‘Starve your club of money until I get what I want’ is just about the measure of Glib and Shameless’ statement yesterday. No one at the SFA, SPFL, the Glasgow City Council, the Co-op/Vatican Bank or Celtic could do as much damage to the Fledgling Rangers as Dave King’s pronouncement.
These people have taken so many wrong turns in this episode it is like they are being operated by a compulsive Karmic puppeteer. There is a time for withholding ticket sales, Celtic fans did it 20 years ago next month, but Celtic fans had a plan, grassroots support, investors on hand, unencumbered by Fit and Proper concerns, or the law against directors of a liquidated business working in a company using the same or similar name.
Most importantly the Celtic ‘old board’ included some, like Kevin Kelly, who was committed to change, while even the hold-outs were died-in-the-wool Celtic men, if clearly misguided. None of the decision makers would ever consider razing the stadium.
Fledgling Rangers are at the mercy of hedge funds, some spivs and a couple of ‘Rangers’ men, who must be increasingly frustrated at the attempts of others to usurp what they legitimately bought and paid for.
Before stepping off the ledge – and make no mistake, stopping fans from buying season tickets is the only way to kill not just a club, but any successor clubs – you need to be sure you are in a position to cut a deal, and that you have the cash to make it all possible. If you don’t have a watertight plan, you are working towards the end of your football club and its dilapidated remains.
I would be utterly amazed if the Easdales or Laxey Partners submit to this Glib and Shameless series of demands. If they do, I have seriously misread them.
King was on the oldco board when they walked slowly to the gallows, all for the want of the kind of money he now says is needed to make Newco competitive with Celtic. His chance to bang the populist drum and raise some cash was in the years before the club, stadium, stock and bike were sold for a combined total of £1.
It makes you wonder if there is a plan to march the entire club, and all its symbolism, into the sea, before picking up the driftwood after another liquidation. For a fan of the club that would be horrendous, but think of the rich pickings available to whoever can grab the assets.
This is high stakes poker, but those forcing the issue don’t have any skin in the game. Even if the whole thing is washed away in the storms, they will avoid most of the blame.
Delighted to read Fergus McCann on the club site this morning:
“I am very proud when I see Celtic’s progress, its status in Scotland, and its worldwide reputation. Especially when I see the great work of Celtic FC Foundation carrying on the legacy of Brother Walfrid.”
Despite the perspective that the events of 2012 gave us I still meet people who just don’t get what he did for Celtic. No football fan is under any obligation to worry about their club’s finances but the man at the top is, and when our top man wore a bunnet, our transformation was outstanding.
There is a little over two weeks to go before the CQteN St Patrick’s Night Dinner on Friday, 14 March, at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park. The beneficiary of the night will be Kholoni Primary School, Malawi, where we will fund Mary’s Meals to build a kitchen for 1200 kids who currently don’t have meal facilities.
We have received some incredible assistance already (more on what happened in Germany and Belgium when I get the next stage of the development ready), but you can get involved by ordering a personalised beanie hat, with your name on one side and CQN on the other.
Hats cost £15 each and if you order before 7 March you can collect yours at the CQteN Dinner. If you’re not attending the dinner (and why not?) the £15 will cover postage and packaging. If you ordered a Virtual Ticket, you’re personalised hat is part of your package. All profits go to the school kitchen.
Take a look at the front and back of the hats. To order, email hatfrompat@celticquicknews.co.uk with name, whether you are attending CQteN and address if not, and I’ll get your message to Pat.
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so once again we have a shameless liar and a glib telling a football club to with hold season ticket money so he can come in and take over, will this same person pass a fit and proper person test? in a normal society it should not be possible and a proper governance body would make sure but scottish society is not normal and its going to forget business ethics for this, you wanna be part of this really? are plc celtic gonna accept this scenario? if we do then we are surely complicit for not to stand up to this clear
skullduggery is being complicit and the very fact that a governing will allow this will be backing a corrupt body and to be part of that same body you are corrupt.
Folly Folly
You mean Joel? Och aye. I do now!
EverydayOnCQNisAnEducationCSC
HH jamesgang
Doesn’t being recently tried and convicted of a serious crime automatically debar you from being considered a ‘fit and proper’ person under SFA regulations. Someone remind me how many years sentence was it that King was facing 80 squillion or something like that?
The SMSM never fails to live up to expectations hardly a word mentioned about the glib shameless one’s criminal record and his attempts to defraud the South African people of millions of pounds.
@Praecepta
“Working together as a whole community”
Now there is a dream worth dreamin. Great story arising from
a sad state of affairs.
H.H.
Nice posts earlier from the cqn pirates Alberttrottercsc
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Jeezo..
Am l the Only one that knows what: ‘Seven Acre’ means..
CQN is Full of Intelligent Numpties lol..
Summa
summa of sammi….
You must be the only mason on here ;-)
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‘GG
12:40 on
27 February, 2014
Every day is a school day
So kinglubo has slept with Dolly Parton.
Or did I misconstrue his meaning?
I Used to date a Murdoch Girl who Tells a Story of Sitting next to Dolly at a Charity dinner and ‘Spilled’ Red Shiraz down the ‘Mountains’..Dolly Not impressed..
Summa
Dave King the glib and shameless liar only settled up with the South African authorities late last year
http://www.sars.gov.za/Media/MediaReleases/Pages/29-August-2013—Joint-Media-Statement-%E2%80%93-Settlement-between-the-State-and-Mr-DC-King.aspx
Davie boy seems to be more interested that Celtic will get TIAR than bothering about the perilous state of the team playing at ibrox. True to form, their hatred knows no bounds, and tells you all you need to know about their mindset. Astonishing !!!! Its like one of your relatives dying with someone more concerned about cancelling the paper boy.
Is it just me or does auto-correct appear to be doing its best to make posts unintelligible?
paul 67,
its fine not interuppting your enemy but these clowns running the game are destroying it,
to stand by and allow this is disgusting we should be standing up to this blatant skulldugerry not be part of it and then expect business as usual, the msm clamour for old
firm should not be allowed to let this continue, if we are sporting and have integrity its time to speak up. paul 67 i am not anti board but there comes a time when we must speak up for the sake of the game otherwise whats the point, or are we at the point of money is above everything including integrity and its no longer a game.
Is there a more famous car park on the planet than the perfidious one??
Summa,
Can you please enlighten us as to the meaning of Seven Acre?
So in summary
we have a team that was liquidated due principally not paying tax (having been sold for a £1 and a new club whose owners stand accused of fleecing other investors and fans for their own personal gain.
The solution is to fight to hand the keys to an individual that has plead guilty to tax avoidance and has been accused of using insider knowledge to dump shares thereby gaining personally while other investors lost heavily who was not prepared to put up even a £1 to buy them legitimately.
Someone brought up that fit and proper person thing on SSB last night and their answer to it was, ohhhhh no one knows about that YET, so I’m afraid we can’t answer that question, so as far as I’m concerned that means the SFA are working on it, yes? No?
Blimey Paul, don’t hold back.
Give Dave a chance. After all, he’s only looking for a bit of financial transparency.
Can you please enlighten us as to the meaning of Seven Acre?
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The Albion parking lot?
Summa of Sammi….
12:55 on
27 February, 2014
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Jeezo..
Am l the Only one that knows what: ‘Seven Acre’ means..
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No-one has any difficulty with a “7 acre car park”. A “7 arce car park” on the other hand doesn’t appear to have an immediately obvious meaning – or maybe it does.
I once got a Mouldmaster in the haw maws and that left me with two achers.
tooheys new
13:08 on 27 February, 2014
….and HMRC also lost out on millions, when he sold it for £1, instead of it’s true market value ….could only happen in Scotland
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New Particle Dropleton Posted..:-)
Summa
P67 says:
Delighted to read Fergus McCann on the club site this morning:
“I am very proud when I see Celtic’s progress, its status in Scotland, and its worldwide reputation. Especially when I see the great work of Celtic FC Foundation carrying on the legacy of Brother Walfrid.”
Despite the perspective that the events of 2012 gave us I still meet people who just don’t get what he did for Celtic. No football fan is under any obligation to worry about their club’s finances but the man at the top is, and when our top man wore a bunnet, our transformation was outstanding.
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100% Paul.
With the shenanigans going on across the city, now more than ever wee Fergus should be appreciated and lauded like never before. Yes, he had his detractors, of which I’m glad to say I was NOT one. But I think all Celtic fans now realise that what he done for our club was astonishing. He came with a plan, and he stuck to it. Yes he made his money, like he always said he would, but by God it would be worth every penny.
He gave us one of the most wonderfully atmospheric stadiums anywhere in football. I only hope now, that a part of it can be named after him, and surely that would have to be the North Stand. It was the first part of the new stadium to be built, and for me will always be symbolic of his tenure at our helm. A very imposing structure, that shouts out “we are Celtic”, and for me, although Fergus doesn’t have the stature, he also stands tall in the history of Celtic Football Club. The McCann Stand anyone?
Hail Hail Fergus McCann!
Seems strange that so many of us use these ‘predictive text’ or ‘auto-correct’ tools & then blame them for any mistakes they make.
I’m quite lucky in that I wouldn’t even know how to access these ‘aids’.
I don’t have any excuses. My mistakes are all down to lack of education.
Kilbowie Kelt,
I was being polite in my previous post.
Mind you, I have found that I have keyboard dyslexia, else I just have really poor keyboard skills.
kilbowie kelt will vote yes
13:26 on 27 February, 2014
Seems strange that so many of us use these ‘predictive text’ or ‘auto-correct’ tools & then blame them for any mistakes they make.
I’m quite lucky in that I wouldn’t even know how to access these ‘aids’.
I don’t have any excuses. My mistakes are all down to lack of education.
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I blame the teachers.
Johnatron
the bunnit is enshrined in celtic history and no one can deny that
some tic fhans will say “aye but he banned the rebs” or
“why didnt he spend more to stop the huns 9IAR”
Even so, the the psoitive things that he did outnumber the negatives, a hundred times over
I remember when he was visiting Celtic fhans in clydebank to drum up season ticket support, one drunken bankie celtic fan stood up and asked him ” what will you do to stop Rangers winning 9 in a row” The bunnit responded by saying , “no! the question is what will you do, will you buy a season ticket and do your bit!” to loud applause
For me he will always be a True Celtic hero and the whole stadium could be named after him and i wouldnt complain
the johnatron
13:21 on 27 February, 2014
YES…..The Fergus McCann Stand…..was proud of him the day he arrived, was proud of him for the duration of his stay, and was proud of him the day he left…..and I was fortunate enough to meet him at a game, when I told him just that…
Anyone had that Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Scan done to them, I’m up for one tomorrow AM, what’s the script?
Fergus was hated by many when he was here and now he is loved by all.
Will be interesting to see how Lawwell and Desmond will be remembered when they leave.
P67 on Fergus:
‘Despite the perspective that the events of 2012 gave us I still meet people who just don’t get what he did for Celtic.’
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I still bump into people I knew from school who used to sit up the back of the class dining on their own snot and shouting at random whatever vaguely rude noise their addled brains could dredge up.
Just because they grew into adults over the last 20 years doesn’t make them any less moronic…
timaloy29
13:35 on 27 February, 2014
Fergus was hated by many when he was here
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No he wasn’t.
Stop lying.
kilbowie kelt will vote yes
13:26 on 27 February, 2014
Seems strange that so many of us use these ‘predictive text’ or ‘auto-correct’ tools & then blame them for any mistakes they make.
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A blam teh ipda !
Can someone tell me whats going to replace the old school at Kerrydale St?
That hunterm Tarrier grates every time it’s used. If we were able to ‘reclaim’ it it’s use would peter out.
Suggestion:
We should embrace the term TIARRIER – that’s 10 in a rowers to you lurkin zombies
that should lead to immemdiate de-use.
HH
@sandman
I’m sorry but there was plenty of abuse for Fergus during the dark times of 9 in a row.
Brian Quinn got boo’d at Celtic park when unfurling a league flag.
Stop glossing over it.
I was not referring to any particular post, Dharma. It just surprises me that we get posts every day saying..’ Damned predictive text !!’
I don’t really see why anybody would leave himself in the hands of these machines.
Spelling mistakes are to be expected & are harmless. Very few of us are academics.
Good luck.
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
13:39 on 27 February, 2014
Can someone tell me whats going to replace the old school at Kerrydale St?
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I heard it’s going to be a Celtic museum , not sure.