Celtic Fans In Fits Of Laughter At Ibrox Fan Site’s “£50 Million Cantwell” Fantasy.
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“Todd Cantwell excitement grows with £50m Premier League links still fresh” was the headline on the site. An Ibrox fan site, although that could easily have come from one of the tabloids as we all know very well.
Here’s the thing; this was not even from one of the barmier fan-sites, but the one that calls itself Rangers News and takes itself seriously.
But my, oh my, how can you take that seriously?
If this guy was a £50 million player would he have had interest from exactly nobody else but Ibrox? Would it be the SPL in which he was currently plying his trade. These Peepul inhabit their own universe.
Maybe nobody clued them in to the damning “praise” he received prior to signing; this guy will stroll around Ibrox on an afternoon against modest SPL opposition but don’t ask him to play on a wet Wednesday night where you have to battle for the ball.
If you’re willing not to look too hard a guy in a public park playing kick-about with his kids and running rings around them can look like a world beater even if he’s 20 stone and almost having a heart attack. When teams sit off you and you let you stroll around the pitch with the ball you can play the occasional pass that makes you look a class act.
Celtic fans laugh at this stuff. Openly. Contemptuously.
In some disbelief it has to be said.
Because, let’s be honest; it’s barmy.
This guy has played a handful of games and they have him as a world beater.
You could not make this up, and you don’t have to.
This is what these cretins do to themselves over and over again; they get their hopes up.
They build even the most mediocre players up into superstars, and then they spend the rest of their time trying to pretend that they live up to it … until they can’t maintain the illusion anymore and it all comes tumbling down.
Then the love-in turns to a hate-on.
Whatever this guy proves to be, a £50 million player he ain’t. I can say that with the complete confidence of someone who is holding four aces. But I’ll tell you this; I wouldn’t mind a bit of whatever these clowns are smoking.