SO FAREWELL Charles Green - or is it? regardless of today's announcement from Ibrox, I'd be surprised if we have heard the less of Charlie boy. If we have, Scottish football will be a much duller place without him. However, we thought we were well rid of Craig Whyte and look what has happened there.
Actually, IF Green has indeed gone, good news though that might be for Ally McCoist, I fear it could be bad news for Rangers. Because, whatever his many faults, Green previously demonstrated, at Sheffield United, that, he knows the value of working within a strict budget and not over-spending.
He just might have been able to, finally, bring strict financial management to a club which has been guilty of over-spending for years. If Walter and Co are left in charge of the cash, I foresee the flagrant over-spending, recruiting of over-priced and under-talented non-Scots and living beyond the clubs means resuming.
As with the Green days, it could all end in tears.
MEANWHILE, across the city, wee Neil Lennon cuts the moral high ground from under Celtic with his dummy spitting after getting his three game suspended touchline ban activated after his "wee swearie" at Jim Goodwin.
Let's be honest here - this was a storm in an egg cup. Manager swears at opposition player; FFS when has this been new in Scottish football? Anglo-Saxon is football's default language; we all know this.
As I have said before; wee Neil being cited for that, was, to my mind, a case of the power-brokers on Hampden's sixth floor desperately trying to prove that Cousin Vinny Lunny is fair-minded. Whereas we mostly suspect, his appointment is a case of the long-established Masonic conspiracy at the head of Scottish football being displaced by a Knights of St Columba conspiracy.
If only wee Neil had said nothing, taken his medicine and got on with life, but no. He rants about Scottish football being petty and small-minded; then, in a petty and small-minded retaliation, reveals he will be reporting any opposition manager who comes out with a wee swearie to the SFA.
If that isn't being petty and small-minded, what is?
I feel he was hard done by. But, after his rant today, all sympathy has evaporated.
JUST a thought, after reading my bit above about Charles Green and his efforts to get a club's finances right. Might he be the independent honest broker to sort-out the league reconstruction impasse?
Or, given the level of hatred and war fare, isn't this another diplomatic job for Tony Blair?
For one moment I thought you was speaking about Mrs T, but then I remembered the colour of your oul club tie. Still at half mast no doubt, eh auld son?
ReplyDeleteI must admit to picking up the news about Chuckles via the Spanish press, it confirmed my own private thoughts that he is indeed universally thought to be a puppeteers joke. There is much more to the story than a few ill chosen remarks about the colour of his pals skin. I look forward to the fallout as it develops. Carry On Rangers, starring Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Sid James, Craig Whyte and Charles 'Chucky' Green and not forgetting the very lucky still to be in a job, fat pie eating Sally McMoist.
On the NL situation, aye, he should never have been brought before the SFA Lodge, but we all know that the anti-Catholic brigade will get him any way they can eh? That said, NL spitting his dummy just opens the door wider for a certain ex Sunderland manager to walk straight back in and take up the position he once relished with pride. Neil, on this occasion you should just have listened to your mammy when she said "haud yer wheest an get oan wi it son!"
Now if you will excuse me, I'm fresh aft the plane and I still have a few messages to do before I take my place amongst my pals as we watch Celtic become SPL champions once again.