Two days in May

In the Summer of Staunch, Mr Derek was the clear choice of the Ibrox klanbase to replace that nice young Herr Röhl.

I suspect that part of it would be the hope that he would bring a sense of resentment and, indeed, revenge across the M8 from his sense of injustice at how the 2025-26 season had ended.

Contentious VAR decisions and the pitch invasion at Parkhead on May 16th all added to the heady brew.

Add in Master Shankland and the cocktail was complete.

Unlike Danny’s foreign legion of weaklings, here were real Rainjurrz men that got it!

Well, that was the theory.

Kind of…

However, what might have been imported from Gorgie was trauma.

In case you missed it, here is some diet anguish from that day in May.

Enjoy…

As I have stated here recently, Planet Fitba is now in a post-2012 epoch.

The events of that year led to a paradigm shift after the original Rangers died.

Of course, the Stenography Corps played their own venal part in pretending that nothing of real import had happened when Hector had blocked the CV that June.

Ultimately, though, the evidence builds up to become, in time, impossible to ignore.

This chap on Follow Follow last night seems to, finally, have got the memo.

Dear reader, this is what the end of denial looks like.

Ultimately there is just too much inconvenient evidence to ignore.

When it comes to deploying the term “paradigm shift”, I think of Kuhn.

No, not that one.

I read him as an undergraduate when I was much, much younger, and Rangers were alive.

A seminal work.

Highly recommended.

The series of events that ultimately led HMRC to pull the lever on the original Ibrox club in June 2012 began in the Portuguese capital in the previous century.

That day in May 1967, John became immortal as 11 guys from the West of Scotland scaled the summit of club football in Europe.

When Cesar lifted the Big Cup, I believe it inflicted a psychic wound on the Ibrox herrenvolk which has never fully healed.

The self-destructive moves that culminated in the club’s death in 2012 began that day.

Now these are dark days for the Kultural Klopp.

He’s definitely in choppy waters, and the stormtroopers are gathering at Ibrox.

Importing trauma just might not be a strategy to take on the richest club in Scotland.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Delaware Crew won’t be hurting today.

For them, it’s about the Dollars.

Always the Dollars.