When you embark upon a journey, knowing where it ends is essential.
Consequently, the destination is a rather important detail.
In the summer of 2012, Sevco Scotland Limited’s founders needed to do two things.
Firstly pretend that the new club was the original Rangers.
They were aided and abetted by the local media in this lucrative lie.
Secondly, their position at the bottom of the professional leagues was dressed up as the start of “the journey”.
It was all very grand.
Now, in the collective mind of the Ibrox klanbase, they probably saw the destination as early 1990s Rangers.
That was a period of bank-funded unipolarity.
Celtic were minutes away from receivership in 1994, and clubs that had been powerful in the 1980s, like Aberdeen and Dundee United, were also struggling.
Rangers during those years usually spent more than they earned.
When the Bunnet rebuilt Celtic Park, the Parkhead club had an inbuilt advantage with 10,000 extra seats.
It was a game-changer.
The owner of Rangers, David Murray, had to devise a cunning plan.
We know how that ended.
Now, without EBTs and the largesse of a bank, Sevco has just about gotten by on external finance.
Like the original Rangers, they have lost millions year after year.
Now they are at the point where despite excellent European revenues and player trading, they’re still posting a loss.
UEFA’s new FSR ordinances will not tolerate any club with an unsustainable football budget.
Players’ wages will have to come from within the business.
Moreover, it isn’t those understanding chaps at Hampden who are handling the process.
Awkward…
For the avoidance of doubt, the journey was not meant to end at this juncture.
Being simply the second best doesn’t do it for supremacists.
The essential truth is that this current iteration of the Ibrox brand is a smaller football club than Celtic.
Anthony Joseph, as ever, has a straightforward take on these things.
So, a below-par Celtic is still too much for their nativist neighbours across the Clyde.
Rather than face up to that reality, the Unsurpassed Dignity community has sought solace in the hard done by narrative.
Occam’s razor would suggest that Celtic, at this point in time, simply have better footballers and more of them.
Faced with that reality, an official media partner of Sevco decided to get all actionable apropos referee Kevin Clancy.
Oh, dear…
If he fails at Hampden at the end of the month, Mr Beale’s job probably isn’t on the line.
That said, unlike Mr Gerrard, his severance package is, I’m told, affordable.
The key factor that will determine his longevity in the home dressing room at Ibrox is whether or not Sevco’s delightful clientele can accept the fact that Celtic are unassailable.
The realisation of that must be genuinely painful.
The poor dears.
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Some ‘realisation’ is still to enter the mind of TavPen when he continues to offer the follow followers hope by spouting to the media about how they’ll win the next game against us. He clearly doesn’t realise what an utter embarrassment he is. HH
And now the referee, Mr Clancy, has been sent threatening and abusive messages ! I wonder who from
Die sevco die this is what every decent Christian human being on this planet wants
Still no mention in the DR or bbc regarding The rangers accounts. Even although the documents were available last night. They’d rather work on operation smoothe.
Let’s go with their premise that Johnston played one over on Clancy by falling forward. They are raging about it yet the Sevco players were playing it up every time they were touched. You can see each of them looking around for the ref as they rolled around the pitch, even got a few of our players booked from the theater. It just shows that their players doing it is standard business and in those cases Clancy isn’t a cheat by issuing cards. With zero penalties conceded this season, even with the volleyball players in the squad, really does show the agenda against those poor Sevco players. If only they were ‘lucky’ enough to have Kyogo.
23, glorious years.
Trebles
Double Trebles
Treble Trebles
Quadruple Trebles
11 championships 12 years..
The old sectarian institution choked themselves to death..
Couldn’t happen to nicer people
And a season with no silverware, or automatic entry to the CL,
makes sevco a harder sell to potential, buy low / sell high targets.
If CFC spends some decent money in early summer, to make an
impact in the CL, then the bears can only watch on in jealousy,
or rage. 🙂
It’s all “pigs ears and silk purses” for sevco for the foreseeable future…
Reminds me of “The Blues Brothers” when John Belushi is giving Carrie Fisher every excuse under the sun…in a sewer.
I have to admit that it’s a very unchristian attitude on my part, but I really hope that their pain is severe and hurts every nerve ending in their bigoted, cheating, toxic bodies!
David Brent has now had three games against us and has drawn one and lost two. But, he has stopped us playing our normal game in all three. That’s not a fluke.
We need to be able to tweak our game, rather than simply play the same way all the time. If we don’t, then, in Europe against better managers and teams, we will again become undone.
What Hector de Plume said…
Spot on.
The cup final was one way traffic apart from a 10 minute spell in the second half & Saturdays game they might of pressed us higher up the pitch however every stat available celtic were superior,3 games under beale & 3 times he hasn’t managed to get anything over the line,remember the 90s under Burns where we played rangers off the park but still lost most games,did it worry the rangers fans no it didn’t as they still won the trophies,like we are just now,enjoy these days 🍀
Aye, he’s got them pressing us the way we press everyone else, and we’re struggling to cope with it, being forced into hurried, slack passes and errors. He’s ruffling our feathers big style. If any of our players dwell on the ball for any more than a couple of seconds, they’re all over him like a rash
I’m not sure what to do about it other than possibly move the ball faster so they don’t get a chance to press us individually.
There’s probably also a measure of fatigue setting in. A lot of our guys have played an awful lot of football this season, and the tempo we play at is maybe starting to take a toll.
It’s Ange’s job to solve the problem, but he needs to do it soon.
Should we win the semi, the final isn’t played til the beginning of June, meaning our players will have a very short recovery time before the next pre-season.
I actually think that Zombie is bang on the money.