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Rangers chairman has released a statement as has Club1872, what we should do now is back them, stop singing sectarian songs! Sunday will be interesting as the with hunt on Rangers has increased and the fans need to wise up.

You’re right but don’t do it because you think it will stop the witch hunt against Rangers - because it won’t. Let’s be be honest about this, no one is actually offended by these songs. Not genuinely offended. No one at all. This is the age of victimhood, when it is fully acceptable to pretend to be offended and have it accepted as valid for the sole purpose of attacking someone in the process, in this case Rangers. Sure, the songs give the enemy an easy target but if it wasn’t the songs it would be something else. That’s how life is for Rangers and that’s how it will continue. There’s no end to this. It’s not going to stop and eventually it will wear us all down to until ...

We can. We can start reversing the divisions that nationalism has wrought in Scottish life over the last 50 years. It won’t be done overnight but the first step undoubtedly is to clear away an SNP government that is spreading so much poison. I probably won’t live long enough to see the damage undone but I do expect to see the end of the independence deceit. In the meantime I have absolutely no doubt that much of this incessant campaign against Rangers has its origins in an SNP inner circle that despises everything about us.

Another own goal.

Rangers and BBC Scotland - Jim Traynor Interview Dear Member, Club 1872 commented yesterday on the disparity in coverage and comment on the issue of unacceptable behaviour but as our members and the wider fanbase are aware, there has been an ongoing issue with BBC Scotland for a much longer period of time. In discussions with Rangers on this topic we became aware that, as recently as this week, BBC Scotland had extensively edited an interview with Rangers spokesperson, Jim Traynor, which diluted the club’s position on the extent of the ongoing problem with Pacific Quay. We felt it would be helpful for supporters to hear more about the club’s position and what would have been articulated had BBC Scotland delivered a properly balanced news report on the subject. You can view an interview with Jim Traynor on the subject here: https://youtu.be/4IhlZ6aLgTQ Supporters have a role to play in ensuring that BBC Scotland start to treat our club fairly. We recently issued media guidance to help in this regard, and the coverage of Steve Clarke and Kris Boyd’s comments has only further illustrated the deep seated issue with elements of the Scottish media and particularly BBC Scotland. We will continue to fight the supporters’ corner in these matters but the more individual supporters who assist us, the more successful those efforts will be. Issued by Supporters Voice Limited, a Club 1872 company Club 1872

Here's a guy that agrees with you and which could easily be adapted for both supports ... The Celtic Network‏ @CelticNetwork18 Feb 22 More Until a section of our support stop chanting about 'Orange Bastards' we have no moral high ground to lecture others. Pack it in.

I believe we’ll need to get beyond the madness of SNP nationalism before we begin to see any change in attitudes in Scotland. Rangers has become everyone’s enemy for reasons well beyond the football pitch. In fact, football is really the least of it. To see Rangers fans acting as advocates for the SNP is sickening.

Look at the views shown on here from the main stand. Blatant red card, and btw he does not even need to make contact for it to be a red card.

The Scottish game is officially corrupt.

Rangers chairman Dave King apologises to Steve Clarke as he hits out at sectarian abuse Rangers chairman Dave King has apologised to Steve Clarke and insists the club are "deeply distressed" by the sectarian abuse directed at the Kilmarnock boss. Clarke hit out at the Ibrox club and its fans on Wednesday night after being taunted with chants of "****** b*****d" during his side's 5-0 Scottish Cup defeat. In an emotional press conference, the Killie boss slammed the abuse and said it was like living in the "dark ages". King has now released a strongly-worded statement in which he insisted Rangers "abhor" the treatment dished out to Clarke and vowed to root out the bigots. It said: "Myself and every single person at the Rangers Football Club abhors the sectarian element that continues to be so prevalent in Scottish football. "We will continue to do everything we can at our club to root sectarianism out and to deal in the strongest manner possible with any individuals that are found to have engaged in such practices. "We are also deeply distressed that Steve Clarke has been subjected to this unwarranted abuse and, on behalf of myself and the club, I offer our most sincere apology and hope that it does not deflect from the wonderful job he has done at Kilmarnock. "He is a top manager and it would be a great loss to Scottish football if incidents like this forced him away from our game." https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-chairman-dave-king-apologises-14035963?1

If that's the case Rossiter will have no chance of coming back either,but there again if he remains uninjured in that level of football who knows?. Having seen Docherty in the few appearances he had I thought he did have a bit of physically in him IMHO.

There is absolutely no chance of changing anything at ‘castle doom’. So they get their useful idiots in the mhedia(and Steve Clarke too) to over-exaggerate every single incident involving us whilst ignoring their own much bigger problem

Dornan is a Rangers-hating bigot who is in denial that the militant Irish republicanism associated with the club he supports is the biggest problem we have. He seeks any opportunity he can get to portray Rangers in a bad light to deflect the above issue away from Celtc

It really is time to boycott SFA fixtures and all away games. See lots of talk from fans about the club doing nothing and Rangers fans moaning about not good statements from the board etc. Hit them in the pocket. Only the fans with our money can change this. We have the power.

That is the million dollar question....history is littered with examples of what happens when parts of society are margenalised? What does the future hold......? I have to agree with you Bill, the 30 second naughty song is a convenient excuse for them to go on the attack (although a very bad own goal and I’m not condoning it). Otherwise, it would have been something else they would find to attack us. How will all this end as it seeps deeper and deeper through society?

He was a "headline" Catholic to sign for Rangers because he was a star Celtic player beforehand. No more, no less. What is usually forgotten is that we actually sold people for apparently being "sectarian" about MoJo`s signing, namely Davie Cooper, who said "He shouldn`t be here!" and was sold not long after. (Yeah, I would have to dig out the sources on that, but it was in a Rangers-minded book on the club.) There have been various attempts on telling half-truths, half-facts and downright lies about our signing policy. An interesting post on FF/4LADS regarding that matter: https://fourladshadadream.blog/2019/01/18/rangers-never-signed-a-catholic-before-the-arrival-of-maurice-johnstone-a-lie-dismissed/ It has been 30 years (nigh a third of a century) since MoJo ... and when it happened, Mr. Clarke was 25-years old. Ever since, there has been no end to Catholics signing for Rangers, but the myth is still prevalent. I'm not surprised if some average German TV reporter needs to drag this stuff about Protestants and Catholics out of the cellar should they report on the Old Firm, but people who have been around 30odd years in the Scottish/British environment?

Have you looked at the video in post 5? He clearly deliberately hits him in the face. It's the clearest red you'll see all season.

Personally, I would wait until the game at the piggery. If SG hears the song directed at him or if there is orange or Hun bastards sung or seen, take the players off. Do not return to the field unless the people are arrested or ejected. We will have the full backing of UEFA and it will show the world what’s going on St Pats.

Christ sake. Read the effin rules. It was more than negligible.

Honestly ... I only saw the BBC highlights today and all Bachmann does is wrestling his arm upwards and free of Kamara. Does he touch him? Yes. Does he do it in a violant manner? I have my doubts. Might have been seen differently from the touchline. If such contacts and "fouls" were standard, no game would end with 11 aside. I think we all would be rather agrieved if McGregor had been sent off for such a raising of the arm https://twitter.com/BBCSportScot/status/1098391766372356096 There have been far more serious decisions been rescinded or downgraded, or quite simply went unpunished in as well as after a game.

Just in case anyone has any doubt.

Beyond a joke, now I am tempted to ask, rhetorically, what is the point of competing? I fear, however, that that question identifies precisely the point

????? what’s else can you say? Fuck them all!!! Aye, let’s all get round a table with this lot........?

Sorry but everyone knows that the sectarianism in Scottish football has nothing to do with actual religion or beliefs, it’s just tribalism, us and them. In fact a good dose of Christianity would do most of them a lot of good.

If we know all this then it's time to play a cannier game IMO. The Tim's abusing Boyd shouldn't be a green light to excuse our own abuse. If nothing was said on Wednesday the focus should have been on THEM. Ok the media will not run with it in the same way but if we keep our own house in check they will eventually be exposed. PS. As much as the passage was from the Bible, it's not overtly religious is it? Sounds more like common sense

This. With bells on. Well said

I’m not sure the appetite amongst many of our support to tackle this is there any more? Ten years ago when it was perceived a level playing field then there was a consensus to tackle this. Now I think there is a much harder stance; after years of watching our fans and club being attacked while the other side promote bigotry and bile with impunity. Im not disagreeing with you MacK, I’m just not sure the feeling is there as it once was amongst many of the supporters?