TheRangers - A History of Violence, Bigotry, Sectarianism, Racism and Intolerance

Imatim

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Rangers FC in Liquidation – A History of Violence

Originally Posted by Flasher on the Hibees Bounce message board.



THE HUNS!

Attacking the Moscow Dynamo players (before the full scale riot) during the 1972 ECWC Final in Barcelona. As Moscow Dynamo coach Konstantin Beskov stated, “We had the advantage and momentum at the end of the game – they were trailing 3-2

- when the Rangers fans broke onto the pitch and attacked our players.”

Being called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr after rioting huns shamed themselves in Barcelona in 1972. In a scathing attack, Mr Wiedekehr angrily stated “ The Rangers fans behaved like savages. We must find ways to keep such people from football stadiums.”

Rioting inside and outside Old Trafford during a ‘friendly’ in 1974, causing the stadium to witness some of the bloodiest violence in it’s history, as bigoted huns attacked and bottled United fans, simply because some of them were Irish.

Trying to start sectarian riots in Dublin before and during a game against Bohemians in 1984, which the huns lost 3-2. Rangers fans attacked police and Bohemians fans outside and inside the ground, until they were beaten back, and forced to spend the rest of the game cowering in fear, as they got a taste of their own medicine.

Half of the huns never even made it in the first place, after being thrown off the Liverpool / Dunloghaire ferry for rioting. The ferry was turned back, halfway across the Irish Sea after drunken huns started running amok and fighting with other passengers.

The Rangers fans thought it would be a good idea to link up with those other paragons of tolerance Linfield, who were playing Shamrock Rovers the following evening, and wreak havoc in the south of Ireland. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t bank on the spirit of the Irish people who turned their little wrecking jolly, into a day of fear the huns would never forget.

Even to this day, Rangers fans experience a cold shiver when asked about their memories of the trip. Most have conveniently chosen to forget

Convicted Loyalist terrorist, and UDA Godfather John Gregg being ambushed and shot dead by fellow Rangers fans in 2003 after returning to Belfast from a match at Ibrox. Gregg, who was sentenced to 18 years after a failed assassination attempt on the life of MP Gerry Adams, was slain by a number of gun-totting masked men wearing Rangers shirts, who then fled the scene in a stolen taxi.

Brutally assaulting sports photographer Eric Craig as they invaded the Hampden pitch after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final. Craig was left deaf in one ear, and with a gruesome dent in his head after he was beaten and struck with a Pomagne bottle ‘hurled at him by a Rangers fan.’ He also had to undergo an emergency six-hour operation at the Southern General Neurosurgical Unit, and still suffers from headaches and dizziness. He also gave up attending football matches after the huns attack which left him traumatised. As Mr Craig later commented “You can still feel the hatred from these people, even after 25 years. I don’t know if they’ll ever be able to be cured.”

UVF Loyalist Godfather William Taube being murdered at Ibrox Stadium in a revenge attack, on a Sunday night in April, 1999, during a Loyalist [Blue Mist] function. The function was held to celebrate the release of, and was attended by, several Loyalist prisoners from the Maze Prison.

Security was provided by Taube’s UVF friends, including a leading member of the UVF in Glasgow. Despite this, Taube was attacked and head-butted down a flight of stairs before having his head smashed on the marble flooring of The Edmiston Suite. He later died at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital.

In a sworn statement to the Crown Office, a witness claimed he had been threatened with knee-capping if he failed to tell police the attack he saw was ‘a drunken accident’. Following the incident, the witness received death threats and now lives in hiding, terrified of retribution. Taube’s assailant was chased and beaten up in the car park before managing to flee. He has never been caught.

Members of the BNP arrested for Loyalist agitation and recruitment activity outside Ibrox stadium. The BNP feel they have a natural empathy with the politics of Rankers fans with whom they share certain racist, bigoted, homophobic and xenophobic ideals.

Barcelona 1972 : The only fans in European history not to witness their club receiving the trophy in a post-match presentation. Rankers fans were too busy rioting on the field of play at the time, so the ceremony had to take place………….in a dressing room. Following the match Rangers fans rioted in the streets outside the ground, clashing with Spanish police and causing extensive damage in the city. Rankers fans also vandalised the exterior of the city’s Catholic cathedral, which was daubed with sectarian graffitti.

Similar anti-Catholic sentiments were expressed on buildings, in later years on visits to the Italian cities of Parma and Turin. The scenes of mayhem and violence caused by rioting huns in the Nou Camp remain some of the most disgraceful ever witnessed at a football match.

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Repeated hate-posts on FF containing sickening homophobia, with thread titles like ‘Homophobic And Proud’ and ‘101 Uses For A Dead Gay’. This is in addition to numerous repeated sick posts about injured, dead, or disabled people including Stephen Hawking, Christopher Reeve, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Clough, Jordan’s (the topless model) blind toddler son and many others. The list – in no way exhaustive – extends to Mother Teresa, Harold Shipman’s victims, footballers who have died in tragic circumstances, P & O Ferry drowning victims, the Tsunami victims, and those who died on Piper Alpha. Is no-one immune from these brainless morons ?

The only club in football history to be unable to defend their trophy due to the behaviour of their fans. After the rioting that occurred in Barcelona, Rankers received a UEFA one-year ban from European competition.

Being outed as sectarian bigots by one of their own – fellow Rankers fan, and American tourist, James Armstrong, in 1998. During his tour, Armstrong spent a day socialising with Mark Dingwall and some of the other Loyalist FF keyboard bretheren (SMac, SM, & SJ). He attended the day’s match v Kilmarnock at Ibrox (Walter Smith’s last home game in charge, which Rankers lost 0-1) after Dingwall had got him a ticket for the Club Deck.

After an evening’s revelry in the Auctioneer’s pub, followed by a trip to the curry house, Armstrong caught the last train back to Edinburgh, where he was staying. Onboard the train, he describes the sectarian singing of his fellow passengers, and how he was disturbed by the bigotry they espoused. “There were about ten other Bears singing drunkenly the entire trip back. ‘Hello! Hello! We are King Billy’s Boys! We’re up to our knees in Fenian blood, Surrender or you’ll die!’ There were other sectarian songs. The bigotry was disturbing.”

Throwing a golf-ball with nails projecting out of it at Peter Grant during the notoriously hooligan-hun mid 1980’s. According to Grant himself, the deadly missile only missed his head ‘by a couple of inches.’

Saying that El Hajj Diouf ‘deserved a knighthood’ after the disgusting and vile episode when he spat on football supporters. This serial low-life has been warned, fined, and banned numerous times, and is a disgrace to both the footballing fraternity in particular, and the human race in general – unless of course you’re a Rankers fan, in which case he’s a candidate for investiture.

Funny, the sort of people these huns look up to ?!

The outrage by huge sections of the club’s support after Rankers ended their sectarian signing policy – eventually – and signed a Catholic after almost a century. The arrival of the said Catholic was met with protests, derision, boycotts, and the surrender and burning of numerous Season Books. Fans’ leaders appeared in television documentaries in later years, proudly displaying their full and unused Season Books, as a result of their continued non-attendance protest at the presence of a Catholic player at the club.

Rioting before, during, and after the notorious Villa Riot game in 1976 where 8000 drunken huns went on an orgy of robbery, violence, and hooliganism which brought Birmingham to a standstill. People’s doors were kicked in, pubs wrecked, shops looted, and Villa fans bottled and stabbed as rampaging huns brought an orgy of drunken violence and terror to Birmingham. Hooligan huns without tickets broke down the gates of the Holte End, and rampaged onto the terracing attacking the Villa fans with bricks and bottles.

The violence was so serious that it was reported live on World Of Sport just after kick-off, with Dickie Davies warning Villa fans not to go into their home end for the threat of being attacked. The game was marred by dozens of rampaging fights as drunken huns attacked the home fans, and was eventually abandoned at half-time in the interests of crowd safety – with the huns typically on the losing end of the 2-0 scoreline.

Using child abuse as a cheap weapon in a tawdry point-scoring exercise, whilst seeking to slander the memory of Jock Stein. A sickening t-shirt stunt was planned which sought to denigrate Scotland’s most successful manager, at the expense of innocent children who were the victims of a heinous crime.

Thankfully, those in charge of the club recognised that particular cancer in time to exterminate it’s malignant influence, by threatening life bans for any degenerate perverted enough to carry out their twisted plan. The stunt was no empathy for those who suffered abuse – it was a way of using their suffering to fabricate lies about someone who isn’t here to defend himself.

Psychologists call it the ‘Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance’ whereupon one seeks to denigrate another in order to make themselves feel better, and tries to justify their actions by a twisted rationalisation that their victim ‘deserved it.’ It was the same tactic that the Nazis used on Jewish holocaust victims, and is the same reasoning that wife-beaters use to justify their cowardly violence, in their own minds.

The intentions of the deranged low-lifes at Ibrox was to try and tarnish the status of a footballing giant, whilst wading in a cesspit filled with the remnants of human suffering and broken lives. What could be any lower than sullying the reputation of a dead man with lies and fabrication, at the expense of children who were the victims of a heinous crime. This truly is the lowest of the low – and another benchmark for these vile reprobates.

The sectarian murder and homicidal violence perpetrated on Celtic fans, by Rankers-supporting bigoted maniacs. Once investigated and convicted, the perpetrators have often been found to have grown up in an anti-Catholic environment that encouraged sectarianism and division along football and religious lines.

One of these thugs, Jason Campbell (who murdered Mark Scott in 1996) is the son of a convicted Loyalist UVF terrorist. He is also a diehard Rankers fan, and was defended during his trial by the Rankers FC Vice-Chairman Donald Findlay QC – himself later forced to resign after a shameful sectarian hate incident.

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In 1998 Findlay also defended another Rankers-supporting, Loyalist thug, Thomas Longstaff (who cut the throat of Sean O’Connor) is an almost copy-cat attack to Campbell’s. Police later admitted, that in the two-year period between these attacks, 38 similar assaults had taken place in the area, all directed at Catholics or those wearing Celtic colours.

The learned Mr Findlay was happilly singing his hate anthems on the same day in May 1999 that 16 year old Thomas McFadden was being stabbed to death by two Rankers fans in Govanhill after they watched the huns play at Hampden. His ‘crime’ was to be wearing a Celtic top. Also in 1999, Carl McGroarty, was shot in the chest by a bolt fired from a crossbow as he left a pub wearing his Celtic top.

On the same day, another young Celtic fan, Liam Sweeney was stabbed repeatedly after leaving a Chinese takeaway. His green jersey and the calling of his name to collect his food order was enough to identify him as a Catholic from an Irish background. Later the same evening in Ayrshire, three young Celtic fans – one female – were viciously attacked by a large mob of Rangers fans.

All three were hospitalised, one of the men had receiving horrific head injuries, and the other a broken jaw. In 2003, Celtic fan Thomas Loughrey was stabbed to death by James McCormick in an unprovoked attack in Pollokshaws.

Thomas had made the fatal error of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as McCormick – high on drink and drugs, took offence to his Celtic top. In October 2004, Ian Gray was stabbed to death by convicted thug Brian Cooper after he had spent the day getting acutely more drunk after watching an Orange Walk, and then attending a match at Ibrox stadium. Cooper, who received ten years for his act of bigoted murder, admitted sectarianly abusing Mr Gray, before striking him with a wine bottle and repeatedly stabbing him in the back.


How many more innocent Celtic fans are to be butchered before something is done to curtail these sectarian animals – and the hatemongers who defend them ?


Having 15 hooligan fans jailed in September 1999 by a Dutch court after they were convicted of mobbing and rioting before, during, and after a European tie with PSV Eindhoven. The hun thugs – all from Scotland – were convicted by the court in Den Bosch, and sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from 4 weeks to 24 weeks. Afterwards, they were immediately deported upon release. No one likes them – they don’t care !

Being so sectarian that they’ve had a play dedicated to them because of their bigoted and anarchic perceptions of society. In James Barclay’s ‘The Bigot’, Loyalist, Royalist, Rankers fan Andra Thompson is the sash-wearing embodiment of a typical west of Scotland hun, who worsh ips Rankers, Ulster, Ian Paisley,The Orange Order, The Freemasons, and The Royal Family. At the same time, he hates Catholics, Celtic, Irish people, and anything green in general.

The play is an accurate depiction of a hackneyed and twisted old sectarian dinosaur from days gone by, still applying those same tired old bigoted concepts to every second of his waking life. It is a scathing social comment and a damning indictment on a huge percentage of the Rankers support, and how they continue to conduct themselves.

Despite the advancement of society, they continue tolive their lives i n a bigoted and intolerant manner as if they were still living in ‘the grand old days of yore’. In Scotland the clocks go forward an hour every year – unless you’re a Rankers fan – in which case they go back three hundred years !

The repeated sight and sound of numerous thousands of Rankers fans racially abusing the players of opposition teams, simply because they are black. This behaviour is widespread, blatantly obvious, and as yet unpunished by those who administer the ticketing of Rankers fans. This inaction is viewed by many as tacit complicity.

Starting a FF thread on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination to praise psychotic murderer Mark Chapman for ‘cooly pumping 5 bullets into him’.

Added posts went on to denigrate the victim’s memory, whilst praising and showing appreciation for the cold-blooded killer who murderered him. Not to be outdone, further posts went on to heap praise, and urge others not to forget, ‘the sterling work done by’ other deranged assassins including ‘Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan’, who assassinated John F Kennedy and his brother Robert.

The disgusting and blatant sectarian abuse by Rankers fans towards Celtic player Neil Lennon. The player has been victimised, brutalised, assaulted, had his property vandalised, and most sinister of all, has had his life threatened. All of these incidents have come from persons later proven to support, or have links to Rankers FC, or have had blatant Rankers connections. How serious need this get before something is done about the cancerous hatred of these people ?

The club being forced to refrain from playing a popular chart song over the Ibrox PA system at matches due to Rankers fans hijacking it, distorting the words, and turning it into a sectarian club anthem. The song was later to be repeatedly sung by tens of thousands of Rankers fans for numerous seasons, dispelling the myth that Rankers cancerous sectarian hate was simply the practice of ‘an unrepresentative minority.’ Indeed, if this was the sectarianism of their minority, heaven knows what depths their majority would sink to.

The persistant and widespread mobbing, looting, and fighting by Rankers fans whenever they attend Away matches involving Rankers FC. A recent, but by no means exhaustive list includes : Munich, Rotterdam, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Fulham, Liverpool, Bucharest, Paris………. The above is an obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial and friendly matches.

Rankers fans being involved in widespread violence and sectarianism during a European tie in July 1998 in Liverpool. The match – against Irish club Shelbourne – had to be moved to a neutral ground (Tranmere Rovers / Prenton Park) because club officials knew that the sectarian Rankers fans could not be trusted to travel to Ireland without the genuine fear that they would cause mayhem and injury – if not murder (See Bohemians 1984).

It so proved that they couldn’t be trusted to travel to England either, where they had to be baton-charged by more than 150 fully clad riot police, as they tried to attack the Irish fans. Amidst mopping up the carnage that Rankers fans caused – including smashing the windows of the Shelbourne FC team bus – Liverpool police commented that Rankers fans would never again be allowed to freely roam the city. If they ever again, did have cause to visit the city, severe policing restrictions would be applied.

This has later been proven to be the case as numerous English cities have faced severe alcohol licensing restrictions when Rankers are scheduled to play there. The above is another obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial matches.

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The embarrassingly shameful booing and vitriolic hounding of Shota Arveladze by his club’s own fans, because he had the temerity to bless himself before entering the field of play, during a recent trip to play Linfield in Ireland.

For good measure, the Catholic-hating, sectarian, Loyalist hate-mongers of Linfield abused him as well.

Printing the personal details in a Rankers fanzine of those certain people suspected of having handed the ‘Donald Findlay’ video tape over to the meeja.

The inference was that most fellow huns wouldn’t be too bothered if ‘some harm’ befell the culprit(s).

Having three hooligan fans jailed for 20 months each in March 2004, after they brutally attacked an Aberdeen fan in Glasgow as he returned there to catch a train following a Scottish Cup tie in Dumfries.

Video footage showed pedestrians diving for cover and the fight was only stopped when police arrived. Damning the Rankers hooligans, Sheriff Linda Ruxton said jail was the only option in the interests of the public. “This was an incident associated with football violence, which brought about a serious disturbance. It took very little to lose control and, as a result, you behaved like hooligans.

It must have been a frightening experience for those that were witnesses. Your actions made Glasgow city centre a very dangerous place. Public interest demands that a custodial sentence must be passed.”

The shameful desecration of silence tributes to football legend Sir Matt Busby – because he was a Catholic – and assassinated President John F Kennedy for the same reason. Not even the dead are immune from sectarian vitriol it would appear.

The shameful displaying of Loyalist paramilitary banners by sectarian Rankers fans, who glorify those convicted of sectarian murder, and that mock the deaths of their victims. Banners have also been flown denigrating the memory of deceased Celtic players, and of a young Catholic man (Robert Hamill) who was kicked to death by a sectarian hate-mob wearing Rankers shirts.

To recreate the assault in which this young man died, sick Rankers fans invented a terracing dance called ‘the bouncy’ in which they emulate the sickening attack. This was later revealed as being so on FF when a poster admitted to ‘joining in the celebration of the death of a Catholic.’ This act represents a hatred and a depravity that is hard to quantify.

Having Rankers fans describe the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th – and in particular the deaths of hundreds of NYPD & NYFD members – as ‘deserving’ because some of these brave citizens may (or may not) have been part of the pipe band that welcomed MP Gerry Adams to the USA.

Rankers fans deliberately aiming and setting off a pyrotechnic firework in the direction of the Family Section at Celtic Park in October 2002. The device, which police described as ‘a large firework which contained a smaller series of firecrackers’ was set off in an act of blatant hooliganism, with a blatant disregard for the children and families who were seated there. Thankfully no-one was seriously injured by this wanton act of thuggery.

Convicted sectarian, drug-using, drug-dealing, thieving, receiving, criminal-damaging, knife-carrying, fraudulent, car stealing, electronically-tagged, vandalising, burgling, fire-raising, peace-breaching, disqualified-driving, neighbour-from-hell, Lotto thug Michael Carroll who is Rankers daft and their self-confessed ‘greatest fan’. Carroll, who has over 50 convictions for almost every kind of degenerate sociopathic disorder recently invested £1million in the club he most identifies with, and which he feels most at home in.

A neighbour (Ruth Leeks) who recently collapsed with an asthma attack due to the toxic fumes caused by one of Carroll’s customary caravan bonfires, commented ‘I feel sorry for the guy because he’s obviously so stupid that he has a screw loose and needs help’. As she said this, Carroll and his tattooed hoardes were busily obstructing firemen who had been called to extinguish yet more of his toxic-plumed handiwork.

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The repeated vandalism of the Away support section at Celtic Park following a ‘visit’ by Rankers fans. Although Celtic FC refuse to discuss the cost of repairs, it is believed to run into thousands of pounds for each and every game. The fact that all damage is then has to be paid for by the very club they claim to ‘support’ seems totally lost on these reprobates.

Numerous arrests and subsequent detention of a number of Rankers fans who fraudulently tried to pass off counterfeit Euro currency in Stuttgart before a recent European tie. They were later convicted and sentenced to various periods of imprisonment, bringing further shame on an already notoriously thuggish and hooligan criminal support.

Rankers fans causing a near-riot on the stadium concourse at Ibrox after the refreshment stalls were found to be offering green and white straws (part of an assortment) to customers. Threats of violence and sectarian abuse were hurled at junior catering staff before police and stewards were called in to restore order. Because of this incident, there are now no green and white straws anywhere to be seen at any of the Ibrox vending stalls. Who says the bigots aren’t in control ?!

Using 120 forged tickets to gain entry to a league match at Celtic Park and stealing the seats of fellow Rankers fans, leaving them locked out and unable to see the game. There is nothing much lower than stealing from your own people. Possessing no morals whatsoever, the thieves – incredibly – later tried to shift blame for their dishonesty by suggesting that Celtic FC were responsible for not preventing them from gaining fraudulent access in the first place. As CS Kevin Smith (Match Commander) pointed out “The match saw a number of Rankers fans with genuine tickets turned away because other, so-called, fans entered the stadium with forged tickets. Every person entering with a forged ticket deprives a genuine fan with an authentic ticket of the chance to get in.” Are there no depths to which these gutter-scum won’t sink to ??

Being branded ‘shameful’, ‘filth’ and ‘ a disgrace’ by Bobby Robson after a pre-season match at St James’s Park where they persistantly abused Alan Shearer to such an extent, that Robson took him off the park. Robson later commented that he had plied his trade for decades, in numerous countries around the world.

This was the first time he had experienced such malice, on such a vile scale, and the first time he had ever felt needing to take one of his players off the field of play. Yet another ugly first for the gutter-scum who support Rankers. Seems the hypocritical hate-mongers only love Engerrlunnd when it suits them.

Rankers fans continued and repeated racial and sectarian abuse of Neil Lennon over two adjoining fixtures which prompted Martin O’Neill to publically comment on his utter disgust at the situation. Despite condemnation from the media, politicians, and the wider Scottish public, Rankers refused to condemn their bigoted and sectarian fan-base who continue to bring shame on their club. On the very day Martin O’Neill’s comments were reported in the media, he himself was viciously abused by the Ibrox hate-mongers during a match with Austrian minnows Grazer AK.

Hollow claims from the Ibrox hierarchy that any abuse was made by ‘a minority’ were publically dispelled when a near full house was broadcast on live television heard to repeatedly abusing Martin O’Neill as ‘a Fenian bastard’.

Later, and displaying a deporable ignorance of the facts, not to mention a typical and wholly predictable display of Ostrich Syndrome, David Murray attempted to claim that ‘generalisations of Rankers fans as racist bigots, were inaccurate’. In his view ‘the vast majority of Rankers supporters are decent, respectable people’.

Pity none of them were amongst the 50,000+ that were inside Ibrox that night, Mr Murray – or perhaps you just need to take your head out of the sand. Having said that, when you’re drowning in a sea of debt, the bigot’s pound is as good as any, eh ?!

A Rankers fan (Derek Hume) being arrested and charged with verbally abusing Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner during a game at Ibrox. At the same match another Rankers fan (Alan Martin) was arrested, charged, and later plead guilty to verbally abusing Momo Sylla and Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner. He also admitted making ‘monkey noises’ and shouting racist abuse.

Rankers fans attacking a Glasgow Merchant City bar (Locomotiv) filled with Celtic fans and pushing two of them through a plate glass window. The thugs, many of them with Rankers scarves pulled up over their faces were caught on CCTV attacking the bar, throwing bottles and missiles at it, and attacking the customers inside it by punching and kicking them, whilst chanting sectarian songs. Another blatant example of the hate-filled, sectarian hooligan culture that pervades those who support Rankers.

Having a list of ‘famous’ fans that includes human pig-sty Andy Fordham, Scotlands unfunniest man Andy Cameron, convicted Lotto thug Michael Carroll, washout junkie bigot Martie Pellow, and Shellsuit Bob from no-mark telly show River City.

Sectarian abuse being hurled at four Catholic priests in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis by local hooligans wearing Rankers tops. The priests were warned to leave the island ‘before they were cremated’. One of the priests (Father Paul Hackett) was later mailed a death threat before his parish (The Church Of The Holy Redeemer) was burned to the ground as he slept. Other preists were threatened with ‘having their throats slit’ and ‘being strangled’. It would appear that in the minds of some hate-filled bigots, merely being a Catholic is justifiable grounds for execution.

Organising a poll on FF to canvas support in order to get the telecommunications company Orange to become Rankers new kit sponsors. Posters were asked to sign their vote of approval – many did. Another blatant display of Rankers inextricable links with Loyalism, and the Anti-Catholic Orange Order.

British Transport Police having to board a train in Ayrshire after Loyalist thugs returning from a Rankers game began vandalizing the carriages after having subjected the terrified occupants to mile upon mile of sectarian bigotry and drunken thuggish behaviour.

Two young male passengers on the train were also assaulted. A number of arrests were made before the passengers were allowed to resume their journey, grateful in the knowledge that their safety now wasn’t quite so precarious.

Starting a near riot at Pittodrie in a brawl with Aberdeen fans that caused many people to be injured before riot police had to be called in to take control. As stated in The Telegraph ” Trouble began when fans in the Rangers section hurled coins and bottles at Aberdeen’s Robbie Winters as he prepared to take a corner kick.

The home fans invaded the pitch to confront their rivals. Rangers followers tried to meet them half way, but were prevented by 50 police officers in full riot gear. The referee took both teams off and the match was held up for 17 minutes. Nine supporters received minor injuries, two requiring hospital treatment. Police made 13 arrests before the game and one during it, and others were ejected from the ground.”

When canvassed for their opinions on how the Unofficial Rankers fanzine ‘Follow Follow’ could be better improved for the fans, the following were some of the most popular replies : naked page 3 girls, a porn section, a ‘faggot’ section for all the weirdos and gays, naked female Rankers fans photo section, a section on football thugs and violence, a gossip column. Nice to know their readership are real football fans, who are interested in the genuine issues that affect the club.

Racially abusing two Muslims in Stuttgart Airport, shouting at them : ‘You murdering c**ts shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a f**king airport.’

Numerous members of Rankers much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ joke mob The Blue Order being arrested for both sectarianism and overt rascism. Far from discouraging bigotry, these resident hate-mongers have been a catalyst for it’s expansion.

The most recent exploits of this ‘family friendly’ environment include members being arrested for calling Mark de Vries a ‘n*gger bastard’ during a recent match –v- Hearts at Ibrox. So cancerous is the environment created by these bitter individuals that the club has had to resort to planting undercover stewards within their designated seating area to try and quell the intimidating and malicious atmosphere.

To date, numerous members have been arrested, ejected, warned, or banned. If that’s what goes on in their much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ section, one shudders to think what goes on in their sectarian sections.

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Totally shameful, constant embarrassment and occasional disgrace, but never get called our, but we get lumped in beside them often labelled l as the “old firm” one sides as bad as the other etc, watched the news on tv last night, not one show said it was rangers fans that threw the bottles, just old firm football supporters,
They will keep doing it because there no penalty for doing so…..shocking😡😡
 
I truly don't know how to respond to your series of posts Imatim. I say that with complete respect for the sheer volume of information contained within them. Much of the content, of course, I was aware of. Some of it I knew nothing of. ALL of it leaves me with a feeling of hopelessness. It also leaves me in a state of depression.
I can truly say I've no understanding of the workings of the minds of those depraved individuals who perpetrated the many incidents you describe. Sad thing is though, I'm not really surprised. Bigotry, intolerance, absolute undiluted hatred, is simply the norm for many of our fellow homo sapiens.
Speaking purely in parochial terms, ( for this mindset is a global problem ) I feel the powers that be have much to answer for. You see, it has been , if not tolerated, then at least, downplayed.
Our politicians, the police, the the press all the "pillars" of society have been complicit in allowing this cancer to fester. Speaking only for myself I will never, could never, let myself, my fellow Celtic supporters or our club down by getting into the gutter beside them.
We are, mostly, better than that.

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I had a bit of a barney with a family member a wee while back after the 2nd George Sq incident.
Needless to say I was remarking about how completely bonkers and hateful and bigoted they were.
The retort being uz are racist and bigoted too cos uz aw hate prodestants.
Now, I don’t know if u will all agree with my reply to that, but I just simply told him that I had honestly never heard a fellow supporter directly say they hated prodestants..never.
My take on it to him was, any hatred Celtic fans have towards Sevco is based on their irrefutable hatred of catholics because it dominates everything they stand for, we simply hate you for hating us based on religious bigotry and racism, nothjng to do with being prodestant.
Goes without saying I might as well have been talking to a small tin of Tesco brand beans.
That is my humble simplified opinion on the divide between the 2 when it comes to trying to make sense of it.
I know its deeper than that but Im no philosopher.
 
I had a bit of a barney with a family member a wee while back after the 2nd George Sq incident.
Needless to say I was remarking about how completely bonkers and hateful and bigoted they were.
The retort being uz are racist and bigoted too cos uz aw hate prodestants.
Now, I don’t know if u will all agree with my reply to that, but I just simply told him that I had honestly never heard a fellow supporter directly say they hated prodestants..never.
My take on it to him was, any hatred Celtic fans have towards Sevco is based on their irrefutable hatred of catholics because it dominates everything they stand for, we simply hate you for hating us based on religious bigotry and racism, nothjng to do with being prodestant.
Goes without saying I might as well have been talking to a small tin of Tesco brand beans.
That is my humble simplified opinion on the divide between the 2 when it comes to trying to make sense of it.
I know its deeper than that but Im no philosopher.

Perhaps you might have said that some of the most iconic legends of the Celtic Football Club were and are Protestant.

"It's not the creed nor his nationality that counts. It's the man himself." Willie Maley...
 
Sunday's events at Ibrox beamed allover the world,the whole world now has seen and heard the bigoted sectarian scenes for themselves. I'm sure the Huns are so proud of themselves over their behaviour that it makes Scotland look like the small minded nation that it is. These so called peepul are a race apart an unintelligent , uneducated and believes that all of Scottish football owes them after liquidation. A support who play the victim card every week. Now I know there are good men amongst them but it seems that they are getting less and less every week. Ibrox is now and always has been run by the bigoted.To stop them we need the government and Scottish football to close Ibrox down. Let them play all games behind closed doors. U E F A must ban them from Europe , why should Europe have to suffer a bigoted disgusting malicious away support.
 
I had a bit of a barney with a family member a wee while back after the 2nd George Sq incident.
Needless to say I was remarking about how completely bonkers and hateful and bigoted they were.
The retort being uz are racist and bigoted too cos uz aw hate prodestants.
Now, I don’t know if u will all agree with my reply to that, but I just simply told him that I had honestly never heard a fellow supporter directly say they hated prodestants..never.
My take on it to him was, any hatred Celtic fans have towards Sevco is based on their irrefutable hatred of catholics because it dominates everything they stand for, we simply hate you for hating us based on religious bigotry and racism, nothjng to do with being prodestant.
Goes without saying I might as well have been talking to a small tin of Tesco brand beans.
That is my humble simplified opinion on the divide between the 2 when it comes to trying to make sense of it.
I know its deeper than that but Im no philosopher.
we simply hate you for hating us based on religious bigotry and racism, nothjng to do with being prodestant.
So true I couldn't put it better myself.
 
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