I HAVE to admit to wry amusement at the contrived contempt for Rangers' new club-record 19-game unbeaten run, and even more contempt for those in the light blue corner seeking to turn this into something special.
On the one hand, it is always good news for a club when they put together such an impressive run, in any league; that said, when that club enjoys the advantages over their peers which the current Rangers squad does, there has to be an element of: "So what?" from the watchers who are not Rangers' fanatics.
When you look at the current Rangers' squad, full-timers to a man; for them NOT to go through the SPFL League One season unbeaten would be a less-than-stellar show. An unbeaten league season - plus the Ramsden's Cup - is the least the Ibrox hordes should expect come May.
THE SFA'S "punishment" on the Dundee United scrabble answer, for his laying of hands on that assistant referee would be a joke, if it wasn't so-serious.
OK, I accept that it sometimes seems Scottish linesmen - let's face it, some offer so-little assistance to the man in the middle they ought still be known by their time-honoured name - seem to think it is their solemn duty to mess-up matches for the players, the team managements, the stuck-up twat in the middle with the whistle and the - to them - least-important people in the ground, the fans.
But, much as we might wish to, they cannot be man-handled and the United player should have, at the very least, have had his erse well and truly kicked.
One awaits with interest, to see what happens the next time an assistant's mistake upsets a certain red-headed Premiership manager.
I FELT sorry for my mate Robin last night. Robin is another player in our Wednesday morning collection of ten-pin bowling coffin dodgers.
Yesterday, he had a shocker, then, he set-off for Dunfermline to cheer-on his beloved Ayr United in their Scottish Cup replay with the Pars; which Ayr lost.
A 170-mile round trip, not getting home until about midnight, and your team still lost. Guys like Robin, who has hardly missed a United game since before Ally's first spell as manager at Sopmerset Park, are the real heroes of Scottish football.
Wry amusement indeed sir, 'The' Ran@ers current pride is soon to be as short lived as the managers plaque on David Moyes office door.
ReplyDeleteAs for Scottish linesmen... failed insurance collectors from Lesmahagow, most of them.