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Topic: Fergus McCann

	Observer \| Celtic, the house that McCann built
		McCann's qualities also made him a serious amount of money, his original £9 million investment making five times that amount when, as promised, he sold up at the end of his five-year scheme.
		McCann never tried to conceal his intention to capitalise, claiming from the moment of accession that he expected a healthy return.
		But to mention McCann in the same breath as Stein, far less to argue that he was more important to the club (as opposed to the team) is, to a substantial number, to commit sacrilege.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4869524-102283,00.html (731 words)

	:: Keep-The-Faith :: Its A Grand Old Site To Surf For
		And Fergus McCann did precisely what he said he'd do — the Ronseal Man. Fergus came, he rescued us from financial apocalypse, he helped facilitate the building of the new Celtic Park and he gave us the opportunity to buy into the dream - ownership of the Club via the 1995 Share Issue.
		Instead Fergus McCann is reportedly returning to Scotland for the unveiling of the Brother Walfrid statue on November 5 th.
		Fergus was strolling around the perimeter of the pitch at Celtic Park, as he did most days for his constitutional.
	www.keep-the-faith.net /20051028/story4.html (418 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Scotland: News - McCann breaks silence over Celtic
		Fergus McCann emerged from his self-imposed exile to issue a thinly-veiled warning to his Parkhead detractors.
		McCann claimed: 'At the time I left my position at Celtic I decided to give no interviews, engage in no long goodbyes or make any public comment on club matters other than in connection with the disposal of my controlling interest.
		McCann denied newspaper reports from di Canio alleging he was the victim of broken verbal promises prior to his departure.
	www.soccernet.com /scotland/news/2000/1003/20001003cfcmccann.html (423 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Robinson can't hold a candle to McCann and Mercer
		Mr Robinson cites Fergus McCann, Wallace Mercer and Jim Farry as figures who were vilified when they held positions of influence in football and that it is only now they are remembered fondly.
		I should remind Mr Robinson that in the case of Fergus McCann, he came along when the board of Celtic were hell bent on moving from their spiritual home of Parkhead to a site in Cambuslang.
		Fergus left Celtic in a far healthier financial position than when he had taken over the reins at the club and he deservedly departed with a healthy profit on his investment.
	sport.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=440202004 (978 words)

	BBC News \| Scottish Premier \| Kerr's Ceaucescu jibe at McCann
		Kerr, part of the Kenny Dalglish-led consortium snubbed whose takeover was snubbed by McCann, said that while the former chief may have built a fine stadium at Parkhead, the club had become soccer "also- rans".
		Kerr, who was interviewed on the Lesley Riddoch show on BBC Radio Scotland, savaged McCann and said the club was in the same parlous state on the pitch as when he arrived, evidenced by its failure to stop Rangers lifting the Scottish Premier League title last week.
		McCann has now left the country but the sale of his 51% holding is set to take place this summer, with his advisers told to make shares available to a broad base of existing shareholders and supporters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/football/scottish_premier/341197.stm (449 words)

	McCann and di Canio settle case - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		FORMER Celtic chief executive Fergus McCann and the Italian footballer Paolo di Canio have settled a legal dispute over comments made in the player's book.
		Mr McCann launched an action in 2000 against the ex-Celtic striker over the Italian's allegations that he had broken his word.
		Details of the settlement are not being made public, although it is understood that Mr McCann accepted a five-figure sum.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5026694.shtml (323 words)

	Singer & Friedlander Football Review 1999-00 Season
		Not surprisingly McCann was greeted by most supporters as a hero; here was a self-made millionaire who also passed the supporter test, having previously been a member of the Croy Celtic Supporters' Club in the 1960s before emigrating to Canada.
		Fergus McCann arrived at Celtic in 1994 with a five-year plan, at the end of which he undertook to sell his shareholding in the club and return to Bermuda.
		McCann's proposal was interesting, because it was the first time in the new business of football that individual supporters had been offered the opportunity to own such a substantial shareholding of a club in their own right.
	www.le.ac.uk /crss/sf-review/99-00/00article5.html (1521 words)

	Views
		So, Mr McCann called their bluff and used the emotive issue of charity to the Yorkhill children's hospital, to aid him in doing this.
		McCann put his money into the club when it was considered by many serious financial commentators (not Gerry McNee) to be too high a risk.
		Worse than that, he tries to appeal to shareholders that their loss under McCann is enormous now that the share price has fallen since it peaked.
	website.lineone.net /~pgarvey/celtic/New/celts/views.htm (1893 words)

	Look after the bucks and leave team to manager - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		McCann will return to Parkhead this weekend for only the second time since selling up his shares for £40 million and quitting Scotland six years ago.
		Fergus stressed: "It is fair for a club chairman to expect a manager to have done his homework on a player and to justify his reasons for signing him.
		McCann, of course, came in for severe criticism himself from many Celtic fans when Wim Jansen quit immediately after steering the Parkhead club to the League Championship in 1998.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /hi/sport/6022000.html (452 words)

	Football news, live scores, fixtures and results from 4thegame.com
		Chairman Fergus McCann has insisted that Paolo Di Canio would not be leaving Celtic for the time being after fining the Italian star £25,000 for his latest public outburst against the Scottish club.
		McCann in turn responded by suspending Di Canio for a fortnight without pay thought to be worth around £25,000 and refusing him to play against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin tomorrow in Pat Bonner's testimonial.
		McCann said efforts were "progressing" to fill the general manager and first team coach positions made vacant after the departure of boss Tommy Burns a fortnight ago.
	www.4thegame.com /news/story/22116 (784 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| McCann to sue di Canio over claims in book
		FORMER Celtic chief executive Fergus McCann is suing Paolo di Canio over comments made by the West Ham striker in a new book.
		McCann, who now lives in the United States, claims that both di Canio and Dutch striker Pierre van Hooijdonk had made false statements about their time at Celtic.
		McCann has instructed his solicitors to commence legal proceedings and also threatened to sue the publishers and the Sunday newspaper which has published an extract from di Canio's book in which the Italian claims that McCann broke his word.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2000/10/07/sfnrup07.xml (511 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Not your father's magic bus
		Fergus McCann, a Scottish-American entrepreneur, is betting almost $2 million of his own fortune that his fledgling LimoLiner bus service, offering four round trips a day to New York, will lure travelers away from the pricey air shuttle and the sometimes erratic Amtrak rail service.
		McCann said his company should turn a profit if it can survive for a year and a half and capture 3 percent of the travelers who now opt for his competition.
		To get the word out, McCann, along with a driver, a technician familiar with LimoLiner's gadgets, and a PR consultant have been showing off the bus in private meetings with local executives, including a meeting with some from TJX Co., and at public events.
	www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2003/09/12/not_your_fathers_magic_bus (1012 words)

	THE E-TIMS - DAYS GONE BY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There had been one of the most successful share issues in football history that had given the ordinary supporter a say in the running of the club for the first time since limited company status was embraced at the end of the 19th Century.
		An act borne of a misunderstanding of the strength of his position, the personality of Fergus McCann, the behaviour of the press and last but by now means least the appropriateness of his timing.
		Burns may have thought that the cup win had strengthened his position enough to take on McCann and to bust wide the tight spending controls, but all that he achieved was a tainting of the cup win and an early ending to the celebrations.
	www.etims.net /renton/bunnet-2.html (516 words)

	Soccer News, November 11, 1998
		The idea is for Dalglish, who intends to invest in the club himself, not only to take on a role as shareholder/owner but to also have a major interest on the footballing side, with a manager or coach being brought in under him.
		The move was welcomed by a supporters' group opposed to McCann, especially because a large amount of money — believed to be well over £10 million — would be promised for new transfers.
		But there is no certainty that McCann, who joined Celtic in 1994 with a five-year plan to transform the club and has indicated that he is prepared to leave at the end of that period in March next year, will accept the consortium's likely bid.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1998/11/11/phead.htm (3932 words)

	Citizen McCann - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glasgow businessman Dempsey – who, along with McCann and financer David Low, was among those most instrumental for ending the dynasty of the Kellys, Whites and Grants at Celtic – is scathing in his view of McCann’s methods.
		Dempsey says he fell out with McCann for this reason, but those who speak for the former managing director say it was because Dempsey couldn’t, or wouldn’t, put up the £1m he had pledged at the time of the takeover.
		“Fergus was the only one who was prepared to address the debt, the poor stadium, the weak team and everything else that surrounded Celtic at that time.
	www.sundayherald.com /40284 (2547 words)

	McCann gives red card to Celtic takeover talk
		CELTIC chairman and managing director Fergus McCann has scotched takeover speculation by declaring that he will not sell his controlling stake in the club for at least two years.
		Mr McCann, who has 51pc of Celtic shares, made his statement as the club confirmed personnel changes, including the departure of manager Tommy Burns who rejected an offer to mastermind a youth development programme.
		Mr McCann, born in Stirling, qualified as a chartered accountant before moving to Canada in 1963 and made his fortune by founding an international golf travel business which he sold in 1986 to Michael Ashcroft's ADT.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/05/07/celt07.html (353 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The letter to the Irish Bhoys is just the latest in Fergus McCann's campaign to sanitise the image of the club in order to make it eligible for grants from the public purse and "investment friendly" to large corporations.
		Fergus will probably try to tell us that it's all part of his fight against bigotry.
		Fergus McCann must be held responsible by us, the fans, for the current crisis at Celtic.
	www.tomathon.com /RF/TAL17.3.html (423 words)

	Glasgow Celtic at eleven-a-side.com, the home of Irish soccer
		Canadian-based supporter Fergus McCann steps in to save the club from ruination and in the process ousts a board of directors which included members with long family connections with Celtic.
		Part of Fergus McCann's five year plan is the reconstruction of Celtic Park and, thus, Celtic proceed to play their 'home' matches at Hampden Park.
		Meanwhile, Fergus McCann takes his leave as he concludes his five year stint at the club.
	www.eleven-a-side.com /celtic/history.asp (1717 words)

	[No title]
		About Fergus McCann The LimoLiner is the brainchild of Fergus McCann, an experienced business entrepreneur and visionary.
		He is also a former chairman and majority shareholder of the renowned Celtic Football Club in Scotland, where he rescued the club from bankruptcy, grew revenues from $12 million to $48 million annually and increased the market value of the organization from zero to $200 million in five years on the London Stock Exchange.
		McCann created the LimoLiner after logging millions of miles on his frequent trips around the globe.
	www.limoliner.com /documents/LimoLinerlaunchesservice.doc (562 words)

	THE E-TIMS - DAYS GONE BY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Following the events of the first week in March which saw Fergus McCann seize control of the club he once supported, many supporters felt, somewhat over-optimistically it must be said, that instant success would follow on the pitch.
		Such was the mess McCann inherited, the early weeks of his tenure were spent dealing with urgent administrative tasks such as sorting out just where Celtic would play their fixtures the following season.
		Perhaps that was natural given that a new regime was now in place at Boardroom level, but Macari's tactical bungling, his insistence on starting many players out of position, and his failure to move north to Glasgow, were also major factors in doubts being expressed about his ongoing suitability for the role of manager.
	www.etims.net /renton/1993-9.html (438 words)

	CFCCeltic - Celtic Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In March, expatriate businessman and Celtic supporter Fergus McCann takes control of a financially-strained club, in the process ousting a board of directors which included members with long family connections with Celtic.
		Later that same year, in accordance with Fergus McCann's Five-Year Plan, the club is reconstituted as a plc, a development quickly followed by the most successful share-issue in the history of British football with 10,000 taking up the offer of investing a minimum of ?620, thus contributing ?14 million towards the re-financing of the club.
		Celtic play home fixtures at Hampden Park during season 1994/95, while Celtic Park is undergoing the first phase of a reconstruction, leading to the development of a stadium for the new Millennium, capable of holding 60,500 spectators in all-seated comfort.
	www.freewebs.com /cfcceltic/ifyouknow.htm (1652 words)

	The Scotsman - Sport - Hibs cannot afford to be parochial
		DURING the five years he spent transforming Celtic from ragamuffins to aristocrats, Fergus McCann frequently gave the impression that his deepest wish would be to find a way of running the football club without a team manager.
		Given the differences in the academic and working backgrounds of McCann and the average manager, it is not difficult to see why.
		McCann is no longer troubled by these things, but, if he were made aware of the present situation at Easter Road, he would doubtless have sympathy for the directors of Hibernian as they begin their search for a successor to Bobby Williamson.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=452072004 (820 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Soccer: McCann ends his silence
		Former Celtic chief executive Fergus McCann has ended the silence he has maintained since leaving the club by releasing a statement, which takes a swipe at certain club members who, since he left, have been critical of the way he did his job.
		The statement read, "I have had my family's privacy invaded and have had them endure false and damaging attacks on my reputation in the form of articles, interviews and other publications by various individuals connected with, or claiming to be supportive of Celtic.
		Celtic have since reacted to McCann's statement, acknowledging the work he did while at the club and pointing out an August company report by chairman Brian Quinn, which says that McCann was part of the rebirth of Celtic and that he was also part of Celtic's history.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2000/1002/soccer66.html (265 words)

	BBC SPORT \| SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP \| Celtic chief denies quit claims
		Celtic chief executive, Allan MacDonald, has rejected rumours that he is set to quit over Fergus McCann's reluctance to bring in Hoops legend Kenny Dalglish as technical director.
		And MacDonald was reported to be unhappy at McCann's reluctance to allow Dalglish to return to the club with which he made his name in any capacity.
		MacDonald will not replace McCann fully until July 1, as he still has commitments to British Aerospace, but McCann left the country last month to avoid a massive tax bill.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/909922.stm (325 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Sport - Romanov dynasty plans to rule with an iron fist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Still, it was good to see Fergus McCann at Celtic Park again, visiting the stadium built by his efforts to unveil a statue of the club founder Brother Walfrid.
		In the aftermath, McCann said he would have dispensed with the coach anyway because he was not committed to working within exactly the sort of general manager/head coach structure Romanov is intent on introducing at Tynecastle.
		In part, Jansen's relationship with McCann broke down because the Dutchman took umbrage at being asked to grade his squad members from A to E, a move designed to allow the club to assess each player's importance.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=2201892005 (2007 words)

	LimoLiner - About LimoLiner - Quality Travel Time Between New York and Boston. Compare to Amtrak Acela and shuttle ...
		LimoLiner is the brainchild of owner Fergus McCann, a highly successful businessman who made his first fortune in the international travel business.
		After logging more frequent flyer miles around the world than he cares to remember, McCann decided that there had to be a better way to travel short distances, of say, 200 miles, than going by plane.
		For over a year McCann searched for the right route and the right vehicle to bring this concept to the States.
	www.limoliner.com /footer/about.html (251 words)

	BBC: Keep Celtic alive and kicking: Kerr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The move is designed to prevent a single individual or consortium taking control and this could be a stumbling block for the Jim Kerr-backed consortium.
		Dempsey, a property developer with interests in the US and Caribbean, has insisted he does not want to take over Celtic, but merely to hold McCann to his five-year-old promise to redistribute his shares among Celtic fans and shareholders when he leaves the club.
		It would be advantageous if Mr McCann spelt out clearly what his intentions are for the eventual handover.
	www.u2world.com /news/article.php3?id_article=713 (479 words)

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