I suppose that this can go down to “winning friends on the journey”.
The Gammon fraternity in England has discovered the Ibrox klanbase, and they want it to get it on.
Perhaps that can be developed into a new storyline for these folks.
Farage, of course, had his finest moment when he won the Brexit Referendum in June 2016.
Of course, the very idea that the UK needed to win its independence is risible.
However, kindred spirits of the Ibrox klanbase in England lapped it up.
The central message to the electorate was very much based on a Famine Song vibe.
Frankly, the Brexit vote was a big win for xenophobia.
Therefore, Nigel’s newly discovered love for the Ibrox match day experience is quite apposite.
Anyway, after the klan performance art, it was down to the Fitba and, of course, Sevco lost.
It is unthinkable that a referee would award two valid penalties against the home team at Ibrox in a domestic fixture.
I do not know if this observation is accurate.
However, I would not have to alter my worldview if it was true.
This poor chap, a defender of the Famine Song back in the day, bridled at the injustice of it all.
Apparently, the very idea that a team at Ibrox called Rangers being awarded penalties against them is just not in the natural order in Fair Caledonia.
After the match was over, there was the obligatory Unsurpassed Dignity.
More friends won on the Journey.
For the day that was in it, I thought the victory for the away team was rather poignantly appropriate.
The gushing performance grief from the Ibrox klanbase is just further evidence of their planet-sized lack of self-awareness.
It was HMRC, HER MAJESTY’S Revenue & Customs, that did for the Rangers in 2012.
It was Hector who finally plunged the dagger and blocked the CVA.
The irrepressible Tadhg Hickey from Cork didn’t miss the mark on that one.
Now it is back to league business, and the ten-year-old club SHOULD get past the enfeebled Dundee United.
One this is for sure, the home team in Norwegian Blue will not have to cope with a referee who awards two valid penalties.
No doubt the performance grief will continue at least until the funeral of Frau Saxe-Coburg Gotha on Monday.
I note that, as a mark of disrespect, the food banks will be closed that day.
Dear reader, from the vantage point of a Republic, with a written constitution and an elected head of state, Britain doesn’t look well at all.
They’re clearly deluded about their place in the world in 2022 and in denial about their appalling imperial crimes.
There is a need for a programme of education and self-reflection about what Britain is and was.
That will be an uncomfortable process for many Brits.
Just don’t expect it to start at Ibrox.
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You would think that those who espouse to the bowing, scrapping, and arse kissing way of the royal subject would be kulturally bullet proof from making a majestic faux pas when venerating their beloved queen who their now dead club stole taxes from, but alas no not the Ibrox illiterates, they got it wrong most spectacularly way.
You see to shout about tradition on a day in day out basis you would think they knew something about it; happily they have shown how little they actually know about anything including what is going on at their club. When they made their tifo of their departed monarch you would have thought at least one of them would spot any glaring blunder that a republican noticed in around two seconds but staunch as they are, they failed.
Now with it all being about protocols and tradition during this sales pitch for one hundred more years of grovelling they seemingly got a 300 yr old tradition totally wrong by having their late monarch facing the wrong way.
Call them petty, but it has been the case that in royal circles for 300 yrs that the current, now late and departed monarch faces the opposite way to the previous monarch who was her father and who faced left, so it goes without saying she should be facing right, tut tut imagine them not knowing their left from right, who would have guessed that.
TIFO of the year could be JOHN 19:15 “…we have no King but Caesar! “
I thought more would have been made of the fact that the staunch and dignified tribute on Wednesday evening featured the flag UPSIDE DOWN. I’m sure most of those who noticed would want it kept quiet, and most of those who couldn’t care less, couldn’t care less. I was informed by a horrified, stanunch acquaintance, who said it is “typical for the season they are having.”
OOPs, I stand corrected. It is a minutes applause which might go some way to covering up any protests.
Never in doubt often in error!
Can I just add “legitimate protests” as far as I am concerned. I worry about what the past week has revealed about the majority on this island!
Are the Staunch of Edinburgh NOT wearing black armbands?
In fairness, I thought it was one of their better efforts. Not involving having to spell anything probably helped. I still enjoy a smile some 10 years later at the thought of the representatives of Her Majesty trying to shut the previous entity down while a group with ‘Knights’ in their name was trying to save it…..
Why did they use a silhouette of Bruce Forsyth instead of the Queen?
Uefa will force Rangers to play in empty stadium next match…. A financial £1m penalty awaits
Is that what the black smudge in the devil’s apron is? 👿
3 penalties at ibrox AGAINST sevco and a comet in the sky, on the same night.
What a time to be alive, something to share with the grandweans.
Is, ‘they want it to get it on’ a typo for, ‘they want to get in on it’?
Works either way.
Not a typo…
Neither is this…
‘Ravenous Rangers salvage pride from the pain on Champions League night of redemption’ – Keith Jackson’s big match verdict
Thanks. In that case, bravo.
Out classed by Napoli, a good referee and pesky VAR, the latter they incorrectly think will be their saviour going forward.🤣😂🤣
Of all the tributes to the expired monarch my favourite was the Napoli gift of Royal Doulton where upon Hun arse would take pride of place.
I had a tenner on a 5-0 scoreline last night it could easily come at 125/1. I cannot see the rangers getting more than one point in this group. The tifo last night was cringeworthy… The irony that they didnt pay Lizzy her dues, she laid them to rest and then they celebrate her is sweet. Just needed some army gents swinging off roofs and cannons going off.
I have no idea why the referee disallowed the Napoli goal immediately following the first McGregor penalty save. The penalty kick was retaken because McGregor strayed off his line yet Napoli were penalised. Maybe just a small matter in a comprehensive defeat but it would have given the Ibrox club yet another world record: 3 successive 4-0 defeats.
The replay showed encroachment by at least one Napoli player. Having said that he wasn’t the one who”scored”. Anyway justice prevailed over the 90 minutes.
It was the encroaching Napoli player (Politano) who ‘scored’ after the initial save by McGregor but a Sevco player beside him also encroached prior to the kick being struck.
Didn’t realise the rangers and all the extreme right wing nutters held Bruce Forysthe in such high esteem.
But they did win the “We played well for an hour before the ref spoilt everything” trophy so we need to offer them congratulations for that. No mean feat against an esteemed opponent like Napoli.
How refreshing though to see strong European refs not in the slightest bit intimidated by the klanbase howling at every decision against them and simply waving play on after the slightest touch or dive by a home player losing possession hoping to break up the pattern of play. Unfortunately we will only ever witness things like this on European nights as the bread and butter SPFL refs would never allow such things to happen.
I would say Ajax just another few points from securing at least a Europa League spot if Sevco as you may expect lose the double header to Liverpool and the away game in Naples.
Hopefully UEFA also come down heavy on the deliberate ignoring of pre match arrangements they set regarding honouring the late Queen and of course the angry scenes by that nice Union Bears chaps at the end of the game as the Napoli players were warming down as missiles could clearly be seen getting thrown onto the park too it seems.
Fining them though clearly has no impact as they continue to do as they please both the club itself and the gargoyles that follow them.
Their new friends and followers on the back of this excellent showing in the grief games – Farage, Piers Morgan, GB news, Daily Mail et al – its like that line up of baddies in the film Blazing Saddles!
Here in Glasgow on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows at a local Catholic Church last night’s officials attended Holy Mass.. coincidence or providence either way a wry smile was proffered on the face of the local sacerdote
Surely not that Nigel!?
Pity any escapees that hoofed it from North Korea, and ended up around the vacinity of Ibrox. They’ll be begging UK Border Force to fly them straight back to Pyongyang. They’d be naturally traumatised by the whole HRH Mourn-Porn. Kim Jong-Il’s grief orchestrated funeral can’t compare with the macabre images from Gruesome Britain..