It is not making a murderous gesture that is the greatest affront; it is the normalisation of it by opinion makers and influencers. We are asked to believe that it is acceptable for our footballers to make a throat cutting gesture when leaving the field. It is not, never has been, and at no time in Scottish football’s often disreputable history has there ever been such a low point.
There have always been some low-life footballers and there most probably always will be. They are worth our pity as well as our condemnation. Trying to normalise the despicable is new.
I don’t believe any of those who are defending murderous gestures honestly want to live in a society where this is the norm. What they want, is to stop Celtic winning nine-in-a-row, and they are prepared to subvert every ethical value to achieve this.
This is what we are up against – and why we cannot submit.
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TURKEYBHOY @ 11:59
It is (very) early days in the window, however, like you, I don’t believe that there is urgency where it matters.
We are in roughly the same position as last year at this stage apart from the game in hand being with them and not us – so why is there such agitation among the Celtic support?
I can indentify three important, maybe blindingly obvious, things, different from last year that are eating away at us.
1. The realisation that this is an efficient and well- balanced ‘Rangers’ team, who have the measure of us and who we don’t see dropping points to any others in Scotland.
2. The fixture list has been turned on its head from last year with Celtic having many more away matches till the split. We’ve lost five points away from home to date, that figure may double in the coming months bearing in mind our visit to Ibrox – say three draws & defeat at Ibrox. That would surely finish us.
3. Last year we had Brendan Rodgers, this, we have Neil Lennon.
Overall, even including the Livingston surrender, points-wise, up to the 29th, we have been better than last year. A win at CP on the 29th and we’d be in a different place at the moment
It is a fact that the Ibrox team is much better than last year. Is there anything we could have done to stymie their improvement? Obviously not.
It all comes down to one game on the 29th at Celtic Park. Can, should, one defeat in a 38 game programme have the effect that this one has had?
Seems we have all bought in to the belief that ‘Rangers’ are now a winning-machine that can’t be stopped.
I have mentioned the “Rangers team” a couple of times, not the squad – simply because they have no real depth of quality – however I am sure that they will put every penny that they can get their hands on, into the squad this month.
That brings us back to your last paragraph where you sense ‘no urgency’ on our behalf.
Will Celtic put all they’ve got into the squad this month with the sole aim of winning every single domestic game till the end of the season? I, like you, am afraid that previous ‘form’ points to the negative.
Can it be that we, financially successful and secure, face our first real challenge in eight years and will be found wanting by a club who have been in total turmoil and living on scraps and debt most of that time?
Mc Nut,
Where I differ from you is,I do not think this scum team is any better.They are roughly the same.All the bluster is just that.We have no great difficulty winning away from home,Livi being a one off. day.The reason the scum are up there is the poor challenge from other clubs.A lot of it caused by injuries,ie,Hearts,Aberdeen,who have both taken points from them with half a team.In the league between us and them,we are one game each.We can go on a run of victories,if we get our act together.They thought they could last year.We know how that ended.
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