Masonic conspiracy: We want a refund!

Martin O’Neill. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again - brilliant manager, total wank.

Willie Young made a mistake yesterday. Fair enough. He’ll have made a lot worse in less high-profile matches and we had our wee incident with Andy Davis at the other end of the same ground: It actually DOES even itself out.

I saw it from a camera angle similair to Wullie’s view of the incident and you could see how he thought it was a dive. It was a fair and honest mistake and he followed it through by sending Pressley off.

Hearts might not have scored the penalty, had it been awarded. Pressley being off the pitch for the remaining minute or so probably made little difference. You’d think it would be an occassion for everyone just to sit down, hold up their hands and say - “well, it was exactly the same kind of mistake which Andy Davis made, when he gave a penalty which clearly wasn’t.”

And, as we all know, so many Celtic fans - like so many of the Rangers brethren - need a bit of guidance from on high if they’re ever to escape the dangerous cliche in which they live. We, at Ibrox, have people who think they want to be in the UVF - Celtic have people who think everyone who doesn’t support Celtic IS in the UVF.

For twenty years now Rangers have been pro-actively dealing with the bigotry question by signing or trying to sign any decent Catholic players who came our way, even making some of them captain of the club. Celtic, however, seem to have gone the other way in that, now that there is absolutely no sane reason to believe anyone is anything other than TERRIFIED of giving any decision against them, they suddenly start deciding to let their most prominent mouthpiece stoke the fires of hysteria rather than attempt to quell it as he should.

Only the thoroughly negligent O’Neill could turn a wee break of luck for his team into an excuse to claim Rangers are in cahoots with the SFA to stop Celtic winning anything. (Like I say, he’s heading for his fourth SPL title in five years so if there is a conspiracy, ah want mah money back!!) .

If he refuses to admit Young’s decision was anything other than “debatable” then that’s his perogative. Blind loyalty to his own team is a good thing in a manager. But if he then decides to bring up an incident which, for all the ramifications it may have had on Celtic’s attempts to be champs, took place in a game between two teams neither of which were Celtic, then his malignant little agenda is once again clear: Sod the public order concerns, just ensure everyone at Celtic is in a frenzy of paranoia.

He didn’t actually say it though, did he. he didn’t actually say “The SFA back Rangers”. Once again he’s stopped short of actually saying the words. Because he’s a coward. A cowardly little shite who is quite happy to leave a massive fan base believinhg the world is out to get them simply because it means none of their shit results can be blamed on him “It was all a conspiracy, gov”.

But tell Derek Stillie that O’Neil doesn’t whip the delusionals among Celtic’s support into a frenzy. When there’s gangs of folk outside yer hoose on a Monday night after the O’Neill dressing room mantra had the then Dunfermline keeper branded a cheat for losing six goals at Ibrox (this on the same day it was WRONG of Gordon Marshall to NOT be throwing the ball into his own net at Riugby Park, according to O’Neill’s same players).

Already today I’ve had to listen to Celtic fans - really DECENT, intelligent people - wondeirng out loud why Craig Gordon deigned to leave his goal yesterday and come up for a Hearts corner in the dying minutes: Apparently O’Neill now has them so wound-up that any team trying to actually score against Celtic is part of some sinister plot. Only Celtic are now allowed to have pride in the jersey it seems. We won our last two games against Hearts by the same scoreline as Celtic did yesterday - but Hearts were trying harder against them than us.

Rumours abound that the speccy cretin is about to take a year out to look after his wife. A young Rangers-supporting friend of mine today claimed he hoped this wasn’t true. (a) because no-one would wish illness on the guy’s family and (b) because we’re obviously gonnae lose the league to O’Neill next week and my pal wants him in the manager’s chair at Parkhead when we next win the SPL (hopefully in 2006!!!).

But ye can’t help feeling that, as long as O’Neill is at Celtic, every defeat for them will be as hollow as every victory for Rangers - nothing in this world is genuine anymore if it isn’t a Celtic victory.

Stuff like this doesn’t make me want Rangers to win the league even more than I did already - it just makes me think, “have the league all ye want, O’Neill - just use it to get a job down south and GET TAE FUCK.”

…KLUNK! Now I get it.


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