The strangest thing appeared on my Twitter feed yesterday.
Members of the Ibrox klanbase who had suddenly discovered anti-racism.
It was quite a sight, dear reader.
For the avoidance of doubt, I have no idea what was said to Sevco’s Glen Kamara by Ondrej Kudela of Slavia Prague.
Only those two players will know the truth.
However, I DO know that for as long as I’ve been alive, adherents of the Ibrox franchise have been lovingly remembering in song a fascist street gang founded by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is not a tenable position to be an à la carte anti-racist.
A central component of the Ibrox klanbase world view is anti-Irish racism.
If that is jettisoned, then the Rangers franchise will lose an important part of their Unique Selling Proposition to the super spreaders of George Square.
Indeed, I cannot think of any other group of football fans in Britain who have come up with anyone close to the Famine Song’s xenophobic bile.
You will recall, dear reader, that the racist ditty first was heard the year that this site started-2008.
21st century.
Thankfully the criminal justice system in Scotland quickly recognised what the Famine Song really was and acted accordingly.
However, the Fitba Fourth Estate did not.
I rather suspect that the Ibrox klanbase are as genuinely committed to anti-racism as they are to child protection.
For the klan, the issue of historic child abuse in football was a stick to exclusively beat Celtic with.
Once it was proved to be also extant at Ibrox, then they suddenly fell silent.
Dear reader, it is almost as if the Ibrox klanbase has no collective moral compass at all
Imagine that…
Funny how that for almost a century and a half that fans of both clubs to have played home games at Ibrox have spouted their anti-Irish racism with impunity while the SFA sit and watch and the Scottish media (with very few exceptions) do their best to bury it. Now one Sevco player is alleged to have been on the end of a racist remark in a European game and now there’s a huge call for UEFA to clamp down on racism from the media and a big deal is now being made.
If Glen Kamara was racially abused then its wrong and I’m 100% behind the player. For the avoidance of doubt I’ve no reason to believe he would lie about it.
I’m not however buying into all this bullshit that the club playing out of Ibrox, their neo-Nazi fans and the succulent lamb media now suddenly give a shit about racism in football.
In all the furore over the ALLEGED racist comments made to Mr Kamara, the ACTUAL bodily harm caused by the brutal assault on the Slavia Prague keeper by Roofe seems to have been forgotten.
Now, I’m NOT suggesting in any way that this media hysteria on one story, and deafening silence on another are linked, that this is all a camouflage exercise, but something serious that definitely DID happen, appears to have…….well…..disappeared.
The Prague keeper was found to have a fractured skull and I have heard not one word of sympathy for him in ANY Ibrox statement nor read one word of sympathy in ANY Scottish paper.
Just an observation.
Firstly o should point out that I stand squarely behind Kamala, racist abuse is unacceptable and shameful and everyone should give him their support.
It’s worth remembering though the same supporters now trying to take the moral high ground we’re among those baying loudest in Scotland about sports people taking the knee. They were literally raging that players from their club would do it.
So it’s hardly surprising that they’re the only club I’m aware of in the U.K. who have used the racist abuse of one of their players to ensure every player stands rather than kneeling.
A club built on hate and racism complaining about racism….the irony.
À la carte racism indeed, with a side order of selective outrage.
Selective outrage has ALWAYS been their favourite side dish. Usually dressed with an Orange sauce.
Racism against Irish catholics in Scotland is invisible it’s as if it doesn’t exist, or racism doesn’t exist unless your a prominent black person, even heard aunt sally on talk sport saying the first time he ever saw an act of racism was when Mark Walters came to the dead zone club, it’s been inter woven within the consciousness of Scottish society from when Irish first came to Scotland, that’s it’s normal and when you bring the subject up people don’t or refuse to engage in discussion, from politicians to senior cops to the media who all can’t wait to talk about how dreadful racism is when it a black person of prominence, the it has no place in society speech, is just that a grand standing mantra, Muslims, asylum seekers and refugees are in the same boat as us, no grand standing speeches for us, years gone by it was ok to have second class citizens to abuse, now because it doesn’t look good let’s just pretend we abhor it with a speech, a statement, a campaign, talk of action when knowingly they won’t and crucially don’t want to do anything, because it’s normal, normal to hate, terrorise, abuse, victimise, the that’s what we’ve always done consciousness, the recent execution of an asylum seeker in Glasgow sums this all up, why were anti terrorist armed cops deployed for a knife incident, with the cops being portrayed as hero’s for pumping 4 bullets in a university student when they cornered him holding his knife, oh and the police stating that their tasers had failed, point i am making is the normalisation of it all, it’s here to stay, it’s always been here, our anti anything that’s not white Protestant consciousness is just clever at hiding it now
You can’t be an a la cart anti-racist?
Like when you declare yourself an ally at racists you mean?
pot and kettle, you putting logs on the fire when you should be supporting Glen as a Black Footballer not for working for the KLAN>
Whilst walking the dog on the day Sevco were confirmed champions I was subject to sound of their latest melody: WE HATE CATHOLICS to the tune of Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now. That club and their racist supports are simply SCUM.
Nothing but nothing will ever change the attitude of those at Ibrox, there is no saving them especially when we have the enablers of the hack pack, rat pack, and mokit meeja baying at the moon right alongside them.
There seems to be no one of any stature in said media who will even attempt to object in print or on visual to the slant that’s being taken on the latest Ibrox fiasco. They only want to (bad as it is) discuss one issue and flatly ignore all others. Just imagine it was another team who for instance dropped a sweetie paper in Dundee, the media would most probably deem out a riot.
The cognitive dissonance on display is breath-taking. Summed up best by a comment on a fan site where a poster accused Slavia of being a vile, racist club, who he now hated almost as much as the “taig, fenian barstewards in the Eat End.
Now what I find confusing, the ibrox Klan complaining about racism when they were racially abusing Roofe after he got sent off.
I don’t know if kamara was racially abused during the game but what I do know is this season players from Ibrox come out with false accusations about a player from Ross County, I think they said he said something homophobic to morelos . He was cleared
A wonderful opportunity presents itself to all anti racist campaigners at Ibrox , refuse to wear the orange top. Even better the club* itself could withdraw it from sale.