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‘We deserve better’ narcissistic nonsense

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‘We deserve better’ is one of those phrases which sounds reasonable at first pass but does not stand up to scrutiny.

Fans deserve honesty, good governance and a safe environment to watch football, but do you think any team’s fans deserve on-field success?  No.  And if there is one club out there where this mantra holds true, they don’t train at Murray Park.

Football success is not a right, conferred by the aggregate number of season tickets bought, divisions played in, or successful campaigns to unseat investors completed.  You buy a ticket to be entertained and watch your football team.  This act does not come with an implicit understanding of what the outcome of any individual match will be, or an entire season’s undertakings.

It is narcissistic nonsense to think you deserve football success.

‘We deserve to watch our team win, lose and draw.’  This isn’t likely to replace ‘A club like no other’ on your season ticket, but it is the ultimate truism in football and we should all hear it occasionally.

‘We deserve frankness, in times of success and failure.’

‘We deserve to know there is no way to bridge the ‘gap’.’

‘We deserve to be told the old ways are gone forever and there is nothing anyone can do about it.’

‘We deserve to know if we put the club in the hands of a charlatan.’

‘We deserve to know that many of us will never see the league title go to Ibrox in our lifetime.’

You will never see these phrases on a bedspread at the gates to Murray Park, but the day will come when they are acknowledged truths.

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  1. prestonpans bhoys on

    Mars,

     

     

    Ah, Seton Sands holiday park is not recognisable from your thoughts. Wonderful site with great facilities, pass it every day walking the woof. Tank traps still there but useful for a barbecue!!!

  2. gordybhoy64 on

    The deluded ones on RM have them getting £15million up front from Hummel

     

    for the new kit deal,although one of them is smart enough to say that they wont

     

    even get fakes made in Turkey as they are that shite

  5. nally81 on

    DD……..thanks for reply

     

     

    GlenDalystonsils…….I think they would hope to sack them so they wouldn’t have to pay them anything.

     

    I didn’t realise Miller only had weeks left.

     

     

    HH

  7. Friesdorfer on

    Has anyone in England ever mentioned that Man City need a strong Man Utd to keep the league competitive? HH

  8. Delaneys Dunky on

    Marspapa

     

     

    I have a very catholic taste in music, but I draw the line at novelty acts like King and Shaky Stevens types.

     

    King by UB40 is one of my all time favourite tunes though.

     

    Good Glaswegian Bhoys the Campbell brothers.

     

    MLK

     

    M really stands for Michael. As in Michael Luther King seemingly. Regardless, he was murdered like JC, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Tupac Shakur etc. For the message.

     

    One Love

  9. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Hummel = Winfield …..the old Woolworth brand if they were still alive…..oh wait…..

  10. marspapa on

    PRESTONPANS BHOYS

     

     

    Some great memories coming back ??

     

    Thanks for the chat .

     

     

    Time for my kip , game of golf tomorrow, so looking forward to it

     

     

     

    Goodnight ghuys .

  11. Delaneys Dunky on

    Gordy

     

     

    My weans are in hysterics if the huns go wi Hummel.

     

    Comparing Hummel to New Balance trainers and sport gear, is like when we were weans and would compare Woolworths Winfield four white stripe trainers to a pair of Adidas Samba. As my daughter put it, Hummel are a cooncil jakey brand of trainies and sports gear.

     

    Wi the young team. Street cred and brand is everything.

  12. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Must be a World Record shirt deal for Sevco surely?

     

    Jabba , if you are looking in as we know you are, i sincerely hope you are enjoying your sleepless nights, with much worse to come we hope….;))

  14. Delaneys Dunky on

    Friesdorfer

     

     

    The answer to your rhetorical question is, of course not. Man U even tweet their congratulations to their City rivals.

     

    I prefer our fight against the system up here.

     

    UTLR

  15. jimthetim53 on

    DD, Do you remember getting kitted out every summer with those plastic sandals from Woolies? It’s all we could afford but they worked.

  20. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    I noticed a retweet on Twitter that Bob Malcolm, FTP, was stating that there was a “leek”, his spelling, in the Ibrox dressing room.

     

     

    Is this a racist slur on their Welsh fullback, Declan John?

  21. Delaneys Dunky on

    JTT

     

     

    Loved my plastic Winfield sandals fae Partick or Clydebank Woolworths. They remind me of holidays in Saltcoats and the exotic holidays abroad on the boat to Isle of Bute. Great memories.

  23. Delaneys Dunky on

    Vale Bhoy

     

     

    Hahahaha. Hummel statement. “We like to supply underdog teams, those teams who rarely win anything but………… Hahahaha

     

    You have made my night VB. Thank you.

  24. jimthetim53 on

    Ah DD, Different days. I remember Portobello – Edinburgh – with an outdoor swimming pool with a wave machine. Happy days. And It never rained! (only kidding)

  26. jimthetim53 on

    DD, This is for you. I have watched this a million times. I was working that night in Edinburgh. But now feel I was there. I think because it was filmed by Barca fans makes it a wee bit special.

  27. Delaneys Dunky on

    WITS

     

     

    I do not know what I wish more?

     

    1/ Sevco to liquidate and them never to resurrect and remain deid like Third Lanark and Belfast Celtic. or

     

    2/Stay alive on life support and continue with this amazing 6 year run of the banter years and me pishing myself every single day, laughing at thems.

     

    What you think D?

  30. Delaneys Dunky on

    JTT

     

     

    For some reason at Easter Weekend my dad would take us east for a couple of days. I remember, North Berwick, Port Seton and Portobello holidays. My favourite east coast holidays were in Burntisland, Leven and Saint Andrews though. Why to this day, I am a huge lover of the Kingdom of Fife.

  31. Delaneys Dunky on

    JTT

     

     

    Where in Edinburgh did you work?

     

    I worked in Western General and lived in Leith from ’87 to ’90. Made some great friendships with Leith Tims. Still meet some at Celtic matches all over Europe. The magic of Celtic.

  38. Jobo Baldie on

    Good morning, friends.

     

    3 more sleeps until our first chance to win the league for the 7th (SEVENTH) time in a row.

     

    11 more sleeps till Rangers* applaud us on to the park as Champions (or alternatively try to stop us becoming Champions!).

     

    25 more sleeps till we unfurl the flag against Aberdeen.

     

    31 more sleeps till we try to complete the Double Treble.

     

    Life’s Good!

  40. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Looking at the Hummel link , German club Greuther Furth wearva strip made by them .

     

     

    Greuther Furth have a shamrock on their club crest and have had green and white hoops as their home strip.

     

     

    That will please the sevs even more .

  42. RobertTressell on

    Watched the highlights at breakfast. Ntcham is the man. Superb player.

     

     

    I hope we win all 5 remaining games. Let the rest slug it out. 2nd to 5th is too hard to call in my opinion. It will be interesting to watch as a ‘neutral’. A tough cup final to end a varied but successful season. It’s been another good one for the spfl in my opinion.

     

     

    Time to start my day. Adios hoops

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