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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Beatbhoy….Even Better…Get the Points Get Home….
gearoid1998
23:43 on 10 April, 2015
Eddieingreenhills
Paidi o Se (RIP) pub in Ceann tra (Ventry) well worth a visit for Paidis political and sporting memorabilia.
HH
Ventry ,now there’s an interesting place
If you have time read this
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-qQIulKwtVsC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA23&ots=ngUvI0mtCt&focus=viewport&dq=cat+breac&output=html_text
There’s about 30 pages available to read free
Look out for the word “soupers”
jamesgang,
All the harmful Dr.Ugs get out of the system quickly.
I’m not making a case for weed, I’m just saying that too much alcohol is bad, it is legal howevaah.
Butsy
Safe journey amigo. Gary and Stuart will dazzle in their Highland homeland.
Bring the 3 points back doon the A9 wi you. :)
Evening everybody.
Petec, bring back Kojo and Macjay.
Petec
If I consume my last bud tomorrow, I will fail a fit and proper test 3 month from now. Mary Jane likes the human body. :)
Th’is is’ how
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Captain Beefheart
01:01 on 11 April, 2015
Evening everybody.
Petec, bring back Kojo and Macjay.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Yup
CB
Kojo and MacJay were two of the Tims that attracted me here. I miss their posts too.
Petec
Thought you’d like his Anti capitalist sentiments.
Tims are zombie slayers. Or duppy conquerors if you will.
Night y’all
HH jamesgang
DD, evening. If you are up in Inverness tomorrow, let me know. A Polish mate and I will be happy to buy you some drink.
CB
Unfortunately not. If you are at the Killie game on Wednesday, I would love to meet you and my Polska bro.
HH
jamesgang
01:07 on 11 April, 2015
Petec
Thought you’d like his Anti capitalist sentiments.
Tims are zombie slayers. Or duppy conquerors if you will.
Night y’all
HH jamesgang
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Shorty…..
Stay shorty…….
?CELTIC?
Italianbhoy wrote towards the beginning of this post about his season ticket being his investment in Celtic even though he can’t get to games as much – I would just like to second that. I never had the opportunity to see Celtic as a kid on a regular basis – although I grew up in Belfast my immediate family were not supporters and we didn’t have much money so Celtic and Glasgow were in a different world to me – my only exception was my uncle taking me as a 10/11 year old to see us draw away to Dundalk.
I’ve been fortunate now to have a season ticket for about 12/13 years but I haven’t been across to Glasgow for over 2 years – firstly I was made redundant and then when I did get a job it entails me flying to England most weeks so weekends are really tough to manage especially if games are not Saturday 3pm. As long as I can afford to do so I will pay for my season book as like Italiabhoy this is my investment in my club. When I can’t make it to a game I do my best to pass on my ticket so that someone is sitting in my seat (which I know the club would prefer I didn’t so that they could sell a ticket on the day!)
Here’s to a treble and a smiling, sunny summer!
Hailx2!
DD, Unfortunately I won’t be but maybe a meeting in Paradise could be arranged. My mate Lukasz works hard but also enjoys a good drink. I admire the hunger of the immigrants. They put many of us to shame.
Petec
Thanks. Love Siobhain the Tim.
Na na na na.
Na na na na.
Hey Hey Hey Glasgow Celtic.
Bananarama CSC :)
Tontine tim
Fortunately, we were brought up with Irish songs, not to make us different, but that was our culture and I thank my parents for that.When I came to Ireland in 1978, locals were surprised my knowledge of Irish songs. c
CB
My grandfather from Gdansk was a WW2 hero. He settled in Glasgow after the war and was subjected to racism. He changed his name to a Scottish one, and gave his 10 children Scottish names. So sad.
Celtic is Celtic.
Not saw sir Kojo on here for a while
boring place whit out him, hope alls good in the hood
My tuppencany worth ,….paying to watch scottish football is a national
scandal ,there are no rules in football in scotland and if you have a season ticket ,your a laughing stock .”mug”..people cannot give them away for free anymore on a midweek its an inconvenience …,live by the 6pees ……..perfect planning prevents piss poor performances ,Celtic is up to there wastse coats in sheeit…!!!…but they have fooked the fans over
Viva Kev j
DD,
It would be great to meet sometime . Got some Polish connections also. The Poles and Russians(especially) are much maligned unfortunately. The folk I know are overwhelmingly advantageous to British society.
I love Kojo and KevJ as they EXPOSE secretive WAN networks.
KevJ.csCeltic
Dissidents pete :)
I’d rather lose continuously, than win Deceptively.
Peter GoodGame?
;))
Research Peter Goodgame about Capitalism.
I would rather lose all the time than be a conformative toochaaaaa
Up like a bird
01:46 on 11 April, 2015
I would rather lose all the time than be a conformative toochaaaaa
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Aye ok
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Deila knows Celtic need Champions League success
ANDREW SMITH
CELTIC’S season may be defined by the ten games, potentially, they still have to contest that begin with their assignment in Inverness at lunchtime. However, the first ten games of next season will prove equally significant in shaping perceptions of the club’s current management.
Should a treble be claimed – and John Hughes’ side represent a key obstacle to Celtic’s clean-sweep ambitions owing to the fact the two teams meet in next weekend’s Scottish Cup semi-final and will face each other twice in the Premiership in the coming weeks – Ronny Deila will be lauded to the heavens. Should the Norwegian then fail to guide his club through the Champions League qualifiers he will be lashed in hellish fashion.
Ronny Deila, left, and John Collins have achieved a good understanding.
No Celtic manager has had back-to-back eliminations from Europe’s top club tournament before reaching the promised land of the group stages. Deila’s excruciating difficulties in the Champions League when newly at the helm will hang over him until there is a wholly different experience to replace that double-dunt of last summer.
Celtic assistant John Collins is well aware of that. For an obvious reason, though, he is not troubled by the thought of suffering the same fate in next season’s qualifiers.
“We’re in a much better place now than we were nine months ago. The players know what we are after,” he said. “They have had nine months and 60 games to get better. Systems have bedded in and players are doing things faster. The proof will come in the qualifiers and we have to produce again. We need to produce at the next stage. Sometimes the teams we play against [in European qualifiers] are ahead of us in their preparations in their leagues. But we know that and we’ll be ready and prepared.”
Deila seems to have been preparing for going into his second campaign as the manager of all-conquering Scottish champions even since the early, awkward months of his tenure. Collins accepted it has been novel to witness a manager make no bones about the need for a “triple” to meet the objectives he has set for himself and his players. “Sometimes you set yourself up but he says it because he believes it. We’re in three tournaments so why wouldn’t he think we should win them?” the Celtic assistant said. “If he does say it, people ask why is he saying it? If he didn’t, people would ask why not?
“You can’t win in that situation. But there’s still a lot of football to go. It’s rare in our culture for a manager to say it like he did, but he said it because he believed it. He said it because we think we have an excellent group of players. We have good players who take everything seriously and have not taken the foot off the gas. We did that in League Cup and Scottish Cup games. That has led us to where we are now.”
Collins remained confident that Celtic could work themselves into the position of possibilities where they now find themselves, even when early results and performances had all manner of doubts being expressed. Deila admitted this week he had doubted he wanted to do the job because, in those early days, all anyone seemed to care about was posting wins any which way. The Celtic manager said Collins, and the rest of the club’s backroom team, had given him all the support he needed to come through testing times. Collins sought to provide comforting words of a straightforward variety.
“I always said to him to be patient as we couldn’t expect miracles. We knew we were doing great work at training and we just had to wait,” said the Celtic assistant, who described his dovetailing with Deila as “seamless from day one” thanks to their shared philosophy. “Rome wasn’t built in a day and it’s true. The secret was not to panic. The players did that and we’ve had some excellent performances.”
Stefan Johansen, made captain for the midweek win over Partick Thistle with Scott Brown suspended, has produced displays that have been a regular source of excellence within the Celtic sides of Deila and Collins. The 24-year-old midfielder is the personification of everything a player in this age should be for former Scotland internationalist Collins, whose fabled holistic approach to maximise talent is clearly followed by Deila.
“He’s a very, very good footballer with an incredible work ethic,” Collins said. “He’s the first that sets up that pressing game at the top of the pitch. He’s now added goals and assists. He gives every single bit of energy in every game from first minute to last. That’s his attitude no matter who we’re playing. Stefan’s got a wonderful approach and it’s infectious with his team-mates. He’s a great example.
“He ticks lots of boxes. Unbelievable work ethic, scores goals, creates goals, wins tackles, has great fitness and quiet lifestyle. He is in a serious relationship with a girlfriend who is here and he trains and goes home to his lovely partner. You put all that together and you have a player that anyone who is watching, or working with, can admire.”
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DD,
Very sad to hear that, but I think a bit of time in Ireland might help
I think there might be a book on the Polish in Scotland
petec
01:51 on
11 April, 2015
Haha
Good christian values ,the old respect morals …eye for an eye story,you desist against ….any all the best
Sports Direct with humiliating control.
Gelato.
If i mistook apologies
Up like a bird
02:03 on 11 April, 2015
petec
01:51 on
11 April, 2015
Haha
Good christian values ,the old respect morals …eye for an eye story,you desist against ….any all the best
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Can you, as a Christian, are you really? can you call out Anyone?
That isnae what Christianity is all about.
Kojo epitimosed Christ on CQN.
Kojo was a fantastic contributor to CQN, another sign that the red Heifer hus been found.
Celtic
CC
My Sligo roots from the Polish/Irish in me is bringing me to Dublin like my fellow Scot born James Connolly. The Irish Rebel. My political hero.
I think DD is annoyed that he caNNy pinpoint me.
DD, you know I love you to bits. I knpw you will be happy, eventually.
Faith?
DD,
James Connolly is really what next year is all about.
You probably know this but the wound on his leg was a compound fracture. It was
bleeding as they sat him down.
Poor soul.