Loved the statement issued by the ‘3 Bears’ last night. They protest that their offer to Rangers International was superior to the offer from Sports Direct, which was accepted. What the sharp-eyed PR wizard didn’t figure when delivering the statement, though, is:
The board need 75% shareholder permission to dis-apply shareholder pre-emptive rights and create sufficient shares to allow the 3 Bears to fund their proposed share issue.
Support of the Easdale proxy block is needed to pass this dis-application.
Knowing they needed Easdale support, when the board asked if they would drop the EGM resolution to remove James Easdale from the board in order to make their proposal viable, the 3 Bears declined.
Consider the conversation:
A. “We’ll fund a share issue.”
B. “That needs Jimmy’s agreement. Will you drop your plans to sack him?”
A. “No. We’re still going to sack him.”
B. “Can’t do, Jimmy’s not going to vote for that.”
A. “It’s all your fault for not accepting our perfectly well thought-out proposal.”
It’s astonishing how shoddy an operation these clowns have. I know no one in the media will explain the reality to fans, nor will they believe anything they read here. When populist instigators for change have no viable plan, a club is deader than Rangers (mark I).
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Mea Culpa
00:10 on 29 January, 2015
Football is nothing without the fans!
teuchter ár lá
00:17 on 29 January, 2015
Think the soundtrack to that R Aitken wonder goal was the Bosch’s hymn of praise to Loyalist murder gangs and the usual obscene verbal abuse if the Holy Father – all to the tune of the much discussed ‘Sailing’ by Rodney Stewart
Your recollections of the Bosch impromptu scarf dropping is spot on ha ha
lynott67
Turkeybhoy is indeed correct I was in the jungle belting out Sailing at half time on 4th Sept’76.
We were 2 nil down at the time but came back in the 2nd half to draw 2 – 2.
I found out on the way back to the bus that my 47 yr old father Tommy Courtney had died in the stand of a heart attack at half time.
He was President of the Garryowen club and Jock Stein and most of the Lisbon Lions came to his funeral in Ardrossan.
Can’t listen to Sailing even now 38 yrs later.
squire
In those days it was obviously my hearing that was affected with the drink.
Thank god my eyesight was okay then :-)
Donohoe accusing Mike Ashley of ‘using a scam to avoid financial responsibilities.’
A politician who ran the Westminster Zombies SC who does not see the irony of that statement.
Wow.
SFTB,
I may be wrong, but was the Scotsman article not penned by Aiden Smith and not Andrew, of that clan?
Apologies if I am mistaken.
Bournesouprecipe
Who would argue with a word that Stan Collymore said? Certainly not me. A man who has looked at the evidence and come to his own conclusion.
Follow Follow we will follow embdy
Squire danaher
I disagree totally with king Kenny’s latest musings on the status of Sevco Scotland. However, he os one of the greatest players I have ever had the great fortune to witness wearing the hoops. King Kenny is a legend. I went to see him almost every week. He was a hero. Make no mistake about it. He gave everything for Celtic when he wore the Hoops. At different times, I revise my opinion of the greatest player I have seen playing for Celtic. Depending on how I’m feeling it is anyone of three from Jinky, Kenny or Henrik. A good friend who posts on here swears by Lubo as being the greatest. My late father who saw Jinky and Kenny said that Patsy Gallacher, the Mighty Atom, Peerless Patsy was the daddy of them all. He also loved Malky MacDonald.
Kenny is a product of his upbringing. Let’s be grateful that he played for us and not Thems. When he left in 1977, the circumstances weren’T under his control. He was a partner in a Whisky Bond company along with his father-in-law, Big Jock and A.N. Other. The company fell into debt and the debtors decided to pursue Kenny for the £70k owed. Kenny was sold to Liverpool to bail all 4 partners out of trouble ……….. according to folklore.
Aberdeen is where I found that my soul was mean
Anyone who disagrees with King Kenny that its not Rangers Celtic are playing on Sunday is a fool.
Next?
tomcourtney
A tragic memory for you. Your Dad would have been in his prime. RIP. I loved that song and have advocated on here in the last year that we should start to sing it again i’m sorry that it has sad memories for you.
Scottish league Cup Final appearances
34 Rangers
29 Celtic
13 Aberdeen
9 Hibernian
7 Heart Of Midlothian
6 Dundee, Dundee United, Kilmarnock
4 Partick Thistle
3 East Fife, Motherwell, Dunfermline Athletic, St. Mirren
2 Raith Rovers, St. Johnstone
1 Falkirk, Third Lanark, Morton, Ayr United, Livingston,
Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Ayr for example were cheated due to some EBT scandal..Everybody But Tims..or something like that
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
thx
thomthethim
There were two Scotsman articles, one by Aiden and one by Andrew. I think it was Andrew’s which, at least mentioned the difficult evidence (Middlesboro, Leeds etc and Italian/Spanish tax cheats) without really bothering to marshal it into anything other than a sneer against the ad.
Having read the list of what can and cannot be sung I have just one question…can the DJ play “Zombie” by the Cranberries……PLEASE?
@Funkyy… naw going to happen,apparently the hordes have tapped up Stuart C
the aerosole DJ, and they are giving it to us bigtime with Worst Nightmare.
The Artic MONKEYS.
H.H.
Regardless of what anyone thinks with regards to the OC/NC debate, only one opinion matters, the legal one.
The law is quite clear, Rangers Football CLUB, a single entity, a single company, failed to get their CVA accepted and fell into liquidation. The entity was liquidated. Legal fact.
No other opinions matter. N
Only facts.
Arctic even…:)
Mea… aye they won’t let facts get in the way of a real fantasy eh?.
I’d love one of the bassas to take this to court and spill all their shenanigans.
H.H.
Sigh, I wish it was Monday already.
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This is The Only Tune that will be Played/Sang Danced too on Sunday..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Irt5w3sWRY
Cyber Beer to the First Poster to Spot..Doughnut from Here comes the Double Deckers in the Crowd..;-)
Summa of ZombieChantersCSC
Green Brigade Zombie Nation in Section 111 Mockin…: http://youtu.be/cuuO3JbY6Mc
HH
@San….my hearts in the basement and my weekends at an all time low :)
H.H.
@Summa wee Douglas would look like Twiggy in the obese good ole U.S. of A crowd
:):).
H.H.
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LymmBhoy..
Sorry l was Not in Contact last week..More Tech/Phone problems..
5 weeks Now without one that Works..Might go back to Writing Letters TBH..;-(
Summa
“a club is deader than Rangers (mark I).”
Music to my ears!
Lymmbhoy. Are you in Melbourne now ? If you are is the pub on Sunday night to watch game ?
Summi. Are you in the pint and punt on Sunday night ?
Think cheers in Sydney will be packed to rafters to see us against the new team
drambowiecelt
03:56 on 29 January, 2015
More, or less. It’s media and mobile phone blackout day for me on Sunday.
As far as I’m concerned, our next game is the 7th Feb vs Dundee.
I don’t believe in ghosts. Esp hateful, violent ones.
Summa
No problem……..with you on the technical difficulties…. been waiting for our timternet to be connected for a week.
Sydneytim
In Torquay. I’ll hopefully have the above sorted before Sunday.
HH
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SydneyTim..
Re; Packed to the Rafters..Ditto Celtic Club and PoP..
Seemingly CQN Has a Knitting Class kicking off (Literally) at Midday..;-( Knitting Shawls..‘We Shawl Not be Moved’
A Never Mind hopefully their Grandkids will be Celtic Supporters..And that’s All that Matters..
Some have Built Underground Bunkers..It’s like The Y2K Bug All over again..Ha Ha..
Got some Young Guns over so it will be there First Oz Old Firm Game..Their Words Ha..Lets say they are Excited Much..
Summa
Lymmbhoy. Torquay. Bit of the beaten track that one. Any pubs near there
You should stay in summi’s hammock and go to the pub
Summi indeed. Last time I was there it was you me and mrs Sydney tim. Great night though :)))
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l felt Celtic FC dealt with Thomson Harshly..
Alan Thompson: ‘I was in a bad place when I left Celtic… I had hurt people, I felt hurt and I just wanted to move on’
Alan Thompson was sacked from Celtic coaching role in 2012
The former midfielder admits to being in a bad place after leaving the club
It was reported Thompson’s lifestyle was behind his sacking
Thompson returned to football in 2014 after time away from the game
He joined Birmingham as a coach before moving to Blackpool
As Alan Thompson approached his 40th birthday his life was in flux. There were front pages on his private life. Lurid news tales on drink driving.
The loss of his job as Celtic’s first team coach five weeks after a 3-0 victory over Rangers in the last Old Firm match led him towards a dark tunnel.
‘Aye, I was in a bad place,’ he tells Sportsmail. ‘I had hurt people, I felt hurt and I just wanted to move on.
‘I admit it took me a while to get over what happened at Celtic. It took me 12 months to get over it. I had 12 months of doing virtually nothing.
‘I just felt I didn’t want to get back involved in football for a long time.
‘I took time out after that. I needed it.
‘It was the first time since I left school I’d been out of football. That’s what, twenty three years? I’d always been in or around a football club. And then….’
For a wet and grey city Glasgow sustains a thriving grapevine. For weeks before his sacking word had it Thompson was living a fuller, more colourful life than Celtic might have liked. The gossip, he says now, was exaggerated.
Friends with Neil Lennon since pairing up at Parkhead at the outset of the Martin O’Neill era the pair socialised together. Thompson was the man to whom the Northern Irishman first confided his battle with depression. Yet when the telephone call came telling him his job was going, Thompson took possession of his own black cloud.
‘I took time out back home in Newcastle with the family. I needed that to get myself sorted.
‘I felt I couldn’t trust many people.
‘You start asking questions of yourself as well.
‘I stayed clear of the game completely. I was invited to a lot of clubs to watch training and stay involved, but I just didn’t want to do it.
‘I didn’t watch Sky, I didn’t lift a paper. I stayed well away from everybody except my family.
‘I took some nice holidays, I had some nice breaks. I had lads’ golf trips, I did stuff I hadn’t had the luxury of doing for a long time and suddenly had the time to do.
‘I went to New York for my 40th last Christmas. I couldn’t have done all that if I had jumped back in to the game. I needed that time.’
After family, football had been his second love. A father of three Thompson compares the loss of his Celtic job to a break-up. It took the lure of his hometown club to persuade him to dip his toe back in the water.
‘A mate of mine has a box at Newcastle and I started going to back to St James’ Park,’ he remembers. ‘I watched them and started doing the things I hadn’t done for a while.
‘I went to see friends in the game, I got around training grounds.
‘Then a chance came up to work at Birmingham with my mate Lee Clark and I felt I couldn’t turn it down.
‘I asked myself the question and thought about it. Then I said, “you know what? I’m ready now”.’
Sipping cappuccino in a restaurant off Blackpool’s Bloomfield Road Thompson has stability in his life once more.
The pitch outside is barren and bare, but he has his family back and a job in English football. His own grass is greener than since his sacking two and a half years ago.
‘I’m back in the game now and loving the day to day involvement at Blackpool and passing on the knowledge of everything I’ve learned.’
He will watch Sunday’s League Cup meeting between Celtic and Rangers with his 15-year-old son, a curious bystander in the circus of Glasgow life.
‘He remembers little bits of life up there and has seen the clips on You Tube, but he has been asking me a few questions recently about it. Why it is how it is, the bigotry and stuff. It’s difficult to explain.’
Thompson won four Scottish league titles, three Scottish Cups, two League Cups and reached a UEFA Cup Final.
He spent seven years at Celtic, scoring a goal against Rangers for every season at the club. Uniquely, he also racked up three red cards. All of them at Ibrox.
‘There was a red in my very first Old Firm game,’ he grimaces. ‘The gaffer (Martin O’Neill) nearly ripped my head off after the game.
‘He was physically trying to get at me. We were in the game – Rangers had just gone 2-1 ahead and I got sent off and it went 3-1 then 4-1 and finished at five.
‘He came at me and I thought, “s**t my Celtic career is finished before it’s begun”.
‘Honestly, the way he was talking to me after the game. Martin could be ruthless when he wanted to be.
‘Thankfully I redeemed myself in the next Rangers game at Celtic Park. I scored the only goal of a 1-0 win.’
He pleads guilty to two of the reds, but has a well rehearsed defence for the other.
‘The Lovenkrands one (in 2004) was definitely not a red card, I never made contact.
‘We didn’t even come together and he went down as if someone had taken him out with a sawn off shotgun.
‘Funny enough, we ended up working together at Newcastle. We sorted it out.’
The first man to be capped for England while a Celtic player Thompson scored seven goals in Glasgow derbies – as many as Chris Sutton and John Hartson.
‘I’m quite proud of that,’ he admits.
‘I remember smashing one in off the bar over Stefan Klos. Great memories. And Sutty chipping one into the far corner, that’s my favourite that one.
‘You go into this coaching side of things and people talk about systems, but you realise in teams like that it’s not systems that win games.
‘Players win games, not systems. We just had good players who knew their roles.
‘Chris Sutton’s partnership with Henrik wasn’t something we worked on in training. It was just two top football players who knew each other’s games.
‘We had a chemistry as a team.
‘You would turn round in the tunnel before a game and say, ‘I trust him, I trust him, I trust him.’
‘We all lived in and around Glasgow, be it Bothwell or Newton Mearns. You could meet in the city centre. We were a close bunch.’
The bond of trust with Lennon was broken for a time. As his best mucker, trips to the city centre could be a fraught affair.
‘It’s quite unique in Glasgow,’ says Thompson matter of fact. ‘There is no place quite like it.
‘The importance of football is amazing, it’s a massive part of people’s lives.
‘Sometimes now I miss it.
‘I’ll sit and watch the Old Firm game on Sunday and think, ‘I’d love to be playing in that today.’
‘Then you think about the stick and the grief after it and feel relieved you’re not involved any longer.
‘You have to be careful what you do in that city, there is no hiding place. You have to know that when you are there.
‘I never got it like Neil did. There were a few isolated incidents, but what Neil went through was on a different scale. I would have hated that.
‘Here in Blackpool it’s totally different.’
On a blustery, grey January day there is little pleasure to be had on the legendary beach, yet Thompson’s outlook is bright. He left Celtic as player and coach under a cloud, but can speak readily about both now. It’s progress of a sort.
‘The way it ended for me first time was horrible.
‘But, you know, I won four titles and the two I lost was on goal difference and by a point. How bad can that be?’
He wouldn’t swap his current existence at the foot of England’s Championship for that of Ronny Deila. Thompson looks at the Norwegian and sees an Old Firm novice cursed by a Celtic team with no Larssons, Suttons or Lennons to speak of.
‘It’s evident to see the fixture doesn’t have the same players now. It doesn’t take an expert to see that. It’s a shame.
‘People down here would struggle to name many players at Celtic and Rangers now.
‘Gary Hooper is down here now. Victor Wanyama, Fraser Forster, Kris Commons might be looking down here as well. I’m guessing it’s been a while since anyone significant at all has come down from Rangers.
‘But there’s no football place quite like Glasgow. It’s a unique city and a unique game for the simple reason that people still care.’
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SydneyTim
Summi indeed. Last time I was there it was you me and mrs Sydney tim. Great night though :)))
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Indeedy Doo..
It was that Very Night that l realised Mrs SydneyTim was a Better Manager that WGS..and Slightly bad Eyesight when it came to Men..Ha Ha..
001
Had Kris signed his new contract yet?
Bring on The Rangers.
Just been down town and I spotted an old style black Volkswagen Beetle with a round decal on each of the doors. “Zombie Outbreak Response Vehicle”, Glasgow might need a few of those on Sunday.
AR