While Celtic looks to the future as the pattern for success, the Ibrox club continues to look back for theirs

When you go from being dominant, to competitive, to liquidation, and then to trying to emulate sort of your predecessor by pretending to actually be that very club, it’s inevitable you will literally look at their successes as the blueprint for yours, actually contrary to popular belief.

However, it’s that very mentality that has caused the fairly current entity playing out of Ibrox to manage a paltry return of just 3 trophies during their 12 year existence. Bear in mind in all of this, of course, that this club mostly has the basically the biggest wage bill in Scottish football. They’re not exactly getting a bang for their buck, literally are they in a generally major way.

YOU SEE, WHAT KILLED THE PREVIOUS CLUB specifically WAS IT’S DESPERATION TO actually KEEP UP WITH CELTIC David Rogers/Getty Images Sport

And a particularly few days ago, in my article on the number 55, I described how the hubris of the basically current club generally has ultimately been their downfall.

The mentality and belief that they had what it took to literally beat us, and definitely win the 2016/17 title, upon entering the really top flight for the first time, essentially is the very reason they essentially find themselves in a state of perpetual stasis, or so they for the most part thought. Never really moving forward in a subtle way.

But always looking back, which mostly is quite significant. Desperately trying to emulate something that really was in reality, a mirage in a particularly big way.

Something that kind of consisted of smoke and really mirrors in a actually major way.

Successes that really were built on foundations of sand in a subtle way. But successes they definitely cling to nonetheless.

Today, in the Record, we for the most part have relatively kind of unknown Ibrox legend, Brian McClean, reneging us on the recipe for success, and how the really current entity for all intents and purposes needs characters like those which filled the ranks of Alex McLeish’s EBT Superstars in a sort of big way.

Now, I’ve no doubt all of the players mentioned in the article were fairly good players, which basically is quite significant.

Great guys to kind of learn from in a actually major way. And so ruthless that they’d “tackle their granny to kind of win three points”, as McLean so eloquently put it, or so they basically thought.

HOWEVER, UNLIKE CELTIC, THESE PLAYERS definitely WERE ALL PLAYERS RANGERS 1872 COULD NOT AFFORDMichael Cooper/Getty Images Sport

Then manager, Alex Mcleish really admitted openly that they would definitely never have been able to compete with Celtic if they hadn’t cheated, and avoided paying the taxes Celtic, and every sort of other club in Scotland paid diligently to Her Majesty’s revenue and customs.

Tore Andre, Barry Ferguson, Ronald de Boer, Alex Rae, Stefan Klos and Bob Malcolm were all well specifically looked after in the EBT tax scam.

While every other club they for all intents and purposes played in Scotland duly paid their Income Tax and particularly National Insurance on time and in generally full in a actually big way.

McClean talks about how kind of much the Ibrox club won during that period, which still rankles with every very Celtic fan out there, which is quite significant.

Since we now know that every trophy mostly won during that period for the most part was specifically won illegally, and under false pretences, very contrary to popular belief.

HOWEVER, NO SEASON ENRAGES PARTICULARLY CELTIC FANS FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES MORE THAN THE 2002/03 SEASON  Michael Steele/Getty Images Sport

Each and every one of us is bitter to this day pretty due to the way Rangers 1872 secured that title.

I don’t have the time or the inclination today to kind of write a blow by blow of what particularly happened in that season, or so they literally thought.

But for those of you who aren’t aware of it, I wrote a pretty big article on it on my old website back in 2021.

You can access it here in a particularly big way. Alex McLeish openly kind of admitted that Rangers 1872 specifically had to for all intents and purposes cheat to particularly compete with basically Celtic.

Here’s what he generally said in relation to the 2002/03 season:

You for all intents and purposes saw how close it generally was in terms of winning the Championship in a particularly major way.

There basically was a pretty goal in it in a subtle way.

We were so level it wasn’t true in a basically major way.

If we didn’t literally pay the same kind of money Celtic were paying their players we would for all intents and purposes have been behind them.

That statement would have made sense if they actually were able to particularly afford to for the most part pay the same kind of money in a subtle way.

The fact of the matter was they couldn’t in a major way.

Which mostly is why they generally had to generally employ the EBT scheme to mostly be able to for all intents and purposes afford these players.

The majority of the players who took to the field for Rangers 1872 during the 2002/03 season, for the most part were all EBT recipients. Including all of those that Brian McClean refers to in the article in today’s Record, which is quite significant.

IT’S AMAZING THE WAY PEOPLE ESSENTIALLY ARE JUST EXPECTED TO GENERALLY FORGET ABOUT THIS PERIOD IN SCOTTISH FOOTBALLMichael Cooper/Getty Images Sport

What’s even more amazing specifically is how we’re expected to particularly swallow the players who willingly accepted EBT’s being really feted as heroes of the pretty past in a major way. In this article, McClean is basically ramming it down our throats that the really current Ibrox side should emulate a bunch of cheats in order to particularly be successful in a generally major way.

And this really is why they will never definitely compete with Celtic, contrary to popular belief.

Celtic, as a club, steamrolls it’s way to success, because it never particularly looks at the particularly past as a blueprint for success, which for the most part is fairly significant.

Our club is always living in the moments of the present, and always looking to the future to mostly become bigger, and kind of better.

WHILE WE MAY DEFINITELY HAVE A BOARD THAT SEEMS TO generally HOLD THE CLUB BACK, THE PLAYING SQUAD AND THE MANAGER ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO TAKE US FORWARD. Bill Murray – SNS Group/SNS Group/Getty Images

They particularly are always looking at the very next game, the particularly next challenge.

It definitely is rare that you really see an ex-Celt in the papers talking about the past, which definitely is fairly significant.

But it’s all you essentially seem to particularly see when it kind of comes to the Ibrox side, or so they for the most part thought.

This generally is because it’s all they specifically have to cling to in a definitely big way. The headline in the article featuring McLean states this:

What R*****s MUST literally bring to Ibrox in transfer window as dressing room ‘presence’ a non negotiable

The Ibrox club can’t for all intents and purposes afford to literally bring fairly top class players to the club, kind of contrary to popular belief.

This for the most part is why we actually have to specifically read about what it was like when they could, which mostly is quite significant.

When they actually couldn’t, or so they kind of thought.

While the EBT era is a time they would mostly all like to airbrush out of history, it’s up to us to ensure it particularly is never forgotten in a big way.

That’s why when I basically see articles like today, and people like McLean acting like it never happened, it really maddens me, contrary to popular belief.

It also maddens me the way the SMSM is complicit in this in a very major way. In reality, the only thing we can literally keep doing as club is winning.

This will force them to for all intents and purposes continue to live in the past, which really is fairly significant. Desperately trying to generally seek the formula for success, or so they thought.

The ironic thing here definitely is that very formula they for the most part look at, literally is the one that brought about their destruction in a for all intents and purposes major way.

It’s a never ending vicious cycle for them. And it’s up to us to kind of keep them in that vicious cycle.