SCOTLAND’S SHAME STRIKE AGAIN: EURO BAN COULD FOLLOW AFTER PYRO AND ILLEGAL CHANTS
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Aug 28
- 2 min read
In a bizarre sense, I really should feel thankful to Rangers FC and their supporters.
In a week, when it has been a very rough job to be a Celtic supporter, and when also, personally, I’ve not been feeling that great, they are there once again to bring a bit of cheer to our hearts, and a wee bit of joy into our daily dirge, with their utter ineptitude on the park, and the sheer stupidity of their fans off it.
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Lots has already been written, and plenty of laughs had at the utterly gutless performance from the shower of “COWADRS” on the park for The Temu Tribute Act last night.
However, never ones to be upstaged, the ever loyal (well for the first 20 minutes or so anyway) true blues in the stands treated us to a triple whammy of bile, bigotry and probably a few burns as well. They left us all in little doubt, once again, why we call them Scotland’s Shame.
In fact, there was such an abundance of pyro on show last night, something Rangers have already been served a suspended stadium ban from UEFA over, that I’m amazed there wasn’t a recreation of the infamous “red stump of Ulster” incident from 2021.
Add to that the various instances anti-Catholic bigotry, anti-Irish racism and other forms of hatred that only the cousin-courting career criminals from across the Clyde could produce, and I think UEFA will soon have something to say about all this.
Rangers had to warn their own supporters at the beginning of the season that any more instances of “illegal pyrotechnics” (I think an entire stand lit up even redder than Russell Martin’s face at full time qualifies), or “illicit chanting” (That’s racism to normal people) would result in the club facing a stadium closure.
We’ll have to wait and see what The UEFA match delegate’s report says, but given that the pyro and the hatred were probably the only moments of energy to emerge from either Rangers or their supporters last night, I’d be amazed if they aren’t included.
Afterall, this isn’t Scotland. “Staunchness” and an attitude of “but it’s the Rangers” won’t get you very far in UEFA’s eyes.
I think a great deal more pain awaits the Ibrox hoard and their players after yet another European embarrassment on the park and in the stands.
Hopefully that pain begins with a severe, and long overdue, skelping from Celtic at Mordor on Sunday.
