Alfredo Morelos and the disgusting Rangers abuse his rivals will dish out to rile him up - Gary Ralston

[Bad Robot 21,137]

From the record

Alfredo Morelos and the disgusting Rangers abuse his rivals will dish out to rile him up - Gary Ralston

If the Colombian striker was Scottish the Ibrox star would have a statue outside Hampden.

Alfredo Morelos can sleep easy as he heads into 2020 no matter the result at celtic Park.

One Scotland, many cultures?

It’s unlikely the Colombian striker will be called up any time soon and asked to lend his endorsement to the Holyrood campaign.

Scottish football can be a brutal, tribal business, but the civic nationalism espoused by Nicola Sturgeon was long ago exposed as a fallacy when it comes to the Rangersfrontman.

Too often, there’s an ugliness at the heart of the Scottish football support, which will be manifested in all its gory detail in tomorrow’s Old Firm clash.

Morelos is likely to feel the wrath of it, walking out into an environment that would make even the knees of a Spartan shake, but this time you’d back him to cope.

The learning curve for Morelosthese past 18 months has been steep, but there’s more to the 23-year-old than a scowl and a well clipped short back and sides.

That disgusting banner held up by Aberdeenfans at Pittodrie earlier this year, which crossed the line from naked hostility to blatant racism, represented a new low for the image of Scotland as a tolerant, welcoming nation.

That someone would go to the bother of funding a banner declaring, in Spanish, ‘Morelos, your mother is a mattress’ was shameful.

That a group of fans would hoist it high was even worse, before we even get started on those who tried to take a Silentnight into the subsequent Ibrox cup replay the following week.

The woman who was the victim of such reprehensible behaviour – her name is Marta by the way, not Mattress – spent her Christmas Eve with her husband, Alfredo senior, handing out gifts to disadvantaged kids in their home city.

Their boy – that despicable individual – funded 300 gifts for children in the Botaven neighbourhood of Cerete as part of his charity foundation and has rightly been feted for his sense of community, as well as his integrity and generosity.

Win, lose or draw, Morelos will climb off a plane from the UK on Monday and straight into a game he has organised to help raise funds for a host of educational causes around his home town.

If Morelos was Scottish they would be erecting statues to him outside Hampden and building an international team around him for seasons to come.

Put it this way, how many Scottish kids could leave their home at the age of 19 and fly halfway across the world without a support network in a bid to make it in the game?

That was the route Morelos took less than four years ago when he moved to Finland, determined to fulfil his dream of playing in the major leagues by using HJK Helsinki as a stepping stone.

Morelos grew up in such abject poverty he sold fruit from the side of the road with his father and it’s the same streetfighter instincts that will help him achieve his career ambition via Rangers, most likely at the end of this season.

In the meantime, he will continue to bully the life out of Scottish defenders, underlining a strength of character and a lack of fear, driven only by the desire to be the very best he can be.

Steven Gerrard admitted Morelos was again subject to wind-ups from opposition players, this time from Kilmarnock, who do everything they can to unnerve him.

They have gone as far as learning the rudiments of Spanish to badmouth him in his mother tongue, while abuse off the field has also become commonplace in the goldfish bowl of Glasgow.

Morelos has his faults and weaknesses – don’t we all – but his ability to bounce back time and again from adversity is the reason Stewart Robertson was correct to tag him a £20million player, at least.

It’s worth pointing out Morelos was rarely booked and never red-carded during his time in Finnish football, but that’s only because rival players are far too gentlemanly in that corner of northern Europe, surely?

What do you mean nice guys come last? The Finns have already qualified for Euro 2020 so maybe we should take a leaf from their book and focus on bringing out the best in ourselves, rather than the worst in others.

The cameras will follow his every move at Parkhead and every foul in which he is involved will be analysed to death in a bid to confirm a narrative of destruction on often spurious evidence.

He’ll be keen to show he has already gift wrapped all the presents he plans to this festive season.

 

 

[Moody Blue Legend 61,372]

Good luck with that, Gary.

[chris182 6,279]

Gary's getting the chop

Fair balanced article

[mabawsa 888]

Does that include his colleague's Colombian innuendo laden article last year? 

[BlueboyG 5,228]

Fantastic piece which will mean fuck all in this rancid backwater country of ours, I've never seen as much hatred towards a player in Scotland and the So called pundits lining up to slaughter him for every tackle.

[glasgow argyle 1,093]

I watched the Dundee derby last night and the referee was as usual pretty awful,  I thought if Alfie had done any of the things that went unpunished including a punch to the chest, the media would have been all over it clamouring for retrospective action from the compliance officer. Remember the game we humped the taigs and Brendan Rodgers  admitted after the game that we had won fair and square. Roll on 24 hours and Alfie could have been sent off 3 times!!!!!!!. Mutton  English etc. Dermot Gallagher examined the footage and said Alfie was due 1 yellow.  But that never stopped the witch hunt. 

 

 

[They Gnu 11,553]

4 minutes ago, BlueboyG said:

Fantastic piece which will mean fuck all in this rancid backwater country of ours, I've never seen as much hatred towards a player in Scotland and the So called pundits lining up to slaughter him for every tackle.

You’ve got a short memory mate, Gaza and  Ricksen got worse.

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

Well done Gary.

Best if luck in your new career.

[Blueteeth 2,185]

Ooft, didn’t expect such a positive article.

At last some honesty in the press.

[BlueboyG 5,228]

6 minutes ago, They Gnu said:

You’ve got a short memory mate, Gaza and  Ricksen got worse.

Gazza got hounded due to some of his off pitch antics, on the pitch no cunt could touch him, nobody wound wind him up him like they do with Alfie, every tackle Alfie does is analysed by every cunt. Fernando was hated outside of Rangers but was never hounded the way Alfie is. 

[Howsitgoing 4,281]

Just seen that in twitter, normal Daily Record articles get maybe 10 comments this one is around 160. celtic fans truly are the most victimised idiotic twats there is, no wonder newspapers target them for click bait articles.

[.Williamson. 81,970]

20 minutes ago, glasgow argyle said:

I watched the Dundee derby last night and the referee was as usual pretty awful,  I thought if Alfie had done any of the things that went unpunished including a punch to the chest, the media would have been all over it clamouring for retrospective action from the compliance officer. Remember the game we humped the taigs and Brendan Rodgers  admitted after the game that we had won fair and square. Roll on 24 hours and Alfie could have been sent off 3 times!!!!!!!. Mutton  English etc. Dermot Gallagher examined the footage and said Alfie was due 1 yellow.  But that never stopped the witch hunt. 

 

 

Why

[Colin Traive 22,694]

You wonder if the haters posing as journalists up here might read that and think, “maybe he’s got a point? Maybe the kid is due a break?”

Naw, me neither.

Scottish football will be very much the poorer when he moves on and the taigs with typewriters need to find a new hate figure, probably Kent.

Fuck the media in this country, Ralston excluded.

[JimmyCR1 1,501]

Scotland’s a cesspit, the abuse our players and fans receive is shambolic. Very good article, about time people started speaking out about it. 

[soulboy 2,518]

DR editor must be on holiday no way that get's through him. Expect your P45 on Monday Mr ralston

[JimmyCR1 1,501]

Just now, Colin Traive said:

You wonder if the haters posing as journalists up here might read that and think, “maybe he’s got a point? Maybe the kid is due a break?”

Naw, me neither.

Scottish football will be very much the poorer when he moves on and the taigs with typewriters need to find a new hate figure, probably Kent.

Fuck the media in this country, Ralston excluded.

Lol, they’ll be writing letters of complaint as we speak to try and have the truth removed.

[barrymorrison1 1,033]

2 minutes ago, JimmyCR1 said:

Scotland’s a cesspit, the abuse our players and fans receive is shambolic. Very good article, about time people started speaking out about it. 

It was bad before 2014, it’s shambolic now.

the natsi party and their drive for independence at all costs have driven a wedge so wide in the people of this country, add football rivalry to it, and your right.

this country is a cesspit.

best small country in the world?

dont f&cking think so!

[glasgow argyle 1,093]

13 minutes ago, .Williamson. said:

Why

Why not 

[jbm26896 995]

Its an honest and spot on assesment of his time in this country.

Come Sunday every challenge he makes with be shown at least 3 times to suit their agenda.

However i really do think he will score 2 and reach 30 before 2019 ends.

 

[Gman36 3,455]

Well done that man writing that article. 

The way morelos has been treated has been nothing short of disgraceful. A hugely talented exciting player lighting up the league. 

Latent racism in the way he's been defined as some kind of hot head. The more overt racism with the offensive terms in the mother tongue, actually about his mother. 

If he was a sellik player it would be statues, he's right. 

[.Williamson. 81,970]

6 minutes ago, glasgow argyle said:

Why not 

Scottish football is dreadful 

[KingKirk 25,595]

Wow shocked is a understatement. Mr Ralston just needs to look along the sports desk to find a man who compared buff to a drug lord. In the most staggering piece of journalism in a good while.

Mr Jackson will be slightly embarrassed after reading this fair balanced article. 

[Hamie 4,829]

39 minutes ago, bigsasasfloopyhair said:

Well done Gary.

Best if luck in your new career.

Yip. Hes done the equivalent of posting nip pics on here.  

[They Gnu 11,553]

26 minutes ago, BlueboyG said:

Gazza got hounded due to some of his off pitch antics, on the pitch no cunt could touch him, nobody wound wind him up him like they do with Alfie, every tackle Alfie does is analysed by every cunt. Fernando was hated outside of Rangers but was never hounded the way Alfie is. 

I’ve been watching Rangers since the early 60s and the media demonisation of Gaza was unprecedented and like nothing I'd ever previously  witnessed in Scotland, McNee in particular constantly lied and abused Gascoigne, every time he wrote something, also like Ricksen every move Gaza made on the pitch was scrutinised. Thing is with technology improving and even being used to retrospectively punish players Alfredo appears to be more in the public eye than his predecessors. I’m not disagreeing with your point Fredos every move is forensically analysed in the hope the cunts can pin something on him but it’s not something new for our players 

[HuistraHairDo 12,489]

Don’t really care what they write about him,  he’s loved by the Rangers family that’s all that matters.