Hate and hubris at Ibrox

One of the things that survived the death of Rangers in 2012 and can still be found at Ibrox is hubris.

Industrial quantities of it.

The featured image is a tweet from the 26th of SEPTEMBER last year.

Apparently, the league race was a foregone conclusion according to those delightful chaps at the Heart and Hand podcast.

However, the man in charge at Lennoxtown was putting together a team that would start to relentlessly win matches in domestic competitions.

One of the most evidence-based cliches in footie parlance is that “the league doesn’t lie”.

So it is fair to say that Mr Edgar’s hubris back in September was rather misplaced.

Here he is immediately post-match on Sunday.

My favourite part is, “…I think there’s a lot of them have checked out…” (3.38).

By Jove, I think he’s got it!

You might notice this touching picture on the wall behind Mr Edgar.

It might look familiar.

Well, it should.

The social media output of two of these quintessentially British podcasters was categorised by Police Scotland as “hate incidents”.

Here is Mr Edgar having his say apropos his dignified colleagues at the time of the Daily Record piece.

The idea that Sevco has some sort of anti-discriminatory education programme is utterly hilarious.

All I can say is that they have all of their work in front of them!

There is plenty of video footage from amongst the home crowd on Sunday singing about their favourite fascist street gang.

Mr Edgar himself has a rather interesting background as this piece in the Times from February 2010 will attest (paywall).

Here is a flavour of it:

A spokesman for the Rangers Supporters Trust has defended the singing of “the Famine Song” by some fans and said describing a follower of Celtic as a “dirty Fenian bastard” was not necessarily bigoted.

Writing in a new book, Rangers: Triumphs, Troubles, Traditions, Edgar said he believed The Famine Song was “no big deal” and that its significance had been exaggerated.

“It was never aimed at Irish people and that is the important thing,” he writes. “It was sung as a dig against those who had this fake, romantic idea of what it means to be Irish. It could be used in a racist way, but it wasn’t racist in the context in which it was being sung.”

That quote from Mr Edgar was in 2010 which was AFTER this ruling in 2009 in the highest court in Scotland.

For the avoidance of doubt, anyone singing the Famine Song is committing a hate crime.

It is worth remembering that the Heart and Hand chaps are currently official media partners of Sevco.

Now, dear reader, can you think of an “Old Firm” equivalent?

I can’t.