At some point today those who believed Rangers have, or should have, impunity from the law of the land, as well as the rules and regulations of Scottish football, will awaken to the realisation that this is not the case.
Soon thereafter another thought will arrive: what about the impending Improper Registration of Players charge?
Over a decade of subverting every competition they have played in. Denying clubs who register players correctly the right to compete on a level playing field. Grabbing prize money and the abundant financial rewards of Champions League football rightly due to others – more on this later in the week.
This charge brings every domestic and European competition they played in into disrepute and is several times the magnitude than that which Rangers were punished for yesterday. Then consider bringing the game into disrepute by chasing football bling instead of paying taxes, a separate issue from player registration.
The toxicity of these charges is enormous and if upheld will bring punishments appropriate for corrupting over 700 football games. A whole raft of disciplinary procedures has still to take place. If the misdemeanours of the Craig Whyte era have caused distress, those of the old board, including Ogilvie, Johnston and the Murray twins, will soon establish Rangers current owner as a mere footnote in the club’s demise.
Show of hands, who sat on the board that spent £4m on Jelavic two years after the HMRC investigation into EBTs started?
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CRC – very good ;-)
Sticks is coming home for the cup final weekend! Although he’ll probably tell you the real reason for planning the trip was his daughter’s Communion.
I’ll look out for you on Saturday evening at The kano Foundation End Of Season Bash!
Must work now….
Coorslad, memories, you must have a bagful from Portsalon….
Watching the sun going down whilst sitting out on the decking and remarking how this was a wee bit of heaven on earth.
In the hotel bar until almost breakfast time, the bar staff (summer temps) filling us with free drink all night, you showing them how to use the hoover whilst the Vmhan was availing himself of the hotels ice cream and other delights at oh about 5/6 am…… how did we get away with that?
The real Derryghirl singing and you could hear a pin drop, oh and Vmhans derryghirl doing a lapdance when Elvis (remember him) was in town.
Portsalon heaven on earth.
V
Blantyretim
:-)
You need to check the pictures oldtim67 took in here. I’m pretty sure you won’t see even one rain drop documented.
Vmhan
I hope I’ll see you one day or another.
The Jam – The Planners Dream Goes Wrong :
Letting loose the lunatics – wasn’t the greatest of ideas
Giving them plans and money to squander
Should have been the worst of their fears
The dream life luxury living was a pleasant ugly ORC whim
Vmhan,that was just one weekend too..and Vmhan out at Fanad light house with the guitar..Elvis..haha you got him a booking in the hotel.
portsalon….fantastic place but not quite the same without chicken and chips at Rita’s
Incredibly honest stuff from Leckie this morning. Surprised, pleasantly so.
By BILL LECKIE
Published: Today at 00:05
THERE’S an old saying, you should be careful who you trample on your way up, because you might need them on your way back down.
It could be final nail in the coffin
ALLY McCOIST has savaged the SFA — insisting they’ll have blood on their hands
They just keep on kicking us
Rangers asked for all this trouble
SFA move to block fine mess
Just be careful what you wish for
Craig’s price is just not Whyte
Rarely has it applied more than in the meltdown of Rangers Football Club.
There’s an element at Ibrox who, when they were flying, wouldn’t have peed on the rest of Scottish football had it been on fire.
If you’re not with them, you’re against them. Do, say or write anything they don’t agree with and… well, they all know what you are.
That element went all the way up to David Murray and all the way down to guys like Mark Dingwall, who’s gone from running an abusive website to casting himself as spokesman for a generation.
Between them, they’ve left anyone and everyone in their sights without a name.
So what makes them think that now it’s all gone pear-shaped, the world will drop everything and help them out of the s***?
Which is not to say I believe the rank and file of Rangers supporters deserve what’s happening to their club. I’m not saying they had this day coming. Nor am I convinced the SFA’s ruling is the right one, because they shouldn’t be trusted to run a bath, never mind the national sport.
The transfer embargo makes sense, as it’s the debt run up through vanity signings that has — in part, at least — taken them to the brink of oblivion. But demanding money from a business who has none? Anyone who’s ever been hit with a £30 surcharge for going overdrawn knows how illogical that is.
What is fair? I’m not sure. All I know is that to give in to rabble-rousing mouthpieces like Dingwall and let them reinvent themselves without punishment because it’s The Rangers, is a non-starter.
Where were they when Clydebank and Airdrie and Gretna were dying, when Motherwell and Dundee and Livingston were in administration?
Hitting the phone-ins to sneer that no one should weep, because there were too many clubs in Scotland anyway, that’s where.
But I’ve long since warned the excrement would really hit the extractor when a big club went belly-up, churned endless columns about how Murray’s ego-driven, My Tenner To Your Fiver bravado would end in tears. So fans’ groups can re-write history all they like and pretend everything was dandy until that nasty man Whyte got his hands on them. But they’re only kidding themselves.
Yes, the SFA’s investigation centred on the chaotic reign of this chinless, gutless chancer.
But where’s the probe into Murray’s role? When are the fans going to turn their anger on a man who saw HMRC coming over the hill like a million Apaches and palmed the whole shooting match off to that chancer for a quid?
It might make the punters feel big to boycott William Hill and Vauxhall because they put cash into the SFA, but that’s going to solve nothing.
Rangers are rooked because Murray — aided, by the likes of his namesake Paul, who sat there as they unravelled, yet now claims he’s their saviour — hurled money at foreigners with no sell-on value, who took the club no further up the European ladder than they’d been with a team farmed in Kinning Park and Bellshill.
None of this is the fault of the SFA or their sponsors or journalists or anyone else on the most-wanted list of the No One Likes Us We Don’t Care brigade.
It’s 100 per cent at the door of men they followed blindly because they promised the earth.
Rangers, as a club, are the ones who did the crime. Now, they have to do the time.
And the worst they get is not being able to sign players for 12 months. They’ve got off with probation.
Good Morning Supporters of the Scottish Champions, Sun out in the Valley after a month of rain!!
Saw this little gem on Twitter :
Jim Hacker @Buffsbluff Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Call me cynical but I believe this has been a 20 year campaign to destroy Rangers, orchestrated in the background by the catholic church
Retweeted by gerard mcdonald
The Catholic Church having nothing better to do of course!¨
Starry
Neil Lennon, made in Ulster, was the Captain of the ship when the huns went under.
Stupid huns.
Stupid, greedy huns,
Stupid, greedy, obnoxious huns,
Stupid, greedy, obnoxious, bigoted huns,
Stupid, greedy, obnoxious, bigoted, egocentric huns,
Stupid, greedy, obnoxious, bigoted, egocentric, raging huns,
Stupid, greedy, obnoxious, bigoted, egocentric, raging, aggressive huns,
No class or dignity or Queen huns. Stupid, stupid, stupid huns. Stupid huns!!!
We’re gonna celebrate!
Green Tide,the whole place has changed..Rita’s was the spot..I’ve been going down since I was 14,30 years now.took my own son down at 6 weeks,took his first steps down there..I came back from the cup final one year and got a taxi from Derry down at 11.30 at night..the craic was only starting..
Morning all.
Listened to McCoist calling for those men to be named. Dangerous stuff. I wonder too what he felt when his then Chairman effectively put Airdrie out of existence, claiming it was simply business. Shouldn’t the same standards apply to all teams?
kitalba on 25 April, 2012 at 08:22 said:
Cracker! :)
kitalba on 25 April, 2012 at 08:22 said:
Neil Lennon, made in Ulster, was the Captain of the ship when the huns went under.
What a beautiful poem.
I feel quite emotional now. Thank you.
Serge – That was the song played at CP one year we were presented with the title against Hertz – Lubo scored the winner.
I remember poor Stan Petrov was on crutches when he went our to recieve his winner’s medal,the faithful raised the roof for him.
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous Hillbillies the day?
Anyways, I wish it had been the Celts who turfed Barca out of the ECL with 10 men; maybes next year?
Neil Lennon started WWI :
On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at approximately 10:45 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Neil Lennon, 19 at the time, a member of a group of assassins organized by the unseen Fenian Hand. The event led to a chain of events that eventually triggered World War I.
To the tune of Lord of the Dance………..
Newco, whoever you may be
you won’t have no history
cause we buried it with your dignity
in a storm of bad publicity!!!
HH
Sixteen roads to Golgotha
Was just reading there that there will be home & away games with Villa for Stan, Doesn’t give dates but would love to go to both. HH
Celtic Rumours….strong interest in Andy Johnson. Between him & Fojut we can get 2 legs.
McCoist is saying that Division 3 might be the best option.
Of course, he is presuming in that traditional Ragers way that they will be accepted into that division.
If no,t we can expect:
” Not accepted, who are these people who are not accepting us?”
I can offer some comfort to the cash strapped scrofulous Hillbillies- today of course is the Feast of St Mark the Evangelist, patron saint of those afflicted by scrofulous diseases.
Morning guys ,
Due to the normal vagaries of event planning , we have some spare capacity for the Kano night on Saturday.
If you fancy coming along (esp if you’re in town for Rangers game and want to spend it in good company) , drop me a line at sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com
Looks like we’ll have 420+ at the night – should be a good one.
The Kano Foundation
The Kano Foundation End of season fundraising dance will be held in the Kerrydale Suite at Celtic Park on sat 28th April. Tickets will be priced at £25 per head this will include a 3 course meal. Entertainment will be from Britiains no1 Michael Buble tribute act and a disco to finish off the night. We will be holding our usual raffle (prize donations welcome) and for the first time we have a fantastic auction prize. We hope to have a few special guests as well. We hope you will join us for what will be a great evening.
If you’re interested , please email sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com
Current attendee list is
Paul67
Kingoh
Greenlion2
Aldo
Sannabhoy
CRC
TTTT
TTT
MWD
Mouldy67
Minx1888
Lennybhoy
Praecepta
Bjmac
DBBIA
Jobo Baldie
PFAyr
What has Div 3 done to deserve the Horribles?
Is their eco-niche not in the fetid incestuous swamps of the Ayrshire Juniors?
Z
Pictures inside the pub do not count :-)
HH
CRC
If all the `misdemeanours` allegedly committed by Rangers turn out to be fact and McCoist receves the fair treatment he asks for, then Rangers, Newco or otherwise, would not even gain a place in a Sunday morning League. Leckie said in that very surprising article: “Be careful of who you trample on….” He might have added: ” Be careful what you wish for.” Take note “Alastair”
JJ.
“Protest this Saturday Walk from Queens Park to Hampden”
They don’t do walking at all.
Just wondering if anyone who watched the UTV interview with Alex Thompson last night,could tell me what he said??
Hail hail
Anzac day in Australia,
Prozac day in Govan….
Two players who have greatly impressed me this season: Paul Dixon ( Left Back) and MacKay-Stevens (mid/wing) both of Dundee Utd. I can understand the frustration of fans of other teams if we take their best players but, if these guys are going anyway, as well being to us as England.
JJ
Morning all
I’m hoping for a quiet day. I have work to do.
Nah, that’s a lie. I’m hoping for armageddon. Or a quiet day. Either would do.
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 25 April, 2012 at 09:01 said:
Just wondering if anyone who watched the UTV interview with Alex Thompson last night,could tell me what he said??
He referred to the press giving Rangers a easy time,but he said they weren’t alone,he included Celtic in it..He also said Rangers would survive,so as long as 50 thousand people dressed in blue went to a place called Ibrox,they would survive..
I don’t get this love in with Alex,he is beginning to sip the soup..
Just who the f*** does mccoist think he is demanding the names of those on the panel , who only applied the rules and the punishments ( partly , as it could have been worse ) as laid down .
The days where the Masonic brotherhood could cover up the crimes of their members are gone , the Internet bampots (us) have made sure of that .
Try paying your bills and playing by the rules and then you might understand the anger being displayed by the vast majority of the fans of the other SPL teams.
Grow up and face your responsibilities , it might just make you a better person.
Good morning all,
Was at a family funeral yesterday so only briefly looked in, early morning.
I have to totally agree with Paul on the last article, basically stating that the paltry fine and transfer embargo for one year is not that heavy of a punishment in my eyes.
When we look at what the huns have done to warrant this punishment it could have been a whole lot worse!!! i am sure there is a whole lot of whaling and gnashing of teeth by huns and crying the sfa are out to get them and biased!!!
bulls**t!!!
At least though, the sfa have been seen to apply a modicum of fairness and not be totally swayed by the msm and a history of playing the “weearapeople” card.
Maybe the old mould has been broken (or at least dented) and the rest of scottish society will now be allowed to apply the rules fairly and evenly accross the board when it comes to football!!!
That is after all what we as Celtic fans are looking for
FourGreenFields at 09:12
Well said that man
Hail Hail
McCoist demands the names & addresses of those doing jury duty are published !!!
I know there are huns looking in here so I have a wee message for you lads:
I have been reading you bleeting about a conspiracy to kill “The Rangers”. You know what, I have a wee secret, you are right. There is. You know what else? It is too late to do anything about it. You have lost, have the good grace to fall on that sword we gave you. There is a good little bear now…..
Hey Huns!
Leave those whales alone!
DBBIA/JacquesCousteauCSC