RINGS AND FENCES AND RADARS

Season's Cheatings!

 

 

 

Today's piece of excrement is Craig Whyte. Back in 2011 this man was heralded in the Scottish media as the saviour of Rangers and, by extension, the saviour of Scottish football. Keith Jackson assured The Peeppul that Whyte had 'wealth off the radar', while we were introduced throughout the media to new words and phrases. 'Warchests', 'ring-fenced funds', 'front-loaded funding', and other terms we had never heard before, made their debuts in 2011 as sports journalists queued up to lavish praise on Craig Whyte.

A simple Google search would have told all these arse-lickers that Whyte was anything but the successful businessman they were making him out to be. He was renowned as an asset-stripper and had left behind a trail of liquidations and unpaid debts when he ran off to Monte Carlo. As a result of his previous business ventures, he was actually banned from being a director of any company in the UK. Not that anyone was listening; 'In Whyte we trust' was the cry from The Peeppul, while the agnivores in the press agreed completely.

The subsequent revelations about Whyte are now sub judice, but one thing is for certain: Whyte did not kill Rangers. Extreme Unction had been administered to the club long before Whyte appeared on the scene. Amid all the furore surrounding him since 2012, sight has been lost of one glaring fact; Whyte actually kept Rangers going and the club would have entered administration a lot earlier if it hadn't been for him. Unfortunately, Whyte's method for sustaining Rangers financially was just not to bother paying any tax at all.

Back in 2012 we heard constantly in the media how Celtic's title win was 'tainted'. This was ironic, considering that Whyte funding Rangers through stealing from HMRC meant that they cheated their way to second place. In any other circumstance a club that had funded itself in this way would have all results amended to 3-0 defeats. Instead of finishing second, Rangers should have ended that season at the bottom of the SPL. Little facts like that, however, always go over the heads of The Peeppul and their friends in the media. And yet you still get some of them complaining that Rangers were swindled out of their prize money for finishing second that season!

So, unless the courts prove otherwise, Whyte did not swindle Rangers. On the contrary, he joins the long list of folk that cheated to help them.

Speaking of Whyte reminds me of the time Tam Cowan nicked a joke of mine from the Daily Record forum. Well, perhaps 'nicked' is too strong a word since he did acknowledge where he got it. I asked the rhetorical question as to why all the arse-licking of Whyte had stopped in the media. My answer was that it was obvious: he'd had his ring fenced!