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EVERY member of the Rangers team was assaulted or spat on during the Scottish Cup final pitch ­invasion.

The Record understands all 11 players who finished the match were kicked, punched or spat on by Hibs fans as they tried to leave the field at Hampden Park.

 

Our dressing room source insisted that none escaped up the tunnel without being attacked – and midfielder Andy Halliday went missing and had to be protected from yobs by the match officials.

Rangers are fuming about their treatment by Hibs and their supporters – who won the cup for the first time in 114 years with a 3-2 win at Hampden Park.

The Ibrox club are furious after failing to receive an apology from Hibs chairman Rod Petrie, who called fans “over-exuberant” after the match ended, or chief executive Leeann Dempster.

 

The source said: “Not one of our players got off the park without being attacked in some way.

“Every one of the lads was badly shaken because it was a terrifying situation for them to be in.

“There were thousands of Hibs fans running towards them. Some of the behavior was disgusting.

“When we finally got inside the dressing room and conducted a head count we realised that one player, Andy Halliday, was missing.

“It was a frightening ordeal for everyone and the fact that no one has apologised has made a terrible situation even more unpalatable.

“There is also some serious anger about the conduct of Rod Petrie, who described the behaviour of the fans as ‘exuberant’.

“I saw people being kicked, punched and spat in the face. Where is the exuberance in that?”

 

Rangers released a statement in which they said they found it “incomprehensible” that no one from Hibs or the SFA had condemned the Hibs yobs.

They added that it was “not at all helpful to see leading members of the Scottish Government, including the First Minister, whose parish is Govan,” commenting on social media without condemning the behaviour of Hibernian’s fans.

The club went on: “It is to be hoped that all of Scottish football will share Rangers’ disgust and any attempts to attach blame to our supporters for the disgraceful and violent behaviour will not be accepted or tolerated by this club.”

 

The Record also learned that Halliday was being protected from a mob in the centre circle by referee Steven McLean and his assistants.

Fourth official Bobby Madden has also been credited with chasing a Hibs fan who was attempting to attack keeper Wes Foderingham.

An SFA source said: “Steven was out in the middle of it all protecting players and acting like a steward. He deserves enormous credit.

A single police officer came striding into the centre circle and told the officials to stay put until more police arrived.

“Steven ignored this advice and get his team and Halliday to safety. He was acting heroically out there. The officials really were a credit.”

 

It’s understood that the Rangers board and some senior SFA officials are particularly furious with Petrie’ for appearing to make light of the violence and casting doubt on Rangers’ claims.

Yesterday, Petrie – the SFA’s vice-president – declined to make any further comment.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson called for action to address violence at football.

He said: “The Scottish FA, Hampden stadium management and Police Scotland are carrying out full reviews of the ­circumstances, to ensure all lessons are learned.

“The Scottish ­Government are liaising closely with these organisations.”

Both sets of fans were on the pitch after the final whistle. Fans in Rangers and Hibs colours were filmed fighting each other.

 

Sectarian chants were also sung from inside the stadium, despite laws supposedly cracking down on offensive behaviour.

Superintendant Alan Murray , the match commander, is likely to come under pressure to explain the apparent failure of officers to react quickly enough to stop Hibs fans invading the field.

There are also question marks over the security cordon at full-time which contained only stewards and which failed to hold back the fans who invaded the pitch.

Rangers and Hibs fans yesterday reacted angrily to the pitch invasion and violent scenes on social media.

One Gers fan on the Follow Follow site wrote: “You wait 114 years to win a cup and the minute after doing so instead of being filled with joy all you want to do is goad, punch and spit on Rangers’ players and fans.”

Hibs fans also condemned the violence. One posted on the Hibees Bounce site: “If Hibs fans have assaulted opposition players, it’s unacceptable. It in no way represents the majority of our support.”

 

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5 minutes ago, RFCRobertson said:

Interesting that it names the Match Commander.

Obviously nowhere near the ramifications of what happened at Hillsborough, but the prevailing climate may make the expected 'sweep sweep' a little harder to accomplish.

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Great to read about Petrie quite rightly coming under the spotlight for his comments.

This is gaining momentum, we need to keep the pressure on, and ffs no open goals, or nothing to give them an 'out' or deflect, take away from this.

We need to be clever here, play them at their own game.

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1 minute ago, dougal72 said:

Normally our referees biggest critics but the officials on Sunday do appear to have gone above and beyond on this occasion. Could quite easily have been targeted themselves.

They will be from now on....

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I expect the match commander will be the sacrificial lamb here. I'm not defending him at all and he deserves all he gets but he will be used as the scapegoat to let the SFA and Hibs away with little or no real punishment.

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7 minutes ago, murzo said:

There's a video from the Rangers end in one thread, don't know which one ,and I think it's about 1m25s in that you see Halliday still on the pitch at the Rangers end with hivs scum all about .

It's on the "evidence thread" page 2 posted by thebooler. 1m29s you see Halliday walking about, can't copy and paste it.

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After years of getting battered by hate from we see a paradigm shift in a society that now means attacking footballers no really that much of a big deal,so long as its rangers players

 

The authorities are deliberately as low key as possible,but this a situation that looks like something from egypt or a balkan state,a whole team was assaulted by exuberance ,this is more serious than we think

 

So glad there was no serious injurys to the team 

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We're going all in with this. Hell to pay and heads to roll. This club will not be victims in OUR fucking country. The National Socialist scum wont be having it all their own way, time is running out for them - and they cant ride the wave of 2014 forever. Add to that the significant rupture today in our policy of 'dignified silence,' and i believe that very soon every single one of this generation of absolute fucking rancids who have been taught or shown somewhere down the line that it is okay to vilify and hate our club and support will learn that Rangers Football Club and every single individual who falls under its umbrella is not to be fucked with. 

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18 minutes ago, The Beast said:

I expect the match commander will be the sacrificial lamb here. I'm not defending him at all and he deserves all he gets but he will be used as the scapegoat to let the SFA and Hibs away with little or no real punishment.

He is in overall charge, the buck stops with him.

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An SFA source said: “Steven was out in the middle of it all protecting players and acting like a steward. He deserves enormous credit.

A single police officer came striding into the centre circle and told the officials to stay put until more police arrived.

“Steven ignored this advice and get his team and Halliday to safety. He was acting heroically out there. The officials really were a credit.”

 

The referee was "acting heroically" to get Halliday to safety.

That says it all right there.

 

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2 hours ago, RFCRobertson said:

...The Record understands all 11 players who finished the match were kicked, punched or spat on by Hibs fans as they tried to leave the field at Hampden Park - Absolutely outrageous!

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The Record also learned that Halliday was being protected from a mob in the centre circle by referee Steven McLean and his assistants. - Outstanding actions and bravery on the part of those officials.

Fourth official Bobby Madden has also been credited with chasing a Hibs fan who was attempting to attack keeper Wes Foderingham. - For a man who is generally viewed as being an incompetent official across Scottish football, that rightly or wrongly makes his actions somewhat surprising and extremely commendable more so than they otherwise may be viewed imo.

An SFA source said: “Steven was out in the middle of it all protecting players and acting like a steward. He deserves enormous credit. - Evidence that the stewarding/security overseeing the event was not sufficient and not where it needed to be when a match official has taken on that role.

A single police officer came striding into the centre circle and told the officials to stay put until more police arrived. - Evidence/indicative of an unprepared and inadequate police/stewarding/security response.

“Steven ignored this advice and get his team and Halliday to safety. He was acting heroically out there. The officials really were a credit.” - A risky and potentially serious judgement call on behalf of an official overruling the aforementioned inadequate police response. A brave personal decision to put one's self in harms way, heavily outnumbered amongst chaos in order to carry out a selfless duty of protecting players from physical violence and personal harm in his capacity as a "merely" match official of a football match.

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31 minutes ago, HG5 said:

Interesting that it names the Match Commander.

Obviously nowhere near the ramifications of what happened at Hillsborough, but the prevailing climate may make the expected 'sweep sweep' a little harder to accomplish.

The Rangers statement mate raised the profile ..Hope there's others 

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35 minutes ago, HG5 said:

Interesting that it names the Match Commander.

Obviously nowhere near the ramifications of what happened at Hillsborough, but the prevailing climate may make the expected 'sweep sweep' a little harder to accomplish.

I was thinking something similar myself, I wouldn't even try to draw comparisons to that tragedy but the level of Police incompetence is shocking considering the lessons supposedly learned. The very fact that they were standing filming our fans while the riot took place yards behind them is almost unbelievable if we hadn't seen it actually happen.

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15 minutes ago, Vanoli said:

We're going all in with this. Hell to pay and heads to roll. This club will not be victims in OUR fucking country. The National Socialist scum wont be having it all their own way, time is running out for them - and they cant ride the wave of 2014 forever. Add to that the significant rupture today in our policy of 'dignified silence,' and i believe that very soon every single one of this generation of absolute fucking rancids who have been taught or shown somewhere down the line that it is okay to vilify and hate our club and support will learn that Rangers Football Club and every single individual who falls under its umbrella is not to be fucked with. 

Didn't Edinburgh vote no? Don't start this again on this thread. It's about us rangers fans vs the whole county. It can't be narrowed to politics 

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