No, The Celtic Boss And Captain Were Not Paying Ibrox A Compliment This Past Week.

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?