Like most major organisations in the USA the San Francisco 49ers have wished their 2.4m Twitter followers a Happy St Patricks Day.
With 40 millions Irish Americans it is a sound commercial move to recognise their national day, throughout the length and breadth of the USA celebrations are going on among one of the largest immigrant groups in the nation.
It is a friendly celebration, one that millions of others will join in with. Some downtime, probably some drinks and music, generally a good time.
Unfortunately Scottish society is somewhat different, especially Scottish football and one club in particular.
Recently, driven by the Daily Record, the 49ers are apparently on the brink of a multi-million takeover that will involve a massive splurge in the summer transfer market.
The award winning reporter that broke the World Exclusive does have previous for getting things spectacularly wrong.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ?? pic.twitter.com/6HRKsLoV95
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) March 17, 2025
As anyone with any local knowledge understands the clubs from Ibrox have a deep hatred for all things Irish, their fans openly celebrate the Famine which killed over one million people and drove hundreds of thousands to leave the country.
That mindset is a badge of honour, something that supporters celebrate, a unique selling point from fans who view themselves as quintessentially British despite their previous club refusing to pay Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Once the hysteria of a win over Celtic dies down a little they will still be badly in need of a takeover.
The Daily Record has already backtracked from a San Francisco 49ers takeover down to a consortium led by the mysterious Andrew Cavenagh.
Today’s tweet is another wedge between the 49ers and their alleged Ibrox takeover, reality and the 21st century will never be a comfortable place for the types of people that support the second biggest team in Glasgow.
San Francisco 1690’ers just somehow doesn’t have the same kind of universal appeal.
Maybe just my opinion though.
Just the sheer geography of the sensibility of a takeover by San Francisco’s own American Football team seems imperceptible!
You’d have to cross three thousand miles of water and another three thousand miles of land, just to get from one to the other.
And that would be thee short way!
The other route would be of over considerably more miles in the opposite direction!
But, who’s to say?!
I guess when your dreams have been built up on steady supplies of Spanish toilet (pan) water, you’d maybe be willing to sup up anything!
Joe
I am sure your forensic journalistic skills will soon beautifully expose that if the 49ers stuff is true that Dave and the other real rainjurrs men are about to transfer ownership of their treasured ‘4 lads had a dream’ club to one of the biggest catholic benefactors in the USA ( yip! millions to catholic charities )
Marie Denise deBartolo (York) ownership of Ibrox would be absolutely epic
Why do they do it? Is it because that, the bigger the lie you tell, the more peepul will believe it? It is a whopper right enough! Is that all they want to do with their lives? Then they are too comfortable!
Don’t know them by their noise! Know them by their actions!
Then you will recognise who they really are!
A Sucker and his Spanish toilet pan are (not) easily parted!
Just wait till the fuds realise the mysterious money man’s surname is derived from “Caomhánach”…….
Captain
Michael Cavanagh (father Andrew) born in Waterford, was Secretary of the Fenian Brotherhood (looks like New York).
There was another Cavenagh involver in Irish causes in the United States.
Not sure this link will work.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/cavanagh-michael-a1571
A teaching Presentation sister told my mother that your son (my brother) was a born leader.
Problem is, he will lead people down the wrong path. I may have just done that. Anyway, interesting.
You see this is what I’m talking about in regards to Celtic bloggers,Forrest on the Celtic blog is telling people to take the defeat on the chin and move on,talk like that can only come from the board.
And Celtic have the cheek to call out sevco blogs for taking their lead from the ibrox board.
I thought his article was weird as well…
Weird? I thought it was realistic. What do you want us to do, walk around in sackcloth and ashes?
In the wider picture it’s an irrelevance. Sure it hurts but, We will win the League, possibly a world record treble.
20 years from now that’s the only thing that will matter to the Record Books. Let them have their minor victory. Come the end of a barren season for them their Trophy Board will show another Blank.
It was indeed a strange piece, more so when Rodgers, our elite manager, sat in his presser telling us he sees the same tactics, nothings changed between clements and barry the fuds tactics and yet Rodgers doesn’t have an answer for it, so no , I won’t take it on the chin and move on, Rodgers has humiliated the fans and the whole club
Yes great point you make please look at big picture , our manager has been let down by the board .False promises and he is a victim of his own success yet DD now must be on borrowed time as the game has now moved forward and the fans desire more than what we are getting served .
The disgraceful attitude of our board just tells you how they feel about the fans who pay they’re way unlike the cranks who sit in position at present.
Both to blame for Sunday to be honest…
The Board for sanctioning £11 million for a Glasgow Derby Pussy like Engels…
And Rodgers for not ‘educating’ him to go Brick 4 Brick, Boot 4 Boot, Blade 4 Blade & Bottle 4 Bottle with Secco !,,
Francis did the board not let Brendan spend money,who sanctioned Idah, Engels and Mccowan,22 million pounds worth,done over by a team set up by a failed kelty herts and alloa manager,I think Rodgers should take some blame as well,he’s never learned how to react and change to sevcos high press tactics.
Summer spending was funded by selling Matt O’Riley, weakened the team. Summer 2024 recruitment was miles better than Mark Lawwell Productions and the 2023 Summer Disaster.
No happy ‘ St Patrick’s Day ‘ sentiment from the Daily Record ! It could not be seen to antagonise it’s dozens of loyal readers ..or face the consequences . As the late ,great Terry-Thomas would have described: ‘ A Shah..a rotten Shah ! ‘