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I don't think it matters whether fans agree or disagree with the banner. Either way, it was still extremely stupid to have at it a UEFA game.

STAUNCH! Well, it has been just over a month since doleful Phil departed the Stadium and the interim management team of Barry, Neil, Billy and, Allan were appointed. There has been six games, four league fixtures against Killie(a), Motherwell(h), Sellik(a) and Dundee(a). A last sixteen Euro tie against Fenerbache was squeezed in between. There has also been a week long international break; thus, an unforgivingly hectic schedule. Time for rumination has been utilised for the higher priority of grabbing breaths. Inhalation over PQ way is more difficult, the collective airways are constantly blocked by bubbling hilarity. Over these last few years, I have provided dozens of examples of why BBC Scotland should be considered a Sellik state of mind. Where the ACSOM podcast leads, Pacific Quay is sure to follow. The kd lang tribute act and ACSOM main presenter, Paul John Dykes told his viewers, "Barry Ferguson does not have a brain, his team is all about spirit, spit and sawdust". An on screen contributor chipped in with, "Barry is being helped by a couple of BBC Scotland's staunchest pundits". STAUNCH became the defining word. Right across their football content, there was a compulsion at PQ to describe the appointments as STAUNCH. We are talking Sportsound, Sportscene, Off the Ball, A View from the Terrace, .............., etc. Wullie Miller, Chris McLaughlin, Tom English, Stephen Thomson, Stephen McGinn, the diversity twins RAB and Tam, Craig Telfer, Craig Fowler, ......... etc all uttered the word. Some mixed in the unappetising relish of jokes that implied 'thick with it too'. To reinforce the message, the mental imagery was related, the brown brogues on the marble staircase and Barry driving through the Auchenhowie gates in an orange Ford Ranger. It was a STAUNCH sniggerfest. We are all products of our conditioning and fifty-sixty years past in both Primary and Secondary school playgrounds, we told Pat and Mick jokes. You know Pat and Mick decide to take up fishing but quickly realise the cost of clothing and equipment could be prohibitive. Thus, Pat tells Mick to hold him over the bridge by his ankles. When he has his hands on a fish he will shout 'haul' and Mick pulls him up. After an hour, Pat hollers 'haul'. Mick asks, you've caught a fish to which Pat replies, 'naw, there's a train coming'. During senior school and University, we were told these jokes were unacceptable. The Irish are an erudite people, relating jokes confirming a lack of education was a device allowing easy and lazy hatred. RAB Cosgrove has an easy and lazy get out when he feels discomfort, he refers to, "cheeky football rivalry". Can he fit in the following jokes told on BBC Scotland in the last month to that three word phrase? Barry enters a restaurant with EBT Team and is presented with a menu. He tells the waiter, 'we will have the Pageone'. The waiter informs him that he is reading Page One of the menu. Barry approaches the counter and orders, 'a fish supper and a can of coke'. Lady behind the counter replies, 'Ah think you've got the wrong place, this is a Library'. Barry thinks and leans in to whisper, 'a fish supper and a can of coke'. Barry appeared on Countdown alongside Ian Ferguson and it was the only time the show concluded in a nil-nil draw. Barry has to be portrayed as both staunch and thick because it makes him easier to hate. The facts are unhelpful, he married his RC childhood sweetheart, their children were baptised in that faith and, initially their children attended denominational schools. The Establishment broadcaster ignores the facts and continues to pump out the staunch and thick line because they want to be seen as strict adherents to the narrative demanded by the Establishment club. Now, that is staunch.

UEFA didn't say it was racist specifically, but a club either abides by the rules and their rulings or they don't take part in their competitions. It was clearly discriminatory, if your own interpretation of the banner is correct. If people want to do fight against UEFA then go ahead, but it'll fail, and fans shouldn't be selfish to use the club for their own individual ideologies when it's clearly going to result in punishment and threaten the attendances of other fans at future games. I don't see the relevance. Just because something isn't criminal doesn't mean it's acceptable to UEFA. We, as a club, aren't going to win any fights against UEFA. We're not from a big league and don't have any influence.

I think it is more that the hard of thinking coalesce around a particular ideology, because they struggle to think for themselves and cannot reason why anyone would challenge them or their faulty worldview.

Ferguson hasn’t done his CV any harm

Police Scotland have confirmed this evening that after looking into an incident at celtic park in which a footballer "skooshed" a supporter, no further action will be taken. Crazy that it even got to such a point, but hey ho 😂

It's an embarrassment that they reported it.

I wasnt bothered about the first 3 ties, but was hoping Bournemouth would complete a tidy final four. The Nottingham Forest v Man City tie at Wembley is madness especially as its been given the Sunday TV slot. That should be played in the North or the midlands. (Villa Park, Elland Road, Old Trafford, Anfield to name a few) and Palace v Villa could be played at either Spurs, Arsenal or West Ham grounds. Anyone but Man City to win the cup will do me.

If that incident yesterday was a one off, you’d write it off due to the bounce and give him the benefit of the doubt. Problem is, he is making an error like this every few games now. It’s miles off the standard required. Especially at the moment when our winning margins are so slim. The OG at Old Trafford was just laughable. His kicking is woeful and invites pressure onto us. We need better, especially at around 30k per week. He is 31 so unlikely to improve.

Meaningless gibberish from the Record but that’s normal.

That's just people manipulating the situation for their own purposes. As has already been said, they'd probably get at with it at any other game, just not a UEFA one. The club are banning people for getting us into trouble with UEFA, not for wrongthink.

The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion A banner at Ibrox criticising “woke ideologies” has triggered UEFA sanctions and a £25k fine for Rangers. Now the club is issuing lifetime bans to fans for expressing wrongthink. If you’re a Rangers fan under investigation — or know someone who is — DM us. https://x.com/SpeechUnion/status/1906783557273702825

Why?

Western Civilisation decides what is incompatible with our culture 👍🏻 For example, every major European country is full of their own traditions, culture and laws of the land, that is incompatible with the likes of men marrying nine year olds, Sharia courts, marrying first cousins, taking multiple wives. Unless you're trying to imply paedophilia, adultery, incest, stoning someone to death etc are compatible. Then I'd have to say you're some sort of deviant or on crack.

Do you mean 'why'? Or are you actually a native American saying hello to me? Maybe that's what you mean by Western cultures.

Who decides what's "incompatible with Western cultures"? Indeed, perhaps you could explain what you mean by Western cultures? Is that yogurt made by cowboys?

Agreed

'Woke' seems to be basically used to describe anything that the hard of thinking don't really like.

You've looked at it and read it as we shouldn't play in UEFA competitions, that's incorrect. Look at it properly you'll see my point was we shouldn't have done it in UEFA competition 👍🏻

Not sure what I've read wrong, but there's certainly enough dubiety about the meaning of the banner that makes it easy for UEFA to claim that it's discriminatory. You've got your interpretation of it, others have theirs and UEFA have theirs. Who is to say which one is correct? If we're spending our time arguing about the meaning then the argument with UEFA is already lost. It's a badly written banner and it's left the club open to be punished.

I go to Ibrox to watch football! not to hve political shit rammed down my throat.If they want to show their feelings go elsewhere and don't leave the chance of stand closures.

When I started going to football there were huge crowds mostly men who made their living woking with their hands and many of them straight from the yard or the factory for a 2pm kickoff. There was constant hubbub augmented by cheers and counter cheers, shouts of abuse, bad language of the worst kind though not chanted in unison and rarely within earshot of a woman, fights, blokes passing out, general disorder and angry demos at the front door (until five o’clock when the pubs opened) What there was not, was any suggestion of politics other than the superficial loyalist/rebel stuff. Political and general social statements are a foreign invention, recently imported, latched onto by the usual suspects and sadly copied by UBs. Rangers are not restricting free speech. Only what people say or do within the curtilage of the stadium.

It's not Rangers supporters who want to enforce it. It's UEFA who are enforcing it. The supporters just don't want us punished by UEFA, which could lead to them being banned from certain matches. I'm not sure what the relevance of working or middle class is to whether you don't want your club punished, when it doesn't have to be.

UEFA dictating what is racist or not, is another shadowy realm that ought to be investigated and fought against tbh. Police Scotland even said there was nothing criminal about the banner our fans displayed. Wasn't that when UEFA was pushing the BLM message and trying to tell us the poppy was banned.

Defend Europe from woke foreign ideologies that have no place within our civilisations, i.e Sharia Courts, first cousin marriages, underage marriages, gender ideology etc. Basically anything incompatible with Western cultures.

Don't think we're at the stage where it needs to be Barry yet. Needs to keep winning, see how he handles Europe. For me - with the takeover etc, barring a miracle from Ferguson, I.e beating Bilbao, I'd be aiming higher.

The banner appeared in the section of the Copland Road Stand where the Union Bears ultras – possibly Rangers’ most passionate fans – tend to gather.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/30/the-shameful-silencing-of-rangers-fans/

I disagree. Home record grim, and he's been praised for changing things in recent games, but that's only cos he got his tactics so wrong in the first place.

Needs to be Barry.

Sterling never came out with the rest of the defence & played the 2 Dundee players onside.

Used to go to Gers games with him and others from Kingsridge.He was at St Pius when Rangers came----Kingsridge used their swimming pool(Iwas there too).