My experience training mountain rescue volunteers in Donegal has taught me a valuable lesson- the true essence of a person often emerges in the crucible of a pressure situation.
Hence, I was reminded of an immortal stanza from the Bard of Empire when I was told how the Transcendental Chairman deported himself as Adam Idah won the cup for the immigrant club.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
Rousing stuff indeed!
I’m sure Kipling himself would have been impressed by the Churchillian stoicism on display from he who is first among equals in the Blue Room.
However, I’m told that at least one of the official Sevco party seemed to momentarily lose his dignity as the big Irishman ensured that the Ibrox outfit would leave Hampden without the Scottish Cup.
Banging repeatedly on the table in impotent rage, an otherwise dignified and quintessentially British person had to be told by one of the event management staff to calm down.
It is truly heartwarming to report that, due to the undoubted success of the Everyone Anyone campaign, the fact that Adam Idah is an Irish person of colour did not seem to matter a jot to the Ibrox entourage.
Sadly, this was in stark contrast to Sevco’s valued customers, who were fondly remembering in song their favourite member of the Ku Klux Klan.
It is clear that the Everyone Anyone campaign has much work to do in this regard.
No doubt the local media will be relentless in calling out this grotesque racist spleen from tens of thousands of the Ibrox faithful.
The whole anyone everyone stuff that they came out with at the time, was nothing more than a tick box exercise to the sevco high command.
A charade of trying to be seen to have moved out of the bygone days of yore. I’m sure it didn’t fool any right thinking person.
The fact that they have had multiple opportunities to come out and condemn it but have kept that dignified silence, should tell you everything about the bigoted mindset that still exists over there.
They still can’t lay a glove on Celtic. Roll on next season and let the fun commence ☘️
Not only was sectarian abuse rife ,social media shows a group of them hurling homophobic abuse at a female Celtic fan as they got of buses near the ground .
And why did police Scotland allow masked thugs in blue to rampage around Glasgow intent on attacking innocent Celtic fans .
Strangely those who were critical of Celtic fans celebrating in Glasgow the week before are silent on all this are the Scottish media .
Rangers cannot land a glove on Celtic on the football pitch so instead they target individuals associated with Celtic. Remember the monkey gestures against Scott Sinclair at Ibrox a few years ago? The racist chants about Kyogo on the Rangers supporters bus? And now because Adam Idah is black, Irish and plays for Celtic they presumably think that he is fair game. And on social media because they can’t win a football argument they resort to child abuse accusations. A truly disgusting lot!
They sang their praises of the man a few times with his song yesterday, First was about 30 minutes before kick off heard on tv, But it will not be mentioned in the media. See know,hear know, speak know. it’s a Scottish thing.
Yes, a very Scottish thing with versions sang at various other grounds by home fans singing subtle differences to the less subtle subject and words of the infamous original. Not that I know if there are, or are not differences. It all sounds the same, so I imagine it must be.