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<\/p>\nYou may have noticed that next season, after a journey of four years costing around \u00a3100m of supporters money, Second Rangers will take their place in the Premier League. Yes, i know its called the Scottish Premiership or something these days, but if that lot can call themselves Rangers, then I can call it the Premier league.<\/p>\n
In fact, we can all call anything whatever \u00a0we want these days.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t seem to matter.<\/p>\n
I’ve just bought a Ferrari, for instance.<\/p>\n
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and I’m going to drive it down the sunny California coast.<\/p>\n
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The new club, which has a warning note as a Going Concern attached to its latest set of financial figures is apparently going to save Scottish football.<\/p>\n
And we should all get down on our knees and thank the lord they are here.<\/p>\n
Down on our knees, up to their knees. Something like that.<\/p>\n
Neil Doncaster, somehow still in charge of the SPFL, was over the moon, and not as a result of a kick up the arse from my sturdy Dr. Martens Steelies.<\/p>\n
“There’s no question Rangers being back in the top flight will help Scottish football,”<\/em><\/p>\n “It will certainly drive more interest in the game.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Really ?<\/p>\n If the new club take the place of the old one, and are allowed to continue as though nothing happened, it may be the death of the game. We’ve seen the effect on the spineless goons at the SPFL and SFA when threatened by one club, so how will they react when forty one turn the screws?<\/p>\n Or more accurately, the fans of forty one clubs ?<\/p>\n “It creates the return of Celtic-Rangers matches in the league,” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n No, it doesn’t. It creates the first league clashes between Celtic and a new club, who may well go on to become a new rival, there is certainly potential, \u00a0but little else. their financial situation suggests it may be some time beofre they could be a realistic challenger for honours.<\/p>\n “We’ve got an appetiser in 11 days’ time and up to four main courses to follow next year in the league,”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “Those are genuine global events. For a lot of people around the world that’s what Scottish football means.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I wonder how the rest of the world would view Scottish football if they actually had any inkling of what really happened four years ago. Or perhaps that was the plan all along, keep it in house and hope no-one notices…<\/p>\n “They will turn the eyes of the world towards Scotland and help to commercialise the game for the benefit of all member clubs.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Ah-commercialise the game. Thats the important thing.<\/p>\n We need a club owned and ran by a convicted tax fraudster which has ritually sucked in supporters money by pretending to be something they aren’t, whilst simultaneously ignoring the debts ran up by the previous entity whilst they cheated and lied their way to “success” , to help boost the game up here ?<\/p>\n Is that to boost it in the same way they boosted it under murray ?<\/p>\n The same way they boosted those poor unfortunates who trusted them enough not to ask for money up front when carrying out services ?<\/p>\n The only thing they will boost is the feeling among other supporters that the game in Scotland is finished.<\/p>\n The Resolution 12 issue, the fight to highlight one of the many, many examples of SFA\/SPFL\/ Rangers collusion and exact retribution for the first bout of cheating goes on, and takes on a new importance.<\/p>\n Failure here could open the door for a whole new period of , shall we call it assistance, for the new club, in exactly the same way that the old club benefitted.<\/p>\n Scottish football had the chance to cleanse itself of the stench it surrounded itslef with after the first club went down.<\/p>\n Instead, it helped to set it back up, it helped to ignore what they had done, who had been responsible and taken appropriate action to prevent it happeneing again. They colluded with a succession of new owners, some of whom are already convicted criminals, others who may be about to be, all of whom are experts in what we could call the seamy side of the financial world.<\/p>\n Today, the media are falling over themselves to welcome them back. As though they never went away.<\/p>\n It’s sickening.<\/p>\n And before any supporters of the now defunct Rangers come on and tell me i’m wrong, or bigoted, or whatever else happens to be your default retort this week, it’s you i feel most for.<\/p>\n You got turned around and penetrated from behind.<\/p>\n I would genuinely have liked to see a new club spring up from the ashes.<\/p>\n One prepared to admit its guilt, clean itself up and start afresh.<\/p>\n Football is about fans, whether we get on or not, and the authorities have completely forgotten that. Now its about sponsorship, its about tv deals, and its about money.<\/p>\n Our money.<\/p>\n Well, they ain’t getting mine anymore.<\/p>\n And I don’t think i’m the only one.<\/p>\n Thats not because the Rangers are coming and I’m afraid . Its not because i’m bitter, bigoted or just bloody minded.<\/p>\n It’s because the games a bogey.<\/p>\n And everyone in authority, everyone in the media and everyone running a club seems quite happy with that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have noticed that next season, after a journey of four years costing around \u00a3100m of supporters money, Second Rangers will take their place…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/200_s.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-2jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}