I’m told that the Sevco High Command had two conclaves at the weekend.
The first one on Friday broke up in some disarray.
That is because an immaculately coiffed factotum turned up in order to channel the Churchillian influence of Mr David Cunningham King.
I think it was the view of the assembled chaps that the South African based entrepreneur wants some mechanism whereby his place on the board is taken by a proxy.
However, this cunning plan was shot down by a transatlantic brother who immediately saw the difficulties in such a ruse.
Indeed, the stateside chap pointed out that the Take Over Panel was an issue that could not be avoided for much longer.
His view was that once the enforcement phase was in play then the position of Mr King as chairman of RIFC was untenable.
Although there is barely a mention of it in the radar press, this “cold shoulder” thingy is rather serious.
The stateside chap would not hear anything about further legal avenues on the ruling apropos the RIFC Concert Party.
For the avoidance of doubt, the stateside chap informed the dignified conclave that he had no ambitions to replace Mr King.
The Saturday sits down as after the match and the tenure of Pedro was also discussed.
It will come as no surprise that he is now on the managerial equivalent of death row.
Moreover, results from now until the League Cup semi-final will be crucial for him.
Of course, team selection will be critical.
Having the correct players in their best positions could be the difference in crunch matches.
I think it is fair to say that Mr Moderator was differently happy when the Sevco team sheet was read out on Saturday morning.
He had thought that he would be starting given that he had been taking part in all of the tactical sessions on the battlefields of Auchenhowie.
However, I’m sure that everyone at Sevco in incredibly happy.
From boardroom to dressing room they’re all in a state of Zen-like bliss.
No, seriously…
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Forget about a judicial or independent enquiry into all things Oldco and the relationship with our football authorities.
The UEFA licence application was fraudulent, everyone knows it and it can no longer be denied, the evidence is overwhelming.
Fraud is a serious criminal offence and the perpetrators and those involved in the subsequent cover up should be held to account. A Police Scotland investigation would take 10 minutes to establish who did what when.
Potentially millions of pounds is involved with Celtic the major loser as they should have taken the place of Rangers in the CL qualifiers as they had unpaid social taxes at all points of thevarious cut off dates.
There is no correspondence relating to a payment plan or deferred payment, none.
JJ has laid bare the facts in his blog this morning. The extent of the involvement of our football authorities is nothing short of shameful. Most of those involved are still in situ within Scottish football. Some have retired, some have gone away and returned, some have actually climbed the greasy ladder and improved their positions.
How can that be when poor Craig Whyte was banned for life yet walked Scot free from all criminal charges against him!
Well your Wattsapp Group story is now getting column inches in the press with a meltdown from Pedro to the Wattsapp home grown Group being reported.
It’s the perennial tabloid catch up with genuine news from this site weeks beforehand.
It was reported that Peter Lawwell stated if CFC fans Reps gave him a silver bullet then he would fire it.
Surely the Supreme Court ruling that Rangers EBTs were unlawful is a silver intercontinental ballistic missile?
Pull the trigger CFC. Or forever send out players in a shameful club shirt that allowed 17 cheated titles to be stolen by Rangers over 12 seasons.
I see the blue sky thinking that took the Rangers unders out of the Scottish system to play against elite squads is going well…..6-1 doing from Leicester, no doubt a lot of learning as a result.
Media will find positives difficult to take from this…….though Lindsay and Jack will have a go
“The finest trick of the Devil is to pursuade you that he does not exist.”, Charles Baudelaire
Forget about Green and Whyte conspiracies
Forget about unseen Fenian hands
Forget about Papist plots
The man who will scatter your club and sub-culture to the four winds – never to be re-built again – is a Real Rangers Man – one of your own – an insider – a kindred spirit and fellow traveller – so blinded by his lust for personal glory that he will happily destroy the very thing he proclaims to love above all else – rather than admit his defeat on a fool’s errand. Yes, the King across the water is the evil-for-the-sake-of-evil that you have been pursuaded does not exist.
Regan’s warning of “Without Rangers there is social unrest – there is a big problem for Scottish scoiety” was merely premature prognostication – Armageddon is coming soon – courtesy of the man so many see as their Messiah. Regan and his like will have no say in the outcome this time.
Show racism the red card and run for cover when brought to task by the Klan over racism against Irish. I think Scotlands leaders are not ready for this century which is a pity because the majority of its people embraced the new world a long time and integrated. Hurry up the next downfall and put this shite out of existence so we may move along peacefully.
Thought just occured: Is that big chunk still disappearing to the Sevco Triangle every month? Don’t recall recent mention of it …
“Results from now until the LC semi-final will be crucial for him”.
Is there any word on how they manage finically until then?
Payroll in September?
Did Park put in the £1 mill?
Where’s the other £3-3.5 mill required?
The £4.5m will see Sevco through to the end of the financial year, so if Park decides to throw another million on the fire, it should keep the lights on for a few more weeks.
In my opinion rangers/sevco keep making the correct decisions.
Craig Whyte was the number one best choice available at the time. Couldn’t have made a better choice myself. Everything a celtic supporter could ask for.
As a replacement Charles of Normandy was perfect. I hope he enjoys his retirement.
just when you think things can’t get any better in comes the lying, cheating criminal Dave king.
This odious mob are getting everthing they deserve.
I hope liquidation comes very soon and they stay dead. No third rangers thank you very much.
This will be a better country when they are a distant memory.
King has a record of fighting defiantly long after he has lost emphatically – think of Monty Python’s black knight and 13 years plus £50 million spent losing to SARs.
The RIFC board must know in there hearts that King will pull down the entire Ibrox edifice and beggar them all rather than admit that he is wrong and take his medicine.
King is the bastard child of hubris and karma – what fun 🙂
Pedro ‘The Count’ Caxiniha Sevco Manager aka The Count in Sesame Street what a resemblance worth a look! Totting up the number of points they are falling behind week by week hahahaha…
Is it true that BDO cannot finalize Liquidation of Rangers FC because Associates of Craig Whyte have a claim on alienation of assets from Sevco 5088 Limited?
Is this a legal claim scheduled for court resolution?
Will this have an impact on the new club playing out of Ibrox if other businessmen own or part own the assets?
The Miraculous RFC. A football club which has claimed to survive Liquidation in 2012.
This question must be asked of CAS; can a UEFA club be the same club after LIQUIDATION and a sale of selected Assets (no players as they walked away from contracts with the dead club) to a newly set up company? Can titles be transferred to the new facsimile club with a new company number? Leaving £168.8m debts behind including social taxes of over £70m?
Can this new club claim circa 17 cups and titles won during the operation of a proven unlawful player social tax scam and deliberate registration malfeasance?
CAS needs to decide these questions.
why bother asking those questions on here? who are you asking? and why?
i’m pretty sure you’ve decided what you think the answers are.
If only Celtic had scored their other 16 shots it would have been 18-0 to Celtic.
– just extending Waddell’s logic.
The SMSM have to print comforting pish to keep the Gullibillies turning up and spending.
Separating a blue bigot from his coin, is, and has always been, the reason for Ibrox.
The secondary reason for soothing pish balm is there is no money to sack and replace Pedro. So best keep the tribe calm.
There is a vested interest in generating generations of bigots to pay the salaries of Ibrox suits.
Innocent children brought to the racist Ibrox bigotfest. To be mind f*cked into the culture in order to be the next gen blue pound chumps.
Bring them in, indoctrinate racism, fleece them silly, repeat.
The recent Supreme Court ruling on the old Rangers club ebt’s makes the Lord Nimmo Smith Commission findings totally erroneous in law.
It’s one thing saying you’ll agree with the LNS decision, but you thoroughly expect it to be a lawful decision.
LNS Conclusions are now unlawful. That sets everyone free from any agreement surrounding them.
They always were, and are still, erroneous and unlawful. The LNS commission was a private members club whitewash predicated on information supplied and information subverted by those called before said commission.
It has no legal standing whatsoever and was carried out by a retired Law Lord. So it was really Bungling Bill Nimmo Smith getting paid privately to produce a predetermined whitewash.
If taken to a real court in front of an acting Law Lord it would be laughed at.
However my favourite line from the entire report, which never gets a mention by the press is “Rangers ceased to be a club” and yet they say he said the club continued.
I would hazard a guess that only a handful of the media and Sevconians have actually read said whitewash all the way through.
The fact LNS found RFC guilty of Player Registration malfeasance. And that such malfeasance was pre planned, strategic and deliberate to dupe the authorities, in order to hide the unlawful EBT social tax scam crime was telling.
However, the fact LNS only fined RFC £250k (it took TRFC four years to pay £170k) instead of delivering the rule book of a 3-0 win in every EBT player match, was highly irregular and suspicious.
LNS stated Rangers FC ceased to be a club but later wrote that “A” Rangers exists and play’s (referring to Green’s Sevco). This appeared to be calculated obfuscation to assist the ongoing con trick that it’s the same Rangers club.
All of this pseudo legal junk, delivered outwith a court of law, which the SFA hides behind, needs legally destroyed.
Their fans are clutching at straws. Its obvious that for the moment Level 5 are keeping their powder dry…….might have something to do with the cost of extricating Pedro and his management team from Ibrox.
Pedro Mendes must be very worried at the thought of PC being binned, although he may well have a Spanish or Portuguese speaking replacement on speed dial…….
There appears within the support to have no idea as to the true financial position at the club as the media continue to talk up anything that remotely has a feelgood factor attached.
Tavernier with his we can still chalenge for the title as there are 3 games with Celtic to come……eh Tav, that alone will add a further 9 points to the current 8.
Had to laugh at a senior Sunday Mail reporter writing that if Morelos had made contact with the cross in the first half and converted his header in the second then the Columbian would have netted a double!
Wow Waddell really? Celtic could have been 3 up after 5 minutes then added another 3 or 4 if their finishing had been clinical.
The media are afraid to face up to the reality of the situation and not one of them has the guts to point out to their Oldco facing audience that nothing is going to change in the forseeable future.
If Hamilton take something from Friday nights game would anyone be surprised?
WATP Pedro, facing up to Broonie and John Kennedy, who does he think he’s kidding?
Already many of the support are gearing up for a fight for 2nd or 3rd.
How the selection panel came up with PC as the outstanding candidate speaks volumes about the quality of the other contenders.
Given the number of players in the squad who don’t have English as their first language then the next incumbent will also have to be foreign or if not a translator will be required to help out an English speaking coach.
Harry and Big Sam are both available and I’m sure either would relish the chance of going head to head with Brendan, though finances may dictate who gets the gig, with McInnes and Tommy Wright in the frame. Both know the league and are tactically aware, unlike the present incumbent.
It’s going to be death by a thousand cuts, even the mythical 3 wins on the trot won’t swing it as the 4th game will be a draw or defeat.
Without being partisan there is not a single player in their squad who would get a seat on the Celtic bench.
Pedro’s capped another fine week by publicly stating that McCrorie should be pulled from the Scotland unders squad this weekend as he will learn more from playing in the glamour friendly in the States against Benfica…..a Benfica with 9 first team players on international duty for their respective countries.
Is he not aware that if fit Scotland has first call on the player?
Whats the odds of Bruno not being fit for the plastic surface on Friday but A OK for international duties the following week?
Well said. Couldn’t have put it better myself..
things are heating up for Pedro
The klan seem to think that sevco ‘won’ the first half so all is getting better, I hope this continues as for me Pedro is the right man for the job
The SMSM shall continue to dupe. Everything is fine. Give the new manager time. They fear and dread empty seats. A new starve them out campaign.
If fans could starve out the Easdales they can starve out Glib and his Board.
Phil I don’t speak Gaelic and in positive 99% of what you write recently is in that wonderful language or it’s on a language most of us regular punters don’t understand, if it’s not too much bother could you please talk in plain Glaswegian English
Please
Matthew Lindsay in today’s Herald, two defensive slip-ups cost Rangers a result. Aye, right!!!!!
Must keep the Gullible turning up and paying up.
Anti Irish racism puts bums on seats also. Racism pays the smart boys on salaries.
Lindsay and Chris Jack are connected at the hip.
Despite the guff that we see and read in the media have no doubts that after a Pedro pre/post match conference you will find the journos gathered in the Murray Park car park pissing themselves laughing as they try to decipher Pedro’s latest offering.
At first I felt sorry for the man, not knowing what he’d let himself in for. That’s no longer the case and just like Big Hands he’s playing to the gallery for all he’s worth.
That’s not going to save him in the long run, results will dictate his fate.
A late harvest being reaped at the badgers den, but then they did sow the seeds in positively toxic ground…. One good thing that has came from all of this is that if Fearless Pedro (Defender Of The Weak) has indeed hung his cape on a shoogly peg then at least there are 7 very cheap homegrown replacements for the defence, they just have to get them out of their hi-vis and into something blue. The sight of the elite guard, the esprit de corps of the faithful volunteering to stand and defend the goals against a timmy insurgence was magicical, the way they moved they ghosted the entire squad so much so that Scott had to take his top off to cool down, and their defence was enough to put Billy of the Boyne to shame…
Interesting times lay in wait for all those down Govan way, the investigation into how the green brigade knew what the Govan not so loyal were going to say on their tiffo and had a response of their own has them blaming everyone from the visitors on tours to staff and even those who made the tiffo, it looks like war is just about to break out…
September loans? Any word?
I’ve seen on a few blogs that Kenny Miller and Pedro are at odds. Something will give there. I’ve also heard Pena likes a drink or ten on a Tuesday night.
Phil, would the transatlantic common-sense guy be a certain Monsieur Trump ?
Nah, couldn’t be.. even Ol’ Donald wouldn’t want to dip a toe in the cesspit down Cessnock way.
I really do hope you filled your boots on Saturday.
Cold shoulder? I’ll believe it when I see it.
How is payroll coming along for Thursday?
Couldn’t make it up. DK black balled by the city but still fit and proper for the SFA.
Ashley’s challenge in court to King’s FPP status fell down when the SFA were forced to admit that they hadn’t, in fact, passed King as fit and proper; they managed to avoid the issue because he’s the chairman of RIFC, not the football club. Not that we would know any of this from the press…
Ashley’s challenge in court to King’s FPP status fell down when the SFA were forced to admit that they hadn’t, in fact, passed King as fit and proper; they managed to avoid the issue because he’s the chairman of RIFC, not the football club. Not that we would know any of this from the press…
No one likes Zen…. and zey don’t care…
Would that have been Iproxy Bear?
Thanks again for your inside track on all current happenings . With regard to the ‘cold shoulder’ do you have any idea what punitive measures might be taken against them Phil. Be lucky