No, Ibrox Is Not “Set To Eclipse Celtic’s Champions League Cash.” It’s Absolute Garbage.

The Daily Record.

The newspaper that if someone left it in your toilet and you’d run out of bog roll you would sooner wipe your backside with something, anything, else lest you did yourself some sort of irreparable harm.

Football Scotland.

One of its online sister publications, which produces its articles word for word at times although with a different writer’s name on it.

Those pitiful publications are so pro-Ibrox they should have a blue, white and red masthead, and I knew they’d go a bit mad today but not like they did.

“(Ibrox) in hunt to leapfrog Celtic with astonishing prize money first as coefficient kings rip up Scottish rulebook” is the headline of The Record’s piece.

“Europa League windfall revealed as Gers set to eclipse Celtic Champions League cash” is Football Scotland’s deranged version of what is clearly in the top ten stupidest “news articles” of this year, a piece of speculative guff which numbs the brain.

And of course, it is fanciful rubbish, based on them getting to the final … and winning it.

Oh yes, winning it. The article goes out of its way not to make that clear, but the numbers do not add up otherwise. Not that they add up anyway.

What these articles are actually saying is that if the Ibrox club – which let’s not forget could not beat a team from Cyprus home or away in this tournament and were pulverised by PSV in the Champions League qualifiers – could get all the way to the final and win that could, in theory, give them more money than Celtic made in the Champions League.

That’s like a bad joke. As I said this morning, there is enough remaining quality left in the Europa League this season, that no such thing stands a chance of happening.

I would not have been quite so sure had they ended up in the Conference League, but that wouldn’t have netted the prize money that’s being talked about here anyway.

Even The Record article describes all this as “a pipe dream.” So, if it’s a pipe dream what in God’s name is the purpose of such rancid, speculative guff?

Honestly, it’s no wonder that we all find this media of ours a tiresome bore at times and this is one of those times. There’s no merit to the story whatsoever, it’s a ridiculous piece of “What if?” that belongs on an Ibrox fan forum instead of in a national title.

Let me put it like this; they earned more last year than they have this year for getting to the Champions League Groups. Along with the corresponding sales of two players for big money, they still posted a loss.

This year there are no corresponding player sales of note and they sunk more money into the team than they could afford. They also had to sack another management team.

Any money they do make this year is going straight down the bottomless pit … they do, after all, have the biggest wage bill in the league to feed.

So whilst I can well understand the need over there for a bit of “financial feel good” I am not having this crap, I’m not having The Record and Football Scotland pretend that this Monopoly money type phantom cash is real or that they can start counting it.

At some point that club and all who follow it are going to be dragged kicking and screaming towards some harsh reality, but evidently not if our media has anything to do with it.