It appears that the so-called spivs are once again the only people likely to put their hands in their pockets to fund the coming season’s shortfall at Newco Rangers. There has been a campaign for much of this year to drive the club into the gutter, although on this occasion no one has accused Celtic fans, the SFA, HMRC or various imaginary enemies of acting in an underhand manner. These moves were all the work of formerly loyal Rangers men, who wanted ownership of Newco on the cheap, or some kind of influence thereafter.
The ‘spivs’ have not been intimidated or been blackmailed into handing over the club to hostile forces. Instead they are prepared to invest again, stay the course and see a return on their money.
‘Spivs’ is an unnecessarily pejorative term but if money comes in from the variety of hedge funds and offshore entities it will not be a gift. Neither was the initial investment of £5.5m, or the subsequent monies raised at the IPO.
It’s too late to complain about who owns the club, or that a collection on wealthy fans could have bought the assets of Rangers on the cheap when Charles Green stepped in. Campaigns to undermine the club will not bring about a dramatic change, they will only weaken an already painfully weak entity.
Two years ago someone inside the game told me ‘the Rangers you know are dead, whether they phoenix or not.’ The outfit which exists now will forever be a bit-part player, which even Dave King recognises is an untenable commercial proposition.
Remember, Tommy Gemmell, Bertie Auld and John Hughes will be signing copies of their books at the Celtic Store in Argyle St from 1pm until 4pm on Saturday. Take a camera.
And before that, Bertie Auld will be live on CQN from 1pm this Friday. Expect anecdote overload.
Visit the CQN Bookstore to get Tommy Gemmell to sign your personal copy of his tome, All the Best.
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up over goal
I will stick to my view that the 70 squad were better than the 82 lot, who were pretty good. Incidentally, I think England’s 1970 squad was also their strongest ever, better than their 66 squad.
I also think you are hard in describing the winning Italian squad as cynical- they had some great players too. Biased as I enjoyed that WC in Italy on honeymoon. A great atmosphere and time
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Does anyone know if the objections made will kill this off or is it just a bit of gamesmanship?
Did they say what part of the ground was going to be standing?
MWD
Only a balloon would think he was influencing anything on here and not being in more serious danger of pissing bloggers off.
Read the signs!
MWD
No need to watch the world cup. Despite the hundreds of websites, apps, live tv, radio and internet dedicated to it, you can scroll past 20 ‘1-0’ posts on CQN every time a goal goes in as everyone tries to get a ‘first’ with the updates.
Cannae wait!
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MWD says AYE and giving a wee shout out to Independence on behalf of the Moonbeams Celtic Quick Indpendence Brigaide
twists n turns:
Sorted mate, thanks.
Balloons wi too much time on their hands,is it?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/watch-pranksters-fill-housemates-room-3678735
Wait till Tony DONNELLY gets his hands on them!
Kingoh
Bugs my heid when people do that on Facebook and Twitter as well. That should be reserved for games like the under 21’s. Bad enough when the match is on Sky TV but when it is on BBC and STV it smacks of idiocy!
LB
beatbhoy
Brito is correct
MWD
Independence was cut from the squad before the start of the 70 campaign- shame! he was a smashing wee winger
Tarcisio Burgnich,Giacinto Facchetti,Sandro Mazzola were 3 players of the Italian side who played played against Brazil in the World Cup final of 1970 & who also played against Celtic in the European cup final of 1967
Another connection between both Cup finals was Italy was managed by Helenio Herrera
STTING FREE THE BEARS
Ah,but was he a right or left winger?
Makes all the difference….
Cadizzy
I just checked my emails. Are you kidding? Haven’t you heard the expression “Once bitten, twice shy” (babe). Great song, will YouTube it before heading out for pre-match ‘copas’.
What happened to Sri Lanka? Has he made the right decision? Tamil tell, I suppose.
Id rather talk about football….you can keep the son of the manse and wha,s like us salmond….Unionists or Nationalists….it all amounts to the same thing….rule by a political elite.
So…come on Lionel Messi, Naymar, Iniesta,Ronaldo…..Lets see who is the best.
I vote Messi…not Huns
Sack the Board:)
HH
SFTB
Everaldo. . Getting a stair heid, aw this thinking!
Stair? Painful.
MA & H
There were 4 Inter players who played in both matches:-
Burgnich, Fachetti, Mazzola and Domenghini.
In addition, Inter supplied Mario Bertini and roberto Boninsegna to that 70 match but they were not with Inter in 67
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
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I’m a bit confused but I think the idea is to be lucky/good in guessing who reaches Quarters, Semis, Final then the Winner.
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While I’m on, does anyone know if the blog has lost the Celt who posted regularly about football below the Equator during the season?
I enjoyed the ‘Our Man in Rio’ updates.
Grown men regurgitating the political ideology of career politicians….how sophisticated eh.
Give me a break from the pontificating nonsense please.
The World Cup is on:)
HH
beatbhoy
Everaldo is correct.
I will post the full squad in 5 minutes.
Meanwhile if your memory for players is fading:-
Can you name which 1970 Brazilian, apart from goalie felix, was the oldest (clue: it’s not Pele) and which team or teams provided most of their squad players?
BMCUWP:
Good man, maybe bump into you soon.
Good morning all.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Only a fool would try to predict the winner of a World Cup ……. Belgium will win it !
Right….here is the question.
Can Croatia beat Brazil tonight?
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Gerson (well, he looked it).
Kingoh
Those are the good days on CQN now-a-days
Goooaaaaaaallllllll!!!
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Whatttt a strikee.
Ya beauty….
C’mon the Western Eastern Country fae the flat planet of North Southerland!
89″ Sack the manager. Goaaalllllllll!!! I love this team. manager is the best ever.
MWD says AYE
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Agghhhh imagine missing out one of the Worlds best forwards
Italy had a great side in 1970 just shows how good brazil and celtic were :)
GK 1 Italy Giuliano Sarti
SW 6 Italy Armando Picchi (c)
RB 2 Italy Tarcisio Burgnich
CB 5 Italy Aristide Guarneri
LB 3 Italy Giacinto Facchetti
CM 4 Italy Gianfranco Bedin
CM 10 Italy Mauro Bicicli
CM 11 Italy Mario Corso
RF 7 Italy Angelo Domenghini
CF 8 Italy Sandro Mazzola
LF 9 Italy Renato Cappellin
The green man
No host country has ever lost their opening game in the WC, so stats,as well as talent, against the Croats.
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan.
10:23 on 12 June, 2014
Your mental Moonbeam….but in a nice way!
The Green Man
Croatia – An Independent Country
Brazil – An independent Country
They don’t care. They just want to be part of UK and ran by Westminster.
MWD says AYE
Gordon 22.52
That is a great wee snippet.
I’m going to buy that book.
Such a pity Winning Captains can’t arrange for it to be signed by Willie Maley.(:-)
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beatbhoy
Ah…good stat bud….but
It be an interesting start to the WC, if the Croats sneaked a win.
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Germany pushed Italy all the way in the semi-final, and came from 2 down against probably the best England side to ever play in the WC to win 3-2 in the Quarter final.
It was a quality World Cup to win in 1970.
In fact scrap my last post ,this was the Italian side of 1970
Italy
ITALY:
GK 1 Enrico Albertosi
DF 2 Tarcisio Burgnich Booked
DF 3 Giacinto Facchetti (c)
DF 5 Pierluigi Cera
DF 8 Roberto Rosato
MF 10 Mario Bertini Substituted off 75′
MF 13 Angelo Domenghini
MF 15 Sandro Mazzola
MF 16 Giancarlo De Sisti
FW 11 Luigi Riva
FW 20 Roberto Boninsegna
WEEFRATHETIM
Morning,buddy. Up wi the lark?
Did it sleep in?
Brazil’s World Cup squad 1970
The 1970 Brazil squad was:-
D.O.B. CLUB WC
1 GK FELIX Mieli Venerando 24 Dec 1937 Fluminense
2 DF Hercules BRITO Ruas 09 Aug 1939 Flamengo 1966
3 DF Wilson da Silva PIAZZA 25 Feb 1943 Cruzeiro
4 DF CARLOS ALBERTO Torres 17 Jun 1945 Santos
5 MD CLODOALDO Tavares Santana 26 Sep 1949 Santos
6 DF MARCO ANTONIO Feliciano 06 Feb 1951 Fluminense
7 FW JAIRZINHO Ventura Filho 25 Dec 1944 Botafogo 1966
8 MD GERSON de Oliveira Nunes 11 Jan 1941 Sao Paulo 1966
9 FW TOSTAO Goncalves de Andrade 25 Jan 1947 Cruzeiro 1966
10 FW Edson do Nascimento PELÉ 23 Oct 1940 Santos 1958,62,66
11 FW Roberto RIVELINO 01 Jan 1946 Corinthians
12 GK ADO Roberto Stinghen 04 Jul 1944 Corinthians
13 MD ROBERTO Lopes Miranda 31 Jul 1944 Botafogo
14 DF Jose Guilherme BALDOCCHI 14 Mar 1946 Palmeiras
15 DF Jose de Anchieta FONTANA 31 Dec 1940 Cruzeiro
16 DF EVERALDO Marques da Silva 11 Sep 1944 Gremio
17 DF JOEL Camargo 18 Sep 1946 Santos
18 MD PAULO CESAR Lima 16 Jun 1949 Botafogo
19 FW Jonas EDUardo Americo 06 Aug 1949 Santos 1966
20 FW DARIO Jose dos Santos 04 Mar 1946 Atletico Mineiro
21 DF Jose ZE MARIA Rodrigues 18 May 1949 Portuguesa
22 GK Emerson LEAO 11 Jul 1949 Palmeiras
Coach: Mario Zagallo 09 Aug 1931
Oldest outfield player was Brito.
All their players played for Brazilian clubs- 11 different clubs.
Santos supplied 5 and Cruzeiro & Botafogo- 3 each
I’m aff oot to the bank
Brazil 1970, with the forward line of Jairzinho, Gerson, Tostao, Pele & Rivellino are the best international team ever.
Brazil 1982, along with Holland 1974, are the best teams not to win the World Cup (I suppose some may argue Hungary in 1954 but never saw them so can’t comment).
The green man
For the sake of the tournament, it is better for the host country to be playing till the later stages.
That’s undoubtedly the case in this one, so, despite the tension a Croatian win would build around Brazil’s next fixture, I hope Brazil get off to a good start.