Absolute Plonker

I don't know the chief executive of Rangers Football Club - Charles Green - but the man is fast gaining a reputation as a bit of a plonker.

Up until now, his behaviour has been silly rather than damaging to the club - though that may be about to change.

The latest storms to engulf Green involve the circumstances surrounding his takeover at Ibrox - the home of Rangers - and his use of the word 'Paki' in a recent newspaper interview which has rightly been condemned as offensive.

Anyone wwith half a brain knows that casual references to 'Paki' are simply unacceptable these days - and someone in Green's position should clearly know much better. 

Green has since apologised for his remarks which he says were meant in jest - but that's hardly the point - because humour (or alleged humour) is often used to justify the use of such language and behaviour - yet the people on the receiving end never seem to share the joke.

Funny that.

Green has now been charged by the Scottish Football Association (SFA) for potentially bringing the game into disrepute - so I 's pretty sure he's not laughing now.

Meanwhile Green's purchase of the Ibrox club is coming under intense scrutiny - with claim and counter claim about the extent to which the club's former owner - the now disgraced Craig Whyte - was involved in the strange business dealings which extricated Rangers from bankruptcy.

So the Green and Whyte show looks set to run for some time yet and isn't it strange that the two protagonists have surnames that sound the same as Green and White - the colours, of course, of Celtic - the other half of the Old Firm and Rangers biggest rivals across the other side of Glasgow.

Now that is funny.