GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 21: (L-R) Former Rangers Board Member George Letham, Rangers Chief Executive Officer Patrick Stewart and Chairman Fraser Thornton during a William Hill Premiership match between Rangers and Dundee at Ibrox Stadium, on December 21, 2024, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Yesterday was another significant day at Ibrox, following on from Remembrance Day and Armed Forces Day celebrations earlier this season.
Apparently it was the 125th anniversary of the first match at the stadium but no-one is really quite sure.
In 1973 Rangers celebrated their Centenary, later on they discovered that they had been founded in 1872 which made their liquidation and death in 2012 the end of 140 years as a club.
8lue Ser of Irbok. https://t.co/RMoY24tJZy
— Celticunderground (@celticrumours) December 21, 2024
Under the direction of founding father Charles Green, Everything, Anything is remembered and celebrated to distract fans away from the non-stop misery that they are living through.
With immaculate timing the 125th anniversary of Ibrox opening came less than a week after Celtic surpassed the trophy total of both clubs from that stadium.
That was a grim reminder for the bears that have coughed up their money over the last decade, making character like Green, Mike Ashley, Connor Goldson, James Bisgrove and others very rich in return for three trophies, the same number as St Johnstone.
8l ue 5 ER OFA IRB DX…..
Is it, em, the wifi password? https://t.co/FoheDKVJb1
— IW (@IW_1967) December 21, 2024
Keen to engage with their new digital audience, Andy Newport of the Daily Record took to X to share an image of the pre-match card display.
The 90 minutes that followed were equally as forgettable as the pre-match festivities. For the fifth time this season the home side managed just one goal in the SPFL, the celebrations over  leapfrogging Aberdeen into second place were muted with around 15,000 hanging around for the final whistle on another year of misery at Ibrox.
There was something very hollow about the match yesterday, despite the efforts of the Union Bears to manufacture enthusiasm a growing number of bears are slipping away, those that do turn up are leaving earlier game by game.
Talk of Phil Clement’s January war-chest seems to be out of bounds for the mainstream as they await instructions over where next to go digging.
The state ? pic.twitter.com/ldJDL3NqXl
— ??? ????? (@WeeNippySweety) December 21, 2024
Great start to a Sunday morning. The wi fi comment made me laugh out loud, Joe.
Chapeau as somebody more famous than me might say.
Love your new podcast ‘ trinity Tim’s ‘ thankyou Eric and James .
Editor: And there’s more…
I wonder if Muir will do the same as Madden and take his whistle and leave Scottish football. Madden was (publicly) told off by the head of refereeing for allowing CELTIC a goal…. And now the head of refereeing has publicly told off Muir for not giving the establishment team a penalty kick ….. I wonder if Madden told Crawford Allen (I’ve been cheating CELTIC all my life) and you slag me off in public for helping them…. that’s it I’m off
Looks like Newport’s boss – Inaction – sent an email memo to him ..still half cocked from the night before! Or maybe it’s back to the old lagers for breakfast routine … hhiicccuuppp.. pppaarrrrpppp…
112 years and 146 DAYS older than its current inhabitants then !!!