The most deluded fans in the world – who really believed (and still might) that a team of journeymen with fancy names might go on to dominate first Scotland and then Europe – are at it again, banging the bars and demanding “justice.”
They wouldn’t know how to spell the word, any of them.
You’d be forgiven for thinking they had no pressing, current, concerns right now … but they do, of course. They’ve just come off the single worst result probably in Scottish football history; the trouble is piling up around them. And they are looking elsewhere.
And of course they are. Because they are utterly incapable of doing any kind of self-analysis at all. They balk at the very idea of it. They are terrified to examine the stuff going on inside their walls, preferring the age old lookout for enemies at the gates.
Their club continues to blame everyone else in Scottish football for the disgraceful state it’s in. They play the Victim Card like it’s the only one in the deck. Instead of facing up to facts about what Rangers was engaged in and what happened at Ibrox they want to blame other people for “putting the boot in.” Everything that happened over there was self-inflicted. They’ve never acknowledged that fact, and they never will.
In the last week, fans of clubs up and down the country have joined those of Celtic in calling for an inquiry into what was going on at Ibrox for over ten years, and what role the SFA had in it all. And what response did they get from the hysterical muppets at Ibrox?
More threats of a boycott. Of every SPL ground.
Well I’ll tell you, they won’t be missed or mourned at Aberdeen or Hearts or Hibs or Celtic Park, and that’s just for openers.
There’s been much discussion on this site and over on the Facebook page about whether or not Celtic and other clubs ought to ban them … in light of what happened at Ibrox and the SFA’s “total tolerance” policy that question is more apt than it’s ever been. If the governing body won’t protect our players from their disgraceful behaviour then our own club has no choice but to limit the number they get as much as they can.
On top of that, it’s the emptiest threat in football and that they’ve played this card, this weak, weak card, so early in the day shows how desperate they are. There is a growing consensus that the fans of every Scottish club should consider boycotting Hampden … that might happen and it might not, but that’s a decision that requires more than a knee jerk reaction, because it would impact on their teams when they reach semi-finals and finals.
That’s what boycotts do, and it’s why they only come to pass in a last resort.
There are other ways to skin that particular cat.
Sevco fans throw this one around whenever they don’t get their way; they are like a kid permanently making demands under threat of “running away.” But we know that only the stupid kids actually do, and most come crawling back at the first sign of rain.
Here’s something the Sevco fans appear to have missed; there’s gonna be a lot of rain where their club is headed.
This is going to be a season to make the trauma of the last one look tame. The Caixinha experiment has already resulted in Aberdeen winning at Ibrox for the first time since I was able to drink illegally, it’s seen the biggest mauling Celtic have ever handed an Ibrox team in front of its own fans and just last week saw them crash out of Europe to the side which finished 4th in Luxembourg last year. The writing is on the wall.
Their team is going to need all the support it can get; if they want to withdraw that support at grounds where their club is already certs to struggle then I can only say that’s amongst the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.
Or perhaps it’s not.
Perhaps this is the Peepul finally reverting to type, because all this “we don’t do walking away” stuff is historical rot.
Rangers fans were notorious for the way they deserted their team in bad times. Sevco fans are already sick and tired of living with failure, much of it humiliating. We’ll see how long even Ibrox stays full.
If they want an excuse for no longer following their team then I can’t say I don’t understand it.
But it’s this spreading of the Victim Lie I find so obnoxious.
Let them try.
The other clubs won’t lose sleep over it; I suspect their own fans would gladly queue up to watch their teams pump these pretendy-Gers in the coming campaign. This is not a credible “threat”; it’s Cleavon Little threatening to blow his own head off in Blazing Saddles and the townsfolk caving in. The metaphor may be a little mixed – it’s the townsfolk themselves who are more like the Ibrox fans; ignorant, racist, stone stupid – but you get the point.
Just when you think they couldn’t be more dumb ….
Man oh man, they really are something.
