At first, it looked like a day late joke.
On April 2nd this was tweeted out from the official twitter account of the Engine Room Subsidiary.
It escalated quickly and the mood among The People got ugly.
This did not come as a surprise to the Sevco High Command and they had attempted to avert this problem.
Consequently, I am told that there was a Quintessentially British email sent from the basket of assets to Puma.
It was apropos their new range of footie footwear.
The Sevco functionary told the German giant that the six year old club had a certain problem with the colour scheme.
Moreover, it would give them difficulties with their valued customers if they were to be publicly associated with this merchandise.
Sadly, they were put in their place by the Herzogenaurach outfit.
After token resistance, it was the Dunkirk Spirit all over again.
It was the type of British capitulation that would have pleased Rudolf Dassler
This trouble with the colour green can be laid at the door of Charlie Green.
The arrangement with Puma goes back to the early days of the six year old club.
Charles of Normandy wanted big names in the door to augment his IPO.
The price for doing so was that the terms of the deal was weighted heavily in the favour of the sportswear giant.
This didn’t matter to the man with the big Yorkshire hands as he was not intending to be around long term.
Moreover, it was Puma who were central to Mr King’s favourable settlemtment with General Ashley.
Once more that defeat was sold to The People as a great victory.
As per usual the local media played their heroic part in fooling the Ibrox crowd.
What could not be concealed is that this week they had to do the bidding of Puma and tweet out the exciting new range of green boots.
Some of the Ibrox clientele on social media looked like they needed a cuddle.
Of course, General Ashley can help with that.
Of course, there are more pressing issues that should worry the customer base of Espanyol Glasgow.
One of them is the massive disparity in merchandising revenue between Celtic and their beloved basket of assets.
One of the first things that Fergus McCann set about was to overhaul the commercial operation at Celtic.
Almost 25 years later that work is ongoing and they’re still trying to improve it.
As with the race for the SPFL title, Sevco can only look up at their Glasgow neighbours and realise that such heights are beyond them.
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Right up there with the “Kentucky Blue Grass ” jingoistic claptrap of the early 90’s
Phil, can you email me re your website. Not appropriate for me to highlight here. Feel free to contact and I will explain with a screen shot.
All this talk about the colour green from the Bennys &Sams maybe they are just green with envy .
Just loving the green boots but I think they might clash just a tad with the orange sash but then I’m no fashionista. Suck it up sevco. HH
Those slippery people…how can they survive ?
Enjoy, David. Times like these come round once in a life time.
Are the green-hating fools any more stupid than King expecting to f**k the system once scrutiny leaves Scotland?
SARS 5 King 1
HMRC 5 King 1
MASH 5 King 1
AIM 5 King 1
TOP 5 King 1
A man’s got to know his limitations.
I know that the future is bright, but what colour will it be Glibby?
I know of some Bennys &Sams that won’t even have a green straw in their drink .You wonder how they feel when they see their team playing on green grass every week. But hey standards need to be kept up and they need to appeal to the village idiots hence the big fuss about those green boots because it’s only the brainless that scream and shout about this . A Benny &Sam on follow follow was screaming out about the club agreeing to these colour of boots being posted on their website saying it’s a joke it must be April fools day nope you are the fools for going on about it .
Why are they called Bennys?
Are you saying that….Ahem, “The People were revolting”?
Green boots ? Not for me Declan. Next thing we`ll have peperami & pacifically fried eggs Benedict. The SFA is full of taigs, as they want Mr King to put € 11m in a scarecrow account, restricting our chances of winning,and to give yous 10 in a row… on a plait. I posit, Mr King is being made the escaped goat .
Winning WHAT exactly!!!!!!
As pointed out elsewhere King’s ‘ring fenced’ dividend won’t be available till towards the end of April.
Even then how is he going to shift the monies from SA to the UK without a special dispensation from the SA authorities?
The man is a law unto himself and makes the artful dodger look like an amateur.
I wish Regan was still around to see the end result of his disastrous reign at the SFA.
I suppose it briefly takes the heat off the Compliance Officer as he works towards delivering his review of the SFA licencing procedures.
What the feck is going on? Unless the CO has passed his findings to Police Scotland Fraud Squad there is no excuse for any further delay after 7 months when all the information is already in the public domain and clearly confirms the 2012 UEFA licence application was fraudulent.
No further action to be taken against the Ross County thug who attempted to maim Broonie at the weekend!
Ffs SFA get a grip. Levein should have been called to account for his verbal assault on the Celtic captain a few weeks ago and since then it’s been open season on Broonie.
I wonder who Dundee have nominated to take him out tonight?
No doubt McCann was having a snidey go at Brendan yesterday.
No mercy tonight Celtic, someone is due a battering, make it happen.
oops – the shrinking violet that is Scott Brown got a yellow tonight
The Dees made the SPFL’s calculations of when they can allow Celtic to play Rangers (What is that about!) more complicated by reminding them that Celtic, while being a good team and almost certainly going to win the league, can’t assume that they will always win (unlike a certain new team who do assume they will always win even when it is obvious that they are probably the 4th or 5th best team over the piece) . I’m afraid the new team should have had a think before the season started and realised that if they had lain down to Aberdeen that might have been the best route to preventing 10 in a row………
On a serious note…I know…and know of….Sevco supporters who will not allow the colour green in their house…nor will they allow their family to wear items of green clothing etc.
And sadly…I’ve known about this long before Big Hands Charlie showed up.
Its in their DNA.
Peace in our time..?
Ah don’t think so.
Mr Michael Boyle sir, ah wish they’d peace off. Pronto.
Pax Vobiscum Father….
Oh…and hiv ye said that Novena yet….:0)
HH
I can tell you the other side of the story. My Great Granny ran a goods store on Whitla Street in Belfast over by the docks in early 1900s. Tried to raise her three children there. Her husband, my Great Granda Felix, went one morning to H & W and was never seen again. Granny’s store was burned down. She fled to Glasgow with her three children. Emigrated. My parents born in the Bronx, as was I. Moved us out of the Bronx in late sixties. When my Granda came on his first visit to our suburban home, he would not enter, as my mums tulips were orange. He made her pull them out the ground right then and there.
It does run deep.
Excellent more bad news well received,they should’ve been grasping at Mash for de@r life,but they chased him!!!
Noo,why doesn’t that surprise me? Horse to water …. etc etc
Thanks for the update Phil.
Mind this HERE is for information ONLY you earn your significant income doon the wordmines,I for one appreciate that fact,and hope you don’t neglect your mainstream income.
HH Mr.FEAR?
You can take a horse to water..
But a pencil must be led…( See whit ah did there…?)
Ach suit yersell.
Aye,liked it.
Seeing as we’re talking like that,the late great Groucho Marx speaking as an after dinner speaker once stated the following….
‘Not even nostalgia is as good as it used to be.’
Later in that same speech he also said the the following….
‘Outside of a dog,a book is a mans best friend,’ then said;’inside of a dog it’s too dark to read’
The story about Utilita isn’t accurate. Sevco were paid under £100k for the back of shirt deal by Utilita. Celtic were not interested in doing such a deal as they already have Magners on back of shirt and on their training kit – a deal, incidentally, which nets Celtic c. £800k pa. It should be said that Utilita were smaller partners with Celtic up until end of last season (16-17) and sponsored Celtic Foundation’s Henrik v Lubo charity game in 2017 too so have certainly courted both sets of fans.
Even funnier will be seeing Senor Pena back from Mexico in the summer to see out the last year of his lucrative contract.
Would be no surprised if he falls foul of the standards required at Ibrox and has his contract terminated with no compo.
Yep, the colour of the footwear in an affront to their staunchness.
Where’s Pedro when you need him? He would never have stood for this.
With the vaping company’s green logo what next?
With current trends towards health and well-being, surely the natural sponsor would be Holland & Barrett?… No, hang on… too much greenery there!! ???
Ha ha ha!! Green boots, Timmy the Bear, 3rd place in the league (possibly worse if Hibs get a run of results) …. The laughs keep on coming.
Mind the nosebleed, Sevco: P3 is dizzy heights indeed.
On another not. I switched my energy supply last month to Utilita and the guy told me Sevco settled for £200k for the back of top sponsorship whereas the Champions wanted £500k due to CLAN exposure etc etc
No deal could be struck
HH
You made the mistake of aiming for short-term gain. By changing to another supplier, you might have paid slightly more, but when the expected take up is not met, Utilita would bin sevco as a non-profit generating “hanger-on”. Anything that brings about the premature death of the new entity is good in my book!!
It must be galling to wake up in the morning as a gullibilly, open your curtains and see the grass and leaves on the trees are still GREEN.
Spewing into their orange juice and hunny nut loops.
Not only that , but the fact I ve being saying for years, the translation of name ” Glasgow” to it’s origin is ” Dear Green Place ”
They actually have green in their name !