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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gordon_j backing neil lennon
11:24 on 30 November, 2014
mayanman,
Bit out of date there … the Hanovarians haven’t ruled since Victoria died. It’s the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that rules in the UK.
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Or lizards if David icke is to be believed.
Must dash. Off to the palace. Now where did I leave that hamper of locusts……
SeditionCSC
HH jamesgang
Atletico Madrid v Deportivo live SS5
saint stivs
No he came from Fluminense.
build a bonfire does seem kind of loyalist imagery.
we can do better than that.
Oh and I see a few others chipped in on the Black Marias subject, thanks for the info, all those years and I never knew, .
Angel of death take me now ;)
Its not often I say this but, Mon the Killie. Smash the hun trash.
Maybe Lambert might take Alan Thompson on as his assistant manager?
HT – thanks for the kind words last night – it was a pleasure to act as your host.
Hopefully see you at Firhill, tickets permitting.
BB, watching it now. My wee bro and his missus are at the game.
one nil ATM
Email sent to sfa, let you know if any reply received.
Just wondering if compliance officer has contacted rangers player John daly after his post match comments widely reported in variety of media outlets that the hearts team dived and therefore cheated against his team. Surely accusing another club of cheating is something in the remit of compliance officer? Also in the same match 2 rangers players committed 2 outrageous dives, law and mculloch yet i can see no evidence of sanctions against them. Considering that players have been suspended for more innocuous acts of simulation the silence in this matter is strange. Is it a case that for some reason this club continues to be treated differently than all other member clubs. If these matters have been dealt with and i have missed them in the press then i apologise.
jamesgang,
Not like Icke to have a mad notion …
Glad to see Ronnie mentioning Derk’s ban for diving. I saw that game and his dive was a 9.8. I watched Sevco/Hearts and Law’s dive was a 1.2. It’s on the same par as NL getting a ban for swearing at Jim Goodwin. In my opinion NL should have booted him up the Henry Halls on the supposition that he might as well be hung for a sheep rather than a lamb.
Saint Stivs, it’s not often I disagree with the honourable TinyTim, but I think the bonfire song is deplorable and reflects badly on us. I’m with you on this one.
BSR
Nailed it in sense that is what RD will do
I agree Tonev as an impact substitution later in game
Not long now
HH
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HH
re the bonfire song
what specifically is it that people don’t like about it?
is it the participants on said bonfire i.e. the rangers and the jambos?
well the lyricist has cunningly left a free space (the bottom) to allow another participant, so you are allowed to use your own free will to add another of your choosing
or is it the relative positions of the participants?
the lyricist has left only minimal scope for movement here – there are only 3 positions available for the participants – top, middle and bottom.
This is because we are dealing with a quantum mechanical bonfire, and the St Pauli Exclusion Principle for this bonfire forbids any other positions, and only allows 1 participant per position
However if we swap it for a classical bonfire, then we can have any position in between we want, so can add many more participants, and there are plenty more i would add
But it means the song would take ages to sing and the lyrics would be a bit cumbersome
“put the airdrie three quarters of the way up just below east fife…”
doesnt work im afraid.
Forgot about McCullough’s dive against Hearts. But then, in his case, it’s like watching multiple rewinds of a tape recording. Absolute thug of a man, and a cowardly basturd when confronted. Watch his reaction when Charlie Mulgrew pulls him at the end of the last ever “Old Firm” game. 3-0 I think it finished (snigger snigger)
I watched the Sevco game against Hearts. Until they had a thug sent off, the new team dominated Hearts by pressing them fast and often. Hearts looked shaken but, to be fair, they were missing three key players. Anyhow, I’d like us to start fast and press high. We mustn’t be complacent today, this will be a tricky tie.
Saint stivs may I gently point out it was you who brought all of this up. Perhaps you should practice what you preach. My views on celtic are well documented and I have bored myself and everyone else with them.
I don’t normally read back after a defeat, for obvious reasons, but I’ve been looking out for Estadios’ posts from his travels. These 2 stuck out for me:
Soz
22:39 on
27 November, 2014
Genuine question to the true Celtic fans who post here. We are in a footballing backwater with revenue streams that are laughable compared to the major leagues we compete against (and league’s that have huge amounts of money pumped into them: see Saltzberg). What is your solution to counter this? What is your answer?
Do we pump money into a side that is going to easily win the league and has more than a very good chance in the cups? A team that is guaranteed European football in the new year, maybe not in the top tourney but by Christ, look at the CL, what do you spend to be successful there?
We have been spoilt by a decade at the top table but to maintain that, what cost? We have a new manager who is trying to make wholesale changes to the way we play the game, it was always going to take time but here we are in 4 cups, what would make you happy?
The UK as a whole, for reasons which are beyond me don’t rate the Europa league, but why do you think that we automatically deserve to dine at a table which has long been reserved for the super rich?
Would the naysayers have us blindly spend our way into oblivion? Football runs in eddy’s and currents, we are surviving, have an unbroken history and have a future when our biggest rivals are no more.
What do you actually want??
Doctor Whatfor
23:00 on
27 November, 2014
Jist back in and about to watch the recording to see if my thoughts on tonight stand up to a second scrutiny. Having read back briefly all I can say is……… There’s some stench of hunnery on here tonight! So girfuy ya lurkin, skint, deid, cheatin’, ugly, covetous, shameless, embarrassing, delusional, obnoxious, scummy, flute-blawin’ jakeys.
foghorn leghorn
Very witty, I enjoyed that. Basically it’s simply bad form, old boy, to encourage the burning of mortals……or even the undead!
Bonfire is not sectarian it is incendiary.
Pretty kack though IMO.
EC67
Saint stivs speaking about yourself as a third party is very odd.
You okay?
lol
thanks for asking neganon,
i, me , myself and i , are all ok.
Jon Daly playing with thems and accusing anyone of cheating is beyond questioning, cheating, lying, corrupt, deceit, pompous, ignorance, bullying, secrecy, are this mobs currency, and they have had, and will have , a bottomless pit full of it.
Lurking Huns GIRFUYs
What’s the big story with Ally being harassed, he’s not getting bombs and bullets sent to him by mail is he?
TONYDONNELLY 1129
Happy to help,mate. I,of course,had no idea what a Black Maria was,good guy that I am.
(Aye. Right)
TD
a bottomless pit full of it.???? is that possible:¬0 !
Anyone taking in the hun game?
Song debate
Some say: furritza
Some say: sure itza grand old team
two nil ATM
geordie munro
I’ve not heard that part sing for years and years.
Just you stick to Bony M :-)
song thingy
for it cheers us up…
or
the cheers go up
eurochamps67,
You’re on fire today!
phyllis dietrichson
You’re welcome and thank you again.
I’ll put the word in 4 together at Firhill today.
charliebhoy
12:08 on 30 November, 2014
TD
a bottomless pit full of it.???? is that possible:¬0 !
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If they can still be alive after bein Liquidated, then any things possible with thems,. ;)
Sure it’s a grand old team bedad.
Any info on ‘bedad’ appreciated
Thanks