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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clogher celt
21:15 on 10 April, 2015
My first big game at Celtic Park was against Basle. I think it went to extra time. What a night.
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Does your parents know your still up ;))
I have came to the conclusion that this blog is a clique.
Put out question , no response of any kind.To many “tims”backslapping.love lurking but will not engage again.
God bless all and that means ALL.
Ktf.TAL.
A Hunskelping story with a difference.
In the mid-to-late 80s I worked in an office in Bothwell Street, Glasgow. Adi_Dasler knows what I am talking about. There were quite a few Tims in the office and only one Gers man named Richard.
Richard was a decent guy who was an Ibrox season ticket holder and also played cricket for Drumpellier Cricket Club out of Coatbridge. Drumpellier CC was a bastion of freemasonry and a hotbed of Rangers fans. Several carloads used to leave from there for Ibrox every home game.
One day Richard asked me to form a team amongst my colleagues to take part in a charity quiz at the club. I was happy to oblige and 5 of us, all Celtic mad, formed a team called Tam’s Tims. We were taking a chance going into such a hunnish environment with that name but Richard assured us of safe passage.
Believe it or not, we romped the quiz and were politely applauded as we stepped up on stage to collect our winnings which included an impressive trophy. We stayed around for a few celebratory beers but as the night wore on, we felt the hostility rise, so we made a hasty and quiet exit.
Several months later Richard invited us back for a second quiz. I questioned whether the patrons of Drumpellier CC would stomach another visit form Tam’s Tims but he assured me that on the contrary, they were looking forward to winning their trophy back from “the Fenian interlopers”.
We won it again and this time we did not hang around after lifting the trophy as the natives were very restless.
A few months later we were back again for the hat-trick. We duly won it again and this time there were jeers and boos as Tam’s Tims were asked to come up to collect their trophy.
The chairman actually used the words, “The winners are Tam’s Tims and I invite them to come up to receive the trophy on this, their final visit.”
That was his way of telling us not to come back. We were forced to retire undefeated and this time the bears were growling and spitting blood, even the women, as we left with the spoils.
3 victories and all in enemy territory.
Boy it felt good.
TBJ – Sorry – forgot to say that this is a wonderful thing you’ve done.
Delaney’s
Made a nice shepherd’s pie for dinner on Wednesday …. quite tasty! along with a nice potato and leek soup.
another favourite from when I was young …. mashed potatoes with tinned corned beef mixed in … even better, if there are left overs, fried up the next morning!
I’m getting hungry now!
Honestly see those lazy Roaster Bannockburn Bhoys :-)
captains
20:39 on 10 April, 2015
Have added the raffle to CQNBookstore.com
TBJ has organised a CQN Memorial stone at Celtic Park for the CQN’ers we have lost.
He has funded this himself in the meantime and tonight CQN is having a raffle to re-imburse TBJ.
Tickets are £5 each and you can buy 1, 2 or 4. There is a small handling fee from the payment company (Stripe) but apart from that ALL funds will be passed to TBJ.
When we reach surpass the total needed – around £300 – we will stop the raffle. CQN will pick 5 winners at random – from the CQN Beanie – and each winner will get any two CQN books of your choice and some whisky.
http://www.cqnbookstore.com
Doc posts on page 13, and gets his answer on 14
See Bannockburn connection there :-)
Ffs.mince now shepherd’s pie I give in.ktf.TAL.
CowieBhoy, I’m sooooooooo soooooooooooooo sooooooooooooorry.
FatherJackCSC
:-)
And thanks.
17s beat Hibs 7 nil today and remain 7 points clear of sevco. They beat Forth 7-1 last week.
Bet that went down like a lead balloon
Eddiegreenhillsbhoy
Good to see you posting again
Hope all is well
TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels
21:35 on
10 April, 2015
Pete
I would like the families of all departed cqnrs to be aware of the stone on their loved ones memory
Not sure how we communicate it .
Apparently I get a certificate sent .. They offered a replica stone at £40 each .
I thought it would be fantastic to give one of each to the family’s but not sure of the feasibility of that regards addresses
It would be good if we could get one for each family now and in the future but again not sure if they reproduce replicas after the stone is down
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evening CQN
just a suggestion to TBJ
if you were to order one replica then i’m sure it could be used to make a mould which could then be used to produce our own replicas using a resin kit if the families of our departed were to like one.?
eddiegreenhillsbhoy…
As I posted earlier…sometimes the posts come hard and fast and it’s impossible to keep up.
Don’t get disheartened mate… A lot of Bhoys have been on here for years and not only interact on here but drink socially.
Give it time, I did and by feck it was worth it, Hail Hail
Tam McLaughlin Hunskelper Extraordinaire!! Magic story. :)
Timjim
Sometimes it’s better to be ignored on Cqn because you feel as though you have made a good point and no one can come back to you with a decent response
EddieG
I like talking mince! :)
DD
Whit picture ? 8))
RC
Fab again for the picts brings back great times
now get the tunes on.
HailHail
Tickets bought.
Speysjde
Sounds like you know what your talking about there . If I can purchase one can you advise on how we get the copies made
Guys like you are indeed the resin I post here btw ;)
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People Used to Say l was a Jinx to Celtic..
l Left Glasgow in 1983 it seemed like every time l came Home for a Game Celtic Lost..although l was home and went to most of the Centenary Season games but Moved to London before the Season finished..;-)
Just read this by Bill Leckie wrote after l moved to Australia in 97′..
What is not up for argument, though, is that Celtic are in a far worse state
without him (Burns) than they were with him. Rangers are leaving them further and
further behind with every passing day and there is no white smoke from the
Parkhead chimney to signal a comeback.
The Ibrox men are, I reckon, one more signing away from finally leaving
their greatest rivals – and, therefore, the rest of us – so far behind them
they will be no more than a dancing dot on the horizon.
Who is that signing? I’d go for Batistuta – though Muz says no – but whoever
they end up with he will be big time and he will be here soon.
It’s enough to make any Celtic fan hide behind the couch. Sorry? Oh, you
already are.
Ffs
l Promise l wont come Back Ha..
001
So the £50 increase in ST prices for next season is actually a 50% reduction from 3 seasons ago. What a bargain. Good to see the board thanking us for our support.
Bt
I am well, thank you for your concern. Hope alls well with you and your family.
Sometimes this site makes me sober!!!.Ktf.
TBJ
Well done that was quick work, tickets bought.
HH
neustadt-braw
21:22 on 10 April, 2015
Oh! Yes. Thumbsupthingy.
Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away.
TBJ
The Mrs bought me a stone-slab for my 60th, we got the certificate in the week saying it had been laid, it was bought in Nov last year, she also was told that a picture would be included with the cert, it wasn’t, no a big deal as I have asked someone to take a pic ofr me, it would be good to see where it has been laid, limited letters were allowed, still, the club make a few bob.
HH
eddie
Take care my friend, we shall overcome
Eddie G.
Don’t take offense, happens to most on here on a regular basis.
Sitting in Airport ,bored oot my skull waiting on delayed flight to Dublin.
CQN keeping me sane.
RC . Your a star.
Great photos.HH
Cowiebhoy………..braw ….tickets bought….awfy braw idea from TBJ….
hail hail
braw
eddiegreenhillsbhoy
Not been on long, what was your question?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TeT
Send me an email of the details and we will have a look buddy
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If my memory serves me correctly you trumped them when you came home a couple of years ago and attended the 3-0 victory in the last ever old firm Game before rangers died
If you ever see leckie .. Sing ..
Bye bye I watched the Huns die
Without batustuta but it still made leckie cry
And good old bhoys were drinking magners and rye
In the saints and sinners in Dalry ( ok it was bellshill but that doesn’t work )
Dd
I know
Ya rebel.
BT
The Dundee player who became a Celtic player via Hearts. Partick bhoy like me. You ken his faither, and he kens yours. :))
Tet
If you let me know what it says on the stone I can take pics and send them to you
Lbhoy
Read back as I do for everyone including ed sursus and bill bear.