In his Q&A session with the Daily Record yesterday, outgoing SPFL chairman, Ralph Topping touched on the subject of who knew what when, regarding Rangers slide into liquidation saying:
“There wasn’t one single person ever who envisaged this case happening. You tell me who pointed out that this was going to happen – did you?
“The biggest assumption about the set-up in the SPL would be that you would have Rangers and Celtic playing in it in perpetuity – nobody thought that those two bastions of football would ever be involved in anything like this and nobody flagged it up.”
Well, in October 2011 I knew. This CQN article from 27 October 2011 notes in very specific detail Rangers were going to liquidate, a phoenix would be created which wanted direct access to the SPL (the top flight at that time). I got the timing wrong, predicting the phoenix would take place during the season, but to be fair, it later became clear this was Craig Whyte’s plan at the time.
Ralph Topping’s SPL knew too. Rangers alerted them to the situation that very month. The SPL spend November, December and January preparing the ground for Rangers administration and liquidation, a period during which a new TV deal was signed.
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We obviously drunk over 15 guns
It was Greenday after all
Or was that 68 Gins
For a positive football story good piece in today’s Herald by Hugh Macdonald. Hh
Robert Tressell
I refer you to the ‘Walsall Anarchist Case’, 1892.
Check that out, there is a blueprint for state agents.
Eye opener.
HH
TGM
I was at the market this morning selling stuff, it’s always an eye opener, anyways, an older woman from Columbia was looking to buy a Rosary from me, it wasn’t cheap, the stones were Emeralds, she didn’t have enough, she went away and came back looking at it again, I asked her if she liked it knowing fine well she did, as it turned out she was 14 euros short, I let her have it, her reaction was well worth it, point of the tale, karma is a great leveler, they will get their’s, hopefully.
HH
TET
That’s what i would expect from a proper Celt:)
Hail Hail.
TET
That wee Colombian woman, will love you forever. And quite right as well:)
HH
TGM
She will :-)
HH
For goodness sake this Tommy Robinson (aka Andrew McMaster, Paul Harris or Stephen Christopher Yaxley)
states that his profession is ‘Sunbed shop owner.’
Well known in Anti Money Laundering circles as a Red Flag’ it doesn’t come as a surprise to see a Sevco shirt on this criminal.
Anyone for a tan ?
Sun bed shops are inevitably a highly cash based service business. So there are two main opportunities here. Firstly, vastly overstate the amount of people who use the service. I’ve heard it mentioned anecdotally that in London there are a lot of tanning salons. Surely people can’t need all that much tanning ? The suggestion is that if you were to watch one for a day, the volume of customers may not be commensurate with the day’s recorded takings, if you catch my drift.
Alternatively, why not hotwire / illegally tap your electricity ? I read about this happening in Scotland recently. It’s almost the reverse of the above – less electric suggests less customers, which means more off the books’ cash. Although of course you then run the risk of blowing up your salon or cooking the unsuspecting customers.
Not rocket science is it:)
https://www.int-comp.com/ict-views/posts/2012/11/20/money-laundering-%E2%80%93-from-sunbeds-to-cemeteries/
TET,
A lovely gesture.
Prayers too for the young lad in Sunderland.
Till Later,
HH
Paper shop…paper burns
I’ve let youtube run Riot.
This is basically Live.
Roll the tape
UltimateTeaming.CSC
Good grief. Checked in from holiday limbo to find Huns being Huns, Hearts being Huns, the Hoops savaging the Mackems and TET fencing jewelery to Colombian drug mules.
Never a dull day on CQN….
Ah the good old Record….”One topless fan, wearing a Celtic top”
Sandman
TET fencing jewellery and Cqners offering to send him packages of “wire” police Scoddland will be busy chapping doors and checking garages this weekend :-)
Callum MacGregor must start on Wednesday (something I didn’t think I would type this time last season or any other) for the record I said to Dallas on Thursday morning MacGregor could have posed Rosenborg problems
HindsightCSC :-)
Johnny 99,by the boss ,sorry I can’t do the link!#Thunder road
TET…
Emerald rosary beads…
…you’re a fenian bassa. ;))
https://twitter.com/yurixlax/status/891313081694867457
Baba
Unrepentant I will have you know, and some even have the Celtic crest on them :-)
HH
Cathro must stay, pass it on.
The Daily Record are a much bigger Celtic enemy than Tommy Robinson.
Aiden is a quality dude. Maximum Respect.
Aiden won’t make the impact that Celtic need Now Howevaaaaah.
Magical Celt.
BSR
There will be bother in Sheffield the morra without a doubt, I won’t be holding my breath for the record reporting it.
HH
Gerryfaethebrig,
I expected Brendan to be harsh about the Teams performance midweek.
He knows a lot more than me.
Njoi Wednesday.
thetimreaper on 29th July 2017 7:43 pm
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Most pass through the Olde Parkhead Gates.
Not as Many as would like to, don’t adorn them Hoops.
An incredible player.
Always be Humble.
Always be Ready to Rumble.
Howevaaaaah.
Brave Kojo is sadly missed.
PETEC on 29TH JULY 2017 6:40 PM
BSR,
My Dad went to the 7-1 game @ Sunderland, Wiki says it was raining!!! my Dad said it was snowing… I know who I believe. ;))
It was, in more ways than one, a damp, miserable day,Memory can distort things. However, Sunderland with two tall, fast wingers, seemed to score every time they went up the park.
Again, if memory serves correctly, THEIR fans went on the rampage in Berwick the same day.
I know that I can be slow o the uptake. So who is this guy Robinson and why should there be trouble in Sheffield tomorrow?
BSR – agreed.
Celtic’s second goal today really showcased what CMcG is all about passed the ball and kept moving to receive the pass back and slotted it away…classy stuff son:)
Petec 7.56pm
Brendan is a protector he won’t say a bad word about the players, am hoping we get by Rosenborg and the next qualifier got a feeling Brendan has a very big signing who will only be swayed if the CL is a goer…..
By the way I would love Celtic to be involved in the Betfred group stages of the league cup, a few weeks competitive games would do the team a great service
THE EXILED TIM
8,000 Celtic fans and the Daily Record publish the video of the only skirmish, involving 12 fans.
pathetic csc
BSR 8.11pm
They have a target audience, I saw their back page in our wee corner shop this morning – sub headline Green Brigade cost Celtic £20k fine their “journalists” don’t even bother about a story being true, best ignored, though still pretty annoying
BSR
You have to wonder what our PR people actually do.
HH
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 29TH JULY 2017 8:11 PM
THE EXILED TIM
8,000 Celtic fans and the Daily Record publish the video of the only skirmish, involving 12 fans.
pathetic csc
Don’t buy it and don’t give it any hits on the internet. Ignore in sufficient numbers and the advertisers will pull the final plug on it.
Wednesday is absolutely massive, there is no getting away from it. If we can get through I think we will sign another player for the next round. Wee Paddy could happen. If we go out, it’s unthinkable. Biggest game of the season.
THE EXILED TIM on 29TH JULY 2017 8:15 PM
BSR
You have to wonder what our PR people actually do.
HH
A number of years ago, I was assured by one of its employees, that PR was the Cinderella of Celtic.
Q
That would explain many things
HH
Bourne soup recipe – respect to a fellow Celt but. … the daily ranger is a TINY enemy of ours.
That rag is dying. Its death is a certainty. By the year 2025, or before, this blight on our society will be gone.
They have one strategy to slow down their inevitable demise – sell “Old Firmism” to ignorant Rangers supporters and hope for the occasional oxygen of publicity from indignant Celtic fans.
Rise above it.
Hail hail
Bin Billy Smith’s Whitewash.
THETIMREAPER on 29TH JULY 2017 8:15 PM
Wednesday is absolutely massive, there is no getting away from it. If we can get through I think we will sign another player for the next round. Wee Paddy could happen. If we go out, it’s unthinkable. Biggest game of the season.
If we go out does that mean that we will ignore need to strengthen squad.
Something that could and should have been done in January.
When will we ever learn that we should act from a position of strength.
Were we banking on on punting Dembele. Something unlikely to happen in near future.
thetimreaper on 29th July 2017 8:15 pm
Wednesday is absolutely massive, there is no getting away from it. If we can get through I think we will sign another player for the next round. Wee Paddy could happen. If we go out, it’s unthinkable. Biggest game of the season.
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The Creator will decide. Genesis 2 Revs.
Vroom Vroom.
You don’t want to have a lot.
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