Small minds obsess over small things, and there are few small minds in this nation than those which you will amongst the Ibrox illiterati. Their fans are certainly in the running for being the Thickest Football Fans In Europe, and as such you find a lot of the things that occupy their minds to be almost inconsequential or frankly ridiculous.
The latest thing they’ve opted to blubber, bitch and whinge about is that yesterday our official Twitter account didn’t call them “Rangers” when they scored one of their goals.
So what? I mean who cares, except for the Permanently Offended Of Larkhall?
You know what?
They aren’t Rangers, even if the media wants to call them that, even if the shabby, dodgy, Five Way Agreement granted them certain things that no football administrator anywhere in the world should have allowed them.
If we were going to call them by their name, what name would they prefer?
New Rangers? NewCo Rangers? Rangers 2012? Or something else?
How about Sevco Scotland Rangers? Or Sevco 5088 Rangers?
I forget which of them they actually are … but I know what they aren’t.
They aren’t 150 years old and that’s a fact.
So Celtic has acknowledged that fact, finally.
Celtic has ceased even the pretence of paying respect to their gibbering fantasy.
I always say that someone is entitled to believe in fairies at the bottom of their garden, but they shouldn’t expect that everyone in the street tiptoe around so as not to disturb them. They can live in their imaginary universe; we don’t have to.
If their own club wasn’t so small-minded, childish and petty, if it was not so prone to ridiculous stunts, if it was not so offensive and didn’t frequently direct bile and hatred at the world around it then it would not face situations such as these.
It’s fair to say that those inside Celtic are no longer shy about expressing their contempt for this lot.
At one stage in the game yesterday their fans – when they weren’t up to their knees in fenian blood – lustily sang “no-one likes us we don’t care.”
Well they sure do like to squeal about it like little girls.
Should call them by one of their new names in next week’s programme.
THE RINGERS twenty12
Made from damaged stolen and broken parts ? ?
I don’t believe they deserved to win yesterday. They cashed in on having very biased referee on their side. They should have had more than one player sent off. Celtic missed the sitter of the season to go 2-0 up late in the game. Both Sevco goals had an element of luck about them too, especially their first which could not have dropped any better for Arfield after two mis kicks from Tavernier and Roofe. On another day, Brassey is offside for their second. Like the first league game they won, they did it with the luck of the devil.