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Gretna

If you keep up-to-date with Scottish football, you’ll more than likely know about Gretna (the team currently bottom of the top league in the country) and their rise up through the divisions over the past few years. It was announced yesterday that the club has gone into administration and I don’t have an ounce of sympathy.

To correct that statement slightly, I have sympathy for the people who work behind-the-scenes at the club and who will probably lose their jobs - I have no sympathy for the personnel who make up a huge chunk of the reported £20,000-£30,000 a week wage bill (i.e. the playing staff).

It’s simply idiotic to be running a club which up until five years ago was lucky to attract 50 people to a game on such crazy sums of money. Yes they have a millionaire owner in Brooks Mileson, but this is no excuse for bad management. We’re talking about at least a million pound a year being spent just to keep the club afloat - even Dunfermline were never that mental!

Some may think it’s sad to see a club in such a state, but why? The people running the club must have had some idea about running costs in the Premier League, so they should have budgeted properly.

The ones I feel sorry for are St Johnstone - I’m sure that they would never have got into such a situation had they been promoted last season instead of Gretna.

But instead we’ll probably get sob stories for the next few weeks about how sad the whole thing is - I for one will not be shedding a tear.

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