Police Scotland officers visited Sports Direct’s Derbyshire offices “investigating takeovers at Rangers”. The pluralisation is quite important.
Last year Police Scotland opened an investigation into Craig Whyte’s purchase of Rangers from the Duped One, fair enough. No one previously reported that more than one ‘takeover’ was being investigated.
Sports Direct had no involvement with oldco Rangers, whose merchandising relationship was with JJB, so clearly this police action is not connected to Mr Whyte. Sports Direct’s only relationship at Ibrox has been newco Rangers. If newco, who were formed when the assets of oldco were bought in liquidation, is subject to police investigation the potential consequences are far reaching.
Sports Direct were not involved with the asset purchase and were only introduced when the club sought investment and commercial partners, so they played no part in the second takeover (of assets). Their likely interest to police will be limited to being recipients of correspondence.
An asset purchase which was secured by criminal activity, if discovered, is legally invalid. This is different from a purchase which breaks civil law. A civil offence leaves the guilty party open to financial claim. An asset disposal subject to a criminal offence would see the liquidator seize assets on behalf of the creditors. Padlocks would be involved, so would lengthy legal processes.
The bar to securing a criminal conviction for such a matter is high and no evidence of such wrongdoing regarding the disposal of Rangers assets has been verified in three years, so don’t expect Padlock Day anytime soon.
I wouldn’t like to be trying to raise money in this climate, though. Good job the SFA are so thoroughly opposed to letting those with a track record of criminal inclinations controlling football clubs.
Yesterday, Fans Against Criminalisation (FAC) continued their campaign against the truly dreadful law instigated by former First Minister Alex Salmond. Despite a litany of failed convictions and representation from within football and the wider community, the Scottish Government have refused all requests to repeal the three-year-old law.
You can register your voice against this law by petitioning the Scottish Government to Repeal the Offensive Behaviour’ Act by signing this online petition. It is a outrageous, politically motivated, law, designed to “equalise” the law-abiding (that’s you) with actual criminals.
Don’t get me started!
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Dragan Stojkovic Red Star Belgrade, is up there with the best i have seen at CP,Rai for PSG as well
Thank you ,Paul67.
Thank you all for good wishes.That is very kind of you.
Happy Birthday to Ger57. I think Dharma Bham has also his Birthday today. All the best to you.
A lot of wonderful talented and inspirational footballers been mentioned on here this morning.
How many of them have had the prefix ‘Super’ attached to their first name though?
Just sayin like!
HH
raymac
11:08 on 7 May, 2015
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Whos mairtin and who he standing for ?
Messy elections in derry.. alof of shinners got cars burnt.
Mcguinness house paint bombed.
Divide and conquer tactics working a treat sadly.
Whit? No mention of the great Anton Rogan?
Or, as he was better know, ffsAnton!
bada bing
Stojkovic was brilliant . I am sure he was the guy being interviewed by Jim White who asked him which Scottish team he would consider joining , Celtic he says , petted lips all round ha ha.
macanbheatha oscar abú
11:14 on 7 May, 2015
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Whos losing their jobs ?
Hate to hear of anyone losing a job.
Im fairly often in between jobs here in oz but at least its i know its not going to be for too long.. looking for work is one of my biggest hates in life. Espcially when the dear john letters come in.
Jimmy Jonstone that’s his name, the Lord of the Wing – playing on the iPod at the minute :-)
Hail Hail
Proudbhoy,
I think we can forgive you this once seeing as you are on the other side of the world :)
16 Roads
I generally don’t pick up on spelling/grammar. This was clearly predictive text (which I hate btw) gone wrong. Just thought I’d make a wee joke out of it, but apologies if it caused you any embarrassment. Certainly wasn’t the intention.
Ooopla ! .
Missed these earlier ———
Zidane .
Pirlo
Savicevic
Stojkovic
Prosinecki .
GlassTwoThirdsFull.
Predictive text is the brain of my life :-)
The Messi argument. FWIW, here’s my wee list;
Messi
Jinky
Best
Pele
Maradona
Ronaldo (CR7)
Ronaldinho.
I therefore conclude, that Lionel Messi is the finest player I have ever seen.
HH
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan. the vow – critically rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
07:05 on 7 May, 2015
It’s time councils stopped using schools for voting affording teachers, who already skive enough, another days holiday.
I think my office would be perfect for a polling station.
We won the league again.
Fly the flag.
Fly the flag.
MWD said AYE
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Teachers work in school on Election Days. Only pupils get a holiday.
geordie munro
11:39 on 7 May, 2015
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You have lost me buddy ? What i do …
“Huz tha bottin jus chynjed hauns?”
!!bada bing!!
11:29 on 7 May, 2015
Can only hope that post was goodbye…..
Who was that directed at ?
My daughter is a primary school teacher doing her probationary year. She’s away to school this morning with her face tripping her. Up until last week SHE thought teachers got the day off if her school was being used as a polling station.
WRONG.
everydaysaschoolday csc
south of tunis
Antoniogni was another superb player , not sure if he made your list
theglasgowcelticway
11:46 on 7 May, 2015
GlassTwoThirdsFull.
Predictive text is the brain of my life :-)
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I absolutely hare predictive tent!
Proudbhoy,
Today is a general election neebs ;)
FFS!
Fat Finger Syndrome is my bigboar.
Voting – Is there an APP for that?
MWD said AYE
I’m just shoot at spelling
4GF-the child who pollutes the blog every morning ,left a cryptic post a wee while ago.
Wee Hagi was a genius, as was Prosinecki.
BBC news has just finished with “The general election is well and truly underway.”FGS! Who didn’t know that ?!thought I.
Proudbhoy,you’re the other side of the world, count yourself lucky, its been intense.
I know players too. Can I join in? :)
HH
borgo 67 .
Antognoni was a mighty fine midfield player./ seriously unlucky with injuries .Scored a goal for Italy v Brazil in the 82 World Cup which was wrongly ruled offside . Played for a very good Fiorentina team which was robbed of a Scudetto by pro Rube officiating
Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeter Grant
oh —–I forgot Hagi too !
Definitely off oot.
!!bada bing!!
Must have missed it mate , couldn’t make out who it was about .
Cheers
HH
Proudbhoy: Mairtín is probably M Ó Muilleoir of SF
Van basten,a real finisher.
!!Bada Bing!!
11:29 on
7 May, 2015
Can only hope that post was goodbye…..
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Of course it wasn’t! Just another cry for attention. You know when people go on FaceBook and write vague things like “Another kick in the teeth” or “Good riddance to bad rubbish”? Well they’re only doing it so as everyone will start responding with “Oh no – what’s wrong?” etc. Pure childish attention-seeking. Well, this one’s the same – wait and see…
Greatest player in world
Liam coyle
If you dont know..now you know
Andy Ritchie………….
(there’s yer dinner!)
Happy 50 th zbyszek
Happy more than 50th ger57