Snakehips
Well-Known Member
He is getting beyond parody now. Everybody knows what the SPFL were up to, and yet here he is, blaming Hearts now after it was all our fault initially for not rolling over and just accepting the dodgy antics of the SPFL board. Surely he must be on the Hollicom payroll (would make sense to have on the DR - Keech - and one in The Sun).
Question is, if the proof comes to light that the SPFL were corrupt during the whole process, will he be a man and admit he was wrong? He is gonna look like one of the biggest fools in Scotland if it gets exposed, and his columns for the last 3 months will have been rendered ridiculous, biased, and uninformed. He must have massive chips on his shoulders about something. Anyway, I will await the usual ‘Bill Leckie is a pr*ck’ comments
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BILL LECKIE Craig Gordon’s right, there is bad blood in relegation row…but Hearts spilled it
COMMENT
But today it feels more like the drone of a bluebottle we can’t evict from the living room.
Gordon reckons there'll be bad blood for years over Hearts' relegation
Because, 115 days on from coronavirus getting football stopped, the new 2020-21 Premiership schedule isn’t so much carved in stone as scribbled on a napkin.
Away at Dundee United on day one?
Well, don’t make any travel plans yet, because they still might have their promotion scrapped, which means you’ll actually be away to Hearts.
Except, of course, if Hibs are at home. Which means they’ll either have to switch it so your lot play hosts instead. Or move it to a different day. Or rip the whole card up and start again.
Our man reckons Ann Budge has not helped herself with actions since relegation was confrimed
Wait, though. What if United DO get told they can’t move up from the Championship and some rich punter stumps up so THEY can take it to court? Where do we go from there?
Hell in a handcart, that’s where.
Though let’s be honest, we’re already halfway down the hill with no brakes.
Just 25 days until our flagship league is due to kick off and everything’s still up in the air thanks to missing votes, smoking guns, EGMs, court hearings, arbitration and so much backstabbing that it’s not face-masks you need to attend an SPFL meeting, it’s a Kevlar blazer.
No wonder sponsors are deserting the scene in droves.
Craig Gordon was right when he claimed on re-signing for the Jambos the other day that there will be “bad blood for years to come” after this miserable summer of discontent.
Hearts are lodged in a messy legal battle over the relegation row
He’s also bang on when he expresses his dismay that Scottish football hasn’t been able to sort itself out despite its problems not meaning a toss compared to what’s going on in the wider world.
Without wishing to pick an argument with one of the game’s good guys, though, I have to say that, if he’s searching for a reason why it’s all gone so pear-shaped, it’s right under his nose; right there in his boyhood club’s boardroom.
Hearts are the ones who finished bottom of the table despite spending top-three money on players.
Hearts are the ones who panicked and demanded those players take pay cuts before the government even had the chance to introduce the furlough scheme.
Hearts backed the wrong horse in the vote on ending the season early, then again on the vote calling for an independent probe into how that decision was reached.
A reconstruction plan that would have saved their bacon fell on its backside, even though their own sugar-mummy Ann Budge chaired the committee who came up with it.
They dragged United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers into their legal fight to have the final tables declared void, a situation that has left Raith fearing they’ll be unable to risk a six-figure legal bill and will simply be crossing their fingers that the decision goes their way.
As if this wasn’t heavy-handed enough, Budge then nicked Robbie Neilson from Tannadice as her new manager — a hefty investment which, along with the deal to bring Gordon in from Celtic, is an almighty boot in the stones for every employee forced into a drop in wages when Budge pleaded poverty.
I know Jambos fans will be sick of reading this, maybe even as sick as I am of writing it, but it has to be put on record that, despite dominating the headlines for pretty much all of these 115 locked-down days, their club have produced not one positive, winning idea.
Good God, even when the hugely-generous James Anderson offered a donation of millions to make sure no clubs went down the pan, all Budge had to do was introduce him to Neil Doncaster and let them shake hands, but even then she managed to turn it into a fight.
Like Rangers chairman Douglas Park before her, she’s read the room wrong time and again. She’s been fighting shadows, punching smoke.
Plus, when she and her lawyers were throwing their weight around by plunging the plans of the three lower league winners into disarray, why didn’t they have the courage to claim that Celtic shouldn’t have been named Premiership champions?
After all, if they’re actually saying relegation shouldn’t have counted, how can the title stand?
Sorry, but there are more holes in Budge’s defence than . . . well, there were in her back four all last season, which really is saying something. And, for the umpteenth time, let me also say without fear of contradiction that, if they’d come off the bottom by winning at Paisley in the last, pivotal match before the shutters came down, we’d never have heard a peep from them.
So, sure, there will be bad blood whatever happens now. But it’s Hearts who spilled it.
Sure, it’ll forever be a crying shame that they, Partick Thistle and Stranraer were condemned to the drop when they still had enough games left to save themselves.
But there are also countless businesses who might never open their doors again, tens of thousands of workers sweating over when they’ll earn a crust again.
All Hearts were asked to do was suck up some rank bad luck and agree to kick a ball around in a different division come August — a division they’d be odds-on favourites to win.
Whatever happens next in this sorry, sordid saga, the fact that they preferred to cause chaos for everyone else around them will stain those famous maroon shirts for a long time to come.
Question is, if the proof comes to light that the SPFL were corrupt during the whole process, will he be a man and admit he was wrong? He is gonna look like one of the biggest fools in Scotland if it gets exposed, and his columns for the last 3 months will have been rendered ridiculous, biased, and uninformed. He must have massive chips on his shoulders about something. Anyway, I will await the usual ‘Bill Leckie is a pr*ck’ comments
...BILL LECKIE Craig Gordon’s right, there is bad blood in relegation row…but Hearts spilled it
COMMENT
- Bill Leckie
- 5 Jul 2020, 22:39
- Updated: 5 Jul 2020, 22:39
But today it feels more like the drone of a bluebottle we can’t evict from the living room.
Gordon reckons there'll be bad blood for years over Hearts' relegation
Because, 115 days on from coronavirus getting football stopped, the new 2020-21 Premiership schedule isn’t so much carved in stone as scribbled on a napkin.
Away at Dundee United on day one?
Well, don’t make any travel plans yet, because they still might have their promotion scrapped, which means you’ll actually be away to Hearts.
Except, of course, if Hibs are at home. Which means they’ll either have to switch it so your lot play hosts instead. Or move it to a different day. Or rip the whole card up and start again.
Our man reckons Ann Budge has not helped herself with actions since relegation was confrimed
Wait, though. What if United DO get told they can’t move up from the Championship and some rich punter stumps up so THEY can take it to court? Where do we go from there?
Hell in a handcart, that’s where.
Though let’s be honest, we’re already halfway down the hill with no brakes.
Just 25 days until our flagship league is due to kick off and everything’s still up in the air thanks to missing votes, smoking guns, EGMs, court hearings, arbitration and so much backstabbing that it’s not face-masks you need to attend an SPFL meeting, it’s a Kevlar blazer.
No wonder sponsors are deserting the scene in droves.
Craig Gordon was right when he claimed on re-signing for the Jambos the other day that there will be “bad blood for years to come” after this miserable summer of discontent.
Hearts are lodged in a messy legal battle over the relegation row
He’s also bang on when he expresses his dismay that Scottish football hasn’t been able to sort itself out despite its problems not meaning a toss compared to what’s going on in the wider world.
Without wishing to pick an argument with one of the game’s good guys, though, I have to say that, if he’s searching for a reason why it’s all gone so pear-shaped, it’s right under his nose; right there in his boyhood club’s boardroom.
Hearts are the ones who finished bottom of the table despite spending top-three money on players.
Hearts are the ones who panicked and demanded those players take pay cuts before the government even had the chance to introduce the furlough scheme.
Hearts backed the wrong horse in the vote on ending the season early, then again on the vote calling for an independent probe into how that decision was reached.
A reconstruction plan that would have saved their bacon fell on its backside, even though their own sugar-mummy Ann Budge chaired the committee who came up with it.
They dragged United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers into their legal fight to have the final tables declared void, a situation that has left Raith fearing they’ll be unable to risk a six-figure legal bill and will simply be crossing their fingers that the decision goes their way.
As if this wasn’t heavy-handed enough, Budge then nicked Robbie Neilson from Tannadice as her new manager — a hefty investment which, along with the deal to bring Gordon in from Celtic, is an almighty boot in the stones for every employee forced into a drop in wages when Budge pleaded poverty.
I know Jambos fans will be sick of reading this, maybe even as sick as I am of writing it, but it has to be put on record that, despite dominating the headlines for pretty much all of these 115 locked-down days, their club have produced not one positive, winning idea.
Good God, even when the hugely-generous James Anderson offered a donation of millions to make sure no clubs went down the pan, all Budge had to do was introduce him to Neil Doncaster and let them shake hands, but even then she managed to turn it into a fight.
Like Rangers chairman Douglas Park before her, she’s read the room wrong time and again. She’s been fighting shadows, punching smoke.
Plus, when she and her lawyers were throwing their weight around by plunging the plans of the three lower league winners into disarray, why didn’t they have the courage to claim that Celtic shouldn’t have been named Premiership champions?
After all, if they’re actually saying relegation shouldn’t have counted, how can the title stand?
Sorry, but there are more holes in Budge’s defence than . . . well, there were in her back four all last season, which really is saying something. And, for the umpteenth time, let me also say without fear of contradiction that, if they’d come off the bottom by winning at Paisley in the last, pivotal match before the shutters came down, we’d never have heard a peep from them.
So, sure, there will be bad blood whatever happens now. But it’s Hearts who spilled it.
Sure, it’ll forever be a crying shame that they, Partick Thistle and Stranraer were condemned to the drop when they still had enough games left to save themselves.
But there are also countless businesses who might never open their doors again, tens of thousands of workers sweating over when they’ll earn a crust again.
All Hearts were asked to do was suck up some rank bad luck and agree to kick a ball around in a different division come August — a division they’d be odds-on favourites to win.
Whatever happens next in this sorry, sordid saga, the fact that they preferred to cause chaos for everyone else around them will stain those famous maroon shirts for a long time to come.
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