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No complaints yet with Uefa over Ashley multi-ownership

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Press stories yesterday that Newcastle United and newco Rangers would not be able to play in Uefa competitions in the same season have caused Mike Ashley considerable angst.  While it would appear few things are untenable for Ashley, having one of his clubs bow out of Europe to allow the other to compete is beyond what even he believes to be acceptable.

Newcastle issued a statement early today challenging the reports, which initially appeared in the Daily Telegraph, a newspaper Newcastle have banned from their premises.  The Telegraph reported that Uefa confirmed newco Rangers and Newcastle would be prevented from competing in Europe in the same season due to Article 3 of their competition regulations, which relate to multi-ownership.

I contacted Uefa this morning, who confirmed that the report in the Telegraph is incorrect; Uefa have made no such ruling.  However, this is because they have received no complaint and no investigation has taken place.  Uefa do not trawl looking for administrative breaches and will not investigate such matters unless asked to do so.  This issue, it appears, has not gone beyond the Uefa Media Office, and will only be passed to Compliance if a complaint is made.

I reckon Ashley will be comfortable dealing with the SFA, who he can delay and confuse until after newco’s next funding round, which will take place before Christmas, but he doesn’t want Uefa, or the FA in England, on his case, as either could jeopardise plans.

It’s incredible that months after Ashley bought into newco no one has complained to the one body who have the power to dissuade him.

The scenes outside Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday were predictable.  Craig Whyte stands accused by the court of public opinion of liquidating Rangers Football Club.  I know some of the bile directed towards him went well beyond what is acceptable, but you can’t liquidate a football club and not expect some push-back at the fringes.

The court of public opinion, isn’t making sense, though.  Rangers fans are angry at Craig Whyte, who, apparently, played hardball with the evil HMRC, then was cheated out of his rightful place in the Premier League by a combination of the SFA, the SPL, Celtic, the BBC and bigotry.

If it wasn’t for these dark forces, Craig would have used the [cough]perfectly legitimate business tactic of liquidation, to carry the same club through the crippling debt Sir David Murray had lumbered it with and back to its rightful place in Scottish football.

So if it’s all someone else’s fault, why are they so angry at Craig?  Genuine question.  He either released the club from Murray’s excesses, and was victimised, or he brazenly killed the club and tried to flog them a newco as though nothing had changed.

The only reason I can think they are angry at Craig is because our old pal Cognitive Dissonance is gnawing away in the background.  Whyte’s plan was to liquidate Rangers, present the SPL and SFA with a fait accompli midseason, and have the newco pick up the vacant league position the following week.

This was a horrible plan.  Rangers fans’ ‘No to liquidation’ campaign was correct.  Everyone else’s opposition to this aberration was also correct.

The fait accompli didn’t work.  The rest of Scottish football chose to step off the cliff into the unknown, although many Rangers fans quickly adopted Whyte’s – liquidation means nothing – logic, however they couldn’t bring themselves to accept the man himself.

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  3. hun skelper on

    Had a wee swatch at jambokickback and they’ve only sold just shy of 4000 home tickets tomorrow, what’s that all about ?????

  9. hun skelper on

    sipsini

     

     

    00:01 on 30 November, 2014

     

     

    They sure have but that team are dead, so they might try against this team or company or what ever they are this week HH

  12. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Jamesgang I saw that on sportscene and didn’t even know that the wee creep was working in football. I’ve a mate from Greenock who says even his own family have disowned him.

     

     

    That big polis should have gave him a shoeing for being a fanny. then shot him. Damn, I forgot oor polis don’t have guns.

  16. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Sipsini, Acgr,

     

    If it was Aberdeen, Dundee, Dundee Utd, Hearts or Hibs then it might be be a contest

     

    Sevco will hump Kilmarnock.

  18. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Hunskelper, the best they will do is the petrofac cup and even that’s not a given. They have their talisman mctwat at the helm so who knows how the laughs will pan oot.

     

     

     

    HH bruv

  20. the_huddle on

    The Spirit of Arthur Lee

     

     

    Seen The Strokes in King Tuts

     

     

    Great Band

     

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    Didn’t get into their gig in Edinburgh but seen them 2 nights in London Ally Pally brilliant live. Shame that they all go the festival route.

  22. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    TCR, are you suggesting a mattress type situation?

     

     

    Don’t forget, Kilmarnock are actually crap as well.

  25. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    BB, are you still up to speed on fire fighting stuff?

     

     

    Doing some work for BP in Alaska and I’m coming across some weird expectations in their NFPA regs.

     

     

    Cin ya help?

  27. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    DD,

     

    Jack Savoretti,

     

    He’s fabulous mate.

     

    I ‘m away noo.

     

    I’ll say a prayer for ye in the morning at St Mary’s.

     

    Mass in Irish..God Bless ye .

  35. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    TCR, looking forward to the Belfast hootenanny. Yourself, 16 roads and the lovely Dena 29 have my utmost admiration.

     

     

    Especially Dena 29 as she’s ordered her female staff at the mansion to treat me like a normal person when I arrive to take occupancy of my quarters.

     

     

    I hope they ignore her:_)

     

     

     

    HH bruv

  41. WeefratheTim on

    acgr

     

     

    You are indeed a screwball. :-)) I may just start drinking this nectar you speak very well of. It may well put me on the planet you now inhabit!!! PLANET CELTIC. :-)))))) Hail Hail my friend. No offence intended. :-) You know where my loyalty’s lie. :-)

     

     

    Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.

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