Rangers v Celtic - 25th March - TITLE DECIDER - 1pm - SS1

James Forrest · 31 subscribers
about an hour ago · .


When a player cannot challenge for a 50/50 ball, there is no point in turning up for a match. When your manager is sent to the stand for asking for clarity in decisions, you are wasting your time at the match. When you have two reds for first offences, scandalous decisions both, corrupt decisions, the question has to be asked what our club is afraid of, and why we left a team on the park in the face of such blatant and obvious cheating.

People in green jerseys let us down today. People in our management team let us down today. The players who could not rise above the occasion in the first 20 minutes were shocking - Anthony Stokes GTF for starters, last week was bad enough, today you were a bad joke - and the management team who did not have the courage to pull the players when it became obvious we were never going to be allowed to contest the match properly, were shocking.

Our club now has serious questions facing it. Serious questions about who we are as a club and where we are going. Today was the Establishment's day in the sun, and the Establishment Club, with the authorities in the game right behind them, pissed in our faces for a worldwide TV audience to see ... and we have serious problems with our courage and our convictions if we do not have a plan for the absolute certainty of a corrupt decision regarding the phoenixing of Rangers right back into the SPL.

On a day like today, I want people at Celtic who will fight for everything, and men who are willing to die in the ditch. There are too few of them in jerseys, and far too few of them in the upper echelon of our club.

We had better decide for how much longer we are going to take part in the charade that this is a fair league, that we can get the even breaks, that we can get a good deal, that we can co-exist on a level playing field. The idea of it is an offense. The notion it can continue is a scandal.

This club either fights or it does not. If we fight, we have a chance to win, if we do not fight we have none. The people running our club are either courageous men or they are cowards, and we are going to find out which is true. If they do not fight to the last they are finished, and our club is finished with them, because regardless of what is being said elsewhere, this a a zero sum game and the conviction Scottish football can survive without Rangers does not exist when it comes to surviving without Celtic. They would kill us to watch us die.

I would rather we fought to the last breath and vanished, than bend over and continue to pretend that things are other than they are. Today we should have walked the second Lennon was sent to the stand. The Wanyama sending off was inevitable after we kept our team on the pitch ... we were not going to be allowed to win that game today. It's that simple. So I question why we even continued with the charade that we could.

The people running Celtic saw, today, the Establishment at its worst. They pissed all over us. They are not going to wither, they are not going to die. They will pull every stroke, use every trick and they will not be allowed to fail. We had better have a plan in place, and if that plan involves OUR CLUB NewCoing as something else, somewhere else, we better be willing to die rather to live as second class citizens in a bent league in a corrupt association.

It's better to die for something than live for nothing.

Celtic as an institution far into the future will be judged on what we do next.

The people who have failed us today have one last chance to get it right.