Well, it was while it lasted.
Pedro Caixinha, the man who came from nowhere to manage “rangers ” was sent back to obscurity yesterday when the Ibrox board was forced to concede that Pedro Mendes, the former player and now agent, didn’t really have a clue after all.
Except when it came to getting a few of his players and contacts a decent pay poke out of his old pal on the Ibrox board.
The club that rose from the ashes of Celtic’s biggest domestic rivals has stumbled from one farce to another, and happily, after dominating the pantomime season for the last few years, the comedy genius behind this show has stepped up a level for this Christmas.
No one at Celtic was available for comment . Though there was a lot of loud laughter from behind closed doors.
And pretty much everywhere else with connections to Scottish football.
Except Ibrox, and of course the staunch BBC sportsound studio, where fuckwitted lapdog Richard wilson was at pains to assure everyone that things were fine at Ibrox, and astonishingly, the accounts were improving.
Even though they haven’t been published yet, but since there are no real auditors and no real journalists asking questions, it doesn’t matter anyway because they’ll be a load of bollocks.
Stand on the outside and look in with me for a minute.
A club surviving on soft loans from directors gave an unknown manager, reccomended by an agent and former player, £10m to spend, and allowed him to more or less choose who he wanted.
Thats after he had cleaned out a fairly decent set of journeymen and isolated the only guys who could be said to have any real feeling for the club.
Then, just a few months after his spending spree, they show him the door.
No surprise to any diary readers, we’ve been harping on about it for months.
Now, here’s a question..
Was it sabotage, or was it a mistake ?
Actually , there are several questions, none of which will be asked by our media, and yet there are a few glaring issues that those poor gullible sods over on the other side of the river deserve answers to.
We hear that the possibility of a CVA was discussed after the dismissal of Caixinha, and all that remains now is the timing…
Know what ?
Let’s wait for the formal SFA investigation into the whole Ibrox scandal.
All of this, of course matters not a jot to Celtic.
Celtic do not need “rangers ” or any other entity from Ibrox in order to survive or indeed flourish. Neither ddo any of the other major clubs in Scotland, despite what the media may tell us, and indeed them.
Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian are setting themselves up quite nicely for the post Rangers era, and others such as Motherwell, St. johnstone and even Kilmarnock are beginning to show a little more ambition.
Remember, if Celtic manage to get the co efficient higher, that benefits everyone in the long run.
Two teams in the UCL ?
Alright, maybe I’m showing a level of optimism comparable with a man guying a season ticket for the Copland road, but isn’t football about dreams ?
But over at Ibrox, where it seems they are doomed t0 wash, rinse and repaeat througout eternity, the media are back into “it ain’t so bad ” mode.
Actually, though, it’s worse than that.
But the Scottish sports media are either too stupid or too institutionalised to get that.
Instead, and this is perhaps the funniest thing about the whole Caixinha story, are the names of those touted as the clubs next saviour..
Smith, McCoist, MacLeish,. Ferguson, Davies….not a single one of them has got a job at the moment, and there is a reason why.
They are bloody useless, and their use of creative accounting means no one else will go near them. Davies apart, if i say anything about him he’ll come out swinging…
Celtic do not need to get out of Scottish football.
They need to get together with the rest of the clubs and get the people connected with all the shennanigans of the early part of this decade out of football.
Is there not one journalist out there with even the slightest hint of professional integrity ?
I think we know the answer, but I’d love to be proved wrong.
These people have fleeced all of us, especially their own, and surely now enough is enough ?
Throw open the windows and start the spring cleaning.
You never know what you might find.
It’s Friday, and its time for Etims
Knob of the Week
A clear winner this week…
“As much as Celtic supporters and other supporters of clubs in Scotland have enjoyed the moment, it has damaged football in Scotland beyond belief,”
“I live in England and there was always an interest in Scottish football from football fans in England. That’s no longer the case.
“So everyone who rejoiced at Rangers’ problems, I hope they’ve had a rethink and they now see the consequences of that.”
Graeme Souness , out and about this week promoting his new book, which promises to be in the bargain bins at Waterstones by the end of next week, a worthy Etims
Knob of the Week.
Captions…captions…
Caption: This is how it feels to be lonely
This is how it feels to be small
This is what happens when the world
means nothing at all..Nothing at all!
And today.. amidst rumours of someone taking performance enhancing drugs at Ibrox, seriously, I hope he kept the receipt, have a look at this..