Vice Magazine have done a 5-part mini series on the 'Old Firm' rivalry. Part 1 is below, Part 2 is out also. Think they're releasing 1 10-15 minute clip each day this week. It's not bad, they interview 2 fanzine editors and have a wander about outside Celtic Park and Ibrox. Sadly, Part 1 seems to have located 1 or 2 absolute teats from both sides. As they tend to do. Wonderful stuff. http://www.vice.com/en_ca/rivals/rangers-celtic-part-1
I turned it off after the first 2 minutes. If I belived everyone was as bad as these sad lowlifes I would ****ing chuck supporting Celtic. I hate when they interview these type of braindead scumfucks as if they are indicitive of your actual Celtic or Rangers fan. Lazy lazy journalism.
I quite enjoyed it (sorry). I don't feel I was told anything new, though, but the programme seems to offer the promise that it will (eventually?) take a less superficial view of the antagonisms. We'll see. Lazy, as Dev said, but maybe not entirely without merit. It was certainly watchable, I felt, and that's got to count for something. (Couldn't find Part 2, though, as my computer froze at the end of Part 1. Twice.)
Part 2 spends a fair whack interviewing that Asian guy from the EDL: "...I get the feeling Ahmed just wants to be part of something..." - No s***! http://www.vice.com/en_uk/rivals/rangers-celtic-part-2 Part 3 aswell: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/rivals/rangers-celtic-part-3
Good man for adding the links, thanks. I'm still enjoying it well enough, but it seems to have the emotional depth of an emoticon - or, much worse, Danny Dyer. I've got a feeling I've seen most of these people interviewed before and I'm never quite sure why they've been chosen. Save for the anguished guy who talks about once hearing a song which lamented the fact that it was six million jews, as opposed to six million Protestants who were killed in the Holocaust, nobody comes out of this looking good. How is that even possible? I still feel I've not been told anything new and I'm not at all sure that the narrator is the man to shed any light. I wonder how he ever thought that he was.
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/rivals/rangers-celtic-part-1 1m 53s That wouldn't be Mark Dingwall, mouthpiece of the RST, site owner of website Follow Follow and general all round bigot would it?
I'll watch Part 3 tonight when i'm home after work, but so far in Parts 1 & 2 they've managed to locate the standard-fare morons from both sides. I can't stand giving a platform for f***wits like the boy going on about how it's now all about nationality, not religion, and whether you describe yourself as either "Scots-English, or you're Irish". What a donut. End of the day, if you actively hunt out the knuckledraggers, bigots and idiots to ask them the level of hatred they possess, that's what you're going to end up showing to the rest of the world. Ahmed or whatever his name is does seem a bit lost. He comes across as a bit of a Nacho Novo fans' favourite: not very good at anything but if he badge kisses enough, they'll f***ing love him.
A bit, yes. He makes me cringe and I'm not at all certain he's entirely mentally stable. He'd maybe be better off in care. A useful idiot, nothing more, providing irritating cover for those (the EDL, perhaps) who may hold him up as an example and say: "how can we possibly be racist when this (brown) guy supports us?" Some people might buy into this, I suppose, but most sensible humans will hopefully be very comfortable in simply acknowledging with a weary sigh that brown people can be utter spastics, as well.
Anyone who highlights and gives coverage to the low lives is just as bad as they are. Why people want to give publicity to these types of idiots is beyond me. I cannot see the benefit of giving them publicity
