In what increasingly looks like a facsimile of updates on the defence of Bagdad in 2003, Duff and Phelps continue to accentuate the positives about the potential bidders for Rangers Football Club or its assets but the charade is finally running out of acts.
This afternoon’s withdrawal of interest by the Blue Knight (singular), Paul Murray, the accountant who was a director of Rangers during the hugely controversial EBT years, and Brian Kennedy, should allow minds to focus on the most important question, what next?
Here’s a prediction for you:
Rangers Football Club will play their last game on Sunday 13 May 2012. One day next week, possibly even before the appeal against the SFA Disciplinary Tribunal punishment, one, or perhaps more, of the prominent players who have been jockeying for position recently will commence proceedings to buy a club in the Scottish Football League, or form a new club, ask for permission to play at Airdrie or Paisley, and apply for SFA membership. If membership is granted, an application will be lodged to join the Scottish Football League as soon as a vacancy becomes available.
In time Craig Whyte will sell or otherwise lose control of Ibrox Stadium, and if it is still in an operable condition, the football team hoping to profit from the demise of Rangers will look to acquire rights to play there.
You have witnessed an incredible period of Scottish social history in recent months.
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VOGUEPUNTER
VICTORIA CUP TOMMORROW?
AKA one last chance to get a winner at decent odds.
Mine will probably be second again anyway…………
4th of April. My birthday, Aiden McGeadys birthday and Graham Nortons birthday.
Only one M in tomorrow,my hands are shaking with the excitement,haha!
IanBhoy929 on 11 May, 2012 at 16:56
I hope that rather being dragged over the coals he is glazed in an aromatic marinade and slowly roasted.
Quantum: The Quantum of Solace
“When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it’s obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero”
I found this press conference somewhat sinister, the BK surreptitiously feeding the bears that if the huns are liquidated then it’s all the fault of the administrators. If I were Clark and Whitehouse I would seriously be thinking about hiring some heavies, just add it to the bill, to follow me around.
These are bullying tactics by Kennedy, basically putting pressure on Bluff and Bluffer.
I hope the irrelevant HMRC decides to have a in depth look at Kennedy’s companies, that’ll put the wind up him.
You’d have thought that they would have given the questioners some decent microphones, couldn’t hear half the questions. Roll on 9 am tomorrow morning then.
new article posted.
OG..,
anything on the lloyds staff ???
Exposed to public opprobrium and shown to be the cheats they are and we have always known them to be.
They are The Damned rankers.
Given their vile history and continued descent into shameful degeneracy, there can be no excuse for anyone who continues either to support them or to apologise for them.
VOGUE PUNTER 165
Did Neil ask if he could serve his touchline ban in your armchair since you obviously won’t need it?
If Coisty was dragged over the coals can you imagine the flames that would cause?
Whatever happens they will never ever never ever live all this down.
It will go into folklore. It will never ever go away. They will be tainted in perpetuity. They can never be free of this.
And on top of it all is the fact that their bigoted ‘club’ is dust & ashes.
Shame F.C.
LiviBhoy on 11 May, 2012 at 16:43 said:
The SFA should have put this club out of their misery a long time ago when they first discovered non payment of taxes.
This is cruel now. It’s shameful and embarrassing.
I’m loving every second of this!
LB – JCGE
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Livibhoy , mate .imho EUFA should have put the SFA out of business the first time they showed favour to the orcs . also a great piece from alex thompson . i just wish to god he would now turn his sights on eufa and ask why as the governing body of european football are they not hammering that mob . Alex its all it takes to inform them they are also being scrutinised now .
jimtim.
O.G.Rafferty on 11 May, 2012 at 16:22 said:
”Alex Thomson’s latest
As the tribunal which punished Rangers FC for bringing the game into disrepute recently, publishes the reasons for its findings, we gain an astounding insight into a major UK football club completely out of control.”
I don’t know if you have Alex Thomson’s ear, but if you do, could I suggest that if he wants a historical perspective on how thems have always done business he should read Law, Life and Laughter by Irvine Smith QC. In particular the chapter dealing with the Ibrox Disaster.
Irvine Smith was the Sheriff who heard the test case raised by one of the victims of the disaster. He found against Rangers. The judgement was never published and Smith takes the opportunity in his book to make it clear exactly how Rangers negligence lead to the loss of sixty six lives and how they tried to cover up their negligence and failings. His criticisms are devastating and give the lie to the claim that Whyte, and maybe even Murray, were aberrant figures in the otherwise distinguished panoply of owners of the club. They weren’t.
A couple of quotes give a flavour of what Sheriff Smith thought of the conduct of the club in the era of John Lawrence.
”I found the evidence in support of the Rangers version unimpressive in the extreme. Mr Hope, in evidence, vacillated among his being unable to recollect such a meting, his denying any such meeting, his possibility of having the dates wrong, being mistaken, admitting that he could have forgotten, stating that if he had attended such a meeting he would certainly have recalled it, and so on. There was hardly any variation on the theme of equivocation- and on that theme there are many variations-to which he did not resort. The evidence here is such that it had to be read to be believed.”
”If the verbal testimony of the defenders’ witnesses, however, revealed little, their written records, produced in court,revealed even less. And if the extracts from the records produced in this case were what they purported to be, rarely can an organisation of the size and significance of Rangers Football Club have succeeded in conducting their business with records so sparse, so carelessly kept, so inaccurately written up- if indeed ‘inaccuracy’ is not too mild a word to describe one particular minute- and so indifferently stored.”
Sound familiar?
Deliasmith @ 16.16
Many thanks for your highlighting of certain comments made by the tribunal.
It just goes to show how contemptible McCoist’s comments were to the media. Utterly premeditated and calculated to expose the individuals who made the decision to personal danger.
He disgusts me.
On a brighter note, I was heartened to read AT’s comments earlier in the day concerning the appeal tribunal. I was not aware – although I had hoped this would be the case – that the appeal tribunal had the power to increase the penalty. This is a power which the Court of Criminal Appeal has when dealing with appeals in criminal cases in Scotland. The danger is that anyone seeking to appeal their sentence runs the risk that they will recive a stronger penalty than the original one.
It used to be the case in Scotland that an advocate who presented an appeal where the client had their sentence increased became a member of the “hole in the head” club. The name derived from the notion that you needed a hole in the head to have instructed your client to go ahead. Worse still was the fact that the appeal could not be withdrawn once commenced except with leave of the court. This sometimes led to embarrassing scenes where advocates realised halfway through an appeal hearing that they would be unsuccessful but could do nothing to stop the client from going away for far longer than the original sentence.
The findings at first instance against Rangers are completely damning. The panel members have explicitly drawn the attention of the appeal tribunal to the fact that they considered expulsion from the league but decided not to impose that penalty. To have even considered it is a sign that this was an extremely serious set of offences. Not that you would have had that impression from the MSM. It is also a signal to the appeal tribunal that expulsion may yet be on the cards.
I would not be entirely surprised if the appeal is withdrawn at the last moment. Of course, other events may overtake this process in the meantime. However, if the appeal goes ahead, there is a real risk that expulsion may yet be considered, Futhermore, even if the appeal tribunal decides not to impose that sanction, it may lay down a marker for any future decisions about the conduct of the club. This is in turn could make the SPL’s task in attempting to keep Rangers in that division a lot harder if the Harper Mcleod enquiry uncovers significant wrongdoing by the club in the regard to double payments.
So, Rangers’ lawyers will have this question for their clients prior to Wednesday:
“Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, DO YA???????
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
You’re ok ,next season there is an e/w bet.
Still time tomorrow my friend.
If you haven’t already done so I suggest you read the full judicial enquiry report here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/93212354/SFA-Rangers-Note-of-Reasons
Can’t copy and paste it but scroll to Page 21 para 26.
Dynamite. No wonder Martin Bain dropped his case.
Green and whyte and last signing was Celtic.
they are trying to be us.
Jim White begging Kennedy to come back tonight. Kennedy sounds like a real blow hard, ful of his own self importance. Naebody like him but doubts Green knows what he’s doing. Reckons naebody but him does.
White is pathetic. Kennedy throwing out all kinds of names, including Smith and Sounness. You shouldn’t laugh but it is so ridiculous. Making the administrators look daft. White: I believe you are worth £600 million. Kennedy doesn’t deny it. He is such a philanthropist. He wants to save a Scottish Institution. White: We sincerely thank you. God. One’s worse than the other.
Jim White can hardly talk.
Why have the Blue Knights not been accepted.
Kennedy is a clown.
O.G.Rafferty on 11 May, 2012 at 16:22 said:
Alex Thomson’s latest
I read part of that on this blog at 15.06
By the way the Graphic is excellent
but then what
else would I expect?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/93212354/SFA-Rangers-Note-of-Reasons
And there you have it.
Oh well….I tried to paste the relevant paragraph….but it won’t have it.
TFOD again!
feedthebhear on 11 May, 2012 at 16:42 said:
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Tell the gullible one abrimovitch has a chippie down here in Blackpool, he’s looking to branch out into minor football, he’s Gonnae supply the chips, fat Sally will supply the lard.
Glad to be of help.
Just in, can someone give me a quick precis of what happened at ratners fc today?
Cheers,
Lurcy
BT if yir around, just told the bus I’ll be staying in Glesga on Sunday to have a drink with some good Celtic mhen….. Didnae seem that bothered, should I be worried.
Ps picking up my Bhodran on Sunday.
Bus = boss
god bless her majestys revenue & customs
and for f sake hurry up
Evening Bhoys thank God it’s Friday!!!
I’m sitting here wondering where to start, and you know what, I’m not going to say a thing…….. I’m just going to sit back and ENJOY…..
William on Clyde …… FUD
Listening to Focus while Rangers die…
horrible thought..
If the Huns go bust…is that the end of CQN? ;-)
Hello,bhoys.
Last of the season,the get-out-of-jail stakes.
Grateful thanks to FLEAGLE18888 for his efforts,it’s been a lot of fun! Cheers,bud-I hope you have the stamina to do it all over again next season.
KAKATOSI 325 ASCOT
S..t-or-bust,basically,…..
Hope to see the same monikers on 4th August,and that we have spent our summer break wisely-by learning to read the blinkin’ form book,haha!
Good morning lads… it’s the LAST CHANCE SALOON today !
So, get your 50/1 or 100/1 naps posted on here today… ;o)
Good luck to all…
Cheers, fleagle1888
CQN Saturday Naps Competition – Week 39 Results & Standings
A big blank from all of the CQN napsters last week, but commiserations go to Rockon who napped the 2000 Guineas runner-up (French Fifteen @12/1)…
Voguepunter leads the way, going into the final week… of the CQN Naps competition… and also of the soo’side bluenoses ! :o)
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-£33.00 The Token Tim (1)
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*No selections from – Eurochamps67, PFAyr, Raymac, The Token Tim, wolfetonebhoy
Good luck everyone,
Cheers, fleagle1888
Morning Fleagle/Lhads
thanks for the comp once again this year its been great fun.
Im hearing Go Go Green is fancied in the seller at Thirsk tonight, but for the Nap
its.
Rodrigo De Torres 325 Asc