Whether or not Ahmad is due the money, everyone is concentrating on the £3.5m he says he is owed. They are all failing, however, to take note of the small print, where Ahmad has offered to settle out of court for £500,000. Although this fact has been reported it seems to get lost among all the anger and accusations.
Speaking of reports, the Ersatzers are caught between a rock and a hard place. Many of them are claiming that Celtic supporters want Green to stay, which automatically means that he should go. On the other hand, however, the main cheerleaders for the McColl camp are the 'reporters' in the Daily Record. So what are they supposed to do? It seems no matter who they choose they are taking advice from 'the enemy.' Maybe they should bear in mind who it was that warned them about Craig Whyte and who chose to ignore all the easily-accessible information, claiming that he was a 'billionaire Rangers supporter.' Remember who turned out to be right!
The Daily Record also appear to be giving a constant platform to Kieran Prior, he of the 'Off-the-Radar IQ.' He still has it in for Green, moaning that Green refused to sell him his shares. The question, of course, presents itself: why the hell should he? Prior apparently offered 34.5p each for the shares, which he would be unable to get his hands on until December. It goes without saying that Green is perfectly entitled to hold out for a better offer than that, or even to hold onto his shares if he so wishes.
Prior also states that he will not support McColl's takeover until the latter is prepared to actually put his money where his mouth is. From this it is fairly easy to ascertain what Prior's game really is. By opposing both sides he hopes to cause even more instability and drive the share price down. He can then snap them up for a song and come trundling in like some beneficent Davros.
The best bit of the article in the Daily Record has to be right at the start, where it says that Prior "last night broke his self-imposed silence..." Silence? The guy never shuts up! It almost looks like he's a Daily Record columnist.
Loony Leggat, meanwhile, asks the question, What would Bill Struth do? Probably invite everybody Doon the Waatter for a short boating holiday is the quick answer to that! But Leggat decides that what he would actually do is support McColl and his merry band. That reminded me of Richard Attenborough's ridiculous statement, during the 1983 General Election, that Gandhi would have voted SDP! The only thing that could be said for certain is that Struth would probably have nothing to do with Ahmad. Not that I'm singling out Struth; practically every white person in this country was racist up until fairly recently.
Leggat decides to compare Struth to Walter Smith, saying that if Smith supports McColl then that's good enough for him. Among all the plaudits you always see regarding Struth, one word is always missing: bigot. Struth pretty much institutionalised the sectarian signing policy at Ibrox, which might have been okay for Leggat and his Presbyterian granny, but Smith might baulk at such comparisons. Then again, Struth might be spinning in his grave at being compared to a two-faced back-stabber like Auld Dignity!
It is still a complete mystery why Smith is held in such esteem, not only by the Ersatzers but by our Fourth Estate. He was never anything more than a chequebook manager, even when he returned to Ibrox. I suppose success at any price has always been the mantra at Ibrox, even if it drives them to liquidation.
So, really, the choice has not been made any easier for the Ersatzers. You pays your money and you takes your chance. Some of them think that Dave King is going to come riding to the rescue, but that could also be a poisoned chalice. Everybody seems to think that he won his case in South Africa but it's escaped their notice that much of his property was confiscated to pay off his debts. Is he a fit and proper person? I suppose if the Krays can make it onto the board...
Finally, has everyone seen the film Sin City? I thought that Brian Stockbridge looked familiar!
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