Enormous congratulations to Georgios Samaras, Celtic’s Player of the Year, 2012-13. Scoring in five consecutive Champions League away games this season was a remarkable feat. His last minute winner in Moscow was a seismic moment in our progress in that tournament. Georgios is a player who thrives on positive reinforcement but endures negative sentiment without hiding. No wonder all his managers have valued him so highly.
I was also delighted Fraser Forster won the Players’ Player of the Year award. His performances against Barcelona were nothing short of incredible. It should surprise no one that Victor Wanyama and Kelvin Wilson received a large number of votes for the Players’ Player award. Kelvin will play for England if he continues to perform at the level he has this year. Victor was a genuine contender for all awards, including goal of the year, but was honoured only as the Young Player of the Year, reminding us all that his is gifted beyond his years.
I was referred in the direction of yesterday’s Sunday Mail online story about Rangers International FC’s finance director, Brian Stockbridge, showing a reporter the “deeds”, made eloquently famous by John Brown. Stockbridge used the deeds of Ibrox, Murray Park and the Albion car park to “prove Craig Whyte is on a loser”.
Craig Whyte’s current actions against the newco club and his report to the Serious Fraud Office are based on the belief that RIFC inappropriately took possession of Rangers assets, including Ibrox, when the club were liquidated last year. Proving RIFC have the deeds is no defence against Whyte’s claims, in fact, this merely establishes the premise of his point.
Despite discussing these matters with a reporter Mr Stockbridge made no comment on how Sevco Scotland Ltd (since renamed as The Rangers Football Club Ltd), acquired the entitlement to the assets which Sevco 5088 Ltd had an irrevocable agreement to buy after paying an exclusivity fee.
This interview contrasted with Scotland on Sunday’s interview with former oldco Rangers director, Paul Murray, who without a whiff of irony said, “Whoever is involved going forward has to look after the club’s interests first and their own interests second. You are a custodian of the assets and you’re passing it through the generations. That’s your role.”
Well done as a custodian, Mr Murray. I wouldn’t let you be custodian to corner flag (memories of Dougal from Fr Ted on corner flag-watching duty). He also suggests the club “should also get back to some of the values that were there under Bill Struth and William Wilton”. “Some of the values”, do you think he means that most distinct value? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but why on earth could he not chose an inspiring custodian from a period when oldco was not blighted by their controversial employment policy? There must be someone. Surely?
Murray does, however, nail several issues in his interview. “You have Charles Green who said he had no involvement with Craig Whyte and that was patently not correct.
“The problem is that when you get found out on these things you then start to question other things. And one of the most important things in all of this is the SFA. The SFA sought very direct and specific assurances that Whyte was not involved and Charles Green gave them those assurances and I’m not sure that was actually correct.
“If Charles Green had a set of documents that proved that Whyte is lying then this thing would have been put to bed in two minutes, but it was then discovered that what Whyte was saying was broadly true.
“I’m not saying he does, but say Whyte owns the assets but on the other side he’s just lost a multi-million pound claim to Ticketus. Are we saying that Ticketus would then own the assets by default? And if they own the assets they’ll want to be paid in order to give the assets back to Rangers, but how will the club do that bearing in mind that it had an IPO [Initial Public Offering of shares] that is potentially not valid?
“It was then discovered that what Whyte was saying was broadly true” is perhaps the most significant understatement I’ve heard in years. The moment Pinsent Masons report will be a watershed.
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hen1rik
23:21 on 29 April, 2013
The inbetween nuckle smith hits shows that he has achieved the master level within the cabal… no surprise there !
dirtymac
23:23 on 29 April, 2013
not really arguing in the respect that they should not be playing….but they ignored the rules to let them in……..its not going to change now…….but no matter they are about to go boom again very soon
praecepta
It’s a free bet of 25 euros, if it loses I get my stake back.
If I bet the 25 on Real to score, I only win the 1.25.
So I need to try and bet on something that will return more than 1.25.
But, and always a but, I have to match it with a pre game bet, that is what I want to get right, if the free bet goes down, I get my money back.
Smith has got that we are still here son look in his eye.
sipsini
23:30 on 29 April, 2013
hen1rik
23:21 on 29 April, 2013
The inbetween nuckle smith hits shows that he has achieved the master level within the cabal… no surprise there !
sorry!!!….second and third nuckle for a master tosser…he is not even close
sipsini
23:30 on 29 April, 2013
hen1rik
23:21 on 29 April, 2013
The inbetween nuckle smith hits shows that he has achieved the master level within the cabal… no surprise there !
I honestly didn’t know how corrupt it was in this country, sickens me.
Hun director, and the heid honcho at a kids game, how feckin sad are they.
The CL will take a back seat me thinks, oh wait, the U17’s is bigger than the CL.
Magnificentseven
23:30 on
29 April, 2013
dirtymac
23:23 on 29 April, 2013
not really arguing in the respect that they should not be playing….but they ignored the rules to let them in……..its not going to change now…….but no matter they are about to go boom again very soon
+++++
I agree.
I think they’ll not need to ignore or bend the (revised) rules, because it would appear that they’ve possibly foreseen such a circumstance and have implemented such rules as required.
But yeah, deadclub mk II just around the corner.
What the heck do you call a zombie that’s dead again?
praecepta
23:07 on
29 April, 2013
Nice idea backing the 1/20 to acces the free money.
However these free bets do not include the stake in any returns. In your case you would be betting the 25 euro to return 1.25 cash.
Basically the free bet is only what is says. It is NOT a licence to back a supposed certainty and then triouser the ‘free bet’ in cash.
In addition some firms limit you to a selection of lowest price 1/2.
Hardest game in the world and ah’m no missin it.
http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/49209790352/the-deid-and-their-deeds
How did the deeds come to be under Sevco Scotland?
After seeing that pic, anyone who thinks Sevco’s licence will be revoked are seriously deluded.
TET
With you now – some of the free bets I have had you need to stake on one bet (no doubles etc) – so I sometimes stick it on a certainty to convert it to stake money.
If its a no-lose bet I would go either: Real -1 @6/5 or a Penalty to be awarded @6/5 (fair chance of that with Real at home in front of a baying crowd).
Best of luck!
From timomouse twitter.
New Blog – The Deid and their Deeds – Just how and why do Sevco Scotland have Ibrox? http://t.co/p25ZFFerUj
Those Willie Vass photies illustrate exactly where the fascist sevconians are coming from.
Of course, their hijinks at a football ground in no way reflect their true beliefs and behaviour in society at large…oh no, of course not. They’re just cheeky chappies being all over exuberant an’ that at a football match. Innocent they are, completely lacking malice….not a bad soul amongst the lot of them.
We’ve been so wrong about them……why, did we not see them saluting everyone in a friendly gesture? Heil heil….that’s all they were trying to say.
We should let them back into the spl straight away…..they just want to be our friends.
Deluded to bits,me.
I blame the meds.
magnificentseven
From what I’ve gathered from a drunk mason that has been on the chair twice…it works from inbetween the pinkie and next finger and progresses….primary, secondary and master
I stand corrected of wrong.
squire danaher
I sometimes wish I was of the same feelings as your good self, but an addiction is just that, hence, I try to minimise losing.
Single bets, in saying that, I do a few accas just in case.
As time passes, more and more in play betting, better odds.
When you get to my age, you might be older mind you >} I have few pleasures left, and gambling is a buzz, win or lose, sad, but tis just the way it is, for me anyways.
squire danaher
With you (and TET) – never had one of those get your ‘free-bet’ stakes back. Quite often do small stake ‘in-play trixies’ and can never use it for them.
It’s all just a Google away…
http://www.ephesians5-11.org/handshakes.htm
sipsini
There are hundreds of handshakes, it’s the inside fingers you don’t see that are the telling wans >}
Evening all
My friends in Celtic, if you have any sense you will watch our next senior fixture against the zombies from the comfort of your own home.
The poison will be flamable and the streets of Glasgow will not be safe afterwards.
I honestly believe there will be chaos like never before, people on both sides could end up dying.
You think I’m being dramatic? Wait and see, people will lose fathers and brothers, it’s not worth it.
HH
From THE SUN
“DELIGHTED Ally McCoist gives Scotland’s largest Sikh temple the thumbs-up.
The smiling Rangers boss was among 3,000 guests at yesterday’s public opening of the £4million Gurdwara in Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Organisers were overwhelmed by the numbers at the event — but the visitors didn’t go hungry as local volunteers had prepared 10,000 chapatis, 3,000 vegetarian samosas and 15,000 cups of tea.”
Insert own Greggs joke here……
sipsini
23:51 on 29 April, 2013
magnificentseven
From what I’ve gathered from a drunk mason that has been on the chair twice…it works from inbetween the pinkie and next finger and progresses….primary, secondary and master
I stand corrected of wrong.
first knuckle second and then between second and third is my understanding but like you I stand to be corrected…….
TwoMacs
Didnt see. How old’s your granny among them. Relates to the lodge your in.
If a mason is greeting another mason whom he knows, their handshakes are normal, they do not need to infer their superiority.
Tis no rocket science
Night all. Mind, cover your work. <:o)
ps Knew a guy who was in the Knights and the masons. Said it helped his business.
jude
No kiddin >}
Nite all.
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
Jude 2005
Did he make fences for other people to sit on?
Dunno bout that one Jude. Never googled this before, but some interesting stuff comes up. They even reckon pope Francis is a mason, in fact according to these conspiracy theorists practically every one is, even lady gaga.
THE EXILED TIM
23:52 on
29 April, 2013
I have become really disillusioned with the game over recent months.
Had a brilliant run between March-November 2012 and what had been a wee goldmine I had discovered – with prices between 4/5 – 4/7 – suddenly not only shortened in price to 2/5 – 4/11, but stopped winning. My required strike rate of 2 winners every three bets increased to unmanageable levels.
Three losing months to start 2013 – I found myself thinking of the Einstein definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I remember a wise old fella 15-20 years ago who had basically packed in the punting but for betting a fiver a race on a Saturday – he reckoned we all go through the phases of taking it seriously and spending more and more time at it trying to make it pay, before realising we can’t.
I can’t be bothered with it now. The level of frustration at losing now far outweighs the pleasure of winning for me, and that’s a sign.
Paddy Power sent me an e-mail last Monday – have 3 bets before Friday and I could have a free bet up to max £50 – he must be missing me ha ha.
I am waiting on two more bets – Norwich will land me a nice 6/1 ante-post treble if they get relegated and I have the London Huns at 8/1 ew for the EL.
That’s me till the NFL starts in September – two winning seasons 2011/2012 for me.
Kilbowie Kelt is a good fella – he and I repelled many a sevconian over on the Betfair forum for many years ha ha.
praecepta
23:53 on
29 April, 2013
Be lucky m8
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
00:12 on 30 April, 2013
ps Knew a guy who was in the Knights and the masons. Said it helped his business.
>>>>>
This time last year I refereed a Fives tourney, KOSC v Masons in Paisley.
* ‘crushed nuts?’ ‘naw, layringitis!’
00:30 on 30 April, 2013
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
00:12 on 30 April, 2013
ps Knew a guy who was in the Knights and the masons. Said it helped his business.
>>>>>
This time last year I refereed a Fives tourney, KOSC v Masons in Paisley.
Well what was the score then or is it a secret :-):-):-)
An hour between posts.
Where are all the howlers gone.
Had to go and check that i hadnt missed a new article there.:-)
Watched a bit of the old gas cooker earlier.
I see Ding has made it into the quarters , he looked to be playing well.
If he wins it will he be the first guy to win the world championship and in the same year have a song with is name in it at number one in the charts?
Ding dong the witch is dead.
He he he.
O well na point talking to myself.
Baw baws before i crack anymore kwap jokes.
H.H. Timland.
First time poster, long time lurker, on the events of tonights game such a shame our name will be dragged through the mud by the usual suspects in the msm, wish our fans hadn’t bothered going along, i hope we never play that mob again
Welcome, Greenhillsbhoy.
I was curious about one particular thing tonight….
It did not disappoint when I looked at the editorial formula that produced the significant pages of the DR. The appeal to the lowest common denominator is below base. The odd thing is that the purveyors not only get paid more working on tabloids, they put their name to it. Of course they are paid more (they sell more and advertising there is more productive), but what does that say about the emotional pliability of the people, or should I say democracy.
Anywhere, cynical editorials are a sign of the tim(e)s.
The late great Bill Hicks understood…
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgDW_Hj2K0wo
Roll on the Press…?