And still they remain silent, as the voices of football supporters everywhere demand answers…
Fifteen hundred and counting have signed this so far…
The Scottish Football Association: The SFA Has To Respond To Allegations Of Impropriety Concerning … https://www.change.org/p/the-scottish-football-association-the-sfa-has-to-respond-to-allegations-of-impropriety-concerning-the-issue-of-uefa-licences?recruiter=158907509&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive … via @UKChange
I’ll nip out for a fag and make myself another brew while you follow the link and add your name.
If you haven’t signed, you could be forgiven for thinking that it won’t change anything, and its all a bit pointless, and hey, you might even be right.
The SFA might ignore it anyway, and nothing will change.
Well, it sure as hell isn’t going to change if you don’t sign it, and if you need to be convinced read the reasons on the link as to why so many have already signed, and if you still don’t sign after that, then you shouldn’t be going to the football anyway.
Espescially the top comment, and I know who you are…
I had a brief sort of chat with Darren Cooney, the on line editor of the Record last night, but he was too intested in trying to drum up interest in tonights international match to take notice.
But sooner or later he, and others in the SMSM, wil have to, and the more of you that sign will see the pressure grow until they have to notice it.
And then we can really get started.
Back at the ranch, and Scott Brown plays in his farewell international tonight-oh come on, you know he just fancies this game, and has no real interest in playing again for Scotland-and is looking forward to a night out in the big city afterwards.
He’s even got a new outfit and found somewhere to stay so he’ll mingle unnoticed among the natives
As for the result, up until around teatime I probably won’t care, but then after a few Tramadol and a couple or three beers, I’ll no doubt find a bit of enthusiasm for the men in pink.
When I first came down here, beating England at anything was essential, and theres no reason why that should change, its just a little more difficult to get excited about when you aren’t all that keen on the SFA, and how they run things.
Thougb if the Griff plays, and takes out his frustrations on the English, by banging a few in, then I’ll be over the moon, and I won;t feel guilty if he puts them past Fraser Forster, who doesn’t play for Celtic anymore, so i’ll be spared that awkwardness.
Scott Browns return for a one off has angered Charlie Adam, and presumably his sisters pants, and he’s complained bitterly on the radio.
“He will probably say I’ve not played enough games but I disagree,”
“I’m not saying he should call me, but I feel I could add something.”
I suppose he could bring the sandwiches.
“He has given people an opportunity that have not played at their club for a number of months.
“We are not blessed with 50-60 top players. Obviously my face does not fit at the moment.”
Or his legs, which don’t move as quickly as everyone elses.
“There is pressure on him as we haven’t started the campaign well,” added Adam.
“I hope he stays because he is a good manager. He is the best man but I don’t think he is picking the best players he has available.”
Adam believes Aston Villa’s Alan Hutton – who has made himself unavailable – is “the best right back we’ve got” and also feels Stoke’s Phil Bardsley should be selected.
Adam claims Strachan is not picking the best players available, and says that Alan Hutton is the best right back we’ve got.
Kind of sabotaging his own argument really.
Nir Biton is another who might not have to worry about international commitments. He’s been sent home from the Israeli camp after a bit of disciplinary trouble…apparently he threw a wobbly when he was asked to feature in a reserve line up in a training match, and not because he was wearing his Palestine CSC t-shirt.
The Israelis are a forgiving and reasonable bunch, and no doubt they wouldn’t have mentioned the flag waving at the Be’er Sheva game, or the embarrassment that would have caused.
Biton is better off away from all that. Maybe his time in Glasgow has caused him to think about how his country is seen by others, and maybe he just found out for himself what they are really like.
There’s an interesting article on Football Fancast which lists five “wonderkids ” who could break into the first team at Celtic, largely on the back of the 3-0 humbling of Aston villa.
Jack Aitchison, Luke Donnelly, Calvin Miller, Jamie McCart and Anthony Ralston are the players, and it kind of makes you feel good that the new manager will give them a chance when he thinks they are ready.
I’m not comparing these players to the kids who came through at Old Trafford to dominate English football, but I am comparing the idea of building from within. If they make it, you’ll see the benefits of having played together for so long, and perhaps more importantly, the benefits, as with Keiran Tierney, of having players who are living the dream.
On the other side of the city, dreams are rapidly turning into nightmares and there’s a certain amount of revisionism going on , led by Neil Cameron of the Herald and the Evening Times, part of the Ibrox Newspapers Group;
Mark Warburton talks all the time about Scottish football needing money. But no comment about wasting money on a violent ex-offender.
Oddly enough, i can;t find any media comments about “wasting money on a violent ex offender 2 round about the time he signed.
I can remember the ones about him being in a different league to Scott Brown, and how he was going to be the best player up here, but nothing about him sticking cigars into kids eyes.
The support were even more damning of Warburton signing him, even though he wasn’t around when he came, and was more than a little surprised to see the bit about Barton being a player manager written into is contract ( wait and see ) but as the deal was done, he couldn’t stop it.
Ibrox Noise, one of their websites, was quick to jump on the bandwagon. Probably sneaking past the conductor so they didn’t have to pay.
The most controversial player in the modern game must go down as the most ill-judged, ill-advised, and downright farcical signing Rangers have made in decades.
In fact, off the top of my head, I simply cannot think of a more ludicrous signing in over 140 years of this proud Club’s existence.
Nothing about securing Joey Barton made an iota of sense, and with the termination of his deal by mutual consent, the embarrassment factor has hiked beyond repair.
Yes, ‘beyond’. This is something Rangers cannot recover from; by this I mean Mark Warburton will be forever remembered not for getting Rangers promoted, not for being a ‘Magic Hat’ but for being the manager who made the stupidest and worst signing.
Even Flo was a success by comparison – only the transfer fee counted horribly against him; but Barton was just an absolute disaster on every single level and such a dreadful loss of judgement from whoever was ultimately responsible for dredging him up to Glasgow.
Worryingly, it cannot just be cited as a one off – Warburton’s era has been littered with truly embarrassing trials, decisions, signings, and mistakes which absolutely should not have been made.
John Eustace being given five months to prove himself. That affair went beyond farce.
Targetting Joleon Lescott; this confirmed Warburton’s bizarre choices of player in signing Barton was not isolated.
Oguchi Onyewu; American international who did absolutely nothing wrong in trials or in his friendly appearance at Battery, but was rejected without any reason attached.
And frankly, in yours truly’s eyes, the Rangers fans deserve an apology, an official statement acknowledging Joey Barton was a mistake and showing contrition for it. Naturally it will not happen – a contractual gagging order goes hand in hand with mutual consent and the current official statement is that no further comment will be made.
Well it should.
Dave King will be quietly seething that his management team have sullied Rangers’ reputation with this nonsense; and Rangers fans have frankly been poorly treated by the debacle that was the handling of it.
It is why a small apology really should be forthcoming – Rangers fans spend our hard-earned money watching the team, buying the merchandise, and while we do not spend cash to expect a win every match, we expect respect.
The way this farce has been dealt with shows no respect to the supporters, and either Warburton, Weir or McFarland has made a giant mess of it.
I hate this entry. I hate being so critical and even looking it over it sounds like something an East End blogger would probably write about us (not that I would know, I have never read a single piece of trash any of them have ever vomited out), but it is also utterly true.
Joey Barton is gone, and should never have come in the first place.
Key words and phrases…”Quietly seething”…”expect respect” ” statement”, ” apology ” ” sullied Rangers reputation ” …are there, but what about the staunch dignity of the protestant work ethic that has been missing from the side ?
How can he expect to be taken seriously if he forgets about that ?
I can only shake my head in sympathy at their plight.
but at the same time, I’d like to ask them to sign the petition against the SFA.
After all, the SFA destroyed their club, and allowed it to be taken over by crooks and conmen, sorry, another set of crooks and conmen, and by signing thispetition they can at leat give the third version of their club a better than average chance of survival.
Which brings us neatly back to the petition, and if i could just ask you to pop back up to the top of the page and sign it, that’d be grand.
Its Friday, and of course that means it’s
Knob Of The Week
This week, its someone you probably haven’t heard of.
Yet she’s commited probably the single biggest act of knobbery in the century so far.. and she’ll also be delighted that we at Etims operate an equal opportunity programme, meaning a woman has just as much right as a man to earn the coveted prize.
She’s Donna Brazile,
Donna Lease Brazile[2] (/brəˈzɪl/; born December 15, 1959)[3] is an American author and political analyst. She is a member of the Democratic Party and became interim chairperson of the Democratic National Committee in July 2016. She briefly served as the interim chairperson for the DNC in the spring of 2011 and assumed that role again in the summer of 2016.
She was the first African American to direct a major presidential campaign, acting as campaign manager for Vice President Al Gorein 2000. She has also worked on several presidential campaigns for Democratic candidates, including Jesse Jackson and Walter Mondale–Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and for Dick Gephardt in the 1988 Democratic primary.
None of them were winners, and neither was the United States of America when the party decided to go with another Clinton, so soon after the previous one made such a good job of being in charge
So, Donna, well done, you are this weeks
Knob Of The Week
Ah look, she’s smiling.
Because she went with Clinton, however, no one else is.
Except Trump, but his is false.
Caption pic yesterday…
A clear winner…and another thought for those who haven’t signed the petition yet
Caption:-
After passing rigourous SFA safety checks Sevco finally opens their new safe standing area at Ibrox!
Today, we have a chance to get Stewart Regan of the SFA to say something, which incidentally is actually the point of the petition -did I mention I’d started one, that I’d like you to sign at the top of the page, with this
Although i wonder what the guy looking at him is thinking…
