Chris Sutton has just taken a large Wrecking Ball through another nightmare week of activities at Ibrox. Most rational folk would call it the truth.
Sunday to Friday Daily Record readers are fed a predictable diet of how Scottish football has conspired to deny Steven Gerrard the title with all sorts of characters called on to build the picture.
As the conspiracy is built up ticking away in the background is the dream of Null & Void. It is never made too public because it would be laughed off but sure enough it makes the occasional appearance.
Eery utterance from Ally McCoist, Alex Rae and others questioning the legitimacy of Celtic to be crowned champions is given the full treatment.
Sutton can see through it all. Stewart Robertson is nearing the end of his second term in three years on the board of the SPFL and has suddenly started shouting about governance. Perhaps he should look closer to home and publish the interim Ibrox accounts to 31 December 2019 to ensure a place in next season’s Europa League.
Sutton told Daily Record.
CHAMPIONS OF POINT SCORING
Rangers need a reality check from the top all the way through. The champions of point scoring who don’t score enough points where it counts. On the park.
Rangers have mastered the art of covering up bad situations by deflecting attention elsewhere to other things and other agendas and this has been another masterstroke of taking the eyes of fans away from the bigger issues.
Like, why did the team fail so badly again in the quest to deliver silverware?
And where are we heading with this squad of players and the fact cash reserves to improve it for season 2020/21 might be wiped away by the effects of the pandemic?
Let’s face it, that’s all fans care about. Agitation over SPFL corporate governance doesn’t really matter a toss to the boys and girls who pay their way through the gates of Ibrox.
I’d imagine they’d rather read a 200-page dossier from their manager and players on how they are going to learn from their mistakes as they try to catch Celtic.
Not 200 pages of drone which, as was said to me by a lawyer friend, looked as though it had been drawn up by a first-year trainee at a big firm.
Piffle, embarrassing, misguided, unnecessary and irrelevant were amongst other words he used, but there’s no point in wasting any more time on this document as enough of people’s time has been wasted on it.
DEFLECT AND DENY
Deflection. Picking fights and battles with authority when mistakes are made on the pitch. Pointing to officials getting things wrong when they lose Cup Finals when they had enough chances to win six games at Hampden against Celtic in the Betfred Cup final and didn’t take one.
Winning hearts with coaching staff calling it “one of the most one sided cup finals in history” when they somehow contrived still to lose it.
Blaming the media and hounding opposition fans for their treatment of Alfredo Morelos whenever he steps out of line and does something wrong. It’s never his fault.
Now Steven Gerrard is telling the world that his team were never giving up the chase of Celtic this term when he and his team had already given it up completely with their performances since the mid-season break.
SERIAL LOSERS
We keep hearing about the winning mentality under Gerrard. They haven’t won anything. James Tavernier recently said Rangers are a team of winners, but you actually have to win something to be called winners.
Delusion seems to filter through various areas of the club and that’s their biggest issue. The great pretenders and great deflectors. There will, of course, be a section of the support who allow such statements to take their eye off the bigger issues.
But I’ll bet the ones who want to see silverware back in the cabinet and Celtic deposed from top spot in the country can’t be bothered with this off-field grandstanding, pointless fighting and fanciful comments.
