What Happened To “No-One Likes Us, We Don’t Care”?
Do you remember when the Ibrox support was so full of itself that they didn’t used to care what the rest of the world thought about them? Do you remember when they sang loudly and proudly about how hated they were? They used to revel in it.
Now they moan about it. Constantly. Endlessly. And at the same time as they do, they label those of us they are moaning about as obsessed because we tell them to shut it and join the real world instead of wrapping themselves in fantasy and delusion.
See, they believe that Celtic fans pioneered conspiracy theories.
But we didn’t have theories, we alleged rule breaking and cheating when it became obvious that rule breaking and cheating had actually taken place. When Rangers was spending money under guys like Advocaat we were well aware of our own failings and acknowledged them.
Dunfermline might have decided to not to show for the last day of that notorious campaign, and Hibs might not have ventured up the park on Black Sunday, but nobody will ever convince me that these things mattered to the outcome.
In both of those seasons we had chances to put the matter to bed and we flubbed them.
Our failings were our own.
Did their cheating factor into the overall result? Yes.
But Celtic fans would be calling them cheats even if we had won those titles. What these muppets fail to understand is that their club were cheats the whole time; the fact we won some of the titles in the EBT years doesn’t change what was going on elsewhere. If you caught someone pulling an ace out of their jacket whilst playing poker you wouldn’t give them a pass if you checked your own cards and found out you were winning regardless; a cheat is a cheat is a cheat.
Their own allegations are not only baseless, they are preposterous.
Scottish football didn’t destroy Rangers; the club and its leaders were perfectly capable of doing that job on their own. HMRC wanted paid back the money they were owed; what a novel concept that is. It’s clear none of these morons has ever had to file a tax-return by a due date. Banks which had given them credit wanted some guarantee that they could pay back huge loans and meet the terms of an expensive overdraft. My God, in what world is that not the way things are done?
The conspiracy wasn’t just about “keeping Rangers down” of course – Rangers was in a shallow grave, the only thing “keeping them down” was gravity and some topsoil – it was also about boosting Celtic. So, of course, HRMC and the banks were conspiring along with us. Scottish football was simultaneously weakening them and strengthening us. At the same time, we had dodgy land deals, City Council cover-ups, UEFA, the EU. Hell … even the Queen’s Jubilee and the Commonwealth Games were timed, to perfection, so that we reaped the benefits … their own dear Maj, the one who’s picture hangs up on their dressing room wall.
God man, you can’t trust anyone these days.
And in spite of the obvious One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest level lunacy of all this – I once compared them to Charlie Cheswick and their screaming to his own anguished plea for his cigarettes – they persist in broadcasting these nutty ideas to the world.
Even as they scream “I want something done! I want something done!” they are stoking the fires of even more madness, with Gersnet last night slamming the BBC for not talking to them, although many within the walls of Ibrox openly and plainly hate that organisation.
The culmination of this mind-set is in articles like today, when they allege various transfer deals have been done – or not – to inflict suffering on them.
Let’s take a look at the first of them.