Mark Dingwall and the Snub

Rangers beat St Johnstone in Perth the other night.

Perhaps more importantly, the “preferred bidder” or “new owner” or “consortium head” Charles Green was there to see the team he will be CEO of very soon. Mark Dingwall, the “owner of the biggest Rangers forum on the planet” was not. This isn’t a surprise. Mark doesn’t actually go to games at Ibrox or elsewhere, you see.

“I’ve seen him outside Ibrox!”, I hear you cry. Yes, so have I. Still I repeat, Mark doesn’t actually go to games at Ibrox or elsewhere. The key word in your collective cry was ‘outside’. That’s where he goes. Outside. Wandering round collecting the monies from the sellers of Follow Follow, the rarely seen fanzine.

50% of which goes to his declared earnings, 50% of which goes in his back pocket.

Even with that knowledge, I was really surprised that Mark didn’t travel the 62.3 miles, give or take, from his home to the ground in Perth. He missed a glorious chance to make himself known to Mr Green. Because Mr Green, one day in the job, arranged to meet fans’ representatives. Some big hitters were there and found Mr Green to be forthright and positive.

The man who thinks he is the biggest hitter of all wasn’t.

The strangest thing is that Mark, usually so very keen to eat crumbs from the top table, knew the new man was willing to meet the reps. He would, in all certainty, have been in the group meeting Mr Green.

Now, Mark may be falling from grace for his over enthusiastic backing of the Blue Knights to the exclusion of any other bidder, but surely he would have snapped the hand off anyone offering him a chance to sit with the new “head man”?

He did offer a reason when questioned about his non appearance. He didn’t get enough notice. Now, I think that excuse – because it is an excuse and not a reason – is pathetic. I wonder what Mr Green thinks?

 

 

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