@GrahamSpiers Graham, you use the word 'tedious' to describe the 'Rangers' situation. In a way I understand where you are coming from but until this situation is resolved, it will never go away.

Let's call a spade a spade.

When the CVA failed, Rangers were heading for liquidation. Whether I liked that, didn't like that, wanted it to happen or didn't want it to happen - it matters not - it did happen.

It's important to recognise that it happened because a lot of people are still owed money from the club and it will never get paid.

Before the CVA failed, Charles Green made it clear what would happen if the CVA failed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0IkDTPQWU

Not once, but twice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkbSD56hlY

All over the country there were headlines describing the event as it happened.

http://i.imgur.com/TnkDMSE.jpg

Walter Smith acknowledged it, as did Mark Hateley & Richard Gough.

What has happened since has been the scam of the century - and possibly even last century as well.

Sevco were awarded conditional membership of the SFA and after changing their name to The Rangers FC were, for a while, acknowledged and regarded as a new club that were founded in 2012

http://i.imgur.com/B1OGaXU.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wLd4nxQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3mRh43q.jpg

Then .... well, what happened? Again, what happened?

We have just been told to accept something else - to rewrite history. Sorry, but no.

We know that the SFA, the lovely bunch of honest people that they are, cannot say publicly that the Rangers of today are the same Rangers pre-liquidation. However they have communicated with organisations such as ECA to perpetuate the myth that the club is still the same.

When ASA contacted the SFA to make an enquiry, they were told that the definition of a club can have various contexts. Of course they never actually clarified what context Rangers fell into - they just want to use that line to make ASA go away.

The SFA know the legal implications of liquidation. Rangers, the club that was founded in 1872, the same club that won 54 league titles (some of them questionably - that's another story) is no longer with us.

They have dodged every question from day one about new Rangers, instead they are happy to allow ECA / ASA etc to put out statements on their behalf to keep the illusion going that Rangers never went bust at all.

If this happened in any other sport, the media would be all over the governing body for an explanation. You'd be asking how a club that owes so much to so many can appear again debt free. You would, wouldn't you?

In short - the SFA are either cowards or liars. Maybe even both. They cannot explain this situation and it's about time they did because a fellow journalist of yours almost handed in his resignation for the abuse he received for daring to say "old club".

Yes, the same journalist was threatened as well. This is the fascist tactics at work. It's happening here and now.

We now live in a society where parts of the media have just ignored the very headlines they printed in 2012 to keep alive something that isn't true.

Our national sport is now bound by lies, myths and scams where everything that is beautiful about the game is cast aside in order to protect one entity.

276 creditors are still owed money, the SFA live in a murky world of silence, journalists are threatened - yet the mighty Glasgow Rangers are here today, the world champions at everything from football to tiddliwinks because what I have learned from all of this - everything can go to hell - but the establishment must be protected.

My club had to pay every penny of debt back. So did Hearts. Do did Dunfermline.

You know, I know - everyone knows - that the protection of Rangers is the ultimate kick in the teeth to everything good about the game.

And you say it's 'tedious'.

Sorry Graham, it's more that that.

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