An amazing discovery at Ibrox

If we are to take the Sevco High Command at their dignified word, then it has come as a terrible shock to them that some of their customers are fascists!

I know, I know…

Here is what was released to the local media about the Third Reich artwork.

“Clearly, this flag is absolutely unacceptable and the club condemns the displaying of it within our stadium in the strongest possible terms. The club can confirm an investigation is now underway.”

At this stage, in the words of the late Paul McBride QC, we’re in the realms of a lost Monty Python script.

So Totenkopf is verboten, but allowing in a colossal tifo depicting Bill the Butcher okay?

Really?

Nor is this an isolated incident.

Anyone who can split hairs between the ideological fuel of Kristallnacht and the Belfast pogroms in the previous decade is trying very hard.

Both were based on a sense of ethnic supremacism and a moral panic about the unclean other.

Those in the SMSM who abide by the Old Firm paradigm really should ignore this one.

Across the city, it is no coincidence that a version of the anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao has been added to the songsheet in recent years.

That will be brought into focus by Celtic’s next match this week.

This week, Glasgow will have another cohort of football fascists when the Lazio chaps visit Parkhead.

The last time the two teams met, some of the Celtic chaps rather upset set Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter.

She was upset about this banner.

The poor dear.

A year after the Belfast Pogroms, the Church and Nation Committee of the Kirk published its infamous attack on Scotland’s Irish community.

Inspired by eugenicist notions of superiority, the mindset it lives on every time the Ibrox klanbase fondly remembers Billy Fullerton’s fascist street gang.

Yesterday with the uniformed Brits parading at Ibrox, there would have been a lot of Churcillian pish wafting about.

Well, here’s a quote from the man himself that might comfort Alessandra Mussolini.

The architect of the Bengal Famine wrote to the Italian leader, stating:

“If I had been Italian, I am sure I should have been wholeheartedly with you from the start.”

Lazio undoubtedly has fascist fans, and so does Sevco.

At both clubs, that belief system is cultural and multi-generational.

Of course, such an analysis is probably beyond the succulent suspects in the Stenography Corps.