JABBA THE AGNIVORE

WHO'S PARANOID?

I'm sure everybody's seen the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' In it there's a place called Toon Town, where just about anything can happen, as Bob Hoskins finds out. That's what it's like when you read a blog like Bill McMurdo's and see all the crazy-arsed ideas that they come up with!  It's like walking into Toon Town. Their team has suffered at the hands of everybody in Scotland, led by Peter Lawwell, and have never done anything wrong. It's all part of some huge conspiracy, apparently, to wipe out Protestantism in our country. First it was Rangers that 'they' tried to wipe out. Next it's Alex Salmond leading an indpendent Scotland down the path to rule from Rome. You need to read this stuff - it's amazing! It's also a bit frightening that there are people out there that honestly believe this guff!

My favourite bit on yesterday's blog was when somebody called Phil Mac Giola Bhain paranoid! Talk about pots and kettles! And why are they calling him paranoid? Well, he decided to ask about the licence that Rangers were granted to play in Europe in season 2011-2012. I remember people asking questions about that at the time and I also remember that no answers were forthcoming. Rangers were under investigation by HMRC over the 'wee' tax case and they ended up having funds frozen and sheriff's officers turning up at Ibrox. Rangers should not, in these circumstances, have been granted a licence to play in Europe. Why it was granted seems to be a closely-guarded secret.

Also a closely-guarded secret is the contents of the 5-Way Agreement that allowed Green's new club to jump the queue into the league and then pretend to be Rangers. There has been a lot of speculation over exactly what is in this agreement but the actual details are still being kept hidden. Why? What possible harm could it do to make the details public?

I think the key word here is 'harm.' Whenever something is hidden away and kept secret it's usually because somebody, or their reputation, might be harmed if it became public knowledge. So, obviously, there's an element of fear dictating what we are and are not allowed to know. Our football authorities were bending over backwards to get Trigger's Brush into the SPL or, at least, into Division 1. Despite what all the idiots say on their blogs, Peter Lawwell would have welcomed Trigger's Brush into the SPL with open arms; he's all about the money, nothing else. The outrage shown by all Scottish football supporters caught the authorities on the hop. It certainly put the wind up them and they had to resort to backstairs deals to ensure that Trigger's Brush got into the league.

The way Green was constantly bad-mouthing the SFA and openly claiming that there were conspiracies against his team, with no comeback, shows that there was something dodgy going on. Could it be that they all knew that Green was not a fit and proper person to run a football team? Like I said, there was definitely something dodgy going on and this would certainly fit the bill. If the SFA turned a blind eye, which they're good at doing, to Green's unsuitability then he would effectively have had them over a barrel. If they answered any of his outrageous charges then 'somebody' might let the papers know about the SFA's cover up!

Before anyone says anything, this is not paranoia. The real paranoia lies in being afraid to let everyone know the truth. The fact that the truth is hidden means that the only recourse we have is to speculate and the only way to put an end to, or to refute such speculations, is to be open and honest!

The possibility that Green could have been unfit to run a football club is shown by the latest revelations to emerge from the Charlotte Fakes tapes, as related in the Daily Record. Surprisingly, or, perhaps, unsurprisingly, nobody seems overly concerned about these revelations. Apparently, Green, Ahman and Stockbridge were not just mixed up with Whyte but also with an internationally-known con man, who is wanted by Interpol! It seems that Green did business with this con man before. The more that comes out in these revelations the more it seems that Green was not a 'fit and proper person.' I wonder if Gordon Waddell and Mark Hateley would like these 'fit-and-proper-person' tests they keep bleating about to work retrospectively!

One piece of truth did emerge from the recordings reported in the Daily Record. Craig Whyte is reported as having said, 'McCoist is useless. McCoist is f****** useless...' Well, you can say what you like about Craig Whyte but he certainly knows how to assess football managers!

Also in the papers is the news that quite a few of the top male tennis players are pulling out of Wimbledon due to injury or illness. So if Andy Murray were to win this year it would  be 'tainted,' wouldn't it?

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