The world looked so different for Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, back in March. He convinced half of the member clubs to reject a deal which would earn them considerably more money next season, while enjoying the accolades of Rangers International chief exec, Charles Green.
Green remains a controlling director of Rangers International, but Longmuir’s actions infuriated First Division clubs, who have now applied to join the SPL, furious at his attempts to subvert them earning what many see as crucial income next season.
To suggest Longmuir acted in the interests of one Third Division club to the considerable detriment of all First Division clubs would be stating the obvious. These shenanigans still go on in Scottish football, even now, after all that happened last year, but it is reassuring that the overwhelming majority of voices have, again, said, ‘On your (boardroom) bike’. We are rapidly becoming one of the least corrupt countries football is played in the world. Good luck to all in the First Division.
I read the leaked document, Rangers (sic): the way forward, yesterday afternoon. It was so ludicrously lacking in anything which remotely resembled substance I assumed the leak was an attempt to discredit Charles Green. Then I heard BBC’s Chris McLaughlin say it was Green himself behind the leak. The fact that the Rangers International director categorically recognised the club is lumbered with a lame manager hardly passes for insight. The document was embarrassingly inept.
“The team will work for each other and press the opponents when not in possession.
“Most of all, players will come off the park knowing that they have done their best.”
In a high-level policy document this is cringeworthy.
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Is it just me, or has Traynor not just shot himself in the foot but blown both his legs off? He must realise he’s on a shooglie peg now that the guy who appointed him has no more need for him? Comprende Jabba?
Total football, ‘tikkie takkie’ like them Barcelonions do – and hey presto Rangers win a major Euro trophy by 2020…
Lawell sign this anonymous genius up pronto quick fast.
There’s yir chicken dinner right there…
U
I strongly agree with BMCUW
We must be vigilant and vociferous against the MSM campaign to install the newco into a better position than they currently are in
We need to tell it like it is on the phone ins
We need to shout it in the hotlines
We need the support of the other clubs too
No to the backdoor for newco
Yes to the trapdoor for newco
remember CO is still eating at the top table despite owing oldco 90,000 quid
remember the rigged LNS outcome
if newco are allowed in, every team in Scotland should be aware that we will bhoycott every single away game next season and cut off espn/sky and their 12 o clock sunday kick offs too
Oh aye an in case any huns are lurking, Jabba was the guy who was so far up Whytes earchie he was ticking his tonsils.
Remember when Chuckles said he appointed Jabba because he had all the dirt on everyone in Scottish Football.
Still waiting on the dirt getting dished out.
Tickling*
GrahamSpiers admits on bbcsportsound that Sevco ARE a new club! GS: “Insolvency experts tell me there’s no way around it.”
Pre Champions league Final clash in Dortmund is currently 1-1 at the moment, Bayern Defender just been sent off.
HH
Graham Spiers has let himself down badly IMHO during this newco mess and lacks any credibility, in my eyes he was party to the silence about oldco imploding like so many many others
absolutely no credibility left
he should leave along with the rest of them
Alex Thomson
I didn’t know. I had no warning.
But yes, the very day after I wrote a
blog attacking the Tracksuit Tyrants
in big football clubs who think they
can ban journalists with impunity…
yes…Ibrox bans a journalist. In fact,
they’ve banned an entire corporation.
Your corporation too.
The latest victim of the Petulant
Tendency is not an individual at all
but the BBC . Your BBC. Yes, Ibrox
has come down with a bad case of
Acquired Ferguson Sulk Syndrome
and drummed the Corporation out of
Govan.
The irony gets more delicious, as I
understand that the man at the centre
of implementing this fit of corporate
childishness is none other than
James Traynor, not so long ago a
Glasgow journalist himself. You
couldn’t make this stuff up.
Channel 4 News has approached
Rangers and Mr Traynor for a
comment but none has been
forthcoming so far.
I await news of the mass boycott of
Ibrox from journalists over this. As I
await it from Celtic Park, where
another reporter is banned. As I await
it at my own beloved St James’s
Park, where the Telegraph’s Luke
Edwards has been banned.
I will have a long wait. I also await
the FA or SFA attempting some kind
of action on this of any meaningful
kind.
Freedom of speech is the freedom to
hear things you do not like or agree
with. If they are lies and malicious we
have the most stringent defamation
laws in the free(ish) world to deal
with all of that.
In that light, a BBC Spokesperson
said: “As a result of a story we ran
yesterday (Friday), which we stand by
and has subsequently been widely
covered, we were told by Rangers we
could not broadcast from Ibrox
Stadium today and were asked to
leave.”
‘Asked’ as in told.
The BBC puts serious amounts of
money into football north and south
of the border. Your money. Our
money. Taxpayers’ money. This
money is paid by dint of contract and
it will be interesting to hear how this
latest attack upon free speech and
journalism by Rangers sits with the
contractual obligations it has entered
with our BBC.
BBC Scotland say: “Our contract is
with the Scottish governing bodies
and not directly with a club, so we
don’t know how much money is
allocated to the club.”
But our money clearly is allocated to
Rangers FC via the BBC central
contract. And equally clearly nobody
thinks the Beeb just roll up of an
afternoon and start plugging up for
transmission without someone
somewhere having a piece of paper
setting out what rights are owed in
this situation.
Tearing up those rights in a fit of
pique by the oh-so-thin-skinned-of-
Govan does not look like a sound
legal strategy.
My guess is a newly invigorated BBC
under a new director-general might
just be interested in actually standing
up for its rights on this one
Told you he was rubbish Lewandowski!!
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/rangers-ban-bbc/4822
Another legal bill Sevco will be unable to pay…
I think the following will happen:
RIFC board will announce that Whyte does indeed own Ibrox and Murray Park.
RIFC will liquidate this close season. King will offer Whyte £30million for the assets and will also pay off Greens gang to prevent them tying the assets up in a long running court case.
The SFA will accept that it was the company, not the club, that liquidated, therefore the club can continue in SFL2, “history” intact.
If Whyte does indeed have a case this is the only way out for them I can see. Problems?
Does King have the cash? Possibly McCall could act as an angel here, offering a generous loan…
Thousands of RIFC shareholders will be shafted, making another share offer unlikely. Shame.
Is King fit and proper? Almost certainly not, but there is no chance if the SFA blocking him if he is the only hope of football being played at Ibrox.
I think someone should tell Tommo that the pundits on MOTD get more money from the BBC than the whole of scottish football
Palacio67, just wanted to say thanks for your help in getting tickets for the Final, yer a Ghent.
Had a look at the bbc scotland website, not a mention of the ibrokes ban
Bada
Not yet some of the cqn guys on my fb were trying to help out, no joy yet.
Shower of eejits that they are :-)
Can someone give me Paul’s CQN email please.
Doc great news bout the tickets, hope the ghirls see a fantastic victory,
Once again the bloggers here come good to help out.
Great stuff.
if newco have banned the beeb
shouldn’t the beeb in turn ban reporting and televising newco
or is that what newco want?
ItaliaBhoy
Why would King foot Murray’s bill, just because he’s a hun, can’t see it..
Traynor has some cheek banning the BBC anyway after all the money he took off them.
I hope Dortmund play better than this in the final.
Che, yes indeedy.
Just back from the pub, thank god I missed the extra time on the Irish Final!!
Miss Prestonpans floored me with the question “what’s the difference between Glentoran and Linfield” well not a lot….
No probs Doc.
HH
Che
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Every week I watch the entire Harry Hill you’ve been duped show on ITV
Not cos its funny, I live in hope that one week they will pan the camera round to show the Copland road stand.
Cheers Auldheid
HH
Who is it that Holding Club Rangers have got as new shirt sponsors? Cant remember, any way i bet they’re pleased their name wont be seen on the biggest broadcaster in the UK. Oh yes, I can imagine there might be wee phone call made about that.
prestonpans bhoys, 19:20
The Glens, despite their location beside the shipyards, never had the same non-employment policy of their Windsor Park brethren and always had a small following of RCs
1-1 BM BD
OG
Few of the boys from Glasgows East End went over for the game today,
I’d imagine they are now planted at the Bar in The Rock or The Felons.
Starry plough,
I think king is their only hope. It’s either him or padlock the gates for good… In that context I imagine he would pay if he could
O.G.Rafferty
19:24 on
4 May, 2013
Thanks for that, never knew of any RC following and would certainly be uncomfortable being one in their end listening to their songs today.
Che, yes, a bit of a let down after the fantastic season the Wee Reds have had.
I’m sure they’ll be drowning their sorrows in those very hostelries
Its been a great season for the Reds,
Played some great stuff over the piece, heads held high.
my uncles were from short strand and were glen’s supporter’s in the sixties, before the troubles broke out.
SSN reporting a world record crowd of 50,000 at Ipox for a fourth tier club.
So many empty seats.
Farcical.