In October last year, with Rangers riding high in the league and with Craig Whyte enjoying messianic worship at Ibrox, Celtic Quick News published an article with a few predictions:
“In the event of Rangers facing financial Armageddon…. a prepack offer from a new company, for example, Rangers Newco FC Ltd, would offer an administrator a deal for all assets of the club, including stadium and offer to meet outstanding player wages. Deals like this seldom offer unsecured creditors much but even a small percentage might realise more cash than the administrator would gamble on raising in an unstructured sale.
“In such circumstances, the administrator could accept as little as £4m for the unsecured creditors.
“In normal business Rangers Newco FC Ltd would begin trading and this would be the end of the story but football is not normal business. Rangers Newco FC would own a stadium and would employ some footballers but they would not be part of any league structure. They would need to apply for membership to the Scottish Football League or Scottish Premier League.
“In this scenario, the death of Rangers Football Club would leave a vacancy in the SPL, presenting several financial, logistical and sporting challenges…. current TV contracts and sponsorship deals could be jeopardised, while future contracts would be worth a fraction of their current values.
“There is, of course, a resolution to this problem.
“Rangers Newco FC Ltd could present an offer to the SPL. The new company, with its stadium and thousands of potential supporters, could. … adopt the place of Rangers FC, complete their fixtures and allow every other team in the league to fulfil commercial obligations.
“ If [enough]clubs stand against them, they would have to apply for membership of the Scottish Football League, but, having researched this story for several days, I expect Rangers Newco FC Ltd would get enough support to pick-up the place of the defunct Rangers FC.
“Celtic fans, as well as those from Aberdeen, Hibernian, Dundee United and St Johnstone, together with fans from Motherwell, who could become genuine championship contenders [they were pushing us hard at the time], and from those clubs who would avoid relegation if Rangers failed, must insist their club votes against any prepack company parachuting into the league.
“Watch the media coverage of these events carefully. If and when the decision time comes, the case to acquiesce to Rangers Newco’s demands will be overwhelming. Sincere ‘impartial’ observers will do their upmost to convince us all we must do whatever necessary to save Rangers for the good of the Scottish game. Some voices will even tell you Celtic need Rangers Newco. Whatever part of my club is dependent on Rangers I am willing to lose.”
Pretty much all of the above came to pass but the position of the SPL clubs is noteworthy. As recently as last month Celtic were the only club prepared to vote No to Newco. In the months since Rangers went into administration in February the crescendo of fans voices slowly became impossible to ignore. Clubs which were set to vote yes, were left with no choice but to observe their ultimate paymasters.
It was a phenomenal grassroots campaign.
Kelvinbhoy asked me to pass on his thanks for the fantastic response to his appeal for kids bikes for underprivileged children. Well done to all who helped!
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Lithybhoy on 26 June, 2012 at 18:51:
I will certainly miss the feeling. However, I will certainly not miss them. They have got what they deserve for their years of sectarianism, demonising of those who did (past tense deliberately used) not atone to their ideology. Every time I heard since the 14th February that they were a Scottish institution, the fabric of Scottish society, I felt embarrassed.
When you think of Paris, you associate the Eiffel Tower. Pisa, the leaning tower of Pisa, San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and so on. Do you really want people to think of Glasgow to think of a dead football club as an example of everything that is good about Scottish Football, not for me!
They were prejudiced and would not sign Catholics until le petite merde signed for them. They were a bigoted cheating football club that existed between 1872-2012, that is what I and the rest of the world should remember. And that is what will get me through the days we would have played them. That and the fact that it will be a fairer competition.
Fans and players may indeed leave but I will tell you what though we have been going for 125 years, we will go on longer that 140 years. No man, whether player, manager, coach or fan is bigger than the club.
Celtic Football Club 1888 and the other clubs will survive and will enjoy their football with 1872-2012.
Third Lanark will be joined by them.
Be gone with them be gone.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
See this SebCoe mob,that is their name,right? Anyway,whatever,let’s bury them face down along with rfc(zombied),stake through their vitals (no heart,so the rest will have to do),cover the grave with garlic and holy water,keep an exorcist close at hand with a gun loaded with silver bullets for a few decades.
Well,you gotta let yer imagination run riot at times like these. It’s been a grim,but occasionally hilarious time,waiting for the walls to fall in on that lot.
Thank whatever anyone believes in that there were the likes of Paul67,RTC,Phil Mac,Kerrydale St.,CelticUnderground and many more,along with the thousands of us internet bampots keeping the spotlight of truth firmly on the corrupt and/or criminal cabals attempting to keep it all under the mat.
(Oh aye,and Billy No’Well and his musical genius. Blows wee wullie right out the door!)
HH!
:-)
•-:¦:-•** -:¦:- sparkleghirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-•
Canoeing
mic1888
Cheers. Certainly picked the wrong time to try and stop for a while. Every time a news bulletin came on the radio or telly I was itching to get back on CQN for proper news.
MWD
Rioskorrie on 26 June, 2012 at 19:14 said:
>>>
Glad to hear you’ve had a successful outcome!
HH!
Rioskorrie –
Fantastic news!
“they think that the votes went against because of bigotry and sectarianism”
>>>>
Exactly….that’d be them,then!
:-))
Back home from hols.
Big Lafferty on my return flight,bit of a dilemma,
plane running out of seats and the lanky streak
heading my way……being an ambassador for
Celtic I’m thinking ‘ if this big a-hole sits next to
me ,what do I say’?
Panic over he found a seat a few rows forward.
Lithybhoy on 26 June, 2012 at 18:51 said:
Who is this WE you’re talking about??
You speak for the whole Celtic support noo??
And for our best players, how did CQN survive before you came on the scene..
Your poor wife..
Off topic, but a reminder of life outside Celtic and Deadco.
I just read this and it made me feel physically ill:
The war on history
Monday 25 June 2012
by John Pilger
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Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar.
All along the Mekong River, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could.
Today, at the Tu Du paediatric hospital in Saigon, a former operating theatre is known as the “collection room” and, unofficially, as the “room of horrors.”
It has shelves of large bottles containing grotesque foetuses. During its invasion of Vietnam, the United States sprayed a defoliant herbicide on vegetation and villages to deny “cover to the enemy.”
This was Agent Orange, which contained dioxins, poisons of such power that they cause foetal death, miscarriage, chromosomal damage and cancer.
In 1970 a US Senate report stated that “the US has dumped [on South Vietnam] a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including women and children.”
The code name for this weapon of mass destruction, Operation Hades, was changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand. An estimated 4.8 million of the victims of Agent Orange today are children.
Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society secretary Len Aldis recently returned from Vietnam with a letter for the International Olympic Committee from the Vietnam Women’s Union.
The president of the union, Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, described “the severe congenital deformities [caused by Agent Orange] from generation to generation.”
She asked the IOC to reconsider its decision to accept sponsorship of the London Olympics from the Dow Chemical Corporation, which was one of the companies that manufactured the poison and has refused to compensate its victims.
Aldis hand-delivered the letter to the office of Lord Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee. He has had no reply.
When Amnesty International pointed out that in 2001 Dow Chemical acquired Union Carbide, “the company responsible for the Bhopal gas leak [in India in 1984] which killed 7,000 to 10,000 people immediately and a further 15,000 in the following 20 years,” David Cameron described Dow as a “reputable company.”
Cheers, then, as the television cameras pan across the £7m decorative wrap that sheathes the Olympic Stadium – the product of a 10-year “deal” between the IOC and such a reputable destroyer.
History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. History is the new enemy.
On May 28, President Barack Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam.
To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free-fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides – as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war – no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society.
It was, said Mr Hopey Changey, “one of the most extraordinary stories of bravery and integrity in the annals of [US] military history.”
The following day, the New York Times published a long article documenting how Obama personally selects the victims of his drone attacks across the world.
He does this on “terror Tuesdays” as he browses through mugshots on a “kill list,” some of them of teenagers, including “a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.” Many are unknown or simply of military age.
Guided by “pilots” sitting in front of computer screens in Las Vegas, the drones fire Hellfire missiles that suck the air out of lungs and blow people to bits.
Last September Obama killed a US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, purely on the basis of hearsay that he was inciting terrorism.
“This one is easy,” aides quoted him as saying as he signed the man’s death warrant.
On June 6, a drone killed 18 civilians in a village in Afghanistan, including women, children and elderly people who were celebrating a wedding.
The New York Times article was not a leak or an exposé. It was a piece of PR, designed by the Obama administration to show what a tough guy the “commander-in-chief” can be in an election year.
If re-elected, Brand Obama will continue serving the wealthy, pursuing truth-tellers, threatening other countries, spreading computer viruses and murdering people every Tuesday.
The threats against Syria, co-ordinated in Washington and London, scale new peaks of hypocrisy.
Contrary to the raw propaganda presented as news, the investigative journalism of the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung identifies those responsible for the massacre in Houla as the “rebels” backed by Obama and Cameron. The paper’s sources include the rebels themselves.
This has not been completely ignored in Britain. Writing in his personal blog, ever so quietly, BBC World News editor Jon Williams in effect dishes his own “coverage,” citing a Western official who described the “psy-ops” operation against Syria as “brilliant.” As brilliant as the destruction of Libya, and Iraq, and Afghanistan.
And as brilliant as the psy-ops of the Guardian’s latest promotion of Alastair Campbell, the chief collaborator of Tony Blair in the criminal invasion of Iraq.
In his “diaries,” Campbell tries to splash Iraqi blood on the demon Murdoch. There is plenty to drench them all.
But recognition that the respectable, liberal, Blair-fawning media were a vital accessory to such an epic crime is omitted and remains a singular test of intellectual and moral honesty in Britain.
How much longer must we subject ourselves to such an “invisible government”? This term for insidious propaganda, first used by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and inventor of modern public relations, has never been more apt.
“False reality” requires historical amnesia, lying by omission and the transfer of significance to the insignificant.
In this way, political systems promising security and social justice have been replaced by piracy, “austerity” and “perpetual war” – an extremism dedicated to the overthrow of democracy. Applied to an individual, this would identify a psychopath. Why do we accept it?
Lithybhoy on 26 June, 2012 at 18:51:
I enjoyed beating them but hated playing them and listening to the filth being spouted with impunity. I actually hated what I became on ‘Old Firm’ day.
I am old enough to remember the eighties when they were a laughing stock and we were up against great Aberdeen and Dundee Utd teams who actually had a better European record than ourselves at the time. If the beatings for these teams are reduced to half who knows we might get a better challenge than we did last season in the end.
I will certainly be attending to find out.
HH
That Chris Graham is a total clown, still thinks the huns history is alive and well lol, no wonder the huns are in the state they’re in with morons like this fighting their corner.
sparkleghirl
I had a look at Google maps and there’s nothing happening around Ibrox. For the record, nothing has changed since I looked a few days ago and I shall check every Saturday and Sunday for the next ten months. It’ll be the same.
Hope that helps.
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar. on 26 June, 2012 at 18:49:
Okay I’m in…
LET’S ALL KICK SEVCO
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Sparkles
I had a wee joke with you about a min ago re. this
http://p.twimg.com/AwVdyBXCQAIIlNu.jpg:large
Got to be a Timfiltrator.
MWD
hamiltontim on 26 June, 2012 at 19:00:
Elegant but understated…no such thing, a frock is a frock for all that…hope you have your visa…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Just checking, for their SFL application, the Shame must have a SFA license and this is the paperwork Green needs to submit by Friday this week?
Assuming that Green can prove he owns the ground, and that Duff £ Phelps self certify Green’s crew as Fit & Proper, then given the 3 years account stuff is swept under the carpet then there are only the following hurdles:
– business plan which provides sufficient clarity / proof on future funding
– banking facility
– player registration
Seems to me that with players leaving and the transfer embargo ‘potentially’ sticking to Sevco, as a consequence of ‘joining the SFL’ , it looks to me as though any sensible person looking at this will conclude that if they have a team it will be under-18.
With Livi ready to sue the SFA if Sevco are launched into SFL1 then my money is on Green being refused a license due to :
– incomplete documentation from Duff £ Phelps on fit & proper test
– no banking facility
– lack of clarity on funding
– lack of certainty on playing squad
– and finally, significant football debts not cleared
Thanks for the application, same time next year.
Andy Murray thrashes Davidenko.
3 sets to love.
MWD
voguepunter on 26 June, 2012 at 19:27 said:
Back home from hols.
Big Lafferty on my return flight,bit of a dilemma,
plane running out of seats and the lanky streak
heading my way……being an ambassador for
Celtic I’m thinking ‘ if this big a-hole sits next to
me ,what do I say’?
Panic over he found a seat a few rows forward.
—————————————————————–
Go and ask for his autograph. When he hands it back, look at it with confusion, rip it up and say ‘sorry, I thought you were a professional footballer. My mistake.’
MWD
Teehee. The thread seems to have gone. There were several posts on it relating to other threads which had also been deleted.
From FF
“Even kids are leaving, it isn’t for bumper deals down south – what else is going on?”
Seriously, where would you start?
Great article Paul and acknowledgement where its due; a fans revolution.
Your October article has proved prophetic but it had a sense of hope rather than certainty.
SPL Football fans have not let us down.
Each and every one deserves huge credit.
SFL fans will not let us down either.
They will be assisted by the threat that any NewCo Div 1 entry will pose to peer clubs’ ambitions for promotion.
The end game is being played out….
Den del av min klubb som är beroende av rangers är jag beredd att offra!
Fritz A. Grandold @fritzagrandold
It would be sad if the SPL are simply passing the hard decisions to the SFL but still calling the shots. Very sad.
ystatim
easy for you to say
From FF:
Positives we can take from this situation:
There are many. This is our chance to start afresh in Div3 and give more deserving clubs a much needed pay day and the privilege to play against the mighty Rangers. It will be something they can tell their grandchildren: they can say they seen their wee team play the most successful team in the world. It will also give us a chance to do what timmy will never do: we will play at every ground in the country and be the first to win all the other leagues. It only adds to our glorious history. Its brilliant. As we skush the lower divisions we can watch with glee and our true British equanimity and patience all the other clubs in the SPL go bust without us, watching them killed off one by one, without us, The People. The other SPL clubs should be begging us back and kissing our feet. I cannot believe the how ungrateful they are being and how they have forgotten that we bankrolled Scottish football for years. But its just all bigotry from the other clubs who hate us because we are the people. They hate us because they have been in our triumphant shadow forever. The bloodletting must stop! We have done nothing wrong, it was all Craig Whytes fault. We are the victims. It won’t matter anyway because McColl and Sir Walter will come in and save us and we will return to the top where we truly belong. Down with everything and everybody! Sporting integrity! Morality! What does that even mean?
We won’t miss those traitors such as Naismith, Ness, McCabe, Whittaker etc because they have proved they are not true blues, they do not have the no surrender spirit…not like Super Ally who won’t walk away and will be our manager until he dies. This is now our chance to play eleven true no surrender Presbyterians, dyed in the wool Calvinists who will sweat blood for the jersey, and with us, The People, as the no.12. We have to remember that We Are The People. Never let them take that away from you. Now we know who our enemy is, they are all out to get us. Now we know what we have always known: everyone hates us. They hate us because we are the Rangers, we are the people. The traitors are everywhere. Amongst even, all around us, everywhere you go there they are: the Tartan Tranny’s, the Republicans, all the other teams, HMRC, CQN, BBC, Alex Thomson, SPL, SFA, SFL, IRA, CIA, The Daily Rhebel, The Catholic Church, Britney, Hugh Keevins, The Dalai Lama, the guy outside the window in the white van…the next door neighbours German Shepherd telling me that Peter Lawwell has been possessed by Bobby Sands…let them come after us for we will prevail…we are the number 12…We are the People…no surrender…we don’t do walking away…as they kick us when we are down like a dying bloody animal in the trenches…we will not forget like a cornered insane elephant we will dust down our brogues we will come fighting back as we march somewhere…anywhere…anytime…
Lithybhoy
Take it from an old codger that can’t remember sex the games against them are no different – soon forgotten. If they mean that much to you then a bit of old codger advice……………………….get a f***in life son! Deep breathing helps!
H H
Any suggestions for the future of Succulent Lamb for the journos’ in the years to come- pizza supper, rank kebab, curry chips ?
ystarim
Well said.
Better in English though.
The part of my club who are dependent on rangers, I am willing to sacrifice!
MWD
Cricket Quick News
T20 – middlesex 84 for 0 after 7 overs – incredible hitting but poor bowling by Kent
Updated Celtic Songs
The Celtic Song (2012 remix)
Hail Hail, The Celts are here,
What the hell do we care,
What the hell do we care,
Hail Hail, The Celts are here,
What the hell do we care now …
For its a Grand Old Team to play for,
For its a Grand Old team to see,
And if you know the history,
Its enough to make your heart go,
(Twelve) Nine-in-a-row.
We don’t care what the DEAD animals say,
What the hell do we care,
For its all we know,
Is that there going to be a show,
And the Glasgow Celtic will be there.
The Coronation Cup (2012 remix)
Said Lizzie to Phillip as they sat down to dine,
I’ve just had a note from an old friend of mine,
His name is ‘Big Geordie’ he’s (Stupid) loyal and true,
And his dirty big nose is a light shade of blue.
He says that the (Deceased)Rangers are (Extint, and have no games) right on their game,
And (Cheat) ask for a trophy to add to their fame,
I’ll send up a cup that the Rangers can win (by Cheating),
Said Phillip to Liz watch the Celts don’t step in.
Said Lizzie to Phillip they don’t stand a chance,
I’ll send up my Gunners to lead them a dance,
With Celtic defeated the way will be clear,
A cup for the (Extinct) Rangers in my crowning year.
But alas for their hopes for the (Suicidal) loyal true blues,
The Celts beat the Gunners and Manchester too,
Beat Hibs in the final and oh what a scene,
Sure Hampden was covered in banners of green.
Said Lizzie to Phillip when she heard the grim news,
A (Fatal) blow has been struck at our (Stupid, Ignorant) loyal true blues,
Oh tell me dear Phillip and you ought to know,
How to keep Glasgow Celtic defeated below.
Said Phillip to Lizzie there’s only one way,
I’ve known of their secret for many a day,
To keep the Celts down you will have to deport,
The whole Fenian army that gives them support.
Coronation Cup Song
Bye Bye (Forever) Rangers
Yo ho ho, off we go
What do you know, it’s (twelve) nine in a row
Bye bye (Forever) Rangers
Celtic’s on the ball again, on the way to make it (Thirteen) ten
Bye bye (Forever) Rangers
You can talk about your great defenders
Sing and shout about your Surrender
But let us give you this wee tip
We’ll be there for the league and the cup
Rangers bye bye (Forever)
Yo ho ho, off we go
What do you know, it’s (tweleve) nine in a row
Bye bye (Forever)Rangers
Celtic’s on the ball again, on the way to make it (Thirteen) ten
Bye bye (Forever)Rangers
You can talk about your great defenders
Sing and shout about your Surrender
But let us give you this wee tip
We’ll be there for the league and the cup
Rangers bye bye (Forever)
But let us give you this wee tip
We’ll be there for the league and the cup
Rangers bye bye (Forever)
Bye Bye (Forever) Rangers
wonkyradar on 26 June, 2012 at 19:39 said:
From FF:
thats got to be a tim :-)
Gene’s a Bhoys name on 26 June, 2012 at 19:40 said:
Are you ‘batty’?
H H
One hun went to mow…went to mow a meadow.
I think they were pinning their hopes on ‘the kids’ to see them through some kind of short detention period but with McCabe and Ness walking away, maybe some are starting to ‘get it’. Probably not.
Wonky
I get the feeling that behind that post from FF stands a tall handsome smiling CQN’er.
:-)))
MWD
wonky – holey moley ?
No fooling you lads eh??