Under the cover of coronavirus, Dave King resigned as chairman of Newco. Four months ago he said the club needed £10m before the end of the season. In his farewell statement, released last night, he noted a hoped-for round of funding “has been put on hold”. With the postponement of fixtures since last month, the funding requirement could now be as much as £20m.
The statement was unnecessarily wordy, had he got to the point, he would have said ‘The proposed funder has bailed out and so have I. You’re on your own.’
Claiming he hoped to extend his tenure as chairman until after the coronavirus crisis, but was unable to as South Africa authorities insisted he self-isolate for 14 days, insults the intelligence of even his advocates. The world is self-isolating at the moment and the rest of us have figured out how to communicate by phone or videoconference.
This football club needs tens of millions to pay the liabilities incurred to get this close to Celtic. Hopes of selling its player assets for inflated figures have disappeared from their fantasies. Ex-pats prepared to sink millions into covering previous losses do not exist.
Without Dave King menacing to get his hands on the club within days of Charles Green buying Oldco’s assets, Newco would now be solvent and competitive. Instead, Green was forced to cut ticket prices and pay Ally McCoist and his squad over the odds in order to keep the fans onside, blowing his business plan apart from the off.
The architect of this clusterstaunch has left the scene, unwilling to be held accountable for what happens next. Dave, you will be welcome to make the Paradise Windfall draw any time the South African authorities permit you to travel – but I realise you are unlikely to visit Glasgow again. When the history of our 20-in-a-row, or whatever the sequence becomes, is written, there will be a chapter dedicated to fools like you who made it possible.
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Forgot I seen Maradona v Scotland…
T,B & F,
Two Scots, two Brazilians.
A good tale.mika and the polis hat
http://www.celticfc.net/news/17711
HH
MELBOURNE MICK on 28TH MARCH 2020 12:49 PM
…………
I made the mistake that day of shouting “Hey you”, or words to that effect from a distance of about 40/50 yards away as he left Fast Eddies Pool Hall in the Broomielaw, with his Fiancee Karen sitting waiting for him in his white convertable with the roof down.
I shouted to him probably as I couldnt believe my luck in coming across him so soon after the “Cheek and Lip” that he gave my Gorgeous burd, in his hopeless attempt to chat her up a couple of weeks earlier.
He obviously didnt know who I was, and as he was with Celtic at the time, he maybe thought that I was an angry Hun wanting to beat him up, as he couldnt get into his car fast enough and sped off ?
I think I was about 29 years old at the time and still reasonably fit and fast on my feet ( 1985 ?)
Then again he couldnt have thought I was a Hun…cos I was far too good looking !
Again, IF I hadnt shouted and managed to get a hold of him before he got to his car…I might have been all over the papers as “The Celtic fan who beat up Celtic star Maurice Johnston” ?
LOL
I think that I was also wanting to let HIS Burd know why he was getting a punch on the nose ?
LOL
HH
Cassilas
Carlos
Ronaldo
Dalglish
Zidane
Ballack
Higuain
Cruyff
Hazard
Larsson
Nakamura
Groucho.
My fav.
He’s up dancing with big lassie that was in most of the films.
Says to her in a smooch will you marry me, are you rich!.
Answer the second question first!…
LEGEND.
TRUTH_BEAUTY_AND_FREEDOM on 28TH MARCH 2020 3:47 PM
Yashin
McGrain, Beckenbaur, Carlos Alberto, Maldini;
Messi, Maradona, Cruuyf, Ronaldo,
McGrory, Pele.
What a team mate George Connelly and Bobby Moore on bench
HH
Sean Thornton
https://youtu.be/TRkyii0O-Pg
I needed a pick me up. What a pleasurable read.
What is the stars.
Absolute legend.
Psml.
☘🇮🇪
AN TEARMANN on 28TH MARCH 2020 3:21 PM
Is this it :))
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 27TH MARCH 2020 9:35 PM
Have just noticed that
“David Cunningham King”
is an anagram of
“Duckin’ Diving Hangman”
Does the anagram accurately capture his character and his impact on Sevco?
Insolvency rules changed – perhaps sevco are now operating legally
Anagram of David Cunningham King is
‘Other people’s money’
4 2 4
Yashin – Soviet Union – Hampden – Scotland v Soviet Union 1967
Lizarazu – France – Olympic Munich – Bayern v Celtic 2004
Beckenbauer – Germany -Hampden – Bayern v St Etienne 1976
Marquez- Mexico – Celtic Park Celtic v Barcelona 2004
Maldini – Italy San Siro Milan v Celtic 2007
Roy Keane – Ireland – Old Trafford Man Utd v Celtic 1994
Xavi – Spain Celtic Park -Celtic v Barcelona
Cruyff- Netherlands – Hampden – Celtic v Ajax 1971
Pele – Brazil Hampden Scotland v Brasil 1966
Messi- Argentina Celtic Park Celtic v Barcelona
Larsson Sweden – Celtic Park – Celtic v Rangers 1997
Option 1
Mazurkiewicz – Uruguay
Baresi (Italy)
Beckenbauer (West Germany)
Moore (England)
Johnstone (Scotland)
Reyna (Poland)
Delikaris (Greece)
Best (Ireland)
Maradona(Argentina)
Pele- Brazil
Larsson (Sweden)
Option 2
Boruc (Poland)
Godin (Uruguay)
Beckenbauer (West Germany)
Maldini (Italy)
Johnstone (Scotland)
Delikaris (Greece)
Xavi (Spain)
Best (Ireland)
Messi (Argentina)
Ronaldo (Portugal)
Larsson (Sweden)
Option 3
All the option 2 guys were seen at
CP 2005-10
At CP Nov 2011
April 1969 at Hampden
CP- Feb 2007
CP and Hampden- 1963-75
CP- September 1974
CP- September 2004
Hampden 1969 and 1971
CP- Nov 2016
CP- Nov 2006 & 2008
CP and elsewhere 1997- 2004
BIGBHOY on 28TH MARCH 2020 3:14 PM
NorrieM
Don’t cha know they are a peepil. They are no Hamilton.
Philbhoy
As a £50m plus turnover club they could service a large loan with interest rates at all time low. IF they were run properly.
””””””””””””””””””””””””””
And the bank will say aye ok, but mind ye need to be properly run…………….now promise.
How much de ye want?
Like the self employed the loan will be based on previous performance not future promises.
So, hopefully they will get nothing.
Stay safe.
How can you know or remember the nationalities of all those guys?
Amazin’!
TRUTH_BEAUTY_AND_FREEDOM
Lev Yashin?
And I thought you were a youngster!
:-)
Ah Leftie
Thanks for posting the anagram.it made me smile and that is a good thing..hope you and yours keepin safe P.will catch up soon.
😊
HH
Big Jimmy
BBC2 is going to start to show classic comedy films around 3pm each day…
Mon 6th: School For Scoundrels
Tue 7th: The Man In The White Suit
Wed 8th: The Titfield Thunderbolt
Thu 9th: Whisky Galore!
Fri 10th: The Lavender Hill Mob
Erz yir telly kick off times sorted for next week.
1985 Glasgow your club? Pub? Was
Keep on
HH
Best non Celtic team I’ve seen play…
Ter Stegen (various for Barca)
Dani Alves (various for Barca and PSG)
Van Dijk (for Liverpool v Real Madrid)
Maldini (Celtic v AC Milan 03 and 07)
Marcelo (for Real v Barcelona)
Modric (for Real v Barcelona)
Yaya Toure (Man City v West Ham)
Kevin De Bruyne (Man City v Schalke)
Ronaldo (various for Man U and Real)
Neymar (various for Barca and PSG)
Messi (various for Barca)
Simpson
Craig
Gemmell
Murdoch
McNeill
Clark
Johnstone
Wallace
Chalmers
Auld
and
Lennox
Covid 19 – Italy @ 6pm -28/3/20
Cases -92,472
Deaths -10,023
889 people died in the 24 hr period between 6pm yesterday and 6pm today..
SOT
No signs of it slowing down?
The 3 players who left the biggest impression on me after a football match were Modric, Marcelo (both 2016) and Neymar (2015).
BABASONICOS71 on 28TH MARCH 2020 3:46 PM
Yashin
__________________________
I thought it was generally acknowledged that Simpson was better than Yashin.
In the same way, there was also a general consensus among experts that Yogi was better than Eusebio and Johnstone was better than anyone.
1.
https://www.scotlandtoday.co.uk/2020/03/glasgow-wetherspoons-sprayed-with.html
2.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52066303
Brighthouse in administration.virus on the poor.hope they end.
HH
seen George Best in a boozer on Kings Road with a couple of ladies, a brandy and wine.
Looked like a player
D17
No idea what you have ever seen in Neymar
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 28TH MARCH 2020 5:26 PM
Covid 19 – Italy @ 6pm -28/3/20
Cases -92,472
Deaths -10,023
889 people died in the 24 hr period between 6pm yesterday and 6pm today..
——–
Terrible numbers. Just show thats the lockdown measures take time to impact. I read that the virus can take 2 weeks for symptoms to show and it can take a further 2-4 weeks for patients to die. Italy could be somewhere near the peak as number of new cases has dropped to 6.9% today from 62.5% on 25/2. Stay safe.
NORRIEM on 28TH MARCH 2020 5:38 PM
D17
No idea what you have ever seen in Neymar
——
Messi and whole of Barca want him back. Need i say more.
PHILBHOY.
The new case incidence is slowing down.
GOWKTHRAPPLE
A word you seldom see.
Possible quarantine for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
BADA-have watched the first 3parts of the OJ documentary.
Very good but a few unsettling bits .Away to watch part4
SOT
Horrible numbers but maybe a chink of light?
God help us all.
Christina Hendricks on channel 5 🥰
Thank you Gene@!.☘🇮🇪
DAVID17-
The medical scientists think it’s somewhere near the peak..Heard a virologist on a news programme earlier- “It’s a very unpredictable monster”