Ibrox Claims To Be Earning What Celtic Will For Australia. Do Not Believe A Word Of It.

The claim, tonight, from “Ibrox sources” that their club will earn what we will from the Ange Ball Aussie Tour is risible nonsense and an obvious attempt to appease their own supporters.

They are relying on two things; the gullibility of the fans and their short attention span. Ibrox knows that by the time the facts on this emerge everyone will have moved on.

We’ve seen them pull this trick before and before and before.

We’ve heard this over shirt deals, sponsorship, merchandising and in other areas.

Ibrox “sources” tell the press that such and such a contract is massive and on a par with Celtic’s and it’s only later, when they publish accounts at the last available second a year down the line that you see that it was all a tissue of lies.

Celtic are the main event.

We were the first choice for the organisers, for obvious reasons.

We are the side being invited over there because we have the Australian boss.

The rest of is secondary stuff. The game isn’t the point.

The organisers have made it clear that it is Ange who is the main attraction and the only real show in town.

The game itself, Celtic has downplayed as almost an afterthought.

It isn’t, it’s a slap in the face insult to the supporters and those of us dead set against it aren’t finished banging the drum, not by a long shot. But the club itself doesn’t see it as a significant.

Of course we are earning more than Ibrox.

We’re the bigger club.

We’ll be going there as champions and maybe even treble winners.

We are the ones with the bigger football footprint, right across the world. Ibrox’s commercial director freely admitted this in the video they released … they would not normally be invited to these sorts of events.

Without us, they wouldn’t have been.

Without them, we’d still have been going.

This is one of the reasons so many of us are pissed off about it.

Ibrox’s board has been stung by the fury from their own supporters, and in their desperation to quell the anger they are willing to lie.

Of course they are.

They are willing to lie to their fans on a regular basis, and they’ve been caught doing it time and time again. They frequently lie to the media, and they’ve been caught doing it time and time again.

And somehow, they are still believed when they trot out this nonsense.

It is not even a month since Robertson told the press that the club thought it could break even for this campaign only for them to go back to their equity confetti just days later … you’d think the press and their supporters would be wise to being taken for absolute mugs.

The rest of us refuse to be. Don’t believe a word of this.