As I have reported here, one member of the Sevco High Command decided that the in-house PR superhero needed some professional help.
I, of course, couldn’t possibly comment on that score.
Anyway, the senior chap in the Blue Room brought in an expensive communications firm to help get a positive message out there.
Despite their impressive credentials, they did lack local knowledge.
With DUPman on point, there should not have been any reason to worry.
There really shouldn’t…
However, it was quickly pointed out that the claims emanating from Ibrox about their putative 150th anniversary were, well, untrue.
The citizenry of Planet Fitba will undoubtedly have noticed the rather unedifying spat between the Ibrox klanbase and supporters of Nottingham Forest in the closing days of 2021.
Of course, the Ibrox klanbase cannot resist bringing this island into their riposte if the opportunity is there.
This “winning friends on the journey” stuff can be complicated, especially when you are a toxic combination of Herrenvolk hubris and hypersensitivity.
Of course, that unfortunate condition is obvious to onlookers.
Yesterday I was contacted by an impeccably placed source who explained the backstory to me.
The communications firm drew up stuff for the 150th-anniversary scam.
They duly sent it through to DUPman to check the finer points of the fable.
Sadly, it seemed to have slipped his mind.
Consequently, it opened the door to Nottingham Forest fans to point out the inconvenient facts; two European Cup wins, never liquidated etc.
Perhaps the fluent Ulsturr Scatch speaker had his mind on other things.
Like the news in the Blue Room that Mr David Cunningham King is planning a trip to Fair Caledonia to galvanise his supporters among the Ibrox klanbase.
Faced with the challenge from Nottingham Forest fans Sevco’s PR operation retreated into the Trumpian realm of “alternative facts”.
Then again, their starting point was the premise that a club formed in 2012 somehow was born in 1872.
Of course, dear reader, that Orwellian falsehood could only thrive if the chaps in the Blue Room had the full cooperation of the local media.
For the avoidance of doubt, they’re fully on board with the fiction that this Rangers is the original Rangers.
It is the litmus test of journalistic integrity on Planet Fitba.
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Phil,
Seems a bit strange that as DK is coming to Scotland, Sevco announce his good riddance at companies house. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC437060/filing-history
Why now – 6 months after the event?
Oh yes and another 1.25 million of confetti to pay salary…..
Br,
BigAl
I would have thought that ragers 2012 actually playing in europe this season is conformation enough that they are a new club .
As IIRC ragers 1872 (in the process of being liquidated) has somewhere in the region of £20m in unpaid social taxes .
Being economical with the truth is just another of Zombie F.C.’s shortcomings and by no means the worst. Corrupt to the core and allowed to get away with it they will keep chancing their arm because they have already been allowed to change their history. HH
What price the Sevco squad now.Everton prepared to pay 10million +add on for a full back who has made a couple of first team appearances.This will delight Everton fans,and add to the myth that Sevco players are valued at 20 million plus,this will give the MSM their headlines for 2022
Mike Ashley will be delighted,but he may have to fight Dave King for the money,or if HMRC decide to
Join the fray it could be a great contest,can’t wait to read the outcome in the MSM.
Phil there must be a story in this.
£12 to 16 million for Nathan Patterson is going to kick a few financial problems down the line for Sevco.
Hard to believe they are getting so much for a fringe player despite his potential.
Can’t help comparing this transfer to Kieran Tierney’s. £25 million is looking like a bargain now!
Don’t believe the MSM. £12-16 million for Patterson – a fringe player for Sevco – is nonsense. He’s only valued at £2-3M. Which seems wildly optimistic.
If the transfer goes though, wait for the annual accounts to give a clearer picture on the actual sale price. At this stage of the deal it suits both clubs to exaggerate the fee. Everton’s in trouble and has to be seen spending whatever it takes. Sevco needs to reassure the gullibillies they support a big club with a squad that’s worth zillions.
Compliant media – Patterson £16m to Everton you say.!! Transfermarket albeit never a great source has him under £3m and he cannot get a game for sevco never mind an EPL club. Great potential and maybe when he fulfills some of that will he be in that bracket.
Good player for sure but more likely a £5-6m plus add ons when he gets the Ballon D’or and wins the WC with Scotland.
👇🏼This is all I have for this one Phil 👏🏻
🔔🔚’s
Come on!
That’s completely unacceptable…
You don’t need an apostrophe.
In terms of trophies won Al Ahly of Egypt are the most successful club in World football, with more trophies than the dead Rangers and Sevco combined.
Al Ahly are also the only team in the World other than Celtic to do a truly invincible domestic season. It’s a point of debate whether or not it was a bigger achievement since they also won an African continental trophy in the same season. However the Egyptian domestic season involves far fewer games than the Scottish season and their total game count for the season was less than Celtic’s.
Their trophy haul includes TEN African Champions Leagues and they are second only to Real Madrid in term of International trophies.
Aberdeen have won most European trophies in Scotland. With 1 European Cup Winners Cup and 1 European Super Cup.
The dead Rangers won 1 ECWC but got gubbed by Ajax in the Supercup. I think that may have been the first Supercup.
Of course only the MIGHTY Celtic in Scotland have WON the Cup with the big ears. There was NO Supercup at that time or we would undoubtedly have won it.
Phil, this is a big thing for the klan with this event coming up one does wonder if any other Media Organisations (other than the SMSM) will run with the same narrative. I do wonder if we can expect another escorted march into the centre of Glasgow.
I have to confess, the thought of anothsr city centre hate fest crossed my mind as well.
More hundreds of thousands of pounds from the public purse to clean up their mess.
Solly O’Hare from Renton a few miles from where I live played in one of the EC wins mentioned. There is a replica cup with Solly’s photo in the local Community Centre. Sevco have the same sense of entitlement that Rangers had before they were liquidated.
Those pesky facts AGAIN dammit those pesky facts, history is not one of their strong suits but changing the factual narrative is.
Those pesky facts getting in the way AGAIN dammit those pesky facts. History is not one of their strong suits but changing the factual narrative is.
Someone should also have a wee word with the folk at the Guinness Book of World Records. My son’s 2021 edition has Sevco listed as a “world record breaking club which has amassed 55 national league titles”. Trivia for weans.
The spineless SMSM could ask the Ibrox club for £25K to obediently quote “150th” at every opportunity during 2022? Yes, they’ll do it for free.
It would be delightful if the source of RIFC’s funding finally dried up this year.
10 years of crushing, financial losses for 1 title is still a form of achievement / massive cheating, I suppose – depending on your viewpoint…
Their greatest ever player John Grieg lifted the Scottish Cup in 1973. I’m sure that would be embroidered on the said jerseys. “Centinery”. It is like the classic movie ” back to the future” .
I think it’s time you cut them some slack Phil after all they did pay for those titles , their predecessors couldn’t even pay for their newspapers.
HNY
There is no doubt, however, that this Rangers is the first European club to celebrate its 150th anniversary just 10 years after being founded.
I do know that, for many, many years, (long before Sevco was born) that senior football ‘clubs’ HAD to have a ‘legal form’. That is to say that a ‘club’ HAD to be incorporated, that is, it HAD to be a COMPANY.
In LIQUIDATION, a company, if not bought out of it, ceases to exist. Rangers 1872/3-2012 falls within that category. Rangers IS dead, well dying actually in Liquidation. Once Liquidation is formally complete, Rangers FC 1872/3-2012 is DEAD.
Forget the ‘club’ bullshit, they’re ALL companies and subject to company law.
Rangers FC 1872/3 – 2012 Company number SC004276 is in LIQUIDATION. Unless all debts are paid, it will, effectively DIE.
Sevco Scotland Limited (later to be re-named The Rangers Football Club Limited) is a phoenix, a myth and a lie, in terms of claiming to be Rangers FC (IL).
Sevco’s (now TRFCL) company number is SC425159 and THAT proves the LIE.
Call them Sevco, as I do, call them Hun 2, just invent a suitable name, but, Rangers IT IS NOT. And proven.
Sevco SC425159 . Love it .