At times like this humour is vital.
Especially if it comes from a familiar source.
Today the Daily Radar didn’t let us down.
Despite ongoing issues with various supply chains breaking down due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Stenography Corps came through today with a much-needed consignment of pish.
This award-winning piece of succulence in the Daily Radar appeared without a name to it.
Strange that.
Any reasonable person reading it would think that all as well at Ibrox.
Anyone who thinks that Sevco is financially stable enough to ride out a lengthy shutdown should just keep talking the tabloids.
As ever, the Clumpany did it better.
Only a month ago there were signs of a cash flow crisis at Ibrox.
If I can bring you back to the panic at the basket of assets to get the postponed Livingston match played THE VERY NEXT DAY.
The game, which was to be played on Saturday, February 15th, had been postponed.
The visitors were happy enough to play it at a later day, say the following midweek.
However, I’m told that this set off a panic in the Blue Room.
There was no shortage of water on the diseased pitch at Ibrox, but there as a distinct lack of liquidity in the eight-year-old club’s bank account.
So, it was all about bank lodgements on the following Monday.
That was last month, dear reader.
Now, as I tweeted today there is a lot of work being done here by “provided they bring in the promised investment”.
Both Aberdeen and Hearts have been open with their fans and the rest of Planet Fitba about the financial problems that this shut down has caused to their finances.
Fair play to them.
Both clubs have no problem with leveling with their support base and they are to be commended for that.
Celtic are the only topflight team with tens of millions of pounds in the bank at present.
Moreover, the champions have access to a substantial line of credit.
These are very dark days and the distraction of a good laugh is vital for all of us.
So, let’s end today on a joke:
Keep your distance and stay well.
Keep your distance and stay well’
I promise you I haven’t been within arms length a Daily Rangord for at least 20 years Phil.
Ironically though I was reaching up for a Club International on the top shelf 👀
Oh how Tim’s have changed 😉
With so many people volunteering,why are we not using people to disinfect areas while we are on lockdown,following what other countries are doing.
The other article in today’s Daily Record focused on Gerard’s potential signings this summer. Mark McDougall ( I’ve never heard of him either!) highlighted 5 possible targets for Sevco and their estimated cost was 15.5 million quid.
Honest tae God you could not make this up- a club which are millions in debt and haemorrhaging 3.5 million a week in a global lockdown period, with no other income options not forgetting Mike Ashley and Close brothers awaiting overdue payments and yet this rag of a newspaper flags up a potential summer spend!
Phil, you’re right again – they’ve won the Treble; pandemic cup, the lockdown league and are virus victors.
Sorry pal. You’re factually inaccurate. You certainly CAN make this up. Indeed if you want to work for the sports desk at the Daily Ranger it’s a necessary qualification for the job.
just done some arithmetic, at 3.5 mil per week their wage bill would be 175,000,000 per year. seems a bit more than reality can cope with ( yeah i know it’s aye brokes but ffs) if you’re gonnae score points, at least make your points accurate. otherwise you sound like one of them.
He must mean per month.
Do TUPE rules not mean that a player has the right to continue with the same contract if his contract is bought over by a new company? I. E. Sevco couldn’t have legally offered to pay him less if he opted to stay with them. Goian obviously thought they were offering him all that money because of their ‘financial muscle’ The ‘journalist’ concerned probably didn’t realise this either. 😞
Tupe laws protect workers rights for 1 year then they can be subject to change if a restructure takes place in consultation with all staff.
He’s NOT contracted to Sevco. He’s on loan.
Following the Ibrox financial muscle shite in todays Daily Rubbish would anyone be surprised, apart from their fan base, that before the week is out the headlines will be ‘Gers players and Gerrard’s management team asked to take temporary cut in wages’
Then along comes the new PR guru and where Traynor could use his pet press monkeys to toe the party line, the DUP newcomer might be adding fuel to the fire as he finds himself front and centre of a major crisis of a kind not experienced by him before.
No Surrender, WATP, GSTQ and the Union may not cut the mustard on this occasion.
Jeezo!!.. they (Sevco AND the Retard!!) don’t give up, do they? Latest online nonsense has sevco potentially targeting 5 players, totalling an estimated value of £15½ million combined!!
It must be all those car crashes they have that’s keeping Douglas Park in business!!
Press the rewind button back to 2011 and its GROUNDHOG day all over again . All the feelgood factor stories being pushed about the auld club back then splashing money getting linked with big money moves for players meanwhile the club was circling the drain. This is an action replay .
Steven, can I ask a favour, could you not use the word retard it would be much appreciated.
Stay safe out there
Hail Hail 🇨🇮
Indeed.
It is a hateful word.
Please comply with that reasonable request Steven.
Duly noted.
No offence intended. I’ll bear it in mind. Profuse apologies.
Try not using any other words while you’re at it.
Yes because there is always someone out there waiting to pounce and squeal that someone may be offended, and if not offended may be offended because someone like you thinks they should be, get a life pal.
Aye, but they have a long list of quality players, Barisic, Katic Tavernier and Alfredo. When u total up the value it is over one hundred million according to the educated journos in the Scottish media. A bit like sitting on the poop deck as the SS Titanic went down and sipping on a cocktail
As I said previously the record blogger for sevco put it out there 5 players from SPFL they could sign to stop 10 in a row here they are . Ferguson at Aberdeen ibrox reject, Allen who has already knocked them back before , Hickey but the blogger says they face competition from Man City, Dykes at Livingston and Shankland at Dundee United a club they won’t give a penny to . Meanwhile on FF one of their own is talking about hinting to the players to take a pay cut to help the club out . Oh dear .
Is “poop deck” a euphemism for their directors box, by any chance? 😉😁😂
The thought of sevco buying Hagi is truly laugh out loud stuff but I suppose they need that Season Ticket money in a.s.a.p. They must be one of the worst run clubs in the world with one of the thickest supporters in the world. There you go, another 2 cups for them. HH
“One of the thickest supporters”??
They’ve got feckin tens of thousands of them!!
I’m still confused about that DUP/OO chap becoming TRFC Head of Communications.
Your business is facing its worst cash flow problem to date, so you;
– get rid of a contractor/supplier, (Traynor), and replace with a senior employee position, i.e. increase your ‘fixed’ overheads.
– appoint someone to this key, senior appointment who does not possess the requisite skills / qualifications / experience,
– appoint someone with a background which will be, quite obviously, highly controversial.
With a distinct lack of cash, RIFC/TRFC must have had a headcount freeze in place?
So why appoint this chap Graham?
He must be bringing something of high value to Ibrox which exceeds all the negatives around his appointment – you would think?
It can’t simply be for distraction purposes – so it must be for cash???
Aye the DUP is looking for somewhere to get some worldwide attention. why not with a world famous inclusive club who have there own anyone/everyone/everything as a Moto.
Stay safe out there, in there where ever you are.
Hail Hail
DUP(E) maybe?
Ach, what’s the worst that can happen?.
1 You go bust.
2 add the word THE to the start of your clubs name.
3 claim all your old clubs previous history.
4 Browbeat everyone every other week into believing you’re the same club.
5, You’re debt free.
ps, It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that the club with tens of millions in the bank and a strong credit facility with a real bank will outlast a Club with hee haw in the bank and no way of funding their operation.
Last man standing claims the prizes.
so, THE Rangers,
then THE THE Rangers
then THE THE THE RANGERS
AD INFINITUM
works for me
In that case, they would be one THE THE RANGERS INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL CLUB. I would imagine that would bring in yet another lawsuit, for plagiarising the name of 80’s band The The. 😉
Succulent Lamb or Apprentice Tender Meatballs?
Goian is getting confused between the old club he played for and the 2012 version.
In his day HBOS,through Murray, provided tens of millions to fund the Rangers spend.
Most of that debt was moved to another Murray company and was part of, from memory, the £800m that HBOS had to write off when Murray’s empire collapsed.
There are people at the Daily Rubbish who have a history for spouting shite with no basis in truth. File the Goian story along with Motherwell billionaire with wealth off the radar!
The Hitch,I remember journalists
Take care Philand all
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If Celtic are financially sound why are approximately 60 members of staff who work for Celtic virtually every week serving food and drinks , cleaning and thousand other things still waiting to find out if they are going to be supported by Celtic . No this isn’t match day only staff these are staff that work the tours , do the birthday parties , cook the food week in week out who Celtic won’t give a contract to . By the way the majority of staff who do have a contract are only contracted for 4 hours per week I wonder what’s happening to them . Developing story ?
I read than the klan have offered there car park for the army to use “with their tanks and their bombs, and there bombs and their guns ,what’s in your head Zombies!”
doesc anybody, i mean anybody, know what is so special, iconic, about the albion carpark? is there valet parking? does one get a “relieving” massage? answers on an undressed elephant, please
Phil
I read the aforementioned article on line this morning and it is pure pish. You would think (after reading and comparing what was written) that celtic were the club with financial problems hurtling down the line. In defies belief that any credible journalist would write that article and any credible paper would publish it.
The article involves neither a credible journalist nor a credible newspaper 🙂
Lol exactly hence the missing so called journalists name to the article a classic squirrel story and as FAKE NEWS stories go this is a belter . But the gullibles will lap it up they don’t know any better .
Phil
I read the aforementioned article on line this morning and it is pure pish. You would think (after reading and comparing what was written) that celtic were the club with financial problems hurtling down the line. In defies belief that any credible journalist would write that article and any credible paper would publish it.