A BIG LEAGUE FOR THE BIG LIE

It seems that there is now a massive push in our media to try to cement the Big Lie once and for all. And not just in the media. Even the police and justice system are getting in on the act, desperately making it look as if 'Rangers' was the victim. Meanwhile feelers are being sent out to see how everyone will react if the top league is extended to possibly eighteen teams. The Establishment is ready to go all-out to do whatever it can to help this ailing, new club.

All the stuff about David Murray, Walter Smith and even Sooperally going to be called as prosecution witnesses shows that there is a determination to somehow prove that Craig Whyte defrauded Rangers. Murray will be up on the stand, telling everyone how he was 'dooped' while the rest of them blame Whyte for everything that happened. The fact that all those creditors were defrauded will be Whyte's fault, as will the current financial crisis at Ibrox. The only thing that won't be mentioned at all will be the dreaded 'L' word.

The fact is that Rangers was defrauded by nobody. Whyte handed over his pound coin, as per the contract, and Murray signed over the club. It is even debatable whether Ticketus was swindled. If the hapless Sooperally had managed to qualify for Europe things would have turned out alright and anyone that pointed out Whyte's history would be shouted down, as they were right up until things started to go wrong. Ticketus would have got their money, administration and liquidation wouldn't have happened and Keith Jackson would still be telling us that Whyte had wealth off the radar.

Looking at Whyte's history it's easy to see that he's a Walter Mitty character, a dreamer with big ideas but no ability to back them up. If anybody wanted to commit a crime then there could be no better fall guy than Whyte. I wonder if any tough questions will be asked of the witnesses; for example, how long they actually knew Whyte. It seems like a massive coincidence that Whyte came in when the only recourse left to Rangers was to shut down and start again. It is also a massive coincidence that nobody at Rangers, least of all Murray, suffered financially through any of this. It's going to be interesting to see exactly what this court case will be about.

McMurdo and his disciples, meanwhile, have finally started up their new bigot brigade. Apparently they're going to retain the services of a solicitor to do something about all the 'Raynjurz Haturz' out there. They're still going on about how hard-done-by they are. He had a guest blogger on yesterday, banging on about how "Our club seems under constant threat and attack these days." And who is supposed to be mounting these threats and attacks. Talk about being full of shite! And this guy lives in Canada, so how the hell does he know about threats and attacks?

He certainly can't be talking about Colin Duncan in the Daily Record, whose recent, vomit-inducing article would be called paranoia if it came from a Celtic supporter. You can read his article here; just make sure you're sitting down and not eating anything at the time. He goes on about FARE having an agenda against Rangers (sic) and how they never have anything bad to say about Celtic. It seems to have escaped his notice but they don't need to say anything bad about Celtic; our football authorities, police and media are always on hand to do that job. Strangely, though, they never seem to notice when The Peeppul are belting out their bigoted and racist songs. Maybe if the powers-that-be did their job fairly and impartially then FARE would never need to get involved at all!

What seems to have inspired Duncan to spout this pish is the seeming fact that FARE have not condemned Tonev after his 'guilty' verdict at the hands of the SFA beaks. He says, "Regardless of the fact no hard evidence was presented – it was one Aberdeen’s word against Celtic’s – the case against Tonev was proved." Where the hell does he get that from? How the hell was it 'proved'? Maybe instead of castigating FARE, this clown should be looking at this disgraceful verdict, arrived at, as he himself says, without a shred of evidence. Maybe he should look at the disgusting verdict against the Hearts fan that attacked Neil Lennon, or the way that those that sent home-made bombs to Lennon were made out to be harmless buffoons. Perhaps if these filthy bigots didn't get off with so much then there would be no need for the likes of FARE.

I see that Bisto FC is still in deep shit and are considering yet another share issue to raise funds to get to the end of the season. It's going to end up that those shares won't be worth the paper they're printed on the way they're going. And yet, The Peeppul still think they're 'coming down the road' and that Ashley's going to give Sooper a massive war chest in January. It seems to have escaped their notice that, so far, Ashley hasn't put one penny into the club. He bought his shares from somebody else, not in the share issue and has been content to lend the club money rather than plough any of his ill-gotten into it. Isn't it about time that somebody did the decent thing and performed euthanasia?

It's looking increasing likely that Bisto won't be winning promotion this season; they might not even make the play-offs. Desperate times call for desperate measures and Gordon Strachan is the latest one to suggest a larger top tier. If, by some miracle, Bisto manage to win promotion then this idea will be quietly dropped. In the more likely event that they don't then we're going to hear more and more about this scheme. After all, as we're constantly being told these days, Scottish football can't survive without Rangers (sic) being in the top division.

If they do decide to enlarge the Premiership just to accommodate one club then it throws up some interesting possibilities. Not only is it probable that Bisto won't gain promotion but Bisto won't even exist unless they start cutting back drastically. They might have to cut things back to such an extent that they cannot manage in the brand-spanking-new, all-improved top tier; what happens then? Suppose they end up finishing eighteenth in an eighteen-team league? Since we're told that we need 'Raynjurz' in the top tier then the only answer is to enlarge it again; probably to twenty teams. Pretty soon every club in Scotland, including amateurs and school teams, will all be in the Premiership. It sounds ridiculous and it is, but what else are they going to do to keep Bisto FC in the top tier?

Sporting Integrity has become a dirty phrase in our media; an excuse to 'demote' Rangers (sic) and deprive Scottish football of much-needed revenue. In reality, however, our sports journalists are disingenuously pretending ignorance of what the phrase actually means. If all that matters is money then we'll end up in the situation where two teams, Celtic and whatever team plays out of Ibrox, are never allowed to be relegated so as to safeguard the revenues generated by these clubs. Hardly fair on all the other teams, is it? And how are they going to achieve this without the nonsensical infinite extension of the top tier? The only other way is by cheating in individual matches, like a few expedient sendings-off and penalties; the kind of thing that has been going on to help Bisto through the leagues. It would be a shameful situation to get into.

If the Premiership is enlarged then it's the start of a slippery slope. I don't know about you but I'll certainly want nothing more to do with Scottish football if it happens. It won't be a sporting competition anymore but a fiasco.

"Aye, wae wur aw dooped, so wae wur! Ah never believed aw thae stories aboot billionaires 'n' 'at. Aye, Ah know Ah said ay hud ma full support, but Ah wiz only kiddin' oan 'n' 'at. It wiz aw Whyte's fawt that wae goat beat wi' Malmo an' Maribor 'n' 'at. An' Ah loast a loat-a money, 'n' 'at, so Ah did. Ah mean, £850,000 a year - how's emdy supposed tae survive oan that? An' the bastard stole wanny ma steak bakes anaw before ay left!"