This quintessentially British offering from the Heart and Hand folks will interest those who wish to study how a group of people, indeed The People, come to terms with harsh reality.
At 45 minutes, one of the dignified contributors mentioned that the title win in the Covid season was “looking like an aberration”.
Correct.
That’s precisely what it was.
Since the new Celtic Park was built, the Ibrox franchise has been unable to compete with Celtic on an ongoing basis legally and within the governance rules of the game.
In the first decade of the 60,000-seater stadium, the original Rangers used EBTs and incriminating side letters to match the Parkhead wage bill.
The foundations were, quite literally, being laid for generations of dominance.
At the same time, the Bunnet set about putting Celtic’s commercial arm on a solid footing too.
That took many iterations to get it to where it is today with Adidas etc.
Meanwhile, across the city, they have Castore.
I know, I know…
This is also glorious.
Here, Mr Jack is all gushing at the time of the Off License Putsch in 2015.
The poor chap had such hope back then.
This offering from the Sevco Review stumbles close to a story.
Now, they really should follow follow the money and look at whether or not the sports science set-up was downsized last summer at Auchenhowie.
Moreover, if true, how did Mr Giovanni feel about that?
Of course, such journalistic activity is verboten in such dignified circles.
Because to do so would have to face up to the realities of the resource landscape across the city.
Simply the second best is what they can be.
That is why they chose the disguised downsizing option with that nice Mr Beale.
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Bringing home a treble this season will be job done for Ange whilst at the same time heaping a ton of pressure on his Ibrox counterpart.
It’s not difficult to surmise that a season without a trophy will result in serious questions as to whether Beale is the guy to turn things around.
Is he in it for the long run or will another couple of bad results force the Ibrox board to replace him to placate their fans and keep them on board to snap up season tickets for next season?
Listening to those podcasts it’s incredible that the reality of the situation at the basket of assets does not resonate with those doing the post mortem regards Sunday .
They blindly follow follow into the Abyss
Is Espanyol-Barcelona an appropriate comparison anymore, if it ever was?
The latter’s sordid recent history of €1bn debt (!), flogging of future reviews to pay for scattergun expensive extra players today and paying millions to a referee supervisor, would suggest otherwise.
That’s more in keeping with the bad guys in Glasgow not the good ones.
But they are in the process of hiring a mindset expert should we be worried about this 😍?
Martin
It’s starting to shape up rather nicely.
CFC completes the Treble.
At season end, Beale is told to sell before he can buy players.
It’s more loans and youngsters.
Gio’s squad is set to stagger on towards another failed season.
The bears go mental.
The Blue Room blames Beale.
Beale wishes he had stayed at QPR..!
🙂
It all puts a different perspective on that warped slogan: ‘We Urr Da Peepul’