Since watching their team humiliated by Celtic on Sunday it seems that a growing number of ‘Rangers’ fans have been pouring their hearts out on podcasts.
Celtic fans appear to be enjoying the content more than anyone else with the broadcast hosts realising that the more depressed and desperate that they come over the higher their financial return.
Everyone is a winner with the distressed fans getting some coin while Celtic fans enjoy outstanding content as their rivals implode as they are faced with the reality of being a distant second best in a contest that bears believe is their birth-right to dominate.
The Espanyol comparison was first suggested almost 20 years ago as Celtic go their act together under Martin O’Neill, generating the benefits of having a stadium with an additional 10,000 seats that was capable of generating £5m or more than Dave Murray’s once futuristic stadium.
That financial disparity reversed the trend of the nineties. With special facilities provided by the Bank of Scotland Murray was top dog with a fawning media fuelling his ego while Donald Findlay knew how to cultivate the core support to part with their money.
With the Halifax takeover killing off the charity work from the BoS, Murray turned to disguised remuneration untill his luck ran out, sold to Sir Craig Whyte for £1 with liquidation starting 13 months later.
Throughout those days of financial doping delivering success the guys on the Rangers Rabble assumed that the Advocaat Years and the trophies from the legend that was Smith was the norm.
Charles Green’s Tribute Act fed into that for a decade but with Celtic enjoying almost complete dominance the market of wealthy Bluenoses pouring their personal fortune into a loss making venture has run dry.
Dave King and Douglas Ross have turned off the cash taps, John Bennett is in for £13m and not prepared to toss away any more to satisfy ungrateful supporters who are staring austerity in the face and squealing about it.
The “Espanyolification” of Glasgow. The Rangers inquest continues. pic.twitter.com/gFp5nwLVkx
— Tim Brannigan (@tim_brannigan) September 2, 2024
Wilf: It’s becoming the Espanyolification of Rangers. We are becoming Espanyol, right? In Barcelona there are two clubs. One if f***ing massive and the other is Espanyol. We are becoming Espanyol.
Martin: Not becoming, not becoming, we are Espanyol.
Wilf: Yes, we are Celtic’s plaything. 100%, we are now as far behind Celtic financially as Ross County are behind us.
To be fair to the Staggies they are unlikely to announce a loss of close to £20m for the year to 30 June 2024 and have had an open and functioning home stadium since the season kicked off in mid-July with League Cup ties.
After 12 years of delusions reality is slowly dawning on the Rabble lads, if Celtic are ran on on a competent basis the club from Ibrox could be jousting with St Johnstone for crumbs rather than comparing themselves with Espanyol.
Finally getting over the notion that they are supporting and watching Rangers might be a good starting point.
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by Robert Jenkins
There’s a scarf in that picture with Helsingborg written on it. That’s Henrick’s home town, isn’t it?
by Johnno
The business side of a club will always effect the playing side of the club?
These days supporters have far better knowledge upon the workings of the business side of a club, even if the playing side will always take preference for supporters in general?
When you end up getting both aspects wrong a total mess occurs, and the best place for such a shower of scum to remain also?
Our board tends to get slaughtered for not being adventurous enough within the transfer market in general?
The scum board are currently getting slaughtered for not being adventurous enough, even without the money available?
The scum have operated this way in there entire existence, and all the more remarkable, that the same operation killed off the first version of the shower of scum?
But this summer the scum have shown that they still need ourselves to remain relevant?
We have shown the scum that they are not relevant to ourselves, and they never really were over these past number of years now?
We have far more adventurous plans to be looking forward to, that doesn’t involve the scum whatsoever?
They only remain our back up option these days, with striding and remaining a growing distance ahead of such shite?
But the secret for a Scottish team still remains in good investment to move forward.
Something that has in general been decent, without been spectacular, yet has produced some fantastic results financially along with success produced upon the field of play?
When was the last time the scum could make such a claim?
More likely it’s the cost of cheating with such poor investment more like?
Would say even espanyol and Ross county would be disgusted at been compared to the scum, especially as they would possibly be far better run clubs than the scum?