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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Saint Stivs
Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour.
Smith is a mason.
Soal
http://youtu.be/BvojUWIJ4pU
A terrorist attack that will never get the sympathy or acknowledgement of many others.
God Bless you Doco.
67HEAVEN .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I AM WEE OSCAR…… IPOX BELONGS TO THE CREDITORS on 15TH NOVEMBER 2015 11:10 PM
Hamiltonian
I gave up on politics long ago ……… but, there is no justification for slaughtering innocents ….. Those barstewards are just pure evil, and need to be destroyed
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The governments or those responsible for the attacks in Paris?
HT
Naughty bhoy :-)
HH
Sleep well Timland.
HH
KTF
TeT
The genie is oot the bottle. These murderous suicide bastards will strike regularly in future. Impossible to stop them.
Tet
Not at all mate just expressing a genuine opinion
We have some absolute rockets who blame a rufugees welcome policy as the cause of this.
Incredible nativity and stupidity.
Been struck down with boy cold last few days. Like manflu but worse.
So straight back ‘aff oot’ but had to say a wee mention and a wee prayer for you and yours rwe.
No One Walks Alone xxx
HH jamesgang
ht
It must be wonderful to be as knowledgeable as you
The fact is, ordinary, hardworking, genteel people are angry. They’re not blaming the refugees, they’re blaming the “rockets” as ht so eloquently puts it, that are slipping in to the country along with the refugees. I am angry. I know many others who are. If I was asked, are you willing to let in 10,000 refugees, but, also let in 100 fanatics who will kill 1000 innocent people, with the chance 1 of those innocents might be you or a member of your kin, I know what my answer will be. Probably the two safest countries in the world at this moment in time is Australia and the USA, simply because they have literally closed their borders to any potential threat. If that means we have to do the same then so be it. I scoffed at the notion of the government policing our internet surfing, but now I’m kind of welcoming it. If it means a safer environment I’m all for it. No one is blaming the refugees…..no one…..so don’t say it
THE EXILED TIM on 15th November 2015 10:47 pm
Good stuff.
And the winner is……………..
Putin.
Two warm water ports.
Lambert waxes lyrical on his new Blackburn job……”sawright huv hud worse!”
When there are no more western/American tax funds that corporations can plunder then we can move into the age of those that have only ever read one book. No more education health or pensions just a return to the dark ages with decaying nuclear weapons.
31003…. “I scoffed at the notion of the government policing our internet surfing” …what do you think the Scottish govt would like to do to CQN?…moron!
31003 on 16th November 2015 12:34 am
Re. Oz.
Thanks to Tony Abbott.
The much maligned.
However ,prior to that ,six years of “undocumented “arrivals.
50,000 from memory.
We wait, hope and pray.
Ms McGill
Moron?
Care to expand?
Probably the two safest
countries in the world at this moment in
time is Australia and the USA, simply
because they have literally closed their
borders to any potential threat.
…
Number of Americans killed by
terrorism in the last decade: 24.
Number of Americans killed by guns
in the last decade: 280,024.
Safe?
Macjay dismay
Is this the same Tony Abbot the global warming denier based on his assertion that carbon dioxide is weightless? And other such gems?
Mags McGill…….another eloquent poster
Careful……I’m not wanting to get into a debate about gun law……..
Moonbeams..American safety from guns is second to none…..
So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. According to research by Politifact, there were about 1.4 million firearm deaths in that period, compared with 1.2 million US deaths in every conflict from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.
31003
I dont think its necessary
Mags McGill…….another doyen of cqn…..
Not since kojo has morondom coalesced so vividly on CQN
Mags McGill…..is that because you open your mouth before engaging your brain?
MARGARET MCGILL on 16TH NOVEMBER 2015 1:04 AM
Not since kojo has morondom coalesced so vividly on CQN
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/spending-like-the-borgias-time-to-move-on-conspiracy-to-subvert-the-rules-we-have-a-problem/comment-page-39/#comment-2719515
Yup….you would know…
31003
Try and remove the link url on your copy paste. It would make a better impact.
Mags
Oh dear…..is that the best You’ve got?
Here comes the ocean
MARGARET MCGILL on 16TH NOVEMBER 2015 12:58 AM
Macjay dismay
Is this the same Tony Abbot the global warming denier based on his assertion that carbon dioxide is weightless? And other such gems?
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Tell that to the slaughtered innocents and the drowned boat people and their loved ones.
Macjay Dismay
Its a bit late for that is it not?
Margaret McGill on 16th November 2015 1:01 am
Quick change of subject.
Understandable.
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Refugees or “refugees” ?
70% young males.
Angela Merkel probably put the lid on the coffin of the E.C.
Wunderbar.
Deary deary me……..its name calling now……..grow up ya dafty
31003- I’d go further.
Video cameras in every house and car.
Microchips inserted up waur arses (_but you can have yours in yir elbow)
And a wee App on yir daftphone that tells ye when you’re allowed to have a pish.
Hope T May isnae lookin in!!
MARGARET MCGILL on 16TH NOVEMBER 2015 1:27 AM
Macjay Dismay
Its a bit late for that is it not?
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Not for their loved ones and those who recognise that uncontrolled migration of people is a recipe for the disaster we saw in Paris.
And perhaps for yourself,if you are able to learn the lessons of history and the consequences of creating what turn out to be religious ghettos.
Norn Irn.,and Israel for starters.
Russia, America and the west, the UN, Turkey, the PKK, Syria, Assad, Syrian rebel factions, ISIL, Al Qaeda, Kurds, Peshmerga, Shiah militia, Sunis, Arab league and everybody else. There isn’t one of us on here that can truly explain or even fully understand what is going on with all of that in my opinion, and I’ve only really touched on some of the players involved in one current conflict off the top of my head.
Day to day these parties, factions and bodies don’t even know whose side they’re on. I have never tried to get involved in political discourse on CQN and I don’t intend to start now, but I’m honestly surprised, Even saddened, by a lot of the ill informed opinion I’ve read on here recently.
I love CQN even tho I lurk a lot more than I post obviously, and I am frequently impressed by ongoing threads and discussions, but I fear that the Syrian conflict and the associated refugee and terrorism crises are matters that could be better and more thoughtfully discussed elsewhere.
This post is not intended to be critical of any individual input on the blog and I apologise in advance should anyone find offense in my comments.
KevinBhoy
Art of War on 16th November 2015 1:33 am
D.N.A. profiling.
Coming to a maternity unit near you.
MACJAY
How many people emigrated from Ireland to Australia during “The Troubles”?