Meanwhile, Dave King's madcap scheme just got even madder. The plan now is that the Trust (Ha!) Fund will only hand over the cash if they receive assurances about the club's finances. They also want the board to hand the Union of Fans security over the stadium and the training ground. Is this some kind of joke? Do they honestly expect the board to comply with these crazy demands? The Trust is going to drip-feed the money to Bisto on a game-by-game basis, so the board will get the money, and extra, although not all at once. It all depends how many of the Peeppil decide to join King's scheme, which I would imagine won't be that many. There is also the possibility that there are plenty of other mugs, I mean fans, out there who will buy the rebels' season books, especially since Bisto will be in the Championship next season.
Probably the most insane aspect of King's plans is that he thinks, and the Union of Fans hope, that the crook is going to take over at Ibrox. There's not much chance of the current incumbents diluting their shares just to let this chancer in, so he's looking for sleekit ways to force his way through the door. And if he does manage to get there, a Union of Fans statement outlines what he supposedly is going to do.
"We are extremely happy with what we see as a clear path forward to return Rangers to health and put the club on a secure footing, where it can challenge for the league and in Europe in the years to come.
"Without the investment being offered by Dave King and others, and with the current board planning to slash costs across the club, which could even delay our return to the top league, we fear that Rangers could be left in the wilderness for years to come."
In other words, this shower of bams don't want Bisto to live within its means but to buy success with money it doesn't have. How much has King promised to invest? Nothing. What other investors has King lined up? None. So where is the money going to come from? It pains me to say it, but I'm beginning to feel sorry for these dolts, who are willing to trust anyone at all that claims to be a millionaire. They like to speak of themselves as 'Free thinkers,' well, maybe it's about time they started to think about how most millionaires get to that position in the first place; and it's not through altruism! Perhaps they should also ask to have a wee keek at King's bank account; after all, he wouldn't be the first guy with 'wealth of the radar' that turned out to have bugger all!
True to his word, McMurdo said nothing whatsoever about Bisto FC in yesterday's blog. Instead, he decided to tell us all about the crisis in the Catholic Church, where recruitment into the clergy has fallen away. He seems to think this is news! I remember back in the early 70s my primary-school teacher ranting and raving about what a disgrace it was that only one boy out of the whole of Glasgow had decided to enroll in Priest College that year. I don't know what response he expected but, behind his back of course, our reaction was that if he was that worried about it then he could bugger off and become a priest himself! None of us were even remotely interested. We were eleven years old and already looking forward with eager anticipation to someday getting a shag!
In the 1980s recruitment also went down in Ireland and the Church began to worry about where they were going to get their priests. We were told that, within the next twenty-five years, most of our priests would be from Africa, reversing the old Nineteenth Century missionary scenario. Here we are thirty-odd years later and it hasn't happened yet. Don't ask me why; I don't recall everyone beating on the doors, demanding to join the clergy.
McMurdo and others suggest that it's time for the Church to allow priests to marry. At the moment there is nothing to stop married men becoming priests, while still being married and having children. I would imagine that this is the area where the Church needs to do its recruitment in future.
I had been intending to come on here and express my amazement at how open-minded and rational the posters on McMurdo's blog were being, discussing the future of religion in general and saying how everyone should be free to follow their own religion. Unfortunately, I went back later and the bams had returned. You know the types; the Pope is the Antichrist, Pope Benedict was a 'deviant,' and the Catholic Church is evil incarnate. They really are sick in the head these folk!
Back to matters Bisto and I see that there are a lot of the Bisto Kids giving out the same, pathetic WATP-type banter on the Daily Record forums. Apparently, Celtic and its supporters are 'running scared' of King taking over at Ibrox! Aye, that's right; everybody's terrified of a crook with empty pockets turning up to fleece the mugs. Please remember, though: it is wicked to mock the afflicted!
One bam refutes the claim that others will step in and buy the season tickets. "There is not a long list of people waiting in the wings to buy SB's," he says. Really? I thought a good 70-odd percent of Scotland supported Bisto, not to mention the 'worldwide fanbase'! Maybe some of them are finally coming into the real world. I wouldn't bet on it, though.
And another call for you to buy my books before I go. I'm going to keep on about this until I reach triple figures. So get your arse over to my books site and have a look. You know it makes sense.
"Trutht in me,
Jutht in me.
Geeth yer cash
And trutht in me..."
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