typical gers

[oconnors_strip]

taken from kickback but have had a text from a stirling fan

"Been tweeted that the Police advised officials to abandon the friendly match between Stirling Albion and Rangers due to excessive sectarian singing from the away support and there is a heavy police presence in front of away section for 2nd half.

Timing couldnt have been better boys!

Edit: Police and stewards moving in around Rangers section of support. Its a bloody testimonial ffs! "

typical bloody huns

[Sir David Gray]

I'm shocked that this has happened, especially on July 12th.

[Cabbage East]

Stinking mutant Hun filth.

[Holmesdale Hibs]

Fine them, ban them, ban their fans, kick them out of the league... If only the SFA had the bollocks

[Bayern Bru]

To be honest, whoever earmarked this for the 12th needs to have a look at themselves. Whilst I don't believe in letting politics run sports, this was not a difficult decision to make.

[frazeHFC]

Bunch of good-for-nothing tossers.

[hibsbollah]

Its a minority. Bain said so. I think 99.9% is the correct 'good hun' figure.

[R'Albin]

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To be honest, whoever earmarked this for the 12th needs to have a look at themselves. Whilst I don't believe in letting politics run sports, this was not a difficult decision to make.

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Surely this is a mistake? If it means so much to them then they are all surely across in Ulster with their own kind?

[johnrebus]

For the Hun pondlife of the Stirling / Alloa area it will always be 1972.

Flares, Tennants Lager and Wagon Wheels.

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https://twitter.com/#!/grahamruthven

[hailhail22]

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Surely this is a mistake? If it means so much to them then they are all surely across in Ulster with their own kind?

there fans will be the same as celtic, half of them wont even know what they are singing about.

[Sodje_18]

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there fans will be the same as celtic, half of them wont even know what they are singing about.

Only half?

[Hibbyradge]

What a horrible little country we live in.

And folk wonder why I'm scunnered with Scottish football.

[Hamish]

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What a horrible little country we live in.

And folk wonder why I'm scunnered with Scottish football.

Pathetic that a large group of so called supporters of a few clubs still think its acceptable in this day and age to indulge in sectarian songs/chants. Ignorance and or drink is no excuse.

[Phil MaGlass]

If the game was stopped then a precedent has now been set, and that can only be good for Scottish fitba, this may well be the first of a few games that will be stopped by the police, the buns will be hammered and should in the end lead to points deductions, and if Im not mistaken the SFA has the power to ban them from representing Scotland in European competition, bring it on.

[ginger_rice]

Perhaps if teams only played both half of the OF when they have to (ie league or cup), and not because they think it'll give them a good payday at the turnstiles for a friendly or testimonial, do you think the message would finally get through?

[ginger_rice]

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What a horrible little country we live in.

And folk wonder why I'm scunnered with Scottish football.

HR it's a minority of the people who live in this country who are the bigots, although unfortunately it may be a majority of the so called "football fans"

[Vini1875]

You also have to look at Stirling Albion in this one. To arrange a game v the huns on the 12th of July was only going to have one outcome, all the worst sort of huns were going to be there doing their thing. This game would have given a focus for them. I would guess it would have been discussed before and Stirling Albion decided that a game on the 12th against the huns would boost numbers.

[mickki40]

Just as a matter of course, I am absolutely sure the media would have been creaming themselves to report this one and jump on the sectarian bandwagon and sell papers... I have been looking at reports in the media and none so far have mentioned sectarian singing. Just flares being set off. I am awaiting the official report from the referee and police on this matter before I jump on the bandwagon.

http://sport.scotsman.com/rangersfc/...ers.6800529.jp

[green&left]

From what I've read elsewhere the game was never in doubt. Their was a tannoy accouncement about 25 minutes in requesting that sectarian songs don't get sung, this was at a time when nothing 'dodgy' was getting sung though and the only 'dodgy' song sung all night was The Sash. Police waded in and took a megaphone off the huns and no mention of flares/bangers on the tannoy system at all. Make of that what you will...

More made-up over exaggrated p1sh from the media, and the police maybe trying to make a name for themselves after bagging £2m off tax payers money so they can arrest a few fans for singing some songs...

[hibee92]

SFA: "move along folks, nothing to see here."

[Jim44]

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Just as a matter of course, I am absolutely sure the media would have been creaming themselves to report this one and jump on the sectarian bandwagon and sell papers... I have been looking at reports in the media and none so far have mentioned sectarian singing. Just flares being set off. I am awaiting the official report from the referee and police on this matter before I jump on the bandwagon.

http://sport.scotsman.com/rangersfc/...ers.6800529.jp

I can understand your reluctance to spring to Rangers defence in the absence of corroborated evidence but I find it hard to share your tolerance. Almost every Rangers supporter I know will admit that his/her leaning towards the club is underpinned by religious and/or political aliegance (Celtic fans are no different). The issue is about the huge numbers who can't refrain from displaying their feelings in public. Without religion and politics these two footballing warts could not exist.

[Gatecrasher]

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You also have to look at Stirling Albion in this one. To arrange a game v the huns on the 12th of July was only going to have one outcome, all the worst sort of huns were going to be there doing their thing. This game would have given a focus for them. I would guess it would have been discussed before and Stirling Albion decided that a game on the 12th against the huns would boost numbers.

Whats so big about the 12th July?

so the Orange ones go on a wee walk round belfast or whatever does that really mean rangers cant play a game on that day? it says more about the people attending than the clubs. I doubt that the date wouldn't have entrered Stirlings mind other than it was free for both clubs to agree on. Maybe Rangers should have warned them about the possible implications? No one even mentioned about the possibility of this happening beforehand.

[Hamish]

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HR it's a minority of the people who live in this country who are the bigots, although unfortunately it may be a majority of the so called "football fans"

Yeah, the '90 minute bigots' who happily work and drink with people with a different religion to them and then proceed during a football match to sing sectarian nonsense. Its apparently little more than banter.

[mickki40]

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I can understand your reluctance to spring to Rangers defence in the absence of corroborated evidence but I find it hard to share your tolerance. Almost every Rangers supporter I know will admit that his/her leaning towards the club is underpinned by religious and/or political aliegance (Celtic fans are no different). The issue is about the huge numbers who can't refrain from displaying their feelings in public. Without religion and politics these two footballing warts could not exist.

Absolutely agreed. I was at the u19s Semi final at Ibrox...all they sang was sectarian/bigoted songs all game. Both sets of supporters are as bad as each other. I will not condone any sectarian bigoted pish from anyone. I would disagree that Almost every Rangers supporter or Celtic for that matter, would lean towards the club purely on Grounds of religion and Politics. Most are Born into it and never question anything their clubs do. If Rangers fans were singing sectarian songs last night, I would like to see a 10 point deduction from the SFA in the first instance. Let the supporters of the clubs be the architechts of their demise. The SFA Have it within their power to stop this Now. It's so simple... Deduct Now for every instance till they are playing in another country. Every season will see them not contending cup finals europe etc. Every season will see them drop another league till they either modify their songs or drop out of the league. Simple SFA...

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Absolutely agreed. I was at the u19s Semi final at Ibrox...all they sang was sectarian/bigoted songs all game. Both sets of supporters are as bad as each other. I will not condone any sectarian bigoted pish from anyone. I would disagree that Almost every Rangers supporter or Celtic for that matter, would lean towards the club purely on Grounds of religion and Politics. Most are Born into it and never question anything their clubs do. If Rangers fans were singing sectarian songs last night, I would like to see a 10 point deduction from the SFA in the first instance. Let the supporters of the clubs be the architechts of their demise. The SFA Have it within their power to stop this Now. It's so simple... Deduct Now for every instance till they are playing in another country. Every season will see them not contending cup finals europe etc. Every season will see them drop another league till they either modify their songs or drop out of the league. Simple SFA...

Mick i agree 100%, hammer them hard every time. The authorities have the power to do this, a points deduction after every occasion is the only way this will stop imo.

Will they, i doubt it? Even after all this mouthing off, all the seminars and meetings, i still dont believe they have the bottle, and we will be in exactly the same position this time next season.

[cwilliamson85]

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Absolutely agreed. I was at the u19s Semi final at Ibrox...all they sang was sectarian/bigoted songs all game. Both sets of supporters are as bad as each other. I will not condone any sectarian bigoted pish from anyone. I would disagree that Almost every Rangers supporter or Celtic for that matter, would lean towards the club purely on Grounds of religion and Politics. Most are Born into it and never question anything their clubs do. If Rangers fans were singing sectarian songs last night, I would like to see a 10 point deduction from the SFA in the first instance. Let the supporters of the clubs be the architechts of their demise. The SFA Have it within their power to stop this Now. It's so simple... Deduct Now for every instance till they are playing in another country. Every season will see them not contending cup finals europe etc. Every season will see them drop another league till they either modify their songs or drop out of the league. Simple SFA...

You forget the SFA need rangers and Celtic as this is the pulling power to Scottish football...

I would love to see the old firm hammered with point’s deductions and large fines but this will never happen because there is no list of what songs are illegal and songs that are not.

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Mick i agree 100%, hammer them hard every time. The authorities have the power to do this, a points deduction after every occasion is the only way this will stop imo.

Will they, i doubt it? Even after all this mouthing off, all the seminars and meetings, i still dont believe they have the bottle, and we will be in exactly the same position this time next season.

You're right Gary , the SFA don't have the bottle.. The fact being , the authorites that run our game need the OF to keep the game going up here.. They can have all the meetings they want , they will still do nothing...

[blueisthecolour]

From Paul Goodwin S.Albion press officer



• There was, to his knowledge, no sectarian singing at all last night. Indeed, he only recognised two of the songs, those being The Sash and Rule Brittania.

• There were announcements made over the tannoys - Police messages that if sectarian singing was indulged in then arrests would be made. There were NO arrests.

• Mr Goodwin stated he felt the announcements were made as a standard warning and not in response to singing.

• A number of journalists were keen to clarify the events last night (Scotsman and BBC amongst them), with one journalist in particular 'tweeting' from the stadium. Mr Goodwin could not determine who that was and so could not confirm the name of the journalist.

• Mr Goodwin was at pains to offer his thanks to The Rangers support at large and how they contributed to a great atmosphere at the game. Indeed, he went on to offer his thanks to the club itself for helping Stirling Albion with this match.