The now traditional Thursday night Rangers post. Have we moved on? Or are we descending further into farce? Nodody seems to know exactly what’s happening. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. But who actually owns the asylum? And will another group of lunatics be happy to take over in the next few weeks? We’ve [...]
“It’s not potential civil war. It’s on.” So threatened an unnamed SPL chairman on Wednesday. The spark of our latest top flight conflagration is a move by the SPL’s non-Old Firm teams to flex their muscles. They want changes to the leagues voting structure which, with an 11-1 mechanism kicking in on certain issues, has [...]
Hibs fans aren’t supposed to like Jim Jefferies. The walking personification of Hearts, he wasn’t put on this earth for us to hold him dear. And largely we don’t like him. But there’s something about Jim. Maybe it’s because, in the constantly evolving modern game, the nostalgic sight of a Wallyford curmudgeon prowling SPL technical [...]
Celtic win the league cup. Quite a lot. Kilmarnock don’t win the leage cup. Not at all. That, basically, is the backstory to a game that pitches the 14 times winners against a team that have lost on their five previous visits to the Scottish League Cup final. This season Kilmarnock have blown hot and [...]
Moan out of the way first: I’m not sure Scottish football is playing to those strengths it still has by scheduling a cup final and an Edinburgh derby on the same day. But that’s just the way it is. So we get on with it. Before the blood pressure starts to rise in Auld Reekie, [...]
Remember this: “Old Firm fans last night reacted furiously after the SPL scheduled 6pm midweek kick-offs away to St Johnstone for both Rangers and Celtic.” Furious they were. Or this: “UEFA have robbed St Johnstone and Hearts of a £165,000 windfall after refusing to allow their Scottish Cup replay to be shown live on TV [...]
Confirmation that Hibs and Aberdeen will contest the Scottish Cup semi final at 12.15 on Saturday 14th April brought forth a predictable reaction. Another chance to join the gnashing of teeth over badly chosen kick off times for semi finals. And should we really be playing this game at Hampden anyway? Such complaints are now [...]
Some interesting discussions today around the SPL TV deal. Would the rest of the clubs vote with their bank accounts and go easy on Rangers to preserve their income from Sky and ESPN? Perhaps. Or so some of us thought. One of the reasons we thought that was because we we were told: “But it [...]
Football attracts wideboys and chancers. Over the years most supporters will have questioned the morality or legality of this director or that chairman. But the collection of charlatans and chancers who seem to have attached themselves to Rangers in recent years must take some beating. Take Dave King, a man still being chased by South [...]
That time of year when each paper has a riff on the same theme: “Hibs fans don’t need reminding that it’s been 110 years since their side won the Scottish Cup.” Well, no. We don’t. Yet everybody does remind us. Constantly. The scraggy punchline of a 110 year joke. Mostly a joke that bludgeons you [...]