There are several compounding elements of the post-2012 hegemonic hangover amongst the Ibrox klanbase.
One of them is the clear material evidence that the Engine Room Subsidiary cannot get near to Celtic on the financial front.
Regular readers will know that I hold to the controversial view that this confers something of a sporting advantage on the Hoops.
Essentially Sevco are Espanyol Glasgow.
They share a city with a neighbour who is more influential on and off the field.
However, where my analogy falls is that the eight-year-old club are pretending to be Real Madrid.
Therefore, I was not surprised today when Sevco issued the Planet Fitba equivalent of a Papiermark to their Deludamol dependent customers.
The strapline of Downfall is “How Rangers FC self-destructed”.
That fundamental reality was too painful for the People to accept.
It compounded their grief at the death of the club, so they got stuck in denial.
Charles of Normandy saw an opening and got a chateau out of the fantasy.
Since 2012, have essentially been a case study in the efficacy of the Kübler-Ross model.
The five stages of Sevco…
Now things appear to be coming to a head with the football authorities.
The folk in the Blue Room cannot accept that the days of Jim Farry are over, gone with, a thing of the past.
Jim Spence nailed it on Twitter a few days ago.
In their demented state, they are vulnerable to a myriad of conspiracy theories.
Sadly, that narrative has jumped over into the mainstream media.
When I spoke to a source close to Dundee FC yesterday, he said that a BBC reporter had just phoned him.
The chap from Pacific Quay wanted to know if THAT invoice was genuine!
Well, at least he was checking.
That is what journalists are meant to do.
I also noted that the intellectual powerhouse of the fleg community bought the entire thing.
That came as a surprise to me as it is well known that he has some wegal twaining…
Of course, Mr Bryson has some form for seeing what he wants to see.
The new PR chap at Sevco is Belfast City Councillor David Graham of the DUP.
Indeed, I might have detected some DUPesque Herrenvolk themes running through Mr Gerrard’s recent rousing statement.
Therefore, anyone who thinks that the Banter Years have concluded is hilariously mistaken.
While there is still a hint of a pulse in the basket of assets, the laughs will continue for the rest of us.
The chaps in the Blue Room have no alternative but to maintain the supplies of Deludamol to their customers.
Meanwhile, Planet Fitba awaits to see something that actually passes the evidential threshold.
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As per every season gullibillies are told contracts with Spirts Direct are finished, it’s cool to buy your Sevco merch.
Later big mike turns up with his hands out.
It has become an annual expected farce.
The deluded once more being lied to in order for them to stump up. This season’s merch income to pay big mike.
What exactly are they buying into this year? It’s another certain thrashing at the hands of Celtic.
SPFL clubs resigned to Celtic being called Champions, per the Daily Ranger.
Resigned Keith, really? How about miles clear and only a couple of games away from being mathematically impossible to catch, you tube.
But not all the clubs Jacko. There’s one in particular who will be greetin like a wean when the decision is made, which won’t be long now with no chance of the final 8 games getting played.
The moaning and shit coming from Rangers so far will be as nothing compared to what’s on the way when the SPFL make the announcement.
Corruption, bribery, bent, here we go again as once again the toys are dumped from the pram.
It’s clear to everyone that Rangers only thought is to stop 9 IAR. They have no interest in the well being of any other club, none whatsoever.
Their fans would rather that half the teams in the league go bust rather than see Celtic crowned 9 IAR Champions.
When the inevitable happens stand by as their media monkeys start pushing the 8 1/2 titles line as proscribed by Alistair Johnston.
Remember him? The guy whose Fit and Proper status is still under scrutiny by the SFA, where the days have turned into weeks, then months, then years.
On a completely separate note has the SFA provided Police Scotland fraud squad with a copy of the Rangers 2011/12 UEFA licence application with the no fiscal or social taxes overdue box ticked?
I’m presuming that whoever signed the document has already been chased from Scottish, and all, football?
1. At its worse it’s 8.99 titles as Celtic are 99% probability of winning. T’Rangers 1%. Not 8.5 titles.
2. Johnston currently has a status of not fit and not proper.
3. The 2011/12 Rangers lies on their UEFA license application must be notified to UEFA and stop pissing about with the SFA.
Cracking article from wee Jim Spence in today’s Dundee Courier attacking Sevco. Must read. Sadly of course it’s not in mainstream press.
Askance Phil but hope OK
I usually try to be short, and logical with figures.
So please forgive this emotional edgy vomitopropulsion.
Just that reviewing and ranking my best teeshirts the gold medal winner was:
The first rule of SEVCO DON’T MENTION SEVCO Shite Club
(paid for in Glasgow, delivered from Germany).
I just thought this was emotionally frame shakingly hilarious and hope some of you will approve.
Really sorry I can’t wear this to Spain any more but there are a fair few smellies around Geneva so that gets you a smirk, seeing their faces.
Soma, Phil, good old Huxlian soma.
There’s 1.294m registered voters in Northern Ireland.
In the last General Election the Turnout was 61.8%. Therefore 800,000 people voted.
The DUP got 30.6% share of the vote, or 244.7k Voters.
The population of Northern Ireland is 1,800,000 people. DUP is voted for by 244,700 people. 1.56m Citizens didn’t vote for DUP.
It really has no political mandate nor popular political standing in Northern Ireland. Is it any surprise they’re trying to poison Scotland And find influence somewhere else?
All Scots should give these minority cult figures of NI the cold shoulder. Their highly selective bible culture against female choice and LGBT folks is a lost cause of a bygone era. Their hatred of the Irish, The Republic and Roman Catholics is criminal.
The UK going forward with BREXIT will have outstanding relations with the Republic of Ireland and mutually beneficial trading. The UK is buying up Irish beef as I write for UK supermarket shelves.
The DUP brand of Britishness does not exist on mainland Britain. They don’t belong anywhere really and have little influence or power.
I am afraid that your view of Brexit , how UK is going to have a wonderful relationship with Ireland and Europe and how UK is such an open, fair place place to live that you have been taking Deludamol as well.
Take off your rose tinted spectacles and look around you at 27.5k deaths (an underestimate) PPE supplies bordering on criminal negligence and WTF was government doing in February?
My Irish cut of sirloin was truly delicious today. Three for £10, I’ll be eating it three times this week. Irish farmers are happy for it too.
No more EU payments for nothing back. Except rampant immigration.
London is the centre of the universe.
Centre of covid with Boris Johnson the useless gentleman amateur so loved by many in England due to deferential social class system.
Government thought they knew brttet than WHO.
Germany followed WHO – how is that working out again?
Boris (Chiurchill Johnson keeps going on about EW2 and sunlit uplands.
More like WW1 with Lions in NHS and care homes etc being led by Donkeys in government.
No migrant labour to pick seasonal crops
As long as you Boris 🤡& Nigel 🤡are happy who cares if the rest of Europe think we are a bunch of idiots.
Self-deception is one reason. But only one. They do not want the league to be brought to a conclusion because of the possible 15 point deduction for admin. If the league is called they are in greater danger of being relegated than stopping 10iar. Try selling Ibrox season tickets under those conditions.
Isn’t the 15 points now for next season? Thought the cut off point for this season was 31/3.
I would love if the Celtic faithful were offered cash refunds because of the early finish that they would through choice divert the monies to the North curve NHS fund . Fantastic cause that I’m so proud of, Hail Hail
I have no idea who Jamie Bryson is but it does seem that he sees what he wants to see.
I posted this comment on ETims this morning:
On the Jamie Bryson thing. He states “Dundee unlawfully changed their SPFL vote”
What was unlawful about it? Any club voting NO could “lawfully” change their vote during the full, legal 28 day voting period.
In that case no money should have been paid out until the 28 day period was over.
It was my understanding that the Dundee guy jumped the gun and put the vote in before the club’s board had made a final decision. The about turn was easier because the vote, by ending up in the wrong folder, hadn’t actually been counted at that point.
Ending up in the wrong folder is a strange one but I know from personal experience that it can happen. I’ve received multiple emails from the same source without any problems and then I get one that ends up in a junk or spam folder. Invariably it’s one that matters.
According to BBC’s Chris McLaughlin, a senior scottish club has already discussed Administration, but he hasn’t named that club…
Is it worth opening a book on exactly who that club is? 😄
£25 voucher. It’s a bargain in pork futures. Grab them while you can – nae kiddin.
1862 The Confederate States produced/printed their own money. They lost the war and their notes were not worth the Andrex. But wait a hundred odd years and these hiries will be worth the saving for future sale on the antique market.
Think on it. We buy them up and hand them on down the years meanwhile, the klan rip them up in present day despair, thus increasing their future value.
God! I hate this way of thinking but it has its joyous side. HH. Keep safe.
Is Mr Bryson The Grand Gullibilly ?
JS
He may well be related to Mr ‘Imperfect but legal’ over at Hampden.
Often wondered where ‘imperfect but legal’ sits in the SFA rule book or is it a man made construct to fix a thorny problem?
£25useless confetti vouchers.
On a positive they have immense value compared to RIFC PLC shares which are unlisted, unregulated and the loss making company since birth is in negative equity.
Meanwhile, There has been over 6,200 new positive cases in last 24 hrs in uk. Sadly 739 deaths in the last 24hrs. [daily Govt statement right now on BBC].
These numbers are not going down. There is no scientific case for relaxing anything.
Thanks Brian.
As per your last point.
Totally agree.
This isn’t the time to give Covid19 any opportunity to spread.
How come Sevco are called The Engine Room Subsidiary?
Google is your friend…
Phil outside sevco there is no such thing. You can have a subsidiary company, that is owned by a parent company. So by what sevco say , sevco is the parent company & the club is the subsidiary company. I don’t have a clue where the engine room comes from.
If that is the case , do the parent company (sevco) and the subsidiary company ( the rangers international football club) submit 2 sets of accounts?
Boris came out onto tv yesterday after weeks of absence with two upbeat statements. 1. The UK is over the peak. 2. The R number is less than 1.
Today the infection numbers and deaths demonstrates we are very much still on the plateau. (Noted by a professor on Sky tv).These numbers are bigger than some daily numbers last week. How is it getting better?
How they calculate the R number is a secret. It must be above 1 today given these numbers.
On another public health issue, empty hotel rooms around the world including the UK can give you legionnaires disease due to water sitting in shower heads and pipes and sink and bath taps for months. Particularly in hot countries. It’s a very real risk. Turn all water on holding your breath and run out of the room for twenty minutes whilst the water flows.
Just wear a mask and walk out of the room. Shower heads and hoses should be removed and a strong disinfectant passed through them several times, or better still discarded and replaced.
Facilities management who be in every week to carry out weekly checks, including the flush registrar.
Cheers Phil.
The pandemic cup award must be
Put on hold for now.
It’s Friday’s statement challenge shield award .regarding money for Celtic I shall not take
Eney money’s due back forfeited to help
Celtic maintain their dominant position
And if you’re needing wots due back
Supporters that are in a position is for
Each fan to make a claim to Celtic fc
And ask for wot is due.
Our season BOOKS are cheaper this year
Saving over one hundred pounds.
I like most fans will not get to watch Celtic
Play at parkhead until there is a vaccine
Keeping my seats is my priority and make sure that I like most Celtic fans are helping
In knowing that season tickets will SADLY
Take a hit .
Brilliant stuff. Invoice for sevco gullible BOARD.
Shafted by joke invoice put out by fan.
Blue room Blues and heads of shame
Dave king laughs at invoice.
Desperate BOARD members have statement
Reddy.
Gloves and masks can save lives.
Also eneything that coming into your home
Must be wiped with bleached and rinsed
Not everyone is virus free that works in
Shops and until there is every single item
Must be considered a sneeze and a coffs
Inside the food places can have a deadly effect on something that you buy.
Hopefully most people know that but
Think about it shop working people have
Died in my local Clydebank Asda ho have been packing shelves and touch everything
So wiping is a must and keep washing hands
I don’t even hang my washing out incase
The wind carried some virus in the air
Am not SAYING that is the case but if
Someone coughing or sneezing outside it must travel far and spread.
So washing is kept inside to dry.
Cheers again Phil.
Stay safe troops HH.
So giving back vouchers to the fans rather than hard cash which is owed to them . Apparently a Klan member is quoting £150 he is owed which equaits to a £25 voucher to spend at ibrox oh dear . So big Mike Cashley might be away from ibrox now but he has left sevco with some business tips . Keep your customers cash only offer vouchers in return no cash returned here . This is his mantra in his Sport’s Direct shops when you purchase anything a voucher to the value of what you spend . But at least big Mike gives you what is owed in £for £ . Now sevco they just bump you and think they are doing you a favour by giving you if your lucky a quarter or less of the value left on your season ticket money back as a voucher . And to think Partick Thistle and Stranraer gave their fans the remaining balance of their season ticket back to the fans in hard cash .
I was reading some of the tweets this morning from our guys who made the fake invoice. They also posted some of the screengrabs off Sevco pages. Oh my sides! Sevco is the gift the just keeps on giving.
If Celtic want to give me a refund I’d be happy for them to invest it in the youth programme and a promise of some vegetarian snacks at the Jock Stein Stand.
Lol some top of the class real CHISLING going on here with sevco holding on to the last 5 games season ticket money . A possible £5.75 million took in with these 5 games minus £1.15 million for the vouchers KERCHING £4.6 million in sevco back pocket. What a cracking deal the Klan got there . And we thought Dave King had left the building.
the Jamie Bryson link doesn’t seem to be working.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/11/16/news/jamie-bryson-mistakes-munster-flag-for-balaclava-man-at-aviva-stadium-1487046/
Was he also the source of the Achill Islam fleg controversy?
No.
I don’t think so.
Exactly Cha. It was a bit of a laugh when they brought that bit of desperation up. They were looking for anything they could to try and bad mouth the Celtic Support. The guys from the Achill Island Celtic Supporters Club are still pissing themselves laughing at them
You’re not missing much 😂
Bwyson appears to have recovered and found his voice since his capture regarding claiming dole money and working for a Cab firm in Bangor as a contwoller