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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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  3. sipsini on

    voguepunter

     

     

    23:26 on 10 April, 2015

     

    TBJ/WC

     

     

    Payment made…have used the wife’s card as I have fek all in my account (fek the taxman

     

    except oor wee Hector) I’ll pay her back in kind :O(

     

     

    ___________

     

     

    Mrs VP will appreciate you sleeping on the couch..;))

  9. Saint Stivs on

    roy croppie

     

     

    20:05 on 10 April, 2015

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB2nRT4WEAADPW9.jpg:large

     

     

    I didn’t see this live, I was pacing up and down under the North Stand…

     

     

    unbelievablefeelingCS

     

     

    ?……..

     

     

     

    We have remarcably parallel experiences, I did the same, was under the stand from my seat in 144 because I couldn’t handle it.

     

     

    I do d however run up the tunnel to be able to embrace Jackie Mac.

  11. Delaneys Dunky on

    Petec

     

     

    Ronny should be Adamant that he gets his way to run Celtic his way.

     

    Hail Hail

  12. Hrvatski Jim on

    Johnbay.

     

     

    Very beautiful. I especially liked Traurige Wege.

     

     

    I am coming to Germany near the end of the month . Will be in Munich but that seems to be a good distance away from where you are if I am judging your location by Carine’s performances. Would have been good to meet . Maybe another time.

  13. clogher celt on

    What is the stars,

     

     

    Both men,the Antartic twice.

     

     

    How did they survive?

     

     

    Amongst Ireland’s best in my opinion.

     

     

    What a story, well worth a read.

  16. gearoid1998 on

    Eddieingreenhills

     

    Paidi o Se (RIP) pub in Ceann tra (Ventry) well worth a visit for Paidis political and sporting memorabilia.

     

    HH

  19. Gordon64 on

    Expect a typical competetive game against a robust ICT tomorrow. GMS will have to be on his toes.

  23. Cowiebhoy on

    Ok for the night Bhoys :-)

     

     

    Winning 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

     

     

    All additional monies will now be donated to Mary’s Meals

     

     

    Hail Hail

  24. Houl yer wheest on

    Edengreenhillsboy

     

    You are heading to one of the fonts of traditional music and set dancing

     

    I’ll be there in two weeks time. Get some CDs of Seamus and/or Brendan Begley

     

    Brendan sings a great version of Three Miles from Abha Na Scaul

     

     

    Traditional Irish Music and Dance on the Dingle Peninsula …

     

    http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/tradmusic.html Cached

     

    Information about Traditional Irish Music and Dance on the Dingle Peninsula , County Kerry in the Southwest of Ireland

     

    Ireland: walk of the month – Telegraph – Telegraph.co.uk

     

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk › … › Destinations › Europe › Ireland

     

    Ireland: walk of the month … Brendan Begley, … John Ahern was waiting for me outside the South Pole Inn in Anascaul.

     

     

    It Could Be a Good Night Yet! Oíche go Maidean by Brendan …

     

    open.spotify.com/album/5JGoVKCPXauRfJfMEgkL4w Cached

     

    Song: Three Miles from Abha na Scail. Brendan Begley 2:45: 13: Polkas: Jack Sweeney’s/Jack Connell’s/John Clifford’s. Brendan Begley …

  25. Saint Stivs on

    I would put the billy statue at the very entrance to the Celtic way,

     

    But I would make it 30 metres tall in the style of the collosus of Rhodes,

     

     

    Or Lenin .

     

     

    Vladimir not Neil.

  27. paddybhoy1888 on

    Thank you to all who replied to my earlier post. I don’t post much but read every day.

     

    Love all the contributions and there is no such thing as a clique imho.

     

    CQN golf 5s and hootenannys God bless you all

     

    Thank you Paul67 for this great site.

     

    HH PB1888

  29. fanadpatriot on

    cathach

     

    Woods of Drumboe.Every Easter we go to the Commeration of The Drumboe Martyrs .

     

    We all go back to Fanad,where one of my sons rendition of the song,I may say,is one of the best you would hear.

  30. What is the Stars on

    Clogher celt

     

    Of course don’t forget both men were members of a foreign occupying armed force and possibly should have been executed as enemies of Ireland. In a parallel universe

  31. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    Guernica

     

     

    you mentioned it’s laminate?

     

     

    There should be a 10mm gap all the way round? Isn’t there?

     

     

    Lifting laminate is easy enough if accessible.

  33. Delaneys Dunky on

    Bravo to the Speith tipper on here. I studied his recent form and backed him.

     

    Sorry I can’t recall the CQN tipster.

  34. bournesouprecipe on

    beatbhoy

     

     

    No it’s not but because of the robert wyatt version it nearly is ;-)

  35. clogher celt on

    Gearoid, 1998,

     

     

    Thanks for reminding me of Paidi O’Se.

     

     

    Will say a few prayers for Paidi, and the family.

  37. petec on

    Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    23:40 on 10 April, 2015

     

     

    Petec

     

     

    Ronny should be Adamant that he gets his way to run Celtic his way.

     

    Hail Hail

     

    _________________________________________________________

     

     

    You have nailed it.

     

     

    I think Ronny will get everything he asks for.

     

     

    I hear everything later than a worker in the Shetlands, I like it that way, I’m sick of Rumours about job losses etc, the way work places are being panopticoned, is impressive if you were a Hitler type Dictator.

  38. eddiegreenhillsbhoy on

    Geroid1998

     

    Will check it out. (Love a pub)

     

    Houlyer wheest

     

    Thank you.going to do as much as post . Dingle here I come.Plenty time for research not going till start August, wish i was going tomorrow.

     

    My heart is in IRELAND. TAL.

  40. Gordon64 on

    DD Likewise amigo. Backed Spieth at 11s but if I can make a football comparison it’s only half time. HH

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