Outside the aimsir in Dún na nGall is tauntingly beautiful.
However, we are keeping to our 2 km approved radius around the home place.
In fairness, it is a tiny price to pay when folk are putting their lives on the line in hospital wards.
For the day that’s in it many of us on this island are thinking of the REAL sacrifices that were made in times past.
Easter Monday 1916 was when a few poorly armed revolutionaries stepped out and took on an Empire.
As ever, the ruling elite controlled the mainstream media.
However, the rebels used the means at their disposal to get their message out.
That printing press in Liberty Hall was their equivalent of a blog.
The imperium that they fought in Easter Week is now dead.
Moreover, Britain’s bought and paid for functionaries are long forgotten.
The Rebels though are immortal.
Fuair siad bás ar son saoirse na hÉireann.
Who fears to speak?
I was reared in a political tradition that stated that there are things that are bigger than little you.
Consequently, giving your all to that which is more significant than yourself is something that is to be encouraged.
Essentially, don’t be a self-absorbed prick.
Over the weekend Planet Fitba indulged in a petty squabble while mass graves were being dug in Britain.
When you see that awful image and take it on board then finishing off a football season is further down the league table of priorities than Hearts.
Most of the embarrassing shit that has happened in Planet Fitba over the last couple of decades can be traced back to the foot-stamping demands of the Ibrox brand.
Firstly, there was no corporate oversight from the SFA as the financial doping and tax scams of the Murray years eventually made the club worth only a pound.
Then there was the pretence that 2012 didn’t happen and it was the only the Engine Room Subsidiary that died.
For the avoidance of doubt, this most recent portion of embarrassing shit is wrapped in the traditional Norwegian Blue of Sevco.
Since the Off Licence Putsch of 2015 several well-placed sources have been saying very much the same thing to me:
One big, unforeseen bill will kill the new club.
Well, what they are facing now isn’t an unpayable invoice, but rather the fact that their revenue has fallen off a cliff.
Of course, ALL clubs are in the same situation, but Sevco have been running on financial fumes and emergency loans.
However, given that they’re in the pretence game the entire shambles must be bent out of shape to suit a fictional narrative.
Here are a couple of inconvenient truths:
- Sevco are skint.
- They do not want their fans to know that.
The simple way for them to access prize money for being “simply the second best” is for the league to be called.
However, that would piss off Sevco’s klanbase.
While there were still games to be played, it was clear, even to the home crowd at Ibrox, that Mr Gerard’s Gumtree Galacticos had failed in every domestic competition.
Now Sevco’s shills in the Stenography Corps are trying to put forward a case that Sevco should be given the Pandemic Cup.
Perhaps that exciting addition to the Ibrox squad Nullan Void can save the day.
Meanwhile, the world is at war, and you can keep track of it here.
The Big Fella told me one thing I should keep an eye on was deaths per million.
It is currently running at 167 in the UK and 68 in this Republic.
Unfortunately, we share a land border with a rogue state.
However, one day I’m sure that we won’t, and the border will start at the sea.
There is no doubt that we were slow here to implement the necessary preventative measures.
Time is crucial, and our lockdown should probably have come a week or ten days earlier.
However, we never bought into the Brit “herd immunity” bollox.
There were shameful scenes in Temple Bar of packed pubs full of suicidal gobshites.
Thankfully the nation of the townlands reared up, and the government finally acted.
Outside my window tá an ghrian ag taitneamh.
That is in marked contrast to my mood as I think of the broken moral compass at Ibrox.
It certainly does shine an unforgiving light onto their penchant for Poppy Porn.
Indeed, one of the few things they do well there is pretence.
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No matter how loud the noises are coming from Ibrox it’s come as a shock to their board and fans alike that they are no longer top dog and their attempts to Null and Void have fallen on deaf ears.
No matter, the media will continue to muddy the waters and ignore the real elephant in the room, the Ibrox club’s finances.
King has jumped ship and headed back to South Africa. Not entirely clear as to what future financial contribution will be forthcoming from him.
Park and son’s business interests will be under severe pressure with no one buying cars nor hiring busses because of the impact of the pandemic. Even when this is behind us the need for companies to generate cash will see huge discounts across the board.
Looks as if it will be the men from the Far East who will have to shoulder the load in the meantime but they didn’t get rich running loss making companies. With another huge loss certain in the current financial year and Celtic having the CL spot tied up the only way to turn the numbers around is to sell their bestest players. Even that, following the pandemic, will not see the likes of the millions previously being mooted by the club and their media lackeys coming forth.
When the furore around the SPFL voting comings and goings, fanned by a compliant media, is behind us, there will be a clearer picture of what state our clubs are in.
Continuing to run at a loss in future will be a lot less acceptable to board members around the leagues who will have seen their own personal net worth take a hit during the Pandemic.
The blue touchpaper has been well and truly lit.
The Null and Void brigade is out in force with their fans demanding that the club back up their claims of bribery and corruption by publishing the evidence.
The SPFL Chairman has previously requested that this ‘evidence’ is passed to him so that any appropriate action required can be put in motion.
So come on Rangers, put up or shut up.
All this Whats App stuff looks like smoke and mirrors.
The claim that Helms at Dundee has been bribed by a top league club with the offer of a lucrative pre restart friendly is just ridiculous.
In the current environment I doubt if friendlies against Real Madrdid or Barcelona would be particularly lucrative never mind the visit of any another Scottish club.
If the Dundee vote turns out to be a YES then the proposals all go through and the lower leagues can be wrapped up with the top league set to follow in a few weeks as it’s apparent that the chances of playing the outstanding games is next to nil.
No doubt the very minute Dundee’s YES vote becomes official another statement o clock will be emanating from Ibrox.
We can expect the new PR guru to be leading from the front with King and Park encouraging from the sidelines.
Will we get confirmation that the bribery and corruption evidence has been passed to the SPFL?
Unlike previous declarations made by the previous Rangers to the SFA it would be advisable for the SPFL to check the veracity of these claims rather than except them as fact before acting on them.
Today would be as good a day as any to publish their evidence of bribery and corruption.
Stand by, latest statement on it’s way.
Ah, the old “invented the concentration camp” lie – you like that one, don’t you? Gets a regular airing in the repetitious but euro-earning tosh you frequently post. Conflating what camps there were in South Africa with the murderous excesses of Nazism – another of your wee pets which gets lapped up every time it appears. Sure, you’re a rascal, Phil. A rascal.
Can any Rangers fan on here please explain why you can’t call the team who is first at present champions but you can call second place and award prize money accordingly. I am baffled by this logic
JG
If you are so smart why the apostrophe in joiner’s?
It’s Tuesday already and Park the Rookie Chairman has not shown his evidence of wrongdoing nor apologised for his tirade of abuse.
Park personally made the allegations and it must be Park who steps forth. Not a statement from factotum Robertson.
John Nelms at Dundee is expected to come out today with a YES vote backing the SPFL. The SPFL solution is the lesser of all evils and has 85% backing.
The Sevco dark plan to spike the SPFL vote didn’t work and the outraged reaction by Inverness and Sevco betrayed their pernicious premeditated manoeuvrings.
I have criticised you recently but you are on the money here.
You know Sevco are in real trouble when the Daily Record currently has this as their main on-line football headline while they try to come up with something else. (basically an ex rangers scout once seen didier drogba play football before he became famous).
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/former-rangers-scout-didier-drogba-21860622
Send them this
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/archives/news/63805/sorry-mate-youll-never-get-a-place-in-this-team/
Is it true that the SPFL whistleblower has been codenamed ‘Deep Flute’ ?
I disagree with most of your Irish blarney stuff, dislike your take on the UK (which includes Scotland) and rarely believe a word of what you write about Northern Ireland, which is British until the majority decide to vote otherwise. 100 years of gunmen in one way or another has not changed that. The bullet never worked.
I do believe Donegal is a beautiful place and the people are good too.
India was a brutal dark satanic land ruled by ruthless torturing exploitative Maharajas before the UK turned up. A UK that included all Ireland and boy did Ireland do well out of India.
The 1916 uprising was a futile gesture by ill disciplined, zero military skills, poorly led incompetents. A school teacher ‘leading’ 1,250 against 17,000 professional troops in Dublin with 100,000 other troops in Ireland. Mind numbingly stupid stuff. What lies were the 1,250 told? All Ireland would join in? Duped illiterates.
It’s your blog and you have the freedoms to write what you like. Your readers have the right to disagree with it.
Some copyrighted ideas on the SPFL:
Every game left in Calendar 19/20 can be played in Calendar 20/21 as a double up on next season’s games. E.g. Celtic’s remaining 8 games, home or away, are going to be played anyway in 20/21 so count the result twice in those games (for this season and next season).
This could be replicated all over the world. Count the results from next season twice in the outstanding games.
I have copyrighted ©️JackieGleason 2020. this idea and not just for football.
Prize monies for this season can be awarded based on everyone getting the last club in the league prize money and the balances paid on final standings. The leagues are then won on sporting merit. Clubs get money now as needed. More in future.
Well you may have copyrighted it Jackie but it’s not an original idea. An eminently sensible idea but one originally posted on here by John O’Donnell of Brisbane on the16th March.
I thought about it a long time ago and realised it didn’t resolve the next CL and EL entries. The idea therefore becomes a confirmatory sporting integrity approach.
The leagues must therefore be frozen and placings awarded now but confirmed by the idea.
Everyone knows CELTIC will be first (98.87% v 1.13%) and Sevco second. The approach will simply confirm it 100% correct.
No asterisk on the title. It would be a 100% 9 titles not a 8 1/2 titles or 8.9887 titles.
Sorry Jackie but that won’t work. Teams will buy players, lose players in the next transfer window. Too many variables. If a team significantly improves its squad then it would be unfair to count it towards the previous season. And that’s not even considering promotion/ relegation issues
Aye. My initial reaction was to think that this was a simple and easy solution. But you’re right. when you follow the logic of what changes take place, in every club, during a close season it wouldn’t work.
Regarding your copyright idea….not for me.
Say, Hearts win 2 games but still get relegated. Does the promoted team get 6 points to start the season ?
Teams in the bottom six could accrue points against (say Hearts )and then not be awarded them at start of 20/21 season.
Madness would ensue.
We can t even get a verdict on a viable , plausible resolution with an 85% YES vote.
Oh aye, another thing. Illiterates? What total tosh! The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded twice to Irishmen In the three years immediately following the establishment of the free state in 1922.
JackieGleason2020- I take it you like hearing and seeing your own name, otherwise why copyright a sport scenario and label it after yourself. Your first statement on Irish blarney summed you up from the get go, an arrogant self believing twat who for your own self worth would label people who made a choice to stand up and be counted after years of suffering at the hand of tyranny as illiterate. You suggest Ireland did very well out of the raping and pillaging of India, would that have been the rich British born land owners who brought an expertise in suppressing indigenous populations with them.. I would also suggest that the only teams in the league that are making all the fuss are the ones with most to lose and funnily enough teams founded on bigatry. You lot have nothing left but to through tantrums to try and force through your own unsportmanlike agendas, but that doesn’t bother you because you have cheated that long you don’t know the difference anymore.
To be fair, I have to take back the illiterate comment. I’ve just done some online research and by 1911 literacy levels in Ireland had reached around 87% with illiteracy estimated in 1916 to be around 9%.
I had in my mind the figures circa 1880 before classroom education took off. Education and literacy go hand in hand. Indeed the policy on education in Ireland facilitated much higher levels of literacy which undoubtedly facilitated the uprising through printed media.
Raping and pillaging of India? Reminds me of Monty Python, Life of Brian, what did the Romans ever do for us? Then several chip in with dozens of examples.
UK in India: stopped inter state wars between maharajas, brought law and order, roads, railroads, Christianity, banished idols and superstition, literacy, schools, colleges, universities, efficient agriculture, water irrigation, science, medicine, engineering, philosophy, theology, telegraph system, mail system, newspapers, sanitation – toilets, behaviours violence curbed, middle classes, professional classes, trade classes, international trade, Cured illnesses, longer life expectancy, indians prospered and travelled the empire, employment, Indian civil service, training in management and administration, construction; schools, hospitals, banks, post offices, universities, palaces, homes, offices,… trades and trade groups, mechanics, electricians, Joiner’s, …. plumbing, electricity, animal husbandry, and on it goes.
India benefits from the Raj to this day. Gandhi is an exemplar, a British trained schoolboy, solicitor and Administrator.
You must try and remain cool headed and less hot and bothered whilst in discourse. Try and remain dispassionate and cool your heels. Personal abuse simply reflects badly upon yourself. A simple reference to Irish early 20th century literacy rates would have sufficed.
Jackie,
I think that your error apropos literacy rates in this country was rather revealing.
Your advice to Achill Island Mick to remain cool-headed displays a lack of self-awareness that is redolent of the Ibrox subculture.
As for the “benefit” of the British imperialism in India I would suggest you read Shashi Tharoor’s magisterial work “Inglorious Empire”.
For your homework read the first chapter “the looting of India”.
Phil,
The 1,250 heroes could have Easily come from the 1916 aforementioned 9%.
Mick, in the interest of continuous improvement its “bigotry” not “bigatry” spellcheck even sorts that. I had to override it to get “bigatry” on the screen. Keep working on your literacy.
If I make an error I put my hand up and correct it. Too many in here double down on their errors.
I will not read Tharoor. It’s one guy’s opinion. It’s about the past. No human society is perfect, I mostly focus on the modern world and the future.
My self-awareness is razor sharp.
The “one guy” is an Indian historian.
By dismissing him you reveal your denial of Briain’s shameful plunder of India.
Aon rud eile- trolls don’t last long here and you’re a troll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4&t=6s
Couldn’t help yourself Jackie opting to pick out a spelling mistake to make yourself feel more important. Big deal, you understood what was written. The problem with people like you is that you live in a blinkered world and no matter what compelling evidence is put in front of you, in your wisdom choose only to pick and choose what rests easy for you to excuse atrocities carried out in the name of imperialism. You spoke about bringing christianity to India which was tried in ireland by outlawing Catholicism, starved people and gave them an option to keep their religion and starve to death or become a protestant and receive food. My apology for calling you a twat earlier on in our conversation as I really don’t wish to cause offence to twats by labelling you one. Have a good day.
Pity you don’t do your historical research BEFORE making outrageous, erroneous and offensive remarks in print!
There were Universities in ancient India 1500 years before the birth of Christ. They had a civilisation that was already ancient when the peoples of these Islands were still living in mud huts.
After reading that, are you the Jackie Gleason who was in the honeymooners?
Jackie,
Your comment above is highly revealing about your misconceptions regarding Irish and Indian history.
Your personalised comments about Irish and Indian people are, I’m afraid, insulting, prejudiced and frankly, racist.
Your presumptions about supremacism, civilising influence and the benefits of colonialism will be familiar to many of us around the world who, like my own people, were the victims of such attitudes.
I would respectfully suggest reading up on such subjects in detail before sharing your opinions in public.
Get that JCB driver to dig another trench – one specially for sevco!!
On that website, Belarus deaths per million 2. No lockdown football season in full swing.
They also do quite a good job of hiding this page: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/
Scroll down to the first table it’s very interesting.
So the Scott Gardner character at Inverness Caley getting involved in something that he has no sway in at the club what a chancer . Cheerleading for sevco and their doppleganger brother club from Edinburgh where he had connections there as well . His phone call getting cut short (no joke intended) on radio shortbread because his dog needed a pee how convenient before he could be seriously challenged on anything , as well the sevco statement coming out at exactly the same time . Oh dear they talk about a coincidence with the SPFL while they push this out .
There is an annoying smugness sometimes in your pieces ,Phil. In what sense is the UK a “rogue state”? I am a supporter of independence for Scotland, and have been since the early 1980’s. I consider myself a Scottish nationalist and an Irish nationalist. Yes, the formation of the six counties in the twenties was a huge mistake, and Britain’s turning of a blind eye to what went on there in the period 1922-69 was an abject disgrace.But a “rogue state” ?
What is just about to happen in the 26 counties seems more worthy of comment from you. The two parties deriving from the two armed groups which fought out the Civil War ( which you rarely mention)are about to enter an agreement to go into government together because neither of them will go into government with your party, a party which they demand the Unionists accept as coalition government partners in the six counties. Not something to be proud of .
Inventing the Concentration Camp and raping India for centuries certainly comes under the category of “rogue state”.
However, I was referring to the UK’s response to Covid19.
No other state believed in the “herd immunity” nonsense.
Rogue states are dangerous to the rest of us.
Sadly we in the ROI share a land border with one of them.
Go figure out what made the River Clyde a major shipbuilding place during Empire.
Also, ask yourself why Scottish banks prospered exponentially during the Empire.
Also, you might want to ask yourself why so many afro-caribbeans have surnames such ad Campbell, Cameron, McLeod, etc..
Then you might begin to comprehend what Phil meant by “Rogue State”.
It is ludicrous to say that in 2020 that the UK is a “rogue state”. Would you say France was a rogue state because of what happened in South East Asia? Or Germany a rogue state because of what happened in South West Africa? Or Italy a rogue state because what happened in Ethiopia? Or the USA a rogue state for the destruction of the indigenous peoples and the destruction of Vietnam? Where is the realpolitik ? That kind of “rogue nation” talk is juvenile.
You should re-read my comment or stay away.
Either works for me.
Well you made reference to concentration camps and India, and Steven Rowan referred to shipbuilding, banking, and slave plantations in the Caribbean. But you were only meaning Covid ?. So, some people in the UK government having a misplaced belief in “herd immunity” makes the UK a “rogue state”? Nonsense.
and I see you continue ignore my point about the two Civil War parties joining forces to keep Sinn Fein out of power in the 26 Counties? How would you describe that ?
In c. 2010/11 the country of Libia had the highest Human Development Index (HDI) of any country in the whole of Africa. That made it the most prosperous country in Africa to live in, HDI being decided by factors such as rates of Child Malnutrition Rates, Post-Natal Mortality Rates, Illiteracy and Freedom from Poverty Rates. Britain along with France and America decided then, to unilatteraly bomb Lybia, under Mustaff Gaddafi, back into the Stoneage…for what reason?
Could it have been because Col. Gaddafi had plans to irrigate the Sahara? Or because he believed in a United Africa that one day might stand up to the WASP politik that rules the world today -and keeps two thirds of the majority world living on two dollars a day?
That would make Britain a “Rogue State” in my book! And of course it was illegal, like Iraq War and intervention in Syria…. As they say in America
“There Is Only One Law, American Law.”
America spends a quarter of its GDP on its War Machine. We kneel and bow to a Golden Calf called American Trident. Our future prosperity is assured by Weapons of Mass Destruction and the press of a nuclear red button, as is the paralleled poverty of the rest od the world and the destruction of the world itself.
America has Military Bases in how many countries? It’s easier to count the ones it hasn’t. Yet nothing changes. How many American named hospitals outside of America can you name? Cen Nil Fath? Could it be because they haven’t built any?
This is the reason the poor souls are risking everything to flee Sub-Saharan Africa and the reason Europe has a Refugee crisis.
Being British wont get you into Heaven. It is the poor, the humble, the innocent, the helpful to those in need, those who hungered and thirsted for what is right on earth whom you will meet there, if you are good enough to get there.
Lol Charlie Nicholas on Sky earlier today having a go at the people in charge of the SPFL . What an embarrassment this guy is , he stood there on that interview today as if he was auditioning for the X-factor pointing fingers and arms out . He needs to sober up before he is back on the TV as he could hardly string two words together . It was follow the bouncing ball material Janet and John eat your heart out . He even went on to say when he did put a sentence together sevco are back with a bit of power . Oh dear now with Charlie giving out advice like that no wonder all his business adventures failed . Sevco back with a bit of power already running on empty and needing £10 million quid plus to see out the season no money to pay players or anyone else’s wages and this clown tells us sevco are back with a bit of power . Once again this is the guy that got the gig at Sky you wonder who failed it .
We are potentially looking at 8 to 9 months without crowds at football games. They are finished, and even our own club will be contemplating some dark decisions. The elephant in the room, contrary to the Sunday mail blogger, isn’t null and void, its whether to save the basket of assets bolted together by Charles of Normandy. How is that to be done without the rest of Scottish football being cheated once again. If it is to be saved how can we be assured that they never threaten the future of the game in Scotland again with uncontrolled spending of money they don’t have and cannot generate through football operations. If they go its difficult to see a second tribute act rising from the ashes ala 2012, but we loose 50000 paying punters from the game in Scotland. There is the real debate in Scottish football and we better get on with it , we know what happens when the authorities are left to their own devices.
Sevco were working on overtime for the last week on finding a way to ask for money while not being seen as asking for money. They asked for the prize money to be distributed straight away, without declaring the league standing, when that was proved not to be a viable solution they screamed and cried foul play. When they were asked for evidence of foul play they couldn’t show any. So the SPFL continued on it way and pointed out that all clubs had the facility to apply for a loan at any time they wanted. Sevco screamed- there see they could have gave clubs the prize money.
Now this is what I have been told from an ex referee: Any club could apply for a loan but it could not be taken from prize money, as that is by law not for the SPFL to give until they complete their obligations in fulfilling a season outcome.
Any club applying for a loan from the SPFL would need to also submit their accounts/liabilities and security’s from the date the loan request is made. The loan as far as he is aware was only in the region of £10,00 to £100.000
This is where it all goes tits up for sevco. £100.000 even if they got it would not be nearly enough to see out the rest of the season. Even worse is if they had to hand in their real accounts and liabilities to be scrutinised by the SPFL’s accounts then they would be in deeper trouble they find themselves in at the moment. EUFA rules on debt and all that.
With regard the vote on ending the season, Taking Sevco out of the equation it was clear to all clubs that undue influence ( most suspect Lawell and Celtic ) was being applied. The vote was a disaster from the start as all ( well most ) would vote in their own self interest ( and who could blame them ). However, you herald the great Turnbull Hutton and rightly so, but there is a new kid on the block in the shape of ICT. They stood up and were counted ( unlike the Dundee vote that mysteriously went ” missing ” ). They could see the dark forces at work and refused to play. There is no reason what so ever to link paying out money to the clubs and league standings. Celtic are desperate for the title ( one that they can’t rightly claim until it’s mathematically proved otherwise ) and the smoke screen of wanting to play the games has been blown out the water.
Pay out the money ( even in the unlikely event of the games being played ) to league placings as they stand and wait and see what the future brings. We may not even get any games NEXT season never mind finishing this one.
Remove the blackmail threat of no cash until they vote yes and see how the clubs vote then.
Interesting post but your views are so anti Celtic, it beggars belief.
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You refer to the ICT CEO as being the kid to stand up for what’s right. However you fail to mention the same paragon of virtue is reputedly a die hard Sevco fan, he was also previously employed by Rangers (the original one) and there are stories going about that another offer of employment from the new club, may be forthcoming, if he voted No.
2
How can Sevco be paid out second place money when they can be overtaken by Motherwell and Aberdeen.
3
I don’t think it would be a wise move by the SPFL to offer Sevco a sizeable loan considering, if the rumours are correct, they wouldn’t be in a position to repay the money and that money would be lost to Scottish football.
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You’re last paragraph has no foundation in fact, I don’t think I need to expand on that.
Let’s face it you’re real agenda here is to say and do anything that ignores the SPFL rules on finishing the season early and that stops the league leaders being (rightly) awarded the title.
Are you stupid or do you just have no concept of what you are talking about.
Prize money can’t be handed out until the season is finished/declared over. There are 3 options
(1)You can declare the season as null and void and therefore there is NO prize money.
(2) call the season just now as the table stands and pay out prize money
(3)If you want the prize money but don’t want to declare the season just now, you have to wait to play the remaining games.
Depending on how long we have to wait to play football could interfere with next season and the new TV deal.
Thats your options, it’s not really hard to get your head around.
The Janes Thomas guy that has posted sounds like the guy that phoned up radio snyde last week wanting to make Celtic champions but looking for sevco to get the champions league place because they are still in Europe . I know you could not make it up .
Do you remember those ‘big’ games of street football when we were young. Was the ball in or not ? There was usually one smart one in the team who could compromise. If it wasn’t a goal then we’ll be happy with a penalty. It was an absurd case back then.
When I heard the call on Snyde last week it brought that scenario back to mind. Absolutely no rhrymn or reason to his point and I was glad that it was laughed at.
I’m not too sure how this is going to end but if as I expect it will be the end of the Sevco experiment then so be it.
They will die kicking and screaming.
One of the few things I’d disagree with you is the categorisation of the pandemic as a war…it’s a virus….using this war terminology allows, in that order, Trump, Johnson and Varadkar to suppress dissent. If you criticize any aspect of their conduct then you’re in essence aiding the enemy….you’re unpatriotic…and if we accept the analogy of a war then, as we have seen from every crisis from 9/11 to the current pandemic, these terrible governments receive a boost, and when finally covid19 is behind us they’ll use their faux heroism for narrow political advantage…
It seems long like such a long time ago now, but when the TRFC home game against Livi was postponed due to a storm ravaged pitch – to be played just 24 hours later, and during the tail end of the same storm, during continuing, high winds…
it trumpeted to the whole of Scottish football that the Ibrox club was running on fumes. One postponed home game was simply not the best for Stewart Robertson’s cash flow forecast. The additional, match day revenue was a mandatory requirement for the bank account balance on the Monday morning.
There are as no wiggle room back then.: then the lockdown hit.
I’d guess there is negligible goodwill towards TRFC from most other clubs. You reap what you sow.
It would have been ideal if TRFC had actually died on Friday – but never to be resurrected as The The Rangers. 🙂