JABBA THE AGNIVORE

WHYTE'S BACK!!!

Today, Traynor is back to his favourite topic: blaming Craig Whyte for everything that went wrong at Rangers. Yes, the PAYE fiasco was the straw that broke the camel's back as far as HMRC were concerned, but a lot of what Whyte says actually makes sense.

Did the administration under Duff and Phelps really have to take so long? Everybody and his granny knew that nobody was going to buy the poison chalice that Rangers had become; hadn't Murray already been trying for years? Instead of trying to come to some arrangement all Duff and Phelps did was trot out the names of potential buyers, who ran a mile when they got a look at the books. Remember Miller? Ng? Then there was the possibly illegal handing over of the assets to Hughie Green. Adminsistrators are supposed to work on behalf of the creditors; so what happened there?

Imagine if Whyte had paid the PAYE when he was supposed to: Rangers would have been lucky to have afforded a team to put on the field. All he was doing was what had been going on at Rangers for years; robbing the tax man to pay for players. If he had paid the tax when he was meant to then Rangers would have fallen way behind earlier in the season and would have had no chance of finishing in the top six, never mind second!

Traynor still goes on about 'mortgaging the season tickets' to Ticketus but fails to raise any questions about where Green got the money to 'buy' Rangers from Duff and Phelps. It's about time these 'journalists' started asking some serious questions about Green and his illegal absconding with the assets, instead of trying to blame everything on Whyte.

There is one matter, though, on which Traynor seems to have had a Road-to-Damascus conversion. He says about Whyte's claim that Rangers/Sevco were relegated to Division 3:

'Rangers had to go there because they were a new club starting over.'

Who'd-a thunk it?

Meanwhile the sports journalist manqué, Rabid Biggat, is beating the drum for Auld Dignity, Walter Smith, returning as Scotland manager! Good luck with that; he needs big bucks to succeed at anything!