So much happened yesterday, I’ll be as brief as possible:
Newco Rangers sent their counsel to the Court of Session to protest Charles Green’s contract with the club, stating it should pay legal expenses, now crystallising ahead of his forthcoming criminal trial.
In opposing Green, James Wolffe QC raised various objections, but as is often the case when people speak on behalf of Newco, included an arbitrary insistence that Newco operated the same club as the now liquidated Rangers.
Green’s QC, Jonathan Brown, put his pit boots on before stating his client’s case, but tantalisingly, before lunch informed the court that he would return to the same club/new club debate later. And didn’t he. Brown explained that Sevco Scotland purchased the assets of Rangers, not the club itself, with poetic prose adding:
“The team are paid by Sevco, plat at a ground owned by Secvo, are trained by a manager who is employed by Sevco and fans buy tickets from Sevco. That is the business that is being carried on.”
Adding that Rangers were “a collection of assets”, “What if the players were sold to one person and Ibrox to antoher, where is the ‘club’ then?”
I had to look away from court reporter, James Dolman’s Twitter feed at this point. It was like watching an acquaintance being humiliated. Not something you want to see.
Lord Doherty will determine if Newco should pay Green’s costs in due course, but this will be soon, as Jonathan Brown noted, “the rainy day has arrived”.
This next bit is really important:
Soon after court ended, Dave King was out with a rambling statement on the Newco website. If it was designed to play to the galleries, it hit the spot. If it was designed to influence what happens to his club, or how others will regard his input, it was surely an horrendous mistake.
It was a hard day to be chairman of Rangers International FC PLC. The court hearing only happened because the club objected to its contract with Green, so the unedifying episode could easily have been avoided. Despite this, sometimes you have to shut your mouth.
Sure, some Newco fans love a bit of grandstanding, but you know what yesterday’s statement will achieve. If the objective of the statement was to convince other Scottish clubs not to consider disciplinary action against Sir David Murray, or oldco Rangers, for their actions, it was an almighty miscalculation.
Threats seldom work. This one is unlikely to curry favour: “If the history of our Club comes under attack we will deal with it in the strongest manner possible and will hold to account those persons who have acted against their fiduciary responsibilities to their own clubs and to Scottish football.”
In short:
Don’t threaten clubs you are trying to influence.
Don’t grandstand to your own fans if you are trying to influence other clubs.
Keep a poker face. Keep your mouth shut, even if it means taking grief from your fans for the lack of public reaction.
King’s statement also addressed the sporting advantage issue from what we now know was an unlawfully operated tax scheme. While the EBT scheme saved tens of millions of pounds, and King earlier intimated this did provide a sporting advantage, yesterday he insisted the advantage was financial, that the shareholders were “committed to providing funding to the club” and would have done so, if required.
Here’s the thing, in 2012 another King statement revealed, “I have made a claim of £20m on the basis of non-disclosure by the then chairman, David Murray, of Rangers true financial position as far back as 2000.”
That commitment to further shareholder funding seems predicated on some controversial information. According to King, of course. Controversial enough to launch a £20m claim, but not to inhibit investment.
For the war-chest hunters among you, if you read this article covering King’s 2012 statement, you’ll find a strong clue.
One other quick but important point:
Some media are attempting to portray questions of sporting advantage as Rangers being punished for spending money they could afford, a travesty, as so many other clubs have done likewise.
This must surely be a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the issue and manipulate the debate.
No one suggests Rangers should be punished for spending money they could not afford. The questions are straightforward:
Did Rangers break tax law, break SFA rules and break SPL rules, when contracting football players?
Did they disclose matters openly with authorities (in other words, inadvertently make mistakes), or did they conspire to subvert the rules by hiding incriminating information?
Spending like the Borgias? Time to move on. Conspiracy to subvert the rules? We have a problem.
Don’t be distracted by potential ramifications to these questions, they are irrelevant for now. We should consider no more than did they break all of the above rules, should any the rule breaking be interpreted as an oversight, or does evidence of conspiracy to subvert the rules exist?
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Petec – really?
Disappointed.
Margaret McGill on 14th November 2015 12:58 am
petec on 14th November 2015 12:53 am
That would imply that the Americans staged it
However, i am convinced there are too many Jihad johns out there who have only ever read one book
Are they being manipulated?
yes of course
so put your gun away and study literature or physics or math or journalism ..whatever..
dont plan to die in a cinema and murder innocents!
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Mags, my First comment tonight is what I want Everyone to take from the Blog.
The intelligence agencies, LOL, sick of the lies, like yerself.
Putin is trying to position himself as something he isn’t, IMO.
SUPPORT the 11 players that take to that field for Glasgow Celtic FC.
Art of War on 14th November 2015 1:08 am
Petec – really?
Disappointed.
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Ok, you are just unwilling to listen, when I was trying to let you know how DECEPTIVE David Icke is.
Take yer Time.
Later dude.
RWE
Great insight of Tony’s football abilities, I had chucked the blog till tomorrow but the good lady awakened and even poured me a drink, she asked about Tony’s Huddle and I explained what it was about, great stuff and tell your good wife if any of you can get a bit of comfort keep telling Tony’s story……
As for Mr Pastry v BT
Mr Pastry use the X on the way out
Hail Hail fellow Celtic fans
Petec- so you’re implying I’m thick now?
Sorry buddy but if you are so clued up why haven’t you been taken out by the lizards as you are an obvious threat to their world domination.
You go on about god and compassion but ignore what is going on around you.
I asked you to consider those killed tonight.. …you wanted to know who to bet on tomorrow.
Enuff said.
Art of War
You have a great holiday
Hail Hail
I was knackered
On the verge o boaking
Needed tae stop
Needed tae keep going
Roon again
Aw naw!!!!
On the bastard road
Roon the law
The Law hill
1.1 mile round the road at the bottom
I ‘d measured it with my bike
Bought a milometer from Halfords
And now I was running it
Courtesy of a guy that had run 20 odd marathons across the world
Minter
So the task was set
Run around the law hill until you stopped
At your own speed
Him and Dave(Hun golden child)
Set the pace
I kept up
And then flagged
Already behind on lap two
Not fast but steady
Nobody in sight
Everybody spaced out
On lap four I died
But kept going
Wanted to quit
And into 5
So needing to puke
I saw Dave the non smoking Hun
Walking round a bend
Head bowed
Amazing surge
I would not be beaten now
I ran and ran and ran and ran
And came second
Behind marathon man
I know for a fact he did not have an EBT
And he wasn’t Russian
An inspiration to me
Keep going never give up
The chance will come
And then you win
Over to you Celtic
Hail Hail
Geery- thanks bud. Got a DIY list longer than the huns charge sheet!
Art of War on 14th November 2015 1:22 am
Petec- so you’re implying I’m thick now?
Sorry buddy but if you are so clued up why haven’t you been taken out by the lizards as you are an obvious threat to their world domination.
You go on about god and compassion but ignore what is going on around you.
I asked you to consider those killed tonight.. …you wanted to know who to bet on tomorrow.
Enuff said.
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The Youtube Time is 2:27:13.
I suggest you appreciate My first post on this thread.
Do you hate me? lol
Petec- hate is reserved for those who carry out out despicable acts.
Not those who believe in questionable facts.
Peace out.
Just read back and found out about the outrage in Paris
To the innocents
Rip
Travellerbhoy- powerful stuff. Never be silenced and always be true to yourself.
You have my respect and best wishes.
Art of War,
If you are going to continuously mock me, like you did, then I have the right to embarrass you with Information, that will hopefully make you REALLY think.
Listen to it when you are totally Bored.
Petec…..
Fellow Celtic fan, trust me AoW is one of the good guys
Difference of opinions is a must ….
Petec, mock you? Read back. You’re right though, embarrassed I engaged.
Nite nite sweetheart!
Worstevernightshiftcsc
Gerryfaethebrig,
ok, cheers for that input.
Milton Keynes and the Junglism Massive.
Tarantula
Yeshua.CSC
My sincere condolences to the unfortunate families in the tragedy tonight in Paris>
I offer what is, in my opinion, the best national anthem:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8dafLxLcI&list=RDw_8dafLxLcI#t=31
CapeCodCSC
Petec
Input ? That’s not like me
AoW is one of the good guys, am afraid that is the case
Petec
Can you clarify my input
David Icke knows exactly what he’s talking about. The singular festering malevolence at the core of the world’s problems is religion and the religious fruitcakes that obsess over fairytales written a mere couple of millenia ago.
Talking monkeys with guns and overactive imaginations; that’s all the human race is.
Such a beautiful city ruined, possibly forever, by religious hate.
Gerryfaethebrig,
Njoi my link from 01:05.
Patience is a virtue.
Am I ghost to you?
One wee problem.
The enemy is within the stockade.
Our stockade.
Art of war
Thanks bhuddy
Traveller-settled community- army-traveller
I’ve seen a few things
Good and bad
In each community
I see racism everyday
Cos of who I am
But I am constantly surprised
Some travellers I know
Are talking about the Syrian immigrants in derogatory terms
Kid you not
Worked for the Masonic lodge in Livingston not that long ago.
The treasurer(I know) who arranged it all was a lovely fellow
He asked me to do some work at his house
When I arrived I rang the bell.
No answer
So I looked in the front window
And there he is watching an old firm game
Out he comes
And does a double take
Cos I’m in an old Celtic top
Deliberate
But
Good as gold
Gave me the job
And done the job for the lodge the following year
Really nice old guy
Good and bad everywhere
Hail Hail
The New Agers are alive with the sound of reverberating Frequencies.
Himmler is rocking in his Grave.
Crowley is being lauded, whilst he is utterly depraved.
Externalising Occult stuff was the Alice Bailey Jibber Jabber…. the UN Charter.
LMFAO.
If you are in Trouble, Call on Jesus Christ, he will help you. It won’t be instantaneous, but if you are really Genuinely calling Jesus Christ, he will Shelter you and help you to Realise that Noone can hurt you.
Love is Central to the philosophy, Believing he died to take away the Sins of the World is hard to Grasp in a World where the THEORY of Evolution is presented as fact.
“Reiterated.”
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34811072
Petec
Ghost ?
Never
Back to 1.05am…. I look to the future, that way I might regret the past (but it’s not my style, play the cards you are dealt) by the way we can only influence the future, the past is already in the past…..
Sorry, meant to send this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA
macjay1,
Things are just going to escalate.
The Grand Mason General Albert Pike commented about the Nihilists destroying………
I hope people start to realise that they are being played, like a Violin,
I hope so many Return to thinking about Jesus and God a lot more often.
The Masons, and ALL secretive Orders have one enemy, Jesus Christ.
The New Age attack is very deep and very convoluted.
The Cosmopolitan dream of Bliar was just bullsh1t because he is a high ranked scumbag. The Mid East Peace Envoy.
God always gets peoples attentions.
gerryfaethebrig
Being the kind of night it is …and the stuff that’s happened..we hadn’t retired for the night.
I came on here and we both saw your really thoughtful comments.
Thanks. Mrs RWE is nodding too.
Terrible night for a lot of folk.
NOWA
Tragic…
But tell you what…
The Media?
https://youtu.be/7-0lV5qs1Qw
Watch what happens and what is said…
With the same attentiveness as you do with the SPL
And if you do…
You will be similarly outraged.
Roll On The Players….
Tragic.
These Paris events appear to be the work of a death cult. They’re useless at healing the sick or helping the poor but they’re very good at massacring the innocent.. They are also very successful in persuading young men that their deaths will be a lot more significant than their lives ever could be.
Meanwhile France and the UK are falling over themselve to arm the Saudi’s, the biggest sponsors if Islamic Sunni/wahbi jihadists.
Thoughts and prayer with the families and loved one of thse massacred in Paris and all the victims of the British and French arms dealers.
Massacre of the innocents.
It`s all “our” fault.
God.
We shelter some nutters on here.
No Macjay,
We shelter denialists and idiot squirrel chasers like yourself, Britain are arming the Saudi’s to the tune of £1.5B who are in turn arming the jihadis, this is all verifiable fact.
The French are arming the Qatari’s who are also arming Jihadis, these deals cannot be taken in isolation except by warmongers like yourself.
Macjay..,
How many jihadi attacks took place on Europe prior to Palistine being partitioned by Britain in support of Zionist occupation ?
Come on a simple question
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 14th November 2015 5:34 am
Couldn’t agree more. The sissie West. Wet rag liberal progressives. Homosexual harpies.
Islam is evil. It is the heresy of heresies.
Only one way to deal with that kind of evil: fight it with good. Good does not mean hugs in this case, it is recognising a clear and present danger, which should be exterminated.
RWE 5.35
In Coatbridge on a Saturday at the age of 45+, I still think am off school so always up early, I was attracted to Cqn through wee Oscar, now CRC has kept things going with LMS for wee Shay after reading Tony’s Huddle my good lady is definitely seeing the light and realising all the good this blog does, take away any petty squabbling about Peter Lawell or even Ronny Delia (I actually like both of them) by the way I totally appreciate your reply about Tony and left winger or goalie your pride comes was in the words you type, you & Mrs RWE should smile at every post or click on Tony’s Huddle because believe it or not you are opening strangers eyes and in a good sort of way always putting stupid football in perspective, by the way my good lady loved reading Tony’s Huddle last night………..
NOWA