Season Diary 18

Entry #18 Tuesday 11th November 2008

The first email type post that i promised i was going to bring when i first started this. these went back and forward today.

RK: oh the killie are pish!

D: After such a bright start we've fell away horribly, why every team can compete with the old firm bar us is beyond me. We make them look brilliant every time we play them, and the annoying thing is there no!

RK: the thing that bugs me is that we dont take either a positive or a negative stance agaisnt them, its not backs against he wall and we will maybe grab something at a corner or a free kick, or we dont go out and harry them at every situation. ala jerome varaille in the late ninties, and we dont go out and have a go early doors like we did when gary mac was our box to box midfielder. we just dawdle through the game offering nothing for the fans to get gee'd up about.

D: Its depressing, I dread playing them cause its just a case of how many. If I hear from another celtic fan 'its always a tough game at rugby park' I'll scream because its there biggest banker of the season and anything but a tough game for the old firm. Can't even see a glimmer of anything about it changing. We seem to be worse at rugby park as well than we are in Glasgow. You just wanna put a rocket up every single one of them.

RK: fernandez was screaming at simmonds in the second half cos he his head was down and he wasnt pressing the gaem, which was good to se, what would have been better was one of ours screaming at ferdy and telling him to stop playing for fouls all the time and try and do something positive! in fact it was his fault for the first goal, not playing the whistle he let this man take the ball and a corner followed (goal!) while he was screaming for a foul, he then chased the referee about this so called foul. also JJ doesnt seem to think we can do anything agaisnt them and it show in the tepid performances we get in these games. dont get me wrong i dont expect great things in every game but a spirited display that makes the rangers and celtics have to actually do some work for a change would be nice.

by the way, did you hear the rangers party songs on the telly?

D: I heard the infamous famine song, what were the party songs?

RK: god, we were treated on sunday! the famine song, no surender, whos the fenian in the black and wait for it... the sash! not heard that in long enough! i see david murrays anti bigotry campaigns are going well.

D: and they say there victimised.

the only solution is too deduct points if any bigoted or racist songs are sung by any group of fans, a fine doesnt mean anything to the fans as its not them that has too pay it. If the sfa or spl did that it would go away over night as the fans would police themselves. Do they have the cohona's to do it, I doubt it

RK: yer right, fines mean nothing to anyone, points affect the fans who do it and if points keep getting taken away then the players wont want to sign,why would they, constantly hamstrung by bigoted idiots! i got a pile o old rangers programmes a wee while ago, dug out the Killie ones and passed them on, anyway, thirty years ago they had their code of conduct, no drinking on the buses, pishing in the streets sort of things and bogoted songs were mentioned. 30yearts on nothing has changed, would be good if someone pointed this out i the media or something. they try but clearly not hard enough. fuck if any other company business, family etc had a problem for thirty years would they be allowed to prosper they way rangers have? eh no. sadly its sectarianism and bigotry that is there biggest money spinner, if they never pedalled that then they would have killie esque crowds.

D: did chambers tell you of his new switched allegiance, and that he was on talksport talking to Ian Wright about why he has moved too the Killie side.

Chrissy will not be too happy about his change of team

RK: fuck i listened to it mate! plus i had to sit beside him at the fitba on sunday. ye can understand his point of view though.

D: too be fair politically me and chambers stand pretty much side by side on a lot of things.

Its just quite funny because Chrissy isn't too happy about it, he was saying on sunday if he ever asks for a champions league ticket again or a ticket for any big game he'll be told where too go.

RK: i would like to hope he wouldnt. if he is brave enought to make a stand on the radio and change allegiance. them he should stick by it. if he says he is going to be a killie fan thats fine, or a motherwell fan whatever, who cares but it wont come instantly, you dont instantly become the biggest fan ever overnight. speaking to him on sat and sun though he was genuinely angry and basically it compounded all the gripes he has had with celtic suporting all season. good for him i say that he has seent hrough all the baggage and bullshit, suppose its for us to watch now to see where it goes from here. ie wednesday night!

D: chrissy was asking if it bothered me on sunday, i told him not really because it has been on the cards for a while and its not glory hunting supporting a team that lets be honest have very little glory. He just wants too hang about with his pals on a saturday and since the vast majority go too rugby park you can understand it. Plus he has reasons like being an ex-forces and having a brother in the forces who are not welcomed exactly at celtic park by a minority of the cretins that dwell there.

Clearly bothers chrissy though, haha

RK: i cany understand how though? chalmers has spoke about his discomfort bein around silly wee dicks talking bout theior opinions of the british army in ireland and that when they know jack shit. i pretty proud o him actually, not cos he chose killie, as you say its more about him wanting to spend time wi pals and also cos he actually likes being from killie (community spirit and all that) but becuase he saw past the small mindedness that we as non bigoted citizens have been hoping people would at some point or another.

D: he deserves a statue outside the burns mall, or at least his name on a brick on the moffat stand