The Ibrox club continues to exist in the half-light of envy and hatred.

Going into another weekend of football, who would have believed that we’d be witnessing yet another chaotic and turbulent week at the club across the city? It almost defies belief how dysfunctional that club has become.

Clement gave his pre-match press conference today and delivered one of the most bizarre lines we’ve heard from him so far. It wasn’t the usual kind of nonsense either—this one was unintentionally hilarious. He said that they’re not running around like zombies.

I can’t recall a worse choice of words from an Ibrox boss. It’s brilliant, in a way, how clueless this guy is about reading the room and sensing the mood in the stands. That’s the last comparison he’d want to make if he truly grasped the context in which that term is usually used.

But let me tell you something else—he’s wrong. Dead wrong. They do look like a bunch of brainless fools lumbering around. The entire club has that look about it right now, lurching from one disaster to another. It feels relentless, like this chaos has been a constant for ages.

Much of this week’s turmoil can be credited to Dave King. As a spreader of chaos, few can match him. I almost admire his ability to cause such upheaval at a club he’s supposed to love. Any of us would be proud to have stirred up the same level of unrest that he has this week. No Celtic director, no Celtic manager has been able to disrupt Ibrox this much since the sacking of Giovanni van Bronckhorst.

And that’s just a part of the madness. The entire week has been filled with moments of lunacy, and King’s interview is only the tip of the iceberg. He knew exactly what chaos he could cause by speaking to the media—he’s done it before, and he knows it works. We all know it works.

One reason it works is because their fanbase is so wrapped up in hatred and petty grievances.

If you check one of their leading fan forums right now, you won’t find the top stories to be about the shambles at their club, the financial mess they’re in, or their ineptitude from the CEO to the state of their stadium. No, the biggest story involves an academic and community activist from the Celtic side who used the ‘H’ word at a protest in George Square recently. That’s what’s been occupying their minds.

First, they tried to get her charged, but Police Scotland laughed it off. Then they pursued hate crime legislation to change the police’s minds, which also didn’t work. Then they tried to get her fired, but her university rightly stood by her, stating they do not police the private opinions of staff. Now, they’ve started a petition to have her removed. All of this, of course, amidst howling cries of hypocrisy.

Their fanbase accuses her of a hate crime, while many among them break hate crime laws themselves with their racist, misogynistic, and bigoted comments. It’s reminiscent of Donald Trump—accusing others of the very behaviour he engages in. That’s the undeniable symmetry here.

From time to time, they raise the issue of their club’s demise in 2012.

Some of them still struggle to understand how it happened. They believe they are “the people,” somehow above hardship or inconvenience. Yet they still can’t recognise their own role in allowing someone like Charles Green to seize control of their destiny in the first place.

On their forums right now, they’re banging the drum for King’s AGM, many of them gearing up for a long fight to get it. None of them seems to understand what that would entail or the consequences of King gaining full control. It won’t happen, but that only makes it worse. They see the current board not as people protecting their club but as those standing in the way of progress. Once that perception sets in, it’s almost impossible to shift.

Their club looks across the city with hatred and envy.

Their fans look at ours and see the precise mirror image of themselves; supremacists, motivated solely by petty bitterness and spite.

So they head into tomorrow’s game, a home match that should represent a fresh start, yet the atmosphere is heavy with negativity. The club is on another self-destructive streak. Yes, they’re lumbering around like zombies. Yes, the “zombie club” is living up to its billing.

Chaos remains the order of the day at Ibrox, and tomorrow’s homecoming might feel like anything but. If things don’t go their way on the pitch, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a protest. A bad result could spark something much larger.

This crisis is not going away. It’s going to drag on and on.

I don’t know what the endgame will be, but I do know it’s going to be a spectacle. This has been another wild week for them, and with so much anger simmering over there, it won’t take much to ignite even more mayhem. I’ve got my popcorn ready.