2014 saw Celtic win their third consecutive league title, but we didn’t reach either cup final. A period of significant change got underway during the summer when we said farewell to Neil Lennon.
Neil took over from Tony Mowbray, his first managerial appointment after working with the Youths at Lennoxtown. His first season was the one that got away. Defeat at Inverness with the title within their grasp, Walter Smith’s Rangers took their third successive title against the third difference Celtic manager.
Three months into the next season, Celtic were 10 points behind a Whyte-McCoist inspired Rangers, but that was overcome, with interest, by Christmas. Celtic went on to win the league by 20 points, although 10 of them were as a penalty for Rangers incurring an insolvency event.
Thereafter it was plan sailing for Neil. He never looked back in the league and reached the Champions League group stage twice, progressing to the knock-out stage on the first occasion. He learned the managerial ropes at Celtic and did enough in his four years here to establish himself as a European-class manager. He was our third unqualified success in four appointments.
By this summer it was evidence to all, including Neil, that significant rebuilding was needed. The job was handed to Ronny Deila.
Ronny’s first challenge came in the Champions League qualifiers in the form of Legia Warsaw. Despite the record books showing Celtic progressed after a 3-0 default home win, Legia wiped the floor with Celtic home and away. Celtic looked like a team of strangers, unfamiliar with the system they were asked to play.
That was, of course, true, the system was unfamiliar, but it’s execution was miscalculated, the on-field results were deserved. The Champions League playoff round against Maribor was unusual inasmuch as Celtic dominated the away first leg and deserved more than the 1-1 draw, but the Slovenians arrived in Glasgow with their game face on. Celtic were outplayed and out of the Champions League.
Things slowly got better, although home performances against Motherwell (by my measure the worst) and Hamilton Accies (who were impressive), and latterly Ross County indicated there is still a long way to go.
Ronny’s Celtic found their feet in the Europa League, where they finished second behind a very accomplished Salzburg. The away performances against Salzburg and Astra gave an insight into how things could be for this Celtic team.
It was, to say the least, disappointing not to qualify for the Champions League. It denied the club millions of pounds and shaded our trump card in to be used in attracting players, but in reality we’re not a Champions League team this season. The Europa’ gave us an opportunity to play European football on our level, pick up coefficient points and extended interest after Christmas (if you’re young this won’t mean much, if you’re my age, you’ll recall this being our Holy Grail).
Inter Milan await in the next round. They are also going through a rebuilding exercise and are as vulnerable to lesser-resourced teams as Celtic – so unlike Juventus two years ago – we have a sporting chance.
The tactical direction of the club is visibly distinct from what went before Ronny. Is this a good thing? Probably. Neil Lennon and his players over-achieved in their first Champions League season on a scale it’s difficult to measure. That squad had no right to reach the levels they did; theirs was a herculean effort. Play Matthews at left back, alongside a central pair of Wilson and Ambrose. Put Miku up front, with Mulgrew and Ledley in the middle – then go beat Barcelona. It was beyond impossible.
Barca, Ajax and Milan were prepared for Celtic last season; we finished bottom, out of ideas and direction on that stage. We needed to change, same again wasn’t going to wash.
Ronny’s played a high-pressing game, mostly with players who are unaccustomed to the demands of this game-plan. This has been a mistake on several occasions, most notably against Legia and Maribor. He’s working on player fitness, but in all likelihood it will take the next two transfer windows before he can craft the squad into the shape he wants it to be.
We’re halfway through the season and, with Aberdeen playing before us tomorrow, there’s a chance they could go top of the table, for a couple of hours, anyway. That’s not good enough, by any measure. Notwithstanding the revamp, we should have done better in the Champions League qualifiers and we should be further ahead in the league, but the fundamentals remain intact:
We needed to start post-Neil Lennon with a new tactical strategy.
Trying hard not to be disrespectful to Aberdeen, but we’re going to win the league.
We’re in both cup competitions.
We remain in the Europa League.
I was happy with the direction we took in appointing Ronny Deila and remain so. The problems of the last six months could be classified as First World Problems. We’ll get over them, while others watch on from the Other Worlds.
Have a Happy Celtic New Year, strap in and enjoy the ride, I promise it’ll be a great one.
Sale on at CQNBookstore, fill your stockings.
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Nye Bevan,
I thought it was a debate. A reply does not equal an answer especially when it seems to be very evasive. If of course I have not missed it.
HH
You piss where you are
Sack the bored some say
Bastards its a fekkin conspiracy to keep the huns part of the fabric of Scotland
Now if you unionist tims had voted aye
This shit would have been academic
Alas lots of tims said no
And aye for the staus quo
You reap what you sow
HH
Lads, if any Oz Tims on here we’re on holiday in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne over the next 3 weeks so any info on good Celtic bars would be appreciated. Cheers in advance. HH
Rangers outcast Sebastien Faure: Ibrox players can eat as much as they like.. and Ian Black has cake at half time
02 January 2015 06:00 AM Steve Goodman
THE out-of-favour defender has lifted the lid on goings-on at Ibrox and says French coaches would be furious at the players’ diets.
Rangers defender Sebastien Faure SNS
Rangers defender Sebastien Faure
RANGERS outcast Sebastien Faure has hit out at the stricken club and its fans.
The French defender was a mainstay of last season’s League One title win but is considering his future after being ignored this term – despite the Gers’ Championship struggles.
Centre-back Faure said: “I’ve not been given my chance this season, even though the team hasn’t been doing well.
“I say nothing, play for the youth side and train flat out.
“We will see what happens in January, although Rangers can’t loan me out as I am nearing the end of my contract.
“We have the Old Firm game on February 1 and it would honestly p*** me off to not be involved. I have always said I would love to experience one of these matches.
“Rangers have waited three years for this game to come around and it is going to be sheer madness.
“Rangers give their players plenty of freedom with how they look after themselves and what they eat. They don’t look at what you have.
“There is a buffet and you can have second helpings. So long as you perform on the pitch and don’t put on too much weight you can eat what you want.
“French coaches would blow a fuse with the diets players have over here. At Lyon they set limits on what you could put on your plate.
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“Before matches here we laugh and drink coffee in the dressing room. At half-time Bilel Mohsni and I reckon we’re seeing things at times with everyone drinking tea.
“Ian Black is the expert, with his cup of tea and little cakes at the interval.
“If you want to get treatment you can have it, otherwise you don’t. Besides, Rangers are not Real Madrid. We have a masseur and two physios now but the club doesn’t have five masseurs, five physios and five fitness coaches.
“It is not easy for us to play at Ibrox. There is so much pressure on us – we can be 2-0 up but we still get booed if we mishit a pass. I used to hear fans boo when I played at the Stade Gerland for Lyon – but never as much as happens here.
“Sometimes the fans insult our captain, Lee McCulloch, and they are wrong to do so. But we can’t respond to them. They have seen so much good football down the years that maybe they are partially right.
“I love Hearts’ stadium. It is really close to the pitch, with lots of echo and a huge atmosphere. Sometimes there is no atmosphere when we are at home. But it has been amazing in away matches.
“Fans sang throughout our friendlies at Bristol City and Sheffield Wednesday. If we could have that at Ibrox it would be superb.
“I was asked if Glasgow was divided in two because of Celtic and Rangers and that reminded me of the city during the
referendum. Glasgow voted yes to independence but I laughed because this was the time when you saw that people had no minds of their own.
“Are you a member of the Rangers staff? Well, if so you obviously vote No.
“But I’m sure some of them must have voted Yes. Richard Foster clashed with everyone at the club as he made no secret of the fact he voted Yes.
“The media here use the word ‘crisis’ about Rangers 362 days out of 365 – even when we are winning. When I was at Lyon I couldn’t even speak to the coaches but here Ally McCoist even spoke French to me from day one of my trial.
“My Lyon bosses Claude Puel and Remi Garde would never even have meals with their squad but McCoist would shower together with his players.
Faure was a mainstay of the team last season
“He dropped his shorts one training session for the players to fire the ball at him. Bilel and I fell to the ground laughing. A manager baring his a**e to his entire team – it was legendary.
“But the coaches here know how to do things right. If they decide to give their players the hairdryer treatment they do so and the fun stops. But if you do your job throughout the season you won’t be insulted.
“Rangers is a religion. Football is one thing but this club, its fans and everything surrounding it is something else.
“People kept their jobs at Ibrox or Murray Park despite the club going into the fourth division and they are proud to say they work for Rangers.
“Jimmy Bell, the kitman, has been at the club since 1972 and used to help McCoist and Ian Durrant when they were players.
“He is the soul of the club and a lovely guy even though he keeps mouthing off. When I first came for a trial I didn’t speak English and he went on about the ‘f****** French’ – but not in a nasty way.
“We have a laugh with him and he tells us lots of stories and jokes. He is worth his weight in gold.
“Our young midfielder Danny Stoney has a Rangers tattoo on his calf. That is amazing – I am from Lyon and I support the team but I would never have a club tattoo done.
“If I’d gone through their academy with a Lyon tattoo they’d have called me an a***licker. But here you are applauded for doing something like this.
“Ian Black has a tattoo of a Scotland national flag. I can’t imagine anyone, least of all a footballer, getting a tattoo of the French flag. But it would be a good idea.”
WEETWEETWEET
Artist that you are,that had me laughing!
It reminded me of a wee discussion I had wi my sister on Christmas morning,about what she was cooking up.
I recommended she put the sprouts in a freezer bag wi a few teaspoons of water,then microwave them. Cooks them perfectly,I said,and without the smell.
It’s not the smell of them cooking that bothers me,she replied!!
GEDHED7
By happy coincidence,Cheers-as you said-is the bar of choice for the discerning Sydney Tims.
And SYDNEYTIM.
MELBOURNEMICK is the goto guy for that part of the world,and I reckon Kitalba may have the info for Brisbane.
Hope you have a good time.
Celtic and any form of rangers would have fared better in a independent Scotland
The unionist tims said naw and they still moan
Scottish Fitba?
Don’t ya just love it?
UK capitalism?
Don’t ya just love it?
The City of London rules?
Don’t ya just love it?
The BBC?
Don’t ya just love it?
What a feckin Sham…
Divide et impera CSC
I know you won’t believe me BUT….
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo
Sad to say…
I await the next PR line from Paradise with eager anticipation…
Roll on the Future.
PJBHOYNYC
I thought you were gonna post this!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PTsSk0r_Tq8
And next Hogmany, if they persist with the ancient jokes and banter of ‘Only An Excuse’ they should simply rename the programme Ally McCoist or SFA. It would be funny and more authentic….
It amuses me no end to read the delusions of grandeur on this blog
Once apon a time a there was a club. blah de bla de blah
Here on this blog the so called great and the good fill its space with their untouchable opinions
Yet none of them of have made a thin dime for CFC in the grande scheme of things
Realistically the fans who pay for season books matter more than any other fan at leat they put their money where their mouth is
The rest of the cheap scate chancers with opinions matter fekk all#
It is the way of things on the internet
You can have a opinion and its costs you fuck all
PJBHOYNYC
I stopped watching it after their Opus Dei sketch a good few years back. Good choice,it would seem.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Give us something new
Get real
For a dead club they sure hog our headlines
BMCUW
Great tune… A blast from the past. Singing along!!
It’s so frustrating. The SFA and the BBC are absolute chancers/dancers treading on each other’s toes at any opportunity. It is patronizing in the extreme. Rightly or wrongly some think PL haas a baton in his hand. Whatever…. If he does he needs to change the beat, up the tempo or something. Its absurd. Pythonesque.
Goodnight bhoys and ghirls
For the zombies out there a song called Frankenstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo
Reading back and it looks like many lost fingers on Sylvester night. The lost are: thumb, pointer, ring and pinky fingers. The only left for writing posts is finger f@@@ @@@ greeter.
Happy and successful 2015 :-)
Happy New Year.
But second in the league.
With a game in hand.
With no guarantees.
Not good enough.
With our resources.
Second in the league.
After Christmas.
No guarantees.
A stranger to Glasgow met his pal at Central Station. It was obvious that someone had recently punched his face.
His pal asked, “What on earth happened to you then?”
The chap replied, “I’ve no idea why, but a barmaid just belted me in the face! I was just killing a bit of time in a pub and my luggage bag was in the way, so I asked the barman if he would mind keeping it behind the bar. He was happy to do this for me. When I went back to collect it later, this barmaid was on duty. All I said to her was, ‘Any chance of getting my holdall?’ and she hit me!”
HH ;))))
weet weet weet
Belter
HH
Just in
CQN 5 a sides
http://youtu.be/Spjx7L7Jpow
HH
Peternomics – the club gets weaker and the CEO gets richer…
When the fans are dissatisfied ( as we all must be today lying 2nd to a vastly less resourced Aberdeen) the silence from Celtic is deafening.
Any experienced (and highly paid) CEO knows the importance of communication with his stakeholders. I assume given Lawwell’s experience he too knows this. Which leaves me to believe he doesn’t care what the fans think.
He’s often quick to give a one liner when he sees a cheap opportunity to self promote but lacks the character to come out when times are tough.
Still why should he care – he’ll get his bonus – that’s Peternomics!
So who,s the tosser who thinks we would do better as a team in an independent scotland,remember this the most bigoted little shithole of a country on earth , iw would not have changed under the racist bigot salmond,any celt who voted yes is insane,proud to be one of the 70% ,of the eligible voters not to have voted yes,one marxist world
bevans’ rebel soldier
05:15 on 2 January, 2015
…and God bless your wee cotton socks for acceptng it, when the evidence is finally found to be irrevocable …….
Tough reading back this morning
This article from “Wings over Scotland” website really does destroy the myth that rangers are the same club dross stated by Doncaster.
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We’re technically on holiday today, folks, so for the first time in a very long time we’re going to write something about football and if you don’t like it that’s just your tough luck. Nobody’s making you click the “Read more” button.
Two fairly remarkable things happened in Scottish football today. The first was that Aberdeen went top of the Premiership for the first time in about 20 years, but the second was of a bit more relevance to this site’s political and media-monitoring brief.
That’s because, for the very first time that we’re aware of since Rangers went bust in 2012, the chief executive of the Scottish league’s governing body, Neil Doncaster, explicitly and directly stated that the club currently 15 points adrift of Hearts in the game’s second tier was the same one that died two and a half years ago.
And that matters more than you think it does.
This site exists because we were sick of professional journalists not doing their jobs properly and not asking the questions people were entitled to expect them to ask. And in all the millions of words that have been written about the ongoing Nightmare On Edmiston Drive in the last 30 months, it’s astonishing that not a single interviewer or reporter has ever pressed the SPFL’s top man to answer that once and for all.
Doncaster’s long-overdue response couldn’t provide a clearer illustration of why there’s a Wings Over Scotland, because it’s a flat-out falsehood that’s simply allowed to pass unchallenged, despite not only being untrue but actually nonsensical. We live in a media environment where those in power and authority are too often allowed to assert that black is white and have it not only go unquestioned, but have it casually repeated as fact without so much as the suggestion that it may be contested.
And the really weird thing is that Doncaster appears to have spontaneously and voluntarily answered the question WITHOUT actually being asked it.
“How concerned should the league be about what’s currently on-going at Rangers?
“It’s very difficult for a league to get too concerned with the individual affairs of any one member club.
“We have a rule book, which is agreed by all member clubs. Any club within the league has to play by those rules and our job as a league is to apply them, so that’s what we do.
In terms of the question about old club, new club, that was settled very much by the Lord Nimmo Smith commission that was put together by the SPL to look at EBT payments at that time.
The decision, very clearly from the commission, was that the club is the same, the club continues, albeit it is owned by a new company, but the club is the same.”
Wait, what? Nobody asked you if it was the same club. But to his partial credit, the BBC’s Chris McLaughlin picked up the sudden outburst and double-checked it.
“So the official take from the SPFL is that Rangers Football Club continues, it’s the same club?
“Yes, it’s the same club, absolutely.”
People have extreme views on this, so what’s the difference between a club and a company?
“The member club is the entity that participates in our league and we have 42 member clubs.
“Those clubs may be owned by a company, sometimes it’s a Private Limited Company, sometimes it’s a PLC, but ultimately, the company is a legal entity in its own right, which owns a member club that participates in the league.”
So, once and for all, the league is putting this to bed, it’s the same club?
“It was put to bed by the Lord Nimmo Smith commission some while ago – it’s the same club.”
At this point, though, with the ball rolling across the six-yard line and the goalie nowhere in sight, McLaughlin doesn’t take the shot. Any hack worth their salt would have been in for the kill and asked Doncaster the two blindingly obvious questions that arise from that assertion – if the demise of the company didn’t affect the club, why did a club that finished second in the SPL find itself playing in SFL3 the next season, and why were its players allowed to walk away from their contracts*?
The SPL had penalties for clubs going into administration, which were fully applied in the case of Rangers: a 10-point deduction, which didn’t affect its league position. The team wasn’t relegated and no subsequent football penalty was imposed on it which would explain it dropping three divisions. That it did so, then, is an extraordinary event for which the league’s CEO has offered no rationale.
There’s no getting around the fact. If the club exists separately of the company, and was bought as an ongoing concern separate from the liquidation of the company, then its football activities continue uninterrupted and it plays in the SPL. Its players remain under contract.
The reason that didn’t happen with Rangers is that the club DOESN’T have a separate legal existence. Charles Green bought the physical and intellectual assets of the liquidated company – its buildings and trademarks – but he didn’t buy it as a going concern. He didn’t own the players’ contracts and he had to apply to be admitted to the SFL as a new club, with no voting rights, having been denied entry to the SPL.
“Green’s Sevco consortium had been forced to apply for entry to the SFL after Scottish Premier League clubs voted against the new Rangers being admitted to the top flight.”
Neil Doncaster said today that “The member club is the entity that participates in our league”. The fact that Charles Green’s “Sevco” club had to apply (unsuccessfully) to be allowed to join the SPL – a matter on which the old Rangers had a vote – leaves no wiggle room at all.
“Rangers will not play in the Scottish Premier League this season.
SPL chairmen met at Hampden to vote on the new club’s application to replace the old Rangers in the top flight.
BBC Scotland has learned that 10 of the 12 clubs were in opposition, with Kilmarnock abstaining and Rangers voting in favour.”
You don’t have to apply to join an organisation that you’re already a member of, and if Old Rangers existed at the same time as New Rangers and got to vote on their application, then they plainly can’t be the same “member club”. It’s a nonsense so colossal in its scale it defies even the concept of debate, like trying to argue with someone in a rowing boat on a lake who’s insisting that he isn’t surrounded by water and could walk back to shore any time he liked.
The empirical facts simply couldn’t be clearer. Old Rangers and New Rangers – the football clubs, not the companies – CANNOT be the same, because both existed at once and one voted on the fate of the other. You don’t give the accused in a murder trial a vote in the jury. And so far as courts of law are concerned, the incontrovertible established fact is that the clubs were different, because Old Rangers players were allowed to leave and join other clubs without breach of contract or transfer fees.
So why, as Neil Doncaster claims, would a learned judge like Lord Nimmo Smith find otherwise, in contravention of all logic and reason? And the answer, of course, is that he did no such thing.
The findings of the Nimmo Smith commission can oddly no longer be found on the SPFL website. But they exist on archive.org and can be read in full. As early as page 3 in his report, Nimmo Smith summarises the history thus:
“Rangers Football Club was founded in 1872 as an association football club. It was incorporated in 1899 as The Rangers Football Club Limited. In 2000 the company’s name was changed to The Rangers Football Club Plc, and on 31 July 2012 to RFC 2012 Plc. We shall refer to this company as ‘Oldco’.
[…]
Oldco is now in liquidation; a winding up order was made by the Court of Session on 31 October 2012, and Malcolm Cohen 4 and James Stephen, both of the accountancy organisation BDO, were appointed joint interim liquidators.
On 14 June 2012 a newly incorporated company, Sevco Scotland Limited, purchased substantially all the business and assets of Oldco, including Rangers FC, by entering into an asset sale and purchase agreement with the joint administrators. The name of Sevco Scotland Limited was subsequently changed to The Rangers Football Club Limited. We shall refer to this company as Newco.
Newco was not admitted to membership of the SPL. Instead it became the operator of Rangers FC within the Third Division of the Scottish Football League. It also became an associate member of the SFA. These events were reflected in an agreement among the SFA, the SPL, the SFL, Oldco and Newco, which was concluded on 27 July 2012.”
That’s clear enough. A football club was founded in 1872, then it became a limited company in 1899 (note “became”, not “was purchased by”), it changed its name a couple of times and it went into liquidation in 2012. Its assets were purchased by a new company and a new club formed, which applied unsuccessfully for membership of the SPL and subsequently joined the SFL.
Note that Doncaster and Nimmo Smith’s accounts are already at odds here. Doncaster claims that the club is separate from the company, Nimmo Smith says the club IS the company. The club name (“Rangers FC”) is in essence simply a trading name for the company (“The Rangers Football Club Limited”). On page 32 Lord Nimmo Smith makes it absolutely explicit:
“We see no room or need for separate findings of breaches by Rangers FC, which was not a separate legal entity and was then part (although clearly in football and financial terms the key part) of the undertaking of Oldco.”
(All emphases in these quotes are ours.)
That’s the exact opposite of what Neil Doncaster claims the Nimmo Smith report said. Nimmo Smith found and stated directly that the club and company were NOT separate. Chris McLaughlin has followed events at Ibrox very closely for several years and knows this perfectly well, yet he not only allows Doncaster to tell an absolute lie unchallenged, but fails to ask the simplest and most obvious of follow-up questions.
Any reader who listened to James Naughtie interviewing Alistair Darling during the referendum campaign, or watched Gordon Brown given free reign to say whatever he wanted on the BBC at seemingly limitless length, or any of a hundred other examples, shouldn’t need the parallels pointed out to them.
Neil Doncaster and his SFA counterpart Stewart Regan infamously warned of “Armageddon” if New Rangers weren’t given privileged admission into SFL1 in 2012. In the event, they weren’t, yet Armageddon has failed to materialise. The Premiership is now almost debt-free, the lower leagues have enjoyed a huge cash boost as New Rangers have passed through the divisions, crowds are up and the top tier now has just five points separating the top five teams at the halfway point of the season.
We were told a similar apocalypse would result from Scottish independence. The electorate was told lies equally breathtaking in their scale by the No campaign, and those lies went similarly unchallenged.
When we talk about football – and we’re regularly berated for doing so on Twitter – we try (if we’re in a patient mood) to explain the connection between the two things, how reality is routinely twisted, no matter how absurdly, to protect the establishment and vested interests. Whether the subject is football or politics, the rules are the same.
(The SPFL and SFA are terrified that if they admit New Rangers are a new club their fans will be lost to the game. Ironically, pandering to the delusion that they’re not has left the new club in such a mess that those fans are walking away anyway, not unlike the way that winning the referendum has destroyed Scottish Labour.)
If the events of today don’t help people to see it, we don’t know what will.
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* Nimmo Smith’s commission, in a document it issued eight days after its report to explain some of its reasoning, made some interesting comments in this regard.
“It will be recalled that in Article 2 ‘Club’ is defined in terms of ‘the undertaking of an association football club’, and in Rule I1 it is defined in terms of an association football club which is, for the time being, eligible to participate in the League, and includes the owner and operator of such Club.
Taking these definitions together, the SPL and its members have provided, by contract, that a Club is an undertaking which is capable of being owned and operated.
While it no doubt depends on individual circumstances what exactly is comprised in the undertaking of any particular Club, it would at the least comprise its name, the contracts with its players, its manager and other staff, and its ground, even though these may change from time to time.”
Emphasis ours again. In other words, Lord Nimmo Smith’s MINIMUM definition of a “club” includes the player contracts, which Charles Green did NOT get when he purchased Rangers’ assets.
Therefore, in Lord Nimmo Smith’s view, Green was NOT purchasing a “club”, but merely some of the raw materials with which to construct one of his own.
The document goes on to add:
“In common speech a Club is treated as a recognisable entity which is capable of being owned and operated, and which continues in existence despite its transfer to another owner and operator.
In legal terms, it appears to us to be no different from any other undertaking which is capable of being carried on, bought and sold.
This is not to say that a Club has legal personality, separate from and additional to the legal personality of its owner and operator. We are satisfied that it does not.“
Which seems pretty unequivocal evidence that Neil Doncaster’s claims are false. The Commission stated unambiguously that the “club” has no separate legal status to the “company” – the polar opposite of what Doncaster told Chris McLaughlin it said.
Any company can change owners, and the business – in this case a football club – naturally continues in those circumstances. But if the company dies the club cannot survive, because it has no independent existence. If you buy a dead man’s clothes you don’t become him. Lord Nimmo Smith could scarcely have been clearer on that.
Good morning friends from a now dry but still blustery East Kilbride
The “Wings Over Scotland” article is good in skewering the breath-taking nonsense that Doncaster has served up, and the pitiful dereliction of duty from the BBC’s man.
But the comparison with September 18 are false. I’d suggest the biggest whoppers in the referendum campaign came from the Yes side.
* The UK will agree to a currency union
* Independence doesn’t mean a break in EU membership (curiously similar to all the Old Club New Club nonsense!)
and, the biggest of the lot…
* Scotland can expect a second oil boom. (The crude oil price has halved in 4 months).
oops.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Still no word on the reschedule?
thindimebhoy
07:14 on 2 January, 2015
Where did you get the idea that CQNers don’t contribute financially to CELTIC ….. I’m afraid that’s a silly statement…….
I see a fan rushed onto the pitch to confront Arsene Wenger yesterday.
Has he requested an Edinburgh jury yet?
I decided to gauge the dr take on Doncaster’s nonsense ….. they just published his words, no editorial comment at all …..hahahahahahaha…
We await a statement from the Celtic Board
67 Heaven. Good Morning fella something makes me think you will have a long wait.H.H.
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Had to stop watching that cos ive got tears running down my face.
Hilarious. :))
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Still no word on the reschedule?