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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