Irelands best journalist

Glasgow Rangers is the sporting icon for loyalist bigots. The club's own words are irreproachably neutral. It is law-abiding. It is patriotically British. Its outward message is of harmony and ecumenism. But to the large thug element amongst the Rangers fans the key to their identity is almost like the Third Secret of Fatima. It is this: NO FENIANS here.

This culture did not emerge simply as a response to IRA violence. It was there already. It was feckless, violent, drunken, lost, lumpen proletarians for whom a perverted tribal identity conjoined with a Godlessly Calvinist sense of superiority, even as they stewed in their ghettoes of suffocating illiteracy and economic failure. But they were nonetheless elevated by the insane delusion that they are the chosen people, who have been deprived of their birthright by some vast conspiracy between the Catholic Church and the British government.

There is a congenial, indeed government-backed myth, in both Scotland and in Ireland, that "one side is bad as another"

And next comes Rangers' first match of the season, to be followed by a night of paralytic alcoholism, and rounded off, no doubt, with a complete short-term memory lapse. (This is called "culture", by the way.).

Kevin Myers
irish independent

Well..... here is what a Rangers supporter thinks of Myers

 

Nothing to do with Celtic

 

I don't like loyalists or bigots.

I am trying to encourage rangers supporters to stop being racist, sectarian bigots.

Plus, I thought you might be interested in knowing what "irelands best journalist" has to say about you

 

ah right. Thanks for clearing that up Edge

why could none of the rest of you racists not tell me that?

 

**** off to the GAA board

 

racist