It is a strange subculture that sees no issue in celebrating a goal from a Zambian player by singing about a fascist street gang led by a white supremacist.
Sadly, that is what passes for normal in the Ibrox klanbase.
When you take a step back and consider that, you realise that you’re dealing with a very peculiar worldview.
Anyone who can discern the crushingly obvious realises that Sevco’s failure to beat Celtic yesterday means that Ange’s Bhoys will be celebrating when they finally stop at the end of the season.
However, the Ibrox klanbase must be soothed, and that task mainly falls to the Fitba Fourth Estate.
Apparently, the ten-year-old club scored a “moral victory” at Parkhead yesterday.
The primary function of the local media is to pretend that the club currently playing their home games at Ibrox was not formed in 2012.
Therefore, football finance expert David Low has done the state some service.
Only today, he was reminding his Twitter following of some inconvenient facts.
David was in the room with Fergus McCann when Celtic were 15 minutes away from the abyss in 1994.
A decade ago, some folk in public life in Fair Caledonia were very worried that Rangers might be liquidated.
Now the same People expect us to believe that it was only the ahem engine room subsidiary that was extinguished when the creditors rejected the CVA.
This front page from the time, which no one on the sports desk at the Herald could contradict, is forensically accurate.
Powerful vested interests in the media and the football authorities are invested in the survival myth at Ibrox.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is the task of a functioning Fourth Estate to call out such officially sanctioned fictions.
Especially when the Orwellian fable in question facilitates the Herrenvolk worldview of a fascist subculture.
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The klan now refer to Liquidation merely as ” financial problems “( of the holding company). This has been aided and abetted by the Media.
They genuinely believe they were harshly treated.
The claim of relegation only surfaced much later than May 2012, probably by a a few years.
Rewriting of history…..aided and abetted by the Media.
Pandering to the klan has given us scenes like George Sq, Argyll St. Hampden….
Now we’ve trouble in stadiums…and they’re getting worked up by PR guru, aided and abetted by the Media .
Justso,hats off to a simply terrific post,thank you sir for your incisive remarks, since rangers liquidation,I have tried to call out every single example of the continuation lie, the club we grew up acknowledging as our biggest rivals ceased to exist in 2012, no ifs,ands, or buts, the media can spout all the nonsense they wish, facts don’t lie, keep calling out the myth.
“there was no liquidation” ” I have been repeatedly assured no insolvency event took place” “I didn’t realise it was an administration event” “it was only a piece of employment benefit trust” ” the employment benefit trust never left the tupperware box” ” there is no evidence that 54 titles were smuggled inside in a suitcase” ” we have to wait on the Sue Nimmo Smith enquiry” “in a time of Universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
vive la revolution
Terrific piece, measured, restrained, factual. Chapeau.
Interesting. On what basis was the morality of sevco’s result based?
Season 2012-2013. Sevco entered the Scottish League cup at the first round stage. No other team from the previous season’s top division entered at this stage. Why?
European football. Motherwell finished 3rd in season 2011-2012. Why did they enter the qualifying stages of the Champions league when there was a team higher placed in the league?
Why did sevco not play any European football that season despite finishing 2nd in the SPL?
So not only do they say they were relegated but they were also denied a rightfully earned place in Europe and a later stage of the league cup? As Occam’s Razor states, the simplest answer is usually the correct one. The simplest answer is of course that Rangers Football Club were dead. The Norweigan Blues had failed to exist. In it’s place was https://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/sevco-5088-ltd-sevco-scotland-ltd-and-rfc-2012-ltd-which-one-claims-to-be-rangers/
The real question here isn’t were rangers relegated. There was absolutely no mechanism to relegate them. The worst that happened to a club was a hefty points deduction due to administration. There was no need for a penalty for worse than administration because the club fails to exist then. The real question is how did this new club get into the bottom tier of the Scottish leagues ahead of teams such as Spartans? Are we really to believe that all it will take to revive 3rd Lanark is for a new company to be formed?
It’s the same club when it suits them but speak to the liquidators when it doesn’t.
We know rangers fans lurk in here. We know some posters masquerade as Celtic fans on here. It’s a place where you can read intelligent writing and well researched and reasoned arguments as opposed to the immoral and illiterate cess pits of Follow Follow and the like. Let’s hear the response to these points from anyone of a rangers persuasion
JS
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t understand where the moral victory is. The words Rangers* and moral are almost never seen in the same sentence. HH
lets hope they get another moral victory on Thursday. 😉
They wouldn’t recognise a moral victory if it bit them on the arse, mainly due to the blatantly obvious fact that they have/had no morals to begin with.
They made an arse of themselves again with that pathetic post match statement they reported to the sfa. That report looks to be backfiring right back at them.
Roll on next weekend with ‘hertz’ then we can really rub their blue noses in it.
Sevco website: This is the area of the Rangers website for information about Rangers International Football Club PLC, the holding company of The Rangers Football Club Limited.
This is total bull, as if this was the case then RIFC would still be on the hook for the debts of RFC.
Surely there must be a Celtic supporting company lawyer somewhere who can blow a big hole in this mirage?
The Sevco website is correct on this matter.
When Sevco was formed in 2012, it changed its name to The Rangers Football Club Ltd (TRFC). The addition of “The” to the name is significant. The club formerly known as Sevco tries to pretend it’s the same club as the one that went into liquidation the year Sevcio was formed. However TRFC is a different entity from Rangers Football Club Ltd/plc (RFC) which was incorporated in 1899. That club lied, cheated, and dodged tax for over a decade before going bust 10 years ago.
RIFC is not on the hook for the debts of RFC. It is in the hook for the debts of TRFC.
TRFC couldn’t be called RFC because that name was still being used by the dying club. According to Companies House, The liquidated club is now called RFC 2012 P.L.C:
RFC 2012 P.L.C.
Company number: SC004276
Company status: Liquidation
Incorporated on 27 May 1899
Previous company names:
The Rangers Football Club p.l.c. 27 May 1899 – 31 Jul 2012