JABBA THE AGNIVORE

THE BIG EVACUATION

And the saga continues... Mr Dignity has apparently been given 48 hours to sack Malcolm Murray. Why it's down to him to have to wield the axe nobody has said but, if the papers are to be believed, Smith has drawn the short straw. Presumably Murray reads newspapers so it won't come as too much of a surprise when he feels the stiletto sliding against his spine. So much for Smith being ready to walk if Murray was ousted as chairman! In the space of a week he's nicked Murray's job and now he's ready to shove him out the door. And they call themselves 'loyal'!

Meanwhile there's concern over money being spent at Ibrox. Although Sooperally will need to get rid of some of his 'stars' due to SFL rules over how many over-21s a team can have, he will still have to pay the players he's bringing in. According to Bill McMurdo, Green and his associates were the ones advocating fiscal restraint, while the others are all for old-school profligacy. The appointment of Smith as chairman is a serious concern in this respect, since he is the epitome of prodigality. With Green and his cronies being forced out it looks like history is going to repeat itself and liquidation might loom again, spawning The The Rangers. But it'll still be the same club, of course!

Speaking of blogs, I see Loony Leggat is taking time out to get pished...I mean meet a deadline on some kind of work in progress. Tragically, this means another of his books. I read some excerpts of his book about the assassination of JFK and, true to form, it was mainly a racist, anti-Irish load of tripe. Apparently his book about Scott Symon, which he constantly mentions on his blog, is merely a diatribe against Jock Stein. No doubt there's a market somewhere for this bigoted rubbish; 100% of sales are probably in Larkhall!

Another item of interest to the Brushers is Kris Commons's decision not to play for Scotland again. The general consensus, which seems to miss the point somewhat, is that he should never be allowed back in the team. Strangely, I don't remember any of them complaining when the fat penalty-taker, Boyd, stormed off in the huff, wanting to pick and choose how long he should be playing in each game.

Scotland play Croatia on Friday and everybody is predicting a tanking, including the Croatian team and their manager. I see 'Wrang Door' McCall is part of the coaching staff for the Scotland team. I don't know how much influence he has but if Croatia put on light-blue tops then McCall will do his damnedest to make sure that Scotland lie down! No wonder they're so confident.

And I see Gordon Smith is hundreds of thousands in debt. There's something seriously wrong there. He must be the only person associated with Ibrox that actually has to pay back loans! Didn't anybody tell him about Murray's scheme? Couldn't Campbell Ogilvie have given him the nod? Or maybe, just maybe, he's the only one out of the whole shower that believes in paying what he owes! No; that sounds about as crazy as something Loony Leggat would come out with.

Trigger's Brush FC's latest 'blue chip' signing, Honduran Arnold Peralta, is already shooting his mouth off to the press. Described as a 'hardman,' he talks of running up and down the pitch for ninety minutes and being physical. Sounds as if Lee McCulloch's being replaced! He goes on to say how it has changed his life "going to play in Europe at a massive club." Er...has nobody told him that he's playing in the third tier and that Europe's a long, long way off? The real reason for signing, however, is there for all to see: "...financially this move is good for me and my family." So Old Bill McMurdo is right to be concerned; the big-spending days are back with a vengeance, if they ever went away at all!

Green is now reported as not selling his shares to the Kray Brothers after all. In a statement to the Stock Exchange it has been made plain that he's selling his shares to some company, based in the Isle of Man, called Laxey. That sounds like something you'd take for constipation; which is quite apt, since all the Brushers will be shiting themselves from now until December, wondering what's going to happen next!

Green unveils a new investor.

Hope the lavvies can cope!