There is a bizarre and actually quite hilarious theory doing the rounds on Ibrox fan media today and it is this; that our captain and our manager were paying them some sort of backhanded compliment this week with their comments before and after the game.
Apparently, Brendan has flattered them with talk of the six Ibrox bosses he’s faced and dispatched prior to this.
Apparently, Callum McGregor’s own remarks, echoing the boss’s sentiments, about how we’ve “heard it all before” from Ibrox fans, players and hacks when they told us that this time Ibrox was “ready” to supplant us at the top of the league was, in fact, not delivered with dripping scorn at all but was actually paying them some kind of tribute.
One Ibrox blogger has claimed that the pair of them are obviously “rattled”. By what? By winning? Cause that happens all the time, doesn’t it?
People at winning clubs get rattled because they just keep on getting the results in the big games. Clement’s record against us is played one lost one, so of course that would be keeping people at Celtic up at night.
It is unbelievable the stuff they come out with at times. Remember when The Mooch was the big hero, that Celtic was running scared? That Ange – who had owned him, absolutely owned him – was leaving because he “knew” that they were “coming”? That view wasn’t just prevalent on Ibrox social media but hinted at in the mainstream press as well.
So too was the idea that Celtic was “rattled” by the mere presence of Clement, with Kenny Miller particularly vocal in expressing that view.
The only person who sounded “rattled” was the Ibrox boss himself after the game, attempting to deflect and re-order reality at the same time.
He was happy with the performance? Really?
He thought a right back was the best midfielder on the park? Honestly?
He thought they should have won the game? Aye, right.
His spitting fury was extraordinary. I was going to call him The Belgian Waffler, but I read a much better nickname on a Celtic fan forum – kudos to The Kerrydale Street guys for it too – when one said he hoped it would catch on; there is a statue of a kid urinating into a fountain in Brussels, where he’s from.
The name of the statue is Manneken Pis. The forum lads called Clement Manneken Piss. I like that a lot. The actual title is Dutch; it literally means the “little pissing man.”
Cause that’s really all he was doing; spraying piss around.
So Manneken is it going forward. He didn’t just sound rattled, he sounded “piss mad” to borrow an expression from Succession. Put this guy under pressure and he’ll shake, rattle and roll. It is going to be a sight to see.
So no, neither McGregor nor Brendan was complimenting Manneken Piss or his team.
No, the boss and the captain were precisely as contemptuous as their comments suggest. Nowhere in there is there a compliment of any sort.
In fact, Callum is looking forward to collecting another title winners medal at their expense, and Rodgers? He’s measuring up the space on the wall for another Ibrox managerial hunting trophy. This one will bear a passing resemblance to Lurch.
Only the crazed Ibrox fans could consider that some kind of accolade.
Thanks to the guys who pointed out that Lurch is not in The Munsters as I had written but the Adams Family. A scary looking dude regardless … and we thought Alex Rae was the real raw material of nightmares, right?
Come on James surely he is the thick double of lurch out of the Addams family.
Of course you would be rattled by ” his mere presence” have you clocked the guy? Ffs! Gives nosterferau a fair run for his money jf.
@ eldraco. Or ‘nosferatu’ even ! Ffs, everybody’s correctin each other on film monsters. Includin me ! Tho mine’s is a substantially better ‘correction’ than anybody else’s (imo).
Sorry James but lurch was in the Addams family HAIL HAIL
Clement showed his true colours when sending souttar on as sub, watch footage of him talking to him then smashing fist into hand indicating what he wanted him to do on the pitch.
Aye some manager right there in my opinion.
My name for him is Baldermort. It’s not my own, I nicked it. But I think it rolls off the tongue quite well.
The huns have to believe these lies like all the other ones they desperately cling to.
It’s what gets most of them through the day in their pointless lives.
The rest are just batshit ga ga.
Great article James,
Love the nickname of Clement also.
But as a Dutch guy, please wright Manneke without the last n. That’s the correct spelling.
if a Celtic manager behaved like him at the after match interview he would of course be crucified by our impartial press! nothing to hear here!
I really liked the nickname given to him by Paddy Power in their latest video where they called him BALDIMORT. I’m using this one.
However, Mannekin pis sounds quite agreeable.
If you saw this guy in a graveyard you would hide. Dr Death comes to mind.
He might be useful the next time they go to the wall.
Best thing I read the last few days
Although they got beat their players sent us a message
Ha ha
Now that the footy is over for a few weeks,
and sevco is limited in the deflectionary p!sh it can pass onto the SMSM,
all we have to do is sign one decent, quality player.
Not a loan, but a purchase. [sevco can’t do that.]
A quality player who – could – slot straight into the first team.
So, we strenghen our underperforming team,
– which sevco just can’t beat anyway.
IF we were to BUY 2 quality players…
Clement and the SMSM will be greeting.
We know sevco has the ‘edge’ on VAR / referees’ decisions,
so we need to make a statement in this transfer window.
Avoid complacency: ensure we retain the title.
A couple of decent signings to get the squad and support buzzing would
also be a significant, psychological blow to sevco with its loanees.
The boy Lawwell better pull the finger out…! 🙂
James I agree with everything you’ve said apart from lurch he’s from the Addams family not the munsters mate
I must admit it was a bit of surprise to see Mr Piss react the way he did to this defeat….
I genuinely thought he was a calm, tactical genius as stated in every SMSM outlet, it turns out he’s an angry, journey man who sounds more like Mr Bealiola with each passing day……
HH
Bit harsh. Clement was just behaving like most other coaches after losing. We woz robbed, basically. That was his message to fans and media. In truth he knew then that his Rangers honeymoon had abruptly come to an end and reality had dawned .. and he didn’t like it one bit!
It wasn’t what he said that was particularly surprising but his total lack of dignity in defeat. You would never see Rodgers acting in such a manner and, in my opinion, that will be reflected in team performances further down the line with continued Celtic domination of Scottish football.?
Big Dan Roan …the BBC in Engerland’s chief sports scoop !
Well done the hoops yesterday, we are now starting to motor, just wish the break wasnt
just now, but the guys will come back refreshed and recharged and ready to do the buisness, hopefully we may have some new blood as well,would also like to point out Clement and Rae must be the 2 ugliest mother truckers in football Hail Hail.
So if I say ‘Rangers* are shite’ – that’s really a compliment.
Naebody does crackpot delusion quite like them dae they ?! Tho where we’re concerned, a lot’s gonnae depend on what the board does this month. We’re startin tae get a grip again, tho we still need quality players in, that cannae be neglected. Hugely important.
It’s good, but I’m afraid Baldemort seems to have clinched it! 😀
Happy new year James, keep up the good work ?
The difference is obvious in that Brendan and Callum are professional and dignified in their acceptance of being better in the winning of the Glasgow derbies, leagues, etc. That is a difficult for them, having won no more than one in a row, alien almost; winning; and being better.
A few of my Scottish migrant m8s from Leiden, also in the Netherlands, have been calling him Mannke Piss-take for some time. Only after reading this article do I realise why. The Bhoys follow FC Groningen, purely because they play in green and white. Sadly they got relegated from the Eredivisie last year.
So do have to stop calling him Clement Fraud, so named after after another sad faced bastard? HH
Does Lurch not reside on Ed Munster Drive