Oscar Wilde once famously observed that “Irony is wasted on the stupid”.
As regular readers here will be aware, Mr David Cunningham King had an important task allotted to him recently by the Sevco High Command.
That was to sell the fantasy that the Ashley deal was a great victory for the Holding Company Vehicle and, ipso facto, for The People.
Glib and shameless credit where it is due he delivered the script perfectly at the presser.
Praise is also due to the assembled stenographers who experienced a dignified rapture of unsurpassed proportions.
Consequently, they could only gasp in ecstasy rather than sound like working journalists.
Perhaps Mr King was so confident at the press conference because he was confident that he wouldn’t be asked a single difficult question.
Well, his confidence was justified!
However, Mr King couldn’t leave it at that.
He had to say more.
I am informed that several members of the Sevco High Command are less than delighted at his vainglorious disclosure of the need for an emergency loan in June.
This is not the sort of signal to send out during the transfer window.
If clubs are aware of a cash crisis at Sevco, then they will bide their time and then submit lowball offers for players.
That is especially unfortunate when those unwanted assets need to be sold for as much money as possible, just to address the growing deficit.
However, it his view on the validity of the titles that Celtic have won in recent years that really is box office.
There was a time, before the Off Licence Putsch, that Mr King did seem worried about Ten In A Row for the Hoops.
Now, this ten titles thingy doesn’t seem to be a problem.
If The People cannot see they are being played then there really is little hope for anyone socialised into that belief system.
Of course, denial would seem to be an integral part of the skillset for a “Real Rangers Man”.
Firstly, there is a denial about the events of the summer of 2012.
Now there is a denial that Celtic have won the last six titles in a row.
I suppose when the reality of a situation is so painful that this is a useful skill to have.
It was that psychic wound that Mr King is adept at prodding when he needs a particular reaction from The People.
Perhaps the South African based entrepreneur has a painting of an honest man in his Johannesburg attic…
Liked the dorian gray reference
Phil how can I get unblocked from your twitter page?dont know why I’m blocked! Would much appreciate any feed back.
So am I right in thinking now that the fan group has bought Mike’s shares that King will finally be able to push through his resolutions at the next AGM? I’m thinking specifically of Res. 11 of course. Can someone who knows more about this stuff than me explain how this benefits him? Is it just a case of – issue more shares to make more money out of thin air? What will the repercussions be, if any? Surely this is the BIG story to come out of all of this, unless I’m very much mistaken?
You’re very much mistaken…
I blame the schools for his lack of simple math ability
Close whichever system he went to
He being.. 🙂
I thought Res 11 failed by 0.4% in 2016? I’ll defer to anyone with better knowledge, but 0.4 – 8.9 = -8.5%. That’s a decent majority for the resolution at the next AGM, surely?
Another broken Celtic crest?
Doesn’t this statement show the complete disregard with which “rangers” (and the SFA?) hold the other clubs in Scotland?
It should be noted that the only time Celtic managed a treble was when an entity from Ibrox was in the top division.
Shouldn’t King be more concerned about (administration) Aberdeen?
Keep up the good work, Phil. Now glib , shameless, inflammatory and delusional.
Director loan of £1.5 million required in………..JUNE! FFS.
That what speaks volumes about the Sevco situation, not the pish coming from King.
King , the arse end of the donkey, and all the torch carriers and pitchfork men can’t get enough. What a pitiable crowd. Naw I don’t mean that, because I only have ridicule and contempt for them. It is their schooling to blame.
Magic beans ! Magic beans! Red,White and Blue Magic beans! Three for a pound!
Well if they’re as gullible as we’ve seen, why not.
Phil, the Holy Grail piece was satirical brilliance , and so true.
Many Thanks
Phil – I see what you done there!!.. Oscar Wilde was locked up in Reading Gaol. Someone of a Celtic persuasion also done a bit of time in Reading. Oscar’s success is in the literary world, whilst Brendan’s success is clearly written in the footballing world. Meanwhile, the 50,000 monkeys that inhabit the Govan hovel are awaiting charitable donations of typewriters in order to set about writing the collective works of Shakespeare.
We have won 12 of the last 17 title’s since the turn of the century. The team that has won the other 5 have been proved to have done so with an illegal helping hand. In the meantime Demagogue Dave, puts out the begging bowl, backed up by Chris Graham(Check his twitter), and the mugs empty their Piggy banks like there is no tomorrow. All really, very funny, however in reality it is all very sad. The Cry was no surrender, right enough.
If Celtic didn’t win titles due to Sevco being in the lower divisions, then he certainly can’t deny Hearts winning the Championship. With BOTH ” Rangers” and Hibs in at the same time, it would be difficult for him to claim otherwise.
Unbelievable comment from Glib regarding Celtic’s last 6 titles and this from the chairman of a “club” that cheated to get titles and cups by using EBTs.
This guy will say anything to build up a feel good factor so that the fans blindly part with their money.
Oh dear.
On another note, I hear a rumour that Pedro and his new Latin gallacticos have asked the Sevco Board for a room to be set aside within Ibrox for a private chapel. Meanwhile Sevco has asked sponsors for cash to extend the tunnel to the very edge of the Ibrox pitch so that these gallacticos can bless themselves freely out of sight of the fans.
The medical term for King’s condition is maladaptive daydreaming.
Apparently it’s incurable.
If u go by his thinking then Celtic have won nothing since 2012 and can never win anything ever again as they r not rangers
Or even a dishonest man in his antic …
I’m pretty sure that all of those perched atop this charade are rapidly greying behind closed Dorian’s.
The painting in the attic of the “Honest Man” would have to be Jesus.
This comes from a man who called brexiteers racist. Stay classy
Broad generalisations do not make a great journalist a poor one, Jason, nor do such statements impinge on the fact that, while all Brexiteers may not be racist, a similar broad brush stroke most certainly can be applied to include the fact that all Brexiteers did not have a clue what they were actually voting for in their haste to ‘get out of’ the Eurozone, as though such a thing could ever be humanly possible in such uber-connected, fast track, times
A quick look at the shocked and downtrodden faces of May, Boris, Farage and all the rest on hearing of the news should prove that irrevocably.
Brexit was intended to be a diversion away from other action that was happening, and they’re absolutely sick beyond horrified that everybody so willingly went for it, because this entire process will be a bureaucratic nightmare for decades to come, and the people of Britain will suffer for it irrevocably down the many years of its impending untangling.
They sold you a unicorn and you ended up with a squirrel.
And even Billy is finding it hard to swallow that.
King is a total eejit. Where this guy resides is rife with lies, it’s second nature to b**ls**t his way in downtown South Africa. His record coming here and spouting the dirge from his lips is the norm for a publically stripped con man who ripped off th SA tax authorities.
Kings words will long remain in the minds and hearts of the Celtic team.
Don’t ever forget that Murray and the bank were quite happy to see our club die through their collusion.
Now where did that get them?
It’s amazing, isn’t it?
But for mortgage lenders lending daft amounts to folk who really couldn’t afford the property they were buying – and allowing self employed folk to ‘self-certificate’ there would still be a Rangers, and they’d now maybe be £250m in debt…but still league champions.
Th effects of sub-prime mortgage lending still reverberates around the world. Many people lost their jobs and are still on reduced incomes 8-9 years later.
Maybe it would be better if the charade had continued. But every cloud has silver lining.
even only 2 is a joke – rangers could not get out of champ league on 1st attempt…. does celtic have to wait for ever?
sfa need to give titles back, then celtic already won 10-in-a-row and the record set.
this will allow celtic to be given current trophy and new on created…. with new sponsor…
sfa need to wake up or rangers will implode again!
Let them,the gift that keeps on giving, every second Saturday the big crèche in govan willbe jam packed with ne’er do wells, rapscallions, rat mask owners, deluded loon balls and gullible fools. I can only pray DK comes up with a 2 team league of them and Linfield .
His comments beggar belief, but worse is the DR saw fit to actually print/publish them, Is that rag of a “news”paper so tainted they will print and all pish this clown gushes?
Ah Mr King. He really does know all the right things to say to the Sevco fan base! Sadly his suggestion that some of Celtic’s titles don’t count is absolutely bladder-emptyingly hilarious, as I explain here (if I may…) https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/things-which-dont-count/
Hehehe, sock it to ’em, Clumpster!
Great to have you back, it would’ve been a tragedy to leave the page with a photie of Unreal Madrid as your epitaph 🙂
Hey Clumps! ?
I’ve just read your piece, The Fanta Years. The picture of the crushed fanta can and your last paragraph had me and my dear old ma in stitches.
Your wit on this comedy is unsurpassed!
Please keep them coming.
Hail hail ?
A poor attempt to stay relevant on the back of the biggest club in Scotland.
Away an give us all peace , you mealy mob are living on borrowed time… Loans in June unknown coming in on big money as well as the hasbeens still residing on big money and not moving anywhere.
It won’t be long before the bulldozers are trampling right up the fake marbel stairs. The Sports Direct deal is aRed Hereing to all the peeple . It’s hilarious to watch all those poor people coming out of the SEVCO shop with armfuls of two year old strips by Teddy Bears.wake up smell the coffee and accept reality… here we go ten in a row and bankruptcy for you nob in 2018 if not before it…. hai hail
Maybe he means it was a poor attempt by King to stay relevant by talking about Celtic?
Ehh, I think he meant King’s attempt to stay relevant on the back of Celtic, Kevan.
Are we meant to believe Celtic could have stopped rangers, the real rangers, dodgy 9 in a row by getting relegated?
Or by being liquidated
Or by being shire.