You want to know the real social cost of Scottish football’s exclusion from the league structure England and Wales share? It’s the lack of pitches, nets, strips, balls and coaching certifications that the £1bn bounty, promised by the Barclay’s Premier League last night to the grassroots game.
£1bn to the grassroots is a huge sum. It dwarfs what taxpayers can afford and will provide a series of benefits our kids and amateur players are denied.
If we’re part of the UK, we should be part of the UK’s commercial opportunities. Every youth team in the land are excluded because of the actions of a cartel.
What are the SFA doing about it? Nothing. Their plans don’t seem to require world-class youth facilities.
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Paul Murray should be up for the ‘business man of the year’ award. He has such a great record after all.
Anyone who says he’s just a coat tail hanging wannabe is wrong.
By the way, how many shares does he have and how much money has he put into Sevco?
gary67 @ 16:43 on 27 March, 2015
It’s reported that Scottish side Celtic are on the verge of completing a deal for Brescia’s Ahmad Benali.
Career
Benali started his career in the youth team of Manchester City, and signed his first professional contract on his 17th birthday.[1]
In 2015 Benali signed for Scottish club Celtic FC and went on to be pure amazing.
Somebody been at his wiki page??
Joe Fillipi,
Best wishes to you.
I see a horse thats running in the 8.05 at Dundalk called Twists and Turns, I had to have a bet on that one.
Wonder if it’s owned by T&T.
Let me know if you own a leg, I may put another bet on it.
turkeybhoy,
On the hun media (boardroom) thread, some really feel they have to get more rangers men on the sfa committee…hunbelievable…they really think they have been hard done too.
Good laugh today in work this morning, tipped my wee mate of about the Dingwall v sports direct mismatch…supposedly all we do is talk about the rangers, don’t you mean mock the rangers?…all good fun… For us anyway :))))
what use nets and balls if your youth don’t stand a hope in hell of getting into Sheffield Wednesday or middlesborough reserve team
Dia dhaoibh, a. Chairde,
If the current version of the Huns are liquidated and…..ahem relegated to the bottom tier, would opposing fans taunt them with ‘ you’re not sevco anymore’.
Coinnígí an creideamh
https://twitter.com/CelticGossip/status/581510511084351489
Nae offence tae the boy fae Italy but do we need another midfielder at the club? Centre halves and strikers I would have thought at the top of JP’s shopping list before he heads to Sevco:)))
bournesouprecipe
Did the ole Wartburg not have a motorbike engine under the battered bonnet?
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A fly-Mo!
Paul67 et al
My understanding of yesterday’s EPL announcement is that each of the 20 clubs present at yesterday’s meeting, agree en masse to contribute, or give up if you like, £50 million over the 2016-2019. Twenty times fifty of course gives you the mythical £1 billion. But wait a minute that is going to cover parachute payments to relegated clubs, and solidarity payments to both the Football League and the Conference. In other words a lot of said money will be going to some of the very clubs who voted to give it up. It will include additional money for grassroots football, new pitches etc and will also include a contribution to the away fans fund to the tune of £1 million per club per season. The last of these was the subject of the protest outside the meeting in London yesterday. The demand however is was for £5 million a season. Now you would have thought that the easiest way to reduce the costs of the tickets themselves, but that would deny the clubs themselves of a nice little earner!
One thing is for sure though, they’re all gonna be there for that £billion dollar bash.
Just warming the popcorn for Paul Murray’s ‘Jackanory’ segment coming up on the STV news…
Can’t wait to hear what they think the demented will swallow this spring…
Evening all.
I see myself as a Glaswegian Scottish Catholic Republican Socialist. I voted No. I wonder what that says about the YouGov Poll.
Better together. Aye Right. Bend over Scotland.
Sandman
Will it be The Cardigan to rally the troops?
The promise of an Orange strip to celebrate their pwoud pwod traditishuns??
Will it be the promise of B.Laudrup to over see their return to Euro Millions??
The mind boggles.
Pass the popcorn..
sandman,
I know some won’t go on hunmedia, but the interview is on there, a lot of huns nooo to happy jabba was the interviewer, suggesting he walked with a £200,000 pay off!
Burgas Hoops
13:38 on
27 March, 2015
A host of International games tonight to enthrall us all -))
West Bulgaria V Belarus seems the obvious choice.
macedonia v belarus
i am curious why u describe macedonia as west bulgaria???????????
Benali’s not that good.
Aged 23 and playing in Italy’s Serie B.
We can do better than that.
Although Ronny may have spotted something I missed.
HH!!
Re signings maybe the Hearts captain and the Aberdeen hat trick hero against our Development Squad?
PAUL MURRAY has revealed that he is studying the internal structures of clubs all over Europe in an attempt to draw up a blueprint for the future operation of the football department at Rangers.
Murray, the interim chairman, feels there is a need to show that the Ibrox club can become a modern, progressive organisation following a spell in which much of the focus has been on his credentials along with those of Dave King and John Gilligan as supporters and the return of ‘Rangers men’ to the boardroom.
King did speak at length about restoring the traditions of the club in the wake of the extraordinary general meeting that saw him and his group sweep to power, but he also detailed the club’s need to have a coach with a wide-ranging remit that would involve developing young players rather than an old-school manager.
“We really value Rangers’ traditions, the standards of behaviour and the values that we have had over 143 years, but what we have got to do is maintain those traditions and values and build a modern football club on top of those foundations,” said Murray.
“People have talked about going back to Rangers men on the board and back to the Rangers way of doing things.
“I think we have got to be a bit more forward-thinking. I am looking a lot at the structure of various clubs and trying to get a sense of what would work at Rangers.
“There are different structures in Europe and even in Britain. The structure at Barcelona might not be appropriate for Rangers. We have to look at all that.
“There is a rebuilding job here and it is going to take time to make us competitive and I think it will be a three-to-five-year project to get Rangers back competing in Europe.”
Stuart McCall has been given the manager’s job until the end of the season and Murray has stated that he will be a contender for the role on a permanent basis.
“We are not out looking for candidates at the moment,” he said. “Stuart McCall is in the position and we are 110 per cent supportive of him. He would obviously be a candidate going forward.”
King has not yet taken up a seat on the board with the club talking to the Scottish Football Association about his position as a ‘fit and proper person’ under their rules.
“We want to rebuild the relationship with all the football governing bodies and we have to respect their processes and procedures,” said Murray. “These things have to be looked at properly and carefully.”
Murray has confirmed that Mike Ashley, the Newcastle United owner, has the right to place two of his men on the plc board at Rangers, but he stated that the club’s former chief executive, Charles Green, would not be making a return following comments made in a bizarre newspaper interview last weekend.
However, Murray has made it clear that Rangers do not need any more money from Ashley or the leisurewear company he founded, Sports Direct, after agreeing a £1.5m loan from the Three Bears consortium of George Letham, Douglas Park and George Taylor.
“The view of the board is that we can pursue our own funding solution without the need to go back to Sports Direct,” said Murray. “We have had no discussions with Sports Direct or Mike Ashley so far, but, as we have said before, we are happy to engage with Sports Direct and I think we should.
“We need to have that conversation at some point very soon.”
Murray admits there also has to be a conversation with the former manager, Ally McCoist, who remains on gardening leave on his estimated £825,000-a-year salary.
“We haven’t really addressed it so far as there have too many other priorities, but we need to sit down with Ally and his representatives and try to deal with that,” he said.
So according to Paul Murray, sevco could be potential Scottish champions ONE year from now?!
???????!!!!!!!!!!
HH!!
Damn, no ‘Paul Murray Promises…’ on either Scottish News channel.
Surely his latest pronouncements aren’t too facepalm for even the simpering Huns in the Sports departments?
Why do I keep getting adverts for a betting site or Sky when I first log on to CQN or the CQN magazine?
parkheadcumsalford
18:09 on 27 March, 2015
Evening all.
I see myself as a Glaswegian Scottish Catholic Republican Socialist. I voted No. I wonder what that says about the YouGov Poll.
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oh i dont know
you sound more lk
weet weet weet(GBWO)
18:39 on 27 March, 2015
PAUL MURRAY has revealed that he is studying the internal structures of clubs all over Europe in an attempt to draw up a blueprint for the future operation of the football department at Rangers.
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No he’s not – he’s just studying Celtic.
But don’t tell the Huns that – they’ll be at his door with pitchforks and torches.
winning captains
leftclicktic
16:58 on 27 March, 2015
Celtic TV@CelticTV
FREEVIEW:On the anniversary of his debut, we pay tribute to Jinky, the greatest ever Celt http://www.celticfc.tv/freeview?video=1900 …
Ps
Winning Captains
I see the young boy from Aberdeen scored a double for scotland last night
Oglach
18:54 on 27 March, 2015
Why do I keep getting adverts for a betting site or Sky when I first log on to CQN or the CQN magazine?
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Lucky you. When clicking onto it to vote for my POTY, I got a full-page Star Wars cartoon.
Ended up voting for han Solo.
parkheadcumsalford
18:09 on 27 March, 2015
Evening all.
I see myself as a Glaswegian Scottish Catholic Republican Socialist. I voted No. I wonder what that says about the YouGov Poll.
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oh i dont know
you sound more like a Glaswegian Scottish Catholic Republican Socialist Unionist to me
Sort that out YouGov!
who started the politics shoite anyway
Ringo Starr now on the banned FF list.
His new LP/CD or whatever it’s called nowadays is entitled
“Postcards from Paradise”
Starkey CSC
Not getting this article. We live in the common European market, the argument might have to extend across that area too. I don’t agree that it would.
You have to laugh at the HUNS, when they talk about big Mick, “NAW we don’t need his money” and when they normaly finish talking about him they end up more or less saying” hey big man gonny be our pals and talk to us” they just don’t get it, we all know that there fans are do laly but not the rest of Scotland, the PR guy they have with the Ned in a tracksuit story about the Newcastle boy getting £1,000 a month, bearing in mind that the bigot bus driver is getting more than him (allegedly) and the gardeners are on a fortune, still a train wreck and going nowhere .
Murray admits there also has to be a conversation with the former manager, Ally McCoist, who remains on gardening leave on his estimated £825,000-a-year salary.
“We haven’t really addressed it so far as there have too many other priorities, but we need to sit down with Ally and his representatives and try to deal with that,” he said
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Potential loss of 825k a year for ?? years (how long did who ate all the pies left on his contract?) isn’t deemed a priority to a penniless entity. Sevco the gift that just keeps on giving.
tallybhoy,
We’re shaking in our boots, although, the cabal is worth the watching.
Catch a beer when you’re back over to our damp ridden country. HH
Sandman
18:57 on
27 March, 2015
Oglach
18:54 on 27 March, 2015
Why do I keep getting adverts for a betting site or Sky when I first log on to CQN or the CQN magazine?
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Lucky you. When clicking onto it to vote for my POTY, I got a full-page Star Wars cartoon.
Ended up voting for han Solo.
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Got that also but as I am part of the Rebel alliance I thought it was ok.
The amazing, magical mystery that is Merlin Murray will be delivering the SPL title next year or the year after even if the huns are not in the SPL or are indeed DEID (again).
Truly a magnificent, magical, miracle worker.
Maybe if we had him we could win the CL, cure all disease and bring about world peace.
Heck! We might even find a way to make huns good looking!
glendalystonsils
You were doing so well until that last line:))
Till later all
Be good.
Starry Plough HH :))))))
Murray admits no Nomad as he pleads with the SFA
Date: 27th March 2015 at 6:15 pm
Written by: Joe McHugh | Comments (0)
Dave King Paul Murray has admitted that Sevco aren’t likely to find a NOMAD and has pleaded with the SFA to ignore their rules to allow Dave King to join him on a new look board of directors.
The evening before the EGM Mr King promised a NOMAD within days after WH Ireland had walked out on Sevco but the company that runs the club has only got four more working days to find a NOMAD or be de-listed from the Alternative Investment Market.
Mr Murray was a director of Rangers until May 2011 with Mr King remaining on the board until liquidation in June 2016. According to SFA regulations anyone on the board of a club in the two years prior to liquidation is barred from holding office in another club for five years.
Speaking to the club’s TV station today Mr Murray admitted: “The decision taken by WH Ireland, the previous NOMAD, to resign on March 4 triggered a suspension of the club’s shares on the AIM market on that day and you then, under that regulation, have 30 days to lift that suspension.
“There are two separate issues here, firstly the nomad replacing the previous nomad, which we are in discussions to try and do but there is also the AIM regulator as well and they have to be satisfied with the company and the procedures around the company.
“We have until April 4 to do that but that timescale wasn’t to our choosing, it was actually forced upon us by the resignation of WH Ireland and we’re working very hard to comply with that timescale.
“We have said all along that Rangers International Football Club is a public company and that decision was taken some time ago, whether it should be a listed company is another question.
“We have said that we will endeavour to have the listing restarted and have the suspension lifted so that is what we will do and that is the plan we have.”
With it highly unlikely than any Nominated Adviser will deal with the toxic combination of Mr King, who was described as a glib and shameless liar by a South African judge in a case in which he was handed 41 two year prison terms, and Sevco attention will turn to the SFA to see if they overturn their own rules on liquidation.
In any discussions one of the first questions that should be put to Mr Murray and Mr King would be why they didn’t object to the £5m spending spree in 2010 to bring in NiKICA Jelavic and James Beattie when the club owed HMRC £6m for the wee tax case going back a decade to the payments made to Tore Andre Flo, Craig Moore and Ronald de Boer.
Looking to that issue Mr Murray said: “The processes regarding both mine and Dave’s fit and proper persons test are pretty advanced.
“We have said, and we will honour the fact that, we want to rebuild the relationship with all the governing bodies and we have to respect their processes and procedures and we will do that.
“One of them is fit and proper test for all the directors, not just Dave and I but also the two Johns and James Blair.
“That process is ongoing, there is a lot of due diligence that the SFA have to do and we respect that these things have to be done properly and gone through carefully.
“We expect to get an answer at some point in the near future. One of the reasons Dave chose not to go on the board was because we wanted to respect those processes.”
Should Mr King and Mr Murray both become directors it leaves the door open for HMRC to go after a phoenix company for the £20m unpaid at the time of liquidation as well as the ongoing appeal over the Big Tax Case.