Conceding a late goal is a classic sickener in the beautiful game.
Especially, if it materially alters the result.
Brendan Rodgers was irked that his team switched off in time added on against Livingstone on Saturday.
What had looked like a 3-0 victory finished up a 3-1 score line.
Annoying, but no biggie in the end.
Not so the late goal at Pittodrie.
The first touch and strike by young Bruce Anderson was probably the only piece of genuine quality in the entire game.
Connor Goldson did really well to leap over the ball as it burrowed inside Allan McGregor’s left-hand post.
Playing with ten men for most of the match Mr Gerrard was within seconds of giving the travelling klanbase and the Stenography Corps the result they were craving.
The immediate post-match reaction from Sevco’s manager was bizarre stuff.
“…it seems from the outside before I come in that Rangers don’t get much support with decision like that…”
Oh dear….
He appears to have continued with this narrative in the post-match presser.
When referencing the fact that although they were awarded a penalty the referee failed to send off the Aberdeen player he said:
“We need to try and use it to our advantage.
“It’s not just today, it’s been happening for a while. It’s been happening for a good while.
“I believe it’s been happening for seasons. That’s my opinion, just my opinion.
“I’ve watched footage, yeah. Look, I don’t think we ever get anything to go for us.
“Everything we have seen today is about Rangers. So someone should give me answers on that.
“Someone should give me the answers because if there’s anyone in his room thinks nothing should have happened after that penalty…
“It is what is. I can’t control if the issue is going to be ongoing. All I can do is give my opinion on it.”
Had Brendan Rodgers uttered those words then the Stenography Corps would have been gleeful in their derision.
However, because it is a manager who has access to the home dressing room at Ibrox then they must be respectfully restrained.
After all, they have high-Level orders.
Of course, your humble correspondent can call it straight.
For the avoidance of doubt, the idea that clubs playing out of Ibrox have been the victim of institutional bias over the years is locked ward material.
The administrators of the national game in Scotland is littered with chaps down the years like the late Jim Farry and Campbell Conflicted Ogilvie.
The very notion that they would be have been part of a labyrinthine conspiracy against Rangers and then Sevco is nonsensical.
Indeed, it is precisely because of those Real Rangers Men in the administration that old Rangers went into…well…administration.
It was because of a lack of oversight that Sir David Murray was allowed to run the original Rangers into the rocks.
I doubt if Charles of Normandy and the Gallant Profiteers would have been allowed into any other club in the country.
However, they said they would run a club called Rangers out of Ibrox.
In doing so they made Mr Regan an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Now, Mr Gerrard asks you to believe that somehow match officials are part of a deep state conspiracy against the basket of assets.
So, the first on-field setback revealed Mr Gerrard’s inner fragility.
He was a tough uncompromising player, but that does not mean that he will be able to handle the pressure from the technical area.
The capriciousness of the move for Gerrard by the Convict Chairman was classic King.
It lifted the klanbase after the 4-0 drubbing in the cup semi-final and addressed the worrying slump in season ticket renewals.
Now he has to be able to manage the team and win football matches in Scotland.
Mr Gerrard was promised £20m by Mr King to re-build the squad and he believed him.
That and not corrupt officialdom is his main problem right there.
The ex-Liverpool legend has already privately voiced his extreme displeasure at Sevco’s Poundland operation.
This will not end well and Mr Gerrard will undoubtedly travel in the same direction as Pedro’s caravan.
With so much insight it is clear that Stevie G is wasted as a football “manager”!
He should be at Nos Ten helping with Brexit!
One game and one presser – oh my sides how will I cope.
This is great, really is… 1 game in and its started already.
Surely its Campbell ‘Heavily Conflicted’ Ogilvie?
Also “they would run a club called Rangers out of Ibrox”, it seems like they may well be correct.
The Gerrard eye movements and facial expressions betray Gerrard accessing the information he got from watching the game and what he got from Jabba’s coaching. This is not a confident manager, but one who is looking already for excuses as to why his team might not win every game.
He’s been in Scottish Football for how long?
280 minutes or so and only 96 of them were domestic minutes and he has already worked out that:
A The Tribute Act are a class above Aberdeen that’s the team who have finished 2nd for 4 years running for those using an Ibrox Calculator
B The establishment have it in for “Rangers”
C It has been going on for years
Forgive me if I am wrong but this guy has either had his heid filled with absolute shite or he took the poison chalice and arrived in Scotland with a head full of wee motors?
I am confident it is the former but fearful for Gerrard that it is the latter.
For if it is the latter he will get absolutely slaughtered by the peepo when it all goes Pete Tong
Hell mend him as my wee maw used to say.
The majority of Scottish matches watched or attended previously by Gerrard would have involved Celtic.
He has shown his colours before when part of the pilgrimage to Seville.
His outburst at the weekend doesn’t augur well for the future but certainly is a shot across the bows of our match officials who will be hung out to dry if the new SFA CEO turns his back on a clear breach of SFA rules.
Maxwell has already failed in my eyes. The baseless accusations made by King who is the de facto Chairman of the football club yet failed the F&P test with no action taken by the SFA.
And now Gerrard spouting absolute nonsense and getting away with it.
It’s open season now on the officials. If Gerrard can get away with his cheating allegations past, present and future then the rest of the managers can speak their mind as they wish…..unless of course there are two rule books in place?
Oh I have no doubt that there are double standards at play regarding the Development Squad Manager and his Tribute Act of a Klub.
What’s Petrie going to do if Villa meet his McGinn valuation but the player refuses to go and is happy to wait till January and sign a pre contract with the Champions?
Gerrard set to avoid any SFA action over his cheating officials remarks…….why?
It’s crystal clear, he’s driven a horse and cart through SFA regulations just like his de facto Chairman has with his accusations against SFA and SPFL board membets.
If anyone expected Maxwell to bring transparency to the SFA they can kiss that hope goodbye.
They can also kiss goodbye to any hope that the rules and regulations would be applied equally to all Scottish clubs.
It was ever so.
Celtic’s biggest hurdle to overcome in the race to 8 IAR won’t come from opposition teams.
If Lennon had made these comments clearly slandering refs past, present and future the SFA would have locked him up, no doubt about it.
If Maxwell and his Compliance Officer steer around the issue, a clear breach of their own rules, they will show themselves as no better than the cowards and Ibrox placemen who have previously populated Hampden.
There is an old joke about caravans…ship of the desert variety….destination Timbuktu. ..If Mr Gerald is antsy now…let’s hope he spies an oasis and sneaks away behind a sand dune…before he suffers real hurt….!!!
Gerrard’s comments bring the game into disrepute – simple as that. For a manager to say those things after one domestic game is disgraceful. He’s clearly been injected with the toxic elixir that all Sevco personnel clearly find so addictive. I reckon they drink it as an accompaniment to the world class breakfast at the training ground. So now we will find out if Mr Maxwell has any teeth.
Appeal lodged to get Morelos off the hook yet not a word from the SFA about the slanderous allegations made by the egotistical Rangers manager about their referees.
Seriously, if no action is taken against Gerrard because of his weekend ravings the disciplinary process will fall apart.
Where’s the voice of the referees association?
They have gone on strike for less.
Anyone is free to take a potshot at the officials now if Gerrard is not reigned in.
2 wins from 5 competitive games, he must be feeling the heat already.
If they cannot see off Maribor and get a doing at Celtic Park next month then the pressure will be massive and no amount of pointing his finger at the match officials will quell the disquiet from a support at the end of their tether.
It won’t help the former Liverpool icon when they turn up at Celtic Park with hardly a friendly face in sight thanks to his Chairman bending to the wishes of their fans.
I doubt if Gerrard, apart from the derby games whilst cheering on the Hoops, has watched 90 minutes of any other Rangers game in the last 10 years so we can only guess where he’s getting his shit from.
And so it begins, the rationalisation and justification. Footballs a funny old game.
Stevie won’t have to worry too much about the decisions going against his team, he will not be there for long.
Will be back celebrating “the bells” back in his home town of Liverpool.
Guaranteed!!
“Stenography Corpse” made me laugh out loud! I am in the happy position of being able to shed some light on Mr Gerrard’s apparent paranoia (if I may…) via this exclusive interview… https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2018/08/05/is-steven-gerrard-paranoid/
Where would we be without Freud?
The Pedrofication of Stevie Gump continues apace.
‘It is precisely because of those Real Rangers Men in the administration that old Rangers went into…well…..administration” ha ha ha….keep up the good work Phil
Their sense of self-entitlement knows no bounds. It doesn’t matter who Gerrard brings in – for as long as he has faith in the Glib and Shameless one with his promises of untold wealth to spend on the squad, Stevie will always have a PISS-POOR squad to work with. I would be insulting other teams if I referred to Sevco as BANG-AVERAGE… they are not that good.
All Sevco personnel are well briefed on what to say to the press. There’s the conspiracy where the media, the SFA, the world in general is out to get them. And then there’s the predictability with which new signings talk about the size of the club.
Wee Stevie the IQ man is not going to last very long.
His batshit substitutions cost Rangers the game yesterday. I mean, playing with 10 men nearly the whole match, who in their right mind chooses to use only one of their three subs? And if you *are* planning to use only one sub, and trying to defend a one-goal lead, who on earth chooses Ryan Kent, a lightweight inexperienced wing player, to shore things up?
And then, with 10 minutes left, when he was forced into a second substitution by Jack’s injury, he brings on… Ejaria??? He had McCrorie on the bench, who would have been a solid like-for-like. Or if he’d wanted a bit more experience, he had the option of Halliday. But no, Ejaria.
To the outside observer, Stevie seems far more interested in giving his Liverpool pets game time than he does in winning the match for Sevco. Which does not augur well for them.
And then of course his tinfoil-hat meltdown at the end. Which had the fans of every other Scottish club rolling on the floor in helpless laughter. Referees are all biased against Rangers, are they? Have been for years, aye? Are they man, aye man?
Honestly, if the mental disintegration is starting already, what’s he going to be like when they start losing games, and the real pressure begins?
I wonder if the two Liverpool loanees were sent on because , I’m just speculating here , the contract with Liverpool specifies that these players MUST play ? Or face a fine from their mother club ?
Correct. Even if it all goes tita up they get a run, no money you see.
Reasonable hypothesis – makes sense of the otherwise-batshit.
But the “Stevie’s-no-the-sharpest” hypothesis is also well-supported by the facts.
No reason why they can’t both be true of course – was there not some chat of Rodgers refusing an Anfield loanee because Liverpool were wanting a guarantee on playing time? That rings a bell…
Mr Gerrard showed how not very bright he is a couple of times now but it seems as though he can learn the script that has been penned for him. I wonder if he has memorised the lines he has to deliver when Celtic give them another going over. Some big words should be pronounced to him before a presser. HH
Sounds very much like somebody has been given a large dose of ‘Entitlement Elixir’ out of that manky cup they worship…
…. they’d be better off giving him English lessons.
Sevvie G will crumble after they visit Celtic Park for their September football lesson!
He will be away by Christmas!
It always cracks me up when he refers to ‘me’ players.
You can take the boy out of…………….
They ARE his players. They are NOT Rangers (SEVCO) minded. The Bhoys will have to be at their best for this mob. They come with deep-rooted bros from the lodge. The world cup showed us all that certain global nations got decisions which not sighted match official would have given, especially with a video replay and even England were on the wrong side of the VAR post Brexit. The Bottle will lose his soon enough, but Christmas? Probably not. They have many gifts to unwrap before then.
Silly question but what are the rules regarding club representatives accusing match officials of bias?
Silly question but what are the rules regarding club representatives accusing match officials of bias?
There are 2 sets of rules as we well know.
One set for Newco and the other for everyone else.
Let’s see how any appeal plays out or whether the Morelos kick out is viewed as violent conduct which could bring a 3 match ban.
He’s got away with murder up till now but he’s put it out there how easily he can be riled.
There are 2 sets of rules as we well know.
One set for Newco and the other for everyone else.
Let’s see how any appeal plays out or whether the Morelos kick out is viewed as violent conduct which could bring a 3 match ban.
He’s got away with murder up till now but he’s put it out there how easily he can be riled.
It’s ok for sevco… they have their own rule book !
If this had been … oooh. Say…. oh I don’t know !!! Mr Neil Lennon … he’d be in front of the beaks as I thumb-type!
Fat Sally McCoist could answer that for you…
He made outrageous comments…and guess what happened…?
yep…NOWT…!!
Rules are for others..they are exempt.
Suggest you email Ian Maxwell, though the word is that the rule book has been mislaid and a search of Hampden is currently under way.