Have you ever seen a ‘Rangers’ director pushed by a journalist on a question he dodged before yesterday? It’s never happened. STV’s Peter Smith did something no journalist in the history of Scottish football has done before, pressed a question when the man in charge at Ibrox dodged the initial inquiry. Smith dismissed the deserved praise that came his way last night by suggesting it’s what a journalist does. True, but refreshing nonetheless.
I was reminded last night that Green’s examination by the old media has come earlier in his journey to the bottom that Craig Whyte’s did last season. Whyte was being backed by some, let’s call them enablers, right up until the week before Rangers went into administration. Unfortunately for Green some in the media, and perhaps a few in the support, were embarrassed by their backing of Whyte last year and will not repeat the mistake.
Apart from the aforementioned Green, I have only ever known one person to use the word “darkie” (I missed 1970s ‘comedians’). He was born in the first years of the 20th century, too young for the first war and too old to be conscripted for the second. Well into his 90s, I heard him say “there are a lot of darkies on TV these days”. He was reprimanded and immediately realised what he had done. An apology and a period of over-compensation followed.
It falls to SFA president Campbell Ogilvie to ensure that such language has no place in Scottish football. Disciplinary proceedings should be issued, unless, of course, the SFA view the matter in a different light. Any future appearance of a Charles Green image on a banner or effigy at Celtic Park, or use of the words ‘Our New Hero’ to describe him, should not be regarded as an endorsement of his views, only his work in football.
Celtic minstrels will write songs about him, I have heard the words “man-love” being used this week.
Will Newco stay active long enough for Craig Whyte’s security over Ibrox, crystallised by yesterday’s ruling that he owes Ticketus circa £17m and therefore had a piece of the action at Rangers after all, to have an effect? There are so many icebergs around Newco probably not.
It was interesting to hear Manchester United’s endorsement of Newco as a potential English Premier League club being debated on STV. Now out of Europe, Manchester United were asked if they would play a fundraiser at Ibrox later this month. I hope Green’s comments on the interview don’t spoil relations.
I was pleased to hear we were drawn at home for the next game but for pity’s sake, sending Motherwell to Tannadice the day before defeats the point. This is a complete failure.
Add this to the fact that Fraser Forster’s biggest fan is making his First Holy Communion when we are at home to St Johnstone on 11 May and you get a taste of the frustration in our house last night.
He realises the importance of his First Communion but thought we could cancel the party afterwards and have an alternative celebration at Celtic Park. We’ll distract him on the day…..
As many of you are already aware, the Celtic Trust have arranged a process whereby, if you live in Scotland, you can easily contact your MSP to back the FAC call for an inquiry into policing at the Gallowgate last month. You can find the information and template here, go do it.
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Jingle jangle hinting other shareholders trying to overthrow Challs
tomcourtney @11:20
Nps mate, will be fun to see how all the chart shows handle this at the weekend. ;o)
dingdong.csc
HH
/Bishop B
Anyone else remember Der Bombers account of what CGs response was, when asked about ‘ra deeds…?’
Sure he said something along the lines of ‘If I want, I can shut this place down….’
Kind of puts the last few days into persepective if Our Hero has any claim…
Boring RFC shareprice post – please scroll by
Somebody’s just dumped £10k of stock at 69p/share and that’s by far the biggest trade in over a month. I doubt we’ll see the SP above 70p after this week.
Then Jackson effortlessly says the in profit Celtic,along with the basket case that is Sevco would love to play in England,they dont get it.
weeminger
Not boring at all.
I amazes me how its greens fault , its whytes fault , never sir minty,s fault . Teflon daves name never gets mentioned . Am i missing something here .were rangers not in financial bother before the green n whyte show. Were green n whyte there when the ebt,s etc were introduced . Strange how all thems trouble just started when whyte came on the scene .
Jimtim
BBC online
The court appointed administrators, Duff and Phelps, passed information to the police after a preliminary examination of the company accounts.
would hope BDO have been alerted by duff and duffer as they now have control of the club now in liquidation
jam67
Estadio – class, as ever!
Miki – slightly similar story and fondly remember a horse called ManchesterSkyTrain. Student in early/mid 80’s summer, had 70p and no sign of a giro. Really should have bought bread and milk, but deciced on a 5p Yankee in a bookie off Byres Rd instead. Got three winners and bought provisions and a monster cargo for the flatmates!
Less said about the firewater the better…!
HH
TTTT
jungle jam67
11:28
… would hope BDO have been alerted by duff and duffer as they now have control of the club now in liquidation …
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… which is not the same as the Sevco circus, as Sevconians everywhere will soon be falling over themselves to confirm.
TwoMacaroons
11:15 on
11 April, 2013
IMHO Green is using the age old tactic of deflecting attention away from what he doesn’t want people to focus on, namely his links to Whyte. He knows fine well the amount of fuss any racist remark will attract in the press. And a lot of suckers have bought it.
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I share that view in terms of the fuss created although cannot say for certain that was Green’s motive.
I did read somewhere though that SFA have also questionned Green about the takeover and the answers to that if they become public will become the focus of longer term attention.
Keech says Green is not long for the heights of Govan. You don’t say!
Also wondering when the Asbestos Bored might deign to comment.
ThegftthatjustkeepsgivingCSC
HH
Gerry
From Eeramacaroonbar on tsfm.
Eeramacaroonbar (@Eeramacaroonbar) on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 10:28
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I see a lot of excitement building around another big crisis at Ibrox. If anything this last year or so has taught me is that, Rangers, old or new are impervious to any laws of the land that the rest of society are subject to. Whether it be football authorities,police or judges they have and always will be a special case. “Social unrest” was the term used, and over the last year I have realised that the threat of this gets them out of any jam they may find themselves in. Whether there are genuine fears or it is a smokescreen for favourable treatment is anyone’s guess. I personally think it is a combination of both.
Alex Thomson, the Channel 4 journalist’s interest in this whole saga should give everyone an insight into how Scottish society panders to this so called “institution”. He stumbled upon it by chance, and within a couple of months, could not believe how parochial,corrupt and murky our game and it’s coverage by the MSM was. A complete neutral, with no previous interest in our game or probably country for that matter, was completely immersed in this unfolding scandal. Like everyone he could see the financial skulduggery and carnage of the old and new regimes at Ibrox. For him, like the great majority of us thought, it was an open and shut case. Over the next few weeks and months he reported on events in an increasingly bewlidered state as one by one, crimes/rule breaches that should have followed a natural course of justice – didn’t. He was unable to understand how Campbell Ogilvie remained in position, why the SPL,SFA were trying to shoehorn the new club back into the top division, shedding all their debt and shafting creditiors. He experienced first hand the threats and intimidation as he tried to uncover the truth and report it, whilst the rest of the MSM ignored or spinned like a top. By the end of it all he was sat on a couch on Scotland Tonight after another inexplicable decision that day by LNS, looking exasperated. All he could muster was that if he had to explain all the previous events of that year to a Martian he would simply describe our country as a “Banana Republic”.
Tellingly sitting opposite to him that night was a guy called Chris Graham. This was a guy who ran a site called ” Enemies of Rangers” which caused my mate’s boozer no end of bother. The guy had been discredited at every turn with his blogs and views, yet here he was(and now is – regularly) being rolled out in front of our eyes on our country’s flagship news programme. Giving this guy such a platform, and furthermore (by his increasing appearances) credibility should tell everyone all they need to know about how this country panders to the “Orange” pound.
My advice to fans now wanting to see justice unfold regarding the latest revelations, is – forget it. If there is a way to get them off the hook or lessen the sanctions, it will be done. I already see the Police getting involved and going after Whyte. Both sales from Murray to Whyte and then to Green seem to be fraudulent. Hopefully we will see justice, but remember this “social unrest” get out is very powerful and can cover a multitude of sins.
jimtim
11:28 on
11 April, 2013
It reminds me of Watergate where all efforts were focussed on protecting the President. Funnily enough tape recordings were the smoking gun there too that eventually unseated Nixon.
BRTH if you are reading – the floor is yours :)
celtic_first
11:30 on
11 April, 2013
thanks for the comment mate
made my grin grow even bigger;-)))))))))))))))))))
also it depends on which sevco?
sevco 5088 or sevco scotland
whyte and green
who did duff and duffer give the assets to?
their is no way someone else have been duped also!
they got over £5 million for their proffesional work at snake mountain
jam67
blantyretim.
blantyretim
10:09 on 11 April, 2013
Day three of mini plus two friends at caravan in Moffat
Anything interesting happening?.
Went to put the bin out last night and fell out the door,fell down three steps.Scraped my knee, hurt my shoulder,and forgot to put out the bin.
Is that interesting?.
as much as I am enjoying the rangers/rangers/sevco5088/sevco Scotland debacle, I do fear that there is an element of truth on henriks post from tsfm.
The points made on here only seem to be accepted as mainstream fact once the DR/Sun says so.
it raises the point again about how best to manage the MSM should we boycott them all completely and risk our views being sidelined/ignored or try to participate and get our points across to the “man in the street” as it were
auldhead I have very little confidence in the SFA,
Jim Tim, Teflon Dave is a very good name for him, if as Phil Mac hinted about certain tapes, we don’t have to wonder too hard what the polis were looking for when they raided Craigy’s gaffs yesterday.
hen1rik
The thing is, the more they try and protect rangers the worst the situation for the club has become.
Long may it continue…
The con man had his feet under the table
With help from his friends, he was able
To change his name
Whilst being the same
Murray, White, Green, moonbeams unstable
Serenity
oldtim67
11:38 on
11 April, 2013
Probably make the front page of the Moffat Enquirer.
the phrase about fooling all of the people all of the time repeatedly comes to mind at times like this
HMRC pushed liquidation so they could appoint BDO and get all the answers and prosecute someone.
HMRC is not based in the Banana Republic we live in and they want blood!
For those who are monitoring the replies:
Dear iki,
Thank you for your email concerning the unauthorised march of Celtic supporters on 16th March in the Gallowgate, and the police response to that march.
For information, I have written to Strathclyde Police Authority requesting them to examine the incident in question. I will let you know what response I receive.
Thank you once again for being in touch.
Yours sincerely,
Ruth Davidson MSP
Auldheid – there is no way Whyte will be the patsy. He’ll take the whole lot down with him first.
Keech Jackson fears for their SFA licence as the original agreement was that Green had nothing to do with Whyte.
He also admitted that DR will have nothing to do with Whyte and the “propaganda he is pedalling”.
So the major Scottish paper will not listen to any evidence he may have on the takeover of Sevco???
Keech Jackson, Sports Journalist of the Year, broke the story of the MBB did he not??
“wealth off the radar” I believe was the term he used and now he wants nothing to do with Craigy Boy, oooh yer fickle Keech…
With the gangsters involved at all levels within the Sevco Boardroom ,takeover factions ,and terraces,Craigy Bhoy has Balls of steel.
Starry Plough
He’s now Motherwell Born Businessman.
Be fair now.
Hee Hee
HH
With each passing day, I become more intrigued as to the make up of BDO…Granted there is a lot of work to do, but they are a strangely unknown quantity… Given the last year what should we believe they will do, if anything?!
Just a thought..
If Iain King at The Sun has the tapes,Minty will be protected.Allegedly.
Eeramacaroonbar.. Just to confirm, me an said poster are not related
But seem to have mutual fondness for a certain sweetie. :-)
Sir Minty has nothing to worry about.
After all, he sold a perfectly sound business to Mr Whyte in good faith (for a pound!)
Bada
If he has those tapes, and you’re the first person I’ve read who’s mentioned it, it’ll be published. The story is simply too big to throttle.
Like any other tabloid journo, King’s job is to sell papers.
That story would be the biggest seller of the year.
It’s a no-brainer.
Dunfermline gone into full administration owing £8.5m
Their council – one Susan Ower
Aptonymcfc
!!Bada Bing!!
Is King willing to go to jail to protect The Mint??
I doubt it, a den of thieves has no king..
I would have thought that there’s a fair chance that at least one copy of “the tapes” will be somewhere in Monaco.
Craigy may be an unscrupulous con man – but he consistently demonstrates that he is not stupid and seems to be at last one step ahead of everyone else. I would suggest that he probably knows more about insolvency law – and how to exploit it – than the whole of CQN combined.
It will be a pity in some ways when he gets the jail – let’s just hope that he doesn’t meet with any unfortunate “accidents” in the meantime.
Fair play to Partick Thistle and Morton last night for ensuring that armeggedon in Scottish football is a long way off.
A cracking crowd for an SFL1 match especially mid week.
LB