The origin of the phrase “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt” is somewhat in dispute. Some ascribe it to Lincoln, which is debated, and others grant Mark Twain that particular pearl of wisdom. In fact, there’s no real evidence that either of them is its creator, not that it matters.
It was my good friend John Turnbull who suggested that I open the piece with the phrase, and of course he was entirely correct. If there is one thing that comes across loud and clear this weekend is that those who claim not to talk about is do an awful lot of talking about us, and those who claim they don’t worry about us want us to think they don’t consider us at all.
How else to explain the rampaging stupidity of John Lundstram’s comments yesterday? They don’t think about Celtic? They don’t talk about Celtic? Funny that, because in that interview he was both thinking and talking about us at the same time … an amazing achievement of multi-tasking which I honestly didn’t know he had in him.
He might have gotten away with leaving it at that, but of course he barrelled onwards, determined to remove all doubt, determined to wear his clownishness like a badge of honour, determined, it seems to me, to look like a fool at all costs.
Just read this arrant nonsense, words so incredibly dumb I can hardly believe they came out of someone’s mouth.
“We’re four points behind Celtic off our own back – nothing to do with Celtic. They beat us 4-0 away from home because we didn’t perform. It’s on us – it’s nothing to do with them.”
Nothing to do with us that we beat them. We didn’t take part in that particular game, apparently. Although we won it. Although we won it comfortably. Our football style, our brilliance in front of goal, our dominance of that game, had nothing to do with us?
Is this guy for real? Who did the interview and allowed him to get away with that? Was that him sitting in front of their demented bloggers again? All of them, doubtless, nodding their heads. This is as classic an example of what we call here Sevco Logic that it blows your mind. There is wanting to deny us credit and simply denying reality and that’s what this is.
The four point gap is because we’ve won more of our games than they have. Am I the crazy one here or isn’t that how football works? If we weren’t playing well, if we weren’t on form, if we weren’t winning our games their dropping points would be of no consequence to them. They never mention us in their dressing room? Why am I calling bullshit on that?
He is doubtless trying to indulge in a bit of psychological warfare, but it’s the kind of thing that will have people in the Celtic dressing room tapping their skulls and doing that circular motion thing with their finger. He is round the bend. He is dining out on the border of insanity. He is not playing with a full deck. Or, what’s the Glasgow vernacular?
Oh yeah, he’s talking shite.
This doesn’t affect us one bit, of course. We went out today and blazed past Livingston to make it eleven wins in the first twelve games of the season. Across the street they’ve managed nine. We’re top because we’ve been consistently good and even if they weren’t consistently poor it would not matter unless we were getting the job done.
You know what I think? I think we haunt them, and that’s why he launched into such a bitter, angry, demented outburst. Not only do they think about us, but they think about us all the time. We are the weight they carry on their backs and the more we keep on winning the harder it is for them to carry. Sooner or later, they’re going to collapse under it.
Indeed, this guy sounds like he’s fragmenting already.
There is only one multitasker effin blindin trenches battles guns blazing hero
Haha martindale .said the same Celtic_fc_1888 didn’t beat us we gave them the game after livingstone were run to exhaustion by Celtic_fc_1888 the last 20minutes they were running on empty hearts manager says the same no credit to Celtic_fc_1888 god lunstrum what a squeaky voice
Tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic the Celtic bombs in his head
Imagine having to listen to that beacon of light for more than 10 seconds…he’s as bright as my bamhole.
Must be infuriating to be plying your trade amongst that mediocrity, so I can understand his frustration when he attempts to be a herwo!
He is in fact, several points short of a toblerone.
The dickhead is incredibly, incredibly stupid.
Lundstrum has drunk the hun Kool Aid. He has bought into their warped agenda. To the extent that he’s howling at the Moon with the rest of them. He is a Grade A nutjob.
Watched parts of that game and what I saw done nothin tae raise any concern. Fact is, Aberdeen were shockin and made them look good. Absolutely woeful at the back and their positionin was diabolical. Heedless chickens. Photo finish between loudstrum and Scott arfield who talks the most shite.
Lundstram? What a fucking joke of a player and a human being.
EEEEEH lad lad lad!
I concur with your assertion on that stare out champion and big lump of wood.
He has embraced the staunchness, the TwaTp attitude because he hangs around with the bitter, rabid, Atilla like Bears in his spare time, and in a ‘friend owned’ dive of dive pub.
Very much a Hun, talentless, with Huns for Haunners or Hunners backing him in media circles despite being pish.
Last season he ‘the Scouse Ian Black’ and the ‘Goblin’ Jack, had a little public whinge about our No7 from Greece ‘Big Zeus ‘ and his “Best in the League” comments.
That alone proves they are very much ‘Celtic’ Minded or
Worried, if you will.
We’ve seen his likes before: a talentless nonentity with a career going nowhere, signs for the Ibrox club and all of a sudden they are a great player and a big man with a mouth to match. The old Rangers had duds like Hurlock who came up here, couldn’t kick his own arse as a footballer but all of a sudden was feted by the press and the Ibrox support as a legend. Lundstrum is another one. A joke of a footballer but he’s at the right club.