TheScarf Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 'His wealth is off the radar'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 He's a Sevco arse-licking imbecile, that's what he is. No argument here! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Keith Jackson won Sports News Writer of the Year for the fifth time in a row, tonight. What a depressing sentence. Who votes for this, apart from Rangers supporters clubs presumably? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Did someone say Keith Jackson? Ahhh why not Craig Whyte profile: The Scots billionaire on the brink of taking over the club he loves 00:00, 18 NOV 2010 UPDATED 19:01, 1 JUL 2012 BY KEITH JACKSON FINANCIAL whizzkid Craig Whyte stands on the brink of pulling off the biggest deal of his life - and finally bringing the curtain down on one of the longest-running sagas in Scottish football. 552SHARES Craig Whyte started playing the stock market at the age of 15. By the time he left school he had more than £20,000 in his bank account. Today, aged just 39, this financial whizzkid from Motherwell stands on the brink of pulling off the biggest deal of his life - and finally bringing the curtain down on one of the longest-running sagas in Scottish football. Record Sport understands self-made billionaire Whyte has entered into the final stages of negotiations to buy control of the club he loves from Sir David Murray. And he's still one year younger than captain Davie Weir. A deal worth around £30million is now believed to have reached such an advanced stage that sources say Whyte, a high-roller who splits his time between a home in London and the idyllic Castle Grant in Grantown-on-Spey, could even have the keys to Ibrox in time to fund a major refurbishment of Walter Smith's top-team squad in January. The news will delight Rangers supporters who have been fretting over the future of their club ever since Murray first slapped a For Sale sign on the front door of Edmiston Drive around three years ago. As the club's financial health deteriorated to such an extent the banks moved in to control the purse strings, a series of false dawns came and went. First, a consortium headed up by South African-based tycoon Dave King came to the fore only to fail to meet Murray's asking price. Then, in March this year, Londonbased property developer Andrew Ellis emerged as the frontrunner and was granted a period of exclusivity in order to get the deal done. But Ellis, now part of the consortium, did not have the financial clout to back up his bold promises and his bid collapsed, leaving Rangers firmly in the grip of the Lloyds Group. Exiled Glaswegian King was then talked up once more as the possible saviour but he was also engaged in a long-running battle with the tax man and while those issues remained unresolved, he too looked l ike an increasingly unlikely white knight for a club now engulfed by crisis. But yesterday, quite out of the blue, Record Sport learned a new man is at the table and that a deal to end Murray's 22-year reign is ready to be completed. And that man is a relative boy. By the age of 26, Whyte was already Scot land's youngest self-made millionaire. Now, 13 years on, and in charge of a vast business empire, his wealth is off the radar. Whyte is a venture capitalist who has made his millions from playing the markets - a skill he secret ly began honing in his third year at Glasgow's Kelvinside Academy. In one of his few interviews he revealed how he immediately regretted going to the private school - because he despised playing rugby. He said: "I hated the discipline of it. It was a rugby-only school, which I didn't play as I was interested in football.'' Whyte worked weekends for his dad's plant hire firm. And he saved up his wages to fund his habit of gambling on Stock Exchange. It is said that, by the time he left school, he had more cash in his bank than many of his teachers. At 19, he was in charge of his own hire plant. Now he owns his own castle - one of the most historic buildings in Scotland. And very soon he could be adding Rangers to his portfolio. It remains to be seen if Whyte's move to capture the club will f lush any other parties out of the woodwork because - despite their failure to strike a deal with Murray - King and his consortium have yet to throw in the towel on their own ambitions. They had put together a package worth around £18m but this was flatly rejected and Ellis drove the price up when he agreed to pay Murray more than £30m. The club's debt has been reduced by around £10m since then but the selling price remains the same. Now, quite clearly, Whyte believes he will be able to close the deal and the young gun must have said enough to impress Murray, who has stated all along that he will only sell the club to the right people - men with enough money to take the club forward. Who knows? Murray may even regard Whyte as something of a kindred spirit. After all, Murray was himself aged just 37 back in 1988 when he launched a takeover of the Ibrox club. It was the beginning of one of the most successful periods in Rangers' history but Murray's aggressive pursuit of European glory eventually saw him writing the kind of cheques that his club could simply not afford. Now Whyte is bringing his money to the table but it remains to be seen if he will adopt the same scatter-cash approach as the man who has owned the club for the past two decades. But if he brings in even half of the number of trophies Murray delivered then the fans are unlikely to be complaining. Edited to remove the click bait Oooft 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 To be fair to Jackson, he makes no secret of the fact that he'a a massive Rangers fan. These other snakes who hide behind clubs like St Mirren or Motherwell are far worse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 The intro on today's Scotsman match report on St Johnstone pumping Aberdeen last night is remarkable... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve McQueen Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 BBC had Mark Millar scoring our 3rd last night on the sports news. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Both are utterly disgraceful 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Just wait until next season. 4 paras of Rasellick and Ra Gers followed by a sentence on the actual match they are reporting on. Scottish fitba. I got a shitload of replies to that when I tweeted it out-mostly from Celtic fans claiming it shows the media's anti Celtic bias. Wow... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Vhictims IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saintee Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Anyone but Celtic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 The intro on today's Scotsman match report on St Johnstone pumping Aberdeen last night is remarkable... ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1461395538.561866.jpg That's incredible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 That's incredible. I can think of another word for it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Liam McLeod advertising Radio Scotland's coverage of Wednesday's U20 final, Hearts v Jonatan Johansson's Motherwell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Liam McLeod advertising Radio Scotland's coverage of Wednesday's U20 final, Hearts v Jonatan Johansson's Motherwell.Heard that little gem myself. Research is alien to these c***s unless it involves the two cheeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Liam McLeod advertising Radio Scotland's coverage of Wednesday's U20 final, Hearts v Jonatan Johansson's Motherwell. Liam McLeod is almost as bad as Clive Tyldsley for shoe-horning in tenuous references for the sake of the market. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Liam McLeod advertising Radio Scotland's coverage of Wednesday's U20 final, Hearts v Jonatan Johansson's Motherwell. Ooooft! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz FFC Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 The intro on today's Scotsman match report on St Johnstone pumping Aberdeen last night is remarkable... ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1461395538.561866.jpg Guess what school Iain collin went too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 This is a pretty good read about how match reports have morphed from a simple narrative on the game to bloated epics. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/14462582.Hugh_MacDonald__Five_things_I_ve_learned_about_match_reporting_in_Scotland/?ref=twtrec 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 This is a pretty good read about how match reports have morphed from a simple narrative on the game to bloated epics. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/14462582.Hugh_MacDonald__Five_things_I_ve_learned_about_match_reporting_in_Scotland/?ref=twtrec The match report as tactical analysis has made about 50% of match reports unreadable. Partly because it could be unmitigated bollocks and yet still impossible to argue with, unlike, say, a Keith Jacksoj Classic in which the lies and mistakes stick out a mile. Unfortunately this has manifested itself in fans talking like master tacticians too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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