Before digesting news reports that Dave King is set to return to Scottish football as a director of Newco Rangers, it’s probably worth a caveat. Today’s ‘news’ has the same heritage as pretty much every false steer emanating from Ibrox over the past decade. Honest Dave King may well hope to take over at Ibrox but I could just as easily believe he has no intentions of getting involved.
Two months ago King accepted liability for 41 counts of contravening the South African Income Tax Act, while agreeing to pay the resultant bill, the equivalent of £46m. By act of sheer comic genius he is being heralded as the most appropriate person to take control of Newco Rangers, the club brought about by the disastrous income tax affairs of Oldco Rangers, while King was on the board.
Lord Nimmo Smith prevaricated on some issues in his report into Oldco but he was unequivocal in his condemnation of the directors, including King. South African judge, Brian Southwood, described King as a “glib and shameless liar” in 2011.
In every practical sense this man is a perfect fit for the Rangers group of clubs. Every scrap of information available on how he conducts his affairs screams ‘Rangers tradition’.
As for Fit and Proper? Don’t make me quote a second judge!
In the event the SFA have to make a Fit and Proper decision on King they will have to consider Nimmo Smith’s view. It is not even remotely credible that the SFA are competent to rule on King while their president was subject to the same criticism from Nimmo Smith (although Judge Southwood provides a convenient out).
The narrative being peddled today is a final throw of the dice by some, nothing more. ‘A guy will hunn’ers of millions is coming in to make everything OK’. Aye, sure thing.
Sean Fallon: Celtic’s Iron Man:
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DENIABHOY
With no offence intended to this great site,that post deserves a wider audience.
Brilliant summation if events,and my thanks.
PS-copied for future mails,if that is ok?
I hope CFC are making the most of the (boo, hiss) international break to get Stokes and Sammi signed up.
No way the Greek God should be even thinking of leaving Paradise ro go to a club that are 330 Million (euros) in debt.
Stay with us Sammi.
You know it makes sense.
Sixtae
Gretnabhoy
13:16 on 11 October, 2013
‘I have been impressed with some of the actions taken by the SNP. Free bus passes, prescriptions and green proposals.’
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The free this that and the other are populist measures to try to win voters to vote yes.
The ‘green proposals’ in effect mean windfarms which push up the price of electricity to level that any gains on free bus passes and prescriptions are wiped out.
Good news if you’re a landowner though, £50,000 pa for each turbine. What’s not to like?
good afternooon cqn
Well what your saying Paul is Mr King is a crook,not trustworthy.
My brother in law (cant pick your in laws)says he a good Rankers man,but if the Gestapo and the Khmer Rouge offered money to them,he would Probably except them as good Rangers men.
How the mighty have fallen.
H H
BMCUW
Bliar, finished me with Labour. A floater now. If a Yes vote gets rid of Trident alone, I will be happy.
Bobby Murdoch – no problem at all, very kind of you to say what you said. Most of what I write gets ignored :)
have a good weekend Celts.loch lomondside beckons this weekend..
enjoy the internationals.
Hail hail
Seen on TSFM site last night
Till laters all
Good who’s who of the duped and dupers……………
List Of Tycoons That Never Bought The RFC via Bobbymurdoch of @huddleboard David Burnside [Mar 2007] UUP (cont) http://tl.gd/n_1rpk22p
(edited title to avoid upsetting anyone with H word)
LEFTCLICKTIC. 1315
Any chance of c&p for the non-twitterati?
Cheers,big fella….
I’m all for Independance with a mighty fear of Hundependance!
I am in the camp that a vote for Independance is most definately not a vote for SNP. A party I would not vote for in the future. I believe an Independant Scotland would become a more socially just and inclusive country albeit the underlying hatered of Catholics will still weigh in with a strong hand.
In an Independant Scotland I bieve politicians will become a whole lot more answerable for the decisions they make. With a smaller parliment focusing on Scottish home, economic and foreign policy I also believe politicians will be more answerable to me personally. In the current climate of London governance the only say I have is at the polls. That say is normally diluted by what the middle Englander has to say.
Just some of my inconcise thoughts on this.
MWD
I hear what you are saying Ernie and am fully aware of the implications and consequences but still remain. ‘undecided’ !
Unfortunately my front lawn is not big enough for a windmill. That is more for the landed gentry!
@History_Pics: Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together.. Netherlands, 1888 http://t.co/XU2E3JIQfL
MWD
GRETNABHOY
Free bus passes and prescriptions were brought in by the previous administration,I believe.
Happy to be proven wrong,though.
Not sure as neither happily apply!
whitecrook tim
13:26 on 11 October, 2013
NAIL HEAD!!!!!!!!!!
Ps I have one of those Bro in laws aswell though he only comes up for air occasionally these days, like FTTT & LNS days till I pionted out the guilty part then he sunk again .
All is well at Walt Disnae productions:
“There is no common business sense at a club such as Rangers.
The financial bit of Rangers Football Club and common sense don’t go together.”
Gardez la Foi
Sixtae
An Dun
Yes SF’s strategy is independent of what happens in Scotland, on that we agree, however my opinion is if Scotland can have a referendum on Independence then surely the people of Ireland can have the a referendum on unification.
I agree that Scottish independence will not have a material effect on Ireland’s national question but I am optimistic it may galvanise support for the idea of an all Ireland vote. It may not have the slightest impact but I am a glass half full kind of guy!
As you say I suspect we do agree on many things.
The article I posted was not written by myself but knowing the author I am certain his intent was to argue that republicans in Scotland can advance the cause of Irish and Scottish republicanism by voting Yes.
an tearmann
13:26 on 11 October, 2013
have a good weekend Celts.loch lomondside beckons this weekend..enjoy the internationals.
Very nice, likewise. A wee run on a boat, ah romance..
HH
DENIABHOY
Making an excellent point without receiving feedback is part of the territory on here.
I think it is mainly because the subject matter has been dealt with so comprehensively that debate is pointless.
As such,it should be viewed as a compliment.
(It happens to me all the time)
Apologies for long C&P
But I dont want thon BMCUW on my case:))
Seen On TSFM But think from HB
Yesdearjustcomingdearcsc
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List Of Tycoons That Never Bought The #H**s via Bobbymurdoch of @huddleboard
David Burnside [Mar 2007] UUP politician on the campaign trail, cynically duping the hunnic hoardes into boosting his Orange vote tally on polling day, by pretending he would be diverting the annual Walk down Edmiston Drive. He walked away.
Dave King [Sep 2009] Sequestered, fraudulent, South African tax evader, arrested and charged with 11 counts of corruption, fraud, tax evasion and bribery, as well as an additional 311 counts of racketeering, money-laundering, and exchange control infringements. He walked away.
Graham Duffy [Nov 2009] Sequestered Walter Mitty with a 45,000 x £1000 pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. Step, back, from, the, glue, pot. He walked away.
Andrew Ellis [Mar 2010] Twice failed football executive and carpet-bagging property developer, with a dubious business record, and a consistent record of attempting to asset-strip his acquisitions, who after buying QPR for £9m in 2001, tried to amalgamate them with Fulham, sell both stadiums for property developments, and move the new club 20 miles away, out to Heathrow Airport. After failing with that venture, in 2002, he bought League One club Northampton Town for £500,000, took over as chairman, and attempted to merge them with nearby MK Dons. Quelle surprise – he sought to sell both stadiums for redevelopment as part of his property portfolio. Once again, he failed. Northampton got relegated that season. He walked away.
Jim McColl [Mar 2010] Messianically carried shoulder high to the Cashline outside Weir Pumps, by a deluded rabble of clueless, RST muppets despite his company being fined and subjected to a £13.9m confiscation order after admitting breaking UN sanctions in an Edinburgh High Court case, after filtering £3.1m in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime between 2000 and 2002, on top of the commission it paid to supply pumps and pipelines to the Iraqi oil and gas industry. He walked away.
Dave King (Again !!) [May 2010] This time the sequestered, fraudulent, racketeering, tax evader has teamed up with financial ‘tycoon’ Paul Murray and bus ‘tycoon’ Douglas Park. Amazing the amount of ‘tycoons’ that don’t end up buying the huns. He walked away.
The Arab Consortium [Jun 2010] Some fictitious cabal of Dubai & Qatari mystery men that curiously, no-one’s ever seen or heard of. So invisible in fact, it’s almost as if they were totally made up in the first place. Deffo a few invisible Arab ‘tycoons’ in there. They walked away.
Vladimir Antonov [Aug 2010] The shady Russian underworld mafioso, in a £75m megadeal to launder his fithy ill-gotten gains. It remains as yet unknown whether or not he is a ‘tycoon’. He walked away.
Craig Whyte [Nov 2010] Billionaire who’s got billions and billions and billions, but who can’t afford to give them any kind of transfer kitty if he buys them. Strange that.
Wayhey, at last – a buyer. Even though he’s a fraudulent, banned, thieving, tax-evading, bankrupt sociopath who doesn’t even own the roof on his own house.
Well, that went well. And so it’s back to the drawing board.
Brian Kennedy [Mar 2012] Another one bites the dust. The Hibs fan who didn’t want to buy the club, but would buy it if he really, really had to and there was no other option available from anyone else, anywhere else. Talk about being damned by faint praise ?! Kennedy further boosted his standing by claiming that he would be bringing The Cardigan back with him as Director Of Football and The Beast back in a senior management role. Strangely, none of this ever happened. All the same, Kennedy must have been gutted with the amount of front page publicity that linking himself with the huns brought to his rugby club, his business interests and his personal profile. He walked away. He came back and joined The Blue Knights Consortium. He walked away again.
Ali Rafat Rizvi [Mar 2012] The on-the-run convicted fraudster on Interpol’s ‘Most Wanted’ list currently being hunted for ‘corruption, money laundering and banking crime’ over his role in the collapse of Bank Century in Indonesia, which crashed owing monumental debts. Rizvi was sentenced in absentia, to a 15-year jail term in Indonesia. He is currently believed to be hiding between addresses in London and Singapore, which have no extradition treaties with Indonesia. Interpol’s website carries a Red Notice (International Alert) stating that Rizvi is Wanted, and asks anyone with any information about his whereabouts or activities to contact police immediately. In a three-way conference call with Craig Whyte and Brian Stcockbridge (soon to be Sevco Finance Director), Imran Ahmad (soon to be Sevco Commercial Director) admitted that he had raised a £5.5m investment from Rizvi, but that all questions regarding his involvement had to be met with silence and denial; there must be no paper trails; and that his identity had to be concealed at all costs. Rizvi has previous business links with Ahmad and Stockbridge dating back to when they worked for London finance firm Allenby Capital. He is also a friend and business partner of Charles Green, who took his place on the board of Mongolia-based company Nova Resources. It is not known whether Rivzi walked or ran away, but it’s strongly rumoured that he still has a major share investment in The The Sevco5088 International FC Ltd without the knowledge of the fans, who still don’t know the names and identities of the individuals hiding behind the faceless companies and lawyer fronts, who own around 33% of the new club.
Club 9 Sports [Mar 2012] The shady Chicago-based, carpet-bagging, asset-strippers in it for everything including the kitchen sink, owned by the limited liability company, Prometheus Capital Partners. Through its subsidary Club 9 Sports, PCP has previously attempted to buy stakes in Tranmere Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday that were ultimately fruitless and totally doomed from the outset. Sheffield Wednesday directors turned down an offer, claiming the Chicago firm wanted £420,000 per year in management fees. This stance was backed up by The Co-op, who agreed that the deal was not in the best interests of the club. Strange right enough that things didn’t progress at Ibrox, as Prometheus describes itself on its own website as a company specialising in “distressed situations and turnarounds, restructurings and mergers & acquisitions”. They walked away.
Douglas Park [Mar 2012] In it for the publicity and not much else. He walked away.
Some unheard of, unknown, unidentified Middle East Consortium [Mar 2012] A Duff & Duffer media plant, to keep the pitchfork-wielding knuckldraggers away from 150 Edmiston Drive.
Some unheard of, unknown, unidentified German Consortium [Mar 2012] See Middle East Consortium (above).
The ‘New’ American Consortium [Mar 2012] Headed up by Bill Miller, the shady Chicago-based asset-stripper who broke away from the Club 9 Sports Consortium. Miller’s disastrous move into US motor racing in 2001, withTeam Racing Auto Circuit (TRAC) and billed as a move that would rival NASCAR crashed and burned before its first race. In February 2004, Miller faced a massive legal action by shareholders who claimed to have been duped to the tune of £32m. Named in the suit were Miller, ex-chief executive of Team Sports Entertainment, and Jon Pritchett, ex-president. Pritchett along with John Prutch, runs Prometheus, the parent company of asset-strippers Club 9 Sports. The lawsuit was settled a year later and after a great deal of legal wrangling, out of court for an unknown amount. At the time, shareholder Edward Garland said of Miller: “The company and its directors thought they were getting an experienced CEO. Instead it got a man full of greed who wanted control of the company for himself. Team Sports Entertainment changed names but is now bankrupt”. More recently, Miller agreed to fund another of Pritchett’s schemes, a Club 9 Sports plan to relocate a minor league hockey side. But the plan fell through because they could not strike a deal to set up a local sporting arena that would have required a £700,000 up-front investment. They walked away. Bill Miller came back again. He walked away again.
Paul Murray’s Blue Knights [Apr 2012] They walked away. They came back. They walked away again. They came back again, this time backed by Brian Kennedy, who himself walked away twice. They walked away again.
The Singapore Consortium [Apr 2012] Headed up by a man ominously named as Bill Ng (Bill-ing) who stated his principal aims were to ‘to put Singapore on the world football map’ and to ‘positively impact Singapore football in the long run’. Mr Ng also stated that: “The weakness lies in the people who run the club and I feel that we can do something better. We’ve told the administrators that we’ll set aside £12 million to be split among the creditors. For every dollar of debt the club owes, about 20 cents will be paid back, while the rest will be written off.” Although only a Rankers fan for some 10 minutes, Mr Ng has taken to the huns’ primary virtue of avoiding paying your debts like a duck to water. He walked away.
Donald Trump [May 2012] The man with the Weetabix heid briefly considered buying the Zombie Club after DeadCo 1872 collapsed and died. However, once he got a snifter of the extent of the club’s financial depravity, he put on his Nike trainers and ran for the hills. From their luxury golf course and international spa resort at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, George Sorial, Trump Organisation’s executive vice-president stated, “We looked seriously and walked away. It just did not make sense to us, although they are a great club. We hope someone steps in and builds the team again. We are committed to Scotland and will always be evaluating opportunities to support our business and the interests of Scotland. You know you’re seriously up shit creek when genuine billionaires won’t spend mere small change on you. He walked away.
Bill Miller [May 2012] He came back again. He got preferred bidder status. He got his first proper look at the books. He trucked off.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani [May 2012] Pretend lawyer Giovanni di Stefano, wannabe best friend of Bosnian war criminals Radovan Karadic & Radko Mladic, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Ian Brady, Harold Shipman, Gary Glitter and one of the biggest whackball moon units walking the earth says he’s the man with the plan, and it involves spending The Emir of Qatar’s money for him. Part of Di Stefano’s masterplan is to take the Zombie club into the English Premiership and reunite them with 45-year-old Paul Gascoigne, who’ll be pulling the boots back on, once he’s had his hip replacement op. It is unknown at this stage if a fishing rod, dressing gown and whole roast chicken feature anywhere in the equation ? He walked away. To jail actually, when he was sentenced to 14 years, after being convicted of 25 counts of fraud, money laundering and forgery.
Paul Murray’s Blue Knights (Again !!) [May 2012] They came back again, with the same pathetic worthless offer. They issued a deadline and tried to coerce Duff & Duffer into selling to them. Duff & Duffer told them to sling it. Brian Kennedy whinged a lot in the media, before being slated by Charles Green and Duff & Duffer who called him a fantasist with delusions of grandeur. Kennedy responded by saying he had The Beast and The Cardigan on board (The Beast denied this was true) in the vain hope that he might get the knuckledraggers to intimidate Duff & Duffer. It never worked. They walked away again. They never came back.
Charles Green [May 2012] Finally someone came forward with a workable, or so he thought, plan to buy the impoverished and disgraced club. After a failed CVA proposal, unanimously rejected by angry creditors in a hostile meeting lasting just NINE minutes, the club formerly known as Rangers Football Club plc was liquidated. The remnants of the old club were picked up for £5.5m by Charles Green’s Sevco 5088 Ltd in order that he may create a new football club, although his woes continued when the knuckledraggers refused to offer him any form of support, confidence or financial backing. The zombie club was awarded the transitional title of Club 12 by the SPL and still awaits a number of outcomes and punishments pertaining to a number of previous instances of rule-breaking, tax evasion, improper governance, illicit payments, illegal player registrations and allegations of criminality. As it stands, it’s up for sale to anyone with a masochistic interest in losing a vast amount of money in record time.
Walter Smith [June 2012] Supported by Douglas Park (again !!) and Jim McColl (again !!) he tried to wrest control of the club away from Charles Green with a heavy dose of intimidation, threats from the knuckledraggers that they wouldn’t renew their season tickets, and a planted media scare story that Green was hatching a shady plot to sack SuperSally. None of it worked, and The Cardigan was shown up for the shite-stirring pish-talker that he really is. They walked away.
Allan Stewart and Steve McKenna [June 2012] Shady property-developers whose have the exact skills the zombie club are looking for. Their company (Stewart & McKenna Ltd – set up in Cambuslang in 2005) was liquidated in 2010 by insolvency practitioners Buchanan Roxburgh over non-payment of, yep you’ve guessed it – TAXES !! In 2007, the partners claimed they had made £134million the previous year after selling 14,000 flats worldwide. At this point, it dawned on them that they’d need a £30m life-support machine, just to keep the zombie club’s flimsy pulse alive. They walked away.
John Brown and Donald Findlay [June 2012] He came, he made a red neck of a slurred Braveheart speech oot the side ae his moof, he did not a lot else. He walked away with his tail between his legs.
Craig Mather and Guy Gisbourne [July 2012] Part of the Charles Green magical mystery tour of names and games, places and faces. ‘Emotionally’ invested a colossal £1m between them, with a view to developing The Murray Park Conveyor Belt Of Talent.
Brian Kennedy (Again !!) [July 2012] The quiet, reticent, modest, humble, publicity-shy introvert who ‘thinks he’s Mel Gibson’ (© Charles Green) is back again for the fifth or is it tenth time, with a bid to buy Sevco 5088 Ltd’s controlling interest in the Zombie Huns. As Sevco are totally rooked, can’t sell more than a few thousand cut-price, bargain basement season tickets, and are currently trying to flog shares in the zombie club to the highest bidder, it was thought he may just be in with a shout – until Charles Green publicly rubbished his latest claims. He walked away. Again. Although he’ll probably be back when he needs a tad more publicity.
Charles Green [April 2013] After buying the dead huns for a pittance, Chuckles promised the knuckledraggers the earth. His new zombie club would be the greatest team in Europe and Sevco 5088 International Ltd would sweep through the stock exchange like a red, white & blue tsunami. Turnover would reach half a BILLION pounds in just five years and Chuckles, nursing a terrible case of Rangersitis, caught probably as he toured a number of warm places in February, would bring joy and happiness to the downtrodden zombies, when they raised aloft The Big Cup as the Champions League anthem blared in the background, and boomed out across the Glasgow skyline. Talent academies would be opened across the globe, from America to Australia; and Sevco would form brand partnerships with Adidas, Apple and the Dallas Cowboys. At it’s peak, 7% of the population of the earth would support Sevco and they would raise £100m in digital revenues alone. Well maybe not quite. After being uncovered as Govan’s answer to Arfur Daley and amidst a rather embarrassing racial episode that saw the Sevco share price plummet like the Blackpool Big One ….. he walked away.
Well, that went well. It lasted all of 10 months. And so it’s back to the drawing board.
James & Sandy Easdale [April 2013] Scrap metal dealers from Greenock who moved up the ladder to become taxi operators, before moving up the ladder to become bus operators with McGills Buses. In between their meteoric rise to stratospheric stardom down Inverclyde way, Sandie found time to be convicted of VAT fraud and sentenced to 27 months in jail after he had the audacity to avoid paying duty on various computer parts that were stolen from IBM and David Murray’s Mimtec corporation. It is as yet unknown at this stage whether they will walk away, phone a taxi, or take the bus ?
Colin Kingsnorth [June 2013] Isle Of Man-based millionaire (seems such an inadequate title these days) hedge fund manager, finance shark and activist investor with a background in boardroom wars who heads up Laxey Partners, vies for control of Basket Case FC, by snapping up a whopping ONE PER CENT of the sinking ship for £350,000. Two months later the financial maestro’s shareholding was worth a whopping £285,714. With financial wizards like this, it’s no wonder the economy is fucked up beyond all recognition.
Kieran Prior [June 2013] The financial guru that makes Warren Buffet look like the guy that runs the school tuck shop. The mathematical genius that makes Stephen Hawking look like a desk scribbler in a remedial class. The cyborg android that makes The Six Million Dollar Man look like a wooden stickman. With his trusty sword of truth and his trusty broom of bristley sweepy things, he aims to fight for justice and transparency on behalf of ra bears, and to sweep out the pirates and bandits from The Blue Room. Moaning that Dave King, tax-evader extraordinaire, is daring to try and gazump him for control of The The Sevco Rangers New Club 2012 International Ltd; grumbling that Jim McColl won’t put his money where his mouth is; and whining that trying to buy Green’s 5,000,000 shares on the cheap was ‘like trying to negotiate with a chimpanzee for a banana’, the blue Davros is hoping that winning over ra bears (try some triumphalist sectarian soundbites Kieran) and some false promises of a new dawn will win the day. If he could walk away, he probably would.
Charles Green [August 2013] He came back as a paid ‘consultant’. Casual racism and Hans Christian Andersen-esque tall tales conveniently forgotten, he arrived just in time to count the season ticket cash; at the same time warning Fat Sally that he must do better than picking up a basement-level trophy with an SPFL squad. He saw off The Cardigan, who has never had the stomach for a proper fight, and set about ruffling as many blue feathers as he could. Sadly for Chuckles, ra bearz want him O – O – T ….. OOT ….. and his final task will be to make an absolute killing on the shareholding he got for buttons.
Jim McColl [August 2013] The billionairest billionaire in Scotland, who owns marginally less shares in The The Sevco Rangers New Club 2012 International Ltd than wee Senga fae Brig’ton came back. He made some noises and did nothing. He was challenged to put his money where his mouth is, but he’s really not too keen on doing that, so he made some more noises and kinda shuffled around in the background. Given the state of Basket Case FC, and their ever dwindling finances, it’s hard to disagree.
Frank Blin [August 2013] He never got as far as the front door, before deciding that his future lay very, very, very far away from the looney tunes, shysters and utter fucking morons populating The Death Star boardroom. He walked away, faster than his feet could carry him.
Iain McMillan [September 2013] The Labour councillor from Johnstone who won £2,058,622 on the National Lottery, and claimed the first thing he’d do was ‘Invest some money in Ibrox and get a plaque there, with my name on it”. Someone better inform Mr McMillan that £2m doesn’t go very far at all these days down Edmiston Drive way. The The Sevco Rangers New Club 2012 International Ltd have spunked over £30m in EIGHT MONTHS !! If he’s not careful, he might indeed end up walking away – literally.
Paul Murray [Oct 2013] Apparently now spearheading Jim McColl’s rebel consortium, this guy deserves a medal – if only for his colossal ability to stand around whilst doing fuck all and talking a good game. The latest lot of bollocks – announced on the day The The Sevco Rangers New Club 2012 International Ltd declared losses of £14.4m in a trading period of just 13 months, includes former Chairman Malcolm Murray, stabbed in the back by Walter Smith and then axed after a bitter and long-running feud with Charles Green; Global property ‘guru’ and former Blue Knight Scott Murdoch (the mastermind behind the sell & leaseback asset-stripping proposal being lauded for Ibrox and Auchenhowie); Ex-Ford, Diageo & BT cost-slasher, Alex Wilson; two unknowns called Ian Cormack & John Graham; and some bean-counter from Liverpool called Christian Purslow who according to Keech Jackshun, ‘has also been lined up for a key position on the board and would be joining in a senior executive role and tasked with leading the new regime’. And let’s face it – Keech’s a man who knows his thousandaires and wealth radar scales better than any of us.
Dave King (Again !!) (Again !!) [Oct 2013]
To be continued ……….. That’s for f***ing sure.
MICKTT
You shoulda said,one of our finest on this site has a wee diamond on the loch.
Have a great time,bud. But don’t get carried away by the occasion.
Nae pre-marital sex,mind-yer a guid Catholic lad,remember.
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts
13:15 on 11 October, 2013
thomthethim for Oscar OK
12:23 on 11 October, 2013 &
12:51
I could have wept reading that,
How many have been sickened to that point by the corruption in Scottish football and the silence of many.
*******
It’s a position that I have been slowly sinking towards these last couple of years.
I fully understand Celtic’s position, damned if they do, damned if they don ‘t.
Hence my repeated mantra of BC or DC as the only honourable solution to the situation.
Neither is feasible, for now, therefore the club have, at best, to be reluctantly complicit, or else, what?
By extension, to continue to support Celtic, makes us also complicit, however reluctantly.
Hard to take, but I think that is a logical conclusion .
Whatever support would be left won’t be supporting a football club, that’s for sure.
Maybe Bob Kelly’s threat to convert Celtic FC to CLG Celtic was not an empty threat.
SIxtaeseven – When Smith said those words, he explained what we all know, and which Tom English reported yesterday – nothing has changed. They believe that they are a law unto themselves, that they are, somehow, different from other businesses that must try and follow accepted laws and practices.
The same message is coming from Jardine today, and McCoist a couple of days ago:
1. Rangers must keep spending more money so that they are ready to challenge Celtic in future years.
2 Rangers must keep spending money to please (appease) their fans who deserve a top-class team on the park, not just players capable of winning div 3.
To allow them to do that they will accept money off of anyone. They have no shame. None. If, or more likely when, the money dries up they will do it all over again. And their fans will keep falling for it.
scottishleaf
13:36 on 11 October, 2013
Lots of opinions, hopes, aspirations and speculation going on there.
Lets start with a fact.
SF have agreed that there will only be a united Ireland if the people of Northern Ireland vote for it.
What happens in Scotland won’t change that.
If you proceed from there the rest of your post falls apart.
TRIFC llok to new business ideas for ways of generating much needed funds.
http://www.rangersmegastore.com/team-rubber-duck-845088?colcode=84508806
MWD
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers forza oscar and mackenzie
13:39 on 11 October, 2013
MICKTTYou shoulda said,one of our finest on this site has a wee diamond on the loch.Have a great time,bud. But don’t get carried away by the occasion.Nae pre-marital sex,mind-yer a guid Catholic lad,remember.
Ho ho ho, there will be no diamonds on this trip, I shall take on board the latter advice although I have always adhered to my up bringing…. I have..
HH
An Tearmann
Heard the Liverpool lad last night (was dodging CQN Politics) – maybe after 9:00pm on Talksport – might have been Saggers show.
Link allows you to download – you’ll need to search:
http://talksport.com/radio/how-to-listen
A very interesting insight to football for youngsters and the Academy.
Hope you find it. H!H!
micktt
13:36 on 11 October, 2013
an tearmann
13:26 on 11 October, 2013
have a good weekend Celts.loch lomondside beckons this weekend..enjoy the internationals.
Very nice, likewise. A wee run on a boat, ah romance..
HH
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Mick, if you’re gonna be running about oan boats then make sure you’re wearing yer rubber ring! Ye might faw in………..ah, the romance ;-)
someone phone FARE.. offensive song on Rio Grande..film4
iki
12:47 on
11 October, 2013
Salmond is ” a mere transient”
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Nail on head. You’d think that we were voting for a dictatorship listening to some of the anti-SNP rhetoric.
We even have references back to died folks as justification for remaining under London economic rule.
KK
That’s a big yes from me!
xfactorcfc
died = deid
Hi Paul67,
Good to get your take on the King affair…
Don’t know why they are scrambling for money, with the amont of Herring Rouge they produce they’d make a fortune in the kipper business.
And lets face it the look fit ~ what have the following got in common????
SA Judge – Dave King a glib and shameless liar.
Dave King – Decieved by David Murray
David Murray – Duped by Craig Whyte
Craig Whyte – Shafted by Charles Green
Charles Green – Is Devious Ally Mc Coist
Ally Mc Coist – I took a cut in salary because it was the right thing to do….
Doneuplikeakipper
………aye but wait till SFA head-honcho, scourge ‘o’ the detail…………. Brandy Syphon casts his guid ‘ee o’er the latest colourful pop-up………
Aye Readies………………..!
;)
ayrshirtim
13:59 on 11 October, 2013
micktt13:36 on 11 October, 2013an tearmann13:26 on 11 October, 2013have a good weekend Celts.loch lomondside beckons this weekend..enjoy the internationals.Very nice, likewise. A wee run on a boat, ah romance..HH————————–Mick, if you’re gonna be running about oan boats then make sure you’re wearing yer rubber ring! Ye might faw in………..ah, the romance ;-)
One will go in, but she won’t be coming back oot…! Ah romance
HH
pheersy
14:00 on 11 October, 2013
someone phone FARE.. offensive song on Rio Grande..film4
Brilliant, I was just thinking that and gonni post it
HH
micktt
14:13 on 11 October, 2013
pheersy14:00 on 11 October, 2013
Beautifully sung I may add
Don’t make them like this anymore..
HH
Richie #TeamOscar
14:00 on 11 October, 2013
‘We even have references back to died folks as justification for remaining under London economic rule.’
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You mean like having interest rates fixed by the Bank of England and stuff like that?
Ernie Lynch
Yes thanks for pointing out what SF signed up too in the GFA…
A lot of republicans believe in the right of the Irish people to national self-determination. This would be recognised in the form of a 32 county referendum on Irish unity.
Like anybody I am allowed to have hopes, aspirations and dreams. It’s far better to an optimist than a pessimist.
I am also allowed to speculate, most people who have an opinion on what a post-independent Scotland would look like are speculating.
I do not believe that SF policy will be determined by what happens in Scotland. In fact I am certain it won’t. I also have not in any of my posts suggested that it will. I have expressed the hope that Scotland having a vote on independence will galvanise support for the idea of an all Ireland vote on unification. As you correctly point out this is not SF’s positions and I am not suggesting it will be any time soon.
Still I’m happy you were able to respond without trying to insult this time!
Glib, Shameless & Howe
The solicitors representing the SFA.