James Tavernier has finally emerged from his Champions League bunker- issueing a statement on his club website to explain away a 7-1 Champions League defeat from Liverpool.
Borna Barisic was sent out to speak to BT Sport after Wednesday’s hammering with a few bland sound-bites full of apologies to supporters.
Tav claims that he was unable to speak to the media due to being selected for a UEFA dope test but it took him more than 24 hours to ‘speak’ out.
At 10.30pm on Thursday, after a stormy day of abuse on social media the Ibrox club released a statement that is apparently the words of their captain.
The language sounds very un-Tav like, none of the sentences end with y’know, as he explains his way through another humiliating defeat.
In seven years at the club the former Wigan utility man has won two out of 21 trophies, in contrast Celtic have won 15 honours.
Against the hoops Tav has lost five goals three times, twice lost four and came back for more as he closes in on a half century of penalty kicks.
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— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) October 13, 2022
Waiting till 10:30pm to post it so all the onion bears are in bed for school. Played admin.
— Shev (@Shevv_85) October 13, 2022
24hrs later, wheeling out Tav to try calm the passions.. I want to hear from the dwarf DOF or the specky clown, in detail, how they believed this squad was strong enough to go into this campaign with zero additions after qualification. pic.twitter.com/7YkTNuEiPu
— Jack O’Lantern ?? (@Jamag92) October 13, 2022
Half 10 on a Thursday night you release this birthday card pish
— RB? (@R1130_) October 13, 2022
Same old crap, which is been released by the club. On behalf of Tav.
Why don’t the players put there hands in the pocket and refund us our money for the ticket! For the embarrassment of a result. pic.twitter.com/ShvyLsXlDs
— Neil (@n3ilmc82) October 14, 2022
This sums it up. Once we went behind the players just tossed it and started thinking about how they could hopefully scrape past Motherwell at the weekend, and all is well again. pic.twitter.com/Knn9CUATRA
— Willy (@wmwscgbm87) October 13, 2022
If this is part of the same statement then it’s confirming that they have basically been told to not bother about Europe and concentrate on the domestic trophies. Of course they didn’t say that when they wanted to sell euro tickets.
— Michael (@Ml19dy76) October 13, 2022
Cap’n Tav will come good with a Penalty next game. And all will be forgiven.