The downfall of the house of Leggo

Cossy · Feb 16, 2012

Just read my tweets for the day. Leggo is going to go ****ing mental.

Graham Spiers is going to write in the Scotsman. That means that he has changed his plans again and no doubt Leggo will go to great lengths to show how Spiersy is writing before he said he would this time, but after he said he would first time.

Here.

Tomorrow.

Go G YellowScreen · Feb 16, 2012

Cossy said: ↑

Just read my tweets for the day. Leggo is going to go ****ing mental.

Graham Spiers is going to write in the Scotsman. That means that he has changed his plans again and no doubt Leggo will go to great lengths to show how Spiersy is writing before he said he would this time, but after he said he would first time.

Here.

Tomorrow.
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It's funny that Graham Speirs, ex-journalist, keeps getting invited onto TV and radio and to write articles for newspaper while David Leggat, ex-journalist, doesn't.

Funny that.

Bib Fortuna's Maw · Feb 16, 2012

Beelin'

Thursday, 16 February 2012
DAVID MURRAY STATEMENT DOES NOT ADD UP

IT was just hours after my Valentine’s Day blog which said that David Murray had made the first move to find a legal loophole to restart his love affair with Rangers that the former Ibrox owner broke cover.

Clearly what I wrote startled Murray. And I know he would have read it, as LeggoLand is part of his daily diet of news and views. And if he did miss it I know of at least one of his remaining press lackeys who would have been right on the phone to him. Such puppets are handy!

Murray responded to what appeared here by issuing a statement which claimed that there is no legal route back for him, no loophole by which he can save Rangers from Craig Whyte, the man Murray sold out to.

But – and this should come as no surprise to seasoned Murray-watchers - what he said in the statement did NOT add up.

In fact it added up in just about the same way as the Ibrox accounts did when David Murray ruled the roost at Ibrox and the debts soared to nudging Â£80M at one stage.

The fact that the statement was issued by the Murray Group, and refers to his dealings with the Whyte company he sold Rangers to, should not be allowed to cloud the issue. That issue is between David Murray and Craig Whyte.

So we will dispense with company name niceties, blow away the fog of war and cut to the chase.

On Tuesday I revealed that Murray had written to Whyte requesting clarification regarding certain agreements about how he would Rangers that were part of the deal which saw Murray sell to Whyte for a quid.

I added that if these obligations had not been met – citing the fact that it seems Whyte paid off the Â£18M Lloyds debt with a Â£24.4M loan from Ticketus, set against future income from season tickets, BEFORE he owned Rangers - as an example of the sort of legal loophole which could allow Murray to fulfill his morale obligation to the club.

But the Murray statement, printed in a number of newspapers including the Scotsman and the Guardian, claimed that there is no legal mechanism for Murray to re-acquire the club.

What David Murray said next though is curious and needs to be questioned.

Murray revealed that he had written to Whyte as long ago as August 25 2011 seeking reassurances that various obligations were being complied with and that such an assurance confirming they were, was eventually given to Murray by Whyte on January 3 this year.

Which begs the question. If there is no legal mechanism available to Murray to do anything to retake control of Rangers if Whyte does not comply with various obligations, why did Murray write to Whyte in the first place?

And in the second place, why did Craig Whyte bother, albeit over four months later, to reply to Murray?

Next, Murray’ statement that he has sent a further request to Whyte for clarification. Why? Murray added that the second request has so far not been answered.

It was on learning of that second clarification request, thanks to a previous Murray Group statement, and on being told by former chairman Alastair Johnston that there are certain ‘nuances’ involved in the ownership of Rangers, that I claimed the latest Murray request for clarification was the first move in the former owner accepting that he had broken his pledge of never selling Rangers to anyone who was not good for the club, and taking action to stop the rot.

Instead, what we have had from David Murray is a statement couched in double-speak, which far from stopping the rot is full of a lot of Tommy Rot. And bull!

As far as clarification is concerned, it is the David Murray statement which needs to be clarified.

For as I said at the start, exactly like the Rangers accounts when David Murray was in charge, it just does not add up.
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The brass neck on this pube.

Go G YellowScreen · Feb 16, 2012

Clearly what I wrote startled Murray. And I know he would have read it, as LeggoLand is part of his daily diet of news and views.
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VenomPD · Feb 16, 2012

Next, Murray’ statement that he has sent a further request to Whyte for clarification.
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I thought "clarifi-kay-shun" was an anathema to Huns?!?!?! <Confused>

bolloxpants · Feb 16, 2012

This cretin actually thinks Murray would issue a statement as a result of a ramble on Leggos "website". Clearly Leggo is the legless one here!

DevAdvocate · Feb 16, 2012

mad as a box of frogs

Patience · Feb 16, 2012

which could allow Murray to fulfill his morale obligation to the club
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He's a ****ing tool.

More specifically, a spanner.

Patience · Feb 16, 2012

It's funny that Graham Speirs, ex-journalist, keeps getting invited onto TV and radio and to write articles for newspaper while David Leggat, ex-journalist, doesn't.
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Spot on

Cossy · Feb 16, 2012

SaTan's Evil Twin said: ↑

Clearly what I wrote startled Murray. And I know he would have read it, as LeggoLand is part of his daily diet of news and views.
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I know. You think that the dick couldn't get any more mental and then he bangs that one from right out of the blue.

Absolute belter.

Mick · Feb 16, 2012

SaTan's Evil Twin said: ↑

Clearly what I wrote startled Murray. And I know he would have read it, as LeggoLand is part of his daily diet of news and views.
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He's nearly as bad as Jeff Winter

Bhoy From Brum · Feb 16, 2012

It was just hours after my Valentine’s Day blog which said that David Murray had made the first move to find a legal loophole to restart his love affair with Rangers that the former Ibrox owner broke cover......................But – and this should come as no surprise to seasoned Murray-watchers - what he said in the statement did NOT add up.....
In fact it added up in just about the same way as the Ibrox accounts did when David Murray ruled the roost at Ibrox and the debts soared to nudging Â£80M at one stage.

What I'm confused about is whether he wants Murray back or not???

Cossy · Feb 17, 2012

ST, I think Spiers has been watching your posts. He tweeted yesterday;

"BTW why does my pal Leggo get no air time re Rangers? He is widely respected across journalism. He is sane, cerebral, perceptive. It is odd."

Ooh you agenda setter you!

Go G YellowScreen · Feb 17, 2012

Cossy said: ↑

ST, I think Spiers has been watching your posts. He tweeted yesterday;

"BTW why does my pal Leggo get no air time re Rangers? He is widely respected across journalism. He is sane, cerebral, perceptive. It is odd."

Ooh you agenda setter you!
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Clearly what I wrote startled Spiers. And I know he would have read it, as not606 is part of his daily diet of news and views.

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VenomPD · Feb 17, 2012

Today's is a ****ing belter and a half...

Friday, 17 February 2012
AN OPEN LETTER TO STEWART REGAN
DEAR STEWART REGAN,

Just what does Craig Whyte have to do for your Scottish Football Association to rule that he is not a fit and proper person to own a Scottish football club?

Murder someone? Commit rape? Or lead a gang of masked men on an armed raid?

There are some who say what he has done to Rangers makes him no better than a bank robber. Though without the balaclava and the sawn off.

The only difference being that instead of the Sweeney kicking down his door it's the Fraud Squad who have been called in after Â£35M went missing from the Rangers' books.

The weight of verifiable evidence against Whyte which already lies in the public domain is surely overwhelming. He has lied on oath about why he was banned from being a company director, been told by Sheriff Nigel Ross that, again under oath, the evidence he gave to Glasgow Sheriff Court was wholly unreliable and had the stockbrokers of which he is company secretary, Pritchard Stockbrokers, told by the powerful Financial Services Authority it cannot trade after accusations of fraud.

On top of which he hasn’t paid the PAYE to the Revenue which he has already snaffled from the pay pokes of Rangers employees. And we’re not just talking about players. The man in the ticket office and the cleaners have had their pay packets dipped into by Craig Whyte too.

Yet you, Mr Regan, still refuse to rule on whether the Scottish Football Association consider Craig Whyte a fit and proper person to run a Scottish football club.

There is also the serious matter of how Craig Whyte has appeared to also dip the pockets of some of your member clubs, Dunfermline and Dundee United included, by failing to pay them what they are owed for tickets and their share of the gate.

I’m pretty sure that if you haven’t heard from your fellow SFA director, Peter Lawwell’s pal, Steven Thomson, already, he’ll be on the phone to you soon. After all, the cash Whyte has not paid Thomson’s Dundee United is from a tie in your competition, the Scottish Cup.

So why do you dither? Why do you dally? What’s holding you back?

Someone, a serious person, suggested to me that you are under the spell of the guy who sits around the SFA boardroom table with you, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell.

His reasoning is that for as long as Whyte remains the Rangers owner, for as long as Whyte has any influence on events within Ibrox, it is good news for Celtic and that Lawwell is keen to see any SFA judgment on Whyte’s fitness delayed and that he is having an influence on you.

I told him what I will tell you. I just cannot believe that is the case. Or at least the bit about your pal and fellow SFA director, Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell, having any influence on your decision.

Though it is true that for as long as Whyte is allowed to own Rangers it is good news for Celtic.

And given the closeness which exists between you and Lawwell I am sure you can see where some of the more conspiratorial minds end up, despite my arguments to the contrary.

Perception is a hard thing to get around with the truth.

But the truth is clear to anyone with half a brain – and I know you have a full set of cells – is that Craig Whyte is most certainly not a fit and proper person to run a Scottish football club.

If you don’t believe me, ask some of your member clubs, particularly Dunfermline and Dundee United.

Make the ruling now. Blow the whole ball game wide open. I am sure Dundee United’s Steven Thomson and Dunfermline’s John Yorkston know that if Whyte is booted out and someone who is a fit and proper person takes control of Rangers, their clubs will eventually get all that is owed to them. All that Whyte’s chicanery has denied them.

Go on Stewart! Show us what you’re made of.

As aye

DAVID LEGGAT

PS – If you need any legal advice then I’m sure yours and Peter Lawwell’s wee pal, Paul McBride QC would help. Or, on the subject of perception again, if you want somebody with no Celtic connection, try Findlay QC.

DL

……..AND…

WHAT a slick piece of spin doctoring it was which led to the pro Craig Whyte Sun’s story about the danger he may face if he goes to Ibrox tomorrow.

An unnamed source - his spin doctor? – said Whyte wants to face the music and go to the game against Kilmarnock, but police do not want him to, as they fear for his security.

Strangely enough the Strathclyde Police matchday commander at Ibrox was not quoted. Funny that! Mmmmmmm……

What it looks like to my admittedly jaundiced old eyes, is an attempt to provide Whyte with an excuse for not being at Ibrox. And the Sun, the last newspaper refuge of scoundrel Whyte, has fallen for it.

….FINALLY…

GOODNESS knows what the good, honest, talented and precise journalists of the Scotsman thought when they saw the pages of their paper polluted by Odious Creep on Thursday morning.

And goodness knows what the douce ladies who lunch in Morningside and Murrayfield thought when they discovered Edinburgh’s paper of choice infected by admitted *****phile sympathiser, Creep.

And if those formidable women of Edinburgh, whose husbands are the judges, lawyers, head teachers, company chairmen and senior civil servants who are the heart of Scotland’s power, did not know about Odious Creep’s *****phile sympathies…

Weel….they ken noo.

Creep incurred the wrath of Mumsnet, the powerful online forum for mums, when he expressed his sympathy for Craig Thomson, the Hearts player convicted for sex offences against vulnerable under age girls.

Not the sort of person the grannies, mums and maiden aunts of douce Morningside and Murrayfield, expect to find polluting the pages of the Scotsman.

Now I have news from those of a similar background in the West of Scotland. The grannies, mums and maiden aunts of douce Kelvinside and Milngavie, should be prepared to have *****phile sympathiser, Odious Creep and his rancid views polluting the pages of the Sunday Herald this weekend.

If, that is, they are daft enough to buy it.
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Go G YellowScreen · Feb 17, 2012

http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html

Monday, 16 August 2010
CELTIC CASH CRISIS
THE damage Rangers have done to Celtic by winning the last two titles became obvious today when the Parkhead accounts were published.

And while the near Â£6m of debt which was announced is nowhere as serious as the level of money owed by Rangers, it shows how important this season's championship will be for the future of both sides of the Old Firm.
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Cossy · Feb 17, 2012

Where the **** do you start after that? Is Morningside douce, by any chance?

As for his "jaundiced eyes" well that's because your ****ing kidneys are packing up ya ****ing raging alkie!!

With the rest of it....

rogueleader · Feb 17, 2012

I`m actually beginning to feel sickened by my own lack of morality in laughing daily at leggat. Its becoming too much like laughing at a circus freak or ........... , who am I trying to kid, ****ing mad prick.

Bib Fortuna's Maw · Feb 17, 2012

I think this bit was glazed over a bit

WHAT a slick piece of spin doctoring it was which led to the pro Craig Whyte Sun’s story about the danger he may face if he goes to Ibrox tomorrow.

An unnamed source - his spin doctor? – said Whyte wants to face the music and go to the game against Kilmarnock, but police do not want him to, as they fear for his security.

Strangely enough the Strathclyde Police matchday commander at Ibrox was not quoted. Funny that! Mmmmmmm……

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I refer the dishonourable ***** of his blog entry just two or three days ago that threatened Whyte's personal safety.

Bib Fortuna's Maw · Feb 17, 2012

Can I also remind the respective jakey of the following blog from last May (have a look through last May's archives - there's classic after classic of Whyte-bum-sooking)

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
WHYTE TAKES CHARGE - Exclusive

CRAIG WHYTE has given a clear indication that he will be a hands-on owner when it comes to running Rangers.

For multi millionare Whyte has been named as the new Rangers managing director!

And events today have served to confirm that Whyte, who is in Glasgow today, will be a no nonsense owner who will rule the roost with an iron fist.

The news that Whyte became managing director was announced by the new Ibrox club owner's heavy hitting London law firm, Collyer,Bristow. The announcement came before Whtye suspended Martin Bain from his role as chief executive.

And one of the lead partners in the international law firm, Gary Withey, has been named as the new Rangers company secretary. Withey is a high flier who is a member of the extremely exclusive Hurlingham Polo Association.

These are the headline announcements which have been missed by the media.

But it is perhaps what they mean that is more important. For, with Collyer,Bristow naming new owner Whyte as managing director, it appears he intends to be a regular presence at Ibrox, keeping his finger on the pulse.

And although there are no quotes from Whyte in his lawyers' announcement, he is sure to have cleared it before the legal firm released the news.

The appointment of lead partner Withey is not of any great significance in its self, as his duties will be behind the legal scenes, relating to company law.

But the size and nature of the firm Withey is a lead partner with, and that has been retained by Whyte, may go some way to answering those who still doubt that Whyte is the right man for Rangers.

For Collyer,Bristow are based in the upmarket and expensive heart of London's legal area with an extremely prestigious WC1 address.

Collyer,Bristow has 33 partners and employs another 140 people, and is a long established firm, dating back 250 years, and is so up market it even boasts its own art gallery.

They are hot shots in the lucrative aviation industry, in travel, media, sports, and property, and also have pop stars and internationally renowned artists among their clients.

What is also important as far as Rangers are concerned, are these two other facts about them.

Collyer,Bristow specialise in defamation and reputation cases. Whyte showed during the drawn out takeoever talks that he was willing to unleash his legal team on anyone who tried to trash him.

This could well point the way for a new get tough policy from Ibrox against anyone who continues to see Rangers as an easy target for cheap jibes and slurs.

The other fact about Collyer,Bristow is that they are an international company with a major office in Geneva.

It has long been my belief that Rangers needed a serious Swiss law firm to represent them in their dealings with UEFA.

However top drawer any Scottish lawyer may be, he must have found it hard to cope with the labyrinth of laws within UEFA, which pay scant regard to how we in Britain regard justice.

However, Collyer,Bristow, with a base in Switzerland, the same as UEFA, may be better suited to the task.

There may be some who dismiss these revelations as not a lot. As mere straws in the wind. But they show the way the wind is blowing.
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