Pleased to see the Club recognised for CelticLive, the stadium WiFi and content imitative by the European Club Association. Anything which builds our profile at the ECA is welcome.
Today’s Telegraph assures us Newco Rangers chief executive, Graham Wallace, is set to leave the club with his plans to raise £4m at a pending share issue still in the balance. The newspaper further asserts the club is a “toxic brand” and is trying to secure an emergency loan from Newcastle United owner, Mike Ashley.
The club, which informed the Court of Session on Friday that it had only £1.2m cash left, and last night informed the Telegraph it was losing £1m per month, requires vastly more money than the £4m they are struggling to raise in order to finish the season.
Some credit is due to the Daily Record for their splash with photo and leader, “Rangers director Sandy Easdale and a criminal wanted by Interpol tried to negotiate an Ibrox bailout yesterday”. They are reporting two years after Paul McConville’s blog initially broke the news of said Interpol-interested character, Rafat Rizvi.
Rizvi, who can take refuge in the UK as we don’t have an extradition treaty with Indonesia, is allegedly wanted for corruption, money laundering and banking crime, denies the charges, which he has already been convicted of. He should fit in quite well.
As we said at the weekend, irrespective of short-term events, the long-term fundamentals remain unchanged. The only thing to be decided is which of the characters hovering around the carcase will get to pick on the bones.
All credit to Sir David Murray.
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The Battersea Barnet .
Orange Street . ?.
I went on a pilgrimage- In order to get there ,I had to walk along Paisley Road. .. I didnt hang about .
My 2 cents worth in regards the Referendum.
The Tories can easily exempt the NHS (UK – wide) from privatisation via TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), but surprise surprise have chosen not to I wonder why?
NHS Sell off
MadMitch
14:40 on
10 September, 2014
That’s slightly mischaracterised Salmond’s argument. He’s stated he’s happy to take on and pay for our share of the debt, if we have currency union.
If we are blocked from all the benefits of currency union then we cannot be expected to take the detriments.
Your analogy with RFC2012 is slight off line as well. If we had had a right thinking Football Authority they would not have had access directly to the league (I guess the CU in this analogy) by shedding their debt through liquidation. Unfortunately they got the best of both worlds. It would be like independent Scotland using the pound without CU but still being bailed out if it went bust.
Philvis – they are something else. Not a sleepless night, not a squealing match about eating their dinner, tidying up after themselves or who did what to who first would I change….. Other than my own lack of patience with them sometimes.
Must admit I do take a perverse sense of satisfaction at the sleepless nights of other parents with restless babies that I once endured……. Other types of sleepless nights worrying about them are where I am at now!
It’s true what they say – it goes by in a flash. It really does.
Enjoy.
If Rangers / Sevco had a credible business plan going forward, but had short term cash flow problems, I would suggest that Celtic could consider loaning some money to Rangers. It would not be without risk,both in terms of the effect on a large element of the Celtic fans and commercially, but might allow Celtic to eventually resume a rivalry which many or most Celtic fans would like to see return. Potentially it could also go a long way towards taking some of the bile out of the relationship which existed before the liquidation of the old Rangers Football club.
I wanted rangers to pay a price for both their cheating of the taxman (and celtic), but do not want rangers to disappear for good, as it has taken a lot of the excitement from the Scottish game for me.
hhhmmmm,
the STERLING AREA conversation.
The sterling area, or sterling bloc, began to appear informally during the early 1930s, after the pound sterling had left the gold standard in 1931, with the result that a number of currencies were pegged to sterling instead of to gold.
Early in the Second World War, as an emergency measure, legislation was enacted throughout the countries of the British Empire to unite the sterling bloc countries of the Empire into a single exchange control area, with a number of aims, including protecting the external value of sterling. Thereafter, there was co-operation in exchange control matters between several countries which at the time were mostly dominions and colonies of the Empire, which was in the process of evolving into the Commonwealth of Nations.[1] All of the British Empire except for Canada, Newfoundland, and Hong Kong formally joined the sterling area in 1939.
The sterling area countries either used sterling as their own currency, or else they pegged their own currency to it. Even member countries with their own currency held large sterling balances in London for the purposes of conducting overseas trade.
The significance of the sterling area was seriously diminished in June 1972, when the British government (in consultation with the Irish, Manx, Jersey and Guernsey governments) unilaterally applied exchange controls to the other sterling area countries, with the exception of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands.
The sterling area did not cease to exist on any specific date, but it effectively disappeared in phases between June 1972 and 1979. In 1978 Ireland unilaterally imposed exchange controls on the United Kingdom, and in 1979 the new British government of Margaret Thatcher completely lifted all the exchange controls created in 1939.
The jam jar ruling will come to a sticky end.
What’s the latest news on the Edinburgh Pandas?
theworstcelticteaminlivingmemory
That I can without doubt say NO to.
celtic *o* lennon
14:42 on 10 September, 2014
‘I think if we are all honest no one really knows what will happen post independence for an absolute certainty.’
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That’s very true.
But it’s only the half of it.
We also don’t know, at all, never mind with any degree of certainty, what the terms of an independence settlement would be.
We are being asked to buy a pig in a poke.
We are told by the nats that there WILL be a currency union. The UK party leaders have all said there won’t be. The governor of the Bank of England has come as close to ruling it out as his position allows him to do.
We are told we will continue with uninterrupted membership of the EU.
What happens if there’s a yes vote and it turns out there’s no currency union, or we don’t continue to be EU members on the same terms?
Is the referendum result still to be regarded as valid?
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‘If we vote for independence why are we keeping the royal family?’
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Because Salmond and the nats have calculated it would be to their electoral advantage.
darwinsbeautifulidea
14:11 on 10 September, 2014
Quite disgraceful, shouty and very badly written. I suppose you were trying hard to be understood. Crayons for Xmas.
Massive negativity and downright rudeness will not brighten your wee horizons (or anyone else’s for that matter).
Darwins – I don’t know or care about salmonds nocturnal habits. But if he was shacked up with another man would you be on calling him names related to that?
I would hope not.
Give it a rest. Rules are rules and as far as I was told when I was young sh@__;r is foul language.
Stick to the issues and you might get somewhere.
inside write – not sure where this paranoia about “privatisation” comes from.
Nobody is proposing we privatise the NHS, because nobody would buy it.
Nobody is suggesting the funding for the NHS be changed from the current model of government funding via taxation and free at the point of need.
Some elements of the NHS are delivered by private companies, because it’s cheaper to do so and tax funding is a limited resource. GP’s have always been private, but your local doctor doesn’t demand cash when you go for an appointment, does he?
Most European countries have greater private sector involvement in healthcare than we do, and better care. Even the Scandinavian social democracies the SNP admires so much. (thumvsup)
ernie lynch
14:26 on
10 September, 2014
traditionalist88
14:16 on 10 September, 2014
‘Whatever you think of Salmond his name won’t be on the ballot paper next week. Think about that for a minute…’
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The problem is though that a lot of people will be voting based on Salmond’s assurances about currency, eu membership etc etc.
And the man is a glib and shameless liar ‘in terms of the debate’.
There’s a lot of naive and gullible people out there. And he doesn’t have to fool them all of the time, he only has to fool them once.
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The number of people who will tell you they don’t trust any politicians is remarkably high these days and is a consequence of many factors.
Given this, would it not be better for all concerned if we governed ourselves meaning that our politicians would be answerable to us ONLY and not able to hide behind a cloak of secrecy over 300 miles away?
Or at least, those who can’t trust any politicians should surely be in the ‘Yes’ camp where they will at least have the knowledge that the major decisions affecting us are being not being made in London and with the considerations of the English people, if not being given priority, at least being factored in. And the fact there is more of them, well… where do you think priorities would lie for a politician, irrespective of whether you feel you can trust them or not?
HH
Is Joan McAlpine a granny?
See this ‘if you keep the pound/share a currency you are not independent’ – utter tosh! Are all the countries that use the euro not independent? Drivel, drivel, drivel.
Auld … 14.30
My thoughts on the topic are slightly different.
I believe that you cannot run away from ideas.
The survivalist rockets in Idaho might try it but they always fail in the end.
Everyone on here might complain about the ConDem establishment — all upper middle class twits from private schools and financial services fortunes but you cannot run away from their ideas. The Forgers Gazette and the NI stable specifically the Scum will bring their ideas and their prejudices right into the heart of Caledonia no matter how big or high the supposed wall of Tartan Exceptionalism is.
We have to fight these battles in Westminster, in Brussels, in Holyrood and even in the pub.
Running away is not the answer — Old Monkey Glands will want his pound of flesh for all his support.
theworstcelticteaminlivingmemory
Nice try chum keep taking the acid…
Theworstcelticteaminlivingmemory…….
Interesting idea. But it’s a no from.me. And I suspect would be against the rules.
I’m glad Rangers died and I’m glad the tribute act is in dire straits.
traditionalist88
14:55 on 10 September, 2014
‘Given this, would it not be better for all concerned if we governed ourselves meaning that our politicians would be answerable to us ONLY and not able to hide behind a cloak of secrecy over 300 miles away?’
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Having observed the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 make its passage through Holyrood I would say NO.
The tory toffs, the discredited amd ruined lib dems and New Labour war mongers rush to Scotland along with loyal orders and flute bands from the 6 counties to save the Union.
Oh dear.
Malone Bhoy
14:56 on
10 September, 2014
See this ‘if you keep the pound/share a currency you are not independent’ – utter tosh! Are all the countries that use the euro not independent? Drivel, drivel, drivel.
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But aren’t you worried that, if there’s another crash, we won’t have the Bank of England or the European Central bank to bail us out?
Time to change the direction of the blog?
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theworstcelticteaminlivingmemory
14:47 on
10 September, 2014
If Rangers / Sevco had a credible business plan going forward, but had short term cash flow problems, I would suggest that Celtic could consider loaning some money to Rangers. It would not be without risk,both in terms of the effect on a large element of the Celtic fans and commercially, but might allow Celtic to eventually resume a rivalry which many or most Celtic fans would like to see return. Potentially it could also go a long way towards taking some of the bile out of the relationship which existed before the liquidation of the old Rangers Football club.
I wanted rangers to pay a price for both their cheating of the taxman (and celtic), but do not want rangers to disappear for good, as it has taken a lot of the excitement from the Scottish game for me
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I hope they go to the wall and never darken our doorstep again.
I quite enjoy the lack of sectarianism, the improvement in the national side, the cups finding different homes, good young teams playing their own youth and challenging us to up our game.
Everything is moving South if it’s a Yes vote, money, business, banks etc.
Why are the English scared of all that new investment?
Should be a No-brainer? What am I missing
Malone Bhoy
14:56 on 10 September, 2014
I don’t think you’ve quite grasped what currency union means.
What the consequences would be for an independent Scotland.
Interest rates would be decided by the Bank of England. They would dictate how much public borrowing and public spending there would be.
None of this is in doubt. The SNP acknowledge that it would be the case.
Vote whatever you want, but for your own sake check out what you’re letting yourself in for.
comparing the countries using the euro with scotland and rest of the isles using pound post independence is like comparing apples and oranges, completely different and a lazy argument used by those to rubbish others points without understanding what they have said.
For a start and not to bore other those in the EU (remember what U stands for) have chosen to be together and to use the same currency as oart of a union. They want to share same currency.
Scotland want to end a union and be separate but want to share a currency with someone who doesnt want to share it with them.
cake and eat it politics, all done with a sneer!
Auldtim
A 55mph economy would go down to a 5mph economy. So an independent Scotland’s economy would be an 11th of its present size. Wow you make Ernie seem like a giddy- headed optimist!!!
You don’t mean that. You’re way too measured for a stat like that!!!!!
;-))
alasdair maclean @ 2.32
I wish you would post more often – though I’m mortified I had a typo on the same page.
Ernie
I think what AM describes ref EU entry sounds like pragmatic European politics. And if I may anticipate – politely! – the ‘Spain will veto it!’ argument…..a Yes vote on the 18th may well invigorate our Catalan cousins and others. Inevitably so. Imagine how much more their dander may rise if Madrid sought to block our entry?
Philvis
I wanted to be a dad since I was a wee soul and/but found some of the early days tough. Colic was the worst of it. But at least you’ve got lots of new pals in McDonald’s!
darwinsbeautifulidea
What goes through your mind to post such bile? PS that’s a rhetorical question so no need to trouble your caps lock key.
Agent provocateur?
HH jamesgang
monteblanco
15:03 on 10 September, 2014
‘Everything is moving South if it’s a Yes vote, money, business, banks etc.
Why are the English scared of all that new investment?
Should be a No-brainer? What am I missing’
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A brain?
Davidopolous
You appear to have switched your worship from banana to jam jars.
Some God’s you can see right through.
700,000,000 pound/euro/shekel BLUE HEAVEN; EXCLUSIVE REVEALED Scotland’s secret national blueprint
Scotland’s top secret plan to demolish and rebuild most of the central belt in a sensational 700million pounds,euros or shekels scheme can be revealed today.
The country would even be given a new name when it reopens with a 6,000,000 capacity.
Confidential blueprints for the stunning development, which includes a radical transformation of the central belt and Taysade – are being studied by the Supreme Leader, Alex Salmon. The plans include:
A revolutionary glass bubble over Glasgow, allowing residents to venture outside without getting wet and protecting Edinburgh from Glaswegians.
Huge hotels and retail developments built around every golf course in Scotland.
A massive increase in population, with newcomers paying for the everyone’s future .
Sources say Scotland will ask to be Norway for two years while the 700million pound, euro or shekel project becomes reality.
The Scotland plan revealed by the Sunday Mail today would also give naming rights to a major corporate sponsor – similar to Monaco’s deal with F1 boss Ernie Becclestone that included the renaming of Monte Carlo as Ferrari or something like that.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail, Salmon last night confirmed the stunning project was being scrutinised.
He said: “We are analysing a variety of proposals along with development of the existing outline planning for Scotland.
“There are three strategies – one which includes the total rebuilding of Scotland with the retention of most of the castles and golf courses.
“Full details will be announced at the appropriate time.”
The rebuilt country would be based on state-of-the-art Japan and Korea, countries built for producing electronic goods, cars, strange fashions and bad pop music.
The “glass bubble” can be kept over the western isles when it’s not raining in Glasgow – inspired by Japan’s stunning Sapporo dome, which has maintained the peace in Japan for the last decade.
It would give Scotland greater flexibility in hosting outdoor events like picnics and stadium rock concerts.
There is strong interest – mostly oil companys – from potential sponsors of Scotland’s name.
The Scotland plan would see the country’s capacity rise by 1,000,000 – making it bigger than Norway, Denmark and Finland by 1,000,000.
It would also make it bigger than Eire by 1,500,000.
Scotland would become the second biggest country in the British Isles, behind only whatever was left of the UK.
It would dwarf Wales, Cyprus, Luxemburg and Malta.
Most of the countryside would be transformed into an Scottish “villages” featuring at least one hotel, a castle, a golf course, a young team, a chippy and sweet shops.
The template is Norway which is better than Finland, which is owned by Russia.
One aspect that will be retained is the country’s famous red hair, boistrous behaviour and bad teeth – caused by a local addiction to “ginger” and “buckie”.
The Scot’s acne ridden face is one of the most instantly recognisable faces in Europe.
It would remain a centrepiece of any new country but all healthy people with a natural tan would be bludgeoned to death then reanimated as “jaikies”.
The islands would also be developed and there would be new windfarms to replace some of the flats and houses – many of which are only used by local people. Businesses are desperate for ways to plunder the area.
The major advantage the plan would give Scotland is a massive boost to their revenue as well as new major investment meaning that it’s new political class could live like Sultans and sheiks.
An insider said: “There have been some incredible transformations in Scotland including significant changes to the country as it exists just now. But this is bigger than anything that has happened in the last 20 years – it is massive and takes Scotland into the next century and beyond.
“It will be the biggest change made to Scotland since Thatcher trashed the economy.
“Scotland would be the second biggest country in the British Isles for the first time in more than a 400 years. It would allow us to compete for the biggest rock concerts and other great stuff.
“This blueprint would transform not just the country but the whole north Atlantic. All the oil found there would be ours!
“The whole thing would complete the transformation of Scotland. linking Scotland to Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia and Brussels, which is where the Euro headquarters is.”
The new plan grew from the embers of Alba and hopes to be run like a casino.
A casino like in the flicks or Ferrari, er…. Monaco.
At the time, Scotland’s Suprime Leader, Alex Salmon said of Scotland: “The country is crying out for regeneration.”
If Scotland goes ahead with the plan they would be effectively homeless for two years. And the most likely solution would be for the country to rent some of Norway, or failing that, Wales for two years.
There have been no talks with the anyone that matters but it’s likely that a deal could be struck easily.
Scotland used to be free for while, but then gave up in the 1707/08 season.
roberttressell – I never appreciated till we had a child how babies take over every aspect of your life! They’re tiny dictators. My little boy especially hates it when I make him wear a hat. His little fists are surprisingly strong. (thumbsup)
Negotiation bhoys, negotiation. That’s my sum up.
If you think that England and the European union will want nothing to do with that uniquely positioned North Sea / Atlantic, hugely naturally resourced, civilised country….then I think it says more of your own deeply entrenched prejudices.
NOT that I am saying well researched fears are without foundation….but I recognise the real resentment underlying in many of them.
philvisreturns
14:55 on
10 September, 2014
I think there’s a concern about profit motivated companies providing front line health care (rather than ancillary) services.
It’s not necessarily that the end user won’t receive care for free, but what level of care they have access to. As it stands some treatments aren’t available due to lack of cost effectiveness. Do you think that kind of fiscal discrimination will increase or decrease where the company providing care is trying to make a profit from a fixed budget?
rwe
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Mad Mitch
Mad ideas produce mad results, good ideas work.
Experience is the ultimate teacher of what works and what does not.
However when you see a mad idea forming it is right to challenge it to prevent damage but the damage itself ( if it is indeed a mad idea) will be the most convincing argument.
Auldheid
14:44 on
10 September, 2014
Traditionalist 1888
What the game needs is competition.
It should be dawning on folk that this cannot mean Rangers.
As matters stand Hearts will be back better for their experience.
Aberdeen are competition now and Dundee Utd should be up there.
ICT are no mugs and every game will be contested to some degree or other. It is just our ability to be more likely to go on a run that separates us from the others, not that we walk over them every week for we won’t.
The plan has to be to make every game attractive which means.
Make it easy to get there.
Make it a pleasure to hang about outside with meeting points where there are benches to eat and drink including lunch packs brought in. (Market and sell them in stores before games)
Make the stadium environment family friendly adopting the Jimmy Reid formula.
Change the bloody season so it’s not an endurance test to spectate.
Play games at same time every week on a Sunday at 3 if necessary to avoid rescheduling and if more games are in summer then no rescheduling issues.
There must be more but for banana ‘ s sake let’s have some leadership.
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Agree with all except for the summer football idea – I would be for a season start earlier in July but against a March-November season.
The game will be more attractive if we aren’t playing the same sides so often. We have clubs in the Championship with good stadia and that the travelling supports of Celtic,Aberdeen, Hearts etc will travel to in their numbers. We can absolutely support an additional 2 clubs in the top flight and this would remove some of the staleness of the current format.
No one wants to go to Rugby Park twice a year.
The majority of fans wanted a 14 team league two years ago and it appears it wasn’t even considered. If fans are the lifeblood of the game, give them what they want!
HH
Malone Bhoy
14:56 on
10 September, 2014
See this ‘if you keep the pound/share a currency you are not independent’ – utter tosh! Are all the countries that use the euro not independent? Drivel, drivel, drivel.
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They are not independent, ask the Greeks/Portugese/Spanish about having their currency controlled?
Why do you think Labour refused to enter the Euro? If another country controls your money you really do not have independence.
Cheers for the glib reply Ernie
:)))))))
Go on, indulge this ‘thick nat’ with another reason, other than my ignorance.
I’m always willing to learn mate