There Is Enough Stupidity At The SFA To Start A New Country’ from Alex’s Angle
There was a well-known team manager who frequently said, “There is enough stupidity at the SFA to start a new country.”
Back then, an off-the-record remark stayed unnoticed and unheard. There was definitely a camaraderie between the media and the team chiefs back then that is not present today.
I apologize if this sounds like Methuselah talking endlessly about the good old days, but there were times you missed news on the front and back pages that would have had dire ramifications for the person who had initially trusted you.
I never wavered in that belief. I have never indulged in such physical stunts because it is quite difficult to pat yourself on the back while trying to pin medals on your chest.
Over several seasons, Stein endured a pitiful series of events that resulted in him facing financial penalties while he had to travel to the SFA’s previous headquarters in Glasgow’s Park Gardens to respond to the whistleblower’s allegations.
I recall Big Jock being charged with an agonizing £100 fine after a series of charges. That was, incidentally, a sizable sum of money in the 1960s and early 1970s (about £2,000 in today’s currency), yet the club refused to pay for it. That was received by the person who had the misfortune of be in line of the SFA’sire.
Dear old chairmen such as Bb Kelly and Desmond White left it to their manager to be the mouthpiece for the club, but the employee was on his own if he uttered something out of turn.
The match official who regularly flagged up Stein’s name to his cobwebbed bosses was a bloke called Bobby Davidson. The performances of the Airdrie referee in Celtic games would not bear scrutiny in today’s technical age. Even VAR at its most contentious couldn’t miss the glaringly obvious errors that littered his perplexing displays when green and white hoops were in the vicinity.
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