Having failed miserably on the pitch to prevent Celtic’s domination of the Scottish football scene, “rangers ” have undergone a significant policy change to do it off the field.
Its presenting far more of a challenge to Celtic than anything else they have offered so far, and I’m sure, after you have looked at it, er, seriously, you’ll be able to say with a certain level of justification that its going to be an awful lot more difficult to secure these trebles than the media experts might claim.
Their plan, you see, might just work.
They’ve been doing it for a while, but have stepped up the pace over the last couple of days and there is now a real danger that with just two wins needed to secure back to back trebles, the side splitting hilarity eminating from all things Ibrox could be enough to break the players confidence and concentration, and allow Motherwell to pinch the Scottish cup, and the rest of the top six to record victories.
Sound daft ?
Alright, you read this and then tell me you are completely focused on beating Hibernian…
There’s more, but no one can be expected to read it all in one go, not without an industrial strength corset protecting those ribs from giving way.
This week it reached a new level.
Kenny miller and Lee Wallace have been suspended pending investigation, and we hear Wallace has already offered to turn Queens evidence, as grassing is legally termed, and Miller could be getting his arse tanned.
Even this has divided the support…
And Miller, does he have his supporters out there ?
Well, he supported him for about an hour and a half..
The manager will make a statement later, although we have an advance copy..
None of them are bigger than the club, but they are all older, without necessarily being wiser.
News also broke last night that there may be a new kit deal with sportswear firm Hummel, who used to supply the kits for the fat wheezy kids who tried to avoid PE by saying their washing machine at home was broke..
And even that seemed to cause confusion..
And indeed they do…
The hummel logo is a stylized bumble bee, as hummel is German for bumble bee.[1] The company’s name is derived from the popular Hamburg greeting (“Hamburger Gruß”), which is known throughout northern Germany.
The humble bumble is, of course, itself facing extinction, which is both tragic and ironic. Like the new “rangers “, except for the bit about it being tragic.
Teams that they used to provide kits for include Benfica, Real Madrid, Red Star Belgrade, Feyenoord and Derry City.
They now look after sides such as Telford United and Clyde.
And the Afghanistan ladies football team.
Happily for the hordes, the chap who owns Hummel is Christian Stadil, a damn fine protestant moniker if ever there was one.
Ellie Pithers, writing in the Telegraph in 2013, said..
In person, Stadil is a bundle of eccentricities. Over the course of an hour he espouses Buddhist theology but admits he “loves to make money”; champions Danish design (he’s on the jury of the Danish Design Award) while raving about his collection of contemporary American art; and talks me through his tattoos – all 18 of them. His favourites are a pair of portraits of the musician Leonard Cohen inked on his biceps. One depicts Cohen in a hat and reads: “One of those days when the hat doesn’t help”; the other shows him hatless and is titled: “It was the hat, after all.” “I really love Leonard Cohen!” Stadil says, laughing heartily.
A buddhist called Christian..with a tattoo of a Jewish fellow.
They’ll explode.
But wait, they might just take to him…they do have something in common..
His years spent at Herlufsholm, Denmark’s most exclusive boarding school, were more macho. Stadil took up boxing and started going to school in military uniform. “I used to wear a helmet with a camouflage net, with a water bottle in my gun holster and a BB gun over my shoulder,” he recalls. “It’s crazy, I know. Today I would be arrested for that, but they knew I was a nice guy! My teacher just told me to leave the gun outside the door.”
He may well be in his element at Ibrox.
We have exclusive pictures of the new kits.
Here’s the home top..
As you can see, they ain’t keen…
Unless we are going bust and going to end up in league 2 again, theirs no way a brand like Hummel should be anywhere near a massive club like Rangers, not in a million years.
but, as Ellie Pithers explained in the Telgraph..
In its heyday, Hummel dressed such teams as Tottenham and Real Madrid, but in 1994 it went bankrupt. Stadil bought it in 1999, when “it was absolutely not trendy”, and exploited its retro appeal. Now Hummel is enjoying a renaissance, its chevron logo jostling against Nike ticks on the streets of east London
And in “rangers ” he has found a club entirely based on its retro appeal.
Here’s the away top..
And here’s the complete third kit..
Everyones a winner.
And the thing is, based on these revelations, it looks like next seasons campaign make us incontinent and incompetent with laughter is already underway, and eight in a row is going to be an even bigger achievement than seven.
We need to keep the heid and be brave against such a vehement assault on our senses.
They could well be about to play a trump card to rally the troops this week.
Murty has fallen out of favour, it seems..
oops…fickle is as fickle be…
Anyhoo, as we know, that means…
But we hear that the Messiah has turned his phone off and told his wife to “fling it in the fucking bin ” .
One of them clung to the idea of a Messiah, and contacted the one who hasn’t got a phone, in the old traditional way.
Lawriebhoy on twitter summed up this outpouring of grief superbly
Praying to a God he doesn’t believe in, about a Club he knows doesn’t exist. Sevco logic.
but there is still hope, not a lot, but its there.
I dont think we need to spend an awful lot to take on this average celtic side. Our goalie is better our centre halfs are better dorrans and Jack areally better than brown and Armstrong. Morelos is better than dembele and griffiths.
And there could be some money available, as yet another fans group emerged with its collection tins..
New independent Rangers supporters’ group launched to push fan ownership model at Ibrox
Follow Rangers Shareholders Ltd are aiming to influence the direction of the club moving forward.
They actually registered themselves at Company house a while back, but were forced to change their name after a bit of trouble with an apostrophe..
A spokesperson for Follow Rangers said: “We have worked long and hard to produce a fan group model that can continually grow while acting at all times in the best interests of Rangers and our shareholder members.
Including, no doubt, a punctuation consultant.
We recognise and applaud the work of countless Rangers fans who have held the dream of fan ownership.
“However, it is our belief that a single fan group is not appropriate for Rangers.
Exactly. Not a single one of them is.
“We have a massive worldwide support and we believe Follow Rangers can attract people who are either not engaged or disillusioned with the existing fan ownership models.”
We hear that Brendan rodgers has called an emergency team meeting, and instructed all of the players to immediately desist from using social media, mainstream media and any reference to “rangers “, verbal or written, is forbidden.
Please, guys, keep the focus.
We’ve got all summer to go yet….
Yesterdays picture..
Caption: “Our father,
Who art a fenian,
Halliday’s a pain.
Dave King is scum
The Williams dumb as f..k down here in Govan.
Bates is away to earn some bread.
Teach us to pass as we’re getting creamed by those who pass against us.
And lead us not into administration.
But grant them not the treble.”
Amen
Today..