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I suspect his defence will be "but it can't be sectarian cause I'm a Proddy too". I've some sympathy for the posters who are neither offended by the phrase nor see much point in escalating the tit for tat 'I'm pure offended' that often dominates online discourse. Like all words the person using them and the tone in which they are delivered makes a huge difference to that word's meaning, whether intended or not. As Ascender says up thread being called a 'hun' by a friend or acquaintance in a friendly conversation rarely causes any offence and neither is it meant too. However a complete stranger shouting Kill All Huns at you on a dark night might elicit a different response, and again I suspect that would be deliberate. I imagine this Aberdeen fan's defence will be along the lines that he feels 'hun' has no sectarian meaning, to him it's simply a derogatory term for Rangers supporters. I also suspect he'll be able to show numerous examples of this, maybe he'll ask Stuart Cosgrove to give evidence in his defence, it's a term he's used a bit in the past after all. It'll be an interesting defence and assumes that bringing a banner saying 'kill all Rangers fans' to a ground holding nearly 50,000 Rangers fans is otherwise perfectly acceptable behaviour of course. From a personal perspective, like all of us, I've been called a hun on numerous occasions. Often it was jocular and delivered by someone I knew, no offence was meant and none was taken. On others I was fairly sure the person was intending to insult or intimidate me, it was meant aggressively. Sometimes it was said in my company by someone who forgot I was there and their reaction when they realised I'd heard was often telling as to their intention and meaning. I'd a girlfriend many years ago who described me as a 'practicing hun' to members of her family when the subject of football inevitably came up. That relationship wasn't destined to last. The meaning of words changes. That's simply a fact about the English language. No matter how much we might wish it otherwise, the meaning behind how we say something, or these days type something, isn't always the meaning that someone reading it will take. On a return trip to Belfast a few years ago I noticed the term 'KAH' sprayed close an intersection where Unionist and Nationalist areas joined. Graffiti and murals have long been used in Belfast to designate territory and I found them a very helpful navigation aid when I first moved there. For those unaware KAH stands for 'Kill All Huns', and it was sprayed as a territorial marker, letting everyone know what area you were entering. Do we think the person responsible meant 'Rangers supporters' when they left that mark? We can only speculate, but personally I'm in no doubt at all that in that context it meant 'Protestant' or at the very least 'Unionist', although those terms are often interchangeable. Whatever that Aberdeen fan's intention, it's naive in the extreme to think that some people who use that word don't see it as a derogatory catch all term for Protestants. Like a number of other words that were once fairly commonly used it's probably advisable to avoid using it at all now.

The bloke is 33. Should be done for failing to grow up.

For all the frustration stemming from his tactics, I can't help hoping his last press conference of the season sees GvB surrounded by silverware. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see him fight through this challenging period and come out the other end wiser and successful.

The Police will probably misplace the evidence. In all honesty, I'm not remotely offended by the banner. I wish we could get back to acting like grown men (giving and taking stick) but alas, that lot started it, so we just have to play along.

You've become a cliché in your own sad echo chamber. It has nothing to do with me of course but if it was I'd suspend your account for a week, for two good reasons.... 1. To stop what has clearly become an excessive and unreasonable campaign to discredit a Rangers player 2. More importantly, to give the rest of us a break from your incessant, whining negativity.

Well said - but I agree with @Gonzo79 that this silliness doesn't offend me at all. I hopee the arrest was at the instigation of Sturgeon's Gestapo and not some whining Rangers fans joining in the usual victimhood game.

Surprise/surprise.

Yeah... My mind must have drifted to Josh Windass...

Absolutely! A fully fit and functional squad is more than a match for the bang average run run run mob across the city. I don’t see it as impossible we can turn the deficit around post WC. Can’t afford any more dropped points tomorrow though.

They never did get the yahoo that chucked a lighter at Ricksen, did they.

I blame all the bad Karma we stored up laughing at their injuries.

Teething problems or not they are finally getting found out for things they have frequently got away with.

I actually thought Kent was back to being dangerous last night due to us having 2 wingers both hugging the touchline. Normally with no natural right winger, defenses tend to double up on Kent. Last night they couldn't as King, Davies and Sands were pinging balls wide left and right. And it worked.

All our set pieces are shocking tbh! even throw ins are terrible! having said that I can't actually remember when we were ever good at them?.

My comment on Beale with Gerrard as assistant was made more as a tongue in cheek comment to reference how differently their paths turned out and that the majority of the Rangers support could have foreseen what has happened to both. I am firmly in the 'lets move on' camp

Surely not available for tonight, dont expect to see him play for Scotland either. I get he wants to represent his country but it would be nice if he was fit to represent his club first and foremost.

I must have employed hundreds of people in my working life, every one of them with the intention of making a positive contribution. Over the period maybe a dozen or so turned out to be a major success, most were merely average and quite a few were a bloody waste of time and money. All of them were researched, vetted and sourced by professional recruiters. The point is that, as anyone who has had to recruit people will know, there are absolutely no guarantees and you will have your share of failures. I believe the key is not to dwell on those who don't live up to expectations and get rid asap. The same goes for Rangers. What you certainly don't want to do is re-hire people who have already shown you what they can do and didn't impress. In any case, there are very few Water Smiths out there who can repeat previous successes.

Celtc at one point were paying torbet a million quid a year for trophies. 2 celtc directors were on the board of the trophy centre earning 250k a year. money laundering with kids being the reciprocal agreement. Lawwell was financial director of celtc then. It's simply horrific.