Even Sooperally gets involved. He says, “There are lots of supporters who feel the same way, that they have lost a little bit of the identity, their own personal bond or relationship with the club." Those'll be the shareholders of the old club, who suddenly discovered that all they had were worthless shares in a phantom holding company. Or maybe they're the debenture holders, who no longer 'own' a seat, even thought they're told it's the same club! Anyway, Sooper clarifies things by saying, "As long as sumday's signin' ma pye cheques, Ah don't really gie a flyin' fuck!"
McMurdo's mob are just as riled. I had to laugh at one of them, who says, "Couldn’t care less what Donald Fudlay thinks or says, he belongs to a profession that most folks think are full of people bent as nine bob notes". That'll include Nimmo Smith then, will it? Or the whole legal set-up in Scotland that allowed a company going into liquidation to invent a 'holding company'? Yes, bent as a nine-bob note right enough!
Meanwhile, the Daily Record is getting all excited about the League Cup semi-final between Celtic and Bisto, calling it the 'return of the Old-Firm fixture' when it patently isn't. One of Merlin's disciples has this to say:
"The very fact that the Old Firm Game has been resurrected and they are creaming themselves at been given the opportunity of sharing the park with the most successful team in the world says it all for me. End of."
Eh? Any Celtic sites that I've looked at show that most Celtic supporters are pretty much underwhelmed at the whole idea. Their main concern is over the trouble that's bound to happen whenever The Peeppul put in an appearance. Oops, no, I've got that one wrong, as one of McMurdo's disciples points out:
"Keep laughing off anything the press conjure as they go fishing down the Ibrox U-bends. Scotland always expects more from Rangers fans, and rightly so."
Is this clown living in the same reality as the rest of us? All the whole world expects from The Peeppul is bigotry and hatred and extreme violence if things don't go their way. Still, he's right about one thing: the Daily Record is already starting to paint a pretty picture of the Bisto Kids. I mean, look at this headline:
"Firefighters rescuing 25-stone man forced to wear GAS MASKS - because he hadn't washed in 5 years."
Now, that's not very nice, is it? And while the DR goes overboard about this fixture, they have revealed that the SFA have already chosen the referee. His name is Billy McBoyne, but he has recently changed this to Hugh Dallas. An SFA spokesman has said, "This is the same Hugh Dallas; he always has been and always will be.' Helpfully, the DR also provided a photo of the man:
I see Gordon Strachan is calling for Aiden McGeady and James McCarthy to be booed and jeered and treated like pantomime villains. As Keith Jackson helfully points out, "McGeady and McCarthy have been branded turncoats by some fans who have not forgiven the pair for choosing to play for Republic of Ireland rather than Scotland." And which fans would they be, pray tell, Mr. Jackson? This is a pretty disgusting move and it looks like Strachan, or somebody above him, is playing the bigotry card to entice The Peeppul to the match. It looks like 'The Famine Song' is being given official sanction.
And just to give The Peeppul an added incentive to turn up with their bile, Strachan has chosen 'Rangers Ace' Lewis Macleod for his squad. The Daily Record loses no time in telling us that this lad has "won two league titles". It forgets to mention, however, that these were in Divisions 1 and 2. So he's hardly what you would call top-class. In reality, it's just a sop to The Peeppul.
I can see this match turning into a trial-run for the League Cup semi-final; at least as far as The Peeppul are concerned. Strachan is not usually as stupid as this, so it really makes you question what's going on. If the match turns into a huge bigot-fest then fingers are going to be pointed in Strachan's direction. He's probably wishing he'd kept his mouth shut already.
Speaking of bigotry, if you're as old as me you'll remember how in the late 60s and into the 70s (and even 80s) the big enemy held up to the people of Britain was the Irish Catholic. As well as a figure of hatred and fear, the Irish Catholic was something to be made fun of. Remember all the jokes about thick Irishmen? The TV joined in this as well, with programmes like 'Me Mammy' and 'Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width' relying on the 'strangeness' of Catholicism for their so-called humour. If you don't remember these programmes then you're lucky. The whole point of these shows was that Irish Catholics in particular, and Catholics in general, were something 'outside' and 'strange'. Catholics were scary people, not to be trusted, so what better way to deal with them than to laugh at them, the way film-makers did with Hitler and the Nazis during WWII.
There is now a new enemy being portrayed: the Muslim. And so, predictably, we have a programme making fun of them, 'Citizen Khan'. Just as they did with comedies about Irish Catholics, the makers are at pains to point out that they're laughing 'with' Muslims, not at them. Have a look at one episode and you'll soon see that they're lying through their teeth. Just as they did with programmes like 'Me Mammy' they're showing the Muslim as 'strange' and 'other'; someone that is not like 'normal people'. It just goes to show that the UK is still a racist nation, no matter how much they claim otherwise. What a pity we're still lumbered with being a part of it!
"What's that? Mike Ashley said wur a new club? Well, abslootly; wae ur. Ah've said this all along...etc...etc...etc..."
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