Old Lumley-troubled used a classic rhetorical technique yesterday. Give your target audience lots of points to consider which you know they will agree with; build empathy, get heads nodding, fists banging on tables, then slip in the line you are trying to sell. As a piece of prose, you have to respect the statement. This guy, or his writer, has not only read the Greeks, he’s understood their importance.
If Sir David is right, Rangers issued no side contracts, all non-discretionary payments to players in connection to football were registered, if the redacted contract which appeared in The Sun in March was a piece of fiction, if the prima facie evidence presented by Duff and Phelps was an error, he and his soon to be liquidated former club have nothing to worry about.
Cicero CSC.
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67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
Exactly- rules changed for them in May in anticipation.
We need to keep the pressure on, on all fronts.
HH
Neil canamalar Lennon
Any time:)
HH
2 Japanese players on Celtic’s Radar according to the Evening Times:
Nagai a Striker and the International Olympic Captain Maya Yoshida.
Tonight’s game has a lot resting on it.
Cheers guys
HH
If it’s one up front then it has to be Sammy for me. Commons left and Brown or Forrest n the right depending on fitness.
Estadio -Frankie Miller, one of the great white soul voices.
And Adrienne from Greenock if you’re lurkin’ – you did break my heart.
Has anybody played on a plastic pitch? I have in old NY and it was terrific, passing is so much easier and bounces are true. Hope we are not using this as an excuse already – let’s just get out there and do the job! 2-1 ‘tic for me onight…
Has Ogilvie resigned yet?
kdc
Kayal’s twitter – “Wishing the best luck for the bhoys ⚽ I hope that we will finish the game with big win”
Not playing tonight, then?
PS mind you that was compared to the red blaes and black ash pitches I grew up with!!
Why would Campbell resign,,,,he’s doing gr8 job??
HH
Tonight’s game is all about gambling on players’ fitness for Lenny. An artificial pitch can destroy stiff legs. Neil must decide if he wants to risk all for Europe rather than save players like Brown for the CL play-off, if we get there.
Slab hoy
Have to say that I have played on the indoor pitch at Toryglen,,and it’s a great surface!!
HH
slabhoy on 8 August, 2012 at 16:31 said:
Has anybody played on a plastic pitch? I have in old NY and it was terrific, passing is so much easier and bounces are true. Hope we are not using this as an excuse already – let’s just get out there and do the job! 2-1 ‘tic for me onight…
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There are Plastic Pitches and then there are Plastic Pitches. The quality of the pitch is vital and seemingly this one is pretty poor.
However, I agree, no excuses.
Blair Morgan also represented big Eck
Full time professional players should be able to play on any surface, in any weather.
Some folk at the Stadium are tweeting the park looks terrible.
Not a good sign.
TGSC 15.40
I am told the Kimberley on Tollcross Rd is showing it I will probably
Go there
up over goal@16:35
We quite simply have to get through tonight. At the very worst it guarantees us EL Group stage football. All that matters at the moment is getting past Helsinki. I think Lenny will take the gamble and looking at Kayal’s tweet, i’d say Brown is starting
FIFA now have Engerlund 3rd best team in the World, when they’re not even the third best team in Europe.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 8 August, 2012 at 13:24 said
Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (January 27, 1615 – March 23, 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. He fell out of favor with the young king, probably because of his extravagant displays of wealth, and the king had him imprisoned from 1661 until his death in 1680.
When i consider the rise and fall of Sir Minty I can’t help but think of someone closer to home. William Paterson the original projector of the bank of England and of Scotland, and of the celebrated settlement of Darien, was born, it is supposed, in the year 1655, at Skipmyre, in the parish of Tinwald, Dumfries-shire, where he lived with them until he was seventeen, when he emigrated first (briefly) to Bristol and then to the Bahamas. It was here that he first conceived the Darién scheme, his plan to create a colony on the isthmus of Panama, facilitating trade with the Far East. It is certain that he was in the West Indies, but it is much more likely that hispursuits there were commercial than either clerical or piratical. In whatever capacity he may have acquired his commercial and geographical knowledge, he returned to Europe with a scheme of trade which he was desirous of establishing under the protection and patronage of some European power. Paterson, himself a merchant, formed an intimate connection with other merchants of London, and with them concerted the plan of the bank of England, which he originated and planned. He was admitted one of the original directors, but jealousies arose, and he voluntarily withdrew, by selling out his qualification of £2000 stock. Under these circumstances, having already, before the revolution of 1688, become acquainted in Holland with some of his countrymen, particularly with Fletcher of Saltoun, who had penetration enough to see and to appreciate the simple splendour of his project with regard to Darien, he accordingly came to Scotland along with Fletcher, who introduced him to the various members of the Scottish administration. The earl of Stair, in particular, gave the project of Mr Paterson the support of his powerful eloquence.Since the Paterson bank notes were what the king would be loaned to build and equip his armies, he readily agreed. This gave legal sanction to a private bank being authorized to print bank notes as the legal tender for the whole nation. Each bill promised to pay in gold “on demand,” but the bankers actually had only a small fraction of the gold needed to cover the vast quantity of bank notes being printed. By this means the bankers brought the king in as a patron and beneficiary of a system of “fractionalized banking” or making money out of nothing. Nevertheless, it gave the king what he needed, and it gave the bankers what they wanted. What did it matter if the bankers were making money out of nothing? The king even went so far as to eliminate any possible competition for the so-called “Bank of England” by giving Paterson and his friends an official charter from the Crown and commanding the goldsmiths of London to immediately discontinue issuing receipts as depositories for precious metals. This drove most of the merchants to store their gold with the Bank of England.
So this was the means by which a privately-owned bank became the official depository of the Crown, printed its own bank notes as the king’s legal tender, and “legalized” its magic formula for “making money out of nothing.” By any standard, William Paterson has to be considered the greatest hustler of all time, a crooked and atrociously subtle idea from a truly felonious genius that changed the whole direction of modern history.
And yet this brilliant grifter with dreams of fame and avarice, the peddler turned merchant, was a dilettante and a parvenu when it came to the everyday practicalities of real affairs of a financial institution- a sad fact that led one commentator to suggest Paterson was “an over-rated person” and that “the ease with which he was removed from the directorate after less than seven months’ service suggests that in real influence he may have been far below second place”.
His later years were clouded in great financial difficulties- there was a murky episode with much smoke and little detail- related to the pilfering of monies from an Orphans Fund commissioned by the City of London Corporation. His behaviour was said to be “unbecoming of a director of this court” and he was exigently requested to absent himself of his post.
And yet in 1694 when William III was involved in a war with France. He needed money and he needed it in large quantities. The British coffers were empty so he asked for vast loans of money from the super-rich Scotsman Paterson and some of his wealthy friends. Paterson and his friends were perfectly agreeable to the loan providing they were allowed to do two things:
1. Set up a privately-owned bank to be called the Bank of England.
2. Receive authority from the king to issue their own bank notes or certificates as the official legal tender of England.
By setting down these conditions Paterson set down in motion the whole intricate panoply of the modern financial machine. His single handed promotion of fiat currency, interests at loans, factional financing etc was so daring as to completely revolutionize the economical world and set off the whole chain of boom and busts we see in the capitalist world of today: a world of big talking fakes, massive fraud and sham economics – and it had never been done before because it needed the shameless double dealing mind of a truly crooked genius like Paterson.
Maybe the Minty star is on the wane, to be replaced by something truly Saturnalian in his Big zodiacal Hoose, and to be soon eclipsed by a brighter more reliably unwavering star? Just like Paterson he had his day, was viewed serendipitously as a figure worth listening to, an authority in his days of pomp and glory- but when circumstances changed he was seen as something of an enthusiastic impresario belching out his braggadocio and who was nothing more than a very well rehearsed and consummate bluffer who could dupe the most seasoned of impostors.
Blair Morgan also represented Neil Mc Cann
My team
Forster
Mathews
Rogne
Mulgrew
Izzaguirre
Forrest
Brown
Wanyama
Ledley
Samaras
Hooper
Subs: Zaluszka, Kayal, Wilson, McCourt, Stokes
Damn it forgot about Commons
Commons in for Forrest then.
Apparently this IS the team:
Here’s the team! RT @celticfc: CELTIC: Forster; Matthews, Rogne, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Brown, Wanyama, Ledley, Commons; Samaras, Hooper (LB)
Forster; Matthews, Rogne, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Brown, Wanyama, Ledley, Commons; Samaras, Hooper
Subs: Zaluska, Stokes, McCourt, Lustig, Kayal, Forrest, Murphy
It’s back!
CQN fantasy league :- fantasy.premierleague.com
To all those who played last year, its a simple 5 minute job to re-register and set up your team, most of you will have probably forgotten your passwords so just type in your email and a recovery password will be sent to you.
New players just register normally, will take no longer than ten minutes.
To join the league the code is :- 721106-181775
Enjoy!
Subs! RT @celticfc: Subs: Zaluska, Stokes, McCourt, Lustig, Kayal, Forrest, Murphy. Kick off is 8pm local time, 6pm Celtic Park time. (LB)
Plenty of options in there for a variety of situations.
Big Vic in midfield, glad to see that.
Good to see Scotty Brown made it.
Indio
Paterson from Tinwald and Rev Henry Duncan from Ruthwell. Ole Shangri La the birthplace of banking.
By the way I truly believe that playing Ledley tonight at LB ( as some have suggested) would be an unmitigated disaster…does anyone remember Utrecht? Joe cannot play at LB at that level…he will be picked to pieces if we expose him to that…it has to be Izzy all the way.
Where has all this scaremongering hysteria about Izzy come from all of a sudden? I see little evidence for the overreaction among some fans- I trust him to stroll through the game tonight.
Midfield looks good with Brown, Wanyama, Ledley in it.
Indio
Would have normally been pleased with that team but after Rogne’s horror show in Ajax I’m not too sure….
Good to see Victor in CM though
Pretty strong team, got to do it tonight and knock them off the back pages.
Nerves really kicking in just as i’m getting ready to leave work so i can be home in plenty of time to get the position behind the sofa and watch through the fingers over my face!!!!!!
mind you when planning to watch on a lap top it could be worse again!!!!!!!!
Come on Celtic, just do what Katie Taylor did and win!!!!!
Just seen the lineup! Shut it Wonky! No! Aye! No…
Strong team picked by Lennon.
Hopefully Hoops get lots of support from Sammy and Kris.
Indio
Glad to see Big Vic in midfield. Good options on the bench too
Off to the Queens Park cafe to watch it
Mon the Hoops