One Ibrox Fan Writes The Amusing Truth About Celtic’s Over-Arching Dominance.

There is a quite amazing post from an Ibrox fan doing the rounds tonight, and it casts an interesting light on their club and its situation. Bear in mind that this takes in the Survival Lie, but let’s for the moment pass over that and focus on what he’s written.

Paul Brennan over at CQN has talked, often, of a “generation of dominance.”

He is right. Because we have been the dominant club in the country in the past 30 years.

Just how dominant though?

Well, one Ibrox fan has attempted to answer this.

“If you were born in 1965,” he writes, “you suffered Celtic winning 30 league titles to our 21. If were born in 2000 you’ve suffered them winning 15 to our 6. If you were born in 2005 you’ve suffered them winning 12 titles to our 4 … it has been 20 years since we won our 50th title and in that 20 years we’ve only won a further 5.”

That is damning. Even ignoring the Survival Lie that is an incredible fact. Even with their four years of climbing the leagues, those facts must be shocking to contemplate.

Had it not been for Walter Smith’s final mad financial splurge, and the disaster of last season, those stats would be even worse.

The simple truth of it is that we have been Scotland’s dominant club since at least 2000.

The last 22 years have seen some bad years, but the overall trend has been of Celtic superiority, and I have written a lot on here about how we’re the last remaining football superpower in this country.

Their club has had good years, but most of them were built on accumulating debt … which makes our consistency and our success over the period all the more remarkable, because we did it clean and on a sustainable basis. We don’t get enough credit for that.

Here’s what the guy doesn’t say.

League form doesn’t even tell the full story.

Because Ibrox clubs have only won four Scottish Cups since 2000. Four. We have won ten of them. They have won six League Cups since 2000. Celtic have won nine. The dominance is clear even here.

Remember; the Ibrox clubs have had the second biggest budget in the country for the whole of that time, even accounting for Sevco having to start in the bottom tier. Their record should look a Hell of a lot better than it does … and I actually regard us as having underachieved in both of those competitions over that timeframe.

Regardless, the facts are clear and I am just amazed that an Ibrox fan is the one who has publicised some of them. Some of them do get it you know. Some of them do understand that we are the biggest club in the country.

They might not like it, but yeah … they certainly understand it.