If someone who played for the side which finished third last season in any league but Scotland sat in front of the media horde and said their aim was to win every trophy, the mood amongst the assorted hacks would be somewhere between amusement and disbelief.
Indeed, if someone at Aberdeen, who finished second and played in both cup finals, had said this the reaction in the newsrooms of Scotland would have been hilarity.
When Lee Wallace says it, some people take it seriously.
Hacks run to their laptop bags and head for somewhere quiet so they can write up the story.
Breathless radio presenters announce it locally and nationally; even TalkSport has this ludicrous statement up as a major story.
Sevco is a third rate club which has signed a bunch of unknown players.
I am stunned that anyone would take this lunacy even remotely seriously.
They are aiming to win every competition they enter?
Presumably that doesn’t include the one they’ve already been knocked out of, and not, need I remind you, by a global giant of the game but by a team from Luxembourg. No other club in the country talks this much utter guff.
When I heard they were aiming to win a treble my immediate thought was “three games in a row? Ambitious.”
Turns out they meant doing the clean sweep.
I’ve heard this from them before, when they were playing in the lower leagues and aiming to win “the two big trophies.” They finally got their hands on the Pawnbrokers Cup … at the fourth time of asking. Bravo to them. For a five year old club that’s not bad.
This egocentricity is nonsense. Other clubs fans must read this and be appalled at how arrogant they are. Their clubs, on the other hand, pander to it. Sevco now has seats at the top tables of the SFA and the SPFL. A club that relies on soft loans from its directors to keep on the lights, a club that couldn’t even stock its own shop with strips, a club that remains mired in scandal … and they are now sitting on the governing bodies.
Scottish football is a disgrace.
These teams are begging to be screwed over.
I know there’s a certain inevitability about Sevco becoming our closest challenger, but that has nothing to do with their size or their ambition. It’s because the other clubs have already resigned themselves to it, and sort of expect it. The way they pander and lie down over the big issues, the way they refuse to impose fiscal sanity on that club by passing Financial Fair Play guidelines … it’s absurd, but they seem to be happy with it.
And yet perhaps not. Perhaps Motherwell will grow some spine and beat this lot for once, on the opening day?
Perhaps Dunfermline will muster enough bottle to take them on properly and knock them out of the League Cup?
We’ll see soon enough, but I know this much; for all their big talk they’ve got big problems.
They are very much there for the taking.