CONGRATULATIONS, Celtic. This year's title is yours and even though I believe it's tainted that's none of your concern. It's not Celtic's fault Rangers have ended up in a mess of their own making. So Neil Lennon and his players have every right to milk the moment from here on in until the medals are passed around in May. The club's supporters are also entitled to enjoy the rest of the cakewalk. I'd prefer just to leave them to it. Congratulate them and move on. I just wish they had the good grace to do likewise as my club attempts to battle for its very existence and good people are worried sick about their jobs. I find the tone that has been set by the men at the top at Celtic Park in recent days and weeks has been ill-judged at best and, at worst, deliberately inflammatory. Let's be honest here, Rangers are lying in the gutter, bleeding badly. There is no need for the likes of Lennon and Peter Lawwell to continue to sink the boot in when our wounds have been self-inflicted. I would hope Rangers, as a football club, would conduct themselves with a bit more class if the shoe was on the other foot. In fact, I'm sure they would. Calling for Rangers to be stripped of titles? Political manipulating and manoeuvring in order to make sure no mercy is shown should their rivals get back on their feet? \/All this crass stuff about celebrating the death of Rangers with bowls of jelly and ice cream? \/ Is that really necessary? It smacks of the behaviour of people who hate Rangers more than they love their own club. It reflects very badly on them all. No one expects Celtic to shed a tear over the state Rangers have got themselves into. But, even so, there is a venom about their recent reaction which has shocked me and should embarrass the more level-headed, decent people at Parkhead. I hope it does at any rate. It saddens me that these extreme times seem to bring out the worst in supporters on both sides of Glasgow. I include Rangers supporters in that because last week, when they were all hurting so badly, some of them chose to bring further shame on Ibrox by singing the kind of songs that have been making us cringe for so long. Thanks for that lads. Just what the club needed in a time of crisis. As much as I would prefer for Celtic to concentrate on enjoying their success, I would also hope Rangers and their fans can act with dignity and decorum as they fight to get through this, one of the most horrible periods in the club's 140-year history. These are the qualities the club was built on and these same qualities have never been more important than they are right now. In fact, I'd go as far as to say how the Rangers support acts at this crucial juncture may decide the very fate of their club. It's time for them to think smart. Singing stupid songs of defiance is hardly what's needed now. They have to take a step back from all that nonsense and attempt to get a clear view of the bigger picture. It's not about mindless bravado, it's about making the right choices and ensuring the club they love is around another 140 years from now. There is no shame in being duped. Let's be honest, it happens to us all. But what's the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. They should have those words engraved on the front doors of Ibrox as a permanent reminder and a warning to the next man who gets his hands on the keys. Yes, the Rangers support is just about to realise how powerful it really is now it is galvanised again and pulling in the same direction. These fans are about to become the king makers and that's why they should behave in a manner befitting the club they represent. The next man who steps up to the plate will expect them to scrutinise his every move like never before. The fans will demand that, from now on, the people at the top are open and transparent. They deserve nothing less. What the future holds is still unclear. In the short term, we can only hope the administrators find what they are looking for to keep the business going and then had it over to a safe pair of hands. Hopefully the time will come soon when the fans are being asked to throw their united support behind a new regime. In an ideal world a group of well meaning, wealthy and reputable Rangers supporters will step forward to claim control as a consortium to make sure that, never again, the club is left in the hands of just one man. If all these interested parties can find a way to club together for the greater good and drag Rangers away from the brink I'm positive the rank and file won't be slow in identifying them as the men who saved them from their darkest hour. It's time for Rangers men to stand up and be counted. It's time for the club to rid itself of all the old unwanted baggage so that Rangers can be proud of itself again for the fantastic football club it always has been. So let Celtic get on with celebrating their title - a title they somehow failed to win throughout the last three years of financial troubles - and let Rangers get on with the painful process of putting their club back together. what a sad, tragic old man, you can almost taste the beel in his pathetic little article
i wonder if good ol marky bhoy thinks the last 3 rangers titles are tainted by tax evasion and death threats? or if his sad little mind is just blocking that out.
Rangers dignified!! a tenner for every fiver , huddle at Celtic Park 1999 .no wonder we are celebrating their death when we have to read rubbish like that from a bigot
It is fantastic. whoever wrote that is ****ing hilarious. It is either genuine beel, or an ill conceived piece with the sole intention of getting Timmy to read it.
There's no way Hately writes these columns. What he basically does is carry a tape recorder with him and every time a thought enters his head he records it. At the end of the week he hands it in to the DR where some young hack-wannabee translates and writes it up in a simple-to-digest form of English. It's then printed with the tagline "as told to <insert name of senior journalist>".
two memories of Hateley, 1st, scoring a real craker against Leeds down there in 92 and second, Glesga kissin stewart kerr!!
Yep a ghost writer will write it for Hateley. He is merely a man who wants to keep the income coming in so he will pander to the anti-Celtic brigade to keep himself in with the Hordes.
Pud, Should that half wit, bitter sectarian trouble maker "Big Jock knew" not be removed from this forum for ever.
