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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Build a Bonfire?
A Celtic song with some very hunnish sentiments.
Hmmmm.
Not for me.
cv
Will anyone admit to taking in the hun game?
Why do Sevco FC not speak to the BBC?
Why do the SFA/SPFL allow this to happen when the BBC are sponsors of Scottish football?
Why do the BBC give them so much coverage when they won’t speak to them? Surely there should be no coverage of any game at Poundland as long as the ban exists?
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier
12:17 on
30 November, 2014
Will anyone admit to taking in the hun game?
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me , front of the copland, section – FF row 16 seat 90.
come on you handsome ones.
i think we can do these killie pie munchers.
hahahahahaha,
some wag on shortbread
rangers wont be able to manmark eremenko.
me things many of them will be able to leave their mark on him.
Seen on twitter
“Made me chuckle “lol pic.twitter.com/PDIso6Lx8x
saltires en sevilla
10:40 on 30 November, 2014
cuffed wee Huns 3-0 last senior cup-tie
Celtic Starting 11 on 24th September, 2014
26 Gordon
4 Ambrose
5 van Dijk
22 Denayer
3 Izaguirre
8 Brown
25 Johansen
42 McGregor
15 Commons
10 Stokes
9 Guidetti
Change Callum for Jamsie and that team is a goer for me.
Broonie to Score and Celtic -2 today
this fitba lark is easy :))).
Crank the speakers up to 11 :)))))
Let the people sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&feature=related&v=zhkdy0AOpaM
who was at this one then?
https://twitter.com/padrepio1916
Saint Stivs…………I’m just along fae you,fancy going fur a
pint after the game,we can watch that mob on the telly.
Stivs..,
I heard you’ve got the looks for that cry :oD))))
Only kidding handsome
I am off to the Omagh St. Endas v Slaughtneil, Ulster Club Final.
Should be a cracker.
This time
https://twitter.com/padrepio1916/status/538658140552966144
Till later all
Dog walk time
With our Vow to target the Treble this year we have made today’s game a must-win. I think that, while we are favourites of course, but it is foolish to expect an away fixture in the cup to be any kind of walkover. Trebles are rare for a reason and it is common and not at all unusual that dominant teams will trip up in the Cup competitions.
That said I am still hoping for and predicting a win today. Ronny has said a lot of sensible things about football without these yet being reflected on the park. It cannot have escaped his notice that Callum McGregor needs a spell out of the limelight, so that he can recover a reputation just like Liam Henderson has. I would count it as a sign of learning that Callum was dropped today. Wakaso and/or Tonev can cover if James Forrest is still being nursed back to fitness.
P.S. On a match day, I think we should be spared the CQN Groundhog day experience of an argument between Embra Unionists and London Unionists which starts with the Embra Unionists posting stuff and ends up with them complaining about the retaliating London Unionists “bangin on about politics”.
P.P.S. When did St. Andrew’s Day become a thing? It’s all Greek to me (in more ways than one) as I thought Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day were the big events at this time of year.
Would anyone be at all surprised if Kilmarnock put in their poorest performance of the season today?
Bourne, isn’t it actually begad. The ancient Hibernian derivative of Bedad?
Cathedral View
12:17 on
30 November, 2014
Build a Bonfire?
A Celtic song with some very hunnish sentiments.
Hmmmm.
Not for me.
cv
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another one scared of some manual labour, huh!
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
12:28 on
30 November, 2014
Killie lack the haw maws to put the hun to the sword,
hope I’m wrong, have been before.
The divided judean people unuionist party said what ?
Stairheedrammy
Did Glen Daly have his own dialect? – if not, where did he get this stuff.
‘Darn the hair’ do we care.
What is that about?
Rube v Torino 5pm UK.
19 years since Torino beat Rube .
13 years since Torino scored a goal v Rube .
Bookies have Rube @ 2/ 7 and Torino @ 11/ 1.
woulnt it be great for scottish football if original celtic and new rangers both dropped out the cup at this round.
let us concentrate on europe
let them die a day earlier
McCann wants them back in the top league. Not one pundit on TV will tell the truth. Mostly, I think through fear or ignorance, but in McCann case? God knows how his mind works.
mccann its all about the ebt.
teuchter ár lá
I was at that hearts v celtic game, did you notice how perfect the fans SAng the celtic song, none of this rushing through the words, proper tempo, .
Maybe it’s the buckfast speeding up the young team.
The Lanny was a soothing wine, kept you calm, rumours had it, that it was from the shady side of the vineyard?
Ritchie, McCann was Judas’s journeyman. He taught judas everything he knew about being a treacherous turncoat.
At the start of the programme, did the presenter say this is the first time the two teams have met? Or am I mistaken?
Good afternoon from the Wakaso CSC here in Takoradi .
Just stuck a wee wager on the Ayrshire huns at 4/1 , if Erimenko plays they have no one to stop him by fair means , however you know the score there .
Cant wait for the game today , wish i was going but will have to put up with going to the beach bar to watch it , the only drawback is its 32 degrees which means copious amounts of beer . Mon the Hoops.
Or the replay?…Some of our younger supporters might be interested in the song at 11.17 :-)
less than 15000 at ibrox.
tick tock
Sunday’s Xmas treble:
Aguero 2 goals or more
Killie -2
Hoops -2
1250/1
Certainty…
Begad, Is a phonetic translation of By God spoken in a rural Irish dialect. Think I’ll take a rest after coming out with that one.
“33 times winners”
Sky on message
I’m away into town to have a few pints with TCR and his son.
Must pop along to the zombie shop and take a few pictures of the closing down signs while it is still there.
It’s turning into a tourist attraction.
HH.
Aye Tony, the auld Celtic choir….Eh!
That Wallace guy fae the Hearts seemed no bad – wonder what happened to him?
Lennybhoy
If you’re lurking I’ll get you before the polis cordon.
Full time ATM 2, Deportivo hee haw. Get beer, change channel, zombie time.
16 roads
Please do that.
I want a pic of TCR outside the shop for our mutual friend….He’ll know who I mean :-)
Richie #TeamOscarForever
Sky Scotland is full of Sevconians behind the camara as well as in front of it.