We all know that it’s a different club but it’s the same old moonbeams coming out of Ibrox…
“It is people’s entitlement. It does not sway me, nor does it put me off – I will still do my job to the very best. I can understand 300 people getting bloody annoyed if they felt there wasn’t a light at the end of the tunnel – but there is a massive moonbeam of success waiting for us” David Murray, 2006
“The chairman Sir David Murray insisted that for every £5 the impoverished Celtic spent, Rangers would splash out a tenner. They had just negotiated one Champions League qualifying round and seen off a string of helpless or hapless Celtic managers – Liam Brady, Lou Macari and Tommy Burns – with Wim Jansen barely threatening to disturb the peace in Smith’s blue heaven,” The Guardian, 2 August 2007
Walter Smith is unveiled by David Murray (L) as the new Rangers manager, at their Murray Park training ground on January 10, 2007.. Smith replaces Paul Le Guen and will be assisted by former Rangers favourite Ally McCoist. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Dodgy Dave was famous for his old moonbeams. The most famous of course being his famous plans to turn Govan into a mini Las Vegas, and a stadium complete with floating pitch which the Sunday Mail triumphantly splashed all over its pages. Oh how we laughed.
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In the end it was like pretty much everything that came from his mouth, total nonsense, like for every fiver Celtic spend he’ll spend a tenner. How did that one play out Dave? Not that everyone fell for his mini-vegas in Govan story, but the usual suspects in the Scottish mainstream media and their own support certainly did.
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Fast forward nearly twenty years and the same usual suspects are falling for the same baloney, it might be a different club but the flies it attract are just the same.
James Bisgrove, the CEO of the Rangers announced to supporters that he is considering raising the capacity at Ibrox by twenty thousand, yes twenty thousand, to allow it to hold seventy thousand spectators.
That would of course make it the biggest stadium in league with ten thousand more than Celtic Park, a point Bisgrove made with of course the reference to Celtic included.
They can’t help themselves can they? They strive to be bigger and better than Celtic at everything, we consume them. They just can’t accept that Celtic are the biggest and best side in the country. They are in total denial.
It’s all of course just a rouse to keep the hoards happy. It’s a complete non starter. Why is that? Well further increasing your capacity costs money, a lot of money. Money that they don’t have and cannot even borrow.
Celtic themselves said they couldn’t justify the sum involved when asked about increasing the capacity at Paradise, and Celtic are a well structured well off club, with tens of millions in the bank.
So what chance has a club propped up by loans have of signing off on such a major costly upgrade of their stadium? No chance is of course the answer. It’s just a feel good story for their deluded fan base, but don’t expect them or the media to have the brains to figure that out.
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