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Ladbrokes SPFL-PR warning media to stop title stripping talk

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I’m told by a broadcast journalist friend that Jim Traynor, of PR company Level5, started Newco Rangers broadcast media conference yesterday with a warning to journalists that discussion about title stripping was off limits.

The law was that if manager Mark Warburton was asked about the proposed sanction for Oldco Rangers financial doping the conference would be stopped.

Say what you like about journalists, but they regard being told what to ask, or not to ask, as a line in the sand issue. Traynor, a journalist for decades, should have known better than to make such a rookie mistake.

He was told that attempts to subvert discussion about Oldco being stripped of titles is not something that would be accommodated. By the broadcast media, anyway.

Warburton was subsequently asked about title stripping and although he was happy to answer, I’m told, this angered the would-be news-denier, whereupon he “lost his temper”.

Post-conference there was a bit of chat about how they would be able to appropriately report on less-partisan issues, like the Level5 PR-controlled Ladbrokes SPFL, although there was a consensus that “He’ll fall out with everyone soon enough. He always does”.

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  2. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    I was inEast Kilbride shopping shopping centre today. There was a woman selling official poppy merchandise.

     

     

    As others stated earlier, all the original meaning of the poppy is now completely lost.

     

     

    Seeing so called celebs wearing jewel encrusted poppies is another sign of the symbol of the remembrance of those , military and civilian, killed in war, being bastardised (sorry Paul for swearing) .

     

     

    My dad was called up in 1944, after he finished his apprenticship, but fortunately wasn’t sent to the front line. I can’t ever remember him wearing a poppy.

  5. Melbourne Mick on

    Gerryfaethebrig.

     

     

    If anything the wee mhan was angrier than i was and and I’ve had sixty odd

     

    years of experience but he’s up with the hoops on and smashing the the ball

     

    against the wall , he knows i’ll come out and try to do the things i used to do

     

    but old bones hinder you, but the heart is always there, not like some of the

     

    imposters in our club

     

    H.H Mick

  8. Gordon64 on

    My fave win is the 2005 chamionshp win at Motherwell. There is helicopter overhead with the league trophy.

  9. the_huddle on

    Is it an West Scotland thing, I’m in Edinburgh and I’ve yet to see any shop with a poppy stand

  10. THE EXILED TIM on

    Fred C Dobbs

     

    It is thanks, spent a fair few hours cleaning it, the amount of crap in it was quite scary, had to have the filter on for a couple of days solid, the water was brown, which made it hard to clean cos I couldn’t see feck all, it’s clear now, just switched it back to normal this after.

     

    HH

  11. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Delaney’s, I didn’t know that Gal is involved with Celtic Minded.

     

     

    He’s went up even higher in my estimation .

  15. petec on

    Fred C. Dobbs on 7th November 2015 11:47 pm

     

     

    TET,

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Good stuff, love that pool :O).

     

     

     

    Islam has a code, it is Theosophism.

  20. Gerryfaethebrig on

    MM

     

     

    I hate us getting beat, especially like the other night but as fans we have been in worse positions, just you keep telling the man if he is that annoyed keep plugging away and maybe he will follow Rogic and wear the hoops (it’s all of of dreams)

     

     

    MM

     

     

    Take care and a big Hail Hail from Coatbridge, better hit ma kip or the diggers card for mass won’t get signed

     

     

    Roll on 3pm the morra…… Monthehoops

     

     

    Good night and God bless

  21. Delaneys Dunky on

    Dallas

     

     

    My grandad from Sligo lost his eyes in WW2. My grandad from Gdansk was a hero till he decided to stay in Glasgow and raise a family post war. It was impossible to find work if you were Polish then.

  24. bournesouprecipe on

    Rangers in crisis: Contract shows Stefan Klos paid same as David Beckham

     

     

    EXCLUSIVE: THE full extent of Rangers’ excesses during Sir David Murray’s reign were laid bare last night.

     

     

    THE full extent of Rangers’ excesses during Sir David Murray’s reign were laid bare last night.

     

     

    Record Sport can reveal documentation which shows Stefan Klos was paid more than £8million over four and half years at Ibrox.

     

     

    The keeper received a basic salary of £4.5m, a loyalty bonus of £1m, win and appearance money totalling £500,000 and raked in £2m from the EBT scheme making him one of the world’s highest-paid footballers at that time.

     

     

    The German’s pay packet was almost on a par with those of David Beckham, Steve McManaman and Brazilian superstar Ronaldo.

     

     

    Klos is back in the spotlight as the astonishing scale of the tax avoidance scheme which has brought the club to the brink of collapse was exposed.

     

     

    The Ibrox hero, who made more than 200 appearances for the club between 1998 and 2007, was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Employee Benefit Trusts which are threatening to destroy the club’s 140-year history.

     

     

    The vast sums of cash paid to more than 80 members of staff over and above their normal salaries are at the root of the Big Tax Case which could see Rangers hit with a £75m fine.

     

     

    Klos was the third highest earner from the EBT scheme behind former team skipper Barry Ferguson and Murray, the man who introduced the controversial tax trust.

     

     

     

    Murray was paid £6.3m during his period at the Ibrox helm, Ferguson raked in £2.5m while the German keeper had £2m paid into an offshore account between December 1998 and June 2003.

     

     

    A copy of Klos’s contract, obtained by Record Sport and which was lodged with the SPL, details his amazing renumeration package – but there is no mention on the document about an EBT.

     

     

    The terms of the former Borussia Dortmund keeper’s deal highlight the astronomical amounts Murray was splashing out in a bid to bring the best players from around Europe to Glasgow.

     

     

    Ronald de Boer, Arthur Numan, Tore Andre Flo and Dado Prso were lured on similar packages as Rangers beat off stiff competition for their signatures.

     

     

    In the current climate where mind-boggling contracts are the norm in most of Europe’s top leagues the money paid to Klos does not seem to be unduly excessive.

     

     

    However, back then the £2m a year he coined in at Rangers put him on a par with the world’s elite.

     

     

    According to Forbes magazine in 2001, McManaman was listed as high as sixth on the list of highest earning footballers on the planet after earning £9m in his four seasons with Real Madrid.

     

     

    Ronaldo was the world’s best paid player at the time although the £5m he earned in a year at Inter Milan was largely made up of advertising and sponsorship.

     

     

    Beckham, who was still with Manchester United at the time, had an annual salary of £3.6m but again a large portion of that came from independent endorsements and not from the Old Trafford club.

     

     

    This is where we have lived – God bless the Glasgow Celtic

     

     

    NITOL

     

     

    off to Berlin

  32. petec on

    FCB…. You are like Neil Lennon, more than So Many.

     

     

    It is terrible me saying CQN is a battleground. When I think of people Celts or Rangers, going to die for no real reason… I am labelled a conspiracy theorist.

     

     

     

    FFS.

     

     

    Yeshua.csc

  36. NatKnow on

    DELANEYS DUNKY on 7TH NOVEMBER 2015 11:44 PM

     

     

    Natknow

     

     

    Likewise. Pixies live need recorded. Immense live band. Enjoy amigo.

     

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    One of my favourite bands. Was delighted to see them at Brixton Academy a number of years ago. Was awestruck! :-)

  40. NatKnow on

    THE_HUDDLE on 7TH NOVEMBER 2015 11:45 PM

     

     

    Is it an West Scotland thing, I’m in Edinburgh and I’ve yet to see any shop with a poppy stand

     

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    There has been an enormous merchandise van outside the Royal Scottish Academy on Princes St. for a while now. Didn’t see many people part with their cash. But then, it is Edinburgh… ;-))

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