Puberty Hits The SPL

THERE may well be an element of joining-in to administer a kicking to Rangers, while they are on the floor, about it - but, I welcome the sudden onset of puberty among the "Tiny Ten" SPL clubs other than the Bigot Brothers.

Suddenly they have grown a pair as they seek a fairer voting system on SPL matters - not before time. The SPL rules have always been skewed towards keeping Billy and Timmy sweet and, frankly, that's not how leagues work.

I have said before and perhaps if I repeat it often enough, the message will get through to even the thickest of the Celtic Family: but, if Rangers do go under, Celtic will be, at least in the short term, able to totally dominate Scottish football - on the park. But, in the corridors of power, they will be weakened. When push comes to shove, the Old Firm will always stick together - without Rangers, Celtic will have nobody on whom they can depend to back them when the arguments start.

Also, the arrogance, the need to set the agenda and have his way which many of us have detected as the Lawwell way of working, has won Celtic few friends - as Rangers have grown weaker, Mr Lawwell has become the big bad bully of Scottish football, and like all bullies, he will fall once the ones he has bullied start sticking together - and that has started to happen this week.

BY THE WAY - what's this strange silence from Vincent the Vengeful - the SFA's Compliance Officer? Last Sunday - five days ago - in his post-match press conference following the League Cup Final, Neil Lennon (again) let himself down badly with a petulant and ill-considered rant about referee Willie Collum denying what Lennon and the entire Celtic Family saw as a clear penalty, then, in the opinion of Lenny and the Legions, compounding his folly by booking Anthony Stokes.

Lenny dubbed the decision "criminal" - but, as yet, five days on, no action from our Vinny. Strange indeed. You'd have thought such a clear violation of the standards of sportsmanship which the SFA expects of those under its control would have landed Lenny with an invitation, at the very least, to turn-up at Hampden to explain himself.

Or is it, as some of my media friends in the so-called "Lap Top Loyal" have suggested - further proof that in 2012 Scottish football, there is one law for Celtic, another for everyone else.

As I have said before, if all those years of supposed "masonic conspiracies" and special treatment for Rangers was wrong - then special treatment for Celtic has to be equally wrong.

A WEE parting thought for today. As I understand it, one of the fundamental core beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses is that, come Armageddon, only they will be saved - they are, if you like - God's chosen people (and I suppose they might have to fight the Jews for that one).

So, JW Brian Kennedy buying Rangers might be a good fit - after all, in spite of the way they have been let down over the past 50 years by Unionist politicians, the owners of Scotland's metal-bashing industries, Sir David Murray, Craig Whyte and sundry others - the ordinary Rangers fans continue to insist We Are The People - in other words - the chosen people.

I look forward to seeing Ally McCoist trying to get money for new players out of Gordon McKie - the man likely to be Kennedy's Chief Executive, should he win control of Rangers.