Narrative and Context

The narrative according to the media (any media) can and will be taken out of context at times.
But especially when it comes to the narrative and context of Scottish Football.
Bias can and will enter the debate both positive and negative depending on what team or side the writer is writing about.
I try to keep my own personal bias out of what I say but it can be hard and difficult not to come across as being either bitter or jealous as some have suggested recently.
Recently being when we were atrocious last Season on the Domestic and also this Season in Europe apparently :man_shrugging:t2:
Well let’s deal with is first eh?
A shambolic Season last Season culminating in winning nothing and losing around 13 players from our squad with another 16 or so coming in.
ie massive upheaval for the Incoming Postecoglou.
We’ve won a League and Cup Double and despite earning 9pts from a tough Europa League Group dropped into the Also Ran Conference League where of course we drew a side who had recently pumped Roma 6-1 at home in the Group Stages of the same Competition.
A side who play their own version of Angeball but unlike Celtic had been doing so for 3 Seasons with a settled side and not after 6 months with a rebuilt squad.
Roma meanwhile are in the Final of said Competition having dispatched Brendan Rodgers Leicester.

Make of that what you will.

Over the river meanwhile…
Fortune has favoured the brave if the MSM are to be believed?
I stand with them on that as the Club has been been brave but where they have been brave we part ways at that point.
On the Park it’s been quite astonishing an almost Bi Polar performance in the Domestic League as Celtic have over the piece been the Dominant force.
In Europe it’s been a fairytale up to this point.
A fairy tale that is if you totally ignore how it has come about.

It has come about by the same way their meteoric rise from the Ashes of Liquidation.
Rising like a Phoenix from a Clandestine meeting in 2012 between The SFA,The SFL,The SPL,Rangers PLC and of Course Sevco Scotland it’s been a series of over funding from day 1 week 1.
From the baw in a hedge in Brechin to last weeks win against Leipzig it’s been a sugar coated ,feel good ride of optimism very much pushed by unparalleled Financial Losses from the Scottish Third Division ( £14.3m Loss) to the Europa League final in 2022 ( £24.2m plus another £43.78m thrown in in 11 tranches between March and December 2021).
A further combined loss of ÂŁ98m in between.
You won’t hear or read a single MSM hack mentioning these figures as they trot out the usual Old Firm diatribe or Glorious European achievement by The Rangers.

By the way I take nothing away from the effort on the field of play by the current and past Rangers side in the last 3 Seasons in Europe they have been excellent.
If they win the Final then they deserve all that is coming to them.
On and off the Park.
Because fortune will have ultimately favoured the brave.
Those Investors who have pumped and extra ÂŁ74m of their own dough in since the arrival of Gerrard in 2018 took a massive gamble and they are 1 game away from it paying off.
They did so whilst the Club was already and had already been haemorrhaging 10’s of millions in cash.

So good luck to them.

So the narrative in the next few days and weeks will be of miracles and no doubt layered and underpinned with triumphalism not seen since the days of Fiver - Tenner Murray.

Not one word of negative context will be applied.
Ironic given not one penny of profit has been made.
There is perhaps a lesson to be learned in there somewhere for all concerned :man_shrugging:t2:

The SFA,The SPL,The SFL ,Rangers PLC and of course Charles Greenes Sevco played the long game.
The media of course will play their part two (:wink:) In Airbrushing how it became possible for a New Club to go from a ball in a Hedge to Europa League Champions in 10 years.
The Celtic Board will raise a wee glass of a very expensive wine too no doubt.

I’m not bitter.
Good luck to The Rangers you have earned the right to be there in Seville.
Naw I’m just scunnered at what has been allowed to transpire this Decade.

I’ll leave those in any doubt about what has transpired with the Words of Charles Greens elected Legal representative in the Inner House of the Court of Session: In what is more commonly known as …

The Myth of Continuity

Alan Dewar QC stated that
” The Rangers football club does not exist, it is an idea in people’s minds, a myth of continuity. No-one knows what the Rangers football club is, but it has no legal personality.

Mr Dewar added that

”You can only be the chairman of an entity that has a legal personality. Sevco Scotland, and it alone, bought the assets and carried on the business. The concept of the Rangers Institution continuing exists only in the minds of die hard supporters.”

That’s the narrative of the man who bought the Assets put into legal context.
All the rest is simply institutional bias and b/s.

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Very well said, I agree with every thing in your post, like me, you’re very brave for speaking your mind.
Kudos to you, like me, you might come in for a lot of stick, but It’s your opinion, and it matters.
. :muscle:

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Better out than in bud.
More power to your elbow :muscle:t3:

:four_leaf_clover::green_heart::four_leaf_clover:

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