I am sure that I was not the only one who suffered an involuntary eyebrow movement when I read of Mr Gerrard’s comments apropos the sanctions imposed on Manchester City.
Indeed, you would have to have the memory of an absentminded goldfish not to spot the glaring hypocrisy of anyone at Ibrox pointing the finger at a financially doped club.
The original Rangers indulged in such cheating on an industrial scale for decades.
Since Sevco was created in 2012 it has carried on as if the liquidation of RFC had not happened at all.
Mr Gerrard’s comments on Citeh was an open goal for anyone who wanted to remind their readers of what Rangers had done for many years.
Consequently, there was a free and fair exchange of views yesterday between Mr Let’s Go and Sevco’s immovable PR guru.
The Liverpool legend was told to refrain from making any such observations in the future without first clearing it with the basket of assets’ ample advisor.
So, no more slip-ups in front of the camera Stevie!
I’m told that the fact that the ex-Daily Radar man is so securely dug in is exasperating many members of the Sevco High Command.
However, he simply knows too much and they recognise that fact.
I understand that a future memoir was mentioned and what was in and what was left out was dependent on how much love he felt in the Blue Room.
Asking him to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement now is rather late in the day…
As for the hastily re-arranged fixture with Livi, it was a case of follow follow the money.
I’m told that a Monday match would not have suited Sevco’s delicate financial situation.
Therefore, my information is that it was for banking and not sporting reasons that the match HAD to be played on the Sunday rather than the Monday.
It is almost as if they are running on financial fumes.
Almost…
Now, dear reader, I have to get back down the Word Mines.
Novels, especially sequels, do not write themselves.
I go back to my lonely toil with the sad realisation that anything I can create will not come close to the outrageous fabrications that are regularly crayoned at Sevco High Command.
Have a great week.
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Future memoir. 😂😂😂
I can’t see Jimbo the Hutt’s future memoir troubling any best seller lists.
Just had a thought. Were UEFA’s FFP rules actually in place in 2012?
If not, could they be retrospectively applied to ANY club?
If the FFP rules were NOT in place then they couldn’t have been broken. You can’t break rules that don’t exist.
The truth is that uefa has no moral authority to deal with Manchester City or punish the club whilst their dealing with Charles Green’s SEVCO club masquerading as Rangers FC remains the elephant in their FFP room.
Yes, UEFA stated SEVCO/TRFC was a brand new club and therefore non eligible for three years to participate in uefa tournaments. All correct so far.
However, UEFA has not stripped 15 cups and titles from RFC due to unlawful tax evasion EBTs contravening FFP. This needs put right.
To compound the matter UEFA is recognising the club founded in 2012, which they officially stated was new, fully as old RFC in Liquidation. With all titles including unlawful EBT titles. This also needs put right.
Until uefa corrects its deliberate two corruptions of european football in the two paras above it has no moral authority to discipline any club.
Arguably, Celtic is complicit in the whole business and Celtic should be charged for their part in corrupting the game and allowing this with no protest. It is a betrayal of Celtic Stakeholders.
Unfortunately, I think the Celtic board would see losing Sevco’s thousands of supporters and their “blue pond” to Scottish football as the betrayal.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbymcmahon/2020/02/16/uefa-ban-manchester-city-for-2-years-separating-the-facts-from-fiction/
We must remember that UEFA has found City guilty for years 2012-2016.
2012 was 8 years ago. In sport there is no statute of limitation on action regarding cheating such as a uk civil court legal limit of 6 years.
Rangers FC can still be tried for EBTs indefinitely!
It seems getting Speigel to print the story is the way ahead. Or The Times or The Financial Times.
On appeal, Man City need to tell uefa to f*ck off citing Rangers FC and zero uefa punishments for decades of cheating.
Indeed uefa rewarded the cheating by giving a brand new zombie club the history of a liquidated club.
FFP my arse, uefa recognising SEVCO as RFC after a full liquidation with all history intact!! No FFP punishments for winning titles on social tax evasion EBTs.
Duplicitous uefa with zero integrity.
There’s the Citeh defence right there.
RFC founded 1872 are still in existence in LIQUIDATION. Action against the club and its titles for FFP cheating by uefa can still be taken to set the record straight.
F*ck Celtic, DD and PL and what they think.
Killers of Sporting Integrity.
Oh dear has somebody upset you?
I know this won’t go down too well but I like Steve G. He’s a Celtic man at heart and you can draw comparisons between him and Jock Stein. As far as the other half were concerned, Jock was ok while he played for Celtic but when he managed them even his father’s friends turned their backs on him and ostracised him. Bigoted scum! We’re better than that.
He’s the Sevco manager. Enough said!
His choice of words is questionable. Indeed he has been slagging off referees again. He’s done it several times this season. The SFA would be hammering any other manager but the Sevco manager gets off with it.
He slags refs as a squirrel to distract from his own pish efforts as a manager. Only the gullible swallow it.
Every draw, loss or bad performance is someone else’s fault. I for one am heartily sick to the back teeth of his constant whining.
They are now reduced to having every game as soon as possible for bar/bovril/tea/pie/crisps sales.
A game backlog equalled points dropped as scheduling catch up games after returning from Europa League would mean domestic disaster.
They need to travel to Aberdeen. Aberdeen will beat them. They need to travel to Celtic park. Celtic will beat them. That’s another six points dropped.
Celtic were in second gear for the first half of the season.
On a UEFA FFP point, the letter from UEFA’s head of club licensing to Auldheid et al, stated SEVCO was in bottom tiers of Scottish football and couldn’t partake in uefa competitions for four years which was the equivalent of a club ban for their crimes against football.
My point at the time, and still is, that uefa should have given them a three years european football ban from their first year of qualifying for Europe in the spfl. Not stating the SEVCO years in the bottom tiers was a de facto ban.
The whole fix for Sevco was bent practice upon bent practice.
RFC played in the Champions League at least five times through cheating to win the SPL. They should never have been in the Champions League.
UEFA has levelled zero punishments against them.
Indeed, they even recognise a Zombie club as the original club in Liquidation! With the same history! Sacrebleu!
RFC Died. End of.
Retrospective punishment on the dead club is improbable, well, because that club died. However, UEFA could apply retrospective punishment on the present, existing club, from when they first qualified to play in Europe.
Let’s be realistic here, do you really think the rangers are relying on pie sales etc to keep afloat ? Let’s assume average spend is 5 pounds per person x 50000 supporters , that’s 250 k , if 70 per cent of that was cash then that’s 175 k to take to the bank on Monday morning , in all honesty do you think Monday morning or Tuesday morning after a Monday night game is really going to tip the scales of administration ? No of course not , more likely they wanted the extra recovery day for the Braga game where qualifying means genuine big money.
They just appealed a £15,000 fine ffs
They just came back from 2/0 down in the latter part of the game , extra rest day !
The reason they couldn’t play in Europe for three years had nothing whatsoever to do with being in the bottom tier. You can qualify for Europe from ANY tier via a cup win. They were disqualified because they were a NEW club and as such were ineligible to play in Europe for the first three years of their existence. This rule applies to ALL new clubs.
Legally it would be difficult to apply sanctions to sevco for crimes committed by the old club. The implication would be that they are the same business. They are NOT. They can pontificate and posture and talk all they want about going for 55, but the legal reality is the old Rangers died in 2012. You could even argue maybe that until the liquidation process is completed they are still dying.
Why does uefa list them in all records/ websites etc… as the same Rangers with same badges, est. 1872 with same honours and trophies won? If they are a different club?
Are you saying uefa are making an honest mistake? Can they correct it if pointed out?
Or is it you and your post that is clearly wrong?
I can’t make any comments on UEFA and their reasoning. Or indeed the complicity of any other body in failing to question their reasoning. But what I’m saying is factually correct. The team currently playing out of Ibrox is a different club/business from the one that went into liquidation in 2012. Liquidation is the end of the line for any business. A business can come out of administration. A business CANNOT come out of liquidation as the same business. They died. End of.
The notes at the end of THEIR OWN accounts, either last year or the year before, I can’t remember which, actually state that the current club started as Sevco.
When any sevconian tells me that the club didn’t die, it was the holding company that died, I ask one simple question. What was the name of the holding company? NOT ONE SINGLE TIME HAVE I HAD AN ANSWER.
Does this league title victory from 2014* (if it is awarded) now stop the world famous Glasgow Celtic supporters from singing ” HAVE YOU EVER SEEN GERRARD WIN THE LEAGUE” …maybe a REAL SPORTS JOURNALIST could ask him if he feels this could implicate the old club 1872-2012 and their financially doped tainted titles
For Slippy to admit City cheated winning the title he would have to admit the same for sevco the club he now manages . This would be ideal for sevco to give him his P45 as the perfect excuse for not doing as the PR GURU instructed. On another matter it’s only a matter of time now maybe by the end of the week that a statement from the board or club 18to30 demand investigations and answers to the refs decisions against the sevco . Chris itchy Sack Jack has put an article out tonight highlighting this for the new club . Their blogs are running with it constantly 24/7 the pressure will build over at ibrox and the nuggets at 18to30 and they will cave in and release statements at the same time . Watch this space .
Celtic should be awarded 15 titles and cups from the RFC guilty EBT years. The titles to be stripped from the Sevco purchased history.
Celtic would be on an immediate 55 titles with SEVCO on 49. Yes, no five stars!
If it’s good enough for the EFA then it’s good enough for the SFA.
That poor Fat Controller…reminds me of the quote possibly from one F. Sinatra, ” Hell hath no fury like a hooker with a literary agent” !
That IS a cracker. I’m going to use that one.
Not the hooker, the quote.
I suspect Slippy would be delighted to receive a retrospective league medal even if it meant throwing the Asterisk Years under the bus.
I have to correct you there Timmy. The match went ahead because of Sevco’s miraculous drying pitch… https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/in-grave-danger-of-drying-out/