BRUGGE, BELGIUM - AUGUST 27: Fans and supporters of Rangers showing the word cowards during the UEFA Champions League Play-offs Round Second Leg match between Club Brugge and Rangers at Jan Breydel Stadium on August 27, 2025 in Brugge, Belgium. (Photo by Joris Verwijst/BSR Agency/Getty Images)
As they witness their Staunch Revolution crash and burn in under a month one Ibrox fans are digging deep into the reasons why Lawrence Shankland can’t header a ball into the net.
Or why Nico Raskin and Cammy Devlin get brushed aside by third rate Hibernian footballers.
When football is an expression of your superiority complex Scottish football in 2026 is an uncomfortable place to be.
Especially so for those bears in their 50s or 60s who thought that the 1990s under Dave Murray was the natural order.
Truth is that over the last 60 years Celtic have dominated every decade with the exception of the 90s when the Bank of Scotland under Gavin Masterton almost destroyed Scottish football.
Fortunately there was only one casualty. That happened in 2012 as angry bears looked around and said ‘but naebdy tellt us’.
By naebdy they meant the Daily Record, BBC, Herald, Scotsman and the rest of the chip wrappers who had dined out with Murray for decades.
Some pesky Internet Bampots were able to piece things together. The benefits of Point 5 in Kensington Blue’s investigation.
IBROX MOURNS AS RANGERS DIE
The Bank of Scotland debt mountain was inherited by Halifax. A financial crash and the Lloyds TSB takeover meant the good old days were over for Murray and his football club.
In June 2012 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth rejected a CVA and Rangers were dead. Who could blame her with £20m of unpaid taxes with potentially another bill looming for a further £70m.
None of Scotland’s wealthy Blue Noses came to the rescue. Or the fans that had left for the Commonwealth countries to earn millions. Expats of course, certainly not immigrants.
We timed the takeover well for the peak EBT years. Congratulations fellow agents!
— Jamie (@Jamie18584318) August 10, 2026
Fourteen on from the launch of the Tribute Act by Charles Green the domination days are over.
Green made way for a new regime backed by Mike Ashley who were chased out of town for trying to run a business.
The Three Bears came to the rescue, reached the top flight then found Brendan Rodgers launching the greatest period of domination Scottish football has ever known.
Last year the Daily Record told their readers that happy days were back with the introduction of the San Francisco 49ers.
It wasn’t really. It was plain old Andy Cavenagh with some mates out to make a tonne of money. Ibrox fans swallowed every word, they still discuss the 49ers.
Among the soothing jargon and buzzwords ‘The Americans’ delivered Russell Martin, Danny Rohl and now one of their own in Derek McInnes.
THE VATICAN, JOHN REID OR BELLAHOUSTON PARK?
Three games in the Staunch Revolution could be the shortest ever.
Bears are again searching for answers.
That is increasingly difficult since they have tried every type of management to break Celtic’s domination.
To answer a simple question they go wildly off at a tangent.
Fuelled by the narrative being pushed by Nigel Farage with Reform in Scotland led by lifelong bear Malcolm Offord.
The reasons are bizarre. They range from John Reid, Bellahouston Park, Co-op Bank, Craig Whyte and the Vatican infiltration of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
The answer is actually quite simple. Bears are the problem. Their completely misguided superiority complex and blind faith in things like a Marble Staircase, Loving Cup, Mister Struth’s bowler hat, The Blue Room and that success is their birthright.
Meanwhile they can turn to Kensingtom Blue and other like minded types for reassurance that they are the innocent victims of the most sinister of plots.


They are living in a country and western song – a life of misery and despair.
Here’s a little ditty I put together about the post 2012 Bear experience. It was going well until I got a bit bored and concerned about copyright issues….
Sometimes it’s hard to be a bluenose
Giving all your cash to just one team
You’ll have bad times
And they’ll have share issues
Doin’ things that you don’t understand
But if you love them you’ll forgive them
Even though they’re hard to understand
And if you love them, oh be proud of them
‘Cause after all they’re still you’re team
Stand by your club
Give them four cheques a season
And something more at Christmas
When nights are cold and lonely
Who is paranoid now!!!! ??????
They’re gonnae lower the pitch by digging a big hole of STAUNCHNESS!
Indeed they are all a bunch of staunchers, or should that be stauners?
Joe simple truth is them lowlife dole boy huns are mostly uneducated, inbred and have a IQ of a gold fish like the fat baldy ugly chap you see walking down Benidorm shirtless and a covered in tattoos of the murdering para regiment, King Billy and the butchers apron so f**k them scumbags then deserve everything yet coming down the tracks.
Or why certain Ibroxland board members and ‘investors ‘ don’t want their names made public ? Imagine watching a new movie where there has been millions of bucks (allegedly ) invested into the project and then at the ending credits the producer and director and assistants names remain anonymous ? Or the actors refusing to publicise the movie whatsoever …pre release ! It would not be a good look …would it ! Not a peep from the nodding dog loyal scoops either . Surely it’s not a ‘ cleansing of dough ‘ exercise from said mysterious unidentified merchants ? Or maybe I’m being too critical and it’s all down to those guys being quiet and self conscious …camera shy ? The poor souls …..