Yeah, it's not 2012 fs.

Gav, you'd love my wee Celtic mate that grew up a Rangers fan. For some reason most of my old mates are all Celtic fans and pretty much all great with the banter. This wee fucker, however, is the bitterest wee bastard you'd ever meet. He's got a real chip on his shoulder and now likes to pretend he's the pure biggest, greatest most genuine selick man ever. He can barely end a message in our group without six shamrock emojis and five hail hails. The great thing is all the real Celtic fans think he's a wee fanny too and routinely remind him of his Rangers supporting youth.

For years I thought their name was Partick Thistle Nil.

I've said this before I think but my dad drank in the only celtic pub in our town which is/was famous for being very, very staunch. He said it was because it was the only pub in the town that wasn't full of dickheads. He had a point tbf.

Huge news. Gargantuan, even. Something that has LIT THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER


.... Yeah so yesterday at his press conference, our Zambian prince Fashion Sakala referred to this weekends opponents as "the other mob", so exhaustingly, here we are at the rattled celtic fans stage of the discourse. Next is the pundits releasing stuff about respect, etc, can't do that here, etc. Then comes the celtic win at the weekend and at FT their twitter posts something like Rangers 0-3 Other Mob and their fans lap it up, merch and dvds out by the weeks over.


We are at MD -3. I expect some mild jabs back via their players' presser, maybe some paranoid ref/var team chat, and a whole lot more performative staunchness regarding Battle Fever and the like. Yes it bloody well is Old Firm week!

Aye, that was a thing once.

Opposition FC vs The Other Mob is quite as catchy as I thought, mind you.

So I'm a weird one when it comes to Glasgow teams.  I was born in Glasgow and lived in and around the city for a big chunk of my childhood.  My dad sent me to a catholic school where it was unsurprisingly 100% Celtic fans.  This led to me being a Celtic fan and the belief I was catholic.  Turns out my dad being a methodist minister meant I wasn't but I didn't find this out until confirmation when everyone got loads of gifts and money and I got a drunk Irishman waving his hand over my head (fortunately just that).

We moved to south of the border and I was still affiliated with supporting Celtic but to this day have never actually been to a Celtic game.  All through the 80's my dad took me to a lot of football games for other teams like Mansfield Town, Notts County, Nottingham Forest.  Nothing stuck.

When I was a teenager we were living in East Lancs and a mate took me down to Turf Moor.  This definitely did stick and I ended up a Burnley season ticket holder who went to pretty much every home and away game.

This puts me in a strange position.  I'm a Burnley fan.  I also have a soft spot for Celtic despite being nominally protestant (religion loses all meaning when its your dad's job).  Burnley hate Celtic with a passion because of some dodgy antics in the Anglo-Scottish cup back in the 70's.

My fandom has multiple paradoxes.  Also throw Dumbarton into the mix because I lived there for a while but there is no threat of them every doing anything.

I am now at the Larry David weighing it up gif with my hype

Good omens:
Would've been Sir Walter's and it was Brian GOD Laudrup's birthdays this week. If there's two people that knew how to ruin The Other Mob, it was them
Goldson & Davies have been really solid together
Tillman is a Big Game Player
We as a whole, imo, still have levels to find
Masonic magic for the banter

Bad omens:
Sakala chatting his shit at the press conferences. He's the cheeriest loveliest guy about so there is no malice there, and we know how our press like to add dressing to fairly tame quotes, but man he's done their team talk for them
Raskin looks great but I dunno if this is a step up too far too soon for him. Very "can't just COME OVER to ARE LEAGUE" etc of me so I'll be very happy to be proven wrong, same with Cantwell and his junior doctor drip
They are actually Really Good. As I said to Reg, they could go at 60% and still hand us our arse


There's a trophy there so the nerves have kicked in super early. Last time it went like this put me through the ringer, and ultimately hurt more than most.

Aw man don't say that, Charlie or Ram will make a shit gers = right wing joke with winkys and all that jazz.

Here's the highlights of the last OF cup final:


If we had VAR that day, I swear..

Truthfully, I love any underdog tale so I do hope yous pull it off tomorrow. Would be class to see yer fanbase go mental.

Nerves kicking big time so let's watch a personal fave.


I get goosebumps. The man, the celebrations, the hair, the jawline and cheeky smile, the finishes, the FUCKIN MUSIC, everything about it. Just a brilliant set of clips.

God bless you Alastair Murdoch Mccoist MBE.

let's goooooooo

RamSteelwood wrote:

I'm far too stressed about the toon match. However stressed you're feeling Gav try to imagine if this was rangers first final in 25 years and that they hadn't won a domestic trophy in your parents lifetime...and still playing the team you least want to lose to

I mean it sounds like they are very shit and perhaps they should take a long hard look at themselves.

G, can you write a note for my son, Gavin? It would make his day.

See you all on the other side!