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RebelBhoy said:
He has lost the ****in plot<laugh>

Check the date folks. I ain't spoofin' y'all this time.


The players dream of a free punch at me but I was right.. this is the worst Gers team EVER
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By GRAEME DONOHOE
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CHARLES GREEN reckons that his Rangers players want to PUNCH him — and he couldn’t care less.

In the midst of a bombshell week at Ibrox as he admitted shafting disgraced former owner Craig Whyte to gain control of the fallen Glasgow giants Green opened his heart to The Scottish Sun.

He knows his outburst slating Ally McCoist’s side has made him unpopular in the dressing room but there’s not a shred of regret on that score.

The Gers chief executive stressed: “A few weeks ago I made a statement that a few people were aghast about when I said that it’s the worst Rangers team there’s ever been.

“I saw pundits on TV saying ‘The Chief Exec shouldn’t say that’. Why shouldn’t you say it? Is it true? If it’s true, say it.

“If I felt that I could forecast so well, I’d start buying lottery tickets because the next day’s result against Annan PROVED it.

“The players? I suspect there is an element of ‘can I kick him’ or ‘can I punch him’.

“I suppose if we had a game of five a side there’d be a few of them would give me some heavy tackles.

“I think I’d need to find some of my old speed to get away from them.

“Look, I don’t think the manager was happy about it. I don’t think the players were happy about it.

“But I actually don’t say things to make people happy and I don’t say things to make people sad.

“I say ’em because it’s factually correct and I say it because I believe it.”

Green is bidding to adapt to life in a bitterly divided city where he is left bemused by the role religion still plays in our football.

The Gers supremo holds no truck with any of it, though, and he confessed he would ponder hiring ex-Celt and self-confessed fascist Paolo Di Canio just as Sunderland have.

Di Canio received a one-match ban in Italy in 2005 for giving his fans at Lazio a Nazi salute and had previously described himself as ‘a fascist, but not a racist’.

Green does not see what all the fuss is about.

He said: “I don’t know the facts about Paolo Di Canio’s fascist comments but what have your political beliefs got to do with how you do your job?

“If I’m hiring, I don’t care what religion they are, I don’t care what colour they are, I don’t care what their political beliefs are, or their social etiquette.

“What I think is wrong is to force someone to accept your view so I encourage with my children their right to express their view.

“Even to the extent of recent press speculation that we were going to sign Jon Daly and people are suggesting it may be a challenge because he’s a Catholic from Southern Ireland.

“Well, that’s not a challenge at all. Listen, I’m quite happy to go on record and say that the only challenge that there is ever going to be is on what wages someone wants and how I’m going to pay them.

“Can they do the job and are they going to respect the badge that’s on the shirt? That’s all the matters for me.”

Green insists he hates the growing political correctness that is creeping into society and revealed he still refers to Rangers business partner Imran Ahmad as ‘my Paki friend’.

Prince Harry famously found himself caught up in a storm when tapes emerged of him referring to an Asian soldier as ‘our little Paki friend’.

Green sighed: “The sectarian element of the Old Firm has been a hard thing to get used to.

“That is something that I’ve found truly amazing and hugely surprising to find this divide in Scotland. It is a completely new concept to me.

“I was brought up in a mining community where whether someone was black, white, Catholic, Salvation Army, Protestant, made no difference.

“When I played at Worksop Town, the other striker was ‘Darkie’ Johnson. Now if I say that today I could go to jail.

“You know, Imran will come into the office regularly and I’ll say ‘How’s my Paki friend?’.

“Of course, you have all the do-gooders and puritanical people now saying you can’t say that. Prince Harry got into so much trouble for that.”

Green is lurching from one controversy to the next right now but insists the good Gers have done on their travels in Scottish football’s basement keeps him going.

He stressed: “Going to places like Annan and Elgin, the whole town has been welcoming — not just the football clubs. The shopkeepers, the pastie shop owners, the bar guys.

“The local economies are booming thanks to Rangers.

“So it’s not just the clubs are getting capacity attendances and breaking new club records at every ground.

“I’ve had chairmen come to me and say: ‘Mr Green, my local pub came and gave the club a cheque for £1,000 because when Rangers turned up he had record takings. More than on Christmas Eve’.

“What we’ve got is a real legacy now that we can be proud of that shows how this giant of a club, that had been humbled so publicly, has stood proud, walked with its head held high and earned a lot of respect.

“Look, I wasn’t a Rangers fan when I came — but I am becoming one very quickly.

“This club becomes a part of you and you become a part of it. That’s been something that I never expected would happen.”
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Quite sure two comments there are in breach of the RRA.
 
SIR CRAIG WHYTE has substantial documentation to support his case.
£137.5K record of accounts as his share of 25% deposit to D and P for ownership of SEVCO.
27.12.12 CG signed dissolution of Sevco5088 as SCW claimed.
There also appears to be a signed agreement between CG and SCW showing that the latter has a lifelong 10% annual share of profits and an annual salary of £250K with SEVCO.


This has a long way to run and more stuff to come out.

Be patient Declan the nuclear event is coming.
 
why do you keep making references to declan albatross?

Is like using Timmy?
 
Green insists he hates the growing political correctness that is creeping into society and revealed he still refers to Rangers business partner Imran Ahmad as &#8216;my Paki friend&#8217;.
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<laugh> The sponsors etc must have got up yesterday and passed out when they read that. The guy's mental, he's finally lost it. He keeps mistaking blunt moronic honesty as some sort of admirable character trait <doh>
 
Spiers' latest offering. Was tempted to put it in the Leggo thread :laugh:

Let&#8217;s be clear about what Charles Green, the Rangers CEO, was trying to say in his ludicrous comments about having a &#8220;Paki friend&#8221; and having once played alongside a &#8220;darkie&#8221; striker.

Green was interviewed last weekend and, in highly unfortunate remarks, came over as some kind of cross between Alf Garnett and Bernard Manning. He actually sounded as if he had travelled in a time-machine straight from 1972.

Green confessed that he referred to Imran Ahmad, his business partner at Rangers, as &#8220;my Paki friend&#8221;. Warming to his theme, he also recalled that, when he was a footballer with Worksop Town, there had been another striker on the club&#8217;s books called &#8220;Darkie&#8221; Johnson.

It was bad enough, in today&#8217;s climate, hearing a leading executive of a major Scottish football club talking like this. But worse was the actual point that Green was trying to make.

He appeared to assert that he detests modern society&#8217;s political correctness and the way it prohibits such language. To Green, it&#8217;s all a bit of a shame that in today&#8217;s world you cannot go about referring to &#8220;Pakis&#8221; or &#8220;Darkies&#8221;.

&#8220;You have all these do-gooders and puritanical people saying you cannot say that anymore,&#8221; Green complained.

Yes, Charles, and damn right we do.

This stuff has proved to be one more embarrassment to Rangers in recent days. Even worse, when the campaign group Show Racism The Red Card publicly lamented Green&#8217;s remarks, he compounded his idiocy by bleating about their scolding of him.

I am actually prepared to give Green the benefit of the doubt over some of this. He doesn&#8217;t believe he is a racist. He doesn&#8217;t intend to be one. He says that he deplores any such prejudice. &#8220;Where I come from,&#8221; he added, &#8220;it made no difference if you were black, white, Protestant, Catholic&#8230;&#8221;

Green might not be a racist at all - the problem he has is that he sounds like one.

This kind of talk is the &#8220;casual racism&#8221; of many who, while claiming that &#8220;white or black makes no difference to me&#8221;, nonetheless enjoy the so-called banter of &#8220;darkie&#8221; and &#8220;Paki&#8221; etc. It is abysmal stuff.

If skin colour or ethnicity makes no difference to Charles Green, why refer to anyone as &#8220;a Paki&#8221; in the first place? It isn&#8217;t just embarrassing - not that Green can see that - but it undermines everything else he says about deploring bigotry.

Green&#8217;s comments have actually reminded me of an old Scottish football writer of years past who, when drink went down his throat, suddenly liked nothing better than to talk of &#8220;darkies&#8221; and &#8220;wogs&#8221;. <laugh>

This was around the early 1990s, just at that point when decent society was learning to be more responsible in its use of language. I remember watching this well-known football figure mouthing off like this and thinking: &#8220;What a prick you sound.&#8221;

It has been a strange saga around Green, given the stupidity of what he said. Can you imagine the outcry - rightly - if either Ally McCoist or Neil Lennon had come out with this stuff? Any right-minded football club today would consider such language by a player or manager as a potential sacking offence.

Ironically, Lennon is currently up on an SFA disrepute charge for far less insidious language - caught by a TV microphone - towards Jim Goodwin of St Mirren.

There is much that Charles Green has done at Rangers that deserves admiration. He stepped into an Ibrox fire where others feared to tred. He pushed through a successful - though hardly spectacular - flotation of the club on the stock market.

Green also has likeable qualities: he is bullish and engaging, and his blunt talking is often entertaining, if sometimes slightly daft.

But he has also made a fool of himself with this racist claptrap. Even worse, he then looked almost oblivious at the need to apologise for it.

Charles Green has severely embarrassed Rangers with his worldview
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<laugh> Honestly, you couldn't make it this stuff up FFS.
 
Green&#8217;s comments have actually reminded me of an old Scottish football writer of years past who, when drink went down his throat, suddenly liked nothing better than to talk of &#8220;darkies&#8221; and &#8220;wogs&#8221;.
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Hmmm, I wonder who he's talking about?
 
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