PANIC STATIONS AT RANGERS: IBROX CLUB RISK EUROPE TO PREVENT CELTIC SURGE
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Aug 12
- 3 min read
About an hour or so ago, I heard a faint cracking sound here in Japan. It came from a westerly direction. I assumed someone had maybe dropped a vase, or perhaps it was even a mild tremor, representative of the earthquakes we get here from time to time.
But, no, it turns out that what it was, in fact, was the sound of Rangers’ bottle crashing from an almighty height!
Rangers vs St. Mirren to Go Ahead as Ibrox Side Fear Potential 10 Point Deficit
It’s amazing the change in attitude that a couple of utterly abysmal showings in the SPFL can bring about.
A couple of weeks ago, you could barely open a newspaper or check a website without seeing yet another rent-a-goon from the Scottish press telling you “The Rangers are Coming!”
Usually followed by “no, honest, we really mean it this time.”
Such was the confidence of the Temu Tribute Act, as one reader so magnificently branded them in the comments the other day, that they opted to postpone their game against St. Mirren on August 24th, deciding instead to focus on added preparation and recovery time between the 1st and second leg of their probable Champions League play-off against either Club Brugge or RB Salzburg.
Well, two draws in their first two league games and a couple of misspelled angry protest banners later, the Glasgow £1.49ers have decided that the League campaign does matter after all.
At least, that’s the narrative they and their ever-compliant enablers in the Scottish press are running with. The truth though, and it’s something we know they’ll never admit, is that they are already running scared.
Going through with the St. Mirren postponement and then consequently losing to Celtic when we travel to Snake Mountain on the 31st, would have seen Rangers, potentially, fall 10 points behind Celtic, less than one month into the new season.
Even by their own incredible standards, that’s an even faster collapse than my bowels after a curry and 18 pints of Guinness!
Apologies for that mental image that I’m sure you never wanted!
Speaking of excrement, the complete and total meltdowns over on “Follow Follow” from the few Ibrox dwellers that have mastered multiple-syllable words have been absolute comedy gold these past few days.
Seeing grown men and women completely lose the plot, over what are, ultimately, just 4 points dropped in a season that is only 2 games old has brought us a cavalcade of laughter that would have made the late, great Glen Micheal proud!
However, we can't gloat just yet. I still think this season isn’t a foregone conclusion. Celtic have won our first two games, but we haven’t hit anything like top form yet.
And, much like Aberdeen do when they play them, this version of Rangers always somehow seem to raise their game when they face us.
However, in the meantime, we can still sit back and have a good laugh as Paddy Power pays out on yet another Celtic league win, and the denizens of various Rangers message boards continue to conjure up new and inventive ways to blame it all on Peter Lawwell, The Vatican and The SNP!
August 31st can’t come soon enough, for us or them!
