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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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  2. beatbhoy on

    BSR

     

     

    Ah, get you now.

     

     

    He released a version before EC included it on ‘Punch The Clock’.

     

     

    Forgot Clive Langer composed the tune to which EC added lyrics, I think.

  5. jamesgang on

    tom mclaughlin,

     

     

    Prayers for your Mum and you and the rest of your family.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  12. What is the Stars on

    Got word for The Game Changer in the 5.10 at Aintree tomorrow

     

     

    10/1

     

     

    best of luck

  13. dennytim on

    Cowiebhoy

     

    Thanks about making note about raffle been away to Dunkeld for a couple of days saved me scrolling back payment made good cause

  15. jamesgang on

    Good chat among great guys earlier about Robert Nesta Marley and the song ‘War’.

     

     

    Here are the lyrics in full. Read them and if they don’t resonate with you as a Tim then mibbees you’re a hun!!

     

     

    ——–//

     

     

    Until the philosophy which hold one race superior

     

    And another

     

    Inferior

     

    Is finally

     

    And permanently

     

    Discredited

     

    And abandoned –

     

    Everywhere is war –

     

    Me say war.

     

     

    That until there no longer

     

    First class and second class citizens of any nation

     

    Until the colour of a man’s skin

     

    Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes –

     

    Me say war.

     

     

    That until the basic human rights

     

    Are equally guaranteed to all,

     

    Without regard to race –

     

    Dis a war.

     

     

    That until that day

     

    The dream of lasting peace,

     

    World citizenship

     

    Rule of international morality

     

    Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,

     

    But never attained –

     

    Now everywhere is war – war.

     

     

    And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes

     

    that hold our brothers in Angola,

     

    In Mozambique,

     

    South Africa

     

    Sub-human bondage

     

    Have been toppled,

     

    Utterly destroyed –

     

    Well, everywhere is war –

     

    Me say war.

     

     

    War in the east,

     

    War in the west,

     

    War up north,

     

    War down south –

     

    War – war –

     

    Rumours of war.

     

    And until that day,

     

    The African continent

     

    Will not know peace,

     

    We Africans will fight – we find it necessary –

     

    And we know we shall win

     

    As we are confident

     

    In the victory

     

     

    Of good over evil –

     

     

    Hh jamesgang

     

     

    PS interesting to see whose speech he was quoting in this song.

     

     

    RastaFariCSC

  16. Delaneys Dunky on

    WITS

     

     

    Hopefully a game changer in my Aintree luck so far. Jezki is keeping my heid above water. :)

  18. jamesgang on

    Bed time pour moi after the pleasure of a wee impomptu sesh with the coolest cat on CQN!

     

     

    Richie Bhoy!!!!!

     

     

    Night timdom.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  21. BGX on

    For Tomorrow….Inverness Dont Score much …So 1-0 2-0…Get the Points and Get Home….Ronny Convert…

  22. Delaneys Dunky on

    James

     

     

    We now have a Robert Nesta Marley branch at CQN coarner.

     

    Let the seed of the sacred plant flourish.

     

    It shall heal the nations.

     

    One Love

  25. petec on

    The Lord had to cleanse the Earth when the Ligers of the day were engaging in Occult intercourse.

     

     

    Spectrophilia is rampant today, and the only Solution is…….

     

     

    I Love Celtic, thats not quite it all Howevaah.

     

     

    Kojo.CSC

  27. cathach on

    Fanadpatriot

     

    I would love to hear your son’s version of the song. my mother used to sing that song. All my fathers songs were in Irish except the Irish Soldier Boy. History is a strange thing. I stayed in Dublin with Peader O’Donnells niece & nephew. I remember when Celtic won the league with 10 men, Johnny Doyle being sent off (who I worked with in BSW, Bellshill). I took the niece down to Tolka House and how we did celebrate.

     

     

    One of my best friends to this day was a niece to the original owner of Sweeneys hotel. Her son went to Glasgow to follow Celtic. A mutual friend of Lenny Bhoy and I held up a small cup at the back of the hotel with his Celtic strip on. Oh, such memories!

     

     

    I know most will not know the history of the civil war, but that is the comparison of those that do, sad timesthen.

  32. Tontine Tim on

    cathach

     

     

     

     

    00:30 on

     

     

    11 April, 2015

     

     

     

     

    Fanadpatriot

     

    I would love to hear your son’s version of the song. my mother used to sing that song. All my fathers songs were in Irish except the Irish Soldier Boy.

     

     

    *my oul Connemara granny used tae sing that tae ma da when he was a wean

  36. cathach on

    Tontine Tim

     

    I recognise your posts and have an inclination that we may have common friends. Surprised somewhat that Connemara would have that song, then again maybe not, as the West Coast of Ireland had so much in common especially song.

  37. macanbheatha Oscar Abú on

    clogher celt

     

     

    23:07 on 10 April, 2015

     

     

     

     

    What is the stars,

     

     

    Great shout. I have read a lot about Tom Crean. And Ernest Shackleton, they played the Wearing of the Green for them when they left London.

     

     

    How they survived God only knows.

     

     

    Clogher, this might be of interest to you

     

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pnvq9

     

     

    Jim Nochty SF Cumann E/ Belfast

  42. Tontine Tim on

    cathach

     

     

     

     

    00:40 on

     

     

    11 April, 2015

     

     

     

     

    Tontine Tim

     

    I recognise your posts and have an inclination that we may have common friends. Surprised somewhat that Connemara would have that song, then again maybe not, as the West Coast of Ireland had so much in common especially song.

     

     

    *he only ever sang two songs, this one and the Old Bog Road, because that’s where his mother was buried in Ballyconneely.

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