This is a great week for the Stenography Corps.
Indeed, they’ve been dreaming about this since they were grief-stricken back in the summer of 2012.
For them, this is “Old Firm Cup Final Week” .
Indeed, it is how they see the world and their craven role within it.
The chaps on the sports desks in Glasgow see Planet Fitba as a clash of two titans with the team from Ibrox usually being on top.
I am reminded of what Mr David Cunningham King stated in a presser at the time of the Off Licence Putsch.
He told the assembled copy and paste professionals that he envisaged a future were “Rangers” would win the league 55% of the time and Celtic 45% of the time.
He stated that, for him, such a scenario was the ideal.
For the avoidance of doubt, there wasn’t a single probing question from the assembled stenographers as they worshipped at his brown brogues.
As he ascended the marble staircase the hacks dreamed of the glory days at Ibrox.
Now, given that Celtic are going for ten domestic trophies on the bounce it is undeniable that the succulent lamb brigade have been enduring some tough times recently.
Apart from pretending that liquidation didn’t happen, they need to believe that somehow the current holders of the Ibrox franchise will stop Celtic.
So far, so predictable.
However, I fear that this is also a good week for some within the Celtic boardroom.
More and more is dripping out about their complicity in the attempt to parachute Sevco into the top flight in season 2012-2013.
Of course, that was thwarted by the No To NewCo campaign.
I caught up with a senior Celtic person that summer, actually in the foyer of the Hyatt Hotel in Philadelphia as the Hoops were there to play a pre-season friendly with Real Madrid.
“This has cost us five million pounds!” he blurted out.
I was fully aware of what he meant by “this”.
As he was speaking to me there were some deliriously happy Philly Tims were dancing around with a mocked-up RFC Coffin just outside the hotel main door.
At the weekend Celtic will play a mocked-up Rangers.
However, this legal fact cannot be mentioned because of the fragile emotional state of the mimophants who comprise the Ibrox klanbase.
The entire event at Hampden is framed around pretence.
Sevco are pretending to be Rangers and the Stenography Corps are pretending to be journalists.
Sadly, there are people in the Celtic boardroom who have been, for whatever reason, happy to play along with the Doublethink.
Just like Rangers Sevco will field a team that they cannot afford.
We know how that movie ended.
Sadly, unless there is a Damascene conversion on the Heated Driveway, I doubt that Celtic would oppose any future plan to drop a third iteration of the Ibrox franchise into the top flight.
After all, they didn’t the last time it was proposed…
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I worry about Celtic sometimes. We could lose only four more games and end the season with nothing. – A la 2002/03 Seville season. Already out of UCL, lose on Sunday, I know… I know… lose on the 29th…yes that’s right… I know… Once in the SC… once in the UEL and everything changes utterly …and a new Ugliness is Born!
If we only lose once in the league, then we’ve won it !!!
The media frenzy surrounding TRFC is all controlled out of Ibrox and is all about positioning them as a fabulous investment opportunity for mega global players with the renaissance of a world class brand and famous manager …. all with Champions league driven mega sponsors just over the horizon and highly prized playing assets.
All they need is one trophy to go into supersonic overdrive and prove the case
Believe me if you want to be sick at the moment with our media just wait till we have to witness the aftermath of a victory by them on Sunday
The greatest comeback ever in sporting history proving all the people who ‘demoted’ them wrong
The scripts and fireworks are all ready to go articles already written etc.
As I posted a few days ago if it does come to pass the big PL bank balance will feel very irrelevant very quickly
Thankfully NFL is on the case big time and will at least have his team prepared and ready for TRFC even if the board aren’t.
Did they ever publicly announce that Nidge? I remember prior to the formal vote which I think was 11-1(?) Aberdeen being elected General Demoters when they became the 5th club to proclaim their intention to vote no (the vote if I recall had to be >2/3rds against) hence the title Club5 that still adorns tshirts today. It was always assumed that Celtic were one of clubs 1-4 but I don’t know if that was ever confirmed? Not until they assessed the other sides appetite.
Cost us £5 million? I’m pretty sure at the time Peter said £10 million, but who’s counting?.
Listen, Peter, when you make an absolute arse of just about every transfer window and are not confident enough in your own ability to find a manager you can trust to build a team that would consistantly see us qualify for the Champions league then your decisions costs us a lot more than a paltry £5 million. Just for the record, Cluj are shite, On a par with EAK.
We should be long gone over the horizon as far as Sevco goes but here they are breathing down our necks.
ps, God forbid we get this and next season wrong and Sevco go all in on CL qualification, and get there. ( no Laughing at the back) Your £5 million will begin to look like loose change.
How could we be away over the horizon? Had we beaten Livingston instead of being beaten, we would have been 3 points ahead, hardly away over the horizon. They have improved, and the rest have got poorer. We have win our European group for the first time ever are sitting top of the league, and have already beaten them quite convincingly in their own back yard. I think, a win on Sunday then again in the league later will well and truly put them back in their box. They are nothing more than the best of a rather poor rest.
They’re breathing down our necks because they keep winning games and there’s nothing Celtic can do about that other than make sure they don’t beat us.
Absolutely correct
We would certainly have qualified last year if the summer window had not been one monumental fuck up.
Steff, you are one of the many anti Lawell posters on here and I’ve got to say I struggle to understand the constant criticism he gets, including from Phil.
Your comment regarding him struggling to trust himself to find a manager is puzzling and, having been at the two Cluj home games, they’re not that shite.
Why not just enjoy the success Celtic are having just now or, even better, comment on Lawwells successes at the club.
Said before it’s all about the money. Celtic’s gate receipts were the only one’s to drop when Rangers were liquidated.
You can argue that a CEO’s job is to maximize profits for shareholders, however that is no excuse for screwing over the whole league for a sake of a few ( short term ) pounds.
It wasn’t only Celtic who suffered during the EBT years, but as Scotland’s biggest team, they should have been at the forefront of the campaign for justice for all. Sadly they let themselves and the rest of Scottish football down for a few tainted shekels.
Some YTS scheme journalist at the daily ranger has put out an article mentioning madman morelos in the same breath as Messi and a few other strikers around the globe . Oh dear I often wonder about the editors of these scottish newspapers are they smoking those funny fags and drinking the best of buckie with their YTS trainees to pass these articles of to be published. Embarrassing does not even touch it . Talking of being embarrassed wee Coco at IN has put it there that there is a chinese investment company worth 2.5 billion quid investing in sevco women team . Wee Coco reckons the same people are ready to take over at sevco . He is all giddy about poor wee Coco he does love writing those fantasy stories about his club and the BENNY’S love him for it .
They are not bennys pal. They’re. Huns
It’s old firm,cup final week for a compromised Lawwell as well,he is in on the scam just as deep,if not deeper than the hacks in the Scottish media.
I’m no great fan of our board, I believe they are complicit in the 5WA but as I recall, they did vote against Sevco Scotland’s inclusion in the (as was) SPL.
Only after everyone else had gone public on their voting intentions and the result was a forgone conclusion.