It’s not like we didn’t warn them. Charles Green, with his ‘blame it on bigotry’ and ‘Rangersitis’ nonsense was an even more transparent charlatan than wee Craig Whyte. Green moved in, fed them the nonsense they were oh so willing to swallow, and made off with their millions. All carried out in broad daylight.
The financial realities were self-evident from day one of Newco’s existence. For a while you had to wonder if any of vast number of fans, journalists and fan-journalists with computers had a spreadsheet between them. But, a more powerful force than Rangersitis had taken hold – vanity. The kind of vanity only those afflicted by a notion of supremacy are susceptible to.
Their club was liquidated, a newco was formed. It adopted Rangers’ name while the original club was still an SFA member (and granting permission for their players to turn out for was for the time known as ‘Sevco Scotland’.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. This isn’t an easy pill to swallow. Around these parts people invest the kind of sentiment in their football team which goes into nationalism elsewhere, occasionally causing wars. It’s a primitive but natural part of all of us, so perhaps we should have been more respectful of the feelings of others at the time. Cough.
If someone was able to chart the world’s Cognitive Dissonance harvest it would have been off the chart for the last two years, brought about when a degrading reality met a supremacists vanity. The subsequent scarcity of Armageddon (biff), Celtic’s flourishing Champions League action (bang), the new New Firm (whallop) were all late blows which none of the Jokers at Ibrox anticipated. Even Kilmarnock managed to sort themselves out without collapsing into administration.
Without the ability to accept credit or debit cards, or with the bank’s authority to allow fans to automatically renew season tickets, the signs are written as tall as Ibrox’ Club Deck. I can’t see more than a few thousand being prepared to throw their money into a landfill site.
Season ticket renewal deadline has been moved to a week before when next month’s wages are due. Right now the directors have a reasonable aspiration that tens of thousands of fans will renew but on 17 May, the day after the deadline, reality should crystallise. If there was a spread bet available, I’d put my money on administration in the days to follow.
Money talks, it don’t sing and dance and it don’t do walking away….
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Ernie Lynch
Lies and rubbish.
Maybe you are Ian Smart.
It smears EVERYONE in Scotland, not just nationalists which is what he did AND it was backed up by Jack McConnell.
No surprise it fits your narrow world view.
Pfayr
I don’t read Ernie’s posts so I don’t know what you’re on about. Sorry
To all the political lads: Celtic are playing !
Izzy easily dispossess and then puts panic into central defence
VVD then gives it away
The Wall saves
McKay finding out how Messi feels when he plays against The Wall…
Stoksie for player of the year,
And postal people are workers of the year, vote no for independence yeeeesssssssssss! C’mon the posties.
SNP= Tories hiding behind a saltire.
some scrappy play at the back
Izzy staring to think of the WC?
;o)
PFAyr
Sorry bud, the Snecky won’t score today.
BCW 16.17 – GOOD SHOUT MATE!!!
CM fouled as he pushed thru
Billy bhoy 05
It’s obvious mate …you’ve made a dreadfully stupid comment which you can’t explain away without embarrassment
Go on read back
KC wriggles thru
Fouled and felled BUT pen refused
Ridiculous
DD
Put the bet on forgetting that our right backs were back
I reckoned a pen was my only shout
ICT shot left by FF as it scrapes far post
Snake Plissken
16:15 on 27 April, 2014
Smart explained the tweet at the time ( about a year ago).
He, and his views, are well enough known in Scotland for it to be obvious he used the word he did to emphasise his point.
A bit like this. A smart ass LA Jew singing about niggers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGw_vAnqPI
AS into box cut back knocked behind for corner
Izzy cross headed away
Ok Ernie
So why did he delete them?
Because he was trying to smear.
That simple.
AS off bar
VVD off post
Billy Bhoy 05
16:16 on 27 April, 2014
You’re a coward.
Snake I agree that’s a disgrace. But that doesn’t mean all no voters think like that.
Billy bhoy I asked you the same question. You said you looked forward to ridding Scotland of unionists after independence?
Well how have we not made it 4?
Widwurk playing a blinder for ICT.
PFAyr
Its aw Celtic shoulda been 4 there.
Back to our favourite substitution
Great flick LG to KC who gets outnumbered
John O’Neil
16:07 on
27 April, 2014
Ernie,
Far right and left. Both are odious. Both are oh so similar.
So how come you only keep banging on about the left?…do tell us some of the odious acts of the right you disagree with…you even had to bother Yogi with a question about what it was like to play behind the Iron Curtain, like you were expecting him to tell you how ghastly those evil communists were and how they all ate their babies.
Better still, don’t tell us so we can try to follow the game…
4-0 LG
4-0 LG
Let’s boo AS and LG.
Booooooooooooo!
Lustig on for Matthews
Class finish
He can hit a baw that Griffiths..
Just keep him out of the pubs.
AS laid it on a plate and LG slotted it into far corner.
No fuss
And away from a mike
Great finish Leigh. 200 pound for 4-0 yeehaaa!!