What has Isreal to do with Rangers Football Club???
Why sing songs about fighting in World Wars and then stand idly by as some knuckle dragging fuckwit unfurls a Nazi banner?
I’m proud to be Scottish , British and a reasonably moderate Unionist but I don’t need to sing about it at a football match!
Koniec is wrong about the fans being banned. If you’re arrested at a game for violence, sectarianism or similar level crimes the club will ban you. They don’t wait for courts but immediate suspension of season ticket. If you are convicted your season ticket is revoked with no chance of getting another. I know this as someone I know got in a wee scuffle with fellow Rangers fan and is now banned (he’s a bit of an arsehole)
One has been arrested and I’m sure there are one or two others sitting at home shitting themselves awaiting that chap on the door.
There is a reasonably long thread on Follow Follow regarding this incident. It’s not something we should hide from or attempt to fudge the issue. A rival female supporter was knocked to the ground and those responsible have no place at Ibrox. They are not welcome at Ibrox. That is made perfectly clear in that thread. They are lowlife cowardly bastards
Yeah I know, they started backing Israel simply as a response to Celtic being in support of Palestine, without actually considering it or gathering political knowledge. It's all very juvenile.
Yes I tend to agree they are vermin and as for me, I am left-leaning, it's just the way I think about the world - so on a more general level I am anti-Tories, anti-fascism, really can't stand the Royals, not really 'proud to be British' as I don't believe in the concept of patriotism and nationalism (I feel very different and disconnected to plenty of British people so don't feel a sense of shared culture or experience and beliefs). That's just my personal values on life though.
Anyway, your and my political views and life values are irrelevant. The point is Rangers as a club should be far more serious about taking action against the type of louts you reference. And even if you yourself don't sing, tens of thousands every week are singing 'Fuck the Pope' and 'Up to my knees in fenian blood' and other such assortments. I hear it whenever I watch Rangers on TV. I also hear it from some of my relatives.
Like I say, that is separate to how I judge them as a team on the park, and if they play well I will say so, I will be very fair like that. However, these ones we are talking about are lowlife cowardly bastards as you say. Kicking a woman to the ground highlights what animals they are and their lack of compassion and personality. Obviously you seem a good guy - I like you from most of your posts even if I disagree with some stuff - and I would never group you with them. I do feel though that there isn't self-policing by a lot of Rangers fans and even the decent ones allow the vermin to get away with it. Though I understand that they're maybe scared of an encounter with some of these scumbags.
Hopefully the club do something about it as you are suggesting they will.
