It probably goes without saying that Planet Fitba is not short of cynics.
Indeed after the events of 2012, it would be rather worrying it is wasn’t cynicism central.
After the death of Rangers those who harboured a conspiracy theory about the cultural power of the Ibrox brand at the SFA turned out not to have been that crazy at all.
The unedifying manoeuvres to drop the basket of assets into the Scottish Premier League (SPL) pretty much said it all.
When Neil Doncaster, the then head of the SPL, said that “there is no mechanism for what we are trying to achieve”.
That meant that he and Mr Regan saw a Rangers, any Rangers as key to their business model.
The idea that there would be no team at Ibrox to feed the supremacist delusions of the dignified klanbase was an appalling vista.
Consequently, any of the crimes against football governance committed by those in the Blue Room was apparently no biggie.
Charlie and the boys showed up and the chaps at Hampden blinked.
They allowed the Gallant Profiteers into the game.
In time Planet Fitba would have a new addition to the lexicon of Ibrox chicanery, “onerous contracts”.
All this time the Big Tax Case was trundling through the tribunal system.
Therefore, when someone with 41 criminal convictions for tax offences stepped up in March 2015 to take control of the Ibrox brand one would have thought that it might have given the chaps at Hampden pause for thought.
Of course, it didn’t.
Now this week, with the sanction being announced by the Takeover Panel against Mr King, the decision to grant him “foot and proper” status will be discussed again.
Call me a cynic, but I don’t expect anything to happen.
Readers might be interested to see how this has been reported in South Africa.
You might note that it is tight and newsy and lacks the usual high-Level editorialising that is typical of the Stenography Corps.
Am I being cynical?
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With the accounts due to be published in the next few days/weeks, will it surprise anyone if the auditors take the opportunity to give notice to the club and do their own form of walking away?
The ‘cold shoulder’ may be the final nail in that particular coffin.
If so you can be sure that their comments in the notes to their final set of audited accounts will be couched in terms that cover their backsides big time with regards to future events concerning the club.
It would also be remiss of them not to mention the ticking SDI bomb nor the cold shoulder applied to King.
Phil,
Pithy and on the money.
Await the tack they take to swerve around what you correctly state as the indisputable facts.
Hope a greenfly happens,by, see any chance?f
Off topic…but…
The more I watch John McGinn playing…the angrier I get.
Someone at our Club should lose their job.
I wonder what the sponsors of the Ibrox club think of the sanctions imposed on King by the TOP.
Surely they can’t think it’s good for business, nor their own reputation in the world of commerce, to be associated with a glib and shameless liar as King was described by the South African judge.
Close Bros in particular must be closely monitoring the situation with regards to their own exposure, knowing that the inevitable SD bill will be a major headache for Kingco.
They never let you down when you have a wee look in at the bears pit ff . They have a thread on the Scotland rugby team all shouting on which players support their team. They are chipping in with he is one us and I watched a game in the pub and saw so and so he must be one of us as he watched the rangers game . Oh dear clutching at straws wanting rugby players to support them .
Aw we Coco at ibrox noise lol he is even using that name I have given him myself as the name to describe us Celtic fans ah nae class not even his own script . But we Coco is so excited with himself today he has probably pissed his pants about Ross Wilson as their DoF . Apparently us Celtic fans will be livid that Wilson is at their club. Wee Coco now thinks that’s the final peice of the football jigsaw for his new club and that Celtic are now finished. Oh wee coco the clown always great entertainment and not a mention of his new clubs chairman being told to bolt by all financial authorities. No wonder people now know rangers fans as the BENNYS (thats that guy with the funny hat from crossroads) no disrespect to big BENNY but wee Coco at ibrox noise makes him look and sound like Bamber Gascoigne.
It’s a bit like an episode of Fawlty Towers where they say don’t mention the war . Well that’s what it’s like with so called Scottish press don’t mention the TOP . Nothing on the radio that being radio snyde and shortbread about the punishment dished out to the Newco so called chairman . Still nothing in the Evening Ranger . It’s almost like the TOP decision never happened . Fatman Traynor obviously earning his crust .
It would be a very apt reaction should ‘32 Red et. al.’ all withdraw their endorsements and links with this tarnished club….
…. since so many if the ‘follow-followers’ of this club have been lobbying Celtics sponsors with sordid slander and libel…. rather than keep an eye on what was going on at their own (big) house.
The lie., the cheat,the Handshake,
Brilliant Dave king,
big hand for Dave cheers.
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12 moments that defined 2012
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Football has thrilled, enthralled and stirred the emotions over the course of 2012. Here, FIFA.com singles out 12 moments that have made it a year to remember in the beautiful game.
Zambia’s poignant prize
12 February
Zambia winning their first-ever CAF Africa Cup of Nations title in February would have been remarkable enough. That they beat heavy favourites Cote d’Ivoire to claim the trophy added shock value. But it was the fact that the game was their first in Libreville since the 1993 plane crash that killed all but one of their national team following a refuelling stop in the Gabonese capital that made this the most emotion-laden victory of the year.
Muamba’s miracle
17 March
Tears were shed for a very different reason later that month when a sell-out crowd and worldwide TV audience watched aghast as Fabrice Muamba fought for his life on the White Hart Lane turf. It quickly became clear that Bolton Wanderers’ Congolese-born midfielder had suffered a cardiac arrest and yet, despite the fact his heart stopped for an incredible 78 minutes, he lived to tell the tale and has since written a book about his brush with death.
Stoppage-time Sergio
13 May
The battle for the English Premier League title went down to the final minute of the final game of the season… and beyond. It was, after all, five minutes into stoppage time against Queens Park Rangers, with Manchester United’s match at Sunderland already over, that Sergio Aguero struck the shot that clinched Manchester City’s first championship in 44 years.
Drogba’s final fling
19 May
Didier Drogba’s place among Chelsea’s all-time greats was already assured by the time he headed them level in a UEFA Champions League final in which they had been second-best throughout. Yet that equaliser merely set the stage for the Ivorian’s crowning moment, a coolly dispatched penalty with his final kick for the Blues that secured the club’s first-ever European crown.
Tahiti conquer continent
10 June
Before this year, the OFC Nations Cup had never left the Antipodes. It was, therefore, a major shock when New Zealand, fresh from their FIFA World Cup heroics, failed to even reach the final in the Solomon Islands. Instead, the continental title was fought over by Tahiti and New Caledonia, and it was a solitary goal from Steevy Chong Hue that secured the title, and a place at the FIFA Confederations Cup, for the French Polynesians.
Rangers go under
14 June
Rangers’ perilous financial position had been an open secret but there was still shock when, after 140 years of history and a world record 54 league titles, the club was consigned to liquidation in mid-June. The Glasgow giants were subsequently reformed as a new company and granted entry to the Third Division, Scotland’s fourth tier, which they currently lead by nine points with a game in hand.
Pirlo’s Panenka
24 June
Italy were 2-1 down in their penalty shootout against England in the UEFA EURO 2012 quarter-final, and Riccardo Montolivo had missed their previous kick, when Andrea Pirlo stepped up. It was against this tense backdrop that the midfielder scored the cheekiest of chips, knocking the Three Lions off their stride and providing a memorable turning point en route to a 4-2 shootout win.
Spain’s final flourish
1 July
Having listened to sniping criticism throughout their run to the final, Spain provided their detractors with a stunning reminder of why this era belongs to them. Vicente Del Bosque’s side beat Italy by a record-high four-goal margin to retain their European crown and, in doing so, became the first team from the Old Continent to win three major tournaments in succession.
Morgan settles thriller
6 August
Old Trafford has staged plenty of memorable matches, but few have been as thrilling as the magnificent spectacle served up by USA and Canada in the semi-final of the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. It had a fittingly dramatic climax too, with Alex Morgan sealing a 4-3 victory for the Americans in the very last minute of extra time.
Ibra to the four
14 November
This was the first-ever match at the Friends Arena, but it is unlikely that the sparkling new Stockholm stadium will ever witness a more devastating individual display. Zlatan Ibrahimovic became the first player in 915 matches to score four times against England, but it was the nature of his final goal – an amazing 30-yard overhead kick – that had the striker’s name on everyone’s lips the following day.
Messi passes Muller
9 December
‘My record stood for 40 years. Now the best player in the world has broken it, and I’m delighted for him.” These were the gracious words of Gerd Muller after Lionel Messi scored his 85th and 86th goals of 2012, surpassing Der Bomber’s 1972 benchmark for goals in a single calendar year. The Argentinian finished the year on 91 goals in all competitions.
Corinthians’ Japanese joy
16 December
Paulista giants Corinthians had won the first edition of the FIFA Club World Cup back in 2000, but the tournament’s recent history had been a tale of European dominance. That made it all the sweeter for the Brazilians when, backed by a 20,000-plus band of travelling supporters in Yokohama, they deservedly saw off Chelsea thanks to Paolo Guerrero’s decisive second-half header.
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Each member of the Stenography core, as you call them, is like some little Kindergarten Goebbels, lying and deflecting on behalf of Sevco and targeting a legitimate section of Scottish society. The ironic thing is, had they been more honest in 2011/12, Rangers might have survived, perhaps allowing an earlier intervention. It seems they haven’t learned from history and are therefore destined to repeat the same mistakes. Just had a thought, maybe they are actually agents provocateurs!
Agent Provocateurs??… I’m trying hard to get that image of Keith Jackass and his wee pal Union Jack dressed in sexy undies out of my head now!! LOL
You should have kept it in your own head. I really DIDN’T need it in mine!!
I wonder how the auditors will respond to The Takeover Panel’s slaughtering of King?
Surely they can’t sign off on the accounts if The Glib and Shameless is anywhere near them, never mind him signing on behalf of the club/company/thingy.
From a reasonable / practical perspective, the auditors Campbell Dallas will have virtually completed their audit of the 2018/19 financials – with perhaps some late discussions on the Notes being finalised.
The auditors may reassess their position following the issuance of the accounts though.
More pertinently – perhaps – is: does RIFC really want an officially labelled ‘City Pariah’ giving the Chairman’s statement with the published accounts?
With King’s typical grandstanding response to the cold shouldering announcement, he wouldn’t see any problem at all with providing his comments on the RIFC performance in the last financial year – and its future prospects.
Whilst simultaneously being publicly branded as a man not to be trusted by any FCA regulated organisation anywhere in the UK.
…which would simply be a breathtakingly arrogant – and reckless – action to take, IMO.
It is only fit and proper that the Peepel who pop in here for mental nourishment and enlightenment should be aware of the facts.
They have a point about well meaning Fitba fans not fully grasping the gravity of the circumstances and outcome of the 2012 disaster at Ibrox.
I think these matters should be left to the Professionals to explain to them the levity of that situation.
There is no point citing UEFA,The SFA or any other Footballing body on these matters.
After all most if not all of these bodies have like Rangers Fc fallen short of the standards expected of them from time to time.
Corruption,greed,or just basic flaunting of their own contrived Rules and Systems was not and is not uncommon.
No it is much better just to go straight to those who deal with these things within the framework of the Financial Laws that govern them.
These Laws are set in concrete there is no interpretation of them.
You just have to understand what they mean as a layman or as the case maybe a dunderheid?
Charles Greene that is the man who bought the Assets of the former entity known and loved by some as Rangers QC Alan Dewar stood up in the Inner House at the Court of Session and declared :
“The Rangers football club does not exist, it is an idea in people’s minds, a myth of continuity. No-one knows what the Rangers football club is, but it has no legal personality.”
Mr Dewar added that :
”You can only be the chairman of an entity that has a legal personality. Sevco Scotland, and it alone, bought the assets and carried on the business. The concept of the Rangers Institution continuing exists only in the minds of die hard supporters.”
And to the Legal Entity who deal with Business Law Companies House and to where the original Rangers Football Club Incorporated (On the 27th May 1899) as a Legal Entity and therefore bound by its Rules and Regulations simply and unequivocally states that :
Rangers were Liquidated and that winding up commenced on the 31st of October 2012.
Also the last set of Annual Accounts were submitted on the 30th of June 2010.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC004276
There is no conspiracy here or other events that have taken place other than a bit of slight of hand by a Complicit SFA and SPFL agreed in Secret in a clandestine manner.
None of which would stand up in any Court in the Land.
Peepel like our friend Charles Chrichton need to start looking at this situation objectively rather than through an emotional pull towards the fabricated nonsense that has been spoken by those who have a Financial interest in keeping 50,000 paying customers interested in the sport of Football.
We understand your pain Charles.
It is not your fault that Rangers was run into the ground by years of mismanagement and poor Business decision making by those entrusted to look after it.
The reality is Rangers were Liquidated.
You know it,the Legal System knows it and the man who bought the Ashes and sold you a myth certainly knew it.
Good luck with the new Entity all the same but on current evidence that too may well succumb to a similar Legal fate.
It hasn’t made a single penny in profit since its inception.
This does not make for a happy ending.
Regardless of how many feel good sound bites or powder puff pieces from a complicit Media you may or may not read.
Have a nice day all the same.
Remember though that a fool and his money are soon parted.
How are those shares looking?
Very good post mate.
Thank you Terence appreciated.
HH
You do deliver a kick to the jackdaws with a certain style.
Summed up perfectly – good one.
Excellent post
Only followers of the dead club could venerate and support the GASL and all his scandalous chicanery. If there’s a way to do the wrong thing you can be sure that the deady bears and the board that lead them by the nose will be more than happy to get their paws mucky. They might well reap what they’ve sow if they hang on to DCK as any investment is sure to dry up, especially by brand names for whom good PR is everything.
As for the SFA, we know they’ll do SFA for fear of incriminating themselves.
As for Mr Crichton and his risible acronyms, there’s a 7 letter word which takes care of all that……..corrupt. HH
FIFA link
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305151928/http://www.fifa.com/world-match-centre/news/newsid/197/701/7/index.htm
PaddyBhoy67,
Dave Cunningham King is the Janet Webb of the Morecambe & Wise show. Does SFA ( Sweet F-all ) and then comes on at the end to accept all of the plaudits !
If he got the boot, I would feel a bit like Ernie Wise when Eric Morecambe popped his clogs. No more comedy partner …
I see wee coco from IN has been on the bevvy again and the funny fags . He has put it out there that his club are big spenders now in the transfer market . His club are now debt free and creamed in 17 million quid since the start of the season before getting to the Europa league group stages with many more millions still to come in this season . No wonder King the chisler gets away with the shady stuff he gets up to with dense bloggers like wee Coco hanging on to his every word .
King is not a board member of the football club so the SFA will use that. They allowed Ogilvie and wife shares in 2 clubs at the same time as well as Park now with Accies. Totally against their rules.
If they find King not F&P when he is in the feeder organisation what power do they have? Hee-Haw. It is a lip service rule to stop shysters into the game. I fear they have missed that boat.
Agreed, f&p is football only, not the parent coy. His status can’t be reviewed, he doesn’t have it
Support Resolution 12 – Drain the SFA swamp OR the corruption / fix continues just like the SEVCO ! We can make a difference 👍🏴🍀
Your right lad boycott Hampden give them nothing
This examination of fit and proper status for King will begin with a 3rd knuckle handshake and then proceed to deliberation of matter. It will then be decided that he is not on the board of the club, only the holding company.
So, nothing to do with them. Move along, nothing to see here. Meeting adjourned with another round of handshakes!
How does this effect his dealings with UK football club businesses and others, can they do business with his football club? What about financial businesses can they deal with his club?
Here’s the thing… as far as I can recall, the SFA have yet to decide if Alastair Johnston is “fit and proper”. That being the case, who will take over the reins if the SFA discover that at least one of them has a pair of cojones? To think that the Motherwell billionaire was deemed persona non grata for less, I’d be very surprised if King wasn’t “invited to reconsider his position” as Chair of TRIFC.
What an embarrassing newspaper well so called newspaper the Evening Ranger really is. Nothing mentioned in Friday’s edition of the paper on the King shambles and shocking announcement from the Takeovr Panel and the same paper is still on a sponsored silence in today’s edition of this toilet paper excuse for a newspaper. Maybe the announcement never happened from the TOP as far this the people who run this newspaper see it . The quicker this paper folds and those so called journalists lose their jobs the better .
Chris Jack – ‘The Group Senior Sports Writer’ – has probably barricaded himself in his bedroom, with headphones on and choosing to ignore that his beloved club has suffered yet another significant, public humiliation.
We can just point and laugh at him and The ET.
But if you’re a bear and a daily ET buyer, then you’re getting your paid for ‘Rangers’ information heavily censored – yet again. Stupid.
Just read the South African account Phil, ffs if any MSM reporter up here had written that piece, heaven fucking help them, tap on the shoulder, and escorted of the premises I think 🤔
Have you a link to that article please?
The link is in the article above that we are discussing !
It’s in Phil’s piece and makes interesting reading. Especially the bit where they mention that takeovers aside, Banks and other Financial Institutions might begin to distance themselves or become reluctant to be involved DK’s business affairs. They don’t actually come out and say so in print, but reading between the lines he’s regarded as too toxic to touch.
Hopefully, one way or the other, it will give us some real perspective of what we suspect goes on at the SFA.
If they deem him fit and proper then maybe fans will get together and pressure clubs to challenge.
It’s strange how UEFA the SPFl SFA ASA ECA etc all acknowledge Rangers Football Club remains the same club yet we are expected to accept the word of a few deluded Pacific Shelf fans. Go look up UEFA club facts Rangers. It’s hardly our fault you are utterly clueless about insolvency law or the work of administrators.
Oh dear!!… I think you have overdosed on your daily fix of Deludamol!! There is no such corporate body as Pacific Shelf. I would point you in the direction of the Companies House website, and invite you to peruse the company registration numbers of both celtic and “rangers”.
There is a saying, that you cannot educate an idiot – care to disprove that theory?
So, what’s your version, Charlie? The 2012 liquidation event didn’t happen? The CVA was accepted by RFC’s creditors? Why were the players able to walk away? BDO are pushing empty files around in their office? It was all a figment of our imagination?
Lord Hardie and other judges have literally laughed the same club theory out of court in real cases. Nimmo Smith produced what they paid him to produce.
It’s strange that UEFA the SPFl SFA ECA ASA and even my wee red book all acknowledge Rangers Football Club remains the same club yet we are expected to accept the word of a few utterly clueless Pacific Shelf supporters who know absolutely nothing about insolvency law or the work of administrators. Go look up UEFA club facts Rangers.
EUFA SPFL SPL are football members associations. They do not care what any team calls itself or pretends to be. They are not law in any way what so ever. And they have absolutely NO authority outside their own membership. They make up their own rules and guidelines within their membership. Exactly the same as a golf club that has a rule of no Jeans in the bar. It’s a rule. But should you wear Jean’s in the bar.. guess what! They couldn’t do a bloody thing about it. They couldn’t call the police and have you removed. They can make their own rules the cant make their own law. Now are you that f&#@¥ng stupid that you actually think that football associations are above the law of the land. I go out and kick someone in the shin and break their leg. Get brought to court for assault. What do I do? Do I have to except the law or can I sat actually no according to the SPFL Law I only receive a yellow car for that so Fk you judge. I’m bring my case to EUFA. are you that fking stupid you actually believe every football association you mentioned is the law?
How do you explain your fellow supporters losing their debenture seats after liquidation?
Charles.
So why did they send one of the persons who was abused at their (wee) boys club to the liquidators for compensation?
“It had nuthin’ tae dae wi’ us. We are a different ootfit” was the answer.
Or is it only when it suits the occasion?
By the way, Celtic went top of the league by their own efforts, I.e., by beating your mob easily.
You went to the top only because Livingston put you there temporarily. Remember Hearts last season?
The SFA and SP(F)L, as became clear during Craig Whyte’s trial, have spent the last 7 years lying, cheating and bending, breaking or re-writing ad lib their own rules for the benefit of the Ibrox based club so nothing they say can be trusted.
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Seriously? Since when were the ASA the ultimate arbiters on matters of football governance or Scottish/UK company law.
European Clubs Association (ECA). As I understand it, the ECA made it clear that Rangers’ full membership had been terminated and Sevco had become associate members. In any case, the ECA is the clubs’ representative body, a bit like a trade union, and not a governing body of the game so whatever they say is not relevant.
UEFA. No official or committee from UEFA has made any official pronouncement on the matter. The idea that they have appears to stem from the ASA’s judgement in which they quote guidance from UEFA that their rules allow for,
” the continuity of a club’s history despite corporate restructuring.”
Now this is fair enough. If, for example, a club were to be sold, lock, stock, barrel, assets AND DEBTS to a new owner then quite clearly the club continues unchanged. Similarly, if a club sets up a subsidiary company, like Rangers Retail or Celticfc Ltd, to handle the marketing or moves from private to public ownership (as both Celtic and Rangers did) then, again, the original club/company continues. Liquidation however, is a bit different. This involves the complete termination of a club/company’s business activity and corporate identity and the total break-up and sell-off of its assets. To describe this as “corporate restructuring” is like describing someone’s death and burial as no more than a change of address!
On the other hand, in correspondence with a group of Celtic shareholders on the matter known as Resolution 12, Andrea Traverso, UEFA’s Head of Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play, wrote that following the events of 2012 “the new club/company (was) ineligible to apply for a (UEFA Licence) for 3 years.”
FIFA. Again, no official or committee of the sport’s world governing body has made any official comment. This idea comes from an article in a FIFA newsletter by a blogger who described Rangers “hunt for promotion back to Scotland’s top flight.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/13215104.FIFA_step_into_new_row_over_Rangers__old_or_new_club__status/
No more an official comment on the matter than the entry for 14th June here – http://www.fifa.com/live-scores/news/y=2012/m=12/news=moments-that-defined-2012-1977017.html
but nevertheless seized by a compliant media, eager to please their main readers and avoid any bricks through their window.
Rangers died in 2012. Deal with it!
Absolutely brilliant Bill.
There is a dumbed down version just in case the OP hasn’t got the IQ to understand.
https://youtu.be/16iR-Cd0JQ8
That FIFA link is no longer available. The relevant section reads,
“Rangers go under
14 June
Rangers’ perilous financial position had been an open secret but there was still shock when, after 140 years of history and a world record 54 league titles, the club was consigned to liquidation in mid-June. The Glasgow giants were subsequently reformed as a new company and granted entry to the Third Division, Scotland’s fourth tier, which they currently lead by nine points with a game in hand.”
Good post mate.
Whit’s wi’ the wee red book?… Are you Chairman Mao on drag, or something?… As Father Ted might say – you’re a feckin’ eejit!!
Charles,
If Rangers survived…..
Why did they not compete in Europe after finishing second in the SPL in 2012?
Why did 14 international players empty their lockers and drive out of Murray Park with no transfer fees being required?
Why did there have to be a vote to see if they could play in the SPL the following season?
Why did they then have to scramble about all summer to see whether it was to be Div 1, Div 3 or nothing?
Why did Naismith and Whittaker appear on TV and say they weren’t interested in TUPEing over to SEVCO?
Why were they not seeded in the League Cup the following season…..drawing third placed Motherwell in the third round of the League Cup. This round is seeded. So how can the second and third teams in the SPL be drawn together???
Why did they have to play in the third round of the Scottish Cup – and why did Livingston (who finished fifth in the championship) get a bye?
All of the above FACTS prove that the SPL, The SFA and UEFA ALL treated Charles Greens Rangers as a NEW CLUB!!!
The team you currently cheer on is the football equivalent of an ABBA tribute act!
LOL! Are you so stupid as to believe that UEFA are fine, upstanding, honest citizens? Not only are they corrupt – they wrote the manual, under the guidance of FIFA!! As for the likes of the ASA – their remit begins and ends with slapping down advertisers that imply that Jelly Babies are made from real babies!!
I’m going to repeat her the words that will remind you of your school reports…
MUST TRY HARDER.
There is no way that the SFA can now pass him ” Fit and Proper”…absolutely no way.
I forecast that he will be invited to stand down ….and go home.
And isn’t Alistair Johnston still being “investigated” by our football leaders…?
The SFA are not fit for purpose.
I would be disappointed if King should go. Sevco could then probably start living within its means and actually be on it’s very first baby steps of becoming a debt free club.
Two things need to happen for King right now. Steven Gerrard needs to keep performing. And stay ahead of Celtic in the league after Christmas. And a win over Celtic in December would be the icing on the cake. I believe There was only one reason Gerrard was brought to ibrox and that was to do a copycat deal of Celtic and Brendan Rodgers. He couldn’t do any worse than the previous managers but if luck was on their side and he got ahead of Celtic over the January period then I will be very surprised if the papers were not linking him with every other club down south. You do not appoint a rookie manager on a 4 year contract for any other reason.
Remember when the papers were linking Rodgers with every other club down south! We thought it was wishful thinking. Those stories were probably coming out of Celtic. If Celtic didnt like what the papers were reporting why would they keep doing business with them and paying them for advertising! Celtic were hoping that Rodgers would make great ground in Europe it would have doubled his value. As it was a double treble and an invincible season was enough to get an 8 million payout for their investment. King is hoping for the same with Steven Gerrard. The money won’t be the same but should they get an offer of around 3/4 million in January Gerrard will be away faster than it took Rodgers to sute up the morning he left! Gerrards value will be at the highest in January if Sevco are top of the league and they beat Celtic in December. I dont think Sevco will risk keeping him. They were level on points last December and failed miserably when the real pressure was on.
Sam, I have been inactive for quite a while, but always echoed the sentiments of your first sentence, and agree your second.
I am simplistic in saying turn the split slowly.
A nice wee tickly handskake should cover everything at Hampden . Now move along nothing to see hear just some fake news . You could not make it up. Put Trump and Johnson 2 of the biggest liars on the planet into the washing machine and the Lying King will come out .