I always enjoy a little attempted Ibrox feel-good when the person responsible for it cannot find a way to sustain it.
It is hilarious seeing or hearing or reading them start out confident and then trail off and veer in the opposite direction, and it often happens the way it has happened with Kenny Miller this weekend. I’ll tell you how I think this happens.
Have you ever watched a “lightbulb moment”?
I mean that point where someone has an epiphany? The look on their face? The smile? The eyes going wide? That sometimes happens when you are asking someone to explain why they believe something that is obviously silly. Think about getting one of those Flat Earth nutters to confront not only the contradictions in their argument, but even better – the breakthrough moment when they realise they’ve actually been certifiably nuts for a long time.
It’s as if the story they’ve told themselves in their head is easier to sustain as long as it stays there.
I enjoy writing fiction in my spare time.
Maybe some of you will read some of it at a later date; I’m almost certain in fact that you will since I’ve already got one self-published novel which I need to polish and two that I need to finish. Let me tell you what the hardest thing to write is; it’s dialogue.
When you write it in your head it sounds a lot different than when someone has to speak the words out loud. And that’s what this is like.
I think Kenny Miller started wanting to be optimistic. I think he was going for a pro-Ibrox story.
But the moment the words left his brain and, as the saying goes, became flesh he had that epiphany when he realised that the argument he was going to make was arrant nonsense and so he pulled off that road and headed right down another.
He was trying to find something to say about the situation at Ibrox that was positive.
So, he started out from the premise that the game against us, at Celtic Park, was coming at a good time. Four games into the campaign. It was only when he had breathed life into those words that he realised how nuts they are. The very last thing Ibrox wants as it tries to navigate Champions League qualifiers, and bed in a team, and strives with the uncertainty of where they are going to play their home games, was a visit to the home of the Champions.
Because after he got that silly idea out of his system – at the very moment he realised how utterly foolhardy and stupid it was – he was able, finally, to focus on the dark hole they find themselves in and to confront the enormous challenges they are going to face in the early weeks of the season.
He knows their signings so far aren’t good enough if Celtic gets its own recruitment right, he knows that Clement has a power of work to do, and that they have Hearts away first and Europe on top of that and then Celtic Park and that Clement could already have one foot out the door (at Murrayfield, Hampden, Ibrox or wherever) by the time that spell ends.
It’s bad. It’s serious. He knows it’s serious and so does everyone watching it.
The only thing left to do is acknowledge that, lest he look ridiculous. I think he has actually done that. So, what started out as a piece of Ibrox-feel-good turned into a long dark look down the barrel of the gun instead … and little by little, I think a lot of people will be forced to do the same.
The Village Idiot, too, has had to confront reality as the full scale of the mess they are in over there finally begins to dawn on people. How it has taken so long is a minor miracle, but that they have arrived, at last, at that place is now readily apparent.
Before this summer ends, a lot more of them are going to have come to these conclusions.
Miller said £60m for the CL money wee Barry said the other day £30m
Big difference
Sevco Huns telling lies Harold – Who’d have thunk that then eh !
Even if one is a Hibernian supporter who dumped his beloved (then) Green n’ White for Red, White & Blue !
Kenny Miller, the retarded pundits pundit
Bizarrely, the one thing that would actually help their fixture/location situation is getting knocked out in the 3rd round of the CL qualifiers (their first round) as they would automatically drop straight into the Europa League and not have to play two more qualifiers in the 10 days before they come to us. Obviously it would leave them even further in the mire financially but from a football perspective it might be their best (arguably only) chance of getting something out of the game at Celtic Park !
I’d love to see which MSM journalist has the cojones to put that thought in print……
Honestly James
You are my favourite blogger however.
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His comments aren’t as daft as you make out in my opinion. We’ll be having our own rebuild, possibly losing the likes of O’Riley, and last summer we replaced players like jota and Mooy with Yang & Kwon. And we don’t have Hart, do you remember Rodgers bringing in Di Vries? So they might just get lucky in that they get lucky with a signing or 2 and we’ve not recruited well where who we do buy are another set of projects, and they get something. It’s not like the 4 wins and a draw were us being totally dominant. I think we all thought Rodgers would be backed last summer, and again in January, as much as we’re thinking he will now, regardless of his change in mood, lawell leaving etc.
Well said James, Miller never was that bright. He is a perfect fit for the calibre of supporter that follows that mob. I am not sure who is worse, the ex-players like Miller who spout this nonsense or the directors of this pathetic excuse for a well run club. I believe it was Boris Pasternak in Dr. Zhivago who said, “ Men in power are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.” This just about sums up that bunch responsible for the continuing blunders at the Asbestos Dome.
As far as I can tell, most of them think it’s all rosy, all run of the mill stadium improvements that have hit a standard snag, no big deal. Plus, they’ve already signed some extremely promising rising stars and the season ticket price hike is perfectly reasonable for how good they’ll be next season.
James, I remember when we went to play at hampden. Complete disaster. I hope it happens to them.
With regards Windy, he always makes a fool of himself.
But but but TavPens STILL here lol!
Unfortunately, Tavernier and the officials are worth over twenty goals a season to Sevco. Twenty-four last season to be precise.
I don’t think kenny miller has the brains to realise self awareness, he stumbles through anything he rambles about, brainwashed into everything sevco , as your statement previously James regarding his meltdown was reality eventually kicking in that celtic were champions again when everyone else knew that , miller couldn’t comprehend that possibility.
He’s as bright as a blackout in my opinion.
going into the europa league does affect them both financially and having to play on a sunday which sky sevco sports cannot do anything about doing their usual getting their games played before ours. this is not paranoia it is a fact which the celtic board have been negligent in their duty in the recent past.