The early years of a new business are risky. It doesn’t matter if you have the best product or service, or the potential to rule the world, it’s critically important you don’t run out of cash.
The Rangers Football Club ran at a cash deficit from their first month’s trading. Within six months of starting business they undertook an enormously successful share issue (going public as Rangers International PLC), raising in the region of £22m, but they continued to spend more than they earned. On Saturday, the BBC reported a club source confirmed they were 48 hours from running out of money.
For a moment, put aside who owns Rangers International (RIPLC), sits on its board, owns its retail rights or has security over its assets. In any normal run of business these things are important, but right now, for RIPLC, they are secondary. The most important issue in this company is paying its creditors.
They can either pay their bills, or they can’t. If they could pay their bills, they would have no problems with predator-shareholders and the company could accommodate the aspirations of all stakeholders – including fans.
If the company cannot pay its bills it will not meet the aspirations of any stakeholders. It will either go out of business, or it will attract an investor who is prepared to pay creditors, and in return extract assets or some other compensation.
The pain of Dave King and his legions of cohorts in ‘restoring Rangers’ and preventing Celtic from accumulating 10, 20 or 30-in-a-row is tangible, but there was no easy fix. Rangers International should have been urged by all of these voices to cut costs to match income, pay their bills and ensure that Newco, unlike the original Rangers FC, would never be out of pocket and vulnerable to the most aggressive carpetbagger.
Instead, all we heard about was the Restoration of Rangers, no matter the cost. Living as modest also-rans, paying their bills while hoping to win the odd cup and avoiding an absolute hammering at Celtic Park a couple of times a season, was simply unacceptable when pitted against the alternative – burning cash like there’s no tomorrow and hoping something miraculous would turn up. It was madness.
Mike Ashley has fed the junkie-club a couple of million, which might be enough to see it through Christmas but it’ll need another, larger, hit, before long. Attempts by King or any other wealthy fans to intimidate the Easdales, or Ashley, to capitulate, will fail, again.
The club does not have the money to pay its creditors until season ticket renewal money arrives, but it has more assets, specifically the stadium and Murray Park, which can be sold or secured. In return for this latest loan, Ashley got control of the boardroom. This will allow him and his allies to dictate the terms of the next funding arrangement.
Those wondering how he will increase his shareholding in Rangers International, in conflict with his ownership of Newcastle United, are missing the point. He doesn’t need to own Rangers International, all he needs to do is own the stadium – at an onerous rent, and own the merchandising and image rights.
Like Sir Davie Murray before him, he might even fancy owning the IT provision, travel, stadium advertising and catering (yes, I know that’s already gone) at Ibrox. Murray’s companies used to take close to £4m a year out of Rangers – and they thanked him for the honour.
Much of the above could be outsourced to Newcastle, where all ‘customer contact’ could be administered from. He could even subcontract the manager, coaches, scouts and the guys who puts the cones out from Newcastle. All of which would mean that in the event of a commercial trauma, he holds all the contracts necessary to start afresh.
Ashely doesn’t need to own another ounce of Rangers International, in fact, after he has secured the stadium etc. on a long and glorious lease, he will be pretty much finished with the hollowed-out runt of a club.
Similarly, those who suggest Ashley’s loan is a sign that he will not allow the club to fail are missing the point. If he owns or controls the stadium, IP, client databases, coaches or whatever else, he controls what happens AFTER a liquidation.
Right now Ashley, and his collaborators remaining on the board, have to pay those onerous contracts we heard so much about, while they own less than 50% of the shares. I doubt Ashley has paid onerous terms in his life. Liquidation would allow him and his pals to start afresh, stop paying the last bunch of spivs and keep the money for themselves.
In practically every literary portrayal of hubris, the protagonist has a moment of self-awareness. It as though literature doesn’t work, it’s not credible, without a fleeting moment of clarity. No one, it seems, carries the same stupid world view throughout a complete novel.
Literature has failed to prepare us for the most predicted self-harming on the planet.
Remember to order Caesar & The Assassin, signed by Billy McNeill and David Hay, more here. To confirm a note on Billy’s nickname. While it was acquired from Cesar Romero, Billy prefers “Caesar”, which was how the name was always spelled during his playing days.
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Morning All
TBM good to hear from you. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Zico playing catch up know a few of the ones you mentioned the other night. If you’re on FB put a note on the CQN page.
Have a good day all despite the weather.
mighty tim supporting wee Oscar
23:42 on 27 October, 2014
That’s what happens when people vote for the SNP.
sydneytim
Was a good night….. Posted on here about the bizarre venue ( a golf club overlooking Bondi Beach) Would love to meet up before the move back to VIC….will be in touch.
BTW. Any Torquay VIC Tims out there?
HH
Astra Game away:
For those travelling over change your £ in Romania there are Change offices everywhere which have better rates than the banks. If you have €’s no need to change as they all accept the Euro.
Giurgiu is a small town with a town centre and there are 3 decent small hotels all within walking distance from the ground (prices are no different for a beer in the hotels) and normally they are more comfortable than the ‘local’ bars.
Dont bother trying to fish the Danube i can assure you there is NO fish in it !!!!
I will be arriving in Ruse (border town in Bulgaria) around 2:00 pm and we are staying over the border for a drink or 2 as it’s only a 5 min taxi ride over the Danube into Giurgiu for the match.
If you are arriving in Giurgiu early, catch a bus/taxi and have a trip over the ‘Friendship Bridge’ into Ruse and have a beer with us, we’ll sort you out with taxi’s to get back to the game etc etc.Paul will supply my E-mail address.
From Bucharest it’s best to take a bus down as the train journey is about twice the time (over 2 hrs) or if you can fill a taxi it’s about the same price as the bus,(bus’s are normally every hour) and just over an hour normally. (agree the taxi fare before you climb into it)
The buses leave from the north side of Eroii Revolutiei square in Bucharest.
I also believe there is a transfer system available straight from the airport down to Giurgiu, the taxi will take 3 passengers and it will cost around 50Euro’s (one way)
If you’ve got time in Bucharest try and get over to the Dubliner for a Guinness (wee bit out of the old town but worth a visit)
Dont be worried about Bucharest it’s a friendly city i’ve spent many a good weekend there over the yrs, but remember to ask the price of everything before you buy and that includes a beer -))))
Have a safe and good trip, maybe see some of you guys in Ruse or at the match.
HH
Bada.
If your lurking I wonder if you could give me some advice….
On the STV website it advises locals to keep their wondows closed after the fire last night in Polmadie, due to a possibility of asbestos being airborne.
I work closer than any housing in the area.
The management said there is no risk!
Former Celtic striker Charlie Nicholas thinks Rangers are just four signings away from challenging his old team. (Daily Record)
Someone have a word, if it’s not too late.
Marspapa, how could I be upset by your post, ya strak O pish ye:_))
You looking like a cross between Errol Flyn and Brad Pitt, N Nat, ya Nat!!
See you on Saturday ya daft fud.
HH
The Battered Bunnet
08:42 on 28 October, 2014
Its ok pal, because those 4 signings are signings that would put them to the wall!!
We are 4 signings away from being a competitive Champions League Team – technically speaking, not reality so
Kitalba, are you in Scotland?
I’ve a very nice bottle of malt with your name on it as wee discussed many months ago.
P.S. not all cops are cnut’s. My next door neighbour is one and he’s a top bloke, as is my mate I was in Spain with two weeks back. Both from Dundee mind, with little to no interest in Glasgow, Celtic, hunnery, orangism or the molestation of goats whilst sporting strange trouser configurations.
Are you going to the game on Saturday?
acgr@hotmail.co.uk
HH bruv
So if Sevco don’t speak to the BBC,
how do they communicate when live broadcasts are arranged,
Do they point and grunt, or pass notes?
Do the BBC negotiate pricing through a third party? or is there a set price?
personally I would give anyone who had that attitude to me as little publicity as possible,
Got to laff at Paul67 headers
Last one was about Martin ‘s ageing team and that needed to experiment
Wow. Yes we experimented with lots of mince projects
Then pay the piper lol. Aye the piper we paid was peter lawell and not the strikers we needed for CL qualifiers
GetprioritesrightCSC
Question –
Now that Big Mick is in charge,
the Blazers have been prompted to inquire as to the detail around his influence………….
………. why was there no such urgency interest or *cough*…. focus
around Glib’n’ Shameless’s repeated involvement with the Edmiston caper?
I watched Paul Lambert be interviewed on BBC this morning in front of advertising in the usual interview box after matches and he was saying how hard the Premiership is. Behind Paul there were numerous signs ‘Barclay’s Premier League’
I don;t know why it continues to annoy me but it hasn’t been called the premiership for years!
Continually people who play and manage in the league and media etc call the EPL the Premiership.
Maybe I am just grumpy this morning but it always annoys me.
Anyway. Morning Tims and if you fancy a wee punt tonight St Johnstone are 16/5 with Skybet and 15/2 BTTS Saints win. Crazy odds IMHO.
LB
Uber dreich on the dunblane to Glasgow commute.
Quite un-Braw-ish really.
Hope it doesn’t act as a leveller tonight as the bigger club seek to play football.
HH jamesgang
With the zombies’ main finance guy out of the picture, when will the accounts be published, and when will the subsequent AGM take place?
Battered bunnet. The deid club 4 signings away
Well look at our club
Scott brown his new offer of a contract will not have the same wages So he will be off in May
Van dyke will be off in jan to make up for CL shambles
Then what is left?
Indeed we have a goalie and a loan striker who actually looks like a striker
And err that’s it. 3 years of opportunities to bring through youth. Wasted
A Ceiler Gonof Rust:
I’m in London, I did send you an e-mail back in June explaining. Will be in Glasgow for the last time this year, on the night of 14th Nov. then heading back to Oz. I think there are a few Tims meeting in the city that night for a few beers. I don’t think there is a Celtic game that weekend.
Ol’tim tried to get me to swallow the bottle you gave him but I was having none of it. I told him I’d wait for the day with yourself.
I’ve got a couple of mates who are good cops too and I appreciate that cops act to orders but some of them just love their orders. With cops you always have to look up, all the way to the very top and who does the top dog cop answer to and lick the arse off….
The Four Signings are however……….
Bale, Aguerro, Messi and Imrie.
ernie lynch 08:30 on 28 October, 2014
mighty tim supporting wee Oscar
23:42 on 27 October, 2014
That’s what happens when people vote for the SNP.
…………………..
Oh dear?
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
03:50 on 28 October, 2014
Our “rozzers” will do as they are telt by the Scottish parliament, that’s not just the snp.
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This is the record of the vote for the passing of the Act.
Only the SNP voted for it.
Not one SNP MSP voted against it.
Facts are chiels that wanna ding.
FOR
Adam, Brian (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
Adam, George (Paisley) (SNP)
Adamson, Clare (Central Scotland) (SNP)
Allan, Dr Alasdair (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
Beattie, Colin (Midlothian North and Musselburgh) (SNP)
Biagi, Marco (Edinburgh Central) (SNP)
Brodie, Chic (South Scotland) (SNP)
Brown, Keith (Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) (SNP)
Burgess, Margaret (Cunninghame South) (SNP)
Campbell, Aileen (Clydesdale) (SNP)
Campbell, Roderick (North East Fife) (SNP)
Coffey, Willie (Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) (SNP)
Constance, Angela (Almond Valley) (SNP)
Crawford, Bruce (Stirling) (SNP)
Cunningham, Roseanna (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP)
Dey, Graeme (Angus South) (SNP)
Don, Nigel (Angus North and Mearns) (SNP)
Doris, Bob (Glasgow) (SNP)
Dornan, James (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP)
Eadie, Jim (Edinburgh Southern) (SNP)
Ewing, Annabelle (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP)
Ewing, Fergus (Inverness and Nairn) (SNP)
Fabiani, Linda (East Kilbride) (SNP)
Finnie, John (Highlands and Islands) (SNP)
FitzPatrick, Joe (Dundee City West) (SNP)
Gibson, Kenneth (Cunninghame North) (SNP)
Gibson, Rob (Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) (SNP)
Grahame, Christine (Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) (SNP)
Hepburn, Jamie (Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) (SNP)
Hyslop, Fiona (Linlithgow) (SNP)
Ingram, Adam (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP)
Keir, Colin (Edinburgh Western) (SNP)
Kidd, Bill (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP)
Lyle, Richard (Central Scotland) (SNP)
MacAskill, Kenny (Edinburgh Eastern) (SNP)
MacDonald, Angus (Falkirk East) (SNP)
MacDonald, Gordon (Edinburgh Pentlands) (SNP)
Mackay, Derek (Renfrewshire North and West) (SNP)
Mackenzie, Mike (Highlands and Islands) (SNP)
Mason, John (Glasgow Shettleston) (SNP)
Matheson, Michael (Falkirk West) (SNP)
McAlpine, Joan (South Scotland) (SNP)
McKelvie, Christina (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP)
McLeod, Aileen (South Scotland) (SNP)
McLeod, Fiona (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP)
McMillan, Stuart (West Scotland) (SNP)
Neil, Alex (Airdrie and Shotts) (SNP)
Paterson, Gil (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP)
Robertson, Dennis (Aberdeenshire West) (SNP)
Robison, Shona (Dundee City East) (SNP)
Russell, Michael (Argyll and Bute) (SNP)
Salmond, Alex (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP)
Stevenson, Stewart (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP)
Sturgeon, Nicola (Glasgow Southside) (SNP)
Swinney, John (Perthshire North) (SNP)
Thompson, Dave (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) (SNP)
Torrance, David (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)
Urquhart, Jean (Highlands and Islands) (SNP)
Walker, Bill (Dunfermline) (SNP)
Watt, Maureen (Aberdeen South and North Kincardine) (SNP)
Wheelhouse, Paul (South Scotland) (SNP)
White, Sandra (Glasgow Kelvin) (SNP)
Wilson, John (Central Scotland) (SNP)
Yousaf, Humza (Glasgow) (SNP)
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AGAINST
Baillie, Jackie (Dumbarton) (Lab)
Baker, Claire (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab)
Baker, Richard (North East Scotland) (Lab)
Beamish, Claudia (South Scotland) (Lab)
Bibby, Neil (West Scotland) (Lab)
Boyack, Sarah (Lothian) (Lab)
Brown, Gavin (Lothian) (Con)
Carlaw, Jackson (West Scotland) (Con)
Chisholm, Malcolm (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) (Lab)
Davidson, Ruth (Glasgow) (Con)
Dugdale, Kezia (Lothian) (Lab)
Eadie, Helen (Cowdenbeath) (Lab)
Fee, Mary (West Scotland) (Lab)
Ferguson, Patricia (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (Lab)
Fergusson, Alex (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con)
Findlay, Neil (Lothian) (Lab)
Fraser, Murdo (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Goldie, Annabel (West Scotland) (Con)
Gray, Iain (East Lothian) (Lab)
Griffin, Mark (Central Scotland) (Lab)
Harvie, Patrick (Glasgow) (Green)
Henry, Hugh (Renfrewshire South) (Lab)
Hume, Jim (South Scotland) (LD)
Johnstone, Alex (North East Scotland) (Con)
Johnstone, Alison (Lothian) (Green)
Kelly, James (Rutherglen) (Lab)
Lamont, Johann (Glasgow Pollok) (Lab)
Lamont, John (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con)
Macdonald, Lewis (North East Scotland) (Lab)
MacDonald, Margo (Lothian) (Ind)
Macintosh, Ken (Eastwood) (Lab)
Malik, Hanzala (Glasgow) (Lab)
Martin, Paul (Glasgow Provan) (Lab)
McArthur, Liam (Orkney Islands) (LD)
McCulloch, Margaret (Central Scotland) (Lab)
McDougall, Margaret (West Scotland) (Lab)
McGrigor, Jamie (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
McInnes, Alison (North East Scotland) (LD)
McLetchie, David (Lothian) (Con)
McMahon, Michael (Uddingston and Bellshill) (Lab)
McMahon, Siobhan (Central Scotland) (Lab)
McNeil, Duncan (Greenock and Inverclyde) (Lab)
McTaggart, Anne (Glasgow) (Lab)
Milne, Nanette (North East Scotland) (Con)
Mitchell, Margaret (Central Scotland) (Con)
Murray, Elaine (Dumfriesshire) (Lab)
Park, John (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab)
Pearson, Graeme (South Scotland) (Lab)
Pentland, John (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab)
Rennie, Willie (Mid Scotland and Fife) (LD)
Scanlon, Mary (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Scott, John (Ayr) (Con)
Simpson, Dr Richard (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab)
Smith, Drew (Glasgow) (Lab)
Smith, Elaine (Coatbridge and Chryston) (Lab)
Smith, Liz (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
Stewart, David (Highlands and Islands) (Lab)
SydneyTim
Brown leaving in May? Why?
He is settled up here. He lives in Edinburgh and is Celtic captain. Scott Brown also captains Scotland. Is he going to risk playing regularly and captaining both his nation and the biggest club in Scotland to have a go at the EPL with some dross like Palace or West Brom?
I think Scott is smarter than you imagine.
VVD will be no great loss. IF he wants to go he goes and we replace him. We have known since the summer he wants to go to the EPL soon so have had ample time to get a replacement scouted.
Guidetti could be convinced to stay and he looks the real deal. Scepovic also looks like he is a player.
Ronny has used the loan to buy route fairly wisely and we have dodged a few bullets with players who are not up to it.
Pukki has been loaned and is banging the goals in. Will he come back? Doubt it. What he will do is command a better fee though if he hits at least 20 goals this season.
Ronny needs to mould his team slowly and I think he is doing that. Any player now being signed knows what they are coming into it and what is expected both fitness and in their diet.
I expect Celtic to make some moves in January both out and in that is our key transfer window.
I despair at anyone worrying about Sevco. They are 4 signings off being better than Hearts who we pumped 3-0 whilst playing pretty poorly.
Ronny has had a tough start but he has stuck by his principles and his vision. I admire him for that. He never wavered or changed his tact. He appears to be strong in his convictions and doesn’t allow himself to be swayed by media influence or by the fans. Celtic are going in the right direction. Tomorrow night is huge. Winning the League Cup really takes the pressure off Ronny and we must get a trophy in the bag early. It will be a great confidence booster and it will also take the media flak off Ronny. They are desperate for him to fail.
Celtic need to go on a wee run and if the striker keep banging them in regularly then the confidence will soar.
Celtic – 4 v PTFC – 0
The good form continues!
LB
All those numerous tales of Scoddish polis lifting Celtic supporters down through the decades i have been regaled with by family members and ole Celtic supporters must have been nonsense as it was the labour party in control for over 50 years in Scotland and according to Ernie it never happened under Labour ?
Risible laughable pash Ernie
ERNIE LYNCH
I’m disappointed that you chose to make a wee bit of political capital out of MT jr and his awful predicament.
However,distasteful as it may be,the facts as laid out above,are that the Offensive Behaviour Act is purely driven by the SNP government,and acted upon by Police Scotland for its own ends.
I would be hugely impressed if some of those who voted against its implementation were more visible in their attempts to have it repealed.
Meantime,my best wishes,and hopes that justice prevails,are with Sean.
Tallybhoy
Well I noticed in the Man U v Chelsea there were only 4 english players on the park at kick-off and then in the Spurs v Newcastle there were 5 englanders starting the match. Man City(Joe Hart) v West Ham -didnt count but there wouldnt be many ,so why the English are so boastful and proud of their best league in the world I’m not sure. England has 30million?population so surely they should be providing at least 50% of players in the EPL.
Having said that Celtic has very few Scots in the first-team.
bamboo
England population not nearer 50 million?
Celtic may have less Scots in our team but our league has plenty. We have a lot more players from our own nation than most English EPL sides.
LB
ionroars67
09:15 on 28 October, 2014
‘and according to Ernie it never happened under Labour ?’
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It’s an indication of how weak your position is that you have to invent things.
The fact is that the SNP are responsible for the offensive behaviour legislation.
They are the only party to have supported it.
Every other party voted against it.
That’s the reality. Deal with it.
So walturd is attending the sevco game tonight……let the spin begin …… How gullible can these bhuns be..??
ernie lynch
09:28 on
28 October, 2014
I will leave the gutter politics to you Ernie, Labour must be in some political trouble………….
Ernie back on the blog with his cheap sectarian gutter politics
quelle surprise
Aff oot have a good day CQN
Paul67 your needing your gutters cleaned
Impressive piece of internetting there Ernie, can you give me your source.
In the meantime, I see my local MSP Dey, Graeme (Angus South) (SNP) on your list so I’ll be contacting him today to ask what he was thinking about.
In the mean time, Ms / Mrs / miss lamont has jacked in her lot because she was told to run Scotland like little England by her stuttering master in London. Thankfully the treacherous ex leader of Scottish labour nor her successor will ever get the chance.
lynch
09:09 on 28 October, 2014
Interesting…!!
the battered bunnet
08:42 on 28 October, 2014
Former Celtic striker Charlie Nicholas thinks Rangers are just four signings away from challenging his old team. (Daily Record)
4 signings
1 a first team
2 a reserve team
3 a coach
4 an IT guy
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
09:35 on 28 October, 2014
Ihttp://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28862.aspx?r=6931&mode=html#.VE9mmmd8xgI
Van Morrison latest addition to Celtic Connections,Tickets for this very special performance will go on sale at 10am today, Tuesday 28th October.
Standard life also to axe 1000 jobs,800 of these jobs will be in Edinburgh.
You like lists Ernie. Here’s a list of your masters who voted 179 young british service personnel to their deaths in your illegal war in Iraq.
Can you list how many deaths have occurred due to the OBF bill please.
Vote Labor
Ms Irene Adams (Paisley North)Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South)Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East)Douglas Alexander (Paisley South)Donald Anderson (Swansea East)Ms Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen)Ms Hilary Armstrong (Durham North West)Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne)Ms Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands)Adrian Bailey (Co-op West Bromwich West)Kevin Barron (Rother Valley)Hugh Bayley (York, City of)Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath & Crayford)Mrs Margaret Beckett (Derby South)Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough)Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe)Ms Liz Blackman (Erewash)Tony Blair (Sedgefield)Ms Hazel Blears (Salford)David Blunkett (Sheffield Brightside)Paul Boateng (Brent South)David Borrow (Ribble South)Peter Bradley (Wrekin, The)Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)Gordon Brown (Dunfermline East)Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend)Russell Brown (Dumfries)Des Browne (Kilmarnock & Loudoun)Chris Bryant (Rhondda)Colin Burgon (Elmet)Andrew Burnham (Leigh)Stephen Byers (Tyneside North)Richard Caborn (Sheffield Central)David Cairns (Greenock & Inverclyde)Alan Campbell (Tynemouth)Ivor Caplin (Hove)Roger Casale (Wimbledon)Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole)Ben Chapman (Wirral South)Dr Lynda Clark (Edinburgh Pentlands)Paul Clark (Gillingham)Charles Clarke (Norwich South)David Clelland (Tyne Bridge)Ms Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)Vernon Coaker (Gedling)Ms Ann Coffey (Stockport)Ms Yvette Cooper (Pontefract & Castleford)Ms Jean Corston (Bristol East)Ross Cranston (Dudley North)Jon Cruddas (Dagenham)John Cummings (Easington)Dr Jack Cunningham (Copeland)Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)Tony Cunningham (Workington)Ms Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby)Alistair Darling (Edinburgh Central)Wayne David (Caerphilly)Geraint Davies (Croydon Central)Ms Janet Dean (Burton)Andrew Dismore (Hendon)Jim Dowd (Lewisham West)Ms Julia Drown (Swindon South)Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich)Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey)Ms Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston)Ms Louise Ellman 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Link doesn’t work Ernie.
As yesterday ,best wishes for Sean. Let’s hope that justice prevails and is seen to prevail. Might make them think twice about continuing to use said legislation.
On my senior moment ( ahead of its time) yesterday. The 1-1 game in which Yogi scored was 17th March 1996. Mc moist kept referring to it in the build up as Mothering Sunday. (Sleek it now, then and always)
The sheep league cup final, 2-0 to the good guys was March 2000. Only couple YEARS out on both occasions. Watched both in NY in company of great NY time. One in 3 Crowns, other in the Parlour Bar.
Thank god for Celtic wiki. Should have cut out middle man and went straight to Dallas.
God bless and HH to all on here.