Sevco fans have embraced some utter nonsense over the years, and amidst it all there is some amount of obsessing over fluff.
You know, the kind of twaddle that no-one rational could possibly take even semi-seriously.
I’ve seen talk about banning Celtic fans from their ground because we gloat too much.
They’ve banned their players wearing green boots.
They painted a sectarian slogan on their walls.
None of it made them a better team.
Now there’s a new one; some of them are campaigning to have the white lines on the pitch painted blue, having seen Arsenal do it because of the recent weather situation.
It’s hard to know whether this is some weird parody of a campaign, or whether or not they are serious about it. But I reject the parody notion because this fits so neatly into their stupid tendency to embrace causes like this, causes which mean absolutely nothing.
Fluff. Ephemera.
Like way back in the sands of time, when some of them lobbied the club to grow Kentucky Bluegrass on the pitch.
Kentucky Bluegrass, by the way, is green.
Not that most of them knew that.
They get weird ideas in their heads and they lodge there, like a model solider up a kid’s nose.
To read the papers – and Chris Sutton in The Record today, Jesus Christ that was toe curling; a love letter to their form – you’d think every problem at Ibrox had been sorted out. I’ll be coming back to the paper itself in another piece; today they really excelled themselves. Their fans are absolutely convinced that they are “back” – from the dead presumably – and that a title challenge is on if not this season then definitely next.
And I get that. Football fans are like no-one else for getting swept away in optimism even if running that far ahead of reality leaves it behind for a while.
But it’s this focus on small stuff that I can’t grasp, that I can’t get my head around. At a recent meeting between fan reps and their board it was Celtic fans, and the Ibrox allocation, which was the main topic of conversation, only for the club to finally tell them there would be no change to the present arrangements because it would cost money.
They plan to appeal that, by the way.
The focus on the small stuff – I mean, blue lines on the pitch? Does anyone really care? – means that the big stuff gets allowed to fester.
Not one of their sites has written an article looking at the Close Brothers loan.
Not one of their sites has examined the Dave King court verdict.
Not one of them has taken a good look at the financial position of the club and wondered where the money to pay next season’s bills is coming from. Or even seems alert to the fact that they still need to find £1 million from somewhere just to get through this one.
No, this is what they are focussed on.
Nonsense.
Stuff that doesn’t matter, except to fans who don’t live in the same world as the rest of us, but who inhabit a kind of fantasy fun land where the garden blooms with roses and all the roses are blue.
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