The "zombie, Sevco, glib & shameless" jibes have been fun...

[ian1964 10,727]

...but now it’s our turn to laugh at YOU.

 

 

by Jonathan​McFarlane​

 

OUR Ibrox blogger claims it’s Celtic and the "Norwegian Kenny Shiels" who are in a state, not his club.

 

 

OH how they had fun...

 

The jelly and ice cream, the apocalypse banners and the days joyously spent whiled away going through the fine detail of contract law and legal precedent. It was the best of times.

 

I speak not of genuine Celtic fans but of the often borderline crazed Sevco obsessed.

 

This new breed spew forth the demented ramblings of fan bloggers as ‘fact’, crusade against ‘institutionalised bias’ and presumably spend their days throwing darts at pictures of the ‘glib and shameless liar’ (zzzzzz) Dave King.

 

You can find one by simply typing in any of the following key-words into a Twitter search: SMSM (Scottish mainstream media), lamb (of the succulent variety) and radar (‘off the’ rather than ‘on the’).

 

While happy to satirise Rangers fans as zombies they seem less keen to examine their own club’s position and the irony of using such wording in their position. As they monotonously repeat the same dull, unimaginative jibes and slavishly follow their discredited sources, many have shown a zombie like inability to process what is currently happening at Parkhead.

 

Any overdue analysis should begin at the manager’s office where a talented self-publicist and purveyor of coaching buzzwords resides in place of a coach. It’s been clear to those of us without rotting matter for brains that Mark Warburton isn’t the one extracting the urine at an Old Firm club.

 

In Ronny Delia you have a manager clearly out of his depth. His record, in context of relative-sized competition is abysmal and it can be measured easily: find me a Rangers fan who doesn’t desperately want him to stay!

 

To be fair to the Norwegian Kenny Shiels, he has managed to take Celtic back to their rightful position as the second club in Scotland, just a season earlier than many of us expected!

 

The fans have only themselves to blame if Aberdeen do what would have been considered previously unthinkable and take the title. So many have spent so long obsessing about all things Rangers, they have missed the opportunity to analyse a deep malaise that has been setting in over YEARS.

 

Peter Lawwell is now every bit as powerful as Sir David Murray was in the 1990s. Entrenched at the SFA and with huge influence within the SPFL he dominates the Scottish scene in a way that is perfectly illustrated by his latest transfer.

 

Does anyone believe for a minute that Celtic have paid £5.5million for the lad Simunovic?

 

Maybe after ALL the clauses are met and IF they sell him for £20m but in the here and now?

 

It’s the same with Van Djik, Celtic can say what they want for a fee, safe in the knowledge it’s officially undisclosed. Of course, with van Djik there was a sell-on fee agreed with previous clubs. Of the £13m, how much goes to Celtic right away?

 

It certainly suits Lawwell to really juice these figures as Celtic fans will see the £13m as a good price and are placated by the idea of a multi-million pound replacement. It’s not like anyone has seen the lad play to judge his value! It’s PR and spin right from the Murray playbook.

 

Meanwhile, Parkhead is half empty every other Saturday, the club has posted a multi-million pound loss with barely any analysis and Aberdeen are stronger than they have been for 20 years.

 

Don’t expect analysis about any of this from a group of fundamentalists who refuse to see the woods for the trees. Their attitude is best summed up by a saying straight from their own infamous phrase-book; ‘sweep, sweep’.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/record-fc-rangers-zombie-sevco-6445015

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Haha brilliantly put, "The Norwegian Kenny Shiels" although i feel sorry for Kenny being bracketed with Ronnie the cross-dresser.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Those fans had banners criticising lawwell a week ago so the article is nonsense. It's also about celtc for some reason.

[gisabeer 409]

Enjoyed that!

[pete 2,499]

A Celtic blogger has already had a retort put up. I suppose you could wait for that.

[ranger_syntax 4,336]

While happy to satirise Rangers fans as zombies they seem less keen to examine their own club’s position and the irony of using such wording in their position.

 

This is a quote from an article, by a Rangers fan (yes ?), about Celtic.

[RANGERRAB 3,681]

Which Shellik is the article referring to ? Pacific Shelf 595 or HMS402 or the old company? There's three Shellik companies remember

Edited September 15, 2015 by RANGERRAB

[gisabeer 409]

As success comes our way we just night see the tide turn in the media. I more welcome any journalist who writes an article like this.

 

Ronnie the reject is on the ropes over at the tin shack and will provide another wecolme distraction away from us.

 

I expect other hacks to follow mr mcfarlanes line of thinking.

[BeardyGuts 6]

To be honest as much fun as it is to read really not a fan of this type of article. Couldn't really care less what they are up to, what matters to me is how we are doing.

Reality is they are in much better shape than us behind the scenes and have been for long time now.

[BlueMazza 0]

To be honest as much fun as it is to read really not a fan of this type of article. Couldn't really care less what they are up to, what matters to me is how we are doing.

Reality is they are in much better shape than us behind the scenes and have been for long time now.

 

But this is the point. They should be in great shape. They should have been winning trebles and spending big in champs league. Their fans should have been turning up. They should be on a high, but they aren't because they aren't that good, they aren't spending, they DO rely on Rangers and their fans aren't interested without us there.