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Exuberance and craic...

When we get backing to winning trophies, let alone 55 it's really sending a shit load of cunts over the edge...which is nice!

SCOTTISH football is heading for a disaster. Not the kind that means missing out on the World Cup for another 30 years, running out of money to pay players the average worker’s annual salary in a week or Brexit causing a Bovril shortage. No, I’m talking about the kind of disaster where people die. The kind that was never again meant to happen after 66 souls lost their lives at Ibrox in 1971 but which wasn’t taken seriously until 96 didn’t make it home from Hillsborough 18 years later. The kind that was supposed to be taken out of the equation by all-seater stadia and high-tech turnstiles that would, in time, educate us to enjoy watching football in comfort and safety. Trouble is, that equation doesn’t add up once you factor in the kind of halfwit who lacks the basic sense not to trample over their own mates in the name of celebration. Because without that, all the computerised entry systems and carefully-calculated capacity levels in the world won’t save us from the day or night when horror strikes. And as Sunday at Rubgy Park in Kilmarnock proves only too well, that horror is looming unless drastic action is taken right now. An exit gate forced open by visiting Rangers fans “impatient” at the length of time it was taking to search them. Every aisle in the away stand jammed with punters. A last-gasp winning goal marked by the kind of pitch invasion that has crept back into fashion. Then, most worryingly of all, morons dancing on the roof of an enclosure for disabled supporters — their own fellow Rangers supporters, by the way — before crashing through and landing on a helpless guy in a wheelchair. If these had been scenes that shocked the nation, that came from nowhere, then maybe we could write them off as a blip. First day of the season, bit over-excited, won’t happen again. They weren’t, though. Sadly — frighteningly — they’re not only familiar but almost inevitable, especially when our two biggest clubs are involved. Remember the chaos when celtic scored in a home Old Firm game back in March, when fans came over the barriers to dance and gloat and goad? Remember the lame-brain leaping about with a toddler under his arm? All it needed that day was someone to trip and a domino effect might have crushed that little kiddie. All it needed was for the away section to take the bait, jump the hoardings and all bets would have been off. That section of celtic fans, ǝpɐbıɹq uǝǝɹb ǝɥʇ, delight in hurling fireworks and smoke bombs without caring who they land on. They’ll tell you it’s all just a laugh, part of the game. They’ll even tell you that without them, there would be no atmosphere at matches, because they lead the singing. As the saying goes, though, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. And the way things are going, one lost eye might well be a result. We came close to full-on carnage at the end of the 2016 Scottish Cup Final, below, when thousands of Hibs fans came on the Hampden pitch for what started out as a joyous release of relief and happiness only to morph into a level of vandalism and violence which was about one decent uppercut away from a riot. They’ll even tell you that without them, there would be no atmosphere at matches, because they lead the singing. 3 Hibs fans raided the pitch after the 2016 Scottish Cup final That was the day Scottish football, Police Scotland and the Scottish Government should have realised there was a problem to be dealt with. But because we just about got away with it, they waited for the fuss to die down then swept it all under the carpet. This, sadly, has been the policy of both Rangers and celtic for more than a century about the behaviour of an angry, obsessive and downright obnixious element of their respective supports. My column in Monday’s sports pages centred on the contempt the Rangers end at Kilmarnock had shown for their own club’s much-publicised Anyone Everyone campaign — to make the club open to supporters of all faiths, colours and blahdy blah — by bawling a non-stop megamix of anti-Catholic anthems. The club have said not one word about these anthems. They never do. Neither did they publicly criticise their own players for openly encouraging fans who came on the park. Yet they were double-quick to accuse Kilmarnock of having crappy turnstiles, hopeless stewarding and even caned the flimsiness of that disabled enclosure, which really should have been tested for its roof’s ability to support a celebrating mob Then, brass neck on brass neck, they deflected even further by sighing about how celtic fans at a women’s match between the clubs on the same day had made sexist and sectarian comments to their team — their gall only matched by those celtic fans issuing a statement about how they “take pride in our efforts to support access to football for all, irrespective of race, religion or sex”. You know, apart from all those chants supporting the IRA and hating “Orange b*stards”. Rangers fans, meanwhile, were giving me it tight on social media for not having mentioned some banner celtic fans had flown the previous day, because that’s how their tiny minds work. This kind of rubbish, this He-Said-She-Said whataboutery, is what holds back any progress on this issue. Rather than addressing their own behaviour, each club instantly points at the other and reminds us of something THEY did. And you what’s most insulting of all? That if and when some game somewhere does end in disaster, they’ll unite in grief — green-and-white and red, white and blue scarves entwined at the scene, fans of one side making sure they’re seen being all respectful at the other’s gates. But the lawlessness of too many angers me. The hypocrisy of too many sickens me. And the failure of those in power to do anything about either terrifies me.

Socialist fanbase that cheers on multi millionaire footballers on a weekly basis who are truly detached from the working class man...

Tell you what mate the whole thing is becoming an absolute disgrace. Take away the 2 cunts on the roof for a minute here, killie are largely to blame for so much that went wrong. Given East Ayrshire Council say they have urgent concerns over safety, given the way fans were herded in to the building, given the structure was unsafe, given there's no segregation directly behind the disabled area....there are so many factors in this that lie solely at the door of killie. Imagine these incidents happened a Ibrox.

"no one making these protests are looking for anything from the club"😂😂

Horrible one mate...

100% this. Our brand is probably seen better globally but in the parochial wee back water it will ALWAYS have negative attacks..and even that come from those in the Scottish Govt.

Another reason reason why I didn't get the point of this initiative is you just know it will be used as a big stick to beat the club with any time certain songs are sung by the media and the usual tarrier bloggers. This has already started after the video at the weekend when it wasn't even at Ibrox or involving a Rangers game. As I said previously what the clubs do in THIS COUNTRY won't change the perception of it with the majority who blindly hate it and the majority of our fan base.

Luke Shaw's was one of the worst I've seen. Larson's for the tarriers was one of the most bizarre leg breaks as it just appeared to snap while running...

There was one with a Danish played I remember (with dread) when his knee practically turned right round to the back of his leg🤮

I think they're already deflecting from it by reporting on naught words being sung at a walk.

Could try going to the store

Our age group that would've played against this lot tonight we're generally with the Dev squad no?

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1155132917422678016 Comms saying "that looks unfortunate"😂😂

Well this would probably back that up then. Unlikely we'd have a sit down with them right after that. Seems it's full blown bridge building time...

So after taking the lawyers to them Robertson has a wee bit down interview with Ralston....wee snippet from.that interview The elephant in the room, of course, remains the thorny subject of sectarianismand there remains a rump of Rangers fans who would rather chant about Bobby Sands than sing about Bobby Shearer. They cannot help themselves.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1154792526664126466 Get it right fucking up ye Ashley!

And Dorrans as 4...Edmunsons number now.

Anyone Everyone...

The lovely unbiased organisation are apparently due to attend Ibrox again tonight...they simply cannot stop coming to Ibrox....you would almost think that they were targeting Rangers fans....surely not!

And we allow that shite to be spouted...a pretty clear insinuation that Ibrox ISNT open and welcoming.

About as big an own goal as the club could've scored. This cunt is up there with the worst of our haters and generally only opened his trap when incidents happened involving our fans last season and has been pointed out ignores pleas for just from victims of cbc child abuse scandal. This was the kind of pandering shite during DMs reign that set our fanbase and club back so badly.

To singing UVF songs and getting a doing, match day on Paisley Road West.

An idiot...😂you've made a cunt of the point you were trying to make and now you've changed what happened yet again. So now he was singing a UVF song and got battered for that, while wearing a Rangers top on Paisley Road West on match day. You first said he was attacked for being overly camp and gay, then said he got attacked when going for something to eat and possibly firing in to someone he shouldn't have, now this😂. This all stemmed from you asking why I thought this initiative was pointless remember...hardly like the guy would've been unwelcome at Ibrox is it?