After Sunday’s stampede there has been a lot of soul searching at Ibrox.
They have even started with their usual ploy of getting their friends in the MSM to do their spin for them.
With numerous opinions from media lackeys on who should be handed the keys to the manager’s office already, there’s little doubt that Murty is just about done.
Whatever your thoughts on Miller and Wallace, they are not the reason Sevco are in the mess they are. Are they a bad influence in the dressing room? Yes, it is clear they are. Should they be disciplined? Yes, but they have not caused this debacle.
We all know Murty should never have been allowed to take control for this long, so lets not dwell.
There are plenty who will say it’s the board who’s to blame, and they certainly have a great deal of culpability, however there is one group of people who deserve most of the blame for what’s happened to the club, and that is the fans.
Yes you fans; we know you read this blog, so read on and I will give you a history lesson.
When David Murray bought the club from Lawrence Marlborough in 1988, he inherited Graeme Souness.
Oh did some of you not know that?
You thought Murray appointed him, eah?
It’s the Celtic Song that says “if you know the history”; I am not surprised many of your lot don’t.
Well it was David Holmes, through Marlborough, who appointed him.
Murray had came in, after being told no by Ayr united, pandering to Rangers’ sense of superiority, promising millions of his own money.
To his credit – but possibly owing much to the possibility of a European ban – the signing policy was changed, at Graeme Sounsess insistence, and your fans were ecstatic at the transformation in your fortunes. Finally, your sense of superiority was being matched by the club.
Signing after signing, statement after statement “for every fiver…..” all showing that Rangers were the best and biggest, but what David Murray hid from you, what he was hiding from everyone, was that it wasn’t his money, it was all loans from the bank, who were run then, by mates of his.
Now a couple of times the bank needed money back and a player had to be sold to balance the books, but in the main, all was good.
Then 2008 happened, the banking crisis hit, HBOS was bought by Lloyds, they called in their debts and Murray fled like a rat from a sinking ship.
Here endeth the lesson.
I watched a film last week called Shutter Island; in it, Leo DiCaprio plays a US Marshall in the 50’s in which he’s trying to get to grips with an investigation into the experiments he feels are being performed on an island which holds the criminally insane.
He goes through the film having visions of his dead wife, convinced that everyone is against him, and that he is being kept from everything he has a right to. He is confused but determined to get to the bottom of it.
What he discovers, eventually (and spoiler alert! Get out now if you don’t want to know!) is that he is a patient on the island; he had been a US Marshall but he had gone insane and blocked out a horrible trauma in his past, and so he had invented a whole new identity for himself, called himself a different name but using his own history as a base to build from. None of what he believed of his life was real. All the people he encountered on the island were part of a role play designed to shock him into a breakthrough, so he that he would stop hurting people.
But his previous trauma and reality were there and holding him back.
This analogy is perfect for Sevco fans, except that they haven’t yet twigged that they are living in a fantasy and there’s actually real life out there. For that to dawn on them there has to be a breakthrough. It needs to happen to their fans before they can begin to heal.
The previous trauma is there and will haunt them until dealt with.
At the end Leo is taken away to have a lobotomy because he relapses back into his alternative reality.
David Murray convinced Rangers fans that it was his money and they were big spenders, but that was a fantasy and when that came crashing down they could not accept the reality of it. It had to be a conspiracy, it had to be everybody else’s fault … and they keep fighting reality and what is really going on.
For a couple of days this week I believed the result on Sunday might give them the jolt they needed, like a little electroshock therapy.
But nope. The madness persists.
Everything is as it was before on Nutter Island.
They’ve spend the last few days shrieking about the need for massive injections of cash to catch Celtic, a manager they can pay £40k a week to, and whipping themselves over dressing room revolts that are caused by a “fifth column” on Celtic fans inside the club, not to mention that today they are being spoon-fed good news medicine by an mainstream media locked in its own alternative reality, and just as prone to delusions.
If they don’t wake up soon, their own lobotomy is a certainty.
But at least it will be fun for us to watch.
David Campbell has seen too many movies … and not enough of the extended highlights from Sunday!Â
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