Malmo memories

Swedish Club Malmo have an important place in the Ibrox story.

When they triumphed over the original Rangers in the Champions League qualifying round in August 2011, an insolvency event was a very safe bet.

Indeed, your humble correspondent reported that at the time.

This site is free to view and fully searchable, so you can see for yourself, dear reader.

At that time, in 2011, there were no emissaries from the Ibrox klanbase in Sweden.

UEFA had decided the previous April that the cultural offerings were discriminatory.

That decision had been taken by the folks in Nyon after a match against PSV in Eindhoven.

The then managing director Martin Bain had this to say about the decision.

“We have had serious concerns about the integrity of the evidence compiled by the Fare organisation, and that remains the case.

“We are also of the opinion that Fare has been influenced by people who make it their business to damage our club in any way they can.”

Ah, bless…

As I’ve written here before, I was a constant interrogator of UEFA during season 2010-2011.

My regular questions to their media office concerned the identity of match delegates attending Rangers games.

I wished to be informed of their fluency in the English language and, crucially,  their cultural awareness of the Ibrox klanbase.

It goes without saying that this vital Fourth Estate function was off limits to the Stenography Corps as they knocked out puff pieces at the back of the bus.

That wasn’t the only Malmo chapter in the Ibrox story, though.

In the annals of football shithousery, Jon Dahl Tomasson in 2021 has to be a contender for the top prize.

A defeat in Sweden tonight for Sevco will not be an existential event like it was for the original Ibrox club in 2011.

However, it will evoke a happy memory.

2 thoughts on “Malmo memories”

  1. Ah, the “clever lads” interview from Jon Dahl Tomasson – good pals with big Pierre, of course, from their strike partnership at Feyenoord, a sort of ‘Shearer & Sutton’ for the Eredivisie – a moment which would ensure him a standing ovation at Celtic Park were he ever to pop in to draw the Paradise Windfall…..

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