I cannot fathom why someone would leak their intentions to quit as chairman of a football club. Either Walter Smith is sufficiently alarmed by the conduct of his club to resign, or he should be busy working to resolve matters. Leaking that he intends to resign will surely only add to the nonsense that surrounds the club.
Some will believe that Smith, who accepted the position as chairman of Rangers International when season tickets went on sale in May, can shuffle of the scene now 34,000 tickets have been sold. Shareholder votes will determine the future of the club, in this instance, the identity of the chairman has little reach beyond parting fans with their cash.
Some investors may consider a more immediate problem is why the club are burning a hugely disproportionate amount of cash to secure promotion from the third tier of Scottish football, and why a management structure is not in place to deploy resources more effectively.
In light of Francisco Sandaza’s off-the-cuff comments to Tommy in Glasgow, and his subsequent dismissal by Rangers International, we urge Mr McCoist to be more cautious than he was after his team’s spirited, but ultimately fruitless, performance in Forfar on Saturday. It would be unfortunate if McCoist transgressed a condition of employment and suffered accordingly.
Advertising Standards Authority ruling withdrawn
It doesn’t rain but it pours. The Independent Review Process of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has looked into the ASA’s recent, and widely reported, ruling on Rangers International’s claim on football titles won by a liquidated club. The Review found that “it was a procedural flaw for the ASA to have relied on an extract only of a report sent to it by the advertiser”.
Further, the review process ruled that “there was also the risk of a substantial flaw of adjudication in the distinction that had been made between ‘club’ and ‘company’, especially in the light of previous ASA decisions about companies that change hands and the circumstances in which the new company could or could not trade off the reputation of the old company”.
The Chairman of the ASA, Lord Smith of Finsbury, as decided to reopen the ASA’s investigation into the case and to withdraw the published adjudication, which favoured the advertiser. Withdrawing this adjudication does not infer that a different outcome will subsequently be reached. To use a football analogy, it’s half time and they’re all square.
An interesting, and potentially critical part of the story, is that after the initial ASA decision was issued, the club’s web site noted that their submission to the process included information that a “panel of the London Stock Exchange” supported their claim.
The Stock Exchange subsequently appeared surprised at this assertion, so much so that the club promptly withdrew the claim from the web article.
“You’re history, that’s what you are, na na na na”.
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You miss read it a stor.
PS the bluebells are certainly blue :-)
Tony
Your correct..it was nowt to do with politics, just that we shouldnt be taking the team and fans into a country (Hungary Ferencvaros) next door to a war zone.
tonydonnelly67:
Ferencvaros play in Hungary, not Czechoslovakia.
In other news…. Boerrigter not travelling to Sweden (Twitter)
…….Kelvin does, ditto Sammy.
DavieL
08:33 on
6 August, 2013
A Stor Mo Chroi,
Celtic were drawn against Ferencvaros (of Hungary but still Soviet Block)and Sir Robert Kelly refused to play them – we got Milan instead and they knocked us oot!
If I remember correctly, Celtic did not feel compelled to resort to principle a few years later when they found themselve playing in Portugal with armoured cars on the street.
Keep politics out of sport.Who is trying to kid who.
marrakesh express
My 5’s team are Boca Seniors all over 40. We have 2nd best team at Aberdeen GOALS and are ranked 30 in UK out of 3000 teams in the national GOALS set up. Yet we hardly get anybody watching us…
We wear Yellow Romania tops which cost £5 from Sportsdirect.com. Bargain .
The bored had the chance to kick the lid off the sectarian can of worms that is the Scottish establishment when – Salmond summoned(Spelling) the club to a Govt meeting after the ‘shame game’ on the back of Celtic getting 3 yellow cards ???????????
KEV JUNGLE.well said KEV.nail on heed!!!!!!!!
Didn’t we play in Austria when the Blakans war was on?
slabhoy – duntocher is green and white
08:59 on 6 August, 2013
SPOT ON……!!!!
Sir Dignity (he who scuttled out of Hampden when SDM crooked his finger) is calling on THEM to support integrity.
Integrity! THEY wouldn’t recognise the word even if came across on the radio in big print.
On reading Walter’s press release I’m amazed how poorly he translates his grasp of the written word in to speech ..#lawyerstranslationoff*ckthem
Quonno
Mate, we played St Etienne not AC Milan, that was next round.
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever
09:00 on
6 August, 2013
Delighted to hear it.
Willo.The fall guy for some Celtic supporters.
Totally undeserved.
tonydonnelly67 08:51 on 6 August, 2013
Last week in your description of the Green Brigade – you made comments about them being ‘uni drop-outs’, their ‘left-wing’ politics and also provided a Gok Wan appraisal of their dress sense.
As I suggested, if you don’t want to discuss politics don’t bring the subject up or get involved in political discussions.
A stor…. I didn’t mention Ferencvaros, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia ?
kevjungle
Tom Allison is a life long Tim…
OnlyAnExcuse @OnlyAnExcuse 13h
Today’s football news in a nutshell:
Celtic: Green Brigade cause havoc
Rangers: Green’s brigade cause havoc
marrakesh express:
I’ve lent my Bob Kelly book out but I think if you can get your hands on a copy you’ll find that Bob Kelly did in fact play politics. Nothing to do with geography.
Gok Wan?
IF true about West Bron and Crystal Palace offering decent bids for Ambrose.
Deal !!
tonydonnelly67:
No you didn’t mention them, you mentioned this:
08:58 on 6 August, 2013
I thought the thing with Celtic and Kelly in the 60s was about the safety of the team going into a war zone, I don’t remember it being who was against the invasion, could be wrong mind you.
I mentioned Ferencvaros, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
Posting under a new name having forgotten my old username and password but know a few people off of here and I know some of you will know my dad who posts under the name Winningemmell, although he doesn’t post as much as he used to.
In regards to the Green Brigade debate I’ve had a ticket for section 111 (but I am not a member of the Green Brigade) and find it all a bit of a joke to be honest, I think it’s quite obvious the board just want the section closed, all this safety certificate stuff is nonsense. Celtic seem very eager to attract a certain type of fan, if you are going to go in and sit down, eat their food, go to their kerrydale bar and drink their £4 pints they’re quite happy to accommodate you, and they’ve even done up a few sections of the Lisbon lions stand into a “family zone” complete with games consoles and entertainment before the games, all part of this big “Celtic experience”, if playing an Xbox at Celtic Park is part of the Celtic experience then I honestly don’t know what’s happened to the club TBH…
However it’s become evident that if you want to stand and sing for 90 minutes then they have a major problem, at the past 3 AGM’s the question has been asked about safe standing and every time Peter Lawwell has said they are “looking into it”. Its clear that Mr Lawwell has not been “looking into it” at all and has sat back and waited for the right moment to disband area 111 and scatter us around the stadium.
It’s time to accommodate all Celtic supporters, I’m not even having a go at the family area, it’s obviously a good thing if its going to get the younger generations interested but there has to be a balance here… the mission statement says we are a club open to all, well it’s time to accommodate us all.
As I said I could be wrong, but I doubt it a stor, you read diff. From me, or I read diff. From you.
KevJungle
09:00 on 6 August, 2013
Just in to say…
Nae Celtic supporters on the bored no not one.
You are so wrong, so very wrong on that one Kev!! por cierto.
Marrakesh Express:
Agreed about how other nations stadia absorb twenty thousand jumping about fans. As I said, if Celtic’s concern about the integrity of the structural steel at Parkhead because of the lateral movement on the part of a few hundred supporters at most, is sincere, then there exists one mighty problem at Parkhead.
kevjungle- you are spot on regarding the “Salmond summit”
The rest is Lillian Gish.
CTG.
Welcome back young man.
I thought after Saturday you would be a committed prawn sanny bhoy… o))
tonydonnelly67:
What am I wrong about, what do I read differently from you? Mate I’ve been struggling to keep up with your posts for the past couple of hours. You’ve been jumping about all over the place and telling everybody who responds to you to read slower.Please explain what you are on about regards that last post of yours.
A Stor
I`m sure you`re right.
Bob Kelly took what he felt was a principled stand after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.Aug.`68 ish.
craigneuktommygemmell
Your a Hun just like your father
Love
Twitter.
Scottish Charity Regulators report into the Rangers Charity Foundation and AC Milan match proceeds. Damning.
https://t.co/Gw0cn7kMWd
So are we all gonnae stand shoulder to shoulder with the GB or not ?
if you REALLY want to keep ALL politics out of fitba
probably best not to put a poppy on the jersey in the first place
probably best not to ever have a minutes silence for anyone at any time
probably best not to play songs from irish history such as the fields
but me personally i believe that we do have a history and that politics is/was often a part of that and its not just that easy to separate life from politics
I remember well the days when the Pls would take a tricolour off fans outside CP in the 70s. Probably just as well the fans in those days never did what they were tellt either eh?
anyway, the board have been quite active in their treatment of dealing with the GB (maybe right, maybe wrong)
I would like to see the same board also being quite active in dealing with the likes of Campbell Ogilvie and raising the issues revealed daily by charlotte
Fortune favour,
Your observation about me last night was strange. You must have missed my earlier post which thanked the GB last night. As for the ‘p#sh’ – which you so eloquently describe it as – I wrote to Neganon; I defended my club against a preposterous claim that Celtic are propping up an anti-Catholic agenda. Such paranoid nonsense will continue to be challenged by myself. Hail hail all.
If section 111 do not know how to behave, or adhere to warnings, then yes you should be scattered all over the stadium, don’t you get it you where WELL warned acting like spoiled little kids and now you spit the dummy out, we’ll hell slap it into you, you need to to behave, you honestly think that we should all stand back and watch them close our ground down because the GB can’t behave and think they are above the law, well think AGAIN, it is not going to happen HAIL HAIL.
by the way men
its worth reading the link by henrik at 9.23 regarding the sevco charity
probably no board in scotland will comment anything about it
and no newspaper will mention it
and no radio station will bring it to our attention
and no TV journlist will consider it news worthy
but lets all condemn some youngsters who jump around during a fitba game as if its a crime