{"id":287834,"date":"2025-07-24T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287834\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:56:13","slug":"redneck-rangers-are-like-a-broken-record-as-gloating-ibrox-punters-taunt-celtic-over-22-year-euro-wait-hotline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287834\/","title":{"rendered":"Redneck Rangers are like a broken record as gloating Ibrox punters taunt Celtic over 22-year Euro wait &#8211; Hotline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gannon mans the phones as the Light Blues lap up the latest Euro victory with the Champions League dream still alive<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hotline.jpg\" alt=\"Sports Hotline\" class=\"AuthorBio_bio-image-figure__aHRRv\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"AuthorBio_bio-text__yt_tm\">Need to get something off your chest? Then why not email us at hotline@dailyrecord.co.uk and have your say on all the big sporting issues of the day on the Record Sport Hotline.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_IMG_9158jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Rangers fans unveil the pre-match tifo<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">Rangers are basking in the glory of another stunning European win \u2013 but <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/celtic-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> supporters reckon they\u2019ve heard it all before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">There is renewed optimism at Ibrox despite some punters grumbles at the start of the summer and the Light Blues are keen to highlight the continental success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Alan Flett, via email,<\/strong> said: \u201cWhen are Celtic fans going to realise that it&#8217;s them who are European minnows? If they start beating top sides and reaching the knockout rounds on a regular basis, we might just give them some respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">\u201cThey haven&#8217;t won a knockout tie for over 20 years and were the first team to be kicked out of all three competitions in the same season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Celtic-v-Newcastle-United-Pre-Season-Friendly.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">&#8220;Yet they have the brass neck to criticise Rangers for one poor <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/champions-league\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">\u201cFor the last few years,<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/rangers-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Rangers<\/a> have single handedly carried Scotland in Europe, Celtic fans need to remember that fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">Not so fast, say Hoops supporters. Gers have one foot in the next stage of the Champions League qualifiers after the first leg win against Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">But <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Glen Mitchell <\/strong>emailed: \u201cGoodness me, reading some of the pro Ibrox comments about a very lucky win against a team that finished just as far back in the Greek league, that the Ibrox team did in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">\u201cSeveral clear chances for the Greeks spurned, hit the woodwork, Jack Butland on form for a change, 50 minutes of only one winner, then a deflected strike, a sending off, and a good strike later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">&#8220;It was a very fortunate win and now they are world beaters yet again. I don\u2019t think there will be the same bravado next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Scott McAdam, Glasgow, <\/strong>said: \u201cI did say Rangers would get a result in Europe. But not that easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">\u201cNow we await the drivel from the mouths of the armchair glory hunters that they are ready to dominate Scottish football and win the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">&#8220;That\u2019s a few bottles of gas for a blowtorch for these brass necks who haven&#8217;t a Scooby Doo where Ibrox even is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\">Celtic are in action against Ajax tonight and although boss <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/brendan-rodgers\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a> has admitted he needs more firepower, supporters are still convinced it will be business as usual this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh  undefined\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Bud Hay, Dumfries,<\/strong> said: \u201cHere we go the other mob bragging they\u2019re going to do this and going to do that. It won&#8217;t be long until they are knocked off their perch and booing their players off. The champions are just round the corner, bring it on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Gannon mans the phones as the Light Blues lap up the latest Euro victory with the Champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[2352,2628,1614,77686,94,1946,28104,1638,79,6536,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-brendan-rodgers","9":"tag-celtic-fc","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-djeidi-gassama","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-rangers-fc","14":"tag-russell-martin","15":"tag-scottish-premiership","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uefa","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908088683689091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}