In the wake of the Hogmany game, I knew there would be a lot of soul searching in some segments of the Sevco support. I knew there would be a lot of excuse making in other segments. More than any of that, I knew there would be pitiful point scoring, efforts to deflect from the big picture.
Those were even poorer than I thought they would be, barely registering as much as a loud fart at a party.
They stink a little, but few even noticed.
What I find most hilarious is the search for solutions; some of those are utterly brilliant, unintentionally hilarious in that way only the truly demented can pull off. These people are wired to the moon. Very few of the answers they’re looking for have anything to do with football.
Indeed, one of their “prominent” web sites has published stuff these last few days – none of which relates to what’s happened on the park – that is so beyond the line of rationality that people on their other forums are aghast and embarrassed.
That site alleges, in one spectacularly unhinged piece, that they are on the victim end of “cultural genocide.” Hyperbolic garbage, as I’m sure you can imagine. (Maybe not. Rational minds tend to reel at the prospect of conjuring up such nakedly hateful nonsense).
Amongst the many outright lies in that piece was the assertion that the Offensive Behaviour At Football Act targets them and ignores Celtic fans. The piece is a re-tread of various other conspiracy theories and assorted guff, with some historical references thrown in, to compare what their “people” are going through in Scotland with what the victims of the Nazi’s endured in 30’s Germany and what the victims of ISIS are being put through right now.
No kidding. That’s how these people see themselves and the erosion of their “Protestant culture”, as sure a piece of raging far-right paranoia as I’ve ever seen.
I mean, who reads this shit and believes it?
The kind of people, perhaps, who think their club is where it is today because Celtic fans are allowed to “wonder up to the ground” unharmed and even buy food outside it. (The spelling mistake is theirs, not mine. I wonder how some of them ever got out of school?)
The same people who blame all of this on the cultural weaknesses that “allowed” Leigh Griffiths to tie a Celtic scarf to an Ibrox goalpost after the game.
The sort of folk who think the answer to all their problems is to stop their players wearing green football boots, as Andy Halliday did at the weekend.
The kind who think a big part of the problem is that there are “not enough Loyalist songs at Ibrox.”
Or, in the most bizarre and yet brilliant example, those who think their world would be better if they started blackballing Catholics from getting into golf, tennis and bowling clubs as their grandparents and their grandparents did, before “our generation got lazy.”
This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking they think their club needs, that and finding a sugar daddy with King Billy tattooed on his arse to return them to the David Murray era of big signings and even bigger debts.
These are the sort of people who would watch all those Mason Boyne clips on YouTube and completely miss that this was a parody of them and nod their heads in agreement with each and every word he said, like those halfwits who used to put Alf Garnett on their walls in total ignorance of the fact that he was mocking their total ignorance.
“It’s all in there,” Boyne tells his long suffering wife, in one famous sketch, as he holds up the Bible. “Matthew Chapter II, Verses 1-10. All you have to do is jumble the words up a bit.”
The stuff he comes away with could have been ported whole from the latest Vanguard Bams article.
But from this comes their “wisdom.”
The search for solutions goes on.