Footballing "what ifs?"

What if 4 lads didn’t have a dream.

Would I have followed an other team?
Would I have liked football?
Who would my friends be given that most of my mates are bluenoses?
What would I do with my time if there was no Follow Follow?

Lots of deep philosophical questions that don’t bear considering, especially after 2012.
 
Think it's been mentioned on here umpteen times, my da always goes on about the club dropping Forrest and playing Roger Hynd in the ECWC final.

edit: I see it's been mentioned on this thread.
 
What if Amazon prime bought exclusive rights to Scottish football (having to outbid sky (more money to our game) )

£8 a month, streamed
 
Another one for me is what if Rangers had been a little more savvy and streetwise v Levski Sofia in Bulgaria in 1993. Injury time, an we have a corner. Next thing they score from long range. What the f#ck... :oops: Another go at the group stages in 93/94 might've changed our European destiny. Ah well, if ifs and ands were pots and pans.... :rolleyes:
 
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The officials hadn't shat it in the SCF of 1989 when Aitken blatantly stole that throw-in. We were a much better team than them and would no doubt have gone on to win. That would have been one more trophy to The Famous.
 
evo14 said:
If we had qualified for the CL in 2011, we could have probably avoided administration. I remember seeing the look on Shyte’s face when we lost to Malmö. Little did I know that in reality, the future of the club pretty much hung on us gaining CL money that year.

Still, at least that skidmark won’t be anywhere near Ibrox ever again. Silver linings and all that .
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It wouldn’t have made any difference, we still would have gone into administration just maybe a year later.
 
Treble Kings said:
Another one for me is what if Rangers had been a little more savvy and streetwise v Levski Sofia in Budapest in 1993. Injury time, an we have a corner. Next thing they score from long range. What the f#ck... :oops: Another go at the group stages in 93/94 might've changed our European destiny. Ah well, if ifs and ands were pots and pans.... :rolleyes:
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Why did we play a Bulgarian side in the capital of Hungary? Was the game moved for some reason?
 
evo14 said:
If we had qualified for the CL in 2011, we could have probably avoided administration. I remember seeing the look on Shyte’s face when we lost to Malmö. Little did I know that in reality, the future of the club pretty much hung on us gaining CL money that year.

Still, at least that skidmark won’t be anywhere near Ibrox ever again. Silver linings and all that .
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I think it would only have prolonged it mate. Whyte would have ran off with the money was probably his plan
 
What if
Celtic had been a bunch of jammy barstewards that only got 9 in a row cause we weren't in town for 4 years....
Oh wait that did happen
 
Dolphin said:
I often wondered what would have happened if we had won the Treble in 88/89. In the Cup final They scored from a shy that should have been awarded to the Rangers. That win kept them going for a while, I think if we had won that game they would have imploded big time.
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Yep where was retrospective action then?

If Scottish football actually helped us with heavy fixture list we may have had a better chance to beat Zunit?

If we got to ply in Champions league final after the exposed French cheats?

HMRC were not allowed to retrospectively make changes or exaggerate a top line probably deliberate to scare potential buyers? Celtic would never have got their recent titles nor that fraudruple and Craig Whyte would never been near the old company nor had the chance to run up a 9m tax bill!
 
What if Gary Mac had scored the penalty V England In euro 96. Gazza would never have scored his great goal and Scotland may well have won the game or at least hung on for a draw as they were playing well, and would have went on to qualify from the group.
 
dapper dado said:
Boxers famously refrain from sex before a fight to improve performance. What if Alan McGregor didn't pump ten burds a night? How good would he be?
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I suppose if Alan felt tired we could have had one of the burds play in goal as we would have needed someone who could spread themselves well, take a lot of shots and come for a lot of crossed balls?

As for boxers change to pants and a bit of viagra might help the performances? Oh you mean professional fighters oops! ;)
 
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If Gerrard never slipped would he have ended up being our manager?

I think his playing career might have went on longer than it did.

Could be speaking utter shite mind you.
 
What if Ally MacLeod had taken the job, and the opposition in our World Cup group more seriously in 1978. He didn't even go and see Peru or Iran beforehand or get any of his staff to do so.
 
What if Whittaker was dropped for the Malmö games in 2011.

He doesn’t give away a stupid goal in the first leg. Then doesn’t get sent off for throwing the ball at one of their players when we’re on the ascendancy.

Guaranteed Europa League football at least and in the Champions League play offs. Are we able to then avoid admin?
 
GR6Ger said:
What if Murray bought Ayr United instead of us?
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He lasts about 4-5 years at Ayr as they don’t have the glamour we had. Ayr might have got a nice stadium out of it, but he would have got bored and pulled the plug similar to his basketball team.

Rangers on the other hand
- Already had Souness
- Stadium would have been same minus club deck
- Financially on a sound footing (as far as I remember). Holmes had implemented a lot of the early strategy that Murray took over.

I don’t think we necessarily win 9 in a row without some of Murray’s “bankroll”, ego, and his ability to bullshit / sales pitches to some players and agents, but I still think we dominate the 90’s, maybe with Aberdeen and that lot winning the odd extra title.

Funnily enough, without Murray I don’t think that lot end up with Fergus McCann. They would have plodded along as they did but wouldn’t have needed someone as ambitious as McCann coming in which was the rocket fuel in their recovery in the 90’s.
 
What if we hadn't hired Pedro. The season he started with us the competition was terrible. A half-decent manager wins that league that season. Finishing 3rd with 70pts while they win the league on 82, dropping 24 points from the season previous.
 
Hammy said:
What if Whittaker was dropped for the Malmö games in 2011.

He doesn’t give away a stupid goal in the first leg. Then doesn’t get sent off for throwing the ball at one of their players when we’re on the ascendancy.

Guaranteed Europa League football at least and in the Champions League play offs. Are we able to then avoid admin?
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Think about those games quite a lot tbh and always wonder if it would have saved us from admin or delayed it.
 
GVB 1872 said:
If Gerrard never slipped would he have ended up being our manager?

I think his playing career might have went on longer than it did.

Could be speaking utter shite mind you.
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I posted about the slip earlier in the thread but didn't really elaborate on it. Assuming Liverpool went on to win the league that season, I don't think Gerrard would have left for LA just one season later. That could have taken his career in a totally different direction.

Another way to look at it, again assuming they won the league, is that they don't sack Rodgers less than 18 months later, and even if they do, his reputation is higher because he's a title winning manager and either way, he doesn't end up in Scotland.

Or not. :))
 
What if when the sfa made us play an insane amount of matches in 8 days we just decided ‘f it’, played a youth team in those matches, and went all in on the EL?

I concede that Cousin being suspended hampered us greatly, but the attrition of that schedule seriously limited our chances to compete at our best. The lack of forward thinking - improved tv deals etc from having a recent europa league winner over not wanting us to go one better than Celtic is typical of the Scottish football parochial mentality.
 
Japandroid said:
I posted about the slip earlier in the thread but didn't really elaborate on it. Assuming Liverpool went on to win the league that season, I don't think Gerrard would have left for LA just one season later. That could have taken his career in a totally different direction.

Another way to look at it, again assuming they won the league, is that they don't sack Rodgers less than 18 months later, and even if they do, his reputation is higher because he's a title winning manager and either way, he doesn't end up in Scotland.

Or not. :))
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Exactly - if he hadn’t slipped, there’s absolutely no way Rodgers ends up at Celtic as an EPL winning manager.
 
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