LEGAL EAGLE ALLY
Poor old Sooperally is clutching at straws again. His latest brainwave is to cite the example of Stranraer 18 years ago when the three-league set-up was changed to four leagues. Stranraer had won the Second Division and were promoted to the First Division and "effectively jumped over other teams."
Lke some small-town lawyer in an American TV movie he has found a precedent in an old law book. So now he can kiss his old secretary, leaving her smiling and flustered, and go off to trounce the smug, corporate lawyer that looked to have the case sewn up. Unfortunately, he's barking up the wrong tree.
I don't know all the ins-and-outs of what happened with Stranraer but, as normally happens, the whole situation would have been discussed and an agreement reached among all the teams. The decision was not just rubber-stamped by some bureaucrat. I certainly don't remember Ally bleating about the injustice of it all at the time!
It is difficult to understand exactly what the problem is. Rangers look set to win what is effectively Division 4 and would, in the current set-up, be promoted to Division 3. That would mean two more years to work their way up to the top tier. In the new set-up Rangers will be promoted to Division 3 and it will take two more years for them to work their way up to the top tier. So what's the difference?
Rangers have now got so used to playing the victim that they see everything as happening for the sole purpose of keeping them down. Bleating on about being 'back in the bottom tier' is disingenuous in the extreme. The big problem, apparently, is that they will be playing the same teams again. So what's going to happen if they get back to the top tier? Suppose they get to Europe and they are drawn against the same teams as in a previous season?
The fact is that nothing, essentially, will change for Rangers in the new set-up. Over the years the club has got so used to being treated as something special that they think that the rules should be completely rewritten just to accommodate them. In reality, this has already happened. Green has been allowed to defraud creditors by taking the assets before liquidation, he has been allowed to claim that his new club is actually the old one, without any of the old club's obligations and his new club has been allowed into the Scottish leagues with flagrant disrerard for the rules of the game. So what more do they want? Everything, it seems!
It's only January but Ally and Green are already the short-priced favourites for Brass Neck of the Year!
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