AND lo, it came to pass that the Wise Men emerged from the stable and sayeth unto the multitude waiting there: "We hath a peace deal, The Rangers FC hath been entered into the outer temple of Division Three, and peace will again prevaileth about the land".
And the followers of TRFC did rejoice mightily and did saith: "Blessed be the Lord Ally, for we are still Ra Peepul and ye, in years to come, we shall again rise up and smite the iniquitous who hath so reviled and chastised us. We shall away to Brechin, from whence we shall begin our long march back unto the Promised Land, from which we hath been banished by the forces of the Great Unwashed.
We doeth not walking away, but ye, we shall march, re-invigorated and refreshed, back to the summits, we shalt never surrender.
And the High Priests did cower in their Hampden bunker and did saith: "Oh shit, we hivnae kilt them aff efter awe - but, we'll barely see them fur three seasons and we've tied them intae the TV deal, so they'll still be keeping us in style".
JUST as I feared they would, between them the SFA/SPL and SFL on one side and Charles Green's Sevco on the other have cobbled together a deal which keeps the Rangers "brand" alive in Scottish football.
The tawdry nature of the deal - after all, the SPL didn't want Rangers in their ranks, but sure as hell wanted continued access to the TV and media riches which accrue from the Rangers brand; while on the other hand, Sevco, the beneficiaries of another tawdry back-doors deal between themselves, Duff & Phelps, Craig Whyte and for all we know, probably David Murray, have got what they wanted - the opportunity to continue to milk the deluded ranks of Ra Peepul, whilst doing little or nothing for Scottish football.
We can only hope now that when BDO take over as official liquidators, they put a stop to the whole fiasco and are able to shed light into Stygian darkness.
This whole business stinks - it has stunk since David Murray first, all these years ago, put Rangers on the market - to yawns of disinterest from anyone with any shred of decency or love of the club.
Rangers has been toxic for years - the best answer to the whole thing would be for BDO to shut the entire operation down, before approaching that great army of decent Bears, who love the club and football, but who despair of the knuckle-dragging, swaggering, domineering Protestants who have become the public face of the club for so long.
A consortium of decent Rangers Men (there are many out there), operating within a Caledonian version of Green Bay Packers, could in short order restore a really new Rangers to the old club's former glory - they could do this without the historic baggage of "our traditions", so beloved of Ra Peepul. It would take time, but, Rangers could and would rise again.
They have to, because, if the recent squalid round of negotiations and talking has proved one thing - it is that Scottish football desperately NEEDS Rangers, and the more-successful Rangers are, the more Scottish football needs them.
And nobody needs Rangers more than Celtic.
Those members of the Celtic Family, currently revelling in their oldest rivals' discomfort; logging onto the on-line forums to scream: "Youse is deid" at their fellow cyber fans of the opposing persuasion must scream louder; they HAVE to believe Rangers are dead.
That will not make it so, because, Rangers are on the way back and, just as Celtic recovered from the mis-management of the Bob Kelly/Jimmy McGrory years, to bounce back to enjoy their greatest days under Jock Stein, then it is entirely possible that Rangers will bounce back from their current disgrace, bigger, stronger and more-determined.
The next few years will, indeed be, to quote from that ancient Chinese curse - Interesting Times.
JUST as I feared they would, between them the SFA/SPL and SFL on one side and Charles Green's Sevco on the other have cobbled together a deal which keeps the Rangers "brand" alive in Scottish football.
The tawdry nature of the deal - after all, the SPL didn't want Rangers in their ranks, but sure as hell wanted continued access to the TV and media riches which accrue from the Rangers brand; while on the other hand, Sevco, the beneficiaries of another tawdry back-doors deal between themselves, Duff & Phelps, Craig Whyte and for all we know, probably David Murray, have got what they wanted - the opportunity to continue to milk the deluded ranks of Ra Peepul, whilst doing little or nothing for Scottish football.
We can only hope now that when BDO take over as official liquidators, they put a stop to the whole fiasco and are able to shed light into Stygian darkness.
This whole business stinks - it has stunk since David Murray first, all these years ago, put Rangers on the market - to yawns of disinterest from anyone with any shred of decency or love of the club.
Rangers has been toxic for years - the best answer to the whole thing would be for BDO to shut the entire operation down, before approaching that great army of decent Bears, who love the club and football, but who despair of the knuckle-dragging, swaggering, domineering Protestants who have become the public face of the club for so long.
A consortium of decent Rangers Men (there are many out there), operating within a Caledonian version of Green Bay Packers, could in short order restore a really new Rangers to the old club's former glory - they could do this without the historic baggage of "our traditions", so beloved of Ra Peepul. It would take time, but, Rangers could and would rise again.
They have to, because, if the recent squalid round of negotiations and talking has proved one thing - it is that Scottish football desperately NEEDS Rangers, and the more-successful Rangers are, the more Scottish football needs them.
And nobody needs Rangers more than Celtic.
Those members of the Celtic Family, currently revelling in their oldest rivals' discomfort; logging onto the on-line forums to scream: "Youse is deid" at their fellow cyber fans of the opposing persuasion must scream louder; they HAVE to believe Rangers are dead.
That will not make it so, because, Rangers are on the way back and, just as Celtic recovered from the mis-management of the Bob Kelly/Jimmy McGrory years, to bounce back to enjoy their greatest days under Jock Stein, then it is entirely possible that Rangers will bounce back from their current disgrace, bigger, stronger and more-determined.
The next few years will, indeed be, to quote from that ancient Chinese curse - Interesting Times.
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