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Hilarity for Celtic fans as the Master Race unveils its Master Plan.

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On Friday, the Union Brats released a moon-howling, insane statement, making all sorts of demands on their club. They called for the manager to be sacked, the board to resign, and they wanted it done immediately. They’ve accused the club of failing on every level, particularly of failing to capitalize on what they call “Title 55″—or as we call it, “Title One.” They’ve made an absolute spectacle of themselves.

Everyone knows the contempt I have for these people. It’s not just their ignorance; it’s their bigotry, intolerance, and sheer stupidity.

Stupidity is entirely different from ignorance. Stupidity is the lack of ability to understand things, while ignorance is not knowing or understanding something. But what’s worse than being stupid is being wilfully ignorant. Wilful ignorance, a decision to live independent of facts or information that challenges your views or beliefs, is worse by far, and it’s exactly what defined that statement.

You’d have to be wilfully ignorant not to grasp some of the things that have happened at Ibrox over the years. Yes, the board has wasted a lot of money, but much of that money came from the board members themselves in the first place.

The Union Brats have made the ludicrous claim that the and their fellow Ibrox fans are the ones who built the club and are responsible for all of its prior successes. They even included Rangers’ successes in that claim, saying it was the fans who achieved them. Let me call out that nonsense right now. Ibrox fans haven’t carried the water for a football club at that ground in over 30 years—that’s a historical fact.

For the whole of that time, they have depended on someone else funding the success. The two Ibrox clubs have essentially run on Other People’s Money and their problem is that they cannot comprehend that those days are over with.

If you actually examine what the Union Brats are demanding, it’s clear they’re not making any suggestion that the fans will pick up the slack. They want the board to sell up to someone who will come in and finance the club with their own cash. And they seem completely ignorant of just how bad an idea that is.

Imagine for a second that the board does sell up. What comes next?

It clearly hasn’t dawned on these morons that the same board they’re criticizing carried £17 million worth of debt last season alone and will likely have to carry an even bigger surplus this year. Which is to say nothing of the seasons down through the last dozen years, in none of which did that club post a profit.

I know there are people within the Celtic support, and even among the Celtic fan media, who think people like me were behaving irrationally when we criticized Peter Lawwell not too long ago. But let’s be clear: w are a club sitting on a major cash surplus and we were dragging our feet in signing players the manager wanted and needed. Furthermore, we were appointing people to key positions based on who they knew, or their second names, and not on their ability to deliver.

Our grievances were specific and rational.

Yes, I still think there are holes in Celtic’s strategy. But I’ve always recognized that we are, by and large, an extremely well-run club. I just think some of the people in executive positions lack the vision to make us better. And it might seem odd to feel that way when we’re in a position of supreme strength right now, but my belief is that you must embrace the future and remain flexible to stay strong.

If you want to see what irrational grievance looks like, just look across the city. Their anger at their board of directors is grossly disproportionate and completely misplaced. It’s the directors over there who are keeping the lights on and the wheels turning. Nobody else could or would do more than those directors are doing.

If Ibrox fans believe a boardroom revolution will bring in people who’ll throw money at every problem, they’re deluding themselves. The first thing any new board of directors will do at that club is make it clear they won’t spend a penny of their own money to keep it running. The second thing they’ll do is launch a strategic review and embark on immediate cost-cutting.

Anyone who doesn’t realize that simply isn’t paying attention. No outside entity is going to come in and carry an annual debt that often runs into eight figures.

I’ve asked you to imagine what it would look like if an additional £10 million were stripped out of that club and its team. What would that resemble? They’d be operating at the level of an Aberdeen or a Hearts. The Union Brats think things are as bad now as they’ve ever been, but I have news for them: this might be as good as it gets.

As mad as all of that is, it’s nothing compared to the story that broke last night. They released their second statement in two days, detailing how they plan to make their feelings and voices heard. They’re calling for every supporter in the stadium today to walk out on the 55th minute—a statement about how the club supposedly let them down after winning that title.

Even without addressing how this feeds into the Survival Lie, there are one or two glaring problems with this plan.

But before we get into that, let’s tackle another thorny issue: this belief that they had some grand opportunity after winning the COVID title. That belief is rotten to its core. It has no basis in fact and no grounding in reality.

I don’t know how many times this needs to be debunked.

That title was won under exceptional, unrepeatable circumstances. Once Ange Postecoglou had his team in place, we never looked back. His vision delivered a double in the first campaign and a treble in the second. Out of ten available trophies since that so-called title win, Celtic has won eight of them. Why hasn’t it sunk in yet that their title was a freak occurrence, a fluke?

This seems incredibly difficult for them to grasp, and this is what I mean when I talk about wilful ignorance.

They cannot be so stupid as to not understand the basic math. If they genuinely believed the board was going to lavish funds on Gerrard the following season, they were deluding themselves. COVID hit their club like a sledgehammer—it hit all clubs—but we had a surplus and rode it out more comfortably than most.

Their club, on the other hand, was financially shattered. Whatever little leeway they might have had was obliterated. The things they think the board had the opportunity to do, they never had a prayer of doing. There was no pot of gold left to fund Gerrard’s revolution. It simply didn’t exist. It was as real as a magic money tree.

And the only way you can fail to understand that is if you refuse to. If you wall yourself off in a fantasy and shut out the facts.

This is a topic we’ve covered many times on this blog.

It’s so clear and obvious that it still amazes me they can’t grasp it in any form. There was no squandered opportunity because that opportunity never existed. The only foundation they have for believing otherwise is Dave King’s “House of Cards” theory, and that, of course, was absolute nonsense.

Even leaving that aside, the idea of walking out on the 55th minute is absurd. It’s a meaningless, empty, boneheaded gesture with no chance of achieving its goal. Even if a third of the stadium follows through, what happens next?

When they wake up tomorrow and the board hasn’t fallen, and the manager still has his job, what then? The only thing this stunt will achieve is dividing the fanbase—between those who walk out and are seen as “committed” and those who stay to support the team, inadvertently lending credibility to a manager and board that don’t deserve it. That’s the position they’re forcing people into.

There’s literally nothing about this that makes sense.

The board won’t pay the slightest attention to it. And what’s their next bright idea? The logical “escalation” is to buy their season tickets in the summer but only attending half the games. When that doesn’t work, what then?

This isn’t a plan—it’s a childish tantrum, plain and simple. It benefits no one. It doesn’t help the club, the manager, or their fellow fans. All it will do is create even more chaos and make the whole place look utterly dysfunctional.

And here’s the real question—the only question that matters: Imagine it does work. What happens when this board walks out, quite possibly calling in their loans at the same time? What happens when nobody wants to buy the shares … at first? Who does the due diligence on the next lot?

If this lot think the world is laughing at them now, they have no idea.

Celtic fans will be in stiches if they go through with this pitiful stunt today.

These Peepul are absolutely nuts.

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10 comments

  • Paddybhoy67 says:

    Free “reign” … illiterate fannies.

  • TonyB says:

    It seems they do ” do walking away”.

    I’ve always said the huns were the dumbest fans in football.

  • Johnny Green says:

    I wonder how may of them will turn up for the pleasure of walking out?

  • DannyGal says:

    I think it’s unlikely the walk-out will cause the board to act. However I think a small attendance who then all walk out might make them think what could happen if many of those fans don’t renew their season tickets. Even more so if they don’t win the match!

    • terry the tim says:

      If Rangers are winning say 4-0 do they still walk out?
      I think a lot of supporters won’t attend and watch it on TV.

      • Clachnacuddin and the Hoops says:

        They canny walk out “if ‘Rangers’ are winning Terry as ‘Rangers, canny be winning as ‘Rangers’ are dead as dead can be !

  • Jackson says:

    Was hoping Neil Mcann would have walked out of
    Sportscene last night for his utterly stupid and biased take on the penalty awards yesterday….fool
    HH

  • Clachnacuddin and the Hoops says:

    I’d love it if and when The Sevco Hun Hoards walk out that The St.Johnstone fans sang with scarfs held high our very own WALK ON…

    How much rage would that leave The Sevvies in !!!

  • Gerry says:

    They are absolutely hilarious and as you say their mixture of gross obtusenes, allied with wilful ignorance ensures that they stand alone, in that respect.

    How many will be quite literally, standing alone, post 55th minute, remains to be seen.

    Can we hope that their announcer plays Cast’s “Walkaway” at that point in proceedings. Now that would be hilarious !

    Shades of the Celtic announcer playing “Lucky Man” after Bonehead Beale had inferred that about Ange!

    Let these brats continue to entertain us and that Netflix documentary about Ibrokes, could soon be in the pipeline !

    God bless being a Celtic fan! HH

  • Terry says:

    in Reality the Sevco hordes should be walking out after 1 Minute as they have only secured 1 title in their 13 years of history.

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