Old Firm leaving Scotland
Earlier Scott Johnston and I debated the Old Firm leaving Scottish football. As a wee bonus here's
Stewart Weir (@sweirz) with his take on the issue:
It's usually an argument made by those who don't support the Old Firm.
But if Celtic and Rangers (in alphabetical order only) departed Scotland and went elsewhere,
Scotland wouldn't have the Old Firm.
I've been suffering from a spot of writer's block over the weekend. The only way to get past it is
to tackle it head on. So, with that in mind, I'm dragging myself away from The West Wing (Series 3)
to take a meandering Monday look at some internet stuff that has caught my eye over the last couple
of days.
"An afternoon when the Old Firm fixture reclaimed some credibility as a footballing occasion to
savour."
That's The Scotsman's verdict on yesterday's humdinger of an Old Firm game.
Rangers outdid Celtic. Football outdid the myriad levels of crap that pockmarked this fixture last
season.
Such has been the forensic focus on Ranger's perilous finances over the last couple of days that
following Scottish football has been like studying for an accountancy degree. Not so much fans with
typewriters as fans with calculators.To save everybody the hassle of crawling into every nook and
cranny of the internet in the search for news about the country's most bombastic football club
And so it raises its ugly head again.Desperate, lonely and just wanting to be held by somebody,
Rangers and Celtic have once again slipped into their negligee, touched up the make up, set up the
webcam and logged on to www.ageingtartswantenglishlovers.com.First we had former male model Martin
Bain saying Rangers would be upping sticks in ten years.
Is this the endgame of the bitter, uneven relationship? There is nothing new in Rangers and Celtic
courting English football but Phil Gartside's intervention would seem to change things. The idea
now has support down south. Not with the fans but with some of the money men.From this point, I
think, the outcome is inevitable.
Is this the endgame of the bitter, uneven relationship? There is nothing new in Rangers and Celtic
courting English football but Phil Gartside's intervention would seem to change things. The idea
now has support down south. Not with the fans but with some of the money men.From this point, I
think, the outcome is inevitable.
