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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Tait Moment:
Walking along Wishaw (aka Wishy/ML2) Main St, around 4.50pm fully expecting to hear of a huns victory when i get into car and turn on radio, when a head appears out of an open window of one of the flats above, I think, a travel agents.
“Yeeeeeees! Yeeeeees GIRUY huns!!…..ha ha ha Cheerio-to-yir-10 IAR”
Most of the folk “shopping” (or what passes for shopping on Wishy man st anyway) stop and look around for said maniac – most of them growling into the bargain.
Suddenly shouter – an ole acqauintance of mine -spots yours truly and shouts:
“Token ha ha GIRUT Token, we’re gonny win the league. Cmon the Celtic. Briiliant wee man. magic. Championees going up the morra ” etc etc.
Cue lots of those aforementioned growlers looking around for “Token” and not to pat me on the back and wish me good luck at East End park the next day………..
Amazing how i suddenly developed an urgent need to browse the stock inside Stead+Stimpson shoe shop………….with a grin written from ear-to-ear on my rather surprised but incredibly happy face!
Enjoyed the trip up to East End park the next day despite the result – was in the Pars end and they were on the whole more than happy for us to win the League, 10 years after congratulating us on the same feat down at Celtic Park.
Thats why i have a wee bit sympathy with the Pars fans for having such a complete buffoon as Yorkston as their chairman…….but not enough to prevent me hoping Dunfermline go down and GIRUY Yorkston!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Where were you…?
Well back then I’m sure it was a Safeway. In Uddingston, next to the garage. Christine and myself had hightailed it out of town – shopping. I suffer from, always have, always will, a deep distrust of watching or listening to a Gers game. I firmly believed at one point that anytime I did they quickly scored and that was somehow my fault. This was a biggie, had to be away from temptation. Went shopping in Glasgow. We’re heading home – I switches on the radio – because it should be nearly finished. NOWHERE NEAR FINISHED – BUT IT’S 0-0. I quickly switches off the radio – ‘Quick in there, we’ll get the shopping…
0-0 is massive. 0-0 is massive. In my head like a mantra. Over and over again. Watching the trolley fill up with ‘stuff’. 0-0 is massive. 0-0 is massive.
I can remember the aisle of the shop I was in at the moment… Milk, yoghurt, etc. Up near the back of the shop, where you would have the thick, see-through plastic doors. There’s a young boy (15/16 years old) positioning a metal crate of milk. A another young boy sticks his head through the plastic door – gets the boy’s attention – 1-0 he beams. That’s all he says. Plastic door shuts. The milk boy is turning round biggest smile in the world on his face.
Like the guy staring up at Harry Callaghan’s .44 magnum – I gots ta know…
Milk boy gets himself in check, remembering his surroundings as I asks the question. He plainly says – It’s wan nil tae Kilmarnock Mister…
And his grin is born of my grin, I gives him a half cuddle, needing to signify the moment – S’Brilliant – he says.
I walk off back to our trolley. Christine appears a few seconds later. Catching my look of, well, joy I think. I tells her the score. At this point Milk Boy has been joined by his pal. She does not believe me. The boys are in earshot – Tell her – I says – Wan nil tae Killie Misses…
It travelled around that store like electricity. The place was charged. You could feel the atmosphere change. Most folk out shopping at that key time either didn’t care about football or were Celtic supporters. Smiles were exchanged. We knew. Or at least – we hoped…
I didn’t know til much much later, years later, about Tait and his request and how it backfired – this was pre-CQN mind.
When I did find out it was the completion of the circle for me. Life likes that…
U
The Ally Mitchell Moment: A hun was in the back garden cutting his grass….his wife rushes out excitedly …”Mitchell’s scored “….YES! YES!………….???…. who the f**k is Mitchell………….
My Dear Kojo…
I see that you have been alerted to the burgeoning potential of Ryan Donnelly,currently playing for Airdrie Utd.
At 20yrs old,(b.1991),he is a little older than you suggested.
There were reports in the MSM back in January that Chris McCart was ‘running the rule’ over him.
Last month,he went down to Wigan for a one week trial,and they are reported to be keeping tabs on him.
Interestingly,Gary Mackay Smith,the promising Dundee Utd. winger,also came through the ranks at Airdrie….so it would appear that they have a useful youth set-_up.
With Celtic being ‘flush’ with Champions’ League riches for the forseeable future, wouldn’t it be an astute move if someone associated with the Celtic Board bought Airdrie Utd outright ?
The Youth Teams could be merged,and it could be used as a ‘feeder club’,where our starlets could benefit from regular and meaningful league competition.
Furthermore,they would have the benefit of the excellent facilities at Airdrie,with its own comfortable microclimate,several degrees warmer and drier than balmy East Kilbride.
Incidentally,my relatives in Canada,who move in the same social circles as Fergus McCann,inform me that he is a big buddy of Windy Miller,from way back….
Were you aware ?
TSD.
The father of Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will face no further action over allegations of a football betting scam, his solicitor has said.
Wayne Rooney Sr was one of nine men arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud over bets placed on a game between Motherwell and Hearts in 2010.
Police have already dropped their case against Liverpool-born Motherwell midfielder Steve Jennings, 26.
It appears our bug eyed, Motherwell born billionaire is on the brink of buying himself a new yacht to moor on the Quai Rainier III. Well played that quaff.
In May ’98 I was on a cruise ship (working, not on holiday) in the middle of the Pacific, en route from Honolulu to San Francisco.
Cue a satellite phone call from my pensioner Uncle Andy to tell me the news. He was happy to spend most of his pension just to make that one phone call to his nephew so far away. I miss you Uncle Andrew.
Paul,
Mention of the Bobby Tait moment still makes my spine tingle. Thanks for bringing it back.
I was driving through Clydebank and my heart almost leapt through my chest. Then, up to Dunfermline the following day. Cue the longest week of my Celtic life.
Here’s hoping that we don’t get a result now that feels like Bobby Tait time at Tynecastle earlier that season. Somehow, I don’t think so.
What a lively number………7
I must be honest the only thing that matters to me at this moment in time is that we muller them next week or else we´re gonna get the likes of the scumbag Lafertey´s saying ” we arra people” & personally ah couldnae swallow that so come on ye bhoys in green & show us you´ve got the feckin bottle to shove it right up these pricks.
Come on Celtic.
Celtic 4-0 – Youth Cup winners for a record 12th time.
Oh, for a Murray Park conveyor belt.
About the time of Tait’s cheating, I was in Selfridge’s Rooftop Bar in London. I rang The Montrose Bar in Carrick St, Glasgow to find out what was going on at ibrox and was told, loudly, that Kilmarnock had scored. The ten years of grief were over. When I got home that night there were numerous ansaphone messages, songs, the lot. Flew up the next morning for the Dunfermline game and was up the following weekend for St. Johnstone, wonderful memory. Bobby Tait, a Celtic legend. Cheerio to 10 in a row.
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