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I became disillusioned by Scottish football years ago. It began to die with the grandiose, unrealistic dreams of David Murray and was further wounded when smaller clubs reacted to the Bosman era by employing clapped-out Continentals thus denying careers in the game to talented young Scots. It still has a pulse but it’s getting weaker by the year, and the idiots who are currently running it, none of whom appear to have a grounding in or understanding of my country, seem to be doing their best to finish it off.
For example, this is July 22. Tomorrow, the Scottish Premier League 2011 – 2012 season begins. This is madness. Okay, times have changed but the fact remains that the majority of Scottish families take their holidays in July. Many of these people will have bought season tickets for their clubs, and booked their flights and digs, all before the league programme was published. When you buy a season, you become a creditor of the club in question, and its debt is redeemed with every home match you attend. Thus, hundreds, probably thousands of fans across the country will not be receiving full value for their investment, and will effectively have been cheated by the clowns who drew up this ridiculous schedule.
If you think this is just QJ having a rant, I am not alone. For example, Terry Butcher has been forthright on the situation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14240916.stm
Terry, who has become a stalwart of the Scottish game, is actually a football man. The fact that he and people like him were presented with these fixtures as a fait accompli, shows the lack of understanding of the realities of the game among its senior administrators. Or could it be that Scottish football has become just another business that holds its customers in contempt?
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Re your question in the final sentence.
Can’t speak for other clubs, but certainly most HIbs supporters I know feel that is the way the current Hibs board view them.
As I type this Skinner’s ‘Well sit top of the league after one game.
At least they will until no doubt Celtic hammer an unprepared HIbs in a few hours time.
Only 37 games left. Unprepared and with an unwilling manager.
Yes, there is much to look forward too!!!!
Like many of my fellow HIbs tragics, I do not know what I must have done in previous lives to have deserved to come back this time around as a Hibs supporter.
From now on whenever I see any little old ladies on Sydney’s streets I am going to help them over the road – whether they want to go or not – that way I may earn some credits I and won’t be similarly punished next time around.
Take a tip. Help young ladies across the street. Good luck vs Sellic; I am hoping for three draws in the remaining games. I see that Ayr are playing Man U in a friendly tomorrow evening. Can there be an odder fixture than that one?
Must go now to resume my Amy Winehouse iTunes memorial playlist.
Truth is, I believe in omens; for example, being first after the first game suggests being last after the last, even with Dunfermline in the 12. Any chance of your lot winning 4 — 0?