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...
Posts Tagged: "Rangers"
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...
Shadows On The Wall: Whyte Wants Out of Scotland
Making a reference to Greek philosophy when discussing Glasgow Rangers probably sounds far too distorted to be credible. It likely is, but it was difficult not to consider Plato’s Allegory...
Ugly Goes Underground
Voices floating over Hadrian’s Wall after Sunday’s Old Firm derby sounded curiously, positive. Curiously positive in the sense that, with so much about Scottish football being accompanied by the sound...
An Old Firm Apology
According to the calendar, it is time to bash the first Old Firm match of this season. After all, ample material currently exists to do so just on their recent...
Rangers FC – Ready For A Fall?
The story of a £2.8m tax liability (over)due for payment by Rangers Football Club ought to be a straightforward one. Either the club owes the money or it doesn’t. And...
Rangers Under New Management But With An Old Problem
When your club is the league champion, it seems everyone wants to take you down. Titles often come with that rather annoying Bulls Eye that the manager can never remove...
Rangers: Walter Smith, Manager Of The Season?
Manager of the season? As per usual, Eddie Howe is a strong candidate; this year for establishing AFC Bournemouth in League One and for re-energising Burnley’s stuttering promotion play-off bid...
The Old Firm: Mea Culpa
The main hazard attached to stridency of opinion is that you are often wrong. Sometimes, my success rate is in line with a stopped clock. And it appears my suggestion...
Celtic & Rangers: Old Firm, Old Enmity, New Century
Imagine different circumstances surrounding Manchester United’s defeat at Liverpool last Sunday. Leave aside Jamie Carragher’s nasty tackle on Nani, Nani’s ability to race to the referee before collapsing in an...
Forty Years On: Remembering The Second Ibrox Disaster
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of what could, with justification, be described as British football’s forgotten tragedy. Whereas the disasters of Heysel and Hillsborough took place in front of the...
Old Infirm? The Further Travails Of Rangers & Celtic
Some ill-advised comments made by the Celtic chairman John Reid at last year’s club AGM may now be coming back to haunt him, as rivals Rangers seem to be coasting...
The Value Of Shareholder Democracy At Rangers & Watford
Both Watford and Rangers have had disagreements at boardroom level over the last couple of weeks. Mark Murphy has been looking at both clubs, and arrives at the conclusion that...
Celtic & Rangers Frozen Out Of The Premier League
The Premier League has decided that it doesn't want The Old Firm and the baggage that they carry with them. It may take a change of attitude towards their neighbours...
Phil Gartside’s Plan To Shaft English Football – Part 3
Ho hum. Phil Gartside is back, this time with his third version of a neat little insurance policy that will mean that his club and others like them will never...
Rangers & Their Influential 10% Shareholder
After their recent defeat by the Romanian champions Unirea Urziceni, Walter Smith let slip that Lloyds Bank were running Rangers. Mark Murphy has been looking at the figures and is...
Which Way Now For Celtic & Rangers?
The fact that Rangers and Celtic believe themselves to be too big for Scottish football is one of the oldest stories around but, as Gavin Saxton writes, their biggest problem...
Rangers & Celtic: The Decline Of The Northern Empire?
Rangers & Celtic played out the first Old Firm match of the Scottish league season yesterday. Recent results in Europe have led some to believe that there is a slim...
10 Footballing Cricketers (And Vice Versa)
Seeing as how the Ashes have started and England aren’t – at the time of writing – being thrashed seven shades of black and blue by Australia (though there is...
Phil Gartside, The Old Firm & The Premier League
Summer is coming, the evenings are getting longer and some football chairmen are giving every impression of having too much time on their hands already. This week’s insane plan comes...