The last week was a thoroughly dreadful one for Sevco and for the SFA and as we head into this one it looks like being even worse.
In the last seven days, the regimes at Hampden and Ibrox have been struck again and again by the hammer blows raining on them from the Resolution 12 requisitioners.
Stewart Regan was forced to come down out of his own ivory tower and face the public, and to cap it all the Offshore Game published yet another piece and made it clear that people are watching and listening at UEFA.
The next seven days are going to be even more incredible.
Rumours abound that King is facing a very difficult few days, their manager is still effectively AWOL having given a single interview since the Scottish Cup Final and Celtic’s season ticket numbers far in excess of theirs.
This makes a mockery of King’s notion that their fans will “outspend” ours.
Things at Ibrox aren’t great right now.
There is talk that at least one director is ready to do walking away, and it looks very much like the dismissal of charges against the Duff and Phelps team in their High Court case leaves Craig Whyte on the verge of sliding off the hook next. A number of the indictments against him simply won’t stand up if he’s the sole defendant and so the hope many held that King might use guilty verdicts in those cases to start unravelling the mess at his club looks like being dashed completely.
In the meantime, King and his people will escalate the war of words between their club and the rest of Scottish football.
You’ve got to ask what the objective is here, and where this might be going.
Because that could be important to all of us.
Over at the SFA, this was the week they threw the Ibrox club under a bus over Resolution 12, with Regan making it clear that in his view the SFA did nothing wrong, which begs the question as to who actually did. In virtually inviting Celtic to complain to UEFA, and promising to co-operate fully with any investigation, Regan has made one of the most controversial decisions of his time in charge, and he’s sparked what I think will grow to be open warfare with the Ibrox club.
This will have consequences for both of them.
There’s a lot going on right now. Some of it isn’t even close to being in the public domain at the moment, but that might change in the next day or two. I certainly intend to examine a couple of things which I’ve been hearing about. The Requisitioners are pushing onwards with the next phase of their campaign (and they’re selling t-shirts too, to raise money for the legal fees) and as the walls continue to close in around the people we’re after those guys are edging towards the finish line, and what a finish it looks like it’ll be.
Stay tuned.
This will be an interesting week to say the very least.