Green has more to worry about than title stripping

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Charles Green, owner of “The Rangers Football Club Limited“, formed in May this year, yesterday released a remarkable statement yesterday, ahead of the SPL Commission into How Rangers FC, formed in 1872, registered football players for over a decade.

“In short, what was decided by the SPL membership is that Rangers was finished as a member of the SPL. Despite this, the SPL now see the new owners of the company, and the new company itself, which owns all the assets of Rangers FC – including SPL championship titles – as fair game for punishment for matters that have nothing to do with us at all.”

We dealt with the purchasing of history on here some months ago. Once we realised it was possible, I snapped up ancient Egyptian history, the period from the pharaohs until Mark Antony. I AM responsible for the Pyramids of Giza but any slavery which may or may not have been used in their construction is NOTHING to do with me.

No one complained about the use of slaves at the time and I am sure each pyramid would have been constructed whether slaves were used of not. If slaves were so necessary for the construction I am sure “we” would have built many more.

Mr Green seems keen to protest against the SPL process, however, he, frankly, fails miserably. He doesn’t “question the impartiality of the individual panel members” but assets “whatever decision they reach is a decision of the SPL”.

So that will be independent members reaching a decision for the SPL! I think he doth protest too little.

There is also a threat: “”To make it crystal clear, the new owners purchased all the business and assets of Rangers, including titles and trophies. Any attempt to undermine or diminish the value of those assets will be met with the stiffest resistance, including legal recourse.”

Charles Green took steps to undermine his new company’s claim on Rangers titles in a BBC interview in June when he said that if his CVA proposal was to fail (which it did) and Rangers were to be liquidated (which they are), “the history, the tradition, everything that’s great about this club is swept aside”.

“Legal recourse”, which is prohibited by Fifa and which the SFA accommodated from Duff and Phelps, acting on behalf of Rangers, will provide Scottish football with a further drama.  We mentioned at the time that the true cost of the SFA being so accommodating would be a repeat performance.

Mr Green asks why the “football authorities do nothing to address an issue that was public knowledge for at least two years, and was reported in the Club’s accounts for several years”? I think I can help here. Sir David Murray, who owned Rangers during the duration of its Employee Benefit Trust years, categorically denied that the club issued players with second contracts which were not submitted to the authorities. He reiterated this point most recently on a Sky News interview in March.

The football authorities have no issues whatsoever with Employee Benefit Trusts, it’s player contracts they insist are registered. Rangers insisted they had no case to answer until the SPL set a deadline on Duff and Phelps to fully disclose the nature of the alleged second contracts.

Charles claims during those lurid weeks when the SPL and SFA were negotiating with Green, that Neil Doncaster “repeatedly stated he was not interested in stripping titles from Rangers”. If he had evidence of this, ANY evidence, it would be fascinating.

If not, we should dismiss this claim.

A curious barb is made in other directions, “Rangers was not the only Club in Scotland to use EBTs yet nothing was done and little has been heard about it”.

One more time, for Mr Green’s benefit, EBTs are not against football regulations whatsoever. They are entirely legal and permitted by the SFA and SPL. The SPL Commission is not investigating whether Rangers used EBTs or not, it will investigate whether or not all player contracts were registered.

Mr Green goes on to make varied comments against “powerful representatives from Clubs within the SPL…. who appear hell bent on inflicting as much damage on Rangers as possible”, and that some “clubs were placed in an invidious position and we believe their interests were not best served by those in more powerful positions”.

Let’s have some context here. If we were to make a list of those who inflicted most damage on Rangers, representatives from other clubs would scarcely merit a mention. Those who allowed the club to spend more than it earned for so many years, who introduced the perilous tax avoidance system, those who failed to make accommodations for HMRC’s claim when it was first made, and those directors who personally benefited from the EBT scheme all carry primary responsibility.

Then would come the cheerleaders for the disastrous Craig Whyte regime – those who last year campaigned for the takeover, including putting pressure on Lloyds Banking Group to accept the terms.

Rangers opponents were spectators throughout this period. Any suggestion that our club were anything but opponents to Rangers, and alleged victims of trophies won by illegally registered players, when they should have been campaigning on behalf of their rivals, seriously misreads what was an established Glasgow rivalry. Of course it would be the same the other way – and rightly so.

Despite clearly feeling strongly about the Commission, Green didn’t address the key point….

There was no denial of the central charge that for a decade or more Rangers fielded improperly registered football players.

Yesterday some people suggested Green had offered the Lance Armstrong defence but Armstrong denied he was guilty while refusing to participate in the investigation into doping. This is a different matter altogether. Green has offered up something for every conceivable paranoid condition without actually claiming Rangers are wrongly accused.

The headlines today are all about titles being stripped but that is not the main topic in play. More importantly, after titles are stripped, what punishment will the SPL Commission levy on the Rangers membership, granted to Sevco in June?

The sheer scale of the charge makes this question incalculable. The toxicity attached to that membership is untenable and no bogeymen at other clubs, at the SPL or SFA are responsible for that.

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  1. Morning all!

     

     

    Well, thank God that’s over – international football that is! But it’s coming back in about 4 weeks!

     

     

    Proper game this weekend.

     

     

    HH!!

  2. MWD –

     

     

    Great article, I am just in the process of sending it to followers of the now-defunct former Kinning Park club. Subject line – Zombie FC.

     

     

    That should set me up for another day of fun and games!

     

     

    Do-de-do-de-dooo, I’m loving it.

     

     

    Lurcy

  3. Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar.

     

    06:57 on

     

    12 September, 2012

     

    I can’t believe The Herald has broke ranks and published a critique of ole Chuck Green.

     

     

    Dead! Sevco! No History!

     

     

    Surely this will need to be sold from under the counter.

     

     

    They published Roger Mitchells thoughts on Sevco not the Heralds

     

     

    In the coming week watch for Richard Wilson and Michael Grant lead the Herald love in with Rankers

  4. lionroars67

     

     

    ‘In the coming week watch for Richard Wilson and Michael Grant lead the Herald love in with Rankers’

     

     

    Too true. I can just imagine the both of them right now, wolfing down their bowl of Sugar Puffs incandescent with rage at the slur on their beloved Charlie + new club

     

     

    54 to 0

  5. Morning,

     

     

    Sevco have handed new deals to 3 players aged 17, 18 and 19!

     

     

    Correct me if I am wrong but are they not banned from signing anyone over the age of 18?

     

     

    Are Green & Fat Sally once again seeing how far they can push the SFA?

  6. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar's Green Bucket Army on

    Good morning from the Big Smoke

     

    Good to catch up with Tooting Tim and Brixton Celt, proud owners of a Wee Oscar wristband and a new CQN badge.

     

    HH

     

    CRC

  7. moonbeams wd. kano 1000 \o/

     

    supporting neil lennon 100%.

     

    champions. c’mon wee oscar.

     

     

    So glad you posted that. lol!

  8. Part of the Radio Scotland Interview yesterday with a Salesman called chuck

     

     

    Q If you say the SPL has no legal authority over the company you now run, if your eventual objective is to return to the SPL, don’t you need to settle these matters?

     

     

    A Well i mean you got to listen to your FANS, WE DID that when they voted overwhelmingly for us to go to the 3rd division, 10 clubs in the SPL threw us out of that competition & league and they made it clear they dont want Sevco in that league what makes you think we would be invited back in

     

     

    Q So you have no plans then for Sevco to be members of the SPL in future?

     

     

    A I was brought up to believe you shouldn’t go were you are not welcome, unless the SPL welcome us with open arms why would we go back there, it begs the question will there be an SPL in 3yrs time when we get back there, we still have to win this league and our away performances mean we still have a lot to improve upon, so there is a big task in front of Sevco working through these leagues, we had lots of stories that the loss of Sevco was going to have a detrimental financial impact well that’s not present of course at Sevco or with the football league clubs, the SPL clubs are struggling and to me this is a waste of money that the SPL are using to bring a case against TWO ORGANISATIONS over which they have no jurisdiction

     

     

    Q Well you say listen to the fans, are you being in danger of playing to the gallery here because this is not really about what the fans think, its about what rules were broken

     

     

    Salesman raises his voice

     

    A Lets keep the interview sensible, lets not start talking rubbish, i’ve NEVER LISTENED TO THE FANS that’s why in the dark days they didn’t like me! i’m not playing to any gallery now or ever, im never going to play to the gallery that’s why when the fans were baying for all the information i wouldn’t give it cause it wasn’t right at that time, to give it, in my tenure at Sevco i’ve done whats right for the club, not whats right for the FANS, or whats right for the authorities, whats right for Sevco, im going to continue doing that, so im not playing to any gallery, never have never will

     

     

    Death of a Salesman

  9. Fair play to the Herald.

     

     

    It’s never too late !

     

     

    “hello could I have a Playboy and cough Herald please”

  10. Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar.

     

    07:22 on

     

    12 September, 2012

     

    lionroars67

     

     

    It is the fact that they published it at all that is “Astouned of Forehead”.

     

     

    Yes their own branded MSMers will now come out against this but an editor somewhere in the West of Scotland (probably in hiding now) took a decision to publish the truth about Sevco.

     

     

    I agree! is sales down with other SPL fans groups notably the Celtic family?

  11. Astonishing article by Roger Mitchell in The Herald. How on earth did that one get past the thought police?

  12. sixtaeseven: Supporting the Finest Team in Scotland on

    Morning all from gay Paree, pluie aujourd’hui (19C max alledgedly).

     

     

    Thankfully the international break is over and we can get back to the real thing.

     

    Interesting reminder from Chairbhoy (07:01) that one of the main reasons that CL got the Scotland job was the fact “his in-form DU side had several important Matches with R@ngers coming up.” I remember that well – in fact he was rushed into the job, leaving DU rudderless at the time.

     

     

    Good article in the Herald, not by one of their hacks but by Roger Mitchell, the former chief executive of the SPL.

     

    Wonder how that slipped under their radar, and will it be pulled later in the day?

     

     

    Hopefully, this evening we will get some sort of comment from Lord Nimmo after their two-day stint.

     

     

    Nimmo? Was that not the guy in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?

     

    Hopefully, he’ll consign “3-Leagues-Under-the-SPL” Sevco to oblivion.

     

     

    hai Hail

  13. Morning all from yet another wet and windy day in North Ayrshire.

     

     

    Radio Scotland had a Scotland supporter on (Hamish something or other?) who talked more sense than all the pundits put together. He was calling for what I have said repeatedly on here. Primarily, he was saying that the supporters should demand of their clubs that they gey back to playing FOOTBALL, teaching the young to pass the ball. It’s the only way we have any chance of improvement.

  14. I notice that article by Martin Hannan posted earlier….

     

     

    So….WGS sent Tommy Burns over to Spain to watch Barce…and to analyze their style using Pro-Zone…

     

     

    And he came back feeling ‘down in the dump’….

     

     

    Well….In My Humble Opinion,celtic should have beaten the Catalans at Parkhead that night….with a smidgeon more of self-belief…and with a referee more prepared to crack down on the antics of the Barce players,espec Henry..

     

     

    Over both legs….Puyol was guilty of persistent fouling…and was allowed to commit cynical fouls…as last man….. without even receiving a booking….

     

     

    And Celtic’s performance in the return leg was ‘spineless’….with the Ginger Helmsman suffering a case of ‘Acute Leveinitis’….stating that his aim was to avoid a morale sapping defeat.

     

     

    So a Celtic team went out on the pitch that night….not to compete….but to sit back and admire Barce’s Pretty “Carousel” Brand Of Football….

     

     

    Big Jock Must Have Been Turnin’ In His Grave….

     

     

    All this ‘Scientific Analysis’ is just “Bamboozling”….

     

     

    Ask Bold Canamalar….

     

     

    Send Our Bhoys OVER THE TOP….

     

     

     

    Like The Black Watch..The Argyll And Sutherland…The Seaforth Highlanders…

     

     

    Red-of-face….Claymores Swingin’…..

     

     

     

    Take Inspiration From Our Viking Cousins

     

     

    The very next season, in the C.L. , Rosenborg cuffed the Catalans 3-1…

     

     

    With their Imperious Captain,Vidar Riseth strolling the pitch….and weighing in with the third goal….

     

     

    Pro-Zone..?? Just So Much OZONE….

     

     

    To Keep The Likes Of Andy Gray In A Job

     

     

    If Truth Be Told….

  15. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on

    Posted on TSFM last night

     

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    Good Evening,

     

     

    I would advise everyone to simply file away tonights statement from Alastair Johnston. File it away and keep it for another day, so that you can eventually compare it to findings, statements and arguments that will come from elsewhere.

     

     

    To give AJ his due, he is at least extremely consistent in his business ideas.

     

     

    I was amazed about a year ago when he announced one night that he had had an alternative plan to selling Rangers PLC to Craig Whyte, and that the sale to Whyte was simply not necessary. That master plan was to simply go to Lloyds Bank and persuade them to transfer the entire Rangers Bank debt to the balance sheet of MIH– and so in one fell swoop Rangers PLC would have no bank debt whatsoever.

     

     

    After all, argued AJ, MIH owed the bank £850M– so what difference would another £30M or so make. He said all of this live on air with BBC Radio Scotland via a phone link from his home in the US.

     

     

    You will note that absolutely nowehere in this masterplan revealed to the BBC- or in the statement that he made tonight regarding EBT’s and taxes that are due- does Alastair Johnston- former chairman of Rangers PLC- a stock exchange listed company with all the attendant rules and regulations that come with that listing– nowhere does he suggest that the company that he chaired should pay its own bank debts or indeed its taxes.

     

     

    Nowhere does he suggest any fiscal governance or that Rangers should live within their means.

     

     

    Nowhere does he suggest that Rangers’ spending on players or anything else would be governed by the available income of the club, or by prudent fiscal management.

     

     

    No– if it all went wrong with the bank or the taxman or act of god or whatever— The Board of Rangers PLC always knew that they would be bailed out by Sir David Murray and his multimillions….. oh and not to mention Murray’s “special” relationship with the Bank of Scotland.

     

     

    In other words– beyond David Murray— not a single Director of Rangers PLC had a solitary notion of how to trim a deficit, turn around a loss, manage a budget, prepare a sustainable business plan… or effectively conduct any of the duties,responsibilities,skills and business sense expected of a PLC Director.

     

     

    Not that this amazing failure is the main message from Mr Johnston this September evening.

     

     

    Oh No.

     

     

    You see, he wheels out the extraordinary tale of how he examined his notes from 2011– I wonder why he did not go back any further— and then recants the tale of how the SFA ( in the knowledge that there was a tax investigation under way ) called for documentation, apparently received some if not all documentation ( he is rather vague on what was sent ) and then without further ado simply issued the licence that was seemingly the purpose for for the enquiry in the first place——– and then berates the SFA for doing nothing whatsoever– or so it seems.

     

     

    This too is extraordinary from a PLC chairman– especially one who so obviously did nothing himself in the face of an oncoming tax storm.

     

     

    Remember that the FTT is the culmination of a long process. There has to have been intimation of a tax investigation long before we even get the assessment that was appealed against to the FTT. That tax investigation should put anyone on alert that there may be a problem with a fiscal liability at the tail. Yet despite the storm clouds gathering, AJ and Rangers PLC make no provision for the rainy day— presumably because the view is taken that if the sh1t hits the fan uncle David and his friendly bank manager will write a cheque to solve the problem.

     

     

    Once again no fiscal planning, no prudent management, no contingency allowance in any business plan—— nothing.

     

     

    I agree with AJ that there should be a stewards enquiry into what the SFA were doing, but he glosses over the most salient facts by highlighting the inactivity of the SFA Auditor etc.

     

     

    Why was it that the Remuneration Trust was not declared each and every year? Because it clearly wasn’t! Was that just a mistake and an error on the part of say Paul Dickson?

     

     

    How come the SFA apparently did not understand the fiscal complexities of players contracts?

     

     

    Were the SFA officials that stupid that they got the wrong end of the stick altogether as a result of the documentation and discussions with Rangers over the years? if so– just how did that happen?

     

     

    That is a very dangerous route to go down– but we will leave that for another day.

     

     

    What of AJ’s stout defence of David Murray– and his legitimate attempts to mitigate tax legally– and his condemnation of Craig Whyte for wholly misapplying Rangers funds?

     

     

    Well, at the very best, Murray and his cohorts totally mismanaged a legitimate tax saving scheme to such an extent that that same scheme became a completely illegal one– presuming that the FTT so finds.

     

     

    If it does so find then the best that can be said of the Rangers PLC board is that in this regard they were wholly incompetent,

     

     

    The worst that can be said was that they knowingly and deliberately mislead both the SFA and the tax authorities as to the true earnings of certain employees at Ibrox– all with a view to evading tax which would otherwise be due. Needless to say, AJ paints the picture of the innocent abroad merely trying to operate within the law with the scheme unfortunately falling foul of the regulations— all of which was just bad luck sort of thing.

     

     

    Except, does that stand any scrutiny whatsoever?

     

     

    Remember– Rangers had a number of CA’s and professional types on their board- as did MIH.

     

     

    Paul Dickson, Douglas Odam, Johnston himself and even Murray– surely they can just all have got it accidentally wrong?

     

     

    Remember too, the public statements of Billy Dodds who stated that he was told personally by David Murray that he would receive the money that was due to him by way of the EBT…. and that the tax had been paid on the sum concerned?

     

     

    That does not sit well with the picture that Johnston paints. Nor does the notion that some players were told that they were to be paid this way and no other way– take it or leave it!

     

     

    Remember too the pleadings of Martin Bain when he went to the court over a year ago. Bain effectively plead that Rangers were insolvent because of the FTT tax case– not because of Craig Whyte’s malfeasance as suggested by Johnston.

     

     

    If that is the view of the former long term CEO within weeks of walking away from Ibrox– just when did he reach the conclusion that the company was a busted flush and how did he bring that to the attention of his board members?

     

     

    Don’t forget also that this is the same CEO who for some reason suggested that his contract of employment be shredded?

     

     

    The fact of the matter remains that Rangers PLC deliberately did not disclose all of its financial arrangements with players and other key employees to the SFA and the SPL as per the rules— and a breach of those rules requires and demands certain punishment and sanction.

     

     

    Those are the rules.

     

     

    Lastly, does AJ do David Murray any favours in this statement. He focuses on the fact that he always believed that David Murray was always available to write a cheque for Rangers wrongs— with the support of the bank if necessary.

     

     

    Except that the bank concerned crashed in 2008. It was bailed out by the public in the same year and was forced into the deal with Lloyds who effectively took it over. The lloyds guys immediately stopped Murray’s ability to spend and effectively took control of his company from him.

     

     

    Why?

     

     

    Well possibly because he employed Directors whose only idea of a business plan was to ask the bank for more money and who at no time conducted a review of the business and its potential liabilities with the intention of adjusting trading and fiscal compliance accordingly.

     

     

    Apparently because they could not make the paperwork, surveys accounts and other documentation submitted by MIH stack up against the sums borrowed– apparently it all just didn’t stand scrutiny.

     

     

    Maybe the good folks at Lloyds were just confused and didn’t understand the complexity and the value of Sir David’s business dealings– just like the SFA— just like Martin Bain who thought that one of his businesses was de facto inslovent– just like AJ who thought that Murray would always be able to write a cheque for any sum under the sun— just like Billy Dodds who thought the tax had been paid on his severance payments and so on.

     

     

    File AJ’s statement away and bring it out another day and compare what he says to the findings and the testimony of others

     

     

    It seems that everyone around AJ and Sir David get confused or mistaken or…….. something else entirely…..

  16. Morning CQNer’s

     

     

    Just dropped in to say…

     

    The SFA waited until WGS took the Middlesbrough job

     

    before they sacked George Burley !!! imo

     

    Can’t see WGS getting the Scots-gig

     

    The late TB(God bless) and his centenary double-winning

     

    team mate and then, Motherwell manager – when M/well

     

    were playing the best football in the country – Mark McGhee

     

    were overlooked and then dumped out in the street like a couple

     

    of bags of rubbish without so much as a phone call to tell them

     

    that the weren’t successful in applying for Scotland job.

     

    Furthermore – when TB first joined the SFA – I felt a sudden shiver

     

    like someone had just walked over my grave !!! spooky – or what ?

     

    Hail Hail

  17. I read BRT&H’s post over on TSFM last night…….glad he writes on our behalf. If trfc had someone like that to plead their case, the world would be a different place…..

     

    HH.

  18. lionroars67 @ 07:43

     

     

    You got me thinking of a fitting tribute for w’or Charlie …

     

     

    So with grateful thanks to Monty Python, how about this:

     

     

    CHARLES GREEN:

     

    SPL? You were lucky to play in t’ SPL! We used to play in t’ SFL3, all twenty-six of us, no titles, no cups, no history, ‘alf the floor was missing, and we were all ‘uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

     

     

    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    Eh, you were lucky to have the SFL! We used to have to play in t’ Vauxhall League Conference!

     

     

    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    Oh, we used to dream of playin’ in t’ Vauxhall Conference! Would ha’ been the World Cup to us. We used to play in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. League? Huh.

     

     

    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    Well, when I say ‘ Vauxhall Conference ‘ it was only a black ash pitch, but it was a league to us.

     

     

    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    We were evicted from our black ash pitch. We ‘ad to go and play on a lake.

     

     

    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us playing with a rolled up newspaper in t’ middle o’ road.

     

     

    CHARLES GREEN:

     

    You were lucky. We played for three months on top of a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, for us breakfast we’d eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.

     

     

    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of o’ gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

     

     

    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to ‘ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o’clock at night and lick road clean wit’ tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit’ bread knife.

     

     

    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

     

    Right … I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for t’ privilege, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

     

     

     

    FF

  19. folly folly08:44 on 12 September, 2012:

     

    >>>>>>>

     

    Are you really Michael Palin?

     

    Great post.

     

    HH.

  20. So….The 9/11 Anniversary Came And Went….With Barely A Mention….

     

     

    The Biggest Loss of British Civilian Lives In A Terrorist Action… In Our History….

     

     

    Not So Fast….Mebbies Some Folk Took Notice Of The 9/11 Anniversary….

     

     

    Yes….Islamic Hordes Stormed The American Embassies In Libya And Egypt, Firing Off Grenades…Killing One Embassy Official…And Injuring Another….

     

     

    Ransacking ….And Setting Fire To The Buildings….Whilst Tearing Apart The American Flags….

     

     

     

    And Replacing Them With A Jihadist Al Qaeda Banners…..

     

     

    And The Pretext….This Time…?

     

     

     

    An Egyptian Emigre Film-Producer Makes His Own Attempt At “The Life Of Brian”…

     

     

    With ‘Mohammed’….Rather Than ‘Jesus’

     

    Being The Central Character Parodied…

     

     

    And Including A “Talking Donkey”…?!

     

     

    Oor SFTB Will Be Fair ‘OOTRAGED’….!!

     

     

     

    Just As He Was….When He Defended The Obsequious Performances of Messers Cleese & ‘Nicey’ Palin….In Their Debate With Malcolm Muggeridge & The Bishop Of Southwark….Where They Claimed That The ‘Life Of Brian’….Was Not In The Least Insulting To Christians….

     

     

    Even Wee Sensitive Types Like Gordon_J

     

     

     

    In A Vintage BBC Late-Night Arts Programme From The ’70s…..

     

     

     

    Recently Re-Broadcast On BBC4…

     

     

     

     

     

    And Meanwhile, Our Holy Father Is Travelling To The M.E. Tomorrow…..

     

     

     

    On A Three-Day Visit To His Substantial Flock In Lebanon….

     

     

    Jings ! Crivvens ! Save Me Virginia !

     

     

    Holy Exploding Courgettes !!

     

     

    We’re Gonna Need ‘Divine Intervention’

     

     

    Or A ‘Wildcat Strike’ By Alitalia Cabin Crew….?

  21. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    FOLLY FOLLY 0844

     

     

    Aye,tell that to huns nowadays and they’ll say they deserve better!

     

     

    Brilliant pastiche,bud-cheers!

  22. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Rather than Achilles slaying Hector it’s been more like Perseus slaying the Gorgon by holding up a mirror.

  23. Mr X loves having a "fly kick" on

    All Sevco fans should read the sentence in that Mitchell article when he refers to The Celtic fans’ victory being that “their greatest rival died”.

     

     

    Read it and weep bigot boys.

  24. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000

     

     

    08:22 on 12 September,

     

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    Magnificent stuff m8.

     

    Do you know when we will see some closure to all this hun stuff ?

     

     

    Rapidly running out of paracetamols – CSC

  25. Lennon n Mc....Mjallby on

    Well done Roger Mitchell,at least he is willing to admit that over one hundred years of Scottish football history cannot be bought and for the paltry sum of part of a 5.5m pound deal which includes a football stadium and car park.

     

     

    Sevco,the rangers-no titles!

  26. Dan

     

     

    they are allowed to extend contracts of players of any age who are already under contract to them.

  27. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    BROGAN,ROGAN,TREVINO and HOGAN

     

     

    You seem to have a talent for forensically ripping to shreds the preposterous defence.

     

     

    You should consider taking it up professionally,IMO.

     

     

    Brilliant post-as usual. Thanks.

  28. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    MIKI67

     

     

    When I was down in Bournemouth a number of years ago,the paras and RAF were involved in some display/training exercises.

     

     

    At the time,it was an annual thing.

     

     

    If it’s still going,perhaps in two years time you can suggest to them a little WILDCAT strike,as practice.

     

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgustaWestland_AW159

     

     

    That should give you enough time to track him down first!