Ibrox’s Motor-Mouths Are Rightly Being Scorned By Celtic Fans Tonight.

If there is a stupider manager anywhere in Europe right now than the guy at Ibrox, I have not heard of who it is. Remember when I said earlier in the week that the kind of remarks which were being made by Dessers were a sign of profound indiscipline at the top of their club? Because all that kind of thing does come from the top of the house. Well, today Manneken Piss went in front of the hacks and pretty much proved that hypothesis.

What is it with this guy? Has all the media love gone to his head?

He wasn’t ever going to be our favourite person in the world on this end, but he’s becoming every bit as irritating and flagrantly arrogant as The Mooch ever was. This doesn’t have to be the case either; say what you want about Van Bronckhorst – I thought he had all the personality of a mop in a bucket – but he wasn’t like this. He had at least one foot in reality.

Not this guy. He sounds crazier by the minute, and today he was indulging in a little bit of Mooch style number crunching when he was coming out with all his “we have won four more points than Celtic in the last six months” guff, as if titles were decided based on the last six months and not over the course of the whole of the campaign.

The Mooch did this too, of course, towards the end of last season when he was still confident that he could extend his honeymoon into this season. We all know how that turned out. And as Keith Jackson and others have pointed out, the Ibrox boss will find himself under similar pressure if we get the results in the next two games against him.

There are others banging their drums and bumping their gums. Barry Ferguson has tipped the Ibrox club to win the title, and Lee McCulloch thinks we’re more likely to drop points. They are both basing this on the cup semi final win over Hearts; what an embarrassment that neither of us can analyse that game in the proper context.

It’s taken just one result to get some of them back on board, and to have much of the media eating out of this guy’s hands again. It is pitiful how craven some of these folks are, and how keen to put aside the evidence of their own eyes and become, again, believers. No wonder Celtic fans are laughing at this lot … and no wonder the impression grows that underneath the calm and the focus at Celtic is a growing determination to shut this lot up.

Like I said, we need no extra motivation. These Peepul are determined to give it to us all the same.