Glasgow City Council did their bit last night to add to The Lying Game as an inconvenient and uncomfortable 10th anniversary pops up.
Back in the glorious summer of 2012 the football authorities were in panic mode as they came to terms with Her Majesty rejecting the offer of a CVA to save a football club that started in 1873 or perhaps 1872.
Allan McGregor, Kyle Lafferty, Steve Davis and wee Naisy walked away, the SPL issued fixtures for Club 12 with the letters BDO joining HMRC on the scene of the crime.
Waiting in the wings were Brechin City for a Challenge Cup tie while Championship runners up Dundee, who finished 24 points adrift of Ross County, had to make rapid preparations for life in the top flight despite knowing from February that the best they could hope for was second place behind the Dingwall club.
first official gamejuly 27, 2012 pic.twitter.com/zDFrpVPPz7
— Craig Whyte (@RIPRFC) July 27, 2022
sevco granted a conditional membership to play football, all that is left is to change the name to rangers pic.twitter.com/KeeB4Easg8
— Craig Whyte (@RIPRFC) July 27, 2022
Delighted to host @RangersFC at the City Chambers to mark the 150th anniversary of the Club.
Great pleasure to see so many famous figures and take the opportunity to pay tribute to their often unrecognised work for charity. pic.twitter.com/V18abwzyVu
— Lord Provost of Glasgow ?? (@LordProvostGCC) July 27, 2022
‘The Dark Blues, who have been in administration twice in the last nine years, are replacing a once-mighty giant that could not survive the same process’.https://t.co/lQJZLcF3fe
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) July 28, 2022
I see we are linked with the Mohammed Fanni Macabi Haifa he better be good or with a name like he and our club as well the fans will get the pish (no joke intended), took out of us..
Editor: I think that the Daily Record get a special buzz out of linking him to Celtic, they should know.
They already have their own fanny’s at that rag of a paper Fanny Jackson, Fanny Keevin’s I could go on.
No humility, no shame for industrial-scale cheating for over a decade.
The current Ibrox club is just as embarrassing, aggressive and full of superior delusions as the old club.
Scottish football could have removed all that negativity back in 2012… 🙁