Dundee United ‘a club going places’? NO. Like the other ten Also Rans in the Scottish Premiership, they have nowhere to go, so long as Celtic and Rangers have a Whale of a time.. #DundeeUnited #ScottishFootball #SPFL #scottishfootballmatters

Managers are fond of speaking about taking their clubs to the “Top Six” in the Premiership.

But, of course, they don’t REALLY mean the Top Six.

The position they REALLY have as their target is 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th – because they know the Top Two positions are permanently occupied by Celtic and Rangers.

Above the managers are the Chairs of the Also Rans.

Most of these people are successful businessmen and woman, who have made many £ millions ( sometimes hundreds of £ millions).

To name but four of these worthies Cormack at Aberdeen; Budge at Hearts; Gordon at Hibs; and, of course, Ogren at Dundee United.

Very rich people are usually very ambitious – BUT ambitions evaporate when faced with the inevitability of the Premiership duopoly.

The named four speak about their “Big Plans” – but, none of those plans include actually winning the Premiership.

Frankly, this is a pathetic situation.

This style of “leadership” would see the 36 year duopoly become the 50 year duopoly – and, unless the melting North Ice floods Ibrox and Parkhead – the 100 year duopoly.

It is time the supposedly powerful bosses of the Also Rans started to flex some muscles.

Celtic and Rangers need the Premiership. They are Whales ( one definitely Blue) trapped in a tiny pond.

Its is time to drain the pond, something all gardeners will understand, and to put the Whales in a bucket during the 2021 Close Season.

Then the former minnows, swimming more happily in the refilled pond, inform the bucketed Whales that they will only be emptied back into the pond if they pay the £40 million annual fee for “fishing rights” -and agree to strict rules governing how they fish ( only two rods a season, not four).

If the Whales don’t agree, the bucket can be carried to another pond, somewhere, where the Whales are acceptable.

If there is such a pond.

Make no mistake, if the Millionaire Chairs fail to act, Celtic and Rangers will simply carry on with their cosy duopoly FOREVER.

It’s time to stop being meek and simply accepting failure as inevitable.

Time for Change.

— Read on www.scotsman.com/sport/football/dundee-united-a-club-going-places-despite-defeat-to-hibs-in-scottish-cup-semi-final-says-marc-mcnulty-3229654