I got it wrong on Malky MacKay. In August I wrote, “Malky’s unforgivable sin is not racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism, these matters are often overlooked as ‘banter’, after all. He’ll not get another job because he blew millions on players who were useless to Cardiff. That’s the only kind of offence football really tales notice of.”
Then up stepped Dave Whelan, a man who is widely respected in the sports retail and football, largely for not being Mike Ashley, but who has watched his club slip from the Premier League and now sit in a relegation spot in the Championship.
Football is harsh enough without clubs creating their own distractions. Wigan and Malky are unlikely to prosper.
So Craig Whyte faces up to four weeks in jail if/when he is arrested. You have to wonder what his police interviews will reveal. Craig doesn’t strike me as someone to take a fall for anyone.
Redundancies are sometimes necessary for a company losing money and without the resources to pay bills, but Newco Rangers cutting the payroll by 10, none of them from the well paid football department, is pointless tokenism. Savings made will keep the lights on for only a few days more, so why do it?
I have some sympathy for their new management. They need to make significant cuts into football costs, but those costs are contracted to the end of the season, or beyond, these cuts are perhaps a gesture towards what’s ahead.
Management have a problem, how do they meet commitments to creditors and protect shareholder value? No bank has ever extended credit to this club, and I suspect HMRC have them on a short leash. There will be some trade creditors, but they are likely to be of the face painter variety. By far the biggest creditor, and therefore most influential after an insolvency event, is Mike Ashley. He would be in a position to appoint an administrator, and to approve any settlement.
Dave King continues to play an important role, encouraging fans not to support or spend with the club. I fully endorse his views.
King still thinks he is playing poker but his hand has been called and we all know he’s all out of aces. His rantings are not part of a coherent plan. His calls could precipitate the end, but he has no way of transforming this into a new dawn.
Remember to keep an eye on the long-term fundamentals, you cannot operate a large football club with the size of Newco’s infrastructure without regular Champions League income. Nothing that has happened in the last three years has changed this.
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BGX
19.55 on 20 November, 2014
When did his involvement with Worthington end?
Link from September
BGX
19.55 on 20 November, 2014
When did his involvement with Worthington end?
Link from September
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/11129371/Rangers-facing-new-legal-threat-as-Worthington-Group-recovers.html
not sure if I’ve posted the link properly
A fiver…im sure i read that because he was no l
A fiver..sorry ..im sure i read he was no longer involved with them ..im sure i did..
jamesgang –
If truth be told I am indeed a Granary loaf man for my pieces at work (Mon – Thu). But I’ve tended to stick to Hovis (original) or when the pennies are tight Aldi’s ‘Seed Sensations’. But might give the Sainsbury’s one a go next week, on your recommendation.
On Friday’s I nick home for soup and a decent squint at CQN.
Anyway, what was I doing. Oh aye, milk…
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philbhoy
19:22 on 20 November, 2014
Na problem humour police.
margaret mcgill
20:07 on 20 November, 2014
Not funny !
I`ve noticed over the last few days that when BBC and STV show archive footage of Craig Whyte from his time in charge at Mordor, editing slight of hand has been applied so that his then right hand man Ali Russell`s face is distorted. (In much the same way that the victims of crimes/ minor`s faces are obscured in the coverage of court cases).
Does anyone know if this is significant? I wonder if Russell is going to be getting a visit from Plod soon?
BGX maybe he walked away, I’ll check
the glorious balance sheet
Do you mean pixelated?
Or contorted in pain like whytie’s grabbed his bits n bobs?!?
;-)
HH jamesgang
I read Phils blog.
Immediately thought bout
the rush for ‘extras’ in the primary school dinnshy queue when it was ice cream and Jelly.
Lifes full o wee circles
:-)
HH
Aye the auld Sevco saga…… Bag o spanners or what?
An Tearmann.
Dinnshy queue, there speaks a true Bellarmine bhoy.
jamesgang
20:18 on 20 November, 2014
the glorious balance sheet
Do you mean pixelated?
Or contorted in pain like whytie’s grabbed his bits n bobs?!?
;-)
HH jamesgang
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That Craig Whyte will knick anything – he’s a little bit wooooo, a little bit waaaaayyyy
FastShowCSC
an tearmann
https://twitter.com/rhebelrhebel/status/535206601524015106
Here’s the shirt for you then my bold Bhoy.
I checked. They do it in ‘colossus’ size so you’re sorted wee Mhan!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang –
Pixellated, that’s exactly the word I was looking for. As soon as I made that post I realised I was barking up the wrong tree asking people if they saw anything out of the ordinary about a hun having a distorted face! :)
An Tearmann
What kind of bourgeois school did you go to where the canteen had extra puddings?
the glorious balance sheet
Pmsl at that mhate!
;-)))
HH jamesgang
What’s a pudding?
OliverTwist’sFenianArmyCSC
HH jamesgang
From BBC website
Sheffield United have announced that they have retracted their offer to let convicted rapist Ched Evans to use their training facilities.
HH jamesgang
” I think Ally will be o.k. if he can keep the nuclear of his squad ”
Gordon Dalziel
Bobby Russell
U talking bout the herald and thingy raffle?
jamesgang
Pudding? Let’s not get into the old Stornoway discussion again…
Pudding talk?
What’s Sally up to now?
I think Wallace and McLeod are 2 o definite saleable assets in the 3 mentioned by Phil.
I cannot believe that the permanent sub, Templeton, is the 3rd.
It is more likely to be that triple barreled name guy they are always asking about…..
Albion Carr-Park
He’s worth millions!
Jimmynotpaul, John C’s boy in the Scotland U/16’s squad for the game v England getting played the now.
Dallas.
Thanks for that.
Was watching sound of the 80s on I. Player. Have turned it over to the football.
BSR 2031-
Someone better tell Dalziel that John Polaris McDonald hung up his boots many years ago!
England just scored think I better go back to the music. Lol.
tgbs
Nicely done, forgot about him,….he was obviously also in Dalziel’s SUBconcious,
BSR 2041-
Very good!
I don’t know why but I found this particularly hilarious:
http://www.clickhole.com/article/why-we-yawn-1208
Jimmynotpaul
Lol I had 2 lunches at Bellarmine
One in first year pie beans n chips
Other in 4th …. yup pie beans n chips.
The pots looked similar :-)
I opted to run, jog , sprint home for lunch….pendin which was the daily territorial issue.
Hope your well bhud
HH
On the topic of puddings..anyone going to the AGM tomorrow?
Can I have some more?
Mags mc.
Very good!.
South of Tunis, sad news about Jimmy Ruffin passing away.
He and his brother, David, former lead singer in the Temptations, had great voices.
Dexy’s did a track on their Don’t Stand Me Down LP call Reminisce Part 1 with Jimmy’s, I’ll stay forever, part of the song.
The last track I can think of involving Jimmy was Soul Deep with the Style Council, Junior Giscombe & Vaughn Tolouse in 1985 to raise funds for the miners plus the widow of a taxi driver killed by some for taking a miner to the pit where he worked.
There will be some serious great voices jamming in the afterlife.
South of Tunis, I’ll stay forever should read I’ll say forever
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