Pre-match Steely was gibbering away like an excited schoolboy anticipating seeing his club win the SPFL Premiership title for the first time.
Just after 5pm he had that weary look of someone that has been watching Captain Tavernier and various others capitulate to Celtic since the joys of lifting the 2016 Petrofac Cup victory over Peterhead.
In the build up to the match hopes were high as the 10 match race to glory got underway but early on things weren’t going to plan.
Theo Bair’s ninth minute opener has been edited out but the groans, worries and concern was building up during the first half with Motherwell failing to crumble.
After a lengthy VAR check Tavpen does what he normally does to equalise on the hour, 15 minutes later Captain Disappointed was posted missing as Dan Casey headed in at the back post to put Motherwell back in front.
The desperation stretched through 10 minutes of added time before Alan Muir blew the final whistle, plunging Steely back into reality after four months in Clement Wonderland.
Afterwards he trails out of the stadium with all those familiar insecurities about a leadership group of serial losers.
A 4 minute VAR check would seem that an incident is not a clear and obvious error???? VAR is clearly (as I understand it anyway) being used improperly!?!? Have I got it wrong??? VAR is there to correct clear and obvious errors I thought but it now seems to check everything????
Get the popcorn out on Thursday night.
IF we secure the 3 points against hertz today,
then a convincing win by Benfica on Thursday
against sevco would be ideal.
…and there’s always a chance of a SC wobble
after an away game in Europe?
Could be a season defining week for ibrox?
Heh heh heh. Had to laugh at a couple of specific things there though – his rather selective view of the Diomande ‘incident’ where he thinks the Motherwell player should get sent off while most sane people see it as two players shoving each other and one diving to try to get a fellow professional punished, their chorus of ‘fuck the SFA’ while waiting on a VAR check (!) which was always more likely than not going to give them a penalty and the blink and you’ll miss it holding up of a banner demanding 50+1 fan ownership…. they must be a lone wolf howling in the dark there! I didn’t think Huns even understood the concept of fan ownership as their sugar-daddy addiction has led them to the liquidation of Rangers and the instability of Sevco.
At 12.04 in the video. Their no 7 trying to hit the defenders hand to buy a pen
Picture the scenario ? The Rangers are losing 0-1 to lowly Motherwell . A highly dubious decision is made to call the ref over to the VAR monitor . The whole process which Blind Willie MC Tell would have sorted in about a minute max , takes over 4 ..all added on time ,in which to aid the losing home pet project team . As we know all in all there was 8+ minutes added on in which to help the ultimately losing clumpany . As I’ve said previously , Celtic is in a battle on AND off the pitch in which to be victorious this season in particular . Now we really know what ‘Everyone.. Anyone ..really means?