Today the real stuff re-commences.
Which is good news for footie addicts everywhere.
However, that is not the case for all on Planet Fitba.
In the combative landscape of professional soccer, Sevco always excels at the Phoney War.
It is always a good idea to look behind the gushing headlines about the basket of assets.
Consequently, this is the time of the year when The People can dream that everything is going to be wonderful.
The kit deal with Hummel was signed before the solo run by King to get Mr Gerrard on board.
All of the big guys in the merchandising world had refused Sevco out of hand.
Consequently, the folk at Hummel knew they were in a strong bargaining position.
I had been told of the naming deal with Murray Park/Auchenhowie, but I couldn’t stand it up with a second source.
I would be surprised if it is bringing in a life-changing fee for the Engine Room Subsidiary.
However, no matter how paltry it is it will be a help.
There is no doubt that the extra revenue is desperately required.
The Sevco High Command has finally decided that the Close Brothers loan of £3m will be repaid at the end of the 12-month term.
There had been a plan to pay it back from the season ticket money.
However, that plan has been binned.
So in February of 2019, the Holding Company Vehicle will need to find £4m to pay back to the finance house.
Yes, FOUR MILLION.
Now, this year in the same month the basket of assets needed to go to Close Brothers and borrow £3m.
It was dressed up as an overdraft facility and the Stenography Corps dutifully obliged.
Football clubs often go into negative cash flow in Q1.
Therefore, it was not a surprise that the Engine Room Subsidiary had to seek some external finance in the early months of 2018.
It made sense to pay it back from the season ticket money when it arrived it.
Mr King has kicked that into touch and he will brook no opposition on that one.
Therefore, Sevco will have to find £4m next year in the same month as they had to borrow £3m this year.
Can you see a problem with this?
At the moment Sevco is winning the Phoney War.
They always do, as the Stenography Corps are rooting for them.
Meanwhile, your humble correspondent will root around for the facts.
Sevco is spending at a level that even Pedro didn’t enjoy.
The members of the Sevco High Command who have questioned the wisdom of this have been brushed aside in the Blue Room.
Mr King and his faction have already factored in revenues from the Europa League Group Stages as a done deal.
They are that confident in Mr Gerrard.
Of course, that is exactly the calculation that was made 12 months ago when Pedro was putting together his squad of Poundland Galacticos.
As you will recall in their inaugural European campaign they only met with little Progrès.
As the greatest show on earth commences today in Russia I am reminded that sadly my boys in green are not there.
So I will be shouting for Argentina.
Now, I have many reasons for doing so, but most of all I want them to win it for the people of Gaza.
Venceremos!
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Phil;
One Rangers* person has posted that the Hummel sponsorship deal is PART of the kit deal. This means there is no extra money.
Do you have sources that can confirm this?
Craig cairns…. were not loyal…were faithful.
John bhoy I stand corrected sir apologies to any of the “faithfull” that may have been offended by the shocking language used in my text before!
God bless & good health, French Eddie has arrived times are great up Celtic way paradise has delivered once again those dark days of the 90’s make these days so much sweeter hail hail
Is that “were” past tense? Or is it “we’re” present tense?
I have a fiver on Argentina, Phil, based more on my enemy’s (England) enemy being my friend than the Palestinian thing. But now I know about that and that you’re on my side too, I’m totally positively charged.
Go Messi!
Why do you keep going on about the so called Palestinians?
Educate yourself by reading this below instead of writing about what you’re so called leftist liberals want to hear.
You’ve not half gone down in my estimations in the last year.
I get that you see a similarity with the Irish struggle and the people of the so called Palestine, but there is absolutely no comparison. Stick to what made you popular in the beginning.
AND I AM FROM IRISH BACKGROUND AND A CELTIC FAN THROUGH AND THROUGH.
The History and Meaning of “Palestine” and “Palestinians”
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“There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews . . . . Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us?
The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation’s supposed ancient name, though they couldn’t even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity.” — Golda Meir quoted by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1995
Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today . . . No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough. — from “Myths of the Middle East”, Joseph Farah, Arab-American editor and journalist, WorldNetDaily, 11 October 2000
From the end of the Jewish state in antiquity to the beginning of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries . . . . — Professor Bernard Lewis, Commentary Magazine, January 1975
Talk and writing about Israel and the Middle East feature the nouns “Palestine” and Palestinian”, and the phrases “Palestinian territory” and even “Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory”. All too often, these terms are used with regard to their historical or geographical meaning, so that the usage creates illusions rather than clarifies reality.
What Does “Palestine” Mean?
It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.
The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection … with Arabia or Arabs.
The word itself derives from “Peleshet”, a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as “Philistine”. The name began to be used in the Thirteenth Century BCE, for a wave of migrant “Sea Peoples” who came from the area of the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands and settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it “Palastina”.
The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name “Falastin” that Arabs today use for “Palestine” is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman “Palastina” derived from the Peleshet.
How Did the Land of Israel Become “Palestine”?
In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.
The Romans killed many Jews and sold many more in slavery. Some of those who survived still alive and free left the devastated country, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land. There was never a time when there were not Jews and Jewish communities, though the size and conditions of those communities fluctuated greatly.
The History of Palestine
Thousands of years before the Romans invented “Palastina” the land had been known as “Canaan”. The Canaanites had many tiny city-states, each one at times independent and at times a vassal of an Egyptian or Hittite king. The Canaanites never united into a state.
After the Exodus from Egypt — probably in the Thirteenth Century BCE but perhaps earlier — the Children of Israel settled in the land of Canaan. There they formed first a tribal confederation, and then the Biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and the post-Biblical kingdom of Judea.
Israel-Judah-Judea has the only united, independent, sovereign nation-state that ever existed in “Palestine” west of the Jordan River.
From the beginning of history to this day, Israel-Judah-Judea has the only united, independent, sovereign nation-state that ever existed in “Palestine” west of the Jordan River. (In Biblical times, Ammon, Moab and Edom as well as Israel had land east of the Jordan, but they disappeared in antiquity and no other nation took their place until the British invented Trans-Jordan in the 1920s.)
After the Roman conquest of Judea, “Palastina” became a province of the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire, and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. In 638 CE, an Arab-Muslim Caliph took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced “Falastin”.
In that period, much of the mixed population of Palastina converted to Islam and adopted the Arabic language. They were subjects of a distant Caliph who ruled them from his capital, that was first in Damascus and later in Baghdad. They did not become a nation or an independent state, or develop a distinct society or culture.
In 1099, Christian Crusaders from Europe conquered Palestina-Falastin. After 1099, it was never again under Arab rule. The Christian Crusader kingdom was politically independent, but never developed a national identity. It remained a military outpost of Christian Europe, and lasted less than 100 years. Thereafter, Palestine was joined to Syria as a subject province first of the Mameluks, ethnically mixed slave-warriors whose center was in Egypt, and then of the Ottoman Turks, whose capital was in Istanbul.
During the First World War, the British took Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. At the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and among its subject provinces “Palestine” was assigned to the British, to govern temporarily as a mandate from the League of Nations.
The Jewish National Home
Travellers to Palestine from the Western world left records of what they saw there. The theme throughout their reports is dismal: The land was empty, neglected, abandoned, desolate, fallen into ruins
Nothing there [Jerusalem] to be seen but a little of the old walls which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds. — English pilgrim in 1590
The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population — British consul in 1857
There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [valley of Jezreel] — not for 30 miles in either direction. . . . One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.
For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee . . . Nazareth is forlorn . . . Jericho lies a moldering ruin . . . Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation . . . untenanted by any living creature . . . .
A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds . . a silent, mournful expanse . . . a desolation . . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route . . . . Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country . . . .
Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes . . . desolate and unlovely . . . . — Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1867
Their [the Jews] labors created newer and better conditions and opportunities
The restoration of the “desolate and unlovely” land began in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century with the first Jewish pioneers. Their labors created newer and better conditions and opportunities, which in turn attracted migrants from many parts of the Middle East, both Arabs and others.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917, confirmed by the League of Nations Mandate, commited the British Government to the principle that “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish National Home, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . . ” It was specified both that this area be open to “close Jewish settlement” and that the rights of all inhabitants already in the country be preserved and protected.
Mandate Palestine originally included all of what is now Jordan, as well as all of what is now Israel, and the territories between them. However, when Great Britain’s protégé Emir Abdullah was forced to leave the ancestral Hashemite domain in Arabia, the British created a realm for him that included all of Manfate Palestine east of the Jordan River. There was no traditional or historic Arab name for this land, so it was called after the river: first Trans-Jordan and later Jordan.
By this political act, that violated the conditions of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate, the British cut more than 75 percent out of the Jewish National Home. No Jew has ever been permitted to reside in Trans-Jordan/Jordan.
Less than 25 percent then remained of Mandate Palestine, and even in this remnant, the British violated the Balfour and Mandate requirements for a “Jewish National Home” and for “close Jewish settlement”. They progressively restricted where Jews could buy land, where they could live, build, farm or work.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was finally able to settle some small part of those lands from which the Jews had been debarred by the British. Successive British governments regularly condemn their settlement as “illegal”. In truth, it was the British who had acted illegally in banning Jews from these parts of the Jewish National Home.
Who Is A Palestinian?
During the period of the Mandate, it was the Jewish population that was known as “Palestinians” including those who served in the British Army in World War II.
Jews who might have developed the empty lands of ‘Palestine’ … instead died in the gas chambers of Europe
British policy was to curtail their numbers and progressively limit Jewish immigration. By 1939, the White Paper virtually put an end to admission of Jews to Palestine. This policy was imposed the most stringently at the very time this Home was most desperately needed — after the rise of Nazi power in Europe. Jews who might have developed the empty lands of Palestine and left progeny there, instead died in the gas chambers of Europe or in the seas they were trying to cross to the Promised Land.
At the same time that the British slammed the gates on Jews, they permitted or ignored massive illegal immigration into Western Palestine from Arab countries Jordan, Syria, Egypt, North Africa. In 1939, Winston Churchill noted that “So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied . . . .” Exact population statistics may be problematic, but it seems that by 1947 the number of Arabs west of the Jordan River was approximately triple of what it had been in 1900.
The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in Palestine, until the Jews came and “displaced” them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into Palestine “displaced” the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in Palestine for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a “Palestinian refugees”.
Casual use of population statistics for Jews and Arabs in Palestine rarely consider how the proportions came to be. One factor was the British policy of keeping out Jews while bringing in Arabs. Another factor was the violence used to kill or drive out Jews even where they had been long established.
For one example: The Jewish connection with Hebron goes back to Abraham, and there has been an Israelite/Jewish community there since Joshua long before it was King David’s first capital. In 1929, Arab rioters with the passive consent of the British — killed or drove out virtually the entire Jewish community.
It is now often proposed as a principle of international law and morality that all places that the British and the Arabs rendered Judenrein must forever remain so.
For another example: In 1948, Trans-Jordan seized much of Judea and Samaria (which they called The West Bank) and East Jerusalem and the Old City. They killed or drove out every Jew.
It is now often proposed as a principle of international law and morality that all places that the British and the Arabs rendered Judenrein must forever remain so. In contrast, Israel eventually allotted 17 percent of Mandate Palestine has a large and growing population of Arab citizens.
From Palestine To Israel
What was to become of “Palestine” after the Mandate? This question was taken up by various British and international commissions and other bodies, culminating with the United Nations in 1947. During the various deliberations, Arab officials, spokesmen and writers expressed their views on “Palestine”.
“There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it.” — Local Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937
“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not” — Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946
“It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” — Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956
By 1948, the Arabs had still not yet discovered their ancient nation of Falastin. When they were offered half of Palestine west of the Jordan River for a state, the offer was violently rejected. Six Arab states launched a war of annihilation against the nascent State of Israel. Their purpose was not to establish an independent Falastin. Their aim was to partition western Palestine amongst themselves.
They did not succeed in killing Israel, but Trans-Jordan succeeded in taking Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and East Jerusalem, killing or driving out all the Jews who had lived in those places, and banning Jews of all nations from Jewish holy places. Egypt succeeded in taking the Gaza Strip. These two Arab states held these lands until 1967. Then they launched another war of annihilation against Israel, and in consequence lost the lands they had taken by war in 1948.
During those 19 years, 1948-1967, Jordan and Egypt never offered to surrendar those lands to make up an independent state of Falastin. The “Palestinians” never sought it. Nobody in the world ever suggested it, much less demanded it.
Finally, in 1964, the Palestine Liberation Movement was founded. Ahmed Shukairy, who less than 10 years earlier had denied the existence of Palestine, was its first chairman. Its charter proclaimed its sole purpose to be the destruction of Israel. To that end it helped to precipitate the Arab attack on Israel in 1967.
The outcome of that attack then inspired an alteration in public rhetoric. As propaganda, it sounds better to speak of the liberation of Falastin than of the destruction of Israel. Much of the world, governments and media and public opinion, accept virtually without question of serious analysis the new-sprung myth of an Arab nation of Falastin, whose territory is unlawfully occupied by the Jews.
Since the end of World War I, the Arabs of the Middle East and North Africa have been given independent states in 99.5 percent of the land they claimed. Lord Balfour once expressed his hope that when the Arabs had been given so much, they would “not begrudge” the Jews the “little notch” promised to them.
[Note: Some of the material cited above is drawn from the book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters.]
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Oh aye Jimbo that’ll be the Gospel then will it?
What a ludicrous post. I’m afraid Jimbo that you totally miss the point.
Irrespective of the history of the creation of Palestine it’s the blatant human rights abuses, suppression and murder of the indigenous Arab peoples and the Zionist genocide policies that are the issue that so called “liberal lefties ” have problems with.
Would you prefer that the atrocities perpetrated by the Zionist Nazis, because that is what they are, just continues ?
Pontificating from afar is all too easy and reflects badly upon you. Do you have no humanity in your heart for a downtrodden and suffering people.
John
I think your missing MY POINT! Which is there is NO PALESTINE.
PROPAGANDA is a fascinating thing. Their so called land is run by terrorist organisations who don’t want peace and never will because it doesn’t fit their agenda which is to rid the world of a race of people that they hate with a vengeance no matter what the cost to their own people’s lives. They are racists to the core, So if you want to blame anyone for the atrocities, blame HAMAS, they’re the ones who are causing more death to their own people than anyone else. When Yasser Arafat died he was worth 20 billion dollars and most of those people were and still are living in utter poverty. Wonder how much HAMAS are worth eh?
Someone once said: FASCISM in the future will be the new LIBERALISM… Oh god how they where right.
O.P.M .What other football nation in the world would allow a club to survive on borrowing money .To buy players.To pay players.To take players on loan. When does the financial fair play side of it kick in
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Hi Phil must say very surprised to see the banner advertising Israeli government bonds. Then couple of days later your backing for Argentina via there support for a free Palestine. You that skint you need money from Israeli government…..
Programmatic trading.
Look it up…
You see the adverts that YOU want to.
I’m not in control of it.
4/10
Must try harder…
Cookies friend… It says more about where you’ve been!
in the real planet fitba we find us doing 9 million pound deals for genuine class players from top clubs like psg.oh how it feels to be dining at the top table.the celtic way is the only way to earn real respect in this game.
New season and they are having to rip it up and start again.
They’ve had to do this before and only last season, at that.
No mention of this anywhere though. It’s all positive and the light at the end of the tunnel is shining brightly.
THats the thing Thai Tim… they don;t even know who’s paying his and all his background staff’s wages or where it’s coming from … I would imagine Mr Gerrard did not come cheap and cut a good deal with his friends… all aboard the Sevco Gravy train… terminus approaching hh
Oh Sven, Oh Sven. What wouldn’t you do for a few bob.
Was it you who took the then young Arsenal cub to the World Cup for him to sit on his arse on the bench.
Ah yes, then there has to be the complimentary lady.
It must be said Svenie’s wisdom is attributed to his vast worldly travels. Indeed Barry Cryer once said that one of Svenies acquaintances (Ureka) had a different post code on each ankle.
Anyone seen a fat gardener about.
Now that the WC has begun the SG Express has a few weeks to stoke it’s fantasy boilers.
What they will find as the weeks trundle along is that the shovels will be fuelling nothing but dross.
Toot toot
I fancy France for it. But hope for a good and safe tournament.
Have you seen the daily record reporting in their live transfer feed today. It says that Rangers have knocked back a bid of £6m for morelos. By a unnamed Chinese club???
They are hoping for 1.25 mill from a Turkish club instead.
As World Cup gets off to flyer wonder wat shite the Record will print tomora? … Rangers table 8m bid for Russian superstar Cheryshev
Phil, PHIL….PHIL,
have you dozed off? The papers have pictures, yes you heard me right, pictures of the Pontiff’s arrival at Ach and Howdie Dooey.
Not only that but el buffalo now weighs in at a staggering 6 to 9 millions. It’s unclear if mystery Chinese Machiavellian types are at work or, indeed , a young Turkish seamstress.
Nevertheless, Phil, who needs a World Cup.
His holiness Stephano says it’s now time to walk the walk. Well second only to the Province, he’s certainly in a good place for walking.
Kenny Millar is now an omnipresent opinionator with press.
“Kitten Soft gives extra wipes” says Ibrox legend.
“Foolproof way to check for PPI”. Kenny Millar urges you to claim.
“N. Ireland requires full integration in Customs Union…alignment insufficient” Kenny talks Brexit.
Oh a wee mention of the club across the city. Apparently the double treble winners, are going to bust their transfer signing record. Aberdeen, Hibs, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone etc need not apply.
Solid piece again Phil ??
I’d like to take this chance to suggest to your loyal readers to take a step back in time and make great use of the archives it’s amazing what you forget as this are moving at a super sonic speed at times when all this sevco are trying to be nailed down… anyway I’ve just took a step back in time through your archives and it was as very enjoyable hour highly recommended lads and ladettes you won’t be disappointed there is some great stuff there for our reading pleasures…..on the greatest show on earth I’m betting on a Germany v Belgium final is love for me messi to rule the world but I just can’t see it unfortunately it will keep us entertained until the famous Glasgow Celtic history making bhoys line up again to watch flag number 7 being raised in paradise under first class P.A system and lights onwards and upwards!
Brendan’s here for ten I’m a row….keep chasing down those leads Phil god bless
I can see the logic of Park and co leaving the board room in the marching season. They seem to no longer have any executive control and are obvious scape goats for insolvency if they don’t burn more of their own cash as Christmas approaches. So best to leave while all is going so well and solvency is not an issue. However, I can’t see them leaving with their loans repaid – the June share issue is running out of time and credibility. But Dave promised! I hear you say.
Can King REALLY believe that Gerrard will do miracles and Europa group stage money will pour in, along with £Xm from an unknown Chinese club, followed by OneIAR, two cups and then Champions League last 16 – then . . . .
That is the only rational explanation for his behaviour – King ACTUALLY believes most of this will happen! He is entirely insane! And too aggressive for anyone to put him straight.
We are watching the Madness Of King David here – enjoy.
A payday loan that can’t be covered on payday. Sounds as if those good people could do with a trip to the Citizens’ Advice Bureau. Of course they may have heard the avert on Clyde 1 which offers the advice, Don’t fret about Debt. Either way, they have sunk so low that they regard anything that prolongs the life of their club, for even the shortest of times, as moral! If there were a footballing equivalent of eating their young, they’d be chomping away merrily!
Good call rooting for Argentina and great picture of Messi too. Does anyone know who is picking up the tab for Gerrard’s wages?
Hearing it is being funded to the tune of £1m per year by Liverpool as they have very high hopes for him replacing klopp.
Anyone who isn’t a glib and shameless liar. HH
DUP
Democratic Unionist Party
Liverpool