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Most foul throw ins I’ve ever seen in a professional game, all bar one ignored by the referee.

3rd European game in a row.

https://www.mctears.co.uk/news/Historic-pre-WWI-Rangers-medal-to-go-under-the-hammer/?i=364 Historic pre-WWI Rangers medal to go under the hammer 9/08/2018 Medals & Militaria A rare Scottish League Championship medal from the early days of Rangers Football Club is expected to sell for between £2,000 and £3,000 when it goes to auction at McTear's. The fifteen-carat gold medal was awarded to full-back George Ormond at the end of the first of his three seasons at the Club in 1911/12. Ormond went on to win another league championship with Rangers the following year, eventually moving to Greenock Morton in 1914. The medal, which is being sold by a descendant of the player, will be one of the top items in McTear’s Works of Art auction on Friday 31 August. The lot comes in its original fitted case and has a centre enamelled with a lion rampant and 'Champions 1911–12 Rangers F.C.'. The reverse is inscribed with 'Scottish Football League, George Ormond', within a laurel wreath. Commenting on the sale, James Bruce from McTear’s, said: “We see a significant number of football medals at McTear’s but it is very unusual to come across such a fine example from the early part of the 20th century.” George Ormond played in defence for Rangers for a total of 65 games before moving to Morton for six seasons. It is believed he was one of three Morton players engaged in government work during WWI, which could have contributed to him not being called up. The player was involved in 179 league and seven Scottish Cup games for the Cappielow club before finishing his career at Arbroath in season 1920/21. James added: “The medal is a truly historic piece of football memorabilia and considering it was awarded over one hundred years ago, it is in fantastic condition. Rare memorabilia associated with the Old Firm is highly sought after and I fully expect the piece to attract considerable interest from collectors at home and overseas.”

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I see from yesterday’s trading video that LW Is back in full training with rest of squad.

Ok.

Why are you replying to me?

From HERALD. A RANGERS fans group have been criticised amid claims a 70-year-old’s birthday party had to be cancelled because of a pre-match demonstration. The Union Bears led a march to Ibrox Stadium before the club’s tie with St Mirren last week, having previously been criticised for a similar walk before an Old Firm game this year. Hundreds of supporters were seen marching down Brand Street, banging drums, chanting and some holding flares. And that is said to have prompted the family of an elderly resident at the Ailsa Craig Care Home to shut down a birthday bash. Police Scotland have admitted they are finding it difficult to track the organisers of the march but warned that season tickets could be confiscated. Inspector Kevin Lammie said: “It’s challenging to find out who the organiser is. Police have an intelligence department where we’re reviewing these incidents. “These will be reported to Rangers who take a very dim view with season tickets being taken off people.” But area councillor Ricky Bell hit back and said: “It can’t be that hard to find out who is organising it. You could start by asking the guy at the front of the march holding the megaphone. “It’s exactly what was said after the first one in March before the Old Firm game. The same type of behaviour has taken place again outside an old folks’ home. “There’s been some fairly severe action taken against fans of other clubs in the city, but I think we’d like to get assurances that you are doing something here. “It’s not acceptable just to allow this to go on as a permanent fixture within the football calendar in and around the Ibrox and Cessnock area.” In March this year, a similar demonstration was criticised after flares were set off and a banner portraying someone being kicked was held by supporters. Stephen Dornan, who recently led calls to stop Rangers using the Ibrox Football Centre for a fan zone, called for season tickets to be taken from those who use flares or hold offensive banners. He added: “There was a march and it stopped outside the old folks’ home. A birthday party at the home was cancelled because of that. “That kind of thing happened in the East End with the Green Brigade but there doesn’t seem to be the same urgency to deal with it here. “It cannot continue because some of the stuff there is generally offensive. Banners portraying people with their heads kicked-in can’t continue.” An Ailsa Craig Care Home source said: “The home didn’t cancel the birthday party, it was the family’s decision.”

FINANCIAL INTEGRITY, FOOTBALL, MORAL INTEGRITY Celtic now part of Manchester City’s player Development Pathway through Lawwell & Son. Related Party Transactions need to be reported. POSTED BY FOOTBALLTAXHAVENS ⋅ AUGUST 18, 2018⋅ LEAVE A COMMENT FILED UNDER BRENDAN RODGERS, CITY FOOTBALL GROUP, DANIEL ARZANI, MARK LAWWELL, MURDOCH MACLENNAN, PETER LAWWELL, SFA, SPFL, UEFA Manchester City on 9 August 2018 announced the signing of Australian Daniel Arzani from their fellow City Football Group team Melbourne City. City Football Group driven by Manchester City includes a network with numerous football teams, however at the time Arzani appeared to be going immediately on loan to another club outwith their network, Celtic. Which did eventuate. But as the PR notice puts it this loan move will be part of the ‘development pathway’ for Arzani. So Celtic is part of the Manchester City ‘development pathway’ and Arzani is only the latest. Given the size and reach of City Football Group it seems a nonsense that they don’t have a place for Arzani within their own 6 clubs or the 5 other development clubs and that they need to use the Lawwell familial connections to place Arzani at Celtic. When it was first announced last month that Arzani was possibly going to Celtic it was a complete surprise to their manager Brendan Rodgers. Peter Lawwell and son Mark at the City Football Group appear to have already lined the deal up without consideration of the Celtic manager. City Football Group This financial football behemoth, funded through the royal family controlling the Abu Dhabi emirate controls/has interest in 6 football clubs throughout the world: Manchester City in England Melbourne City in Australia New York City FC in USA Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan (20%) Club Atletico Torque in Uruguay Girona FC in Spain (44.3%) They also have Player Development/recruitment partner teams with: NAC Breda in the Netherlands 2 US teams via NYCFC Atletico Venezuela CF Peralada-Girona B It was reported in Feb 2018 of the possibility CFG acquiring 50% of KV Oostende in Belgium. ‘City see a partner in Ostend where they can send (mainly) foreign talents in bulk, particularly ones who are ineligible for work permits in the UK’. This Group is largely driven operationally by Manchester City. Brendan Rodgers Out of the Equation What did Brendan Rodgers, Celtic’s coach think of Arzani’s arrival? From Ewing Grahame in The Times 27 July 2018: Brendan Rodgers sounds a bit upset to say the least. Here was Celtic’s manager kept out of the loop. Not even considered important enough to inform. This during a transfer window where Rodgers would have told the Celtic’s recruitment dept his requirements for the season ahead. Meanwhile Rodgers was informed Arzani’s coming no matter your requirements. Arzani’s payments would impact the player budget even though he appears to have been taken just because he was offered. How much did the Arzani story start a sequence of Rodger’s press statements proclaiming his disenchantment lead to Celtic dropping out of the ECL qualifiers? Rodgers is in a bind. As they say if you don’t control the circumstances the circumstances will control you. Mark Lawwell City Football Group Celtic’s CEO Peter Lawwell’s son, Mark, is City Football Group’s Scouting & Recruitment Manager. It would be unusual that the Arzani offer did not come via this conduit. Is it possible, since Brendan Rodgers was originally not in the know about Arzani that Peter Lawwell was? Who else could it have been? Was the deal arranged over the Lawwell kitchen table? Although Lee Congerton was named as Head of Recruitment at Celtic in 2017 he seems to be keeping his head down as barbs are traded internally about lack of transfer action this summer. Scottish football these days is ripe with conflicts of interest (Murdoch MacLennan & the Celtic INM plc connections). Are Celtic’s loan deals with Manchester City/City Football Group another? Celtic have had a few Manchester City loanees over recent years, all presumably through Mark Lawwell. Cui Bono – So who benefits? Patrick Roberts Loan Example Signed by City in July 2015, Roberts had 1 league appearance then after 6 months was loaned out to Celtic for the next 3 seasons. The last season he had 8 appearances for Celtic due to injury. It is not known what the details were in the deal between Celtic and Man City were but Celtic were acting as marketing agents for Manchester City. Roberts was on public view so if he turns out good then City either take him back as their player or on sell him. Celtic get the benefit of a higher class of player, if fit. It is not known if they get any on-selling commission after developing the player for 3 years. A week ago Brendan Rodgers was talking about Roberts coming back to Celtic but even Roberts has had enough deja-vu. Is this the ‘Development Pathway’ that Arzani can look forward to? Is it good for Scottish and European football competition? Whatever Financial Fair Play run by UEFA was supposed to achieve it’s not working. Large English clubs are banking young players, and over stocking them well beyond their needs as a club, then farming them out as loans. Fair enough when they are part of your ‘network’ but having large networks then using familial connections to extend to other clubs? Rangers have, due to Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool links, signed a few loans but those players had been brought up Liverpool’s academy not signed like Arzani then placed directly on loan. Mark Allen, Rangers Director of Football and responsible for loans/transfers even though arriving from Manchester City has signed much needed permanent centre-backs while steering clear of the Manchester City surplus. In the interests of Sporting Integrity the SPFL/SFA/UEFA footballing authorities need to know everything is above board: How this Arzani’s deal is structured? Who is paying Arzani’s wages, bonuses, image rights and where? Is City Football Group or a subsidiary subsidizing any payments by Celtic? Do Celtic get any on-sell commissions on City Football Group loan players? Does Peter Lawwell or his son Mark Lawwell at City Football Group get any commissions/bonuses linked to these deals? We’ve seen Dundee United destroyed when Celtic old bhoy, Jackie McNamara’s commission driven deals to sell 3 of their top players to Celtic ruined a competitive team then challenging Celtic. Do the SPFL/SFA/UEFA need to update it regulations concerning clubs in the same competitions acting in concert or a team having related party transactions with another? Related Party Transactions Perhaps both Celtic PLC, public listed, and City Football Group, private, need to highlight these transactions in their annual accounts as per the International Accounting Standard, IAS 24? As the second bullet point says a related party with ‘significant influence’ can be a person or close member of that person’s family. Peter Lawwell, as CEO of Celtic PLC appears to be in charge of their transfers while Mark Lawwell is City Football Group’s Scouting & Recruitment Manager heavily involved with their player acquisition & disposal. Celtic’s last annual report does have a Related Party Transaction section but with no mention of any Manchester City transactions. SFA and SPFL rules may need updating The SFA has team cross ownership rules which restricted Mike Ashley increasing his shareholding in Rangers while controlling Newcastle Utd. However as the Related Party Transaction accounting rules show there does not need to be shareholdings involved to influence clubs. Corporate regulators have anti-competitive price/market fixing regulations restricting collusion even just based on behaviour and no evidence of meetings between parties. It seems strange that there are none between footballing companies considering UEFA’s fight to maintain the integrity of their competitions. If there is to be any discussions of related party transactions at the SPFL Board then indeed both Mr MacLennan and Mr Lawwell will have to recuse themselves from any discussion of Celtic and Manchester City acting in concert. Murdoch MacLennan, SPFL Chairman, doesn’t seem to know a conflict of interest but he should know what a related party transaction looks like. That’s one of the problems Mr MacLennan is currently dealing with the corporate regulator at INM plc regarding a related party transaction of Celtic shareholder Denis O’Brien. That was the valuation conflict within the, Denis O’Brien controlled, INM plc, involving the never eventuated acquisition of Newstalk, another Denis O’Brien controlled company. Of course the SPFL said there would never be a conflict of interest in having Mr MacLennan as chairman at both INM plc and the SPFL. ©footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com 2018

IMPORTANT VOTE - RIFC Share Issue Resolution - General Meeting August 2018 A general meeting of Rangers International Football Club Plc has been called for August 31st 2018. At the meeting a resolution will be put to shareholders to authorise a share issue. Should the majority of voting RIFC shareholders vote yes to the resolution, Club 1872 will invest £1m directly into RIFC in return for five million additional shares. The price per share is 20p. In line with our constitution, where Club 1872 members take all key decisions. a Club 1872 vote is now open on this resolution to determine how Club 1872 will vote at the RIFC general meeting. For further information and to vote, click the link below and log into your account - you will then be automatically directed to the poll. VOTE NOW Club 1872

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Guardiola asked about Mourinho comments on Amazon documentary: "That's true. You cannot buy class."

1-3 FT

5 minutes extra time.

1-3 Morelos

Aye

1-2 og Barisic

HT 0-2

0-2 Morelos again.

0-1 Morelos

Slight exaggeration, maybe a foot. But over the line none the less, once again incompetent officials.

Morelos scores but not given!! Incompetent assistant.

Report by MD on FF.