So Charlie’s back. Did he ever really go away? I suspect not. Sevco Scotland/The Rangers FC/Rangers International is Charles Green’s project. He was the guy who picked the pieces up from the Rangers liquidator.
He was the guy, through liberal use of words like ‘bigotry’, ‘No surrender’ and ‘Dallas Cowboys’ managed to convince thousands of people to buy into a version of reality which convinced them to spend money.
He cut a deal with the compliant Ally McCoist to shift tickets in 2012, then did the same with Walter Smith in 2013, and co-opted a variety of flunkies to the cause along the way. The £22m raised at an IPO was down to him. No one else would have been able to achieve the latter feat, and he is needed again.
The move only appears audacious to those who have not been paying attention. When Green bought Rangers assets two years ago, the game was up. Those assets would be bled green, white and gold in order to provide as large a return on investment as possible. Nothing has changed.
What is needed at Ibrox right now is someone to pitch up saying, “Bigotry, No surrender, forget what I said earlier, it’s the same club, now buy your ticket, you tell them Ally/Walter/whoever next”. Charlie is perfect for this job.
The reality that existed pre-2012 is gone. That club’s assets were bought from a liquidator and are now masquerading around the lower leagues of Scottish football. Those who stepped forward, paid their money, and in doing so, actually gave thousands of people a club to support, are in charge – as is their right.
This is not a good thing if you have an affinity with that club, but it’s better than having Ibrox “razed to the ground” (remember Bomber Brown’s warning), so no matter what fans think of Charles Green, it’s time to accept his reality: Rangers were liquidated, fans were not organised, wealthy fans declined to step forward, the assets were bought by people who WILL make a financial return and Charles Green is one of the few people with an idea of how to deliver this.
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Every time I see or hear Charles Green I can’t help imagining that he is chuckling away under his breath and struggling to keep his face straight at thems’ gullibility as he relieves them of a few more pennies…
La grande maison doit rester ouverte.
BSR… The big hoose…just a guess.
Read this in the FT but this can’t be right….
“Richard Bellingham, who is leading the research at the University of Strathclyde’s Institute for Future Cities, has found that men are more likely to commit domestic violence on a night when the city’s Celtic football club has played. “The aim is to move beyond historical correlation and towards prediction,” he says.”
DresdenCSC. Give me a clue who you are. I used to be in your club for 4 years
Wish I was back there for the game in July. Will be some party
Why has pirate pete fecked of on holiday when we should be strengthening the squad,make me believe I was right and this was just the cheapest option , and a guy that was not to interested in signings,fear for next season
DresdenCSC
Glad you both enjoyed the Seville book – it really is a great read and there are plenty of people mentioned from the blog that have still to pick up a copy!
If anyone is looking for one please email me on david@CQNMagazine.com – a brilliant read on the beach!
Bournesouprecipe – I posted Bertie Auld’s answer to your question earlier today.
Charles Green coming back is like a new signing.
Our valiant band of Scottish refs would have had a problem if they were at this World Cup. Every goal thats scored results in the whole team leaving the field of play to celebrate sometimes with the whole bench of subs, trainers and all. Our bold band of refs would run out of yellow cards very quickly.
The refs in Brazil dont seem to know the rules.
On a Celtic story, i hears Southampton new manager Ronald Koeman is about to put a bid in for big Virgil, 8m.
Well i read it on teletext (yes some of us still use old tech).
Pod1
I think you will find the researcher was called Richard Bellend.
Gordon J
Just goes to show there’s more than one boring old Ufarte who reads the blog
McBhoy
That’s the bottom line.
winning captains
Thanks for taking the time, to do that.
darwinsbeautifulidea – they’re all new signings to Ronny.
HT – many thanks to you and Minx.
I need to finish the thing now for fear of what Minx would do to me otherwise!
I hear she gives out a brutal deadleg when she feels the need to demonstrate her authority….
;-)
HH jamesgang
SydneyTim
We’re all looking forward to the game in July; never thought I’d see the day when the famous Glasgow Celtic would be playing here in Dresden!
We had the same thoughts, when we set up the Dresden CSC in Beams!!
Hope all’s going well in Oz?
Cheers
PODI
Since we win more often than we lose,it may be down to huns getting a tad upset about our success.
Highly unlikely that a HAPPY HOOPY TIM is gonna go off on one after another victory.
We just get blootered,swap tales of heroism,glory,and valour and sing our chooooooons.
Then miss the train home.
winning captains
It’s a great book, well put together and presented! Thanks to YOU and the others for putting it together! As said, it’s class :-)
Just to give everyone a wee laugh on a Monday,my thanks to HAMILTON TIM for this.
I dunno if the fella was injured,but heyho.
https://vine.co/v/Mu95B0nEFih
Todays treble..
Germany,
Nigeria,
US.
2 out of 3 yesterday. Getting better.
frankie boyle tweet
Unionism: The belief that two similar countries might fare better together. Unless they’re both part of Ireland.
I’ve been off the blog for a few days and come back to see a really acrimonious yes/no spat, interspersed with great posts about the world cup.
The games so far have been a lot better than I expected and it looks like we’ll be able to enjoy a good tournament. I hope Ryecatcher puts up his predictions good and early. Is he a bookies’ plant?
I have predicted only 2 correct scores, Brazil @12/1 and Italy @ 9/1 so I’m just ahead.
But who’d have thunk Chuckles would have breezed back into Mordor? The hordes must be apoplectic. Long may that continue. Hahaha!
If John Collins and Ronny are happy working together, what’s not to like? They could be a terrific combo IMHO.
Germany, Ghana and Nigeria for me today, and Efe to score @25?1.
HH
TAMRABAM
Hmmm,interesting comment from Frankie. I like the guy. Disnae hold back.
Any idea who said this? The last wee bit might open your eyes the way that an unexpected boot in the bollix does.
‘We regard it as only right and proper that the world sees in the New Year by singing a Scottish song. We take it for granted that half the broadcasters on the BBC are Scotsmen. We don’t envy the English. We pity them. There is no Scottish cringe, in the Australian fashion. There is only the Scottish swagger – a swagger inspired by the authentically Calvinist certainty that we and only we (by which of course I mean we White Aggressively Scottish Protestant males) are the Elect.’
Can I just say
Tony Blair – go feck yourself you war mongering scumbag.
MWD says AYE
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Charles Green :))))))))))))))))
MWD
Seconded
I’d love Effe to score, just so the world can see his acrobatic goal celebration, unlikely though.
BMCUWP
Walter! One named Walter.
I love that man. Hero!
MWD says AYE
McBhoy
Thank you for the reminder:)))))
Off to put a couple of pound on Efe Bhoy to score anytime in 90mins
Oldhabitsdiehardcsc
bmcuwp, Campbell Ogilvie.
Good afternoon CQN
Was up to CP ticket office for my Maestro tickets this morning
Still a load of external work going on
Around the grounds
Hail Hail
MT
mcbhoy-16/1 Efe to score anytime Ladbrokes
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Charles Green :))))))))))))))))
Well he will tell them anything they want to hear,
I’m away to watch “big haunds ” Christmas message & Charles Green this is your life on you tube
“trusty plimsoles”csc
Bada Bing, thats not bad, only 12/1 on Willy Hills
!!Bada Bing!!
Thank you
Stopped using Wm Hills(not that they will miss my pittance) and always felt I was losing out.
Ladbrokes it is for Efe Bhoy bet
Leftclicktic, On betfair Efe is a massive 54/1 to score first. But anytime is probably a safer bet.
I can’t help but feel if Charles Green had said right from the off; ‘I will be walking away with x amount as soon as the share price reached x amount, and for the hard work of my associates I have awarded in-house contracts to them,’ (a la Fergus) the teddy bears wouldn’t have had a boycott of season tickets, and they would be in a much happier position.
CG is an excellent salesman. It’s the lack of transparency which has ripped the heart out of our friends from Ibrox.
Feasibly the club could suffer factional in-fighting for a decade, no bother. Of course whether they survive this long is a different matter.
Deloitte rumoured to be withdrawing services from the club due to Ranger’s overestimation of future income. (the implication being Rangers are trading whilst inevitably insolvent).
Current season ticket money due to run out in August- maybe before – George Letham contractually obliged to be paid 1.5M and still not received penny.
I think the RFC board are planing a sale and leaseback of Murray Park – this may be the £5M they claim they can get at the touch of a button. This will surely be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I mean after that, what next? They obviously believe that they just need to limp into the SPFL to survive. Can they make it that far?
Their mooted share issue would surely just cement the current position of the shareholders. Problem is, these companies don’t do ‘averaging down’ on their share positions. They don’t buy at 70p, see it plummet and think, ‘if I buy again at 20p I’ll have an average of 45p share price.’ They live by a mantra of ‘if you are in a hole, don’t keep digging.’ Which would suggest that some of them at least, may be happy to recoup their 4-5M investment by selling all the assets. Trouble is, the assets won’t cover all their losses.
This is a new kind of reality TV show, where the contestants (the rangers fans) are continually humiliated and tortured by producers with nefarious intentions. It has lasted 2 years and the world’s most successful soap opera shows no signs of abating.
Did they do something bad in a previous incarnation?
Off oot, bookies, pub, indian.
Note to self. Do not txt and read blog at same time.HH