I reckon if you find yourself being trolled by an airport’s X account just after your team bottled it in a penalty shoot-out, AND you bite back, then you’ve probably got issues.
Just sayin…
Some of this stuff really is for the ages.
Then the Dublin Airport scoundrels decided to reel in some more of them.
It has continued today.
Dear reader, anyone with the facility of reason who has had the anthropological opportunity to observe the Ibrox klanbase in the wild will readily attest to how tragically thin-skinned they are.
Some years ago, I described that subculture as a “self-pitying lynch mob”.
I can’t say I have departed from that analysis.
Since the match at Ibrox, the Stenography Corp has been busy putting in overtime on Operation Soothe.
Over the years, I’ve noticed that anytime the klan acts out, there is a checklist that the local media work through:
Deny.
Deflect.
Minimise.
Mitigate.
Since this site started in 2008, the lack of any meaningful response by the local media to the racist performance art of the Ibrox klanbase has been discernible.
Now, if they actually wanted to try their hand at journalism, they might want to reach out to Mr Cavenagh and ask him what his guests thought of the home crowd’s 17th-century karaoke at the weekend.
Of course, such a thought wouldn’t enter their venal heads.
It seems only the Fifth Estate in Scotland will call out the Ibrox klanbase for what they are.
Fair play.
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In every report I have read it is Celtic and Rangers fans. In that order. A subtle yet obvious ploy to make Celtic the more guilty party despite the evidence to the contrary. Neither set of fans should have been on the pitch but one was celebrating the other looking for trouble. It brought back memories of the Hampden cup final all those years ago.
Was Sevco donning their Non-Sectarian All Orange strip for the St Mirren game a sad reply to the events of last week
Celtic have their fair share of fans who are no angels but, any impartial observer looking at the footage of the pitch disorder can see exactly what unfolded following the penalty kicks on Sunday. Both sets of fans were wrong to be on the pitch. One were looking for a fight. The gimp masks gave it away.
I hav been told by a ( friend !) that the next spider man convention will have penalty kicks as part of the after dinner entertainment package
Also to include community singing of popular old time songs. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
David Tanner was apparently complaining that someone blessed themselves!
Oh The Sevco fans,and poor journalists,is that the right description ?
Oh their deflection and pity me and their Cunning Stunts,oh I think I put the St and and Cu in the start of Cunning Stunts the wrong way around
Up Finn Harps
The media have a well worn “anti Celtic” script: any trouble at Glasgow Derby and both get the blame. It is decades in the making.
Individual journalists do not want to put their head above the parapet as it would endanger their and their family’s safety.
I hope Cavenagh sees what we do and gets out of Poundland, liquidating them in the process ( after milking them for every dollar he can ).
I once had a friend who interned at the Daily Record over the summer holidays many, many moons ago. He told me there was a sign up in the sports office that read along the lines of ‘ If you can’t write a positive story about Rangers, write a negative one about Celtic’.
In our darker moments, our fans stood on the terraces and sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”. Fans of the tribute act, and indeed the club that went before, aren’t capable of such self-deprecating humour. Instead they want to lash out wildly and blame others for their ‘misfortune’. Poor dears.
Numb-nut on phone in saying “our fans ran on to protect our players !!! Even though there wasnt a sevco player anywhere near the park , they were all in dodging the showers !
Interesting to see an (unmasked) Ibrox inhabitant run across the pitch towards the Celtic fans, stop in front of a police officer, throw a flare at the opposing fans, and simply turn and run away without any threat of pursuit never mind arrest, leaving the cop waving his arms in a token gesture.
Interesting but not surprising.