Regular readers of this site will know I like to delve away from Celtic and dabble into the liquidation deniers of this world.
You know the ones. The ones that want to claim all the glory of dead Rangers but deny all the debt the club ran up as it cheated Scottish football out of trophies and millions of pounds of prize money.
And let’s not forget the EBT scandal as well. I suppose what we should be grateful for is that the EBTs led to the untimely demise of the Old Rangers and the birth of Sevco.
Because without Sevco we would never have had the amount of Banter Years that we did since 2012.
However, I digress. After Celtic were cheated out of trophies, one of the biggest liquidation deniers on social media, James Black, had a bit of a nightmare as he listed all the clubs from English football that he says went out of business and then rose again as the same club.
See where this is going? And it all started from this thread on X:
It’s a three-thread tweet so have a peruse at your own leisure but what Black wasn’t counting on was to be corrected by English football fans at his own glaring error:
Yeah mate, Notts County went into administration, but were not liquidated. The two words aren't synonymous.
— Ken (@Ken_Notts) March 7, 2024
Rangers *were* liquidated. The club was wound up.
Portsmouth ST holder here. Pompey were not liquidated. This is a proud club which was saved by its fans. Yes the club entered administration a few times but by April 2013 Portsmouth exited administration when the Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST) deal to buy the club was completed.
— Chris James (@Topbhoyspliffer) March 6, 2024
Port Vale, administration not liquidation
— Gazza (@gazgpvfc) March 7, 2024
Crystal palace – never liquidated
— ライアン 六十七🇯🇵 (@Rallen6788) March 6, 2024
Aldershot FC – where liquidated now exist as Aldershot town established 1992. Aldershot Town never liquidated
Leeds – administration but never liquidated
Can't go through them all but u get the point.
I don't think that list is correct for example Leeds United or Leicester were never liquidated .
— Robin Hall (@Tartan_Rab) March 6, 2024
In fact a quick Google with show a few others were not either.
There is a difference between administration and liquidation.
You get the point. The guy was trying to be smart by making an indirect point about Rangers not dying by trying to list a number of English clubs that went into administration and, bizarrely, never died.
But I’ll leave the last word to Rangers Tax-Case who is a complete expert on the whole situation as he summed this whole nonsense up perfectly:
No Scottish clubs in that list?
— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) March 6, 2024
It’s like arguing “I can drive at 180 mph in Scotland because it’s legal on the Autobahn in Germany”. Your point is irrelevant.
I think this guy will think twice before going down this road again.
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Let’s man up Tims. Same fans, same stadium, same media prejudice and same SFA bias. Rangers or Sevco, they have come out on the side of the former, but in law and in the real world of reasonable people the new club has a couple of trophies and the old club has gone into the annuals of Scottish Football. Let’s move on because we are the reasonable people who live in the real world. We will just have to accept that old club or new club the prejudice and discrimination against Catholics, the Irish and anyone else who dares follow Celtic continues. Archie McPherson called it out decades ago and I respect him for his integrity, objectivity and honesty. Not many in the media have the courage to do that. ‘Good man!’
John, the pheonix club move is quite simply the biggest scandal in the history of British sport, there will NEVER be a moving on scenario unless the previous Ibrox club are fully punished for their decade long financial crimes.
HH