Amidst all the post-match media frenzy which inevitably focuses on how bad Rangers were/are - and after listening to the usual Weegie phone-in paranoia and slavering - how refreshing for a change to read a balanced article which gives DUE CREDIT to ICT, albeit that it is tucked away in the bottom right hand corner of the back page of Scotland on Sunday Sport. I have been unable to find an online link to post here, but Tom English has written, under the heading Credit Due to Super Caley -
"Amid all the acrimony that swept around Ibrox yesterday afternoon and all the inevitable damning of the names of Lionel Letizi, Paul Le Guen and David Murray that occurred in a thousand different watering holes last night, an injustice was done to Caley Thistle. Of course their victory in Glasgow was a surprise, but it was no thunderbolt. When Charlie Christie's men said they fancied themselves to get something out of the game they were basing their views on solid fact rather than fairytale.
These teams had met six times in the SPL before yesterday and not once was there more than a solitary goal between them. Caley were unbeaten at Ibrox in 2005 so why would they fear Rangers? In their mortification it is asking a lot of the Rangers support to see the big picture but this was not a freak result, more the continuation of a trend that began a long time ago."
Thank you Tom, for expressing our own mood and optimism. As for Rangers and Celtic supporters, plentiful they may be, but they will NEVER see the bigger picture, stuck as they are in their blinkered, bigoted mindsets.
Amidst all the post-match media frenzy which inevitably focuses on how bad Rangers were/are - and after listening to the usual Weegie phone-in paranoia and slavering - how refreshing for a change to read a balanced article which gives DUE CREDIT to ICT, albeit that it is tucked away in the bottom right hand corner of the back page of Scotland on Sunday Sport. I have been unable to find an online link to post here, but Tom English has written, under the heading Credit Due to Super Caley -
"Amid all the acrimony that swept around Ibrox yesterday afternoon and all the inevitable damning of the names of Lionel Letizi, Paul Le Guen and David Murray that occurred in a thousand different watering holes last night, an injustice was done to Caley Thistle. Of course their victory in Glasgow was a surprise, but it was no thunderbolt. When Charlie Christie's men said they fancied themselves to get something out of the game they were basing their views on solid fact rather than fairytale.
These teams had met six times in the SPL before yesterday and not once was there more than a solitary goal between them. Caley were unbeaten at Ibrox in 2005 so why would they fear Rangers? In their mortification it is asking a lot of the Rangers support to see the big picture but this was not a freak result, more the continuation of a trend that began a long time ago."
Thank you Tom, for expressing our own mood and optimism. As for Rangers and Celtic supporters, plentiful they may be, but they will NEVER see the bigger picture, stuck as they are in their blinkered, bigoted mindsets.