The Rangers liquidation lie is one that is challenged by the Celtic fans day in, and day out as the Ibrox club’s fans try to convince themselves and the rest of Scottish football that they are still the same club.
After entering administration in February 2012 due to the illegal use of EBTs, things got even worse for the Oldco as it eventually slipped into liquidation and died.
Sevco was born the following summer and the new club, aided and abetted by the Scottish media, spun the same club myth that is now peddled to this day. Until now.
Toby Perkins says Rangers ‘disappeared altogether’
Now, that is a kicker for the Newco fans. They always refer us to some wee sh*tey ribbon issued by UEFA or a quote by FIFA to prove, to actually prove, that the whole legal process of liquidation never happened and that they were, in fact, just relegated to the lower divisions.
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I don’t know about you but I’ve never heard of a club that finished second in their league being told to go to the lower divisions to start their next season before.
Westminster Labour MP, Toby Perkins, was debating the Football Governance Bill in Parliament yesterday when he said this:
You can just hear the clamour of the Rangers fans reaching for their phones to send hate to the MP and phone the Union Bears to get him on the banned list.
I just hope that someone calls Superscoreboard to discuss this belter of a statement because it will be hard to argue against a guy they can’t really call a conspiracy theorist, a moon howler or a fenian b*st*rd.
