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29-05-2016 01:03 PM #4
Some read. Hopefully the authorities are watching the Twitter feed.
Why in the name of **** would they feel the need to terrorise a small band of Stenhousemuir fans?
Says the whole lot about them really.
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29-05-2016 01:05 PM #5
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Great article. But so true it's sad . Wonder if it will feature in the DR
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29-05-2016 01:10 PM #6
The Rangers attracts the far right racist, bigoted, Loyalist loonies; indeed they even encourage it, as their non-Catholic signing policy for so long proved. Society as a whole lives in more socially liberal times, yet many in the Rangers support remain locked into a seventeenth century mindset. Reactionary diehards cling to the club as a reminder of a past now gone. Next time you see a Rangers game on telly, try to spot any ethnic minorities in the crowd, for example; you'll see very few. Their songbook is discriminatory and threatening, as they proudly express their disdain for anyone who isn't part of their British, white, Protestant, heterosexual world. They're an embarrassment to a western society in the twenty-first century.
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29-05-2016 01:13 PM #7
Great article. It must indeed be hard supporting Rangers when you don't want to be seen as a bigot and are not one. He hits the nail on the head with his 'no one likes us' comments .............. the general revulsion felt towards the Rangers from other teams has nothing to do with alleged jealousy over their 'success' and everything to do with their bigoted knuckle dragging fans .... as witness the writers experience going to Ibrox to support Stenhousemuir .... Stenhousemuir FFS and yet their tiny band of fans still got the same treatment as everybody else .. what more needs to be said about The Rangers.
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29-05-2016 01:14 PM #8
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They're the UK equivalent of Texas.
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29-05-2016 01:19 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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29-05-2016 01:23 PM #10
Maybe the only way to end this is by Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen, the dundee clubs and any other team we can resign from the league and restart without them. We are rock bottom in Europe anyway.
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29-05-2016 01:31 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-05-2016 01:32 PM #12
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Welcome to Ibrox. Please put your watches back 300 years.
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29-05-2016 01:34 PM #13
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29-05-2016 01:40 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-05-2016 01:43 PM #15
Sad read.
He uses the term 'minority' though. Speaking with little more than my own personal experience to go on I would say the overwhelming majority of Rangers fans I have had prolonged contact with have, to varying levels, had deep rooted sectarian views. In fact I can think of only 2 who I could say showed no quite apparent bigotry.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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29-05-2016 01:49 PM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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29-05-2016 05:18 PM #18
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'To my mind, the past few years have encouraged a problem that had until then been slowly dying away. The bitter knuckle-draggers have the upper hand again and there seems to be no will at the top of either the club or the SFA to change things. When faced with the evidence, they’d rather shoot the messenger'
King and his chums, more than willingly assisted by all within the SFA, have returned the Hun to the Hun I first knew in the early 70's - a thuggish, ugly, threatening, almost para-military-like force, obsessed 24/7 with all things Catholic and just a general hatred of all things non or anti-Rangers seeps from every pore !. The powers-that-be at Ibrox but especially King, KNOW that without their special brand of 'Bigotry-Sectarianism', there's NO MONEY to be made at 'Greyskull' and it would also pose a very dangerous threat to their attendances without the main reason for supporting them not there. The things the Hun are getting away with just now - unchallenged - virtually guarantees major-trouble is not far off in the future as they feel/know that no action will be taken against them PLUS their club won't receive any bad publicity from a compliant (bent/corrupt/bigoted ??) Scottish-media. Illegal hymns continue to be sung loud and clear at every match, visiting-supporters are STILL under the threat of physical harm, journalists/members of the public continue to be publicly threatened for having the temerity to print/post what the Hun feel is 'Anti-Rangers', etc, etc - WHY nothing has been done about, it is a scathing indictment of our law-enforcement agencies and Holyrood.
In a sense, I suppose it could be viewed as fortunate we're not in the SPL next season as various Hun-factions (regiments/brigades ??) have all promised to 'avenge/take action' against any club they feel has been against them (still awaiting condemnation from the Hun-board/media on these !!) - who'd be a Policeman/politician next season when the **t hits the fan - and it WILL !!Last edited by Deansy; 29-05-2016 at 05:23 PM.
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29-05-2016 06:38 PM #19
With bigotry as a business model, it would give me great pleasure if it now hurts them financially with more enlightened fans choosing to walk away.
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29-05-2016 06:48 PM #20
Do they follow the Rangers because they are bigoted or are they bigots because they follow the Rangers.
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29-05-2016 06:59 PM #22
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Agreed with above, this is a really sad article. Really sad. What's also interesting is the comments at the end filled with Rangers fans who share the same experience. It's a sad thing that if you support Rangers you will immediately be pigeon holed with the cretinous minority.
I have a few pals who like to wind me up by calling Hibs 'Edinburgh Celtic'. I'm glad, and proud that I affiliate myself with a club who's only allegiance is to Leith, and main prerogative is a disdain for the mongrels over Tynecastle way.
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29-05-2016 09:17 PM #23
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29-05-2016 09:22 PM #24
The comments section was as interesting at the article. I do wonder that a lot of them are drawn to Rangers at the cost of their local clubs, but in some ways it's probably better to have all (or half of them in the case of the OF) altogether in one place.
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29-05-2016 09:24 PM #25
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Plenty fans who are not from leith or closely associated with leith, including the hibs supporting parts of my own family
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30-05-2016 08:25 AM #26
A sad read that that chimes with some of my experiences.
One of my former work-mates was a huge bluenose but chucked it after he could no longer take the bigotry. He now follows the Juniors and has a Season Ticket at Pollok where he enjoys his football and he can take his boy to it without worrying about the crap that goes with Rangers and their "culture".
I also have school-mates who used to follow (follow?) Rangers but now no longer go as they despise the sectarianism that was basically glossed over in the 80s and 90s. They have grown up and become family men and decided this is not something that should be passed on to their kids.
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30-05-2016 10:29 AM #27
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http://www.youtube.com/embed/F9-jALgtGW8
Do we really expect people like that to congratulate us on our win?
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30-05-2016 10:35 AM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Let's be realistic here: football attracts the detritus of society – in addition to all the nicer people, of course. No other (mainstream) sport has the crowd problems of football.
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