Another day, another fiddle in the 'Rangers' saga.
What began with tax fiddling and grew with dubious new owners develops each day into a soap opera of a dimension so strange that no scriptwriter would dare attempt it. The 'Rangers Football Club' has proved unsaveable and will pass into liquidation (when?) and the latest owner, who may or may not have the money, has attempted to force his way int Scotland's top division (the Scottish premier League) and failed. He has then attempted to enter the Scottish Football League (the lower division in Scotland) and his friends (one Mr Regan) in the Scottish Football Association (the governing body) and The Scottish premier League (one Mr Donaldson)
are doing his work for him there.
Various threats have been issued, and those connected with the Ibrox club have issued many threats this year, threats have been issued to the SF: members that refusal to obey the wishes of those in charge could see millions lost to the game as SKY TV pull out (Sky deny they will pull out)
and several SPL clubs failing and dying. Loss of cash will affect the lower divisions leaving many of them to go to the wall also. Clubs are worried, rightly, and annoyed at the threatening manner in which this debacle takes place.
On Friday the SFL clubs meet to decide the new 'Rangers' fate. This club has no accounts, no players, and a dubious owner. Whether he has the cash to keep his 'newco' afloat is unclear, his long term intentions are just as unclear. The clubs today discovered a new twist in the corruption within Scotland's football. The SFL leaders now wish tod ecide by themselves where this club plays. Clearly most wish them to begin at the bottom, Division 3, but this idea will simply place them into Division 1 so, they say, to stop money being lost to the game! This is a disgrace and hopefully the smaller clubs will stand up to this! Disgraceful!
There can be little sympathy anywhere for any Ibrox club today. The bullying gerrymandering of Regan, Donaldson and others reveals the depth of corruption and desperation to keep a sinking ship afloat. I begin to think dumping 'Rangers' out of the game altogether is the only way forward, followed by the personnel responsible for this mess. It is time for UEFA and FIFA to step in. Their rules have been broken, Rangers did go to the Scottish courts to overturn a lenient punishment (which as yet has not been reheard), the shambles behind the scene to keep this club afloat shows the bias within Hampden, and to save the game, with the season less than a month away, someone has to take control NOW!
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6 comments:
I heard about this bizarre story on the radio. Despite having no interest in football, even I am shaking my head. Rangers(2012)Plc. is, so far, pretty much an imaginary entity, yet it's demanding to step into the position that a previous, bankrupt, company with a similar name had. I agree with you, they're a new entity, let them start at the bottom and work their way up on merit alone.
The other news item was about Manchester United. A big name, with big money players and facilities, yet carrying a debt of £485,000,000. They claim to have 25 million in the piggy-bank. Now, to me, that means they'ye got £460,000,000 they have no means of paying off.
If that were me, and I owed £4,850 and was continuing to spend, and had no means of paying it off, and my debt was rising faster than my income, then you could bet I'd be surrounded by baliffs and in the bankruptcy court before I could draw breath. How is it these people can continue to run a business which is so deep in debt it's got wallabies coming out of the cellars? Why aren't they jailed for fraud?
Soub, these are two very different situations.
Rangers have always had far too much influence behind the scenes. The media live off them and support them, and high up have many shares in the. The fans are the ones today demanding this stops but behind the scenes much is wrong.
Man United were a well run company until the Glazers, an American family, thought they were buying a franchise! They borrowed £600 million to buy the club and used the club as security! Otherwise Man U were OK! They would have done more but fergie slapped them around I reckon! Some folks who run clubs should be banned.
I know nothing about football. Ummm... I still know nothing about football. But I wanted to say, "Hi."
So Hi Adullamite. Hope you have a blessed Sunday. Maybe even a bit of sunshine.
xxx
There's no a team like the Glasgow Rangers. Or just no a team...
This sounds like complete gibberish on an unimportant topic. Just saying.
RDG, Hi sweetie xx
Mike, No team like Sevco....
Max, Everything to do with the SFA is rubbish!
and it is IMPORTANT!!!!!
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