…could have been a headline in today’s newspapers, following the guilty verdict on Celtic player Ryan Caird, but it isn’t.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/celtic-youth-star-caught-with-knife.22718299
“CELTIC youth player Ryan Caird has been given a year to show he can be well behaved after pleading guilty to carrying a knife. The 16-year-old was caught with a four-inch knife in his pocket by police officers in February. Yesterday Glasgow Sheriff Court deferred the case until November 2014.”
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/celtic-youth-star-admits-knife-charge-142917n.22735415
“Celtic youth star admits knife charge
CELTIC youth player Ryan Caird has been given a year to show he can be of good behaviour after pleading guilty to carrying a knife.
The 16-year-old was caught in February this year by officers on patrol who searched him in the street.
He had a four-inch knife in the pocket of his tracksuit top and was arrested and taken into police custody before appearing in court two days later.
The teenager, from Cambuslang, pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to having the blade on him, on February 23.
And yesterday at the court sheriff Charles McFarlane QC deferred the case for 12 months for Caird to be of good behaviour.”
Strangely this “sentence” flies in the face of the SNP Scottish Government’s proclamations on how they are addressing knife crime in Scotland.
http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/dec/msp-pledges-help-clear-knife-crime-streets
“MSP pledges to help clear knife crime from streets Sun, 02/12/2012 - 09:34
The success rate of the Scottish Government’s joined-up approach to combating knife crime in Scotland – and in particular South Lanarkshire – is being hailed by Christina McKelvie MSP.
This comes at the end of a week which saw Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announce that the maximum penalty for carrying a knife is to increase from four to five years imprisonment, which is part of the strategic battle against knife crime.
Ms McKelvie, SNP MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, said:
“The joined up approach involving the Scottish Government, the police, Scottish Courts, Crimestoppers UK and people of all ages and backgrounds in our communities – nowhere more so than here in South Lanarkshire – will overcome the scourge of knife crime.
“There is now a record number of police on our streets which has helped drive violent crime down to a 30 year low; there are 44 per cent fewer weapons on our streets since 2006/7, but there are some who still persist in thinking it is OK to carry a knife.
“It is not OK - and together we will drive that message home.”
One has to wonder about this anomaly between these proclamations on knife crime, and allowing Caird to walk free without so much as a rap on the knuckles.
One also has to wonder at the same Sheriff sentencing someone to 6 months community service for abusing Celtic manager Neil Lennon via the internet.
Isn’t the Scottish Legal system odd?
Bill
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
The Most Shameless Support in Football
The Celtic support can count themselves lucky that Rangers civil war and a compliant media have ensured that the Amsterdam riots have largely been kept off the front page of Scotland’s newspapers. In the cases were reports have been published, they are completely at odds with the reports from the Dutch press, and also at odds with the shameful scenes filmed and broadcast on Youtube of Celtic supporters attacking trams and undercover police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbVLYzcWNA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF1IyeegIo
As 8 undercover police officers were attacked in Dam square with one knocked unconscious the scenes, 44 Celtic fans were arrested on the night, with most simply cautioned, but 6 were detained in Amsterdam, 4 of whom have been released.
The scenes were reminiscent of the ugly scenes in Manchester 2008, however, the response in the media and amongst the support involved couldn’t be more different
While Manchester City Council and the GMP did everything to antagonise the Rangers support, the vast majority of the 200,000 present in Manchester did their club and their country proud. Those involved in the trouble amounted to 0.02% of the support present that day.
Of course there is no excuse for the behaviour of a miniscule percentage of the Rangers support that day, and the response across the UK was one of disgust.
The many cases of police brutality that night were glossed over in favour of that that shameful attack on Mick Regan of GMP. What followed was a hatchet job on the Rangers support by Scotland’s tabloids, broadsheets and broadcasters, with CCTV stills on the front page of every single alleged participant of the riot.
The BBC in Scotland ran dedicated radio programmes to discuss the riots, and Real Radio had Phil MacGiollabhain guesting on their show claiming to have “broke the story”. He never did admit if he was in Manchester to watch Rangers, or why. BBC also ran a Panorama programme across the UK, with an appeal for witnesses being the cover for as high a profile hatchet job on the Rangers support ever seen.
Given that there are cases of football violence in England on a similar scale almost every week that decision to broadcast this “appeal” seemed very strange
The Rangers support itself condemned the behaviour of that small minority.
Fast forward to 2013 and Celtic’s riot in Amsterdam is being spun by those same media outlets to portray the rioters and those responsible for knocking a policeman unconscious as victims. There is little in the way of condemnation and lots in the way of lies and spin in the media with some of the defending of the indefensible quite disgusting.
Even worse, those at the thick of it, rather than be condemned by their fan chiefs and fellow fans for shaming their club are being supported.
The Celtic Trust have now started a campaign to “free the Amsterdam 2”
http://www.celtictrust.net/index.php?func=d_home_article&id=449
The brass neck takes some beating, to pardon a pun
Bear in mind that the two in custody are charged with seriously assaulting a police officer
This must be the most shameless support on the planet
Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbVLYzcWNA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpF1IyeegIo
As 8 undercover police officers were attacked in Dam square with one knocked unconscious the scenes, 44 Celtic fans were arrested on the night, with most simply cautioned, but 6 were detained in Amsterdam, 4 of whom have been released.
The scenes were reminiscent of the ugly scenes in Manchester 2008, however, the response in the media and amongst the support involved couldn’t be more different
While Manchester City Council and the GMP did everything to antagonise the Rangers support, the vast majority of the 200,000 present in Manchester did their club and their country proud. Those involved in the trouble amounted to 0.02% of the support present that day.
Of course there is no excuse for the behaviour of a miniscule percentage of the Rangers support that day, and the response across the UK was one of disgust.
The many cases of police brutality that night were glossed over in favour of that that shameful attack on Mick Regan of GMP. What followed was a hatchet job on the Rangers support by Scotland’s tabloids, broadsheets and broadcasters, with CCTV stills on the front page of every single alleged participant of the riot.
The BBC in Scotland ran dedicated radio programmes to discuss the riots, and Real Radio had Phil MacGiollabhain guesting on their show claiming to have “broke the story”. He never did admit if he was in Manchester to watch Rangers, or why. BBC also ran a Panorama programme across the UK, with an appeal for witnesses being the cover for as high a profile hatchet job on the Rangers support ever seen.
Given that there are cases of football violence in England on a similar scale almost every week that decision to broadcast this “appeal” seemed very strange
The Rangers support itself condemned the behaviour of that small minority.
Fast forward to 2013 and Celtic’s riot in Amsterdam is being spun by those same media outlets to portray the rioters and those responsible for knocking a policeman unconscious as victims. There is little in the way of condemnation and lots in the way of lies and spin in the media with some of the defending of the indefensible quite disgusting.
Even worse, those at the thick of it, rather than be condemned by their fan chiefs and fellow fans for shaming their club are being supported.
The Celtic Trust have now started a campaign to “free the Amsterdam 2”
http://www.celtictrust.net/index.php?func=d_home_article&id=449
The brass neck takes some beating, to pardon a pun
Bear in mind that the two in custody are charged with seriously assaulting a police officer
This must be the most shameless support on the planet
Bill
Monday, 7 October 2013
Fair? Wanna Bet?
Following the Ian Black “betting” affair, Rangers fans quite rightly expressed concern at the apparent singling out of a Rangers player.
My first instinct when I heard the news was that Black should have been sacked, given that reports stated that he had betted against his own club, with the inference that it was Rangers he betted against.
As it has now transpired he betted for Rangers to draw in a match he played in, and scored in a convincing victory, at odds (pardon the pun) with his fixed odds coupon prediction, it was not as serious as has been made out.
What has happened since has been interesting.
Aside from the fact that Black is to date the only player identified and punished for “irregular betting” in Scotland, public boasts of betting from other players in Scotland on Twitter have been ignored completely.
It’s common knowledge that players enjoy a bet, and picking one player out, who just happens to be a Rangers player, may just turn out to be the last player to face just scrutiny
It just so happens that the SPFA have been visiting grounds across Scotland to advise players on betting.
Clearly, if it wasn’t a problem, they wouldn’t be talking to every player in Scotland about it.
Players have been told that a Ladbrokes employee “grassed” Black to the SFA, following him winning a bet via his telephone account, and them investigating his activity.
Any Rangers fan who still uses Ladbrokes, should take their business elsewhere.
My first instinct when I heard the news was that Black should have been sacked, given that reports stated that he had betted against his own club, with the inference that it was Rangers he betted against.
As it has now transpired he betted for Rangers to draw in a match he played in, and scored in a convincing victory, at odds (pardon the pun) with his fixed odds coupon prediction, it was not as serious as has been made out.
What has happened since has been interesting.
Aside from the fact that Black is to date the only player identified and punished for “irregular betting” in Scotland, public boasts of betting from other players in Scotland on Twitter have been ignored completely.
It’s common knowledge that players enjoy a bet, and picking one player out, who just happens to be a Rangers player, may just turn out to be the last player to face just scrutiny
It just so happens that the SPFA have been visiting grounds across Scotland to advise players on betting.
Clearly, if it wasn’t a problem, they wouldn’t be talking to every player in Scotland about it.
Players have been told that a Ladbrokes employee “grassed” Black to the SFA, following him winning a bet via his telephone account, and them investigating his activity.
Any Rangers fan who still uses Ladbrokes, should take their business elsewhere.
Friday, 13 September 2013
The Nasty world of PR
In the last two weeks the Scottish public have been exposed to the brutal workings of the PR industry, with the machinations of Jack Irvine and Iain MacIver shocking a public who should be aware of how unprincipled a profession it really is.
For his part Irvine, who has spent many years allegedly acting for Rangers, but actually working for prospective owners, promoted a blog by arch Rangers hater Paul McConville, then added insult to injury by allowing himself to be interviewed by another Rangers hating Celtic supporter Andy Muirhead for Scotzine.
If Rangers fans needed any convincing how much of a lowlife Irvine was then this should have been the nail in the coffin.
Irvine, in rubbing various people up the wrong way, is doing the exact opposite of what a Rangers PR should be doing. Rangers can now count themselves victims once again in a week of negative propaganda led by The Scottish Sun, in two ridiculously ill-judged stories about Rangers, that would in normal circumstances be ripped to shreds in a libel court.
The timing is curious, and comes on the back of David Leggat leaking an email where Irvine personally slated Sun Editor Andy Harries as well as Record Editor Allan Rennie. While one can understand Leggat’s anger at Irvine’s hypocrisy and unsuitability for the Rangers job, the leak has been counter-productive, with Harries apparently being sensitive to criticism, and now on the attack. Sadly he’s not attacking Irvine, but attacking Rangers.
On the back of the PR gaffe by SNP MSP Bill Walker’s spokesman slating the victim of Walker’s physical abuse, it shone a light on a dark world That world of professional spin is at least now visible, but the dark arts have been at work in other less exposed places, also on Rangers business.
There have been three huge Rangers stories dominating the front pages of Scotland’s media this week, two of which are most definitely touched by the dark art of “spin”.
First up was the ridiculous story of a Celtic supporter complaining that his dog was the victim of sectarian abuse by two Rangers fans, on his word alone, and no evidence, nor any charges. The piece in the Sun covered 3 pages with photos of said mutt and owner resplendent in the colours of Glasgow’s second team.
One Rangers site pointed out that the complainant had questionable opinions on a number of matters, with some screenshots of his facebook, exposing him as a rabid bigot, republican and racist.
Strangely, the Sun chose to ignore the fact their “witness” was about as reliable as Craig Whyte’s cleaners, but just wished to spin the yarn that Rangers fans are bad eggs all round.
Next up was the one of the BBCs cast of Anti Rangers bigots, Jim Spence, who claimed on BBC that Rangers had died. I won’t use the exact quote, as I’m sick of seeing it. The result was 400 complaints to the BBC Trust to point out that their own ruling on the matter was being ignored by Spence. What happened next was remarkable. The BBC issued an odd statement that was interpreted by some as an apology. It was not. They said, and I quote “I am sorry if you were offended by this”.
I’m afraid, that is not an apology. Subsequent to this, Rhebel blogger Phil MacGiollaBhain claimed that Spence had offered voluntary redundancy in disgust at the BBCs lack of support for him. More propaganda was released that the BBC were now to back him, with input from NUJ Scotland chief Paul Holleran.
By now it was being reported that the legitimate complaints about Spence’s deliberate error were abuse, and that Spence was the victim of Rangers fans’ abuse Again this was with no evidence, but plenty of “support” from MacGiollaBhain, Celtic Minded’s Scott McMenemy, and Graham Spiers all expressing their concern over the treatment he was "getting". The concern and co-operation in turning a situation around was a remarkable lesson on how to manage the media in Scotland, although it has to be said being in the media to start with must help.
So, while the NUJ should be berating a member for deliberately ignoring legal guidance on the status of Rangers, and thereby deliberately being inaccurate when describing the club, they have done the opposite, and assisted him to engineer a situation where legitimate complaints about the disgraceful conduct of a journalist are ignored, and said journalist is perceived as a victim.
Unsurprisingly, Spence is now complaining that he has been abused in the street. Given that he has been in victim mode all week can he really be believed? The unofficial PR with Spence has been remarkable, and Irvine should take note as to how it can be done, and it is not done in isolation, it is done by co-ordinating with people with the same aims as you, not with the enemy.
The other story this week that the Sun printed (this morning) was that Frank Blin and Paul Murray had been appointed to the Rangers board, despite the club statement to the LSE yesterday saying no additional board members were to be accepted to the board.
Rangers reiterated the statement this morning, and it later transpired that Blin had in fact completely walked away from the Jim McColl requisitioning group.
How they completely called it wrong is for them to explain, but they have embarrassed themselves this week, and damaged their already decreasing credibility.
Who in their right mind can now believe anything in that paper?
Bill
For his part Irvine, who has spent many years allegedly acting for Rangers, but actually working for prospective owners, promoted a blog by arch Rangers hater Paul McConville, then added insult to injury by allowing himself to be interviewed by another Rangers hating Celtic supporter Andy Muirhead for Scotzine.
If Rangers fans needed any convincing how much of a lowlife Irvine was then this should have been the nail in the coffin.
Irvine, in rubbing various people up the wrong way, is doing the exact opposite of what a Rangers PR should be doing. Rangers can now count themselves victims once again in a week of negative propaganda led by The Scottish Sun, in two ridiculously ill-judged stories about Rangers, that would in normal circumstances be ripped to shreds in a libel court.
The timing is curious, and comes on the back of David Leggat leaking an email where Irvine personally slated Sun Editor Andy Harries as well as Record Editor Allan Rennie. While one can understand Leggat’s anger at Irvine’s hypocrisy and unsuitability for the Rangers job, the leak has been counter-productive, with Harries apparently being sensitive to criticism, and now on the attack. Sadly he’s not attacking Irvine, but attacking Rangers.
On the back of the PR gaffe by SNP MSP Bill Walker’s spokesman slating the victim of Walker’s physical abuse, it shone a light on a dark world That world of professional spin is at least now visible, but the dark arts have been at work in other less exposed places, also on Rangers business.
There have been three huge Rangers stories dominating the front pages of Scotland’s media this week, two of which are most definitely touched by the dark art of “spin”.
First up was the ridiculous story of a Celtic supporter complaining that his dog was the victim of sectarian abuse by two Rangers fans, on his word alone, and no evidence, nor any charges. The piece in the Sun covered 3 pages with photos of said mutt and owner resplendent in the colours of Glasgow’s second team.
One Rangers site pointed out that the complainant had questionable opinions on a number of matters, with some screenshots of his facebook, exposing him as a rabid bigot, republican and racist.
Strangely, the Sun chose to ignore the fact their “witness” was about as reliable as Craig Whyte’s cleaners, but just wished to spin the yarn that Rangers fans are bad eggs all round.
Next up was the one of the BBCs cast of Anti Rangers bigots, Jim Spence, who claimed on BBC that Rangers had died. I won’t use the exact quote, as I’m sick of seeing it. The result was 400 complaints to the BBC Trust to point out that their own ruling on the matter was being ignored by Spence. What happened next was remarkable. The BBC issued an odd statement that was interpreted by some as an apology. It was not. They said, and I quote “I am sorry if you were offended by this”.
I’m afraid, that is not an apology. Subsequent to this, Rhebel blogger Phil MacGiollaBhain claimed that Spence had offered voluntary redundancy in disgust at the BBCs lack of support for him. More propaganda was released that the BBC were now to back him, with input from NUJ Scotland chief Paul Holleran.
By now it was being reported that the legitimate complaints about Spence’s deliberate error were abuse, and that Spence was the victim of Rangers fans’ abuse Again this was with no evidence, but plenty of “support” from MacGiollaBhain, Celtic Minded’s Scott McMenemy, and Graham Spiers all expressing their concern over the treatment he was "getting". The concern and co-operation in turning a situation around was a remarkable lesson on how to manage the media in Scotland, although it has to be said being in the media to start with must help.
So, while the NUJ should be berating a member for deliberately ignoring legal guidance on the status of Rangers, and thereby deliberately being inaccurate when describing the club, they have done the opposite, and assisted him to engineer a situation where legitimate complaints about the disgraceful conduct of a journalist are ignored, and said journalist is perceived as a victim.
Unsurprisingly, Spence is now complaining that he has been abused in the street. Given that he has been in victim mode all week can he really be believed? The unofficial PR with Spence has been remarkable, and Irvine should take note as to how it can be done, and it is not done in isolation, it is done by co-ordinating with people with the same aims as you, not with the enemy.
The other story this week that the Sun printed (this morning) was that Frank Blin and Paul Murray had been appointed to the Rangers board, despite the club statement to the LSE yesterday saying no additional board members were to be accepted to the board.
Rangers reiterated the statement this morning, and it later transpired that Blin had in fact completely walked away from the Jim McColl requisitioning group.
How they completely called it wrong is for them to explain, but they have embarrassed themselves this week, and damaged their already decreasing credibility.
Who in their right mind can now believe anything in that paper?
Bill
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Return
After a lengthy hiatus I have decided to return to my blog.
After following the Charlotte Fakes blog, I was intrigued to find out more about how the Twitter account was getting it’s information.
Most of the evidence pointed to the involvement of Craig Whyte and Imran Ahmad, but I was interested in finding out more, and started making tentative enquiries As soon as I started on this process I became aware that I was not alone, and that there were others working to the same objective, including one blogger, one writer for a Rangers site, and a dedicated Twitter account.
While in the past my sensitive ego would have had me trying in vein to get information first, to blog about it, this time my objective after some initial enquiries was to find out enough to pass information to one of the fellow bloggers and let them run with it.
As luck would have it, both the twitter account, and the blogger must have, between them, spooked Charlotte Fakes as they (Charlotte Fakes) have feverishly been covering their tracks, since one blog named an individual, and the Twitter account made some hints as to who it could be. It halted my bigger plans to investigate the network of leaks to Charlotte Fakes, but did rekindle my desire to blog again I have to thank both “themanthebheastscanttame” and “Charlotte Hunter” for (at least temporarily) silencing the Charlotte Fakes account You may wish to blame them for me deciding to blog again.
More Soon
Bill
After following the Charlotte Fakes blog, I was intrigued to find out more about how the Twitter account was getting it’s information.
Most of the evidence pointed to the involvement of Craig Whyte and Imran Ahmad, but I was interested in finding out more, and started making tentative enquiries As soon as I started on this process I became aware that I was not alone, and that there were others working to the same objective, including one blogger, one writer for a Rangers site, and a dedicated Twitter account.
While in the past my sensitive ego would have had me trying in vein to get information first, to blog about it, this time my objective after some initial enquiries was to find out enough to pass information to one of the fellow bloggers and let them run with it.
As luck would have it, both the twitter account, and the blogger must have, between them, spooked Charlotte Fakes as they (Charlotte Fakes) have feverishly been covering their tracks, since one blog named an individual, and the Twitter account made some hints as to who it could be. It halted my bigger plans to investigate the network of leaks to Charlotte Fakes, but did rekindle my desire to blog again I have to thank both “themanthebheastscanttame” and “Charlotte Hunter” for (at least temporarily) silencing the Charlotte Fakes account You may wish to blame them for me deciding to blog again.
More Soon
Bill
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
WP Archives 19 Oct 2012: The BBC
As Phil Mac Giollabhain boasted on Tuesday night of an upcoming series of revelations from Craig Whyte set to damage Rangers, his lack of discipline, and his haste to break a story made it crystal clear that he was being supplied information from the BBC in Scotland.
I had it confirmed to me early on Wednesday morning from a very good source that Whyte was set to appear on TV. Little was I to know that it would be the BBC.
When I did, and it appeared to be Chris McLaughlin, I noticed on various Rangers sites a broad assumption that he therefor was the leak to Mac Giollabhain
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While that is not impossible, and indeed very likely, it could be any number of people, either from Whyte’s team, or from the BBC Production team who recorded the interview.
My understanding is that neither Whyte nor his team did anything other than accept an interview invitation from BBC Scotland.
It stands to reason therefor, that someone from the production team, or McLaughlin himself is and has been colluding with Mac Giollabhain
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Of course many observers of Mac Giolla Bhain will remember his boasts on Real Radio following the Rangers versus Zenit UEFA Cup final, that he was involved in exposing rangers fans behaviour on the night with the BBC.
Quite how he could do that from his bolthole in Donegal is up for debate, and this raises the possibility that he was actually there.
If not, how could BBC Scotland work with him on their subsequent witch hunt?
I digress.
As I watched a very uncomfortable Whyte be interviewed by McLaughlin, it was evident that McLaughlin was well prepared, with a set of (sometimes leading) questions that have been the core of their agenda against Rangers since Whyte took over.
He was asked about his takeover, his financing of it, and the various pieces in the “takeover” jigsaw. Whyte looked unprepared, uncomfortable, and silly, as McLaughlin ran rings round him. Given that this takeover had already been the subject of a documentary, and that stakeholders David Murray, Duff and Phelps, and Charles Green had all issued statements to counter claims made in the programme, it was all a bit surreal, particularly as it seemed that the BBC simply wished the “right” answers to the questions that had been covered in that documentary.
Now that raises several other questions.
Why would Whyte agree to this? I think we all recognise that everything Whyte does is for Whyte, so why do the interview, why with the BBC, and why appear to go along with the line of questioning?
Could Whyte have been involved in the Documentary?
Strangely, Whyte seems a bit put out about something, and gives the impression he thinks he has been shafted.
Since this interview he has been ridiculed by the mainstream media, and lauded by Celtic supporters who spent 10 months slating him and digging dirt on him.
What concerns me is that if you set aside the fact that he’s a known liar, and that he made some statements and allegations without a shred of evidence, is that he felt compelled to make them. What could he possibly gain?
Is he jealous that Charles Green looks set to do what Whyte failed at, ie to buy the club at rock bottom, rebuild it, do a share issue, then swan off in to the sunset with a healthy profit and the kudos of rebuilding Scotland’s best known institution?
Did Duff and Phelps fuck him over?
Does he feel like the fall guy manipulated by David Murray and Duff and Phelps?
If so, that makes him dangerous
Do I feel sorry for him? Absolutely not.
Despite what he may claim, selling off such a high percentage of Rangers season tickets to Ticketus and thereby starving the club of future revenue for the period was not normal practice, particularly as he was increasing the cost base with new lucrative contracts for various senior players, with some of said players being rewarded with significant pay rises.
The transaction alone could actually have been an understandable a way to finance the club in the short term, providing his business plan could support the loss of revenue stream, by covering it with other revenue and also restructuring the club’s outgoings.
That he didn’t was this that was his real business failing, whether by accident or design.
Yes, we were led to believe that Whyte was a rich benefactor but we should have been more realistic, and should have heeded Alistair Johnston’s warnings to be vigilant.
Without dissecting every allegation from Whyte, his whole reasoning for the club becoming insolvent appears to be down to the club being knocked out of the Champions League, then the Europa Cup. Rangers were knocked out of Europe on 25 August 2011
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McLaughlin questioned Whyte on a statement he made in 15 September of 2011 that the club had a strong balance sheet, in reference to Whyte being outraged at former CEO Martin Bain freezing club cash in a dispute with the club.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2037527/Craig-Whyte-goes-offensive-attack-Donald-Bain-declaring-Rangers-wont-bust.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/271328/Rangers-chairman-Craig-Whyte-lets-rip-at-Martin-Bain
Whyte’s response was to ramble that in early September that was true but by the end of September it wasn’t.
Frankly it doesn’t add up, and many of his other claims have been fairly easily quashed by both Charles Green and Duff & Phelps.
My concern though is not just that Whyte used (or was used by) the BBC, and fitted in to their agenda to cause damage to the forthcoming IPO, but that he feels hard done by.
Quite why he has such audacity is unclear, but he’ll need to do more that mumble his way through an interview with no evidence if he wishes any credibility.
To my knowledge, none of his allegations refer to anything illegal, so despite the efforts of the BBC or Whyte to damage Rangers, Green, or indeed Duff & Phelps or David Murray they haven’t and won’t impact the club.
What they will have done though is strengthen the resolve of those within the club to starve the BBC of anything from the club, so we will have a strange situation whereby the country’s biggest broadcaster cannot report anything on the biggest football club.
Experience of recent developments should show them that Rangers ARE the news.
Rangers will grow and survive with or without the BBC, and it will be interesting to watch the BBC try and cope without the co-operation of the club.
If Charles Green remains in position, my money would be on the BBC to fold first.
I hope Green’s successor is as single minded and strong as he is.
Bill.
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