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Apparently we have signed ex AEK Athens defender Anestis Arygrious on a 2 year deal can play at either right back or centre back.

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/136608/1/watch-rangers-fc-vs-falkirk-fc.html

Apparently viewing figures for us against Peterhead was 166000 whilst Timmy v Sheepshaggers only managed a paltry 91000.

A clear leader here :

ROUVEN SATTELMAIER is the latest player to train with the Rangers first-team at Murray Park, giving Ally McCoist the opportunity to cast his eyes over the 25-year-old goalkeeper. Born in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Sattelmaier started his senior career at SSV Jan Regensburg before moving to Bayern Munich in 2010 where he became the club’s second team keeper and third choice for Bayern’s first team. Now out of contract the 6' 2" shotstopper got the chance to work with the Gers players and coaching staff at Murray Park this morning.

I read another article on the same subject where it was said that it wasn't a conflict of interest but merely a convergance of interests,I was at work so had no time to reply and can't find he article again,but I was going to use the analogy of a river . If you have several small rivers which eventually converge into one river it eventually becomes too powerful to stop!

Listen from 13: 30 and the bit from 38:30 on where Andrew has a good go at Stuart Cosgrove and stands his ground against Cosgrove and Traynor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01lyxnf

SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE LTD PRIMA FACIA INSOLVENT! CELTIC FC FOUNDED THE SPL MONTHS BEFORE SCOTTISH LEAGUE ANNOUNCED SPLIT INVESTIGATION FINDS. By OnlinePubCo | Posted 42 minutes ago | SCOTLAND On the 13th May 1997 Company Registered under number SC175364 came into being under the name DUNWILCO (597) LTD. On the 9th April 1998 (with an effective date of 1st April 1998- April Fool’s Day) DUNWILCO (597) LTD changed its name to THE SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE LTD. It is said that on 8 September 1997, the football clubs in the Premier Division decided to split from the Scottish Football League and form the Scottish Premier League. That simply cannot be sustained because although company number SC175364 changed its name in 1998 on checking company records show it was ‘reserved to Eric J Riley/F McCann from inception.’ It is a matter of public record that Celtic FC in 1994 was minutes from bankruptcy until a certain Canadian businessman stepped in on 3rd march 1994 guaranteeing an overdraft facility of £7.850, 000. The ‘disclosed’ overdraft at the time was said to be £5,000,000 which Celtic had exceeded but the actual overdraft and ‘special loan account’ was almost double that at £9, 875, 000. The idea of the SPL was that of Celtic and overall Mr McCann was a shrewd and innovative player that for certain assured Scottish Football. He floated Celtic and the rest is history. It is however, interesting to note the whole concept of the SPL came from Celtic who months before any decision was taken had already organised the structure. On the 30th October 2009 Sir David Murray made the following statement: “Rangers' debt is only a fraction of their turnover so why is there all this fuss?” It was to be one of many that the media carried knowing to be false. But it is not only Celtic and Rangers that have played with ‘spinning the truth’ the Scottish Premier League Ltd are doing so and have done so for some time. The latest available Accounts for the SPL show an insolvent balance sheet, with liabilities exceeding assets by £196,000. That is of course the ‘official’ balance sheet because the true extent of the deficiency will only be revealed on the 28th February 2013 since the accounts filed showing insolvency were dated 15th August 2011. An awful lot can happen in a year as has been the case at Rangers. It seems questionable that Rangers were denied their rightful place in the SPL by a company that was effectively formed by two Celtic directors in 1997 and who themselves prima facia by far kin a worse insolvency position than RFC PLC. Of course matters will be rectified by Christmas of this year with a reorganizational plan that may well mitigate and make amends to hard-done-by Rangers who incidentally are very far from near liquidation. There is more than a realistic prospect the Administration of Rangers Football Club PLC will be reviewed by the courts sooner than most think. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-830105

But all these small things at least shows us he is paying attention and has a cracking sense of humour too.

Dust is yet to settle from Rangers saga and it could end with Celtic’s exodus to English Premier League It was back on March 2 that these words appeared in this column: “What almost beggars belief about the Rangers crisis is the considerable chance that we are still only in the early stages of a nuclear reaction which will have an impact on every level of the professional game in Scotland.” Here we are, six months later, and the fallout from Scottish football’s equivalent of Chernobyl is still a very long way from dispersal. Some have said that the dust will settle only when the re-born Rangers return to the SPL but even that assertion hung on the belief that Ally McCoist’s players would prove an irresistible force in their lower division campaigns or, as Charles Green put it - in the understated style which is such a loss to diplomacy - their march “back to the top of the heap”. Cue public jests about Rangers currently being no more than a mid-table Third Division outfit and cue also private anxieties around Ibrox about the fact that, if they could not beat Peterhead on a bowling green surface and on a beatific day almost without a breath of wind, how will they fare on the return visit in January if a vengeful gale is howling in from the North Sea? Meanwhile, oddities abound in this unprecedented situation. Peterhead received more than 60 requests for media accreditation at Balmoor Stadium – including representatives from the New York Times and France Soir. That interest will fade as sharply as the novelty of watching Rangers trudge around Scotland’s fringes, but some anticipate a bonanza return from the phenomenon. This week one third division chairman confided that he and others were especially envious of the delight expressed by some at Queen’s Park that their home games against Rangers could produce gates of between 40-50,000. As for those in authority, until a few weeks ago, David Longmuir was chief executive of a league whose combined attendances would not exceed a third of the capacity at Ibrox and whose role was set to be swallowed up in the unified league body proposed by Henry McLeish. Instead, Longmuir has emerged from the crisis as the single football administrator in Scotland whose reputation has been enhanced – both amongst his former member clubs, who will get extra TV money on top of their preserved subvention from the SPL, but also amongst Rangers fans for his announcement that the club will not be stripped of League Cup honours. The biggest single casualty in reputation is Stewart Regan. Mention of the SFA chief executive’s name around SFL clubs produces responses that range narrowly from condemnation to vituperation because of what many lower league people saw as naked attempts to bully and blackmail them into parachuting Rangers straight into the First Division. Campbell Ogilvie is still President of the SFA but is entirely aware – as are certain others in his hierarchy – that if Rangers are found guilty of operating side contracts during his time as a director at Ibrox, his position will almost certainly become untenable. The SPL are around £6 million a season down in broadcast income from the renegotiated deal for the next five seasons. Every SPL club has had to reassess budgets because of Rangers’ absence, although there is evidence of some stronger season ticket sales in the division. Celtic lose two Old Firm gates but if they get past Helsingborgs into the Champions League group stage they will earn £15 million or upwards. Barring the utterly remote possibility of another plausible domestic contender emerging, they will be almost half way to nine successive titles even if Rangers do return to the SPL in 2015. But do not dismiss the possibility that Celtic might yet depart for the Premier League in England, a vision that continues to exercise the imagination of their chief executive, Peter Lawwell, Scottish football’s answer to Machiavelli – or its Mandelson? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/9480703/Dust-is-yet-to-settle-from-Rangers-saga-and-it-could-end-with-Celtics-exodus-to-English-Premier-League.html

Let's not go Russian into it then

Charles and Ally this week.

After the wife's credit card spree me too.

You're not the SPL are you.

Because we're either the oldco or the newco whichever suits whatever the subject is as long as we get the shittiest deal over anything at all that comes up.

Loads of companies avoid tax ,there was a programme on the telly about this some time ago , companies such as Boots have their registered offices in Switzerland so are subject to company tax at the Swiss rate which is around 8% compared to over 20% here ,all perfectly legal.May not be 100% accurate but it was something along these lines From Wiki: A number of provisions limit the double taxation of profits at the corporate level and contribute to Switzerland's tax haven status. To begin with, a "participation exemption" is granted to companies who hold 20 percent or more of the shares of other companies; the amount of tax due on the corresponding profit is reduced in proportion to the percentage of shares held.[31] At the cantonal level only, a "holding privilege" applies to pure holding companies. They are exempt from the cantonal corporate profit tax.[32] Moreover, cantonal law confers a "domicile privilege" on companies who are only administered in Switzerland, but whose business is conducted abroad; including shell corporations.[33] The cantons tax only around 10 percent of the worldwide profits of such companies.[

Di stefano is supposed to be on Limmy tonight as he says on his twitter that he recorded it today and says to listen in tonight.

And their usually a bit nippy on the feet too so little chance of catching them

According to the radio as soon as the Ashley deal goes through there are around 10 players ready to come to us on loan.

Have you not tried these new fangled rubber things

1.5 million hardly covers the elastoplasts used .

Ok sorry if that sounded thick. Thank you

Would just like to add this is not Rob but his wife. Planning to spend my 50th birthday with my hubby and son at a football match. P.s. I hate football!!!

This is prob going to sound really thick but is there anyway I can buy tickets for this game tomorrow during the day? Before everyone laughs I would just like to add I have never been to a match before and therefore don't know all the details. Cant get on the ticket website. Plus I am a female.

But why would they remove the incriminating testimonial from Liewell if it was so innocent looking?