Record Article On Morelos

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[ian1964 10,416]

Alfredo Morelos can sleep easy as he heads into 2020 no matter the result at Celtic Park.

One Scotland, many cultures?

It’s unlikely the Colombian striker will be called up any time soon and asked to lend his endorsement to the Holyrood campaign.

Scottish football can be a brutal, tribal business, but the civic nationalism espoused by Nicola Sturgeon was long ago exposed as a fallacy when it comes to the Rangers frontman.

Too often, there’s an ugliness at the heart of the Scottish football support, which will be manifested in all its gory detail in tomorrow’s Old Firm clash.

Morelos is likely to feel the wrath of it, walking out into an environment that would make even the knees of a Spartan shake, but this time you’d back him to cope.


The learning curve for Morelos these past 18 months has been steep, but there’s more to the 23-year-old than a scowl and a well clipped short back and sides.

That disgusting banner held up by Aberdeen fans at Pittodrie earlier this year, which crossed the line from naked hostility to blatant racism, represented a new low for the image of Scotland as a tolerant, welcoming nation.

That someone would go to the bother of funding a banner declaring, in Spanish, ‘Morelos, your mother is a mattress’ was shameful.

That a group of fans would hoist it high was even worse, before we even get started on those who tried to take a Silentnight into the subsequent Ibrox cup replay the following week.

The woman who was the victim of such reprehensible behaviour – her name is Marta by the way, not Mattress – spent her Christmas Eve with her husband, Alfredo senior, handing out gifts to disadvantaged kids in their home city.

Their boy – that despicable individual – funded 300 gifts for children in the Botaven neighbourhood of Cerete as part of his charity foundation and has rightly been feted for his sense of community, as well as his integrity and generosity.

Win, lose or draw, Morelos will climb off a plane from the UK on Monday and straight into a game he has organised to help raise funds for a host of educational causes around his home town.

If Morelos was Scottish they would be erecting statues to him outside Hampden and building an international team around him for seasons to come.

Put it this way, how many Scottish kids could leave their home at the age of 19 and fly halfway across the world without a support network in a bid to make it in the game?

That was the route Morelos took less than four years ago when he moved to Finland, determined to fulfil his dream of playing in the major leagues by using HJK Helsinki as a stepping stone.

Morelos grew up in such abject poverty he sold fruit from the side of the road with his father and it’s the same streetfighter instincts that will help him achieve his career ambition via Rangers, most likely at the end of this season.

In the meantime, he will continue to bully the life out of Scottish defenders, underlining a strength of character and a lack of fear, driven only by the desire to be the very best he can be.

Steven Gerrard admitted Morelos was again subject to wind-ups from opposition players, this time from Kilmarnock, who do everything they can to unnerve him.

They have gone as far as learning the rudiments of Spanish to badmouth him in his mother tongue, while abuse off the field has also become commonplace in the goldfish bowl of Glasgow.

Morelos has his faults and weaknesses – don’t we all – but his ability to bounce back time and again from adversity is the reason Stewart Robertson was correct to tag him a £20million player, at least.

It’s worth pointing out Morelos was rarely booked and never red-carded during his time in Finnish football, but that’s only because rival players are far too gentlemanly in that corner of northern Europe, surely?

What do you mean nice guys come last? The Finns have already qualified for Euro 2020 so maybe we should take a leaf from their book and focus on bringing out the best in ourselves, rather than the worst in others.

The cameras will follow his every move at Parkhead and every foul in which he is involved will be analysed to death in a bid to confirm a narrative of destruction on often spurious evidence.

He’ll be keen to show he has already gift wrapped all the presents he plans to this festive season.

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Good to see something a little different.

 

Morelos is far from perfect but the treatment he has received from the media up here has been a disgrace.

A media who tend to bend over backwards to justify Scottish failure whilst desperately looking for angles to attack or discredit anything different.

 

If the respective national football media teams earned a co-efficient mark for output, I´m convinced we´d come somewhere close to bottom of the European standings.

 

 

[RANGERRAB 3,259]

once he’s left Rangers for one of the top leagues in Europe, I hope Alfredo will one day give us his thoughts on his time in Scotland.

 

What’s Spanish for pond life ? 

Edited December 28, 2019 by RANGERRAB

[ian1964 10,416]

Separate Entity FC fans are raging on this tweet, the comments are hilarious! puddle drinkers raging! 

[Tannochsidebear 2,315]

26 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

Separate Entity FC fans are raging on this tweet, the comments are hilarious! puddle drinkers raging! 

But they will defend talentless thugs like Brown, sectarian louts like Lennon, and racist scum like Griffiths. They are well suited to each other that lot. I thank my lucky stars every day in life that i'm not one of them.

[Gonzo79 13,637]

We should cherish Morelos whilst he's at Rangers.  He's a very good striker and the most important player we've had this decade (which is why the rest hate him so much).

[JFK-1 1,675]

6 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

What’s Spanish for pond life ? 

vida del estanque

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[the gunslinger 3,366]

A year ago the record were racially abusing morelos.