Jim whyte craig whyte interview

Whyte will appear on the pod, 'James English - the anything goes show' in after the New year. We revealed early this week that Whyte was set to reveal all on the "toxic culture" and "sectarian hardcore" at Rangers - by releasing an explosive new book on the anniversary of their administration.

The blurb states: "When Whyte walked through the gates at Ibrox, the club was mired in debt and plagued with a toxic culture which seeped everywhere - from the corridors of power to a sectarian hard core in the stands. Whyte was slated by fans for his part in the club's demise, as it later emerged he was previously banned from being a company director due to failure to produce satisfactory accounts at a previous company.

Recently, Whyte was interviewed by the BBC about his spell at the club. Not only did he say that owning the Gers was the biggest regret of his life, he also revealed that he thought he had done nothing wrong. The supporters were livid, and they took to social media platform Twitter to share their thoughts. Credit: wardstarfc. And they wonder why so many grudge their ridiculous licence fee.

Credit: bbn Credit: petera My take is different from you in that I believe the over-use of comment by jounalists — usually not qualified to a required level to actually comment — has destroyed the impartiality and importance of informed comment. Why does it happen? Comment used to come from newspaper specialists who worked their way up from a news reporter into a speciality where they usually had a personal interest. Sometimes they were placed in a speciality because of the organisational needs of the paper.

They also usually had a wider and often exclusive range of contacts in the field of their speciality so they could look more deeply into an issue and they often had more time to produce their piece. Strangely enough, in Scotland there is quite a large corps of excellent, real hard-news presenters there especially among the females.

The biggest killer for jounalism as a profession is the ecomomics of the industry where cost factors mean that more and more pages are filled with free PR copy designed to promote specific interests which the readers is often unaware of. I weep for a style journalism which seems wedded to this course. Especially, when one looks outwards to the International scene where journalists are imprisoned, tortured, injured, killed and even murdered for various reasons by various regimes and interest groups with the sole aim of preventing the TRUTH being revealed.

As you say we should be looking for the TRUTH, which will often require more than one source to verify, and there can be many sides to a story. The media here seem content to give individuals a platform for publicity and feeding duff gen to a gullible audience.

Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple. Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. How do they keep their nuckledragging supporters and buyers of their rags believing that they sev-cogers are still just as important and as good as their main rivals Celtic. One way is to keep prodding Green and McCoist for quotes about bigotry and finance and titles not being stripped etc, etc,. What a prospect indeed. If anything should make people who aspire knowledge and facts about the world and football in particular, see sense and give up pretending that they are reading facts by buying these chip-wrapping rags then this should do it.

They the Record and the Sun especially are the dodo birds of the communication age. I really fear for the level that future Green comments will reach and the potential violence that could be created. I had high hopes that the decent silent majority of the Ibrox support would use the time moving through the lower leagues to create a club ethos not solely driven by hatred but one of pride in honestly won footballing achievements.

And this is a guy who only a few weeks ago was bleating about having to move from safe house to safe house to avoid the wrath of a section of the Ibrox support. Now there was once a king who was absolutely insane about new clothes and one day, two swindlers came to sell him what they said was a magic suit of clothes.

Look at the cut, the style, the line! These eyes of mine at once determined The sleeves are velvet, the cape is ermine The hose are blue and the doublet is a lovely shade of green. Somebody send for the Queen. Now Saturday came and the streets were just lined with thousands, and thousands, and thousands of people, and they all were cheering as the artillery came by, the infantry marched by, the cavalry galloped by. And everybody was cheering like mad, except one little boy.

Well, as the King came by the little boy looked and, horrified, said:. Look at the the King! Look at the King, the King, the King! Mr Ernesider sir, you are not the first to make this comparison mate… Generally spot on though. It was nothing to do with their general arrogance and the cherry on top of the pie Mick when they went to court to question the rules after breaking many rules for years.

Not gonna mention the 2 or 3 choice songs I heard having watched the first half of the game, I suppose with such a large support the police could not isolate the perpretrators, maybe they were all hiding behind the hedge..

Just a small note, as I said i watched the first half and spotted on 2 occasions a police officer filming the game.. Anyone else notice that? At first i thought it was for crowd control but they were actually filming the play… WTF! Yes Mick. The one and only. A truly unbroken cicrle of hate and bigotry in Green I see something oft displayed by converts to any religion.

I assume he means barred from European competition for not having 3 yrs audited books? His company is a month old, even adding the oldco piece he still cannot suffice the UEFA accounts requirement. Vague statements can work both ways CG at the end of the day no-one EXCEPT those supporting the ibrox club will need to do anything to harm and inevitably kill the club.

You are well on your way to doing a very fine job of that yourself. I had it in the back of my head there may also be a club in the Americas they owe. See pasted below. However you may be right if you read what the dillusional one slavers here.. Sounds like he is expection wealth off the radar now he has the ranger rank and file liking him..

Simple enough question, what is the payment schedule and are there any dependencies on these payments ie, who get the jelavic money. When is he gonna pay the SFA fine, the one he and Ally mentions frequently.. CG takes his cat to the vet. What a plonker. This is the site where a helluva lot of very recently registered posters think Mr Green is wonderful.

God knows what the people staffing the call centre makes of all the rather strange references to colours and historical skirmishes long past. Certainly they will learn nothing of football or a wider world.

The point of including the un-named UEFA official in the sentence is to give the implied complaint some apparent official support. But neither the complaint nor the support are ever actually stated. You are totally correct about weighing his words — he is well illustrating the devious operator who appears to make stupid, untrue or contradictory statement but later you spot what part of the tapestry they belong in.

I was going to say jigsaw but that tends to be more fixed in nature whereas a tapestry is a work in motion which can be unpicked and rewoven to suit changing circumstances or history. As to the call for action I was hoping that it might cause a passing journo to salivate and actually think there might be a story there as indeed I believe there is.

On the UEFA point, incidentally, not sure I see anything wrong with a UEFA official meeting with the lead representative of a group of investors looking to put a lot of money into a major club in one of the member countries solely on the basis of an exchange of information.

I met Craig Whyte for dinner in London many many years ago. We were in the company of another two gentlemen, one of whom is sadly no longer with us, and the owner of the establishment we were dining in.

When I saw well known newspapers describing him as the owners of amongst other things The Braehead Shopping Centre I was incredulous— as I simply knew that to be totally and utterly untrue. When he stated he was confodent of a victory or successive deals with HMRC there was astonishment— as given that I deal with HMRC quite a lot I wondered if they were using different rules for my clients than they were using with Mr Whyte!

However, when it all unravelled that he did not own Braehead, had various different companies that just sounded similar to well known and very successful companies, had funded the whole thing with ticketus funds from advance season ticket sales, had not paid tax on an ongoing basis and so on— there was a sigh of relief as I had started to wonder if I was loosing my marbles because I genyinely believed and knew that none of this could in fact be true— unless there was indeed a parallel universe out there somewhere.

What I am left with is the sense of utter bewilderment as to how the press could so easily go down the gullible tunnel and carry on all the ay through. This extended into the darlkest and murkiest depths of that tunnel where any kind of light was so faint as to be virtually extinguished. Since that date, the debts of Rangers PLC have not gotten any larger other than interest and the financial climate which Rangers PLC found themselves in has not changed one iota.

What did prove to be the case was that there was no deal with HMRC which would save Rangers from Administration or Liquidation- the truth being that HMRC stuck to their well published public policy and ultimately stated that they could not accept any CVA as it hampered their ability to pursue any enquiry into why the company failed and the individuals who brought it to failure— and there were no megamillion pound offers for the club, and no Rangers minded people willing to take the risk of backing the FTT argument presented on behalf of Rangers PLC with cash and offering to pay anything other than the merest fraction of the money due to creditors.

To be fair, James Traynor has said for some time that he feared Liquidation was more likely— then Dave King said it was inevitable— and finally HMRC announced it was a reality. No doubt he could have solved all the difficulties of Rangers PLC from the loose change that he had just lying around up at Castle Grant— where he appears to spend absolutely no time whatsoever for some reason!!!! Now- I wonder why?

Celtic and SevGers. I would think that SevGers might need to deal with unfinished small-cap market business before moving on to the AIM. I wonder if Whyte ever paid the fine to small-caps — could be another wedge of cash newco MkIII will need to cough-up.

That will never happen unless they are being left with a hollowed-out shell of a company that cannot survive. The speed with which he is moving and the risks he is taking with the bigotry card shows the enormous financial pressure he is under.

But in spite of it all the disdain he shows for ordinary businesspeople and punters — who pay their taxes even in these difficult times — is absolutely breathtaking. Debt free indeed — how many people have been laid off by businesses plundered and ruined by the oldco.