Sunday Mail (UK)

Forget court fight, the shirts hit fans as Old Firm play tops trumps

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Boss Andreas Herzog recently quit as Israel boss and Tawatha said: “We will be best friends with the Scotland players by the end of the year! The atmosphere at Hampden was amazing and I hope fans are allowed in to enjoy the game.

“Our games have been close and while it will be hard with us away from home we won’t make it easy for Scotland.

“I played in both of the last meetings. I made an assist for the equaliser in Haifa and played in Glasgow too so if I’m fit I know my opponent – Forrest!”

Scottish football makes Lilliput sets of supporters seem to look like a peaceful Utopia and be obsessed with the Ibrox the fights in our little kingdom strip deal to the point where are every bit as daft. the fellas running Castore do

The battle in the courts and more interviews than Boris boardrooms involving Hearts Johnston these days. and Partick Thistle against the It’s bizarre. Gers fans have rest might be do or die stuff but such a severe case of Sports when it comes to Glasgow, the Direct PTSD they shudder big two might as well be arguing at the slightest whiff of Mike over how they boil their eggs. Ashley being involved.

The saying ‘The devil makes Naturally Celtic fans love work for idle hands’ was never to twist that angle as much more apt than to describe the as possible. shenanigan­s going on during Big Mike preys on it as well. the lockdown. Sticking out an ad on the

But these days boredom Sports Direct Facebook page gets folk typing on their smart about flogging the new Gers phones and wasting endless kit was pretty much like hours arguing with strangers corporate trolling. about the colour of the sky. He owns a massive chain of

Four months without actual sports shops so did Rangers football has managed to make fans really think he wouldn’t the Old Firm online buy a whack of torture chamber feel s shirts to sell? like being strapped Rangers have bbd into a seat during a been so bogged James Blunt gig. down by their

Now they’re retail war, at least actually arguing over t their new link wwc strips. Jeez. will allow more

Our kit is nicer cash to flow in than your kit. to their coffers,

We’ve sold more e even if the buying oos than you, your deal of football strips is less than ours, should be illegal your mob make their to anyone over strips in their maw’s t the age of 16. kitchen, your lot are It’s a free going bust... c country, if people wwt

The clubs tap want to torch into the madness, their dosh it’s up of course, as there to the them. be gold in them thar Celtic fans are hills, and the punters ju just as bad. You’d lap it up. think adidas had hired

Grown men just can’t wait to Vivienne Westwood to rattle cough up 60 quid to wear the them up the training kit. latest clobber, even though The reality is companies there will no doubt be another like that don’t waste much new one coming their way in time in the design phase when 12 months which will cause they have templates and a ton another stampede. of folk who are willing to buy

You’d think adidas and the clobber.

Castore had invented outfits That’s how the world works that can make players trap a ball and none of it matters. The while looking like catwalk only way to look good on the models, the amount of guff pitch is by winning games. that’s been spoken. The phony wars have filled

Newsflash guys – it’s a bit of the vacuum but we just have kit that costs about 10 bob to to hope the real stuff gets make and you can flog for 100 underway as scheduled. times that. At least then they can fight

Celtic’s is green and white, over football rather than Rangers’ is blue, and the wheels tearing each other up over will simply keep on turning. Both some T-shirts.

 ??  ?? TAWATHA UNDER THE BRIDGE Taleb is halted by Stephen O’Donnell as Scotland lose 2-1 in Haifa in October 2018
NATIONAL SERVICE Bitton and Elhamed on playing duty for Israel
BAYING FOR THE JERSEY new kits sparked online scrap
TAWATHA UNDER THE BRIDGE Taleb is halted by Stephen O’Donnell as Scotland lose 2-1 in Haifa in October 2018 NATIONAL SERVICE Bitton and Elhamed on playing duty for Israel BAYING FOR THE JERSEY new kits sparked online scrap
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