JABBA THE AGNIVORE

GEEZA BREKK!

Poor old Sooperally is feeling the strain. He needs a winter break after a hard half-season playing against ten-man teams of postmen and teachers. 'It's no' fair!' he bleats, while protesting weakly that he's not 'throwing his toys out the pram.' He said: “That’s Scottish football, some people get a rest and others don’t. We’ll just get on with playing.' Well, get on with it, then, and stop moaning!

His whole greetin' session implies that some senior agency has given the SPL teams time off while ignoring those in the SFL. Maybe it hasn't sunk in yet: the SPL and SFL are two separate entities, over which nobody else has any jurisdiction. He needs to take up his concerns with the folk that run the SFL, but that wouldn't fit well with Rangers' new image as self-styled spokespersons for the SFL, would it? Again, the SPL is cast as the enemy, even though it has nothing whatever to do with them.

This is a recurring theme in all the noises coming out of Ibrox: SFL GOOD, SPL BAD. Somebody, I can't remember who, pointed out that this seems like a planned strategy, with someone from the Scottish media providing Green with the angle. This astute commentator named Traynor as the most likely candidate. Jabba's subsequent rants in the Daily Record and employment by Green tend to confirm these suspicions.

Since Green started his new club with the stolen assets, all we've heard about is how Rangers' 'enemies' have triumphed for the moment but payback is coming. Blogs like Leggoland keep this uppermost in the minds of the blue horde, feeding the myth that everything that transpired at Ibrox was no fault of their own but the result of a concerted conspiracy by other people.

So what we have is a two-pronged attack. Bloggers like Leggat play the old sectarian card, trying to propagate the myth that our football authorites, apart, of course from the SFL, have been infiltrated by 'Rangers' haters,' Equally, they keep telling us that our media has been similarly infiltrated. Irish-sounding names are trotted out to 'prove' these points to the bigots, while you will never see the word Celtic mentioned without the letters I, R and A alongside. These attacks are calculated to rile up the Orange Sturm Abteilung and keep the hatred alive.

Meanwhile the other method of attack, obviously orchestrated by Jabba, is to try to gather all the teams of the SFL around them as well. Moaning sessions like Ally's are quite transparent in their desperate attempt to create a new division in Scottish football. 

To these people nothing else matters other than that Rangers reigns supreme. They would like nothing better than the whole of Scottish football to go down the drain and for Rangers to join the English leagues as the only Scottish team in existence. 

Unfortunately for the plan, the fact that Rangers are allowed to take their own referees along to Division 3 matches is going to undermine things. How many times are all the teams in Division 3 going to stand for being reduced to ten men every time they play Rangers? Somebody is going to have to have a word with Collum et al.