I think I live in a different world than some people. In my world the manager of Celtic has endured an incredibly stressful month. Yesterday he would have dealt with news from a serious criminal trial after a bomb was sent to him.
Today he is being taunted in a newspaper by a former referee who suggests he “explodes at the side of a park”. Even for a former SFA official, this is astonishingly poor taste. The article goes on to betray enormous hostility towards Neil Lennon and, for reasons which appear opportunistic, Peter Lawwell.
Our manager will get through these difficult weeks and will hopefully never have to endure such stresses again. SFA officials, current or past, cannot meaningfully lay a glove on him. He can pay their fines and will continue to manage a winning Celtic team.
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THE American frontrunners in the race to buy Rangers are prepared to pay £25 million for control of the club – but their preferred option is to put the Ibrox side into liquidation.
The bid from Chicago-based Club 9 Sports, who have been linked to Rangers director Andrew Ellis and by association shamed owner Craig Whyte, is one of three offers which, if successful, may result in the new owners taking the highly unpopular option of winding up the club and reforming it as a new company (Newco).
The only offer on the table which is conditional on Rangers emerging from administration and paying off debts via a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) is the one from the Blue Knights, headed by former Ibrox director Paul Murray.
The conditional American bid is more than double the £10m bid tabled by the Blue Knights and five times as much as Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy, whose offer of around £5m was rejected by administrators Duff & Phelps yesterday.
But Club 9 Sports would have to address the £27m debt owed to Ticketus, who would NOT be creditors under the terms of the Blue Knights’ bid.
I have advised a few people – I am not involved with any groups
In effect, the Blue Knights would offer £10m for a creditors pot of around £23m; Club 9 Sports would offer £25m on creditors debts of £50m, but liquidation would then be their preferred option.
Until now little has been known about the substance of the Club 9 Sports bid or the company’s intentions if it was successful in taking ownership from Craig Whyte.
But the company has made it known that liquidating Rangers is in its plans, and it is understood two unidentified consortia – one UK- based, the other in Singapore – are also open to the Newco route rather than trying to do a deal with creditors via a CVA, although they are both slowly falling out of the picture and are unlikely to succeed.
It is believed Club 9 feels that liquidation would remove the risk of currently unknown debts emerging in the future, and would take away the uncertainty of not being able to agree a CVA with creditors.
But taking Rangers into liquidation would be deeply unpopular with fans and would have grave footballing consequences.
A new club has to wait three years before it is eligible to play lucrative Champions or Europa League ties. It would also have to be voted into the Scottish Premier League, with likely financial or points penalties, or else apply to join the Scottish Football League in Division Three, and the registration of all its current players would pass to the SPL rather than being held by Rangers.
The US firm emerged as frontrunner as Mr Kennedy was told by Duff & Phelps that his offer was not good enough.
With current owner Whyte refusing to deal with Paul Murray’s Blue Knights bid, Club 9 is in a strong position.
Mr Ellis was asked today if he is involved with Club 9 and said: “I have advised a few people who have asked me questions regarding the situation at Rangers. But I am not involved with any groups.”
Club 9 Sports, formed in 2009, seeks to revive struggling businesses “through cost-cutting and aggressive sales and marketing”. Its most recent purchase was Quad City Mallards, a minor league professional ice hockey club in Illinois.
A spokesman for Duff & Phelps today declined to comment about any individual bid for Rangers.
At the rangers game please…
The SPL today confirmed that should Celtic FC win the Clydesdale Bank Premier League this weekend, the trophy will be presented to the club at an appropriate post-split home match.
Folly Folly on 30 March, 2012 at 11:19 said:
Henriks Sombrero on 30 March, 2012 at 11:11 said:
“I have it on good authority that Clark is a St Mirren fan. From someone who knows him.”
Yeah: and the former St Mirren director who got the boot from their board the other day for being found out trying to manoeuvre a sale of his beloved club to the Foe Malign is also a dyed in the wool Saints fan.
FF
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……and doesn’t his son, Dylan, play for Celtic?
Kenny Clark – the human incarnation of mogadon. A banal forelock-tugging drone with a void where personality usually resides. Watch/listen/read with a caffeine-heavy drink.
The Rangers’ Fans’ Working Group – Intellectual dwarves. A shouty bunch of spoiled children with the emotional responses of petualnt teenage girls. I’m sure Stuart Reagan will be wounded reading their ‘Buy us a new horse, Daddy, or else’ statement…
TheScottish Media – a collection of failed writers, broadcasters, producers who now eschew their sparkly youthful dreams of Pulitzer and Booker prizes, of Hollywood contracts and any form of public adoration for the inbred institutionalised bigotry of this precious wee country. They are a collective of failed ambition fired only by vindictive xenophobia towards the ambitious, successful ‘other’.
In our case, their atavistic hatred of the one and only…
Neil Francis Lennon – Gloriously unrepentant fenian bastard who BEAT THEM ALL.
Now let the universe do its thing and bury the bigoted freaks’ flagship under weight of anachronistic karma. C’mon the HMRC.
FourGreenFields
Ibleed
Happy birthday bhoys have a good un, you also share youre birthday with Ton Che Dan.
V
a test
What the MSM say)
What the MSM won’t say
What the TFOD understand(bit of a misnomer there)
In the best interest of the fans
In my best interest I still need to sell advertising space and get myself onto a
radio phone in
WATP
row 3, cell 1
row3, cell 2
row3, cell 3
ASonOfDan – Club 9 Sports, formed in 2009, seeks to revive struggling businesses “through cost-cutting and aggressive sales and marketing”.
Heh heh heh. (thumbsup)
St Martin’s Bhoy..
Thanks for the offer mate, much appreciated but unfortunately I won’t be able to join you for this particular PARTY.
I was more concerned about the Ol’Tim getting a seat, the only nutter in the world who had two tickets for helicopter Thursday and gave them away on here.
Good afternoon friends and lurking colleagues,
Moving on to this weekend’s games the following facts suggest that we might need to wait just 1 more week before celebrating…..
I’ve been looking at Motherwell’s league record against Rangers since season 2009/10
Manager – Craig Brown :
2009/10
Motherwell 0 Rangers 0
Rangers 6 Motherwell 1
Motherwell 1 Rangers 1
Rangers 3 Motherwell 3
2010/11
Rangers 4 Motherwell 1
Motherwell 1 Rangers 4
Manager – Stuart McColl
2010/11
Rangers 6 Motherwell 0
Motherwell 0 Rangers 5
2011/12
Motherwell 0 Rangers 3
Rangers 3 Motherwell 0
Craig’s record – Played 6, no wins, 3 draws, goals for/against 7 – 18
Stuart’s record – Played 4, lost them all, no goals scored, conceded 17!
For comparison, Motherwell’s league record against Celtic during this same period is:
Craig’s record – Played 6, no wins, 1 draw, goals for/against 3 – 11
Stuart’s record – Played 5, lost them all, scored 1, conceded 13!
In addition we beat Motherwell 3 – 0 in last season’s Scottish cup final
So in Stuart McCall’s time against Celtic and Rangers his team have played 10 games, lost them all, scoring just the 1 goal and conceding 33!
Motherwell are expected to represent Scotland in next years Champions league qualifiers.
However, all bad things must come to an end. ;-)
Right, back to work…
Jobo
ok, so html formatting doesn’t work either. I guess if it did sharper folk than me would be doing it already.
thomthethim
He does, although if you wanted to follow the MSM whataboutery tactic you could also say, “father of former Rangers starlet”… :-)
Mort
Guys,
I know you have all been tortured about this but PLEASE if you havent already done so, or if you are prepared to do so again please make a donation to Niamh Curry’s Appeal. She desperately needs to reach her target to get to the USA for lifesaving treatment ASAP.
The clock is ticking, and her cancer is working on her all the time.
She is only 5 years old.
Put yourself in her parents shoes.
Thanks
greenmaestro
I think its just ITALICS and BOLD that work but could be wrong.
Mort
The more and more I see the disgraceful treatment of our manager, the more I feel inclined with us telling the other clubs to stuff their league at the end of this season and go play in the English Conference if we can; at least we’d be in a properly run set up not run by a bunch of vindictive old blazers.
We are the best run club in Scotland and also its most famous beyond those shores by virtue of 1967 yet our club is treated with nothing but contempt. Is it any wonder that we as a club are so desperate to get out of this footballing backwater?
ONE NEIL LENNON
philvisreturns on 30 March, 2012 at 13:02 said:
haha
my 10 year old would rather sit and sup magners watching the hoops than doing the tourist thing
Duff&Duffer are some administrators. They can’t even keep count of who they are paying money to. bye, bye rangers…
DUFF and Phelps have denied claims that they have yet to settle an outstanding £19,000 debt from Rangers to Dundee United.
There has been a spat between the two clubs this week after it emerged the Rangers Fans Fighting Club had opted to settle a £22,000 debt to Dunfermline over unpaid tickets, but declined to also square up United.
Dundee United have since reported Rangers’ administrators Paul Clark and David Whitehouse to the SPL over claims they failed to honour an agreement about ticket money.
“We are very disappointed if this is the case as Dundee United have been paid in full for the tickets for that match,” said a spokesman for the administrators today.
So rent a quote Clark and Nicholas have done their usual, rather than highlight the evident problems Neil Lennon faces in his day to day life never mind his place of work they revert to type and have a go,
well to quote Macca shockerooni!!
Clark is a well established member of the SFA Club
No more needs to be said.
Charlie?
Well with apologies to all
Charlie is just an arse.
shoulder to shoulder with Lenny,
then
now
and always.
YNWA
Link…
Click here to help save a little girls life
Timabhouy on 30 March, 2012 at 13:07 said
cheers
Vhman
Thanks mate
Click on my blog name for a brilliant rendition of Four Green Fields
theweegreenman
One more wee point I meant to make, the last time Celtic introduced legal council into a dispute with the SFA, they bleated that they could not afford to get into a legal war with Celtic.
They could not afford to get into a legal war with Celtic. How far are Celtic prepared to go. If it were me, right to the very edge of the cliff and beyond.
(bearing in mind you have employed the best legal council money can buy)
George Galloway getting ripped into that orc Adam Boulton, get in to him George.
Kitalba – no worries. There will be plenty more PARTIES for us to enjoy!
As a result of the original request, after a few emails exchanged with BT, I’ll probably be enjoying the company of his cousin as we watch the Kille game when he is in Newcastle next weekend.
Got to love the whole CQN thing…..!
Pack up all my care and woe,
Here I go,
Singing low,
Bye bye rangers,
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar’s sweet, so is she,
Bye bye
rangers!
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me,
Make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
rangers bye bye.
Pack up all my care and woe,
Here I go,
Singing low,
Bye (bye) bye (bye) rangers.
(tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo)
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar’s sweet, so is she,
Bye (bye) bye (bye) rangers.
(tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo)
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me,
(Oh oh oh oh)
Make my bed, light that light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
rangers…
Make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
Leave you bird jet in the sky
Toodle oo!
Farewell!
Bye bye!
midfield maestro – Boulton’s a hun? (thumbsup)
Gordon’s ALIVE!?! (thumbsup)
Kit,
They are noticeable by their abscence from the fight at the moment. Patience perhaps?
I cannot see them taking this from all sides and not having something to reply with.
Plfan
He will have my support.
abscence= absence
pflan76 on 30 March, 2012 at 13:06 said:
Sorry, pflan, but if we start voting for a candidate simply because he is a Catholic, then we have reduced ourselves to THEIR level.
I hope that never happens.
Guys just a thought, since the tragic death of Paul McBride QC R.I.P.
Since the establishment in this great wee country have deemed it open season on NFL, why not ask George Galloway MP to step up to the plate and defend Lenny through his RESPECT Party. George is a Celtic fan and is certainly not afraid to go toe to toe with any corrupt establishment ( Brit or Yank ) and would have total empathy with Lenny. Having the voice and bottle to take them on and raising the awareness through parliament of the shocking abuse Lenny has to suffer. He would also slap Salmond and co into place.
I feel that if enough of us write to him he would be more than willing to get involved.
Just a thought.
HH
mighty tim on 30 March, 2012 at 13:27 said:
Great idea.
song for the Huns..
” Flag Day” – Housemartins
Too many Florence nightingales
Not enough Robin Hoods
Too many halos not enough heroes
Coming up with the goods
So you thought you`d like to change the world
Decided to stage a jumble sale
For the poor, for the poor
So you thought you`d like to see them healed
Got Blue Peter to stage an appeal
For the poor, for the poor
It`s a waste of time if you know what they mean
Try shaking a box in front of the queen
`Cause her purse is fat and bursting at the seams
It`s a waste of time if you know what they mean
(Flag day, flag day…)
Too many hands in too many pockets
Not enough hands on hearts.
Too many ready to call it a day
Before the day starts
etc
Kilbowie Kelt – Yup, I don’t like this Gallowayesque identity politics.
It’s corrosive to civil society in my opinion.
I would never vote for a candidate on the basis of his religion, just as I’d never vote for a man with curly hair and I’d never get on an aeroplane if the pilot was a woman. (thumbsup)
mightytim
All for it !
good idea ,
mighty tim – I don’t think you quite understand what George Galloway is all about. (thumbsup)
Philvisreturns
No idea, looks & acts like one…
Sandman
You have a talent.