RANGERS TAKEOVER: NEW OWNERS GET REAL AND FANS AREN'T HAPPY!
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 23 hours ago
- 2 min read
With all the transfer business, player rumors, new kits and pre-season preparations, it’s been a while since we here at the ACSOM Blog checked in with our young, deluded friends over at Ibrox.
And, as usual, the bears aren’t happy, and its for totally childish and utterly hilarious reasons.
Post Rangers Takeover, New Owners Accept Who the World’s Most Successful Club Really Are, With Predictable Results
Images emerging from Ibrox this week show a change in signage at the stadium John Brown played for. The new owners have realized just how cringeworthy their utterly invalid claim of “World’s Most Successful Club” was, and have ditched it.
The new signs, replacing the false claim of “World’s Most Successful Football Club” with an equally false, but somehow less offensive claim of “55 League Titles” were erected on Monday in the tunnel at Ibrox and at Murray Park.
And, somewhat predictably, with one week to go until their crucial Champions League Qualifier against Panathinaikos (Ελάτε παιδιά με τα πράσινα!), those few on the various Rangers fans forums who have the ability to read and write are in absolute meltdown about the removal of their sacred, self-awarded and completely fictitious proclamation.
Since the Rangers Takeover went through, there has, it seems, been a concerted effort to take a more professional approach to various aspects of running the 13-year-old club.
One of those is clearly to stop telling lies that anyone with a smartphone and 30 seconds of spare time can debunk.
By the way, the most successful club in the world, purely by number of top flight trophies won, (sorry bears, the petrol drinkers cup doesn’t count) is Al Ahly of Egypt with 126 trophies to their name. Celtic sit second with 118.
Even if we were to entertain the “still the same club” fantasy that Rangers (Requiescat in Pace) and the team current team playing at Ibrox are one entity (which of course I personally will never do), combined they only have 118 trophies.
Indeed, even Rangers’ hallowed position as the global “Sultans of Staunch” is under threat, as their incestuous, Irish sister club Linfield are only one trophy behind the Frankenstein’s amalgamation of the two Rangers on 117.
Going from being the self-proclaimed “World’s Most Successful Club” to potentially being not even the "world’s most successful hive of Anti-Irish Racism and anti-Catholic bigotry" in a single season would be quite the come down, even by Rangers’ own low, low standards.
It almost makes you want to see Linfield win the league. Almost, but not quite.
