Handshake-Gate – Even Murdo sees more in Artur’s antics than meets the eye!
What the hell is going on in this world?
You could swap the word ‘respect’ in the sub-headline above to any one of the usual Ranger-isms, with bookies making a fortune due to the omission of the usual favourite ‘dignity’. The Laptop loyal’s thesauruses must be burned out. Many punters will have lost their mortgage betting on the odds on favourite.
And the journalists can hardly hold their glee can they? It would appear that not only those with ‘vested interests’ are celebrating either. The return of Walter and him succeeding in three derby’s in a row has had the old lexicon of voodoo being passed around the press rooms of the Death Star. All will be revealed soon as the laptop loyal launch whatever strange mythical term they are going to use to describe Walter’s stranglehold on our little manager. This new mythical term will replace the old favourite of "hoodoo" and is likely to be a homage to 2002’s "Alex Mcleish has an indian sign over Martin O Neill" (although the image of Big Eck suspending a tacky neon curry house sign over Martin’s head still makes me chuckle).
Those in the press not concerned with writing the next generic headline will have an easy time of it for the next few months, as will Rangers.
You would have thought that there had been an important football match at the weekend and you would have also been forgiven if you thought that one team won that convincingly. You would also have been forgiven if you think that there may have been some backlash over one team getting NINE PLAYERS YELLOW CARDED! I am sure there was a player knocked unconscious was there not? Alas no, the biggest priority newsline emanating this morning is regarding a player refusing to shake hands with the opposition??!!!
I am not going to dignify this with a lengthy response; all I will say is this. We have a player whom HATES loosing. Great I say!
We also had an entire midfield incapable of putting in a tackle for the entire match after all getting booked early in the first half for their first fouls, a trick that Aiden McGeady also managed when he came on in the second half.
This is OK however, as the Referee was consistent and bookings were dished out evenly!
Aye right! The only Rangers player to get booked were Alan Hu’n and MacGregor for getting involved in a stramash. If you were in a blue jersey at the weekend literally the only way you could get booked was to raise your hands!
Looking at the bookings, the only challenge that was not mirrored by the opposition was Brown’s. I still for the life of me cannot believe that not one of the Rangers midfield received a yellow card.
Oh well at least Setanta never commented on Artur’s pre-half rituals. (roll eyes) It would appear that from a crowd safety point of view (and also from a yellow card view point) that a player blessing himself is worse than an entire team leaving the field of play to celebrate a goal. I can remember players getting booked or even sent off for this in the past!
From our point of view the lack of fight within our team was disturbing, but with the entire midfield scared to make a challenge and protect their back four what else would you expect?
Yours in Celtic
Clydebuilt