Bill Leckie has given an eye-witness account of the Ibrox Lap of Honour that turned into a toxic, gauntlet of hate according to the veteran Sun reporter.
Decision making has never really been a strength of James Tavernier, yesterday he failed to read the room spectacularly when Don Robertson blew the final whistle to mark Celtic’s defeat.
Living in the sort of bubble that presents a serial loser with a Hall of Fame place, Tav thought that the 15,000 fans that had stayed to the bitter end wanted to salute the efforts of him and his team-mates. How wrong could you get?
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While most of the fans were on their way back home to Larkhall, Bridgeton, Bearsden and Kilwinning some very angry bears stayed behind to share their views with Micky Beale’s losers.
A quick clap or wave from the centre circle would have been fine but Tav opted to lead his team-mates around the ground which allowed the summer signings to learn some very Scottish phrases and gestures. Meanwhile Beale was hiding.
Covering the comical scenes after the final whistle for The Sun, Leckie reports:
As for the players themselves, the sheer toxicity of the abuse that greeted the final whistle told them loud and clear that the fans absolutely aren’t having them.
What started as an apologetic lap of dishonour turned into a gauntlet of hate, the anger on the faces of those who’d hung around to the bitter end telling its own story.
And maybe I’m reading too much into it, but the fact that Beale himself was already bolting up the tunnel while the players faced the music told an even more revealing tale.
As ever the players will outlast the manager, Beale will be sacked the minute that the gap goes beyond four points, back to England with the consolation of his pay off.
The coming months will be educational for the new arrivals, at least with a leader like Tavernier they have someone that knows the script and drill when you welcome in a new manager and coaching team.
Will Micky Beale still be manager at Ibrox on Christmas Day?
Yes, he is the Brains Behind Gerrard, don't underestimate him
He hasn't a hope, badly out of his depth. Next please
In the film version, the music playing during that scene is “Disappointed” by Public Image Limited (RIP John McGeoch).
The manky mob’s exquisite pain is the gift that just keeps on giving. Hard to believe that Bill is actually a St Mirren fan too…..reading that you’d think he had some skin in the game.
Very noticeable that both Leckie and Jackson didn’t hold back in their criticism of Beale.
Now the penny has dropped for the bears: sevco can only bring in cheap, free, unwanted players.
Maybe they will also realise that their club peaked in its manager quality, with Gerrard and GvB.
It’s all downhill for sevco. 🙂
Think it’s disgraceful that Tina’s anthem was blaring out for ourselves upon entering the pitch at the start, yet gets drowned out at the end of the game with the extremely loud booing.
Very disrespectful from all the scummy bears
Even John hartson is saying it wasn’t a foul when Dessers tackled Lagerbielk but he is wrong.
Like most, I have looked at it a few times and once you see what actually happened it is a very easy decision.
Dessers stuck his foot in front of him and basically tripped him. He didn’t touch the ball.The mystery is why the rules were applied fairly.
Sevco lost because of three things.
1. They allowed MaGregor too much space and time on the ball.
2. The incredible Maeda also stamped out any threat from Tavernier by harrassing him at every turn.
3…er Kyogo
My twopence worth.
Hartson – Another just wanting the red, white and blue sky sports / Sevco pound and if he doesn’t toe the party line then he’s out out out !
Only Sutton worth having to fight in the media narrative trenches –
I wonder will Celtic put out a ‘statement’ on the two penalties not awarded for the shoves on Kyogo – not a snowballs chance in hell of that happening…
Even McCann said it was a foul – even though he tried to prevent a Sevco fans backlash by saying he didn’t like the rules !
agree with you a clear trip and JH has to watch where his next pay check is coming from
Hartson can hardly say much else – he made about 20 challenges like that per game in his pomp and listed “flattening defenders” among his hobbies! He wasn’t happy unless the centre-half was leaving on a stretcher! Maybe it wouldn’t have been given as a foul back in John’s playing day, but it is now and that’s that.
Statement o’clock time again the sevco board have contacted the SFA regarding the 2 goals that got disallowed yesterday,lol a nice wee squirrel story to deflect away from their SHAMBOLIC performance and to play right into the hands of the klan klub krowd.
Apparently they have also made contact with Crawford Allen the guy in charge of the refs so don’t expect to see any of those officials from yesterday’s game back at ibrox any time soon or for that matter anywhere near a sevco game this season.
Now that the klan klub have touched base with the SFA and the gaffer of the refs,watch for special guest star appearance on radio shortbread either tonight or later this week from Crawford Allen trying to explain away those 2 chopped off goals after complaints had been made by the klan klubs board.
You see the thing is their board take no shite about decisions going against them,now if that was decisions against us yesterday our own board would have been on a SPONSORED SILENCE.
Decent win for a decimated Celtic side in a game where they correctly refused to accept tickets for the safety of their fans.
Were they coghing the abuse to tune ?
Away before xmas..