Paul Lambert - As thick as he sounds

[shedka]

"Former Celtic captain Paul Lambert has blasted the decision to relegate Rangers to the Scottish Third Division in 2012 as the “worst decision” the Scottish clubs could have made.

Rangers were kicked out of the then-SPL and voted in as members of the Third Division after the club’s parent company entered liquidation in June 2012.

The Gers were forced to play their way back up through the leagues and Lambert thinks the decision hurt everyone in Scottish football.

“I think it was the worst decision to demote Rangers three leagues. It wasn’t good for the Scottish game, the Scottish league and certainly not for the national team,” Lambert told beIN Sports.

“Celtic and Rangers, in years gone by, provided a lot of players for the national team and it’s mainly Celtic now. That’s the bigger picture and people hadn’t really thought it through. Nobody thought, ‘Well how is this going to affect Scotland, the league itself, Glasgow as a city?’


“I think it was the wrong decision to put them down three leagues.”

Rangers returned to the top tier of Scottish football last season but have been a shadow of the side that were kicked out of the league five years ago.

The Gers are currently third in the Scottish Premiership – five points behind leaders Celtic – and have not won a league game against their bitter rivals since March 2012.

In the time Rangers have been out of the top tier of the Scottish game, Celtic were able to pick up four virtually unchallenged titles and are looking towards their seventh title success in a row"



Has no understanding of cheating, liquidation, difference between starting in the lowest division as a new club once granted a license as opposed to demoted, how irrelevant is been to the national team, how much it's not been bad for Scottish football

Fckin clown

[ahlltanyirhide]

Typical response fae a weegie kunt

What happened to those maggots didn’t go far enough in my humble opinion, however, I believe they have racked up further debt approaching £40m and still not anywhere near the other erse cheek. So with this encouraging news I’d hazard a wee guess that the Huns financial troubles will rear its beautiful head again in the next couple of years, and that ladies and gentlemen pleases me no end

[Skolcorner]

Surely he's not applying for the manager's job at Ibrox?

[duke_the_arab]

Surely he's not applying for the manager's job at Ibrox?

Typical Weegie knob that's played for either of the bigots. What gets me about it is the person interviewing them never correct them and tell them exactly what happened. They just get to carry on and spout schite.

[Hoofballer]

“Rangers returned to the top tier of Scottish football last season but have been a shadow of the side that were kicked out of the league five years ago.“

Yeah, a side assembled using monies that they never had and tax evasion schemes as part of one big mountain of debt.

They’re at it again but pleasing to see that for all the money being spunked they are keech !

And if it’s going to be liquidation #2......even better.

Oh the joys of seeing the hurt down govan way !

Feck knows what Lambert’s been drinking tho !

[stokearab]

“Rangers returned to the top tier of Scottish football last season but have been a shadow of the side that were kicked out of the league five years ago.“

Yeah, a side assembled using monies that they never had and tax evasion schemes as part of one big mountain of debt.

They’re at it again but pleasing to see that for all the money being spunked they are keech !

And if it’s going to be liquidation #2......even better.

Oh the joys of seeing the hurt down govan way !

Feck knows what Lambert’s been drinking tho !

Quite long, but worth a listen. The more Rae goes on the more English destroys his argument

[stokearab]

Typical Weegie knob that's played for either of the bigots. What gets me about it is the person interviewing them never correct them and tell them exactly what happened. They just get to carry on and spout schite.

See when he was manager at Norwich, you needed an interpreter to work out what he was saying in his interviews. Shedka is right, he is as thick as he sounds.

[JamesMcClean]

They should never be allowed to airbrush history and move on in a 'There's Nothing To See Here' style. I honestly don't know what is complicated about this. They went into administration, failed to emerge from it and were liquidated. As a consequence they ceased to exist and could not therefore fulfill fixtures so fell out of the league. They then reformed as new Club/company and re applied to join the league. Thinking they could by pass every league regulation in existence they thought they could get re admitted to the top league, but ultimately, correctly, the member clubs would not sanction it. Indeed loads of rules were broken for them to even get in at the bottom rung.

Further there are corporation laws specifically outlawing the very practice they carried out - I.e. liquidating, walking away from debts and responsibilities then setting up the next day as a 'new' entity that somehow still operates out of the same offices, carrying out the same business, wearing the same 'uniforms' and, worse, brazenly proclaiming still that this new company was 'established' in 1873. Imagine if Kwik Fit went bust, diddled HMRC and many others out of millions, but then set up the next day as Qwick Fit, wearing blue uniforms and selling tyres and claiming they had done this for years. Come to think of it they couldn't, because it's ILLEGAL.

[PortugueseFrank]

Playing to the *********. Plain and simple.

Only aim of morons like Lambert is to perpetuate erections amongst the Celtic and Rangers supports.

Prostitutes.

Out of touch and yearning for the comforting teet of a bigotry led rivalry.

Holding Scotland as a society back in their ignorance.

**** them.

[Sutherland Arab]

They should never be allowed to airbrush history and move on in a 'There's Nothing To See Here' style. I honestly don't know what is complicated about this. They went into administration, failed to emerge from it and were liquidated. As a consequence they ceased to exist and could not therefore fulfill fixtures so fell out of the league. They then reformed as new Club/company and re applied to join the league. Thinking they could by pass every league regulation in existence they thought they could get re admitted to the top league, but ultimately, correctly, the member clubs would not sanction it. Indeed loads of rules were broken for them to even get in at the bottom rung.

Further there are corporation laws specifically outlawing the very practice they carried out - I.e. liquidating, walking away from debts and responsibilities then setting up the next day as a 'new' entity that somehow still operates out of the same offices, carrying out the same business, wearing the same 'uniforms' and, worse, brazenly proclaiming still that this new company was 'established' in 1873. Imagine if Kwik Fit went bust, diddled HMRC and many others out of millions, but then set up the next day as Qwick Fit, wearing blue uniforms and selling tyres and claiming they had done this for years. Come to think of it they couldn't, because it's ILLEGAL.

^^this^^
What would Paul Lambert know about the impact Sevco's situation has had on Scottish football? He has been managing in England and doing punditry down there for many years.
How about to balance it out they interview small businesses and creditors on the implications not being paid what they were due by Rangers has had on them. Or gauge the view non-league clubs who were shunned of a potential place they desired in the SFL to facilitate a brand new club.