I am pleased to report that a recent conclave of the Sevco High Command was well attended.
Indeed the only non-attendee was the esteemed chairman Mr David Cunningham King.
Mr Alastair James Johnston dialled in from across the pond to lend his wise counsel to the Quintessentially British proceedings.
The Serious professional raised the looming issue of the Take Over Panel.
Indeed I concur with him that this isn’t something that can be ignored or dodged in any way.
It was also noted in a serious and professional manner, that the recent ruling by the UK Supreme Court on the use of EBTs by the old club, might have consequences for the new entity.
At that point, I am told that there was a frank analysis proffered from the other side of the Atlantic.
So trenchant were the observations that one or two of the Sevco High Command were taken aback by the Churchillian nature of the contribution.
Authorisation was sought to aggressively punt three or four players out of the door.
The reasons given was put simply.
Money.
The wage bill is unsustainable and there has been little Proges in the expected European revenue stream.
As someone might have said it really was time to smell the java and get real.
Sadly, like the Congress of Vienna, the most recent conclave of the Sevco High Command broke up in some disarray.
For the avoidance of doubt, there appears to be a growing consensus growing among the occupants of the Blue Room that the appointment of Senhor Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha has been a monumental error.
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Everyone signed the petition?
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https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/strip-the-titles
I can just hear him when he goes, behind him a trail of devastation, stars unpicked from recycled shirts,, blue boots everywhere, unpaid bills blowing with tumbleweeds across the uncut green grass, unpaid footballers leaning on goalposts: “My work here is done”. Godspeedyoupedro.
Was just the thinking …. what ever happened to the FOI / roof safety thing ??? I think u got some info on appeal but after that ???? Keep up the good work ….. ps I bought downfall for our school library…. works as a sports book but also a great example of the power of blogging and indeed reporting on stuff people don’t want to read the truth on ….
Just been having a look on one of the sweary sites. Bhoy, can those guys use expletives??
From the thread I was reading, a summary in Gers speak on the current situation regarding the stripping of titles…..
Basically, it’s all that c**t Liewell’s fault for asking the SPFL to review the situation. However, a f*****g line has been drawn under the f*****g matter by the SFA statement that no further action will be taken.
A lot of encouragement is being taken from a post which has advised that all the f****g c***s that are trying to strip titles have basically f****d up as the LNS commission was agreed upon and accepted legally and therefore any c**t who f*****g tries to f*****g strip titles, such as the SPFL will be taken to court by Rangers* and will have to f*****g pay their costs when the f*****s are rag dolled by Rangers* lawyers.
There are one or two who are not so confident though, as they would not put anything past those f*****s and that c**t Liewell.
I’ve left out the racist bits, however, I’m sure you can guess the kind of thing I’m talking about.
All of the great news makes you feel all warm, satisfied and wanting to share joy… Take a lesson from Ken, if you get caught tax dodging it needn’t have to be a reason to be miserable and if you have no gold or silver you can be happy…
https://youtu.be/3nH8lBKMNzw
Talking of transfers…
Should Aberdeen secure the services of Moult from Murderwell l think they will be stronger than last Season.
Made some shroud signings on the quiet l think.
Nah, Charlie, only Oldco ever made the ‘shroud’ signing, on their way into the ground, though I agree that the Dons have been pretty shrewd in the market place 🙂
Anymore news on the 3fugitives a sevconite at work told me today the hat ain’t pursuing his unpaid wages/unfair dismissal ,think hes talking shite
The thing is, even if 3 or 4 players are “aggressively punted out the door” the wage bill is still unsustainable.
Most of “The peepul” probably wont be factoring in the massive downturn/recession/depression the UK now faces.
Things have never really been fixes post 2007 bank collapse, just cracks papered over.
The magically recover that happened is being shown to be a fraud and things are turning bad quite quickly.
This seems a long way from fitba but as the economy faulters the chances of say, a bus operator, having spare cash to throw around will diminish.
Interesting times.
And BTW, dont buy a house, they are 50% over priced and heading for the mother of all crashes, should have happened in 2007 but now the banks are able to take the hit. You have been warned.
A Big House divided against itself cannot stand.
hopefully the GASL took in somewhere like Mauritius,5 star hotel etc as part of his junket on the way back to Sth Africa.
Having just caught up with proceedings I have to say I loved the Carthage references, subtly hilarious. Another book I hear you whisper?, Unleash the Hounds, there will be plenty more material for a conclusive third later (or sooner). I’ve left two spaces on my bookshelf in anticipation Phil.
I liked the comment from Pedro’s club when he left”Rangers desire to appoint him was greater than our desire to keep him”.
I’ll give Mr Super-Caixino until Christmas…
Hopefully his employers might not make it that far!
Virtual handshake to the guy (hope you’re a reader/contributor here) who got through the Radio Snyde Sevco Firewall tonight to challenge them about the consequences of the high-court ruling… and more importantly tore into them about the media blackout that seems to be in force in Scotland regarding the issue.
Come on.. Own up! Someone deserves the credit!
And how obvious was it that the pundit, in this case Mark Guidi, didn’t offer a view? Instead, he silently let the caller go on and on, until there was no time to reply. Guidi even said he’d been on holiday, so wasn’t really across the story in any detail!
Don’t expect to hear from the caller again, his number will be on the “blocked” list.
I hope Celtic put a timeline in place for a response to their “expected review by the authorities following the guilty of cheating verdict. Otherwise it will end up in the long grass. UEFA need to be dragged to the table, res 12 is the way to do it. Maybe crowdfunding could be the way to keep the pressure on via the press. Maybe not our press though. Judicial review? We must sieze the moment before the guilty slip into the shadows again.
There’s got to be enough material for a Panorama or Horizon program on this debacle by now…
Alas I don’t think it’s in the Quintessentially British Broadcasting Corps’ remit to give airtime to what really happens at the heart of their handshakers’ totem pole-cum-fitba-club, or they’d have done it already.
So I can’t see an all encompassing panoramic overview on the horizon anytime soon from ANY of their brothers in arms in the UK media,
To level with you, I’ve a good mind to lodge a complaint but I don’t think they’d treat it either fair or square and I will not go to them on bended knee.
As an afterthought, shouldn’t the PSNI be phrased the ‘Northern Irish Police Service’ or do you think the acronym of ‘NIPS’ was just a bit too obvious ..?
Pedro was appointed because that was all they could afford
There was no way they could have attracted a top class manager
Because they couldn’t afford one
On arriving he was told he had the best squad in the land (they even lied to him to get him to becoming manager)
But give the man his due when he got in there he really seen the shite
he had to work with that’s why he is trying to get rid of them I think Pedro may walk from the
BIG HOOSE before it’s chained up for good hh
I think Pedro was appointed because of were he was at the time, namely Qatar and Dodgy Dave was looking for investment anywhere he could find it, and the plan was to get pally with the big rich guys in the football world in Qatar and encourage them to invest in sevco, I cant see any other reason for it unless no one else wanted the job.
I’d say they picked this rocket because any manager with a bit of knowledge of what’s been going on there wouldn’t touch the job with a barge pole or at least not without some cast iron guarantees that sevco can’t give. They needed a gullible outsider who could be lied to by Dodgy Dave and his high command. Not sure McInnes would have took the job if he was offered it.
It defies all logic but the entertainment value is superb!
I hope you’re not wearing green boots Phil?
You wouldn’t like Senhor when he gets angry
Braw
Walk towards the light Pedro
Was just wondering What consequences could the New Club suffer from as a result of the Old Clubs use of EBT’s ?
A further reality check.
No connection with Cheatco.
No titles (other than the “diddy” ones.
A five year history of comedy.
Zeddy,
There could be consequences for TRIFC due to their claim to the titles and history of Rangers FC.
There could be money laundering at ibrokes and no one would know, because as far as I gather they have not been seen by the proper authority, all is quiet on the roofs!! Where has all this money coming from? 9 players signed and is it 3 out
I still recall the Senior Pro going public some weeks ago that the TATP was a Dave issue not one that would impact on the club playing out of Ibrox.
Which is it? Maybe leaving it to Club1872 to resolve?….that would be worth a laugh.
I really truly hope as he leaves the “big hoose” he turns and blesses himself we all know it will be followed with a huge sigh of relief because he’s been holding if in for months while he tried to convince the peepul he’s one of them ha ha good times hail hail
35 senior (senor?) wages to pay a month and no income until August. Sevco are a distressed company that needed an emergency loan last month and with the cold shoulder in the offing it can mean only one thing: admin if they can’t offload players and access funding streams. Expect a ruthless cull of Sevco players and their wages by the career criminal once the administrator is appointed.
An administration is unlikely while there are directors willing to bankroll the operation.
But are there?….
NOT sustainable in the long term.
I’ve a mate who loves a good drink.
He loves it so much he does it every day, when he can.
The problem is that he can’t do it as much as he likes because all the money he ever earned from working has diminished to almost nothing due to his drinking and now he’s so puggled he can’t work again to finance his habit, leaving him in a bit of a quandary.
He told me last week that he’s ‘pissed his life up against the wall’ and I consoled him with the thought that at least he’s not John Gilligan or Douglas Park.
Being a Sevvie, this failed to hit his ‘funny bone’ mark, but that’s not really my fault.
You reap what you sow and you sow what you reap, so his ‘titles’ of being a ‘Very Importamt Person’ in the workplace have already been stripped from him and all this due to his own love of a party.
What can you say to such hubris?
I doubt they can afford Java.
I presume they drink Nescafé instant from the vending machine in disposable plastic cups.
Yeah, that bastard Joey even took his coffee machine! 😀
Pedro may claim discrimination on ethnic or religious grounds if fired before being allowed at least two bowel-evacuating Euro humiliations. Pedro’s lawyers might draw comparison with one Mr Fat Salary McCoist.
Oh sorry – that was a different club – wasn’t it – or was it . . .
tbf to salary ..he was a shit manager for BOTH clubs =P
Exactly what sevco are lacking right now – managerial consistency! ?
😀 😀 😀
Not b4 time but the new gullibillys joining club 1872 but are 700 new members gonna clear the debt aye right they were to big to die, but sorry they did like Third Lanark. They were no Ammount of Spin changes that Hmtc shut you down her boys HH
Oh Dear
Sounds like Pedro has overdosed on the WATP pills .
Battles ,fight ,hunger,tradition ,dignity,respect not a single mention of playing good football .
Looks like Pedro is lost bhoys ,I’m afraid to say he seems to have become ………..
ONE OF THE PEEPIL .
I will give him this, in maybe the first genuine point he’s made since his arrival, that he is absolutely correct that they’re engaged in ‘a war’:
However, as Phil also rightly points out, their ‘war’ is entirely with themselves, on all levels, and it’s the very hierarchical structure of those pesky ‘Levels’ that is causing them their untold pain.
Their ingrained indoctrination is so used to being told what to do by their ‘leaders’ that they go into a sort of paralysed meltdown when they realise that those ‘leaders’ might not actually be acting with the ‘club’s’* best interests at heart, and might even be operating in a self serving little structure closed to all but their ‘gey few’ own.
A bunch of fuckin mugs if you ask me.
I’m just not sure that I can bear much more.i really wanted Sally to stay but he left, wanted the magical Mark to stay and he got left too……
Can we start a petition to keep the poundland one?……
” . . . and he got left too……”
ha, ha, ha. Superb 🙂
Surely smell the Cenko?
Tho Java is in keeping with the script to be fair.
HH
A ‘v’ is pronounced ‘b’ in Spain so would that make it Jaba? Very apt.
I don’t think it’s an error I think personally it’s been a great appointment lol.
Caixihna?
They are quick, you have to give them that
And still some. Relieve this shit
Portugeese man of war my assignment time 4 brother Pedro 2 man up and admit he’s not one of the WATP lol
Maybe he really IS another ‘Celtic Secret Agent’, like Craighy & Chucky before him, and he really IS at war with the Peepil, papped in there to cause further ructions and rapidly ensuing chaos by the ever dastardly Heated Driveway and his moustachioed ‘mad manipulator’ Hermit Desmond in a cunning secret Catholic plan to take over the entire Scottish fitba world.
Aye, they’re probably thinking just about the same thing the noo themselves, the Peepil, rubbing their hands in a frustrated aborted glee at getting to chastise and abuse yet another fall guy, and a Catholic at that, for the sins of their errant and wayward eyed fathers, and the ways in which they’re ‘running’ their beloved ‘fitba’ ‘club’.
Who’ll shake them out of their stupidity, so that they know the sins they do.