Rangers, Alex Thomson & Presbytarian Slaps
The one Rangers issue to attract more criticism recently than their financial management – alleged and actual – has been Scottish media coverage of it, especially in Glasgow itself. Scottish...
Category "Scottish Football"
Rangers Football Club: The Good, The Bad & The Loopy
You can say what you like about Scottish media coverage of Rangers’ financial crisis but you’re certainly spoilt for choice. Unfortunately, that choice is all-too-often between parallel universes, with a...
Rangers Supporters Groups & Doing The Right Thing
At virtually all clubs in crisis, supporters are portrayed as victims, with lashings of sympathetic media coverage coming their way. So it has been with Rangers fans. Fans are occasionally...
Buddies Or Enemies? St Mirren Get Dragged Into The Rangers Story
The timing was perfect – two-and-a-half years ago. Stewart Gilmour had been St. Mirren chair longer than anyone else in the club’s then 132-year history. He had overseen a ground...
Rangers: The “Experts” Speak
A recurring side-issue to Rangers current financial crisis has been the Scottish media’s apparent inability to get its facts straight. This, critics say, has come from a mixture of media...
EBTs, CVAs & The Future Of Scottish Football: The BBC Tackles Rangers
Towards the end of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Rangers – What Next?, my attention was flagging. A worthwhile broadcast descended into soppy sentiment as listeners were told of the 11-year-old...
Who Are The Horsemen Of The Rangers Apocalypse?
The dizzying raft of exposes emanating from investigations into twenty-first century Rangers (and a few years before, if ex-director Hugh Adam’s revelations are at all credible) is truly now doing...
Going South? Celtic & The English League System
It is one of the most commonly recurring stories of modern football. Should Celtic and Rangers be allowed to leave the Scottish league system and join the English football league...
Now That Rangers Are Saved
The “Blue Knights”? Really?? I don’t suppose Rangers fans who are backing former director Paul Murray’s bid for the club care about how ridiculous his consortium’s media moniker sounds, now...
Craig Whyte: Neither Fit Nor Proper, And The SFA Should Have Known This Sooner
So, Scottish venture capitalist Craig Whyte is not fit and proper to be a football club owner and director. That is amazing. I’ll be avoiding feathers for a few days,...
Rangers’ Nightmare Week
This week, Alex Salmond held discussions with David Cameron about the terms of a referendum on independence, and Cameron launched his own pleas in defence of the Union. It’s a...
A Glimmer Of Light Over Safe Standing?
It was only a tiny step forward, but those that have been campaigning for the return of terraces in the form of safe standing had a rare reason to be...
SPL Should Consider Fan Investment
Football loves its phrases. We speak of a player getting stuck in and having good feet for a big man, while saying his form is poor as he’s gone off the boil. Some squads play Route...
BBC Scotland, Rangers And Craig Whyte
It hadn’t been Rangers’ best week. On the Monday, they lost two directors down the back of the corporate governance sofa, including “Mr. Rangers”, John Greig. And three days later,...
The Patience of Job But With Less Tribulation
There exists no such concept of the comfortable silence when it comes to football in Edinburgh. One week, noises out of Tynecastle note the length of time it has been since senior...
An Alternative View on the Media Bans
Football clubs and the media covering them live together as slightly estranged bedfellows, desirous of one another’s company but at times cold or distant when the other’s been bad in...
A Celtic Encounter
Every so often events conspire to make us question whether there is indeed some footballing god directing proceedings from, somewhere. After UEFA’s initial decision to remove Swiss club FC Sion from...
Matters of Hearth & Home in the SPL
There exists evidence to the contrary that a man’s home is his castle. To begin, seeing as how there are so few men living in castles these days, owing to...
Pouring New Wine Into Young Wineskins, Or Something Like That
The call for youth to reinvigorate a national squad every two and four years must be included in the standard guidebooks for both managers and football association officials on what...
Learning to Beat Swords Into Plowshares Takes Time
An odd thing happened to the prediction that Celtic would break the GI Joe kung-fu grip Rangers have had on the Scottish Premier League trophy the past three years. Quite...