Sevco fans across the internet celebrated last night as we were downed by Zenit. This is a symbol of their stupidity, their cluelessness, their utter inability to see past the moment. They should not have been cheering. They should have been worried sick.
For openers, this clears our schedule and the heads of the players for the first time this season. There are no more European trips until the next campaign. The focus now is on securing the title and winning that much vaunted back-to-back treble.
They should have been hoping we scraped it, in an exhausting battle which went to extra time and all. They should have been hoping for the two extra games, the fixture pile up, the congestion, the problems, the stand-off with the SFA and the SPFL and their chance to snigger as we were denied any leeway whatsoever. They should have wanted us presented with hard choices about team selection, and which competitions to prioritise.
As usual, they paid no heed to what was in their own best interests, opting to enjoy a single moment in the sun. How stupid they are. How blind.
But even aside from that, there was two even bigger reasons as to why they should have wanted us to steal that last night. The first is the national co-efficient. Yes, teams are about to get a boost in that their own results will count more than the national score, but they are mugs if they don’t believe the national performance level matters.
Now, to us it doesn’t.
Because as champions and as a team who has competed in the last two Group stages, we are going to be seeded anyway. But even we have to meander our way through four qualifying rounds just to get there. European group stage qualification is a minefield for a team like us, a team which has the resources to get through it.
The tanking of the national co-efficient only hurts them and other Scottish clubs.
It means they can forget about being seeded. It means their own path to the Groups – should they even qualify, because there are major obstacles in their way – will be fraught with peril right from the start. They are cheering the carpet bombing of their own road.
But the real reason they should be terrified is this; we are a £100 million turnover team. We have resources which dwarf those of every other club in this land, and on that stage we look so far out of our depth that it’s scary. For us.
They should be beyond mere fear.
The first time they draw a team from outside the pool of cannon fodder they will look on what happened to us last night like it was a Swedish massage.
It will be ugly. It will be brutal. It will be deserved.
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