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Records published by the Intellectual Property Office yesterday show Sports Direct own quite a lot of trademarks, including:

Rangers
Scope of trademark: organisation of sporting activities.
This property has not been licenced to the football club, or joint ventures like Rangers Retail Ltd.  Sports Direct own the rights to call a football team Rangers.

Rangers (again)
Scope: from clothing to trinkets and everything in between.
Owned by Sports Direct, licenced to Rangers Retail Ltd

Glasgow Rangers Football Club
Scope: clothes trinkets, etc.
Owned by Sports Direct, licenced to Rangers Retail Ltd

RFC, Broxi Bear, The Gers, Follow Follow, Ibrox, Rangers News, Rangers Travel and all the crests, badges and logos are all owned by Sports Direct and licenced to Rangers Retail Ltd, which is 76% owned by the Sports Direct group.

So if the club want to call themselves Rangers, or Glasgow Rangers, they need to cut a deal with Mike Ashley.  The most humiliating aspect of the whole thing is that the new board appeared to know nothing about this until the Intellectual Property Office published the details yesterday.  The lack of due diligence is breathtaking.

The only things Ashley seems to have ignored is that pejorative nickname they complain about so much, and the phrase Murray Park, although he has security over the training ground of that name.

We warned them repeatedly.  Ashley was in control and had the opportunity to ensure he got what he wanted before the EGM.  One of the richest men in Europe, he is a formidable opponent and known to be utterly ruthless.

You can’t bully him.  Better to recognise this reality and accept your subservient future than create a scenario where even another liquidation event would not free the ‘Rangers’ football brand from the ironclad yolk of a man you’ve made your enemy.

What have the lemmings done to themselves?  We were told Mike Ashley was a business man and he would acquiesce as this was just business.  In the history of business miscalculations this is up there with the guy at Pye who rejected The Beatles.

It’s all their own work, they can’t blame the SFA, SPL, SFL, Celtic, Her Majesty’s Revenue’, the BBC or Craig Whyte.  A recovery which would have been difficult enough is now completely and predictably wrecked.

Fancy a trip to Dublin for the Ireland-Scotland game in June?  There’s a bus leaving Glasgow with Ireland and Scotland (but all Celtic) fans.  Two nights in a Dublin hotel, travel and match ticket among the Ireland fans for £200.  Let me know if you’re interested, celticquicknews@gmail.com

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  7. Cowiebhoy on

    Just an educated guess

     

     

    £50 on season tickets, I would guess may bring in £1.5m (30k tickets) ?

     

     

    Now who thinks we need to replace

     

    Boerrigter, Tonev, Wakaso, Zaluska and McGregor ? Reckon we could easily have saved over £2m by just removing them, and then left ticket price as is with no issue

     

     

    Yes we will likely have find replacements for

     

    Guidetti, Stokes ? Forrest ? VVD ? And Denayer ?

     

     

    Now just a personal view. Not happy to be paying an extra £50 for potential games against a current SPFL 2 team, which if I had an option on price of ticket I would not take

     

     

    Hail Hail

  10. 67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar...... Ipox belongs to the creditors on

    green man

     

     

    12:04 on 10 April, 2015

     

     

    I see your at your usual shoite again today ….. Our Club is very well run, and that’s all we can ask….that’s a Board’s remit …… And don’t bother replying to me, if it’s going to be your usual shoite again tonight…..

  11. theglasgowcelticway on

    Although I love the modern Celtic park my heart still goes back to the old ground.One reason is you didn’t need to be stuck beside someone who just derided the team, you could move.

  12. fieldofdrams on

    It’s magic when you get on the blog and Roy Croppie is already on, posting these pictures that bring out yesteryears to life as though they were only yesterday.

     

     

    Hail Hail and more power to you, Roy C.

  22. Cowiebhoy on

    JFH

     

     

    Yes I do know, have been to few services with Fr Joe, and in Raploch

     

    You do know our PP is Fr Mike, ex St Margaret’s ?

     

     

    Alarming statistics in the letter from Bishop Cushley, currently 112 priests covering St Andrews diocese, which will drop to 30 odd by 2020, sowie Sacred Heart and St Margaret’s both under threat ?

     

     

    Hail Hail

  25. Cowiebhoy on

    BT

     

     

    Did you really type that yourself ? Or mini BT type it, no spelling mistakes :-)

     

     

    Hail Hail Bhud, you back on full hours yet ?

  29. sipsini on

    I keep reading of a clique on here…whom are this clique…they should be named.

     

     

    I just thought the blog was for Celtic men and the odd hun interloper.

     

     

    Oh and Jamesgang…;))

  30. Tom McLaughlin on

    Clogher Celt –

     

     

    Thanks for your kind words.

     

     

    My mother is still in hospital after breaking her hip. A week ago she underwent surgery on the hip. She is 87 this month. I am going to visit her tomorrow. I visited on Monday and Tuesday and she didn’t know who I was.

     

     

    My father’s mind is deteriorating rapidly too although he is still mobile. So it’s not a good situation for the family. When mother leaves hospital it will be to a nursing home and we are having a job getting my father to accept that, but there really is no alternative because nobody knows how or when she broke the hip and she can’t communicate, so being at home is too dangerous for her and she needs 24-hour nursing care.

     

     

    Tough times ahead but we are a close-knit family so we will be strong for each other.

     

     

    Thanks again mate and also to everyone on CQN for your thoughts and prayers.

  32. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Cowiebhoy

     

    Never be defeated whilst BT has his daughter

  33. Cowiebhoy on

    Roy C @ 19.37

     

     

    No mistaking the PMS in that photo, but who is the Celtic player in front of Zoff, can’t make him out ?

     

     

    Hail Hail

  35. F.A.B. Virgil (WATRC) on

    Robert Tressell

     

     

    RFC DIY

     

     

    Apparently they were all ready to go but then realised that they couldn’t get to the stadium (sic) without passing through an area housing people of Asian extraction, so they have downed tools.

     

     

    B+Q they’re called

     

     

    Bigoted and Quintessential…

     

     

    HH

  36. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Tom

     

    Re your condescending post earlier

     

    Whilst in Oz did you contribute to the Celtic ST?

     

    Did you go to the opera or theatre every second week and go for a lovely meal

     

    Did you take your kids who wanted a pie or pizza or did you just decide to do it when you came back to Scotland and did your bhoys pay for their tickets

  37. mike in toronto on

    sipsini … across the pond there are legends of the one called Jamesgang … it is said that he is so tall that he is a clique all by himself

     

     

    in fairness, it may have been weefra that told me that …

  38. Dan on

    Roy Croppie,

     

     

    Great pics as usual, think I was at that game when Danny scored one of his rare goals. Against Killie?

     

     

    HH Dan

  40. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Mike in Toronto

     

    Get yourself over to Bermuda where you will see Jamesgang and Ard macha put to shame by the giant who is mactall

     

    Honestly this Bhoy is a fecking giant

  41. Gerryfaethebrig on

    hola CQN this is emilyfaethebrig

     

     

    thanks for the mentions last night

     

    BT marineland was amazing and the dolphins were super

     

    looking forward to going home tomorrow have been asking dad if i can post all night

     

    Geraoid no way is my mum supporting the hoops, dad said she is a Sevconian

     

     

    adios CQN as i have used up all my dads minutes and mum isnt giving him any more euros

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