Hugh Keevins in full denial over the death of Rangers that the Internet Bampots warned him over- and celebrated
Hugh Keevins has gone into full denial over the liquidation and death of Rangers, putting the blame on those pesky internet bampots.
According to the veteran Daily Record columnist a 4-2 win away to Borussia Dortmund confirms that all is good and provides adequate compensation to the 276 creditors who have waited more than a decade for repayment.
The Daily Record is among those creditors, dozens of Keevins’ former colleagues have lost their jobs since 2012 but as they look at vastly reduced incomes perhaps a football result in Germany will warm their hearts and restore plundered bank balances.
After 40 years making a living on the back of his beloved O** F*** the events of 2012 terrified many in Keevins’ profession as they looked at a future without the reassurance of five or six comforting fixtures a season and the fact that those pesky internet bampots had called it right while they fawned over billionaires from Motherwell and the incredible business successes of Sir David.
Two decades of financial doping, described in the Supreme Court in 2017 as disguised remuneration had caught up with the club thanks to the awful results of Ally McCoist. Former billionaire Whyte didn’t have the contacts of Dave Murray and the house of cards collapsed.
Rather than examine the events that lead to the death of Rangers, as even the Daily Record and others acknowledged, Keevins and the new wave of reporters have turned their fawning to Dave King, Douglas Park and in the pages of the Record this week Paul Murray.
Nine year losses at the tribute act total more than £100m, last year alone it reached £23.5m with every club and every fan in Scotland suffering as the football authorities and media outlets hang on to the new O** F*** to keep their entities afloat.
Getting emotional from his high horse at the Record, Keevins writes:
The camera pans in on a middle-aged man, wide eyed and agitated because of his anxiety. He jabs a finger at the outside of the stadium and says: “The Big Hoose must stay open.”
As imperishable soundbites go, it might not have been on the same immortal level as Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to walk on the moon and accompanying his footsteps by stating, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” for global posterity.
But there was honest sincerity from a man who only had his love of a football club to offer after being failed by the leadership of those inside the building he cherished.
The camera pans in on a middle-aged man, wide eyed and agitated because of his anxiety. He jabs a finger at the outside of the stadium and says: “The Big Hoose must stay open.”
As imperishable soundbites go, it might not have been on the same immortal level as Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to walk on the moon and accompanying his footsteps by stating, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” for global posterity.
But there was honest sincerity from a man who only had his love of a football club to offer after being failed by the leadership of those inside the building he cherished.
He would have been mocked and derided by rival supporters at the time but I thought of that fan when Rangers’ fourth goal went in, on VAR’s say-so, against Borussia Dortmund in the Europa League on Thursday night.
The Big Hoose did indeed stay open in spite of the best efforts of some on the inside to have the front door locked and bolted. And now it is time to take a fresh inventory of the household goods and contents.
Time to commemorate the past but celebrate the present.
Time to drop the victim status and enjoy the victor’s podium.
Time to remember that Rangers are the reigning champions of the Premiership, and will return to the top of the table, for however long, after they have beaten Dundee United at Tannadice this afternoon.
Time to be more aware of where the club is at present than where it has been in the past. Time to think more of themselves than looking to blame people for what once happened.
The quickest way to make your life a misery is to have anything to say about what happened at Rangers 10 years ago.
The very mention of the subject polarises people in a way that is awful to watch and depressing to listen to.
Anyone who has ever had cause to visit social media since 2012 will have borne witness to exchanges of abuse on a never-ending basis that is mortally wounding to the spirit. A shouting match for the tone deaf.
That’s why I found nothing particularly edifying, or uplifting, about the 10th anniversary accounts of who did what to whom while Rangers courted disaster.
It was simply a grim reminder of a business collapse that had grotesque ramifications for a game and a country.
The death left 276 businesses out of pocket with the run-of-the-mill tax payer having to pick up the pieces and pay for the indulgences of a few.
It is comforting for Keevins and those of his generation to seek comfort in the good old days but the Tribute Act and the media fawning over Mister Gerrard and Mister van Bronckhorst are one wrong move from having a ringside seat over a fresh ‘financial meltdown’ or the collapse of an ‘engine room subsidiary’.
The date of having to pay out to Sports Direct or when a mystery investor demands repayment isn’t known but when it happens Keevins and the rest will be able to relive the glorious events of 2012 sharing the cry of ‘but naebdy tellt us, it’s a pure shame so it is’.
In March 2012 the Record was selling 294, 442 copies today, in 2022 it takes them more than four days to dupe that number of people into paying money for the revisionism of Keevins or the emotional Paul Murray diaries.