With no match until the weekend, the squirrels have been taking to the air as part of Operation Soothe.
Your humble correspondent has spotted several quintessentially British sorties over Planet Fitba.
Here is a selection:
The Hatate “dive” should be a retrospective red card.
Then there’s the Japan “snub” for Kyogo and Hatate.
Apparently, this means that the SPFL is rubbish.
Therefore, the players must leave Celtic.
Now here’s my personal favourite, we’re asked to believe that when Nicolas Raskin was “a young kid” in Liège, he only knew of Ryan Kent.
This shrill output from the Stenography Corps indicates the heightened neurosis among the Ibrox klanbase about the state of play in Glasgow.
In the aftermath of the League Cup Final, they know, even if they cannot admit it, that they’re simply the second best.
That isn’t a comfortable truth if you define your self-worth via a snarling herrenvolk supremacism.
I’m sure that none of this pish from the Stenography Corps is connected to the troubling rumour that Sevco’s bills are currently being paid by invoice discounting.
If this were true, then it points to a difficulty in cash flow before the season ticket renewals start.
What is invoice discounting?
A very fair question, dear reader.
I recall Rugger Guy walking me through this once and explaining it to me in Golden Retriever.
Essentially a finance company pays the bill for you on the due date but charges a fee for the service.
That is a percentage of the original invoice, and depending on the Attitude To Risk, it can be as high as 20%.
However, I’m sure everything at the basket of assets is tickety-boo, and they do not need to reach out to the distressed finance sector at this point in the football calendar.
Rud amháin eile.
I was delighted to learn that this offering from Celtic has been flying out the door.
It is little wonder that the folks at Adidas are delighted with the business partnership and would like it to continue.
This Irish-themed product’s immediate commercial success reminds the world of the club’s origins.
Moreover, it opens the door to seriously impacting the USA market.
Unlike in Fair Caledonia, it isn’t a cultural crime in America to have Irish roots.
The very idea that a large city in the USA with an Irish descent population wouldn’t have a Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is unthinkable.
As I have often stated here, Celtic exists in a hostile cultural environment.
Now with Saint Patrick’s Day almost upon us, reminding the world of what is in the Parkhead club’s cultural DNA is worthwhile.
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Financing a business with invoice discounting for a business like Rangers is very interesting.
In a normal business goods are despatched and on the same day an invoice generated.
A bank will then pay a % of the invoice (say 90%) value the same day. The bank then expects the invoices to be paid in the future (within 90 days normally but can be longer or shorter) and when paid the bank keeps the 10%. If the customer defaults, the bank also reclaims the 90% it had paid out.
It is a way for companies to keep cash flow positive.
However, Rangers are not issuing invoices on a daily basis. Therefore if they are having their bills paid, they must be borrowing against future income (Ticketus 2). They may be issuing invoices to sponsors (if they don’t go bust) but that will be relatively small. Next big cycle of invoicing will be season tickets. If they’ve borrowed against that, revenue and cash will be affected for next season. As well as using next year to pay for this year, there is a hit on cash as the financier will take at least 10%.
This is not a healthy way to run a business that is struggling
I nearly wet myself when I saw the Hetate dive claim. He clearly needs lessons from the tubby Columbian…………. who’s antics and theatrics are NEVER mentioned.
That quote attributed to the Belgian player is unbelievable. Literally. Not believable.
I nearly wet myself when I saw the Hetate dive claim. He clearly needs lessons from the tubby Columbian…………. who’s antics and theatrics are NEVER mentioned.
Happy Paddy’s day to all.
Let’s round off the season with a Scottish Cup win to complete yet another treble.
That most successful club in the world claim from Govan will be within Celtic touching distance next season.
Will the Scottish media find a way around the numbers and fail to give Celtic the same headline as their pet club?
One club is run like a Rolls Royce, and the other is run like a 2nd hand car without the back wheel. It’s great to see HH
One club is run like a Rolls Royce, and the other is run like a 2nd hand car without the back wheel. It’s great to see HH
In the six decades since my birth,Celtic have been champions more times than both old,and new rangers in 5 of those six, including twice winning 9 consecutive titles, based on these statistics,and, given both clubs current positions, it’s just a matter of time until we surpass their” worlds most successful club” claim,after that,what do they have to cling to?.
They will cling to bigotry and hate .
I see your Squirrels Phil and raise you….
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/23390982.celtics-all-star-bench-negative-impact-youths/
They’ll never think they’re second best to us – that’s their problem x
It disnae matter what they think, Kenny. As Phil is always quite joyously pointing out, the facts speak for themselves.🍀HH