I’ve read yesterday’s statement from prospective Rangers owner, Charles Green, a few times now, without really understanding what the point was. When someone issues an unexpected statement the reason is usually obvious. Not on this occasion.
Published on the official Rangers web site it once and for all confirmed that Duff and Phelps were acting with the approval of Green when they took the SFA to the Court of Session, thereby bringing the entire Scottish game into a potential disrepute situation with Fifa.
Mr Green will now be fully aware of the ramifications of Rangers court action. They failed in their attempt to have the matter referred back for consideration to the Judicial Panel and, as Paul McConville pointed out yesterday, cannot be ejected from the Scottish Cup. They are not currently participating in the Scottish Cup, and suspension from a future season’s Cup is not an available punishment.
His legal advice is now likely to conclude that his actions will soon lead to suspension from the Scottish FA. There is, however, an interesting theme through Green’s short statement that might indicate why his statement was issued:
“I nor my investors wish to see an outcome that would be to the detriment of Scottish Football”.
“….suspension or termination of Rangers Football Club membership of the SFA. That in our view would be a disaster for Scottish football”.
“Expulsion from the Scottish Cup is itself a very serious punishment which would also have a severe impact on Scottish football”.
We are heartened to hear the interests of Scottish football are so core to Mr Green’s heart. This being the case, he will possibly protect Scottish football by asking the SFA to impose the now-illegal player registration ban on Rangers and beg them not to refer the matter back to the Appellate Panel. The horse has bolted on this one but it’s possibly worth a punt.
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thye wrap themselves in the butcher’s apron spending millions celebrating a human being being fraudelently cast as a spiritual and moral leader…it’s kid on, a fraud, she’s human you thick pathetic idiots…people are homeless and starving.
I don’t get royalty! a bloody disgrace.
Authorities in London must have been cr*apping it if they were any Huns in the crowd and one of those tellies failed.
ps. I’m sure I saw Rat Nevin in the crowd (just behind Kojo) ;-)
Atticus Finch
Just saying hello.
Best moniker on the blog.
god bless her majesty
Gordon
I’ll bow to your excellent knowledge.
whitedoghunch on 4 June, 2012 at 21:58 said:
Late today having a pint it was pointed out to me I had two different shoes on both trainers, similair colour but no’ from the same box. Twist in my sobriety, back on the wine !
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On the plus side,you have another pair in the house!
s, revenue & customs
Atticus Finch can take out a rabid dog from 400 yds…just saying!
Atticus – you can take that bunting down now! hahahaha!
Bloke – surveying the wreckage suggests there is indeed a chance that they will not be around next season. If the SFA dont get them then the SPL will with the double contracts stuff. Then off course you have the big tax case about to hit the doormat. Then add in the fact that I cannot see how a CVA will be acceptable. As a taxpayer I will (as with many of you) be extremely unhappy if the taxman agrees a CVA. As for ticketus are they really going to take a £20 off million hit?
My bet is therefore a new co – the SFA will suspend them for around 10 games – but they wont be in the SPL. One of the delicious things about all of this is that they have burnt their bridges with just about everyone. They will need to start again in Div 3 if the SFL will let them.That way they wont serve the suspension as its a newco. Even if the SPL Chairman wanted and voted them in the double contracts debacle will relegate them to Div 3 – and they then may serve their suspension.
Even then Rangers will be hamstrung – duff and duffer are now using next seasons season ticket money (which they dont have) to pay the wages this month. They will also have to pay back Mr Green and co the money they use to buy the club (what a swindle that is).
Furthermore they will NEVER be the same again. Their shame will never die and many of their supporters will abandon them because the superiority complex will be smashed to smithereens.
It really is the end.
Oh what a circus! Oh what a show!
Roy C
Atticus is the best of us.
The exiled tim,
Yes. The kano foundation are running a predictor for the euros. Details from ttt or myself
Hh
Sanna
Gordon 23.01
Think you have that one wrong pal
Hamiltontim was bang on with with the 3-1 game @ Celtic Park in 1987.IMO HH
Gordon64 on 4 June, 2012 at 23:06 said:
Cheers mate, I was a long time lurker and now infrequent poster.
Loved the book and film, went back to college a couple of years ago and that was the book I had to study! BTW, I passed..
Gordon64
Atticus is the best of men he even trusted the Radleys.
AtticusFinch – you still into the Boo Radley’s?
TET,
Card trick was brilliant.
NegAnon2
Not often we agree, but I am with you all the way on that. I appreciate that it’s hard for people to accept that they are done, given the way they have treated Scottish football over the years and gotten away with it, but this time it’s terminal. All we await now if the day to have our jelly and ice cream, head straight to the pub, whatever our preference. Mine’s a malt or a Bulmer’s. I shall let you choose :-)
Art of War on 4 June, 2012 at 23:10 said:
Take a note of Roy Croppie’s comment!
;)
From that Twitter:
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant; told to sleep under London Bridge http://m.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed?cat=uk&type=article
sannabhoy
Thanks, do I log on to the Kano site ?
Cheers Bloke – agreed. Mine’s is a large bucket of lager.
Neganon 2;
Thats the outcome I go with….and a very satisfactory one too.
hh
sannabhoy
Where does the winner apply?
thomthethim
I watched a few times, still none the wiser, stunning magic so it is :>)
Atticus Finch
I read the book and studied it for my o grades.
Saw the film with Gregory Peck. Life changing.
Also on my list is
The Grapes of Wrath.
setting free the bears on 4 June, 2012 at 22:28 said:
Well down to bsr, I didn’t know that at all.
Sorry for the late reply, been out to pick up young Doc, just back from Alton Towers.
angelgabriel….
I am not saying the song wasn’t played at half time in that 3-1 game I just don’t recall it.
However, I am fairly certain it was played in the 1-1 game.
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My favourite book is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ followed by ‘Of Mice and Men’ and then ‘Kidnapped’.
CQNbooklovers
Good evening CQN, was out for a wee while tonight, on my return met a neighbour from a few doors down. His son and my son are friendly, his son is a very talented young footballer, very young but looks to have some real ability. He plays for Scotland and rfc, trains at Murray Park. His dad was just telling me rfc(ia) have ceased all funding, as we would expect, but it is Hearts who have taken over the coaching of the kids teams, Murray park is in total meltdown…. Only a matter of time….
hh
bjmac
hamiltontim on 4 June, 2012 at 23:06 said:
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Let it be
You are correct my friend
1987 in was, the last game at CP, somehow I was thinking of the first game the folowing season at CP. Several things happened to me that weekend mostly all good apart from catching chickenpox , would I be correct and say the game was about a week or so after St Pats day?
HH
Best book I’ve read is Paul McGrath’s biography, Back from the Brink, truly amazing story of an amazing individual.
hh
Bjmac
NegAnon2 on 4 June, 2012 at 23:10 said:
Hard to find fault with your assessment.
The final outcome may vary in detail but the effect will be the same:
Extermination, liquidation, elimination
Tale your pick.
bjmac
Get The Hardy Bhoys and Nancy Drew on yer Kindle
Love
Atticus Finch the finest literary character ever.
Tom Joad next.
roy croppie on 4 June, 2012 at 23:27 said:
Jeeze oh Roy..
Stole my thunder there, love Mice and Men, I would also add The Crucible to that list..
Each of those books has a common theme running right through them.
Well people, having waxed lyrical and raved about Breaking Bad (back next month! Woohoo!) I now have to wax lyrical and rave about Game of Thrones.
I loved Rome. I thought Rome was one of the best epic shows I’d ever seen. I thought it told a fantastic story in a different light, mixing fact with fiction, myth with reality in a way which was captivating from start to finish. Essentially, however, it was story set in one city, with a few different camps vying for power … and as epic as it felt, it was limited by that.
Game of Thrones is epic on a grander scale, by far. When an horrendous (and for me, who hasn’t read the books) unexpected and shocking event takes place mid-way through the first season, the story you thought you were going to be following, essentially the investigation of a mysterious death, veers savagely in another direction entirely and before you know it there is a clusterfeck of Rangers proportions, affecting everyone, throwing the Kingdom of the Iron Throne into total chaos … and what magnificent chaos it is.
Walter White was my favourite ever TV character until I saw this show. And he had eclipsed a guy called Marlo Stanfield, who will be notorious to fans of The Wire. He himself had eclipsed another guy from that show, Avon Barksdale, who had eclipsed Vic Makey, who had turned over a political backroom brawler called Joshua Lyman, from the West Wing ….
One man now towers (yes, towers, and yes it’s a kind of in-joke) over them all … and it is, of course, Tyrian Lannister. I defy anyone to watch the show and not love this character from the first second he is on screen.
The show is sheer pleasure from start to finish. Magnificent.