The mainstream media, football administrators, football club directors, former football club directors, together with the executives from PR companies, are in a new space this week.
Many of these people have spent over 20 years controlling all important aspects of the media in relations to football in Scotland. Some have established a culture of dependency and fear; at the left of the telephone, or the click of a mouse, they could destroy reputations.
Most of these types backed Craig Whyte when Sir David Murray endorsed him as the right sort to buy Rangers, a situation which remained in place until administrators were appointed last year. Since then they have acted in unison to demonise Whyte, who has been painted as the solely responsible for the downfall of the football club.
Now, thanks to the industrious Charlotte, every underhand conspiracy is in danger of becoming exposed.
Find yourself in the dock over sectarian chanting? Don’t dispute the fact, simply allude to links which didn’t actually exist between the son of a Celtic director and the head of an anti-racism unit. The fact that some think there is an apparent scandal in the son of a Celtic director having links to an anti-racism campaigner is a bizarre thought. There were no links, but why shouldn’t there be, it’s anti-racism were talking here, which football clubs really should have affinity with.
And Oldco Rangers printed this rubbish in a submission to Uefa! Good grief.
Stewart Regan finds himself with a position to defend. One of his responsibilities is to ensure clubs are licenced correctly for Uefa competitions. I am not too exercised with him coordinating a response to this issue with the club concerned, but his assertion that Rangers were legitimately licenced for season 2011-12, despite the Discounted Options Scheme, or Wee Tax Case, seems more than odd.
In order to gain a Uefa licence clubs must have paid all social taxes due by 31 December no later than 31 March. Rangers advisors, Grant Thornton UK LLP, called Rangers £2.8m liability, which was unpaid by 31 March 2011, a “potential liability”, which was subject to discussions between the club and HMRC.
In quite simple terms, a club can call any liability a potential liability, however, this particular liability was very real. If the SFA allow Uefa rules to be circumnavigated by such a self-certified dismissal they are failing their duty to the game.
Mr Regan, the fact of this matter is that the liability was real. What evidence did you see to convince you otherwise? What processes are in place to ensure that a rogue SFA executive cannot rubber stamp a licence when one should not be granted? Can a club simply say “We’re all right, this stuff is under discussion” to make the SFA look the other way?
SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, was secretary and director of Rangers during the entire operation of the Discounted Options Scheme. He was on the SFA board with oversight duties for ensuring clubs meet Uefa licensing standards when the club were issued with their 2011-12 licence, and he is currently seeking re-election to his post.
If Rangers were denied their licence for 2011-12 Celtic would have been eligible
The chat from PR companies is perhaps the most alarming, for them, of course.
Right now there is a campaign underway to ignore Charlotte. Any journo who takes on such an influential group of interests might is facing down some of the most influential people in the media industry. Here’s a thought for you: I reckon only circa 10% of available material has been looked at. Charlotte is not going away and neither is wee Craigie.
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quonno
Charlotte Fakeovers
@CharlotteFakes
Dooooooooh
https://twitter.com/CharlotteFakes
Former West Ham United striker Carlton Cole has been heavily backed to join Celtic this summer.
The England international is 8/11 with Sky Bet to sign for the Scottish champions before September.
Cole ended his stay at Upton Park after he left this summer and he may decide to move north of the border.
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Just heard from a Good Sauce..
Carlton Cole
Summa
Balde’s (the non Bobo variety that is) goal to game ratio is not one i would expect to attract Celtic. Mediocre is being polite with a ratio of only 0.3. Our own Greek Ghod Sammi has a better goal to game ratio and he still gets pelters for not scoring enough goals. However Lenny and the scouting team have obviously seen something in the young lad so we have to trust them.
Summa of Sammi…. 13:19 on 10 June, 2013
Just heard from a Good Sauce..
Carlton Cole
Summa
Decent player. Didn’t WGS have a go for him at one point?
archdeaconsbench
I just got rid of a spare at lunchtime
You will get in no problem as there will be a few
casualties due to the Bevy
GlassTwoThirdsFull
HP
Daddies
Heinz
Sevco need their man in there. Also, Regan et al will not want to become collateral damage.
Therefore, CO will assuredly be re- elected.
The president of the Spanish Football League,
Javier Tebas, believes many of the most
talented players in Spain will leave the country
in the next four years as clubs are forced to
pay off their debts.
Spain international Jesus Navas is expected to
sign for Manchester City and, with Radamel
Falcao already heading for Monaco from
Atletico Madrid, Malaga midfielder Isco could
also leave Spain.
The future of the two highest Spanish scorers
in the Primera Division last season, Alvaro
Negredo and Roberto Soldado, remains
uncertain.
In an interview with AS , Tebas said fans
should expect more players to leave the
league, stressing the only way for teams to
compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona was
to resolve their financial troubles.
He said: “Fans need to be aware that there is
going to be an exodus of players over the next
three to four years, because we need clubs to
decrease their debts if they are able to become
alternatives to the big clubs.”
Tebas also reiterated his support for a model
of Financial Fair Play for Spanish football,
declaring: “The fundamental idea, with a few
caveats, is that clubs must spend what they
earn.”
The president added that the league was
looking to expand its global audience, and
said this would have an effect on how it
scheduled games in the future.
“We need to look to the foreign market if we
are to increase our television revenues, and
that means we have to pay attention to the
television operators abroad, and make things
easier for them in terms of kick off times,” he
said.
quonno
Uh? That’s some sleep you’ve had!
HH
Balde is not short on confidence, talking about being the best striker in Europe in a couple of seasons time.
Hi Paul67,
This Charlette stuff is very interesting, we all new these conspiricies were going on. From the end of WGS’s reign when CL Qualifiction was a must for Rangers with only one team qualifying it became rife.
What I like about the Ms Fakes’ expose is we can see the modus operandi, a cure for the Paranoia Timitus epidemic.
Hail! Hail!
Amido Balde @AmidoBalde 39m
very special day for me signing for such a big club , very happy pic.twitter.com/c32dv4zKcG
Amido Balde Amido Balde @AmidoBalde 48m
thanks for all your kind messages
nice to meet with a few of the guys at the CQN golf outing yesterday. will hopefully be able to make it to another one sometime soon.
i always bring the good weather with me…pity about the golf game though!
cheers
We all know that the complicit press coverage rangers received contributed to their demise. If Sevco want the same coverage then good luck to them.
The press are supposed to provide checks and balances on many aspects of our lives. Our club are better off operating in a caustic environment, wrt press interaction, than our new neighbours across the city who seem to feel press management is where the long term game is won or lost.
They lost the long term game and the only one who tried to warn their fans, chico, was shouted down by cheerleader #1.
Let them play their games…
No apologies for stating once again that Glenn Gibbons is a fellow alumni of St. Augustine’s, Milton.
He stayed on for his Highers, I left and “got a Trade”!
lennon saw something in balde that he didn’t see in a twenty goal scorer for 800k.
I hope they got it right, not impressed.
AsonOfDan 13:28
Balde is not short on confidence, talking about being the best striker in Europe in a couple of seasons time.
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Have to say I’m a bit cautious about this guy. Always worry when they come in and mouth off about what they are going to do. Didn’t Bangura talk about using us as a stepping stone to England or Spain?
I know Chris Sutton famously spoke up and backed it up on the field, but I think that is the exception to the rule.
timhorton
Agree entirely.
Assuming that Balde signs, will we still be in for another striker? Or is it dependant on Hooper or Stokes leaving?
Who would it be? With Russell about to sign for Derby, does the manager want a bit of experience to play up front with Balde. Doyle? McFadden?
Think Amido Balde is 22? Plenty of scope for improvement, not to worried about stats from early in his career, all they tell us is he is young and still learning his trade.
Chairbhoy 13:28
From the end of WGS’s reign when CL Qualifiction was a must for Rangers with only one team qualifying it became rife.
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Getting three home games against Hearts and only one away was a joke. An obvious desparate measure cos they needed to win the league to get the CL money to survive.
Charlotte`s releases cannot be used in the MSM because they were taken without the owners` permission. Is that the case?
If it is, who are the owners of the information?
Is Charlotte one of the owners?
JJ
Hail hail from a brighter Lisboa
I refer back to my post from a few days agort what my two Portuguese pals thought about Balde:
Not the finished article, a 2nd division player and £2m is way too much.
I hope they are wrong if he does sign, but they seem like good judges when it comes to fitballers.
Charlotte has only a little over 20,000 followers. This is not viral enough for big impact. I would suggest that everyone who is following forwards details to their entire networks and seeks to raise this beyond a small time interest.
Is there non-one in the MSM who has enough balls to have a go on this? Looks like real investigative journalism is dead.
RC Ogilvie cannot surely be re-electied as the president of this unfit-for-purpose Association. It needs reformed and cleansed. It needs new and independent people of strong will to do so.
If Celtic PLC don’t want to show face or integrity perhaps they could also work through intermediaries in order to push this more?
The reality is that we are members of that Asssociation and should (morally and practically) be doing something to expose and sort this. Are we really running scared from this corrupt cabal of masonic ingrates?
HH
So much for NFL’s ‘silly season’ comments when linked by MSM to Amido Balde,
Tell them nothing CSC
Not being linked with Celtic —–
Edinson Cavani . —– a minimum of 63 million euros worth of striker . Italian media have him going to either Chelsea or Real Madrid .
El Sharaway ——– rumored to be signing for Manchester City in exchange for 25 million euros plus Tevez .
Boateng ——–heading for Chelsea @ 15 million euros .
Jovetic ——- signing for Juve / Arsenal / Chelsea / Real Madrid / PSG or Manchester City . Fined big bucks by Fiorentina yesterday for issuing a come and get me to Juve via the press…
Marchisio —— 30 million —— Real Madrid / Chelsea / PSG .
Lotte is back
Charlotte Fakeovers @CharlotteFakes 4m
This is what a Ticketus deal looked like in Murrays final year 2010-2011 £5.3 million. http://www.scribd.com/doc/146867089/Ticketus-Deal-Sir-David-Murray …
If the people who charlotte is outing do what she is trying to get them to i.e pay up Whyte(IMHO)She/he will disappear without a trace.
Charlotte is not in this as a fighter for truth & honesty she/he are there to get a certain group to do what they want or they will be outed.
I hope they ignore her/him for a while yet:))
glendalystonsils likes a mr whippy with his lime green jelly
13:24 on 10 June, 2013
Sevco need their man in there. Also, Regan et al will not want to become collateral damage.
Therefore, CO will assuredly be re- elected.
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Agree with all of that and accept he will probably be re-elected.
However, I would like to be assured that there are folk with integrity, seeking to block/indicate ‘no confidence’ in him. I want to see evidence of a lobby against his …methods.
Even if it only a small minority.
Otherwise, what is the point?
HH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22838512
Amido Balde: Portuguese striker arrives for Celtic talks
Re Balde
Theres seems to be a lot of negative reaction based on such little information.
Ogilvie is damaged goods, and everyone in Scotland knows that. To re-elect him would be proof positive it it were ever needed that they really dont give a flying duck what we think.
Look’s like new bhoy Balde is under the
mineshafter’s microscope already……fur fcuk
sake.
getbehindtheteamCSC.
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@RFCCreditors Nice spot, I’ll follow this up in the next tweet, could be interesting.
If Balde does go ahead and signs for us he doesn’t appear to be an obvious replacement for either Hooper or Stokes. I wonder if this is an indication that both are set to stay with us.
Clink\o/
13:50 on
10 June, 2013
Re Balde
Theres seems to be a lot of negative reaction based on such little information.
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I guess that is because we have had our fingers burnt on a few occasions signing strikers.
Seems to be the one area we struggle to sign players who can do a job. Hopefully young Balde will have us doubters eating humble pie.