Ibrox Board Finds Its Voice Again … To Condemn Rivals Fans After They Get Beat. Again.

It is astonishing how many times the Ibrox club reverts to the same tactic, and it’s certainly more successful than anything that they use on the pitch.

It’s almost par for the course when they lose a high profile game that they find some way to deflect by picking an issue and releasing a statement about it.

Last time, after losing to us, it was the ref. This time they’ve resorted to an even more obvious target; the Aberdeen supporters who sang bad songs.

Yes, imagine that. Their club calling out fans who sing bad songs. The club that stayed silent and never issued a public statement condemning its own supporters and offering an apology when our staff member was bottled. Which never issued a public statement when our women’s coach was head-butted by a member of their own staff.

After we beat them at Parkhead recently they released a ranting statement about a ref. This time they have rival fans in their sights. Absolutely pathetic.

Look, some of the bile that comes out of the Aberdeen support is appalling, and I have written about them before. I’ve also written about a small section of our support which sings about dead Ibrox staff members, and in my view they crawled out of a gutter.

But I can’t stomach phoniness or hypocrisy, not one bit, and those are just a couple of the things that this “statement” reeks of.

Their own fans have sung, and do sing, songs which are repellent. Every single week. Without fail. Some of us have been calling for public statements against that for years. We will still be calling for it ten, twenty, years from now.

Their sudden concern for the safety of fans will have raised eyebrows within Celtic Park. They will view that with the most cynical eye, after the sheer contempt that was shown by their club for the safety of our own supporters, so much so that not a single one of our fans will set foot inside their ground next month, and perhaps not for a long time.

The Ibrox club has already played at Aberdeen this season, and presumably the same songs were sung. I can presume that because they’ve been sung for years.

The timing of the statement and of Ibrox’s faux outrage is more than just coincidental; it is the whole point of the exercise. They’ve just been beaten by a hated foe and the club can’t wait to change the story.

But what is the story here?

Well that’s obvious to us, and must be equally obvious to the Ibrox fans.

The Mooch and his team are having their every weakness exposed.

The club is facing losing key players in the summer and is set to spend a major chunk of the transfer budget on a guy who was absolutely ineffectual in the game … and who is being questioned more and more in the stands. The manager, in the meantime, has pledged his signing when the club might not have the money for it.

In short, they are a shambles and they need to sell season tickets. In the absence of being able to offer their fans a vision or a plan they can play PR games and try to project the idea of everyone being on the same side and the world against them.

And it’ll work too. They can operate that fan-base as if it was by remote control.

We don’t call them The Gulli-Billy’s for nothing.