JABBA THE AGNIVORE

JUST AS GREEN AS HE'S CABBAGE-LOOKING

Traynor starts off telling us about the crisis at Hearts and how they should have bitten Hughie Green's hand off when he tried to use the situation to his advantage. He then goes over his usual tired old ground about how our game is in trouble. He doesn't say it this time but he has said on numerous occasions that the game is in trouble because Green's Newco were not allowed into the SPL. 

'My God!' I hear you cry, 'Traynor is actually writing about another team for a change!' Well...er...no, actually. He might start off talking about Hearts but then goes off at a tangent to have a go at everybody for being anti-Rangers, Oldco and Newco. In a diatribe worthy of David Biggat and his Presbyterian granny, he apparently accuses every one of us, with the exception of the noble Ibrox hordes, of being hate-filled bigots! That's not just Celtic supporters, by the way, it's everybody!

Read this pearl of wisdom that Traynor lets fall from his lips:

'But then an awful lot of club directors and their fans haven’t been applying robust logic to Rangers for some time.

They’ve allowed their delight at this club’s plight to cloud judgment, always hiding behind that wafer- thin curtain of “sporting integrity”.'

 See what I mean? Is this guy for real?

He continues in the same vein:

'Although they insist Rangers are dead, killed by liquidation, these people continue to shout that the club owe more than £90m in tax, conveniently forgetting the final verdict on the EBT case has still to be announced.

It also suits their agenda to link all debts run up by the previous regime to the club in the Third Division. Yet the same folk are determined to make sure Rangers aren’t linked with all of the league titles won in the past.'

Aw diddums! He conveniently forgets that the opposite is equally true. Green's team, and its supporters, are keen to tell us all that this is the same club that won 9-in-a-row,  won the European Cup-Winners' Cup and have a world-record number of titles. It is a different club, however, when it comes to paying up, not just to HMRC, but to all the creditors that have apparently been shafted by Green's underhand, and possibly illegal, purchase of Rangers' assets.

So which one is it Mr Traynor? If it's the same club then let them pay up; if it's a different club then it is no longer called Rangers and has no history whatsoever. 

You've painted yourself into a corner there, Jim lad!