Aye, we know Scottish football is ****e. We know it's an embarrassment. BUT, deep down we all knew it before yesterday and if Rangers/Celtic had made it through we'd have papered over the cracks for another year. I've came into work today though to an absolute shower of arseholes. Fans of clubs like Dunfermline, East Fife, Cowdenbeath etc. People that don't go to support their own club as well. They're the ones who are piping up about Scottish football being an embarrassment. I know that Celtic fans can be absolute ****s but fans of the teams outside the Old Firm are worse, constantly having a go if we fail. How about this lads, worry about your own ****ing team, maybe if pricks like you went to games and contributed more money to the smaller clubs Scottish football wouldn't be in the state it's in
What ****s me off is when we get called glory hunters by these ****s. Yet whenever a Dunfermline or a St Mirren get to a cup final there are 30,000 of the bastards claiming to be loyal, lifelong supporters of the club and demanding tickets left, right and centre. Where are they the rest of the time?
Aye those bastards had their first game of the season at home to St Mirren and I know it was a Monday night, but there was only about 5000 there What would happen if they met St Mirren in the final of a cup competition???? ****ing arseholes. I may go on a killing spree before today is out
Usually me and a Celtic supporter in work will slag each other, today we agreed not to talk about it. So far I've had emails from a Partick Thistle fan, and a Raith fan trying to rip the pish.
I'd be surprised if you let either of them go home without a black eye ML. Do it, you know it's right
Partick fan is on site in Fort William, the Raith fan is in the Edinburgh office. The one that supports Raith goes to every single Scotland match. He even went to Japan for a friendly Next point - why do wee teamers think they have to be in the tartan army? <fannies>
Here's a telling fact about 'wee-teamers' and 'glory-hunting'. Kilmarnock won the scottish cup in 1997. In 1998-99 their average attendance was 11,184. The next it was down to 9,419. The next 8,223. The next 7,621... This season (so far) they're averaging 4792. This is not aimed at Killie fans in particular but it shows precisely that glory-hunting is far from the sole property of OF firms.
I couldn't agree more with all of this. A hefty chunk of my mates are St Mirren fans - watching the Rangers game last night after five a sides, me, the other Celtic fan and the Gers fans we play with were all silent - the St Mirren fans were giving it laldy - if one team had gone through and the bhoys/bears were giving each other pelters, we would've got it in the lug for being "bigots". If Celtic beat St Mirren, I cannae gloat about it. St Mirren beat Celtic and I hear about it for a season. ****s.
Nearly. I would simply add the word “some” to make your points feel (more) valid, sincere and palatable: "I know that Celtic fans can be absolute ****s but some fans of the teams outside the Old Firm are worse, constantly having a go if we fail." I’d be prepared to bet that a good number of (non Old Firm) fans were feeling utterly despondent about last night’s results - I know that I was – and only ever wish Celtic and Rangers well in Europe and don’t seek to lay the blame for the ills of Scottish football exclusively at their respective doors. And the thought of mocking a European failure by a Scottish team - any Scottish team - is anathema. Domestically, these two teams are miles ahead and it always grates that this is seen as being a somehow insurmountable obstacle to progress for the other teams, as opposed to a source of inspiration/motivation. Poor us, the cry goes up, how can we ever be expected to compete? Well, eschewing self-pity and the stance of helpless, moping victims might be as good a way to start as any. Jesus. Maybe the same might be said when it comes to the Old Firm clubs (and some of the fans) and their occasionally envious bleats about EPL and Champion’s League money? I really don’t know. It may also help if a particularly rancid mindset is eradicated, one that intermittently seems to appear amongst some supporters of Old Firm teams (and some fans of the national team, too): namely, we have a right to compete at this level and we should be beating “teams like this”. I struggle to understand the root cause or justification for such momentously misplaced arrogance. And these lazy assumptions may actively mitigate against self-improvement, it might be argued, as we piss away our lives on a permanently receding tide of nostalgia, frantically looking for someone else to blame for our self-inflicted wounds. Anyway, whatever. Sorry for going on. (The worst result, to my mind, was Hearts at home to Spurs. That one actually properly hurt. They – Hearts - looked like nothing more than an abject gaggle of autograph-hunters trying to catch the eye of their heroes. Dismal and shaming.)
Stuart Cosgrove and his slow-witted sidekick, Tam Cowan, probably still have throbbing erections from last night's results.
