THE real dangers of allowing foreign owners to take over our football clubs just might be about to come home to roost. The Lithuanian gangs - whoops! sorry! "businessmen", who own what is left of Hearts are, apparently, none too impressed by the offers which administrators BDO have received for the club.
If they don't accept whichever deal BDO can cobble together, then, I am afraid, Hearts will be history and liquidation inevitable. I believe, as I did with Rangers, this is what it will come to. There is no sentiment in business; it may well be that Tynecastle is worth more as a devdelopment site than as a functioning football ground, in which case, it will be ta-ta Jambos.
Realistically, for all the hidden agendas, speculation and nonsense which surrounded Rangers, that club was still liquidated, so, why should Hearts, who are not in the same class as a business or as an "institution", survive?
The good thing about the Rangers farago was, it all hapened during the close season and, there was a will to cobble together a deal which kept "Rangers" in Scottish football. The Hearts situation is different. The club, still in administration, could stagger over the start line, minus the 15 deducted points, into the new season, then, through events in far-away Lithuania, be liquidated shortly thereafter. And, where will that leave the all-new, shiny, SPFL?
I cannot see any "Newco" Hearts being cobbled together and allowed to continue in the SPFL Premiership, and it would surely be a task too-far for the feeble minds on Hampden's sixth floor, to come up with an answer which would allow any newco to slot into the bottom tier of the league.
I fear, it will all end in tears. Anyone fancy a penthouse flat in Dave Mackay House, McLeod Street, Gorgie, Edinburgh?
I AM reliably told that the man who is now, following Lawrie Reilly's death, seen as The Greatest Living Hibbee, was seen slipping out of Easter Road, after the third Malmo goal went in last week. The hot sweepstake in Scottish journalism circles these days is - pick the date on which Pat Fenlon gets sacked. One seasoned observer of Hibs matters, tells me to put my money on the morning of the club's agm. Sacking the manager will, apparently, lift any pressure off Rod Petrie.
COMFORTABLE enough win for Rangers against Albion Rovers yesterday. Well, did you expect anything else?
Similarly, did you expect, given the fact the game was televised live, not to hear Ra Peepul going through all the old favourites in the club's song book. That's both sides of the Great Divide have now been on TV this season; and, on both occasions, we've been treated to some sparkling renditions of the same old, sad songs, which have no place in Scottish football.
Like the Poor, apparently the Lunatic Fringes will always be with us.
I HAD to laugh today, when I read English Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore saying this week that, it wasn't his members' fault that England was shit internationally.
Aye right, you believe that if you like Richard.
Mr Scudamore says it's all the FA's fault, ignoring the fact that it is the Premier League clubs who all but run the FA. It's the same up here, the SPL, when it was going, also used the "Nuffink to do wiv us Gov" defence, whenever they were fingered for Scotland's decline - conveniently ignoring the fact that the SPL was the most-influential stakeholder group within the SFA.
Scudamore, Doncaster, their board members - self-seeking, self-important, selfish, the lot of them. What did we do to have such numpties running our game?
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