The ballad of TikTok

The fanfare was deafening when Mr Todd Cantwell turned up at the stadium John Brown once played for.

Like a returning Roman General from the Second Punic War, the ex-Norwich City midfielder Todd Cantwell was hailed as a hero.

Very quickly, love was in the air.

Amid all the noise, Alan Morrison of  Celtic By Numbers called it from day one, “in the end, they’ll hate him,” he said.

Initially, I wasn’t convinced.

“Because it’s all about Todd”, he patiently explained.

It was, it has to be said, an eerily prescient prediction.

At that point, I wasn’t aware of young Master Cantwell’s talents as a content provider on TikTok, as I don’t use that video thingy.

However, I’m told that he’s very good indeed.

On the other hand, I DO have Instagram, which is how my trio of global Gaeilgeoirí sends me photographic evidence of their happy lives.

Now, alas, the mood amongst the Ibrox klanbase is another postcode from”nice one, Scipio!”

The featured image is from his Instagram and is being widely interpreted by those who once loved him as a cruel barb aimed at them.

Oh dear, from “Todders” to “toxic”.

Ah well.

Despite the best efforts of the Stenography Corps, there is ample evidence that the finances at Sevco currently resemble the ruins of Carthage.

Perhaps, that fabled steel, is coming across the Alps by elephant.

Just a thought.

24 thoughts on “The ballad of TikTok”

  1. Todd, or Toad as I prefer to call him is nothing but a fan dancer. Norwich fans of my acquaintance told me about him well before he was signed by the Mordorians. It was said that he was a legend in his own mind and his head was spent mostly up his alimentary canal. He had alienated the Canaries just as he seems to be doing at the home of the badgers. At first he was lauded as a Messiah, when in actual fact he is just a very, very naughty boy!

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  2. If Cantwell gets back on the pitch, you will need to look out the image of clement as a clown!

    I wonder who pushed clement back on stage at the presser, to throw TikTok tod under the bus

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  3. Avoiding the Elephant, Roman and latin jokes, we have seen before where a manager dislikes, drops a player and doomed to the reserves for a while then the manager comes under fire and the player is suddenly back in the fold heralded like a new player. Normally because they can’t offload him any time soon.

    A fair chance of that happening imo especially as the injuries rack up and they can’t get any new players in as the ones they want to ditch will stick to their big money contracts.

    So I think Cantwell will see first team action before we see Santa coming. Felicem Natalem…

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  4. There is much to dislike about Cantwell but the episode that that sticks in my craw is the water bottle incident featuring Hatate. Ironically, in that instant we saw two very different people, two very different footballers and two very different cultures.

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  5. What are the odds that Cantwell will be playing again for the first team,

    …before Christmas?

    Beggars can’t be choosers.

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  6. To keep the Roman theme going, ‘Sic transit gloria mundi’.

    Which doesn’t mean “Gloria threw up in the van on monday”…..

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  7. Beale claims Todders was a free transfer…R2ngers claimed 18 months ago £ 1.5m.

    Now, I better not comment further…. but let’s just say typical Tory-like shenanigans.

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  8. Here now Phil, how about some number-crunching to keep the grey cells firing? I’d like to know where Rangers are today in comparison to the 12/13 season when they had no debt, a huge fan base, a squad easily suited to the task before them, a non perambulatory Iconic coach, a compliant media and the Dunkirk spirit. Given, as you rightfully predicted, that they would still be heir to the aftermath of liquidation for a decade, are they worse or better off now than they were then?

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  9. I used to work in Norwich and still have friends there so I was aware of the Cantwell saga whilst he was at Carrow Road. I tried to warn the adoring Rangers fans on social media that it was likely to end in tears but they didn’t want to listen.

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