Cantwell “Can’t Imagine” Celtic Giving His Club A Guard Of Honour. Hey, He’ll Never Know.
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Todd Cantwell summed up the prevailing attitude at Ibrox today, which is to presume that the rest of the world is as hateful as they are. This is the problem with staring through a prism of paranoia and loathing. You start to see everyone in your own image.
If your club is built around the idea that you are a tiny island floating in a sea of hatred and jealousy and you have swallowed that whole without a second thought, then you will act accordingly.
He’s already been bitten by the bug, and it’s one of the things the Ibrox fans enjoy about him.
“Look at that deft way he pulled the water bottle away from Kyogo! Man that’s better than a Hampden goal.”
Lundstram refused to help a Celtic player to his feet a year or so back and went from being a cumbersome joke to a hero of the stands immediately.
It never lasts, of course, but whilst it does they have themselves a new hero.
I love this guy already. He’s so like the manager over there.
He talks out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. Imagine being just in the door five minutes, with the blood still flowing from the way he treated his last club, and talking about “playing for the badge”?
The Goons Gallery just laps that up, don’t they? And why wouldn’t they?
Imagine saying that! “I can’t imagine them doing that for us” in relation to the guard of honour. He’s crammed a lot into that short spell in Scotland, hasn’t he? He’s done the full course on Celtic and what Celtic will and won’t do.
As it happens, I wouldn’t give a toss about offering them a guard of honour if they were willing to grant us one. That’s one of the differences between what Mr Cantwell knows and what he thinks he knows. And that’s why my offer would be so easy to make.
Because he’s never gonna know for sure, because we’re not going to let up on the winning of titles and trophies and that means he’ll never get the chance to find out.
A guard of honour is an honour only the winners get, and talking a good game doesn’t count.