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Has Murray blinked first?; Over TFS
Topic Started: Nov 20 2008, 01:38 PM (209 Views)
Mainser
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ers/7738171.stm

Its a fact, I am no fan of John Reid and this won't change my views BUT credit, where credit is due it seems that he has flushed Murray out at last. Forcing a clear threat and has him clearly rattled.

I am watching with interest the next move!!!!
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melbournebhoy
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not much of a blink
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MB - I have to disagree - to resort to slagging off the other Chairman personally is unprecedented and I think this could well backfire in due course - time will tell of course
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Didn't have to wait long for a reply!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/t...ers/7738171.stm
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"In any case, no one should be under any illusion that in defending the welfare of Celtic and our supporters I will continue to comment when appropriate, without fear or favour."

Good response IMHO
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Nov 20 2008, 05:47 PM
"In any case, no one should be under any illusion that in defending the welfare of Celtic and our supporters I will continue to comment when appropriate, without fear or favour."

Good response IMHO

agreed

tho he's still a fanny! ;)
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GIRFUY Murray, 4IAR you hurting hun turd! :clap: :cheers: :cheer:

Well done John Reid. :clap: :cheer: :tongue.out: :fight:

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"In any case, no one should be under any illusion that in defending the welfare of Celtic and our supporters I will continue to comment when appropriate, without fear or favour.


:bow: :celtic: :huddle:

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Murray said he had always been honest during his tenure at the club and never shirked a challenge since taking over at Ibrox.

"I've endeavoured to be as honest and as decent as possible," he said.


Biggest lie out your hun mouth ya bawfaced prick! :yikes:

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"Hopefully, we can continue to win more trophies together.


Aye you can hope ya big hun fanny. 4IAR! :tongue.out: :tongue.out: :tongue.out:
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defending the welfare of celtic fans indeed!

what a cretin john reid really is.

if anyone can't get the better of murray they should hand in their legs.

he's a pie.
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I just can't see how this amounts to anything more than a couple of lines on the celticfc.net webpage.

For starters, it took Reid an entire month to come out with a statement, and, if I am being honest, I think it was probably more of a reaction to messageboards and the actions of Celtic fans than it was to Scotland's Shame actually coming out with the filth they did that day.

For me, the whole thing has been planted on a plate for him and he has taken it. Still hasn't shown he has the wit to outmanoeuvre a plain paper bag (apologies to all paper bags).

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Wouldn't make a difference to me if he booted Barry Ferguson in the balls. He's still a war-mongering fiend who I don't want anywhere near my club. Pictures of imperial stormtroopers flashed up on screens, the forced wearing of poppies... Anyone who doesn't think Reid is behind all this is deluding themselves.

You can go on about how he's making sure we aren't attacked in the media but I personally couldn't give a toss what the media say about us. They can drag us through the mud all they want. They've done it throughout our entire history and it hasn't affected how anyone outside of Scotland or the OSC sees us. Will it stop us playing football? Are they going to lock the gates? Who are we trying to impress?

They'll continue to do it anyway regardless of how much we pander to them, fact is we'll never win the majority of Scottish people over for reasons we all know. We should stay true to ourselves and our traditions and screw what the Scottish establishment thinks of us.
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Murray is fooling himself if he thinks he can take on someone like Reid and win.

In his whole time as rangers chairman, barring the bunnett, he has had a procession of spineless jellyfish in charge at Celtic, too afraid to take on this bully and his press pack.

Reid is afraid of no-one. Much less a a bigoted, bully used to getting his own way.

Reid is a bulldog and will chew this prick up.

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'he should be very careful with some of the chat."


Or what tin legs??? :rolleyes:

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'Murray said he had always been honest during his tenure at the club'


A hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! :pmsl: :pmsl:


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For me, while I agree with some of Reid's sentiments, imo they're both a couple of self-serving, attention seeking fannies trying to help their own ailing or non-existant popularity in the only way they know possible - through the media.

Just let them get on with it and let's go win the league. :celtic:
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Nov 21 2008, 10:54 AM
Reid is a bulldog and will chew this prick up.


This is true. He knows all about media spin through his time at nu Labour. He'll do the same to any fan or fan association that crosses his path as well.
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Nov 21 2008, 03:36 AM
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Nov 21 2008, 10:54 AM
Reid is a bulldog and will chew this prick up. 


This is true. He knows all about media spin through his time at nu Labour. He'll do the same to any fan or fan association that crosses his path as well.

Reid is a hedgehog, a bit of a prick himself.
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:puke:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chickyoung/2008...led_as_vis.html

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Murray should be hailed as visionary

Chick Young

Ask yourself honestly - if your ship came in would you push the boat out and buy a football club?

It's lunacy. Madness. Financial self-flagellation. Why not just put your £100 notes in a shredder and save a bit of time?

Of course, given the lottery win, I would probably be certified insane in that department just like the rest of the fruitcakes through history who have bled themselves dry over the love affair of the local footballing institution.

We should all be locked up in another kind of institution actually.

It's twenty years since David Murray bought himself a piece of the action. Two decades since his pal Graeme Souness tipped him off that Rangers were up for grabs and that just £6 million would clinch the deal.

It was a shrewd piece of business to persuade Lawrence Marlborough to walk away. You certainly don't get much for £6 million these days.

Of course the running costs can be a little excessive. Murray freely admits to pumping in a further £100m just to keep the club ticking over.

Rangers chairman David Murray

Murray - now Sir David of course - has picked up more than a knighthood along the way. He is an international businessman and Rangers are just a piece of his global jigsaw.

Or "ten per cent of my business, 90 per cent of my grief" as he likes to put it.

I like the man - a heinous crime in the eyes of some observers who see me and various colleagues as his lap dogs. Apparently the canine parallel for interviewers should be Rottweilers.

Over the years he has been accused of much nonsense, including asset stripping - a difficult, never mind illegal, concept given that he actually owns 90 per cent of the club.

At various times he has been lambasted for not spending enough on players or spending too much, highlighted of course by his bête noir when the sorcerer Dick Advocaat wooed him into believing Tore Andre Flo was worth £12 million.

To paraphrase Bill Shankly, ten million wouldn't buy him and I'm one of them.

But then again Murray massaged a deal for Alain Boumsong, a transfer which was to cough profit the likes of which usually only comes with six numbers and a bonus ball.

I cannot, for the life of me, fathom the reluctance of a percentage of the Rangers support to embrace his stewardship of the club.

No chairman has served longer, no other has witnessed such a sustained period of success.

Only in the wake of the Ibrox disaster did the stadium undergo more surgery, but after a century and more he became the first chairman to actually do something about the alarming absence of a training facility worthy of the name.

From the day of my first by-line I preached and recorded the lunacy of both Rangers and Celtic's determination not to have a training ground and youth academy and continue to work their players in various car parks, public pitches and glorified allotments where dog mess was as big a threat to their well being as a straight legged tackle.

Men of vision? In the sixties and seventies there were directors at Ibrox and Parkhead who couldn't have seen their own reflection in the boardroom table.

And think on this: Murray Park cost twice his initial investment in the club.

He blew away a century of signing policy which should have been banished with the slave trade and dragged swathes of the club's support screaming and kicking into the real world.

We still have bigots supporting Rangers, but the club doesn't privately condone them anymore. And for all the Famine Song nonsense, progress has been made in those twenty years.

I came out of the front door at Ibrox when Mo Johnston signed and watched so-called supporters rip up season tickets and burn red, white and blue scarves.

In the days that followed there may even have been Old Firm games with more Catholics in the Rangers team than in Celtic's. Possibly, possibly not, but the point is that few would even bother to work it out.

It doesn't matter...and that is breathtaking progress.

Murray should enjoy his anniversary celebrations. Twenty years is a long time in the job and for sure he won't repeat the shift.

They will miss him when he's gone. Just see if they don't.
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