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….
Yogi Bare – John Hughes fascinating autobiography, signed copies available below:
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1 added minutw
Caley break
Onya Celtic
Efe magic at the end ;)
Efe nearly caught out.
FT
Eve fumbling in box
FT Celtic triumphant 6-0
How many subs? One min added
Well played Celtic…
Thanks for the updates Bhoys ….
sounded like a good game..
quickerthantherestcsc
H.H
Fine performance especially at this time of the year. Izzy was flying the whole game
FT
6-0
Impressive show from the Champions.
Good to see Lustig back, quiet but efficient.
bournesouprecipe
11:42 on 27 April, 2014
CUSTARD creams are Britain’s most dangerous biscuits, it was revealed yesterday A study claimed an estimated 25million people in Britain had been injured by biscuits.
Hidden dangers included flying fragments and daredevil dunking in scalding tea. And custard creams were the worst offenders, posing the biggest risk to innocent dunkers.
Around 500 people a year need hospital treatment because of biscuit injuries.
The study by Mindlab found 29 per cent of adults had been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking or trying to fish the remnants from hot tea.
They also found 28 per cent had choked on crumbs and 10 per cent had broken a tooth or filling biting a biccy.
More unusually, three per cent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven per cent were bitten by a pet or “other wild animal” trying to get their biscuit.
One man ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.
Mindlab have now devised a Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation, or B.I.T.E. Custard creams get a risk rating of 5.63.
The study was commissioned by Rocky – which was rated the country’s third riskiest type of biscuit.
Mindlab International director Dr David Lewis said: “We tested the physical properties of 15 popular types of biscuits, along with aspects of their consumption such as dunkability and crumb dispersal.
“Then a mathematician correlated these findings with a nationwide survey of over 1000 adults.”
Mike Driver, of Rocky, said: “Working with biscuits every day, we’d long suspected they’re not as innocent as they look – and we were right.”
OleCQNStories CSC
Hilarious
Can’t remember the last time I laughed so much
Hail Hail
Celtic Sixy Soccer!
Glasgow Cup tomorrow on Celtic TV 7pm
Political polemic may now resume. Knock yersels out.
lambosfrontteeth
16:03 on 27 April, 2014
GG
Yes. He’s my father.
Still reads the Sunday Times Sports section.
LFT
……………………….
I went to St. Pat’s, Coatbridge from 1963-68. I remember your dad and your aunt.
GG, I will do. We must have met then.
DBBIA – tea and cakes definitely on the menu for Wednesday.
LFT
commons goal scorin has dried up dramatically in the last 7 days
sell, sell, sell
Great stuff Celtic.
Travellerbhoy,great stuff
greatstuffCSC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqn3lssizXo&feature=youtu.be
pukki 6-0
Hoopy do
Kris is a Celt forever.
Lft
I doubt it as this was in Dundyvan Road in either 63 or 64.
I was a pup then.
Anyway I’m sure he shaped the character of many a youngster in the class and on the football field.
Couldn’t watch it so many thanks for the updates. Sounds like we were awesome.
H.H.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy,
I forgot that my aunt also taught there.
I come from a family of educators …….. no idea what went wrong.
LFT
Rangers have 142 years of history. They are still the same club. They never died. It’s been reported. Go do your homework.
OK guys I will stop interrupting the debate with football and personal stuff
Hail hail the Celts are ….. Off to lunch
One last football post
MC lead Palace 2-0 at HT
bournesouprecipe
When my daughter was about 2 years old her favourite hymn at Mass, which she belted out with great fervour, was Holy Virgin Buys Custard Creams -!her favourite biscuits.
DixieDeans
We were awsome today! :)))
I would have given Izzy MoM but it’s hard to argue with a hat-trick!
Also liked Efe’s variation on a somersault :-)
Good day at Paradise although not so many here to see it.
How many were there today; it looked a bit sparse on tele
Bet us -2…made up for Fulham doing me yesterday…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
North stand seemed reasonable but overall looked around 30k at best. Godd to have the GB back!
Godd = Good!
Richie, are you still in Aberdeen?
Don’t ya just love it when you get your predictions right
the singing detective demands the resignation of campbell ogilvie
15:00 on 27 April, 2014
My Dear,Dear,Dear Friend…Kojo
Celtic’s Handsomest And Most Erudite Supporter….
[ Surely Runner-Up..After Timbhoy2? ..Ed ]
Will This Be The Day For The Beanie Wi’ The Yellow Propeller Atop….
Spinning Merrily….?
Silky SuperGriff Tae Bag A Double…
Stokes Tae Give Us His Full Repertoire Of Scowls….
*Oh…Don’t-Stop-De-Carnival !*
Congratulations to the Celts today.
Only saw the last half hour,but some scintillating stuff.
Stokes on fire with the arrival of Leigh Griffiths.
Honestly think Griffiths can go on to be a fantastic Celtic player and his work rate is fantastic.
Billy bhoy 05. You said you look forward to getting rid of the unionists in a post I think last night. You said it. We just want you to explain it?