The Beram Kayal Show continues today with him saying what a thug Lee McCulloch is. I remember the incident Kayal is on about: McCulloch didn't even look at the ball and his straight-legged lunge was intended to injure. I also remember McCulloch rolling about on the ground, pretending to be injured himself. As soon as he saw that he wasn't getting a card he was up and running, swiveling his elbows in readiness for his next challenge.
Sooperally, of course, laughably sticks up for McCulloch, while the Bisto Kids verbally slaughter Kayal for even mentioning it. The sad fact is, though, that McCulloch's calculated assault put Kayal out the game for four months and he has been injury-prone ever since. He has every right to cite this incident as a crucial reason for not being able to deliver on his initial potential. He not only has a right; he is right!
The SFA joins in the April Fools spirit by deciding to haul Leigh Griffiths up before the beak. Apparently he has breached Disciplinary Rule 86, which is all about bringing the game into disrepute. This has to be a joke; there's no other explanation for it. Maybe they'd be better cleaning out their ears and listening to some of the real offensive singing permitted by Bisto FC.
Vincent Lunny seems to pick and choose who his targets are. Remember how his impeccable hearing led to him reporting Celtic for a small group singing songs that nobody else could hear? Meanwhile, he fails to notice every time the Billy Boys is belted out. He also failed to act against Sooperally when he was demanding names and putting people's lives at risk. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was following some kind of agenda!
The incident has brought out the usual crocodile tears from the Bisto Kids. According to them it's a disgrace slagging off Hearts when ordinary, working people could lose money and their livelihood. Isn't it funny how they're so concerned with ordinary people all of a sudden? If they're that worried then maybe they should use the Rangers Fans Fighting Fund to pay the face painter and the others that got shafted, instead of paying for a lawyer for Craig Houston.
And now....ta da da da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The grand unveiling of The Rangers Supporters Loyal, a new supporters group - as if there weren't enough already! This, however, is different. Despite its name it is really the Merlin Supporters Group. They're going to set up a website, where they'll keep away the rebels and folk pretending to be Bisto supporters and every day's going to be like the Twelfth of July. It's going to be a 'free' forum; unfortunately, however, they're using the McMurdo definition of freedom. Like his blog it looks as if this new forum isn't going to stand for criticism of the board. I wonder what they'll talk about? Probably the usual shite about Catholic conspiracies, Peter Lawell running the world and how everybody's got it in for Bisto FC.
The news of this wonderful new organisation comes hot on the heels of McMurdo and his disciples getting excited about passing the begging bowl round at Ibrox. They're all talking about having collecting tins, boxes at the food outlets (to put change in) and paying over the odds for season tickets. This massive amount will be ringfenced (naturally) and used to bolster the team. Great idea, eh?
The only fly in the ointment with this plan, and, by God, it's a big fly, is expecting a support that can't even fork out proper adult prices for their season books to suddenly start being generous! The price of a season ticket is going to be a good bit dearer this coming season; it's going to be hard enough to get The Peeppil not to buy juvenile tickets again, never mind pay extra! Still, it seems that the Bisto Kids care a lot more about their new team than they do about their children; McMurdo and his disciples better hope that Bisto FC can use all those milk tokens they find in the collection tins.
There's another problem: the support is seriously split and all the ones that don't trust the board are hardly going to throw the weans' dinner money into a tin to help the Easdales out, are they? Still, McMurdo's disciples point out that he's had over 4 million hits on his blog, so that's that sorted then! Only it's not as simple as that. Unlike my blog, McMurdo gets loads of comments on his, by the same people day after day. Those selfsame people don't just post once a day either; you'll get sometimes half a dozen or more posts by the same person. That means that the same people are visiting the blog many times in a day. Throw in the folk like me that visit to see what the bams are saying and those hit statistics start not to look so great after all. This doesn't bode well for the collection tins!
Staying with McMurdo's blog I felt I had to write about another post that appeared yesterday, even though I usually have nothing to say on this subject. This was all about the Orange Order and how they're demanding investigations and apologies from the USA because many weapons used by the IRA came from America. I hardly think the US Government can be held responsible for that. To me what is more concerning is where Unionist terrorists got their weapons from. Were they supplied by the UK Government? If so, then surely we should be worried that our government was arming people to kill other UK citizens!
Meanwhile a new Bluenose Bam's Blog joins us here in cyberspace, rather unimaginatively titled, 'We Are Rangers (sic)'. You can have a look at it here: http://wearerangers.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/rise-a-pause-for-thought-on-humble-beginnings/
Like me, the guy seems to have literary pretensions. He offers a dramatic account of 'The Gallant Pioneers.' He seems, however, to have missed the whole point. What really happened was probably as follows:
As McBeath, Campbell and the McNeil brothers took a walk in West End Park, they discussed what the future held for them and how bored they were.
"Aye, it's a whole four months tae July. Ah wish wae could sing songs aboot killin' Fenians an' show everybody how superior wae ur mare often," said William sadly.
"Ah've goat an idea,' said Moses. 'Why don't wae start wur ain fitba' team? Wae kin call it Rangers an' bar Catholics an' sing the good auld Orange songs at every match!"
"But nane-y us kin play fitba'!" interjected Peter C.
"But wae don't need tae!" enthused Moses. "Wae kin invent a new kind-a fitba', where silky skills don't matter an' wae jist boot fuck oot-y anybody that comes near us!"
"Oh, aye, an' wur gonnae get away wi' that,'" countered William. "They've goat referees in these games, mind!"
"Wait a minute!" shouted Peter M excitedly. "Aw the referees ur in the ludge; thul hiv tae help us oot. Aw wae need tae dae is mention the widow's son."
And so the idea germinated and, two months later, a football match took place at Fleshers' Haugh, at Glasgow Green, between a team from Callander and the new Rangers. Even though Rangers got ten penalties and three Callander men were red-carded, two of them while being stretchered off, the match ended 0-0. William MacBeath was given the Man of The Match award for breaking the legs of two players and ending their fledgling careers. William then took to his bed for a week, claiming to be injured, since he had received a call-up for the Scotland squad.
And the rest, as they say, is history. Our blogger then goes on to say that MacBeath's participation 'shows the steely determination of a young man who had come to a cross-roads in life, and decided he would never allow himself to be beat, in sport or in life.' In effect, he had invented what came to be known as the 'Rangers Way.' Winning was everything; it didn't matter if you had to cheat, swindle or throw somebody out of a boat. How you won was unimportant; all that mattered was that you won. This hard-and-fast rule stood the club in good stead throughout its history, which, unfortunately, came to an end in 2012.
Finally, I should have bookmarked wherever I read the other day somebody asking how six-thousand-odd Bisto fans could constitute a 'majority.' I can't remember where I read it, but I think it was something to do with some clown claiming that the majority of fans were joining the madcap 'Trust' scheme with their season-ticket money.
Of course, anybody that asks this quesion is not au fait with the 'Rangers Way'; a tradition Bisto FC is carrying on. It's easy to imagine them considering six thousand a 'majority'; after all, for years we were told that the thirty-odd, or forty-thousand-strong choir belting out bigoted songs was a 'minority'!
Vincent Lunny and his team get ready for Sunday's match at
Easter Road.
4 million hits on his blog is that actually true pat or just a random number he thought of?
ReplyDeleteNo idea. He keeps bragging about it, though!
ReplyDeleteThink it maybe as real as the legendary rangers worldwide fan base!!
ReplyDeleteOr his version of history.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I've already said this Pat but I've never been on his site/blog and never will be to be honest.I knew he he was a rainjurz supporter/fan/lover whatever but didn't know how bitter and poisonous the idiot was until I started reading your blogs. Hope your not making things up that he says and it turns out he is really a good guy!! That's my attempt at sarcasm Pat
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