It's pretty worrying really isn't it that some latch on to a supposed 'identity' of a club that has nothing to do with the actual team itself but it then becomes the only reason they 'attach' themselves to that club anyway. Bizarre! I know we've got that element as well and I really do wonder why. It doesn't seem to happen in Rugby does it? (The sport, not the place) It's 2012, the world is moving on but some people want to stay in the dark, dreary, messed up past. Garlic bread?
Indeed, I have discussed this topic before with fellow Celtic fans, some of whom do see Celtic as having some religious or political meaning, happily I have never seen Celtic that way, to me it is all about football. I don't expect politicians to preach about football tactics or signing players and likewise i'm not particulary interested when Celtic fans start talking politics. Especially when it is some spotty teenager in a Celtic shirt who thinks he knows everything.
It's amazing how many people seem willing to overlook the fact that Ally knew who the panel were and the demand for transparency does not stack up
Yet if you'd asked this fanny what Neil Lennon's "crime" was only 18 months ago he'd have been wanting him hung, drawn and quartered. These Blogging Huns don't do introspection.
His only “crime” is he didn’t walk away but became the Tombstone for legions of Rangers fans and the embodiment of the defiant determination to survive as a football club.
No, of course you haven't. You've only dripped your entire essay in RC-related remarks, comments and insinuations. By per chance, are there any Celtic bloggers out there who are equally as mental...????
I've heard some people say McGillivan is our version of Leggo, I don't read McGillivan's blog very often but it's certainly not a patch on leggo or this ****e by Orange Junior.
Is that Phil MacGibberish's offering?! Read it a few times but have to agree, it isn't anywhere near as mental as the pish above.
[h=2]Rally Round The Rangers [/h] Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2012 by billmcmurdo It’s not that long ago that some Rangers fans mocked and derided me for saying there was a conspiracy against Rangers Football Club. It is actually quite astonishing now to consider how wrong these people were. I am sure that the events of the last twelve months have converted these skeptics into confirmed believers that there is a concerted and widespread campaign to inflict as much damage as possible on Rangers. I don’t say this to gloat that I was right and those doubters were wrong. And I certainly do accept that much of Rangers’ troubles in recent times have been self-inflicted. But it’s important to understand something in all of this: Who the conspirators are and why they are conspiring. We can all dance around what’s important and never really face it head on. I actually do understand this attitude. It’s called FEAR. Some Rangers fans are afraid to really face head on why the club is under so much attack. And although we live in the digital age, where so much is brought out into the open, there is still a tendency to not talk about certain things because we are afraid to go there. So people keep ignoring the elephant in the room. But I am not afraid to go there. Nor am I afraid to name the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room is Unionism. Rangers stand for the Union and they stand for the Throne. That is what makes Rangers so different from every other football club. Now I know that some Rangers supporters claim they are not moved by such things and for them it’s all about the football or they support the club because their father did. Some Rangers fans even claim to vote SNP! Well, as I have blogged before, you have to ignore an awful lot of what is going on around you at Rangers games as well as the tradition of the club you claim to support if you are someone who is not loyal to the Throne or to Great Britain. The point is that the vast majority of Rangers fans love Britain and are fiercely loyal to the Monarchy. And those who hate Rangers hate the club because of this. It really is that simple. (I know what is "Simple") Now you can ignore this or pretend that it’s for other reasons – and I am not saying there aren’t other reasons, some of them footballing ones – but you are just refusing to acknowledge the elephant in the room if you do. Rangers’ Unionist ethos and tradition makes the club and its vast support a massive barrier to any plans to destroy Britain by breaking up the UK. The club is a powerful bastion and rallying point for the Unionist cause in Scotland. Rangers is the quintessential British club. Someone might say we should just concentrate on the football and of course Rangers is a football club. However, it must be borne in mind that the enemies of Rangers do not see it as just a football club – they see it as much more than that. Rangers have long been known as “The Queen’s Eleven,” which means they take the field of play to represent and play for Her Majesty. This tradition is very important because it is the very thing which fuels the spite and hatred of those who despise the club. There comes a time when people must make a stand for what they believe in. And that stand should not be from a place of hatred or vindictiveness. This is that time if you are a Rangers supporter. This is the time to make a stand, to stand united with other loyal bears and rally round The Rangers. This is the time to stand for Queen and country i.e. Britain. This is the time to sing the national anthem louder and prouder than ever before – not to annoy or provoke people but to let the world know that Rangers FC – the club and its fans – are loyal and true. Rangers’ fans don’t need to sing songs of hate; that is beneath them. If you think that being a Ranger is about hating Catholics or singing songs of hate, then you are letting your club down. I haven’t addressed the other big elephant in the room here i.e. the religious thing but I will get round to it another time. The bitter, nasty, spiteful campaign against Rangers has gathered pace and become much more overt in recent months. Years of pent-up jealousy and envy from fans and officials of smaller teams were released as they gleefully put the boot into Rangers when the club was down. But Rangers are on the rise again and the enemies of RFC don’t like it one bit. So they will do what they can to put the club back down again. You may choose to reason away what I have said here as to the nature of the conspiracy against Rangers. Or you can just stick your head in the sand. But you ignore it at your peril. And when I am proved right – again – you’ll hear me saying I told you so. Eat yer heart out Leggo
This is no word of a lie: there was a hun on Follow Follow this morning who said he had contacted the BBC to COMPLAIN that the Rangers game wasn't mentioned on the weather forecast. (they do a quick weather guide to all the big matches north and south of the border) I was going to take a screen grab of it but by the time I went to look for it again it had been removed. Of about the 10 responses that I saw, half were mocking him and the other half were supporting him.
[h=2]300,000 Reasons To Hate Rangers[/h]Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2012 by billmcmurdo I didn’t go to Manchester for the UEFA Cup Final in 2008. I did go to Ibrox in a car full of people to watch it on the big screens. However, we saw the heaving crowds outside the ground, swirled round the roundabout on Edmiston Drive and headed back to watch it on the telly. Apparently 300,000 or thereabouts did make the trip south, some only getting as far as Blackpool. No doubt this figure included English-based bears. Rangers supporters are everywhere. Now some people don’t like big crowds. I am talking about people with a political agenda. They don’t like to see vast numbers of people congregating and showing their strength in collective unity, especially when the congregating hordes are of a diametrically-opposite political persuasion. In short, Rangers’ ability as a football club to mobilise well over 300,000 people for a game of football scared the hell out of people who despise what Rangers stand for. Because Rangers stand for so much more than just football. Rangers are a potent symbol of British patriotism and a mustering point for scores of thousands of people loyal to the United Kingdom and its monarchy. This alone gives those of a separatist sentiment cause to fear and hate Rangers FC. When the hordes of bluenoses assembled in Manchester in 2008, the world looked on in awe and admiration. But those who hate Rangers gazed in horror at what they saw. These folks tend to think differently from the average person. They weren’t thinking, like most, that it was a tremendous thing to see such vast numbers of people supporting their team. They were thinking something else. They were thinking that Rangers FC’s ability to rally several hundred thousand people, most with a fervent love for Queen and country i.e. Britain, made Rangers one of the biggest obstacles in their path to bust up the UK and make Scotland a republic. That’s what’s really going on. Now Rangers stand for Queen and country. It is a pro-British team which is also proudly Scottish. What Rangers FC is NOT is a political party. But that doesn’t mean it is not a threat to those with a political agenda. I am using the word political here in its broadest sense. When those who hate Britain and its monarchy saw the teeming multitudes of Rangers fans during the UEFA Cup Final in 2008, it made Rangers a target for these haters. The battle over Rangers is part of a much bigger battle to save the Union. Now it would be very simplistic to see Celtic as part of the enemy here but it is not that black and white. Many Celtic fans are actually Unionists so the Rangers-Celtic divide doesn’t fit neatly into this battle. And it is a battle. Those of us fighting for the Union are actually doing so alongside rabid Celtic fans. If you think that football should not be politicised, I totally agree with you. But that horse has bolted. Whether you like it or not, those who hate Rangers have dragged the club and its fans into the political arena. Their logic for doing so is very simple – they have many good reasons. Over 300,000 reasons.
