In a week when the colours worn at Ibrox was under the microscope, another cognate issue emerged.
Eagle-eyed Sevco watchers noted that Pedro and his chaps were sporting some unusual apparel at Glasgow airport.
The Engine Room Subsidiary crest on right-hand side instead of the usual left side was one of the things that stood out.
Someone said to me that they looked suspiciously like something bought off the shelf in a Sports Direct store and the badge simply stuck on.
What is not in doubt is the fact that the German sportswear manufacturer was an important player in the recent unconditional favourable settlement of the retail dispute.
Last year, as is normal, Puma made an upfront payment to the Holding Company Vehicle.
Like an advance to an author by a publisher, this is an anticipation of future sales.
Now dear reader, imagine how the folk in the publishing business would react if, after having written the cheque to the writer, they realised that the same fellow was urging the public NOT to buy the book in question!
That, I believe, is a reasonable analogy to how Puma view Sevco at the moment.
I understand that the advance last year was in the region of £700k and they would rather like it back.
Part of Chairman’s King’s stunning success over Ashley was that the German company would get their money back through sales of unsold stock.
Another aspect of this new dispensation with Puma was that the Engine Room Subsidiary only received the contracted amount of kit from the German manufacturer and not a single item more.
This would explain the recent development of initials being scraped off training tops and new ones glued on.
Therefore any extra kit that was required would need to be bought from the normal retail outlet, i.e. from Big Mike.
For the avoidance of doubt, the German sportswear giant is doing everything by the book and no one within the Sevco High Command can have the slightest grumble.
These tracksuits, although very fetching, could be a PR disaster if the stenographers were to examine what it might actually signify.
Of course, they have high-Level instructions to do as they’re told.
Therefore, the narrative they are slavishly thirled is that everything in the Sevco garden is rosy.
It isn’t.
It really isn’t at all.
As the truth comes dripping slowly it will become apparent, even to the People, that the great victory over Big Mike was, in fact, an abject surrender.
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And now they face the final curtain….the high court has thrown out the BDO appeal.
And now the end is near and so they face the final curtain….HMRC throw out the BDO appeal.
humped by a radio station……………nuff said.bye bye sevco.
Hahaha! The Niedrkorn’s keeper was called Charly Schinker!
This pantomime couldn’t get any funnier if you’d Danny Bhoyle, Chris Morris, The Pythons & Spike Milligan scripting it!
These guys are the biggest joke of a ‘fitba club’ of all time!
I’ll use this phrase once and once only, and this only because it’s true, but I am ROTFLLMFAO! 😀
The ‘Power of Rangers*(sic) !!!
(Batters table for full effect, albeit 2 hours later)
Still rollin’ here, Sevvies!
How YOU doin’ …? 😀
Big Mike, Tanks, Sevco, etc, etc………………….utter pish.
Keep lying to them, they’re lapping it up.
Between you and that other “troubled” individual JJ, certainly make my lunchtime more entertaining ha-ha x
2-0 to the Niederkorn, baby!
You must be lapping their coos milk up right now!
Sevco!
You did great getting to 2 hours in the first round! 😀
Herby fan jannies! 😀
It’s so blatantly obvious that these are not official tracksuits. They’re black ffs. The training gear they are pictured in also looks off the shelf, black generic shorts and blue training tops. The Sevconians, as per usual, are lining up to praise the design, ask when they’re available to buy etc. (If you want one they’re available from Puma in sports shops) Not even a murmur of disquiet or query as to the colour amongst the obedience as usual.
Black is the new blue, according to King Dave, so it must be true, if a man with that black a heart says it.
Haha! The ‘Lower People’ (Niederkorn’) have only scored 3 goals in their Euro fitba history and 2 of those were tonight!
How’s things round Ibrox, Billy? 😉
As ever, it’s all going so horribly wrong for poor young Sevco. But I want it to continue because for Celtic fans it’s such a win-win. We keep belittling them, they keep howling at the moon. All the way to 10 in a row. No cost. God spare me. I’ll die happy.
Love it …..keep up your amazing work Phil
And how likely is it that big Mike is sitting quietly sharpening his dagger ready for the moment to strike the king?
Not sure of the exact mechanics of the process, but, it seems that the megastore on-line domain name reverted back to SD on or around the date the deal was announced by His Glibness. Soon after the stock in the physical megastore ran out. Only alternative to buying last year’s kit was from SD stores, or from SD controlled websites. So who really got the best of the deal?
W B Yeats,
The Lake Isle of Innesfree.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.
Truth will not come dripping slowly for these people Phil, truth is not in them.
But Yeats holds a beauty sometimes beyond reach.
HH
Come Wed morn and sevco have made NO progress…thing could get interesting…
Should they win, then they face the mighty parasol…no wait….lime-aid-asol.
WATP…We Are Totally Pathetic
You mean the mighty Pissin Masel.
As all those in the know are.
Feck me! I wrote that BEFORE checking their result against the Luxemburglars!
Imagine that, the ‘Mighty Bears’ getting knocked out by a gang of part timers fae no man’s land!
So much for ‘feeling the power of Rangers*’, eh, Pedro ..?
* Jimbo’ ..?
Happy you took the hauk job now ..?
Dave King as Pyrrhus of Epirus?
No way Kingsnake… Pyrrus won One.
They must have worked it out by now.
A sure fire seller, their first ever European tie at home, and they couldn’t get stock into the megastore.
How many clues do they need
Meanwhile the BBC keep going with the ‘No McKay’ narrative which is surely because they don’t want his being cup tied to scupper a multi-million transfer to Red (herring, lot of) Bull Liepzig