Personally, I’m 100% behind any ‘housery’ aimed at Celtic and their fans. Surely that’s the life of a Rangers football fan? Unless you have a sense of humour bypass and have decided to play the faux moral outrage and whataboutery card.
Has football become a sterile environment for somewhere they want players to be like robots? No mistakes, no flair? No passion at last minute winners? As fans we take the wins when we can. And moan about the losses. We laugh at other teams and fans’ misfortune. We rage when it happens to our team. Welcome to the simple world of football.
An opportunity to escape everyday life issues for 90 minutes. You would think the antics of Sterling and Cerny was a new phenomenon in football, or even life threatening. It’s been going on for decades. We all laughed at Paul Gascoigne and his imaginary flute. We all cheered the mock huddle at Parkhead when we won the league. We’ve had ‘The Thumb’ winding us up by tying scarfs to goalposts.
Over the years we’ve had players showboating, We had Kanchelskis standing on a ball at Hampden. We had Baxter playing ‘keepie uppie’ against England. We had Gascoigne ‘booking’ the ref. Elsewhere, Robbie Fowler imitated ‘sniffing’ the white lines on the park as a dig at the Everton fans for their insinuations.
We moaned about the players not caring enough or knowing what an Old Firm win means to the fans. Well, in the 3-0 victory at Ibrox, Raskin as Captain didn’t care about McGregor’s reputation and got tore in about him. Something we’d all been crying out for years.
Cerny – a player on loan – shown what a last-minute means to him and his teammates. Sterling, telling the truth about a stadium that quite rightly is a hole. VAR is already removing some of the passion from the sport we all love. Let’s not try and dampen the enthusiasm from the players that the fans feed off and vice versa.
We shouldn’t be talking about, “It could have caused a riot”. Players are subjected to a torrent of abuse most games – even from their own fans at times. Maybe I’ve got a different sense of humour from some, but the Cerny incident makes me laugh every time I see it. Not so much the water ‘skooshing’, more the overreaction from the Tims and when the camera cuts back to Cerny in the dugout who basically gives a wee ‘whoops’ and sniggers.
And is the over reaction more to do with the modern world? Where it’s captured forever, repeatedly played and then discussed online? I would be raging if it happened to me, but right now, I’m still too busy laughing at the Tims. Thankfully, I have another couple of weeks to enjoy before the potential for Rangers to put me back on a downer.
Written by MrPotatoHead March 19 2025 12:45:39
