President of La Liga in Spain has stepped into the Catalonian independence referendum debate by saying if Catalonia became independent clubs from that region, notably Barcelona and Espanyol, would have to leave the Spanish league and compete within their new domestic boundaries.
This claim is without foundation as multinational ‘domestic’ leagues are authorised by Uefa, Fifa and the EU, while Spanish clubs are able to compete with foreign clubs in European competition, but this intervention is likely to be one of the more emotive topics in the Catalonian debate. Would Barcelona fans vote for Catalan independence if it required them to withdraw from the Spanish league and hand back their status as one of the game’s world powers? Some would, some wouldn’t.
Football is the key cultural touchstone of European nations. Those who want to preserve the Spanish nation know this. Excluding Scottish clubs from the England and Wales football market has an enormous commercial impact on top-flight clubs here. It also means that our key cultural touchstone is Scottish.
Those who want to build a cohesive UK would be more productive by working to end the exclusion of Scottish clubs from the England and Wales league than telling nationalists they would be wrong to hold another referendum.
Popcorn and ginger on hand for the latest Newco Rangers episode. Flash mobs and EGMs, all destined to further tear the club apart. As we’ve said here for years, internecine strife is the only thing that can really damage a club. That lot seem to have a infinite supply of the stuff.
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bt
Hope you get the thumbs up for your return to freedom today.
Guyfawkes
Repeat of my question last night, are you saying isil are a working class community?
Please tell me I have misinterpreted your post and we are bombing some other group similarly unconnected with Scottish independence
Jobo et al
A lovely morning in and around dunblane-ville with clear bright skies and completely imperceptible wind.
Message to BT’s legion of fans…now hear this…..
If you queue up to see him today and you’re confronted by an empty bed, he’s in the hoose, he’s NO in the the mort-you-a-ree….cos he’s NO DEID!
End message
RickieFultonCSC
HH jamesgang
Correction…..fortunately about the weather, not BT!
Hugely perceptible damp cold fog all around larbert. Don’t ask how I can gauge the exact nature if the fog from within a train!
GetYerHeadInCSC
HH jamesgang
Dave King back on the scene,dodgy guy,should be in the jail.in South Africa,somebody should be asking questions like how does ,a ordinary guy from Castlemilk end up with millions of pounds,my view is like a lot guys like him skimming tax and insurance,from people whom he had dealings with over t he years,dirty no user. Paul Murray.another chancer,skimming peoples hard earned cash into his bank account,another thief,and roll up a con man,Park the bus and cars operator,whom im sad to say we hire one of his buses,for players etc on match days.why dosent celtic have its own bus,that is one question i would be wanting an answer to at the A G M .and the hun paper this morning saying Craig Whyte should be locked up,well they know that Tax King is a lot worse than Whyte.
For those asking about Sevco, and for those who may have missed it, Phil’s from yesterday.
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So the Sevco circus continues on…
I understand that Laxey Partners and their allies in the Institutional Investors are having a meeting today to get their ducks in a row apropos the Mike Ashley move.
It did rather blindside them and they have been considering their response to him.
I have to say that this ‘Dave King waiting in the wings’ story does seem to be a recurring thing in the tabloids.
Of course dear reader it is Off The Radar Pish.
For the avoidance of doubt it is Philip Tudor Nash duly, authorised by Chairman David Somers, who is running the Sevco show.
As readers here will know Graham Wallace did go on a solo run to Dave King back in the summer, but he was fully briefed by his employers that anything similar in the future was not on.
The view of David Somers and the board is that if Mr David Cunningham King wants to do business then he knows where they are.
Perhaps next time he will turn up with a pen and paper…
Moreover I am told by excellently placed sources that Philip Nash has never had a meeting with Paul Murray.
Although the Ashley move is seen as him taking over RIFC he will attempt to do this without actually owning any more shares. The current market capitalisation of Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) is £18.33m. I asked a city analyst who has been studying this shambles for me what the entire bad news would be for Ashley if he wanted to buy RIFC and be rid of the onerous contracts. He told me that he would have to part with around £30 million to buy the shares and settle with those lucky chaps who have a beneficial interest in the Onerous Contracts.
That doesn’t sound to me like a good deal for Mr Ashley. What would be more to his liking would be either achieving control without increasing his current shareholding. However he might buy out, say buying out Blue Pitch Holdings and/or Margarita Holdings and then he could get his own guys into run the Ibrox club to his liking.
Of course Mr Ashley knows all about the RIFC Onerous Contract as he has two of them!
The Superstore contract and the stadium naming rights have both been publicly slammed as being in the ‘Onerous’ category.
Philip Nash has been assured by Laxey partners and the Institutional investors that they are very happy with his performance and that he has their full support.
Of course the Newcastle United owner has excellent reasons for getting rid of the ex-Liverpool CFO. It was Nash who impressed upon Graham Wallace that the £2.5million credit line provided last year was highly onerous.
If Mr Ashley is successful then he will be no benefactor.
However he is no Craig Whyte either and he would make sure that any insolvency event would not occur unless it would benefit his long-term business plan.
He has the means to drip feed working capital into the Ibrox business for as long as it serves his overall commercial needs.
For the avoidance of doubt Mr Ashley has no emotional attachment to the Rangers culture and any paid up member of the Toon Army will readily tell you how they regard him.
My Square Mile chap stated that, going on past Ashley business practice, the Sports Direct entrepreneur would be betting on the Onerous Contract holders selling to him at a discount.
Big Mike is a gambler and he has certainly taken a punt on Sevco.
I don’t know if he will end up as the Ring Grandmaster or fall off the high wire, but it is the customers at the Ibrox Superstore who are the clowns.
Roll up! Roll up!
TR
thanks
jamesgang
only had 4 in to see me so far this morning, I think their wee hearts are breaking at the thought of my leaving them…8-))
make it 5 and counting…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
07:36 on
9 October, 2014
MACJAY
Cookies?
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Of the cream variety?
Traditionally singular.
Yes,please.
lymmbhoy
07:49 on
9 October, 2014
macjay1/BMCUWP
Re YouTube
Just checked mine…….. that’s the Whats popular in Australia tab…….mine is the exact same.
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Bet they didn`t send you the Stones and the Tories.:-)
So, Scottish Football has stooped to a new low, where the Livingston Programme Editor is forced to ‘step down’ for telling the truth…… Incredible, truly incredible ….. what next, to protect the myth …. !!??
67heaven
Just another part of the Masonic cover up of RFC ‘s liquidation .
BT
Y’er obviously the OO1967 (that’s Double O, not silly prancing marchers!) of CQN.
The name’s Tim, Blantyre Tim…..
Train arrived. Aff oot. Consider me to have given your pillows a cyber plump young Mhan!
Take care
HH jamesgang
Turnbull Hutton remains the only man to have the balls to stand up for the truth in the whole of Scottish football, including our colluding board..
BT
Good to see your getting home today , hope everything goes well with your recovery .
blantyretim
Spot on with the Turnbull Hutton comment .
MACJAY
Kandy Bar in Saltcoats and Kilwinning makes brill cream cookies.
Mooth aw shaped fer wan noo…
jamesgang
08:56 on 9 October, 2014
‘Jobo et al
A lovely morning in and around dunblane-ville with clear bright skies and completely imperceptible wind.’
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The notion of a wind that is completely imperceptible is a bit too Zen like for this time of day.
The cab horn honks on Gordon St
I turn
Might it be VP?
How would I even know? I’ve never met the Bhoy!
Still, his formidable reputation precedes him…..
HH jamesgang
Seriously? A programme editor is being forced to resign for calling a new club a new club? For saying that a liquidation actually happened?
The truth hurts … so cover up the truth?
Only in Scotland.
gordon_j backing neil lennon
It’s happening because the rest of Scottish football is letting it happen , including our own club .
ernie lynch
09:28 on 9 October, 2014
jamesgang
08:56 on 9 October, 2014
‘Jobo et al
A lovely morning in and around dunblane-ville with clear bright skies and completely imperceptible wind.’
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The notion of a wind that is completely imperceptible is a bit too Zen like for this time of day.
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I had an auntie afflicted by “imperceptible wind”. Well…she used to blame it on the dog.
Ernie!
Poetic license with a wee dash of scientific inexactitude.
Surely you’re up for that by half 9?!?
;-)
HH jamesgang
fourgreenfields
09:31 on 9 October, 2014
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Hipefully something is done to make our board grow a pair.. Iv never agreed with boycotts but stop putting cash their way is sadly only way they will listen.
Frustrates the hell out of me… We were spun the lies that club is staying silent for certain reasons when things were only starting to unfold couple yrs back.
Sadly i think Our board really do see us as mugs
proudbhoy
How you doing mate ?
I thought Resolution 12 would force the issue mate but sadly that doesn’t seem to be the case .
FourGreenFields,
The real test will come should the new club survive long enough to visit Celtic Park for the first time.
Morning all from a rather dull and damp South Ayrshire.
Two days to go.
Livingston FC programme editor forced to step down for telling the truth?!
Could only happen here.
HH!!
gordon_j backing neil lennon
How do you think our board will approach that situation mate ?
BT
Hope your day goes as planned.
Hail Hail
BT
Awrabest auld yin!
:-))
HH!!
Well
I am all off to Dublin wearing Green wearing Green.
Go on the Bhoys in Green..Go on the Bhoys in Green
Hail Hail
BT
Turnbull Hutton;- absolutely correct, and he need police protection for his house and family, a very brave man.
Now, how is the escape plan going? Will there be rejoicing and dancing in the streets of Blantyre today on your homecoming?
Alasdair MacLean
I see your missing the game a week on Saturday , New York you say , well theres a few of the Bhoys looking for a empty so leave the keys under the mat , we will make sure theres nothing left in the kettle for you when you get back .
HH
FGF, tallybhoy , butsy and unthank road.
cheers lads,
all clear for go.. speak when back in the bosum of my family who are so happy to have me home that they are going on holiday tomorrow…
pop back later this afternoon bhoys…
Tallybhoy
Welcome back to our crazy wee country.
See you Saturday.
dd
Grazie!
Looking forward to it. Very much so!
HH!!
BT
My son is proud he was born in Kirkcaldy. Mr Hutton confirms his pride.
Wrap up well, it’s right cauld out here in Clydebank.
BMCUW
I can make Saturday!
I’ve sent you an email re the venue.
Yeeehaaaaaaaa!
Just seen that Fiacre Kelleher who is member of our Development Squad and like Eoghan O’Connell also hails from Cork, scored winner for Ireland Under 19’s against Sweden yesterday. Lad scored also against Partick Thistle last week. The fact I’m highlighting the bhoy has absolutely nothing to do with fact he is from Cork. Honestly.