So HMRC have finally put their foot down as a major creditor and have voted against Rangers pushing through a CVA. This means Rangers are to be liquidated, and the club with all its history is effectively gone. As we have seen in the past when clubs have fallen this way, they have dropped into Non-League football and had to fight their way back. Will this happen to Rangers as it should? After all, it will be a brand new club simply using the name Rangers. With the SPL being in such bad shape, it is very likely that SPL clubs will vote to allow the new club a slot in the SPL simply because of their away support and the money that brings. Yes, some sanctions will be agreed, but is this right? Surely New Rangers should, at the very least, start in the Third Division and earn the right to play in the SPL. The key here is that Rangers FC as we knew it is gone. Yes, the new club may play in the same kit and use the same name, but the old club is gone. Should New Rangers go straight into the SPL it will be a complete farce. The message will be that clubs can go an overspend, get liquidated - yes, not administration - and simply restart in the same Division. Sorry, with football spiralling dangerously out of control thanks mainly to massively overpaid players, New Rangers should restart at the bottom. If Inverness had gone into admin and HMRC were their major creditor and shut them down, would the SPL have blinked? No, and a new Callie would probably have had to start in the Highland League. I am against any club getting preferential treatment for going out of existence. Yes, it is hard on the fans, but football needs to clean its act up and start taking better care of its fans. Instead football is taking advantage of the fans, knowing they stay loyal to their clubs. It's not as if fans just go and switch brands when they are unhappy with their team (except for the new fans Scum attract each season), so football takes advantage of this loyalty and behaves as it wishes. Monday night games, staggered kick-offs on a Saturday, insane wages, bad behaviour, diving, rolling about, you name it...just a lack of respect for the fans. So back to New Rangers. The old club behaved very badly in putting itself at risk and now its gone. New Rangers? Start at the bottom and send a message once and for all. Football fans don't want or need shyster owners running their clubs into the ground.
