Even after 23 years in Scottish football Chris Sutton can’t get into the mindset of the Ibrox cheerleaders.
Understanding Denial and Deflection would be a decent start for the former Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea striker.
The dubious honours won under Dave Murray in the nineties created a mindset of entitlement among Ibrox fans, anything other than trophy presentations at a packed, cheering Ibrox is a concept that they struggle to come to terms with.
Something isn’t quite right, just like winning less trophies than St Johnstone over the last decade which has brought about a multitude of fake awards in recent weeks from the Closing The Gap Cup to the Dead Rubbers Champions.
Kenny Miller’s calculator has come up with some strange conclusions across his multiple media appearances as he attempts to outdo Ally McCoist, England’s favourite pundit.
Sutton watched Celtic race to the SPFL title in Match 34 with four games to spare, crushing Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Micky Beale in the process.
Observing the reaction to the dead rubbers Sutton tells Daily Record readers:
The Celtic manager must be a perplexed about the narrative around these dead rubbers. His side have lost a few games but you’d think they’d chucked the league with some of the reaction. Postecoglou must be tempted to shrug and say, ‘who gives a f***, mate?’
Seriously. These games are absolutely meaningless – there has been nothing on the line. Celtic haven’t won them, but, honestly, it’s a total waste of time trying to analyse them. Does Postecoglou need to win the Playing For Pride Trophy as well?
The way some folk are going on, Rangers are flying and Celtic are struggling. Some are trying to frame it like it will have some sort of bearing on next season. That’s frankly ridiculous. Have they casually forgotten the last nine months? The objective at the start of the season was to win the league. Celtic managed it with room to spare.
They have delivered in every single big game domestically and now they’ve lost a bit of edge people are making assumptions about August. It’s nonsense. Rangers might take a bit of confidence from their last few results, but this is a team that couldn’t do it when it really mattered.
In the three crunch derby games, they came second best each time and folded under the pressure. Now the heat is off, they are world beaters again. As for Celtic, they smashed through the finishing line, are they expected to keep sprinting?
Miller and McCoist aren’t expected to be sharing their expert views as Sky Sports covers today’s final round of top six fixtures.
Sky can’t even ensure that Kris Boyd fulfils his contract today as he cannot bear to acknowledge the champions,let’s start a movement to get him replaced and then we can do the quadruple including the KB cup
Well said Chris, no doubt Rangers will be world beaters again for a couple of months, building up to a frenzy with each new world class player signed, until the actual pesky football has to start again.
They have to hit the ground running, they know Celtic are very close to overtaking all their ” world’s best” claims and they will not like that one little bit, even though most of them are lies.
That’s the trouble with lies, you repeat them often enough, you start to believe them. Well certain peepul do.