The weather is mighty here in Dún na nGall, and focusing on anything that might lower my mood is a real challenge.
However, I have to face up to the sad reality that there is a competition that my club cannot win.
The grim fact of the matter is that the Hoops will never ever lift the coveted Close Season Cup.
It is the one thing that the Worshipful Society of Stenographers has in their gift.
Moreover, they take their responsibilities in Operation Soothe very seriously.
After all, the fragile emotional state of the Ibrox klanbase must always be a concern for the poor dears.
The featured image is a good example of this nonsense.
Consequently, it is essential that anything resembling empirical evidence must be banished from the succulent narrative.
For example, the list of league winners in Scotland in this century.
Verboten!
Much better to have a constant flow of feel-good pish.
Any player who is linked, however tenuously, with Sevco, must be a star.
That’s a kind of a rule in Operation Soothe.
Then there is always the prospect of some massive cash windfall for the favoured franchise that is always just over the horizon.
The Daily Radar
Now, any reasonable person stumbling on this succulent clickbait would never know that the club being so lauded was on a UEFA watchlist for Financial Fair Play.
Nor would they have a scooby that the entire operation is just about being kept afloat by share confetti.
It shouldn’t surprise any of my readers that there might be yet another court case involving the Ibrox outfit in September.
Keep an eye out for the notification in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, at the club, John Brown played for all is internally harmonious.
Indeed, I’m told that the club chairman was moved recently to remark to that nice Mr Bisgrove how lucky they were to have a talented manager who could stay on message and not just blab stream-of-consciousness pish at pressers.
That said, if the Sevco gaffer did run off at the mouth, it would be no biggie, as the hacks are all on the Ibrox side anyway.
Dear reader, once the Close Season Cup is back in the Ibrox trophy room (in reality, it never leaves there. It’s a bit like that old bike and the Loving Cup,) tot up what the club formed in 2012 has spent on transfers during this window.
Then look at the reporting here and do the fact-checking for yourself.
In the meantime, this aimsir is hard to beat.
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17 v 6 in favour of the Hoops over the last 23 years.
Wow, would be happy to continue 3 wins from every 4 games played over the next 23 years against them.
The upcoming season is vital for Beale. Failure to stop Celtic winning the league title will put him under severe pressure from the fan base. Another Celtic treble might prove fatal to his coaching position at Ibrox.
Ah the good old £7 to £10m striker stories with absolutely no fees mentioned just bid submitted doesn’t meet club’s valuation far apart etc etc etc. Delusional to say the least.
Aye. Putting in a £5m bid for a £10m player, in the sound knowledge that the bid will be rejected, is exactly the same as not bidding at all. Smoke and mirrors, trying to kid the bears on that they’ve actually got money.
They’d shit themselves if one of those bids was actually accepted. No doubt the player involved would fail his medical.
I too could fail to meet the expected 7 million asking price of this player. But “guy buds 20p for footballer” wouldn’t make headlines.
I, personally, would take Dykes in a second. The number of goals that guy would score from the chances we create, is absolutely frightening. He can also through in his fair number of assists. Witness the cushioned header back to Calmac in the recent swimming gala!
I’ve followed his career closely since he single-handedly destroyed us when he was with Livingston. He’s a FAR better player than he’s given credit for.
Throw in assists!! Fat thumbs, small keyboards and predictive text. A recipe for disastrous typing!!
Whilst the majority of the Celtic first team, some fringee’s and Loanee’s are all being touted to leave sending the Celtis into turmoil and unbalancing the Brendan juggernaut.
Well mentioned esp on here about the Celts 10k home fans advantage, balance that out with news of filling in the Ibrox park corners, lowering pitch and adding layers with debenture’s paying for the pleasure.
– rangers and Celtic in for the same players keeping them relevant and competative with the champions and in the same transfer markets, no giggling at the back.!
– Fantasy football tournaments.
– Biggest budget ever, best squad in decades, Beale a true Blue transfer genius mesmerising new players to come join the special journey, players once marketed in the tens of millions now coming in for ginger bottles.
– rangers showing Celtic the blueprint to Euro glory. The team that failed to get a point in the CL.
– Paedo stories coming out the woodworks to try to point score, nothing to do with justice.
All aided by the compliant blue noses masquerading as journalists feding the minds of their demographic. Those red tops will not be around for long.
Have to correct you – the tories have scuppered the market for gingies.
Does the editor at the Daily Ranger. When holding a churnalist meeting. Mickey Finn them with deludamol first?
The story of the 7m pound striker was a good one.that one was in the daily ranger.but read on and you get to find out he’s been loaned out 3 times and his valuation has plummeted 🤣🤣
Very aptly put Phil as ‘The Coveted Close Season Cup’ ! – Apt in that The Queen’s revenue collectors of The Excise made Rangers – well – actually CLOSE !!!
NB : – Perhaps a wee asterisk could be applied to the table of SPL / SPFL Premier League Champions in season 2020/21 as the team that won The Covid Championship were Sevco (in my humble opinion) and not The late deceased Rangers…
A truly excellent, excellent site is this Phil and I simply couldn’t contemplate not having your blog to read and provide me with all the skullduggery going on in the murky swamp that is Scottish Football at the top level…
Thankfully it’s more honest at Clachnacuddin !
Phil,as ever,bullseye,given the latest blurb from Ingerlundshire it would appear that Mr Dykes is no longer a cert for Sevconia .Probably not the kind of striker they were looking for anyway. Hmmm.The truth will always out!! HH