To read the papers this weekend, you would think that Sevco is the healthiest club in all of Scottish football. Everything’s optimism. Everything’s on the up and up. They are “ready for Celtic” and not just for one game. They believe they can challenge us for the title in the next campaign, based on a handful of wins since January.
Yet Sevco is in a position of danger that is unprecedented in the recent history of Scottish football. That is the truth, and I write that with authority because I’ve researched this matter widely and I know what I’m talking about.
Sevco is a club running on fumes, and with no plan for how to move forward. They seem to believe that spending money will make more money magically appear; in any other industry you would call this out as clear insanity. If it were happening at any other club, I do believe the media would be doing the same. But this is Ibrox and there facts and common sense and logic do not belong on the same page. The whole club exists in a half-light of delusion.
And I find that fascinating for many reasons.
But where the media fails, the bloggers have consistently stepped in. I will not pretend that we have gotten everything right, but we differentiate between what we know to be facts and what are opinions. We do not present rumour as something dressed up as more than it is, and when we draw conclusions we like to base them on historical precedent or good old fashioned common sense. That’s why when we say Sevco is in trouble you should believe it.
These are just some of the reasons why.