Tribal Traditions in Scottish Football
John Grieg is well known for going in late, hard and low. But how justified is it this time? Is putting the inside right Whyte into row F to buy some time to rustle up an alternative rescue plan for Rangers justified?
I have to say I have always been concerned at the visibility of Mr Whyte’s money, or more correctly, invisibility.
I heard from some self attested media insider-luvies he’s been in everything from coco plantations to security companies in Easterhouse, and along the way he’s amassed billions. If so what’s the issue? He claims to be Rangers through and through, so why hesitate? Is the cost too much? Is the Bank of Scotland needing more than the club is worth to settle Sir David’s debt?
That brings me to another other point. How did we get into this mess? Having to sell everything to pay an urgent debt, players, club, anything.
We were told Sir David was the coming man, his business acumen and credentials utterly beyond question, a latter day Braveheart no less. And furthermore, for all you doubting Thomases he’s got billions to invest. He’s in steel, office furniture, overseas investments, substantial American interests, and so on. A Rangers man, through and through (except when he tried and failed to buy Ayr United the year before he bought Rangers).
But wait a minute, hold it right there! This sounds familiar, does it not? Isn’t Whyte yet one more guy whose life is so vacuous from his all conquering success he needs another interest to liven thing up, and isn’t football just the jag? The rush, the fame, the fortune; the saviour. And just to make it more interesting he’s going to do the job so badly we all need to be reassured of his billions to bank roll his visionary deficit when he buys himself an insolvent Scottish Football club. Our club.
Is it too much to ask why he would be any better at stewardship than Murray?
Is it also too much to ask for a clause to be inserted in the memorandum and articles of association of Rangers Football Club that the club cannot be used as security to fund loans, OF ANY SORT.
I don’t recall Murray telling us all that he would be giving those nice people, the bankers, the power of live or death over the our club. Wasn’t he too going to be the club’s saviour? That was before the club was eventually touted around for a buyer, millions in debt and every asset including players up for grabs, with Walter’s wages unpaid.
That was a disgrace of epic proportions. To invite the man to rejoin the cause, to save both the moral credibility of the enterprise AND turn around its football fortunes, which he did, then not pay him will live long in infamy.
The only stewards in whose hands our magnificent club can safely be left are the fans. The sooner a buy-in of sorts can be arranged the better for all. Surely that cannot be beyond the current owners, The Bank of Scotland, to put together.
Fifty quid a head from the half million actual supporters in Scotland would sort the solvency; another £50 each would sort the refinancing of the first team. If that’s not enough we could always hawk Murray Park, it always was a work of Hubris.
For one I’ve heard enough from the ‘official’ fans site about how well Murray performed. We’re all adults, we can handle the facts, so lets start telling the truth.
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