Yesterday’s Scottish Cup final was head and shoulders above the insipid FA Cup final at Wembley. Newco scored two excellent goals, including one from our ex-play, Kenny Miller. But it was our current, on-loan, player, Anthony Stokes who decided the encounter.
What should we do with Anthony? His attitude yesterday was magnificent. He decided he was leaving Hampden with a winners medal, and he had the skill, strength and capacity to ensure no one could stop him.
For the first goal he collected on the wing, made a beeline for goal before slotting the ball into the far corner, although he was assisted by the most generous defending since Jersey in June 1940. [Can you believe two defenders stood off him?] Scoring with a header from a corner when your team is a goal down with 10 minutes remaining takes character and determination.
Brendan Rodgers would have been impressed, but it remains to be seen if that attitude can be tapped into day-in, day-out at Lennoxtown.
I watched Motherwell fans invade the Fir Park pitch the Premiership Play-off final last year. On that occasion their actions went beyond mere celebrations, fans were deep into opposition territory, taunting Newco fans behind the goal. To their credit, Newco fans took it on the chin and left the stadium without retaliating.
I can’t imagine what possesses fans of a losing team to invade a field already populated by thousands of celebrating fans. Whatever it is, it’s primitive and unlikely to be a considered reaction. As a result, Newco will be dragged into a disciplinary situation which would otherwise only have effected Hibernian.
What’s worse, the one perennial get out of jail card football clubs often use when fans let them down: “We always criticise and warn fans about this sort of thing”, was fatally undermined by a hasty press release in the minutes after the final whistle.
While every Hibernian person interviewed acknowledged the role of their fans and need for improvement, Newco issued an adversarial statement. Compliant friends in the media were urged to drop the role of their fans on the field. Adversarial statements create adversaries, football administrators know this. Getting strategy wrong isn’t worth a few hours PR.
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Forget the marauding hoardes and their lunacy, today is ALL about Celtic and Brendan Rodgers. :D
Hail hail everyone. Have a great day.
Mon the Brendan…
Hope Brendan,s reply to the inevitable queries about hampden are along the lines of…..oh I didnae catch that game as I was:::enter mundane task here…..
I will start with; looking for an x-collleague,s. Hat;
Braw…looking forward to oor Brendan,s big grin competion….
Hail Hail. Beautiful Morning up in EK. Sorry jobo.
Welcome Brendan.
MAGIC!
KLV
Radio Shortbread still in full Hibs hunting mode this morning.
Several pieces condemning the violent behavior of the Hibee hoards was topped off by the religious “thought for the day” chaplain who was wondering why the celebrating fans had need to goad their poor defeated opponents?
http://wingsoverscotland.com/statements-of-the-obvious/
A balanced an interesting read…
Braw.
One upshot of the weekend – I suspect the moves to repeal the obfa will now be dropped.
I have been trying to find ‘the ra gers’ statement condemning their fans that tried to kill Neil Lennon with pistal bombs. Been looking back through bluenise pals social media to see all their outrage at condemnation. Not found it yet and yet players being shoved by fans is the lowest thing ever to happen in scottish football.
Bamboo,
It wasn’t the Rev McCurry by any chance?
If the hun hordes had invaded the pitch in celebration having won the game, only to be met by 200 angry Hibs fans looking for violence, you can bet your bottom dollar we’d be reading a reverse narrative today from msm and the Fraudster.
ANTIPODEAN RED
It wasnt the mib McCurry -Ive forgtten the name but it was the chaplain of 9 Wells Hospital Dundee. Now Tom English is on perfecting the art of fence sitting.
NEUSTADT-BRAW
Did Wings write such an article when Neil was attacked at Tynecastle? Genuine question as I don’t follow there site…
When that guy got away with attacking our manager live on TV the door was opened for The Hoard to swarm in…
HH
Radio Shortbread wheel on Gordon Smith for his thoughts on the cup final aftermath, yeah good idea, he’ll be objective. “Hibs hibs hibs, rules were broken, hibs hibs hibs, the sfa must take action, hibs hibs hibs, the rangers players couldn’t even collect their medals…..etc”. Suspect the clan are just getting warmed up for this one.
Seen any evidence of any Rangers player being assaulted or spat on yet?
Kenny Millers wife said he wasn’t assaulted so he must have been spat on?
Of the rogues gallery of wanted men it looks as though most are Rangers supporters. They have their fellow fans to thank for providing the video evidence.
Of the player assaults, I have only seen one player of Hibs being kicked at by someone in a suit.
Brendan Rodgers will be asked about it all and probably how he will compete with Rangers. Expect Joey Bartons name to come up.
Anyway, enjoy day 2 of the statement as it merges into Brendan day.
Starry – I’m not sure Wings was about in those days.
Good grief he’s now the 8.30 shortbread news main story!
Can someone remind me if there was an independent enquirer following
The1980 Cup Final where the hunhordes invaded the pitch and headed for the Celtic end…. .?
The Manchester Riot, where they nearly killed a Policeman ?
The shame game where the poor losers decide to cause disturbances on the field (players and management of oldco
Urinating on the Valencia supporters from the upper tier
etcetcetcetc
They have shamed Scotland for decades with their hunnery / sectarian violence, and they are now ‘crying wolf ???????’ ……… Hunbelievable
Here’s hoping their odious reptile kit man Jimmy bell was on the end of a back hander on Saturday
Starry – he’s a big fan of the obfa and generally despises football. He continues to lay blame for Hillsborough with the fans and essentially should be ignored.
WEEMINGER
Cheers mate don’t know much about their site..
Decent article, love their call for zero tolerance.
Brendan’s Celtic will be banned from all European competition and he will receive a ten game ban. Rangers will proceed to the Euro league with Hibs financially crippled by heavy SFA sanctions as Nancy Regan shakes up the Scottish Game!
Saw a pic posted on Facebook of lee Wallace being assaulted by a hibee.
They now know where he lives what school he went to, naming his mates too, all sorts of threats being posted this mob are baying for blood
STARRYPLOUGH
FFS,don’t put ideas into their heads!
Brendan should announce that the first two players he will bring in are players with experience of winning things and they are both come in on a free…..
Stokes and Henderson :)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Sorry mate pre coffee post:)
The ole huns they’ll do anything to get in the papers..
While the Hibees have Sunshine in Leith the Zombies have Moonshine in Beith
I think we will be due another vicious statement from Jabba around 5pm today
NEUSTADT-BRAW on 23RD MAY 2016 8:06 AM
Why are Celtic fans still posting links to that weirdo’s site?
Good morning CQN
I hope Celtic FC are prepared for the upcoming hi jacking of Brendans presser today
Sadly the fans and supporters will have to wait until the MSM have done the dirty before they see our new manager another PR failure Celtic fand should have came first
March 2015from Etims
Theres a big story over on the other side of the river, and its got the MSM in a frenzy.
Thats why when Celtic revealed a massive new kit deal yesterday, somehow Peter Lawwell ended up talking about Republican sympathisers at Celtic Park.
Ian Jamieson, Celtics PR man , needs a kick in the haw maws for allowing this to happen.
Lawwell doesn’t get off scot free, but to be fair, he was probably blindsided by hacks eager to deflect from the fact that Celtic are flourishing without their old rivals, which is exactly what Lawwell said we would do.
No excuses today from Celtic, cut the presser short if the usual suspects try to drag Brendan in discussing events which have nothing to do with Celtic, i have to say i am concerned due to Celtics woeful PR dept
https://paddyontherailway.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/hampden-horrors/
I try to be fair. I love my team.
So on this St Brendan’s Day and on the basis of the faith in the club shown by BRTH ref Res12 my renewal form was just deposited into a postbox.
Appropriately …… in leith!!!
HH jamesgang
Mullet & co
pretty sure a couple of of sevco players were caught by a couple of hibees
Shame it has taken a bit of shine off the hibees win…(great day for Stubbs, a player I always liked….and sunshine on leith and scarfs even managed to make hampden look good)
a minority of rangers fan reacted in the same way as a minority of our fans would have reacted unfortunately…(if it was hearts)
The police and stewards were very slow to react and they had a pretty good indication it was going to happen when the goal went in….
Let them work it out, its Brendan Day and we have to make plans for the Big cup
MULLET AND CO 2 on 23RD MAY 2016 8:30 AM
‘Of the player assaults, I have only seen one player of Hibs being kicked at by someone in a suit.’
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Don’t think he was a player (other than in his dreams) , just a fan.
Mind you, having a hun take a kick at you on the pitch probably did add a little more authenticity to his experience.
Neustadt
Wings Over Scotland have never written a balanced and reasonable article in their puff.
You may have missed his 10th false deduction:-
“10. Almost nothing on Earth could be stupider than repealing the OBFA at this point. The message it would send would be catastrophic. Endless articles about it have bleated “Why are football fans alone singled out?” Well, ye ken noo.”
There you have it the OBFA exists to tackle a pitch invasion and on-field fighting. I can only marvel at the stupidity of the population and its political representatives who never thought to frame laws to deal with such matters before. Apparently, there’s never been an outbreak of fisticuffs on a Rugby Park (unless you discount all the players who did so before it became an offence recently- who was ever sent off pre-the 1990s for a mass brawl or gouging in the scrums?).
And all the rabids who populate the site are piling in on the we need the OBFA line.
Watch the SNP’s pet-Advocate Frank Mulholland bend over backwards to find ways of using the Act for the Hampden offences, whilst leaving the mass singing from the blue end untouched.
You could not mark their necks with a blow torch but watch their backers criticisng the guys who tried to obtain a repeal of the Act before the SNP-bloc decided to play politics with it and use this event to justify it.
Can anyone recall if there were any pyros in the Hibs end?
Ernie
I don’t believe so.
Ernie
A couple of rockets but no flares ;-)
Facts which are indisputable and need addressed.
Flares in Rangers end.
Sectarian singing from Rangers end
Hibs fans entering field
Policing inadequacy which allowed this
Hibs fans allowed to goad, shove, Rangers players
Rangers official kicking out at Hibs fan
Damage to pitch and goalposts by Hibs fans
Hefty fines should be given to both teams.
It will be interesting to see who BR brings in as his coaching team. At Liverpool his assistant was Colin Pascoe who was then replaced by Sean O’Driscoll.
Pascoe was sacked by Rodgers in the name of progress, so would the two work together again?
O’Driscoll has gone back to manage Walsall, would he leave a management job to be an assistant again?
One thing I am sure of is that BR WILL be allowed to choose his own backroom.
14,000 Pyros in Rangers end I’m reading? How can you smuggle that amount in?
Ah wait, glasses on now. I misread it. Not Pyros . Giro’s