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Mar 14th - Daily Tabloid - 200 jobs to go!

Last updated : 14 March 2005 By Stan Dup

The celebrations around Dundee today as Utd manager Ian McCall, the rotund cap wearing, chewing gum chugging buffoon was shown the door by Eddie Thomson were tempered when it was revealed that a local company has been forced to lay off all 200 workers.

Riggleys, famous for it’s own brand ‘Gum for Chewing’ has after almost 60 years of business finally admitted that it’s time to sell up. On it’s last legs for years, only Ian McCalls regular order for 50 boxes of ‘Mintylicious’ and 50 crates of ‘Riggleys’ own brand drink ‘Dandeline and Burdox’ has kept the administrators from the door.

A shocked worker claimed “We’ll, a dinna no whit am gonna

McCalls office chair, yesterday
dae noo. The wife ull surely leave us and tak the bairn and the twins wi her. All probably no see ma awlder yins Horace, Joe and yon big skinny yin again. Oh michty me, when a think o aw the good days av had here ower aw they years anaw.”

Ian McCall was unable for comment on his sacking from Tannadice and the news of the job losses, but a recorded message on his cage answering machine did say “Ooh ooh aah aah ooh ooh aah aah ooh aah”.

Quite!