School’s are out just now, and it appears things have changed a little since my day. In order to keep their little tykes amused, back then at least, teachers would suggest little projects to while away the hours in those days of three tv channels and no internet.
Sure, we’d play football until it went dark, but it was difficult to get a good game going when everyone wore the same strip…
These days, children have all sorts of options when it comes to amusement, and one of them, or a group of them, presumably feeling deeply unloved and neglected,has sent out a cry for attention
Some people are outraged, others are claiming its part of an anti catholic surge amongst the right wing in Scotland, and the cheeky little scamp who put it together will have found another way to amuse himself in front of his computer that won’t need him to clear his browser history in case his mother sees it.
Frankly, looking at the enthusiastic use of capital letters and the lack of punctuation, its probably not worth bothering with.
I’ve met a few people who consider it witty to shout “100 points ” if you run over an Asian, doubled if they have kids and trebled if there’s a pushchair involved.
As you can imagine, these people soon drop off one’s radar and find their level in life’s tropical fish tank somewhere down with the other bottom feeders, and as a result have to blame someone for that, as of course its not their fault, as they are white, protestant and have lived here all their life.
As they become fewer, they need to make more noise or else they will be ignored, and thats what we have in that leaflet.
A wee shout to make them feel all grown up and important.
Its really not worth reacting to, certainly not worth getting all excited about because by May 1 they’ll al be back at school and studying hard for their digging holes in the road and filling them in again diplomas.
As the noise from the dark side gets louder, our reaction should become less, and starve them of the oxygen of publicity. Its what they crave, and just as an addict should be refused heroin, or an alcoholic refused whisky, they should be refused attention.
They might be waving their arms about, but they’re not going to hit anything.
There are several other things that need our attention.
Like who will replace Scott Brown as Celtic midfield enforcer, after Stuart Armstrong was caught on camera shouting “not the hair, not the hair ”
@Oldfirmfacts1 There’s Armstrong ruled out as Scott Brown’s hard man replacement… pic.twitter.com/AL7VjYUJhg
— Boycy (@Boycy67) March 27, 2018
Or organising this, as suggested by Tam Sellick on twitter..
Rangers fans are planning to wear orange at the semi-final. I think it’s a great idea. If Celtic fans in the north stand round to east stand F7 wear green and G1 round to the main stand divide wear white we will create a massive tricolour round Hampden.
There are plenty of other things that demand our attention, such as allegations that former Rangers players each received one thousand pounds to play in the legneds game at the weekend, which received so much press attention.
I’m sure their top men are on that particular story, as they would not wish to be associated with it if the accounts show it was all a waste of time…
Hah. Accounts, what am i talking about. As if they’ll ever publish anything that has numbers in it.
Like this, from Barcabhoy, which due to UEFA rules, means that “rangers ” should not have been given a UEFA licence last year, which in fairness does mean they are following yet another tradition that made the original club so lovable.
As a #Killie fan, I’ve suddenly become more interested in next year’s licences. What do “Rangers”‘ accounts need to show to make then ineligible?
Kilmarnock, of course, lost out on a European place the last time the figures were fiddled with, oh sorry, the second to last time, back in 2012.
Back then, their chairman was more concerned with how Rangers were getting on than with his own team, but thats changed under the new guy, who is a billy ( bowie ) only in name .
We need more supporters of more clubs like Kilmarnock on board, we need them to ask questions and then they will realise that this isn’t about what they refer to as the ugly sisters, a Celtic Rangers thing.
Its an SFA thing, an issue of governance that concerns all clubs and all of their supporters.
The more supporters from more clubs who express their concerns, the more chance we have of cleaning up our game, which because of the efforts on the field of the likes of Kilmarnock, Hibernian and Hearts , well, maybe not Hearts, is becoming more competitive and interesting again.
You see, I had a chat with my old pal from Monaco at the weekend, who knew a man who spent a quid acquiring a football club, and we got round to wondering why he did it.
Alright, I wondered why he did it.
Simple really, he knew that financially he couldnt lose. Football supporters are the best kind of customers to have. Short term at least, as they will plough money in at the start one’s tenure.
The trick is to keep as much of it before dumping the company…..
And the more passionate the fan, the more likely they are to spend their money, at least at first.
Whyte did his due diligence, and knew he couldn’t lose. Thing is though, a few others got in on the act, and the whole thing got out of hand.
And you wonder why the SFA want to move on. Well, by move on i mean go back to the good old days before the venture capitalists got involved.
You see, what terrifies them is that we find out exactly how much contempt they have for us, the support, which makes anything Whyte had for the hordes look positively paternal..
Its time to pull everyone together, from all clubs, yes, including them, and time to really move our game forward.
Look at all the fuss over a bit of cheating in cricket, and no one even watches that.
Why is no one fussing over football’s issues ?
Could it possibly be that there’s too much money involved to rock the boat ?
Except, directly or indirectly, its our money, the customer, and the customer is always right…
Yesterday , we showed you this..
Caption: Leigh Griffiths reveals the inspiration behind his favourite pastime!
Today…