Even by the standards of the Scottish League, Airdrie have sailed appalingly close to extinction in recent weeks. Ken Gall looks for someone to blame and comes up with a cast of thousands
While attention in Scotland was fixed, as ever, on the Old Firm, the real poignancy – again, as ever – lay elsewhere; at New Broomfield, the home of Airdrieonians FC, where a major financial crisis looked likely to put an end to more than a century of senior football. The Diamonds, and their putative financial and footballing saviour Steve Archibald, appeared to be on the verge of a potentially fatal defeat at the hands of the mean-spirited and seemingly impregnable defence of the club’s appointed liquidators, KPMG. The story, however, may be slightly less straightforward.
