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HUNBELIEVABLE – BUT WE'VE ONLY OURSELVES TO BLAME
By Mal Content
Timdom has watched in stunned silence and disbelief as the Huns have progressed in Europe playing their mind-numbing, stifling and strangling brand of “ugly” “Anti-Football” to reach the UEFA Cup Final.
For many Tims, and indeed football lovers, the Huns' strategising for a penalty shootout against Fiorentina last night was the final nail in the coffin of the beautiful game, with only one team trying to win the semi-final. Last night was a horror show, as football as an entertainment got more of a battering than the Labour Party in the local elections in England and Wales.
And yet there will be some in Timdom who will believe that the Huns' march to Manchester and the UEFA Cup Final against Zenit St Petersburg, ironically enough managed by Dick Advocaat, will benefit Celtic.
According to this theory, the Huns' fixture congestion, fatigue and injuries will ultimately benefit our quest for the League Championship trophy, especially if the Huns take their eye off the ball in the League run-in or suffer further fatigue and injuries.
However, there is an alternative theory that predicts the Huns will be re-energised and reinvigorated as a consequence of their UEFA Cup Final qualification, whilst Lennoxtown-hampered Celtic (as distinct from Barrowfield-enhanced Celtic?) and Celtic fans continue to endure the ultimate nightmare.
But is this nightmare not of our own making? After all, there were warning signs aplenty late last season that the Loyal Cardigan's “culturally traditional revolution” was going to become problematic for Celtic. However, did we do enough to respond to the challenge?
Instead of building from a position of strength and progressing from the football and financial advantages we enjoyed in the summer, Celtic stagnated. We did not do nearly enough in the summer transfer market. And furthermore, to compound the folly of not learning from the mistakes of our history, Celtic's campaign this season has been continually hampered by mediocrity and inconsistency, baffling team selections, bewildering tactics, perplexing substitutions, dire displays and often flawed management.
We only seem to be getting our act together now – when it might already be too late. Consequently, we could lose the football advantage, and as a direct result, the financial advantage.
Had we risen to the Huns' challenge from the outset, we might have crushed their “culturally traditional revolution” long before their no more than effective, efficient and defensively minded team became a threat.
The nightmare continues to be suffered and only Zenit St Petersburg and Celtic can end the torture, but why do I feel we only have ourselves to blame for the pain?
Finally, whilst we are tormented, spare a thought for the good people of Manchester, who are less than a fortnight away from an invasion by tens of thousands of the Hunnish hordes.
Heaven help them.
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