Florentine_Pogen

That pic of Liz looks like it dates from around the time of her coronation. 61 years ago. At least they're consistent with their 'living in the past' mindset though.

I asked the same question a few days ago. He left last November apparently. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24779284

Not wishing to detract from the fine video posted by MikeyWellFan above but had to post this pic............ No pies, no bubbly................ ...............and for God's sake, just how sparse is that room ? Looks like they've sold everything that can't be nailed down. Ah, well, it'll be a good week for the Sevcoists.....League 1 title in the bag, TGASL flying in on a Kofi Annan stylee mercy mission, Alastair announcing his intention to stay on for another year...........it's all good down Govan way............ Isn't it ?????????

Would that be Derision 1, Derision 2 or Derision 3 ?

I was KB'd by the feckin' Royal W@nk of Scotland from being Treasurer of the Parent Council at school because my passport was expired. I tried to argue my corner inasmuch as they wanted proof of identity, not whether I could leave the country, but the jobsworth feckwits were not for playing ball..........

Fixed.

Benny, the redtops just adore jizz-guzzlers like you. In actual fact it's called sophistry. Or in Alastair's case, deflection. Deflection from the Orcs who want his head on a spike and deflection to give the Weegie scribblers something to 'write' about. The same scribblers who are also turning against him in order to get on the starting grid for the next game of musical chairs in the boardroom.

........and so modest and self-effacing too.......you'll be a great loss.

Gailes

Correction.

Of course he's not worried. Sevco couldn't afford to fire him. As he is allegedly on a one yearly 'rolling contract' (aye, OK ), my guess is that he'll stay in post until the end of this season and a promotion to the Championpish (assuming nothing goes badly wrong with the admin. event that is ), then he can cite "My work here is done / More time with the family / The pitchfork & torch brigade forced me oot"................ Of course, if the pressure really gets to him after getting beat in the replay against Albion Rovers (oh please God, let it be so), he will be fired immediately but will make a big point of telling the world that he won't demand his contract to be fulfilled as it "could damage the club at this vital time", therefore cementing his status as a "pyoor Ranjurz maaan" and club legend. You heard it here first.

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As Alastair said :- "We deserve another crack at Albion Rovers....."

1. Radio jocks that fucking insist on yacking all the way through the intro to songs and only shut it once the vocals kick in. Being an auld c**t, this annoyance of mine began way back in 70's with that twat Tony Blackburn. Christ, he'd blether on with the most idiotic shite, usually a paean to his wife, and I'd miss the intro to some Lynyrd Skynyrd or John Miles track that had a big intro. These days it's Ken Bruce who should be tarred and feathered for his crimes against intros. He'd talk the arse off a donkey, so he would. 2. Someone a few posts back mentioned noisy eaters...well, aye, that's a PITA but even worse are folk that are heavy handed cutlery users / clanky plate types.....you know, they try to cut a boiled tattie in two and end up almost severing the fucking plate in half with a bang. Also, the 'scrapy gravy' brigade that absofeckinglootely MUST get every atom of gravy off their plate and into their fat faces, taking an eternity of plate-scraping agony to do so........being trapped in a restaurant with one of these guys at the next table is like The Seventh Circle of Hell.......actually happened to me once, I leaned over and in an attempt at levity in order to bring down my blood pressure, I said "Aye, that plate used to have a pattern on it...." Nae sense o' humour, these c***s. 3. Keys / Pocket change jinglers. Usually older guys. They inhabit all the places where a bit of peace and quiet is appreciated, e.g. snooker halls, first tee at the golf course, bowling greens, libraries.......WTF is it with these people ? You've got half a kilo or so of shrapnel in your pocket so the first thing to do is start rattling it around for minutes at a time ? 4. And don't get me started on folk wi' mobiles on the bus.

Roll up. 1872 x 500 = £936,000. Just enough to pay Alastair's wages for a year with enough left over to pay the Laxey interest on £1.5m loan. Cool.

Not in our lifetime, I suspect. Not until Ogilvie, Regan and Cockwomble are exposed and their deeds punished.

That is a very prescient and perspicacious observation sir.

He drools most of the time..................and is a mouth-breather. Odious little man really................

23, 976. Biggest game Sevco have ever been involved in. Stadium less than half full. Disappointing.

You're a bitter, bitter man. Chucky Yorkshireman put money where his mouth was, unlike Sir Walter of Cardigan's flim-flam job. Never forget this. [yt] [/yt]

Heh, heh, he'll not be so smug in the slammer. What's that line from The Shawshank Redemption that the warden says to Dufresne "You'll do the hardest time there is......I'll put you down amongst the sodomites and you'll think you've been fucked by a train.." One can only hope in Carson's case.............

Ha, there would probably be a lot of clubs looking for a new, clean owner then. .......................... and don't expect anything to happen in Scotland when we've got the SFA / SPL being run by Ogilvie, Regan and Cockwomble. Corrupt to a man.

What you are missing is a small band of SevcoMen who, for the most part, have difficulty in expressing themselves lucidly and therefore use the forum as a Speak and Spell / Etch-A-Sketch. You'll get used to it. Keep some eye bleach handy though.

Carson Yeung's murky past exposed but do Birmingham have a better future?As Birmingham City's owner awaits sentencing in a Hong Kong prison cell, his influence is set to remain at St Andrews. The Guardian, Monday 3 March 2014 14.52 GMT Birmingham City's owner Carson Yeung has been found guilty of money laundering and may spend up to seven years behind bars. Photograph: David Jones/PA Carson Yeung was approved by the Premier League as a "fit and proper person" to lead an £81.5m takeover of Birmingham City in 2009, despite an investigation having already begun in Hong Kong into the mystery swirling over how Yeung made his money. Now, after nearly five turbulent, mostly horrible, years for the football club, Yeung has been found guilty of money-laundering in a Hong Kong court, which ruled that HK$720m (£55m) of the fortune he amassed between 2001 and 2007 was the proceeds of crime. After a 53-day trial Yeung, described as a habitual liar by the judge, Douglas Yau, was remanded in custody to await sentencing on Friday, when he could face a maximum prison sentence of seven years. When he made his grand promises of an £80m investment into City after the holding company, Birmingham International Holdings, bought the club from David Sullivan and David Gold, how Yeung had risen to become a man of such means remained a puzzle. Just 10 years earlier he listed his occupation as a hairdresser and in response to questions his representatives in London issued a statement saying, with little additional explanation, that he was a director of two companies –Universal Energy Resources Holdings and Universal Management Consultancy. The prosecution alleged that the £55m of Yeung's fortune had been paid into five different bank accounts from illicit sources including employees of casinos in the Chinese gambling hotbed of Macau. Yeung claimed he had made serious money as a hairdresser to Hong Kong's rich and famous, then accumulated fortunes in share-trading and high-stakes gambling in Macau. Yau found this was untrue, and that there was an "extremely strange" lack of written contracts documenting Yeung's business dealings, even for transactions involving huge amounts of money. "I find the defendant not a witness of truth," the judge said. "I find that he is someone who is prepared to, and did try to, lie whenever he saw the need to do so." Birmingham supporters are desperately hoping that Yeung's conviction will lead to new owners and a more decent future for the club, who were relegated in 2011, the same season they won the League Cup, and have fallen into serious financial difficulties since the arrest of Yeung, who had loaned City £15m. However the club's acting chairman and long-term Yeung associate, Peter Pannu, reacted to the guilty verdict by insisting that the Hong Kong-listed holding company, Birmingham International Holdings, of which Yeung was the chairman until last month, will remain in charge. "I'd like to reassure all supporters and staff that today's verdict will have no impact on the day-to-day operations at the football club," Pannu said in an official statement, expressing "regret" that the club's "former president and benefactor," had been convicted. "Birmingham International Holdings limited … shall continue to support the football club … and will work to raise further investment." This investment, which ultimately depends on approval by the Hong Kong justice authorities which are likely to seek to recover any assets they legally can, proposes Yeung writing off repayment of the £15m the club owes him, and remaining a 28% shareholder. This is below the 30% threshold at which the Football League requires owners to be "fit and proper", free from criminal convictions for dishonesty. So Yeung, who resigned as a club and holding company director last month, could legitimately remain the largest shareholder in Birmingham City while serving time for money-laundering in a Hong Kong prison cell. Pannu, the former Hong Kong policeman turned barrister who arrived at St Andrew's as one of Yeung's main executives in 2009, remains a director of the club, as does Yeung's 20-year-old son Ryan, who lists his occupation as "student", and Shui Cheong Ma, Yeung's brother in law, who joined the board last month, when Yeung resigned. Ever since Yeung was arrested in 2011 and his assets frozen, Pannu, Carson and Ryan Yeung have repeatedly stated that the club itself will not be ensnared by the money-laundering trial and any consequences of Yeung being found guilty. Announcing a £4m loss for the financial year 2012-13 and the club's need for "additional funding" if it is to "continue its operations for at least 12 months", the club's most recent accounts stated: "The directors have not received any information to suggest that any funding provided to BCFC by Carson Yeung ... have any connection with the five charges that he faces. The directors do not have any credible reason to fear that the Hong Kong authorities have any recourse to the loans made to BCFC by Carson Yeung." This confidence will now be tested. The Hong Kong justice authorities are also needed to approve Pannu's efforts to entrench the club's ownership in Hong Kong, with a planned £7m placing of shares and borrowing of £24m by issuing a bond to a company owned by a Chinese property developer, Yang Yue Zhon, who has twice previously loaned money to BIHL. Buried in City's most recent accounts was the startling line about Yeung's £15m loan to the club. "The amounts … were advanced without formal documentation and there are no written terms for interest and the term of repayment." The Hong Kong judge has found a similar lack of documentation for much of Yeung's business dealings, before he arrived to present himself as a mega-wealthy magnate joining other overseas owners attracted to English football's money and glamour. Blues Trust, the supporters' trust, reacted to the guilty verdict by calling for greater involvement in the ownership and expressing hope for a new era. Pannu, though, plans to press ahead with the series of proposed deals which make fan involvement, and a sale of the club by the Hong Kong-registered holding company, still distant prospects. _____________________________________________________________________________________ What's the criteria in Scotland for someone to be a 'fit and proper' person ? P.S. Yeung found guilty and given 6 years. Yet, according to to rules of the English FA, he can still be a major stakeholder in a football club. Three Cheers for Carson !!......... Huzzah ! Huzzah ! Huzzah !

Do you have a hideout inside your hollowed out head ? Are you a snail ? We should be told.