After decades and decades of attempted brainwashing that the old Rangers club was the very fabric of society, the Queen’s team, the people’s team, followed by a superior set of human beings and that would spend ten quid for every fiver Celtic spent on transfers it took a while to sink in that the old club was really going to enter liquidation.
You can probably remember it all like it was yesterday, so why has the last few days dragged up the same surreal feelings like the day the Rangers died?
I had to read most articles in the news twice yesterday they came across so crazy. A possible vote for the future of Scottish football turned into some kind of reality TV show. It only stopped short of Neil Doncaster walking out with an envelope in his hand and saying, “The Dundee vote is in and the result is……………we’ll back after this commercial break to find out”
That commercial break is still playing and nobody seems to have a clue what is going on. The Ibrox club are of course in the thick of it though. You know not for one moment yesterday did they look at all the votes across all the leagues and think we are in a minority here, the majority of clubs in Scotland want the season ended a large majority.
All the crazy stuff swarms around Dundee and their vote or missing vote or their change in vote.
All the clubs in all the leagues were asked to have votes submitted by 5pm on whether or not to cancel the season and hand out prizes and prize money as the league stands.
Dundee was the last team to vote and the whole decision rested on which way the Taysiders fell. Reports said they voted against the idea, the SPFL said they never received a vote from Dundee. Dundee has now said they want to change their mind anyway and vote in favour of ending the season. Bizzare.
These events set the Rangers off into a full-scale attack against the SPFL and Neil Doncaster and that all feels a bit 2012 familiar. Now there are Rangers fans with petitions looking for Doncaster’s head.
The only thing that is certain in all this uncertainty is that all this is really bad for Scottish Football. Football was in enough trouble as it was with the pandemic but you can always count on some to make a crisis situation worse for their own gains.
