We Welcome the Chase

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For some time a certain member of the podcast has been pestering me to start blogging again about the famous Glasgow Rangers, Marc has been borderline persistent and I've been putting it off for some time and to be honest I have a few reasons. The first one is it's been difficult to find something positive to write about. The whole comedy road show that has surrounded the club in recent years has cast a black cloud over Ibrox. It's bad enough people have to have to listen to me be a miserable bastard on the pod let alone read my pessimistic blogs. I've never claimed to be any good at writing or explaining my views but I have to admit it's something I love to do, good or bad it gave me great pleasure and that's what's been missing. The certain X factor you get from the experience of going to watch football and I thrived on interacting with fellow fans and talk about it, and being on the pod is something I love doing, and I don't say that lightly. It's an absolute pleasure to chew the fat about Rangers and have a laugh with friends online. 

It was a shitty cup game against Albion Rovers that was the straw the broke the camels back, after a terrible 1-1 draw at Ibrox and a 7 hour round trip I was firmly the most annoyed I've ever been watching a game of football, but even now it's hard to describe the delight I have when I travel to Glasgow, let alone travel there for a game of football. I don't know what it is about Glasgow but I absolutely love the place and I'm actually buzzing when I come down for a match. Regardless of how bad the football has been in the last few seasons I still got excited about the prospect of driving down to watch my team and I think that's common with the vast majority of our support, no matter how bad we were on and off the pitch we still turned up to support the team.

The second reason was the animosity between fans on social media, it was a hotbed of in-house arguing and slagging matches, while I've never been one to shy away from a good "debate" (I'm using that phrase lightly) it got tiresome and I found myself getting dragged into lots of arguments which pissed me off. Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one and I firmly believe everyone is entitled to one, opinion that is, but it started getting personal at points and while i do enjoy calling everyone the C bomb it was not pleasant to read so much hate flying about on Twitter and Facebook, I found myself being drawn into arguments and differences in opinions which I had to ignore in the end. 

Anyway time for positive and news, the Rangers are genuinely coming and the rest of Scottish football should be quaking in their little backstabbing, lying, hypocritical boots. The Warburton revolution is in full swing and finally it looks like we have a board in place with the interests of the club at heart and a manager worthy of sitting in the dugout. Mark Warburton has installed a belief in the players and that much is evident in the way the team have gelled and are playing some sublime passing football, now that's a sentence I didn't I would be writing any time soon. Just listening to the interviews with Mark has us foaming at the mouth, he talks with passion and a desire to succeed and it's intoxicating, also having Sir David of Weir as his assistant is a huge benefit to him on and off the park. David has a great connection with the club and that will help for multiple reasons, that much is obvious.

So the first league match has passed with a full stadium and a pleasing performance and result, we are far from the polished article but the signs are there, passing pressing attacking football. it's a bloody dream come true and we just can't get enough of it. It was reported the words "send them home happy" is emblazoned on the dressing room wall. Just reading that gave me goosebumps, I'm not going to lie. 

So there we go bears, im buzzing, you're buzzing and its finally falling into place. Im going to leave you with the immortal words from Bill Struth "Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase"