footballaintforbirds
January 16th, 2006, 11:54 AM
Rangers - 51 league titles, 55 Cups and 1 European trophy.
Celtic - 39 league titles , 44 Cups and 1 European trophy ( I will admit a better European trophy compared to Rangers one).
I can't wait for this one, new territory for any Scottish club -
http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/UCL/FixturesResults/Round=2202/match=1102857/index.html
I doubt we will win, but imagine if we did - Quarter Finals of the Champions League!!!
I'm not saying anymore on this Rangers/celtic stuff. It's bad enough in Glasgow let alone on a stadium forum. Back to the Yankees -
Where is the stadium, is it far from Manhattan?
I think the institution that is Rangers has been unsurpassed in 132 years in terms of dignity - Alex McLeish : May 05
The Players
Having dopehead pill-popper Willie Johnstone sent home in shame from the World Cup (Argentina ’78) for failing a drugs test. Drugs cheat Johnstone embarrassed the entire Scottish nation by testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing steroid. Thankfully his chums in the Rankers-friendly meeja were able to deflect criticism from their brother, by suggesting his cheating was, erm, ‘an error’ before hastily sweeping the entire episode under the carpet.
Sandy Jardine’s son being arrested and charged with the production and supply of drugs.
Graeme Souness's horrific two-footed tackle on a Steaua Bucharest player which nearly ended the player's career.
Junkie thug Willie Johnstone being sent off in 1980 for deliberately stamping on the throat of fallen Aberdeen player John McMaster. Even some huns were disgusted at Johnstone's cowardly violence.
Andy Goram turning on the Xmas lights in 1995 in one of the most vile, Catholic-hating, sectarian cesspits of the entire globe - the Loyalist Shankill Road.
The Beast being sent off in his very first game for Rankers, as they were gubbed 2 - 1 by Hibs. The Rankers goal predictably came from a penalty, in a game which saw nearly every single Rankers player booked except the goalkeeper. After the game, Edinburgh resembled a war zone as deranged thugs went on a wrecking spree, terrorising foreign tourists who were over for the Edinburgh Festival.
Andy Goram wearing a black armband during a Celtic –v- Rankers match at Celtic Park in 1998, to mourn the ‘loss’ of Loyalist terrorist, and convicted drug-dealing thug Billy Wright. Bigoted Goram claimed the overt display of solidarity for the hated thug, known as King Rat, was a ‘delayed’ expression of mourning for his elderly ‘Aunt Doris’ who had passed away nearly one year earlier.
Andy Goram posing for photographs alongside numerous UVF Loyalist terrorists and thugs in front of their hate-banners. Rankers players including Jorg Albertz, Artur Numan, and Ronald De Boer also later attended a social function in the Middle East where numerous Loyalist terrorists were in attendance. Curiously, but not together unsurprisingly, the photographs of Goram were only printed by the Scottish media after he had left Rankers for another club.
Andy Goram's persistant alcohol abuse, gambling problems, sinister Loyalist associations, bankruptacy proceedings, womanising and marital break-ups – all done in the full glare of the media. Some folk really are short on dignity.
Andy Goram being arrested at gunpoint after becoming embroiled with drunken thugs on a flight from Italy, which was forced to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport. This was just one week prior to him joining his new club…………Manchester United.
Paul Gascoigne’s disgusting and brutal domestic violence that left his wife bruised, battered, and physically injured. Staff at a Scottish 5* hotel were so horrified they immediately called the police, whereupon Sheryl Gascoigne was taken to hospital to have her injuries – including a fractured wrist and two black eyes - treated.
Paul Gascoigne's continuous drug and alcohol abuse culminating in him being sent home in shame from France 98 after he had hurled abuse at England manager Glenn Hoddle before storming out of the team camp at La Manga in Spain, leaving his luggage behind.
Paul Gascoigne defecating in the Away dressing-room jaccuzzi after a Celtic -v- Rankers game at Celtic Park.
Paul Gascoigne mimicking a Loyalist flute player in 1998 at Celtic Park, as bigoted Rankers fans sung an anti-Catholic hate anthem in time. Not just a bigot, but a dangerous one to boot. The clown-prince’s darker side was becoming harder to keep hidden.
Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer posing for photographs with convicted sectarian murderer Michael Stone. Their claims of ignorance looked a little hollow in light of the fact that the murderous Stone was the much publicised ‘Star Guest’ that night.
Club Captain Lorenzo Amoruso racially abusing Nigerian striker Victor Ipkeba on the field of play, as they suffered yet another European humping – this time a 3 - 1 away exit to Borussia Dortmund. Amoruso first denied that any such incident had ever taken place, before being forced into a humiliating climbdown, after learning the incident was recorded by a TV camera. Falsely claiming that he 'had only swore in Italian' TV pictures clearly showed him mouthing racist obscenities in English. A thug, a coward, a rascist, and a liar.
Club Captain Terry Butcher being caught on camera, kicking the Away dressing-room door off it's hinges after a 2-0 defeat at Celtic Park. Calm down Terry, it’s only a game.
Elephant Man, and unanimous winner of The Ugliest Man In Football Award – EVER !! Davie Dodds being flung out of the family home in Bearsden, and divorced by his wife, after he was caught cheating behind his wife’s back with a groupie called Jackie Webster. Quite what Miss Webster’s guide dog thought of the situation, is as yet unclear !!
Ally Maxwell singing ‘The Sash’ and rousing the gutter-scum during a substitute's warm-up against CSKA in the early 90's. Maxwell who was on the touchline, could clearly be seen singing the hate anthem, and encouraging his fellow simpleton reprobates to do likewise. This sort of disgraceful encouragement of sectarian degenerate behaviour would later be repeated by numerous bitter Rankers morons like Roberts, Durrant, Gascoigne, Ferguson, Malcolm, Vignal, Prso ……….
Club Captain Barry Ferguson getting embroiled in a drunken brawl at a local hotel with rival supporters, after his team had lost to Celtic. Instead of attempting to maintain a low profile - for professional as well as personal reasons - Ferguson went home, got changed, and went back out drinking at the same hotel where the previous incident had occurred. Predictably, further trouble ensued, and Ferguson was involved in a drunken brawl, and physical assault at a nearby fast-food takeaway.
Club Captain Barry Ferguson throwing an ice-pack at Celtic manager Martin O'Neill during a defeat at Ibrox. Calm down Barry, it’s only a game.
Fernando Ricksen having to be physically restrained by Strathclyde Police officers after they arrested him at his Newton Mearns home for drunk driving. Ricksen first claimed he could not speak English, and then that he had been at home all evening. The felled lamp-post, and damaged Telecom box - as well as the testament of a number of neighbours - suggested otherwise. Ricksen was later convicted of drunk driving and banned from driving for one year.
Fernando Ricksen viciously kicking Aberdeen player Darren Young on the field of play. Ricksen denied there was any malicious intent, until he was caught blatantly lying after having posted on his own website, that his primary intention was 'to teach him (Young) a lesson by straightening him out.' Ricksen was subsequently banned for three games for his act of thuggery.
Fernando Ricksen brutally albowing Hibernian youngster Derek Riordan in the face during a CIS Cup semi-final. Rankers showed their disgust at this kind of onfield violence, and vowed to stamp out such thuggery. They demonstrated their intent by fining Ricksen a whopping......er.....£10k – or half of one week’s wage.
Fernando Ricksen pushing club Chairman John McLelland into a hotel swimming pool, ruining his designer suit, mobile phone, digital camera, and £12k Cartier watch.
Fernando Ricksen being warned by police to curtail his nocturnal revellery after being reported by neighbours on his quiet residential estate for setting off extra-loud firework displays at 4:00am. Ricksen further showed his contempt for the law by replacing his nocturnal pyrotechnics with rowdy 5:00am trampolining sessions with a gaudy Page-3 model he picked up whilst his wife had left the marital home on the grounds of his infantile behaviour. He thanked his neighbours for their concern by slagging them off in a Rankers-friendly down-market tabloid, and accusing them of the heinous crimes of 'being in bed by 11:00pm' and being ‘too quiet.'
Graham Roberts orchestrating bigoted Rankers fans in a rendition of a sectarian anthem at Ibrox. The game resulted in a brawl that included two Rankers players being charged and convicted of Affray, and Incitement To Cause A Breach Of The Peace. The convicted thug would later go on to establish himself as a firm favourite with the club’s gutter-scum element by repeatedly behaving in an exceptionally thuggish, provocative, antagonistic, and aggressive manner whenever he and his fellow ‘hammer-throwers’ (© Jan Bartram) came up against Celtic.
Nuno Capucho being ejected from a Glasgow nightclub after exposing himself to a female guest, and then accosting her by attempting to have her participate in his drunken sexual act. The fact that he is a married man seems to have been lost on him. Onfield, Capucho proved to be one of the worst players ever to pull on the tarnished blue jersey.
Kevin 'Billy' Muscat blatantly diving and feigning injury during a match at Firhill in order to have a Partick Thistle player (Gerry Britton) shown a red card. Self-proclaimed hardman Muscat, was nick-named Billy by his team-mates because the name Kevin sounded 'too Catholic' - a kind-hearted gesture they had previously bestowed upon Kevin Drinkell, and Kevin ‘Ted’ McMinn. In later years, Muscat was made Team Captain of Wimbledon FC by Dennis Wise. ‘Nuff said.
Duncan Ferguson being convicted and imprisoned for his brutal and unprovoked head-butt attack on Raith Rovers player John McStay at Ibrox in 1994. Ferguson was sentenced to three months in Barlinnie, and banned for twelve games by the SFA. In total, Ferguson has been convicted of assault, no less than four times. That is aside his other convictions of course, which include drunk driving. His convictions mean't he was unable to travel to America with new club Everton, due to being a convicted felon and repeat offender.
Graeme Souness being involved in numerous onfield incidents, in which he was frequently red-carded. His brutal style of play earned him the nickname of 'The Beast', and many players (George McLuskey, Billy Stark, Frank McGarvey) were the subject of his particularly nasty and brutal blend of football tackle. His brutality wasn't reserved purely for the football field however, and he once had to be physically restrained after lunging towards, and threatening a 60 year old tea-lady, during a heated confrontation at McDiarmid Park, just before a game –v- St Johnstone.
Graeme Souness - not being able to buy European success – deciding to try building a team of brutes who then sought to kick their way to victory. His signings (and legacy) included some of the most over-physical players in the entire game at that time (Terry Hurlock, Basile Boli, Derek Ferguson, Graeme Roberts...... narrowly failing to capture Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce) Thankfully for football's sake he failed miserably, and even ex-players slated his brutal tactics, with Jan Bartram once commenting that Souness “wasn’t trying to build a footballing side, but a team of hammer-throwers” and had told his players to “deliberately kick opponents.” In a scathing attack, Bartram also denounced Souness as “a beast” and “a hooligan.” No-one likes them, they don’t care.
Ian Durrant and Ted McMinn assaulting a man in Dumfries during an argument in the early hours of the morning. It was probably coincidence that the man happened to be wearing a crucifix.
John Brown singing '..up to our knees in Fenian blood..." as he joined in with the sectarian hate-mongers after a game against Club Brugge in 1993.
The provocative and undignified 'mock huddle' by Rankers players on winning the League title. Far from being content and celebrating their win, they obviously felt the requirement to antagonise their opponents by stooping to new depths and confrontational gestures. The condemnation by football authorities was deafening in it's silence.
Club-Captain and serial grogger Lorenzo Amoruso being found guilty of spitting on Ayr United striker James Grady and hammered with a four-match ban. The greasy-grogger seems to have a problem keeping his big ugly gob shut, after being caught live on TV committing one of the cowardliest, most dispicable acts one can, atop a football field. Amoruso was slammed with a mandatory two-match ban, but because his disciplinary record was so dire, the additional 12 disciplinary points incurred a further two-match ban. Rankers only comment on the subject was by Gingerbaws bemoaning the ‘loss’ of this thuggish, cowardly, excuse for a human being.
Lionel Charbonnier attending Hamilton Races with, getting 'inside' betting tips from, and posing for photographs with convicted gangster Paul Ferris.
Alex Rae’s disgusting and brutal assault on CSKA Moscow player Sergei Dadu in a UCL qualifier in August ’04. In a dangerous and unpardonable assault - when Dadu was lying vulnerable and defenceless, face-down on the ground - Rae twice aimed kicks to the player’s head – leaving him with concussion, in a act graphically captured by TV cameras. Rae’s later denial and sickening justification for his act of thuggery just added insult to injury, insulted the intelligence of anyone who witnessed the brutality, and merely confirmed his lack of restraint and remorse. Claiming that "their player put his head down. If anything, it was a dangerous act on his part. That's the end of the matter as far as I am concerned" – Rae failed to mention that it was him who had fouled the player to the ground in the first place. Despite receiving the backing of his under-fire manager, in a sickening act of tacit approval, Rae was charged with Gross Sporting Misconduct by UEFA and hammered with a 5-Match European ban. In a further act of remorselessness, desperation, and outright refusal to accept responsibility for such a thuggish assault, McLeish and Rae appealed the ban. They needn’t have bothered. Luckily for Rae the assault never happened outwith a football stadium, or he would have rightly been facing a lengthy prison term. Rae later boasted in an Xmas interview on Radio Snyde that “if I’d meant to kick Dadu at close range, he would never have gotten up again”. Obviously talking from experience.
Bob Malcolm autographing a fan’s match programme with the initials FTP below his signature. This is the self same Bob Malcolm who told disgusted travelling fans to ‘go fuck themselves’ after they had the temerity to complain about Rankers pathetic 1-0 humbling by Portuguese minnows Maritimo – a privilege for which those fans had forked out some £500.00 each for. Malcolm seems oblivious to the fact that it is those people who pay his grossly over-inflated wages, and those self-same people that are constantly being asked to be ‘the 12th man’ in vital games. On arrival back at Glasgow Airport, Strathclyde Police were waiting for Malcolm with a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court for trial over a motoring offence. He later appeared handcuffed in court, where he was convicted and fined for his criminal conduct.
Shota Arveladze being shown on live TV racially abusing Bobo Balde on the field of play.
Stephen Hughes being stopped for speeding outside a local school, only for police to find out he didn’t have any insurance either. He was later convicted, fined £450.00, and had his license endorsed. Hughes’s previous plaudits include being punched in the face whilst involved in a mass brawl inside a Lanarkshire nightclub, and having a stand up fight with a woman who had to take off her stiletto shoe to defend herself. Six weeks later his cousin died on the same spot after leading a local gangfight between two sets of tooled-up rampaging hooligans.
Bob ‘FTP’ Malcolm being escorted from the Ibrox dug-out by 2 police officers during a CIS Cup tie for making an obscene gesture towards the Celtic officials in the Away dug-out. Malcolm escaped further censure but was given a stern warning by the Match Commander who pointed out that any repeat of his offensive and inflammatory conduct would result in immediate police action.
Celtic reject Nacho Novo deliberately stamping on Stephen Pearson's neck, as the young Celtic player lay on the ground. Think he might still be a wee bit bitter at being told he wasn’t good enough to get a starting place in the Celtic team.
Fernando Ricksen’s airey-fairey, pie-in-the-sky notions that he is regarded as some kind of folk hero back at his former club AZ Alkmaar. Ricksen was brought back to earth with a bump after some scathing revelations from his former team-mates. Current players at the Dutch ‘giants’ (capacity 10,000 !!!) were’nt slow to reveal what they thought of the man whom the scum-buckets idolize. Indicating the sort of sentiment with which Ricksen is held in the AZ dressing room, midfielder Barry van Galen described Ricksen as ‘a raving lunatic’ and ‘crazy’, whilst Striker Jose Fortes Rodriguez revealed that after spotting Ricksen and his vulgar-looking wife in Amsterdam recently, he actually crossed the street to avoid having to talk to them. Rodriguez went on to further slur Ricksen as ‘the least respected player in Holland’ after describing how he had deliberately and viciously stamped on the neck of AZ team-mate Barry Opdam during a training match. This was corroberated by pictures shown on Dutch TV. On returning to Alkmaar for a European tie in Nov ’04 – in which the huns predictably got gubbed – Ricksen was jeered repeatedly, and got so much stick from the home fans, he must have wondered if Neil Lennon had strayed onto the park. No-one likes them, they don’t care !!
Former hero Scott Nisbet being charged with two counts of common assault after beating up his girlfriend Jaqueline Rae at their home in Bonnyrigg, after worried neighbours phoned the police. Cowardly Nisbet slapped Rae repeatedly, punched her on the neck, and flung her against a wall, causing her to be physically sick. The shamed coward only escaped a jail sentence when Rae miraculously decided she no longer wanted to proceed with the charges. This remarkable u-turn of course, had nothing to do with the engagement ring that Nisbet cynically introduced to the proceedings. Nisbets first wife divorced him amidst bitter allegations of violence, assault, spousal abuse, and property damage. He joins a shameful list of notorious, cowardly, wife-beating, Rankers players including Gascoigne, Goram and Ricksen.
Craig Moore being questioned by police after racially abusing a Glasgow taxi-driver outside Queen St Station on Hogmanay. Moore attempted to barge ahead in the queue, and launched a tirade of rascist abuse at the driver who refused to carry him, when others had quite obviously been waiting longer. Moore’s arrogance got the better of him, and he called the driver ‘a greedy p*ki bastard’. A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said : "We can confirm that a 35year-old taxi driver has made a complaint against a man who allegedly racially abused him. It is alleged that the incident took place around 3.30am on Saturday, 1 January, in Royal Exchange Court, near to Queen Street Station in Glasgow. Police inquiries are ongoing."
Sleazy creep Nacho Novo having an illicit affair with the girlfriend of a team-mate who had taken him into his home when he first arrived in Scotland. Novo was unfamiliar with the country, and struggled to speak the language, until Raith Rovers midfielder Ross Mathieson invited him to stay at his home until he became a bit more familiar with life at the Kirkcaldy club. Slimy Novo thanked him for his hospitality, by having an illicit affair with Mathieson's girlfriend of six years, Donna Clark, in his own home. The tawdry affair cost Mathieson his relationship. With friends like Novo, who needs enemies, eh ?!
Gregory Vignal assaulting a ballboy at Celtic Park, by pushing him out of the way as the boy was retrieving the ball. The lad was left shaken and visibly upset, after being bundled out of the way by the French defender, who now adds bullying children to his list of pastimes which already include diving, and antagonising rival fans. Another wannabe jaffa, who plays to the gallery, knowing that the Death Star is one of the few places on the planet where talentless thugs like him are lionised.
David Robertson walking out on his wife and two kids, to set up a plush love-nest with one of his wife’s best friends. Just to make sure he shat on her good and proper, he chose the day of her birthday to do it.
Club Captain Fernando Ricksen causing a near riot at Celtic Park, by antagonising opposition fans with inflammatory gestures as he prepared to take a corner kick. Simply taking the corner kick would have been too easy for the man with the wild staring eyes, so to stir things up a bit, he decided a few inflammatory gestures were the order of the day. In the ensuing rage, Ricksen claimed he was struck by a small object thrown from the crowd. Whilst any form of missile-throwing cannot be condoned, has it ever entered this whacko's thick head, that if he continues to behave in a hostile, provocative, and inflammatory manner, it should come as no surprise that people respond angrily ?!
Stephen Hughes being arrested for breach of the peace, police assault, resisting arrest, and urinating in a public place, after a drunken night out in his home town of Motherwell. Hughes repeatedly shouted and swore at two officers as they questioned him for urinating in a shop doorway, after a win against Celtic in November ’04. When warned about his behaviour, Hughes became abusive and was subsequently arrested. As the officers escorted him to a police car, he lashed out at them, kicking, and punched one of them in the neck. The incident was considered serious enough for a Sheriff to demand that Hughes appear before him for sentencing. Hughes was later warned about the seriousness of his conduct and fined £200.00. Even in victory these scumbags lack dignity.
Being slated by Captain Shellsuit, on his return after a failed sojourn at Premiership strugglers Blackburn, as ‘a disgrace’ and ‘not fit to wear the Rankers jersey’ after yet another woeful league performance. You know you’ve hit rock-bottom when a failure starts criticising you !!
Diving cheat Sotirios Kyrgiakos being slated by SFA Executive Referee Brian McGinlay after his theatrical leap at Tynecastle, which resulted in the huns being awarded a 93rd minute penalty. The award enabled them to cheat their way to a win, at a time when they were under intense pressure from Hearts – and were hanging on to their SPL hopes by their fingernails.
Gordon Durie being charged with assaulting a British Transport police officer (Keith Lang) at Waverley Station in Edinburgh, by punching him, and grabbing him by the throat. Durie was also charged with committing a breach of the peace, by struggling with police officers, shouting, swearing, behaving in a disorderly manner, brawling with someone unidentified and making violent threats. Durie's accomplice hooligan, Paul Mooney, was charged with the same breach of the peace, punching and kicking transport police officer Graham Miller, and headbutting transport police officer Steven Pitblado in the face.
Club Vice-Catptain Alex Rae cheating on his wife, fathering a love-child, and then denying all knowledge of the affair, or that the child was his. After being reported to the CSA, Rae was forced to take a DNA test, and was subsequently confirmed as the father of the child he ignores and rejects. Rae was later forced to pay £10,000 per annum towards the girl's upkeep and schooling - and still rejects the child as his own.
Dado Prso being filmed on the official Rankers team bus singing ‘Hello Hello’ as the sectarian hate anthem blared in the background. This is despite a large percentage of those on board being Catholic. Bizarre people.
Sandy Clark trying to con parents into buying school sports uniforms from a company he owns, by getting his sister-in-law (a head-mistress) to slag off Asda, and suggest that parents buy from Clark's company (the imaginatively titled SC Sports Clothing) instead. What she failed to mention was that she was on Clark's payroll, and was receiving back-handers for touting his company as the 'official' uniform supplier. Huns and sleaze, eh – they make Tory politicians look like Boy Scouts.
Spanish misfit Mikel Arteta being pursued by Sheriff Officers and having litigation proceedings instigated against him after he failed to pay a £592 electricity bill from Scottish Power. Despite earning £35k per week, and despite numerous letters and attempts at contact, the sheepish midfielder remained evasive, and failed to offer payment for the outstanding debt.
Gingerbaws slating superstar dud Peter Lovetodive for refusing to GTF despite being told he has no future at The Death Star, but is still eating up a wage that the cash-strapped huns can ill afford. Describing Lovelypants as in need of “a fresh challenge” and “needing to restore his tarnished reputation” Gingerbaws tried to be diplomatic, whilst trying to tell the over-rated duffer that he was nothing but an over-paid liability, who simply can’t, or won’t take a hint. Interest in Lovelypants from other clubs has been deafening by it’s silence, yet this is the same Lovetodive that the Daily Retard told us was being tracked by Barcelona and Inter Milan. Slating the embarrasing dud, Gingerbaws went on to state “Peter Lovenkrands lost his form last season. He knows that we think it's right that he goes for a fresh challenge somewhere else. He has a lot to prove to get to the level of wages he is at next season. If he has another season like the last one then his reputation will plummet."
Former player Stuart Beattie being suspended from his current job after serious allegations that he brutalised and battered youngsters in his care, whilst employed at Kerelaw secure unit for problem children. Beattie – who played in the 80’s alongside the likes of McCoist, Ferguson, and Durrant – is accused of using outlawed restraining holds and participating in a regime of brutality wherein children were battered into compliance by those supposed to be helping them.
Andy Goram being convicted - again - of drink-driving and being banned for 3 years, and fined £1250. The Loyalist-terrorist-sympathising, wife-beating, Ibrox icon was stopped near his home in Langbank, and found to be more than two times over the limit. After discovering to his cost that not every constable in the Traffic Police is a member of The Brotherhood, Goram was arrested and charged. The Flying Pig was first convicted of drink-driving in 1995, when he was banned for 18 months. Some people simply never learn.
Former defender and dressing room wallet-thief Hugh Burns being barred from Dalmilling Golf Club after he hurled sectarian abuse at two elderly club members. Burns turned up late for a tournament, and when told that he could not play, went into a sectarian rant, and hurled bigoted abuse at the elderly tournament officials.
Dado Prso being charged with dangerous driving, after he cut up another motorist and jumped a red light on Crow Rd, near his home in the hun enclave of Bearsden. PoorShow, who pled guilty by letter, was ordered to appear for sentencing on October 12th, when he was fined £250 for his dignified behaviour behind the wheel.
A desperado Captain Shellsuit being booked for diving in the box as the huns slipped 11 points behind Hearts in a 1-0 gubbing at Swinecastle.
Clown prince Paul Gascoigne’s PR firm going bust and leaving a trail of unpaid debts. The fat boozebag wife-beating bigot isn’t quite as popular as he once was with the Brit arse-lickers and loyalist hun hoardes who laughed at him in his hey-day. Now that demand for the junkie washout has dried up, and sales of his dreary autobiography have slowed to a crawl, his imaginatively titled company Paul Gascoigne Promotions has been forced into liquidation with debts on the wrong side of a staggering £100,000.
Gordon Smith and Mark Hateley refusing to accept any form of responsibility for their bankrupt company which left Scottish tax-payers with a £15,000 bill to foot. At the hint of a penny to be made, Smith and Hateley were quick to accept directorships of the disasterous 'Legends' footballing series company, but weren't quite so visible when the company crashed leaving others to foot the massive Strathclyde Police bill. Dignity all the way brothers.
Desperado cheat, Dado Prso being booked for diving – yet again – after taking a blatant swan-dive against ‘pub team’ Artmedia Bratislava.
Peter Lovetodive being awarded 0/10 for his match performance against ICT by the Sunday Times Sport Section.
Fernando The Commando being threatened with legal action by his property agent for continuously and selfishly using his neighbour’s private parking space – as well as his own. Neighbour from hell Ricksen has ignored repeated requests not to park his car in his neighbour’s space at Lancefield Quay, and now faces the prospect of legal action.
Peter Lovelypants and Derek ‘Pieman’ Johnstone conducting a public slanging match after The Fat One dared to criticise Lovetodive for being a hopeless duffer, impersonating a footballer. Lovenkrands hit back by accusing The Fat One of biting the hand that feeds him, and for not having a clue as to what he was talking about. If you ask me, they’re both right ! Two Rankers legends washing the club’s dirty laundry in public – doesn’t get any more dignified than that.
The Fans
Attacking the Moscow Dynamo players (before the full scale riot) during the 1972 ECWC Final in Barcelona. As Moscow Dynamo coach Konstantin Beskov stated, "We had the advantage and momentum at the end of the game - they were trailing 3-2 - when the Rankers fans broke onto the pitch and attacked our players."
Being called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr after rioting huns shamed themselves in Barcelona in 1972. In a scathing attack, Mr Wiedekehr angrily stated “ The Rangers fans behaved like savages. We must find ways to keep such people from football stadiums.”
Rioting inside and outside Old Trafford during a ‘friendly’ in 1974, causing the stadium to witness some of the bloodiest violence in it’s history, as bigoted huns attacked and bottled United fans, simply because some of them were Irish.
Trying to start sectarian riots in Dublin before and during a game against Bohemians in 1984, which the huns lost 3-2. Rankers fans attacked police and Bohemians fans outside and inside the ground, until they were beaten back, and forced to spend the rest of the game cowering in fear, as they got a taste of their own medicine. Half of the huns never even made it in the first place, after being thrown off the Liverpool / Dunloghaire ferry for rioting. The ferry was turned back, halfway across the Irish Sea after drunken huns started running amok and fighting with other passengers. The Rankers fans thought it would be a good idea to link up with those other paragons of tolerance Linfield, who were playing Shamrock Rovers the following evening, and wreak havoc in the south of Ireland. Unfortunately for them, they didn't bank on the spirit of the Irish people who turned their little wrecking jolly, into a day of fear the huns would never forget. Even to this day, Rankers fans experience a cold shiver when asked about their memories of the trip. Most have conveniently chosen to forget.
Convicted Loyalist terrorist, and UDA Godfather John Gregg being ambushed and shot dead by fellow Rankers fans in 2003 after returning to Belfast from a match at Ibrox. Gregg, who was sentenced to 18 years after a failed assassination attempt on the life of MP Gerry Adams, was slain by a number of gun-totting masked men wearing Rankers shirts, who then fled the scene in a stolen taxi.
Brutally assaulting sports photographer Eric Craig as they invaded the Hampden pitch after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final. Craig was left deaf in one ear, and with a gruesome dent in his head after he was beaten and struck with a Pomagne bottle 'hurled at him by a Rangers fan.' He also had to undergo an emergency six-hour operation at the Southern General Neurosurgical Unit, and still suffers from headaches and dizziness. He also gave up attending football matches after the huns attack which left him traumatised. As Mr Craig later commented "You can still feel the hatred from these people, even after 25 years. I don't know if they'll ever be able to be cured."
UVF Loyalist Godfather William Taube being murdered at Ibrox Stadium in a revenge attack, on a Sunday night in April, 1999, during a Loyalist [Blue Mist] function. The function was held to celebrate the release of, and was attended by, several Loyalist prisoners from the Maze Prison. Security was provided by Taube's UVF friends, including a leading member of the UVF in Glasgow. Despite this, Taube was attacked and head-butted down a flight of stairs before having his head smashed on the marble flooring of The Edmiston Suite. He later died at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital. In a sworn statement to the Crown Office, a witness claimed he had been threatened with knee-capping if he failed to tell police the attack he saw was 'a drunken accident'. Following the incident, the witness received death threats and now lives in hiding, terrified of retribution. Taube's assailant was chased and beaten up in the car park before managing to flee. He has never been caught.
Members of the BNP arrested for Loyalist agitation and recruitment activity outside Ibrox stadium. The BNP feel they have a natural empathy with the politics of Rankers fans with whom they share certain racist, bigoted, homophobic and xenophobic ideals.
Barcelona 1972 : The only fans in European history not to witness their club receiving the trophy in a post-match presentation. Rankers fans were too busy rioting on the field of play at the time, so the ceremony had to take place.............in a dressing room. Following the match Rangers fans rioted in the streets outside the ground, clashing with Spanish police and causing extensive damage in the city. Rankers fans also vandalised the exterior of the city's Catholic cathedral, which was daubed with sectarian graffitti. Similar anti-Catholic sentiments were expressed on buildings, in later years on visits to the Italian cities of Parma and Turin. The scenes of mayhem and violence caused by rioting huns in the Nou Camp remain some of the most disgraceful ever witnessed at a football match.
Repeated hate-posts on FF containing sickening homophobia, with thread titles like ‘Homophobic And Proud’ and ‘101 Uses For A Dead Gay’. This is in addition to numerous repeated sick posts about injured, dead, or disabled people including Stephen Hawking, Christopher Reeve, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Clough, Jordan’s (the topless model) blind toddler son and many others. The list – in no way exhaustive - extends to Mother Teresa, Harold Shipman’s victims, footballers who have died in tragic circumstances, P & O Ferry drowning victims, the Tsunami victims, and those who died on Piper Alpha. Is no-one immune from these brainless morons ?
The only club in football history to be unable to defend their trophy due to the behaviour of their fans. After the rioting that occurred in Barcelona, Rankers received a UEFA one-year ban from European competition.
Being outed as sectarian bigots by one of their own - fellow Rankers fan, and American tourist, James Armstrong, in 1998. During his tour, Armstrong spent a day socialising with Mark Dingwall and some of the other Loyalist FF keyboard bretheren (SMac, SM, & SJ). He attended the day's match v Kilmarnock at Ibrox (Walter Smith's last home game in charge, which Rankers lost 0-1) after Dingwall had got him a ticket for the Club Deck. After an evening's revelry in the Auctioneer's pub, followed by a trip to the curry house, Armstrong caught the last train back to Edinburgh, where he was staying. Onboard the train, he describes the sectarian singing of his fellow passengers, and how he was disturbed by the bigotry they espoused. "There were about ten other Bears singing drunkenly the entire trip back. 'Hello! Hello! We are King Billy's Boys! We're up to our knees in Fenian blood, Surrender or you'll die!' There were other sectarian songs. The bigotry was disturbing."
Throwing a golf-ball with nails projecting out of it at Peter Grant during the notoriously hooligan-hun mid 1980’s. According to Grant himself, the deadly missile only missed his head ‘by a couple of inches.’
Saying that El Hajj Diouf 'deserved a knighthood' after the disgusting and vile episode when he spat on football supporters. This serial low-life has been warned, fined, and banned numerous times, and is a disgrace to both the footballing fraternity in particular, and the human race in general - unless of course you're a Rankers fan, in which case he's a candidate for investiture. Funny, the sort of people these huns look up to ?!
The outrage by huge sections of the club's support after Rankers ended their sectarian signing policy - eventually - and signed a Catholic after almost a century. The arrival of the said Catholic was met with protests, derision, boycotts, and the surrender and burning of numerous Season Books. Fans' leaders appeared in television documentaries in later years, proudly displaying their full and unused Season Books, as a result of their continued non-attendance protest at the presence of a Catholic player at the club.
Rioting before, during, and after the notorious Villa Riot game in 1976 where 8000 drunken huns went on an orgy of robbery, violence, and hooliganism which brought Birmingham to a standstill. People's doors were kicked in, pubs wrecked, shops looted, and Villa fans bottled and stabbed as rampaging huns brought an orgy of drunken violence and terror to Birmingham. Hooligan huns without tickets broke down the gates of the Holte End, and rampaged onto the terracing attacking the Villa fans with bricks and bottles. The violence was so serious that it was reported live on World Of Sport just after kick-off, with Dickie Davies warning Villa fans not to go into their home end for the threat of being attacked. The game was marred by dozens of rampaging fights as drunken huns attacked the home fans, and was eventually abandoned at half-time in the interests of crowd safety - with the huns typically on the losing end of the 2-0 scoreline.
Using child abuse as a cheap weapon in a tawdry point-scoring exercise, whilst seeking to slander the memory of Jock Stein. A sickening t-shirt stunt was planned which sought to denigrate Scotland's most successful manager, at the expense of innocent children who were the victims of a heinous crime. Thankfully, those in charge of the club recognised that particular cancer in time to exterminate it's malignant influence, by threatening life bans for any degenerate perverted enough to carry out their twisted plan. The stunt was no empathy for those who suffered abuse - it was a way of using their suffering to fabricate lies about someone who isn't here to defend himself. Psychologists call it the 'Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance' whereupon one seeks to denigrate another in order to make themselves feel better, and tries to justify their actions by a twisted rationalisation that their victim 'deserved it.' It was the same tactic that the Nazis used on Jewish holocaust victims, and is the same reasoning that wife-beaters use to justify their cowardly violence, in their own minds. The intentions of the deranged low-lifes at Ibrox was to try and tarnish the status of a footballing giant, whilst wading in a cesspit filled with the remnants of human suffering and broken lives. What could be any lower than sullying the reputation of a dead man with lies and fabrication, at the expense of children who were the victims of a heinous crime. This truly is the lowest of the low - and another benchmark for these vile reprobates.
The sectarian murder and homicidal violence perpetrated on Celtic fans, by Rankers-supporting bigoted maniacs. Once investigated and convicted, the perpetrators have often been found to have grown up in an anti-Catholic environment that encouraged sectarianism and division along football and religious lines. One of these thugs, Jason Campbell (who murdered Mark Scott in 1996) is the son of a convicted Loyalist UVF terrorist. He is also a diehard Rankers fan, and was defended during his trial by the Rankers FC Vice-Chairman Donald Findlay QC - himself later forced to resign after a shameful sectarian hate incident. In 1998 Findlay also defended another Rankers-supporting, Loyalist thug, Thomas Longstaff (who cut the throat of Sean O’Connor) is an almost copy-cat attack to Campbell’s. Police later admitted, that in the two-year period between these attacks, 38 similar assaults had taken place in the area, all directed at Catholics or those wearing Celtic colours. The learned Mr Findlay was happilly singing his hate anthems on the same day in May 1999 that 16 year old Thomas McFadden was being stabbed to death by two Rankers fans in Govanhill after they watched the huns play at Hampden. His ‘crime’ was to be wearing a Celtic top. Also in 1999, Carl McGroarty, was shot in the chest by a bolt fired from a crossbow as he left a pub wearing his Celtic top. On the same day, another young Celtic fan, Liam Sweeney was stabbed repeatedly after leaving a Chinese takeaway. His green jersey and the calling of his name to collect his food order was enough to identify him as a Catholic from an Irish background. Later the same evening in Ayrshire, three young Celtic fans - one female - were viciously attacked by a large mob of Rangers fans. All three were hospitalised, one of the men had receiving horrific head injuries, and the other a broken jaw. In 2003, Celtic fan Thomas Loughrey was stabbed to death by James McCormick in an unprovoked attack in Pollokshaws. Thomas had made the fatal error of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as McCormick – high on drink and drugs, took offence to his Celtic top. In October 2004, Ian Gray was stabbed to death by convicted thug Brian Cooper after he had spent the day getting acutely more drunk after watching an Orange Walk, and then attending a match at Ibrox stadium. Cooper, who received ten years for his act of bigoted murder, admitted sectarianly abusing Mr Gray, before striking him with a wine bottle and repeatedly stabbing him in the back. How many more innocent Celtic fans are to be butchered before something is done to curtail these sectarian animals – and the hatemongers who defend them ?
Having 15 hooligan fans jailed in September 1999 by a Dutch court after they were convicted of mobbing and rioting before, during, and after a European tie with PSV Eindhoven. The hun thugs - all from Scotland - were convicted by the court in Den Bosch, and sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from 4 weeks to 24 weeks. Afterwards, they were immediately deported upon release. No one likes them – they don’t care !
Being so sectarian that they've had a play dedicated to them because of their bigoted and anarchic perceptions of society. In James Barclay's 'The Bigot', Loyalist, Royalist, Rankers fan Andra Thompson is the sash-wearing embodiment of a typical west of Scotland hun, who worships Rankers, Ulster, Ian Paisley, The Orange Order, The Freemasons, and The Royal Family. At the same time, he hates Catholics, Celtic, Irish people, and anything green in general. The play is an accurate depiction of a hackneyed and twisted old sectarian dinosaur from days gone by, still applying those same tired old bigoted concepts to every second of his waking life. It is a scathing social comment and a damning indictment on a huge percentage of the Rankers support, and how they continue to conduct themselves. Despite the advancement of society, they continue to live their lives in a bigoted and intolerant manner as if they were still living in 'the grand old days of yore'. In Scotland the clocks go forward an hour every year - unless you're a Rankers fan – in which case they go back three hundred years !
The repeated sight and sound of numerous thousands of Rankers fans racially abusing the players of opposition teams, simply because they are black. This behaviour is widespread, blatantly obvious, and as yet unpunished by those who administer the ticketing of Rankers fans. This inaction is viewed by many as tacit complicity.
Starting a FF thread on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination to praise psychotic murderer Mark Chapman for 'cooly pumping 5 bullets into him'. Added posts went on to denigrate the victim's memory, whilst praising and showing appreciation for the cold-blooded killer who murderered him. Not to be outdone, further posts went on to heap praise, and urge others not to forget, 'the sterling work done by' other deranged assassins including 'Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan', who assassinated John F Kennedy and his brother Robert.
The disgusting and blatant sectarian abuse by Rankers fans towards Celtic player Neil Lennon. The player has been victimised, brutalised, assaulted, had his property vandalised, and most sinister of all, has had his life threatened. All of these incidents have come from persons later proven to support, or have links to Rankers FC, or have had blatant Rankers connections. How serious need this get before something is done about the cancerous hatred of these people ?
The club being forced to refrain from playing a popular chart song over the Ibrox PA system at matches due to Rankers fans hijacking it, distorting the words, and turning it into a sectarian club anthem. The song was later to be repeatedly sung by tens of thousands of Rankers fans for numerous seasons, dispelling the myth that Rankers cancerous sectarian hate was simply the practice of ‘an unrepresentative minority.’ Indeed, if this was the sectarianism of their minority, heaven knows what depths their majority would sink to.
The persistant and widespread mobbing, looting, and fighting by Rankers fans whenever they attend Away matches involving Rankers FC. A recent, but by no means exhaustive list includes : Munich, Rotterdam, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Fulham, Liverpool, Bucharest, Paris.......... The above is an obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial and friendly matches.
Rankers fans being involved in widespread violence and sectarianism during a European tie in July 1998 in Liverpool. The match - against Irish club Shelbourne - had to be moved to a neutral ground (Tranmere Rovers / Prenton Park) because club officials knew that the sectarian Rankers fans could not be trusted to travel to Ireland without the genuine fear that they would cause mayhem and injury – if not murder (See Bohemians 1984). It so proved that they couldn't be trusted to travel to England either, where they had to be baton-charged by more than 150 fully clad riot police, as they tried to attack the Irish fans. Amidst mopping up the carnage that Rankers fans caused - including smashing the windows of the Shelbourne FC team bus - Liverpool police commented that Rankers fans would never again be allowed to freely roam the city. If they ever again, did have cause to visit the city, severe policing restrictions would be applied. This has later been proven to be the case as numerous English cities have faced severe alcohol licensing restrictions when Rankers are scheduled to play there. The above is another obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial matches.
The embarrassingly shameful booing and vitriolic hounding of Shota Arveladze by his club's own fans, because he had the temerity to bless himself before entering the field of play, during a recent trip to play Linfield in Ireland. For good measure, the Catholic-hating, sectarian, Loyalist hate-mongers of Linfield abused him as well.
Printing the personal details in a Rankers fanzine of those certain people suspected of having handed the ‘Donald Findlay’ video tape over to the meeja. The inference was that most fellow huns wouldn’t be too bothered if ‘some harm’ befell the culprit(s).
Having three hooligan fans jailed for 20 months each in March 2004, after they brutally attacked an Aberdeen fan in Glasgow as he returned there to catch a train following a Scottish Cup tie in Dumfries. Video footage showed pedestrians diving for cover and the fight was only stopped when police arrived. Damning the Rankers hooligans, Sheriff Linda Ruxton said jail was the only option in the interests of the public. "This was an incident associated with football violence, which brought about a serious disturbance. It took very little to lose control and, as a result, you behaved like hooligans. It must have been a frightening experience for those that were witnesses. Your actions made Glasgow city centre a very dangerous place. Public interest demands that a custodial sentence must be passed."
The shameful desecration of silence tributes to football legend Sir Matt Busby - because he was a Catholic - and assassinated President John F Kennedy for the same reason. Not even the dead are immune from sectarian vitriol it would appear.
The shameful displaying of Loyalist paramilitary banners by sectarian Rankers fans, who glorify those convicted of sectarian murder, and that mock the deaths of their victims. Banners have also been flown denigrating the memory of deceased Celtic players, and of a young Catholic man (Robert Hamill) who was kicked to death by a sectarian hate-mob wearing Rankers shirts. To recreate the assault in which this young man died, sick Rankers fans invented a terracing dance called 'the bouncy' in which they emulate the sickening attack. This was later revealed as being so on FF when a poster admitted to ‘joining in the celebration of the death of a Catholic.’ This act represents a hatred and a depravity that is hard to quantify.
Having Rankers fans describe the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th - and in particular the deaths of hundreds of NYPD & NYFD members - as 'deserving' because some of these brave citizens may (or may not) have been part of the pipe band that welcomed MP Gerry Adams to the USA.
Rankers fans deliberately aiming and setting off a pyrotechnic firework in the direction of the Family Section at Celtic Park in October 2002. The device, which police described as ‘a large firework which contained a smaller series of firecrackers’ was set off in an act of blatant hooliganism, with a blatant disregard for the children and families who were seated there. Thankfully no-one was seriously injured by this wanton act of thuggery.
Convicted sectarian, drug-using, drug-dealing, thieving, receiving, criminal-damaging, knife-carrying, fraudulent, car stealing, electronically-tagged, vandalising, burgling, fire-raising, peace-breaching, disqualified-driving, neighbour-from-hell, Lotto thug Michael Carroll who is Rankers daft and their self-confessed 'greatest fan'. Carroll, who has over 50 convictions for almost every kind of degenerate sociopathic disorder recently invested £1million in the club he most identifies with, and which he feels most at home in. A neighbour (Ruth Leeks) who recently collapsed with an asthma attack due to the toxic fumes caused by one of Carroll's customary caravan bonfires, commented 'I feel sorry for the guy because he's obviously so stupid that he has a screw loose and needs help'. As she said this, Carroll and his tattooed hoardes were busily obstructing firemen who had been called to extinguish yet more of his toxic-plumed handiwork.
The repeated vandalism of the Away support section at Celtic Park following a 'visit' by Rankers fans. Although Celtic FC refuse to discuss the cost of repairs, it is believed to run into thousands of pounds for each and every game. The fact that all damage is then has to be paid for by the very club they claim to ‘support’ seems totally lost on these reprobates.
Numerous arrests and subsequent detention of a number of Rankers fans who fraudulently tried to pass off counterfeit Euro currency in Stuttgart before a recent European tie. They were later convicted and sentenced to various periods of imprisonment, bringing further shame on an already notoriously thuggish and hooligan criminal support.
Rankers fans causing a near-riot on the stadium concourse at Ibrox after the refreshment stalls were found to be offering green and white straws (part of an assortment) to customers. Threats of violence and sectarian abuse were hurled at junior catering staff before police and stewards were called in to restore order. Because of this incident, there are now no green and white straws anywhere to be seen at any of the Ibrox vending stalls. Who says the bigots aren’t in control ?!
Using 120 forged tickets to gain entry to a league match at Celtic Park and stealing the seats of fellow Rankers fans, leaving them locked out and unable to see the game. There is nothing much lower than stealing from your own people. Possessing no morals whatsoever, the thieves – incredibly - later tried to shift blame for their dishonesty by suggesting that Celtic FC were responsible for not preventing them from gaining fraudulent access in the first place. As CS Kevin Smith (Match Commander) pointed out “The match saw a number of Rankers fans with genuine tickets turned away because other, so-called, fans entered the stadium with forged tickets. Every person entering with a forged ticket deprives a genuine fan with an authentic ticket of the chance to get in.” Are there no depths to which these gutter-scum won’t sink to ??
Being branded ‘shameful’, ‘filth’ and ‘ a disgrace’ by Bobby Robson after a pre-season match at St James’s Park where they persistantly abused Alan Shearer to such an extent, that Robson took him off the park. Robson later commented that he had plied his trade for decades, in numerous countries around the world. This was the first time he had experienced such malice, on such a vile scale, and the first time he had ever felt needing to take one of his players off the field of play. Yet another ugly first for the gutter-scum who support Rankers. Seems the hypocritical hate-mongers only love Engerrlunnd when it suits them.
Rankers fans continued and repeated racial and sectarian abuse of Neil Lennon over two adjoining fixtures which prompted Martin O’Neill to publically comment on his utter disgust at the situation. Despite condemnation from the media, politicians, and the wider Scottish public, Rankers refused to condemn their bigoted and sectarian fan-base who continue to bring shame on their club. On the very day Martin O’Neill’s comments were reported in the media, he himself was viciously abused by the Ibrox hate-mongers during a match with Austrian minnows Grazer AK. Hollow claims from the Ibrox hierarchy that any abuse was made by ‘a minority’ were publically dispelled when a near full house was broadcast on live television heard to repeatedly abusing Martin O’Neill as ‘a Fenian bastard’. Later, and displaying a deporable ignorance of the facts, not to mention a typical and wholly predictable display of Ostrich Syndrome, David Murray attempted to claim that ‘generalisations of Rankers fans as racist bigots, were inaccurate’. In his view ‘the vast majority of Rankers supporters are decent, respectable people’. Pity none of them were amongst the 50,000+ that were inside Ibrox that night, Mr Murray – or perhaps you just need to take your head out of the sand. Having said that, when you’re drowning in a sea of debt, the bigot’s pound is as good as any, eh ?!
A Rankers fan (Derek Hume) being arrested and charged with verbally abusing Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner during a game at Ibrox. At the same match another Rankers fan (Alan Martin) was arrested, charged, and later plead guilty to verbally abusing Momo Sylla and Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner. He also admitted making ‘monkey noises’ and shouting racist abuse.
Rankers fans attacking a Glasgow Merchant City bar (Locomotiv) filled with Celtic fans and pushing two of them through a plate glass window. The thugs, many of them with Rankers scarves pulled up over their faces were caught on CCTV attacking the bar, throwing bottles and missiles at it, and attacking the customers inside it by punching and kicking them, whilst chanting sectarian songs. Another blatant example of the hate-filled, sectarian hooligan culture that pervades those who support Rankers.
Having a list of ‘famous’ fans that includes human pig-sty Andy Fordham, Scotlands unfunniest man Andy Cameron, convicted Lotto thug Michael Carroll, washout junkie bigot Martie Pellow, and Shellsuit Bob from no-mark telly show River City.
Sectarian abuse being hurled at four Catholic priests in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis by local hooligans wearing Rankers tops. The priests were warned to leave the island ‘before they were cremated’. One of the priests (Father Paul Hackett) was later mailed a death threat before his parish (The Church Of The Holy Redeemer) was burned to the ground as he slept. Other preists were threatened with ‘having their throats slit’ and ‘being strangled’. It would appear that in the minds of some hate-filled bigots, merely being a Catholic is justifiable grounds for execution.
Organising a poll on FF to canvas support in order to get the telecommunications company Orange to become Rankers new kit sponsors. Posters were asked to sign their vote of approval – many did. Another blatant display of Rankers inextricable links with Loyalism, and the Anti-Catholic Orange Order.
British Transport Police having to board a train in Ayrshire after Loyalist thugs returning from a Rankers game began vandalizing the carriages after having subjected the terrified occupants to mile upon mile of sectarian bigotry and drunken thuggish behaviour. Two young male passengers on the train were also assaulted. A number of arrests were made before the passengers were allowed to resume their journey, grateful in the knowledge that their safety now wasn’t quite so precarious.
Starting a near riot at Pittodrie in a brawl with Aberdeen fans that caused many people to be injured before riot police had to be called in to take control. As stated in The Telegraph " Trouble began when fans in the Rangers section hurled coins and bottles at Aberdeen's Robbie Winters as he prepared to take a corner kick. The home fans invaded the pitch to confront their rivals. Rangers followers tried to meet them half way, but were prevented by 50 police officers in full riot gear. The referee took both teams off and the match was held up for 17 minutes. Nine supporters received minor injuries, two requiring hospital treatment. Police made 13 arrests before the game and one during it, and others were ejected from the ground."
When canvassed for their opinions on how the Unofficial Rankers fanzine 'Follow Follow' could be better improved for the fans, the following were some of the most popular replies : naked page 3 girls, a porn section, a 'faggot' section for all the weirdos and gays, naked female Rankers fans photo section, a section on football thugs and violence, a gossip column. Nice to know their readership are real football fans, who are interested in the genuine issues that affect the club.
Racially abusing two Muslims in Stuttgart Airport, shouting at them : ‘You murdering c**ts shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a f**king airport.’
Numerous members of Rankers much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ joke mob The Blue Order being arrested for both sectarianism and overt rascism. Far from discouraging bigotry, these resident hate-mongers have been a catalyst for it’s expansion. The most recent exploits of this ‘family friendly’ environment include members being arrested for calling Mark de Vries a ‘n*gger bastard’ during a recent match –v- Hearts at Ibrox. So cancerous is the environment created by these bitter individuals that the club has had to resort to planting undercover stewards within their designated seating area to try and quell the intimidating and malicious atmosphere. To date, numerous members have been arrested, ejected, warned, or banned. If that’s what goes on in their much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ section, one shudders to think what goes on in their sectarian sections.
Singing a song that glorifies committing the sectarian murder of Neil Lennon. The song ‘Hang Neil Lennon’ which Rankers fans admit to singing on their buses en-route to Ibrox, includes the lines ‘Hang Neil Lennon, Hang him high, That I may see that Fenian die..’ They’re nice people, really.
Verbally abusing young cancer victims to score cheap points against Celtic footballers who were at a Cancer Unit trying to brighten up the children patient’s Xmas. The Gub’s ‘baldy headed weans’ diatribe – backed up and supported by his bitter little clique of twisted cronies - was one of the most malicious, disgusting, and vile comments ever uttered by a Rankers fan. Thankfully, some decent Rankers fans had the courage to take this scum-bucket to task over his degenerate hatred. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they were the ones who were banned from the board. Hypocrasy and suppression are alive and well on Fascist Fascist. Shame on you, ya twisted, evil, bitter bastard.
Suggesting to eachother that Rankers should try and cheat their way to further progress by deliberately throwing their forthcoming UC group match against Auxerre, with a view to securing an easy draw in the next round of the tournament. If Rankers finished 2nd in the group (Alkmaar were favourites for 1st place) they would face the likes of Real Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Deportivo, Liverpool, Ajax etc. If they came 3rd – which would happen if they conveniently ‘lost’ to Auxerre – they would face the likes of Lille, Dnipro, Seville, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Partisan Belgrade etc. With seedings for the next round based on where a team finishes in their previous group, the 1st eight would play the 3rd eight placed teams, and the 2nd eight would play those who parachuted in from the Champions League. Bearing that in mind, the following post appeared on FF. “I personally believe that if we are hearing that Alkmaar are coasting it against Grazer (for example 3 goals up) we should deliberately lose the match to Auxerre. Progress in Europe is vital for the club and coming 3rd instead of 2nd enhances our chances of further progress and to me it is a no-brainer - the club must act in their own best interests”. Aside the fact that Rankers are living in cloud-cuckoo land by considering others as minnows, it seems the hun would rather cheat his way to ‘success’ rather than face the prospect of playing a decent team, in an honest and fair manner.
Being criticised for their constant moaning, and arrogance, by their own Chairman, who said he sometimes wished they “could be more like Celtic’s fans”, who back their team through thick and thin. He was referring to their constant negativity, whinging, getting arrogant after a decade of domestic success, and forgetting about what’s really important to the club.
Being the first club in Britain to have a fan convicted of religious bigotry after one of their sectarian hooligan fan-base was arrested at a match v Copenhagen at Ibrox in Aug 2003. The bigot was arrested for singing vile sectarian songs promoting Loyalist murder gangs and was charged with 'A Breach Of The Peace, Aggravated By Religious Prejudice'. He was convicted and sentenced in March 2004, when he received 120 hours community service and a one year probation order. He also received a banning order from Ibrox, and joins another 14 sectarian bigots who are serving life bans, and a further 82 who are serving 'indefinate' bans. In addition to this, a further 191 bigots have been issued with written warnings for contravening Rankers better-late-than-never 'Pride Over Prejudice' arrangement, and a further 1257 have been warned for 'behaviour deemed inappropriate, offensive, or unsocial'.
Refusing to acknowledge that as a schoolboy, true-blue Alex Rae used to play for Celtic Boys Club, is married to a Tim, and has a number of lifelong Tim mates (many of them from his CBC days). Tut Tut – and him one of ‘the peepil’ as well ?! Seems it’s just too painful for the great unwashed Kinning Parkers to countenance the thought that their numero-uno, arch idol, and Uber-Prod is anything other than a 100% dyed-in-the-wool jaffa. Anything less would be treason, wouldn’t it ??! Maybe if they just refuse to believe it, it’ll all just go away !!
Being described by MSP Donald Gorrie as ‘bigoted and abusive’ after bombarding him with hate-mail after he refused to back their twisted, biased, Rankers-based, Anti-Catholic, Pro-Loyalist agenda. For the crime of remaining neutral over a highly complex and bitterly entrenched issue, Mr Gorrie has now - along with other anti-sectarian campagners - become a figure of hate for the bigots. In other words, if you’re not with us, you must be against us. Not that they’re blinkered or anything like that !
The RSA & RST proving just how weak and impotent they really are during their much-publicised and much-vaunted showdown meeting with Graham Speirs (The Herald) at Ibrox. Despite re-assuring the scum-buckets baying for Speir's head on a silver platter, that 'those representing them will be thouroughly prepared' - they came back after three hours of trying with their tails between their legs, and a whole bunch of nothing. During the meeting Speirs reiterated his belief that Rankers fans' "bigotry is worse at Ibrox than elsewhere, and is greater in it's frequency" and that that his article in support of Neil Lennon was wholly justified. The fact that he again 'attacked the Rankers support as a whole' merely re-iterates what a wasted exercise this was for the beleaguered bretheren of the RSA. No doubt they had a bit of explaining to do when they returned to face the blood-thirsty hoardes in Kinning Park ?! Ah well, back to slating him on FF it is then.
The disgraceful and cowardly verbal attack by a number of drunken Rankers fans on Jean-Alain Boumsong inside an Ibrox hospitality suite, after a European tie –v- Auxerre. Boumsong, who was sitting with his girlfriend and family, was confronted, and subjected to a torrent of personal abuse, before being told to 'F*ck Off To Newcastle'. The Tyneside club had earlier in the day, entered a £7.5m bid for him - something he could neither prevent, nor influence. Confirming the nasty incident, the player's enraged agent Willie McKay, said the bust up left Boumsong's girlfriend 'very upset by what was said' and and he himself stated the ugly confrontation 'left a very nasty taste in the mouth'. If this is how they treat one of their most popular players, heaven knows what vitriol is reserved for the out of favour ones ?!
Wishing Jean-Alain Boumsong a ‘career-ending leg break’, ‘permanent blindness’, and ‘malignant cancer’ after he left Ibrox for St James’s Park. Hell hath no fury like a hun with a grudge.
Posting a thread on FF asking which splinter faction of degenerate, homicidal, drug-dealing, Loyalist psychotics they supported and favoured most. The favourites - which ran into scores of replies - were South Belfast UFF, West Belfast UVF, East Belfast UVF, Cluan Place UVF, Tigers Bay UFF, 'C' Company UFF, East Belfast Protestant Boys, South East Antrim Defenders, Ulster Young Militants, Protestant Action Force, Red Hand Commandos, and the Young Calvay Volunteers. Anyone who doubts a direct link between this Loyalist hate-mongering on FF, the gutter-scum who frequent Ibrox every other week, and their ‘influence’ all the way to the top, need only read one of The Gub's veiled boasts about how tight FF is in the corridors of power at Ibrox'. “Murray phoned up GS (Grandmaster Suck = Mark Dingwall = Editor : FF) and asked for a pow wow earlier this year.” This demonstrates explicitly that a direct line of communication exists between David Murray and Mark Dingwall at FF.
Denigrating those who died in the Tsunami tragedy by suggesting it was their country(s) own fault for not having proper sea defences, and then saying that the charity money should be "spent in Britain, not used to bail out those who'll probably be over here soon as asylum seekers."
Attacking a disabled Dundee United fan before the New Year's Day game at Tannadice this year. The fan, who is well known to Arabs as Charlie, was kicked and punched by two hun neds as he came out of the toilets beside the George Fox Stand, just before the kick-off. Other fans who witnessed the cowardly attack, chased the low-lifes, before giving their description to the police. Sad day when a disabled person can't go about their business without being assaulted by hun scum-bags.
Having another of their vile, sectarian, bigot fans convicted of ‘Breach Of The Peace - Aggravated By Religious Prejudice’ when he (Scott Primrose) was sentenced to 240 hours Community Service and placed on probation for 1 year. Primrose was arrested inside Ibrox as he spewed his bigoted hatred during a game against Celtic in 2004. The judge instructed that Rankers be asked to ban the knuckle-dragger for life.
Having yet another bigoted sectarian Rankers fan (Stuart Davies) being convicted of a religiously aggravated assault. Davies was caged for 22 months after subjecting his victim - a Celtic fan - to a prolonged and vicious attack as he was sitting in his own front garden. Afterwards his victim needed 16 stitches in a gaping head wound. Sentencing him, Sheriff Alfred Vannet said : "I cannot see any other form of disposal other than that of a custodial sentence. You viciously attacked an innocent man, for no other reason than religious prejudice. I further order that Rangers Football Club be informed of your conviction." Also convicted in the same attack was fellow bigot, and fellow Rankers hooligan (Stephen Baxter) who will be sentenced at a later date.
Having 27 fans arrested at the Celtic –v- Rankers game in Jan ’05 despite being fore-warned that their embarrasing sectarian hatred would not be tolerated. Not a single Celtic fan was arrested during the same fixture. The huns were later convicted of a multitude of various unsocial, violent, and sectarian offences. Should we have expected anything less ?!
Being slated by Ibrox legend Ally McCoist for the vicious and fickle way they turned on former golden boy Barry Ferguson, after he left them for a bigger club. When rumours of his possible return to The Deat Star surfaced, McCoist slammed the ‘fickle fans’ who continued to abuse Ferguson – although poignantly highlighted that they’d soon change their tune should he actually return. Another former hero Andy Gray chipped in his tuppence-worth by saying Ferguson would be ‘crazy to even consider going back to Ibrox.’
Having their hooligan neds attack Chris Burke while he was out for a meal, and then subsequently try to blame Celtic fans. The neds spotted Burke at the China House restaurant in Shettleston and proceeded to cause a disturbance and smash the plate glass window of the restaurant, causing terrified diners to run for cover. After Rankers number one fanzine (The Daily Retard) had printed ill-informed, sensationalist lies – including inventing a bizarre hammer fabrication - the truth was only brought to bare when the player's own family issued the following statement : "There was no hammer, no Celtic fans, and none of the teenagers wore Celtic strips. They were all Rangers fans with Rangers tops, and they were knocking on the window when it smashed." Ah, well, at least The Retard tried, eh ?!
Verbally abusing HIV-positive Labour politician Chris Smith, saying he deserves to die of AIDS for being gay. Some of them even volunteered to pull the trigger to 'finish him off early.'
Suggesting that Tony Blair (and his Papist wife ?!!?) should be executed, hung, and given the 'Kennedy treatment' after he publically apologised to Irish miscarriage of justice victims who had been wrongly imprisoned for over 15 years of their lives.
Hooligan thugs endangering the lives of other fans by deliberately starting a fire in the toilets at Celtic Park - after smashing them up first. The deranged lunatics burned all the toilet rolls and paper towels causing an alert which had to be extinguished by security staff, resulting in the area being hurriedly cleared and cordoned off. In the resulting panic, people were in danger of being crushed, as fans tried to use the toilets, not knowing they had been set on fire by Rankers psychos who don't even care if they endanger their own fellow fans.
Slashing a steward at Celtic Park during a match v Celtic. The steward – a Rankers fan – was called a ‘fenian bastard’ before he was cut with a blow to the face. His injuries were tended by medical staff at Celtic Park before he was rushed to hospital.
Having one of their violent, sectarian sewer-hole pubs closed after police, and the licensing board slammed it for being ‘sectarian, abusive, and violent’. Walkers in the east end of Glasgow had it’s licence summarily revoked, and it’s owner was banned from holding a drinks licence. The pub has been the scene of numerous violent, sectarian incidents, and numerous arrests have been made on the knuckle-draggers who frequent it’s bigoted environs. In February ’05, a Celtic fan was chased out of it, and stabbed repeatedly after making the fatal mistake of not knowing it was a violent, bigoted, sectarian, hun-filled cesspit.
Stealing the handbag of a fellow female fan during a match at The Death Star, which contained her ID, purse, house keys, and car keys. Probably why she tried to use the FF messageboard to track the culprit down and ‘have the bastard slashed’.
Causing mayhem, rioting, and battling with rival fans during a testimonial match at Roker Park, in 1993, which included a number of Sunderland fans being slashed, and one being thrown from a moving train.
Having one of their violent, drunken, bigoted, knuckle-draggers arrested at Celtic Park after he sneaked into a Celtic section, and subjected opposition fans to a torrent of religious and sectarian abuse. Robert Reid was almost too drunk to stand, but still found the energy to spout his hate at those who were seated around him. As he was arrested, Reid – filled with dutch courage - challenged fans and police to fight, and hurled a torrent of bigoted abuse. His drunken thuggery cost him a £500 fine and 2 years probation at Glasgow Sheriff Court. At the same match, another of their sectarian, violent drunken louts (John Johnstone) was fined £250 after being arrested, after he was refused entry. Johnstone was found to be drunk and incapable, and lashed out at police and stewards who arrested him as he provoked rival fans with bigoted abuse. Maybe these sectarian cretins took their lead from some of the sterling examples set down by their onfield icons ??!
Showering the Inverness Caley players with a barrage of coins, after Brian Prunty equalised in the 90th minute during a game at The Death Star. This was only 3 days after hooligan Rankers fans threw coins at Mark Burchill after he equalised for Hearts at Swinecastle. Rankers only stole the points in that game, after notorious assistant referee Andy Davies (a Rankers fan with a history of making dubious ‘genuine’ errors) awarded a non-existant penalty after a theatrical dive by Sotirios Kyrgiakos. Not a single other – including the huns themselves - had claimed for, nor saw any incident, but in a truly mystifying and bizarre joint decision, Hugh Dallas (who had earlier failed to award Hearts what looked to all as a stonewall penalty) overturned his earlier award of a goal kick, and pulled a 93rd minute penalty out of the hat, to give the huns a 2-1 victory. Hearts chaiman George Foulkes – like many others - called for an immediate SFA inquiry, and questioned ‘the integrity of the decision’ and wether or not ‘anything untoward’ was present in making it.
Being slated by club Chairman David Murray for being Catholic-hating, sectarian bigots who weren't welcome at The Death Star (or anywhere else for that matter !). In a scathing condemnation of the hate-filled knuckle-draggers who frequent Legoland every other week, The Grand Imperial Knight Dragon Wizard FINALLY amassed the courage to openly admit that Rankers fans have a disgusting, bigoted, and hate-filled element who espouse nauseating, anti-Catholic, sectarian hatred. In a BBC interview, Murray summed up the Rankers fans’ deep-rooted and longstanding problem with sectarian hatred when he stated "There's simply no place at Ibrox for the FTP brigade and those who would have us wading in Fenian blood. We have a proud history and heritage, but this is not what gets us in trouble. It is the 'baggage' of foul singing and sectarian references during, and at the end of traditional Rangers songs which causes me and everyone at this club a problem. We cannot defend it and we must get rid of it." In the same interview, Murray slated and warned those elements within the Rankers support who espouse rascism, fascism, and support for paramilitary sectarian murderers. No one likes them - they don't care !!
Having an additional 28 Blue Order reprobates banned for sectarian and rascist chanting. The bigots - referred to by the club's own chairman as 'the FTP brigade' - were ejected from the ground after making anti-Catholic, and sectarian chants during the club's tarnished (and previously banned) anthem 'Simply The Best.' The (better late than never) strategy was sanctioned by the club's security chief Lawrence Mackintyre, who was finally embarrassed into taking action, in order to begin eradicating the club's woeful and dire sectarian problem. In addition to the 28 banning orders, the remaining 300 members of this bastion of tolerance received warning letters, threatening them with draconian sanctions, should they fail to desist from spouting their virulent and nauseating hatred.
Naming a Cup Final in memory of a bigoted and embittered individual, who stated that Rankers first high-profile Catholic signing (Mo Johnstone) "shouldn't be here." The so-called 'Cooper Final' was such a tribute to his memory that his name wasn't even mentioned until the 88th minute. Curiously, Bobby Sands, and King Billy were accoladed from almost the first minute onwards, and even Derry’s Walls managed a mention before him – just as one of their hooligan supporters was holding up the match, by invading the field of play.
Claiming that the banning of scores of nauseating Blue Order sectarian bigots from The Death Star, was only so that David Murray could re-sell their seats to his fatcat cronies, for the final -v- Celtic game of the season.
Hun bigot Scott Campbell being sacked for gross misconduct from his job as an airport fireman after sectarianly abusing Neil Lennon and Chris Sutton at Inverness airport. Ex-RAF bigot Campbell - a Season Ticket holder at The Death Star - subjected the players to a hate-filled torrent of disgusting sectarian bile, before being confronted by a club security official. His appeal against the sacking was dismissed almost as immediately as he was. Officials at Inverness airport, later issued a full and unreserved apology to Celtic Football Club, for the actions of this dim-witted nugget.
Celebrating the death of Pope John Paul II – less than 24 hours after his passing - with some of the most repugnant, deranged, moronic, sectarian bile ever to have eminated from within the sewers of red, white, & blue repugnance. Whilst his death was being mourned globally by billions of people from all creeds and denominations, the sectarian hate-mongers from Kinning Park were singing their loathsome repertoire of hate-filled intolerance, and Anti-Catholic venomous bigotry. Rankers opponents (Motherwell) had proposed a minute silence, but this had to be over-ruled by police who feared ‘a riot’ if the tribute went ahead. What a truly sad shower of lost souls.
Verbally abusing Bob 'FTP' Malcolm during a 0-1 defeat to Dundee Utd at The Death Star. Malcolm was the target of sustained abuse after the huns failed to overturn the SPL's bottom-placed team this season, despite three attempts. Malcom was jeered and swore at by huge sections of the 'loyal' support, and was applauded finally ........ when he got subbed.
Assaulting Stilian Petrov with a plastic drinks container filled with ice cubes after he had scored a goal at Ibrox. As Petrov turned to celebrate scoring, he was struck in the face and felled by the missile, launched by one of Copland Road's resident hooligans. As Petrov lay injured receiving medical treatment, the bigoted hate-filled hoardes could be clearly seen in the background - and by millions on TV - mouthing sectarian obscenities and making threatening gestures at the injured player. On learning that the culprit – if found – would face a life ban from The Death Star, enraged huns were up in arms and professing support for the deranged one. Whilst some felt he ‘deserved a medal’ and that Petrov had ‘got off lightly’ - others suggested that next time the psychotic thug should throw ‘a half brick’ ….. ‘a golf ball with nails in it’ ….. or a ‘heavy ball-bearing.’
Having the BNP handing out leaflets and selling their publications on Edmiston Drive before the final –v- Celtic game of the season in April ’05. The hate-filled, nauseating, rascist, bigoted intolerants of the BNP feel they have a natural affinity with Rankers fans, and know that Ibrox is one of the last corners of the land where they are embraced.
Having to be seperated by stewards from battering eachother because some of them couldn’t be arsed holding up the Bill Struth banner. Those super-cool, know-it-all, superfans of The Blue Order did their bit of course, but the wasters in the Govan Front were nearly beaten for not giving a toss about this so-called legend. The Blue Order – don’t you just love them ?! – just got their Season Books back after being banned, and now they want to punch everyone’s lights out.
Letting of a smoke grenade at Pittodrie and causing scores of fellow fans to run for safety from the blinding, acrid smoke. The plan was to throw the missile at the Aberdeen fans, but the gormless hun who ignited it, panicked and ended up causing chaos in amongst the Away end, filled with travelling huns.
Causing a total ban on all football shirts to be imposed at Glasgow SECC concerts after they started a fight at a Rod Stewart concert. Five bitter huns were arrested in the ensuing brawl, started because they couldn't stand the sight of seeing a Celtic fan enjoying himself.
Being so bitter and bigoted that they smashed 114 green-light lenses (in a 16-month period) from traffic lights in Larkhall, where people's safety obviously comes secondary to hating anything coloured green. This is in addition to the local chemist (Moss Pharmacy) having to change the existing colour of it's shop front from green and white, after vandals repeatedly attacked the shop, and locals refused to shop there. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.
Bigoted Argyll Chief Fire Officer Ronnie Souden being arrested and charged with a religiously aggravated assault, and Breach Of The Peace after a huns defeat. This upstanding pillar of the community - married to a police officer - was arrested after attacking a Celtic fan and screaming sectarian abuse at him, in the aftermath of yet another drubbing at Legoland. No matter how you dress them up, or what cloak of respectability they masquerade under, a hun will always be a hun.
Being slated and condemned by Club Chairman John McClelland as rascists, after a disgraceful barrage of rascist abuse was hurled at Bobo Balde and Momo Sylla during yet another defeat at Celtic Park. McLelland was forced to speak out after a global audience of millions could clearly hear on live TV, the despicable and moronic chanting of Rankers loyal fans. "I do not condone this kind of behaviour, I deplore it," stated a clearly embarassed Mclelland. "There was such a crescendo during Saturday's match. I heard noises of this kind, and it is unacceptable. It is a difficult problem to deal with, but we will do everything we can to make sure the message gets across to our fans. We do not want people who come to games to indulge in racist behaviour like this. Steps will be taken to make sure we weed these people out and I urge fans not to conduct themselves in this fashion."
Having four of their hooligan fans arrested on the P & O Troon - Larne ferry after they rampaged and fought with other passengers, whilst returning from a match at Legoland. Riot police boarded the ferry after the hooligan huns fought a running battle and assaulted three members of staff who tried to prevent them from attacking other passengers.
Having one of their bigoted hooligan seas