Super Caley fall on hard times but Savage’s salvage plan is invaluable

Inverness Caledonian Thistle are grateful to a local millionaire riding to the Highland club’s rescue – ‘it just feels the right thing to do’

The view from the boardroom at the Caledonian Stadium is the finest in Scottish football. In January, the glistening Moray Firth and snow-topped hills provide a picture of beautiful serenity. What Inverness Caledonian Thistle would give for a 2025 befitting this environment. The club begin the year scrapping for safety in Scottish League One after receiving a 15-point penalty for entering administration in October.

A potted history of the club shows they were formed after an acrimonious merger between Caledonian and Inverness Thistle, previously of the Highland League, in 1994. The new side raced through the leagues, took Scottish Cup scalps – most memorably in 2000, when Super Caley went ballistic and Celtic were atrocious – and featured in Europe. When Inverness won the Scottish Cup in 2015, the season after a narrow defeat in the League Cup final, their position in the upper echelon of the game felt secure.

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