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A baffling silence 27 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
As regular readers here will know I have been working on the story of whether or not Rangers (1872-2012) should have been granted a UEFA licence in season 2011-2012. What follows here is a series of d...
The meaning of words. 22 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
What does the word ‘billionaire’ mean? As we have seen on Planet Fitba it can have very elastic definitions, especially when it is associated with Ibrox. Now apparently there is a new billionaire on t...
An undiscovered country 19 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
What kind of country is Scotland? It is a fair question. In November 2011 I spoke at the ChangeIn Scotland conference in Ullapool. The talk was entitled: Being second generation Irish in modern Scotla...
I can exclusively reveal… 15 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
Well at least the Daily Record didn’t splash the word ‘exclusive’ across the top of their story today. Regular readers here will be used to this. Information is published here and sometime later it ma...
Probe now underway into SFL payments to Longmuir 14 Aug 2013 | 01:02 am
A meeting of SPFL clubs at Hampden yesterday heard a statement about a probe being carried out into bonus payments paid to the Scottish Football League’s former Chief Executive David Longmuir. The inv...
Good work if you can get it. 13 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
I am informed that Media House will soon be leaving Planet Sevco. It would appear that there is something of a personality clash between the folks who have looked after PR matters down Ibrox way since...
Follow Follow the money 12 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Suddenly it is ok for the mainstream media to speak of the Sevco cash crisis. Yet only last month the klan were being regaled with tales of just how financially healthy the Ibrox outfit really was. Ho...
A hidden bonus 11 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
While Planet Fitba fixates on the bonuses and remuneration of Charles Green there is another story of executive excess. David Longmuir recently found that his job as chief executive of the Scottish Fo...
The NeverEnding story 3 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
If anyone needed reminding that the ‘Old Firm’ is dead, they got plenty of evidence yesterday. Early in the day it was announced that Charles Green was returning as a ‘consultant’ to Sevco. The man wi...
Interview with Dr Steve Frosdick 31 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
Dr Steve Frosdick is a consultant, scholar and independent expert on safety and security at sports grounds who works across Europe. I interviewed him in the aftermath of the fireworks incident at the ...
