“Old Firm game for Wembley”. Heaven help us. I don’t doubt International Champions Cup owner, Charlie Stillitano, has a sharp eye for what he could turn into a commercial success, but there can be fewer worse ideas in the history of sporting endeavour.
So many things could go wrong with such a fixture, some would go wrong, and the contagion would spread to Celtic. There’s no mention in any coverage of this item that Celtic have been consulted at any level, so I’m assuming they were as surprised as the rest of us at the moment (they were at a similar suggestion of a game in Australia a few years ago).
Stillitano cites hosting Manchester City-Manchester United in Beijing later this year as being something of an approximation. It’s not. I suggest he looks to somewhere deep in the Monglian hinterland for a venue for a Glasgow derby of this nature. Even then I would decline.
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TONY DONNELLY67 on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:25 AM
This time it affected the share price. Big difference.
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 58s58 seconds ago
Judge asks counsel when Mr King disclosed information from police Scotland?
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James Doleman @jamesdoleman 58s58 seconds ago
Dave Kings counsel rises to make a motion.
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James Doleman @jamesdoleman 59s59 seconds ago
Counsel for King asks court go award costs to his client including an additional fee to “show it’s displeasure.”
ERNIE LYNCH on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:26 AM
TONY DONNELLY67 on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:25 AM
This time it affected the share price. Big difference.
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Hip pocket nerve.
The big motivator.
‘ information from police Scotland’
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I wonder what that might be.
“Counsel for Ashley says previous requests for information from King was met with the response “no, no, no.”
Who’s his council? Amy Winehouse?
HH
Counsel for King notes his client was appointed a director of Rangers retail Ltd without any objection from Mr Ashley
Ernie
The only thing that makes any sense in bad publicity, but I reckon he would only get that if he loses, if he were to win the media would pretty much ignore it.
Unless with thems in the spl, they will sell more stuff and they have done some sort of deal, just thinking out loud.
HH
St Aloysuis…couldnae even spell it until i was 21:)
Oor wee skool…St Maddogs, the memories.
Sword and machete fights at lunch time….teachers going into the local scheme to catch the stoned doggers in their gang-hut(derelict flat).
School monitors who wore blazers, and scars.
Eastern European( Red) Teachers….with accents straight from drama school.
And a school football team….where school attendance was frowned upon( the wee doggers were the best players:).
Nice lady P.E. teachers..who wore nice shorts:)
And a go to guy…for a quick three-skinner:)
Happy Days.
HH
This is nothing more that mudslinging” King’s counsel tells court
THE EXILED TIM on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:30 AM
Yep.
Follow the money.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:31 AM
St Aloysuis…couldnae even spell it until i was 21:)
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Still cannae.
Ya bampot ye.
:-)
Counsel for King notes that Ashley also abandoned proceeding against his client in London.
Looks like mash better get the Vasoline out, court costs coming right at him, me thinks.
THE EXILED TIM on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:30 AM
You, like the rest of us on here, are seeing this from a partisan standpoint.
Most of the British public, ie his customer base, will see it differently.
From a PR perspective, given the level and nature of the public scrutiny he’s now under, this was a loser for him whatever the outcome.
He will be seen as bullying a football association and a football club, and indulging time and money on a personal crusade when he should be trying to sort out his business problems.
Ernie
You are most likely right with that.
HH
Posted last night to the effect that Ashley’s previous court appearances were hardly inspirational.
MacJay
Ah…yer too sharp for me.
Banjaxed my wee gag.
HH
MacJay
Frankie Boyle would have got a new car out of that one:)
HH
Counsel for King says his client has made “significant loans” to RFC as a director.
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Current blog entitled ICC absurd fantasies.
Unfortunately the following is far from fantasy.
In the last decade, the following has happened,
Simunovic £5,000,000 Ciftci £1,500,000 Boyata £1,500,000 Scepovic £2,300,000 Holmbert Fridjonssen (remember him?) £100,000 Pukki £3,000,000 Boerrigter £3,000,000 Balde £1,500,000
Ambrose £1,500,000 Bangura £2,200,000 Juarez £4,000,000 Murphy £1,000,000 Rasmussen £1,500,000 Fortune £3,800,000 Loovens £2,500,000 Gravesen £2,000,000 Total £33,500,000
This of course is only signing on fees and doesn’t include wages which will run into a similar figure. It is of note that all of these bar Fortune were completely ineffective in a Celtic jersey with the exception of Fortune who was effective maybe 10% of the time.
This however does not tell the whole story as wages are key.
The following have been brought in for undisclosed fees, frees or loans, but lined their pockets nevertheless:
Janko Duffy (From Derry City, never kicked a ball) Denayer Guidetti Wakaso Denayer Tonev
Berget Mouyokolo Somebody called Victor Noring from Trellesborgs Gershon Lassad Kamenar
Miku Pawel Brozek (no idea) Ibrahim Blackman El-Kadouri Kapo Cha-Du-Ri Braafheid Atajic
Zheng-Zhi Josh Thompson N’Guemo Twardzik (x2) Misun Crosas Hutchison Mizuno Lucas Santonicito (Don’t ask me) Jarosik Dublin Both Keanes Ljungberg Du-Wei
That’s 38 players who Celtic have actively sought in the last ten years and who collected wages for absolutely nothing.
Celtic refused to pay £3m for Stephen Fletcher, instead offering £2m and missing out and also refused to pay £5m for Alfred Finboggason instead opting to spend £7.5m on Pukki, Balde and Boerrigter.
CQN has become a paragon of parody. Today of all days too…
Currently following James Doleman on Twitter as the tax avoiding G&SL is now presented in Scottish court as having ‘fit and proper status’.
Have witnessed The Mint rip the heart out of Scottish Fitba by not paying taxes.
Have witnessed Bank bail outs all over the world that will paid for by generations of tax payers, but be defined as austerity. Its not austerity. Its theft.
Panama Papers?
And on CQN people are arguing against higher tax rates and that capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty?
Absurd Fantasies indeed. CQN is eating itself.
CQN started out reporting the political economy of football that was not being reported by the lazy journalists. It also had reasonable, thoughtful posters.
Now…..
So tragic its almost funny.
Dearie me.
Ashley needs his head checked after the fiasco with Tesco and now Sevco.
Stick to the trainers fatso. Your in Mason country now!
TIMALOY29
Dont think the old Speculative Society would have been to impressed with Mr Ashley:)
HH
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:37 AM
MacJay
Ah…yer too sharp for me.
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No way , pal.
Oneupmanship ….the Glesga mantra.
Always a laugh at the end.
:-)
PJBHOYNYC,
Well said.
Ashley can think himself lucky, that he isnt up in front of Lord Dullen.
He would have been given the death sentence…and 40 years imprisonment:)
Then the evidence, and transcripts of the case, would quite possibly disappeared somewhere.
So…if i was Mike Ashley….Id keep away from Edinburgh:)
HH
PJBHOYNYC on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:43 AM
‘So tragic its almost funny.’
The tragi-comedy is that you have chosen to live in New York.
The hub of capitalism.
“He voted with his feet.”
THEGREENMAN
Cullen?
QUONNO
Are you saying we could have spent transfer budget more wisely? ;)
ReadingBetweenTheLines CSC
MacJay
Still think i should be getting paid for these gags:)
Although, you were the only one who got the devilment:)
HH
Wtf happened at the court? Fight break out? Judge pass wind?
BMCUWP
Shhhh…They are listening:)
HH
QUONNO on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:41 AM
2 points.
1)The numbers reported for signings are rarely accurate, or consistent between purely fees and deals.
2) Not going for Finnbogason may have been the right idea. He’s scored 12 goals in 55 appearances since leaving Heerenveen.
BMCUWP
Suffice to say, that all my mail has been locked away…for 100 years.
Shhhh:)
HH
Hold it, hold it, stop the press.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/celtic-fc-set-make-11th-11254296
Macjay at 11.52
Writes the man who decries ad-hominems.
Against himself.
QUONNO on 28TH APRIL 2016 11:41 AM
In fact Pukki’s record since leaving us with 22 in 67 is far better than Finnbogason’s. Right player wrong time? Bad coaching? Who knows?
Mike Ashley dropped his legal challenge to the SFA today … and that would have got the headlines except for a strange question the SFA’s lawyer asked the judge, about Celtic shareholders and their right to sue …
http://thecelticblog.com/2016/04/blogs/sfa-lawyer-sends-a-warning-to-celtic-shareholders-during-king-court-case-row