Back to the press rat pack though, it beggars belief that not one single Scottish hack took the opportunity to ask Burley about his leading a players' revolt down at his club. Of course this has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that to bring the subject up would look bad for the current Celtic manager. Perish the thought. And you wonder why the sporting scandal of all time has been brushed under the carpet up here?
As for our own woeful performance in the debacle at Dens last Sunday. Be honest, there cannot be one Rangers fan reading this, who attends games regularly, who hasn't seen this coming. The display against Thistle at Ibrox at the start of April was as bad as I can remember. And regards the semi-final against Motherwell. The notion that we could lose three goals
against utter dross like the 'Steelmen', regardless of whether it was a one-off game or not, should have been a warning sign.
The simple fact is, you cannot go from gifting three goals against a team that is something like 63 points behind you one week, to clean sheets the next. There has to be something fundamentally wrong with our defending. And so it has proved. It is anyone's guess now as to how the rest of the season will pan out. But finishing in second place after having the title in the palm of our hands should result in a major clean out of the
entire Ibrox playing squad.
I see our old chums at Nil By Mouth were up to their 'sectarian
shenanigans' again at the start of the week. Yes, they've appointed a new coordinator, a Mrs Helen Miller, who hails from County Derry of all places. The place doesn't actually exist. There is a County Londonderry and before it was renamed there was a County Coleraine but there¹s never been a County Derry.
But hey, what else should we expect from an organisation whose idea of combating sectarianism and division here in Scotland is to be upset at the thought of weans, who happened to members of the Junior Orange Lodge, being allowed to go on a cultural exchange visit to France. But at the same time have no qualms in supporting the sectarian, apartheid, education system Scotland is burdened with, which is without question THE biggest sectarian
and discriminatory blight on modern day Scotland.
So is this league slipping away from us? Consider the coward Dallas allowing a blatant off the ball elbow by Hartson on Moore to go unpunished in last season's Scottish Cup final. He actually took him aside, went through the elbowing motions and then wagged his finger at the Welshman as if to say don't do it again. Consider also that weasel's leniency once more
a fortnight ago with regards to the same actions by the same player. Yet Motherwell had a player red carded for the use of an elbow against the yahoos on Wednesday evening? You can only wonder at the blatant injustice of the game here in Scotland when the most physical side, a side littered with hatchet men, thugs, cheats and divers, are given protected species
status. I'll say it again, inTIMidation is the name of the game up here.
One of the nice initiatives that Rangers fans have come up with in recent seasons has been the Blue Order. But I'll sum up how far behind we are as a club with allowing the fans to organise displays. Compare and contrast the quite fantastic sight that greeted AC Milan players as they entered the 'San Siro' on Wednesday night and contrast with the fact that our club won't even allow the Blue Order members into the ground with so much as a flag.
I know all the stuff about fire hazards. I know that we dour, Calvinistic Scots have a different mentality when it comes to these kind of spectacular shows, but I also know that the club realises that the atmosphere on matchdays is a problem. Yet they are stifling guys who are wanting to change this sad state of affairs at every turn? Over to you Mr Chairman.
The things you learn in books, eh? There I was thumbing through an Old Firm book the other day, 'Voices of the Old Firm' and was astonished to learn that 'Follow Follow' was actually a yahoo song and that Rangers fans nicked it. Well according to a demented yahoo that is. They truly cannot help themselves can they? Let's see now, they gave us FF and they gave the
scousers YNWA. They'll be telling us Busby got his idea for a youth set up from Kelly next, or that they are non sectarian.
So that's five points and however many goals surrendered in the space of two weeks. Well, at least we know now that the team has to go for goals, goals and more goals. Jings, I think I've stumbled on something here. I mean, if you're defence is not up to scratch then why not keep the ball as far up the park from them as possible. Do you think it will ever catch on?
You know what to do Rangers, get on with it.
THE GOVANHILL GUB