Worst Rangers [sic]team in history?
Check.
Worst Rangers [sic]chief executive in history?
Check.
Worst Rangers [sic]fans in history?
Oh, please. They have played their part to perfection.
Worst Rangers [sic]manager in history?
Who, Ally the Great Enabler? No way.
Charles Green would not have any authority at Ibrox if Ally McCoist didn’t act as his enabler last year. While every Celtic fan with a keyboard was typing “Can they really be so stupid again?” Ally was cutting a deal for almost 5% of the share capital of the company [sic]. None of this would be possible without Ally. If you see him, buy him a pie.
The juxtaposition was pointed out to me:
19 years after John Keane stepped forward with an amount of money very precious to him..
With no guarantee it would solve our problems…
Or that he would see a penny of it again (for the record, he hasn’t, and he is unlikely to)…
A very different history played out across the city.
Today’s Herald told us the group trying to overthrow the Sevco board contains Jim McColl and that, “McColl is one of Scotland’s richest people, but he won’t spend his own money”.
The world is full of rich men who will not spend their own money. Long may they squabble over the Ibrox debris.
Our honorary chairman, John Keane, waved to the Celtic Park crowd before letting the league flag fly high, a direct consequence of putting his money where his mouth was.
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ernie lynch 14:04 on 4 August, 2013
John Keane paid the £1m about six years after Celtic fans started to get organised against the board that was ruining our club.
Had the Celtic support stood back and ignored the incompetence of the old board no one would even have been in a position to save the day.
The Huns, or at least some of them, had concerns over how Murray was running their club as far back as the mid-90s – had they organised themselves they would have saved their club long before the debt spiralled out of control.
South of Tunis,
I too saw that Feijenoord v AC Milan game. Van Hanegem was absolutely brilliant.
I and another Scot tried to get to Mr Stein when he came over to watch Feijenoord play Ajax to let him know that Feijenoord were a very good side. Unfortunately, we never got near him, although how much valuable information we could have given him, I don’t really know.
Paul67 ” If you see him, buy him a pie” Not a bridie then!!!
KINGLuBO
The question remains, where were these would be ‘saviors’ when the assets were going for a few million ? Ultimately, Greengo put his or to be more precise, other people’s money where his mouth was – the blue knights didn’t or couldn’t.
Many of us pledged large sums of money to save Rangers, sometimes under several different names. Is it our fault that they never followed up and the club went bust??
Perhaps it’s time for another whip round over Ibrox way?
an dun
14:17 on 4 August, 2013
The question remains, where were these would be ‘saviors’ when the assets were going for a few million ? Ultimately, Greengo put his or to be more precise, other people’s money where his mouth was – the blue knights didn’t or couldn’t.
We all know, thanks to Charlotte, why the blue knights never came across with cash..,….,our hero was/is still the main man down midden way
South Of Tunis:
I was only a kid at the final but I’d been to quite a few games before. I was at every game (at home) on the road to Lisbon and I was at every game (at home) on the road to Milan, every one of those games I never thought we’d lose. They only time I ever feared losing was Milan and to this day I don’t know why.
Do you remember the chaos after the game with the air traffic controllers strike? One of my brothers and a couple of my dads mates had to be flown home to Glasgow from Amsterdam. We had a few Dutchmen on our flight back to Glasgow.
But do you know what never gets a mention… ever, we lost that final, the next day we shared an airport with all the Feyenoord supporters, flights were delayed for hour upon hour or just cancelled, both sets of supporters mingled freely and not once was there a hint of animosity or trouble. It was a sore one for us but we took it well and took our hurt home with us.
The reason McColl (has he got a mullet btw ?)is rich is because he doesn’t spend his own money ! But everything’s ok, somebody else will sort it out, we will live beyond our means, we can be the best forever, we can magic our way out if this, we are the people after all so it has to be that way.
At least allee put his own money in, for every 2.5 % of share capital he has Forfar will score 1 goal !
Great article and tribute to true legend John Keane.
Walter, Jim McColl & Co remind me of the bloke/bird in the pub (we all know one) who will take drink off others all night — conveniently be in the toilets when last orders are called — then feign disappointment that they can’t buy us all a drink.
The other tactics are: the forgotten wallet, the hole in the pocket, the wrong credit card, etc etc.
God bless John Keane and all of the others who chipped in money that they couldn’t afford to ensure the legend that is Celtic lives on.
Afternoon
Brief bourgeois interjection
The Observer now says that Belfast can be said to be an Irish city. Phew…
Jimbo
Sannabhoy:
Pleasure to meet you yesterday and thank you so much for the use of your ticket.
So according to the Sevco cheer leader @stvgrant all clubs can liquidate and keep league share and continue as before.
Right Mr Brennan get on the phone to PL and tell him no more worrying about balancing the books.
Spend spend spend and once we have our dream team we can liquidate the holding company rob creditors and boom we keep our history and our dream team.
Right who wants Messi ?
Milan- Yeah I was there, brilliant time was had by all. My mate and I drove in his beat up CitroenDS which was a cylinder down after about 20 miles too. We slept at a campsite and drank with the Italian guys who swore their allegiance to Celtic. No doubt they’d have changed sides by the end of the game.!!
I too remember the craic with the Dutch fans after the game and had a great laugh while sick inside, but not a bit of trouble anywhere. Very fond memories indeed.
KINGLuBO
Does Ally still want us to take fly kicks at them or is this them back on their feet yet?
keep expecting someone to peer behind the curtain, see behind the façade
I expect some smart journo to call it for what it is – instead of whispered ‘money problems’
Or some kid to cry out…
…Summon the court physician! Call an intermission!
His majesty is wide open to ridicule and scorn.
The King is in the altogether, but all together, the altogether
He’s altogether as naked as the day that he was born
And it’s altogether too chilly a morn!
Or shall they all let this mummer’s farce continue?
u
A Stor Mo Chroi
I was at Milan, remember being stuck at Malpensa for what seemed like days, never been
so glad to get home from anywhere.
Hail! Hail!
Most of you guys are way older than me. How feared were Celtic in the golden period? SOT did the Italians fear Celtic when we played the Milan teams after 67?Also did any of you attend games v Dynamo Kiev? We defeated them 3-0 in 66 I think. I have a big interest in Russian football.
A Stor Mo Chroi @ 14 24 .
I hitched from London .
There was a lot of strikes etc in Italy at the time . At one point , the final was under threat and the relevant authorities had to advise the Italian authorities that if the game didn’t go ahead then Italian Clubs would be banned from Europe…
I went to Lisbon in 67 thinking Celtic had a right good chance of winning . I went to Milan thinking Celtic had a right good chance of losing . I was even stevens about Seville and was hoping that with Henrik anything was possible. !
Watching the Hibs/Well game
McFadden subbed…poor game from him …
I was lucky, flying into Milan from Belgium, we landed and flew back from Linate. It wasn’t nearly as bad as Malpensa. My mate and I had the bitter sweet pleasure of sharing the departure lounge with the Feijenoord players, holding the black box containing their Big Cup.
A belated thanks to the staff at the airport terminal in Milan city itself, who allowed us to kip there for a couple of hours, when it should have been closed.
HENR1K 1433
You are absolutely correct. If what is being reported is correct,this needs to be nipped in the bud.
There is no reward for financial probity,and little punishment for ignoring it.
I’m thinking of starting a business selling gold nuggets for a tenner,then starting another business selling,erm,gold nuggets for a tenner.
How long do you reckon I will get away with it?
Hope I get jailed before I get beaten to buggery by my creditors.
But in Scottish Football Land,that’s accepted?
Lalalala,canny hear ye….
Hail hail John Keane
If the Jam Tarts are allowed to keep their league share we will never hear the end of the gnashing of gums.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
Brilliant mate now that made me lol.
You not on twitter ?
hen1rik 14:33
This would make a mockery of any kind of fair play if true. You have to wonder if they know what’s going to happen to Sevco. There seems to be a “earth is flat” mentality that the game here NEEDS them.
Is the Stanton playing for Hibs any relation to the great mhan?
rocket man
14:48 on 4 August, 2013
If the Jam Tarts are allowed to keep their league share we will never hear the end of the gnashing of gums.
They won’t be liquidated, their fans care much, not that I like them at all
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 14:46 on 4 August, 2013
Then again the Scottish media are experts at peddling misinformation to suit agendas.
The STV guy is probably doing some work for Jack.
This Hibs / murderwell game would put you off football, away to cut my neighbours grass ;-))
Parkheadcumsalford .
Van Hanegem .
Remember an Italian tv thing with the wondrous Gianni Rivera.,. At one point, he was asked about other great passers of the ball . His wee list included Van Hanegem.
7 minutes to go, Hibs down 1-0.
Dreadful defending from Hibs ..1-0 Well
Poor game ..both of Hesse teams are substantially poorer than last season
Rocket Man.
Gums? No.
Teeth.
Will be provided!
Hail Hail,
KevinBhoy.
HENR1K
Thanks,bud.
I went on Twitter as it was the only way I could convey my condolences to a childhood friend when I heard his Mum had died.
Because I didn’t have the good sense to close the account,it got severely hacked.
I reckon it’s the same swine who logs in under my name during moonhowling time.
Fenlon or fat Sally……. who’s first tae go?
Ally McCoist in from 7/1 to Evens to be next Scottish League 1 manager out.
Noooo!!!!!!
henrik
unfortunately its not just stv who believe that the huns never went bust
the beeb are the same along with the red tops and the herald and the radio channels too
in short all the media in scotland believe the holding company myth
ie a fitba club can never go bankrupt only the parent comapny can
and that its quite alright to ditch all the debt and carry on regardless preferably in the same league with the same players at the same park and a very similar name
howevah…. it it smell like shoite, it probably is
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