A statue commemorating the Irish Famine in Glasgow? Outrageous, it's not as if Glasgow is home to any people of Irish descent.
I think that eddie pearson from Celtic Underground said that for him, Celtic Park is already that monument. I kind of agree.....but then that makes me agree with Leggo....**** it, stick an aul statue up. There is a nice one at the foot of Croagh Patrick. please log in to view this image ....Not far from Phil's place....NOT in Donegal.
[h=2]Sunday, 12 February 2012[/h] [h=3]DAVID MURRAY MUST SPEAK OUT[/h] THERE is a significance in the almost panicky intervention by the Murray Group in the problems which surround the way David Murray sold Rangers to Craig Whyte. And there even greater significance in that it was made by an anonymous spokesman and not from the usually publicity hungry former Rangers owner and chairman, David Murray. The Murray Group jumped in after the man Murray nominated to succeed him as Ibrox chairman, old board leader, Alastair Johnston, demanded that the government’s Insolvency Service Intelligence and Enforcement Directorate launch an official probe into Whyte’s buy-out of Murray and takeover of Rangers. The Johnston demand came after allegations that Whyte used the money raised by mortgaging three years’ worth of Ibrox season tickets to fund the repayment of the £18M debt to Lloyds Banks, believed to have been a condition of Lloyds sanctioning any change of ownership. This is something Whyte strenuously denies. It is something Rangers supporters are becoming increasingly uneasy about, with that unease becoming even more acute when a Sheriff at Glasgow Sheriff Court branded Whyte a wholly unreliable court witness when a judgment in another and totally unrelated case, went against the increasingly beleaguered Ibrox owner. The crux of the matter is where the funds which were in a client account set up by Whyte’s London lawyers to prove he was a man of substance, capable of clearing the Rangers debt to Lloyds and funding the running of Rangers, came from. Whyte insists they were transferred from another of his companies. Johnston clearly suspects not. But why this should be a matter of discussion is difficult to understand. After all, the negotiations between Murray and Whyte lasted around six months, plenty of time for David Murray to have conducted exhaustive due diligence of Whyte and his myriad companies. And it was only after Murray’s due diligence was satisfied that he and Lloyds and Whyte all came together to negotiate the transfer of ownership of Rangers from Murray to Whyte for a quid, conditional on Whyte paying off that £18M debt to Lloyds. Even at the eleventh hour the deal was almost blocked when then chairman Alastair Johnston warned against Whyte being the right man to own Rangers, while old board member Paul Murray(no relation) tried to organise a last ditch buy out. Through all of this, David Murray backed Whyte. Now, according to the Murray Group’s spokesman, quoted in the Herald, David Murray is to seek clarification of the financial and security arrangements which the purchaser appears to have put in place. If, after around six months of Murray’s due diligence into the finances of the man he sold Rangers to, Murray now feels the need to seek further clarification, he should break cover and be brave enough to explain himself in person and not hide behind a Murray Group spokesman. Murray has many questions to answer and he may well find that this time his usual bluster won’t work. Just as Lloyds Bank may also soon have some searching questions to answer to. And this time they won’t be able to hide behind the cowardly cloak of customer confidentiality. The full significance of the Murray Group’s seemingly panicky intervention into Alastair Johnston’s call for a government probe into the funding when Whyte bought Rangers from Murray, remains to be revealed.
Just as Lloyds Bank may also soon have some searching questions to answer to. And this time they won’t be able to hide behind the cowardly cloak of customer confidentiality.
Dev, a big spud could be seen as a threat of assassination - as it can be and has been used as a silencer, with the barrel of a pistol being inserted into it.....thought that with your background you might haven known that? On the other hand, maybe that's exactly what you intended?
No doubt Leggo will find some Lloyds employee called Finbar O'Declan and he'll be responsible for ****ing everything.
how about a statue of a spud and a statue of the fungus, thyphophtera infestans, what caused the famine ; bingo ; everyones happy with their own little shrine. Live and let live I say.
This is almost as funny as Saturday's stream-of-semi-consciousness from the blogging world's favourite bigot So, basically, ex-Celtic man/man who met Lawwell once/guy with taigy name = working for Celtic on the inside to bring down the mighty Rangers unfairly. Ex-Rangers man = trying to bring down Rangers from the inside. ...AND he suggests that Hibs and Aberdeen are part of a "Celtic Cartel". Can we build An Gorta Mor memorial on this prick's forehead? <gimp>
Surely Leggo has to find some new material? His obsession with "what school you went to" is frankly pathetic. Any name of vaguely irish extraction and in Leggend world you shoot proddies then eat their weans. Your favourite team is corrupt. It is morally and financially bankrupt from top to bottom Davey-boy. Scottish football will not mourn them. Get back to naming (taig) names!!!!
What a paranoid fruitcake <laugh? Rod Petrie and Stephen Thompson are "Celtic-minded" don't you know? How did this man ever get a job with two national newspapers?
"And that lack of someone who had built alliances over many years in the palaces of power may just be what cost Rangers any help from the SPL in the spring of 2008, something which may also have cost Rangers the UEFA Cup and the SPL crown." )))))) How can this clown even claim to be a journalist? Worryingly enough these are entrenched views so when he actually had a job they would have not been seen as out of order with his mates (anyone that bought him a 1/4 gill). He's either demented or just a full-on alkie....or baith.
bolloxpants He, like many of those blinkered huns, has conveniently forgotten that Rangers were given an extension that season to help them. Pretending they didn't is just part of the victim complex they've developed over the past few years.
