With no bids on the table and no one prepared to pay a deposit to get an exclusive and detailed look at the books, Duff and Phelps are adding on extra minutes like referee Bobby Tait in the famous Rangers-Kilmarnock game on 2 May 1998. Rangers needed a win to keep the pressure on Celtic but the game was scoreless after 90 minutes. This was a time before referees indicated how many additional minutes they would play and Tait, on his farewell appearance as a referee at Ibrox before retirement, allowed the game to continue well beyond the anticipated period as Rangers battered at Kilmarnock’s goal.
In the 96th minute Ally Mitchell scored for Killie in a breakaway and Tait brought the game to an end soon thereafter. There was nothing more the referee could do. Duff and Phelps have gone beyond their self-declared last chance date but, like Tait, there is nothing more they can do.
If they cannot sell the company, and no one else is prepared to put money into it, they will need to accept that they cannot present the company in a saleable condition (long suspected here) and will have to bring an end to proceedings. They cannot continue to spend creditors’ money without a viable strategy to earn a greater return.
I bet you remember where you were when Tait finally blew his whistle to end that game in 1998. You’ll long remember the moment Duff and Phelps bring the curtain down on Rangers Football Club.
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merseycelt
Celtic came very close to dying in 1994 and that would have been that.
Supporters may have set up a new club to take the place of Celtic but it would have been a different club who wouldn’t have won the European Cup etc. We could have looked back fondly at the achievements of the old Celtic, but the team we would be supporting now would be different.
I suspect many would have taken the new club to our hearts in the same way as the old club but I doubt we would ever have been allowed to forget the fact that the team we were supporting was not the same team that had died.
Mort
West Wales Celt – bloke on KDS who correctly named admin day has strongly hinted at tomorrow. No idea how or if he might know, but he was right last time.
Mort, Big swee.
This guy gets away with more stuff than John Gotti did.
A truly despicable coward of a player who cannot remotely take it back.
I watched hun game on Sat with the hun commentors, and THEY were saying his assault was a straight red, FFS. But nadda on the bbc Scotland flagship programme. If that was MOTD it would have been shown 10 times and that tadger would have been to the Old Bailey.
brimmer
History repeating itself with Mr Tait. Some of us can remember a Scottish Cup game in 1967 with John Grieg pleading with the referee to keep adding time. 6 minutes I believe? Berwick still won though.
Wherewereyouwhenrangerspassedaway CSC
suggested new Glasgow City crest
http://i.imgur.com/hj8YH.jpg
Advice for Duff & Duffer
http://i.imgur.com/lQlyH.jpg
This will be difficult for them because……….
they’ve tried every evil trick they know.
Paul67,
Wonder if like Bobby Tait, Duff and Phelps will get on the after dinner speaking circuit telling tales about this momentous time.
Just what I wanted to hear Paul67! Right, I’m off to get provisions, RFC better not liquidate while I’m out!
Paul
If you or any one reading this has any influence with these matters could they please ask D&P to stave the Big L off till friday, the country is in a terrible financial predicament the last thing it needs is an increase in workplace non attendance as Celtic and other right thinking supporters take to the streets to party, its only fair after what Mr Salmond and others have and continue to do for us.
brimmer
That goes to show you the power the media still have in dictating the agenda. Had it been a Celtic player, this would have been big news but as it was a hun, it will be swept under the carpet like all their other misdemeanours.
I also read that Pat Fenlon ran onto pitch yesterday to confront the referee but haven’t seen any of this on BBC website and I doubt it will be subject of a 2 hr phone in special this evening.
Mort
hi Paul
i know i normally lurk but was laughing out load about that Bobby Tait story and had to comment. Where you at the same sportsman dinner i was at when he relayed that story almost word for word as you have written it? I recalled he actually said “there was nothing more i could do”
Great blog keep up the fantastic work
Anybody know if there are any contingency plans for Sunday?
60,000 Celtic fans converging on Paradise for the mother of all wakes should be a sight to behold.
I remember Bobby Tait Saturday very well. Was captaining my cricket team at Forthill in Dundee and we had just finished the tea interval and were back in dressing room. I had radio on and I stayed back after everybody had gone out to field and wouldnt come out until the Killie game was over. Eventually, having kept everybody waiting for about 10 minutes, I surfaced from the dressing room with a grin that would shame a Cheshire cat. None of my team needed to ask what had happened. Funnily enough, cant remember how the cricket went that day.
Went to Dunfermline the next day ready for the party, but hey ho. The following week turned out better anyway.
Can remember my heart initially sinking when the BBC reporter read out that that Ally had scored then what a feeling when Mitchell came out and not McCoist!
I have another question from 1998 that I always wanted answered. Was the game against St Johnstone on telly anywhere? I lived in Edinburgh at the time and couldn’t find it anywhere. Ended up listening to it on the radio. Nervous wreck.
Name for the NewCo…..Orc City?!
T4
Ahhh the Ally Mitchell moment. I was actually a guest of Parks of Hamilton in their Govan stand coven that day. I recall the Mrs calling me at half 6 and was shocked when I told her the game was still going.
I was with one other Tim and 6 huns. We didn’t try and hide our delight when he scored. We forsake the free bar and free chibbings from the assembled orcs and danced out the place.
Great day.
brimmer
Paul 67
Loved your combination of satire and irony! Is it a case of lets go on till we get to at stage of a result no matter who we damage?
PS Just watched the rerun of the game yesterday, Watt/Lennox did you see the similiarities?
Oh you know what we have forgotten?
The SFA are due to tell us today what they are going to do to the Huns(IA) after the hearings last week.
Brimmer——-
One of the really interesting aspects of Calciopoli was the degree to which Juventus had managed to corrupt the reporting of incidents in games involving . Juventus. If it suited Juve it was reported , if it didn’t suit Juve it wasn’t reported .
Don’t think bribery is required in Hunland . The hacks etc probably just do it to keep the majority of the audience happy ——-that and being slaves to the Hun hegemony.
The TV commentary , post match analysis and newspaper coverage of the disallowed Cadette goal at Ibrox is a classic of it’s type.
Excellent Paul. thoroughly enjoyed the analogy.
Árd Macha
I was on a campsite near Kingussie when Ally Mitchell scored in the famous ‘Taitgate’ game….
My wife nearly divorced me for the crackling of the radio for 6 minutes more than had been negotiated !!!!
Tensions were high 24 hours later though and then one of the greatest days of all vs St Johnstone …… Great times and the begining of the end of them and hopefully soon to be surpassed ……..
1998 – Alexandra parade
2012 – ????
C’mon Bobby Duffer, blow the final whistle and let honest decent people around the world celebrate
Hhplc
With apologies to Andrew in Belfast, I am looking forward to the blog going down …… today, tomorrow, soon.
http://pokerdiv.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/bobby-tait-original-mason-in-black.html
“I bet you remember where you were when Tait finally blew his whistle to end that game in 1998. You’ll long remember the moment Duff and Phelps bring the curtain down on Rangers Football Club.”
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Sir Paul.
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Fur..
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Damn Right!
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Still, Laughin’
and Still, feelin’ Merry..
as Awe Get Oot!!!
The Honest Mistake loves being first on 23 April, 2012 at 15:10 said:
Anybody know if there are any contingency plans for Sunday?
Dont know about Sunday but I am reliably informed that the Clyde Coastguard have been put on standby to open the Clyde water course flood gates with minimal warning as there is a fear that the river may not be able to handle the sudden increase of water as many thousands of celtic supporters p*** themselves laughing when the news is announced.
RogueLeader on 23 April, 2012 at 15:11 said:
Oh you know what we have forgotten?
The SFA are due to tell us today what they are going to do to the Huns(IA) after the hearings last week.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the SFA say, erm, SFA until either the BTC or D&P move for liquidation. I’m expecting another mealy mouthed holding statement form the SFA unless things go thermonuclear in the next hour or two.
Paul, listened to game on radio and screamed and jump round living room like a looney when goal went in! Was heading to Dunfermline the next day from Belfast. Journey over was brilliant but coming home it was very nervous as we didn’t desired result.
Over again the following week for an almighty party though…….
Cheerio10inarowCSC
SFFS
Just how long can a dead horse be flogged? So today was the very last day for bids since the last very last day for bids. Poor ragers fans, they must be like deers in the highlights, stunned and unable to do anything to change the inevitability of their immanent death. Gazing on frozen as the rumbling truck of liquidation races in slow motion to within inches of their impending destruction. Here’s hoping D&P turn off the slow motion camera.
Astounded of forehead moment earlier when reading sally mcmoists comments about hoping their punishment would be ‘fair’
I know I shouldn’t be suprised at anything that comes from that club of bigots, cheats & liars but the audacity of using using the word ‘fair’ really was astounding.
As Roy from Blade Runner would say
Time to die
South Of Tunis on 23 April, 2012 at 15:11
I can actually take a football club dictating things to suit their agenda more than I can take a so called national media doing it.
Neither is right of course, but the media is waaaay more corrupt IMO.
Our media make Juve look like Samaritans.
brimmer
Phoned Keevins this morning on the Hotline to ask him about the sectarian bile he had to suffer from a hun sitting behind at the last O F firm game and why he didnt report him to the police, security, Eddie Smith? Or even note his seat number and write to RFC about him. I got thru but hung up thinking. Naw Hugh I want you out in the open when I ask you this. SSB tonight maybe??
Was the dunfermline game the next day after that the beam back game & did wee fergus not put a £1 on the entry fee
HAIL HAIL
I would encourage anyone who has access to the pegasus fund monthly report by Clareville Capital Partners ……it focuses it’s entire first page to the parralel scenarios at RBS and Rangers…..
It alks of ‘These two erstwhile pillars of Protestant Central Scotland combine for an unlikely juxtaposition in any business school slide of what hapens when management are emboldened and their hubris is left unchecked’…….
It goes on to say ‘having missed the crime in the first place they subsequently struggled to balance their retrospective zeitgeist’ however Rangers will always be reviled by 50% of it’s country of origin RBS has no friends……
I was in the Labour Club Castlemilk that day in 1998. We stood at the bar praying for the final whistle and the huns dropping 2 precious points. The clock said 5 to 5. Then bedlam, the place errupted as Mitchell’s goal screamed through the tranny. The feeling of joy was only surpassed 8 days later when Harold Brattbaak sealed it.
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Champagne on standby – check
glasses – check
excuse for phoning in to work tomorrow – work in progress :)
Extra added time? Twas ever thus:-
The Scotsman – Monday, 29th September 1930, page 4
UNUSUAL INCIDENT AT HAMPDEN.
There was an extraordinary climax to the encounter at Hampden Park, Glasgow, between the Celtic and the Queen’s Park. Referee T. Dougary blew his whistle for time-up, and the players were trooping off the field when a linesman drew his attention to the fact that there was still two minutes to play. Realising that he had finished the game too soon, the referee ordered the men to carry on after a consultation.
In these last two minutes, the Celtic, in the heat of a hot Queen’s Park attack, conceded a penalty for handling, and McAlpine beat Thomson from the kick. It was an exciting. wind-up to what had been a rousing contest.
The effervescent football of the Amateurs in the first half discomfited the Celtic, who, nevertheless, fought with fine pluck and perseverance, but, though deprived of a point in such a remarkable circumstance, they must agree that a draw was quite an equitable result.
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Take it on the chin chaps seems to be the message from the Keith Jackson of the day.
jimtim
Liked your post @ 23.40pm Lot of my thots in it!!
Ps Emdae know who the MIB is on Sunday? I think it’ll be one that hasnt already embarrassed them. If thats possible.
Conroy???
Brother Tait moment
In Strathclyde Park bringing my nephew home from Davie Cooper 7s
tournament in Murderwell.
Every car in the park seemed to be tooting horns maybe all the huns were at the game.