It’s probably not so surprising to have theRangers talking of invincible seasons. After all, if you can claim 55 titles from 9 years of existence and your chairman can issue statements trumpeting 150 years of history and tradition – despite the sequence ending along with the club in 2012 and without challenge from a support – then it’s not such a leap to claim an invincible season, is it?
That is especially so when your rank in file is predominately so imbecilic that even in the midst of a worldwide pandemic a street party for thousands seems a sensible idea.
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This after all is a support who, when seeing their club disappearing down an HMRC plug-hole, raised a series of red cards and a banner saying no to liquidation, rather than put their hand in their pockets and save their club – like this.
And when it did go bust and ceased to be, that very support and assorted media lackeys adopted a hear no evil see no evil approach to going out of business – like the guy who loses his job after 25 years and is so mentally damaged he picks up his briefcase and heads for his 7.43am train every day, until security get bored of removing him from his office and call the Police.
Perhaps with their decision to head to George Square they thought the perceived immortality of their club would transfer to their bodies when it came to fighting transmission. Going by the infection rates it would appear they were wrong on both counts.
And just as their assessing of events has been questionable throughout, so too is it when it comes to Invincible seasons.
A compliant media of course has played its part in the myth of continuity surrounding the club playing out of Ibrox and now the same tactic is in operation when words like Invincible are bandied about. Much like there is only one club from football’s biggest rivalry to win the European Cup, one to have an unbroken history, there is also only one to have achieved a domestic season of genuine invincibility and it happened here.
That’s right in a Scottish Cup Final, the showpiece end of season event that left Celtic with all three domestic trophies and not a single defeat and came in the dying throws of a competition that this season hasn’t even begun.
It also started here in November 2016 with Celtic’s 100th domestic trophy:
That’s right a League Cup final where the first piece of silverware was lifted without tasting defeat. Not like here:
That is where theRangers bottle crashed in Paisley and any claim to an invincible season was extinguished in December, when exiting the very first domestic trophy of the season!
Football fans are of course partial to the odd bit of revisionism as we saw when Manchester United fans claimed Jock Stein’s quote and changed it to “FOOTBALL IS NOTHING WITHOUT FANS” for their own ends earlier this season.
Important message on the Stretford End tomorrow night.
Top marks to the lads & lasses from The Red Army for sorting it.#mufc 🇾🇪 pic.twitter.com/cc0d5JjIRW
— Matt Ford (@matt_4d) June 23, 2020
There is only one club who can lay claim to an Invincible season, one where our own Matt Corr recorded it all for generations to come. That fine book is still on sale and should a side from the south side require a genuine point of reference, it is also a thoroughly good read.
Not only has the league campaign not been concluded, not only have they already been punted out of one domestic trophy and not only has the other not started, still there remains a belief amongst the brainwashed in theRangers support that they are on the verge of matching Celtic’s famous season. It appears the soothing nature of comforting lies is so much more appealing than facing inconvenient truths.
Niall J
