The Enemies of Rangers Football Club February 16, 2012 55 Comments âYou have enemies? Good. That means youâve stood up for something, sometime in your life.â Winston Churchill It has been interesting, if not surprising, to watch the emergence of the enemies of our football club over the past few days. I think there is a danger over this period when our minds are rightly focussed on making sure Rangers survive and prosper that we forget some of the people who wish to see the club die. There are some obvious ones who we are well aware of already like Philip McGillivan and Peter Lawwell but there are others who will now be jumping on the bandwagon. So, with that in mind Iâve decided to keep a note of them. This post will be updated with the names and quotes from the people who want to see our club go out of business and are revelling in the possibility. 1) Mike Small â â Who?â I hear you ask. Well it seems Mike is a friend of Philip McGillivan (Rangers hater and IRA supporter). He is described on the Guardian website, who gave him the platform to spew his hatred, as âthe Editor of Bella Caledoniaâ. This in fact appears to be a blog much like this one but Mike clearly has ideas above his station. I wonât be providing links to either the Guardian piece he wrote on the 14th February or his blog because, frankly, I would prefer not to give them the hits but let me provide you with a few quotes from it. âThe clubâs slide into administration could help rid Scottish football of ritualised bigotry and intergenerational hatredâ âAfter the loyalty she has been shown over the years, how can Her Majesty allow her Revenue & Customs to behave in this manner?â âEstablishment voices mutter confidently of the clubâs fanbase and that the ââclub will never dieâ. Such macho posturing is a default setting from the clubâs supporters (who numbered 17,822 at the recent home defeat to Dundee United)â âRumours swirl that Graeme Souness waits in the wings like a moustachioed Sauron.â Iâm sure we can all agree that Mike is a funny guyâ¦.He may just be an idiot who believes everything his pal Philip tells him but I suspect he has his own hatred to keep him going, with his perception that Rangers are the root of all bigotry being a particular give-away. 2) Iain McGill â Again a rather obscure one but he is the Conservative Party candidate for Edinburgh Central and as such represents his party in what he says. He is also pictured on his website shaking hands with David Cameron. I wonder what the PM would think of McGillâs views after his wholehearted support for Rangers today? Mr McGill had the following to say on Mike Smallâs piece in the Guardian: Mr McGill not only has political aspirations but describes himself as a âbusinessmanâ. He is a director of Harmony Employment Agency http://www.harmonyemployment.com/meet-the-staff.html. Maybe he will find that Rangers fans who unwittingly use his services may decide not to, given his hatred for our club? Then perhaps he will see just how funny it is when businesses get into trouble and people face losing their jobs. Anyone who is not on Twitter and would like to contact Iain to discuss his views can do so via this link http://www.voteiainmcgill.com/contact.aspx 3) Peter Lawwell â Well he had a chance to act in a dignified and magnanimous way but that isnât really Peterâs way is it? Despite all evidence to the contrary he is adamant that his club donât need Rangers. Perhaps he thinks people are interested in the outcome of a one team league? But really itâs just another chance for him to have a dig. Here is the quote today, Iâm sure there will be many more⦠âWe are very disappointed with the First Ministerâs claims that Celtic âneedâ Rangers and that Celtic âcanât prosper unless Rangers are thereâ. âThis is simply not true. In a series of interviews given just three days ago, we made it abundantly clear that Celtic has a well defined strategy and a business plan independent of the fortunes of any other club. That remains absolutely the case.â 4) Matt McGlone â Now I hesitated to add this because Mattâs performance on Scotland Tonight on the 16th February was so shambolic that heâs more a figure of fun than a serious enemy. Indeed you could argue that the sight of him and Michael Kelly bickering was a genuine moment of light entertainment for us in hard times. Perhaps one day we will learn what the stuttering McGlone means when he says that Celtic are a âculture of peopleâ? However he has been added because despite the clown like fashion in which he put his point across there was no mistaking the hatred and desperation behind it. Michael Kelly might have been added too but actually after getting off to a bad start with the political point scoring he obviously felt necessary he seemed to return to his senses and realised that Celtic do indeed need Rangers and that Rangers âwill continueâ. Of course with crowds of 60,00 every week at Celtic Park ( no sniggering) they will soon be playing in the EPLâ¦â¦. 5) Neil Lennon â Well it was never likely that old popcorn teeth was going to be able to keep his mouth shut was it? Fresh from moaning about people commenting on his club he decides to comment on ours. Suffice to say he just couldnât stop himself but with his past behaviour and abuse of our fans and players he could have been on this list straight away anyway 6) Hugh Keevins â Once again this is not a surprise name to appear on the list. Hugh has a long history of putting the boot into Rangers whilst sticking up for his team, Celtic. However this time heâs written a piece in the Daily Record âblogâ on 19th February which even the Celtic View might have thought twice about publishing. Itâs long been a tactic of the media in Scotland to feed Celtic fansâ paranoia and this should do the job no matter what the outcome of Rangersâ administration. Well done Hugh, itâs quite possible that somebody, somewhere will be the victim of an act of violence because you felt the need to write lies in your paper. Iâm sure the irony in the last quoted line of his ridiculous article wonât be missed. Itâs you and your ilk who stoke the hatred with lies Hugh â and you know that. â the unmissable smell of favouritism has started to rise from Rangersâ journey back from administrationâ âCeltic fans have carried the firm conviction for 100 years and more that Rangers are the âEstablishmentâ club in Scotland â and now theyâre getting evidence to support their claimâ â he said Rangers were âpart of the fabric of societyâ in Scotland. Which makes Celtic what, precisely?â â the public purse has been dipped in a way thatâs given cause to widespread concern and police interventionâ âSevere penalties will need to be imposed on the Ibrox clubâ âa repeat of last seasonâs unedifying end to the championship looms on the horizonâ ânowâs the time for the leading players in this off-field drama to be careful what theyâre saying for fear of inflaming an already combustible situationâ 7) Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, Glasgow G2 5AA â Obviously there are lots of Celtic bars out there that Bears would not frequent and vice versa. However, Vespbar in Glasgowâs city centre doesnât advertise itself as such. Itâs owners however have adopted the highly suspect âJelly and Ice Cream when Rangers dieâ slogan to attract Celtic fans to their bar. I think itâs important that Rangers fans know just what the views of the owners of this place are and hopefully you will all choose to avoid it. They have since deleted the offending tweet although they are retweeting Celtic fans on a regular basis with the #jellyandicecream tag. A tag which, if I supported a club that was embroiled in a child abuse scandal, I might choose to avoid⦠âGot the Celtic game on today, showing on our big screen (120 inches). Ice cream and jelly at full time. â 8) Stuart Cosgrove â Stuart is a busted flush. It seems perhaps he knows this since his âcomedyâ show âOff the Ballâ on BBC Radio Scotland seems to have become more and more bitter as time has passed. Stuart seems to know about a criminal tax investigation that the rest of us are not aware of. He also seems to think he knows the outcome of this fantastical investigation which he unveiled on his show on the 18th February. Stuart has previous as a Rangers hater and is a big fan of using the word âhunâ on his show. Not likely to be the only BBC employee on this list by the time we are done. âRangers have cheated their way to titles with illegal tax mechanismsâ I would ask those of you who read the blog to post comments here or tweet me including the names and quotes from people who revel in our misfortune over the coming weeks and months. If you can also provide links that would be helpful. I will update this post weekly so that when RFC is back on its feet we have a record of those who spoke out against us. http://chrisgraham76.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/the-enemies-of-rangers-football-club/ ----------------- Looks like they are making a list (and not even checking it twice) of Rangers haters, so he can do what exactly? Go nanananan nah and thumb their noses when Rangers stay afloat? It's risible and paranoid too in equal measure.
http://chrisgraham76.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/the-enemies-of-rangers-football-club/ I really shouldn't laugh This **** probably has a license to drive
I said before that this bigot is worse than Leggo. See his blog about the word Hun for example. Several people make erudite points below about why Hun isn't sectarian - his response every time was "Well, now i have educated you" Basically, if you disagree with me, no matter how much evidence you have, you're wrong. He's an utter bellend and, as I suggested before, a dangerous one. When Leggo's liver finally packs up, they'll still have this guy to justify the unjustifyable. This one is actually quite funny
Reading this blog and Leggo basically lets me know days in advance the silly rhetorical argument the sillier people I know will hit me with over the next while. Forewarned is forearmed <McGill'sletterboxbrickedup>
And there we have it ... "Our clubs in the ****ter man" "Aye brar, but is awright n that. Remembur BJK! " Expect BJK to ring out at the next Old Firm game because that's all some Rangers fans have left!
If you had a list of enemies that you kept in years gone by you'd be locked up for being mental. The longer the list the more ****ing mental you were.
Seems as if they do have some commenters on the blog who have a bit of common sense ------------------------ tam says: February 16, 2012 at 22:36 All you’re doing here is stir up a hatred of our own toward these so called ‘enemies’. Naming and shaming isn’t going to save the club or the jobs of its many staff. Its absolutely expected that many people, more than you could possibly list here, are going to revel in what Rangers are going through currently but thats just the way it is. We don’t need a ‘wanted’ list, or details of who said what, where, who and when. Priority should be put on the positive moves that can be made to help the club regain a position where it can run itself and make money, not spent drumming up names of people insignificant to the club. Very poor effort. Well said tam
There is one simple message that needs to be taken from this. If Senior football is to survive in Scotland then Rangers need to be seen to be punished very severely. I let you interpret what I mean by that. Remember we cannot make precedence that in the situation immediately facing Rangers. I think it is given as a fact that £9m Nat. Ins. Inc. Tax and VAT have been misused (stolen). There seems to be a lot more wrong doing and money owed, yet Rangers were trying to sign a player as they were applying for Admin. Even that £9m, we cannot have a situation that Celtic, the Dons or any other clubs take money that is not theirs and spends and runs up bills, apply for and enter administration, continue in the same position in league with debts paid off. That will break the integrity of Senior Football in Scotland, it won't be a club that dies it will be the death of football itself.
There are threads on all hun sites where they are listing everyone who has "kicked them when down".......or targets as I call them
**** sake, are we on that list? Who do we have to offend to get on it? Here Chris Graham you speccy little twat, put me on that list` How about putting each and every one of you dopey Hun bastards on the list who sat with your fingers in your ears when you were told and told and told that your ****ty little club was up to its balls in ****. You are responsible for this, not Phil the blogger, not some Tory twat, not Pistol Pete, no **** except YOU. Gutted for Tam that he has to follow those ****ing imbeciles. Even now, he's pissing against the wind.
