One thing anyway - if the huns are skint as we all think they are, lets see how they cope without matchday income as their only source of cashflow for the next few weeks......
Great times ahead for Steven Gerrard who's just about to take his Rangers side on a three week unbeaten run.
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UEFA’s announcement regarding the 2019/2020 season seems to have put an end to the ‘null and void’ agenda that the Rangers have been pushing over the past week.
The global coronavirus outbreak has shaken society to its core and football has been no exception. All major leagues are suspended at this point of time with their immediate future unclear. And although more than 80% of the season has already been played, clubs like Rangers have jumped on this opportunity, demanding it to be declared ‘null and void’.
Yesterday, Rangers had put out a statement in which they had demanded that all the 38 leagues had to be played in order for a team to be declared champions. And secondly, they wanted these games to be played in front of full stadiums instead of behind closed doors.
Considering the current circumstances, it is hard not to feel that Steven Gerrard’s side were just looking for a way out with their demands. While people around the world are being advised to lock themselves inside in order to avoid social contact, how can one expect that football matches can be organised in front of fans within the next few months?
Declaring the season ‘null and void’ would be especially convenient for them considering the fact that they are 13 points behind Celtic in the Premiership table and look powerless to stop 9-in-a-row at this point of time.
Unfortunately for Rangers, UEFA’s latest announcement suggest that the European football governing body are hoping to meet at least one of their demands soon.
UEFA have published guidelines that 55 football associations have signed on, with an eye to resume the football season following the shutdown.
One of the biggest commitments that the associations have made is to complete both domestic and European club competitions by the end of the current season, 30th June 2020. That is of course if the coronavirus situation improves around the world.
The footballing calendar will get shaken up if required i.e. European games might end up being played on the weekends and league games in mid-week.
UEFA’s steps mean that they have not given up hope on the season and they clearly hope to finish it in time. While nothing is made clear with regards to who the trophies will be awarded to if the season cannot be finished, it is pretty clear that the season will not be declared ‘null and void’ like many people in Glasgow are hoping at the moment.
Rangers' new PR chief David Graham dubbed Celtic Park ‘the piggery’ on Facebook
The old social media post is the latest controversy to hit the DUP councillor and senior Orangeman with Graham previously filmed urging Ibrox fans to maintain a Loyalist 'No surrender' stance. post on the Facebook account of Rangers’ new PR guru referred to the home of rivals Celtic as “the piggery”. David Graham’s appointment has caused a storm on social media and beyond, with critics from inside and outside the club questioning whether a DUP councillor and senior Orangeman is the right person to represent Rangers in 2020.
The Record previously exposed a video of Graham urging fans to maintain a Loyalist “No surrender” stance. The latest controversy surrounds a post from 2011, which refers to a YouTube video about the Rangers debut of former star Mark Walters. The post, on Graham’s “Meharg Davy” Facebook page, stated: “Nothing changes at the piggery.” Celtic FC is understood to regard the word as grossly offensive.
A Rangers fan who contacted the Record about the post said he was disgusted that such a high-ranking and influential fan should even think in such a way. The fan said: “Piggery is a word that is known to be used among the sectarian minority of fans and would never be used by modern and decent-thinking supporters. “It’s used in a hateful way and the guy running PR shouldn’t be hanging on to such nasty old values.”
In the video that emerged earlier, Graham stated: “The Union is still here and the Union is still strong because of our fighting spirit. “It’s very easy as Rangers fans, and it’s very easy as Unionists and Loyalists, to take the flak and lie down but our cry has been, since 1668, and it always will be, ‘No surrender.’”
The post on Graham’s now deleted “Meharg Davy” Facebook page calling Celtic Park "the piggery" (Image: UGC) Despite the video, Graham said in a radio interview that Rangers are open to everyone and there is no reason why they “cannot be a 21st century club for 21st century people”. He added: “The future includes everyone, irrespective of sexual orientation, religious background or cultural affiliation.
“Rangers is proud to be a modern, diverse football club.” The new PR chief’s father-in-law, Michael Herbert, is of the Jewish faith. The Record contacted Rangers FC and Graham for comment. No one got back to us. The Facebook page had been deleted last night
It goes without saying that Graham is a cretin and his appointment highlights the continued choice of a club that isn’t even a decade old to be clinging on to anachronistic beliefs and opinions, but what is sectarian about calling it the ‘piggery’. Does that mean when Celtic fans refer to Ibrox as ‘Mordor’ or ‘Castle Greyskull’ it is also sectarian?
He is a Rangers fan, he won’t like Celtic and is likely to have made disparaging comments on social media. There are plenty of reasons to point out why his appointment is a disgrace, going after the most frivolous and petty of those reasons only makes Celtic fans look petty.
Would his father-in-law be the same Michael Herbert who is one of the richest men in the country and recently sold on 146 KFC outlets ? If so , perhaps money had something to do with this guy's appointment at Rangers ? I don't know but it's a strange one . The DUP is a small sectarian party which has never been exactly renowned for its diplomatic or PR expertise or indeed much else other than rancid bigotry. Added to which , this guy was not even a big fish in that exceedingly narrow pond. Strange, indeed.
Just google the name Michael Herbert . I have seen multiple newspaper articles about him and he has featured regularly in published 'rich lists.' It's an unusual name so I'm assuming it must be the same guy.
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