You and I have been in some dark places. While we remember winning nine-in-a-row by brilliant scouting, tactics and athletic endeavour, we also remember when that proud achievement was violated in 1997 by a considerably less wholesome achievement.
At the end of season 1995-96 Celtic finished second but lost only one game. I convinced myself that our world was about to be put right. Tommy Burns’ team would go one step further and win the league in 1997; it had to happen.
It didn’t.
Today I don’t want to talk about the reasons why we didn’t win the league in 1997, we will discuss that in the weeks ahead, but that season taught us the lesson that simply wanting something to happen doesn’t make it likely.
I thought of those dark days yesterday when I hear Ally McCoist’s rallying call:
“We’re going to march right through it
“I’m as positive today as I have been in a long time.
“This institution has been around for 140 years and I want it to be here for another 140 years.
“You’ll see what Rangers mean to so many people. We are really looking forward to the game.
“We have the best fans in the world.
McCoist loves his club the same way his good friend Tommy Burns loved his, but irrespective of the challenge he faces in the league from Neil Lennon’s awesome team, there is nothing McCoist can do to ensure his club survives until the end of the season.
When you’re on the wrong end of history there is nothing you can do about it.
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Good morning from sunny but frosty Birmingham. Just wanted to give a Hail Hail to MWD, CRC and BT for the enjoyable evening last Wednesday night while I was in Glasgow. Always a pleasure to be in the company of gentlemen.
I love all this clamberin’ to implicate everyone else…. and clype this one, and that one into the cops…as if to say, it’s no me, “how very dare they!”
well they enjoyed themselves ‘royally’ as they romped home to tainted title after tainted title……….
Smokescreen.
Need to keep focus on the real issues and real culprits.
HH
Swansea Bhoy
dare I say that piece from Andy Kerr is a fine piece of work?
Lads
Scanning back through the posts I amazed at the amount of posters that think Rangers “will get out of this”
I think you are over estimating the influence of Rangers and their Orange/Mason/Establishment friends
All these Newspaper articles”we will stand together,we will emerge stronger/we dont do walkin away/celtic need us” etc
Its Hitler in the Bunker telling his generals to attack the russians who surround Berlin with divisions of troops that didnt exist
Its fantasy,Rangers as we know them will not survive.
The best they can hope for is a much weakened club starting life in a lower division and paying lower division wages
They are well and truly up the swanee
Dearie me, Waddell is really hurting this morning in his Mason column.
Maybe it’s just me but when did PL say he wanted them wiped out? I thought he said we had a business model where we could stand alone and did not necessarily need them? Not quite the same thing.
Such a typical lazy piece of Scottish football tabloid journalism,
Now me? I would stand on their throats and not move my shoe until the last breath had expired but I am not a columnist, just a Celtic fan.
roy croppie@11:07
which ones?
HH
Kayal33 says:
19 February, 2012 at 11:06
I think you’ll see Salmond keeping his mouth shut in future after sticking his foot in it during the week and why would Cameron give a tinkers curse about the huns??
SP
The statement of Andy Kerr to Rangers supporters shows that there ARE decent & right thinking Ibrox men.
Sure they are small minority, but they exist.
All of us know decent guys who are Rangers men but whom we would trust with our lives.
Rangers may become the club we would like them to be if they are forced to start at the bottom & work their way HONESTLY back to the SPL.
We should not be the mirror image of the stereotypical hating Hun.
If they can take their due punishment & learn from their smameful past then, for the sake of that decent minority, I wish them well.
Maybe what is currently happening could be a watershed for the game in Scotland.
We should try not to hate as they do.
Tom English SoS
“Old favourites re-emerged when Killie were running amok.
They sang of f***n b*****s
not just in small clusters but in vast numbers and
with carefree abandon”
They tried to postpone reality for 90 mns yesterday with the usual triumphalism and ignorance and all they got was a perfect view of the future. Unable to cheat, punished and on a ‘level’ playing field, mediocrity is their consequence.
We’ll see what size of crowd they get when you have to pay cash to get into the Big Hoose!
Kilbowie Kelt
Hear hear. Or is it here here? Never quite sure!
ernie lynch – Fortunately HMRC is a UK organisation.
They won’t be influenced by the huns position in Scottish society.
Yes, can you imagine what sort of cozy backroom deals would be happening right now if Scotland wasn’t part of the United Kingdom?
I don’t believe our Prime Minister David Cameron has any intention of offering the huns more than sympathetic noises.
I do believe the First Minister Alex Salmond would do something to save this part of “the fabric of the Scottish nation” if he had the power.
Just as Alex Salmond and the SNP recently railroaded through the grotesque Offensive Communications Act to “even things up” against Celtic supporters by criminalising them for things that weren’t previously illegal.
Just as Alex Salmond’s SNP government collaborated in the destruction of embarrassing statistics on anti-Catholic sectarian crimes and point-blank refuse to re-collate them.
Thank God Scotland is part of the United Kingdom, otherwise it would be a more clammy, claustrophobic, and corrupt place than it is now.
I trust Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will continue in their vital mission to recover taxpayers’ money from dodgy businessmen and deadbeat institutions. (thumbsup)
Barrach
Sos, Sunday Herald, The Independent and The Guardian so far!
HMRC will allow RFC to pay up their £49m debt over a number of years to prevent the club going out of business, according to government sources. (The Times)
hamiltontim says:
19 February, 2012 at 10:04
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Saw your post last night about Ice Cream and your view on Equis, it is not bad but not a patch on Coias Ice Cream from their shop on Duke St.
if you have not tried it well worth the effort, hope I dont start an Ice Cream debate!!!!
Any Ice Cream and Jelly will do at the moment well at least until lent next week.
Morning All,
just sent the following email,
Dear BBC,
I understand that your budget only allows you to employ amateurs to cover SPL matches but it still beggars belief that you can’t update the SPL table.
Rangers FC were deducted points on Tuesday and now have 51 points. You may want to look into how your “team” have missed this.
Regards
Hail Hail
roy croppie
Cheers for that.
Off to email my MSP and Kim Jung Eck etc.
HH
Good morning friends from a very dry, bright and bathed-in-sunshine East Kilbride.
Jobo
Go Go Gadget Thumbs (thumbs up)
jungle-ed
I complained last night through the BBC website.
Oh the huns they are a hurtin!
Says it all:
http://www.scotsman.com/webimage/1.2125249.1329609090!image/465065149.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_595/465065149.jpg
They won’t be missed.
SoS
Broken RFC crest.
“It was grim, oh so grim”
Bring Me The Heid of Thunder Crap Reid
The question is, will they “follow” them to Division Three?
:-)
up_over_goal,
Do they actually say £49m? The spin has been that HMRC will not close them but the media are not printing or stating that they wont close them for £9m.
If the Times say that HMRC are negotiating a deal to keep them open over the £49m then this means Rangers are guilty of cheating. They may not suffer complete death but they should have those titles removed.
I cannot see anyone with an interest in a Rangers that will owe ticketus and have a set of triumphalist fans who won’t turn up because they are no longer able to sit on their rivals.
Valebhoy and.Amadeus
BBC Scotland SPL table on my mobile… no deduction
St.John.Doyle,
Equi’s or Coia’s?
What about Nardini’s.
That’s the ice cream debate going along nicely. But what flavour of jelly goes best with it? And, to be really retro, where do we stand on tinned fruit?
Paul 67 told us that the issue with the table is down to the press assoc. The Herald had the same issue
yesterday.
up_over_goal – HMRC will allow RFC to pay up their £49m debt over a number of years to prevent the club going out of business, according to government sources. (The Times)
Clever move by HMRC.
It’s not in the taxpayers’ interest to force Rangers into liquidation, for that would lead to HMRC recovering nothing or next to nothing, and would simply facilitate Craig Whyte’s plan – made obvious by his cynical and deliberate ploy to run up millions of pounds more in unpaid taxes since he bought the huns – to make liquidation inevitable while blaming the tax man and Sir David Murray.
If Rangers liquidate, Craig Whyte gets off scot-free and the worst case scenario is a New Huns being back in the SPL, debt-free, within 3 or 4 seasons.
Far better that they are made to pay in full, even if this means they are hamstrung by debt for a generation of subjugation to come. (thumbsup)
HMRC WILL NOT DO A DEAL ON THIS,THEY CANT,THEY HAVE THEIR EYE ON SEVERAL EPL CLUBS,THEY WILL NOT CUT RANGERS ANY SLACK
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Absolutely, HMRC CANNOT be seen to go easy on this, it sets a precedent to every company and person in the uk..if rangers get off with 50million in tax debt then we shouldn’t pay our taxes either.
John Hartson on SS1 now.
Re Sunday Times et al
Seems that all these journalists who knew nothing about finance for nearly 20 years are now experts that can tell guys like PL his business!
You have to admit their necks are solid brass!
Lots of great stories yet to come and the huns will die either quickly through liquidation or slowly through neglect as the huns hordes disappear
HH
Anyone know if the game is on Stewartfield farm today?
Lest we forget,
the press, who are telling us everything will be ok over Ibrokes way, are the same journalists
who denied there was any problem in the first place. HMRC do not answer to anyone, they have only 2 interests money and power.
The moonbeams live on.
Hail Hail
Deal to save the Taxdodgers, should the Big Tax Case go against them (IMO)
Remove Whyte
New Owners installed
Budget/Business plan to be verified and adhered to over fixed period
No liquidation, therefore remain in SPL
No European license for next season
Pay %age of tax owed, e.g. remove the interest and penalties to reduce the £49m to £34m
Pay tax over agreed period of time
Pay all SPL clubs monies they are due immedaitely
Remove all titles/cups won during the EBT years
that is what i reckon they will be pushed towards by the establishment, keep them in business, keep them in SPL, a passing wave in the direction of sporting integrity
up_over_goal says:
19 February, 2012 at 11:19
I think I would be happy with that you know
Whilst we would all like them to get their just desserts (no not jelly and ice cream!) its not going to happen.
Scotland wont lets its love child go down the swanny.
I have been fearful that not only was Craig Whyte the best man available to have taken them over, but he was the only man (the whole business surrounding him is so murky and so shady im convinced that its quite deliberate. When they are concentrating on trying to find out how you were allowed to take over the club over there, you can get away with doing something over here)
I am seriously worried about the pressure HMRC have been put under and with the whole administration / creditor business (which is way over my head) they would cut a deal and carry on as normal.
If you stop and consider that the huns as they are today are losing money each and every day then without any additional bills being imposed they would have to reduce costs. So, if on top of that they also have a massive HMRC bill to pay off every month it will be the equivalent of a double mortgage which whilst it might not kill them – will certainly restrict what they can do for a long time to come.
The prospect of the huns being crippled for 10 years, against whilst nowhere near what all of us would like to have happened, will probably be the best outcome realistically possible.
philvis – My view is that HMRC won’t be offering any repayment deal, it would set an unusual precedent.
HMRC have already established a repayment scheme that’s worked for decades, a scheme available to all UK companies which allows them to pay their tax in easy installments as they fall due and in accordance with their cash flow.
It’s called your quarterly tax return, and rangers have already defaulted on it.
Why would HMRC offer a second repayment scheme? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…..
I’ve sais this before,but make no apology for repeating it,especially when you read disgraceful abuse like this taking place.
The time has clearly come for ALL income to be treated as PAYE and taxed accordingly.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9090976/How-Moira-Stuart-makes-sure-tax-doesnt-have-to-be-taxing.html
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There is no place in a democracy for the tax burden not being shared equally. The law applies to us all,so too should the tax burden.
philvis returns @ 11 18 —-
Yes—–it is fabulously apt that Hun FC [ and all that it represents ] should end up in the hands of a man of the calibre of Craig Whyte.
It is equally fabulously apt that Alex Salmond should see fit to fish for votes from the numb nuts who think they are the people.. Vote me —– I’m just like you !