You could call it the Star Strangled Banner because it is currently suffocating the life out of Hibs and Aberdeen. It is the flag of inconvenience that currently flies over Easter Road and Pittodrie.
Clubs owned by Ron Gordon and Dave Cormack respectively who live in the United States. But their business interests in the Premiership are now more about wars and gripes than stars and stripes. And the prospect of peace breaking out any time soon could largely depend on what takes place in the Scottish Cup in coming days.
Remember the old cliche about the cup being there to offer troubled clubs temporary respite from the pressures of league football? You have to be kidding with regard to Jim Goodwin and Lee Johnson. Goodwin may have had the dreaded vote of confidence from Cormack, in spite of Aberdeen’s 5-0 mauling from Hearts at Tynecastle on Wednesday night. But any Pittodrie manager who goes out of any cup competition, live on television, to a team from the West of Scotland League gives up the moral authority to remain in charge and only waits for formal confirmation of his dismissal.
