Apologies for the football thread cross-boarded to GC but this is a national news story and I feel that the TV media, the printed press and even over-interested bloggers have missed the real source of Rangers current plight. They had an unsustainable business model that was built on attempting to follow a dreram - some might say, a moonbeam dream, of attaining records for successive championship-winning teams and taking back to Ibrox the holy grail of European football. They had a chairman obsessed with his own cult of personality and wishing to be regarded as a legend within Scottish life. Between 1965 and 1986, Rangers won 3 titles which amounts to probably the most barren twenty season period in their history - clearly this hurted and they attempted to "right these wrongs". They were driven to previously unseen levels of spending in order to etch their club's proud name and the name of their owner in history - giving rise to the mantra of "For every fiver Celtic spend, we will spend a tenner". Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the architect of Rangers financial downfall: please log in to view this image Without a ****ing legend setting the benchmarks they chased unsustainably, Rangers would be a trading entity today. Without Jock's nine-in-a-row, they would've had no world record to chase. Without Jock's European Cup win and, frankly, stunning European record, they would've had no continental benchmark to follow. All Hail Big Jock. Still smashing the Huns from beyond the grave
Yes indeed it is cold in his shadow. Unfortunately for Rangers, fur coats and gloves and the other paraphernalia required for keeing warm did not come cheap, so expensive are these togs that Rangers robbed Peter to pay Paul. Aided and abetted by the Meeja, they were able to ignore such trivialities as massive overdrafts and unsustainable wages in an attempt to escape the shadow of Jock. They failed, as anyone with any sense could have predicted.
What a load of ****e I love how you try to portray your self as some sort of internet wordsmith, when in reality, you make coffee for the movers and shakers at the SQA. <choochoo>
Then it's newsworthy fun and games. I put a lot of effort into this WUM as well - should've left a bigger GAP (mind it) before the picture for comedic effect.
It's packed to the brim with FACTs, has a misleading bit at the start and looks at a current affairs story in a slightly different light. I'm very proud of it.
You may reside in the great Muff, better known as Plimuff, but i do actually agree with ya on this one. But i say let em have their moment, may be the last chance saloon.
