Try as I might, and I do try - honest. I am currently unable to contemplate the wider issues in Scottish football. I keep getting drawn back to gazing in awestruck wonder at the on-going soap opera "Edmiston Drive".
I mean, the poor old BBC are in grave danger of being dragged before the television watchdogs - for airing Sunday's Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox before the 9pm watershed. This was sheer,unadulterated mental torture for Ra Peepul. And that's before the gratuitous violence of most of Lee McCulloch's tackles.
I appreciate the long-standing convention whereby the Rangers captain is pretty-much allowed to kick who he likes, when he likes, during a game in Scotland, but, Mr McCulloch, who leads the Rangers Tribute Act, has in recent weeks taken more than the permitted level of latitude in his observance of this convention.
Had he been a rugby player, he would surely have been cited for his stamp on that Celtic player, but, to repeat the act, with a Rovers players, in his very next outing, well, that's just rubbing-in his: "Ha ha, ye canny touch me" approach.
Are we currently without a citing overlord since Cousin Vinny quit?
In the interests of research, I had a look at one or two pro-Rangers websites this week. Apparently the five loanees from Newcastle are being sold to the Bears as - young players in development. Fair enough, you just wish, back when the RTA started off in Division Two, they had decided to develop a few more young Scottish players.
That's maybe a bit unfair - they did develop Lewis McLeod for Brentford and Charlie Telfer for Dundee United, two clubs who don't come anywhere near the stature the RTA is trying to claim for itself and the 1872-2009 Rangers actually could claim for itself. I use the 2009 date advisedly, the old club was already on the downward slope to liquidation then.
I see the EGM will not now be held in London. That's a pity, had the money men in the City, who are hoping to make a killing out of the Rangers brand seen, up-close and personal, just what a large section of their support looks like when angry, they just might have panicked and sold their cheaply-acquired shares for something less than they will hope to make when they do eventually part with them.
The King over the water is making noises to the effect that he will win. Ah hae ma doots, and, in any case, I would not trust him as far as I could throw him.
As I've said before, during this long, drawn-out saga: oh to be a Glasgow lawyer with an interest in this case. What an on-going pension scheme.
MEANWHILE the last eight of the Scottish Cup is now known. For all these claims that Wee Peter runs the SFA, they are not doing Celtic any favours as regards a possible Treble. Dundee United away, that's a toughie, even with Armstrong and Mackay-Steven taken out of the equation.
It takes a really good team to win a Treble, and the current Celtic squad is not a really good team. Should they win the domestic Treble, it will still be a fine achievement, but, such an eventuality will, perhaps, owe more to the lack of a genuine challenge, than on-field excellence.
A north Edinburgh Derby between Hibs and Spartans is one possible tie to savour, but, for me, if the winners of the Tannadice tie are not to go on and win the thing, might the Sun be seeking to tweak its SuperCally headline?
Just saying!!
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