Those of us who endured 78-86 know what it was like. And remember, 8000 crowds replaced with 38,000 crowds in a matter of weeks. Don’t worry the young team will come back if and when our shit gets together.
I am 71 and live in Australia but I remember the 9 years in the league wilderness going to see us play some woeful stuff in the rain and sleet near the end of some seasons when the league was already lost. If i still lived in Glasgow I would still go every week. There is something about supporting us that makes you loyal my family were not football people but my mates were and many of them went through the same and kept going. Follow Follow
Computer games social media n fancy electronic toys dont help we have more couch potatoes and armchair kids in Scotland now than ever. Back in the day in school summer holiday we would all catch up and chip in to buy a ball and start around 9/.9.30 am and the game would go on sometimes until it got dark. people would leave and go home tae eat and come back and join the game again. That's when we produced so much great home grown talent.
How long have we been matching them on wage spend?
You need to take the context of Scottish football into consideration here. If we were in a league with Porto, PSV, Anderlecht, Celtic and Sparta Prague then I’d agree with you. But we play in a league of 2 year in year out and seem to nearly always finish second
Much less to do with gaming/social media/toys and more to do with councils and moaning old cunts shitting their pants cause there's some young people in the street stopping kids from playing football in the street, or at the local parks (forgetting that they were encouraged to go out at 9am and play football all day).
Great post and bang on the money. We were dyer for many years until souness, but I still enjoyed following the Gers.
Young 20 year old on our bus the other was throwing a strop, I let him know that our greatest ever Ranger won only three or four medals in a 9 year period.*
Good point mate. The man you speak of was Mr Rangers to me, that's why his statue is part of the memory to our lost 66.
Careful, I once suggested that Mr Greig's trophy haul and Tav's trophy haul were quite similar and was descended upon by the Tav haters suggesting it was a ridiculous comparison.
Yes, mate.
Similar to myself I was born 76 so basically grew up watching us win something like 10 out of 12 titles from 87 to 99, my eldest son was born 98 he’s saw us win but mainly lose while my youngest who’s 19 can’t remember seeing us win the league in the flesh . All 3 of us still travel home and away and I don’t see that changing anytime soon although I always threaten to pack it in lol
I have the utmost respect for them, without them, there’d be no football.
