If you follow me on Twitter then you will know why there has been something of a hiatus here.
Consequently, over the last couple of days, my thoughts have been concerned with somewhat weightier matters than Planet Fitba.
These included the oppression of Palestinian journalists in the occupied territories and the way in which the Israeli state seeks to compromise foreign media professionals with sanitised junkets.
It is a deadly form of succulent lamb.
I spoke on these issues at the conference and I spent all of yesterday in related correspondence to colleagues.
Then last night it was Statement O’clock from the parody club.
The author was so incensed that they got the date wrong of the match in question.
However, they fixed it when Twitter helpfully pointed out this error.
I received a message from a journalist mate this morning.
In terms of full disclosure, he is a Hibby.
“It’s dripping with self-entitlement isn’t it?” was his observation.
I couldn’t disagree with his assessment.
One of the long-term consequences of the death of Rangers in 2012 was that the tribute act would hit a wall of reality if they pushed the pretence of continuity too far.
Of course, the clientele of the Ibrox Volkstaat have fully bought into this let’s pretend game that the Sevco High Command feeds them.
Moreover, the local media are shamefully collusive in this commercially driven ruse.
However, the rest of Planet Fitba see it for what it is.
Quite frankly, The People are in denial about what happened when the CVA was refused to Rangers six years ago.
The men who had positions of authority in Scottish football warned us all in 2012 that the absence of a Rangers, any Rangers, from the top flight would be disastrous.
They pushed the boat out with the imagery.
“Armageddon”.
“Slow lingering death”.
“Social unrest”.
It sounded like the trailer for something scary on Netflix.
Instead, the new club was, quite properly, forced to start at the bottom of the professional game.
Amazingly nothing happened.
Only one club died.
Rangers.
Now a new chap is about to take over at the SFA.
I wish Mr Maxwell all the best in his new position.
All the reports I have received is that he is a real football guy.
There will be no honeymoon period as he has some difficult issues to confront.
The report from the Compliance Officer on the granting of a European licence to old Rangers in season 2011-2012 should be near the top of his pile.
I’m told from an impeccable source that Sevco’s UEFA licence application was sent off to Nyon with a note attached.
Let’s just say there are some concerns.
Oh, I’m sure a personal assurance from Mr David Cunningham King is all that will be required.
If it doesn’t then you can expect it to be Statement O’clock again very soon.
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St Michael’s RC Primary in Huyton might be pleased Steven wants to enter management. Ibrokes would be a unlikely first job for a brilliant footballer who holds his former manager in such high regard. Suspect Jaba trying to attract the green pound to GASL’s coffers. Hardcore Sevconians unlikely to roll out the welcome mat.
If they dont have their accounts signed off and verified by a professional accounting firm how do they qualify for a place in any euoropean football tournament?
The Gerard / Rangers story has reached BBC Five Live in Ingerland as actual sports news – WTF
Compassion fatigue set it long ago, so I hope 100,000 silly billy bears buy season tickets on the strength of this – it will be hilarious to watch the fallout of:
a) it not happening
b) it happening
c) it doing nothing to resolve the structural problems that are killing Sevco
If fools are foolish enough to spend money on this foolishness then they deserved everything that comes from being fooled by the foolhardy SMSM.
One minute they’re going bust now they’re signing the Scotland keeper , and Stevie G coming to be the new manager ? Stop singing about 10 ! 7 has just about been done . Major improvement needed at Parkhead next season , This lot are going for it next season
Ha Ha!
I said on way out of Hampdump the other weekend
Keep it down or watch for Union Bears demanding we get
reduced allocation next season
as we were enjoying ourselves too much
“Ho ho ho off we go
what do you know its ten in a row bye bye Rangers”
Level 5 must be on double time with news of new players on their way to Ibrox popping up all over the media.
Stevie G as the new manager?
The same Stevie G who flew out to Seville to cheer on the Hoops?
They just love Taigs over at Ibrox apparently. Murty, Stevie G, Alex Neil, Steve Clarke.
Most outrageous suggestion I’ve seen is Wenger with Stevie G as his assistant.
Whats happened to King’s share offer to shareholders?
Has he missed the deadline again?
When will he be called to account?
So where is the cash coming from for Warnock as manager gerrard as assistant arnfield McGregor the other dud and no doubt a few others will be mentioned in this fantasy football they are playing.
You need to laugh at the Bennys upset about hibs cutting their tickets allocation. This is the same bigots that don’t want us at their shite dome because they don’t like us laughing at them and they claim hibs are wrong to cut back on a couple of tickets .But they are forever telling us that no one likes them and they don’t care well it’s obvious they do haha .
Stevie Gs alma mata cardinal heenan high school r.c ????
New man in at SFA and nothing will change I guarantee.
Plus ça change…….. ?
Hi Phil. Just to point out something people forget. You stated that ” quite properly the new club was forced to start at the bottom of the professional game “. It did not. What happened to Spartans and I think other two aspiring clubs before them in the queue ? Were they paid off to shut up ?
If you check back on the blog archive you will see that I had a “Go tell the Spartans!” piece at the time.
Very smart move by Hibs, considering Sevco fans would use the last game of the season to get some revenge mayhem In & around Easter road, due to their shitey season/team/stadium/orange culture falling Into the abyss of self destruct. Not even Jabba can save them now!
Exactly Phil. The firm that paid Brian Laudrup’s wages were liquidated in 2012
A certain individual with excessively high self regard seems to be absent from the FBA finals. Couldn’t happen to a classier fellow …
That would be the chap who refuses to send me a password for his articles despite my paying him considerably more than he asked for access to it – and whenever I object he holds me up for public ridicule?
That would be the chap who revealed name of one of his contributors out of some kind of vendetta?
That would be the chap who spends half his articles berating his readership?
What a pity. Karma’s a bitch.
We should start calling them Calimero FC, Everythings a fucking injustice with them.
Delusion runs deep amongst sevvies of my acquaintance. Completely unable to see that the GASLs appearance at Anfield last night was “optics” designed purely to part them from their hard earned ST cash. And Gary Player is the new kit man.
Oh wee Coco has totally outdone himself this time .He has Venger for the rangers job I put that out last week for a joke this madman is now going with it and Gerrard as his assistant. This guy is definitely smoking some top quality funny fags and drinking the best in the business regarding alcohol intake .The thing is this James Hunt is totally serious when he is saying this have look at shite he emptying out his arse it’s so funny .But he is a Benny that is totally of the radar.I don’t think he could beat this but wee Coco being Coco will be the ultimate thicko and come out and tell us next that his team has some small change around 200 million to spend in the summer you might even get Ronaldo or Salah from Liverpool being mentioned and I’m not joking .
Absolutely disgraceful but typically expected statement from Sevco. Season tickets must soon be needing sold if they are coming out with this pish aimed at appeasing the knuckle dragging sectarian singing bigots, ( yes the majority of there fans ). Its called supply and demand. Hibs fans demand the tickets, Hibs provide them. For Sevco to even question Hibs on anything is quite remarkable. Last time I checked Hibs were a well run club living within there means enjoying a fantastic season with a young exciting manager and team, while Sevco…………!!!!!!!!! I haven’t checked the official Hibs website to see if they had responded with a statement of there own but if they felt the need to then where on earth would they begin, talk about an open goal. Young refugee children being washed up on beaches “beggars belief” idiots who deal in petulance trying to sook up to fans don’t. Please die Sevco along with your self importance and hopefully this time you’ll be buried to deep to re emerge. Scotland’s true shame.
The year sevco were involved in the play-off games, 2014-15 I think. Can anyone other than myself remember the tie between sevco and Hibs? Particularly the ibrokes leg. Every time a Hibs player went to take a throw-in, or corner they were pelted with half eaten food, pizza boxes, drink cups, empty and otherwise and every other piece of crap the sevconians could lay their grubby mitts on. There was NO intervention by the match officials, the stewards or the police. There was NO mention of it in the match observer’s report or the press in the following days despite the fact that it was witnessed by millions on TV and in one corner of the stadium in particular there was so much rubbish piled the Hibs players barely had room to stand to take a corner.
Aye keep the poor wee souls safe.
Wait Until Stevie G takes over…how are Celtic going to cope with Messi n Ronaldo upfront!!!!
IBROX INTEREST IN REMAKE OF THE DEER HUNTER
Much joy briefly befell the arseholes down Govan way. News that Alfie More or Less was to audition for a part in the Deer Hunter remake was the talk of the clowns. The wayward heifer was to play the part of a Vietnamese guard in the infamous scenes of Russian roulette. After many takes, and despite emptying the chamber of his revolver twice, Alfie failed to hit the target and was discarded. It is not thought that his value on the transfer market will be affected.
HAMPDEN TEA-LADY REFLECTS ON DRESSING ROOM
TIFF
Myrtle Knox, a tea-lady at HAMPDEN, reports she was shocked by the noises eminating from the Blue dressing room in the aftermath of the rout in the cup semi-final.
“It reminded me of a dispute in a girls’ dormitory. All this squealing, shrieking and screaming. I was embarrassed.”
Myrtle added “It was a far cry from the whooping and hollering on hearing they had drawn the champions in the cup”.
WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR SIX YEAR OLD SEVCO?
As my maw used to say “It will all come oot in the wash son”.
Here’s hoping the new guy at the SFA has requested the dirty laundry be put through a few extra rinse cycles just for good measure.
Ten cycles should just about do it.
Only if it’s a boil wash. HH
They will come out with more fake news again in a day or so .More freebies to be signed up to keep the Bennys happy and they will lap it up. One mad Benny on follow follow is still praising the Chisler for the work and money he has put into the club .Wee Coco from ibrox noise is cuming in his pants at the Burnley dud and the other freebie from EPL telling us the Burnley dud might not be one of them but he likes to chant simply the best and wee Coco said that will do for him .Ah the Bennys if they had brains they would be dangerous.
Phil,
I do t support either Hibs or the football club currently based at Ibrox so don’t have a dog in this particular fight, but am, as are we all, concerned about safety and wellbeing of supporters, whichever team they follow. I’m fairly sure that if those who choose to support the team currently based at Ibrox arrive, watch the game, and leave again in a well behaved and orderly fashion their safety will not be compromised in any way.
Perhaps this is the author of the statement’s concern as they don’t exactly have a reputation for orderly conduct
You have to give them credit. It can’t be easy to fit that much bile, bitterness, outrage, entitlement and pomposity into five short paragraphs, especially when you have to leave room for petty, vindictive threats as well. Then again, after this season, that threat could prove to be as empty as their stadium is likely to be next season. Even the Sevconuts seem to be seeing through King and all the desperate moonbeams about potential players and managers coming in, just to punt season books.
The note probably says, Mulk, Breed, Fags, Jingur, Dug fid.
Had a right giggle there!
Hi Phil.
Was it not yesterday that all them Krugerrands were to fall into the GASL coffers.
All went very quiet on that front.
Does the contempt of court order cover England,Wales and Norn Irlund.
HH
Whits the PR Guy daein Tom?
WHITS THE PR GUY DAEIN ??
I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but any sign of King’s share offer he promised (no laughing at the back) to make by the 23rd of April, weeks after the final deadline set by the TOP? I ask because I know shareholders who want to accept but have had no word from King or Club. He does seem particularly brash, ignoring their rulings while taking in the Masters and a CL semi-final.
To Phil from a concerned Sevco supporter.
Well done Rangers for standing up to the thugs in Scottish football.Let this go,and things will only get worse.They will be telling us not to sing the Billy boy,or the famine song.They tried to take away our fans right to protect the players at Hamden.Next they will stop our orange parades,and make us stop throwing coins and batteries at Celtic players.Don’t they know WATP who rule Scotland.These problems should be addressed by our esteem chairman DCK, who is the champion of our club.Why do you Phil continue to criticise this great man,don’t you realise DCK will be knighted for his services to Scottish football,following in the football steps of our past great leader SDM.
Another point to mention,Scotland can’t allow Celtic to keep beating Sevco,as it only embarrasses our supporters when they go to work.
Keep up the good work Phil.
They’ve got a cheek, when Hibs where in the championship we played a game at Ibrox, we requested extra tickets and where refused, went to the match an d there where 25,000 empty seats, Karma.
Statements by Jabba have become the norm and are totally embarrassing for Scottish football
Safety they cry haha, where’s the safety when us hibees go to Ibrox and get pummelled with pies, Sevco stewards, sectarian abuse and coins, oh the irony.
Sevconians currently have a petition on Follow Follow demanding Celtic fans get 2k tickets when we visit Ibrokes. Mainly due to being sick of the sight of us partying in the Broomie !!
Thickest fans on the planet without question.
Sion from Switzerland remember them? We lucked out. By mistake they played an illegal player against us in the last two minutes. Their chairman is a bit of a head case, dodgy, and very egocentric. Sounds familiar ? They have just been suspended for two seasons from European football. They didn’t pay a transfer fee to French club Sochaux for a player they signed. ‘Non respect of criteria between licensed clubs.’
So there are strict rules in European football. It’s nice to know.
Legia played the ineligible player. Sion stole a player from an Egyptian club. No transfer fee. Broke his contract. Sion got relegated after fifa did something useful and insisted the corrupt Swiss FA forfeited Sion’s games in which the illegally acquired player featured.
Sion probably never had the Swiss FA doing all they could to lie, deceive and generally cover for their misdemeanours.
Ain’t Scotland great !?!
Pananthanikos just banned as well for 3years
It really was an outstanding statement! Although I am delighted to say that I have seen an alternate draft (if I may share…)
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/wibble-wibble-wibble/
It’s a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham, of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.