ON THE Herald website, indeed, on most newspaper websites, there is a wee box which indicates what have been the most-viewed items of the past few days. Tight now, THE story as far as the Herald's readership is my old mate Graham Spiers's Tuesday piece on whether or not Rangers' "died" with the liquidation last year.
This has had the commenters and posters much-agitated, with arguments for and against oldco and newco, 55 titles or one. Well done "Britney" you have achieved the prime goal of the columnist, you've got people reading you and arguing.
My own view is: if it walks like a duck, quacks and calm on the surface progress is accompanied by frantic below the water-line paddling, it is a duck.
The team which won the Scottish Football League's Third Division last season plays at Ibrox Stadium, the players play in blue shirts with white shorts, the management are still over-paying average players to a ridiculous extent, the fan base still contains a larger than average proportion of in-breds and neanderthals, who are fighting Northern Irish political and religious differences through Scottish football - Aye, they're Rangers all right.
IT took a day longer than I anticipated, but, Hearts are now officially in administration. How BDO handle things will be interesting; sadly it appears inevitable that there will be redundancies and I believe the way BDO handle things will be markedly different from the dog's dinner which Dumb and Dumber made at Ibrox last year.
I can, as I did with Rangers last year, see no alternative to liquidation; but, this ought to be good news for the proposed fans'buy-out. Better perhaps to wait for the plug being pulled, then to start afresh in SPFL4, or whatever the bottom tier of the new league is called. After all, last year's handling of the Rangers problem indicates that a "new" Hearts would surely be invited in. They might not be the 50,000 fans Rangers could bring to the table, but, Hearts' 10,000 hard core are a body which senior football in Scotland cannot afford to lose.
I HAVE been dipping in and out of the Confederation Cup matches on BBC this past week. Last night, I watched a bit of the Italy v Japan game. The fact that the Japanese can compete at that level shows the benefits of not having a century or more of "it's aye been done that way son" holding a nation back.
The quicker Scotland gets rid of "aye beenism" the sooner we will be back as a competitive nation in European and World football.
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