Espanyol, Leeds and Torino- not all bears believe in The Trophy Cycle

Fans of Vale of Leven and Queens Park have been waiting a helluva long time to celebrate another Scottish Cup win.

In the first 20 years of the competition those clubs claimed the trophy 13 times.

Vale of Leven last won the Scottish Cup in 1879, their third success in a row but since then the trophy hasn’t returned to the Dunbartonshire club.

Queens Park won the trophy for the 10^th and final time in 1893, beating Celtic in the final but since then they’ve had to content themselves with hosting finals then seeing the trophy leaving Hampden.

With six title wins shared between the two Ibrox clubs this century many bears are starting to wake up to being second best in a two horse race, others console themselves in the knowledge that things just randomly switch from one club to another!

Since the sixties Celtic have been the dominant club in Scotland with the exception of the nineties when Dave Murray spent his way to success using other people’s money before bailing out for £1 with Craig Whyte inheriting a mountain of problems.

These days in football the club with most money tends to dominate, now and then they will much things up like Bayern Munich last season and Celtic in 2020/21.

Sometimes it happens but it is a blip, competently run Celtic and Bayern will win their leagues eight or nine times out of ten.

At least one Ibrox fan is waking up to that reality.

Shouting We Are The People or No Surrender is of limited value in 2024, unfortunately fans of clubs from Ibrox are brought up in an environment of superiority, a concept with no basis in reality.

For many the anger and demands increase with every trophy celebrated by Celtic.

There is every chance that the hoops could start next season #goingfor56 having destroyed the cherished myth of The World’s Most Successful club.

Anger will be off the radar for many bears as they increasingly realise that there is no footballing cycle with just the occasional trophy win and Moral Victory to remind them of the days that HMRC was denied funds to put a successful football team on the park at Ibrox.