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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Goal machine Pukki
You are posting comments too quickly please slow down
Celtic are scoring too quickly
DONT SLOW DOWN
Izzy fouled 20 yards out
Izzy tripped on edge of box. FK
KC and VV d lining up
Commons or Virgil to take
SP
LOL
Aye The Pukkster
VVD over bar
Virgil, over
What is Teemu’s goals per minutes ratio?
Virgil slices it well wide after nice set up play from Pukki
VVD shoots wildly after Pukki did a wee shuffle inside box
I like Pukki, hope he stays..
Izzy cross to back post headed away for corner
Celtic not letting up. Corner
0.46783567234
KC cross headed away
Izzy beaten at bye line
Celtic closing down every ball like their lives depended on it
Teemu & Stefan on same wavelength today. Hail HaiL
Pukki really looking up for it
If lft is still around please pass my best regards on
I was one of the guys who helped lay his garage founds
We did it for the tee and cakes
Another Celtic corner after more good work from Izzy
Tea and cakes
Comes to nothing
Celtic haven’t looked like scoring for at least a minute now
Celtic in stroll mode now
I’m meetin’ ole ylurc and lamboft on Wednesday night.
Tea and cakes could well be on the menu.
snake plissken
11:37 on 27 April, 2014
Neg anon 2
I am bullying no one. I come on here every day and read diatribes from you and other about what a rotten little place Scotland is.
I have restrained myself a hell of a lot in recent weeks and I try to keep out of it but when I read daily attacks on the country I was brought up in and still love I am not going to sit and take it I’m afraid.
I’d say it is a fair representation to say when I hear comments like –
One nation
Pathetic wee country
Parochial
Bigoted wee country
Police state
a infinitum
I am seeing posts which reflect hatred of Scotland and Scots.
How would you classify that? Banter?
The Oil is there mate. It’s been reported – go do your own homework.
Hail Hail
We all love the Celtic,
and thats the way we like it!
Celtic now intent on clean sheet
KC cross held by GK
Commons cross held
AS MOTM
Stokes gets MOTM
Henderson fires well over
Henderson high and well off
corner celts
Izzy wins corner