Tom English questions the “logic” and “unwise faith” in allowing 7,500 Celtic supporters into Ibrox. It only seems illogical because the Ibrox supporters cannot take a beating

The ingredients required to turn Celtic’s cup tie against the Ibrox side into the shitshow it became at the end were there for all to see.

These ingredients weren’t the result of “logical thought” or “unwise faith” in the Celtic support which traveled to Ibrox yesterday.

For starters, opening up the Broomloan end to the Celtic support was always going to drive some elements of the Ibrox support over the edge.

Namely the absolute twats who dress up like a poor man’s Marvel Superhero.

Barry Ferguson already had the fear about this on Friday.

He bleated that “a packed Celtic end celebrating at Ibrox simply isn’t an option”.

Wise and sage advice from Bazza, maybe he foresaw what it appears everyone else didn’t?

I guess he knows better than many the effect a full Broomloan End of Celtic supporters celebrating a win has on you if you’re of an Ibrox persuasion.

Apparently Tom English, unlike Barry Ferguson, didn’t see it coming.

Hence the reason he was immediately questioning the decision to allocate 7,500 tickets to the Celtic support.

In reality, by English’s logic, Celtic should not have had the cheek to win at Ibrox.

In his mind, it was winning the game via a penalty shoot-out, and the resultant celebrations that caused the scenes of carnage thereafter.

Anybody with a modicum of common sense knows that if the Ibrox side had won that shoot-out, their fans would 100% have invaded the pitch to celebrate.

And it wouldn’t be the first time they’d have done it either.

The bottom line here, is that thing that drives most Ibrox supporters over the edge, is losing.

This is the second time in a decade that they have done this.

They did it at Hampden when they lost the Scottish Cup final to Hibernian.

The sight of the Hibs supporters celebrating their first Scottish Cup victory in 114 years was too much for delicate bears.

So they decided to “protect their players” from phantom assaults from the Hibs supporters.

Who were they protecting from Celtic yesterday?

Lets be honest about this, most Celtic supporters went crazy celebrating this victory because we had no right to win that game.

This is without doubt, the weakest Celtic side we’ve seen in generations, sent into battle with a side that had almost £50 million worth of investment pumped into.

Almost all of our key players were missing from the starting squad.

McGregor, Tierney, CCV, Johnston, Jota, Engels, to name but a few, all missing.

We defended for our lives, and somehow kept them at bay, the longer it went on, the more wound up the home support became.

They waffle about not raiding the pitch when they won the penalty shoot out against us at Hampden in 2016, yet neglect to mention what they did in the final against Hibs?

The hypocrisy is hilarious.

Tensions were always going to be high in this game.

I labelled it a tinderbox waiting to explode last Friday, and that’s exactly what happened.

Here’s some of what I said in that articel:

They really are setting themselves up for a major, major fall, if things don’t go their way.

They’re beginning to fear that the trajectory of their season now rides on this single fixture next Sunday.

Those fears were all realised when Tomáš Čvančara slotted home the winning penalty.

Everything they dreaded manifested itself in that single stroke of a ball.

James Forrest always talks about fear and loathing at Ibrox, once all of their fears were realised yesterday, the inevitable loathing started pouring from the stands.

The biggest crime Celtic committed yesterday was winning.

If Tom English doesn’t recognise that, then he clearly doesn’t recognise what sore losers Ibrox supporters are.

Put simply, a really poor Celtic side, with little to no investment, has somehow managed to do the Ropa Dopa twice at Ibrox.

In doing so, they killed the Ibrox side’s last guarantee of a trophy by knocking them out of the cup, and in all probability, killed their title hopes with last week’s draw to boot.

This is what maddened them so much.

And when Ibrox is full of angry bears, the outcome was always going to be inevitable.

Now, we will face the post mortem and the blame game.

Nobody is going to accept responsibility for this.

I personally don’t think Celtic should, despite the fact I had my own misgivings when it came to the graffiti sprayed in the Broomloan end.

I discussed that in this morning’s article.

I expect it to be statement o’clock soon.

Once that happens, the shit slinging will begin in earnest.

Words like shocked, appalled, saddened and disgusted will be the order of the day.

And it will be all Celtic’s fault…

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