I once thought that I could adequately satirise what happened at Ibrox.
Sadly, the dignified reality was beyond anything that this writer could invent.
Of course, I now chide myself that I could have incubated such notions.
I recently joked with a buddy that they would bring back the dignified footwear of the Advocaat era.
It was said in jest as a ridiculous suggestion, but now it has happened.
In fairness, those sartorial rules at Ibrox did produce some exemplary behaviour.
What is worth reporting is that David Murray’s Dutch manager was allowed to effectively bankrupt the club back then.
Unstainable spending to reach the holy grail of European success, funded by Employee Benefit Trusts, inserted a fatal pathogen into the club formed in 1872.
What would become known as the Big Tax Case was incubating in the accounts.
It would be 2017 before it was a legal fact that the original rangers had cheated their way to success.
Faced with a city rival with a significantly bigger stadium and ipso facto larger matchday income, Murray decided that cheating was the only way to compete.
It would be over a decade after the brogue rule at Ibrox had been brought in before this journalist was excavating into what was actually going on there.
Needless to say, the press pack in Glasgow were averting their gaze lest they actually occasion across a real Rangers story.
In December 2022, there are real stories at the new club.
The intrepid chaps on the sports desks might want to look into what funds Mr Beale will have to spend in the January transfer window.
Now, I’m sure that they already have a fair idea.
They could also find out why the current Ibrox club is on a UEFA financial watchlist.
However, it isn’t something they’re going to trouble their dignified readership with when they can write about shoes.
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When I heard Beale was coming in I thought he seemed a good coach but can he handle the constant pressure that 2 or 3 bad results may bring and tbh I do not think he has the mental fortitude to handle the pressure especially as it gets a touch nasty.
He has already shown a level of immaturity, lack of background and experience and reverting to the traditions and kultchurs will re-affirm that. A better man, as Gio was would not lower himself to what the kult want to hear, regardless that behaviour will only get him so far and buy him time.
I believe he will crack under that pressure and be shifted out the door by summertime 2023. He will bring in a few players in January maybe not big buys but some to call his own and these too will be marked as surplus to requirement when they get a more experienced manager in AND the cycle continues.
I cannot see any decent offers for Kent or Freddo as they can walk for free soon. One or two of their younger players may attract some attention but that wont be this season. They’d bite your hand off for a high 6 digit deal. Kamara in all his moves has commanded a total transfer fund of £55k, they could on a good day get £2.5m for him that may fund a little spending and loans for Beale.
Not sure what other finance streams they are chasing but I do know that’s easier with success and I cannot see that happening this season.
If Beale and coaching team do not have a rock solid compensation for dismissal they are nuts. Dismissal, I feel it’s as certain as gas and leccy price rises.
Mr Beale is clearly a highly regarded coach with an excellent CV.
Management is a different skill set.
So this is a new chapter for him.
The orcs are lapping this stuff up… and when their new club goes bust they’ll say they didn’t see it coming and no one warned them
Cash up front of course.
Beale had to try something to bring the klan onside. Pedro banned green football boots and green Club biscuit wrappers from the Ibrox tuck shop. Beale has reintroduced brown brogues. Different blokes, different strokes.
Imagine being them, I know it’s a revolting thought. But imagine opening up your favourite newco supporting rag, that actually still pretends to employ journalists. And your faced with the reality, that the league is already done and dusted and all they can do is churn out pi55 about pictures of some big eared git going up in the dressing room and stories about fecking brown brogue shoes, stuff like that would have a normal people forming an orderly queue for the erskine bridge.
Misread that. I thought it said B rogues. I was about to argue that all the rogues at Aybrokes were class A rogues. The best rogues in the business at fleecing the gullibillies. Then I realised that it was shoes. Bummer!! I like a good argument, contrary git that I am!!
The Celtic players were reported to be quaking in their boots this morning at training at the thought of those brown brogues.
Are Sevco on the London Stock Exchange? If so they may be in trouble again as the City of London found brown shoes and blues suits a “no no” – as in “no brown in town” So best for them to avoid the Square Mile. .
This highlights the calibre of journalism in Scotland .
When someone puts into print a story about a man wearing brown brogues .
No wonder they get ridiculed .
The “Onion” couldn’t have done a better job than the bold Barry.
Heard it on good authority,
that the famous “Ibrox warchest” has been repurposed,
as a fancy shoe box: containing only the world’s best polishes, cloths and brushes,
to maintain the dignified shine on all those Ibrox brogues.
🙂
Dignified pish off the radar
A ‘Shoo-in’? Not a Shoe-in; even the wordplay is foul!