http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sco...613/Dumping-Gers-in-Div-3-was-fools-goal.html Another Ex-Celt just like Hay and Macari before him hits the nail bang on the head. The Turkey's actually voted for Xmas in this little sh itehole of a country that actually broadcast the game in Gaelic today.... Maybe I'm just plain ignorant, but how many of Scotland's population actually understand this sh ite? I could cry, I really could.
It appears that scottish football fans prefer the chance of financial bankruptcy to undoubted moral bankruptcy. Mind you according to the Greenmeister, that's just "bigoted"
That's a fairly nonsensical argument. It's the fans that have led the call for Rangers to start from the bottom and if fans had anything to do with it, diving, cheating and conning refs would also stop.
Fan power has done so much to irradicate on the field cheating over the last few decades Sporting integrity is all everyone is man, woman and taig is talking about. It will be forgotten about by supporters when the first dive of the season succeeds in winning a penalty or getting a player sent off as it'll be seen as 'just part of the game'. When a player dives, managers, teammates and supporters of the club will defend him. Supporters of of the team that was ****ed over will go nuts. The manager of the fukced over team will call into question the ref's integrity or ability. A dive can cost a club millions of pounds. (Eduardo v Celtic for example.) Talk of sporting integrity in a professional sport is a load of bollocks. Football is business and in business integrity goes right out the window. Clubs and players will take every chance to gain an advantage.
Errr, that's my point. Fan power holds no sway over diving whereas it clearly did over the decisions regarding Rangers entering the SPL / Div 1 etc. So you're saying that because we have a problem of diving in football, then the reasons behind the decision to not allow nouveau Rangers into the SPL (ie they don't deserve it and if it had been anyone else it wouldn't even have been discussed as an option - aka "sporting integrity") is somehow null and void? Who'da thunked it: two wrongs actually do equal a right
I'm not saying that Dev. All I'm saying is that 'sporting integrity' simply does not exist in professional sport and those citing it as a reason for punishing Rangers should be prepared to look at other aspects of the game if it is so important to them. You get caught cheating, you should be get punished. But that doesn't happen all the time. Someone that dives for a penalty will not currently get punished retrospectively even if his club gains a clear advantage - even to the extent of Champion's League Qualification worth millions as in the example I gave. Admiral - if fan's threatened to stay away from games like they did if Rangers remained in the SPL, then it'd stop but of course that won't happen because 'sporting integrity' isn's as important as fans state.
Rangers got what every other club would get (gretna, livingston) so enough with the crocodile tears. Check this arrogance http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/leaguedivision3/4461774/Murray-is-short-on-sympathy.html
I guess the point is that cheating in whatever form it comes is punishable. If a player dives, he can and should be booked. He can even be retrospectively punished. Of course, sometimes he'll get away with it but there are rules in place to minimise the impact on the game. IMO, allowing Rangers in to the SPL would have been akin to the SFA saying we're no longer going to punish diving - it goes on, there's no point in even trying to stop it.
Decent fans in Scotland decided to stand against corruption. They should be applauded from Stranraer to Dingwall. The honest man though err sae poor is King o men for aw that. English gold was all in vain. Doctors, nurses, soldiers, pensioners, disabled benefit dependants the length of Britain will thank the fans of Scottish football fo eradicating those who would deprive these deserving citizens of what is their legal right, but there were those followers of a now defunct club who put their own gratification and oneupmanship ahead of social duty. History will forever record their despicable tax evasion and cheating for more than a decade.
Listen to Jim Speirs interview with Imran Achmed, listen very carefully. Furthermore, BDO will almost certainly challenge the valuation placed on assets. Langmuir has said as did 97percent of fans that there would be no fast track. Talking of glue sniffing I see Hateley thought SEVCO demolished Brechin........2-1 after extra time. Poor guy. Longmuir put him in his place though. Poor Hateley, following in Gazza and Browns footsteps by the look of things.
