Why is it the commentators keep going on about Rangers financial difficulties when on the park their side will still probably be good enough to finish second comfortably in the SPL and beat most of the other SPL teams? I don't recall the same sympathy for the likes of Billy McNeill, Liam Brady or Lou Macari (whom the media demonised and laughed at signings like Biggins & Muggleton). Come on fair is fair. Rangers won 9 in a row due to the double whammy of spending money they did not have AND Celtic at the time not being a decent opposing force as we were skint. So maybe it is time Celtic has a period of true domination and maybe we can even do a 'Man Utd' on them and make up the 12 title gap over the next 20 years or so. I also believe David Murray entered a Faustian pact with the Devil so to speak, and it is now time to pay the price.
I think the points Rangers built up during the first half of the season will see them through till the end of the season (hopefully in 2nd place of course!) But come the summer and we'll see who's offski. According to today's papers Rangers were desperate to offload Lafferty and Healy in January. Don't know how much truth is in the stories but I would expect to see at least three to four big earners out the door in the summer.
Sadly we were only runners up twice during their 9 in a row which again illustrates the dire situation we were in. But we took our medicine, so I make no apology for enjoying this case of Schadenfreude. I remember all the stick I took from my 'friends' at uni... it was not nice. I prefer to recall the early 1980s when Celtic faced competition from the New Firm and Rangers were an irrelevance.
That is the sum of all of this. Look at the other threads on here and elsewhere, the rough ride given to Celtic meant that we knew what was happening, we became conditioned to it. This is new territory for them and it is very surprising for them.
Yeah you are 100% correct. I hope that we all have to play our part in making sure they don't get away with this sympathetic view and the re-writing of history. Everytime anyone be it on a forum, on the radio, in print or even at the water cooler goes on about how McCoist is financially disadvantaged then let us put into place the rebuke that Celtic suffered greatly during the Rangers 9-in a row era and we were shown little or no sympathy. We were spun the yarn that Souness and Smith were superior managers and all the hogwash associated with that. The first time Smith faced a decent challenge in the case of Wim Jansen we all know what happened. (Though I do feel Tommy Burns did a good job and was a wee bit unlucky especially the season we only lost 1 league game and under the old 2 points for a win would have won the title). The thing that makes me laugh the most is that in work after the ICT fiasco one of them told me that Celtic were 10 years behind Rangers. What they didn't bank on was a manager who actually was highly talented coming along and actually breaking their most expensive team ever... I think Martin O'Neill is our Ronald Reagan... the man who won the war. Reagan wasn't President when the Cold War did end, but his aggressive stance and his high spending forced the Soviets into bankruptcy. O'Neill spent around £25 over 5 seasons which isn't really that much, though he did spend £15 in his first 6 months. That was enough for him to get rid of The Little General (LOL) and then embarrass Feck time and again. Okay so we lost 2 titles on the last day (even though we all know both times in the run up decisions that went for Rangers were scandalous at best; cheating at worst) but they may be Pyrrhic victories for them. We could so easily have won 8 titles in a row and indeed if WGS got a break in his last season it would have been 9. And if Lenny's Lions had beat ICT last season it would have been 10 out of 11. That is how close we have been to destroying them. They have hung on by their fingernails for too long, aided and abetted by the media and officials. It is Judgement Day.
