Well, that was mighty!
Dear reader, today was reckoning day.
In the build-up to the final, the local media had gone into succulent overdrive to big up the Sevco manager.
This one, in particular, is a collector’s item.
Initially, I thought it was a very clever mockup.
Alas, it is genuine.
I really can’t say what I think of it.
Mr Beale’s recent signing also joined in the performance art.
Ah, bless.
The inconvenient truth for the Ibrox klanbase is that this type of gushing pish from the Stenography Corps gives feel-good clickbait but not trophies.
Make-believe will finally crash against reality.
Like today.
Ultimately Sevco has to come up against the best team in the country.
Hint: They play in green and white Hoops.
In fairness, the local media have done everything within their limited skill set to convince Planet Fitba that the Sevco manager is the real Beale.
Sevco needs an experienced manager with a track record of winning big games.
Hint: They sacked one last November.
Instead, at the moment, they have Mickey Rookie, a cruel jibe which was coined by Alan Morrison of Celtic By Numbers.
Chapeau.
For the avoidance of doubt, regardless of who the Sevco manager is, they will be facing a better-resourced rival across the city.
That will become even more apparent in the summer transfer window.
UEFA is watching very closely at what business is done at Ibrox.
As Beale’s boys stumbled up the steps at Hampden to collect their runners-up medals, some dignified chaps had already realised that the clickbait pish might not be entirely evidence-based.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
As for the match itself, I will leave it to the lads at the Huddle Breakdown to dissect what actually happened in forensic detail.
Celtic were two nil up and cruising, then the ample Colombian gave the genocide choir behind Joe Hart’s goal some hope.
In the end, the biggest club in Scotland retained the trophy.
Sevco are what they are.
Simply the second best.
In fairness to Mr Beale, he is just learning at this manager lark.
“These are the days when you realise how big your job is.”
Indeed Mr Beale, indeed…
So, today the good guys won.
Now it is back to league duty.
Never stop.
Have a good one.
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Utterly embarrassing that, that mob didn’t put our glorious clubs name on their shirts…well them again maybe they could not afford the extra 6 letters to be embroidered onto the tramps tops
Two points from the game yesterday…
Nick Walsh should be complimented for his handling of the game…Rare praise from me…But should be said.
Liel Abada needs a good kick up the arse…That’s not what we do son…So no more please.
Sevco refuse to put our name on their Cup Final shirt…Their players refuse to acknowledge our Cup victory by disappearing up the tunnel……Now these are the kind of things that makes this club what it is….Sad.
Dignified passion timmy… you wouldn’t understand…
(They hate our club more than they love their own club/entity/HCV/ERS – i dearly hope they keep focusing on this stuff and not things that really actually matter)
Celtic might be the biggest club but did you see the size of Morelos ?
That fella is bending space time like a small planetoid.
How can he be a professional athlete?
My children ( they are English bless them ) laughed at him as he ran away from goal celebrating his good fortune, they have never seen a fat bloke play professional football (in England).
Anyway, Sevco are in real trouble now (unless the somehow get the champions league money again), their top stars will be leaving on frees in the Summer, others are half way down the other side of the hill and the rest are pish.
10 IAR is a real possibility…
Watching Sky sports news and the post mortem after their defeat yesterday and they are talking to Kenny Miller .
Talking utter nonsense .
Rebuilds etc
He is talking about a club that is throwing worthless shares around like confetti a club under the scrutiny of Eufa .
A club a financial pariah
A club who have made huge losses over their short existence
Yet according to buffoons like miller and others all is rosy at HMS Titanic Fc
I usually only pop onto followfollow 3 times a year , today was my first visit in 2023 , it’s fair to say the residents are Bealing . Big rebuild necessary with out of contract superstars leaving for free , a couple headed for retirement , habitual injury prone wasters and some new boy imposters already showing why they were available for nothing. Beale won’t hang around to get schooled by Ange for much longer , the comparison at all levels is night and day .
Sevco fans singing the praises of Billy Fullerton, former KKK leader in Glasgow,no wonder Sakala hit the side netting,how could he be expected to concentrate on his game after hearing that ditty.
Given such meagre resources: St Johnstone are now Scotland’s second most successful club in the last decade. That’s a pretty galling statistic for Sevco.
They’ve been that for the past 2 years, which has left the Huns bealeing.
Yes but Callum Davidson is a lucky manager…….
Today reminded me of what the former Dallas Cowboy, Michael Irvin, said about the Philadelphia Eagles; “After all their talk we still showed up.” Cowboys then went on to win three of the next four Superbowls.
Beale won the PR cup before the game had even started.
But, Ange won the silverware that counts, in history.
Best bit of the day was the post match TV chat,
when Ange asked the ex-Cheeky Chappie McCoist,
‘for a lift back to Parkhead’.
Absolutely superb, subtle kick to the gardener’s goolies! 🙂
Gardiners goolies…. worthy of a shelf all of its very own in the Carpentry Box….
When Ron Pickering muttered the immortal lines…. “there is Jaunterino, down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class” at the 1976 Montreal Olympics he opened up a new genre of literature. Several years later at the Moscow games Clive James gleefully reported that Frank Bough handed over to the Olympic Stadium….”where Harry Commentator is your Carpenter “…..
Clive James fed a whole family of little James’s on Carpentry Box jokes for years after.
You,Sir have entered an Elysian Field of phrase coiners….. Gardiners Goolies….
One day, when on a broken arch of London Bridge a traveller from the furthest part of the know world surveys the ruins of the British Empire…. there will be a brass plaque, engraved…. Gardiners Goolies…. Next to the ruins of the stadium that John Brown played for.
Chapeu Monsignor.
I think it was David Coleman who commentated on Juantorena birthing the Colemanballs genre.