If I can paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, a Big House divided against itself cannot stand.
I’m told that the Sevco High Command will meet in dignified conclave next week.
The agenda could be summarised as:
“What side are you on?”
That’s because the King across the Limpopo continues to cast a shadow over the Blue Room.
Moreover, the pinch point appears to be the Club 1872 thingy.
As with all of this, it is always advisable to follow follow the money.
My understanding is that Mr King wants the supporters’ group to buy his RIFC shareholding.
If that happens, then he’s gone and not a bother on him.
It really is as simple as that.
Now, if there was a functioning journalism on Planet Fitba, then this could be a very worthwhile storyline to pursue.
Especially, as Mr King is briefing against his erstwhile colleagues in the Blue Room.
In purely corporate governance terms, Dave knows where the boardroom bodies are buried largely because he did a fair amount of the interring himself!
As I have stated here previously, in a remarkable turn of events, Mr King has recently been deploying the truth in briefings to conflicted stenographers.
Quite simply, they cannot go with a lot of it because it could not be spun as an Ibrox good news story.
For the avoidance of doubt, your humble correspondent has no such impediments, dear reader.
When the brethren in the Blue Room do meet next week, I wouldn’t expect anything on a par with the Gettysburg Address.
Of course, they’re not in the same postcode as the man who took on the Confederacy.
Then again, there aren’t any Woodwards or Bernsteins on the sports desks either!
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Old Abe said in a speech “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.“ Appears to me that there are lots of Peepul easily fooled. Gettysburg is a fantastic experience btw.
The people WANT to be fooled as acknowledging the truth is far too painful, so they allow whatever nonsense spouts forth from the dilapidated heap that passes for their spiritual home, thinking that the lie will protect them from the awful reality. Yet truth will out eventually and they will have to face up to what happened to their old club…perhaps when the same happens to their new club that realisation may begin…
Once again the poor quality of our match officials was on full show at Celtic Park today.
Several more Well players should have been carded but the ref decided that a quiet word was all that was required.
At one point the ref just lost control.
Be interesting to hear Robbie Neilson’s after match thoughts on the officials at Tynecastle today with a potential hand ball in the box missed and Barasic,already in the book, grabbing a Hearts player by the neck, no second yellow of course.
Hearts already down to 10 following a second yellow to one of their players.
Of course when reported by our media it’s only Celtic that benefit from the largesse of the officials!
Given the UEFA Group Stage prize for the SPFL winners this season a poor call by an official could favour one of the Glasgow clubs.
After the last 3 home league matches at Parkhead its hard to believe that the officials in charge are the cream of the crop and get most of the big games.
Some of the decision making is shocking.
Is VAR not in place because the quality of those decisions would be there for everyone to see?
The potential via VAR to restrict or correct the numerous wrong calls being made by officials can only be a good thing, would it not?
I’m sure those fine chaps at the SFA are all over this.
There cannot be an easier bunch of people on this planet to fool than the Gullibillies.
The only words they have difficulty swallowing are honest ones. They believe any pile shite they’re told if it’s what they WANT to hear. ANYONE speaks the truth to them and it’s a case of shoot the messenger.