The league is over; the Rebels have won!
In a stunning development that no one could have foreseen, the club with the biggest football budget prevailed over 38 matches.
In the 21st century, this has been situation normal.
Once the new Celtic Park was completed, old Rangers could not compete by fair means.
Instead, they decided to operate EBTs in a way the UK Supreme Court finally ruled in 2017 was a bit iffy.
Of course, before that legal ruling, the guilty club had died five years previously.
Three seasons ago, Sevco had their Leicester City moment with the assistance of a pandemic and a Celtic CEO playing Football Manager with real players.
Yesterday the league title remained where it has usually been in this millennium.
Cup competitions are different, as anything can happen in a single game.
Indeed, sometimes even the officials can have a hand in the match’s outcome.
Apart from being an exemplary leader on the field of play, Calum McGregor is also a repository of club history for the new guys in the dressing room.
He will let them know how a Celtic team was denied at the national stadium by some entirely honest officiating errors.
Now, should Ange’s charges follow the example of the Ghirls yesterday and lift silverware at Hampden, then it will be a historic eighth treble for the Hoops.
Across the city, Calum’s kinsman received a teary farewell from the Ibrox klanbase last week.
It wasn’t like that when he Did Walking Away from the original Rangers.
The lack of any accurate recollection among the Ibrox Kllanbase appears to be central to the Blue Room’s business model.
In fairness, that nice Mr Beale has been playing his part in Operation Soothe.
Apparently, it is all now going swimmingly at the stadium John Brown played for.
As regular visitors to this site will know, I stated that free agents and loan deals would be the order of the day at Sevco in the summer transfer window.
Moreover, if we follow follow the money, the real story at Ibrox is that two key assets in their twenties have been allowed to leave for free.
Ryan Kent cost serious money from Liverpool, and the Sevco High Command had deployed their shills in the media for years to generate interest in Alfredo.
Yet this player trading own goal has gone largely unremarked by the Stenography Corps.
Dear reader, this is the equivalent of Jota and Kyogo packing their bags at Lennoxtown with Celtic getting zip.
If that were the case, the usual suspects on the sports desks would be in a feeding frenzy of succulent schadenfreude.
Instead, they’re praying that the manager they lampooned two years ago as an incompetent will leave for Tottenham.
In any sport, there have to be winners and losers.
The tourist board people should let visitors to the dear green place know that the former is usually to be found at the end of the Celtic Way.
In the third decade of the 21st century, even the Ibrox klanbase might finally start to face up to what the end of “the journey” actually looks like.
Which is to be simply the second best.
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Hats off to you PMcG, the story awhile ago re the sevco medical departure, showed when it mattered and highlighted an issue not reported on in the MSM.
I’d like to also congratulate our Ladies team for putting Sevco to the sword…and bringing home the Cup.
Very well done…
Oh…and I trust our Club will be asking for an Official “re-visit” to the two assaults perpetrated on our players in said Final.
These two incidents merited red cards (Douglas Ross anyone ??) every day of the week…and if our Club fails to address them…??
Then I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised.
I just wish I knew what hold Sevco has over us .
Condolences To All
SKY
BBC
STV
SCOTSMAN
GOVAN HERALD
GOVAN TIMES
GOVAN RECORD
GOVAN SUN
SFA
VAR
ALLAN’S.HUN’S
From Scotland’s most rich and successful club.. 1888..
53.. Genuine Titles..
You forgot the Lanarkshire Referees Association.
Celtic now onto 53 titles and closing in quickly on the *55 which the delightful klanbase continue to claim as theirs. I fear the day they are overtaken will be too much for the poor dears.
why did`nt the supporters in George Square follow the Japanese fans model in Quatar and clean up all the rubbish left behind by them ?
maybe glasgow cross , i think
10,000 seats extra every two weeks and vastly better sponsorships means millions of extra pounds to spend on the best players. Celtic might lose a game but will win every season
Why is the Scottish media not all over the situation with Morelos, Kent and others in the same boat running down their contracts to the extent that the only monies changing hands will be going to the players if/when they find new clubs?
There is a story here, one that the Daily Radar etc is not going near.
The BBC are all over this. No, wait, it’s Leicester they’re talking about when they say the situation where 7 players are out of contract at the end of the season is “farcical”. Sevco on the other hand have had “good value” from Morelos and nothing said about the £7m they have had to write off on Kent leaving on a free.
Says it all about them welcoming back the “rats” with open arms, such a scenario would just never happen at paradise. Can’t wait to see who big ange brings in for next season, goal keeper to eventually take over from big joe, decent centre half as cover and definitely a striker for me.
Excellent stuff Phil, great days.
I recall from Supply Studies, within the Japan motor industry they adopted ‘Kaizen’ manufacturing processes, that is, ‘continuous improvement’.
Ange is most definitely applying same.