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Marvellous.

Now it turns into Jarndyce versus Jarndyce with the lawyers taking turns on the hind tit of the Rangers cash cow.

Let's hope there is a speedy resolution...

Billy Davis might be a decent shout but in all seriousness what sane person who would sign up to become embroiled in this mess?

So build his gallows, build them high...

Strange timing to go after King after what was an extremely eventful weekend. I'd also question Somers' intentions when it's likely most people will refuse to be fooled by Somers and the PR machine.

That's what I was thinking. What exactly was the purpose of Somers statement at this time?

Did the arrests somehow up the ante in some way causing the incumbents to seek to hasten their exit and now they are attempting to smoke Kings consortium out to get a deal done?

Was it an attempted charm offensive to entice fans into MA's corner? in which case they should have used someone with charm to deliver the message.

Do they simply think they can simply discredit King and fans will return to Ibrox in droves?

Or is this just a load of macho bollocks between the MA gang and the King gang? A sort of don't mess with the messer cause the messer's gonna mess with you scenario.

Like most my head is melted with all this crap...

A lot of guys do their badges here in Belfast at an IFA course at Stranmillis College where I happen to do some contracting work.

I saw Barry Ferguson there doing his badges in the past year or two and Neil Lennon a few years back also.

The IFA's brochure for the Uefa 'A' licence states:

Course content, tasks and assessments are based upon the following competencies:

• Football knowledge

• Management

• Use of technology

• Psychology

• Personal presentation and media skills

I would expect the Uefa Pro Licence just adds to those competencies but at the end of the day you can either coach or you can't.

In my opinion having a vast knowledge of a subject doesn't necessarily make a person a great teacher or leader.

I don't think the right to be forgotten rule was in place until May 2014 after the González case in Spain.

The people we are talking about just seem to be rather adept at staying under the radar until they want to be seen.

At what point do I assume the police had no evidence? I don't get where you get that from. Having evidence and making it stick or getting confessions are two entirely different things. Made all the more harder by "no comment until I see my lawyer". That's all I'm saying. You would be surprised how many times the police think they have evidence only for the Procurator Fiscal to say "we wont have a chance of a guilty verdict based on lack of evidence so we cant waste public money by taking it through a protracted court case with little chance of a guilty verdict".

Lets not get carried away. It hasn't even got near a PF yet.

I wasn't trying to start a row

You are correct of course we shouldn't get carried away.

My point is simply that staying silent is not necessarily enough to let them walk.

It is just my personal opinion that these arrests are a significant development in the process of finding out what happened in this debacle...

I think a lot of us are watching too many films. As soon as they hit the station they will say diddley squat until they phone their lawyer (they will get one call to make). They will be advised to say nothing and they will comply. Their lawyers will turn up and If they say nothing then they will be released as they can only be detained for a certain amount of time. Their lawyers will then get them briefed.

I'm still sure it will all fall flat.

Your premise seems to assume that the police had no evidence before going to the trouble of waking these dudes from their slumber at 6:30 in the morning.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Time will tell of course.

AlisonRobbie: 4 men detained in connection with acquisition of #Rangers in 2011 have now been arrested & are in police custody.

Mibbees aye, mibbees naw.

You've drawn a similar conclusion to me.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/12135507.html

In the name of George Alexander Taylor who seems to be a Morgan Stanley employee.

I would assume this purchase is being made on behalf of a Morgan Stanley customer what do our financial experts think?

Is this likely to be something significant?

From twitter:

CemetryGates89: Oh well, that'll be our trademarks licensed off;

http://t.co/lStX0iKmk7

http://t.co/yTD6ES80Ut

http://t.co/SZqfDFzWl7

http://t.co/Vk7hbqZnZl

more likely that he thinks the scroll badge looks best on cheap tat.

Or cheaper to embroider...

It's twoo it's twoo...

Right lads. Does anyone remember what this is?

Could be the brown envelopes from toxic has ended?

I suspect he has done the arithmetic and fled the scene. It looks something like this:

 (useful idiot - useful) = idiot 

Sadly, it looks very much like that one is the photosh*p fake on closer inspection.

Surely a photoshopper would have gone with "whack the board" ... #sopranosloyal :devil:

Like most I remember that day vividly, sitting here in Lisburn, stunned in front of our TV set.

The No Surrender mantra was chanted by many NI civilians as we got up for work next day, sick to the stomach but continued to work in Police stations and Army bases despite the threat of being murdered for doing so.

Sadly Enniskillen was, for my generation, the latest in a long line of horrific terrorist attacks up to that point including the Claudy Massacre, Bloody Friday, the Kings Mills Massacre, La Mon House and Darkley.

The murder of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 is also lodged in my memory along with the death of 4 soldiers in the Lisburn 'Fun Run' bombing of 1988.

Such trauma and adversity seemed to strengthened our resolve.

Forgive me if I appear glib but I think a similar spirit is visible amongst the Rangers support. We appear to be under attack from every direction, and despite our differences the cry is no surrender!

I know D'Art served in the forces and his post stems from a deep understanding of the subject.

Today thanks to people like him I can bimble around Northern Ireland in relative safety, in an imperfect peace but a peace none the less.

All together now...

No Surrender!

...soon i'm going to be a major movie, soon I'm going to be a megastar - Stepaside 1980

That quote is from a song by Dublin Band, Stepaside, that I used to travel to see every week back in the early '80s and it sprang to mind whilst reading that piece.

It sounds as though the Dave King v SARS story could become a major movie without a doubt.

The intrigue of a John le Carré novel combined with the financial propriety of Jarndyce v Jarndyce in the court of Chancery.

The article seems to suggest that there was ultimately no winner, just a war weary truce.

The encouragement I take from this piece is that Dave King seems to have all the nous required to deal with the chicanery that the current board/major shareholders can muster.

Thanks for posting.

Well done GS. Barca play anti-football at a time the papers talk of the Messi Tax Case!

I think your Peralta/Temps permutation would definitely be worth a look but either way we should make this final even if Ally plays me at RB....

Off topic but here is a photo of famous a gangster family.

Too far?

If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain' arises from the story of Muhammad.

And if I am correct the Muhammad referred to in that famous saying was a false prophet who commanded the mountain to come to him as proof of his bona fides. When the mountain did not come he decided to spin it with the quote you mentioned.

Interesting analogy.

Also interesting that the meeting is on Dave King's turf...

Alasdair Lamont @BBCAlLamont

Craig Mather and Brian Stockbridge have been meeting Dave King in South Africa re future of Rangers. More to come soon.

Well now... What can this mean?