It was a winning weekend all round if truth be told. The fun started last Friday with the news that a man admitted having sex with a dog. What the papers didn't tell you was that Elaine C Smith's in-laws came out fighting and said they would stick by their son all the way. ‘We've had our suspicions for a while now, but at the end of the day he's still our son’ quoth an admittedly shattered couple!
Of course that wee gem was hidden away on the inside pages and couldn't hold
a candle to all the headlines about the Djiouff-spat-on-a-yoof-with-his-mooth-spoof. Of course what the ten million-pound dud did was disgraceful, but please spare me the outrage and indignant response, which we were treated to from the Yahoos.
Top banana in the morality stakes was one, Anthony Cosgrove, from Giffnock. He said, and I quote; "Some of us helped him up and a few people patted him on the back." If that insincere tripe wasn't bad enough he then trotted out the following classic; "If a Celtic player had done it I wouldn't want to see him play for us again."
There truly is no shaming a Yahoo. Mr Cosgrove has no problem in supporting the club that covered up you know what for a generation, but spitting is bad form. You just couldn't make it up! You do have to ask though in light of the SFA's threat to tackle racism (only at Ibrox mind) if you can make a team play a match behind closed doors because of a few Neanderthals booing a coloured player, then surely the Yahoos should be shut down altogether?
Spitting and racism seem to be the buzzwords at the moment but to be honest the hysteria and hypocrisy surrounding the particular practice of spitting has me flummoxed. Let me say once again that I find it a disgraceful way to behave, but I tell you, I really do wish that Neil Simpson had spat on Ian Durrant as opposed to what he did do all those years ago. I repeat,
spitting isn't nice, but there are worse things that can happen to you. (Like humping Elaine C Smith)
Credit where credit is due, at least Gerry McNee of all people had the courage to come out at last weekend and give a balanced view on it all. He is also the only Scottish journalist (and I use that term loosely) I have read who has had the courage and decency to say that James Grady should have been hauled up before the beaks and asked to explain away his behaviour in the recent cup-tie v Rangers. Of course Grady can claim mitigating circumstances. He is after all a little hate-filled (mad) Sellik minded scrote. It's what you expect from people who genuflect at other people in restaurants and the like.
As for the 'racism' charges that were spoken about by The SFA last week. You do have to ask where in the hell did Taylor get that guff about looking out specifically at Hampden for Rangers fans with bananas? Wrong support, 15 years too late but entirely in keeping with those anti-Rangers reptiles running the game. However, if this isn't a wake up call then nothing is. We need to challenge these racist clowns, and I had to agree with one of the columnists for No1 who said 'I'll be taking seat numbers.'
It was a nice week weather wise as well and I found there was a spring in the punters' steps also because of the Cheltenham Festival. The bookies were opened before 10 o'clock and helped relieve me of my hard earned even earlier than usual. Which was nice of the buggers!
But then came the weekend. Q - How do you know when a Yahoo is lying? A - His lips tend to move. I mean, what were that lot all about last week? Sutton and Thompson were ruled out of the 'Diddy Cup' final as early as the Thursday night. But surprise bloody surprise they both made a miraculous recovery for the Sunday? It was the biggest certainty of the week! And irony of ironies, what a hoot it was to see Sutton being stretchered off because his big thuggish team mate resorted to type.
To my mind our two goals were things of beauty. De Boer's arrogance and class at the first goal was very much in evidence and the man with the magic smile gave us a tantalising glimpse for the second that reminded us all once again how good he could have been. Neil McCann for me has been in quite a consistent vein of form of late, but I just feel that Lovenkrands' pace gives us an out that no one else can.
As usual the Yahoos were their usual ungraceful scummy selves in defeat. As Lennie the Lion used to say, the last time the Yahoos accepted an Old Firm defeat with good grace, Long John Silver had two legs. The Yahoos truly are a disgrace to the concept of sport. It also speaks volumes for how lopsided the morals are in this country when the Main Stand linesman will forever be remembered more for a split second offside decision as opposed to his blatant cowardice, when he refused to flag up Balde1s off-the-ball thuggery not once but twice.
I don't suppose anyone would be surprised that the thug in studs was let off the hook by the authorities. That's now three Rangers players have been walloped off the ball this season (and I'm not taking into account the Ibrox fixture in December) against the Yahoos and three times the Yahoo in question has got away with the prize Scot-free. I know I have rabbited on for years about the SFA and their blatant anti-Rangers sentiments. Perhaps one of the more patriotic Rangers fans out there could explain away the punishment for Amoruso and the decision to allow Balde away with his behaviour last weekend?
UNCLE TOM1S CORNER
Of course we are hindered in that ex-Rangers out there in the media are in the main part cowards who are afraid to show their true colours. We really do have a problem with some of them and for me Richard Gough's outburst about Amoruso especially in light of the authorities refusal to take action against Balde was beyond the pale. As far as I am concerned we are getting to a stage were we need to be saying to these ex-players, if you are not for us you are against us. It really is as simple as that.
Not so super Ally was his usual creepy crawling self once again last weekend in the News of the Screws as he fawned all over the Yahoos' European tie v Liverpool, whilst the OF game barely rated a mention. If you think I'm being a tad harsh, maybe you should consider that it was such an OF occasion 19 years previously when McCoist rattled in a League Cup final hat-trick to chase away his Ibrox demons. How soon they forget those cowards of ours.
Getting back to the game if I may, am I the only bear out here that gets the hump everytime that tube from yesteryear, David Syme, is asked to give his opinions of the referee's performance after an OF game? Quite simply look back at Rangers opening goal, did anyone notice anything wrong or illegal with the move and the cutback from Lovenkrands? Of course you didn't. But Syme disallowed a perfectly legitimate goal in the 1978 League Cup final for exactly the same kind of incident. Back then it was Greig's momentum that took him over the bye-line this time around it was Lovenkrands'.
Speaking of Lovenkrands, some clearly demented Yahoos have once again showed us how warped and twisted they really are. Grab-a-load-a-this-one, ‘The only reason Bobo would have hauled down Lovenkrands off the ball is if he had made a racist remark.’ What else is there left to be said about this lot? How can you have rational debate with such hatred?
HAPPY DAZE
Last Saturday, Jaaz and myself found ourselves down in Bridgeton and in the company of two of my all time favourite Rangers fans, auld Tam Bain and John Bradley. Between them they've got about 140 years service in following the Rangers, and it's a pleasure just to listen to how they operate.
Sometimes when I'm in Tam Bain's company, I find myself being whisked back in time to the evening of Saturday March 29th 1975 and being in a train compartment coming back from clinching the league title at Easter Rd. I mean, listening to the auld yin, my old man and his old man and another great Rangers man, Jim Paterson, who sadly passed away on the morning of the League Cup final 1984, is a memory I will always treasure as a Rangers fan.
There we all where, plooky wee 14 year old me listening and soaking up all the knowledge and love of Rangers football club that the older ones had to offer. The thing for me about our club is not just about winning baubles or playing in blue with black and red socks. It's about the people I have met because of the Rangers.
When I think of some of the old timers I have been privileged to meet because of Rangers FC it just makes me all the more determined that we shouldn't back down or refuse to take on people who hate us. People like the one and only Jimmy Clark for instance. I think it's up to all of us to make sure their memories never die. Of course you won't be surprised to learn that only a few weeks after Jimmy's death in 1982, Celtic fans desecrated his grave.
It was important to keep up the momentum v Motherwell midweek and we were up to the task. The goal from Captain Marvel was a corker, straight out of the top drawer and Lovenkrands' pace once again was a major factor in the goal that basically clinched the points. Dallas as ever had a nightmare, but then again that is just par for the course with this guy. He allowed the steel men to kick us all night but Lovenkrands' first and only foul (and it wasn't anything particularly nasty) sums this moral coward up. One last thing lads n lassies. If you cannot give Bert Konterman the proper support he deserves when he's got the Rangers jersey on, then give the ironic cheers a miss.
So it's Scottish Cup week once again and the Dunfermline area of the kingdom of Fife for the fourth time this season. I see that the phrase about 'the law of averages' has been trotted out by some Rangers fans over the last few weeks, and who can blame them? But it's hard to see us slipping up this weekend.
Just do it Rangers,
THE GOVANHILL GUB