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The Scotsman has stepped up their campaign to provide comfort for hurting bears.
With very few Celtic fans in Morningside to cater for the Edinburgh based broadsheet has decided to chase the Follow Follow audience by supplying good news and the promise that this time next year it will all be very different.
James Tavernier, Todd Cantwell, Nicky Raskin and John Lundstram are all familiar with the required message aided by a media network happy to pass on the exciting news.
From Paisley yesterday we got the news that Micky Beale had won more points than Celtic since he ditched QPR, conveniently ignoring the fact that when Celtic clinched the SPFL title away to Hearts they were 13 points ahead- four more than when Beale took over from Giovanni van Bronckhorst. FACTS!
Extending that theme into Sunday, Scotsman readers are informed that this season’s points tally would have won the SPFL title four times in the last decade. How unlucky can you get?
The volume was on mute and the picture was somewhat fuzzy but Michael Beale couldn’t have helped noticing the footage of Celtic celebrating their title on the TV stationed immediately to his left as he sat down to do his post-match media interviews inside the SMISA Stadium. Here’s what you could have won. And in another year they just might have.
In the past decade Rangers’ final tally of 92 points would have been good enough to finish the season as champions in 2019, 2018, 2016 and 2013 while they would only have lost out on the 2015 title on goal difference. Plenty, then, for Beale and his players to be positive about ahead of next season.
Yeah, sure, so much to be positive about for readers of The Scotsman such as on Wednesday night five legends leaving the building to be replaced by Kieran Dowell.
None of last season’s £15m of signings made any worthwhile impact, Bosman signings John Souttar and Tom Lawrence started a combined total of just 12 SPFL matches.
With 12 months left on their contracts Borna Baarisic, John Lundstram and Kemar Roofe are entering the scenario that Alfredo Morelos, Ryan Kent and Filip Helander were in a year ago.
Sad
Hugh Keevins this morning claiming Rangers finished the season on a high is another example of the media at pains spinning a season of failure
Plenty more of this to come
I could have flew a plane ,,if I stayed on at school
Remember the time when that good ol’ ‘ boy Gordon ‘i knew nothing ‘ Smith said on television that if results had turned out differently , then the Rangers would be one point clear at the top of the table ? The problem being Celtic were 13 points ahead at the time ! Smith went on to become the head bummer of the SFA after that doozy of a statement , not long after …. It just warms the cockles ,dinnit !
Garbage story, a what if, REALITY CHECK is The Rangers didn’t and that’s the end of another Garbage story