A perfect gift for Celtic from Gio and Sevco

Well, it’s the thought that counts.

So on Celtic’s birthday, their ten-year-old rivals decided to make a gift of three points in the title race.

Very decent of them!

Playing in their klan-pleasing Orange away top, as opposed to their traditional Norwegian Blue, Giovanni’s charges stumbled in Perth.

As ever, the likeable Dutchman was unerringly honest in his post-match opinions.

Here also on Sevco TV.

It would be fair to say that in the immediate aftermath, the People were revolting.

 

Even before the final whistle, at two nil one of the more intellectual chaps amongst the Sevco support had seen enough.

Perhaps there is an opening for this chap in the financial department at Ibrox.

They could do worse…

Now, if the Sevco High Command does decide to let Giovanni and his management team go, then they might want to make sure that there is a Non-Disclosure Agreement in the payoff deal.

Personally, this journalist hopes that the severance paperwork gets the same legal scrutiny as the last deal with Sports Direct!

For if there is no NDA, then Giovanni, in his customary Dutch straight-talking way, might just reveal how he wasn’t backed in the way that he expected to be after getting past PSV into the Champions League.

There might also be some scéal about what happened to the medical set-up in the summer.

Has it been scaled back?

Is that why there is a substantial number of injuries?

Dear reader, these are questions that any functioning Fourth Estate should be asking.

Of course, the Stenography Corps abide by the succulent protocols.

In the Sevco first estate, the Penny Arcade was dropping this afternoon that this defeat in Perth might be a turning point in the title race.

Sadly, here is a report of some Unsurpassed Dignity after the match in Perth.

Oh dear, how unfortunate.

Moreover, even an Official Media Partner of Sevco has weighed in on the manager issue.

Poor Mr Edgar must look back to happier days over a decade ago when he was defending the racist Famine Song.

For the record, that piece in the Sunday Times was a year AFTER that xenophobic ditty had been ruled on by the highest court in Scotland as racist.

The case against Mr William Walls in front of Lord Justice Carloway in 2009 was forensically unequivocal.

“The court does not consider that the lyrics of this refrain bear any reasonable comparison to those of ‘Flower of Scotland’ or indeed ‘God Save the Queen’.

“Rather they are racist in calling upon people native to Scotland to leave the country because of their racial origins. This is a sentiment which… many persons will find offensive.”

Lord Carloway agreed with the sentencing Sheriff that singing the chorus of the Famine Song

“Displays malice and ill-will towards people of Irish descent living in Scotland”.

That anyone could still defend it ONE YEAR after that judgement says quite a lot.

For reasons best known to Polci Scotland, singing the Famine Song can get you an escort rather than being arrested ELEVEN YEARS after that court ruling.

Here is mine in Bella Caledonia in September 2021.

Anti-Irish racism hasn’t gone away, you know.

Although the overall mood amongst the Ibrox klanbase was close to funereal for their title chances, at least one Quintessentially British chap remained a glass quarter full type.

As the Poppy Porn season is upon us, it is difficult to see this as some sort of cunning plan.

Since the new millennium, damned Celtic have dominated Scottish football.

Fergus McCann had the vision and determination to ensure that Celtic was never again minutes away from an insolvency event.

Indeed, he put into the steel and concrete an in-built financial advantage over the arch-rivals across the city.

By the time the wee man left, Celtic had the biggest stadium, the biggest number of season ticket holders and the biggest football budget.

Trying to match Celtic by using EBTs sent the original rangers into liquidation.

Since 2012 the Sevco shitshow has been dependent on external finance.

Now that they’re on a UEFA financial watch list, even that rather iffy avenue is cut off.

Once more, the good guys can call on gallant allies in Europe.

Sustainability is kryptonite to the brethren in the Blue Room.

No matter who they have as their manager, the financial fundamentals will not change.

That ensures many, many happy returns for Celtic!