…
deed deed deed..
Oh Campbell where fore art thou?
leftclicktic- sound on that link very difficult to make out.
Obviously the proper microphone is reserved for following our manager in the dugout.
I don’t honestly think my ribs can take any more laughter. This is the best comedy since Morecambe & Wise!!!
Philip Yeates ex Sevco physio: “I had a meeting with Charles Green who intimated there was a company review and as a consequence my position was being made redundant. ”
How do you run a football team without a physio?
Vince Lunny needs to get out more. Does he not know that swearing is part of the Irish culture??
Rangers Tax-Case @rangerstaxcase 13 Feb Traynor “exposing and bringing down” Craig Whyte, 31 Jan 2012. http://bit.ly/VVoZ3a 7 months late & only fortnight before administration
shady
12:32 on 5 April, 2013
yeah mate i know that
but with a lead article from whyte before green would upset their core readers
the zombies cannot handle bad news
and the msm are managing the agenda
because when sevco go down the pan their readers have no reason to by the paper
and the msm have told the zombies what they wanted to hear
hail hail
‘ O, What a tangled web we weave…’
.. & how bizarre is it that while our so-called MSM ‘journalists’ are frozen in the headlights,
it turns out to be Bomber Brown who was the only person asking the REAL question…
Who DOES hold the deeds to Ibrox Stadium & Murray Park ?
Dontbrattbakkinanger
Turn it up A bit :))
Celtic_first,
See my third last post.
Moon bhoys
Is England and if not will they all be exposed 3 month before the referendum for Independence by them. Cameron and Reid shared a platform on this issue before. Any time a tory speaks on this issue Independence is even more secure. The lid is being slowly lifted will it be flicked over for full exposure. SIR Moonbeams moved to the SNP a few months before he done the durty deal. Independence may be scuppered but far more importantly to the Scottish voter will be a vibrant Rangers and A BRITISH league and in that order.
Vladimirs rants may historically supercede the Abroath declaration
HH
leftclicktic
I’m sure MWD had a link to that info on the list of CQN demo Bhoys .
HH
1000 Sevco shares have just been sold on the exchange at £70.35.
Stupid zombies now cashing in at a loss…
Another focus case dumped this morning against a GB member..
Did Sandanza get a super dooper pay off for his breach of contract because Charles should be due one soon.
Sevco share price so far today.
£71.01
£71.00
£70.40
£70.35
http://scalp.noflag.org.uk/legal-guide
Think this the FAC link
It also explains John Browns appointment from nowhere.
HH
coorslad
12:58 on
5 April, 2013
Another focus case dumped this morning against a GB member..
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hope the fan involed tell his lawyer to give all details to FAC & /CST
keep the pressure on the cops and give celtic legal paperwork to show cases of harrasment
against celtic fans
jam67