Good Evening,
Whilst it is understandable that the continuing events at Ibrox remain a hot topic among all Scottish Football Fans — especially given the views of some sections of the press on such events– the never ending rush down the marble staircase is certainly not the only show in town.
The other morning we were treated to the “scoop” that Alistair Johnstone is afraid that Craig Whyte– the once proclaimed Multi Billionaire from Motherwell- may well still be pulling all the strings at Ibrox! This is a fear which is shared by those who walk the corridors of Hampden Park as they, too, are terrified of the prospect of Whyte returning in some shape or form and coming back to haunt them, especially as he has been deemed unfit and proper, banned sine die, and generally ridiculed for his past actions.
However, the Hampden jackets know fine well that their realm only stretches so far and that if by means of the proper application of company law, contract or some other piece of paper Whyte controls the shareholding of the self proclaimed “parent company” to the football club then they are in a fix. In fact, I will wager that they just would not know how to deal with such a situation as after all RIFC PLC neither holds a licence to play football nor is a member of the SFA and so, on the face of it, who owns it has nothing to do with them.
At this juncture, no one in authority knows who Blue Pitch Holdings are and, strangely, no one in authority knows who Margarita Holdings are either! Yet these two “holdings” whoever they may be, may well hold all the power down Govan way…… with the SFA completely powerless to find out who they are let alone get into any dialogue with them. All the SFA can do is talk to the appointed Directors and officers of The Rangers Football Club Ltd.
This, is a most unsatisfactory state of affairs.
Meanwhile, they will have no difficulty in finding out who the new shareholders of Dunfermline Athletic are. Those shareholders will come from the fanbase and will be clearly registered at Companies House, with the result that ultimately those fans/shareholders will appoint Directors who will then attend meetings and speak and opine on their behalf and in essence be the ” Voice of Dunfermline” at Hampden.
Perhaps, similar will follow from Heart of Midlothian?
However, those at Hampden — if they have any sense at all– will be most wary of events happening in the east end of Glasgow come November.
In the middle of the month, Celtic PLC will hold its AGM and amidst the items on the agenda is the fan driven notion that the Club— through its Directors—- should go further in holding the SFA to account and enquire into the granting of club licences, and in particular how it granted Rangers a club licence that allowed entry to the Champions League in 2011 when the small tax case was outstanding.
The Celtic board have deemed this motion as “Unnecessary” and in support of that contention have released documentation showing that they raised this very issue with the SFA on behalf of the shareholders and fans. Further– and here is the rub— The Directors reveal that they were not satisfied with the SFA response and have disclosed that they took the matter further and wrote to UEFA.
Ultimately, UEFA also provided a reply, which backed the SFA approach and which Celtic had little option but to accept in the absence of admissible contradicting evidence..
It is on this basis, that Peter Lawell and Co say the AGM motion is not necessary. Note that saying that the motion is not necessary, is not at all the same thing as saying that what the motion seeks to achieve is not necessary or does not have the support of the board!
There will be those at Hampden who severely hope that the Celtic Board are successful in voting this measure down as obviously they deem their original reply sufficient and would like to end the discussion there.
However, my own view, is that whether the motion is successful or not, there are those within the SFA who will recognise there is trouble staring them in the face here. Real Trouble!
Let’s recap for a moment and draw some threads together.
Celtic’s past Chairman, Dr John Reid, said only a couple of years ago that the SFA was clearly not fit for purpose. He did so in the context of events surrounding Neil Lennon and other matters, but was unshakably robust in his condemnation of an institutionalised uselessness which he saw pervaded the Hampden ranks.
Prior to that, Henry McLeish produced a report which stated that he too had concerns about the Governance of Scottish Football and called for openness and transparency.
In the intervening period, we have seen Mr David Longmuir, former Chief Executive of the Scottish Football League, find himelf without a position following reconstruction– and this partly as a result of club chairmen being apparently kept in the dark about his payment, bonuses and expenes. I understand that there was considerable anger from some at the way in which they had been treated by Mr Longmuir.
Then there is Mr Campbell Ogilvie, El Presidente, who himself benefited from a Rangers EBT and who held sway at Ibrox during a period of time when Rangers– by their own admission— made unlawful and illegal payments to three high profile players in breach of tax laws and SFA/SPL rules. It is these breaches and the consequent Wee Tax Bill which has caused all the angst among Celtic fans and has lead to the highly regulated legal step of tabling a motion at the club’s AGM.
Basically, the position seems to be, that as at the due date when the appropriate documents and declarations were made for a Euro Licence by Rangers for 2011, the wee tax bill was outstanding and due. If it was overdue, then the SFA could not and should not have granted them a licence……. and potentially Celtic should then have been put forward as Scotland’s representatives in the Champion’s League.
However, that did not happen, and Ranger’s were granted a licence– something that the Celtic Directors clearly felt was not correct.
They may have disagreed with the awarding of the licence because there were those at Rangers at the time who declared that a payment to account had been made to the tax office– allegedly £500,000– and that they had entered into an agreement to make payment of the balance by instalments. Had that been so, then all would have been hunky dory and no more would have been said.
Alas, however, no such payment appears to have been made at all, and no such agreement was entered into and so, on that basis, the tax bill was overdue and outstanding as at 30th June in terms of Article 66 and as such no Euro Licence should have been granted.
However, the argument does not end there.
Auldheid, has posted frequently on these pages about the ins and outs of the licensing provisions and the mechanism and so I will leave that detail to him as he is far more expert in these areas than me.
Now, one of the SFA functions is to have an auditor– someone who can check books, contracts, paper work and so on, and it is part of the SFA licensing function to be satisfied that all the paperwork is of course correct and in proper fashion before they issue any licence.
In this case, it is alleged that the SFA did not perform their function properly.
In relation to the wee tax case, it is said that either they did not make sufficient enquiry of Rangers re the payment to account or the agreement which they were told was in place. At the time it was mooted in the press that no such agreement was in place as at the relevant date ( June 30th ) and a simple check with the revenue would have shown the truth of the matter.
Yet, for whatever reason, no such check appears to have been made, and if you recall a Radio Scotland interview with Alistair Johnstone, Rangers submitted the forms, the SFA replied with one or two enquiries about the BIG tax case which were answered, and thereafter the Licence appears to have simply dropped through the letter box without further ado.
You will also recall that the existence of the wee tax case became known BEFORE Craig Whyte bought David Murray’s shareholding in May 2011. In fact it was the subject of News Paper headlines weeks before the deal was completed, and so the fact that there was a wee tax bill was well and truly in the public domain.
When it came to filling in the appropriate forms,either, the SFA were mislead by those then at Rangers with regard to that tax bill, OR, they simply failed to do the requisite checks and make reasonable enquiries before they issued the licence.
However, the uncomfortable fact also remains, that one of the chaps who must have been in the know re the admittedly unlawful and offending side letters, contracts and payments to the three players concerned was Campbell Ogilivie who was on the Rangers Board at the relevant time when the contracts and irregular payments were made under the Discount Options Scheme from 1999 to 2002/3. Indeed he may even have initiated the first payment to Craig Moore in 1999. I reiterate that no one has ever contested that this was an unlawful scheme, and the irregular payments and paperwork are not denied in relation to that scheme.
There are Celtic shareholders who believe, rightly or wrongly, that when it came to the granting of the Euro Licence, the SFA did not play them fair on this occasion and that the wheels within Hampden were oiled in such a way that Rangers were favoured and Celtic were disadvantaged. It is a point that looks to have already been considered by the Celtic Directors in 2011, with the result that they concluded that they should formally write to the SFA and seek clarification.
However, we now have the prospect of those same directors having to go back to Hampden and say ” Sorry, but I am forced to bring this up by my shareholders. I have a legal duty to them to enquire further”. Even if the motion is refused, the point has been made– there are shareholders who are demanding answers– just as shareholders of other clubs demand answers about the ever so secret 5 way agreement and other matters which have hitherto been not for public consumption.
The SFA have nothing to fear of course as they can simply repeat their previous answers,demonstrate that all was above board, and rest easy in their beds.
Except that answer did not satisfy the Celtic Directors on a previous occasion as they decided to take the matter to UEFA, and it would appear that some Celtic shareholders remain dissatisfied with the known stance of the SFA and so they want the Directors of the club to delve further. Without wishing to point out the obvious, if it turns out that the 2011 Licensing process was somehow fudged and not conducted rigorously or that those at Hampden were in any way economical with the truth or omitted certain details from the previous explanation, or covered up a failure in procedures—- well such omissions have a habit of becoming public these days whether that be through the internet or otherwise.
The point here is that the actions of Hampden officials are coming under organised, legal and planned corporate scrutiny over which they have no control. The Blazer and club mentality that was once so widespread within the governing bodies is under increasing attack and is being rendered a thing of the past.
In short, the move by Celtic shareholders, is making it plain that they will demand proper corporate governance from their club in ensuring that any alleged failure in corporate governance by the SFA or SPFL is properly investigated and reported on.
Of course, if it turns out that the 2011 Licensing process was somehow fudged and not conducted properly for whatever reason, then it could be argued that Celtic were disadvantaged in monetary terms along with other clubs who may have been awarded Europa League licences, then the consequences could be cataclysmic. Hence a tendency to circle the wagons rather than admit to failures in the process that need addressing.
It is this reluctance to come out and accept that the licensing process appears to have failed, say at what point the process failed and what needs to be done to address those failures that in many ways has driven the resolution. It is clear to all that something is amiss but the SFA will not admit it, probably from fear of the consequences of doing so? Perhaps some form of indemnity, a lessons learned enquiry with no prejudice might help?
It would come as no surprise to me at all if there were those at Hampden who live in dreaded fear of admitting that their processes were flawed and that a grave mistake was made. Under these circumstances, there may well be those at Hampden who simply wish that Celtic and their fans would just go away!
Tic 6709 says: (525)
November 1, 2013 at 6:47 pm
There is a God hovering over Ibrox,unfortunately for Sevco It’s Thor.
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I think it might be a Goddess, by the name of Nemesis.
Jim Traynor, on joining Rangers (officially, after having been their propagandist for quite some time).
http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/opinion/item/3085-remember-sporting-integrity
Including the classic
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Rangers will take a seat at the head of the table where, despite the latest insult of being shut out of reconstruction talks, we will act with the good of Scottish football in mind.
We’ll work through the divisions and we will return stronger and better than ever before.
This club accepted their sanctions and moved on but too many others have been unable to do the same. They continue their assaults and while the deranged, who are using social media sites as conduits for their twisted agendas, should be ignored there are more than a few in the mainstream still maligning the club at every opportunity.
In a BBC radio debate last Saturday night one pundit, in a matter-of-fact manner, said Charles Green speaks with ‘forked tongue.’ No attempt to explain or justify the statement, just as no explanation was offered when another radio voice claimed there was a dishonesty about Walter Smith when he went public with a late bid for the club.
Word of advice gentlemen. From now on be very careful when talking or writing about this club.
To paraphrase something said about another club, Rangers will not be treated less than others. And although there is no desire to pick fights, be assured that no one will attack Rangers with impunity.
Better, however, to quote Bill Struth: ‘Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. You do that, you will emerge stronger than before.’
Tolerance and sanity. That’s what Rangers will demonstrate and maintain, especially when back at the summit.
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I might be deranged Jim, but I have enough integrity not to change my position willy nilly, depending on who the current highest bidder is. Your “Rangers are dead … oh wait they are alive again, the lawyers explained it to me” was a total embarrassment.
You are a hack with no integrity, dignity, ability or class.
redetin says: (246)
November 1, 2013 at 8:10 pm
Tic 6709 says: (525)
November 1, 2013 at 6:47 pm
There is a God hovering over Ibrox,unfortunately for Sevco It’s Thor.
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I think it might be a Goddess, by the name of Nemesis
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Are you trying to steal my Thunder ?.
Mr J Traynor – squirrel of the week.
I think that is the 6th game in a row that Sevco have been level or behind at HT. No doubt they will go on and win and land the bet at 3/1+. I wonder if Ian Black is on it ?
Angus1983 says: (1207)
November 1, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Mr J Traynor – squirrel of the week.
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Jings, if you have squirrels that big in your area, I’d hate to see the size of the dogs! 😳
So JT has gone.
Will that be more money out of the kitty?
A handsome payoff to keep him quite.
Lets face it even JT, although not investigative reporter of the year, will have a nugget or two to sell to the highest bidder if they haven’t gagged him.
Will he drip feed stories back to the press I doubt it as he will be outed right away knowing our medias love of all things ‘The Rangers’.
I always thought that he was going there for one last pay day to supplement his pension. Just like Chas Green!
Still I think he will now slip into obscurity where he belongs, possibly to Australia where his family live. He was a poor reporter and even worse journalist.
He was completely out of his depth in what is going on down Govan way. He was never a PR man. He was nothing more than a loud voice who bullied his way through countless radio programmes.
He will not be missed.
Angus1983 says: (1207)
November 1, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Mr J Traynor – squirrel of the week
well, he does like an elaborate tale.
What can we make of the last two weeks events .
DK was heralded as the saviour about to ride to the rescue ,no AIM hurdles ,no SFA hurdle (as if) .
Then J M Coll was the top man with his Billions burning a hole in his pocket .
Well looks like the fireworks have turned out to be a damp squib .
Or was it all just a smokescreen to deflect the fact that they already have what they wanted and the bun fight is for the outsiders .
I have always thought that the peepil originally sounded out by Murky would not be far away from the final act ,looks like the curtain is about to come down again ,the question is ,who is coming on for the encore
Sevco beating Clydebank 2-0 I believe
Funny auld game these days
The two youngest clubs in Scotland.
justshatered says: (238)
November 1, 2013 at 9:00 pm
‘…He was nothing more than a loud voice who bullied his way through countless radio programmes.’
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More serious than that, though, is the fact that for some period of time ( we know not how long) he appears to have used his BBC position ( paid by all of us) to act as a propagandist for a new football club, on promise of a well-paid job with them.
That is a matter that ought properly to have been looked into by Head of Radio, and really publicly commented upon by him, to reassure us that the BBC is ‘committed to impartiality and balance”.
Someone has to post it, might as well be me.
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/james-traynor-spl-will-not-be-able-1129166
James Traynor: SPL will not be able to prosper without Rangers
13 Jun 2012 12:59
No more than a good John Greig clearance away from Hampden one of the world’s oldest clubs lies dying. And no one on Hampden’s sixth floor even bats an eyelid.
No one up there in the offices of the SFA and SPL said a word.
Rangers FC as we know them are dead. It’s all over. They are about to shut down for ever but not a single person among the game’s hierarchy was open for comment.
And that just about sums it up for Rangers, the club the rest of the Scottish game came to detest.
We are still waiting for the verdicts on EBT schemes and dual contracts but the fans of every other club have passed judgment. Rangers are guilty.
Of course they are. They’re cheats and liars. Everybody knows that. They can’t help themselves, it’s in their DNA.
And of course they must be stripped of their titles, trophies and dignity. Oh, and don’t forget those five stars above their badge, Get them torn off as well.
It’s all madness rooted in jealousies and twisted logic. Rangers have a seriously bad lot but the majority of the people who support the club are decent.
Yet everywhere so many people are waiting to dance on this club’s grave.
Well, they should get their pumps and tap shoes tied up because it won’t be long now. Yesterday the CVA proposal put forward on behalf of Charles Green by administrators Duff and Phelps was rejected by HMRC.
They didn’t even wait until tomorrow’s creditors’ meeting, although that will still go ahead.
But Rangers FC won’t. They’ll slip into liquidation within the next couple of weeks with a new company emerging but 140 years of history, triumph and tears, will have ended.
No matter how Charles Green attempts to dress it up, a newco equals a new club. When the CVA was thrown out Rangers as we know them died.
They were closed and a newco must start from scratch although their fans will insist the history will be boxed up with the strips and balls and carried into the future with the new club.
Technically that history belongs to something else, some other company but even though the governing bodies appear consumed by technicalities and protocol supporters have other priorities.
They strive for continuity and Rangers fans will never be separated from or denied their past.
The name might change slightly, there will be a new owner, new players and a new beginning. But somehow nothing will have changed for many of the people who buy the tickets.
They’ll never forget and they’ll remember yesterday, too. Even though they and everyone else knew the decision to accept or reject Green’s CVA was 50-50 this was such a momentous day in the history of Scottish football.
Yet, unbelievably neither the SPL nor the SFA had anything to say as Rangers’ death warrant was signed.
Maybe they were bored, or maybe even stupefied by the twists and turns, outlandish demands and hopes, claims and counter claims which started in May last year and then began clattering down relentlessly since February.
With the noise and the clamour it has been difficult to make sense of it, to keep track and to understand the hatred and lack of compassion. It is almost scary that so many fans cannot see how damaging Rangers’ demise is to the game in general.
Whether you like them or not they are important. Along with Celtic they are the engine that drives our game.
But the dislike hasn’t been confined to the cheap seats. Other directors and chairmen have also relished watching Rangers fail and then fall.
Yet they should have known better and despite the voices of reason saying be careful what you wish for those clubs who have sounded off about sporting integrity will now have to be true to their own word.
If they have been listening to their fans, as a number of them claim, then they won’t allow a newco into the SPL.
But let’s just see if, when the time comes to vote, enough of them keep their hands down when asked if they want a reformed Rangers back in.
And they’ll have to do this quickly because fans will need to know which teams will be in which divisions before buying season tickets. The SPL and SFL will produce their fixtures on Monday and although Rangers will be found in the top-flight schedule it remains to be seen if they’ll actually be playing there.
But can the SPL do without Rangers and their supporters? They may have been suggesting they can but it will not prosper without Rangers and this is what all the chairmen, despite their bravado, will have to consider.
It was easy, and also foolish, to be bold when Duff and Phelps suggested HMRC had hinted they might accept the CVA but now the moment of truth has arrived for these clubs. And what will force the issue? Pressure from fans or pressure from banks?
Of course, they could let them back in while insisting the new club has to accept penalties for the behaviour of the old, especially if the SPL enquiry finds Rangers guilty of issuing players dual contracts with their EBTs.
Also, the SFA have still to work out what sanction to impose on the current Rangers who succeeded in getting a 12-month signing ban overturned in the Court of Session. The SFA will demand the new sanction be inherited by the newco but it seems to me more than a few on one side of this saga are in danger of becoming a little vindictive.
Of course Rangers are guilty of shaming the game and they accept they have to be punished. But how many more times must they be kicked?
Despite the baying mob and their crazy notion that Rangers should be shunned because they are cheats the fact is this club and these fans have themselves been cheated. If there is anything in their DNA make up that’s irrational or wrong it is their love of their club and this game.
Get over the mock outrage and come down from the moral high ground.
Few fans of any club have any right to be up there in any case but now, as Scottish football arrives at a crossroads let’s try to think straight. How about cutting Rangers some slack and doing the game a turn at the same time?
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No club / holding company obfuscation. Jim Traynor saying, unequivocally.
“Rangers FC as we know them are dead. It’s all over. They are about to shut down for ever but not a single person among the game’s hierarchy was open for comment.
And that just about sums it up for Rangers, the club the rest of the Scottish game came to detest.”
and
“They didn’t even wait until tomorrow’s creditors’ meeting, although that will still go ahead.
But Rangers FC won’t. They’ll slip into liquidation within the next couple of weeks with a new company emerging but 140 years of history, triumph and tears, will have ended.
No matter how Charles Green attempts to dress it up, a newco equals a new club. When the CVA was thrown out Rangers as we know them died.”
So Jim, you seemed pretty certain at the time, then surprise surprise changed that view when Rangers employed you. What’s the story now, Jimbo. Help a wee deranged semi-literate out. Did Rangers, the club, die or not.
John Clarke
Oh how right you are and after CYs comments regarding DK last week ,it looks like the void left by JT was quickly filled by the other opponent in the biggest old Ragers cheerleader spat ,again paid for by our licence fee
Bawsman says: (222)
November 1, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Sevco beating Clydebank 2-0 I believe
Funny auld game these days
The two youngest clubs in Scotland.
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You sure it was Clydebank. My friend who listens to SSB says that earlier on he distinctly heard Sheila refer to them as Airdrieonians,
It was Airdrie utd (changed back to Airdrie last year (I assume how that rule change aids Sevco 2012 in the near future )That Sevco 2012 faced
I am told it was the first Tribute act derby for a while
Of course the newly unemployed Jim Traynor will be able to go back to his Airdrie roots now… Aye. Right.
Gym Trainer says: (56)
November 1, 2013 at 10:23 pm
We should tell him to go to fu… sorry the Antipodes!
Tif Finn says: (653)
November 1, 2013 at 7:13 pm
The Rangers support were ecstatic when Jim Traynor joined, here was a recruit who “knew where the bodies were buried” and wouldn’t miss any of the targets. The rest of the World better watch out when Traynor fired his head shots. There really was rejoicing.
Thing is, he must know a lot about what has been, and is currently, going on at both the club and PLC. He was the Director of Communications.
They better hope he has a cast iron confidentiality agreement. He is a devious, odious oaf of a man and I imaging if the right amount is on offer he will spill the proverbial beans
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U seen RM tonight, they are happy he’s gone
“Waste of a wage”
“What did he do?”
etc etc etc or should that be ebt ebt ebt?
While news of JT’s ignominious departure from Ibrox is passed through the mincer,
there’s been another little change at Ibrox, viz., in the way Ibrox is portrayed in the media
as is illustrated in the piece below at the allmedia scotland link
http://www.allmediascotland.com/broadcasting/55682/traynor-departs-director-of-communications-post-at-rangers-fc/
The change is in the picture.
Until recently, whenever an image of Ibrox has been used in the media,
it has regularly been of the title ‘Rangers Football Club Ltd’ in wrought iron above the gates.
But of late, the only photographs of the iconic gates have been of the single word ‘Rangers’.
Like you, dear reader, I ask why the change?
So far, I can only think that it has to do with Sevco being operated as a phoenix company.
Let’s face it, if a business keeps the old name writ large on it’s trading premises,
then it could easily be argued by, say, HMRC, that by leaving the signs there, the directors had no
intentions of changing the name
and indeed wanted the old name to remain,
and thereby promoting the idea that the club was as it had always been.
The same could be said for the tiled name ‘Rangers FC’ high on the outside of the main stand.
In other words, on the basis of these two signs, TRFC is trading as RFC,
at least, that’s what the signs on the business premises say.
Hector, please take note.
Tif Finn says: (653)
November 1, 2013 at 9:49 pm
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‘puppet of the club’ having a go at a’ twenty-years cheerleader for the club! ‘
I think I missed that line first time around.
How it foreshadowed the bitter infighting at Board level between the sets of greedy grasping bloodsuckers slavering at the mouth as they try to make a killing on the assets of the club they love so much!
manandboy says:
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Thanks for the link.
A further link gives us this (bearing in mind this is about his “leaving speech”, when he was moving to collect the 20 pieces of silver from the club with the mythical 5 stars.)
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ONE of Scotland’s greatest sportswriters, Jim Traynor, is calling it a day as a columnist on the Daily Record, signing off with a no holds barred criticism of fellow journalists and online commentators.
While making clear how much pleasure he has derived during his 37 years in journalism – indeed, he begins his column: “It was never a job. More of an absolute joy, if truth be told.” – he says recent events have turned, in his opinion, for the worse.
And it has revolved around the financial problems involving Rangers FC since it was placed into administration in February.
He writes: “ It’s been a pleasure. Until recently. Unfortunately, there has been the last twisted and bitter year during which Scottish football, unable to deal with the Rangers crisis in a civilised manner, has tried to tear itself apart. All in the name of sporting integrity, of course.”
During a career where he has often ‘swam against the tide’, this year he has been notable for often cautioning against the accusations being made in several parts of the media, and among bloggers, against Rangers over a tax case from which recently emerged victors in a tribunal.
He continues: “Even now so many – and I include some fellow journalists – still cannot bring themselves to accept Rangers did not cheat the tax man by using [Employment Benefit Trusts].
“One journalist declared it to be ‘a government conspiracy’ when he heard the ruling in Rangers’ favour.
“Perhaps in time more will be written about this kind of hack and the rabid desire to help bring down Rangers, a fierce desire that, sadly, was widespread. Actually, I’m sure more will be written about them.”
And he goes on: “And let’s not forget how some with telly platforms were prompted by those bloggers and ill-informed commentators. Stupidly they allowed themselves to be duped by supporters with dangerous agendas hidden under the banner of integrity.
“And the result? Some of the most shallow and infantile drivel ever written. These egotists are so into themselves they’ve no regard for the safety or wellbeing of those about whom they have written some awful and completely inaccurate pieces.
“Despicable, pathetic little creatures craving some kind of recognition but lacking in conscience and morality.
“I’m so sorry they’ve had to be thrown up into the same piece as some of the true greats and gentlemen of world sport.”
And he ends: “However, that’s it. My work here is done and I’m glad – but just for the record, I’ve not been sacked or made redundant. I was asked to remain but my conscience won’t allow me to stay in our profession.
“The kind of journalism needed by the country, never mind sport, no longer exists in enough of the media outlets.
“But as I’ve said, the good memories of all those sporting greats will always outweigh the negatives, especially those that bubbled to the surface throughout this last year.
“Thanks to sport’s real heroes I’ve had a ball and thank you for reading while I was with The Herald, the Daily Express and the Daily Record.
“Good luck to you – and be careful about what and who you read in the future.
“There are people out there calling themselves by different names.
“But that’s not the bit that should worry you. They are calling themselves journalists.”
The quotes below are from an article on sycophant journalists in Africa by a Nigerian research academic. Many true words. I wonder what he’d make of our very own SMSM..
“Sycophancy and Objective Journalism
Objective journalism is the desire and aim of every society and media house. However, such noble aspiration is beclouded and usurped by sycophancy and sycophantic reporting. This development denies the public the right to true information and invariably leads to loss of reputation by the media house. This paper looks at sycophancy in the Nigerian media by looking at the reasons for its unbridled spread, effects on the public, media houses, individuals and the government of the day.”
“In a nutshell, the purpose of ethics for the journalists is to protect the consumer, reader, listener or public in general. In fact, it also helps to protect the journalists themselves be-fore they get drowned in the sea of societal immorality.”
“If the saying that “whoever pays the piper dictates the tune” is anything to go by, then we must empathize with journalists that work in the government owned media. They are like birds in a cage that have their wings clipped and their legs chopped. They can only move when their owner wants them to. In other words, they do not have a will of their own; more like auto-mated robots that move only when commanded to. What a life!”
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=22219&returnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scirp.org%2fjournal%2fPaperInformation.aspx%3fpaperID%3d22219
theoldshed says: (44)
November 1, 2013 at 10:59 pm
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Looks like the academic was trained by JT as regards syntax, grammar etc
Twitter rumour so usual caveats apply but…
Police have been called to Ibrox stadium tonight, Airdrie F.C. are refusing to leave until they get their share of the gate receipts.
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Thankfully it isn’t the same Airdrieonians that died because David Murray wasn’t willing to accept them not paying their bills.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/628268.stm
Ibrox chairman David Murray applied for an interdict, on behalf of his company Carnegie, for a debt of around £30,000 owed by Airdrie.
Mr Murray said: “I feel very sorry for Airdrie and their supporters but we’re running a business. We have given them repeated warnings and felt they were playing on our good nature.”
Araminta Moonbeam QC says: (5)
November 1, 2013 at 11:13 pm
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Perhaps the former DoC’s paycheque bounced and he’s told “his” team they better get their cash in a bag…?! Real diamond geezers the lot of ’em
Tif Finn says: (654)
November 1, 2013 at 10:42 pm
manandboy says:
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” twisted “, “bitter”, ” cannot bring themselves to accept” ,” this kind of hack” ,” rabid desire”, ” fierce desire”, ” ill-informed commentators” ,”Stupidly”, “Some of the most shallow and infantile drivel ever written”, “egotists are so into themselves they’ve no regard for the safety or wellbeing of those about whom they have written some awful and completely inaccurate pieces.” ,”“Despicable, pathetic little creatures craving some kind of recognition but lacking in conscience and morality.”
Just a touch Freudian Jim. One finger forward, four back.
“You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue”.
Bob Dylan.
Tif Finn says: (655)
November 1, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Mr Murray said: “…but we’re running a business.”
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From what we’ve come see of his businesses, the man couldnae run a bath.
Tif Finn says: (656)
November 1, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Thankfully it isn’t the same Airdrieonians that died because David Murray wasn’t willing to accept them not paying their bills.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/628268.stm
Ibrox chairman David Murray applied for an interdict, on behalf of his company Carnegie, for a debt of around £30,000 owed by Airdrie.
Mr Murray said: “I feel very sorry for Airdrie and their supporters but we’re running a business. We have given them repeated warnings and felt they were playing on our good nature.”
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£30k wasn’t even a good night out for Sir Stumpy in they days when he was a Multi Billionaire. What was his real agenda?
What a day?
JT?
DK?
Advertising for a new CEO?
Anyone smell “Meltdown?”
Certainly looks like “The King” is high tailing it back to SA after his meeting in an Inchinnan Bus Garage soon after landing in Glasgow earlier this week. He probably did fly across with high hopes, 1st Class of course! He’ll no doubt be flying back 1st Class as well?
Personally, I think he has probably been told he might not quite be a “Fit and Proper Person!”
Then again, he might be! Possibly another Smoke & Mirrors story?
It’s been a long week, and this story just plugs along!
On the JT Resignation/ Sacking – You made your bed long before leaving the MSM Jim. I hope your employment at Ibrox has been worth it in the short term. I sincerely hope that the BBC DO NOT take you back, as that will be the last straw for me! (alas for you, I think you have already burnt your bridges with former colleagues in that establshment). Your resignation got a fleeting mention on todays news! As it should!
Anyway, Good Luck JT . At least you can now go back to supporting Clydebank FC without pretending?
p.s. Forgot about the new IBrokes CEO Advert.
I’m Sparticus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Institutional investors paid 19.000,000 pounds to buy shares in The Rangers at 75p each -they are now valued at 48.5P or approximately a paper loss of 6,000,000 pounds. What did they get in Return? Do you seriously think they got nowt? Who owns the deeds to Ibrokes? Who stands to gain when they go broke? Will Green get to the selling date which falls before the AGM and covert 6,000,000 1p shares into Easdale’s 6,000,000 48P shares? None of this money goes to The Rangers. It all goes to Green. Will the secret spivs in Blue Pitch and Margarita get their loot? The spivs will walk away with millions and leave the corpse to rot. This will all explode over the Christmas /New year period and the lawyers will fight over the bones. Another share issue is pointless. It merely lines the pockets of the spivs.
Tif Finn says: (656)
November 1, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Thankfully it isn’t the same Airdrieonians that died because David Murray wasn’t willing to accept them not paying their bills.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/628268.stm
Ibrox chairman David Murray applied for an interdict, on behalf of his company Carnegie, for a debt of around £30,000 owed by Airdrie.
Mr Murray said: “I feel very sorry for Airdrie and their supporters but we’re running a business. We have given them repeated warnings and felt they were playing on our good nature.”
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Oh the irony!!!!!!!!!!
Particularly loved the quote from Murray “I feel very sorry for Airdrie and their supporters but we’re running a business. We have given them repeated warnings and felt they were playing on our good nature.”
“Sir” David Murray- Where is he now? We demand to know! (In France, I heard!)
A question, Sir David, as a “British” Tax Payer, were you also “playing on our good nature.” We demand to know?
You, Sir David, were owed £30,000. For £30,000, you killed a club!
So, what comparison between the old Airdrie who owed you £30,000 and your Good Self, who owes 5 Million people in Scotland a helluva lot more in dodged taxes?
“Sir” Lester Piggot was stripped of his “Sir” for being a Tax Dodger, Your great pal, “Sir” Fred Goodwin was also stripped of his knighthood for being a financial cheat. Why wait to be the next?
Time to come clean, “Sir” David?
Seriously, Sir David Murray, “former” Chairman of RFC really needs hauled into a Westminster Parliamentary Committee on Financial matters to explain his conduct, not just on RFC, but every business he has ever ran!
Gonnae happen? I doubt it!
Murray is an absolute disgrace of a man who has conveniently devised a good hiding place under the radar for the last 2 years!
I really hope this man is exposed for what he is very soon.
Also ironic, Airdrie are still trading as Airdrie (but will always be Clydebank to me, for personal reasons!)
Basically, what I’m saying is that Murray (David) has a lot to answer for, and has not been properly brought to account!
Why is that?
Serious question, particularly to the Scottish MSM!
Maybe The Chycophant can arrange an all expenses paid trip to Davie’s Chataeux in France and ask him these serious questions over a nice Succulent Lamb and a nice Chianti?
Fisiani says: (29)
November 2, 2013 at 12:49 am
Institutional investors paid 19.000,000 pounds to buy shares in The Rangers at 75p each -they are now valued at 48.5P or approximately a paper loss of 6,000,000 pounds. What did they get in Return? Do you seriously think they got nowt? Who owns the deeds to Ibrokes? Who stands to gain when they go broke? Will Green get to the selling date which falls before the AGM and covert 6,000,000 1p shares into Easdale’s 6,000,000 48P shares? None of this money goes to The Rangers. It all goes to Green. Will the secret spivs in Blue Pitch and Margarita get their loot? The spivs will walk away with millions and leave the corpse to rot. This will all explode over the Christmas /New year period and the lawyers will fight over the bones. Another share issue is pointless. It merely lines the pockets of the spivs.
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The shares are already worthless because nobody wants to buy them at that price. There is no liquidity in the AIM market and it is a market where Spivs like Green etc extract millions from on a regular basis. They mainly take their cash from buying assets cheap and pulling out fees for the slightest reason – non of it earned.
That it has happened to Rangers just makes me laugh. “We are the peepil” they chant. I chant back Youse are the MUGS”
Have I missed something re. Gym Trainer? The man’s allegiances were always claimed to be to Airdrieonians FC (1878-2002).
Did he not also try to buy the rights to the name from KPMG but was refused?
This man is obviously a Jonah, the next club to have his support better have a Masterton-esque banking facility.
Oh wait, what’s that you say? That’s been tried too?
GeronimosCadillac says: (30)
November 2, 2013 at 12:29 am
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Bit close to the bone that, was it no’?!! Gave me a
though!
When I saw this headline
I thought, it must be
A – Dave (the lying) King
B – Craig (two D.O.B’s) Whyte
C – Jim (1 Sevco share) McColl
Billionaire apologizes for wealth he accumulated ‘at expense of workers’ and says rich should pay more taxes
Californian financier, William Gross, 69, who owns Pacific Investment Management Company, PIMCO, is calling for tax reform
He says top 1 per cent of earners should pay more back
Gross, who ranked 641 in the Forbes list of billionaires, says he feels ‘sorry for the less well-off’
He says most of his fellow tycoons were fortunate to have been born in the 40s, 50s and 60s
Gross calls those who complain about taxes ‘Scrooge McDucks’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483652/William-Gross-Californian-billionaire-apologizes-wealth-accumulated-workers-expense.html#ixzz2jTATjgcw
Re Jim Traynor. Surely this man is damaged goods now as far as the BBC are concerned? They can’t possibly take him back. Some of the statements he issued during his time at Ibrox would have done Charles Green proud. Indeed, you get the impression Traynor was writing some of Green’s nonsense for him.
I know the BBC took Gordon Smith back after his disastrous SFA reign, but notably he now makes only fleeting guest appearances since his involvement with the now liquidated Rangers. Going back to Traynor, I suspect Radio Clyde will be his destination – a station where naked pro-Rangers bias is clearly acceptable, and appears to be encouraged. Likewise the baiting and ridiculing of Celtic and their fans. Radio Clyde and Jim Traynor would be a marriage made in heaven.
Fergus
I am with you all the way regards the Knight .
He is the key to this whole debacle and IMO sourced CW to take the ship down and the flak .
With CWs penchant for recording devices ,I just wonder how much CW thought would be enough for his part ,he may have already taken his slice ,or they may have stiffed him for it ,either way if I were him I would be looking for plenty for taking that hit .
It will be interesting to see if Ticketus still pursue him after the spivs have packed up and gone ,as my theory is that Green and Co are in there to get Ticketus their cash back .
Now that JT will no longer be paid to tend his garden, will Jackie boy tell us that ‘Jim Traynor no longer speaks for this club’?
As well as effectively silencing debate about the board on .RM, Jack has now shut off the tap to favoured former colleagues of the multi-chinned one. Who was the source of the DK, AIM, NOMAD story which was swiftly trashed by Phil?
Who was CY’s source for the ‘SFA have no problem with DK’s fit & proper person status’? (Bearing in mind that CY has never entertained an original opinion in his puff!)
Scribblers in Scotland will have to look out their very longest spoons if they plan to sup wi’ Jack!!
JT can hang up his brogues sit in front of his laptop and, for the first time in his career, write ‘Rangers & Murray: The Truth’.
Stage 1. Get JT off the books
Stage 2. Using favoured posters on RM, attack unfriendly journalists/other clubs
Stage 3. Make sure no one asks about that pesky AGM
Stage 4. Cash in your chips when even the MSM begin to realise that the ‘floating pitch’; ‘3 billionaires’; ‘the highest IQ in the world’; ‘moving to the EPL’; ‘European leagues’; are all the product of a fevered imagination.
Judging by last night’s SSB ( a relapse!) Even shug the mug is starting to realise that he was duped!
Well done Jim Traynor….You have assisted in their financial distress…and achieved the square root of fek all at the same time..
The SFA have re-entered twitter, I’m thinking that something is happening in the background, that will become news shortly.
Until then there is this twitter exchange this morning, the first mention of the SFA seeing the Pinsent Mason report:
WeKnowSFA @WeKnowSFA 33m
@DarrylBroadfoot #DefyTheOdds and release a statement about the Pinsent Mason report into links between Craig Whyte & Sevco
darryl broadfoot @DarrylBroadfoot 20m
@WeKnowSFA Report viewed under legal privilege. Based on contents provided, no evidence to merit referral to Compliance Officer. That do?
Evidence provided is not always all the evidence.
So JT now walking away or pushed as the case me be. For a man with a history of non stop abusing and degrading people and never being able to keep quiet has not really said much during his time at Govan (easy money again, similar to directors in the past not doing nothing as Minty took care of everything). No doubt JT will get some going away compensation with the usual ” do not say anything bad about oor team or club clause”.
Though he did not say much I do remember his wee staged interview with the cheeky chappie, it was really funny, bordering on hilarious. Someone then pointed out it was not a comedy sketch but a from the heart serious interview for the fans. No said I, no way can you think intelligent people believe such nonsense Did they believe him in the past when he said liquidation is the end of club and it’s history? Or was the interview the true words about club, company blah blah and how angry he was more easy to digest for the gullible..
He stated he knew where the bodies were buried and a host of other things about our media, please tell, oh sorry forgot about the clause.
Jim McColl please invest but I will not be investing, this is the stuff of stand up comedy. Now DK will wait until after the AGM, oh dear what can the press run with now?
Bomber Broon asked on the steps in Govan a long time ago who has the deeds for Ibrox? Still nobody knows. If you clear your mortgage the house belongs to you. The deeds are in the bank/building society and you can apply through your solicitor to have then sent to you, or alternatively leave them with your solicitor, quite simple really. So why is so difficult to find the deeds of a deid club’s premises.
JT leaves the rangers as part of a cost cutting exercise. I never did understand why he was there in the first place and what did he actually do in his 11 months?
Paul Murray says there will need to be a least one more fund raising initiative.
Dave King says there there will need to be at least two before they get back to the top.
Jim McColl say there needs to be further investment though it won’t be his money.
Sounds to me that the bears are in big trouble again. Six months max before admin 2? Or will it be early new year after the spivs bail out?
JT’s time at sevco can be summarised as follows:
A man walks into a pub, a large dog is lying in front of a roaring fire, licking it’s cream crackers. ‘I wish I could do that!’, said the visitor.
‘Give him a biscuit and he might let you!’ Said the barman
‘So long JT, thanks for the garibaldis!’
valentinesclown says: (259)
November 2, 2013 at 10:41 am
All the evidence gathered on here points to the deeds for Ibrokes and MP being owned by RFCL at the last time of looking. Stockbridge even had them in the Ibrokes safe.
The point is that those deeds are assets of a company that owes its parent company RIFC around £16m at end of June 2013.
At this present time there is no-one on the board of either company to block a move to transfer the assets from the Ltd to the Plc. In fact with the Ltd being in so much debt the transfer of the main property assets to the Plc as a write off suits the shareholders of the Plc as once they get there hands on the deeds they either get a return through rent or a sell off.
ForresDee says: (118)
November 2, 2013 at 9:46 am
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Perhaps Darryl Broadfoot is stupid or believes we all are. I suspect neither is the case. I guess it’s a classic case of not asking the question if you’re not going to like the answer.
So JT has had some sums to do. Walk away with next to nothing, at best 3 months salary without a compromise agreement but cash in by dishing the dirt via a book, interviews or newspaper articles or accept a compromise agreement with at least 6 months to a year’s pay.
I disagree that he “knows where the bodies are buried”. He wasn’t a main board director and since Green departed has rarely been seen or heard. I therefore doubt he knows much about anything of the goings on at Ibrox, let alone who is behind BPH or Margarita, who sold what shares to whom and the price. At best he may some info on the dealings with the SFA.
In truth he was ill suited to the job, vastly overpaid, couldn’t even set up the wifi and delivered some of the most crass statements ever to emerge from a football club. Rangers were oft accused of buying the better players from other Scottish clubs and rarely playing them. I think Green took away a potential media problem by hiring JT into a non job. That it has taken this long for him to be removed shows the lack of managerial control at Ibrox.
I’m fairly sure he will have taken the additional money up front and signed the compromise agreement. He may re-appear on some media outlet somewhere but expect nothing but anodyne comments if asked about the Ibrox situation. The best we can hope for is that he leaks some of his info to a “friendly” in the press but has he any pals left that he trust?
Jim Traynor, if he ever was a big noise in the Scottish sports media, is not much more than a whisper this morning.
Too bad.
Sugar Daddy says: (134)
November 2, 2013 at 11:11 am
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Jim Traynor, if he ever was a big noise in the Scottish sports media, is not much more than a whisper this morning.
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Now he’s as quiet as a vegan’s fart, but twice as pungent.
blackjacque says: (8)
November 2, 2013 at 10:57 am
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JT leaves the rangers as part of a cost cutting exercise. I never did understand why he was there in the first place and what did he actually do in his 11 months?
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I’ve been wondering about the JT appointment too. Almost one year on, his main contribution was to recant of his previously-held belief regarding liquidation. His flip-flop certainly added weight (quite literally) to the ‘saved out of admin’ nonsense which, on turn, has encouraged many to buy STs, shares, and so on, because “it was only the company that went under”. His farewell swipe at the bloggers and everyone else also helped build the ‘us and them’ mentality that Green manipulated so effectively. The £2-300,000 JT reportedly got could be seen as money well spent since he was something of a bully towards every other pundit and reporter, especially when on the Beeb. Had he not been brought on board he might have been a huge pain in the rectum for Charles. Wouldn’t surprise me if JI himself had quietly suggested Traynor to Green, to keep him busy and on side, while JI did the real PR.
hard to be critical of an attendance of 22,000+ on a Friday night for a 3rd Round Cup match {sez the Scotsman} but I thought The Most Successful Team Ever In The Whole Wide World Ever sold out every match at AyeBroke?
[ they will probably claim it as the highest attendance ever for a Scottish Cup 3rd Round Match ever ever. Perhaps they’d be right. Would anyone care?]
Why do people keep talking about “admin 2”?
They’ve never been in admin, that club died.
This is a new club.
cowanpete says: (32)
November 2, 2013 at 11:30 am
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Given that part of the ground was closed, many ST’s didn’t go because they weren’t getting their own seat. How many giveaways?
I have a high regard for Darryl Broadfoot as a man and as a journalist. He is a Rangers fan, which will carry with it the attendant default position of denial with regard to the new club. But he is not a fool, and nor does he wish to be seen as one. I am certain that he is both embarrassed and frustrated at the kind of equivocal statement he has been forced to make on behalf of the amateur hour collective at Hampden.
The entire Pinsent Mason scenario highlights precisely how ineffectual and neutered the SFA is, and how utterly feeble and powerless the people running it have become.
Broadfoot must cringe every time he sees Regan on his caller ID.
Good to see jack’s dropped in! He might learn something about PR.
Question
Who said this, about whom?
“They surged in several times clubbing everyone within reach. Although the fans who were spewing their sectarian bile probably deserve a good hiding, innocents would also have been taken out.”
Bet you can guess.
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darryl broadfoot @DarrylBroadfoot 20m
@WeKnowSFA Report viewed under legal privilege. Based on contents provided, no evidence to merit referral to Compliance Officer. That do?
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i have a feeling that one will come back to haunt you Darryl
When it all comes out that Whyte was involved who will be leaving their post?
You are honestly relying on their OWN investigation and heavily censured report? Did you think they would tell you that Whyte was involved knowin git could mean the loss of membership?
Remember the picture of craigy boy at Heathrow walking past the “Nothing To Declare” advertising banner?
Well here’s a mock up with some of the main “players” in the shambles that is sevco, http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12569830&t=8054574
Traynor guesting with Richard Gordon this afternoon ! … Oooh !
NTHM
The Broadfoot tweet is cleverly worded. “Based on contents provided…” if the report was a whitewash and contained nothing of import then the SFA has nothing to act upon. Whyte could own everything down to the paperclips & toilet rolls but the SFA are using the same get out card the RIFC board used.
I agree the SFA are essentially a pointless organisation as they cant administer their own rules nor can they investigate effectively any likely breaches.
If this whole sorry affair has shown us anything, it is that the sooner the SFA in its current format is done away with, the better.
An opinion
Take away the decent Rangers fans who bought into the RIFC IPO with real money
What you have left is 100% Spivs In all probability they used OPM to cover any hard cash that changed hands Money originating from dubious sources with the assets as collateral
A fair chunk of of the cash that has disappeared since the IPO will have been used to redeem loans used to buy IPO shares at a discount
Add back the freebie shares and you have a bumper payday when the share lockin expires in Dec 2013
So
All this noise about factions fighting for control is simply nonsense to distract the gullible. There are probably no factions with meaningful holdings and never has been. If there was they would have spoken out by now. The puff from the true Rangers men is simply hot air without the funds or inclination to buy out the Spivs
All this nonsense about DK and his millions is simply timewasting spin for the gullible. It bought
another few weeks towards sell on day
The original Spivs are now poised to sell to another set of Spivs This may or may not include the Easdales.The money making plans of the next lot may well skirt closer to the law than we have seen so far
Dumping Jabba is probably good housekeeping
It clears out a potential loose mouth as a tricky PR period looms
I reckon the new Spivs are getting ready to emerge with the current lot eying the door
If the long suffering fans think the end is in sight they could be seriously disappointed
The new Bosses may pursue their ends from a safe distance using a series of front men to take the flack
darryl broadfoot @DarrylBroadfoot 20m
@WeKnowSFA Report viewed under legal privilege. Based on contents provided, no evidence to merit referral to Compliance Officer. That do?
So much for transparency in our national sport!
Why should such a document be issued under this pretext?
The club/company should be forced to publish the entire document simply because the allegations made were so serious.
This goes to the very heart of what is wrong with the governance of our sport: people who think they know better than their own customers when, given past experience, this is clearly not the case.
Serious allegations are made concerning the ownership of a club/company. That club/company is allowed to INVESTIGATE ITSELF, then give a slimmed down version of the report to the governing body and everyone is supposed to be alright with this.
For goodness sake get a grip of yourselves ya bunch of donkeys.
When this eventually all goes down the pan the SFA will come out with their usual nonsense of ‘We were lied to. We were kept in the dark. We didn’t know.’
What they seem incapable of understanding is that it is their responsibility to see through lies by searching for the truth, not allow themselves to be kept out of the loop and in the dark, and ultimately search for the truth to protect all clubs.
They really are a shambles.
darryl broadfoot @DarrylBroadfoot 20m
@WeKnowSFA Report viewed under legal privilege. Based on contents provided, no evidence to merit referral to Compliance Officer. That do?
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Not good enough Darryl and I think you know that.
Declaring that everything is OK ‘based on contents provided’ betrays your own doubts or you would not use that caveat. If the ‘report’ submitted by RIFC was viewed under legal privilege then so can the full report and all back-up material.
I recall that the statement issued at the time by RIFC was misleadingly worded and did not address the actual question posed. Sevco 5088 directorships? CW tapes? Please.
Darryl, if feel you have to issue such a deviously worded statement you need to resign.
Scottish Football needs people of conscience to start standing up for what is right.
Remember last year in the Cup when TRFC boycotted their away match against Dundee United? So this year if TRFC were drawn away to DU again, surely DU would be well within their rights to refuse to sell any tickets to TRFC fans? Does anyone know, is a home club forced to offer some tickets to the fans of the away club for a Cup match? I’m thinking of the possibility that Celtic draw TRFC at home in the Cup; would Celtic have to offer tickets to the away club or are they permitted to keep all the tickets for home fans and/or season ticket holders?
There MUST be a rule or guideline for this; anyone know?
Can’t imagine there’s any way a club could withhold tickets to away fans
Some share shuffling at Dundee United
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24785678
No sign of Mr Traynor on Radio Shortbread this afternoon – gagging order kicked in?
Jack’s rather aggressive statement read out on RC. He should sack his PR!
Hopefully bbc said No Way No Pay Mr Traynor 🙂 🙂 🙂
Radio Scotland just played the ‘Your Call with Jim Traynor’ jingle at the start of Sportsound Extra.
This may be the only decent joke I’ve ever heard on the station.
That wasn’t funny BBC Scotland. I nearly smashed my radio.
Araminta Moonbeam QC says: (7)
November 2, 2013 at 5:32 pm
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Radio Scotland just played the ‘Your Call with Jim Traynor’ jingle at the start of Sportsound Extra.
This may be the only decent joke I’ve ever heard on the station.
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What on earth was that all about? Mocking mode?
Perhaps Jim will phone in and be harangued by the phone-in host 😀
Anyone who wants to make up their own mind about the abandoned St Mirren v Ross County game, the game is on Alba now. It’s definitely wet…
Speaking a lot of common sense on Sportsound Extra about promising young players moving south too soon.
It’s also about time the parent clubs got an even bigger renumeration from each sell on for nurturing. Would help even out the financial disparity even more.