Obsession: What Sevconians Really Mean When They Use That Word

Ah "obsession": Could there be a better candidate for most overused word of the last four years? There was a time you couldn't find a sevconian who could spell it let alone use it. Now they cling to that word like a baby with a comfort blanket and it's been used as a deflection tactic and conversation stopper whenever things get too much for them. We've all been accused of it: Offer an opinion on anything to do with sevco and it's spat out like a particularly nasty tasting drink, usually topped off with rantings of a sick nature about paedophiles and the like. Unfortunately many sevconians shout it from the rooftops without fully comprehending why they do.

There is a great Simpsons episode from season 8 entitled "Hurricane Neddy" in which Ned Flanders loses his house to tornado damage and proceeds to question the existence of God. Stressed out with being homeless and being the victim of one too many random acts of destruction he checks himself into a mental institution. After careful psychiatric evaluation they discover that Ned has a tendency to replace words with nonsensical rantings. He deals with his anger by spouting utter mince and it's his fragile mind's way of dealing with things that happen to him. Ned was never disciplined properley by his beatnik parents and as a result has been left unable to express his anger in a healthy way. Sound familiar? It should because most sevconians have spent the last four years doing the exact same thing. They all want to talk about football until it's about them.

Rangers fans who saw their club die have refused to accept it. Is it entirely their fault? Probably not, especially when you have a morally bankrupt and compliant media quite happy to chalk the whole liquidation thing off as their very own Bobby Ewing moment. Unfortunately life isn't like Dallas and the death of Rangers was no dream. It happened and nothing can ever change that now. Even the Dallas scriptwriters would struggle to undo the death of the club at this point and when faced with such a horrendous event, their fans did the only thing possible and pretended it never happened. Fair enough right? Well no actually because rather than simply pushing forward with the dignity they spout so much about, they are actually trying to infect everyone else with the same selective amnesia virus they are afflicted with. Tell them they are a new club and your liable to get your window's panned at best and a bomb in the mail at worst. Unfortunately this situation has led to them developing skins that are as thick as a piece of paper. Anyone talking about sevco is labelled obsessed and it's as if being branded as such should kill the conversation stone dead. You see it on social media where people are indulging in chat about football and everything is going swimmingly until the conversation turns to sevco. Suddenly the word "obsessed" is rolled out like a dirty old carpet and everyone is expected to be shamed into shutting up.

Sevconians are in mourning, of that there is no doubt and with the media feeding delusions of denial things can only get worse. Using the word "obsession" is their Ned Flanders style way of coping. They cannot handle it and prefer that everyone stopped reminding them of the truth. We should be thankful they can take comfort in that and Celtic can help to ease their pain by pumping them at every oppurtunity and reminding them how far removed from original Rangers they are. Maybe if their fans had been used to anything other than powder puff stories through the Murray years things would be different. Unfortunately like Ned they weren't properley disciplined and as a result they exist in some vacuum of delusion that eases their pain like a hit of morphine. The only obsession is the one sevconians have with that word,

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