If I had received this on Monday morning then I would have been immediately suspicious that I was being pranked because of the day that was in it.
However, I’m told that it is genuine.
Good grief…
The idea that “inclusion” has a place within the Ibrox match day experience really is to journey to an alternative reality.
This site, eleven years old this year, really started to pick up speed in late 2008 with the Famine Song controversy.
Back then there were influential Rangers fans defending that genocidal ditty.
Indeed it was even defended in the national press.
Here, Mr James Traynor, then of the Daily Record stated on September 22nd 2008 that:
“The line that seems to have offended a number of Celtic fans is something like: ‘The famine is over, why don’t you go home?’
“It’s supposed to have enraged one fan so much he put in a complaint that had Irish diplomats raise concerns with the Scottish government.
“Unbelievable, but if any politician even attempts to tell Rangers’ fans to drop it we’ll be entering into dangerous times that will threaten our right to free speech. This line is not inciting violence against anyone and it isn’t celebrating the fact one million people died because of potato blight in the 1840s.
If anything the line is mocking the often cloyingly sentimental longing of Celtic fans for the old country and if you accept that’s all it is then it might even border on humorous.”
My contention at the time was that the Famine Song was racist.
This was tested the following year at the highest court in Scotland.
Lord Carloway and his eminent colleagues had no doubt that it was just that and ruled accordingly.
No one among the organised supports groups at the time sought to acknowledge that or apologise for the hurt they caused.
I do not think that Mr Traynor ever re-visited this subject in his Daily Record column.
He is now, of course, the main PR adviser to Sevco.
Since then, if anything, I would contend that the match day experience at Ibrox has become more redolent of a Herrenvolk supremacism.
If the folks at Sevco are concerned about promoting inclusion among Glasgow’s ethnic minority population then they could include the largest one.
The Irish.
However, that might impact on Sevco’s customer base.
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There’s new material for the next series of Alan Partridge, right there!
Imagine the carnage of Alan turning up there with his Irish doppelganger, giving it laldy with Come Out Ye Black and Tans, and Men Behind the Wire… ahaaa!!
Mibbees Del Trotter sold them 2,000 “rangers” burkhas, and they were planning a fashion show of these articles, similar to celtic’s planned event in July? Of course, if the plan was to have ethnic minorities wading up to their knees in blood, they would have to ensure that it was halal!
The day will be rounded off with a tour of the Trophy Room………..home in time for supper, all good. HH
HUNBELIEVEABLE.TRULY.
Their arrogance seems boundless and anyone falling for this ‘inclusivity’ is the FOOL.
An April one at that.
Seems late you casting your eye over it Phil,look at the dates,21st March!
I wonder how many different cultures turned out for this non-event,I know there’ll have been a good few other ‘Kultures’ attending,but do they qualify in the diversity dept.?
1 Klub=1Kulture…just ask Boy George,wait!,do you think they’d throw the doors open for George;knowing his sexual preferences?No slight on George or the LGBT 🏳️🌈 community.To each their own,it’d be a terrible World 🌎 IF We were all the same.
Great work Phil,I’m guessing this slipped by you as you were,and rightly so,attending to your main income stream in the ‘word-mines.’
Hope you’re making good ground on the follow up to ‘The Squad’🍀
Muchas Grazias HH💚🍀✅🇮🇪
Could be quite an event if a couple of thousand catholics could be talked into attending with a good deal of up front publicity to make sure Sevco fans were protesting outside lol……
You may want to ask @Scotsman why the word “Irish” is banned on the comments threads of online football articles.
To an extent i understand banning the word Sevco, but to actually ban the word “Irish” seems strange to me.
I have asked several people at the Scotsman why its banned, but my question seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
If you do ask, good luck with that one. Let me know if you get any joy. 😉
I can’t imagine what ethnic minority group would consider engaging with rangers on any level.
The only ‘group’ with similar interest that I would pair them with would be the Ku Klux Klan but I don’t imagine there are too many of them in Caledonia.
Aye Joe,but it’s a helluva swim from kkk-land over the North Atlantic,especially at this time of the year.
Shiploads of near toothless hillbillies may not have been their target audience!
Although,imho they’d fit right in at the bigotdome,but,they’d have to dumb it down somewhat.
So if I go along to the home of sevco, with my Easter Lily proudly on my lapel, do you think I would be looked after. That place has got the stench of everything that I and my family have had to endure over the years. I’m a proud Fienian no matter what they try to do to hide their true nature will not work we no what they are.
Keep at em Phil
Hail Hail
You can feel the hurt reading their fans post of a Taig/SNP/GDC/Remainer infested country.
It makes me think that perhaps Scotland’s not so bad after all!
Also Celtic’s announcement of a 3 day festival of celebrating all things Celtic in July at the SECC has not gone down well at all with the blue side.
This is coming from a team whose fan group spent months organising a protest outside BBC Scotland that was months in the planning yet the turnout wouldn’t have filled a single decker bus.
No doubt where Celtic lead Rangers will follow follow with their own event.