STILL PEDDLING THE BIG LIE

I remember once, when I was about 13, one of my uncles came to our house on Christmas Day. His wife was dying of lung cancer at the time and his seven-year-old son was living with us. Anyway, like everybody else, we had the telly on in the evening. Morecambe and Wise or whatever was finished and the next programme came on, 'Carols from Kings' or something similar. My uncle piped up, "Aw, fur fuck's sake! Dae they need tae bring religion intae everythin'?" It's a pity he's not still around to say the same to McMurdo and his disciples.

According to one extreme bigot on McMurdo's blog, the Catholic Church is responsible for everything that Rangers has suffered and the new club is suffering. Not only that, but he/she/it also says,  "this attack has been happening slowly for a very long time; in fact, as long as the RC Irish came to our shores 150 years or so ago." 150 years...that'll be sometime in the 1860s then or, more probably, before. So Rangers was under attack before it was even conceived; that's surely taking things a bit far! He then gives us a quick, potted history of how it was the Catholic nobility that subjugated Ireland. I mean...I know it's a cliché, but for fuck's sake! They were all Catholics in the Middle Ages so his so-called history means nothing. William Wallace was a Catholic, as was Edward I, so which one was acting under instructions from the Vatican? The Habsburgs and the Valois were all Catholics and they hated each others' guts, frequently going to war to maintain their families' interests. So how does the Catholic Church figure in that? The fact is, only a complete moron would try to write history in terms of the Catholic Church manipulating everything! But, then, he is one of The Peeppul!

Speaking of History, I see McMurdo has released another e-book, called 'Scottish Football - Game of Thrones'. Merlin promises to reveal to us all in his book "the root causes of hostilities between Rangers FC and the rest of Scottish football." That'll be a short chapter, "Rangers' support was full of sectarian bigots. The club also received special favours from match officials and the Scottish football authorities, angering the fans and officials of other football clubs. The arrogance of Rangers even extended into not even being able to accept its own demise, pretending that a phoenix club is still Rangers. This arrogance, sense of entitlement and lashing out at all and sundry is hardly calculated to make friends among everyone else." What else is there to say on the matter?

I was actually going to purchase a copy of the book (it's only two quid) but you need a MasterCard, Visa or AmEx card to buy it and I don't have any of those. Considering who the tome is aimed at I'd have thought ginger bottles would have been more appropriate! Still, I'll persevere and see if I can get a copy; purely in the interests of research, of course - I promise not to laugh!

Meanwhile, Neil Doncaster, esteemed chief executive of the SPFL, has come out in defence of the Big Lie. He says:

"The member club is the entity that participates in our league and we have 42 member clubs. Those clubs may be owned by a company, sometimes it’s a Private Limited Company, sometimes it’s a PLC, but ultimately, the company is a legal entity in its own right, which owns a member club that participates in the league."

Now that's straight out of the Chateau Charlie Sevco Handbook. It's also a load of pish. When Fergus McCann bought Celtic was there any need for a transfer of licence? Similarly there was no need for any such transfer of licence when Ann Budge bought Hearts. So why was there a need to transfer Rangers' football licence if the recipient was still the 'same club'? Why was this 'same club' only allowed to join the European Clubs' Association as an associate member? They're all determined that we're going to swallow this Sevco shite, even though it's not true!

Doncaster continues, "It was put to bed by the Lord Nimmo Smith commission some while ago – it’s the same club." Er...that didn't put anything to bed, my dear Doncaster! Nimmo Smith may be a judge but he wasn't acting in that capacity when he made his judgment in this respect; he was hired by the SPL and had to work according to parameters set out by them and the SFA. He had no real room for manoeuvre or independent conclusions and even had to accept when Green and his new club refused to co-operate. The whole thing was a farce and a whitewash and nobody with any sense believes a word of it. Now, piss off, Mr Doncaster and do the job you're paid to do!

AN SFA SPOKESMAN ENDORSES WHAT DONCASTER SAYS

"It's the same club!"

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"It's the same club!"
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"It's the same club!"

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"It's the same club!"
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"It's the same club!"

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"It's the same club!"

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