Lots going on today, we’ll maybe have a second blog this evening on Craig Gordon, but for now….
Last month I wrote that Dave King’s Fit and Proper issue was a faux precipice. If he was not found Fit and Proper he, “could easily appoint his own people to the PLC board, he would be able to attend board meetings and bark whatever orders necessary.” This issue would not prevent King from investing in the club, or from gaining the kind of influence Mike Ashley had until recently.
There are no SFA rules which could prohibit an unfit and improper person from being the 100% owner of a club. The matter is in the very literal sense, a formality.
Still, in passing such a tainted convict, who has already sat on the board of a club which sailed into liquidation, was subject to considerable criticism from an SPL judicial report, and had his honesty derided by a South African judge, the SFA, have made an improper decision. It’s a marginal call whether our man is better working on the inside or taking nothing to do with it. Neither option is satisfactory, the only permanent resolution to this scourge of the ages is to leave Scottish football behind.
For what it’s worth, I think King is utterly brilliant. Sounding a bit like Rhett Butler in an interview with the Daily Record, he said, “Quite frankly I don’t give a damn what people say or write about me. I will do whatever I think is best for me. The media and the fans will make no difference to my success or failure.”
Stand down all you psychological profilers.
The guy is perfect, how did he convince so many fans he was good for them? Wait, I remember. In the same article he said:
“The only way we can access that revenue is to compete with Celtic. To do that, in our first year back we are going to have to treble our wage bill as a minimum. Depending on how Dermot Desmond responds we may need to make it four times bigger.”
“First year back……. treble our wage bill…… minimum….. may need to make it four times bigger”.
He went on, “I have lost £20m in Rangers already and I’m happy to lose another £30m because I love the team”.
£30m. Go for it, Dave, we’d all love to see it. That would teach Celtic a lesson.
Here’s a few predictions. The No Surrender to a perceived enemy days will be back in spades. They need to dislodge Celtic, its influence and its support. Expect bad PR when a fan illegally disposes of litter and the onslaughts against our CEO to continue. They have not been able to lay a glove on Ronny for months, but wait until we draw a game at home. Players should avoid camera phones, and Scott Brown should never sit down in public. Anthony Stokes will be cautioned against use of a flagrantly Irish accent.
Whatever money is available will flood into the coffers in a desperate attempt to close the gap with Celtic, but there will be no trebling of wages or £30m investment. Instead, the fans will be asked to stump up the big numbers. In the event Mike Ashley is held in abeyance, the window between now and the money running out is critical. I expect nothing more than a shambles, they don’t have the money or the intelligence to take Celtic on, but this is their one big play. Celtic are ready.
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COMPETITION CLOSES AT 21:00 tonight, 20 May.
There was some stunning news today. Mary’s Meals, a charity founded in Scotland 13 years ago, now feed over 1m children each day. Almost three thousand of them are in schools funded by you in Malawi. While entering the competition you might want to donate £1 to the Mary’s Meals pot here.
This success is partly yours, so read what you’ve done.
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DELANEYSDUNKY
The Dirty Digger? Sure that nickname’s already taken!
FOURGREENFIELDS
Nah,nobody would let Bomber loose in charge of a keyboard. He might end up writing the collected works of Shakespeare.
B T SPORTS Which i have i showing Hibs game on Saturday,i very very seldom watch Sevco ,think i will watch,and hopefully me being a jinx ,hibs beat them
Ha ha ha ha haaaaa
Bomber contract ready to be signed live on Sportsound.
Hahahaha ha ha aha a ha ha ha
Now watch the stadium he played for be managed by Bomber
Ha ha aha ahhhhaaaa ha ha ha ha
Stadium player manager of the new revived and never died but lived to live on as it lived before it’s second coming Rainjurs
HA AHHHAAA HAAAA HA HA HA
We ur RA peepholes
Ha ha ha haaaa ha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAha
BMCUW,
Correct 100%!
Lily’s brill, coming for her dinner tonight, spoke on phone with her last night, said “What you fancy for dinner ma wee lamb?” I rhymed off my repertoire of dishes from around the globe, she says” ERM, what about chicken dippers Grampa” No class ,haha
Lily’s
Well my prediction from last night was wrong as Skippy had his red rescinded.
It wouldn’t have happened had he been wearing the hoops.
kingoh
11:29 on 21 May, 2015
Motherwell and Scott Mcdonald win appeal
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh, good……..and dallas junior will be held accountable for carrying on the bigoted lies of his faither……
LILY’S GRANDPA
Magic-weans are usually too choosy nowadays,you won a watch there!
I used to take my niece and nephew to MacDonalds and worry about the glares from their Mums later. Happy days…
Mornin’ all.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
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Bomber ? .
I once saw him being ever so gently and solicitously steered into a Glasgow Black by a couple of plod. . Had plod been up for doing their job , he should have been lifted for Breach / being drunk and incapable etc.
Weefra
Good afternoon. Break over, catch you later pal. :)
Howzitgaun,WEEFRA?
Yer alarm clock go haywire or summat? Or are you shamelessly podium hunting?
The moaning marsupial has had his red card rescinded
Go get ‘em Skip!
As I was walking up to my hotel in Munich there was a large double pantechnicon at the traffic lights, written on the side of it was ‘Timotrans – Simply the best.’
That’ll put Munich on the FF banned list. If you google the company timotrans.de the following image comes up. Check out the guy in the top right corner, lol. Sad I know.
http://www.logpr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Visual_TimoTrans-300×175.jpg
BMCUW,
HAHA, I know what you mean,I’ll catch you later , need to go get chicken dippers,
Hope all family well, take care!
Lily’s
gg
11:57 on 21 May, 2015
It will give Murderwell a better chance of keeping sevco away from us for a wee bit longer…every minute is a bonus….
SoT
This Vaviani saga is a disgrace. PL should be sacked!
;-)
LB
LIVIBHOY
That’s nothing. Wait till you read about Jonathan Mensah!
DD/BMCUW
Hahaha merr tae dae wi’ ma time lol. Howz ye all today, I got the all clear from the nurse this morning, whooooooohooooooo.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
new article posted.
WEEFRATHETIM
Was she undercover? That’s great news,mate. Get herself back to yer favourite love-nest restaurant for a slap-up celebration!
Call you tomorrow,bud.
From BBC
Fifa: Sepp Blatter’s rival Michael van Praag out of election
Fifa presidential candidate Michael van Praag has withdrawn from the election, leaving only two people rivalling the incumbent Sepp Blatter.
Van Praag, 67, who is president of the Dutch football federation, says he will support Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan in the election on 29 May.
Former Portugal midfielder Luis Figo, 42, is the third man in the election.
Blatter, 79, is expected to win a fifth presidential term and remain in charge of world football’s governing body.
Each of Fifa’s 209 member associations have a vote in the election with the Football Association intending to support Prince Ali, although the Scottish FA had previously said they would back Van Praag.
I never saw the McDonald sending off, so I’m assuming that the compliance officer has, and is saying that maybe the fourth official was being a little economicall with the truth, well, well, the Apple doesent fall to far from the firkin tree does it?
Dirty little rat bag B…..d. Scum bag and an apprentice wrong yin. Level playing field my arse.
http://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2015/05/21/scott-mcdonald-ban-overturned/
Confirmed
Thanks everyone who helped/replied with the sportsound podcast.
lymmbhoy that link worked 1st time.