Don't ask me why I buy this rag as it doesn't do anything for me that other rags similarly don't do. But there you go.
I have no problems in telling y'all why I don't like Mondays though. Just two words: Andy (sodding) McInnes. There are some out there even claim he is a bluenose as well. If that is the case then we really are knee deep in the brown stuff.
Mind you, for someone who will blow Chairman Murr's trumpet at the drop of a hat, McInnes at times has a novel way of doing it. A few weeks ago during the January transfer window, he was urging the Parkhead board to buy in a few players that would see Celtic leave Rangers trailing in their wake on and OFF the park. It just never occurred to McInnes, obviously, that this is one of the reasons why the We Deserve Better campaign is so blatantly sensible.
Yesterday he was making the point that Celtic were financially prudent and Rangers were 'skint'. This guy is a walking, talking advert for the RST. But not to be trusted any more than some previous officers. With friends like these Mr Chairman………
Tuesday is a slower news day, which is to be expected, but the back page of today's Express tells us that Spurs want to pay £6.5m over the odds for the wee Glaswegian from Ireland. And to think we're in the middle of a world wide recession? Mind you, maybe wee Aiden does want to get away from his Polish friend.
On a more important topic, football wise, I see that a Falkirk player is asking for cheats to be punished. We'll see plenty of it this coming Sunday, that is for sure, and a certain Jap will be the star of the show. Personally speaking I don't think cheating will be a main topic of discussion for our press this coming Monday.
Another interesting point being made, and I feel this is important for Scottish football as a whole, is Aberdeen's Lee Miller asking/pleading with The SFA, to look at 'scaling' down their impending Scottish Cup semi final tie with Falkirk.
I realise all the guff about players wanting to play at Hampden, and maybe as a Rangers fan with the experience, and inbuilt arrogance to go with it, I should be the last one to talk about what affects other clubs. But surely any player and fan would prefer a full house, vibrant and bursting at the seems, at such occasions?
Now Dolly and/or Falkirk fans might say this issue has nothing to do with me, but as fan/neutral, I think I'd far rather watch a game on TV with a full house and the atmosphere that goes with it, at a halfway neutral venue for both sets of fans. As opposed to peering in at a ghost town in the National White Elephant. It seems an easy one to answer.
Now, who believes in coincidences? Not me, in fact I believe someone at The Express is pulling our legs this morning. Leg being the operative word. Now we know it is the run up to OF Cup final week and old players will be roped in and trotted out here, there and everywhere.
But today's choices are an eye catcher. Davie Provan, the ex Rangers player and Bertie Auld speaking on behalf of Timbo? Nah, I don't believe in coincidences. For our younger readers, Davie Provan was the victim of a particularly nasty, over the ball challenge by Auld at Ibrox back in September 1967, which resulted in a leg break for the Ranger.
Who knows, maybe we'll be treated to John Greig and Bobby Lennox as a double act later this week? We'll find out soon enough.
We are then treated to predictable guff in the inside pages about how our strikers are firing on all cylinders, blah, blah, blah. You could have fooled me last Wednesday evening.
As I said earlier, we can expect some serious hype in the run up to this Sunday's League Cup final. What I would like, would really appreciate actually, is no crap being issued out of Ibrox, and that goes for all the players, ex players and the three in charge of first team affairs.
It's not too much to ask now, is it?
TGG.
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