ST DAVID TO THE RESCUE!
David Longmuir, the SFL supremo, has come up with a stupid idea that has been brought up, and dismissed, before. He seems to think that Celtic and Rangers are going to disappear to England so there should be 'Colt' teams in the Scottish League. Quite how UEFA would view a club maintaining teams in two separate leagues is moot; it'll never happen!
Time and again we've heard all this stuff about Celtic and Rangers going to England but, time and again, it has been made crystal clear that England doesn't want them. Despite all Green's posturing Rangers, and Celtic for that matter, are going nowhere. If they were to move to England it would involve some kind of league reconstruction there, since there are no teams that would be willing to give up their league place, and all that lovely money, to accommodate them. The whole idea has been a non-starter for decades and nothing really has changed.
As to the idea of Celtic and Rangers having 'B' teams in the SFL, this also is a non-starter. If they go along the proposed route of neither team being allowed promotion then it is hardly going to encourage fans to pay their hard-earned to watch a load of meaningless matches. On the other hand, if they do allow promotion then there is always the chance of one of them having two teams in Europe. And how would it work if either team used the same players in both leagues? The whole thing would be a nightmare to organise and legislate for; another reason why it is never going to happen.
Meanwhile, Loony Leggat is full of praise for Longmuir and the 'honest burghers' as he calls them, of the SFL. Apparently the whole SFL is going out of its way to help Dunfermline in its hour of need. That'll be why Raith Rovers refused to give Dunfermline a ticket allocation at their last meeting in case they didn't get their money back! But I digress. Loony draws comparisons between the altruism of the SFL and the way Rangers was 'treated' by the SPL. Needless to say, he offers no evidence of the magnanimity of the SFL. He does provide evidence of how Rangers was treated, mainly from his own fevered imagination!
The big problem for those, like Loony Leggat, who try to fabricate the myth that Rangers were denied help is the fact that Rangers did not ask for any; instead they threatened everyone. During the Whyte regime nobody was allowed to question what he was doing; remember the demonstration outside the BBC? When things went tits-up did the Rangers faithful demonstrate outside Ibrox calling for answers or Whyte's head? No. They stood outside Ibrox and declared themselves, in song, to be up to their knees in Fenian blood. And then along came Green.
All through administration all we heard were threats. Scottish football would be dragged down along with Rangers. Rangers would remember who their enemies were, including a pub that served ice-cream and jelly! Then came liquidation and Green's demand to be admitted to the SPL. He did not turn up, cap in hand, to ask for help. He vociferously demanded that Rangers be admitted and so did the support; with dire threats of what would happen if things didn't go their way. And this was supposed to endear them to the rest of Scotland?
I've pointed out quite a few times that our football authorities, and our sports media, have been quite happy to go along with all this 'holding company' jiggery-pokery and the lie that Green bought Rangers. The result of Nimmo-Smith's investigation also shows that Rangers is still the Establishment team. It is difficult to see, then, what the likes of Loony Leggat is moaning about. I suppose, in their eyes, what should have happened is no points deduction for going into administration, Celtic being deducted points for...well, for being Celtic, Rangers being awarded last year's SPL championship and Green's team being shoe-horned into the SPL with no consultation with anyone! Maybe they could have been given a twenty-point start at the beginning of the season as well!
Rangers brought everything upon themselves; not just by mismanagement and not paying bills but by alienating everyone with their arrogance and threatening behaviour. As Loony Leggat's old Presbyterian granny would say, 'Hell mend them!'
P.S. Jabba still seems to be in hiding. What are they paying him for?
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