Since it's never been easier to change mortgages and loans, banks are desperate to hold onto customers, especially large, corporate ones. Celtic falls into this category. The Co-Operative Bank was there when Fergus McCann needed them and Celtic have stayed with them ever since. Such loyalty does not go unrewarded, which goes to explain the more than competitive rates that Celtic has managed to secure. There is nothing sinister about it; it's simply how business works these days. Gregory Campbell can stick that up his tyrannosaurus rex!
A more dodgy situation is revealed in yesterday's Daily Record. In a piece from his new book, The Official History of Celtic Football Club, Brian Wilson reveals some hitherto-unknown details about Fergus McCann's takeover of the club. The most interesting aspect is the way the Bank of Scotland dealt with Celtic. At a time when David Murray's cronies at this bank were handing him money willy-nilly, with no real collateral except would-be's and could-be's, the Bank of Scotland appears to have gone out of its way to shut Celtic down. Maybe this is what Murray meant when he said he was going to 'Wipe Celtic Football Club off the face of the Earth.' If you haven't read the article yet, you can see it here. It makes fascinating reading. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fergus-mccanns-battle-save-celtic-3013568
Although this might not count in the arena of 'state aid' it certainly qualifies as unfair competition. I think UEFA and even the European Commission might be interested in this disgusting scenario, where one business is looking to dominate by persuading another business to put the squeeze on it rival. Do you think Gregory Campbell would be interested?
Which leads nicely to the Quote of The Week. Amid all the premature jubilation, not to mention ejaculation, among the Bisto Kids, somebody on McMurdo's blog put a fly in the ointment. Apparently a guy called Andy Muirhead, who runs the website Fanzine, has put in a Freedom Of Information request to Glasgow City Council for all land deals done between them and Rangers. The clown that posts this gem on McMurdo's site goes on to call Muirhead...wait for it...'Obsessed'! Are these idiots for real?
Sooperally, meanwhile, admits that he is 'in the dark' about the finances of Bisto FC. No big surprise there, since he is in the dark about tactics, the fact that his club died and about the real world in general. The only finances he's not in the dark about are his own. His pay cut is going to take effect soon; I wonder if it'll be backdated. Surely that's what somebody with the club's interest at heart would do?
Today's Record has the story of a young guy that had sick posts about Fernando Ricksen on his Twitter account. He claims that his account was hacked but the Bisto Kids have already condemned him. Amazingly, the Record decides to quote some of the angry Bisto Kids as they detail their searches into the boy's social media sites. Admittedly the boy seems a bit of a dick, being a member of a Republican flute band (as if we don't have enough bloody flute bands already)! The police are investigating and it is to be hoped that said investigation is more successful than the one into the sick, sectarian posts about the people killed in the Clutha disaster.
The Bisto Kids are already putting the boy's face, workplace and where he lives out on the internet. Just to let everyone know, of course (nod nod wink wink).
Also in today's Record is more on serial woman-beater James Boyd. Apparently the BNP is trying to claim he is not a member, even though there are plenty of pictures of him at meetings and rallies. He is obsessed with Adolf Hitler and Nazism, is sickeningly racist and has convictions for racially-motivated attacks. He has tattoos that seem to imply that he is a member of Combat 18, a neo-Nazi group as well as one with a Union flag with a British bulldog inside it. He is also pictured wearing an old Rangers top. No further comment is necessary.
Keith Jackson authors a piece today that is straight from the Traynor book of so-called journalism. Apparently everyone, from the football fan right up to the hallowed offices at Hampden, is to blame for Hearts' current plight. Why? Because we all kicked Rangers/Bisto when it was down, that's why! A precedent has been set and Hearts have to suffer the consequences.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting heartily sick of all this revisionism. Let's look at the facts: Hearts should have gone into administration but a bit of sleight-of-hand, involving the new concept of holding companies, was used to keep them going. In effect, they should be in the Championship now instead of Dundee. So, in clinging onto their place in the Premier League they have made a rod for their own back. Nobody else made it and nobody else is wielding it. They have only themselves to blame.
More nauseating, however, is Jackson's assertion that Rangers/Bisto was punished for the crimes of Craig Whyte. What did Whyte do? There was nothing illegal about the Ticketus deal and his holding back of the PAYE was only follow-following in an established tradition at Ibrox. If anything, Whyte was wronged. It is not illegal to build a phoenix company but creditors might still have had a claim against it. Which goes some way to explain the fraud carried out by Duff and Phelps and Charlie 'Castle' Green.
Rangers was responsible for its own demise and nobody else was in any way involved. Murray sycophants, like Jackson, wanted Bisto to be treated differently from every other team. Where were all the calls for sympathy when Gretna went to the wall? And the fraud is ongoing. BDO apparently have stated that the liquidation of Rangers is going to take years. Why? The only possible reason is to give Bisto FC time to work their way up the leagues and get it implanted into the minds of all that it's the 'same team.'
That's twenty-eight days now since anyone has heard from Auld Pishy. I think we should have some kind of vigil, like they did for Terry Waite back in the day. I'll nip down the chapel later and light a candle for him and suggest everybody does the same. I'm sure he and his auld Presbyterian granny would appreciate it!
A caun'le fur Leggat
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