More Big Talk From Ibrox’s Losers After Celtic Win. Are These Peepul Stupid, Or What?

If there are stupider people playing football anywhere in Europe, outside of Ibrox, I want to know who they are. What kind of idiots are these who do nothing but mouth about what they are going to do to you next time after you’ve just beaten them?

Does this get tiresome to you? It does to me. But imagine how their own supporters must feel, because eventually doesn’t this start to sound a lot like they are the ones being trolled? This club of theirs is filled to the rafters with dreck. With losers. And the proof of it is the amount of trash-talk they indulge in which they simply can’t back up.

Cantwell was first out of the gate yesterday. You might give him a pass because he’s newly on the scene and doesn’t realise that we’ve heard all this before. But how many times has the captain, Tavernier, mouthed off like this only to be shown up?

You’d think he would learn. You would think that his manager would have enough sense to instil a bit of message discipline here. Or at least the basic common sense not to give Celtic further motivation, as if we needed it. You would think that eventually it would become embarrassing even to the rampant egos in the Ibrox dressing room.

I sometimes think the only one of them with any understanding of all this is Goldson, who at least made it clear that he and the team are “back to square one” in terms of having to prove themselves all over again. He seems to have a grasp of this. Perhaps that’s how he “injured” himself at the weekend; talking too much sense in a dressing room of goons.

I would be mortified if I shared a dressing room with someone like Tavernier, perhaps the worst “captain” ever to be inducted into the Ibrox Hall Of Fame. He has a lot of goals, but it was Tom Boyd, of all people, who got right to the heart of it at the weekend when he pointed out that for all that Tavernier is just not that good a defender.

Ewan Murray – of all people – pointed out after the cup final that for all the hype this guy gets that we’ve actually sold two better right backs in the last three years than he is. All the evidence suggests that we’ve got a guy in that position at the moment who is a vastly better footballer than Tavernier is, has been or will ever be … I find it hilarious that he’s the only player from Ibrox who consistently gets in these “Glasgow XI” teams when he wouldn’t get on our bench.

But he can talk. God, he can talk. And he does. About how things will be better next time. About how we’ll see the real thing next time. About how we’re going to be sorry next time. Ibrox fans are entitled to say, “well what happened this time?”

What happened is what usually happens. When Jota was galloping down the left hand side of the pitch to put McGregor and their defence under pressure, where was the captain and right back, the guy who was supposed to be covering his runs? He was almost at the halfway line, miles out of position, all at sea when our winger strolled around the keeper.

If only I believed this guy was smart enough to be using his chatter as a deflection tactic. If only I thought that he was smart enough to pretend to be daft enough to be vowing revenge after another embarrassment. But actually, I don’t believe that.

He really is that stupid. His club really is that stupid. His manager really is that weak or stupid or maybe weak and stupid and let’s this stuff go on when anybody with a bit of common sense would be telling the players to shut it and do their talking on the park.

Ange must love this. These people are doing his team talk for him. The more they build themselves up the harder the fall is going to be. Hampden is 20 days away, and these people will be mouthing off for every single of those days.

Perfect. We couldn’t hope for better than this.