These are indeed strange days for the Ibrox klanbase.
Since their new club was created in 2012, they have always been able to celebrate great triumphs when there were no football matches.
For example, I cannot remember any summer in the last decade when Sevco did not win the Training Camp Cup that year.
The intrepid chaps in the Stenography Corps would regale their dwindling readership with fantastic tales of how the new pioneers were getting match fit for the coming campaign.
In this unique midseason break, I expected they would be victorious in the World Cup Break Cup.
Instead, more legal trouble looms as the decision to pull out of the Sydney Super Cup has thrown the Sevco High Command under the bus Down Under.
Another legal bill in the offing?
Of course, when the Blue Room brethren realised that their fans were revolting, they had little choice regardless of the final bill for their volte-face.
The main thing that the Ibrox klanbase wants to hear now is that Mr Giovanni has been relieved of his duties at the ten-year-old club.
Consequently, this from Dutch sports journalist Marcel Van Der Kraan was not good news for the People.
The Ibrox klanbase, emotionally fragile at the best of times, needs a constant supply of feel-good pish from the Stenography Corps regardless of the facts on the ground.
For the avoidance of doubt, this isn’t the best of times.
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As you’ve pointed out Phil….Their change of heart on going “Waltzing Matilda”…. hopefully will come back and bite them on the wallet…. big time.
And much as I don’t want to see GVB out of a job….
If that’s how it pans out…. well, that’s another big bite on the wallet.
Isn’t life wonderful.
Keep up the good work
Hail hail.
Apparantly all is well with GVB and the club /company according to Keith Jackson at the record ,GVB,s saving grace is them winning title 55,no wonder people laugh at Jackson when he can put his name to such stuff to appease the hordes calling for GVB,s removal , when its blatantly obvious they cant afford to
I’ve made the point elsewhere already but it bears repeating here: yet again it takes a real journalist in a whole other nation across a sea to report the real news out of the Scumdome.
On the “New Pioneers” cringepic; there’s McCoist (aye Mr Cap-Doffing Bluenose ye based that on a 2012 photo I’m sure…) and McCulloch but who are the other two meant to be…?
Lee Wallace and Neil Alexander. You can just about read it at the top of the pic.
That’s fine for you, Owen, but those of us without a personal copy are reliant on a grainy picture on the internet. 😉
Remember, remember the novembear surrender
The “New Pioneers 2012” print gets more and more hilarious each year and surely there is a big hint there as to whether it is the same club or not.
Apologies for being off topic but I think one way to solve the offside debate would be to use the same criteria for throw-ins where the whole ball must be over the line. The attacker’s whole body must be in an offside position which would make it much easier to spot.
I’ve thought this for ages. We deal with the whole ball over lines, not bits of the ball. It makes sense for there to be visible space between the attacker and defender and it affords the attacker the benefit. This kneecaps, toes, head being offside is nonesense.
JS
Yes. It’s indicative of the kind of people who are running the game when such a simple solution escapes them. Only glad they didn’t include “bawhair” in the criteria!
I’m pretty sure this was used before, certainly in England, although maybe just a local interpretation/experiment.
The fact that it’s no longer in use tells you how successful it was.
It doesn’t matter whether you say an attacker must be clearly behind or in front of a defender or a 10-yard gap between them, its whatever the deciding factor is where the contention arises.
In the above experiment, there were controversial examples where there wasn’t “clear daylight” and no offside was called or vice versa.
Whether you go for a gap between players or none is irrelevant to whether there will be controversial calls.
The rule used to be “Daylight” between last man and attacker, that seemed to cause problems. As for the ball being over the line, as far as I know that’s always, and still, the law. Happy to be corrected
Yes, it is the whole ball over the line ie daylight between them.
This is fine, as it’s a much simpler process ie the ball and the static goal-line (no need to draw wonky lines).
There’s also technology, although obviously not in Scotland, but hopefully switched-on cameras pointing at the correct area.
Offside has multiple variations, when pass is made not received, who last touched, interfering, multiple players, no fixed lines etc.
As I said before, there will always be controversy, wherever the decision point is (level, daylight etc), although using best practices will give the best (not infallible) results eg leaving a camera pointed in the direction that it’s meant to be. 🙂
How did Aribo manage to score in the Europa League final though if he had been sold in the January transfer window ? I know Sevco get every break going but didn’t know they’d been allowed to bring him back.
That error kind of weakens any other things the journalist had to say.
He was sold in July rather than January as far as I can see so the journalist has made a mistake.
As you say Phil, ‘follow follow the money’.
Can a cash strapped club afford the compensation millions required to sack Gio?