Ohhhhhhhhhhh Shaunyboy

[TestMangler]

Quote, Incognito : Paranoia, pure and simple. Don't forget, only one club makes a hoohaa about a referee's religion.


You're having a ******* laugh mate, surely. At some point, during EVERY game played in front of rangers fans, the ref, the linesman, opposition fans, ballboys, police, the wee st john's ambulance guys will be called 'fenian bastards' by a varying percentage of the Rangers support.

Your suggestion that no religious bigotry comes out of Ibrox makes even less sense than the Tim's assertion that everyone is out to get them.

Shaunbhoy, here's a little story you'll appreciate. Scottish Cup Tie at Fir Park, back in the days when The Huns had Hately, Porini, Gatuso etc playing, tie finishes 2-2. The Bells Scottish Cup man of The Match presentation of a magnum of champagne gets announced over the tannoy, going to Rob Newman, the 'Well centre half. Everyone is trudging up the steps to get out and this Hun in front of me turns round and screams '**** off, thats tulipe, ge'in that to that big Fenian Bastard'. I gives him a poke in the back and ask him how he knows Rob Newman is a tim. I get the reply 'He plays for you fenian bastards.' I politely point out that, being Italian, Sergio porini and Rino gattuso are possibly catholics. I'll never forget the response. He puts his big ugly forehead up against mine and spits into my face, "FORIEGN FENIANS DON'T ******' COUNT, YA DICK".

That's why I love Rangers fans

[minestrone]

Incognito still claims that rangers never had a policy of not singing Catholics.

You cannot argue with someone that delusional.

[shaunbhoy]

Incognito still claims that rangers never had a policy of not singing Catholics.

You cannot argue with someone that delusional.

In the early 1950s Celtic chairman, Sir Robert Kelly, resigned from the Scottish Football Association’s Referees’ Committee in protest at what Celtic and other clubs believed was unfair treatment from referees.

A short time before this, in 1951, Kelly had a showdown with Sir George Graham, then all-powerful president of the SFA, who tried to prohibit Celtic from flying the Irish tricolour. At that time Celtic were one of Scotland’s only multicultural organisations, when mono-culture was the accepted norm.

Kelly won his battle over the tricolour not because he out-ranked Graham, but because he had sufficient support among other clubs who were only too aware of the injustice and prejudice that existed in the game.

Emboldened by his success over the tricolour, Kelly then resigned his position from the Referees’ Committee, made public his belief that injustices existed against Celtic and other teams, before ousting Graham and becoming SFA president by means of a popular mandate of the clubs.

This is not conjecture or opinion, it is recorded fact. Almost 60 years on, we have evidence of referees lying to the Celtic manager with no accountability, while an investigation is carried out into an alleged sectarian email being passed around among the referees’ community. This is not a new controversy stirred up by the current Celtic support or board, it’s 100 years or more old.

Referees need our support and respect, which, if possible, should arrive before this weekend’s games, but we must know that lying carries serious sanction and that sectarian emails are regarded as wholly unacceptable.

If the SFA’s referees can assure us of this, all their reputational problems will be resolved. This is not much to ask, but if they cannot give this assurance before the weekend, the SFA must sack the lot of them and start again.

[Incognito]

Your suggestion that no religious bigotry comes out of Ibrox makes even less sense than the Tim's assertion that everyone is out to get them.

Shaunbhoy, here's a little story you'll appreciate. Scottish Cup Tie at Fir Park, back in the days when The Huns

Celtic fan wore T-shirt with sectarian message on UEFA Cup Final night, court told - The Daily Record

Bigot.

Anyway, where did I state no bigotry comes out of Ibrox? We have our fair share like any other club. However, there's a difference between singing the ref's a Fenian and writing to the SFA about it.

Anyway, Fenian does not mean Catholic, it means Irish Nationalist. (To me).

[TestMangler]

How am I a bigot ? I call a hun a hun and a tim a tim. What's bigoted about that ?

That is true equality. I dislike them both equally

Rangers never write to the SFA to complain about refs because everything goes their way. Simples

As a neutral, I think my opinion is more valid than either of you bigots

Having said that, for the first time in my life, I'm hoping the huns do something against ManUre so that I don't have to listen to all the wank merchants down here masturbating over ManUre and their brilliance. Of course, i'm not working in manchester, so the place is full of Man U fans who've never set foot in Old Trafford.