One day this week Strathclyde Police officers will have visited Lennoxtown and Murray Park and reminded players and officials the consequences their actions can have before during and after Sundays Celtic-Rangers game.
Our streets are dangerous on these weekends, best avoided, always avoided by me. You know it, I know it, people who have worked in the game for the last 40-odd years know it.
At a media conference at Ibrox today, Sandy Jardine said:
“Having gone round and met a lot of the supporters and people within the club, I think people are absolutely sick and tired of everybody having a kick at us when we’re down.
“Out of that, the supporters will take sanctions against clubs which we deem have been unfair to ourselves.
“I’m not going to go into the actual details but we will probably announce that after the meeting with the supporters clubs.
“Everybody is sick and tired of just accepting everything that everybody is throwing at us and it’s about starting to fight back.
“The size of our club and the size of our supporter base, it can be a powerful weapon.
“Everybody having a kick at us”. “Supporters will take sanctions”. “It’s about starting to fight back”.
Watch yourself at the weekend. After the game, go home and stay there. Talk about kicking and fighting three days before the game does not bode well.
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ItaliaBhoy on 26 April, 2012 at 22:52
Why is Fraser Forster getting excited about them? :p
HH
With the memories of Manchester firmly in mind, I genuinely worry about the outcome of the next few weeks for Glasgow and other areas around Scotland. It’s clear, to me at least, that the crescendo is most certainly building within their ‘support’. A crescendo which, if not somehow controlled, is going to make Manchester look like a mere warm up for the mob. Unfortunately, with no leadership the mob mentality has firmly taken over. Internally building themselves up on a notion of everyone is against them. All it will take is the right spark to set them off.
Thankfully I left Scotland some time ago with my family. To all those going to the game and to all those planning to go out after be careful and look after yourselves.
Archie looking old on Stv.
BRTH
I wonder I wonder.
I can’t fully concur.
I agree with a lot of your insight.
But…
There is no true intelligence in persona. Hard work, luck and the right handshakes (Excuse the context). There’s an extension of myth. Stephen Walliams is relentlessly funny. Simon Cowell is decidedly deep. Fearne Britton is genuinely concerned.
And so on.
But his Golgotha wasn’t the lowest common denominator of the past few days. It was his descent from ex striker/TV celebrity to under-performing asst manager/manager. He took the tried and tested ‘be bought boys’ route – celebrating physical misdemeanours and the like, whilst either failing or being bailed out from his ‘cup game management’ when Uncle Walter rolled down from the stands.
No, I’m sorry, his route was already well travelled before he incited a hot headed Neil Lennon into biting that Scottish Cup night.
He might be strung out just now – and I fully agree that stronger men would choose braver paths – but like that old saying goes – to which a scoundrel clings.
He’s always played to the cheap seats. It’s just that with Govan he knows his sample audience so much better.
Love you, your wit and your wisdom as always.
U
It’s a sign of the extent of the accelerating car crash collapse of an “empire” that those who have historically been held up as the “good guys” , Mccoist and Jardine, appear to have lost all sense of perspective.
Perhaps it’s a result of being the only guys left to whom the support can relate , and therefore the guys who are being pushed , whether they want it or not, to the fore. Perhaps it’s simply the pressure caused by the realisation that there’s an inevitability about there inexorable collapse.
Or perhaps , as some unquestionably will argue ,it’s just their true selves being given free reign from the bunker in the last days.
Whichever it is the failure of McCoist and Jardine to show the dignity and restraint which their club regards as quintessential to their being is conclusive evidence that they all know that the end of Rangers , at least as we know it, is now inevitable.
If you want get a sense of what it’s like inside Ibrox now I’d suggest you watch Downfall. It’s not just the greatest movie I’ve ever seen about WW2 it’s an incredible study of the death of an empire.
When we beat them on Sunday ( – 10 pts ) we go 11 clear with 3 games to play.
We’ve won the league again, again, fly the flag.
Goodnight all, hoping for a better day 2moro.
HH PC67
Good Night all
HH
gscbhoy (they ARE a dead parrot) on 26 April, 2012 at 22:51 said:
More power to you(unless you play against my girls team).
The new philosophy has a chance, another bonus of the death of the Hun is a chance for expansive football to flourish.
TET, we come across young Refs every week, there are good and bad.
Those who talk to the kids are best, some actually coach the kids on the rules of the game as they play, some are poor communicators.
Am I alone in hoping that there are no Huns lurking on here tonight,an awful lot of posters sounding like nervous bed wetters.Without being complacent it’s just another game against them,I am no tough guy or psycho but i am not going to waste time worrying about that lot.
Croppiesdontliedowncsc
pedrocaravanachio67 on 26 April, 2012 at 22:57 said:
Winning the league twice in one season, sweet.
Two in a row;-)
Bundoran Bhoy, I expect them to have a final sing song. As for me, there’s one song I’d like to hear:
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow.
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow.
ItaliaBhoy, it’s not a weekend for being out. Anywhere.
paulsatim, I’d be surprised if they had permission for such a march.
Serge, it’s not just about at and around the game, it’s the towns and villages too.
SwanseaBhoy, indeed.
EXILED TIM, it’s beyond belief.
Mark \o/ McGhee, indeed.
petec, true.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 – Instead, despite all his media savvy, his quick wittedness, his appeal to many neutrals, he chose to go down the dogged old fashioned Rangers under siege mode. He has opened the door and appealed to that element of the Rangers fan base who have harmed and damaged the reputation of the club for oh so many years.
It’s always Derry’s Walls / No Surrender / We Are The People with them.
It’s the same old theme since 1690.
They will go to their financial gallows, that they built high for themselves, kicking and screaming and biting and spitting and cursing all the way.
And whatever misbegotten beast arises from the ashes of Rangers FC, it will be a small mercy at least that the original was put down. For if any other club in Scotland had behaved as they did, it would have been shut down long ago. (thumbsup)
no one likes them and they don’t care, never a truer saying.
ride ride ride yer goat gently to the bru when you get there you will find there’s lots more like you.
BRTH
Someone should post that to him.
Superb as ever.
I’ll be changing my routine on Sunday.
I usually have a couple of post-match pints in the Crown Creighton on Duke Street but that part of Dennistoun will be a no-go area before and after the game. I shudder to think of what these animals are capable of, especially if Celtic thrash their horrible team.
With the clocking ticking steadily towards liquidation, their death throes will be ugly and dangerous.
I urge all fellow tims to avoid being on their own if out and about on Sunday. The very sight of Celtic scarves will probably be enough to trigger violence among some of these bigoted nutters.
It is truly sad that on a night when a young man, Reamonn Gormley, with a heart of gold, and a kindness , compassion and tolerance for others that most of us would envy, was honoured posthumously, that 2 senior representatives of one of Scotland’s largest football clubs should inflame and incite an already enraged body of people, without a thought for how their comments may be construed, nor a thought for the dangerous repercussions that may ensue.
Truly sad.
Paul67 –
I was just saying to my brother earlier that I reckon there will be a lot of bother in the vacinity of Celtic Park on Sunday – and that was before Billy Jardine’s comments.
And the worst has still to come for them yet. When they go under it will be bedlam all over the place.
All of bit holier-than-thou on here, lads.
So, McCoist and Jardine lose a bit ? So what ? If the shoe was on the other foot would we expect our guys to say nowt ? We’d be at the barricades big time !
Let’s just look forward to our last game against them instead.
It’s fitba, I love fitba.
I would watch (and play) fitba anywhere, Tollcross Park, Glasgow green, Greenfield, Toryglen, anywhere. What has happened to take my love away of this, in my opinion, still beautiful game?
Hatred, vile horrible hatred. One day it may come back and I believe it will, I love the game too much, to think otherwise. I love football !!! I love Celtic FOOTBALL CLUB!! Goodnight folks.
P67 and others
I understand your sentiment in urging everyone to exercise caution on Sunday. Believe me, I understand. However, I will not alter my routine to accommodate the random hate filled actions of scum. Be cautious, but don’t be fearful. Stand our ground and these cowards will undoubtedly retreat. There is nothing more certain. Bullies disappear in the face of those who stand tall in opposing them.
I thought they could not sink lower. I’m surprised that I’m surprised. But please, do not display any sign of weakness if and when confronted with their poisonous aggression. They will crumble and be humiliated once again.
God bless her majesty
i am travelling to the match by train from edinburgh, i would by lying if i said i wasnt concerned about my safety going to the match on sunday, 2012 and i am worried about going to a game at celtic park. shocking
s, revenue & customs
mattgallscot on 26 April, 2012 at 23:00:
“no one likes them and they don’t care, never a truer saying.”
They do care all right – that’s why they are turning against anyone and everyone.
At least Millwall mean it when they sing that dirge.
A wee ramble, humour me, le do thoil
I went to a wee music session tonight; four fiddlers from various parts of the heilans and Ireland, a guitarist from Shetland, and a keyboard player from Lewis. They happily introduced songs from highlands, islands, Ireland, Shetland, with wee anecdotes to presage them. I’ve gone to these things, Scotia, Ireland, and France for years, and they show the root of the culture for me.
The name “Celtic” was carefully proposed by Brother Walfrid. It was a recognition that Scotland and Ireland share a common bond – the people, essentially, are the same. Hopefully, as we’ve developed as humanity, we realise we’re all, in fact, the same. The differences come from the environment – culture; and thats to be celebrated, as long as it doesn’t imply or proclaim a position of superiority. Only a tit would do that, right?
The end is nigh for Rangers. They will not see June.
When they finally go I will not celebrate.
I will not serve jelly and ice cream.
I will not sing and dance and play the piano.
I will kiss my kids and quietly give thanks that they will be safer in a world without the venom Rangers spread.
pedrocaravanachio67
IMO, we won the league on the 28th of Dec when we beat tem at Paradise, we also won the league when we humped Killie the other week, and we will win the league again when we beat tem on sunday.
Keep posting mi amigo, forget the cliques, they are so far up their own posteriors, they wouldn’t see your posts anyways.
There is the morning clique, the afternoon clique, the evening clique.
Sunday like all games against the huns will not be for children nor the faint-hearted
However we should go with a steely determination to show that bullies and fascists will never prevail – especially in our own stadium
Unlike Sally I’m not slyly issuing a call for violence nor intimidation – instead we should reply to their bile and bigotry with humour born out of love for our club
At the root of many of the huns’ problems is the fact that they do not love their club so much as hate ours
As others have pointed out they have spent hundreds of millions of pounds vainly trying to emulate our successes at home and abroad – this will be what will ultimately kill them
On Sunday I would love it, absolutely love it ( as KK would say) if we hammer them on the park and rip the knitting right out of them off it with our songs,banners and witty ditties
No violence – humour helped defeat the Nazis
Humour to beat the huns!
“Sally has only got one EBT
Watty is something similiar
While poor old Dallas has no balls at all”
Apologies to W. Churchill and others
HH
BRTH: Magnificent as ever … and you echo a thought I first voiced four years ago, in an article. Isn’t it amazing that after all this time we are still waiting?
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THE ARGUMENT’S OVER ……………
On October 19th something monumental happened in the United States that got me thinking about issues here in Scotland. For the last few months, I’ve been following, with great interest, events in the U.S. as Barack Obama powers towards his destiny as the 44th President. His victory will consign to history the darkness at the heart of the American dream, that great nation’s racist past, and ring in a brand new era and a new kind of politics. Equally important, it will be a tremendous repudiation of the McCain/Palin campaign, which has, in its desperation, attempted to tap into the historical wellspring of hate which once split that country in two.
The McCain/Palin camps’ despicable tactics are the last, desperate act of a belief system that is dying. We are witnessing its final, agonised days of power; from here on in the road is straight down into Hell where such beliefs and opinions belong. This moment has been nearly two centuries in the making, if we are looking at it through the widest possible lens, but in terms of the modern struggle, which began with the civil rights movements in the sixties, we are talking a mere forty odd years, a blink in the grand scheme of things.
Yet, it is entirely possible that the struggle, instead of being advanced to its now inevitable conclusion, could have suffered a major setback during this election. The hate-mongers, as seen at the rallies of Palin in particular, might have found some resonance within the American populace had October 19th not seen an extraordinary and inspired act by a man utterly sickened by what he saw and who, by virtue of his name and his reputation, had a platform from which to rail against it. He spoke out, and America took another step forward.
His name was Colin Powell. On that day, he endorsed Barack Obama for the Presidency. Had this been all he did, that would have been a sensation in and of itself, as he is a lifelong Republican who played a major role in the Bush administration, but Powell went much farther than that. He condemned the Republican Party itself, and in doing so annihilated the very idea of that party as reaching out to moderates in this race. He slammed the strategy, yes, but also the way that strategy sought to tap into hatred, and in doing so has sparked a civil war for the soul of the party itself.
Although a supporter of the Democratic Party, it’s a struggle I hope moderate Republicans win, although that would make them a far more potent political force. The hardcore Republican neo-Christian right are the shame of the American political system; their brand of nationalism has sparked wars, fed racism, promoted hatred and divided the most powerful country in the world to the extent even well meaning men and women are pulled rightward out of fear or political expediency, to the detriment of all.
The finest moment of Powell’s interview came near the end, when he talked about the Republican Party’s rumour machine and its efforts to smear Obama, in particular by claiming he is a Muslim. Powell first set the record straight by reminding viewers of Obama’s Christian upbringing, but then he set the cat amongst the pigeons by posing a rhetorical question so profound I gave a gasp of delighted amazement when he said it. “The really right answer (to the question) however is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That is not American.”
In a single statement, Powell got right to the heart of things in a way no-one else had. He cast a bright light on the last, dark vestiges of the nation’s shame, and provoked a brand new debate which will go on long after this election and resonate much deeper than mere words. At its heart though, it was an awesome indictment of the party to which he has given a lifetime of service, a party to which he remains loyal even now, a party he will fight for, even if it means choosing a side in the internal battle to come. It was a moment that has already seen him branded a traitor by many within its circle, but if Powell had been worried about that he would never have spoken out with such passion in the first place.
Powell’s comments got me thinking about Scotland, and in particular about Rangers. It got me thinking about The Famine Song, and the by now ludicrous lengths some will go to defend it, even now when the argument itself is over and done with, and everybody knows who is right and who is wrong.
The media, who’s silence was deafening until John Reid poked them with a stick and brought the argument sharply to life and into a new focus, now concede the central point, albeit without apology or excuse for having gotten it so wrong in the first place. The anti-racism groups, who at first said nothing, now voice their condemnation in the loudest possible terms. Politicians, even the police, have gotten in on the act, because no-one can reasonable argue with a former Home Secretary when he says laws are being broken.
The debate, if ever it could be called that, is finished. Only a few hold-outs, like the discredited and disgraced excuse for a journalist Jim Traynor, remain steadfast in their refusal to see the light. They are the exception to the rule. Even Keevins has the sense to see that this is an argument in which one side’s case has been utterly destroyed, and he has now sought refuge in the winner’s enclosure.
The only real remaining block of the ignorant and unrepentant are those within Rangers itself. Like the Republican Party, the official line is that the world is against them. Like the McCain/Palin camp, they now view the media as overwhelmingly hostile. Like the extreme right, who’s hatred exploded at rallies with calls to kill the Democratic Party nominee, the attention of the police and the authorities is treated as proof not of the wrongness of their action by as irrefutable evidence that they are being singled out and picked on.
And through it all, I keep on waiting and watching for something that thus far has not come. Through the denials and evasions, through the making of excuses and wails of self pity, I watch and I wait and I hope for someone to come to the fore from within Rangers itself and do what Powell has done and condemn, vilify and treat with contempt and shame the direction of not only the support but the club itself. I wait and I hope, but I do not expect, that someone, be it a former player or manager, a director or leader of the fans, will step forward and say what we all know to be true; there is a sickness at Rangers which must be exposed and rooted out, if the club is to have a future at all. And the wait goes on.
Let me say at this juncture that one person of note has done so, and he should be excused blame here and now. Graham Speirs, as on other occasions, has used his public profile to put things sharply into perspective, and it comes across with all the more force because he is a self-confessed Rangers fan, but as he is not widely respected or liked within their support he does not fit the criterion of a Powell-like figure who commands wide respect within their ranks. This is a great shame, as he is intelligent and forthright in his views, and articulates well his arguments. His condemnation of many of their past sins has won him acclaim everywhere, except within Ibrox itself.
From the rest comes only silence, that and a peculiar tendency to mount some kind of defence for Scotland’s Shame. After all, don’t we hear constantly, that these people are a “small minority”? Day after day, no matter the situation, be it riots, or Nazi salutes or hate filled anthems, we hear that time and time again. Yet the main supporters groups at Rangers are now run by men for whom hate is business as usual, men who defend every atrocious act, who excuse every inexcusable thing. They defend this song with digs at McGeady and McCarthy, for betraying Scotland, even as they pour scorn on the national coach and laud a manager who walked out of that job without a backward glance and players who have turned their back on the jersey in petulant rage. They defended the Billy Boys, rebranded Nazi’s salutes celebrating the murder of Jews as Red Hand Salutes celebrating the murder of Catholics and condemned “heavy handed policing” in Manchester amidst scenes where rubber bullets, tear gas and the use of water cannons might have been employed without the authorities stepping over the line. Had police officers been killed during those terrible hours, a scenario that chills me to the bone for how near it came, they would undoubtedly have trotted out that same party line without blinking.
The moderates within the RST have been relentlessly purged. Few can doubt this was done with the connivance of the membership as a whole, and their rightward sweep has been incredible and dispiriting to watch in recent months. Even more worryingly, their brand of lunacy now goose-steps along with the view of those at the very top of the club itself, including the Chief Executive and the Chairman. If there is a voice of dissent on the board, I have yet to hear that voice speak up and speak out.
Their former players and club heroes have been just as silent, and are entitled to be viewed with the same scorn and disgust. Not one former player has spoken out against this new manifestation of hate, though many, like Powell, have the profile to do just that. Take Fraser Wishart, who has at his disposal a national platform with some weight, as he is the chief of the players union. Had he felt strongly about it, he could have spoken out last year when the hate was pouring down on Noel Hunt. His silence then, and now, as the same venom comes down in a torrent on a 17-year-old boy, is shameful. Serious questions need to be asked about Wishart’s role in all this, and about why no-one at the top of the union he represents has taken him aside and told him to get off the fence. Once upon a time, the union would have condemned, in the harshest terms, anyone within its ranks who did not condemn racism wherever they found it. Instead, Wishart is lauded as one of them men at the forefront of anti-racist campaigns, at least in the eyes of the all-too complicit media. The reality is that Wishart’s silence on this issue marks him out as one of two things; he is either a moral coward or he is a closet racist, in full agreement with the hordes who belt out these anthems of hate. Either way, he is, to steal a phrase from our chairman, unfit for purpose and his union should be asking him serious, searching questions if the organisation itself is not to come under the most intense scrutiny.
Wishart is not alone, of course. The head of the SFA is another hero of the Rangers support, and his condemnation might itself inspire other, moderate voices within their ranks to speak up. Instead he has kept silent on the issue save to say that the club, because it has “tried its best” to eradicate the hate mongers amongst its fan base, should not be penalised by SPL regulations.
Whereas Wishart’s silence is embarrassing and shameful, yet also inexplicable, there is no surprise as to Gordon Smith’s failure to give a serious response. His record in defending the worst elements of the Rangers support is unequalled. Even the reactionary clown Traynor once condemned Smith’s pandering when, in the heat of the UEFA led investigation into the sectarianism of their support he first sought to drag Celtic into the maelstrom and then tried to defend the chants themselves. In a now famous encounter, live on radio, Traynor bluntly asked him “which part of F the Pope do you not believe is sectarian.” Smith has long defended the rights of Rangers and their fans, even against the best interests of the organisation he now heads; last season he famously offered to postpone our landmark cup final in an effort to swing the title race.
Mark Hately has a newspaper column, as does Derek Johnstone, who also has a radio station at his disposal. Numerous other former stars of the blue jersey have similarly ingratiated themselves within the Fourth Estate, and their words carry the power of Holy Writ within the press. Yet not one former player or official connected with this club has acted in its best interests by saying what everyone now knows beyond a reasonable doubt; vast tracts of the Rangers support, aside from being sectarian swine, are also racist scum.
Alcoholics know the first step towards a cure is admitting the problem exists. The silence from those with the power to affect real change here are guilty either of not caring enough about the problem to want to see it solved or, far worse, not recognising it as a problem at all. So, the Rangers fans go on spewing their hatred without as much as a word of condemnation from those who could, if they chose, speak out and set club in a new direction.
Far more important, though, than mere condemnation, would be voices within Ibrox speaking on behalf of the Irish community, as Powell did with America’s Muslims. Why, he asked, should a young Muslim boy not grow up dreaming of being President of the United States? By the same token, will we ever see a Republic of Ireland international feel proud to pull on the blue jersey of Rangers, and, more vitally, would he feel secure enough to do so believing he’d get support from their fans?
Where are the voices articulating positive messages about the Irish community? Would Rangers supporters groups, for example, join with Celtic fans in a petition to Glasgow City Council to build a lasting, permanent memorial in this city to those who died in the famine? And if not, why not? Why are their dozens of similar memorials around the world, in cities that owe far less to their Irish communities than Glasgow does? What’s wrong with this city making a similar gesture, and wouldn’t a united front from the main organisations in our society, including Rangers, not take us a giant step down the path of casting anti-Irish racism in this country to the dustbin of history?
Would Rangers, for example, agree to play a friendly match against the Republic of Ireland at Ibrox, with the proceeds going to anti-sectarian and anti-racist charities? Would they go one step further and, in keeping with custom, do what they have never done before in their history and fly the tri-colour above their stadium? On the very few occasions Irish teams have been entertained there they never have, although on October 14th 1936 they did fly the Nazi flag.
Does anyone at Rangers care enough about the club and its tarnished reputation to act in a way that brings them at least some measure of credit? The country as a whole would certainly applaud them; the press especially would fall all over themselves to shower them with praise, and for once it would be justified.
Colin Powell’s condemnation of the Republican Party’s campaign rings all the more true coming, as it does, from a man who cares deeply about the future of that party. He has acted not against it but stoutly in its defence and because he knows that the damage his words have done in the short term will benefit not only the Republicans but the whole political process when viewed in hindsight years from now. His courage is second only to his conviction that such racism has no place at all in public life.
Is there even one such individual within the ranks at Rangers, one person with the public profile to step forward and condemn them and the direction the club is taking, especially in light of the official statement released this week which makes it quite clear the hierarchy of Rangers does not condemn the song or those who sing it? This club claims to be forward-thinking and free from the detritus of the past; it also claims it is a small minority of fans who constantly let them down. If these things are true, why not confront this minority in the fullest sense by telling it like it is? They are the lowest of the low, the sickest sewer-dwelling filth in our society today.
Why is the one shining light amongst their ranks in the world of journalism, the redoubtable Graham Speirs, treated as a leper, a figure of hate, for daring to do what no-one else has? Why is he persona non grata with Murray, perhaps alone of the assembled ranks of the media? Shouldn’t such a man of integrity, who clearly loves the club, be made an example rather than a pariah?
Where are, to paraphrase Nixon, the great Silent Majority of Rangers fans, if indeed a majority they are? Why, if the number of fans who shame the club is so small, has this tiny group managed to take the reigns of their largest supporters groups almost without a fight? And where are the independent groups of fans who should be springing up to fight for the heart and soul of their club, as is happening within the ranks of the Republican Party in the United States? Where are those Rangers fans who abhor the hatred and wish to see it eliminated from their club before it eliminates the club itself?
If those Rangers fans on the celebrity circuit, ex-players or what have you, wished to, they could support this “silent majority” and give them a standard to rally around. And so I wait, knowing as I do that if the day ever comes when Rangers is purged of the hate-filled trash who shame both that club and this country, they will be stronger for it. I wait and I hope for that day because, perverse as it may seem, as a football fan I can live with that as long as the game is clean and pure. A strong Rangers, after all, would inspire us to greater strength and be for the good of the whole game.
In it’s present form, however, Rangers are a disease and if they were gone from this Earth right now I would not miss them any more than I, watching Sarah Palin’s hate-filled speeches, feel sympathy for America’s racist, great unwashed, who will wake on November 5th to a transformed country, where a black man awaits the formal swearing in ceremony in January before taking their country down a path which, to them, will be just as alien as it must seem to a resident of Larkhall who has to pass under the green Asda sign.
In the end, it will be Colin Powell’s stunning endorsement of Obama’s candidacy, far more than the election result, which will resonate longest and loudest within the ranks of the Grand Old Party. That Rangers had even one such figure within their ranks with the stature to tell the truth and be heard, that club, and this country would be a far better place to live in.
I continue to live in hope. But I’m not expecting much.
Bring me the heid
You’re an apologist arse! Content at the back of the bus!
Bring Me The Heid…
Who at Celtic would speak in the manner McCoist did knowing the consequences of their words.
I bet todays announcement from Media BIG HOOS on behalf of McCoist (too many big words and average to good sentence structure) wasscripted prior to HUN TV intHUNview.
MWD
I see the Huns operation to subtly and publicly threaten everyone who believes in justice is in full mode.
They are even more stupid than I thought. At a time when they need all the help and goodwill they can get they just can’t help themselves.
Maybe the other club fans should boycott the Huns sponsors. I know who it would hurt more.
Evening gents
Be extra careful this weekend, their rage has gone off the chart, if we win there will be mayhem.
On a lighter note I was talking to one of them in work today, gave him a bit of banter about going to Elgin on a Tuesday night, his reply? ‘Rangers till I die’
My response – ‘Rangers till July’ :)
They just cannae handle the truth, even the more sensible ones have lost the plot!!
Take care
HH
I hear you Paul67 and agree with BRTH that a real chance was missed by the cheaters chief.
Unlike some I didn’t want them to die. I wanted them to take their medicine, start in the 3rd and after x amount of years come back with a new rivalry borne out of the sporting variety and not the bigoted one.
Like the Michael Caine film Zulu I wanted them to know that we would not bow to them and hoped they would `walk away’.
After McCoist’s call to arms I know I was wrong. The rhetoric he used not only disgusted me but made me sad at the same time. Is this my country? Am I not equal? Should I not have the same opportunities in life or is this the sole preserve of the peepul? Is justice blind to the actions of the mob?
I still can’t hate them. I pity them instead. Now however, I want them gone!
As for Sunday, sing your hearts out at the game and drown out the hatred!
Don’t give then a voice or a platform.
HH
Just when you think they can’t define a new level for stupid, they go and do it again.
It really is time for UEFA to get involved. The sooner this bunch of moronic eighth-wits get a reality check the better.
A ten year ban from Europe would do the trick.
Come on Celtic, this Sunday lets give this bunch of imposters a lesson in football. 6-0 would do lovely. :)
Hail Hail
Eric
Brogan……
As always an education
Cheers
Noticed in the Youtube clip of Sally interview….
he mentions…
“kill” @1:28
“death” @1:38
re–iterates “kill” @1:44
I’m sure theres lots of little things could be picked out this…. if you can stomach it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kE9YowxnJA
@ the space of 10 secondsBy the by,…..Was it StvBarwaj that done the …..sounds like him. Maybe it was just the cotinual use of the word “we”.
From top to bottom of that “institution” , when they dont get their rightful way
they show what they truly are.
These past couple of days with their ill-advised/carefully chosen (delete as appropriate) words should let folk see that their disintegration can only be good not just for our game but our society!
The next few weeks will be an endurance, but worth it……