Football Manager YouTube star reacts in disgust at the behaviour of the Ibrox fans.

I never cease to be amazed by the kind of things sent to me on social media, and I’m equally astounded by how much of it showcases the Ibrox club’s fans in all their grotesque forms. Today, though, I was caught completely off guard by something someone sent me—something so shocking it has rocked my belief that I’ve become immune to being surprised.

As many of my regular readers will know, I’m a huge Football Manager fan.

I’ve been playing it for years, and in my quest to improve, I’ve consumed a lot of tactics books, watched numerous guides, and followed the advice of experts. This has made me a better player, but also given me a better understanding of the game as a whole, which I’m grateful for.

One such expert is an American streamer known as Zealand. His obsession with the game outstrips my own, and he creates excellent videos on Football Manager. Lately, his channel has evolved, branching out into broader football-related content.

Zealand’s social media presence is widespread, reaching far beyond the niche I occupy. He’s taken advantage of every platform out there, including TikTok.

Today I was sent one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever seen that he’s posted.

It’s been up for about a week or so, but I only came across it today, thanks to someone sending it my way.

In the video, Zealand talks about our ‘friends’ across the city and their attempt to sabotage a campaign by Inverness fans to save their own club. Inverness supporters tried to organise a meeting on 7 October and encouraged fans to order tickets.

However, Ibrox supporters started snapping up the tickets with no intention of attending, purely to prevent genuine Inverness fans from going.

This petty act is being excused as some sort of revenge for what they claim Inverness did to them back in 2012.

Zealand is rightfully amazed at this and horrified, as any decent football supporter would be. I was shocked too, not just by the act itself, but by the sheer level of hatred that must be required to do something like this. It’s beyond petty. It’s downright vile.

Zealand’s outrage is absolutely justified.

The backlash has already started on Ibrox social media, where they’re predictably claiming he’s a Celtic fan.

I can confidently say, having watched the vast majority of his content, this is absolute nonsense.

Zealand is an American who happens to be a football lover and a Football Manager enthusiast.

The only reason they’re making this accusation is that he once made a video praising Ange Postecoglou’s football philosophy after he was hired by Spurs, and occasionally, he wears Celtic shirts on his channel, where he’s also live-streamed “career games” in which he’s run us from time to time.

He’s run dozens of teams in the game, just as I have, and just as thousands of other Football Manager players do with every single version that comes out.

Zealand collects football shirts from all over the world. One of the things he advertises on his channel is a service where you send off money, and they send you a random football shirt from some far flung corner of the planet. His collection would rival that of any football museum.

Yes, he wears a Celtic shirt now and again.

But to suggest that this means he’s part of some nexus arrayed against them is ludicrous. These are the same people who believe that anyone holding an opinion contrary to theirs must be part of The Great Conspiracy Of The Unseen Fenian Hand.

If you were to visit Zealand’s YouTube channel, you’d find videos covering everything from football clubs doing strange things to pieces on upcoming players and profiles of his favourite managers. His content covers a broad spectrum of football arcana, and this particular subject—about the Ibrox fans’ disgraceful actions—seems to have caught his attention, likely because it’s so utterly incomprehensible to normal people.

He’s genuinely baffled as to how fans who have experienced their own club’s financial crisis can behave in such a destructive way toward fellow supporters who are simply trying to save their club. He can’t believe this is real.

His astonishment alone is proof that he’s not a Celtic fan pushing an agenda. If he were, he’d already know that this type of behaviour isn’t exactly out of character for certain sections of the Ibrox support. Although, I must admit, even I am shocked at how far they’ve taken it this time.

But these fans will carry their grudges to the grave.

It’s irrational and senseless, and as Zealand points out in his video, the people truly responsible for their club’s demise are not Inverness fans but individuals within their own ranks who botched the handling of their own existential crisis.

He goes so far as to absolve the Ibrox fans of blame, which only further proves he’s not pursuing any kind of agenda, nor is he fully aware of all the facts. Because let’s be clear, I do hold them accountable. They enabled their club’s reckless overspending, believed they were too big to fail, and are victims of their own hubris.

On one point, though, Zealand is spot on: the Inverness fans are blameless.

They’re simply trying to keep their club afloat, something the Ibrox fans weren’t able to do for theirs.

The behaviour we’re seeing from the Ibrox fans now is nothing short of abhorrent, and it’s fuelled by a diet of lies that they’ve been fed for over a decade—from within their own echo chamber and by a complicit media still using words like ‘relegation’ to describe what happened, when in fact, that’s not what happened at all.

Sometimes, it takes an outsider to cut through the nonsense, and Zealand does that brilliantly in his clip.

While he may not fully grasp everything about this situation or the nature of the people we’re dealing with, he understands enough to use the correct terminology, including ‘liquidation,’ a word he doesn’t hesitate to use.

I’m grateful someone brought this video to my attention, and I’m glad Zealand tackled the subject. I only wish more people had the courage to do the same.

I wish our mainstream media would stop perpetuating the lie that fuels this kind of behaviour.

The Ibrox fans would burn down the entire Scottish football structure in the name of that utter falsehood. As I’ve said many times before, it makes the Victim Lie one of the most dangerous fictions in the history of our game.

If their attempt to sabotage an honest campaign by Inverness fans doesn’t prove how dangerous this is, then nothing will. Everyone who has spread that lie for the last 12 years should be thoroughly ashamed when they watch Zealand’s video and that’s why I’m including it below.