Hilarity Ensues As McInnes Decision To Play The Bigot Against Celtic Gloriously Backfired

That was a tough one in a lot of ways yesterday, a game that tested us but not the extent where we ever looked like we were in trouble. I have to say, what it proves is that when teams want to have a go they can do it without necessarily being dismantled. I believe that if either of our two disallowed goals had stood we’d have won comfortably though.

The day was a good one for our club, another in a long line of them.

The boss has steered us to another final.

There is quality about this team and this man that has taken us above and beyond where anyone thought we’d be two years ago. Even the Rodgers team, in the second season, looked more vulnerable than this one.

The day was a good one too for the calamitous first half “plan” which McInnes enacted, of playing a footballer who, to be frank, his club should have sacked. Instead, he talked him up in the press before the match, lamented his absence, even offering the sickening suggestion that his club and the player might have been the real victims.

The decision to play Lafferty was so predictable that I called it even before McInnes gave his presser all but confirming that he’d play. That it was a reprehensible decision considering the offence for which he was banned did not deter McInnes at all.

What a glorious twist in this story.

That it was Lafferty himself – who “couldn’t wait to play”, who had been so excited about the prospect that McInnes laughed and joked about it – who flogged the opener. I couldn’t have been happier because it was the final bit of justice that he deserved, as well as a well delivered slap in the face to the manager who had gushed about him and then pulled him off the pitch at half time.

My savage delight at that cannot be understated.

The decision to play him was a gross offence against our club and our supporters, and Tom English chose to comment on the singing directed at him without bothering to acknowledge the reason our fans were so vehement against him.

That snarking hypocrite can stick his commentary where the sun won’t shine. If the Ibrox fans are up to their knees in fenian blood, again, tomorrow he’ll be as deaf as he always is.

I consider the book closed on Lafferty.

As far as I’m concerned this was his Scottish football swansong and it has ended in ignominy.

His manager’s decision to select him was not only frankly despicable but desperate and self-defeating.

A player who hadn’t featured in ten games for God’s sake? In a cup semi-final? Bosses have been sacked for smarter decisions than that, and I could not be happier this morning at the way it blew up in his face.