I think the institution that is Rankers has been unsurpassed in 132 years in terms of dignity - Alex McLeish : May 05
The Players
Having no less than 4 of their violent hooligans included in a list of The Top 50 Thugs In Football Ever. Highest placing went to serial thug Willie Woodburn - an inductee in the huns Hall Of Fame !! - and the last footballer in Britain to receive a life ban from the game for indiscipline and onfield violence. Woodburn was kicked out of the game for life by the SFA in 1954, after incurring a fifth sending off in six years, after violently headbutting a Stirling Albion player during a League Cup tie at The Death Star in August 1954. In 1947 he received a 14 day ban for 'a violent exchange' with Motherwell's Dave Mathie, and in 1953 he violently punched the Clyde striker Billy McPhail, earning himself a 21-day ban. Later that year, Woodburn was banned for 6 weeks and warned about his persistant thuggery after being sent off during a match with Stirling Albion. The following season, the tarnished hun finally enshrined his place in hooligan infamy. The other 3 huns to make the list were the blood-soaked, door-kicking bad loser Terry Butcher; serial hooligan and wannabe hammer-thrower Graeme Souness; and jailbird violent thug Drunken Duncan Ferguson.
Hun icon, and dopehead pill-popper Willie Johnstone being sent home in shame from the World Cup (Argentina ’78) for failing a routine drugs test after the 3-1 defeat to Peru. Drugs cheat Johnstone embarrassed the entire Scottish nation by testing positive for the banned performance-enhancing steroid, Reactivan. Thankfully his chums in the Rankers-friendly meeja were able to deflect criticism from their brother, by suggesting his cheating was, erm, ‘an error’ before hastily sweeping the entire episode under the carpet. After the match, the famous Tartan Army threw a hail of stones at the Scotland team bus. Turns out the team bus wasn’t the only thing stoned in Cordoba that night. Hun Johnstone, who was sent off more than TWENTY times in his professional career, left the huns for West Brom, before the WC Finals, but soon returned in 1980 when he found out that his brutal and thuggish brand of hun football was unwelcome south of the border. He found the perfect home for it, back at The Death Star, via a sojourn in Edinburgh, with the equally bigoted, Cousins Of William.
The Beast being sent off after only 35 minutes of his debut in a tarnished Rankers jersey, after booting George McCluskey up in the air, in a disgraceful, vicious, and thuggish challenge during a 2-1 defeat at Easter Road in August 1986. The ensuing rage started a 21-man brawl at Easter Road, with only Hibs keeper Alan Rough not involved. The Rankers goal predictably came from a penalty. After the game, Edinburgh resembled a war zone as deranged drunken hun thugs went on a wrecking spree, terrorising foreign tourists who were over for the Edinburgh Festival. The Beast had well and truly stamped his arrival in Scottish football.
Sandy Jardine’s son being arrested and charged with the production and supply of drugs.
Graeme Souness's horrific two-footed tackle on Steaua Bucharest player, Dmitri Rotario, in March 1988 at The Death Star, which nearly ended the player's career. Predictably, the huns got gubbed (3-2) and turned the game into a brawl, as Steua dumped them out of the European Cup. Remebering the horrific tackle, Captain Shellsuit’s older hun brother Derek, winced when reminded of his former team-mates wanton thuggery : “I was on the bench for the first match in Romania when Ally McCoist played eight days after a knee operation. Hagi was superb that day, pulling all the strings from midfield and leading them to a 2-0 win. I played at Ibrox in the return but we lost an early goal and 3-0 was far too much to overturn. I was only a few yards away from Graeme and honestly could not believe what he had done. He could have ended the Romanian's career and myself and few of my team-mates all felt it wasn't right. After that, things started getting ugly, as tempers flared all over the pitch. Looking back, it was a pretty dreadful tackle – something which I’m sure Graeme himself would concede.”
Junkie thug Willie Johnstone being sent off in 1980 for deliberately stamping on the throat of fallen Aberdeen player John McMaster. Such was the brutality of Johnstone’s onfield assault, that McMaster had to be given the kiss of life on the pitch, to prevent him from dying. Rankers won the match 1-0, but their fans still rioted anyway. Incredible as it may seem, even some huns were disgusted at the brutality of Johnstone's cowardly violence.
Andy Goram turning on the Xmas lights in 1995 in one of the most vile, Catholic-hating, sectarian cesspits of the entire globe - the Loyalist Shankill Road. Goram is so obsessed with obsessed Loyalist terror groups, that his nickname in Northern Ireland is ‘The Flute’. Goram’s wife Tracey also recently revealed that he kept ‘a shrine’ in their home which included flags and banners about Loyalist terror groups, along with a flute mounted on a plinth.
Rankers icon Andy Gray cheating with the wife of his lifelong friend, whilst the man was away on business. Gray, who has fathered five children by four seperate women, cheated on his first wife just four months after mouthing his empty wedding vows.
Andy Goram wearing a black armband during a Celtic –v- Rankers match at Celtic Park in 1998, to mourn the ‘loss’ of Loyalist terrorist, and convicted drug-dealing thug Billy Wright. Bigoted Goram claimed the overt display of solidarity for the hated thug, known as King Rat, was a ‘delayed’ expression of mourning for his elderly ‘Aunt Doris’ who had passed away nearly one year earlier.
Andy Goram posing for photographs alongside numerous UVF Loyalist terrorists and thugs in front of their hate-banners. Rankers players including Jorg Albertz, Artur Numan, and Ronald De Boer also later attended a social function in the Middle East where numerous Loyalist terrorists were in attendance. Curiously, but not together unsurprisingly, the photographs of Goram were only printed by the Scottish media after he had left Rankers for another club.
Andy Goram's persistant alcohol abuse, gambling problems, sinister Loyalist associations, bankruptcy proceedings, womanising and marital break-ups – all done in the full glare of the media. Some folk really are short on dignity.
Andy Goram being arrested at gunpoint after becoming embroiled with drunken thugs on a flight from Italy, which was forced to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport. This was just one week prior to him joining his new club ………… Manchester United.
Paul Gascoigne’s disgusting and brutal domestic violence that left his wife bruised, battered, and physically injured. Staff at a Scottish 5* hotel were so horrified they immediately called the police, whereupon Sheryl Gascoigne was taken to hospital to have her injuries – including a fractured wrist and two black eyes - treated.
Paul Gascoigne's continuous drug and alcohol abuse culminating in him being sent home in shame from France 98 after he had hurled abuse at England manager Glenn Hoddle before storming out of the team camp at La Manga in Spain, leaving his luggage behind.
Paul Gascoigne defecating in the Away dressing-room Jacuzzi after a Hearts -v- Rankers Cup semi-final at Celtic Park.
Paul Gascoigne urinating on sleeping team-mate Eirk Bo Anderson.
Paul Gascoigne mimicking a Loyalist flute player, during a touchline warm-up, at Celtic Park in 1998, as bigoted Rankers fans sung an anti-Catholic hate anthem in time. Not just a bigot, but a dangerous one to boot. The clown-prince’s darker side was becoming harder to keep hidden.
Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer posing for photographs with convicted sectarian murderer Michael Stone. Their claims of ignorance looked a little hollow in light of the fact that the murderous Stone was the much publicised ‘Star Guest’ that night.
Club Captain Lorenzo Amoruso racially abusing Nigerian striker Victor Ipkeba on the field of play, as they suffered yet another European humping – this time a UEFA Cup 3 - 1 away exit to Borussia Dortmund in Dec ‘99. Amoruso first denied that any such incident had ever taken place, before being forced into a humiliating climbdown, after learning the incident was recorded by a TV camera. Falsely claiming that he 'had only swore in Italian' - TV pictures clearly showed him mouthing the words ‘black bastard’ in English. A thug, a coward, a racist, and a liar - no wonder he was a shoe-in for the Captaincy at Dignity FC.
Club Captain Terry Butcher being caught on camera, kicking the Away dressing-room door off it's hinges after a 2-0 defeat at Celtic Park. Calm down Terry, it’s only a game.
Elephant Man, and unanimous winner of The Ugliest Man In Football Award – EVER !! Davie Dodds being flung out of the family home in Bearsden, and divorced by his wife, after he was caught cheating behind his wife’s back with a groupie called Jackie Webster. Quite what Miss Webster’s guide dog thought of the situation, is as yet unclear !!
Ally Maxwell singing ‘The Sash’ and rousing the gutter-scum during a substitutes warm-up against CSKA in the early 90's. Maxwell who was on the touchline, could clearly be seen singing the hate anthem, and encouraging his fellow simpleton reprobates to do likewise. This sort of disgraceful encouragement of sectarian degenerate behaviour would later be repeated by numerous bitter Rankers morons like Roberts, Durrant, Gascoigne, Ferguson, Malcolm, Vignal, Prso ……….
Club Captain Barry Ferguson getting embroiled in a drunken brawl at a local hotel with rival supporters, after his team had lost to Celtic. Instead of attempting to maintain a low profile - for professional as well as personal reasons - Ferguson went home, got changed, and went back out drinking at the same hotel where the previous incident had occurred. Predictably, further trouble ensued, and Ferguson was involved in a drunken brawl, and physical assault at a nearby fast-food takeaway.
Club Captain Barry Ferguson throwing an ice-pack at Celtic manager Martin O'Neill during a defeat at Ibrox. Calm down Barry, it’s only a game.
Fernando Ricksen having to be physically restrained by Strathclyde Police officers after they arrested him at his Newton Mearns home for drunk driving. Ricksen first claimed he could not speak English, and then that he had been at home all evening. The felled lamp-post, and damaged Telecom box - as well as the testament of a number of neighbours - suggested otherwise. Ricksen was later convicted of drunk driving and banned from driving for one year.
Fernando Ricksen viciously kicking Aberdeen player Darren Young on the field of play in 2000. Ricksen denied there was any malicious intent, until he was caught blatantly lying after having posted on his own website, that his primary intention was 'to teach him (Young) a lesson by straightening him out.' Ricksen was subsequently banned for three games for his act of thuggery.
Fernando Ricksen brutally albowing Hibernian youngster Derek Riordan in the face during a CIS Cup semi-final. Rankers showed their disgust at this kind of onfield violence, and vowed to stamp out such thuggery. They demonstrated their intent by fining Ricksen a whopping......er.....£10k – or half of one week’s wage.
Fernando Ricksen pushing club Chairman John McLelland into a hotel swimming pool, ruining his designer suit, mobile phone, digital camera, and £12k Cartier watch.
Fernando Ricksen being warned by police to curtail his nocturnal revellery after being reported by neighbours on his quiet residential estate for setting off extra-loud firework displays at 4:00am. Ricksen further showed his contempt for the law by replacing his nocturnal pyrotechnics with rowdy 5:00am trampolining sessions with a gaudy Page-3 model he picked up whilst his wife had left the marital home on the grounds of his infantile behaviour. He thanked his neighbours for their concern by slagging them off in a Rankers-friendly down-market tabloid, and accusing them of the heinous crimes of 'being in bed by 11:00pm' and being ‘too quiet.'
Graham Roberts orchestrating bigoted Rankers fans in a rendition of a sectarian anthem at Ibrox. The game resulted in a brawl that included two Rankers players being charged and convicted of Affray, and Incitement To Cause A Breach Of The Peace. The convicted thug would later go on to establish himself as a firm favourite with the club’s gutter-scum element by repeatedly behaving in an exceptionally thuggish, provocative, antagonistic, and aggressive manner whenever he and his fellow ‘hammer-throwers’ (© Jan Bartram) came up against Celtic.
Nuno Capucho being ejected from a Glasgow nightclub after exposing himself to a female guest, and then accosting her by attempting to have her participate in his drunken sexual act. The fact that he is a married man seems to have been lost on him. Onfield, Capucho proved to be one of the worst players ever to pull on the tarnished blue jersey, as well as being perhaps the biggest diver ever to have played in Scottish football – aside Dado Prso that is.
Kevin 'Billy' Muscat blatantly diving and feigning injury during a match at Firhill in order to have a Partick Thistle player (Gerry Britton) shown a red card. Self-proclaimed hardman Muscat, was nick-named Billy by his team-mates because the name Kevin sounded 'too Catholic' - a kind-hearted gesture they had previously bestowed upon Kevin Drinkell, and Kevin ‘Ted’ McMinn. In later years, Muscat was made Team Captain of Wimbledon FC by Dennis Wise. ‘Nuff said.
Duncan Ferguson being convicted and imprisoned for his brutal and unprovoked head-butt attack on Raith Rovers player John McStay at Ibrox in 1994. Ferguson was sentenced to three months in Barlinnie, and banned for twelve games by the SFA. In total, Ferguson has been convicted of assault, no less than four times. That is aside his other convictions of course, which include drunk driving. His convictions meant he was unable to travel to America with new club Everton, due to being a convicted felon and repeat offender.
Graeme Souness being involved in numerous onfield incidents, in which he was frequently red-carded. His brutal style of play earned him the nickname of 'The Beast', and many players (George McLuskey, Billy Stark, Frank McGarvey) were the subject of his particularly nasty and brutal blend of football tackle. His brutality wasn't reserved purely for the football field however, and he once had to be physically restrained after lunging towards, and threatening a 60 year old tea-lady, during a heated confrontation at McDiarmid Park, just before a game –v- St Johnstone.
Graeme Souness - not being able to buy European success – deciding to try building a team of brutes who then sought to kick their way to victory. His signings (and legacy) included some of the most over-physical players in the entire game at that time (Terry Hurlock, Basile Boli, Derek Ferguson, Graeme Roberts...... narrowly failing to capture Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce) Thankfully for football's sake he failed miserably, and even ex-players slated his brutal tactics, with Jan Bartram once commenting that Souness “wasn’t trying to build a footballing side, but a team of hammer-throwers” and had told his players to “deliberately kick opponents.” In a scathing attack, Bartram also denounced Souness as “a beast” and “a hooligan.” No-one likes them, they don’t care.
Ian Durrant and Ted McMinn assaulting a man in Dumfries during an argument in the early hours of the morning. It was probably coincidence that the man happened to be wearing a crucifix.
John Brown singing '..up to our knees in Fenian blood..." as he joined in with the sectarian hate-mongers after a game against Club Brugge in 1993.
The provocative and undignified 'mock huddle' by Rankers players on winning the League title. Far from being content and celebrating their win, they obviously felt the requirement to antagonise their opponents by stooping to new depths and confrontational gestures. The condemnation by football authorities was deafening in it's silence.
Club-Captain and serial grogger Lorenzo Amoruso being found guilty of spitting on Ayr United striker James Grady and hammered with a four-match ban. The greasy-grogger seems to have a problem keeping his big ugly gob shut, after being caught live on TV committing one of the cowardliest, most dispicable acts one can, atop a football field. Amoruso was slammed with a mandatory two-match ban, but because his disciplinary record was so dire, the additional 12 disciplinary points incurred a further two-match ban. Rankers only comment on the subject was by Gingerbaws bemoaning the ‘loss’ of this thuggish, cowardly, excuse for a human being.
The Players
Having no less than 4 of their violent hooligans included in a list of The Top 50 Thugs In Football Ever. Highest placing went to serial thug Willie Woodburn - an inductee in the huns Hall Of Fame !! - and the last footballer in Britain to receive a life ban from the game for indiscipline and onfield violence. Woodburn was kicked out of the game for life by the SFA in 1954, after incurring a fifth sending off in six years, after violently headbutting a Stirling Albion player during a League Cup tie at The Death Star in August 1954. In 1947 he received a 14 day ban for 'a violent exchange' with Motherwell's Dave Mathie, and in 1953 he violently punched the Clyde striker Billy McPhail, earning himself a 21-day ban. Later that year, Woodburn was banned for 6 weeks and warned about his persistant thuggery after being sent off during a match with Stirling Albion. The following season, the tarnished hun finally enshrined his place in hooligan infamy. The other 3 huns to make the list were the blood-soaked, door-kicking bad loser Terry Butcher; serial hooligan and wannabe hammer-thrower Graeme Souness; and jailbird violent thug Drunken Duncan Ferguson.
Hun icon, and dopehead pill-popper Willie Johnstone being sent home in shame from the World Cup (Argentina ’78) for failing a routine drugs test after the 3-1 defeat to Peru. Drugs cheat Johnstone embarrassed the entire Scottish nation by testing positive for the banned performance-enhancing steroid, Reactivan. Thankfully his chums in the Rankers-friendly meeja were able to deflect criticism from their brother, by suggesting his cheating was, erm, ‘an error’ before hastily sweeping the entire episode under the carpet. After the match, the famous Tartan Army threw a hail of stones at the Scotland team bus. Turns out the team bus wasn’t the only thing stoned in Cordoba that night. Hun Johnstone, who was sent off more than TWENTY times in his professional career, left the huns for West Brom, before the WC Finals, but soon returned in 1980 when he found out that his brutal and thuggish brand of hun football was unwelcome south of the border. He found the perfect home for it, back at The Death Star, via a sojourn in Edinburgh, with the equally bigoted, Cousins Of William.
The Beast being sent off after only 35 minutes of his debut in a tarnished Rankers jersey, after booting George McCluskey up in the air, in a disgraceful, vicious, and thuggish challenge during a 2-1 defeat at Easter Road in August 1986. The ensuing rage started a 21-man brawl at Easter Road, with only Hibs keeper Alan Rough not involved. The Rankers goal predictably came from a penalty. After the game, Edinburgh resembled a war zone as deranged drunken hun thugs went on a wrecking spree, terrorising foreign tourists who were over for the Edinburgh Festival. The Beast had well and truly stamped his arrival in Scottish football.
Sandy Jardine’s son being arrested and charged with the production and supply of drugs.
Graeme Souness's horrific two-footed tackle on Steaua Bucharest player, Dmitri Rotario, in March 1988 at The Death Star, which nearly ended the player's career. Predictably, the huns got gubbed (3-2) and turned the game into a brawl, as Steua dumped them out of the European Cup. Remebering the horrific tackle, Captain Shellsuit’s older hun brother Derek, winced when reminded of his former team-mates wanton thuggery : “I was on the bench for the first match in Romania when Ally McCoist played eight days after a knee operation. Hagi was superb that day, pulling all the strings from midfield and leading them to a 2-0 win. I played at Ibrox in the return but we lost an early goal and 3-0 was far too much to overturn. I was only a few yards away from Graeme and honestly could not believe what he had done. He could have ended the Romanian's career and myself and few of my team-mates all felt it wasn't right. After that, things started getting ugly, as tempers flared all over the pitch. Looking back, it was a pretty dreadful tackle – something which I’m sure Graeme himself would concede.”
Junkie thug Willie Johnstone being sent off in 1980 for deliberately stamping on the throat of fallen Aberdeen player John McMaster. Such was the brutality of Johnstone’s onfield assault, that McMaster had to be given the kiss of life on the pitch, to prevent him from dying. Rankers won the match 1-0, but their fans still rioted anyway. Incredible as it may seem, even some huns were disgusted at the brutality of Johnstone's cowardly violence.
Andy Goram turning on the Xmas lights in 1995 in one of the most vile, Catholic-hating, sectarian cesspits of the entire globe - the Loyalist Shankill Road. Goram is so obsessed with obsessed Loyalist terror groups, that his nickname in Northern Ireland is ‘The Flute’. Goram’s wife Tracey also recently revealed that he kept ‘a shrine’ in their home which included flags and banners about Loyalist terror groups, along with a flute mounted on a plinth.
Rankers icon Andy Gray cheating with the wife of his lifelong friend, whilst the man was away on business. Gray, who has fathered five children by four seperate women, cheated on his first wife just four months after mouthing his empty wedding vows.
Andy Goram wearing a black armband during a Celtic –v- Rankers match at Celtic Park in 1998, to mourn the ‘loss’ of Loyalist terrorist, and convicted drug-dealing thug Billy Wright. Bigoted Goram claimed the overt display of solidarity for the hated thug, known as King Rat, was a ‘delayed’ expression of mourning for his elderly ‘Aunt Doris’ who had passed away nearly one year earlier.
Andy Goram posing for photographs alongside numerous UVF Loyalist terrorists and thugs in front of their hate-banners. Rankers players including Jorg Albertz, Artur Numan, and Ronald De Boer also later attended a social function in the Middle East where numerous Loyalist terrorists were in attendance. Curiously, but not together unsurprisingly, the photographs of Goram were only printed by the Scottish media after he had left Rankers for another club.
Andy Goram's persistant alcohol abuse, gambling problems, sinister Loyalist associations, bankruptcy proceedings, womanising and marital break-ups – all done in the full glare of the media. Some folk really are short on dignity.
Andy Goram being arrested at gunpoint after becoming embroiled with drunken thugs on a flight from Italy, which was forced to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport. This was just one week prior to him joining his new club ………… Manchester United.
Paul Gascoigne’s disgusting and brutal domestic violence that left his wife bruised, battered, and physically injured. Staff at a Scottish 5* hotel were so horrified they immediately called the police, whereupon Sheryl Gascoigne was taken to hospital to have her injuries – including a fractured wrist and two black eyes - treated.
Paul Gascoigne's continuous drug and alcohol abuse culminating in him being sent home in shame from France 98 after he had hurled abuse at England manager Glenn Hoddle before storming out of the team camp at La Manga in Spain, leaving his luggage behind.
Paul Gascoigne defecating in the Away dressing-room Jacuzzi after a Hearts -v- Rankers Cup semi-final at Celtic Park.
Paul Gascoigne urinating on sleeping team-mate Eirk Bo Anderson.
Paul Gascoigne mimicking a Loyalist flute player, during a touchline warm-up, at Celtic Park in 1998, as bigoted Rankers fans sung an anti-Catholic hate anthem in time. Not just a bigot, but a dangerous one to boot. The clown-prince’s darker side was becoming harder to keep hidden.
Tore Andre Flo and Ronald de Boer posing for photographs with convicted sectarian murderer Michael Stone. Their claims of ignorance looked a little hollow in light of the fact that the murderous Stone was the much publicised ‘Star Guest’ that night.
Club Captain Lorenzo Amoruso racially abusing Nigerian striker Victor Ipkeba on the field of play, as they suffered yet another European humping – this time a UEFA Cup 3 - 1 away exit to Borussia Dortmund in Dec ‘99. Amoruso first denied that any such incident had ever taken place, before being forced into a humiliating climbdown, after learning the incident was recorded by a TV camera. Falsely claiming that he 'had only swore in Italian' - TV pictures clearly showed him mouthing the words ‘black bastard’ in English. A thug, a coward, a racist, and a liar - no wonder he was a shoe-in for the Captaincy at Dignity FC.
Club Captain Terry Butcher being caught on camera, kicking the Away dressing-room door off it's hinges after a 2-0 defeat at Celtic Park. Calm down Terry, it’s only a game.
Elephant Man, and unanimous winner of The Ugliest Man In Football Award – EVER !! Davie Dodds being flung out of the family home in Bearsden, and divorced by his wife, after he was caught cheating behind his wife’s back with a groupie called Jackie Webster. Quite what Miss Webster’s guide dog thought of the situation, is as yet unclear !!
Ally Maxwell singing ‘The Sash’ and rousing the gutter-scum during a substitutes warm-up against CSKA in the early 90's. Maxwell who was on the touchline, could clearly be seen singing the hate anthem, and encouraging his fellow simpleton reprobates to do likewise. This sort of disgraceful encouragement of sectarian degenerate behaviour would later be repeated by numerous bitter Rankers morons like Roberts, Durrant, Gascoigne, Ferguson, Malcolm, Vignal, Prso ……….
Club Captain Barry Ferguson getting embroiled in a drunken brawl at a local hotel with rival supporters, after his team had lost to Celtic. Instead of attempting to maintain a low profile - for professional as well as personal reasons - Ferguson went home, got changed, and went back out drinking at the same hotel where the previous incident had occurred. Predictably, further trouble ensued, and Ferguson was involved in a drunken brawl, and physical assault at a nearby fast-food takeaway.
Club Captain Barry Ferguson throwing an ice-pack at Celtic manager Martin O'Neill during a defeat at Ibrox. Calm down Barry, it’s only a game.
Fernando Ricksen having to be physically restrained by Strathclyde Police officers after they arrested him at his Newton Mearns home for drunk driving. Ricksen first claimed he could not speak English, and then that he had been at home all evening. The felled lamp-post, and damaged Telecom box - as well as the testament of a number of neighbours - suggested otherwise. Ricksen was later convicted of drunk driving and banned from driving for one year.
Fernando Ricksen viciously kicking Aberdeen player Darren Young on the field of play in 2000. Ricksen denied there was any malicious intent, until he was caught blatantly lying after having posted on his own website, that his primary intention was 'to teach him (Young) a lesson by straightening him out.' Ricksen was subsequently banned for three games for his act of thuggery.
Fernando Ricksen brutally albowing Hibernian youngster Derek Riordan in the face during a CIS Cup semi-final. Rankers showed their disgust at this kind of onfield violence, and vowed to stamp out such thuggery. They demonstrated their intent by fining Ricksen a whopping......er.....£10k – or half of one week’s wage.
Fernando Ricksen pushing club Chairman John McLelland into a hotel swimming pool, ruining his designer suit, mobile phone, digital camera, and £12k Cartier watch.
Fernando Ricksen being warned by police to curtail his nocturnal revellery after being reported by neighbours on his quiet residential estate for setting off extra-loud firework displays at 4:00am. Ricksen further showed his contempt for the law by replacing his nocturnal pyrotechnics with rowdy 5:00am trampolining sessions with a gaudy Page-3 model he picked up whilst his wife had left the marital home on the grounds of his infantile behaviour. He thanked his neighbours for their concern by slagging them off in a Rankers-friendly down-market tabloid, and accusing them of the heinous crimes of 'being in bed by 11:00pm' and being ‘too quiet.'
Graham Roberts orchestrating bigoted Rankers fans in a rendition of a sectarian anthem at Ibrox. The game resulted in a brawl that included two Rankers players being charged and convicted of Affray, and Incitement To Cause A Breach Of The Peace. The convicted thug would later go on to establish himself as a firm favourite with the club’s gutter-scum element by repeatedly behaving in an exceptionally thuggish, provocative, antagonistic, and aggressive manner whenever he and his fellow ‘hammer-throwers’ (© Jan Bartram) came up against Celtic.
Nuno Capucho being ejected from a Glasgow nightclub after exposing himself to a female guest, and then accosting her by attempting to have her participate in his drunken sexual act. The fact that he is a married man seems to have been lost on him. Onfield, Capucho proved to be one of the worst players ever to pull on the tarnished blue jersey, as well as being perhaps the biggest diver ever to have played in Scottish football – aside Dado Prso that is.
Kevin 'Billy' Muscat blatantly diving and feigning injury during a match at Firhill in order to have a Partick Thistle player (Gerry Britton) shown a red card. Self-proclaimed hardman Muscat, was nick-named Billy by his team-mates because the name Kevin sounded 'too Catholic' - a kind-hearted gesture they had previously bestowed upon Kevin Drinkell, and Kevin ‘Ted’ McMinn. In later years, Muscat was made Team Captain of Wimbledon FC by Dennis Wise. ‘Nuff said.
Duncan Ferguson being convicted and imprisoned for his brutal and unprovoked head-butt attack on Raith Rovers player John McStay at Ibrox in 1994. Ferguson was sentenced to three months in Barlinnie, and banned for twelve games by the SFA. In total, Ferguson has been convicted of assault, no less than four times. That is aside his other convictions of course, which include drunk driving. His convictions meant he was unable to travel to America with new club Everton, due to being a convicted felon and repeat offender.
Graeme Souness being involved in numerous onfield incidents, in which he was frequently red-carded. His brutal style of play earned him the nickname of 'The Beast', and many players (George McLuskey, Billy Stark, Frank McGarvey) were the subject of his particularly nasty and brutal blend of football tackle. His brutality wasn't reserved purely for the football field however, and he once had to be physically restrained after lunging towards, and threatening a 60 year old tea-lady, during a heated confrontation at McDiarmid Park, just before a game –v- St Johnstone.
Graeme Souness - not being able to buy European success – deciding to try building a team of brutes who then sought to kick their way to victory. His signings (and legacy) included some of the most over-physical players in the entire game at that time (Terry Hurlock, Basile Boli, Derek Ferguson, Graeme Roberts...... narrowly failing to capture Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce) Thankfully for football's sake he failed miserably, and even ex-players slated his brutal tactics, with Jan Bartram once commenting that Souness “wasn’t trying to build a footballing side, but a team of hammer-throwers” and had told his players to “deliberately kick opponents.” In a scathing attack, Bartram also denounced Souness as “a beast” and “a hooligan.” No-one likes them, they don’t care.
Ian Durrant and Ted McMinn assaulting a man in Dumfries during an argument in the early hours of the morning. It was probably coincidence that the man happened to be wearing a crucifix.
John Brown singing '..up to our knees in Fenian blood..." as he joined in with the sectarian hate-mongers after a game against Club Brugge in 1993.
The provocative and undignified 'mock huddle' by Rankers players on winning the League title. Far from being content and celebrating their win, they obviously felt the requirement to antagonise their opponents by stooping to new depths and confrontational gestures. The condemnation by football authorities was deafening in it's silence.
Club-Captain and serial grogger Lorenzo Amoruso being found guilty of spitting on Ayr United striker James Grady and hammered with a four-match ban. The greasy-grogger seems to have a problem keeping his big ugly gob shut, after being caught live on TV committing one of the cowardliest, most dispicable acts one can, atop a football field. Amoruso was slammed with a mandatory two-match ban, but because his disciplinary record was so dire, the additional 12 disciplinary points incurred a further two-match ban. Rankers only comment on the subject was by Gingerbaws bemoaning the ‘loss’ of this thuggish, cowardly, excuse for a human being.
Alex Rae’s disgusting and brutal assault on CSKA Moscow player Sergei Dadu in a UCL qualifier in August ’04. In a dangerous and unpardonable assault - when Dadu was lying vulnerable and defenceless, face-down on the ground - Rae twice aimed kicks to the player’s head – leaving him with concussion, in a act graphically captured by TV cameras. Rae’s later denial and sickening justification for his act of thuggery just added insult to injury, insulted the intelligence of anyone who witnessed the brutality, and merely confirmed his lack of restraint and remorse. Claiming that "their player put his head down. If anything, it was a dangerous act on his part. That's the end of the matter as far as I am concerned" – Rae failed to mention that it was him who had fouled the player to the ground in the first place. Despite receiving the backing of his under-fire manager, in a sickening act of tacit approval, Rae was charged with Gross Sporting Misconduct by UEFA and hammered with a 5-Match European ban. In a further act of remorselessness, desperation, and outright refusal to accept responsibility for such a thuggish assault, McLeish and Rae appealed the ban. They needn’t have bothered. Luckily for Rae the assault never happened outwith a football stadium, or he would have rightly been facing a lengthy prison term. Rae later boasted in an Xmas interview on Radio Snyde that “if I’d meant to kick Dadu at close range, he would never have gotten up again”. Obviously talking from experience.
Gingerbaws being forced to issue a warning to Grogory Vaginal to stop diving, all over the park, at every opportunity. Whilst this form of cheating will always be acceptable at The Death Star, and an integral part of hun culture – The Rankers Way - Vaginal’s over-the-top embarrasing theatrics were quite obviously becoming to blatant, and too extreme to be ignored.
Bob Malcolm autographing a fan’s match programme with the initials FTP below his signature. This is the self same Bob Malcolm who told disgusted travelling fans to ‘go fuck themselves’ after they had the temerity to complain about Rankers pathetic 1-0 humbling by Portuguese minnows Maritimo – a privilege for which those fans had forked out some £500.00 each for. Malcolm seems oblivious to the fact that it is those people who pay his grossly over-inflated wages, and those self-same people that are constantly being asked to be ‘the 12th man’ in vital games. On arrival back at Glasgow Airport, Strathclyde Police were waiting for Malcolm with a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court for trial over a number of motoring offences.
Boab 'FTP' Malcolm being arrested and held in police custody overnight for motoring offences just two weeks after he was fined £250 for speeding on the M74. Malcolm was arrested after a warrant to detain him was issued at Glasgow District Court, when he failed to appear to face a number of charges including failing to produce his documents at a police station when requested, and driving without insurance. After appearing in the dock, handcuffed to a Reliance security guard, Malcolm was bailed, and driven away by a Rankers official. Curiously, he had no Loyalist battle anthems to sing, and was also very reluctant to sign any 'FTP' autographs for those loitering outside the courthouse. Strange that - he's perfectly happy to do it on every other occaision.
Shota Arveladze being shown on live TV racially abusing Bobo Balde on the field of play.
Stephen Hughes being stopped for speeding outside a local school, only for police to find out he didn’t have any insurance either. He was later convicted, fined £450.00, and had his license endorsed. Hughes’s previous plaudits include being punched in the face whilst involved in a mass brawl inside a Lanarkshire nightclub, and having a stand up fight with a woman who had to take off her stiletto shoe to defend herself.
Bob ‘FTP’ Malcolm being escorted from the Ibrox dug-out by two police officers during a CIS Cup tie for making an obscene gesture towards the Celtic officials in the Away dug-out. Malcolm escaped further censure but was given a stern warning by the Match Commander who pointed out that any repeat of his offensive and inflammatory conduct would result in an immediate arrest.
Celtic reject Nacho Novo deliberately stamping on Stephen Pearson's neck, as the young Celtic player lay on the ground. Think he might still be a wee bit bitter at being told he wasn’t good enough to get a starting place in the Celtic team.
Fernando Ricksen’s airey-fairey, pie-in-the-sky notions that he is regarded as some kind of folk hero back at his former club AZ Alkmaar. Ricksen was brought back to earth with a bump after some scathing revelations from his former team-mates. Current players at the Dutch ‘giants’ (capacity 10,000 !!!) were’nt slow to reveal what they thought of the man whom the scum-buckets idolize. Indicating the sort of sentiment with which Ricksen is held in the AZ dressing room, midfielder Barry van Galen described Ricksen as ‘a raving lunatic’ and ‘crazy’, whilst Striker Jose Fortes Rodriguez revealed that after spotting Ricksen and his vulgar-looking wife in Amsterdam recently, he actually crossed the street to avoid having to talk to them. Rodriguez went on to further slur Ricksen as ‘the least respected player in Holland’ after describing how he had deliberately and viciously stamped on the neck of AZ team-mate Barry Opdam during a training match. This was corroberated by pictures shown on Dutch TV. On returning to Alkmaar for a European tie in Nov ’04 – in which the huns predictably got gubbed – Ricksen was jeered repeatedly, and got so much stick from the home fans, he must have wondered if Neil Lennon had strayed onto the park. No-one likes them, they don’t care !!
Cammy Fraser flicking the V-sign at the home support in the 80's after they boo-ed him for being garbage.
Former hero Scott Nisbet being charged with two counts of common assault after beating up his girlfriend Jaqueline Rae at their home in Bonnyrigg, after worried neighbours phoned the police. Cowardly Nisbet slapped Rae repeatedly, punched her on the neck, and flung her against a wall, causing her to be physically sick. The shamed coward only escaped a jail sentence when Rae miraculously decided she no longer wanted to proceed with the charges. This remarkable u-turn of course, had nothing to do with the engagement ring that Nisbet cynically introduced to the proceedings. Nisbets first wife divorced him amidst bitter allegations of violence, assault, spousal abuse, and property damage. He joins a shameful list of notorious, cowardly, wife-beating, Rankers players including Gascoigne, Goram and Ricksen.
Craig Moore being questioned by police after racially abusing a Glasgow taxi-driver outside Queen St Station on Hogmanay. Moore attempted to barge ahead in the queue, and launched a tirade of rascist abuse at the driver who refused to carry him, when others had quite obviously been waiting longer. Moore’s arrogance got the better of him, and he called the driver ‘a greedy p*ki bastard’. A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said : "We can confirm that a 35year-old taxi driver has made a complaint against a man who allegedly racially abused him. It is alleged that the incident took place around 3.30am on Saturday, 1 January, in Royal Exchange Court, near to Queen Street Station in Glasgow. Police inquiries are ongoing."
Sleazy creep Nacho Novo having an illicit affair with the girlfriend of a team-mate who had taken him into his home when he first arrived in Scotland. Novo was unfamiliar with the country, and struggled to speak the language, until Raith Rovers midfielder Ross Mathieson invited him to stay at his home until he became a bit more familiar with life at the Kirkcaldy club. Slimy Novo thanked him for his hospitality, by having an illicit affair with Mathieson's girlfriend of six years, Donna Clark, in his own home. The tawdry affair cost Mathieson his relationship. With friends like Novo, who needs enemies, eh ?!
Gregory Vignal assaulting a ballboy at Celtic Park, by pushing him out of the way as the boy was retrieving the ball. The lad was left shaken and visibly upset, after being bundled out of the way by the French defender, who now adds bullying children to his list of pastimes which already include diving, and antagonising rival fans. Another wannabe jaffa, who plays to the gallery, knowing that the Death Star is one of the few places on the planet where talentless thugs like him are lionised.
David Robertson walking out on his wife and two kids, to set up a plush love-nest with one of his wife’s best friends. Just to make sure he shat on her good and proper, he chose the day of her birthday to do it.
Ian Ferguson spitting on team-mate Gordan petric during an onfield bust up.
Club Captain Fernando Ricksen causing a near riot at Celtic Park, by antagonising opposition fans with inflammatory gestures as he prepared to take a corner kick. Simply taking the corner kick would have been too easy for the man with the wild staring eyes, so to stir things up a bit, he decided a few inflammatory gestures were the order of the day. In the ensuing rage, Ricksen claimed he was struck by a small object thrown from the crowd. Whilst any form of missile-throwing cannot be condoned, has it ever entered this whacko's thick head, that if he continues to behave in a hostile, provocative, and inflammatory manner, it should come as no surprise that people respond angrily ?!
Stephen Hughes being arrested for breach of the peace, police assault, resisting arrest, and urinating in a public place, after a drunken night out in his home town of Motherwell. Hughes repeatedly shouted and swore at two officers as they questioned him for urinating in a shop doorway, after a win against Celtic in November ’04. When warned about his behaviour, Hughes became abusive and was subsequently arrested. As the officers escorted him to a police car, he lashed out at them, kicking, and punched one of them in the neck. The incident was considered serious enough for a Sheriff to demand that Hughes appear before him for sentencing. Hughes was later warned about the seriousness of his conduct and fined £200.00. Even in victory these scumbags lack dignity.
Being slated by Captain Shellsuit, on his return after a failed sojourn at Premiership strugglers Blackburn, as ‘a disgrace’ and ‘not fit to wear the Rankers jersey’ after yet another woeful league performance. You know you’ve hit rock-bottom when a failure starts criticising you !!
Diving cheat Sotirios Kyrgiakos being slated by SFA Executive Referee Brian McGinlay after his theatrical leap at Tynecastle, which resulted in the huns being awarded a 93rd minute penalty. The award enabled them to cheat their way to a win, at a time when they were under intense pressure from Hearts – and were hanging on to their SPL hopes by their fingernails.
Gordon Durie being charged with assaulting a British Transport police officer (Keith Lang) at Waverley Station in Edinburgh, by punching him, and grabbing him by the throat. Durie was also charged with committing a breach of the peace, by struggling with police officers, shouting, swearing, behaving in a disorderly manner, brawling with someone unidentified and making violent threats. Durie's accomplice hooligan, Paul Mooney, was charged with the same breach of the peace, punching and kicking transport police officer Graham Miller, and headbutting transport police officer Steven Pitblado in the face. Durie later pled guilty and was fined.
Club Vice-Catptain Alex Rae cheating on his wife, fathering a love-child, and then denying all knowledge of the affair, or that the child was his. After being reported to the CSA, Rae was forced to take a DNA test, and was subsequently confirmed as the father of the child he ignores and rejects. Rae was later forced to pay £10,000 per annum towards the girl's upkeep and schooling - and still rejects the child as his own.
Signing Kevin ‘Billy’ Muscat, despite him being sued for a horror tackle that ended the career of former Charlton Athletic midfielder Matt Holmes. Holmes suffered a horrific leg-break after the brutal challenge by the self-styled hardman Muscat, in an FA Cup match in 1998. A statement issued by Matt Holmes’ lawyer read : "I am scarred for life, both physically and mentally. My career ended a year to the day after that challenge from Muscat. I was only 29 and it was heartbreaking. My claim is based on the income I have lost as a result of my injury, and I owe it to my family to fight the case because they have suffered as well." In later years, Muscat administered long term injuries to numerous others including Craig Bellamy (12 months) and Christophe Dugarry (6 months). Not surprisingly, Muscat and his unique talents were welcomed to The Death Star with open arms.
Dado Prso being filmed on the official Rankers team bus singing ‘Hello Hello’ as the sectarian hate anthem blared in the background. This is despite a large percentage of those on board being Catholic. Bizarre people.
Sandy Clark trying to con parents into buying school sports uniforms from a company he owns, by getting his sister-in-law (a head-mistress) to slag off Asda, and suggest that parents buy from Clark's company (the imaginatively titled SC Sports Clothing) instead. What she failed to mention was that she was on Clark's payroll, and was receiving back-handers for touting his company as the 'official' uniform supplier. Huns and sleaze, eh – they make Tory politicians look like Boy Scouts.
Spanish misfit Mikel Arteta being pursued by Sheriff Officers and having litigation proceedings instigated against him after he failed to pay a £592 electricity bill from Scottish Power. Despite earning £35k per week, and despite numerous letters and attempts at contact, the sheepish midfielder remained evasive, and failed to offer payment for the outstanding debt.
Gingerbaws slating superstar dud Peter Lovetodive for refusing to GTF despite being told he has no future at The Death Star, but is still eating up a wage that the cash-strapped huns can ill afford. Describing Lovelypants as in need of “a fresh challenge” and “needing to restore his tarnished reputation” Gingerbaws tried to be diplomatic, whilst trying to tell the over-rated duffer that he was nothing but an over-paid liability, who simply can’t, or won’t take a hint. Interest in Lovelypants from other clubs has been deafening by it’s silence, yet this is the same Lovetodive that the Daily Retard told us was being tracked by Barcelona and Inter Milan. Slating the embarrasing dud, Gingerbaws went on to state “Peter Lovenkrands lost his form last season. He knows that we think it's right that he goes for a fresh challenge somewhere else. He has a lot to prove to get to the level of wages he is at next season. If he has another season like the last one then his reputation will plummet."
Skinny rat-faced thug Sandy Robertson being sentenced to 6 months in Barlinnie for a cowardly and brutal attack on a doorman at The Dome nightclub in Edinburgh. The attack left the man fighting for his life, after Robertson and a crowd of his drunken hun hangers-on, repeatedly kicked and stamped on the lone bouncer, as he lay on the ground. Robertson liked to think of himself as a hardman, but the cardboard gangster was frequently on the receiving end of beatings from team-mates and others.
Former player Stuart Beattie being suspended from his current job after serious allegations that he brutalised and battered youngsters in his care, whilst employed at Kerelaw secure unit for problem children. Beattie – who played in the 80’s alongside the likes of McCoist, Ferguson, and Durrant – is accused of using outlawed restraining holds and participating in a regime of brutality wherein children were battered into compliance by those supposed to be helping them.
Andy Goram being convicted - again - of drink-driving and being banned for 3 years, and fined £1250. The Loyalist-terrorist-sympathising, wife-beating, Ibrox icon was stopped near his home in Langbank, and found to be more than two times over the limit. After discovering to his cost that not every constable in the Traffic Police is a member of The Brotherhood, Goram was arrested and charged. The Flying Pig was first convicted of drink-driving in 1995, when he was banned for 18 months. Some people simply never learn.
Hun icon Paul Gascoigne being accused by Kettering chairman Imraan Ladak of being drunk in charge of the team at numerous Conference games, and of being drunk 37 days out of the 39 days he was in charge. In an uncompromising statement, Ladak angrily urged the FA to investigate the matter, stating : "Unfortuntately, Paul Gascoigne has been under the influence of alcohol before, during and after several first team games and training sessions. This has been noticeable to the board of directors, players, coaching staff and sections of the media. I personally, have asked both the referee and fourth official to report on this, and have myself also filed a report with the FA." Later that day ………..
Drunken and aggressive bigot Paul Gascoigne being arrested for assaulting photographer Steve Farrell outside a Liverpool hotel. As he was being led away in handcuffs, the clown prince of Ibrox brazenly boasted that he openly drank before matches, involving Conference side Kettering, where he was sacked by chairman Imraan Ladak earlier in the day, for 'being drunk 37 days out of the 39 days he was in charge'. Reacting to accusations that he had been routinely drinking before recent matchs, an aggressive Gascoigne boasted : "So what ? I had a couple of double brandies before the game. Before it used to be four bottles of whisky. It's not any more." The icon to thousands of Kinning Park knuckledraggers was arrested in the early hours of the morning, following the assault on the photographer, a few hours after the announcement of the bitter and acrimonious split with Kettering. After the assault, the imaginary flute-player was found sleeping in a nearby doorway, clutching a bottle of wine, before Merseyside’s finest arrived to offer him some rather more sheltered accomodation for the night.
Former defender and dressing room wallet-thief Hugh Burns being barred from Dalmilling Golf Club after he hurled sectarian abuse at two elderly club members. Burns turned up late for a tournament, and when told that he could not play, went into a sectarian rant, and hurled bigoted abuse at the elderly tournament officials. Details of whether their wallets were still present afterwards, are as yet unknown.
Dado Prso being charged with dangerous driving, after he cut up another motorist and jumped a red light on Crow Rd, near his home in the hun enclave of Bearsden. PoorShow, who pled guilty by letter, was ordered to appear for sentencing on October 12th, when he was fined £250 for his dignified behaviour behind the wheel.
A desperado Captain Shellsuit being booked for diving in the box as the huns slipped 11 points behind Hearts in a 1-0 gubbing at Swinecastle.
Clown prince Paul Gascoigne’s PR firm going bust and leaving a trail of unpaid debts. The fat boozebag wife-beating bigot isn’t quite as popular as he once was with the Brit arse-lickers and loyalist hun hoardes who laughed at him in his hey-day. Now that demand for the junkie washout has dried up, and sales of his dreary autobiography have slowed to a crawl, his imaginatively titled company Paul Gascoigne Promotions has been forced into liquidation with debts on the wrong side of a staggering £100,000.
Serial rocket, Fernando The Commando being thrown out of the Holland squad by The Little Genital for kicking in his locked hotel room door during an early morning drunken rampage following a 2-0 win over Belarus in October 2003. This is the same psycho who has been 'turning over a new leaf' for nearly six years now, according to his hun arse-licking mates in the Scottish meeja. Once a drunken violent psycho with mad staring eyes, always a drunken violent psycho with mad staring eyes.
Gordon Smith and Mark Hateley refusing to accept any form of responsibility for their bankrupt company which left Scottish tax-payers with a £15,000 bill to foot. At the hint of a penny to be made, Smith and Hateley were quick to accept directorships of the disasterous 'Legends' footballing series company, but weren't quite so visible when the company crashed leaving others to foot the massive Strathclyde Police bill. Dignity all the way brothers.
Desperado cheat, Dado Prso being booked for diving – yet again – after taking a blatant swan-dive against ‘pub team’ Artmedia Bratislava.
Peter Lovetodive being awarded 0/10 for his match performance against ICT by the Sunday Times Sport Section.
Fernando The Commando being threatened with legal action by his property agent for continuously and selfishly using his neighbour’s private parking space – as well as his own. Neighbour from hell Ricksen has ignored repeated requests not to park his car in his neighbour’s space at Lancefield Quay, and now faces the prospect of legal action.
Peter Lovelypants and Derek ‘Pieman’ Johnstone conducting a public slanging match after The Fat One dared to criticise Lovetodive for being a hopeless duffer, and impersonating a footballer. Lovenkrands hit back by accusing The Fat One of biting the hand that feeds him, and for not having a clue as to what he was talking about. If you ask me, they’re both right ! Two Rankers legends washing the club’s dirty laundry in public – doesn’t get any more dignified than that.
Fanny Jeffers being arrested by Merseyside Police after he racially abused a taxi-driver whilst on a visit back to his home town of Ormskirk. The jug-eared hun may have been merely carrying on a dishonourable Rankers tradition. Craig Moore was arrested almost a year to the day for the exact same offence outside Queen St Station when he tried to jump the taxi queue on Hogmanay.
Ibrox reject, Maurice Ross being arrested and charged with a Breach Of The Peace after he tried to attack his girlfriend at her home in East Kilbride. He was only prevented after her father intervened, and flung him out of the house. Ross was later arrested, and after a night in the cells, appeared handcuffed and flanked by two Reliance security guards at Hamilton Sheriff Court. Ross joins a long line of Ibrox thugs with a penchant for battering their spouses, including Nisbet, Goram, Gascoigne and Ricksen.
Signing Moses Ashikodi, the thug who pulled a knife on former Millwall team mate Mark McCammon during a row in the club’s training ground canteen. Ashikodi, who was sacked by Millwall after the incident has since become a social pariah, failing to find a home at either Gillingham or West Ham, who were left decidely unimpressed by either his talents with a knife, or a ball. Not surprisingly, the violent no-mark was welcomed with opened arms by Scotland’s most tarnished club. Dubbed ‘the new Nacho Novo’ – whatever that means - blademan Ashikodi featured for an outstanding 3 minutes for Rankers before being shown the door. He was last heard of struggling to find a bench place at Watford.
Midfield clogger Ally Dawson being sent off for the second successive year ('84 & '85) after a 5-1 mauling by Aberdeen at Pittodrie.
Terrorist-sympathiser and UVF supporter Andy Goram being threatened with bankruptacy after running up a string of unpaid debts and trying to avoid paying them. The Flying Pig was threatened by his bank with legal action unless he repaid a list of debts acrued whilst still trying to live the high life, despite being a jaded has-been. The debts included £8000 owed to a former landlord and £6000 owed to the First National finance company for a car he bought – despite being in the middle of his second ban for drunk-driving.
Elephant Man, Davie Dodds being chased by bankruptacy lawyers for the Bank Of Scotland for unpaid debts totalling more than £76,000, after the failure of his Dundee pub Rendezvous.
Dado Prso suggesting that the drunken hooligan huns who smashed the Villarreal team bus window, were Villarreal fans dressed in hun shirts. Mad, bad, and sad.
Kris Boyd gloating about the managerial turmoil at Hearts, and saying Rankers should take every advantage they can to benefit from the situation. Boyd urged Rankers to ‘cash in on the managerial upheaval at Hearts’ ; to ‘take full advantage’ of the unsettlement ; and was hoping ‘they dropped points’ during the crisis, which Rankers would benefit from. Nice to see the sporting spirit is still alive and kicking at The Lava Pit.
Sotirios 'Been At The Mushrooms Again' Kyrgiakos saying that Rankers ‘deserved’ to be SPHell champions, despite them languishing an incredible 23 points behind Champions Celtic, 6 points behind Hearts, and having spent most of the season languishing mid-table, and fighting off challenges from the likes of Hibs, Aberdeen, and Kilmarnock.
Peter Lovelypants being slated in a Times article entitled Named And Shamed : The Divers Who Blight Football In Scotland. Lovelypants was heavily criticised for both his penalty box theatrics, and his blatant act of cheating, which saw a fellow professional red-carded. The article stated : 'The Rankers winger cannot stay on his feet when he goes past defenders. His reputation as an actor goes back to that Rankers v Celtic game last season when he got Alan Thompson sent off for a headbutt that was more Glasgow Miss than Glasgow Kiss.’
Sotirios Kyrgiakos being slated in a Times article entitled Named And Shamed : The Divers Who Blight Football In Scotland. The Diving Greek, aka The Diving Ponytail, was heavily criticised as : ‘The man who crashes to the floor quicker than plates at a Greek wedding’ and ‘The Premierleague’s most addicted diver.’ The article went on to further slate The Greek Cheat by stating : "The Rankers defender will dive anywhere on the pitch — one of his three dismissals this term, at Dundee United, included the habitual yellow for diving — but it is the former Panathinaikos player’s persistent use of the new curse, diving while in possession of the ball and running towards your own goal, usually with a forward just behind, that is the most irritating. Alex McLeish had to tell one of Kyrgiakos’s former Ibrox colleagues, Gregory Vignal, to stop diving last season. One can only assume the long-haired Greek did not listen in this season. His repetitive simulation has become tiresome. If Roberto Baggio was the Divine Ponytail who embodied the beautiful game, it is Kyrgiakos, the Diving Ponytail, who is helping to scar its face."
Ronald WatteryArse lauching an absolutely scathing attack on the club, and his fellow players for the way Gingerbaws had been treated, and for the way in which so-called professional footballers conspired to rid the Legoland dressing-room of The Ginger Fool. In a no-holds-barred attack, WatteryArse claimed : “He has been badly let down by lots of big players as they'd had more than enough of him. If he said 'left', they said 'right'. Their attitude was, 'He'll dig his own grave and we'll get rid of him.’ If I had been the trainer in this situation, I'd have left immediately, telling them where to go, and kept my own dignity. They are now busy presenting the new coach with lots of noise and fuss, giving him millions to spend when they should have done that at the beginning of the season. The way that they treated McLeish was shameful, an utter disgrace, especially when you hear that they wanted a new trainer last October. It is unbelievable, and a disgraceful way to do business - making a fool of this trainer for six months." Despite being asked to stay by incoming boss Le Guen, Waterreus said : "Being perfectly honest, I'm counting down the games till the end of the season. I cant wait to leave the club."
Club legend Colin Stein being filmed at a Loyalist function in Airdrie Town Hall playing a Lambeg drum and singing the UVF anthem 'Here Lies A Soldier' accompanied by a Loyalist flute band. The sash-up, hosted by the 177 Masonic Club took place only days before Rankers were investigated by UEFA for sectarian and discriminatory chanting. Quite obviously, whilst the rest of the country try their utmost to rid society of this cancer, the institution that is Rankers FC do their utmost to promote it.
Graham Roberts being sacked for 'gross misconduct' by Clyde FC after being found to have made racist and anti-Semitic remarks, during the club's end-of-season tour of Canada in 2006. The former Death Star choirmaster - a legend in the eyes of the sectarian knuckledraggers - had his contracted terminated, after a three-month long internal investigation found him to be guilty of making anti-Jewish remarks, and also of perpetrating a culture of bullying at the Broadwood club. Announcing his sacking, a club official stated : "Following a full and comprehensive investigation into allegations made against the team manager, Graham Roberts, arising from events during the team's close season tour in Canada, the board have upheld the decision to terminate the contract of Graham Roberts as team manager for gross misconduct. It has been a long and thorough investigation and one where the legal advice was to make no comment at any time. This was done with the sole intention of protecting our club and we would now ask our supporters to get behind our young team and help them and Joe Miller move forward from what has been a rather unpleasant and discouraging experience for all of us." Hun icon Roberts branded a rival fan as 'Jew-boy', saying said he would put him 'in a gas chamber' and also called an opposition player with dreadlocks 'pineapple-head'. His litany of hunnic abuse continued when he ordered a disabled wheelchair-using fan to 'shut the fuck up or I'll let your tyres down' and ended by making donkey noises at opposing players.
Fernando The Commando being sent home in disgrace from Rankers ’06 pre-season tour of South Africa - before his feet had even touched African soil. The Kung-Fu Kid had a heated altercation with an air stewardess, before throwing a drink over her. The psycho-rocket had opened a bottle of Duty Free on the plane, despite club officials ordering that no alcohol was to be served. New manager Pepe Le Pew was said to be seething with the latest drunken exploits of the serial rocket, and sent him packing immediately. If only one of his predecessors would have shown the same courage, the rest of Scottish football might not have had to endure this embarassing, thuggish, undignified, drunken hooligan for as long as they have had to. Ricksen was last heard of checking into a London rehab and addiction centre - the Sporting Chance Clinic - for enforced treatment to cure his penchant for excessive amounts of vodka, Class A drugs, and being a total schitzo who is wired to the moon. On his release, The Commando managed to find a club who hadn’t heard about his psychotic behaviour – in the farthest reaches of St Petersberg, Russia – ironically the home of vodka, his favourite moon juice.
Rankers youth player Ian Watt, being charged and found guilty of viciously assaulting his teenage girlfriend, following a violent brawl outside Legoland. Ian Watt, of William Mann Drive, Newton Mearns, head-butted and punched Demi Feeney, causing her to fall and suffer further injuries, and also head-butted another 15-year-old girl during the same cowardly assault. He was later arrested, charged with assault and breach of the peace, and taken to the domestic abuse court at Glasgow Sheriff Court. With so many wife-beaters at the club, is it any wonder that the huns of tomorrow are learning from the examples set by their predecessors ?
Alcoholic wife-beater Paul Gascoigne being involved in a late-night brawl in London's Groucho Club after falling off the wagon, and attacking Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. After a series of insults were hurled at Gallagher - who was in the middle of recording an interview - punches were thrown, and drunken has-been Gascoigne, was ejected by security staff. Seems like the clown prince is having difficulty dealing with the fact that his odious fizzog is no longer required in the spotlight anymore.
Andy Goram being divorced by his wife Miriam, after she caught him having sex with a girl in the couple’s family car. Despite having to declare herself bankrupt as a result, and despite the divorce leaving her with debts of over £350,000, Miriam still threw The Flying Pig out on his cheating fat arse. Obviously better to be skint and single, than be married to a cheating, sleazy, boozebag, sectarian knob-end.
Racist hun thug Craig Moore being barred in shame from taking part in Australia's October 2006 clash with Paraguay, and sent home from Australia in disgrace. Moore missed the team flight to Brisbane, due to being too drunk to get out of his bed. In a dreadful show of unprofessionalism, the man who was supposed to Captain the team the following day, had spent the previous night boozing at Sydney's Star City Casino, and staggered back to his hotel in the early hours of the morning. He was so drunk the following morning, that he slept through his scheduled alarm call, and missed the team flight. The Football Federation Australia, also banned him from representing the national team in their next match, an Asian Cup qualifier against Bahrain at Sydney's Aussie Stadium five days later. Moore was immediatley sent back to England in shame. Socceroos caretaker coach Graham Arnold, told waiting journalists : "It remains to be seen whether this is the end for Craig Moore. I've had two chats with him and he understands his mistakes. I'm very disappointed in his actions and I take discipline very seriously. We have a code of conduct and it has to be respected. His reasons for missing the plane and therefore missing training, are wholly unacceptable. His actions are not consistent with the behaviour we expect of our professional players."
Bigoted, violent, aggressive, wife-beater Paul Gascoigne, being thrown out of an after-match VIP party for trying to drunkenly attack one of the guests, Leo Ihenacho, who had been a contestant on a previous reality TV show (Love Island), alongside Gascoigne’s estranged step-daughter Bianca. The clown prince of drunks was only prevented from assaulting Ihenacho by Newcastle idol Peter Reid, after he screamed across the room : “You shagged Bianca, and I’m gonna fucking kill you !” The party took place at Newcastle’s trendy Living Room bar, where celebrities were partying after taking part in a Celebrities v Legends match earlier in the day at St James’s Park. One of the guests later commented : “Gazza was like a madman. He was drunk, and had earlier been harrassing a blonde woman, trying to ‘dirty-dance’ her. Then Leo came up and introduced himself as a massive Spurs fan, and Gascoigne seemed to lose the plot. He lunged at Leo, screaming that he was going to ‘tear him apart’ and calling him ‘a fucking c**t’. He was ranting about his daughter, and was hell-bent on harming Leo.” As the wife-beater was being ejected via the front door, Ihenacho was being spirited out the back door, but was spotted by Gascoigne, who then followed him to his hotel. Intent on harming Ihenacho, the hun icon was only prevented from entering the hotel by the resident security officers. The programme’s producers immediately moved Ihenacho to another hotel for his own safety.
Hun thug and Legoland idol Kevin ‘Billy’ Muscat being sent off for attacking an opposition team’s coach inside the technical area, during an A-League match with his new club Melbourne Victory, at Melbourne's Telstra Dome. Muscat entered the technical area, and assaulted Adelaide United team coach, John Kosmina, by grabbing him by the throat and knocking him off his seat. Knuckledragger icon Muscat will face a disciplinary hearing, a spokesman for the FFA (Football Federation Australia) said. held Melbourne Victory player Kevin Muscat round the neck after the player knocked the coach off his seat as they scuffled for the ball during an A-League match on Sunday. Muscat had to be dragged off the former assistant Socceroos coach by other players and officials, before Adelaide went on to win 1-0. In a statement, Matt Carroll – Head of Operations at the FFA said : “The sort of behaviour that we observed is unacceptable and not appropriate. We have set a very high standard of behaviour for all coaches and players and this sort of incident will not be tolerated in the A-League. Kosmina, who was sent tumbling from his seat at pitchside, angrily denounced the former Rankers thug. “ Idon't like being assaulted. I went to pick up the ball, and got wiped out by this moron for no apparent reason. He's not supposed to come into our technical area.” Muscat could face a lengthy ban and fine during the hearing to be held in Sydney. Once a rabid hun thug ………..
No-mark defender Alan Hutton being refused entry to The Shed nightclub in Shawlands for being a drunken arrogant tosser, before taunting the doormen about their wages, and bragging about how much money he earns. When knocked-back, Hutton asked the doormen : "Do you know who I am ?!", before being hit with the reply : "Aye, you're that useless, pish, Rankers defender - and you're still not getting in !". Hutton went on to then taunt the doormen for 'being on a fiver an hour', before mouthing off about his own wages. He further displayed how much of a wanker he really is, by throwing a bunch of COINS (!!!) at them. The Shed management later confirmed that Hutton has been banned for life, and would not be admitted back into the club. The dignified outburst happened after the huns had been skelped 1-0 by ICT in their ain midden, earlier in the day. All in all, not a good day to be a stinking reprobate hun, but then again, when is ?!
Paul Gascoigne being arrested after punching and kicking a man in a London nightclub. The fat drunken wife-beater was arrested in the early hours of the morning in South Kensington, and charged with actual bodily harm, after being questioned at a south-west London police station. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said : "Police were called at approximately 0340 GMT by a 43-year-old man who alleged that he had been assaulted by another man at a club in South Kensington. Following further inquiries, a 39-year-old man was arrested at a separate club nearby at 0415 GMT and is currently in custody on suspicion of actual bodily harm.
Ex-hun, and much trumpeted Catholic signing, John Spencer being sued by Murderwell FC for failing to pay back a £400,000 loan he was given in 1998. Litigation proceedings were initiated, and the papers were lodged at Hamilton Sheriff Court, by the club’s legal representatives.
Captain Shellsuit storming out of Murray Park with his training gear in a black bin bag, after being stripped of the team Captaincy by Bleu Le Goon.
Diving, badge-kissing, hun wannabee Nacho NoHope being banned from his local Renfrewshire nightclub ‘Word Up’ for causing problems each and every time he went there. Eventually club bosses felt that he ‘simply wasn’t worth all the hassle’ and gave him his marching orders. See ya, sleazeball.
Hun youth player Callum McKinlay being convicted of making and distributing indecent images, after he filmed a fellow reprobate having sex with a drunken third-year pupil at a party in Perth. When footage of the incident was distributed to several people, police were called in to investigate, and McKinlay was arrested and charged. At Perth Sheriff Court, McKinlay's degenerate pervert acomplice was convicted of having unlawful sex with an intoxicated 14-year-old girl during the drunken party in May '06.
Fernando The Commando admitting, in an startling outburst, that a culture of sectarian bigotry is still intrinsic and endemic at the tarnished Kinning Park club. One of the few high-profile huns to ever have admitted it, Ricksen revealed that religious intolerance still well and truly flourishes at the club, when he stated : "If you’re Catholic and you play for Rankers, then you are a Protestant. If you play for the Protestant people, you don’t play for the Catholic people. If you can’t handle that, if you’re really a Catholic and you feel too much about it, you don’t come to Rankers. You stay away. You’d better go to the other side [Celtic] or there will be a lot of problems for you." Dignity all the way, bro.
Hun icon Terry Butcher being sacked by Sydney FC after just nine months in the manager’s chair, after leading them to mid-table ignominy and 16 points adrift of league leaders, Melbourne Victory. Reports in the Austrailian media suggested that Butcher had ‘lost’ the dressing room, and had a number of volatile clashes with senior players at the club. Butcher refused to comment, and was last seen heading for the exit.
Captain Shellsuit being very lucky not to be heavily censured by UEFA after assaulting a Hapoel Tel Aviv player on the field of play, during a Uefa Cup away tie in Feb ’07. Ferguson lashed out at Tal Chen, catching him with a forearm to the face, which poleaxed the player, but was fortunate that the referee missed the ugly incident, and thus never included it in his official match report. Enraged Hapoel coach Nir Levin stated angrily : “I am very unhappy, because TV pictures clearly show Ferguson elbowing Chen. Our player was knocked to the ground, and required medical assistance. We will be making a formal complaint to UEFA.” At the time of the incident, Ferguson was only one booking away from a European ban. It is as yet unknown whether Ferguson’s onfield rage was a result of the fact that him and his fellow huns were on the wrong end of a 2-1 beating.
Alan McGregor being shown a straight red for violent conduct in a UEFA Cup tie at The Death Star, after head-butting Hapoel Tel Aviv player Luciano de Bruno. The hun thug was later banned by UEFA for two games, for the cowardly attack.
Marvin Andrews shocking homophobic outburst when he branded all gays and lesbians 'an abomination'. Hypocrite Andrews - who speaks out against racial intolerance - showed no such similar compassion for homosexuals when he stated : "There is a demon in their spirits - their spirits are ill. God can help them through his church and he can cure them of their illness." Andrews was later branded 'a crackpot' by gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell who astutely pointed out : "If a footballer made similar remarks about blacks or Asians they would face serious disciplinary action. The same should apply to those who encourage prejudice and discrimination against gays and lesbians." Gay rights group the Equality Network said : "Rankers and the SFA would take action if someone made these comments about Catholics. The man is living on another planet, and talks total rubbish." Amidst all the hatred and intolerance, Rankers - surprise surprise - declined to comment.
The Flying Pig, during a visit to Ballymoney in Ireland, stating that The Death Star now has 'the worst atmosphere in Britain' because of legislation aimed at stamping out sectarian singing; that Rankers fans 'should be allowed to sing their songs'; and that 'away games (where sectarian singing is still rife) are where real Bears congregate.' Goram, a devout friend of numerous Loyalist sectarian sociopaths, still attends bigotfests, and sash-ups, and still comperes Loyalist fundraisers, despite remaining an employee of Rankers Football Club, with a role in hospitality, where the well-heeled hun hoardes get to laugh at his racist, bigoted, and anti-Catholic repertoire.
Gordon Durie’s bigot son littering his personal Bebo site with images and slogans idolising the UVF, amidst the most high-profile campaign ever, to rid the tarnished Kinning Park club of their engendered bigoted intolerant culture. As well as the sectarian idolatry, Scott Durie also posted images related to Rankers FC containing anti-Catholic slogans, and images of Loyalist paramilitaries with guns. Confronted about his terrorist-glorifying son, Durie tried to lie his way out of it by claiming the account had been ‘hacked by someone else.’ Huns and truth – Huns and responsibility – Huns and dignity - Oil and water.
Kris Boyd and Alan MacGregor being shown live on TV laughing and smiling their way through a minute-silence tribute to ex Rankers full-back Kai Johansen, who died of cancer, the previous day. Beamed out live to thousands, before the end of season Huns v Ayrshire Huns game in May ‘07 the undignified behaviour, and lack of respect will have had Mr Strewth turning in his grave.
The Beast being investigated by Lord Stevens as part of his report into 'transfer irregularities' centering on the transfer of Jean Alain Boumsong from Rankers to Newcastle, and alleged 'irregular payments to club officials and players.' In his report, Lord Stevens recorded 'inconsistencies in evidence’ provided by Souness, and in a statement, revealed : "Many lessons have been learned and strict adherence to and enforcement of the recommendations should ensure that the game and the transfer market can proceed in an untainted and transparent manner."
Being slated as as 'very weak and too slow' by Villarreal chief scout Javier Cabello, who stated : "The Rankers defence, especially the centre halves Kyrgiakos and Andrews, are very weak and too slow. We can take advantage of them. We score a lot of goals from set-pieces and will try to hurt them when we are playing near their penalty box. I have to say that the Rankers players look to be low on morale. They run out of ideas and have a mental block when they try to take the initiative." Amid his frank assessment, Cabello singled out Chris Burke, hinting that the winger could prosper elsewhere in the future, at 'a big club' stating : "I saw Rankers against Aberdeen and Celtic and the player who really caught my eye was Chris Burke. I expect him to have a tremendous future. I will not be surprised if this boy ends up playing for a big club very soon."
Ray Wilkins admitting during an interview with ESPN, that anti-Catholic hatred was endemic in the Legoland dressing room. In a forthright interview, Wilkins admitted : “I'd only just come from Italy and France which are Catholic countries - very warm and very friendly – and now here I was in Glasgow with some of my team-mates hating Catholics. I just couldn't understand it, and frankly found it totally ridiculous."
Huns new French flop Jean-Claude Darcheville being arrested by Brazillian customs officers, after he was caught trying to illegally smuggle €46,200 in cash out of his native city of Cayenne in French Guyana. Darcheville was stopped at Belem Airport, and the contraband cash was seized. Brazillian law clearly states that all sums over €3000 must be declared to exise officials, and the relevant duty paid on all amounts over this. Tax official Sergio Candido, an inspector with the federal customs authorities in Belem, told the paper that Darcheville "did not declare the money he was carrying", and confirmed that the excess - 43,200 euros - was confiscated by the authorities. The lying conman tried to bluff his way out of the situation by claiming that he "was not aware of the laws on carrying money" but the Brazilian officials blew his lies out of the water by pointing out that : “there are a huge number of notice boards all over the airport in Belem, warning travellers of the rules on declaring sums of money. The signs are in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish, so they are pretty hard to miss."
Fat Derek ‘The Pieman’ Johnstone being forced to admit live on radio, when pressed by a phone-in caller, that he has repeatedly sung sectarian songs on a number of occaisions.
Libor Sionko firing a parting shot at the huns, and the xenophobia that forced him out of Legoland. In an embittered statement, Sionko said : The first reason I left, is that Rankers changed, and foreign players got very few chances to play. It was clear I didn't figure among their plans for next season. I am looking forward to joining Copenhagen - a very strong team, who beat Manchester United in the Champions League last season. They have ambition so it's a step forward for me. I hope to get the opportunity there, that I was denied at Rankers. As soon as the new coach arrived, the foreign players knew their chances of playing would be lessened. That was not the case under Paul Le Guen."
Hun Michael Ball showing utter contempt for his neighbours in Killermont, by refusing to organise a clear up after his luxury home started falling into the River Kelvin due to subsidence. Ball allowed the £440k property to become derelict and overgrown with weeds to such an extent, that it began to affect the value of neighbouring properties, as well as becoming an ugly eyesore. Despite repeated requested, Ball refusted to action any kind of clean-up, and fully five years later, the situation remains the same. Typical selfish arrogant hunnery.
Captain Shellsuit’s agent being banned from holding any form of company directorship after his tax-planning consultancy VM Media, went bust in 2004 owing the Inland Revenue £275,320. John Viola, who also represents hun Lee McCulloch, was disqualified and struck-off after a two-year probe by the UK Government Insolvency Service. Viola was heavily criticised by the tax authorities for paying himself and fellow director David McGhie excessive fees of £215,000 when the company turnover was nil, and further criticised for switching £211,750 from VM Media to another company owned by McGhie before it went bust. The Insolvency Service said : "He failed to ensure VM Media maintained complete accounting records and the liquidator was unable to fully investigate the company's affairs. He failed to ensure the company dealt with its taxation affairs and failed to ensure they paid to the Inland Revenue monies due."
Andy Goram being divorced by his wife Miriam, after she caught him having sex with a girl in the couple’s family car. Despite having to declare herself bankrupt as a result, and despite the divorce leaving her with debts of over £350,000, Miriam still threw The Flying Pig out on his cheating fat arse. Obviously better to be skint and single, than be married to a cheating, sleazy, boozebag, sectarian knob-end.
Racist hun thug Craig Moore being barred in shame from taking part in Australia's October 2006 clash with Paraguay, and sent home from Australia in disgrace. Moore missed the team flight to Brisbane, due to being too drunk to get out of his bed. In a dreadful show of unprofessionalism, the man who was supposed to Captain the team the following day, had spent the previous night boozing at Sydney's Star City Casino, and staggered back to his hotel in the early hours of the morning. He was so drunk the following morning, that he slept through his scheduled alarm call, and missed the team flight. The Football Federation Australia, also banned him from representing the national team in their next match, an Asian Cup qualifier against Bahrain at Sydney's Aussie Stadium five days later. Moore was immediatley sent back to England in shame. Socceroos caretaker coach Graham Arnold, told waiting journalists : "It remains to be seen whether this is the end for Craig Moore. I've had two chats with him and he understands his mistakes. I'm very disappointed in his actions and I take discipline very seriously. We have a code of conduct and it has to be respected. His reasons for missing the plane and therefore missing training, are wholly unacceptable. His actions are not consistent with the behaviour we expect of our professional players."
Bigoted, violent, aggressive, wife-beater Paul Gascoigne, being thrown out of an after-match VIP party for trying to drunkenly attack one of the guests, Leo Ihenacho, who had been a contestant on a previous reality TV show (Love Island), alongside Gascoigne’s estranged step-daughter Bianca. The clown prince of drunks was only prevented from assaulting Ihenacho by Newcastle idol Peter Reid, after he screamed across the room : “You shagged Bianca, and I’m gonna fucking kill you !” The party took place at Newcastle’s trendy Living Room bar, where celebrities were partying after taking part in a Celebrities v Legends match earlier in the day at St James’s Park. One of the guests later commented : “Gazza was like a madman. He was drunk, and had earlier been harrassing a blonde woman, trying to ‘dirty-dance’ her. Then Leo came up and introduced himself as a massive Spurs fan, and Gascoigne seemed to lose the plot. He lunged at Leo, screaming that he was going to ‘tear him apart’ and calling him ‘a fucking c**t’. He was ranting about his daughter, and was hell-bent on harming Leo.” As the wife-beater was being ejected via the front door, Ihenacho was being spirited out the back door, but was spotted by Gascoigne, who then followed him to his hotel. Intent on harming Ihenacho, the hun icon was only prevented from entering the hotel by the resident security officers. The programme’s producers immediately moved Ihenacho to another hotel for his own safety.
Hun thug and Legoland idol Kevin ‘Billy’ Muscat being sent off for attacking an opposition team’s coach inside the technical area, during an A-League match with his new club Melbourne Victory, at Melbourne's Telstra Dome. Muscat entered the technical area, and assaulted Adelaide United team coach, John Kosmina, by grabbing him by the throat and knocking him off his seat. Knuckledragger icon Muscat will face a disciplinary hearing, a spokesman for the FFA (Football Federation Australia) said. held Melbourne Victory player Kevin Muscat round the neck after the player knocked the coach off his seat as they scuffled for the ball during an A-League match on Sunday. Muscat had to be dragged off the former assistant Socceroos coach by other players and officials, before Adelaide went on to win 1-0. In a statement, Matt Carroll – Head of Operations at the FFA said : “The sort of behaviour that we observed is unacceptable and not appropriate. We have set a very high standard of behaviour for all coaches and players and this sort of incident will not be tolerated in the A-League. Kosmina, who was sent tumbling from his seat at pitchside, angrily denounced the former Rankers thug. “ Idon't like being assaulted. I went to pick up the ball, and got wiped out by this moron for no apparent reason. He's not supposed to come into our technical area.” Muscat could face a lengthy ban and fine during the hearing to be held in Sydney. Once a rabid hun thug ………..
No-mark defender Alan Hutton being refused entry to The Shed nightclub in Shawlands for being a drunken arrogant tosser, before taunting the doormen about their wages, and bragging about how much money he earns. When knocked-back, Hutton asked the doormen : "Do you know who I am ?!", before being hit with the reply : "Aye, you're that useless, pish, Rankers defender - and you're still not getting in !". Hutton went on to then taunt the doormen for 'being on a fiver an hour', before mouthing off about his own wages. He further displayed how much of a wanker he really is, by throwing a bunch of COINS (!!!) at them. The Shed management later confirmed that Hutton has been banned for life, and would not be admitted back into the club. The dignified outburst happened after the huns had been skelped 1-0 by ICT in their ain midden, earlier in the day. All in all, not a good day to be a stinking reprobate hun, but then again, when is ?!
Paul Gascoigne being arrested after punching and kicking a man in a London nightclub. The fat drunken wife-beater was arrested in the early hours of the morning in South Kensington, and charged with actual bodily harm, after being questioned at a south-west London police station. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said : "Police were called at approximately 0340 GMT by a 43-year-old man who alleged that he had been assaulted by another man at a club in South Kensington. Following further inquiries, a 39-year-old man was arrested at a separate club nearby at 0415 GMT and is currently in custody on suspicion of actual bodily harm.
Ex-hun, and much trumpeted Catholic signing, John Spencer being sued by Murderwell FC for failing to pay back a £400,000 loan he was given in 1998. Litigation proceedings were initiated, and the papers were lodged at Hamilton Sheriff Court, by the club’s legal representatives.
Captain Shellsuit storming out of Murray Park with his training gear in a black bin bag, after being stripped of the team Captaincy by Bleu Le Goon.
Diving, badge-kissing, hun wannabee Nacho NoHope being banned from his local Renfrewshire nightclub ‘Word Up’ for causing problems each and every time he went there. Eventually club bosses felt that he ‘simply wasn’t worth all the hassle’ and gave him his marching orders. See ya, sleazeball.
Hun youth player Callum McKinlay being convicted of making and distributing indecent images, after he filmed a fellow reprobate having sex with a drunken third-year pupil at a party in Perth. When footage of the incident was distributed to several people, police were called in to investigate, and McKinlay was arrested and charged. At Perth Sheriff Court, McKinlay's degenerate pervert acomplice was convicted of having unlawful sex with an intoxicated 14-year-old girl during the drunken party in May '06.
Fernando The Commando admitting, in an startling outburst, that a culture of sectarian bigotry is still intrinsic and endemic at the tarnished Kinning Park club. One of the few high-profile huns to ever have admitted it, Ricksen revealed that religious intolerance still well and truly flourishes at the club, when he stated : "If you’re Catholic and you play for Rankers, then you are a Protestant. If you play for the Protestant people, you don’t play for the Catholic people. If you can’t handle that, if you’re really a Catholic and you feel too much about it, you don’t come to Rankers. You stay away. You’d better go to the other side [Celtic] or there will be a lot of problems for you." Dignity all the way, bro.
Hun icon Terry Butcher being sacked by Sydney FC after just nine months in the manager’s chair, after leading them to mid-table ignominy and 16 points adrift of league leaders, Melbourne Victory. Reports in the Austrailian media suggested that Butcher had ‘lost’ the dressing room, and had a number of volatile clashes with senior players at the club. Butcher refused to comment, and was last seen heading for the exit.
Captain Shellsuit being very lucky not to be heavily censured by UEFA after assaulting a Hapoel Tel Aviv player on the field of play, during a Uefa Cup away tie in Feb ’07. Ferguson lashed out at Tal Chen, catching him with a forearm to the face, which poleaxed the player, but was fortunate that the referee missed the ugly incident, and thus never included it in his official match report. Enraged Hapoel coach Nir Levin stated angrily : “I am very unhappy, because TV pictures clearly show Ferguson elbowing Chen. Our player was knocked to the ground, and required medical assistance. We will be making a formal complaint to UEFA.” At the time of the incident, Ferguson was only one booking away from a European ban. It is as yet unknown whether Ferguson’s onfield rage was a result of the fact that him and his fellow huns were on the wrong end of a 2-1 beating.
Alan McGregor being shown a straight red for violent conduct in a UEFA Cup tie at The Death Star, after head-butting Hapoel Tel Aviv player Luciano de Bruno. The hun thug was later banned by UEFA for two games, for the cowardly attack.
Marvin Andrews shocking homophobic outburst when he branded all gays and lesbians 'an abomination'. Hypocrite Andrews - who speaks out against racial intolerance - showed no such similar compassion for homosexuals when he stated : "There is a demon in their spirits - their spirits are ill. God can help them through his church and he can cure them of their illness." Andrews was later branded 'a crackpot' by gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell who astutely pointed out : "If a footballer made similar remarks about blacks or Asians they would face serious disciplinary action. The same should apply to those who encourage prejudice and discrimination against gays and lesbians." Gay rights group the Equality Network said : "Rankers and the SFA would take action if someone made these comments about Catholics. The man is living on another planet, and talks total rubbish." Amidst all the hatred and intolerance, Rankers - surprise surprise - declined to comment.
The Flying Pig, during a visit to Ballymoney in Ireland, stating that The Death Star now has 'the worst atmosphere in Britain' because of legislation aimed at stamping out sectarian singing; that Rankers fans 'should be allowed to sing their songs'; and that 'away games (where sectarian singing is still rife) are where real Bears congregate.' Goram, a devout friend of numerous Loyalist sectarian sociopaths, still attends bigotfests, and sash-ups, and still comperes Loyalist fundraisers, despite remaining an employee of Rankers Football Club, with a role in hospitality, where the well-heeled hun hoardes get to laugh at his racist, bigoted, and anti-Catholic repertoire.
Gordon Durie’s bigot son littering his personal Bebo site with images and slogans idolising the UVF, amidst the most high-profile campaign ever, to rid the tarnished Kinning Park club of their engendered bigoted intolerant culture. As well as the sectarian idolatry, Scott Durie also posted images related to Rankers FC containing anti-Catholic slogans, and images of Loyalist paramilitaries with guns. Confronted about his terrorist-glorifying son, Durie tried to lie his way out of it by claiming the account had been ‘hacked by someone else.’ Huns and truth – Huns and responsibility – Huns and dignity - Oil and water.
Kris Boyd and Alan MacGregor being shown live on TV laughing and smiling their way through a minute-silence tribute to ex Rankers full-back Kai Johansen, who died of cancer, the previous day. Beamed out live to thousands, before the end of season Huns v Ayrshire Huns game in May ‘07 the undignified behaviour, and lack of respect will have had Mr Strewth turning in his grave.
The Beast being investigated by Lord Stevens as part of his report into 'transfer irregularities' centering on the transfer of Jean Alain Boumsong from Rankers to Newcastle, and alleged 'irregular payments to club officials and players.' In his report, Lord Stevens recorded 'inconsistencies in evidence’ provided by Souness, and in a statement, revealed : "Many lessons have been learned and strict adherence to and enforcement of the recommendations should ensure that the game and the transfer market can proceed in an untainted and transparent manner."
Being slated as as 'very weak and too slow' by Villarreal chief scout Javier Cabello, who stated : "The Rankers defence, especially the centre halves Kyrgiakos and Andrews, are very weak and too slow. We can take advantage of them. We score a lot of goals from set-pieces and will try to hurt them when we are playing near their penalty box. I have to say that the Rankers players look to be low on morale. They run out of ideas and have a mental block when they try to take the initiative." Amid his frank assessment, Cabello singled out Chris Burke, hinting that the winger could prosper elsewhere in the future, at 'a big club' stating : "I saw Rankers against Aberdeen and Celtic and the player who really caught my eye was Chris Burke. I expect him to have a tremendous future. I will not be surprised if this boy ends up playing for a big club very soon."
Ray Wilkins admitting during an interview with ESPN, that anti-Catholic hatred was endemic in the Legoland dressing room. In a forthright interview, Wilkins admitted : “I'd only just come from Italy and France which are Catholic countries - very warm and very friendly – and now here I was in Glasgow with some of my team-mates hating Catholics. I just couldn't understand it, and frankly found it totally ridiculous."
Huns new French flop Jean-Claude Darcheville being arrested by Brazillian customs officers, after he was caught trying to illegally smuggle €46,200 in cash out of his native city of Cayenne in French Guyana. Darcheville was stopped at Belem Airport, and the contraband cash was seized. Brazillian law clearly states that all sums over €3000 must be declared to exise officials, and the relevant duty paid on all amounts over this. Tax official Sergio Candido, an inspector with the federal customs authorities in Belem, told the paper that Darcheville "did not declare the money he was carrying", and confirmed that the excess - 43,200 euros - was confiscated by the authorities. The lying conman tried to bluff his way out of the situation by claiming that he "was not aware of the laws on carrying money" but the Brazilian officials blew his lies out of the water by pointing out that : “there are a huge number of notice boards all over the airport in Belem, warning travellers of the rules on declaring sums of money. The signs are in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish, so they are pretty hard to miss."
Fat Derek ‘The Pieman’ Johnstone being forced to admit live on radio, when pressed by a phone-in caller, that he has repeatedly sung sectarian songs on a number of occaisions.
Libor Sionko firing a parting shot at the huns, and the xenophobia that forced him out of Legoland. In an embittered statement, Sionko said : The first reason I left, is that Rankers changed, and foreign players got very few chances to play. It was clear I didn't figure among their plans for next season. I am looking forward to joining Copenhagen - a very strong team, who beat Manchester United in the Champions League last season. They have ambition so it's a step forward for me. I hope to get the opportunity there, that I was denied at Rankers. As soon as the new coach arrived, the foreign players knew their chances of playing would be lessened. That was not the case under Paul Le Guen."
Hun Michael Ball showing utter contempt for his neighbours in Killermont, by refusing to organise a clear up after his luxury home started falling into the River Kelvin due to subsidence. Ball allowed the £440k property to become derelict and overgrown with weeds to such an extent, that it began to affect the value of neighbouring properties, as well as becoming an ugly eyesore. Despite repeated requested, Ball refusted to action any kind of clean-up, and fully five years later, the situation remains the same. Typical selfish arrogant hunnery.
Captain Shellsuit’s agent being banned from holding any form of company directorship after his tax-planning consultancy VM Media, went bust in 2004 owing the Inland Revenue £275,320. John Viola, who also represents hun Lee McCulloch, was disqualified and struck-off after a two-year probe by the UK Government Insolvency Service. Viola was heavily criticised by the tax authorities for paying himself and fellow director David McGhie excessive fees of £215,000 when the company turnover was nil, and further criticised for switching £211,750 from VM Media to another company owned by McGhie before it went bust. The Insolvency Service said : "He failed to ensure VM Media maintained complete accounting records and the liquidator was unable to fully investigate the company's affairs. He failed to ensure the company dealt with its taxation affairs and failed to ensure they paid to the Inland Revenue monies due."
The Flying Pig being involved in a brawl at the Willowbank Hotel in Largs, after making sectarian remarks during an after-dinner speech. Goram was attacked by Derek Campbell and punched in the face, at the annual Largs Thistle FC fundraiser after he was confronted by guests who felt his comments were 'wholly inappropriate' for a local football club. Goram had earlier bragged about how himself and Super-Sally McCoist were the ‘guests’ of some of his sectarian Loyalist sociopath chums.
Captain Shellsuit being slated by Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas as the leader of a Death Star bevvy culture, more fond of whisky than training, who were directly responsible for the sacking of Blue Le Goon.
Sandy Jardine's son being jailed for two-and-a-half years for his part in defrauding a housing association of £331,000. Builder Stephen Jardine, who owns ailing construction firm Skyline Building & Roofing concocted a scam along with Sean McGovern, the Chairman of Calico Housing in Burnley, Lancashire. The money was transferred to Jardine's firm supposedly for repairs to Calico's housing stock which was meant to be done by Skyline. Instead, the money was spent by Jardine and McGovern, leading the highlife, going on foreign holidays, golf and shooting trips, visits to Gleneagles and mixing it with celebrities and footballers. The remainder of the cash was spent propping up Jardine's ailing company. The scam only came to light after tenants complained that repairs were not being carried out. Jardine admitted seven charges of obtaining a money transfer by deception. He was jailed for two years and seven months and disqualified as a company director for six years.
Lying hypocrite Marvin Andrews preaching abstination and celebacy until marriage, then getting caught humping one of Nacho NoHope's cast offs.
Nacho Nohope storming off the field after the huns got gubbed off Barca at Camp Nou, refusing to shake hands with his opponents and compatriots.
Amdy Faye being arrested at The Death Star, as part of a probe into corruption in football.
Daniel Cousin launching a scathing attack on his hun team-mates in an interview with a French newspaper in December ‘07. The Death Star misfit - keen to engineer an exit away from Dignity FC - took a swipe at the Death Star drinking culture and claimed he would pile on the pounds if he followed the same diet as most of his team-mates. Cousin said : "The Scottish players like a good drink. What's more, they put their beer in big glasses here. It's as if they need it to recharge the machine. There are also chips and pizzas in the dressing room at the end of the match, plus Coca-Cola and ketchup. Now and again, that is fine but they do it all the time. If I started following them, I would put on 10 kilos. I'm surprised when I see the physique of some of them and the way they run around like madmen."
Bob 'FTP' Malcolm being charged with drink-driving after he was caught drunk on the M1, three days before his loan move to Derby County ended. Malcolm was breathalysed after police were called to reports of a Range Rover stationary in the middle lane of the northbound M1 motorway, between junctions 28 and 29, at around 6.30am. The Ibrox flop, who failed to cut it at The Death Star, made just 11 appearances for Derby since the huns tried to lump him off to them, 18 months earlier. After also failing to cut it at Pride Park, the hun waster was subsequently loaned to Championship strugglers QPR for a month. Derby immediately suspended the no-mark, until his appearance at Chesterfield Magistrates Court on Jan 16th 2008, after being bailed by Derbyshire Police, who stated : "We can confirm that a 27-year-old man from Derby has been charged with drink-driving. There were reports of a Range Rover stationary in the middle lane of the M1 northbound. By the time officers got there, the vehicle had been moved to the hard shoulder, and the driver failed a roadside breath test." A statement on the official Derby County website read : "Derby County Football Club have confirmed that Bob Malcolm, who is currently on loan at QPR until January 1, has been charged by police with a drink-drive offence. The club will be suspending the player while an internal investigation is conducted into this matter. The police charge relates to an incident on the M1 motorway in Derbyshire on the morning of December 27th. For legal reasons, no further comment will be made on the matter by Derby County at this stage, pending the findings of the internal investigation and the outcome of the court hearing." The fat bigot was later fined £750, and banned from driving for 20 months, as well as being ordered to pay court costs. He was further ordered to attend a drink-drivers' rehabilitation course before commencing driving again.
Fat hun thug Jean-Claude Darcheville being hammered with a three-match UEFA ban after being convicted of a vicious stamp on CL opponent Kim Kallstrom of Olympique Lyonnais. During the match, and when he wasn't endangering the careers of professional footballers, Darcheville was keeping the nation entertained, after he made one of the misses of the decade, when he skyed a tap-in over the bar from 1yd out. The howler earned him a place in jester folklore alongside fellow hun dud Peter Van Vossen, whose name is synonymous across the continent with flop misses. The match also saw the huns horsed out of the Champions League, after they were hammered 3-0 at home, whilst city rivals Celtic, marched on into the knockout stages.
The trainee sectarian bigots in the huns' youth team, singing their bigoted filth in the Murray Park youth dressing rooms. As UK journalists gathered for a pre-match briefing for the Rankers v Hearts CIS Insurance Cup semi final, they were subjected to a tirade of Catholic-hating, eminating from just down the corridor. As reported in The Telegraph by Roddy Forsyth : 'Despite an impressive reflex effort by the security man to shut the doors on the din, it was possible to identify anthems like, I Was Born Under A Union Jack, the refrain of which went : Do you know where hell is ? Hell is in The Falls, Heaven is in The Shankill, and we'll guard old Derry's Walls. Seems you can take the morons out of Govan ........' It should hardly need said, but when a club is under a warning from Uefa about offensive choruses and sectarian chanting, which it blames on a small and obdurate section of its support, it implies a want of discretion or common sense when similar noises emanate from its own premises.'
Sleazy hun snake Alan McGregor, being kicked out of his girlfriend's home, after the was caught cheating with the daughter of a violent Glasgow brothel owner. McGregor was caught putting in extra time with Stacey O'Donnell, 20, whose dad Shug owns the Park Grove Sauna, while still sharing a home with poker-playing girlfriend Bronwyn Campbell. O'Donnell was furious at his daughter's affair with McGregor, despite being a hun himself, and is rumoured to have warned the shakey hun keeper to stay away. McDonald, who also owns racehorses, once locked an underperforming jockey in the boot of his car, after beating the shit out of him. He was also jailed for six months for living off immoral earnings, and forced to hand over £150,000 of his assets under Proceeds of Crime Act. Despite being worth an estimated £4m, his trial heard he still claimed £227 per week in income support. Nice to see the dignified huns are conducting themselves with probity, and keeping such fine upstanding company.
Alcoholic wife-beater Paul Gascoigne being arrested and detained under the Mental Health Act after a disturbance at Gateshead's Hilton Hotel, after having been ejected from Newcastle's Malmaison hotel earlier in the day. A spokesperson for Hilton said : "We can confirm that the guest in question checked into the hotel early on Wednesday 20th February. There was a disturbance, and the police were called. That the same guest was escorted from the hotel, and we are continuing to co-operate with the police." Northumbria Police confirmed a 40-year-old man had been detained under the Mental Health Act.
The Fans
Attacking the Moscow Dynamo players (before the full scale riot) during the 1972 ECWC Final in Barcelona. As Moscow Dynamo coach Konstantin Beskov stated, "We had the advantage and momentum at the end of the game, when the Rankers fans broke onto the pitch and attacked our players."
Being called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr after rioting huns shamed themselves in Barcelona in 1972. In a scathing attack, Mr Wiedekehr angrily stated “ The Rankers fans behaved like savages. We must find ways to keep such people from football stadiums.”
Rioting inside and outside Old Trafford during a ‘friendly’ in 1974, causing the stadium to witness some of the bloodiest violence in it’s history, as bigoted huns attacked and bottled United fans, simply because some of them were Irish.
Trying to start sectarian riots in Dublin before and during a game against Bohemians in 1984, which the huns lost 3-2. Rankers fans attacked police and Bohemians fans outside and inside the ground, until they were beaten back, and forced to spend the rest of the game cowering in fear, as they got a taste of their own medicine. Half of the huns never even made it in the first place, after being thrown off the Liverpool / Dunloghaire ferry for rioting. The ferry was turned back, halfway across the Irish Sea after drunken huns started running amok and fighting with other passengers. The Rankers fans thought it would be a good idea to link up with those other paragons of tolerance Linfield, who were playing Shamrock Rovers the following evening, and wreak havoc in the south of Ireland. Unfortunately for them, they didn't bank on the spirit of the Irish people who turned their little wrecking jolly, into a day of fear the huns would never forget. Even to this day, Rankers fans experience a cold shiver when asked about their memories of the trip. Most have conveniently chosen to forget.
Convicted Loyalist terrorist, and UDA Godfather John Gregg being ambushed and shot dead by fellow Rankers fans in 2003 after returning to Belfast from a match at Ibrox. Gregg, who was sentenced to 18 years after a failed assassination attempt on the life of MP Gerry Adams, was slain by a number of gun-totting masked men wearing Rankers shirts, who then fled the scene in a stolen taxi.
Brutally assaulting sports photographer Eric Craig as they invaded the Hampden pitch after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final. Craig was left deaf in one ear, and with a gruesome dent in his head after he was beaten and struck with a Pomagne bottle 'hurled at him by a Rankers fan.' He also had to undergo an emergency six-hour operation at the Southern General Neurosurgical Unit, and still suffers from headaches and dizziness. He also gave up attending football matches after the huns attack which left him traumatised. As Mr Craig later commented "You can still feel the hatred from these people, even after 25 years. I don't know if they'll ever be able to be cured."
UVF Loyalist Godfather William Taube being murdered at Ibrox Stadium in a revenge attack, on a Sunday night in April, 1999, during a Loyalist [Blue Mist] function. The function was held to celebrate the release of, and was attended by, several Loyalist prisoners from the Maze Prison. Security was provided by Taube's UVF friends, including a leading member of the UVF in Glasgow. Despite this, Taube was attacked and head-butted down a flight of stairs before having his head smashed on the marble flooring of The Edmiston Suite. He later died at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital. In a sworn statement to the Crown Office, a witness claimed he had been threatened with knee-capping if he failed to tell police the attack he saw was 'a drunken accident'. Following the incident, the witness received death threats and now lives in hiding, terrified of retribution. Taube's assailant was chased and beaten up in the car park before managing to flee. He has never been caught.
Members of the BNP arrested for Loyalist agitation and recruitment activity outside Ibrox stadium. The BNP feel they have a natural empathy with the politics of Rankers fans with whom they share certain racist, bigoted, homophobic and xenophobic ideals.
Barcelona 1972 : The only fans in European history not to witness their club receiving the trophy in a post-match presentation. Rankers fans were too busy rioting on the field of play at the time, so the ceremony had to take place ............. in a dressing room. Following the match Rankers fans rioted in the streets outside the ground, clashing with Spanish police and causing extensive damage in the city. Rankers fans also vandalised the exterior of the city's Catholic cathedral, which was daubed with sectarian graffitti. Similar anti-Catholic sentiments were expressed on buildings, in later years on visits to the Italian cities of Parma and Turin. The scenes of mayhem and violence caused by rioting huns in the Nou Camp remain some of the most disgraceful ever witnessed at a football match, and prompted FC Barcelona to exhibit images of the aftermath in the Antifutbol section of their stadium museum. Later, UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr stated : “The Rankers fans behaved like savages. We must find ways to keep such people from football stadiums”, whilst the Dynamo Moscow coach Konstantin Beskov angrily stated : “The Rankers supporters were out on the pitch a few times during the match and my players were intimidated, which influenced the course of the game. We had the advantage and momentum at the end of the game when the fans broke on to the pitch and attacked our players and the Spanish police."
Rioting in Glasgow city centre after the bad-tempered 1979 League Cup Final clash v Aberdeen, in which Derek Johnstone was lucky not to be red-carded for a particularly violent clash with Doug Rougvie.
Repeated hate-posts on FF containing sickening homophobia, with thread titles like ‘Homophobic And Proud’ and ‘101 Uses For A Dead Gay’. This is in addition to numerous repeated sick posts about injured, dead, or disabled people including Stephen Hawking, Christopher Reeve, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Clough, Jordan’s (the topless model) blind toddler son and many others. The list – in no way exhaustive - extends to Mother Teresa, Harold Shipman’s victims, footballers who have died in tragic circumstances, P & O Ferry drowning victims, the Tsunami victims, and those who died on Piper Alpha. Is no-one immune from these brainless morons ?
The only club in football history to be unable to defend their trophy due to the behaviour of their fans. After the rioting that occurred in Barcelona, Rankers received a UEFA two-year ban from European competition, later reduced to one-year after an appeal.
Being outed as sectarian bigots by one of their own - fellow Rankers fan, and American tourist, James Armstrong, in 1998. During his tour, Armstrong spent a day socialising with Mark Dingwall and some of the other Loyalist FF keyboard bretheren (SMac, SM, & SJ). He attended the day's match v Kilmarnock at Ibrox (Walter Smith's last home game in charge, which Rankers lost 0-1) after Dingwall had got him a ticket for the Club Deck. After an evening's revelry in the Auctioneer's pub, followed by a trip to the curry house, Armstrong caught the last train back to Edinburgh, where he was staying. Onboard the train, he describes the sectarian singing of his fellow passengers, and how he was disturbed by the bigotry they espoused. "There were about ten other Bears singing drunkenly the entire trip back. 'Hello! Hello! We are King Billy's Boys! We're up to our knees in Fenian blood, Surrender or you'll die!' There were other sectarian songs. The bigotry was disturbing."
Throwing a golf-ball with nails projecting out of it at Peter Grant during the notoriously hooligan-hun mid 1980’s. According to Grant himself, the deadly missile only missed his head ‘by a couple of inches.’
Saying that El Hadji Diouf 'deserved a knighthood' after the disgusting and vile episode when he spat on football supporters. This serial low-life has been warned, fined, and banned numerous times, and is a disgrace to both the footballing fraternity in particular, and the human race in general - unless of course you're a Rankers fan, in which case he's a candidate for investiture. One year on from the disgusting gobbing incident, Diouf was arrested at his home in Bolton, by Greater Manchester Police, and charged with Section 47 assault (or wife-beating as it’s more commonly known). In another outstanding show of human decency, Diouf punched the wife of team-mate Khalilou Fadiga in a Dakar nightclub. Aichatou Ba accused the gobbing scumbucket of beating her up and slapping her twice on the face. Later in the same week, scumbag Diouf was banned from driving for 12 months after he was found guilty of a drink-driving offence, after a champagne drinking binge. A month earlier Diouf was fined £500 after he admitted a charge of disorderly conduct for spitting at a fan during a Premiership match. Funny, the sort of people these huns look up to ?!
The outrage by huge sections of the club's support after Rankers ended their sectarian signing policy - eventually - and signed a Catholic after almost a century. The arrival of the said Catholic was met with protests, derision, boycotts, and the surrender and burning of numerous Season Books. Fans' leaders appeared in television documentaries in later years, proudly displaying their full and unused Season Books, as a result of their continued non-attendance protest at the presence of a Catholic player at the club. The first game to be played at The Death Star was –v- St Mirren, which was preceeded by the League flag unveiling ceremony – an event which is traditionally a sell-out throughout the footballing world. The Death Star that day was over 5000 short of capacity, as embittered Catholic-haters stayed away in their thousands. Many congregated at a boycott party under the Umbrella at Brig’ton X, whilst others sent a funeral wreath to the front door of The Death Star, mourning the end of ‘tradition’.
Rioting before, during, and after the notorious Villa Riot game in 1976 where 8000 drunken huns went on an orgy of robbery, violence, and hooliganism which brought Birmingham to a standstill. People's doors were kicked in, pubs wrecked, shops looted, and Villa fans bottled and stabbed as rampaging huns brought an orgy of drunken violence and terror to Birmingham. Hooligan huns without tickets broke down the gates of the Holte End, and rampaged onto the terracing attacking the Villa fans with bricks and bottles. The violence was so serious that it was reported live on World Of Sport just after kick-off, with Dickie Davies warning Villa fans not to go into their home end for the threat of being attacked. The game was marred by dozens of rampaging fights as drunken huns attacked the home fans, and was eventually abandoned at half-time in the interests of crowd safety - with the huns typically on the losing end of the 2-0 scoreline.
Using child abuse as a cheap weapon in a tawdry point-scoring exercise, whilst seeking to slander the memory of Jock Stein. A sickening t-shirt stunt was planned which sought to denigrate Scotland's most successful manager, at the expense of innocent children who were the victims of a heinous crime. Thankfully, those in charge of the club recognised that particular cancer in time to exterminate it's malignant influence, by threatening life bans for any degenerate perverted enough to carry out their twisted plan. The stunt was no empathy for those who suffered abuse - it was a way of using their suffering to fabricate lies about someone who isn't here to defend himself. Psychologists call it the 'Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance' whereupon one seeks to denigrate another in order to make themselves feel better, and tries to justify their actions by a twisted rationalisation that their victim 'deserved it.' It was the same tactic that the Nazis used on Jewish holocaust victims, and is the same reasoning that wife-beaters use to justify their cowardly violence, in their own minds. The intentions of the deranged low-lifes at Ibrox was to try and tarnish the status of a footballing giant, whilst wading in a cesspit filled with the remnants of human suffering and broken lives. What could be any lower than sullying the reputation of a dead man with lies and fabrication, at the expense of children who were the victims of a heinous crime. This truly is the lowest of the low - and another benchmark for these vile reprobates.
The sectarian murder and homicidal violence perpetrated on Celtic fans, by Rankers-supporting bigoted maniacs. Once investigated and convicted, the perpetrators have often been found to have grown up in an anti-Catholic environment that encouraged sectarianism and division along football and religious lines. One of these thugs, Jason Campbell (who murdered Mark Scott in 1996) is the son of a convicted Loyalist UVF terrorist. He is also a diehard Rankers fan, and was defended during his trial by the Rankers FC Vice-Chairman Donald Findlay QC - himself later forced to resign after a shameful sectarian hate incident. In 1998 Findlay also defended another Rankers-supporting, Loyalist thug, Thomas Longstaff (who cut the throat of Sean O’Connor) is an almost copy-cat attack to Campbell’s. Police later admitted, that in the two-year period between these attacks, 38 similar assaults had taken place in the area, all directed at Catholics or those wearing Celtic colours. The learned Mr Findlay was happilly singing his hate anthems on the same day in May 1999 that 16 year old Thomas McFadden was being stabbed to death by hun thug David Hutton in Govanhill after he watched the huns play at Hampden. His ‘crime’ was to be wearing a Celtic top. Also in 1999, Carl McGroarty, was shot in the chest by a bolt fired from a crossbow as he left a pub wearing his Celtic top. On the same day, another young Celtic fan, Liam Sweeney was stabbed repeatedly after leaving a Chinese takeaway. His green jersey and the calling of his name to collect his food order was enough to identify him as a Catholic from an Irish background. Later the same evening in Ayrshire, three young Celtic fans - one female - were viciously attacked by a large mob of Rankers fans. All three were hospitalised, one of the men had receiving horrific head injuries, and the other a broken jaw. In 2003, Celtic fan Thomas Loughrey was stabbed to death by James McCormick in an unprovoked attack in Pollokshaws. Thomas had made the fatal error of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as McCormick – high on drink and drugs, took offence to his Celtic top. In October 2004, Ian Gray was stabbed to death by convicted thug Brian Cooper after he had spent the day getting acutely more drunk after watching an Orange Walk, and then attending a match at Ibrox stadium. Cooper, who received ten years for his act of bigoted murder, admitted sectarianly abusing Mr Gray, before striking him with a wine bottle and repeatedly stabbing him in the back. Teenager Michael McIlveen, chased and battered to death by a gang dressed in Rankers shirts, wielding baseball bats in the town of Ballymena. His crime was to have been wearing a Celtic shirt. How many more innocent Celtic fans are to be butchered before something is done to curtail these sectarian animals – and the hatemongers who defend them ?
Having 15 hooligan fans jailed in September 1999 by a Dutch court after they were convicted of mobbing and rioting before, during, and after a European tie with PSV Eindhoven. The hun thugs - all from Scotland - were convicted by the court in Den Bosch, and sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from 4 weeks to 24 weeks. Afterwards, they were immediately deported upon release. No one likes them – they don’t care !
Being so sectarian that they've had a play dedicated to them because of their bigoted and anarchic perceptions of society. In James Barclay's 'The Bigot', Loyalist, Royalist, Rankers fan Andra Thompson is the sash-wearing embodiment of a typical west of Scotland hun, who worships Rankers, Ulster, Ian Paisley, The Orange Order, The Freemasons, and The Royal Family. At the same time, he hates Catholics, Celtic, Irish people, and anything green in general. The play is an accurate depiction of a hackneyed and twisted old sectarian dinosaur from days gone by, still applying those same tired old bigoted concepts to every second of his waking life. It is a scathing social comment and a damning indictment on a huge percentage of the Rankers support, and how they continue to conduct themselves. Despite the advancement of society, they continue to live their lives in a bigoted and intolerant manner as if they were still living in 'the grand old days of yore'. In Scotland the clocks go forward an hour every year - unless you're a Rankers fan – in which case they go back three hundred years !
During a game at Celtic Park in August 1985, hanging a banner from the roof trusses, that denigrated the death of the recently deceased Celtic Chairman, Desmond White, with an obscene homophobic profanity. At the same match, a young policeman - the son of the Match Commander, Patrick MacNee - was hospitalised after having his head caved in by a bottle thrown by a hun knuckledragger, and the food & beverage stall at the rear of the hun-end terracing was set ablaze, with the young attendants still inside. They're nice people really ?!!
The repeated sight and sound of numerous thousands of Rankers fans racially abusing the players of opposition teams, simply because they are black. This behaviour is widespread, blatantly obvious, and as yet unpunished by those who administer the ticketing of Rankers fans. This inaction is viewed by many as tacit complicity.
Starting a FF thread on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination to praise psychotic murderer Mark Chapman for 'cooly pumping 5 bullets into him'. Added posts went on to denigrate the victim's memory, whilst praising and showing appreciation for the cold-blooded killer who murderered him. Not to be outdone, further posts went on to heap praise, and urge others not to forget, 'the sterling work done by' other deranged assassins including 'Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan', who assassinated John F Kennedy and his brother Robert.
The disgusting and blatant sectarian abuse by Rankers fans towards Celtic player Neil Lennon. The player has been victimised, brutalised, assaulted, had his property vandalised, and most sinister of all, has had his life threatened. All of these incidents have come from persons later proven to support, or have links to Rankers FC, or have had blatant Rankers connections. How serious need this get before something is done about the cancerous hatred of these people ?
The club being forced to refrain from playing a popular chart song over the Ibrox PA system at matches due to Rankers fans hijacking it, distorting the words, and turning it into a sectarian club anthem. The song was later to be repeatedly sung by tens of thousands of Rankers fans for numerous seasons, dispelling the myth that Rankers cancerous sectarian hate was simply the practice of ‘an unrepresentative minority.’ Indeed, if this was the sectarianism of their minority, heaven knows what depths their majority would sink to.
Attacking the Moscow Dynamo players (before the full scale riot) during the 1972 ECWC Final in Barcelona. As Moscow Dynamo coach Konstantin Beskov stated, "We had the advantage and momentum at the end of the game, when the Rankers fans broke onto the pitch and attacked our players."
Being called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr after rioting huns shamed themselves in Barcelona in 1972. In a scathing attack, Mr Wiedekehr angrily stated “ The Rankers fans behaved like savages. We must find ways to keep such people from football stadiums.”
Rioting inside and outside Old Trafford during a ‘friendly’ in 1974, causing the stadium to witness some of the bloodiest violence in it’s history, as bigoted huns attacked and bottled United fans, simply because some of them were Irish.
Trying to start sectarian riots in Dublin before and during a game against Bohemians in 1984, which the huns lost 3-2. Rankers fans attacked police and Bohemians fans outside and inside the ground, until they were beaten back, and forced to spend the rest of the game cowering in fear, as they got a taste of their own medicine. Half of the huns never even made it in the first place, after being thrown off the Liverpool / Dunloghaire ferry for rioting. The ferry was turned back, halfway across the Irish Sea after drunken huns started running amok and fighting with other passengers. The Rankers fans thought it would be a good idea to link up with those other paragons of tolerance Linfield, who were playing Shamrock Rovers the following evening, and wreak havoc in the south of Ireland. Unfortunately for them, they didn't bank on the spirit of the Irish people who turned their little wrecking jolly, into a day of fear the huns would never forget. Even to this day, Rankers fans experience a cold shiver when asked about their memories of the trip. Most have conveniently chosen to forget.
Convicted Loyalist terrorist, and UDA Godfather John Gregg being ambushed and shot dead by fellow Rankers fans in 2003 after returning to Belfast from a match at Ibrox. Gregg, who was sentenced to 18 years after a failed assassination attempt on the life of MP Gerry Adams, was slain by a number of gun-totting masked men wearing Rankers shirts, who then fled the scene in a stolen taxi.
Brutally assaulting sports photographer Eric Craig as they invaded the Hampden pitch after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final. Craig was left deaf in one ear, and with a gruesome dent in his head after he was beaten and struck with a Pomagne bottle 'hurled at him by a Rankers fan.' He also had to undergo an emergency six-hour operation at the Southern General Neurosurgical Unit, and still suffers from headaches and dizziness. He also gave up attending football matches after the huns attack which left him traumatised. As Mr Craig later commented "You can still feel the hatred from these people, even after 25 years. I don't know if they'll ever be able to be cured."
UVF Loyalist Godfather William Taube being murdered at Ibrox Stadium in a revenge attack, on a Sunday night in April, 1999, during a Loyalist [Blue Mist] function. The function was held to celebrate the release of, and was attended by, several Loyalist prisoners from the Maze Prison. Security was provided by Taube's UVF friends, including a leading member of the UVF in Glasgow. Despite this, Taube was attacked and head-butted down a flight of stairs before having his head smashed on the marble flooring of The Edmiston Suite. He later died at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital. In a sworn statement to the Crown Office, a witness claimed he had been threatened with knee-capping if he failed to tell police the attack he saw was 'a drunken accident'. Following the incident, the witness received death threats and now lives in hiding, terrified of retribution. Taube's assailant was chased and beaten up in the car park before managing to flee. He has never been caught.
Members of the BNP arrested for Loyalist agitation and recruitment activity outside Ibrox stadium. The BNP feel they have a natural empathy with the politics of Rankers fans with whom they share certain racist, bigoted, homophobic and xenophobic ideals.
Barcelona 1972 : The only fans in European history not to witness their club receiving the trophy in a post-match presentation. Rankers fans were too busy rioting on the field of play at the time, so the ceremony had to take place ............. in a dressing room. Following the match Rankers fans rioted in the streets outside the ground, clashing with Spanish police and causing extensive damage in the city. Rankers fans also vandalised the exterior of the city's Catholic cathedral, which was daubed with sectarian graffitti. Similar anti-Catholic sentiments were expressed on buildings, in later years on visits to the Italian cities of Parma and Turin. The scenes of mayhem and violence caused by rioting huns in the Nou Camp remain some of the most disgraceful ever witnessed at a football match, and prompted FC Barcelona to exhibit images of the aftermath in the Antifutbol section of their stadium museum. Later, UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr stated : “The Rankers fans behaved like savages. We must find ways to keep such people from football stadiums”, whilst the Dynamo Moscow coach Konstantin Beskov angrily stated : “The Rankers supporters were out on the pitch a few times during the match and my players were intimidated, which influenced the course of the game. We had the advantage and momentum at the end of the game when the fans broke on to the pitch and attacked our players and the Spanish police."
Rioting in Glasgow city centre after the bad-tempered 1979 League Cup Final clash v Aberdeen, in which Derek Johnstone was lucky not to be red-carded for a particularly violent clash with Doug Rougvie.
Repeated hate-posts on FF containing sickening homophobia, with thread titles like ‘Homophobic And Proud’ and ‘101 Uses For A Dead Gay’. This is in addition to numerous repeated sick posts about injured, dead, or disabled people including Stephen Hawking, Christopher Reeve, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Clough, Jordan’s (the topless model) blind toddler son and many others. The list – in no way exhaustive - extends to Mother Teresa, Harold Shipman’s victims, footballers who have died in tragic circumstances, P & O Ferry drowning victims, the Tsunami victims, and those who died on Piper Alpha. Is no-one immune from these brainless morons ?
The only club in football history to be unable to defend their trophy due to the behaviour of their fans. After the rioting that occurred in Barcelona, Rankers received a UEFA two-year ban from European competition, later reduced to one-year after an appeal.
Being outed as sectarian bigots by one of their own - fellow Rankers fan, and American tourist, James Armstrong, in 1998. During his tour, Armstrong spent a day socialising with Mark Dingwall and some of the other Loyalist FF keyboard bretheren (SMac, SM, & SJ). He attended the day's match v Kilmarnock at Ibrox (Walter Smith's last home game in charge, which Rankers lost 0-1) after Dingwall had got him a ticket for the Club Deck. After an evening's revelry in the Auctioneer's pub, followed by a trip to the curry house, Armstrong caught the last train back to Edinburgh, where he was staying. Onboard the train, he describes the sectarian singing of his fellow passengers, and how he was disturbed by the bigotry they espoused. "There were about ten other Bears singing drunkenly the entire trip back. 'Hello! Hello! We are King Billy's Boys! We're up to our knees in Fenian blood, Surrender or you'll die!' There were other sectarian songs. The bigotry was disturbing."
Throwing a golf-ball with nails projecting out of it at Peter Grant during the notoriously hooligan-hun mid 1980’s. According to Grant himself, the deadly missile only missed his head ‘by a couple of inches.’
Saying that El Hadji Diouf 'deserved a knighthood' after the disgusting and vile episode when he spat on football supporters. This serial low-life has been warned, fined, and banned numerous times, and is a disgrace to both the footballing fraternity in particular, and the human race in general - unless of course you're a Rankers fan, in which case he's a candidate for investiture. One year on from the disgusting gobbing incident, Diouf was arrested at his home in Bolton, by Greater Manchester Police, and charged with Section 47 assault (or wife-beating as it’s more commonly known). In another outstanding show of human decency, Diouf punched the wife of team-mate Khalilou Fadiga in a Dakar nightclub. Aichatou Ba accused the gobbing scumbucket of beating her up and slapping her twice on the face. Later in the same week, scumbag Diouf was banned from driving for 12 months after he was found guilty of a drink-driving offence, after a champagne drinking binge. A month earlier Diouf was fined £500 after he admitted a charge of disorderly conduct for spitting at a fan during a Premiership match. Funny, the sort of people these huns look up to ?!
The outrage by huge sections of the club's support after Rankers ended their sectarian signing policy - eventually - and signed a Catholic after almost a century. The arrival of the said Catholic was met with protests, derision, boycotts, and the surrender and burning of numerous Season Books. Fans' leaders appeared in television documentaries in later years, proudly displaying their full and unused Season Books, as a result of their continued non-attendance protest at the presence of a Catholic player at the club. The first game to be played at The Death Star was –v- St Mirren, which was preceeded by the League flag unveiling ceremony – an event which is traditionally a sell-out throughout the footballing world. The Death Star that day was over 5000 short of capacity, as embittered Catholic-haters stayed away in their thousands. Many congregated at a boycott party under the Umbrella at Brig’ton X, whilst others sent a funeral wreath to the front door of The Death Star, mourning the end of ‘tradition’.
Rioting before, during, and after the notorious Villa Riot game in 1976 where 8000 drunken huns went on an orgy of robbery, violence, and hooliganism which brought Birmingham to a standstill. People's doors were kicked in, pubs wrecked, shops looted, and Villa fans bottled and stabbed as rampaging huns brought an orgy of drunken violence and terror to Birmingham. Hooligan huns without tickets broke down the gates of the Holte End, and rampaged onto the terracing attacking the Villa fans with bricks and bottles. The violence was so serious that it was reported live on World Of Sport just after kick-off, with Dickie Davies warning Villa fans not to go into their home end for the threat of being attacked. The game was marred by dozens of rampaging fights as drunken huns attacked the home fans, and was eventually abandoned at half-time in the interests of crowd safety - with the huns typically on the losing end of the 2-0 scoreline.
Using child abuse as a cheap weapon in a tawdry point-scoring exercise, whilst seeking to slander the memory of Jock Stein. A sickening t-shirt stunt was planned which sought to denigrate Scotland's most successful manager, at the expense of innocent children who were the victims of a heinous crime. Thankfully, those in charge of the club recognised that particular cancer in time to exterminate it's malignant influence, by threatening life bans for any degenerate perverted enough to carry out their twisted plan. The stunt was no empathy for those who suffered abuse - it was a way of using their suffering to fabricate lies about someone who isn't here to defend himself. Psychologists call it the 'Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance' whereupon one seeks to denigrate another in order to make themselves feel better, and tries to justify their actions by a twisted rationalisation that their victim 'deserved it.' It was the same tactic that the Nazis used on Jewish holocaust victims, and is the same reasoning that wife-beaters use to justify their cowardly violence, in their own minds. The intentions of the deranged low-lifes at Ibrox was to try and tarnish the status of a footballing giant, whilst wading in a cesspit filled with the remnants of human suffering and broken lives. What could be any lower than sullying the reputation of a dead man with lies and fabrication, at the expense of children who were the victims of a heinous crime. This truly is the lowest of the low - and another benchmark for these vile reprobates.
The sectarian murder and homicidal violence perpetrated on Celtic fans, by Rankers-supporting bigoted maniacs. Once investigated and convicted, the perpetrators have often been found to have grown up in an anti-Catholic environment that encouraged sectarianism and division along football and religious lines. One of these thugs, Jason Campbell (who murdered Mark Scott in 1996) is the son of a convicted Loyalist UVF terrorist. He is also a diehard Rankers fan, and was defended during his trial by the Rankers FC Vice-Chairman Donald Findlay QC - himself later forced to resign after a shameful sectarian hate incident. In 1998 Findlay also defended another Rankers-supporting, Loyalist thug, Thomas Longstaff (who cut the throat of Sean O’Connor) is an almost copy-cat attack to Campbell’s. Police later admitted, that in the two-year period between these attacks, 38 similar assaults had taken place in the area, all directed at Catholics or those wearing Celtic colours. The learned Mr Findlay was happilly singing his hate anthems on the same day in May 1999 that 16 year old Thomas McFadden was being stabbed to death by hun thug David Hutton in Govanhill after he watched the huns play at Hampden. His ‘crime’ was to be wearing a Celtic top. Also in 1999, Carl McGroarty, was shot in the chest by a bolt fired from a crossbow as he left a pub wearing his Celtic top. On the same day, another young Celtic fan, Liam Sweeney was stabbed repeatedly after leaving a Chinese takeaway. His green jersey and the calling of his name to collect his food order was enough to identify him as a Catholic from an Irish background. Later the same evening in Ayrshire, three young Celtic fans - one female - were viciously attacked by a large mob of Rankers fans. All three were hospitalised, one of the men had receiving horrific head injuries, and the other a broken jaw. In 2003, Celtic fan Thomas Loughrey was stabbed to death by James McCormick in an unprovoked attack in Pollokshaws. Thomas had made the fatal error of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as McCormick – high on drink and drugs, took offence to his Celtic top. In October 2004, Ian Gray was stabbed to death by convicted thug Brian Cooper after he had spent the day getting acutely more drunk after watching an Orange Walk, and then attending a match at Ibrox stadium. Cooper, who received ten years for his act of bigoted murder, admitted sectarianly abusing Mr Gray, before striking him with a wine bottle and repeatedly stabbing him in the back. Teenager Michael McIlveen, chased and battered to death by a gang dressed in Rankers shirts, wielding baseball bats in the town of Ballymena. His crime was to have been wearing a Celtic shirt. How many more innocent Celtic fans are to be butchered before something is done to curtail these sectarian animals – and the hatemongers who defend them ?
Having 15 hooligan fans jailed in September 1999 by a Dutch court after they were convicted of mobbing and rioting before, during, and after a European tie with PSV Eindhoven. The hun thugs - all from Scotland - were convicted by the court in Den Bosch, and sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from 4 weeks to 24 weeks. Afterwards, they were immediately deported upon release. No one likes them – they don’t care !
Being so sectarian that they've had a play dedicated to them because of their bigoted and anarchic perceptions of society. In James Barclay's 'The Bigot', Loyalist, Royalist, Rankers fan Andra Thompson is the sash-wearing embodiment of a typical west of Scotland hun, who worships Rankers, Ulster, Ian Paisley, The Orange Order, The Freemasons, and The Royal Family. At the same time, he hates Catholics, Celtic, Irish people, and anything green in general. The play is an accurate depiction of a hackneyed and twisted old sectarian dinosaur from days gone by, still applying those same tired old bigoted concepts to every second of his waking life. It is a scathing social comment and a damning indictment on a huge percentage of the Rankers support, and how they continue to conduct themselves. Despite the advancement of society, they continue to live their lives in a bigoted and intolerant manner as if they were still living in 'the grand old days of yore'. In Scotland the clocks go forward an hour every year - unless you're a Rankers fan – in which case they go back three hundred years !
During a game at Celtic Park in August 1985, hanging a banner from the roof trusses, that denigrated the death of the recently deceased Celtic Chairman, Desmond White, with an obscene homophobic profanity. At the same match, a young policeman - the son of the Match Commander, Patrick MacNee - was hospitalised after having his head caved in by a bottle thrown by a hun knuckledragger, and the food & beverage stall at the rear of the hun-end terracing was set ablaze, with the young attendants still inside. They're nice people really ?!!
The repeated sight and sound of numerous thousands of Rankers fans racially abusing the players of opposition teams, simply because they are black. This behaviour is widespread, blatantly obvious, and as yet unpunished by those who administer the ticketing of Rankers fans. This inaction is viewed by many as tacit complicity.
Starting a FF thread on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination to praise psychotic murderer Mark Chapman for 'cooly pumping 5 bullets into him'. Added posts went on to denigrate the victim's memory, whilst praising and showing appreciation for the cold-blooded killer who murderered him. Not to be outdone, further posts went on to heap praise, and urge others not to forget, 'the sterling work done by' other deranged assassins including 'Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan', who assassinated John F Kennedy and his brother Robert.
The disgusting and blatant sectarian abuse by Rankers fans towards Celtic player Neil Lennon. The player has been victimised, brutalised, assaulted, had his property vandalised, and most sinister of all, has had his life threatened. All of these incidents have come from persons later proven to support, or have links to Rankers FC, or have had blatant Rankers connections. How serious need this get before something is done about the cancerous hatred of these people ?
The club being forced to refrain from playing a popular chart song over the Ibrox PA system at matches due to Rankers fans hijacking it, distorting the words, and turning it into a sectarian club anthem. The song was later to be repeatedly sung by tens of thousands of Rankers fans for numerous seasons, dispelling the myth that Rankers cancerous sectarian hate was simply the practice of ‘an unrepresentative minority.’ Indeed, if this was the sectarianism of their minority, heaven knows what depths their majority would sink to.
The persistant and widespread mobbing, looting, and fighting by Rankers fans whenever they attend Away matches involving Rankers FC. A recent, but by no means exhaustive list includes : Munich, Rotterdam, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Fulham, Liverpool, Bucharest, Paris.......... The above is an obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial and friendly matches.
Rankers fans being involved in widespread violence and sectarianism during a European tie in July 1998 in Liverpool. The match - against Irish club Shelbourne - had to be moved to a neutral ground (Tranmere Rovers / Prenton Park) because club officials knew that the sectarian Rankers fans could not be trusted to travel to Ireland without the genuine fear that they would cause mayhem and injury – if not murder (See Bohemians 1984). It so proved that they couldn't be trusted to travel to England either, where they had to be baton-charged by more than 150 fully clad riot police, as they tried to attack the Irish fans. Amidst mopping up the carnage that Rankers fans caused - including smashing the windows of the Shelbourne FC team bus - Liverpool police commented that Rankers fans would never again be allowed to freely roam the city. If they ever again, did have cause to visit the city, severe policing restrictions would be applied. This has later been proven to be the case as numerous English cities have faced severe alcohol licensing restrictions when Rankers are scheduled to play there. The above is another obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial matches.
The embarrassingly shameful booing and vitriolic hounding of Shota Arveladze by his club's own fans, because he had the temerity to bless himself before entering the field of play, during a trip to play Linfield in Ireland. For good measure, the Catholic-hating, sectarian, Loyalist hate-mongers of Linfield abused him as well. As someone later pointed out, Arveladze must be the world’s only ‘Georgian Orthodox Fenian Bastard.’
Printing the personal details in a Rankers fanzine of those certain people suspected of having handed the ‘Donald Findlay’ video tape over to the meeja. The inference was that most fellow huns wouldn’t be too bothered if ‘some harm’ befell the culprit(s).
Having three hooligan fans jailed for 20 months each in March 2004, after they brutally attacked an Aberdeen fan in Glasgow as he returned there to catch a train following a Scottish Cup tie in Dumfries. Video footage showed pedestrians diving for cover and the fight was only stopped when police arrived. Damning the Rankers hooligans, Sheriff Linda Ruxton said jail was the only option in the interests of the public. "This was an incident associated with football violence, which brought about a serious disturbance. It took very little to lose control and, as a result, you behaved like hooligans. It must have been a frightening experience for those that were witnesses. Your actions made Glasgow city centre a very dangerous place. Public interest demands that a custodial sentence must be passed."
The shameful desecration of a minute-silence tribute in 1994 to football legend Sir Matt Busby - because he was a Catholic – and also to mark the memory of assassinated President John F Kennedy - for the exact same reason. Not even the dead are immune from sectarian vitriol it would appear.
The shameful displaying of Loyalist paramilitary banners by sectarian Rankers fans, who glorify those convicted of sectarian murder, and that mock the deaths of their victims. Banners have also been flown denigrating the memory of deceased Celtic players, deceased Celtic directors and managers, and of a young Catholic man (Robert Hamill) who was kicked to death in Portadown, by a sectarian hate-mob wearing Rankers shirts. In a sinister terracing dance called 'the bouncy', huns are accused of emulating this act. This accusation was given some credence by a number of posts on FF where posters admitted to ‘joining in the celebration, of the death of a Catholic.’ This admission represents a hatred and depravity that is hard to quantify.
Having the hate-ridden embittered hun hoardes on FF describe the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th - and in particular the deaths of hundreds of NYPD & NYFD members - as ‘deserving’ because some of these brave citizens may (or may not) have been part of a pipe band that welcomed a delegation of Irish MPs to the USA. One knuckledragger said ‘they got what they deserved’, whilst another said he hoped ‘that they were first up the stairs.’ As the cliches flowed, other reprobates claimed that those who courageously gave their own lives to try and save the lives of others, were merely ‘reaping what they had sown’, whilst others denigrated them by claiming it was a case of ‘chickens coming home to roost.’ Many others further agreed that those expressing their malice ‘had a point.’ Charming shower of bastards, eh ?!
Rankers fans deliberately aiming and setting off a pyrotechnic firework in the direction of the Family Section at Celtic Park in October 2002. The device, which police described as ‘a large firework which contained a smaller series of firecrackers’ was set off in an act of blatant hooliganism, with a blatant disregard for the children and families who were seated there. Thankfully no-one was seriously injured by this wanton act of thuggery.
Convicted sectarian, drug-using, drug-dealing, thieving, receiving, criminal-damaging, knife-carrying, fraudulent, car stealing, electronically-tagged, vandalising, burgling, fire-raising, peace-breaching, disqualified-driving, neighbour-from-hell, Lotto thug Michael Carroll who is Rankers daft and their self-confessed 'greatest fan'. Carroll picked up his Lottery cheque whilst wearing an electronic tag, fitted after he was convicted of assault and of drunk & disorderly behaviour. He has over 50 convictions for almost every kind of degenerate sociopathic disorder recently invested £3.9million in the club he most identifies with, and which he feels most at home in. Carroll invested an initial £1m, followed by a further £2.9m via Rankers Financial Management, the brokers who deal with such transactions. A neighbour (Ruth Leeks) who recently collapsed with an asthma attack due to the toxic fumes caused by one of Carroll's customary caravan bonfires, commented 'I feel sorry for the guy because he's obviously so stupid that he has a screw loose and needs help'. As she said this, Carroll and his tattooed hoardes were busily obstructing firemen who had been called to extinguish yet more of his toxic-plumed handiwork. In July 2004, he was sentenced to 5 months for possession of cocaine. In February 2006, he was sentenced to 9 months in prison after he and three friends, armed with baseball bats, burst into a Christian rock concert in Norfolk, and ran amok. Two of the concert-goers required hospital treatment while other young Christians prayed for their lives.
The repeated vandalism of the Away support section at Celtic Park following a 'visit' by Rankers fans. Although Celtic FC refuse to discuss the cost of repairs, it is believed to run into thousands of pounds for each and every game. The fact that all damage is then has to be paid for by the very club they claim to ‘support’ seems totally lost on these reprobates.
Being caught on camera singing anti-Catholic hate anthems, in a notorious Loyalist drinking den. Knuckledraggers, clad in the tarnished blue jersey, were filmed in the Louden Tavern by Channel 4 cameras venting hatred against Catholics when the hun cesspit was featured in ‘Football, Faith And Flutes’, a documentary about religious bigotry and sectarianism in Scotland.
Numerous arrests and subsequent detention of a number of Rankers fans who fraudulently tried to pass off counterfeit Euro currency in Stuttgart before a recent European tie. They were later convicted and sentenced to various periods of imprisonment, bringing further shame on an already notoriously thuggish and hooligan criminal support.
Rankers fans causing a near-riot on the stadium concourse at Ibrox after the refreshment stalls were found to be offering green and white straws (part of an assortment) to customers. Threats of violence and sectarian abuse were hurled at junior catering staff before police and stewards were called in to restore order. Because of this incident, there are now no green and white straws anywhere to be seen at any of the Ibrox vending stalls. Who says the bigots aren’t in control ?!
Using 120 forged tickets to gain entry to a league match at Celtic Park and stealing the seats of fellow Rankers fans, leaving them locked out and unable to see the game. There is nothing much lower than stealing from your own people. Possessing no morals whatsoever, the thieves – incredibly - later tried to shift blame for their dishonesty by suggesting that Celtic FC were responsible for not preventing them from gaining fraudulent access in the first place. As CS Kevin Smith (Match Commander) pointed out “The match saw a number of Rankers fans with genuine tickets turned away because other, so-called, fans entered the stadium with forged tickets. Every person entering with a forged ticket deprives a genuine fan with an authentic ticket of the chance to get in.” Are there no depths to which these gutter-scum won’t sink to ??
Being branded ‘shameful’, ‘filth’ and ‘ a disgrace’ by Bobby Robson after a pre-season match at St James’s Park where they persistantly abused Alan Shearer to such an extent, that Robson took him off the park. Robson later commented that he had plied his trade for decades, in numerous countries around the world. This was the first time he had experienced such malice, on such a vile scale, and the first time he had ever felt needing to take one of his players off the field of play. Yet another ugly first for the gutter-scum who support Rankers. Seems the hypocritical hate-mongers only love Engerrlunnd when it suits them.
Rankers fans continued and repeated racial and sectarian abuse of Neil Lennon over two adjoining fixtures which prompted Martin O’Neill to publically comment on his utter disgust at the situation. Despite condemnation from the media, politicians, and the wider Scottish public, Rankers refused to condemn their bigoted and sectarian fan-base who continue to bring shame on their club. On the very day Martin O’Neill’s comments were reported in the media, he himself was viciously abused by the Ibrox hate-mongers during a match with Austrian minnows Grazer AK. Hollow claims from the Ibrox hierarchy that any abuse was made by ‘a minority’ were publically dispelled when a near full house was broadcast on live television heard to repeatedly abusing Martin O’Neill as ‘a Fenian bastard’. Later, and displaying a deporable ignorance of the facts, not to mention a typical and wholly predictable display of Ostrich Syndrome, David Murray attempted to claim that ‘generalisations of Rankers fans as racist bigots, were inaccurate’. In his view ‘the vast majority of Rankers supporters are decent, respectable people’. Pity none of them were amongst the 50,000+ that were inside Ibrox that night, Mr Murray – or perhaps you just need to take your head out of the sand. Having said that, when you’re drowning in a sea of debt, the bigot’s pound is as good as any, eh ?!
A Rankers fan (Derek Hume) being arrested and charged with verbally abusing Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner during a game at Ibrox. At the same match another Rankers fan (Alan Martin) was arrested, charged, and later plead guilty to verbally abusing Momo Sylla and Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner. He also admitted making ‘monkey noises’ and shouting racist abuse.
Rankers fans attacking a Glasgow Merchant City bar (Locomotiv) filled with Celtic fans and pushing two of them through a plate glass window. The thugs, many of them with Rankers scarves pulled up over their faces were caught on CCTV attacking the bar, throwing bottles and missiles at it, and attacking the customers inside it by punching and kicking them, whilst chanting sectarian songs. Another blatant example of the hate-filled, sectarian hooligan culture that pervades those who support Rankers.
Having a list of ‘famous’ fans that includes human pig-sty Andy Fordham, convicted Chelsea Headhunters Jason Marriner & Andy ‘Nightmare’ Frain, psychopathic ‘Moors Murderer’ Ian Brady, Scotlands unfunniest man Andy Cameron, deputy chairman of the BNP Scott McLean, Britain’s number one tennis no-mark flop Tim Henman, convicted Lotto thug Michael Carroll, homophobic sexist racist dinosaur Bernard Manning, homophobic sexist racist dinosaur Jim Davidson, homophobic sexist racist dinosaur Bobby Davro, washout junkie bigot Martie Pellow, Shellsuit Bob from no-mark telly show River City, ex-Hibs supporter, ex-Hearts-supporter, ex-Celtic supporter Sean Connery, a baldy undignified boring snooker player from Larkhall whose name no-one can be bothered enough to remember, and a host of psychotic drug-dealing Loyalist sectarian sociopaths. Marriner, recently released from prison, after serving a six year sentence for orchestrating football hooliganism was filmed on MacIntyre Uncovered spouting his racist, anti-semitic, propoganda, and denigrating holocaust victims. On his release from prison, he boasted on his personal website : ‘12th July 2006 - Enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the people in the Rankers Supporters Club in the Shankill Road, Belfast and I'd like to take the opportunity to wish you all my very best on the Glorious 12th.’ His partner in crime, Andy ‘Nightmare’ Frain is still finishing his seven year sentence for orchestrating football violence and stabbing a policeman. Both Loyalist psychos are currently serving 10 year bans from attending football matches anywhere in the UK, so it might be a bit of time yet before they can attend a sash-up within The Death Star.
Sectarian abuse being hurled at four Catholic priests in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis by local hooligans wearing Rankers tops. The priests were warned to leave the island ‘before they were cremated’. One of the priests (Father Paul Hackett) was later mailed a death threat before his parish (The Church Of The Holy Redeemer) was burned to the ground as he slept. Other preists were threatened with ‘having their throats slit’ and ‘being strangled’. It would appear that in the minds of some hate-filled bigots, merely being a Catholic is justifiable grounds for execution.
Organising a poll on FF to canvas support in order to get the telecommunications company Orange to become Rankers new kit sponsors. Posters were asked to sign their vote of approval – many did. Another blatant display of Rankers inextricable links with Loyalism, and the Anti-Catholic Orange Order.
British Transport Police having to board a train in Ayrshire after Loyalist thugs returning from a Rankers game began vandalizing the carriages after having subjected the terrified occupants to mile upon mile of sectarian bigotry and drunken thuggish behaviour. Two young male passengers on the train were also assaulted. A number of arrests were made before the passengers were allowed to resume their journey, grateful in the knowledge that their safety now wasn’t quite so precarious.
Rankers fans being involved in widespread violence and sectarianism during a European tie in July 1998 in Liverpool. The match - against Irish club Shelbourne - had to be moved to a neutral ground (Tranmere Rovers / Prenton Park) because club officials knew that the sectarian Rankers fans could not be trusted to travel to Ireland without the genuine fear that they would cause mayhem and injury – if not murder (See Bohemians 1984). It so proved that they couldn't be trusted to travel to England either, where they had to be baton-charged by more than 150 fully clad riot police, as they tried to attack the Irish fans. Amidst mopping up the carnage that Rankers fans caused - including smashing the windows of the Shelbourne FC team bus - Liverpool police commented that Rankers fans would never again be allowed to freely roam the city. If they ever again, did have cause to visit the city, severe policing restrictions would be applied. This has later been proven to be the case as numerous English cities have faced severe alcohol licensing restrictions when Rankers are scheduled to play there. The above is another obvious reason why Rankers are exceptionally rarely invited to play in testimonial matches.
The embarrassingly shameful booing and vitriolic hounding of Shota Arveladze by his club's own fans, because he had the temerity to bless himself before entering the field of play, during a trip to play Linfield in Ireland. For good measure, the Catholic-hating, sectarian, Loyalist hate-mongers of Linfield abused him as well. As someone later pointed out, Arveladze must be the world’s only ‘Georgian Orthodox Fenian Bastard.’
Printing the personal details in a Rankers fanzine of those certain people suspected of having handed the ‘Donald Findlay’ video tape over to the meeja. The inference was that most fellow huns wouldn’t be too bothered if ‘some harm’ befell the culprit(s).
Having three hooligan fans jailed for 20 months each in March 2004, after they brutally attacked an Aberdeen fan in Glasgow as he returned there to catch a train following a Scottish Cup tie in Dumfries. Video footage showed pedestrians diving for cover and the fight was only stopped when police arrived. Damning the Rankers hooligans, Sheriff Linda Ruxton said jail was the only option in the interests of the public. "This was an incident associated with football violence, which brought about a serious disturbance. It took very little to lose control and, as a result, you behaved like hooligans. It must have been a frightening experience for those that were witnesses. Your actions made Glasgow city centre a very dangerous place. Public interest demands that a custodial sentence must be passed."
The shameful desecration of a minute-silence tribute in 1994 to football legend Sir Matt Busby - because he was a Catholic – and also to mark the memory of assassinated President John F Kennedy - for the exact same reason. Not even the dead are immune from sectarian vitriol it would appear.
The shameful displaying of Loyalist paramilitary banners by sectarian Rankers fans, who glorify those convicted of sectarian murder, and that mock the deaths of their victims. Banners have also been flown denigrating the memory of deceased Celtic players, deceased Celtic directors and managers, and of a young Catholic man (Robert Hamill) who was kicked to death in Portadown, by a sectarian hate-mob wearing Rankers shirts. In a sinister terracing dance called 'the bouncy', huns are accused of emulating this act. This accusation was given some credence by a number of posts on FF where posters admitted to ‘joining in the celebration, of the death of a Catholic.’ This admission represents a hatred and depravity that is hard to quantify.
Having the hate-ridden embittered hun hoardes on FF describe the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th - and in particular the deaths of hundreds of NYPD & NYFD members - as ‘deserving’ because some of these brave citizens may (or may not) have been part of a pipe band that welcomed a delegation of Irish MPs to the USA. One knuckledragger said ‘they got what they deserved’, whilst another said he hoped ‘that they were first up the stairs.’ As the cliches flowed, other reprobates claimed that those who courageously gave their own lives to try and save the lives of others, were merely ‘reaping what they had sown’, whilst others denigrated them by claiming it was a case of ‘chickens coming home to roost.’ Many others further agreed that those expressing their malice ‘had a point.’ Charming shower of bastards, eh ?!
Rankers fans deliberately aiming and setting off a pyrotechnic firework in the direction of the Family Section at Celtic Park in October 2002. The device, which police described as ‘a large firework which contained a smaller series of firecrackers’ was set off in an act of blatant hooliganism, with a blatant disregard for the children and families who were seated there. Thankfully no-one was seriously injured by this wanton act of thuggery.
Convicted sectarian, drug-using, drug-dealing, thieving, receiving, criminal-damaging, knife-carrying, fraudulent, car stealing, electronically-tagged, vandalising, burgling, fire-raising, peace-breaching, disqualified-driving, neighbour-from-hell, Lotto thug Michael Carroll who is Rankers daft and their self-confessed 'greatest fan'. Carroll picked up his Lottery cheque whilst wearing an electronic tag, fitted after he was convicted of assault and of drunk & disorderly behaviour. He has over 50 convictions for almost every kind of degenerate sociopathic disorder recently invested £3.9million in the club he most identifies with, and which he feels most at home in. Carroll invested an initial £1m, followed by a further £2.9m via Rankers Financial Management, the brokers who deal with such transactions. A neighbour (Ruth Leeks) who recently collapsed with an asthma attack due to the toxic fumes caused by one of Carroll's customary caravan bonfires, commented 'I feel sorry for the guy because he's obviously so stupid that he has a screw loose and needs help'. As she said this, Carroll and his tattooed hoardes were busily obstructing firemen who had been called to extinguish yet more of his toxic-plumed handiwork. In July 2004, he was sentenced to 5 months for possession of cocaine. In February 2006, he was sentenced to 9 months in prison after he and three friends, armed with baseball bats, burst into a Christian rock concert in Norfolk, and ran amok. Two of the concert-goers required hospital treatment while other young Christians prayed for their lives.
The repeated vandalism of the Away support section at Celtic Park following a 'visit' by Rankers fans. Although Celtic FC refuse to discuss the cost of repairs, it is believed to run into thousands of pounds for each and every game. The fact that all damage is then has to be paid for by the very club they claim to ‘support’ seems totally lost on these reprobates.
Being caught on camera singing anti-Catholic hate anthems, in a notorious Loyalist drinking den. Knuckledraggers, clad in the tarnished blue jersey, were filmed in the Louden Tavern by Channel 4 cameras venting hatred against Catholics when the hun cesspit was featured in ‘Football, Faith And Flutes’, a documentary about religious bigotry and sectarianism in Scotland.
Numerous arrests and subsequent detention of a number of Rankers fans who fraudulently tried to pass off counterfeit Euro currency in Stuttgart before a recent European tie. They were later convicted and sentenced to various periods of imprisonment, bringing further shame on an already notoriously thuggish and hooligan criminal support.
Rankers fans causing a near-riot on the stadium concourse at Ibrox after the refreshment stalls were found to be offering green and white straws (part of an assortment) to customers. Threats of violence and sectarian abuse were hurled at junior catering staff before police and stewards were called in to restore order. Because of this incident, there are now no green and white straws anywhere to be seen at any of the Ibrox vending stalls. Who says the bigots aren’t in control ?!
Using 120 forged tickets to gain entry to a league match at Celtic Park and stealing the seats of fellow Rankers fans, leaving them locked out and unable to see the game. There is nothing much lower than stealing from your own people. Possessing no morals whatsoever, the thieves – incredibly - later tried to shift blame for their dishonesty by suggesting that Celtic FC were responsible for not preventing them from gaining fraudulent access in the first place. As CS Kevin Smith (Match Commander) pointed out “The match saw a number of Rankers fans with genuine tickets turned away because other, so-called, fans entered the stadium with forged tickets. Every person entering with a forged ticket deprives a genuine fan with an authentic ticket of the chance to get in.” Are there no depths to which these gutter-scum won’t sink to ??
Being branded ‘shameful’, ‘filth’ and ‘ a disgrace’ by Bobby Robson after a pre-season match at St James’s Park where they persistantly abused Alan Shearer to such an extent, that Robson took him off the park. Robson later commented that he had plied his trade for decades, in numerous countries around the world. This was the first time he had experienced such malice, on such a vile scale, and the first time he had ever felt needing to take one of his players off the field of play. Yet another ugly first for the gutter-scum who support Rankers. Seems the hypocritical hate-mongers only love Engerrlunnd when it suits them.
Rankers fans continued and repeated racial and sectarian abuse of Neil Lennon over two adjoining fixtures which prompted Martin O’Neill to publically comment on his utter disgust at the situation. Despite condemnation from the media, politicians, and the wider Scottish public, Rankers refused to condemn their bigoted and sectarian fan-base who continue to bring shame on their club. On the very day Martin O’Neill’s comments were reported in the media, he himself was viciously abused by the Ibrox hate-mongers during a match with Austrian minnows Grazer AK. Hollow claims from the Ibrox hierarchy that any abuse was made by ‘a minority’ were publically dispelled when a near full house was broadcast on live television heard to repeatedly abusing Martin O’Neill as ‘a Fenian bastard’. Later, and displaying a deporable ignorance of the facts, not to mention a typical and wholly predictable display of Ostrich Syndrome, David Murray attempted to claim that ‘generalisations of Rankers fans as racist bigots, were inaccurate’. In his view ‘the vast majority of Rankers supporters are decent, respectable people’. Pity none of them were amongst the 50,000+ that were inside Ibrox that night, Mr Murray – or perhaps you just need to take your head out of the sand. Having said that, when you’re drowning in a sea of debt, the bigot’s pound is as good as any, eh ?!
A Rankers fan (Derek Hume) being arrested and charged with verbally abusing Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner during a game at Ibrox. At the same match another Rankers fan (Alan Martin) was arrested, charged, and later plead guilty to verbally abusing Momo Sylla and Bobo Balde in a racist and sectarian manner. He also admitted making ‘monkey noises’ and shouting racist abuse.
Rankers fans attacking a Glasgow Merchant City bar (Locomotiv) filled with Celtic fans and pushing two of them through a plate glass window. The thugs, many of them with Rankers scarves pulled up over their faces were caught on CCTV attacking the bar, throwing bottles and missiles at it, and attacking the customers inside it by punching and kicking them, whilst chanting sectarian songs. Another blatant example of the hate-filled, sectarian hooligan culture that pervades those who support Rankers.
Having a list of ‘famous’ fans that includes human pig-sty Andy Fordham, convicted Chelsea Headhunters Jason Marriner & Andy ‘Nightmare’ Frain, psychopathic ‘Moors Murderer’ Ian Brady, Scotlands unfunniest man Andy Cameron, deputy chairman of the BNP Scott McLean, Britain’s number one tennis no-mark flop Tim Henman, convicted Lotto thug Michael Carroll, homophobic sexist racist dinosaur Bernard Manning, homophobic sexist racist dinosaur Jim Davidson, homophobic sexist racist dinosaur Bobby Davro, washout junkie bigot Martie Pellow, Shellsuit Bob from no-mark telly show River City, ex-Hibs supporter, ex-Hearts-supporter, ex-Celtic supporter Sean Connery, a baldy undignified boring snooker player from Larkhall whose name no-one can be bothered enough to remember, and a host of psychotic drug-dealing Loyalist sectarian sociopaths. Marriner, recently released from prison, after serving a six year sentence for orchestrating football hooliganism was filmed on MacIntyre Uncovered spouting his racist, anti-semitic, propoganda, and denigrating holocaust victims. On his release from prison, he boasted on his personal website : ‘12th July 2006 - Enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the people in the Rankers Supporters Club in the Shankill Road, Belfast and I'd like to take the opportunity to wish you all my very best on the Glorious 12th.’ His partner in crime, Andy ‘Nightmare’ Frain is still finishing his seven year sentence for orchestrating football violence and stabbing a policeman. Both Loyalist psychos are currently serving 10 year bans from attending football matches anywhere in the UK, so it might be a bit of time yet before they can attend a sash-up within The Death Star.
Sectarian abuse being hurled at four Catholic priests in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis by local hooligans wearing Rankers tops. The priests were warned to leave the island ‘before they were cremated’. One of the priests (Father Paul Hackett) was later mailed a death threat before his parish (The Church Of The Holy Redeemer) was burned to the ground as he slept. Other preists were threatened with ‘having their throats slit’ and ‘being strangled’. It would appear that in the minds of some hate-filled bigots, merely being a Catholic is justifiable grounds for execution.
Organising a poll on FF to canvas support in order to get the telecommunications company Orange to become Rankers new kit sponsors. Posters were asked to sign their vote of approval – many did. Another blatant display of Rankers inextricable links with Loyalism, and the Anti-Catholic Orange Order.
British Transport Police having to board a train in Ayrshire after Loyalist thugs returning from a Rankers game began vandalizing the carriages after having subjected the terrified occupants to mile upon mile of sectarian bigotry and drunken thuggish behaviour. Two young male passengers on the train were also assaulted. A number of arrests were made before the passengers were allowed to resume their journey, grateful in the knowledge that their safety now wasn’t quite so precarious.
The Aberdeen players having to be taken off the pitch at Pittodrie in 2002, after Aberdeen striker Robbie Winters was hit in the head by a coin, as a hail of missiles were launched by rabid huns. The hun hooliganism caused many people to be injured before riot police had to be called in to take control. Rankers players had to approach the baying huns, to try and calm them. Press photos later showed Lorenzo Amadiddy pleading with the huns to control themselves, and to stop behaving like hooligans. As stated in The Telegraph : "Trouble began when fans in the Rankers section hurled coins and bottles at Aberdeen's Robbie Winters as he prepared to take a corner kick. The home fans invaded the pitch to confront their rivals. Rankers followers tried to meet them half way, but were prevented by 50 police officers in full riot gear. The referee took both teams off and the match was halted for 17 minutes. Over 60 of the stadium’s seats were ripped out. Nineteen supporters received varying injuries, with a number requiring hospital treatment. Police made 13 arrests before and during the game, and a number of others were ejected from the ground."
Wrecking the Paramount Bar in Aberdeen in 1995, after it installed urinal video screens screens in its gents toilets, inviting customers to pish all over them – which many, many, did.
When canvassed for their opinions on how the Unofficial Rankers fanzine 'Follow Follow' could be better improved for the fans, the following were some of the most popular replies : naked page 3 girls, a porn section, a 'faggot' section for all the weirdos and gays, naked female Rankers fans photo section, a section on football thugs and violence, a gossip column. Nice to know their readership are real football fans, who are interested in the genuine issues that affect the club.
Racially abusing two Muslims in Stuttgart Airport, shouting at them : ‘You murdering c**ts shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a f**king airport.’
Numerous members of Rankers much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ joke mob The Blue Order being arrested for both sectarianism and overt rascism. Far from discouraging bigotry, these resident hate-mongers have been a catalyst for it’s expansion. The most recent exploits of this ‘family friendly’ environment include members being arrested for calling Mark de Vries a ‘n*gger bastard’ during a recent match –v- Hearts at Ibrox. So cancerous is the environment created by these bitter individuals that the club has had to resort to planting undercover stewards within their designated seating area to try and quell the intimidating and malicious atmosphere. To date, numerous members have been arrested, ejected, warned, or banned. If that’s what goes on in their much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ section, one shudders to think what goes on in their sectarian sections.
Singing a song that glorifies committing the sectarian murder of Neil Lennon. The song ‘Hang Neil Lennon’ which Rankers fans admit to singing on their buses en-route to Ibrox, includes the lines ‘Hang Neil Lennon, Hang him high, That I may see that Fenian die..’ They’re nice people, really.
Verbally abusing young cancer victims to score cheap points against Celtic footballers who were at a Cancer Unit trying to brighten up the children patient’s Xmas. The Gub’s ‘baldy headed weans’ diatribe – backed up and supported by his bitter little clique of twisted cronies - was one of the most malicious, disgusting, and vile comments ever uttered by a gutterhun, something in itself that takes some doing. Thankfully, some decent Rankers fans had the courage to take this scum-bucket to task over his degenerate hatred. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they were the ones who were banned from the board. Hypocrasy and suppression are alive and well on Fascist Fascist. Shame on you, ya twisted, evil, bitter bastard.
Suggesting to eachother that Rankers should try and cheat their way to further progress by deliberately throwing their forthcoming UC group match against Auxerre, with a view to securing an easy draw in the next round of the tournament. If Rankers finished 2nd in the group (Alkmaar were favourites for 1st place) they would face the likes of Real Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Deportivo, Liverpool, Ajax etc. If they came 3rd – which would happen if they conveniently ‘lost’ to Auxerre – they would face the likes of Lille, Dnipro, Seville, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Partisan Belgrade etc. With seedings for the next round based on where a team finishes in their previous group, the 1st eight would play the 3rd eight placed teams, and the 2nd eight would play those who parachuted in from the Champions League. Bearing that in mind, the following post appeared on FF. “I personally believe that if we are hearing that Alkmaar are coasting it against Grazer (for example 3 goals up) we should deliberately lose the match to Auxerre. Progress in Europe is vital for the club and coming 3rd instead of 2nd enhances our chances of further progress and to me it is a no-brainer - the club must act in their own best interests”. Aside the fact that Rankers are living in cloud-cuckoo land by considering others as minnows, it seems the hun would rather cheat his way to ‘success’ rather than face the prospect of playing a decent team, in an honest and fair manner.
Being criticised for their constant moaning, and arrogance, by their own Chairman, who said he sometimes wished they “could be more like Celtic’s fans”, who back their team through thick and thin. He was referring to their constant negativity, whinging, getting arrogant after a decade of domestic success, and forgetting about what’s really important to the club.
Being the first club in Britain to have a fan convicted of religious bigotry after one of their sectarian hooligan fan-base was arrested at a match v Copenhagen at Ibrox in Aug 2003. The bigot was arrested for singing vile sectarian songs promoting Loyalist murder gangs and was charged with 'A Breach Of The Peace, Aggravated By Religious Prejudice'. He was convicted and sentenced in March 2004, when he received 120 hours community service and a one year probation order. He also received a banning order from Ibrox, and joins another 14 sectarian bigots who are serving life bans, and a further 82 who are serving 'indefinate' bans. In addition to this, a further 191 bigots have been issued with written warnings for contravening Rankers better-late-than-never 'Pride Over Prejudice' arrangement, and a further 1257 have been warned for 'behaviour deemed inappropriate, offensive, or unsocial'.
Refusing to acknowledge that as a schoolboy, true-blue Alex Rae used to play for Celtic Boys Club, is married to a Tim, and has a number of lifelong Tim mates (many of them from his CBC days). Tut Tut – and him one of ‘the peepil’ as well ?! Seems it’s just too painful for the great unwashed Kinning Parkers to countenance the thought that their numero-uno, arch idol, and Uber-Prod is anything other than a 100% dyed-in-the-wool jaffa. Anything less would be treason, wouldn’t it ??! Maybe if they just refuse to believe it, it’ll all just go away !!
Being described by MSP Donald Gorrie as ‘bigoted and abusive’ after bombarding him with hate-mail after he refused to back their twisted, biased, Rankers-based, Anti-Catholic, Pro-Loyalist agenda. For the crime of remaining neutral over a highly complex and bitterly entrenched issue, Mr Gorrie has now - along with other anti-sectarian campagners - become a figure of hate for the bigots. In other words, if you’re not with us, you must be against us. Not that they’re blinkered or anything like that !
The RSA & RST proving just how weak and impotent they really are during their much-publicised and much-vaunted showdown meeting with Graham Speirs (The Herald) at Ibrox. Despite re-assuring the scum-buckets baying for Speir's head on a silver platter, that 'those representing them will be thouroughly prepared' - they came back after three hours of trying with their tails between their legs, and a whole bunch of nothing. During the meeting Speirs reiterated his belief that Rankers fans' "bigotry is worse at Ibrox than elsewhere, and is greater in it's frequency" and that that his article in support of Neil Lennon was wholly justified. The fact that he again 'attacked the Rankers support as a whole' merely re-iterates what a wasted exercise this was for the beleaguered bretheren of the RSA. No doubt they had a bit of explaining to do when they returned to face the blood-thirsty hoardes in Kinning Park ?! Ah well, back to slating him on FF it is then.
The disgraceful and cowardly verbal attack by a number of drunken Rankers fans on Jean-Alain Boumsong inside an Ibrox hospitality suite, after a European tie –v- Auxerre. Boumsong, who was sitting with his girlfriend and family, was confronted, and subjected to a torrent of personal abuse, before being told to 'F*ck Off To Newcastle'. The Tyneside club had earlier in the day, entered a £7.5m bid for him - something he could neither prevent, nor influence. Confirming the nasty incident, the player's enraged agent Willie McKay, said the bust up left Boumsong's girlfriend 'very upset by what was said' and and he himself stated the ugly confrontation 'left a very nasty taste in the mouth'. If this is how they treat one of their most popular players, heaven knows what vitriol is reserved for the out of favour ones ?!
Wishing Jean-Alain Boumsong a ‘career-ending leg break’, ‘permanent blindness’, and ‘malignant cancer’ after he left Ibrox for St James’s Park. Hell hath no fury like a hun with a grudge.
Posting a thread on FF asking which splinter faction of degenerate, homicidal, drug-dealing, Loyalist psychotics they supported and favoured most. The favourites - which ran into scores of replies - were South Belfast UFF, West Belfast UVF, East Belfast UVF, Cluan Place UVF, Tigers Bay UFF, 'C' Company UFF, East Belfast Protestant Boys, South East Antrim Defenders, Ulster Young Militants, Protestant Action Force, Red Hand Commandos, and the Young Calvay Volunteers. Anyone who doubts a direct link between this Loyalist hate-mongering on FF, the gutter-scum who frequent Ibrox every other week, and their ‘influence’ all the way to the top, need only read one of The Gub's veiled boasts about how tight FF is in the corridors of power at Ibrox'. “Murray phoned up GS (Grandmaster Suck = Mark Dingwall = Editor : FF) and asked for a pow wow earlier this year.” This demonstrates explicitly that a direct line of communication exists between David Murray and Mark Dingwall at FF.
Denigrating those who died in the Tsunami tragedy by suggesting it was their country(s) own fault for not having proper sea defences, and then saying that the charity money should be "spent in Britain, not used to bail out those who'll probably be over here soon as asylum seekers."
Attacking a disabled Dundee United fan before the New Year's Day game at Tannadice this year. The fan, who is well known to Arabs as Charlie, was kicked and punched by two hun neds as he came out of the toilets beside the George Fox Stand, just before the kick-off. Other fans who witnessed the cowardly attack, chased the low-lifes, before giving their description to the police. Sad day when a disabled person can't go about their business without being assaulted by hun scum-bags.
Having another of their vile, sectarian, bigot fans convicted of ‘Breach Of The Peace - Aggravated By Religious Prejudice’ when he (Scott Primrose) was sentenced to 240 hours Community Service and placed on probation for 1 year. Primrose was arrested inside Ibrox as he spewed his bigoted hatred during a game against Celtic in 2004. The judge instructed that Rankers be asked to ban the knuckle-dragger for life.
FootyMad taking action against three knuckle-dragging reprobate huns, who posted images on FF of footballer Neil Lennon being hanged, with the caption 'Hang Neil Lennon, Hang Him High.' The bigoted imbeciles were immediately banned after a flood of complaints, including one by Donald Gorrie MSP, an anti-sectarian campaigner, who said it 'was vital to take action against such behaviour.'
Having yet another bigoted sectarian Rankers fan (Stuart Davies) being convicted of a religiously aggravated assault. Davies was caged for 22 months after subjecting his victim - a Celtic fan - to a prolonged and vicious attack as he was sitting in his own front garden. Afterwards his victim needed 16 stitches in a gaping head wound. Sentencing him, Sheriff Alfred Vannet said : "I cannot see any other form of disposal other than that of a custodial sentence. You viciously attacked an innocent man, for no other reason than religious prejudice. I further order that Rankers Football Club be informed of your conviction." Also convicted in the same attack was fellow bigot, and fellow Rankers hooligan (Stephen Baxter) who will be sentenced at a later date.
Having 27 fans arrested at the Celtic –v- Rankers game in Jan ’05 despite being fore-warned that their embarrasing sectarian hatred would not be tolerated. Not a single Celtic fan was arrested during the same fixture. The huns were later convicted of a multitude of various unsocial, violent, and sectarian offences. Should we have expected anything less ?!
Being slated by Ibrox legend Ally McCoist for the vicious and fickle way they turned on former golden boy Barry Ferguson, after he left them for a bigger club. When rumours of his possible return to The Death Star surfaced, McCoist slammed the ‘fickle fans’ who continued to abuse Ferguson – although poignantly highlighted that they’d soon change their tune should he actually return. Another former hero Andy Gray chipped in his tuppence-worth by saying Ferguson would be ‘crazy to even consider going back to Ibrox.’
In March 2005, denigrating global footballing icon, George Best, with some of the vilest, cruelest, most loathesome slurs a sick mind can possibly sink to (which won't be reproduced here) because he suggested that the NIFA, and the FAI should merge ‘to generate a United Ireland football team.’ During an interview for BBC Radio Five Live, Best stated : "At any given time, both the Republic and Northern Ireland have had some great world-class players. I just believe in trying something. If it doesn't work, at least you've tried. I just hope it happens in my lifetime." Upon reading his quote, the huns went into near apoplexy, and the man idolised by millions the globe over, was reduced to nothing more than a wife-beating gutter-drunk by the bitter, bastard hordes of Dignity FC.
Having their hooligan neds attack Chris Burke while he was out for a meal, and then subsequently try to blame Celtic fans. The neds spotted Burke at the China House restaurant in Shettleston and proceeded to cause a disturbance and smash the plate glass window of the restaurant, causing terrified diners to run for cover. After Rankers number one fanzine (The Daily Retard) had printed ill-informed, sensationalist lies – including inventing a bizarre hammer fabrication - the truth was only brought to bare when the player's own family issued the following statement : "There was no hammer, no Celtic fans, and none of the teenagers wore Celtic strips. They were all Rankers fans with Rankers tops, and they were knocking on the window when it smashed." Ah, well, at least The Retard tried, eh ?!
Wrecking the Paramount Bar in Aberdeen in 1995, after it installed urinal video screens screens in its gents toilets, inviting customers to pish all over them – which many, many, did.
When canvassed for their opinions on how the Unofficial Rankers fanzine 'Follow Follow' could be better improved for the fans, the following were some of the most popular replies : naked page 3 girls, a porn section, a 'faggot' section for all the weirdos and gays, naked female Rankers fans photo section, a section on football thugs and violence, a gossip column. Nice to know their readership are real football fans, who are interested in the genuine issues that affect the club.
Racially abusing two Muslims in Stuttgart Airport, shouting at them : ‘You murdering c**ts shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a f**king airport.’
Numerous members of Rankers much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ joke mob The Blue Order being arrested for both sectarianism and overt rascism. Far from discouraging bigotry, these resident hate-mongers have been a catalyst for it’s expansion. The most recent exploits of this ‘family friendly’ environment include members being arrested for calling Mark de Vries a ‘n*gger bastard’ during a recent match –v- Hearts at Ibrox. So cancerous is the environment created by these bitter individuals that the club has had to resort to planting undercover stewards within their designated seating area to try and quell the intimidating and malicious atmosphere. To date, numerous members have been arrested, ejected, warned, or banned. If that’s what goes on in their much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ section, one shudders to think what goes on in their sectarian sections.
Singing a song that glorifies committing the sectarian murder of Neil Lennon. The song ‘Hang Neil Lennon’ which Rankers fans admit to singing on their buses en-route to Ibrox, includes the lines ‘Hang Neil Lennon, Hang him high, That I may see that Fenian die..’ They’re nice people, really.
Verbally abusing young cancer victims to score cheap points against Celtic footballers who were at a Cancer Unit trying to brighten up the children patient’s Xmas. The Gub’s ‘baldy headed weans’ diatribe – backed up and supported by his bitter little clique of twisted cronies - was one of the most malicious, disgusting, and vile comments ever uttered by a gutterhun, something in itself that takes some doing. Thankfully, some decent Rankers fans had the courage to take this scum-bucket to task over his degenerate hatred. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they were the ones who were banned from the board. Hypocrasy and suppression are alive and well on Fascist Fascist. Shame on you, ya twisted, evil, bitter bastard.
Suggesting to eachother that Rankers should try and cheat their way to further progress by deliberately throwing their forthcoming UC group match against Auxerre, with a view to securing an easy draw in the next round of the tournament. If Rankers finished 2nd in the group (Alkmaar were favourites for 1st place) they would face the likes of Real Madrid, Valencia, Porto, Deportivo, Liverpool, Ajax etc. If they came 3rd – which would happen if they conveniently ‘lost’ to Auxerre – they would face the likes of Lille, Dnipro, Seville, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Partisan Belgrade etc. With seedings for the next round based on where a team finishes in their previous group, the 1st eight would play the 3rd eight placed teams, and the 2nd eight would play those who parachuted in from the Champions League. Bearing that in mind, the following post appeared on FF. “I personally believe that if we are hearing that Alkmaar are coasting it against Grazer (for example 3 goals up) we should deliberately lose the match to Auxerre. Progress in Europe is vital for the club and coming 3rd instead of 2nd enhances our chances of further progress and to me it is a no-brainer - the club must act in their own best interests”. Aside the fact that Rankers are living in cloud-cuckoo land by considering others as minnows, it seems the hun would rather cheat his way to ‘success’ rather than face the prospect of playing a decent team, in an honest and fair manner.
Being criticised for their constant moaning, and arrogance, by their own Chairman, who said he sometimes wished they “could be more like Celtic’s fans”, who back their team through thick and thin. He was referring to their constant negativity, whinging, getting arrogant after a decade of domestic success, and forgetting about what’s really important to the club.
Being the first club in Britain to have a fan convicted of religious bigotry after one of their sectarian hooligan fan-base was arrested at a match v Copenhagen at Ibrox in Aug 2003. The bigot was arrested for singing vile sectarian songs promoting Loyalist murder gangs and was charged with 'A Breach Of The Peace, Aggravated By Religious Prejudice'. He was convicted and sentenced in March 2004, when he received 120 hours community service and a one year probation order. He also received a banning order from Ibrox, and joins another 14 sectarian bigots who are serving life bans, and a further 82 who are serving 'indefinate' bans. In addition to this, a further 191 bigots have been issued with written warnings for contravening Rankers better-late-than-never 'Pride Over Prejudice' arrangement, and a further 1257 have been warned for 'behaviour deemed inappropriate, offensive, or unsocial'.
Refusing to acknowledge that as a schoolboy, true-blue Alex Rae used to play for Celtic Boys Club, is married to a Tim, and has a number of lifelong Tim mates (many of them from his CBC days). Tut Tut – and him one of ‘the peepil’ as well ?! Seems it’s just too painful for the great unwashed Kinning Parkers to countenance the thought that their numero-uno, arch idol, and Uber-Prod is anything other than a 100% dyed-in-the-wool jaffa. Anything less would be treason, wouldn’t it ??! Maybe if they just refuse to believe it, it’ll all just go away !!
Being described by MSP Donald Gorrie as ‘bigoted and abusive’ after bombarding him with hate-mail after he refused to back their twisted, biased, Rankers-based, Anti-Catholic, Pro-Loyalist agenda. For the crime of remaining neutral over a highly complex and bitterly entrenched issue, Mr Gorrie has now - along with other anti-sectarian campagners - become a figure of hate for the bigots. In other words, if you’re not with us, you must be against us. Not that they’re blinkered or anything like that !
The RSA & RST proving just how weak and impotent they really are during their much-publicised and much-vaunted showdown meeting with Graham Speirs (The Herald) at Ibrox. Despite re-assuring the scum-buckets baying for Speir's head on a silver platter, that 'those representing them will be thouroughly prepared' - they came back after three hours of trying with their tails between their legs, and a whole bunch of nothing. During the meeting Speirs reiterated his belief that Rankers fans' "bigotry is worse at Ibrox than elsewhere, and is greater in it's frequency" and that that his article in support of Neil Lennon was wholly justified. The fact that he again 'attacked the Rankers support as a whole' merely re-iterates what a wasted exercise this was for the beleaguered bretheren of the RSA. No doubt they had a bit of explaining to do when they returned to face the blood-thirsty hoardes in Kinning Park ?! Ah well, back to slating him on FF it is then.
The disgraceful and cowardly verbal attack by a number of drunken Rankers fans on Jean-Alain Boumsong inside an Ibrox hospitality suite, after a European tie –v- Auxerre. Boumsong, who was sitting with his girlfriend and family, was confronted, and subjected to a torrent of personal abuse, before being told to 'F*ck Off To Newcastle'. The Tyneside club had earlier in the day, entered a £7.5m bid for him - something he could neither prevent, nor influence. Confirming the nasty incident, the player's enraged agent Willie McKay, said the bust up left Boumsong's girlfriend 'very upset by what was said' and and he himself stated the ugly confrontation 'left a very nasty taste in the mouth'. If this is how they treat one of their most popular players, heaven knows what vitriol is reserved for the out of favour ones ?!
Wishing Jean-Alain Boumsong a ‘career-ending leg break’, ‘permanent blindness’, and ‘malignant cancer’ after he left Ibrox for St James’s Park. Hell hath no fury like a hun with a grudge.
Posting a thread on FF asking which splinter faction of degenerate, homicidal, drug-dealing, Loyalist psychotics they supported and favoured most. The favourites - which ran into scores of replies - were South Belfast UFF, West Belfast UVF, East Belfast UVF, Cluan Place UVF, Tigers Bay UFF, 'C' Company UFF, East Belfast Protestant Boys, South East Antrim Defenders, Ulster Young Militants, Protestant Action Force, Red Hand Commandos, and the Young Calvay Volunteers. Anyone who doubts a direct link between this Loyalist hate-mongering on FF, the gutter-scum who frequent Ibrox every other week, and their ‘influence’ all the way to the top, need only read one of The Gub's veiled boasts about how tight FF is in the corridors of power at Ibrox'. “Murray phoned up GS (Grandmaster Suck = Mark Dingwall = Editor : FF) and asked for a pow wow earlier this year.” This demonstrates explicitly that a direct line of communication exists between David Murray and Mark Dingwall at FF.
Denigrating those who died in the Tsunami tragedy by suggesting it was their country(s) own fault for not having proper sea defences, and then saying that the charity money should be "spent in Britain, not used to bail out those who'll probably be over here soon as asylum seekers."
Attacking a disabled Dundee United fan before the New Year's Day game at Tannadice this year. The fan, who is well known to Arabs as Charlie, was kicked and punched by two hun neds as he came out of the toilets beside the George Fox Stand, just before the kick-off. Other fans who witnessed the cowardly attack, chased the low-lifes, before giving their description to the police. Sad day when a disabled person can't go about their business without being assaulted by hun scum-bags.
Having another of their vile, sectarian, bigot fans convicted of ‘Breach Of The Peace - Aggravated By Religious Prejudice’ when he (Scott Primrose) was sentenced to 240 hours Community Service and placed on probation for 1 year. Primrose was arrested inside Ibrox as he spewed his bigoted hatred during a game against Celtic in 2004. The judge instructed that Rankers be asked to ban the knuckle-dragger for life.
FootyMad taking action against three knuckle-dragging reprobate huns, who posted images on FF of footballer Neil Lennon being hanged, with the caption 'Hang Neil Lennon, Hang Him High.' The bigoted imbeciles were immediately banned after a flood of complaints, including one by Donald Gorrie MSP, an anti-sectarian campaigner, who said it 'was vital to take action against such behaviour.'
Having yet another bigoted sectarian Rankers fan (Stuart Davies) being convicted of a religiously aggravated assault. Davies was caged for 22 months after subjecting his victim - a Celtic fan - to a prolonged and vicious attack as he was sitting in his own front garden. Afterwards his victim needed 16 stitches in a gaping head wound. Sentencing him, Sheriff Alfred Vannet said : "I cannot see any other form of disposal other than that of a custodial sentence. You viciously attacked an innocent man, for no other reason than religious prejudice. I further order that Rankers Football Club be informed of your conviction." Also convicted in the same attack was fellow bigot, and fellow Rankers hooligan (Stephen Baxter) who will be sentenced at a later date.
Having 27 fans arrested at the Celtic –v- Rankers game in Jan ’05 despite being fore-warned that their embarrasing sectarian hatred would not be tolerated. Not a single Celtic fan was arrested during the same fixture. The huns were later convicted of a multitude of various unsocial, violent, and sectarian offences. Should we have expected anything less ?!
Being slated by Ibrox legend Ally McCoist for the vicious and fickle way they turned on former golden boy Barry Ferguson, after he left them for a bigger club. When rumours of his possible return to The Death Star surfaced, McCoist slammed the ‘fickle fans’ who continued to abuse Ferguson – although poignantly highlighted that they’d soon change their tune should he actually return. Another former hero Andy Gray chipped in his tuppence-worth by saying Ferguson would be ‘crazy to even consider going back to Ibrox.’
In March 2005, denigrating global footballing icon, George Best, with some of the vilest, cruelest, most loathesome slurs a sick mind can possibly sink to (which won't be reproduced here) because he suggested that the NIFA, and the FAI should merge ‘to generate a United Ireland football team.’ During an interview for BBC Radio Five Live, Best stated : "At any given time, both the Republic and Northern Ireland have had some great world-class players. I just believe in trying something. If it doesn't work, at least you've tried. I just hope it happens in my lifetime." Upon reading his quote, the huns went into near apoplexy, and the man idolised by millions the globe over, was reduced to nothing more than a wife-beating gutter-drunk by the bitter, bastard hordes of Dignity FC.
Having their hooligan neds attack Chris Burke while he was out for a meal, and then subsequently try to blame Celtic fans. The neds spotted Burke at the China House restaurant in Shettleston and proceeded to cause a disturbance and smash the plate glass window of the restaurant, causing terrified diners to run for cover. After Rankers number one fanzine (The Daily Retard) had printed ill-informed, sensationalist lies – including inventing a bizarre hammer fabrication - the truth was only brought to bare when the player's own family issued the following statement : "There was no hammer, no Celtic fans, and none of the teenagers wore Celtic strips. They were all Rankers fans with Rankers tops, and they were knocking on the window when it smashed." Ah, well, at least The Retard tried, eh ?!
Verbally abusing HIV-positive Labour politician Chris Smith, saying he deserves to die of AIDS for being gay. Some of them even volunteered to pull the trigger to 'finish him off early.'
Suggesting that Tony Blair (and his Papist wife ?!!?) should be executed, hung, and given the 'Kennedy treatment' after he publically apologised to Irish miscarriage of justice victims who had been wrongly imprisoned for over 15 years of their lives.
Hooligan thugs endangering the lives of other fans by deliberately starting a fire in the toilets at Celtic Park - after smashing them up first. The deranged lunatics burned all the toilet rolls and paper towels causing an alert which had to be extinguished by security staff, resulting in the area being hurriedly cleared and cordoned off. In the resulting panic, people were in danger of being crushed, as fans tried to use the toilets, not knowing they had been set on fire by Rankers psychos who don't even care if they endanger their own fellow fans.
Slashing a steward at Celtic Park during a match v Celtic. The steward – a Rankers fan – was called a ‘fenian bastard’ before he was cut with a blow to the face. His injuries were tended by medical staff at Celtic Park before he was rushed to hospital.
Having one of their violent, sectarian sewer-hole pubs closed after police, and the licensing board slammed it for being ‘sectarian, abusive, and violent’. Walkers in the east end of Glasgow had it’s licence summarily revoked, and it’s owner was banned from holding a drinks licence. The pub has been the scene of numerous violent, sectarian incidents, and numerous arrests have been made on the knuckle-draggers who frequent it’s bigoted environs. In February ’05, a Celtic fan was chased out of it, and stabbed repeatedly after making the fatal mistake of not knowing it was a violent, bigoted, sectarian, hun-filled cesspit.
Stealing the handbag of a fellow female fan during a match at The Death Star, which contained her ID, purse, house keys, and car keys. Probably why she tried to use the FF messageboard to track the culprit down and ‘have the bastard slashed’.
Causing mayhem, rioting, and battling with rival fans during a testimonial match at Roker Park, in 1993, which included a number of Sunderland fans being slashed, and one being thrown from a moving train.
Having one of their violent, drunken, bigoted, knuckle-draggers arrested at Celtic Park after he sneaked into a Celtic section, and subjected opposition fans to a torrent of religious and sectarian abuse. Robert Reid was almost too drunk to stand, but still found the energy to spout his hate at those who were seated around him. As he was arrested, Reid – filled with dutch courage - challenged fans and police to fight, and hurled a torrent of bigoted abuse. His drunken thuggery cost him a £500 fine and 2 years probation at Glasgow Sheriff Court. At the same match, another of their sectarian, violent drunken louts (John Johnstone) was fined £250 after being arrested, after he was refused entry. Johnstone was found to be drunk and incapable, and lashed out at police and stewards who arrested him as he provoked rival fans with bigoted abuse. Maybe these sectarian cretins took their lead from some of the sterling examples set down by their onfield icons ??!
Showering the Inverness Caley players with a barrage of coins, after Brian Prunty equalised in the 90th minute during a game at The Death Star. This was only 3 days after hooligan Rankers fans threw coins at Mark Burchill after he equalised for Hearts at Swinecastle. Rankers only stole the points in that game, after notorious assistant referee Andy Davies (a Rankers fan with a history of making dubious ‘genuine’ errors) awarded a non-existant penalty after a theatrical dive by Sotirios Kyrgiakos. Not a single other – including the huns themselves - had claimed for, nor saw any incident, but in a truly mystifying and bizarre joint decision, Hugh Dallas (who had earlier failed to award Hearts what looked to all as a stonewall penalty) overturned his earlier award of a goal kick, and pulled a 93rd minute penalty out of the hat, to give the huns a 2-1 victory. Hearts chaiman George Foulkes – like many others - called for an immediate SFA inquiry, and questioned ‘the integrity of the decision’ and wether or not ‘anything untoward’ was present in making it.
Being slated by club Chairman David Murray for being Catholic-hating, sectarian bigots who weren't welcome at The Death Star (or anywhere else for that matter !). In a scathing condemnation of the hate-filled knuckle-draggers who frequent Legoland every other week, The Grand Imperial Knight Dragon Wizard FINALLY amassed the courage to openly admit that Rankers fans have a disgusting, bigoted, and hate-filled element who espouse nauseating, anti-Catholic, sectarian hatred. In a BBC interview, Murray summed up the Rankers fans’ deep-rooted and longstanding problem with sectarian hatred when he stated "There's simply no place at Ibrox for the FTP brigade and those who would have us wading in Fenian blood. We have a proud history and heritage, but this is not what gets us in trouble. It is the 'baggage' of foul singing and sectarian references during, and at the end of traditional Rankers songs which causes me and everyone at this club a problem. We cannot defend it and we must get rid of it." In the same interview, Murray slated and warned those elements within the Rankers support who espouse rascism, fascism, and support for paramilitary sectarian murderers. No one likes them - they don't care !!
Having an additional 28 Blue Order reprobates banned for sectarian and rascist chanting. The bigots - referred to by the club's own chairman as 'the FTP brigade' - were ejected from the ground after making anti-Catholic, and sectarian chants during the club's tarnished (and previously banned) anthem 'Simply The Best.' The (better late than never) strategy was sanctioned by the club's security chief Lawrence Mackintyre, who was finally embarrassed into taking action, in order to begin eradicating the club's woeful and dire sectarian problem. In addition to the 28 banning orders, the remaining 300 members of this bastion of tolerance received warning letters, threatening them with draconian sanctions, should they fail to desist from spouting their virulent and nauseating hatred.
Naming a Cup Final in memory of a bigoted and embittered individual, who stated that Rankers first high-profile Catholic signing (Mo Johnstone) "shouldn't be here" and that “he had no business wearing that shirt”. The so-called 'Cooper Final' was such a tribute to his memory that his name wasn't even mentioned until the 88th minute. Curiously, Bobby Sands, and King Billy were accoladed from almost the first minute onwards, and even Derry’s Walls managed a mention before him – just as one of their hooligan supporters was holding up the match, by invading the field of play.
Claiming that the banning of scores of nauseating Blue Order sectarian bigots from The Death Star, was only so that David Murray could re-sell their seats to his fatcat cronies, for the final -v- Celtic game of the season.
Hun bigot Scott Campbell being sacked for gross misconduct from his job as an airport fireman after sectarianly abusing Neil Lennon and Chris Sutton at Inverness airport. Ex-RAF bigot Campbell - a Season Ticket holder at The Death Star - subjected the players to a hate-filled torrent of disgusting sectarian bile, before being confronted by a club security official. His appeal against the sacking was dismissed almost as immediately as he was. Officials at Inverness airport, later issued a full and unreserved apology to Celtic Football Club, for the actions of this dim-witted nugget.
Celebrating the death of Pope John Paul II – less than 24 hours after his passing - with some of the most repugnant, deranged, moronic, sectarian bile ever to have eminated from within the sewers of red, white, & blue repugnance. Whilst his death was being mourned globally by billions of people from all creeds and denominations, the sectarian hate-mongers from Kinning Park were singing their loathsome repertoire of hate-filled intolerance, and Anti-Catholic venomous bigotry. Rankers opponents (Motherwell) had proposed a minute silence, but this had to be over-ruled by police who feared ‘a riot’ if the tribute went ahead. What a truly sad shower of lost souls.
Verbally abusing Bob 'FTP' Malcolm during a 0-1 defeat to Dundee Utd at The Death Star. Malcolm was the target of sustained abuse after the huns failed to overturn the SPL's bottom-placed team this season, despite three attempts. Malcom was jeered and swore at by huge sections of the 'loyal' support, and was applauded finally ........ when he got subbed.
Assaulting Stilian Petrov with a plastic drinks container filled with ice cubes after he had scored a goal at Ibrox. As Petrov turned to celebrate scoring, he was struck in the face and felled by the missile, launched by one of Copland Road's resident hooligans. As Petrov lay injured receiving medical treatment, the bigoted hate-filled hoardes could be clearly seen in the background - and by millions on TV - mouthing sectarian obscenities and making threatening gestures at the injured player. On learning that the culprit – if found – would face a life ban from The Death Star, enraged huns were up in arms and professing support for the deranged one. Whilst some felt he ‘deserved a medal’ and that Petrov had ‘got off lightly’ - others suggested that next time the psychotic thug should throw ‘a half brick’ ….. ‘a golf ball with nails in it’ ….. or a ‘heavy ball-bearing.’
Having the BNP handing out leaflets and selling their publications on Edmiston Drive before the final –v- Celtic game of the season in April ’05. The hate-filled, nauseating, rascist, bigoted intolerants of the BNP feel they have a natural affinity with Rankers fans, and know that Ibrox is one of the last corners of the land where they are embraced.
Having to be seperated by stewards from battering eachother because some of them couldn’t be arsed holding up the Bill Struth banner. Those super-cool, know-it-all, superfans of The Blue Order did their bit of course, but the wasters in the Govan Front were nearly beaten for not giving a toss about this so-called legend. The Blue Order – don’t you just love them ?! – just got their Season Books back after being banned, and now they want to punch everyone’s lights out.
Letting of a smoke grenade at Pittodrie and causing scores of fellow fans to run for safety from the blinding, acrid smoke. The plan was to throw the missile at the Aberdeen fans, but the gormless hun who ignited it, panicked and ended up causing chaos in amongst the Away end, filled with travelling huns.
Causing a total ban on all football shirts to be imposed at Glasgow SECC concerts after they started a fight at a Rod Stewart concert. Five bitter huns were arrested in the ensuing brawl, started because they couldn't stand the sight of seeing a Celtic fan enjoying himself.
Being so bitter and bigoted that they smashed 114 green-light lenses (in a 16-month period) from traffic lights in Larkhall, where people's safety obviously comes secondary to hating anything coloured green. This is in addition to the local chemist (Moss Pharmacy) having to change the existing colour of it's shop front from green and white, after vandals repeatedly attacked the shop, and locals refused to shop there. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.
Bigoted Argyll Chief Fire Officer Ronnie Souden being arrested and charged with a religiously aggravated assault, and Breach Of The Peace after a huns defeat. This upstanding pillar of the community - married to a police officer - was arrested after attacking a Celtic fan and screaming sectarian abuse at him, in the aftermath of yet another drubbing at Legoland. He later pled guilty to assault. No matter how you dress them up, or what cloak of respectability they masquerade under, a hun will always be a hun.
Being slated and condemned by Club Chairman John McClelland as rascists, after a disgraceful barrage of rascist abuse was hurled at Bobo Balde and Momo Sylla during yet another defeat at Celtic Park. McLelland was forced to speak out after a global audience of millions could clearly hear on live TV, the despicable and moronic chanting of Rankers loyal fans. "I do not condone this kind of behaviour, I deplore it," stated a clearly embarassed Mclelland. "There was such a crescendo during Saturday's match. I heard noises of this kind, and it is unacceptable. It is a difficult problem to deal with, but we will do everything we can to make sure the message gets across to our fans. We do not want people who come to games to indulge in racist behaviour like this. Steps will be taken to make sure we weed these people out and I urge fans not to conduct themselves in this fashion."
Having four of their hooligan fans arrested on the P & O Troon - Larne ferry after they rampaged and fought with other passengers, whilst returning from a match at Legoland. Riot police boarded the ferry after the hooligan huns fought a running battle and assaulted three members of staff who tried to prevent them from attacking other passengers.
Having one of their bigoted hooligan season-book holders arrested and charged with two counts of Breach Of The Peace (Aggravated by Religious Prejudice) after he assaulted a Celtic player on the field of play. David Galbraith admitted assaulting Stilian Petrov during a match at The Death Star by felling him with an ice-filled drinks container, as Petrov celebrated scoring a goal. Seems some huns just can’t stand the sight of seeing someone in a Celtic jersey, without wishing to inflict physical harm upon them. Galbraith – who has a number of previous convictions for drunken, sectarian and loutish behaviour - was later sentenced to 100 hours community service for his vicious act of bigoted thuggery.
Having three of their sectarian bigot hooligans fined and sentenced to 200 hours community service each, after they were convicted of attacking a number of people in a campsite at Loch Earn in Perthshire. The victims – one of whom was attacked with a saw – had objected to the hooligans blaring out their sectarian Rankers clubs songs in the early hours of the morning, but were brutally attacked after they complained.
Having Follow Follow slated and condemned by an independent report (The Extent Of Online Sectarianism) on internet forum bigotry, which highlighted a sickening culture of blatant bigotry, sectarian hatred, pro-Loyalist sentiment, and fervent anti-Catholic antipathy. The findings were backed and accepted by Nil By Mouth, and the Scottish Executive’s Cross Party Working Group On Religious Hatred.
Having one of their violent thug fans described by a judge as ‘one of Scotland’s worst football hooligans.’ The ned, Janet ‘The Gannet’ Smith – a 20 stone, loathesome, toothless hag from Ayrshire – was sentenced to 200 hours community service after she was convicted of leading a mob of over 100 violent hun thugs into a pitched battle, in which bottles and bricks were hurled at fans of a junior football club in New Cumnock, Ayrshire. The Gannet arrived for sentencing in her trademark unwashed huns top.
Fighting with Dynamo Zagreb fans outside the Toronto SkyDome after being gubbed 1 – 0 by the Croats. Inside the stadium, the Croatian national anthem had to be sung twice due to booing, and a silence tribute to the London bombing victims was marred by the drunken sectarian bile of the hooligan huns.
Having one of their hooligan bigoted sectarian reprobate fans convicted of threatening an 11 year-old girl, and screaming sectarian abuse at her – all because she had a Celtic top on. Ryan Buchanan was convicted at Perth Sheriff Court after he admitted hurling sectarian abuse at the child, and committing a religiously aggravated Breach Of The Peace. Before fining him £650.00, Sheriff John Miller told the hun, “This was a despicable offence that involved you threatening a small girl with physical harm, and shouting and swearing at her. Furthermore, it was aggravated by religious prejudice, and I hope that you are suitably ashamed of your conduct. You placed a young girl in a state of fear and panic, and the entire circumstances of the incident are quite deplorable.”
Having two of their bigoted sectarian knuckledraggers fined €6000 each for organising an illegal Orange march in Benidorm. Despite Spain being a Catholic country, Bryan and Catherine Sheeran, who own the Ibrox Bar in Benidorm, thought it would be quite alright for them to bring their anti-Catholic hateful intolerance to mainland Spain. Etelviná Andreu Sánchez, the Alicante government delegate who imposed the fines, said: "They defied the ban and even went ahead after the London bombings, which shows how insensitive they are." Benidorm's municipal police chief, Juan Fuertes, insisted the march hadn't been authorised. "We stopped it after about 10 minutes when they started to block the road. We took the names of the organisers and they deserve to receive the maximum penalty for breaking the law."
Having their whinging, moaning fans boo the team off the park after a game against Borussia Moenchengladbach – despite the fact that the game was only a friendly, and ended in a draw. Less than 25,000 even bothered to turn up for it in the first place.
Boo-ing David Murray before the flag unfurling ceremony in July 2005, claiming that he ‘didn’t deserve’ to be doing it, and had ‘nothing to do with the team’s success’. Must have been the only time The Mint was glad that they couldn’t sell all their tickets, and only 48,500 bothered to turn up.
Encouraging eachother to park in spaces reserved for disabled drivers, and to overcome suspicion by pretending ‘you’ve got a gommy leg’ or pretending ‘to be a spastic.’ Really dignified, eh ?!
Stealing others fans’ flags from their seats at Legoland. Each fan had received a mini flag to celebrate the pre-match flag raising ceremony at the beginning of the season, by having had it left on their seat. Unfortunately the temptation was just too much for certain low-life scumbags, and as a result, many of their fellow huns had to go without their commemorative momento, so that others could satisfy their greed. Just can’t trust anyone these days ?!
Suggesting that Tony Blair (and his Papist wife ?!!?) should be executed, hung, and given the 'Kennedy treatment' after he publically apologised to Irish miscarriage of justice victims who had been wrongly imprisoned for over 15 years of their lives.
Hooligan thugs endangering the lives of other fans by deliberately starting a fire in the toilets at Celtic Park - after smashing them up first. The deranged lunatics burned all the toilet rolls and paper towels causing an alert which had to be extinguished by security staff, resulting in the area being hurriedly cleared and cordoned off. In the resulting panic, people were in danger of being crushed, as fans tried to use the toilets, not knowing they had been set on fire by Rankers psychos who don't even care if they endanger their own fellow fans.
Slashing a steward at Celtic Park during a match v Celtic. The steward – a Rankers fan – was called a ‘fenian bastard’ before he was cut with a blow to the face. His injuries were tended by medical staff at Celtic Park before he was rushed to hospital.
Having one of their violent, sectarian sewer-hole pubs closed after police, and the licensing board slammed it for being ‘sectarian, abusive, and violent’. Walkers in the east end of Glasgow had it’s licence summarily revoked, and it’s owner was banned from holding a drinks licence. The pub has been the scene of numerous violent, sectarian incidents, and numerous arrests have been made on the knuckle-draggers who frequent it’s bigoted environs. In February ’05, a Celtic fan was chased out of it, and stabbed repeatedly after making the fatal mistake of not knowing it was a violent, bigoted, sectarian, hun-filled cesspit.
Stealing the handbag of a fellow female fan during a match at The Death Star, which contained her ID, purse, house keys, and car keys. Probably why she tried to use the FF messageboard to track the culprit down and ‘have the bastard slashed’.
Causing mayhem, rioting, and battling with rival fans during a testimonial match at Roker Park, in 1993, which included a number of Sunderland fans being slashed, and one being thrown from a moving train.
Having one of their violent, drunken, bigoted, knuckle-draggers arrested at Celtic Park after he sneaked into a Celtic section, and subjected opposition fans to a torrent of religious and sectarian abuse. Robert Reid was almost too drunk to stand, but still found the energy to spout his hate at those who were seated around him. As he was arrested, Reid – filled with dutch courage - challenged fans and police to fight, and hurled a torrent of bigoted abuse. His drunken thuggery cost him a £500 fine and 2 years probation at Glasgow Sheriff Court. At the same match, another of their sectarian, violent drunken louts (John Johnstone) was fined £250 after being arrested, after he was refused entry. Johnstone was found to be drunk and incapable, and lashed out at police and stewards who arrested him as he provoked rival fans with bigoted abuse. Maybe these sectarian cretins took their lead from some of the sterling examples set down by their onfield icons ??!
Showering the Inverness Caley players with a barrage of coins, after Brian Prunty equalised in the 90th minute during a game at The Death Star. This was only 3 days after hooligan Rankers fans threw coins at Mark Burchill after he equalised for Hearts at Swinecastle. Rankers only stole the points in that game, after notorious assistant referee Andy Davies (a Rankers fan with a history of making dubious ‘genuine’ errors) awarded a non-existant penalty after a theatrical dive by Sotirios Kyrgiakos. Not a single other – including the huns themselves - had claimed for, nor saw any incident, but in a truly mystifying and bizarre joint decision, Hugh Dallas (who had earlier failed to award Hearts what looked to all as a stonewall penalty) overturned his earlier award of a goal kick, and pulled a 93rd minute penalty out of the hat, to give the huns a 2-1 victory. Hearts chaiman George Foulkes – like many others - called for an immediate SFA inquiry, and questioned ‘the integrity of the decision’ and wether or not ‘anything untoward’ was present in making it.
Being slated by club Chairman David Murray for being Catholic-hating, sectarian bigots who weren't welcome at The Death Star (or anywhere else for that matter !). In a scathing condemnation of the hate-filled knuckle-draggers who frequent Legoland every other week, The Grand Imperial Knight Dragon Wizard FINALLY amassed the courage to openly admit that Rankers fans have a disgusting, bigoted, and hate-filled element who espouse nauseating, anti-Catholic, sectarian hatred. In a BBC interview, Murray summed up the Rankers fans’ deep-rooted and longstanding problem with sectarian hatred when he stated "There's simply no place at Ibrox for the FTP brigade and those who would have us wading in Fenian blood. We have a proud history and heritage, but this is not what gets us in trouble. It is the 'baggage' of foul singing and sectarian references during, and at the end of traditional Rankers songs which causes me and everyone at this club a problem. We cannot defend it and we must get rid of it." In the same interview, Murray slated and warned those elements within the Rankers support who espouse rascism, fascism, and support for paramilitary sectarian murderers. No one likes them - they don't care !!
Having an additional 28 Blue Order reprobates banned for sectarian and rascist chanting. The bigots - referred to by the club's own chairman as 'the FTP brigade' - were ejected from the ground after making anti-Catholic, and sectarian chants during the club's tarnished (and previously banned) anthem 'Simply The Best.' The (better late than never) strategy was sanctioned by the club's security chief Lawrence Mackintyre, who was finally embarrassed into taking action, in order to begin eradicating the club's woeful and dire sectarian problem. In addition to the 28 banning orders, the remaining 300 members of this bastion of tolerance received warning letters, threatening them with draconian sanctions, should they fail to desist from spouting their virulent and nauseating hatred.
Naming a Cup Final in memory of a bigoted and embittered individual, who stated that Rankers first high-profile Catholic signing (Mo Johnstone) "shouldn't be here" and that “he had no business wearing that shirt”. The so-called 'Cooper Final' was such a tribute to his memory that his name wasn't even mentioned until the 88th minute. Curiously, Bobby Sands, and King Billy were accoladed from almost the first minute onwards, and even Derry’s Walls managed a mention before him – just as one of their hooligan supporters was holding up the match, by invading the field of play.
Claiming that the banning of scores of nauseating Blue Order sectarian bigots from The Death Star, was only so that David Murray could re-sell their seats to his fatcat cronies, for the final -v- Celtic game of the season.
Hun bigot Scott Campbell being sacked for gross misconduct from his job as an airport fireman after sectarianly abusing Neil Lennon and Chris Sutton at Inverness airport. Ex-RAF bigot Campbell - a Season Ticket holder at The Death Star - subjected the players to a hate-filled torrent of disgusting sectarian bile, before being confronted by a club security official. His appeal against the sacking was dismissed almost as immediately as he was. Officials at Inverness airport, later issued a full and unreserved apology to Celtic Football Club, for the actions of this dim-witted nugget.
Celebrating the death of Pope John Paul II – less than 24 hours after his passing - with some of the most repugnant, deranged, moronic, sectarian bile ever to have eminated from within the sewers of red, white, & blue repugnance. Whilst his death was being mourned globally by billions of people from all creeds and denominations, the sectarian hate-mongers from Kinning Park were singing their loathsome repertoire of hate-filled intolerance, and Anti-Catholic venomous bigotry. Rankers opponents (Motherwell) had proposed a minute silence, but this had to be over-ruled by police who feared ‘a riot’ if the tribute went ahead. What a truly sad shower of lost souls.
Verbally abusing Bob 'FTP' Malcolm during a 0-1 defeat to Dundee Utd at The Death Star. Malcolm was the target of sustained abuse after the huns failed to overturn the SPL's bottom-placed team this season, despite three attempts. Malcom was jeered and swore at by huge sections of the 'loyal' support, and was applauded finally ........ when he got subbed.
Assaulting Stilian Petrov with a plastic drinks container filled with ice cubes after he had scored a goal at Ibrox. As Petrov turned to celebrate scoring, he was struck in the face and felled by the missile, launched by one of Copland Road's resident hooligans. As Petrov lay injured receiving medical treatment, the bigoted hate-filled hoardes could be clearly seen in the background - and by millions on TV - mouthing sectarian obscenities and making threatening gestures at the injured player. On learning that the culprit – if found – would face a life ban from The Death Star, enraged huns were up in arms and professing support for the deranged one. Whilst some felt he ‘deserved a medal’ and that Petrov had ‘got off lightly’ - others suggested that next time the psychotic thug should throw ‘a half brick’ ….. ‘a golf ball with nails in it’ ….. or a ‘heavy ball-bearing.’
Having the BNP handing out leaflets and selling their publications on Edmiston Drive before the final –v- Celtic game of the season in April ’05. The hate-filled, nauseating, rascist, bigoted intolerants of the BNP feel they have a natural affinity with Rankers fans, and know that Ibrox is one of the last corners of the land where they are embraced.
Having to be seperated by stewards from battering eachother because some of them couldn’t be arsed holding up the Bill Struth banner. Those super-cool, know-it-all, superfans of The Blue Order did their bit of course, but the wasters in the Govan Front were nearly beaten for not giving a toss about this so-called legend. The Blue Order – don’t you just love them ?! – just got their Season Books back after being banned, and now they want to punch everyone’s lights out.
Letting of a smoke grenade at Pittodrie and causing scores of fellow fans to run for safety from the blinding, acrid smoke. The plan was to throw the missile at the Aberdeen fans, but the gormless hun who ignited it, panicked and ended up causing chaos in amongst the Away end, filled with travelling huns.
Causing a total ban on all football shirts to be imposed at Glasgow SECC concerts after they started a fight at a Rod Stewart concert. Five bitter huns were arrested in the ensuing brawl, started because they couldn't stand the sight of seeing a Celtic fan enjoying himself.
Being so bitter and bigoted that they smashed 114 green-light lenses (in a 16-month period) from traffic lights in Larkhall, where people's safety obviously comes secondary to hating anything coloured green. This is in addition to the local chemist (Moss Pharmacy) having to change the existing colour of it's shop front from green and white, after vandals repeatedly attacked the shop, and locals refused to shop there. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.
Bigoted Argyll Chief Fire Officer Ronnie Souden being arrested and charged with a religiously aggravated assault, and Breach Of The Peace after a huns defeat. This upstanding pillar of the community - married to a police officer - was arrested after attacking a Celtic fan and screaming sectarian abuse at him, in the aftermath of yet another drubbing at Legoland. He later pled guilty to assault. No matter how you dress them up, or what cloak of respectability they masquerade under, a hun will always be a hun.
Being slated and condemned by Club Chairman John McClelland as rascists, after a disgraceful barrage of rascist abuse was hurled at Bobo Balde and Momo Sylla during yet another defeat at Celtic Park. McLelland was forced to speak out after a global audience of millions could clearly hear on live TV, the despicable and moronic chanting of Rankers loyal fans. "I do not condone this kind of behaviour, I deplore it," stated a clearly embarassed Mclelland. "There was such a crescendo during Saturday's match. I heard noises of this kind, and it is unacceptable. It is a difficult problem to deal with, but we will do everything we can to make sure the message gets across to our fans. We do not want people who come to games to indulge in racist behaviour like this. Steps will be taken to make sure we weed these people out and I urge fans not to conduct themselves in this fashion."
Having four of their hooligan fans arrested on the P & O Troon - Larne ferry after they rampaged and fought with other passengers, whilst returning from a match at Legoland. Riot police boarded the ferry after the hooligan huns fought a running battle and assaulted three members of staff who tried to prevent them from attacking other passengers.
Having one of their bigoted hooligan season-book holders arrested and charged with two counts of Breach Of The Peace (Aggravated by Religious Prejudice) after he assaulted a Celtic player on the field of play. David Galbraith admitted assaulting Stilian Petrov during a match at The Death Star by felling him with an ice-filled drinks container, as Petrov celebrated scoring a goal. Seems some huns just can’t stand the sight of seeing someone in a Celtic jersey, without wishing to inflict physical harm upon them. Galbraith – who has a number of previous convictions for drunken, sectarian and loutish behaviour - was later sentenced to 100 hours community service for his vicious act of bigoted thuggery.
Having three of their sectarian bigot hooligans fined and sentenced to 200 hours community service each, after they were convicted of attacking a number of people in a campsite at Loch Earn in Perthshire. The victims – one of whom was attacked with a saw – had objected to the hooligans blaring out their sectarian Rankers clubs songs in the early hours of the morning, but were brutally attacked after they complained.
Having Follow Follow slated and condemned by an independent report (The Extent Of Online Sectarianism) on internet forum bigotry, which highlighted a sickening culture of blatant bigotry, sectarian hatred, pro-Loyalist sentiment, and fervent anti-Catholic antipathy. The findings were backed and accepted by Nil By Mouth, and the Scottish Executive’s Cross Party Working Group On Religious Hatred.
Having one of their violent thug fans described by a judge as ‘one of Scotland’s worst football hooligans.’ The ned, Janet ‘The Gannet’ Smith – a 20 stone, loathesome, toothless hag from Ayrshire – was sentenced to 200 hours community service after she was convicted of leading a mob of over 100 violent hun thugs into a pitched battle, in which bottles and bricks were hurled at fans of a junior football club in New Cumnock, Ayrshire. The Gannet arrived for sentencing in her trademark unwashed huns top.
Fighting with Dynamo Zagreb fans outside the Toronto SkyDome after being gubbed 1 – 0 by the Croats. Inside the stadium, the Croatian national anthem had to be sung twice due to booing, and a silence tribute to the London bombing victims was marred by the drunken sectarian bile of the hooligan huns.
Having one of their hooligan bigoted sectarian reprobate fans convicted of threatening an 11 year-old girl, and screaming sectarian abuse at her – all because she had a Celtic top on. Ryan Buchanan was convicted at Perth Sheriff Court after he admitted hurling sectarian abuse at the child, and committing a religiously aggravated Breach Of The Peace. Before fining him £650.00, Sheriff John Miller told the hun, “This was a despicable offence that involved you threatening a small girl with physical harm, and shouting and swearing at her. Furthermore, it was aggravated by religious prejudice, and I hope that you are suitably ashamed of your conduct. You placed a young girl in a state of fear and panic, and the entire circumstances of the incident are quite deplorable.”
Having two of their bigoted sectarian knuckledraggers fined €6000 each for organising an illegal Orange march in Benidorm. Despite Spain being a Catholic country, Bryan and Catherine Sheeran, who own the Ibrox Bar in Benidorm, thought it would be quite alright for them to bring their anti-Catholic hateful intolerance to mainland Spain. Etelviná Andreu Sánchez, the Alicante government delegate who imposed the fines, said: "They defied the ban and even went ahead after the London bombings, which shows how insensitive they are." Benidorm's municipal police chief, Juan Fuertes, insisted the march hadn't been authorised. "We stopped it after about 10 minutes when they started to block the road. We took the names of the organisers and they deserve to receive the maximum penalty for breaking the law."
Having their whinging, moaning fans boo the team off the park after a game against Borussia Moenchengladbach – despite the fact that the game was only a friendly, and ended in a draw. Less than 25,000 even bothered to turn up for it in the first place.
Boo-ing David Murray before the flag unfurling ceremony in July 2005, claiming that he ‘didn’t deserve’ to be doing it, and had ‘nothing to do with the team’s success’. Must have been the only time The Mint was glad that they couldn’t sell all their tickets, and only 48,500 bothered to turn up.
Encouraging eachother to park in spaces reserved for disabled drivers, and to overcome suspicion by pretending ‘you’ve got a gommy leg’ or pretending ‘to be a spastic.’ Really dignified, eh ?!
Stealing others fans’ flags from their seats at Legoland. Each fan had received a mini flag to celebrate the pre-match flag raising ceremony at the beginning of the season, by having had it left on their seat. Unfortunately the temptation was just too much for certain low-life scumbags, and as a result, many of their fellow huns had to go without their commemorative momento, so that others could satisfy their greed. Just can’t trust anyone these days ?!
Racially abusing Shunsuke Nakamura on his debut by hurling a torrent of vile abuse at him, with references to his nationality, colour, and his country’s involvement in a war over 60 years ago. His crime appears to be that he is Japanese, instead of being a white Protestant. Some real bright sparks even hurled hate and abuse at him for being “a chinky bastard.”
Being banned from travelling with Stena Line for subjecting other passengers to hours of sectarian hatred and lacing the journey with hateful songs about murdering Catholics. Stena Line received scores of complaints about the abusive sectarian behaviour of the knuckle-draggers. The relative of one passenger who was on the sailing said, "They were not singing football songs, they were singing sectarian songs about killing Catholics, named Catholics that have been murdered." A spokesman for the ferry company said "We are taking this action for the well-being of all our passengers, many of whom are families with children, and none of whom should be subjected to this kind of sectarian and abusive behaviour."
Rioting alongside their Loyalist Catholic-hating bretheren in an orgy of hateful destruction that included : 1,000 police being deployed, 1,000 soldiers being deployed, 50 police injured, Petrol Bombs being thrown, Blast Bombs thrown, Pipe Bombs thrown, shots fired at police, 7 firearms recovered, a bomb factory being found, and an innocent man being left critically injured after a bomb blast. As cars and buses were being hijacked, huns in orange tops could clearly be seen hurling bricks, stones, and petrol bombs at police.
Starting a thread on Fascist Fascist entitled ‘Neil Lennon Is A Bigot’, which attracted scores of hate-filled sectarian replies including (but not limited to) : bomb the fenian b****** : hang the fenian high : ugly f****** ratfaced fenian scumbag : dirty wee donegal (sic) fenian mother f***** rent bhoy : lennon fenian b******, GTF ya taig c**** : scumbag ginger b******, hang him high : hang the fenian scumbag : f*** off out of my country and go and pick some tatties : a dirty little fenian c***. I think some people may have missed the original point ?!??
Boo-ing Boab Malcolm (again) when his inclusion in the starting line-up was announced before the CIS Cup home tie with Clyde. The huns had to go to extra-time before shaking off Clyde, but they had to do it without Fat Boab, who got hooked on the hour-mark, to a chorus of much applause. Seems that some of these haters will hate anything – even one of their own ‘FTP Uber-Prods.’
Being slated (again) by thie own Chairman for being bigoted sectarian scumbags. In a forthright statement in March 2005, Murray stated : “It is the baggage of foul singing and sectarian references which causes me and everyone at Rankers a problem. We cannot defend it. We must get rid of it."
Being so steeped in a culture of bigoted sectarian hatred, that they had to have a list of rules drawn up for them by their own club. The 'Ten Point Plan' as The Dark Lord termed it warned the knuckle-draggers to desist from racism and sectarianism, and to desist from contributing to racist and sectarian behaviour. They were also warned that the club would take disciplinary action against fans, players and staff whose racist or sectarian behaviour causes offence and brings the club into disrepute, and that the club would remove all racist and sectarian graffiti from Club property immediately it appears. After years of burying their collective head in the sand, it's nice to see them admitting they have a deep-rooted sectarianism problem, and actually doing something about the extensive hate that pervades every facet of the tarnished club.
Sectarian hun drug-dealing scumbucket John Mackenzie having £16k of his drug money seized under the Proceeds Of Crime Act whilst he was over in Ireland for an Apprentice Boys march. Lowlife coward Mackenzie - a Club Deck season ticket holder, and owner of Renfrew's Crimson Club - tried to fit up a painter & decorater, by claiming the man must have planted a batch of Amphetamine, whilst decorating his Renfrew home. Not surprisingly, the judge didn't believe his bizarre excuse, and seized financial assets totalling £15,831.21.
Trying so hard to shake of their bigoted 17th century sectarian Catholic-hating image, that they voted three to one in favour of having The Sash played over the stadium PA system prematch, in a recent FF poll.
Having another of their bigoted hate-filled nuggets being found guilty of sectarianism. Fraser Taylor was fined £500 under the Terrorism Act for wearing a UVF shirt on the day of a Rankers v Celtic match. Fraser was convicted of wearing the shirt, while sectarian songs were being chanted at the Mermaid Bar in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, arousing suspicion that he was a member or supporter of the UVF.
Issuing yet more death threats to victimised Celtic player Neil Lennon, and threatening to burn down the Glasgow hotel where a gala evening was being held in his honour. In a story from the national media, rabid huns from Fascist Fascist encouraged eachother to 'torch the place' during the event whilst other sickos suggested 'invading' the gala dinner to ‘cause mayhem.' Dignity, right enough, eh ?!
Throwing their scarves away after a 0 – 0 draw with Artmedia Bratislava, to leave the Legoland technical area resembling a red, white, and blue battlezone. This was after roundly boo-ing the players off the park, and showering Gingerbaws with abuse for almost the entire match.
Boo-ing the PA safety announcements for foreign fans, despite playing in a stadium where so many people lost their lives due to poor safety conditions being a contributory factor.
The Blue Order starting a bar-brawl and assaulting members of The Rankers Club during a fight at a function held there. By their own admission, pensioners were attacked and punched in the face during the free-for-all.
Fernando The Commando being booked for diving as the huns trailed ICT 0 – 1 in a game at Legoland that saw them slip 10 points off the lead and to fourth in the table. The huns eventually scraped a 1 – 1 draw, but not before Prso took one of his customary dives as well. Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess ?! During the game supporters threw their scarves onto the pitch in disgust ; two fans had to be seperated from fighting in the Broomloan front ; and a police presence was ordered to protect the Main Entrance after a mob of angry huns tried to stage a protest against Gingerbaws, The Dark Lord, and Baldy Bain.
Bert Konterman admitting on Dutch TV, during a broadcast of Panorama : Scotland’s Secret Shame that the hun’s right-hand, straight-arm terracing trademark is ‘a Nazi salute.’
Having 19 of their drunken hooligan fans flung off an EasyJet flight bound for Bratislava. The huns had refused to put their seatbelts on, and some were too drunk to even wake up. Faced with the prospect of having these dangerous loonies mid-air for an additional number of hours, the Captain contacted groundstaff at Stansted, and had them forcibly removed by police, who lumped them onto a train back to Glasgow.
Being the club of choice for the rascist, bigoted, hate-filled deputy chairman of the BNP - Scott McLean, who has been outed umpteen times by media investigations. McLean, a Euro candidate from Barrhead, and the man hotly tipped to take over from his friend and mentor - degenerate rascist, Nick Griffin - is a regular at Legoland, along with similar degenerates who work for his Glasgow building firm. He has been filmed giving fascist salutes to cheering pals, leading racist rants, and being part of a group that gathers around a Ku Klux Klan-style flaming cross. The film further shows him denying the Jewish Holocaust ever happened, repeatedly chanting 'Auschwitz - Auschwitz' and leading a song which talks of killing 'niggers.' Nice to know such pleasant types feel they have found a home at The Death Star.
Having yet another of their stinking, bigoted, sectarian fans charged with a Breach Of The Peace : Aggravated By Religious Prejudice after he was arrested for wearing a Red Hand Commandos polo shirt. Graeme Crawford from East Kilbride was ordered to appear at Glasgow Sherriff Court for trial, for promoting a sectarian paramilitary organisation at a Rankers match.
Having one of their lying bigots caught making up a fantasy about being attacked in Glasgow by Celtic players Craig Bellamy and John Hartson - whilst both were actually 200 miles away in Inverness !! Gordon Fielding - a self confessed follower of the huns - claimed that Bellamy, assisted by Hartson, had kicked him in the face outside a Glasgow restaurant, but checks showed that the Celtic players were actually away with the team, who were playing Inverness Caley Thistle that day. Fielding was arrested and charged with wasting police time. He later plead guilty at Glasgow Sherriff Court to lying to police, and fabricating the entire story in a pathetic attempt to besmirch the player’s character, because he resented Bellamy’s high profile with Celtic. Sherriff Iain Miller sentenced him to 180 hours community service. Huns, can they actually get any sadder than this ??
Battling with Bolton fans in the square after the CL away match in Porto. The riots started after two drunken huns threw their pints at a crowd of Bolton fans who had been taunting them about being plastic Engerrlunders. Thereafter, tables, chairs, and pints went flying as the huns ran for their lives, whilst Bolton punched the living daylights out of the two ‘hardmen’ pint-throwers. The rest of the huns steemed in to help the two trouble-makers, and all hell broke loose. Riot police were soon on the scene, and the two bars were immediately cleared and shuttered. The huns were unceremoniously dumped out of the bars, cleared from the square, and time was called on an early night. More dignity on foreign shores from these national embarrassments.
Proving once again that they are so obsessed with hating Celtic, that in terms of priority, it outranks even monumental occaisions concerning their own club. When a grainy home video of two Celtic players at a supporters’ function surfaced on the same week as the 35th anniversary of the Ibrox disaster, the huns went into near apoplectic meltdown to try and have the video aired in the national media. By contrast, their recognition of the anniversary to mark the loss of 66 of their fellow fans barely merited a mention. By the morning of Friday 6th of January - fully a week after the memorial thread first appeared - the total number of views stood at 2,833, and the replies peaked at 126. Conversely, the amount of views on the Hartson / Pearson thread - less than 48 hours after it was posted - stood at an incredible 24,174, and the replies stretched to a mind-boggling 12 pages. One week later the same thread – a Celtic ‘sticky’ at the top of a Rankers messageboard board - had reached a staggering 15 pages, with over 39,000 views. More obsessed with hating Celtic, or supporting their own team ? Decide for yourself.
Mailing death threats and abuse to SoccerHell, after the humourous t-shirt printers produced one with David Murray being the butt of the joke. The shock moral outrage and death threats were in sharp contrast to the e-mails previously sent by Rankers fans asking them to print one denigrating the memory of Jock Stein. In a scathing reply, the owners of SoccerHell slated the huns for trying to make a joke out of child abuse, but getting all moralistic when someone wanted to crack a joke about Dodgy Dave. See huns – see truth.
Having yet another - will it ever end ? - of their sectarian bigoted hooligans arrested and convicted of religious intolerance after scum-bucket David Kearney was convicted of sectarianly abusing Porto fans during a CL match at The Death Star. Kearney, of hun enclave Bearsden, was arrested after he launched into a sectarian rant during the match in September '05, and plead guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to committing a Breach Of The Peace, aggravated by religious intolerance. Fining him £240, Sheriff Fiona Reith called him 'a disgrace' who's behaviour had 'embarassed this country.' Bizarrely, Kearney tried to justify his actions by pointing out the fact that he 'wasn't the only one shouting the remarks.' Of that, there is no doubt ya maggot.
Aberdeen striker Robbie Winters, after being hit by a coin thrown by a Rankers thug at Pittodrie in 2002, calling for future Aberdeen -v- Rankers games to be given earlier kick-off times, to reduce the scope for all-day drinking on supporters busses, travelling up for the game. He said : "I know from friends just how much trouble there can be in the town before the game. It is definitely a very intimidating game to play in now. The majority go to enjoy the game, but the kick-offs have to be looked at in order that something may be done to end this mindless hate."
Rioting outside the Tehelne Pole Stadion in Bratislava, as ticketless huns, and those refused entry with forgeries were beaten back back riot police, after trying to barrage the turnstiles en-masse. Amongst those beaten by with riot sticks, behind the three CH5 section turnstiles, were fans with genuine tickets. Despite full body searches on the approach to the stadium, huns with forgeries were able to gain access, thus denying their fellow fans with valid tickets, their right to watch the game. Stealing from their own. Scum - pure and simple.
Wishing Kenny Miller ‘broken legs, spinal injuries and brain damage’ on the day he signed a pre-contract at Celtic Park.
Organising a hate campaign against a BBC Scotland weather presenter (Kirsty McCabe) after she jokingly referred to their stadium as 'Castle Greyskull' during a BBC2 Saturday morning weather bulletin. Rabid, hate-filled huns immediately branded her a 'filthy fenian whore' and flooded the BBC's online complaints desk with all sorts of hate, abuse, and demands that she should be immediately sacked, and a public and grovelling apology made live on air. Meanwhile on FF, many threads obsessively devoted to her throwaway humourous quip wished her 'cancer of the fanny' and one of the site Moderators (SM) even hoped that 'all her future kids are stillborn.' Kirsty was quite visibly pregnant at the time. Others suggested the thread be made a ‘sticky’ so they could ‘get the fenian bitch’ and until such times as ‘the fenian whore makes a grovelling apology.’ Thirteen pages of vicious hate-filled diatribe later, those bastions of dignity were still wishing to ‘batter her f****** ugly face in with a baseball bat’ and claiming that she now resembled ‘a f****** fenian slapper on smack.’ Another still, let slip the real agenda when he revealed ‘the less catholics (hence tims) in positions of power and authority in this land the better as far as Im concerned.’ The scariest thing about this whole non-story, is that these people are deadly serious !
The players and officials being forced to leave the ground by the back door after a baying hate-mob intent on violence, gathered at the front entrance after the 3-0 gubbing by Hibs (the third loss to them in a row) in the 05-06 Scottish Cup.
Car thief and disqualified driver Alexander McLeod applying to Glasgow Sheriff court to have his sentencing adjourned, so he could watch the huns play in Villareal. McLeod earlier plead guilty to taking a car and driving without a licence. Sentence on the thieving hun was deferred until after the match. Spanish car owners beware.
An Admin from GersNet (Coalburn_Bear) hacking into the database of another hun site (GersForums) in order to access the e-mail addresses of all the users. He then forwarded an official looking GersForums e-mail, promoting his own site, and suggesting that they all register with GersNet. Hacking any site to promote your own, smacks of desperation. Hacking a fellow fan's site, to access the users they have attracted and built up, in order to try and poach them away, smacks of sheer scumminess. Seems these huns don't care who they steal from - even their own.
Glasgow Sheriff Court having one of it’s hun-supporting employees suspended after sending a fascist, bigoted, sectarian, anti-Irish e-mail to Cairde na hEireann, referring to Irish people as ‘Fenian scum’ saying they should be ‘hunted down, and deported back to Ireland.’ The worker – who laced the e-mail with pro-Rankers diatribe – was traced via the court’s unique ISP address, and was immediately suspended. The case is currently being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality. Eleanor Emberson, chief executive of the Scottish Court Service, said : "The service required staff to meet the highest standards of behaviour and conduct at all times. Any activity that has a racist or sectarian connotation is treated as a serious breach of conduct. We have initiated a disciplinary investigation into the allegation that a member of staff has sent an e-mail that is in breach of the SCS policies on equal opportunities and electronic communications. The individual concerned has been suspended."
Having one of their websites - broxibears.com - advertise itself with the slogan 'The Sectarian-Free Rankers Site'. This distancing and self admission from those who no longer want to be tainted by, and associated with, the club’s tarnished history of institutionalised bigotry and sectarianism, pretty much sums up the content of the rest of their hate-filled cess-pits. Ah well, one down – a couple of hundred to go.
Being banned from travelling with Stena Line for subjecting other passengers to hours of sectarian hatred and lacing the journey with hateful songs about murdering Catholics. Stena Line received scores of complaints about the abusive sectarian behaviour of the knuckle-draggers. The relative of one passenger who was on the sailing said, "They were not singing football songs, they were singing sectarian songs about killing Catholics, named Catholics that have been murdered." A spokesman for the ferry company said "We are taking this action for the well-being of all our passengers, many of whom are families with children, and none of whom should be subjected to this kind of sectarian and abusive behaviour."
Rioting alongside their Loyalist Catholic-hating bretheren in an orgy of hateful destruction that included : 1,000 police being deployed, 1,000 soldiers being deployed, 50 police injured, Petrol Bombs being thrown, Blast Bombs thrown, Pipe Bombs thrown, shots fired at police, 7 firearms recovered, a bomb factory being found, and an innocent man being left critically injured after a bomb blast. As cars and buses were being hijacked, huns in orange tops could clearly be seen hurling bricks, stones, and petrol bombs at police.
Starting a thread on Fascist Fascist entitled ‘Neil Lennon Is A Bigot’, which attracted scores of hate-filled sectarian replies including (but not limited to) : bomb the fenian b****** : hang the fenian high : ugly f****** ratfaced fenian scumbag : dirty wee donegal (sic) fenian mother f***** rent bhoy : lennon fenian b******, GTF ya taig c**** : scumbag ginger b******, hang him high : hang the fenian scumbag : f*** off out of my country and go and pick some tatties : a dirty little fenian c***. I think some people may have missed the original point ?!??
Boo-ing Boab Malcolm (again) when his inclusion in the starting line-up was announced before the CIS Cup home tie with Clyde. The huns had to go to extra-time before shaking off Clyde, but they had to do it without Fat Boab, who got hooked on the hour-mark, to a chorus of much applause. Seems that some of these haters will hate anything – even one of their own ‘FTP Uber-Prods.’
Being slated (again) by thie own Chairman for being bigoted sectarian scumbags. In a forthright statement in March 2005, Murray stated : “It is the baggage of foul singing and sectarian references which causes me and everyone at Rankers a problem. We cannot defend it. We must get rid of it."
Being so steeped in a culture of bigoted sectarian hatred, that they had to have a list of rules drawn up for them by their own club. The 'Ten Point Plan' as The Dark Lord termed it warned the knuckle-draggers to desist from racism and sectarianism, and to desist from contributing to racist and sectarian behaviour. They were also warned that the club would take disciplinary action against fans, players and staff whose racist or sectarian behaviour causes offence and brings the club into disrepute, and that the club would remove all racist and sectarian graffiti from Club property immediately it appears. After years of burying their collective head in the sand, it's nice to see them admitting they have a deep-rooted sectarianism problem, and actually doing something about the extensive hate that pervades every facet of the tarnished club.
Sectarian hun drug-dealing scumbucket John Mackenzie having £16k of his drug money seized under the Proceeds Of Crime Act whilst he was over in Ireland for an Apprentice Boys march. Lowlife coward Mackenzie - a Club Deck season ticket holder, and owner of Renfrew's Crimson Club - tried to fit up a painter & decorater, by claiming the man must have planted a batch of Amphetamine, whilst decorating his Renfrew home. Not surprisingly, the judge didn't believe his bizarre excuse, and seized financial assets totalling £15,831.21.
Trying so hard to shake of their bigoted 17th century sectarian Catholic-hating image, that they voted three to one in favour of having The Sash played over the stadium PA system prematch, in a recent FF poll.
Having another of their bigoted hate-filled nuggets being found guilty of sectarianism. Fraser Taylor was fined £500 under the Terrorism Act for wearing a UVF shirt on the day of a Rankers v Celtic match. Fraser was convicted of wearing the shirt, while sectarian songs were being chanted at the Mermaid Bar in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, arousing suspicion that he was a member or supporter of the UVF.
Issuing yet more death threats to victimised Celtic player Neil Lennon, and threatening to burn down the Glasgow hotel where a gala evening was being held in his honour. In a story from the national media, rabid huns from Fascist Fascist encouraged eachother to 'torch the place' during the event whilst other sickos suggested 'invading' the gala dinner to ‘cause mayhem.' Dignity, right enough, eh ?!
Throwing their scarves away after a 0 – 0 draw with Artmedia Bratislava, to leave the Legoland technical area resembling a red, white, and blue battlezone. This was after roundly boo-ing the players off the park, and showering Gingerbaws with abuse for almost the entire match.
Boo-ing the PA safety announcements for foreign fans, despite playing in a stadium where so many people lost their lives due to poor safety conditions being a contributory factor.
The Blue Order starting a bar-brawl and assaulting members of The Rankers Club during a fight at a function held there. By their own admission, pensioners were attacked and punched in the face during the free-for-all.
Fernando The Commando being booked for diving as the huns trailed ICT 0 – 1 in a game at Legoland that saw them slip 10 points off the lead and to fourth in the table. The huns eventually scraped a 1 – 1 draw, but not before Prso took one of his customary dives as well. Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess ?! During the game supporters threw their scarves onto the pitch in disgust ; two fans had to be seperated from fighting in the Broomloan front ; and a police presence was ordered to protect the Main Entrance after a mob of angry huns tried to stage a protest against Gingerbaws, The Dark Lord, and Baldy Bain.
Bert Konterman admitting on Dutch TV, during a broadcast of Panorama : Scotland’s Secret Shame that the hun’s right-hand, straight-arm terracing trademark is ‘a Nazi salute.’
Having 19 of their drunken hooligan fans flung off an EasyJet flight bound for Bratislava. The huns had refused to put their seatbelts on, and some were too drunk to even wake up. Faced with the prospect of having these dangerous loonies mid-air for an additional number of hours, the Captain contacted groundstaff at Stansted, and had them forcibly removed by police, who lumped them onto a train back to Glasgow.
Being the club of choice for the rascist, bigoted, hate-filled deputy chairman of the BNP - Scott McLean, who has been outed umpteen times by media investigations. McLean, a Euro candidate from Barrhead, and the man hotly tipped to take over from his friend and mentor - degenerate rascist, Nick Griffin - is a regular at Legoland, along with similar degenerates who work for his Glasgow building firm. He has been filmed giving fascist salutes to cheering pals, leading racist rants, and being part of a group that gathers around a Ku Klux Klan-style flaming cross. The film further shows him denying the Jewish Holocaust ever happened, repeatedly chanting 'Auschwitz - Auschwitz' and leading a song which talks of killing 'niggers.' Nice to know such pleasant types feel they have found a home at The Death Star.
Having yet another of their stinking, bigoted, sectarian fans charged with a Breach Of The Peace : Aggravated By Religious Prejudice after he was arrested for wearing a Red Hand Commandos polo shirt. Graeme Crawford from East Kilbride was ordered to appear at Glasgow Sherriff Court for trial, for promoting a sectarian paramilitary organisation at a Rankers match.
Having one of their lying bigots caught making up a fantasy about being attacked in Glasgow by Celtic players Craig Bellamy and John Hartson - whilst both were actually 200 miles away in Inverness !! Gordon Fielding - a self confessed follower of the huns - claimed that Bellamy, assisted by Hartson, had kicked him in the face outside a Glasgow restaurant, but checks showed that the Celtic players were actually away with the team, who were playing Inverness Caley Thistle that day. Fielding was arrested and charged with wasting police time. He later plead guilty at Glasgow Sherriff Court to lying to police, and fabricating the entire story in a pathetic attempt to besmirch the player’s character, because he resented Bellamy’s high profile with Celtic. Sherriff Iain Miller sentenced him to 180 hours community service. Huns, can they actually get any sadder than this ??
Battling with Bolton fans in the square after the CL away match in Porto. The riots started after two drunken huns threw their pints at a crowd of Bolton fans who had been taunting them about being plastic Engerrlunders. Thereafter, tables, chairs, and pints went flying as the huns ran for their lives, whilst Bolton punched the living daylights out of the two ‘hardmen’ pint-throwers. The rest of the huns steemed in to help the two trouble-makers, and all hell broke loose. Riot police were soon on the scene, and the two bars were immediately cleared and shuttered. The huns were unceremoniously dumped out of the bars, cleared from the square, and time was called on an early night. More dignity on foreign shores from these national embarrassments.
Proving once again that they are so obsessed with hating Celtic, that in terms of priority, it outranks even monumental occaisions concerning their own club. When a grainy home video of two Celtic players at a supporters’ function surfaced on the same week as the 35th anniversary of the Ibrox disaster, the huns went into near apoplectic meltdown to try and have the video aired in the national media. By contrast, their recognition of the anniversary to mark the loss of 66 of their fellow fans barely merited a mention. By the morning of Friday 6th of January - fully a week after the memorial thread first appeared - the total number of views stood at 2,833, and the replies peaked at 126. Conversely, the amount of views on the Hartson / Pearson thread - less than 48 hours after it was posted - stood at an incredible 24,174, and the replies stretched to a mind-boggling 12 pages. One week later the same thread – a Celtic ‘sticky’ at the top of a Rankers messageboard board - had reached a staggering 15 pages, with over 39,000 views. More obsessed with hating Celtic, or supporting their own team ? Decide for yourself.
Mailing death threats and abuse to SoccerHell, after the humourous t-shirt printers produced one with David Murray being the butt of the joke. The shock moral outrage and death threats were in sharp contrast to the e-mails previously sent by Rankers fans asking them to print one denigrating the memory of Jock Stein. In a scathing reply, the owners of SoccerHell slated the huns for trying to make a joke out of child abuse, but getting all moralistic when someone wanted to crack a joke about Dodgy Dave. See huns – see truth.
Having yet another - will it ever end ? - of their sectarian bigoted hooligans arrested and convicted of religious intolerance after scum-bucket David Kearney was convicted of sectarianly abusing Porto fans during a CL match at The Death Star. Kearney, of hun enclave Bearsden, was arrested after he launched into a sectarian rant during the match in September '05, and plead guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to committing a Breach Of The Peace, aggravated by religious intolerance. Fining him £240, Sheriff Fiona Reith called him 'a disgrace' who's behaviour had 'embarassed this country.' Bizarrely, Kearney tried to justify his actions by pointing out the fact that he 'wasn't the only one shouting the remarks.' Of that, there is no doubt ya maggot.
Aberdeen striker Robbie Winters, after being hit by a coin thrown by a Rankers thug at Pittodrie in 2002, calling for future Aberdeen -v- Rankers games to be given earlier kick-off times, to reduce the scope for all-day drinking on supporters busses, travelling up for the game. He said : "I know from friends just how much trouble there can be in the town before the game. It is definitely a very intimidating game to play in now. The majority go to enjoy the game, but the kick-offs have to be looked at in order that something may be done to end this mindless hate."
Rioting outside the Tehelne Pole Stadion in Bratislava, as ticketless huns, and those refused entry with forgeries were beaten back back riot police, after trying to barrage the turnstiles en-masse. Amongst those beaten by with riot sticks, behind the three CH5 section turnstiles, were fans with genuine tickets. Despite full body searches on the approach to the stadium, huns with forgeries were able to gain access, thus denying their fellow fans with valid tickets, their right to watch the game. Stealing from their own. Scum - pure and simple.
Wishing Kenny Miller ‘broken legs, spinal injuries and brain damage’ on the day he signed a pre-contract at Celtic Park.
Organising a hate campaign against a BBC Scotland weather presenter (Kirsty McCabe) after she jokingly referred to their stadium as 'Castle Greyskull' during a BBC2 Saturday morning weather bulletin. Rabid, hate-filled huns immediately branded her a 'filthy fenian whore' and flooded the BBC's online complaints desk with all sorts of hate, abuse, and demands that she should be immediately sacked, and a public and grovelling apology made live on air. Meanwhile on FF, many threads obsessively devoted to her throwaway humourous quip wished her 'cancer of the fanny' and one of the site Moderators (SM) even hoped that 'all her future kids are stillborn.' Kirsty was quite visibly pregnant at the time. Others suggested the thread be made a ‘sticky’ so they could ‘get the fenian bitch’ and until such times as ‘the fenian whore makes a grovelling apology.’ Thirteen pages of vicious hate-filled diatribe later, those bastions of dignity were still wishing to ‘batter her f****** ugly face in with a baseball bat’ and claiming that she now resembled ‘a f****** fenian slapper on smack.’ Another still, let slip the real agenda when he revealed ‘the less catholics (hence tims) in positions of power and authority in this land the better as far as Im concerned.’ The scariest thing about this whole non-story, is that these people are deadly serious !
The players and officials being forced to leave the ground by the back door after a baying hate-mob intent on violence, gathered at the front entrance after the 3-0 gubbing by Hibs (the third loss to them in a row) in the 05-06 Scottish Cup.
Car thief and disqualified driver Alexander McLeod applying to Glasgow Sheriff court to have his sentencing adjourned, so he could watch the huns play in Villareal. McLeod earlier plead guilty to taking a car and driving without a licence. Sentence on the thieving hun was deferred until after the match. Spanish car owners beware.
An Admin from GersNet (Coalburn_Bear) hacking into the database of another hun site (GersForums) in order to access the e-mail addresses of all the users. He then forwarded an official looking GersForums e-mail, promoting his own site, and suggesting that they all register with GersNet. Hacking any site to promote your own, smacks of desperation. Hacking a fellow fan's site, to access the users they have attracted and built up, in order to try and poach them away, smacks of sheer scumminess. Seems these huns don't care who they steal from - even their own.
Glasgow Sheriff Court having one of it’s hun-supporting employees suspended after sending a fascist, bigoted, sectarian, anti-Irish e-mail to Cairde na hEireann, referring to Irish people as ‘Fenian scum’ saying they should be ‘hunted down, and deported back to Ireland.’ The worker – who laced the e-mail with pro-Rankers diatribe – was traced via the court’s unique ISP address, and was immediately suspended. The case is currently being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality. Eleanor Emberson, chief executive of the Scottish Court Service, said : "The service required staff to meet the highest standards of behaviour and conduct at all times. Any activity that has a racist or sectarian connotation is treated as a serious breach of conduct. We have initiated a disciplinary investigation into the allegation that a member of staff has sent an e-mail that is in breach of the SCS policies on equal opportunities and electronic communications. The individual concerned has been suspended."
Having one of their websites - broxibears.com - advertise itself with the slogan 'The Sectarian-Free Rankers Site'. This distancing and self admission from those who no longer want to be tainted by, and associated with, the club’s tarnished history of institutionalised bigotry and sectarianism, pretty much sums up the content of the rest of their hate-filled cess-pits. Ah well, one down – a couple of hundred to go.
Having another of their drunken, violent, racist bigots arrested, and convicted of a charge which stated that on a train between Dundee and Cupar he acted in a disorderly manner, persistently shouted, swore and sang sectarian football songs to the alarm and annoyance of passengers and committed a breach of the peace; that at the same time and place he acted in a racially aggravated manner which caused and intended to cause alarm and distress to a person, and a particular black adult male passenger, in respect of using derogatory language and expressing the intention of perpetrating violence upon the man. Euan Patrick, also admitted that at Cupar Railway Station he assaulted a man, c/o the British Transport Police and spat on him. Sheriff George Evans also said he took a “dim and serious view” of these matters and said the accused should be “thoroughly ashamed” of what he had done. He was sentenced to 100 hours community service. A spokeswoman for Rankers Football Club said, “The club is opposed to bigotry, racism and inappropriate behaviour arising from all forms of prejudice and currently have 94 people banned indefinitely from the club and have also issued 14 lifetime bans.” Rankers FC - the club of choice for drunken racist hooligan bigots.
Being threatened with having their Underground services withdrawn on matchday due to persistant threats, abuse, and violence on Subway staff during matches at Legoland. An SPT spokesman said : “We will now be limiting the number of fans boarding trains, due to anti-social behaviour. We have had numerous problems in the past, and we will not tolerate our staff being threatened by aggressive supporters. Three thousand fans cannot expect to turn up at a station 10 minutes before kick-off, and get to the game in time. We will use all means at our disposal – including withdrawing services if necessary – to protect our staff from unacceptable and threatening behaviour.” In August 2006, staff were issued with DNA 'Spit-Kits' to enable them to swab saliva, when they are spat upon by mindless hun morons. The samples can then be handed over to the police, and cross-referenced against the 1.8million DNA samples currently stored in the national database, in order to identify and prosecute the thugs who continue to perpetrate violence upon them. Shortly afterwards, British Transport Police, and the SPT set up a special unit to police the Glasgow Underground service – the first time this has ever happened, in it’s 110 year history. Another ‘first’ for the hooligans from Kinning Park.
Being met on their arrival in Villarreal by lines of baton-weilding, riot cops, an alcohol ban in and around the stadium, and repeated warnings not to travel to the town, amidst genuine fears for the safety of the town’s residents from ticketless huns, intent on gate-crashing the stadium. In contrast, Celtic fans were welcomed with a Paella Fiesta in the town’s square, and had a Villarreal Celtic Supporters Club inaugurated in their honour.
A sicko hun pervert being arrested on a Rankers flight for public indecency, after he flashed his genitalia at an air stewardess, who asked him to fasten his seatbelt. William McMahon was on a return flight home from a European tie against Porto, when he pulled his trousers down and exposed his private parts. The flight attendant reported the Rankers fan to the captain and police arrested him on touchdown at Glasgow Airport. McMahon, of Burnbank, Hamilton, later pled guilty to public indecency, and a breach of the peace admitted breach of the peace at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Two sectarian huns being arrested inside Legoland for attacking eachother, in a sectarian row about Loyalist bands in the Orange Walk. At Greenock Sheriff Court, violent hun bigot Billy Spence, was convicted of attacking fellow bigot Craig Woods, after a row concerning the annual Orange bigotfest. During the trial, Sheriff John Herald had lawyers in stitches after he suggested that Rankers boss Alex McLeish picked the wrong team for the club’s home Champions League tie with Villarreal. Sentencing the bigots, Sheriff Herald commented : "I hope in future you will talk about things to do with your club inside Ibrox stadium, rather than Orange marches. You could start by discussing why a certain Mr McLeish played Hamed Namouchi instead of Thomas Buffel that night."
A racist, bigot hun copper being arrested inside Legoland, and charged with a number of sectarian racist-related offences at a Rankers match. Greg Louden, from Dunfermline, who serves with Fife Constabulary, carried out the offences during the huns’ Champions League tie against Villarreal. Louden, who appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court, was charged with committing a racially aggravated breach of the peace by intending to cause alarm to a player or players from Villarreal. He is alleged to have committed another breach by swearing, making lewd gestures, shouting sectarian abuse and inciting others to do the same.
Rankers fans rioting and brawling in Benidorm, Valencia, and Villarreal, before, during, and after yet another European exit for the hopeless huns. Spanish riot-police were forced to wade in and empty a bar full of aggressive huns, after they intimidated and assaulted locals, in the town of Villarreal. In Benidorm 8 huns were arrested after a mass brawl broke out during an ugly episode involving huns and their jingoistic, xenophobic anthems of hate. Both Radio Clyde and BBC Radio Five Live reported in their lunchtime and evening bulletins that riot police had attacked a crowd of up to 200 drunken aggressive huns in Villarreal, and similar hooliganism had occurred in Valencia, with widespread brawling, violence, aggression, confrontation and vandalism. As BBC Radio Scotland were broadcasting from trackside prior to kick-off, their SportSound correspondent reported live on air, the brawling, mayhem, and arrests that were occuring inside the stadium, right before his very eyes.
Builder Kevin Sharp being charged by Spanish magistrates with wrecking 60 rooms at the three star Presidential Hotel in Benidorm. Sharp was arrested and led from the hotel in handcuffs, after he was accused of smashing up his hotel room and ripping out the shower head. The resultant flooding caused extensive damage to corridors of rooms over two floors, which were left flooded and unusable. Manager of the hotel, Ramon Martinez said : “We inspected his room, and found the shower fittings had been ripped off the wall. Water cascaded into the corridors, and has left two floors of rooms damaged and unusable. We will never again, let football fans stay in this hotel. They simply cannot control themselves when they have drunk alcohol.” Rankers FC – flying the flag for the good name of Scottish football fans.
Attacking the Villarreal team bus outside the Madrigal Stadium, and smashing in it’s windows with bricks, bottles, stones, and other missiles. The hooligan huns then charged the bus, and started kicking and battering on it, as the terrified Villarreal team and officials cowered inside, after being showered with shards of broken glass. The rampaginging huns were only prevented from further mayhem and violence, when Spanish riot-police charged them, and battered them back.
Follow Follow deleting all posts that discussed any of the above violence, brawling, rioting, and vandalism. Any posts referring to it were immediately deleted, and posters were threatened with bans. Freedom of speech – something those paragons of virtue at Fascist Fascist aren’t particularly keen on.
The owner of the Ibrox Bar in Benidorm (Bryan Sheeran from Rathcoole) ripping off gullible huns by selling them forgeries for the Villarreal game, doubling his bar prices, and then charging them to board the advertised 'free buses' leaving for the game. Gullible knuckle-draggers bought an estimated 200 - 300 scanned forgeries from him, paying €130 each in the process, for a €15 face-value dud. According to those who attended the game, 'not one was a good ticket - they were all fakes' and every hun with one was refused entry to El Madrigal. On their return to Benidorm, raging huns found his bar closed, but smashed up the exterior, and slashed the sun canopy. Huns stealing from, and ripping eachother off - whatever next ?!
Eight hooligan huns being fined €2000 (around £1400) each by a Spanish court after being arrested in violent brawling with police in Benidorm on the eve of the clash with Villarreal. The arrests followed an outbreak of violence, in which five local officers were injured on Calle Mallorca, before the huns set off for the Champions League match in Castellón. Local councillor for public safety, Francisco Saval, says the fans threw glass bottles at the police when local residents reported that they were vandalising the area. The vandals also threw tables and chairs at the police, and caused damage to cars parked nearby.
A hooligan hun piss-head being charged with drunken aggression. The drunken reprobate from Glasgow, was injured in a fight near the Madrigal stadium, as maurauding huns fought with Spanish riot police. Police took him to hospital, where he assaulted a doctor who had been trying to attend to his injuries. When police returned to the hospital to intervene, the man lashed out at the officers, who had to subdue and arrest him.
Locking, then deleting, the FF thread that highlighted the media article slating Peter Lovelypants and The Diving Ponytail, as being two of the worst divers in the Scottish game. This was on the day that Jan Wouters claimed that Prso was the victim of ‘aggressive fouling’ in the SPHell. What he failed to mention, was that Prso was officially named as the dirtiest player (committing 156 fouls) of the entire 05-06 Champions League tournament (including a violent headbutt, breaking the nose of Porto captain Pedro Emmanuell), and the second dirtiest player in the 05-06 SPHell campaign – second that is, only to his fellow thug in a tarnished blue jersey, Kris Boyd. Huns and truth, eh ?!
Being called ‘one of the most fevered and paranoid groups of fans in Scottish football, who stop only just short of calling in the United Nations to investigate’ by Graham Speirs, after yet another FF-led, no-mark, dreary, hun, storm-in-a-teacup, witch-hunt, on some unsuspecting individual or other who innocently used a word, or whatever. You can tell these huns are dole-scrounging, work-shy, layabouts with stolen computers – they’ve got too much spare time on their theiving hands, to be anything else.
The Nine-In-A-Row team not being able to do a lap of honour after Ted McMinn’s benefit match in Derby, after the hooligan huns set off two flares and invaded the pitch at the final whistle. After a bout of fighting in the south-east corner of the stadium, many of the drunken hooligans couldn’t even wait until the match was over, and a number ran onto the park during the game. Only extensive stewarding stopped the drunken huns getting completely out of control, and reverting back to the way they know best. Obviously little has been learned from the shame of Barcelona ’72.
Getting glowing tributes from the Derby fans’ messageboards, which included such chestnuts as : ‘Got a ticket right in the south east corner ..... Bit frightening when trouble started a few rows in front of me before the game ..... Strange to see flares set off at a match ..... It was like stepping back in time to the seventies ..... Great to see the linesmen swap his yellow flag for a big union jack, then swapped his black top for a Rankers blue one ..... Good to see those that ran onto the pitch didnt get the rough treatment from the old bill ..... Well I can now say I have been on the hallowed turf at Pride Park along with about 10,000 others. The stewards and Old Bill did not put up any resistance to anyone going onto the pitch ..... I now understand a bit the fierce rivalry between Rankers and Glasgow ..... Didnt realise Rankers were so pro the union flag and the monarch and so anti the Catholic republicans. Seemed strange seeming so many Northern Ireland flags and flags with Antrim, Down, Fermanagh etc. It was like a military battle honours flag. If I was catholic and their rivals I would have been very intimidated .....’ Rankers FC – Scotland’s Shame.
Sectarianly abusing former idol, Rankers great, and former club Captain Terry Butcher, by calling him a ‘lying Fenian b******’ and a ‘mickey loving c***’ after he dared to write a newspaper column criticising the sectarian element within the Rankers support. The abuse was so venomous, that Butcher was forced to pull out of the Ted McMinn benefit match, after receiving a number of abusive insults from the poisoned hoardes. Butcher had long since paid for his previous honesty about Rankers deep-rooted bigotry disease. He was the recipient of numerous incidences of venomous diatribe, and disproportionate hate from the knuckledraggers, but May ’06 was the first time he had ever been abused in a sectarian manner, by those who had previously worshipped him. As Terry himself wrote in his column : ‘Unless people in Scotland open their eyes, the problem of bigotry will fester. Since I wrote about this in my column two weeks ago, I've had some interesting letters and calls. One supposed group of Rankers fans have e-mailed to say I'm a disgrace to their club, and shouldn't wear the Rankers jersey at Ted McMinn's testimonial match tomorrow. The kind of sectarian abuse I received last week, makes me more determined than ever to battle on and change people's minds. I'm concerened about future generations. We don't want our youngsters following the same paths of bigotry again.’ Just when you thought these cretins couldn’t go any lower, they always find a new depth to plumb.
Throwing coins at Hearts player Basara, after he clashed with Diddy PoorShow in a last day of the season game at The Death Star. As Basara was walking away from the incident, he was showered with coins from hun thugs seated in the Govan Front area. Those responsible were probably still raging from being dumped on their collective arse by Hearts the previous week, who had knocked them into third place in the SPHell, thus ensuring they missed out on CL football the following season.
Praising the white supremacist band Skrewdriver on FF, and posting a thread which praised their work, and advocated listening to their racist hate-filled bile.
Having Rankers fan Stuart Hunter filmed selling three £40 rocks of crack cocaine to a team of undercover reporters, whilst decked out resplendantly in his tarnished blue jersey, and RFC baseball cap. Knuckledragger Hunter, who sells his crack from outside the McDonalds in Springburn, also sold the reporters two tenner bags of smack, and offered to broker a deal for two ‘room clearers’ – also known as M16 sub-machine guns. They’re nice people really, these huns !
Uber-hun, and Legoland regular Steven Moffat being convicted of membership of the UDA, and possessing a Browning 9mm automatic pistol and live ammunition. During a forensic search of his home in Buckhaven, police also found loyalist football flags relating to Rankers FC, a handgun, ammunition, paramilitary clothing, replica guns, and documents relating to initiation procedures to the UDA. In a bag under the mattress, officers discovered an automatic pistol in full working order, wrapped in cling film. Moffat admitted belonging to the UDA, contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000, and further breaching the Act by possessing a handgun, ammunition, clothing and other paraphernalia, giving rise to a suspicion that they were for the preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism. He also admitted two charges under the Firearms Act, relating to the automatic pistol and two magazines of 9mm fire cartridges. Lord Macphail sentenced Moffat to five years behind bars for possession of the handgun and other paraphernalia. He was given two years for each of the Firearms Act offences and three-and-a-half years for belonging to the UDA.
Embarassing the entire nation, by mindlessly racially attacking a seven-year-old schoolboy in Inverleith Park, Edinburgh, because he was wearing an England shirt during the World Cup. The youngster, who had lived in Edinburgh for two years with his family, said : "I just felt this big whack and I started crying. His eyes looked very fierce. He punched me on the head very, very hard and it's left a big bruise. It was because I had an England shirt on. He told my dad I should be supporting Scotland not England." His father Damon, 34, who was also assaulted, said the man had been 'wearing a Rankers top.' A spokesperson for Lothian and Borders Police described the attack as "cowardly and pathetic". Prime Minister Tony Blair slated the cowardly bigotry as "appalling and totally unjustifiable". First Minister Jack McConnell called the hun perpetrator : "Nothing but a mindless thug." The Scottish National Party's justice spokesman, Kenny MacAskill said: "It's appalling behaviour and should be punished. This is a football tournament, not a re-run of the Battle of Bannockburn or tribal warfare. Hopefully this horrific incident will be addressed and punished." Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie MSP said: "This was an appalling incident, indicative of the worst traits of narrow-minded thuggery which every self-respecting Scot should condemn outright." Huns - the lowest of the low, and despised wherever they roam, dragging the nation down with their bigotry and hate.
Having a 2000+ post thread, stretching to over 70 pages, on FF supporting a campaign to have Nil By Mouth, the charity set up to rid Scotland of sectarianism, abolished. Quite obviously there are still many huns who prefer being up to their knees in Fenian blood.
Being threatened with having their Underground services withdrawn on matchday due to persistant threats, abuse, and violence on Subway staff during matches at Legoland. An SPT spokesman said : “We will now be limiting the number of fans boarding trains, due to anti-social behaviour. We have had numerous problems in the past, and we will not tolerate our staff being threatened by aggressive supporters. Three thousand fans cannot expect to turn up at a station 10 minutes before kick-off, and get to the game in time. We will use all means at our disposal – including withdrawing services if necessary – to protect our staff from unacceptable and threatening behaviour.” In August 2006, staff were issued with DNA 'Spit-Kits' to enable them to swab saliva, when they are spat upon by mindless hun morons. The samples can then be handed over to the police, and cross-referenced against the 1.8million DNA samples currently stored in the national database, in order to identify and prosecute the thugs who continue to perpetrate violence upon them. Shortly afterwards, British Transport Police, and the SPT set up a special unit to police the Glasgow Underground service – the first time this has ever happened, in it’s 110 year history. Another ‘first’ for the hooligans from Kinning Park.
Being met on their arrival in Villarreal by lines of baton-weilding, riot cops, an alcohol ban in and around the stadium, and repeated warnings not to travel to the town, amidst genuine fears for the safety of the town’s residents from ticketless huns, intent on gate-crashing the stadium. In contrast, Celtic fans were welcomed with a Paella Fiesta in the town’s square, and had a Villarreal Celtic Supporters Club inaugurated in their honour.
A sicko hun pervert being arrested on a Rankers flight for public indecency, after he flashed his genitalia at an air stewardess, who asked him to fasten his seatbelt. William McMahon was on a return flight home from a European tie against Porto, when he pulled his trousers down and exposed his private parts. The flight attendant reported the Rankers fan to the captain and police arrested him on touchdown at Glasgow Airport. McMahon, of Burnbank, Hamilton, later pled guilty to public indecency, and a breach of the peace admitted breach of the peace at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Two sectarian huns being arrested inside Legoland for attacking eachother, in a sectarian row about Loyalist bands in the Orange Walk. At Greenock Sheriff Court, violent hun bigot Billy Spence, was convicted of attacking fellow bigot Craig Woods, after a row concerning the annual Orange bigotfest. During the trial, Sheriff John Herald had lawyers in stitches after he suggested that Rankers boss Alex McLeish picked the wrong team for the club’s home Champions League tie with Villarreal. Sentencing the bigots, Sheriff Herald commented : "I hope in future you will talk about things to do with your club inside Ibrox stadium, rather than Orange marches. You could start by discussing why a certain Mr McLeish played Hamed Namouchi instead of Thomas Buffel that night."
A racist, bigot hun copper being arrested inside Legoland, and charged with a number of sectarian racist-related offences at a Rankers match. Greg Louden, from Dunfermline, who serves with Fife Constabulary, carried out the offences during the huns’ Champions League tie against Villarreal. Louden, who appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court, was charged with committing a racially aggravated breach of the peace by intending to cause alarm to a player or players from Villarreal. He is alleged to have committed another breach by swearing, making lewd gestures, shouting sectarian abuse and inciting others to do the same.
Rankers fans rioting and brawling in Benidorm, Valencia, and Villarreal, before, during, and after yet another European exit for the hopeless huns. Spanish riot-police were forced to wade in and empty a bar full of aggressive huns, after they intimidated and assaulted locals, in the town of Villarreal. In Benidorm 8 huns were arrested after a mass brawl broke out during an ugly episode involving huns and their jingoistic, xenophobic anthems of hate. Both Radio Clyde and BBC Radio Five Live reported in their lunchtime and evening bulletins that riot police had attacked a crowd of up to 200 drunken aggressive huns in Villarreal, and similar hooliganism had occurred in Valencia, with widespread brawling, violence, aggression, confrontation and vandalism. As BBC Radio Scotland were broadcasting from trackside prior to kick-off, their SportSound correspondent reported live on air, the brawling, mayhem, and arrests that were occuring inside the stadium, right before his very eyes.
Builder Kevin Sharp being charged by Spanish magistrates with wrecking 60 rooms at the three star Presidential Hotel in Benidorm. Sharp was arrested and led from the hotel in handcuffs, after he was accused of smashing up his hotel room and ripping out the shower head. The resultant flooding caused extensive damage to corridors of rooms over two floors, which were left flooded and unusable. Manager of the hotel, Ramon Martinez said : “We inspected his room, and found the shower fittings had been ripped off the wall. Water cascaded into the corridors, and has left two floors of rooms damaged and unusable. We will never again, let football fans stay in this hotel. They simply cannot control themselves when they have drunk alcohol.” Rankers FC – flying the flag for the good name of Scottish football fans.
Attacking the Villarreal team bus outside the Madrigal Stadium, and smashing in it’s windows with bricks, bottles, stones, and other missiles. The hooligan huns then charged the bus, and started kicking and battering on it, as the terrified Villarreal team and officials cowered inside, after being showered with shards of broken glass. The rampaginging huns were only prevented from further mayhem and violence, when Spanish riot-police charged them, and battered them back.
Follow Follow deleting all posts that discussed any of the above violence, brawling, rioting, and vandalism. Any posts referring to it were immediately deleted, and posters were threatened with bans. Freedom of speech – something those paragons of virtue at Fascist Fascist aren’t particularly keen on.
The owner of the Ibrox Bar in Benidorm (Bryan Sheeran from Rathcoole) ripping off gullible huns by selling them forgeries for the Villarreal game, doubling his bar prices, and then charging them to board the advertised 'free buses' leaving for the game. Gullible knuckle-draggers bought an estimated 200 - 300 scanned forgeries from him, paying €130 each in the process, for a €15 face-value dud. According to those who attended the game, 'not one was a good ticket - they were all fakes' and every hun with one was refused entry to El Madrigal. On their return to Benidorm, raging huns found his bar closed, but smashed up the exterior, and slashed the sun canopy. Huns stealing from, and ripping eachother off - whatever next ?!
Eight hooligan huns being fined €2000 (around £1400) each by a Spanish court after being arrested in violent brawling with police in Benidorm on the eve of the clash with Villarreal. The arrests followed an outbreak of violence, in which five local officers were injured on Calle Mallorca, before the huns set off for the Champions League match in Castellón. Local councillor for public safety, Francisco Saval, says the fans threw glass bottles at the police when local residents reported that they were vandalising the area. The vandals also threw tables and chairs at the police, and caused damage to cars parked nearby.
A hooligan hun piss-head being charged with drunken aggression. The drunken reprobate from Glasgow, was injured in a fight near the Madrigal stadium, as maurauding huns fought with Spanish riot police. Police took him to hospital, where he assaulted a doctor who had been trying to attend to his injuries. When police returned to the hospital to intervene, the man lashed out at the officers, who had to subdue and arrest him.
Locking, then deleting, the FF thread that highlighted the media article slating Peter Lovelypants and The Diving Ponytail, as being two of the worst divers in the Scottish game. This was on the day that Jan Wouters claimed that Prso was the victim of ‘aggressive fouling’ in the SPHell. What he failed to mention, was that Prso was officially named as the dirtiest player (committing 156 fouls) of the entire 05-06 Champions League tournament (including a violent headbutt, breaking the nose of Porto captain Pedro Emmanuell), and the second dirtiest player in the 05-06 SPHell campaign – second that is, only to his fellow thug in a tarnished blue jersey, Kris Boyd. Huns and truth, eh ?!
Being called ‘one of the most fevered and paranoid groups of fans in Scottish football, who stop only just short of calling in the United Nations to investigate’ by Graham Speirs, after yet another FF-led, no-mark, dreary, hun, storm-in-a-teacup, witch-hunt, on some unsuspecting individual or other who innocently used a word, or whatever. You can tell these huns are dole-scrounging, work-shy, layabouts with stolen computers – they’ve got too much spare time on their theiving hands, to be anything else.
The Nine-In-A-Row team not being able to do a lap of honour after Ted McMinn’s benefit match in Derby, after the hooligan huns set off two flares and invaded the pitch at the final whistle. After a bout of fighting in the south-east corner of the stadium, many of the drunken hooligans couldn’t even wait until the match was over, and a number ran onto the park during the game. Only extensive stewarding stopped the drunken huns getting completely out of control, and reverting back to the way they know best. Obviously little has been learned from the shame of Barcelona ’72.
Getting glowing tributes from the Derby fans’ messageboards, which included such chestnuts as : ‘Got a ticket right in the south east corner ..... Bit frightening when trouble started a few rows in front of me before the game ..... Strange to see flares set off at a match ..... It was like stepping back in time to the seventies ..... Great to see the linesmen swap his yellow flag for a big union jack, then swapped his black top for a Rankers blue one ..... Good to see those that ran onto the pitch didnt get the rough treatment from the old bill ..... Well I can now say I have been on the hallowed turf at Pride Park along with about 10,000 others. The stewards and Old Bill did not put up any resistance to anyone going onto the pitch ..... I now understand a bit the fierce rivalry between Rankers and Glasgow ..... Didnt realise Rankers were so pro the union flag and the monarch and so anti the Catholic republicans. Seemed strange seeming so many Northern Ireland flags and flags with Antrim, Down, Fermanagh etc. It was like a military battle honours flag. If I was catholic and their rivals I would have been very intimidated .....’ Rankers FC – Scotland’s Shame.
Sectarianly abusing former idol, Rankers great, and former club Captain Terry Butcher, by calling him a ‘lying Fenian b******’ and a ‘mickey loving c***’ after he dared to write a newspaper column criticising the sectarian element within the Rankers support. The abuse was so venomous, that Butcher was forced to pull out of the Ted McMinn benefit match, after receiving a number of abusive insults from the poisoned hoardes. Butcher had long since paid for his previous honesty about Rankers deep-rooted bigotry disease. He was the recipient of numerous incidences of venomous diatribe, and disproportionate hate from the knuckledraggers, but May ’06 was the first time he had ever been abused in a sectarian manner, by those who had previously worshipped him. As Terry himself wrote in his column : ‘Unless people in Scotland open their eyes, the problem of bigotry will fester. Since I wrote about this in my column two weeks ago, I've had some interesting letters and calls. One supposed group of Rankers fans have e-mailed to say I'm a disgrace to their club, and shouldn't wear the Rankers jersey at Ted McMinn's testimonial match tomorrow. The kind of sectarian abuse I received last week, makes me more determined than ever to battle on and change people's minds. I'm concerened about future generations. We don't want our youngsters following the same paths of bigotry again.’ Just when you thought these cretins couldn’t go any lower, they always find a new depth to plumb.
Throwing coins at Hearts player Basara, after he clashed with Diddy PoorShow in a last day of the season game at The Death Star. As Basara was walking away from the incident, he was showered with coins from hun thugs seated in the Govan Front area. Those responsible were probably still raging from being dumped on their collective arse by Hearts the previous week, who had knocked them into third place in the SPHell, thus ensuring they missed out on CL football the following season.
Praising the white supremacist band Skrewdriver on FF, and posting a thread which praised their work, and advocated listening to their racist hate-filled bile.
Having Rankers fan Stuart Hunter filmed selling three £40 rocks of crack cocaine to a team of undercover reporters, whilst decked out resplendantly in his tarnished blue jersey, and RFC baseball cap. Knuckledragger Hunter, who sells his crack from outside the McDonalds in Springburn, also sold the reporters two tenner bags of smack, and offered to broker a deal for two ‘room clearers’ – also known as M16 sub-machine guns. They’re nice people really, these huns !
Uber-hun, and Legoland regular Steven Moffat being convicted of membership of the UDA, and possessing a Browning 9mm automatic pistol and live ammunition. During a forensic search of his home in Buckhaven, police also found loyalist football flags relating to Rankers FC, a handgun, ammunition, paramilitary clothing, replica guns, and documents relating to initiation procedures to the UDA. In a bag under the mattress, officers discovered an automatic pistol in full working order, wrapped in cling film. Moffat admitted belonging to the UDA, contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000, and further breaching the Act by possessing a handgun, ammunition, clothing and other paraphernalia, giving rise to a suspicion that they were for the preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism. He also admitted two charges under the Firearms Act, relating to the automatic pistol and two magazines of 9mm fire cartridges. Lord Macphail sentenced Moffat to five years behind bars for possession of the handgun and other paraphernalia. He was given two years for each of the Firearms Act offences and three-and-a-half years for belonging to the UDA.
Embarassing the entire nation, by mindlessly racially attacking a seven-year-old schoolboy in Inverleith Park, Edinburgh, because he was wearing an England shirt during the World Cup. The youngster, who had lived in Edinburgh for two years with his family, said : "I just felt this big whack and I started crying. His eyes looked very fierce. He punched me on the head very, very hard and it's left a big bruise. It was because I had an England shirt on. He told my dad I should be supporting Scotland not England." His father Damon, 34, who was also assaulted, said the man had been 'wearing a Rankers top.' A spokesperson for Lothian and Borders Police described the attack as "cowardly and pathetic". Prime Minister Tony Blair slated the cowardly bigotry as "appalling and totally unjustifiable". First Minister Jack McConnell called the hun perpetrator : "Nothing but a mindless thug." The Scottish National Party's justice spokesman, Kenny MacAskill said: "It's appalling behaviour and should be punished. This is a football tournament, not a re-run of the Battle of Bannockburn or tribal warfare. Hopefully this horrific incident will be addressed and punished." Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie MSP said: "This was an appalling incident, indicative of the worst traits of narrow-minded thuggery which every self-respecting Scot should condemn outright." Huns - the lowest of the low, and despised wherever they roam, dragging the nation down with their bigotry and hate.
Having a 2000+ post thread, stretching to over 70 pages, on FF supporting a campaign to have Nil By Mouth, the charity set up to rid Scotland of sectarianism, abolished. Quite obviously there are still many huns who prefer being up to their knees in Fenian blood.
Hun knife-thug Patrick Healey being sentenced to eight years, after being convicted of slashing three Celtic fans outside a pub in the Gallagate. Healey, from Brig’ton, was convicted of slashing brothers Marc and Paul Brown, and endangering the life of their friend Stephen Murray, in an unprovoked and vicious assault perpetrated on them solely because they were Celtic fans. Looks like the anti-sectarian message might not be getting through to one or two of ‘the people’.
Hooligan huns setting off a distress flare on board a packed passenger train, as scores of terrified passengers ran for their lives, fearing that the train was ablaze. The wanton hooliganism happened after a game at Legoland v The Cousins Of William, aboard the Carlisle-bound service, not long after it departed Glasgow Central. The driver was forced to activate an emergency alarm, minutes after the train pulled out of Barrhead station, around 8:15pm on the Saturday evening. As terrified passengers tried to escape the acrid smoke, some were injured in the panic, and one woman - a 29-year-old tourist from Wales - collapsed, suffering from an athsma attack, brought on by smoke inhalation. Police and Paramedics boarded the train at Kilmarnock station and the woman was rushed to the town's Crosshouse Hospital. Denouncing the wanton hooliganism, Detective Constable Bryce Carroll, of British Transport Police, described the incident as "extremely serious" and "the work of mindless morons." He said: "The train was packed with Rankers fans returning home from the match against Hearts at Ibrox. These flares are banned from all football grounds and produce a lot of dense smoke for a long period time. The passengers had no idea what had happened and genuinely believed that a fire had broken out. This incident created widespread panic, was highly irresponsible, and had the potential to cause serious injury to innocent members of the public. We are presently studying CCTV footage in a bid to identify and trace the culprits, and would appeal for anyone who witnessed this incident to come forward."
Junkie hun Findlay Summers brutally attacking a man after being thrown out of a Rankers Social Club. Summers knocked victim Richard Love to the ground and kicked and stamped on his head. The High Court in Glasgow heard the beating ended only when an eye-witness screamed at him to : "Stop or you'll kill him." Summers, of Queen Street, Kirkintilloch, admitted assaulting Mr Love to the danger of his life. The attack happened after Mr Love objected to a comment made by Summers, after he had been thrown out of the club in Luggiebank Road, Kirkintilloch, for being under the influence of drink and drugs. Vinit Khurana, prosecuting, said: "As a result of the assault Mr Love suffers from dizziness. His wife says he is a different man to what he was before." Judge Lord Bracadale deferred sentence for background reports, and warned him that he faced a custodial sentence when he next appeared.
Smackhead junkie hun David Lyle using the cover of his eight-week-old baby’s pram as a front for his smack dealing. Dressed resplendantly in his new Rankers home jersey and matching baseball cap, Lyle and his junkie hooker girlfriend Sonia McDonald, ply their trade in the streets surrounding Legoland, Broomloan Road, and Paisley Road West. Each time they are approached for a deal, Lyle reaches into the pram, and removes a £10 deal from under the baby’s pillow. Using your new-born baby’s pram as a front for selling smack – does it get any lower ?
Super-Sally McCoist being branded ‘a traitor to the Protestant people’ and ‘a Catholic-loving prick’ when he decided to go on a charitable 24-hour fast to raise funds for SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund). To the knuckledraggers, it doesn’t matter that he was trying to do something good for under-privilaged and poverty-stricken people. All that matters to them, is that the charity he chose, was founded by Catholics. Hate-mongers, poisoned to the core.
Super-Sally McCoist being showered with dog’s abuse for daring to suggest that Watty ‘The Cardigan’ Smith’s finest ever hour as a manager, came when he led Scotland to a 1 – 0 home victory over France in Oct ’06. Permanently-raging huns queued up to rip into the ‘uncle-tom Timmy arse-licker’ for daring to forget that their team were the second team in Scotland to win nine League titles in a row, and were the second team in Scotland to reach the latter stages of The Big Cup. Poor huns – they hate being not talked about – even if the feat in question was being the second team in Scotland to achieve something.
Denigrating Celtic, after the club had sincerely and generously paid for the body of a young Polish woman to be flown back home, after she was murdered in Glasgow. Huns, outraged that a shower of Fenians might actually be seen in a decent light, slated the generosity as a PR stunt. Forgetting for a moment that the family of Anjelika Kluk were unable to afford the cost of doing so, the huns felt it would be better to denigrate Celtic, rather than actually afford them a modicum of respect. Well done huns – just when it was assumed that you couldn’t ever get any lower, you turn the tragic murder, and a subsequent act of genuine human decency, into a cheap point-scoring exercise.
Organising a football fundraiser between FF and the loyalist midden District Bar on Sunday 15th October ’06 to raise as much money as possible. The event included the appearance of spectacularly ugly hun icon Ian Durrant, and a host of other hun hanger’s on. When the final amount was tallied and contributed – was the recipient sick children ? Sick animals ? Cancer relief ? Homeless people ? The poor ? The elderly ? Er, no. The benefactors of FF’s genuine act of generosity and human decency was …………………………………… a loyalist flute band.
Despite numerous warning, appeals, pleas, and begging from The Dark Lord, Gingerbaws, Baldy Bain, Captain Shellsuit, Pepe Le Pew, John 'Thug' Grieg, and a whole host of others - Rankers still having to issue nine banning orders against their own knuckledraggers, as the pleas for an end to anti-Catholic sectarian hatred, merely fell on deaf ears. In a robust statement issued by head nazi, and part-time fan-puncher, Laurence Macintyre, the club praised the grasses who dob-in their fellow huns. Macintyre stated : "I want to acknowledge the co-operation of the supporters that helped us identify those acting inappropriately at the Dunfermline game and commend them for embarking on their own initiatives to eradicate sectarian supporters from within this club. The vast majority now realise the importance of rooting out sectarian behaviour, and that it is essential to pin-point those that continue to embarrass and shame the club. Six fans have been banned from all home and away games following Rankers SPL fixture at Dunfermline earlier this season. The supporters were ejected from East End Park for sectarian chanting. Two fans, aged 22 and 23, have also been banned from all Rankers games following sectarian behaviour at the match against Aberdeen at Ibrox, and have now lost their season tickets. This followed information provided to the Club via the dedicated Hotline at Ibrox and verified by the club using plain clothes stewards. In addition, one supporter was banned from all European away games and the Rankers Travel Club following inappropriate sectarian behaviour at the Molde v Rankers game in September. This fan was reported and identified by fellow supporters and investigated by the club. Rankers no longer issue warnings for sectarian behaviour."
The blatant and repeated boo-ing of French fairy, Lionel Letizi, after he conceded a howler of a goal which saw the Kinning Park bigots humiliated at Legoland by ICT. After the goal, Letizi was boo-ed after his every touch of the ball, and by the entire stadium too – or at least the entirity of those who were still left, after thousands upon thousands of loyal bretheren poured out the exits, in disgust and humiliation.
Having such an appauling record for hooliganism and anti-Catholic sectarian hatred, that in an official Rankers TV interview with midfielder Charlie Adam before the away UEFA cup tie to Livorno, Italy, presenter Alison Douglas had to include the following questions : "Charlie, do you hope the fans travel in numbers and behave themselves ? ..... It'd be a shame for the players if the club was kicked out of Europe because of the fans behaviour wouldn't it ? ..... Do you hope they give the team the right backing with the correct songs ?" Even their own club is pertified of these poison-filled, bigoted, Catholic-hating, venomous, embarassing hatemongers.
Brutal hun thug coward Craig Nimmo being granted bail to go on holiday, before being convicted of the murder of an elderly man, by kicking, punching, and stamping him to death whilst high on drink and drugs. Whilst on holiday in Bulgaria, Nimmo was photographed lounging in the sun, resplendant in the tarnished blue huns’ jersey, and accompanying Union flag. The murdered man, Bryan Drummond, 51, died after the horrific attack in a street in Kilmarnock after being punched and kicked to the ground. Nimmo, and three other thugs then brutally kicked, punched, and stamped on his head and body. Mr Drummond, an innocent passer-by who knew none of his attackers, died after an emergency operation to remove his spleen, which ruptured during the violent unprovoked attack. He had five broken ribs, a punctured lung and severe bruising and bleeding inside the surface of his brain. Doctors described the dead man as ‘resembling a car crash victim’. Cowardly, brutal, hun animals – nothing more, nothing less. Nimmo was subsequently sentenced to nine years for his cowardly violence.
Making up a story about Celtic fans defacing a tribute at Ground Zero, left by Rankers FC. Despite claiming that there was photographic evidence (which there never was), when challenged to produce it, denying that this was ever claimed in the first place. In fact, no tibute was ever placed at Ground Zero by Rankers FC. The entire story was a fabrication in order to use a horrific tragedy – still prominent in people’s minds – to try and besmirch the name of Celtic. When it comes to hating Celtic, there are simply no depths to which these embittered individuals will not stoop to.
Being so loyal and true, that they fling their scarves away after a bad result, before follow-following eachother, permanently raging, out the exits quicker than you can say 'Twelve points ahead before Halloween'. Just a fortnight after the ICT humiliation, and embarrassing images of the Legoland trackside, littered with scores of thrown-away scarves were published, yet another episode in the Rankers soap opera of humiliation was written. As reported by Darrell King in the Evening Times on Monday October 30th 06, : "Jeremy Clement bent down, and picked up one of the Rankers scarves that had been hurled from the East Enclosure, out onto the track, as this 1-1 draw with Motherwell proved the final straw for many enraged punters. The young Frenchman handed it over to one of a small group of fans who had remained in the half-empty stadium, and looked both shocked and bemused by it all. A bit like his manager in fact. Just 12 games into a quite horrific start to his career as Rankers manager, a damning verdict was delivered on Paul Le Guen by some of those who had no doubt danced with joy, when the same man was named in March as the successor to Alex McLeish. Quite astonishing really, given the hype Le Guen generated, that Ibrox was turned into a stadium engulfed in frustration, anger and sheer hostility, that something expected to be so good, could have turned so bad. Now 12 points adrift of Celtic in the SPL, and with just five wins in those dozen league games, Rankers chances of winning the league are gone already. The Parkhead side have such a massive lead that they are playing in a different ball park to the rest and, even if they drop points in the weeks ahead, you wouldn't put a bad penny on Rankers winning the games required to get themselves into any kind of challenging position. What a horror story it has been for the suffering fans who pinned their hopes on Le Guen taking them back to the top. The early fears about his signing policy, the lack of investment in a team that failed so miserably on the home front last season, have come home to roost in spectacular fashion and left Le Guen with the haunted look of a man who has turned up in the wrong movie. The dissection of where it has gone wrong for him has already begun, and we are not even in November. For Rankers to be in such a state is quite disgraceful and everyone from the chairman down to the manager is culpable. Arguments rage that he has underestimated the SPL, and the size of the job he faced. But the answer is quite simple as to why Rankers find themselves in yet another shambolic state - it was also the answer as to why McLeish's reign ended in such a state as well. There are simply too many bad players in this Rankers team. Nine of last season's squad made up the team that couldn't beat Motherwell at the weekend, a statistic that you would have thought inconceivable when predictions were made about the radical surgery Le Guen would perform. He has brought in little quality, his signings are so poor he doesn't even start them, and only one thing will fix Rankers' problems - an injection of new players. This is the worrying thing for the fans as the man at the top, David Murray, insists they will not be net spenders. Just where, then, is the money going to come from to ever get Rankers back into a challenging position in this country ? A possible new owner as the rumours keep suggesting ? Maybe it's time for the chairman to break his silence and tell the lifeblood of the club what is happening ? Le Guen certainly appears to have run out of answers and could hardly find words to explain what had gone wrong again at the weekend. Just days after he had warned his players that a repeat of the first phase of results would be fatal, his team tossed away yet more points, and once more Le Guen watched his team go down a blind alley. There was an alarming lack of creativity in the final third, and Well keeper Colin Meldrum had little to deal with. There is always a look of fragility about this Rankers team, a fact that has been borne out by the amount of times they have thrown away leads this season. Again it happened. Terrible defending from Julien Rodriguez allowed Scott McDonald to turn the defender and set-up Brian Kerr, the midfielder's low shot skimming through Steven Smith's legs past Lionel Letizi into the net. Rankers were devoid of all ideas and the tension in the stands only grew. In saying that, they could have had a penalty in the 81st minute when sub Filip Sebo looked to be tripped in the box by Keith Lasley. It was, however, no major surprise that Charlie Richmond never awarded it as he is a quite awful referee and that call was in keeping with an astonishingly inept display from a so-called SFA rising star. That scandalous piece of refereeing only increased the fans' ire but, deep deep down, they knew the hopeless ref is not the cause of Rankers' problems."
Denigrating club spokesman and former hero Sandy Jardine because he dared to adhere to the express wishes of the Shearer family, after the death of the former Rankers captain Bobby Shearer. The Shearer family made it known they wished the club to hold a minute's-applause tribute in honour of him. Unfortunately for the bereaved, the FF'rs had other ideas, and mounted a sustained campaign of abuse and intimidation in order that THEIR wishes for a minute's-silence be given precedence, believing that a minute's-silence was more befitting of their loyal Orange Protestant traditions. Jardine was dismissed as ‘a Murray poodle ….. a lying spineless bastard ….. having no place at Ibrox ….. a bare-faced liar, who manipulated the Shearer family ..... shameful ….. disgraceful ….. unforgiveable ….. toeing the company line as dictated by Murray’. Didn't matter what the family wanted, nor that the memory of a former great would be sullied, nor that a serving club idol would have his character besmirched - just as long as the bigots got their own sectarian way. In the end up, the permanently raging loyalists never got their way - and were physically attacked by their fellow bretheren, as they later mounted a 'Murray out' campaign on Edmiston Drive, after the same game.
Attacking eachother outside the front door on Edmiston Drive, after Le Goon’s shambolic start to the season saw permanently raging Follow-Followers gathering in protest, and hurling rabid hate-filled abuse at those inside. The protesters were abused and attacked by the Murrayites and Uberfans – themselves permanently raging at protesting ‘not being the Rankers way’ – who waded in, calling the FF’rs ‘part-time supporters ….. Fenian bastards ….. glory-hunters ….. and traitors’. As reported live on Radio Snyde, and Radio Scotland, violence ensued as around 1000 Murrayites, spotting the permanently raging FF's and started chanting 'There’s only one David Murray' - 'You can stick yer Follow Follow up yer arse' and 'Fuck yer Follow Follow' before wading into them, and ripping down their ‘Murray Out’ banner. Other FF’rs needed police protection, as Strathclyde’s finest were forced to intervene and save them from taking further beatings. At the same time, much cyber-brawling ensued as the story broke back on FF, where those reporting the violence outside Ibrox were abused and threatened by the ostriches and propagandists, who tried to deny any such fighting, protesting, and thuggery was ever taking place. Meanwhile live on radio, the FF’rs were roundly condemned by former hun idol Derek Johnstone, who slated ‘the Follow Follow brigade’ as ‘shocking’ and ‘a disgrace’ for denigrating ‘a man who has done so much for the club’. Meanwhile over on SatanTV, another club idol – SuperSally McCoist – laid into the protesters, calling them ‘laughable’, for criticising Murray, whom he described as ‘the best thing to happen to Rankers in years’. As FF head knuckledragger Mark Dungball himself later commented, on the shameful scenes, and the lack of condemnation from the official Rankers site on the matter : “Sad day when the official site does a report with no condemnation of violence. Perhaps by Monday they will clarify if they think it's acceptable to kick, punch, spit and threaten ?"
Hooligan huns setting off a distress flare on board a packed passenger train, as scores of terrified passengers ran for their lives, fearing that the train was ablaze. The wanton hooliganism happened after a game at Legoland v The Cousins Of William, aboard the Carlisle-bound service, not long after it departed Glasgow Central. The driver was forced to activate an emergency alarm, minutes after the train pulled out of Barrhead station, around 8:15pm on the Saturday evening. As terrified passengers tried to escape the acrid smoke, some were injured in the panic, and one woman - a 29-year-old tourist from Wales - collapsed, suffering from an athsma attack, brought on by smoke inhalation. Police and Paramedics boarded the train at Kilmarnock station and the woman was rushed to the town's Crosshouse Hospital. Denouncing the wanton hooliganism, Detective Constable Bryce Carroll, of British Transport Police, described the incident as "extremely serious" and "the work of mindless morons." He said: "The train was packed with Rankers fans returning home from the match against Hearts at Ibrox. These flares are banned from all football grounds and produce a lot of dense smoke for a long period time. The passengers had no idea what had happened and genuinely believed that a fire had broken out. This incident created widespread panic, was highly irresponsible, and had the potential to cause serious injury to innocent members of the public. We are presently studying CCTV footage in a bid to identify and trace the culprits, and would appeal for anyone who witnessed this incident to come forward."
Junkie hun Findlay Summers brutally attacking a man after being thrown out of a Rankers Social Club. Summers knocked victim Richard Love to the ground and kicked and stamped on his head. The High Court in Glasgow heard the beating ended only when an eye-witness screamed at him to : "Stop or you'll kill him." Summers, of Queen Street, Kirkintilloch, admitted assaulting Mr Love to the danger of his life. The attack happened after Mr Love objected to a comment made by Summers, after he had been thrown out of the club in Luggiebank Road, Kirkintilloch, for being under the influence of drink and drugs. Vinit Khurana, prosecuting, said: "As a result of the assault Mr Love suffers from dizziness. His wife says he is a different man to what he was before." Judge Lord Bracadale deferred sentence for background reports, and warned him that he faced a custodial sentence when he next appeared.
Smackhead junkie hun David Lyle using the cover of his eight-week-old baby’s pram as a front for his smack dealing. Dressed resplendantly in his new Rankers home jersey and matching baseball cap, Lyle and his junkie hooker girlfriend Sonia McDonald, ply their trade in the streets surrounding Legoland, Broomloan Road, and Paisley Road West. Each time they are approached for a deal, Lyle reaches into the pram, and removes a £10 deal from under the baby’s pillow. Using your new-born baby’s pram as a front for selling smack – does it get any lower ?
Super-Sally McCoist being branded ‘a traitor to the Protestant people’ and ‘a Catholic-loving prick’ when he decided to go on a charitable 24-hour fast to raise funds for SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund). To the knuckledraggers, it doesn’t matter that he was trying to do something good for under-privilaged and poverty-stricken people. All that matters to them, is that the charity he chose, was founded by Catholics. Hate-mongers, poisoned to the core.
Super-Sally McCoist being showered with dog’s abuse for daring to suggest that Watty ‘The Cardigan’ Smith’s finest ever hour as a manager, came when he led Scotland to a 1 – 0 home victory over France in Oct ’06. Permanently-raging huns queued up to rip into the ‘uncle-tom Timmy arse-licker’ for daring to forget that their team were the second team in Scotland to win nine League titles in a row, and were the second team in Scotland to reach the latter stages of The Big Cup. Poor huns – they hate being not talked about – even if the feat in question was being the second team in Scotland to achieve something.
Denigrating Celtic, after the club had sincerely and generously paid for the body of a young Polish woman to be flown back home, after she was murdered in Glasgow. Huns, outraged that a shower of Fenians might actually be seen in a decent light, slated the generosity as a PR stunt. Forgetting for a moment that the family of Anjelika Kluk were unable to afford the cost of doing so, the huns felt it would be better to denigrate Celtic, rather than actually afford them a modicum of respect. Well done huns – just when it was assumed that you couldn’t ever get any lower, you turn the tragic murder, and a subsequent act of genuine human decency, into a cheap point-scoring exercise.
Organising a football fundraiser between FF and the loyalist midden District Bar on Sunday 15th October ’06 to raise as much money as possible. The event included the appearance of spectacularly ugly hun icon Ian Durrant, and a host of other hun hanger’s on. When the final amount was tallied and contributed – was the recipient sick children ? Sick animals ? Cancer relief ? Homeless people ? The poor ? The elderly ? Er, no. The benefactors of FF’s genuine act of generosity and human decency was …………………………………… a loyalist flute band.
Despite numerous warning, appeals, pleas, and begging from The Dark Lord, Gingerbaws, Baldy Bain, Captain Shellsuit, Pepe Le Pew, John 'Thug' Grieg, and a whole host of others - Rankers still having to issue nine banning orders against their own knuckledraggers, as the pleas for an end to anti-Catholic sectarian hatred, merely fell on deaf ears. In a robust statement issued by head nazi, and part-time fan-puncher, Laurence Macintyre, the club praised the grasses who dob-in their fellow huns. Macintyre stated : "I want to acknowledge the co-operation of the supporters that helped us identify those acting inappropriately at the Dunfermline game and commend them for embarking on their own initiatives to eradicate sectarian supporters from within this club. The vast majority now realise the importance of rooting out sectarian behaviour, and that it is essential to pin-point those that continue to embarrass and shame the club. Six fans have been banned from all home and away games following Rankers SPL fixture at Dunfermline earlier this season. The supporters were ejected from East End Park for sectarian chanting. Two fans, aged 22 and 23, have also been banned from all Rankers games following sectarian behaviour at the match against Aberdeen at Ibrox, and have now lost their season tickets. This followed information provided to the Club via the dedicated Hotline at Ibrox and verified by the club using plain clothes stewards. In addition, one supporter was banned from all European away games and the Rankers Travel Club following inappropriate sectarian behaviour at the Molde v Rankers game in September. This fan was reported and identified by fellow supporters and investigated by the club. Rankers no longer issue warnings for sectarian behaviour."
The blatant and repeated boo-ing of French fairy, Lionel Letizi, after he conceded a howler of a goal which saw the Kinning Park bigots humiliated at Legoland by ICT. After the goal, Letizi was boo-ed after his every touch of the ball, and by the entire stadium too – or at least the entirity of those who were still left, after thousands upon thousands of loyal bretheren poured out the exits, in disgust and humiliation.
Having such an appauling record for hooliganism and anti-Catholic sectarian hatred, that in an official Rankers TV interview with midfielder Charlie Adam before the away UEFA cup tie to Livorno, Italy, presenter Alison Douglas had to include the following questions : "Charlie, do you hope the fans travel in numbers and behave themselves ? ..... It'd be a shame for the players if the club was kicked out of Europe because of the fans behaviour wouldn't it ? ..... Do you hope they give the team the right backing with the correct songs ?" Even their own club is pertified of these poison-filled, bigoted, Catholic-hating, venomous, embarassing hatemongers.
Brutal hun thug coward Craig Nimmo being granted bail to go on holiday, before being convicted of the murder of an elderly man, by kicking, punching, and stamping him to death whilst high on drink and drugs. Whilst on holiday in Bulgaria, Nimmo was photographed lounging in the sun, resplendant in the tarnished blue huns’ jersey, and accompanying Union flag. The murdered man, Bryan Drummond, 51, died after the horrific attack in a street in Kilmarnock after being punched and kicked to the ground. Nimmo, and three other thugs then brutally kicked, punched, and stamped on his head and body. Mr Drummond, an innocent passer-by who knew none of his attackers, died after an emergency operation to remove his spleen, which ruptured during the violent unprovoked attack. He had five broken ribs, a punctured lung and severe bruising and bleeding inside the surface of his brain. Doctors described the dead man as ‘resembling a car crash victim’. Cowardly, brutal, hun animals – nothing more, nothing less. Nimmo was subsequently sentenced to nine years for his cowardly violence.
Making up a story about Celtic fans defacing a tribute at Ground Zero, left by Rankers FC. Despite claiming that there was photographic evidence (which there never was), when challenged to produce it, denying that this was ever claimed in the first place. In fact, no tibute was ever placed at Ground Zero by Rankers FC. The entire story was a fabrication in order to use a horrific tragedy – still prominent in people’s minds – to try and besmirch the name of Celtic. When it comes to hating Celtic, there are simply no depths to which these embittered individuals will not stoop to.
Being so loyal and true, that they fling their scarves away after a bad result, before follow-following eachother, permanently raging, out the exits quicker than you can say 'Twelve points ahead before Halloween'. Just a fortnight after the ICT humiliation, and embarrassing images of the Legoland trackside, littered with scores of thrown-away scarves were published, yet another episode in the Rankers soap opera of humiliation was written. As reported by Darrell King in the Evening Times on Monday October 30th 06, : "Jeremy Clement bent down, and picked up one of the Rankers scarves that had been hurled from the East Enclosure, out onto the track, as this 1-1 draw with Motherwell proved the final straw for many enraged punters. The young Frenchman handed it over to one of a small group of fans who had remained in the half-empty stadium, and looked both shocked and bemused by it all. A bit like his manager in fact. Just 12 games into a quite horrific start to his career as Rankers manager, a damning verdict was delivered on Paul Le Guen by some of those who had no doubt danced with joy, when the same man was named in March as the successor to Alex McLeish. Quite astonishing really, given the hype Le Guen generated, that Ibrox was turned into a stadium engulfed in frustration, anger and sheer hostility, that something expected to be so good, could have turned so bad. Now 12 points adrift of Celtic in the SPL, and with just five wins in those dozen league games, Rankers chances of winning the league are gone already. The Parkhead side have such a massive lead that they are playing in a different ball park to the rest and, even if they drop points in the weeks ahead, you wouldn't put a bad penny on Rankers winning the games required to get themselves into any kind of challenging position. What a horror story it has been for the suffering fans who pinned their hopes on Le Guen taking them back to the top. The early fears about his signing policy, the lack of investment in a team that failed so miserably on the home front last season, have come home to roost in spectacular fashion and left Le Guen with the haunted look of a man who has turned up in the wrong movie. The dissection of where it has gone wrong for him has already begun, and we are not even in November. For Rankers to be in such a state is quite disgraceful and everyone from the chairman down to the manager is culpable. Arguments rage that he has underestimated the SPL, and the size of the job he faced. But the answer is quite simple as to why Rankers find themselves in yet another shambolic state - it was also the answer as to why McLeish's reign ended in such a state as well. There are simply too many bad players in this Rankers team. Nine of last season's squad made up the team that couldn't beat Motherwell at the weekend, a statistic that you would have thought inconceivable when predictions were made about the radical surgery Le Guen would perform. He has brought in little quality, his signings are so poor he doesn't even start them, and only one thing will fix Rankers' problems - an injection of new players. This is the worrying thing for the fans as the man at the top, David Murray, insists they will not be net spenders. Just where, then, is the money going to come from to ever get Rankers back into a challenging position in this country ? A possible new owner as the rumours keep suggesting ? Maybe it's time for the chairman to break his silence and tell the lifeblood of the club what is happening ? Le Guen certainly appears to have run out of answers and could hardly find words to explain what had gone wrong again at the weekend. Just days after he had warned his players that a repeat of the first phase of results would be fatal, his team tossed away yet more points, and once more Le Guen watched his team go down a blind alley. There was an alarming lack of creativity in the final third, and Well keeper Colin Meldrum had little to deal with. There is always a look of fragility about this Rankers team, a fact that has been borne out by the amount of times they have thrown away leads this season. Again it happened. Terrible defending from Julien Rodriguez allowed Scott McDonald to turn the defender and set-up Brian Kerr, the midfielder's low shot skimming through Steven Smith's legs past Lionel Letizi into the net. Rankers were devoid of all ideas and the tension in the stands only grew. In saying that, they could have had a penalty in the 81st minute when sub Filip Sebo looked to be tripped in the box by Keith Lasley. It was, however, no major surprise that Charlie Richmond never awarded it as he is a quite awful referee and that call was in keeping with an astonishingly inept display from a so-called SFA rising star. That scandalous piece of refereeing only increased the fans' ire but, deep deep down, they knew the hopeless ref is not the cause of Rankers' problems."
Denigrating club spokesman and former hero Sandy Jardine because he dared to adhere to the express wishes of the Shearer family, after the death of the former Rankers captain Bobby Shearer. The Shearer family made it known they wished the club to hold a minute's-applause tribute in honour of him. Unfortunately for the bereaved, the FF'rs had other ideas, and mounted a sustained campaign of abuse and intimidation in order that THEIR wishes for a minute's-silence be given precedence, believing that a minute's-silence was more befitting of their loyal Orange Protestant traditions. Jardine was dismissed as ‘a Murray poodle ….. a lying spineless bastard ….. having no place at Ibrox ….. a bare-faced liar, who manipulated the Shearer family ..... shameful ….. disgraceful ….. unforgiveable ….. toeing the company line as dictated by Murray’. Didn't matter what the family wanted, nor that the memory of a former great would be sullied, nor that a serving club idol would have his character besmirched - just as long as the bigots got their own sectarian way. In the end up, the permanently raging loyalists never got their way - and were physically attacked by their fellow bretheren, as they later mounted a 'Murray out' campaign on Edmiston Drive, after the same game.
Attacking eachother outside the front door on Edmiston Drive, after Le Goon’s shambolic start to the season saw permanently raging Follow-Followers gathering in protest, and hurling rabid hate-filled abuse at those inside. The protesters were abused and attacked by the Murrayites and Uberfans – themselves permanently raging at protesting ‘not being the Rankers way’ – who waded in, calling the FF’rs ‘part-time supporters ….. Fenian bastards ….. glory-hunters ….. and traitors’. As reported live on Radio Snyde, and Radio Scotland, violence ensued as around 1000 Murrayites, spotting the permanently raging FF's and started chanting 'There’s only one David Murray' - 'You can stick yer Follow Follow up yer arse' and 'Fuck yer Follow Follow' before wading into them, and ripping down their ‘Murray Out’ banner. Other FF’rs needed police protection, as Strathclyde’s finest were forced to intervene and save them from taking further beatings. At the same time, much cyber-brawling ensued as the story broke back on FF, where those reporting the violence outside Ibrox were abused and threatened by the ostriches and propagandists, who tried to deny any such fighting, protesting, and thuggery was ever taking place. Meanwhile live on radio, the FF’rs were roundly condemned by former hun idol Derek Johnstone, who slated ‘the Follow Follow brigade’ as ‘shocking’ and ‘a disgrace’ for denigrating ‘a man who has done so much for the club’. Meanwhile over on SatanTV, another club idol – SuperSally McCoist – laid into the protesters, calling them ‘laughable’, for criticising Murray, whom he described as ‘the best thing to happen to Rankers in years’. As FF head knuckledragger Mark Dungball himself later commented, on the shameful scenes, and the lack of condemnation from the official Rankers site on the matter : “Sad day when the official site does a report with no condemnation of violence. Perhaps by Monday they will clarify if they think it's acceptable to kick, punch, spit and threaten ?"
Threatening to slash Ibrox pitch protestor Sean Gallagher after a gang of four rabid huns turned up at his home and confronted his elderly father. Gallagher ran onto the pitch at The Death Star during the Rankers v Macabi Haifa game, draped in a Palestinian flag, and wearing a t-shirt with an image of the Pope on it. From an interview given in hiding after he was forced to flee his home in Woodlands, Glasgow, Gallagher revealed : "I'm a dead man walking. These folk told my dad they were going to slice my face open, from ear to ear. They were disgruntled Rankers fans - nothing but bigots. I was expecting some kind of a backlash, but not this bitter. These people are clearly baying for my blood. They blagged their way into our block of flats at around 1:30am by pretending to be a pizza delivery. They then started screaming my name, and shouting sectarian hate and abuse. When my dad went out to confront them, the ringleader came up to him - asking for me - and told him that I would be getting a 'Chelsea Smile - slang for having my throat cut from ear to ear. Meanwhile, my mum had dialled 999, but the thugs fled before the police arrived. My protest wasn't football-related. It was political. I wanted to highlight the occupation of Palestine, as well as religious prejudice and bigotry. Now I am a dead man walking."
Sending death threats to actor & TV presenter Danny Dyer after he touched a nerve whilst unearthing them as the bigots they are, whilst filming ‘The Real Football Factories’ at Legoland. Dyer sat in the Celtic end, and watched The Hoops triumph over The Forces Of Darkness, before commenting on the bitterness of the huns, and how palpable their hate and aggression was. Seemed not everyone appreciated his honesty, as he later revealed in an interview with FHM magazine. Dyer stated : "I’m getting death threats from a few Rankers fans at the moment. It's a cagey f**kin' subject. I did it, even though my agent didn't want me to do it, but I thought, 'I'll be fine' - you know because of ''The Football Factory and all that. Now I'm not so sure it was the wisest choice I've ever made. They’re not happy f**kin’ bunnies."
Having their hooligan reprobates hurl a hail of missiles at Hearts keeper Craig Gordon during a tempestuous match at Swinecastle in Nov '06. Among the missiles that Gordon had to clear from his goalmouth area were two bottles, a half-full soft drinks can, a Capri Sun drinks pouch, a number of pies, numerous coins, and at least two cups of Bovril, which were full of boiling hot liquid when thrown. The hooliganism was included in the referee's match report, after he was made aware of them by the assistant referee, who also informed the trackside police of them.
FF being slated in The Rankers News for their rabble-rousing on Edmiston Drive, which saw the permanently ragers going toe-to-toe with the Murrayites and UberFans. Murray's propagadist weekly dismissed the FF'rs as : 'people more interested in their own self importance and their own opinions' ..... 'often ridiculed by the main body of the support' ..... asking, 'who exactly elected them to speak on behalf of the majority ?'
Being slated by the influential VitalFootball.co.uk website for their putrid bigotry, racism, sectarianism, and downright hooliganism. In a scathing article entitled 'Rankers Away Support - Disgrace', penned after the Hearts v Rankers clash in Nov '06, the huns were slated for their bigotry and inability to drag themselves into the 21st Century. The article, written by an independant observer, stated : 'It's doubtful if more than a single song from their end of the ground, didn't involve something that could be construed as bigoted. In other words, it was business as usual when Rankers are in town. Barely a minute went by without hearing references to the Pope, Irish politics and wars from more than 300 years ago. Where is the relevance ?! To add to the normal repertoire of battle hymns from the blue hordes, we were also treated to the occasional Nazi salute. They also took a particular liking to Hearts' substitute Jose Goncalves, who was given the monkey noise treatment when he touched the ball near the corner flag at the Rankers end. Craig Gordon seems to have some fans from Ibrox too, as we saw when a couple of missiles were aimed at him midway through the second half. Perhaps this is their way of encouraging Craig to sign for Celtic at the end of the season ! I'm no lover of the PC brigade, but this sort of stuff is sickening and should have no place in society, let alone football. Rankers should have the book thrown at them if they're not prepared to take serious action to eradicate this sort of sectarian thuggishness. But they won't - we just know they won't. They've been getting away with it for years and will probably do so forever more. There's no way that Rankers will start banning their fans in bulk for singing sectarian songs. It just wouldn't make financial sense for them to do so - there are thousands of people singing these songs every week, not just a handful of 30 or 40. Don't let anyone kid you otherwise. It's just a shame that other clubs in Scotland do not have the same sort of huge fanbase and power as Rankers, whose away support have a problem that they are perenially in denial about. If that was the case then they could just ban these cretins from even coming to their grounds, which would make the afternoon infinitely more enjoyable for those of us who just want to watch the football. As we walked back to the car today after the match, we were given some abuse from a couple of Burberry-clad Rankers-supporting neds, who decided that we were 'Embra jakies'. They were urinating into someone's front garden in the Murrayfield area at the time. Just about says it all doesn't it ?'
Having an entire Suppoters’ Club banned from attending matches, after being found guilty of sectarian singing, and impeding an inquiry into the missile-throwing that marred the game v Hearts in Nov ‘06, in which a number of missiles were thrown at The Bestest Keeper In The Entire Universe Ever, Craig Gordon. Announcing the ban, Huns’ security chief Lawrence MacIntyre stated : "Supporters' clubs must realise that they will be held responsible for the behaviour of those occupying their allocated seats on match days. Objects were thrown on to the pitch during last month's game with Hearts. The club in question – the East Kilbride RSC - received only three tickets for the match but claimed they did not know who had used them. This obstructed our inquiries and prevented us from reaching the actual person or persons involved in this incident. We were also made aware of sectarian singing in the same seating area and, as a result of this, and the missile throwing incident, the registration of that supporters' club has been suspended. This means their registration has been cancelled and they will not be allocated tickets for any matches. The individual who accepted the tickets on behalf of the supporters club has also been banned from attending fixtures."
In a FF thread entitled : Broken Leg for Balde, in Dec '06, during the season of goodwill, posting the following comments : "Nae luck, ya f****** animal; Time for the vet to look out the 'humane' killer, it's what they do for other animals; Good to see a bit of payback; What chance a double with Gerry 'Tick Tock' McNee ?; Wonder how much it hurts - plenty, I hope; I very rarely cherish a footballer getting a serious injury but for Balde I will make an excpetion; Excellent news all round; Hope he never kicks another football again; GIRFUY ya scummy b******; I'd hate to laugh, but I'm gonna - Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha; Not nice to see a player suffer a serious injury but this thug deserves everything he gets; Nice to hear. Here's hoping the rest get their comeuppance shortly too; Get it right f****** up you, Balde; No sympathy. Hope it never heals, and causes him problems for ever more; At this time of year, I'd like to wish goodwill to all men - except you, you f****** c***; Hope it heals quickly. Then you fall and break it again ya big f****** wanker; Couldnt have happened to a nicer person. My only regret was that no-one had the pleasure of breaking it for him; hahhahahahahahah; Why couldnt he have done the two ?; F*** him WATP; I would lkike to wish Mr Balde a long, slow, and painful recovery; Nice late Christmas present for the f****** animal; Here's to hoping he'll break both elbows whilst hobbling around on his stookie; Boo F****** Hoo. Couldn't care less for the dirty bhastard. All this (and much more) from the same scum who have been bleating for twenty years about the reaction of Aberdeen fans, to Ian Durrant's knee injury. Hypocrite scum.
Hurling abuse at Bleu Le Goon as he stepped off the team bus at Fir Park on 2nd Jan ’07, after he had stripped The Shellsuit of the team Captaincy, and dropped him for the game v Murderwell. Le Goon was seen live on Satan TV being showered with hate-filled abuse, and being called ‘a fucking useless French bastard’ amongst other assorted expletives. The scenes of abuse, for those who would later attempt to deny their occurrence, were corroberated by both Richard Gordon and Chick Young on BBC Radio SportSound, and on Radio Snyde by match pundit for the day, Hugh Keevins, and guest panelist, Darryl King.
Giving Chris Burke dog's abuse during the Le Guen / Ferguson row game at Fir Park v Murderwell. Burke, who was amidst a wage row with the club was showered with a litany of hateful sectarian abuse from his own fans, which included him being called : "a useless fucking lazy Fenian bastard" as well as being referred to as : " a fucking waste of space" and "a fucking waste of twelve grand a week". With friends like that, who needs enemies ?!
Violent crazed hun knife thug James Smith being convicted of stabbing a complete stranger in an unprovoked attack, outside the notorious Loyalist hun bigot-hole, the District Bar, on Paisley Road West after a Rankers home match. A jury found Smith guilty of repeatedly striking John Ivory with a knife, to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement, after he was stabbed repeatedly with an eight-inch blade, in the abdomen and chest. At the time of the vicious assault, hun reprobate Smith - who had earlier in the day attended a Rankers v Aberdeen match - was on license from a previous prison sentence for violence and armed robbery. At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Hodge ordered that Smith be detained for a further five years - after he had finished serving the other 256 days of his previous sentence. One less drunken hate-filled hun psychopath inside The Death Star.
One of their criminal hun reprobates – there were more than a few of them - being filmed during a BBC documentary (Boys Behind Bars), being released after 18 months imprisonment, dressed resplendently in his tarnished blue jersey, complete with accompanying ‘Mad Squad No 1’ shirt printing on the back. Beforehand, the same knuckledragger was filmed in his cell at Polmont Young Offender’s Institution, the walls of which were adorned with images and posters of Kinning Park FC, and their over-rated, under-achieving, duffers. During an interview to camera, broadcast in February 2007, the hun was filmed bragging : “If any
in here slashed me, I’d boil a kettle, and throw the scalding water into his face. Then I’d stab the life out of him. I’d gladly take the 15 or 20 years for it.” The same nugget was later sacked from his job at the prison hotplate, for supplying and distributing heroin to other inmates in two of the prison’s halls, and was seen goading on other inmates as a ten-man brawl erupted with pool balls and pool cues being used as weapons. Nice to know that Dignity FC can be assured of the loyal support of deranged, violent, drug-dealing, criminal, sociopath ex-cons. Is it any wonder the rest of the planet lives in fear of a visit from Rankers FC ?!
Showing their race-hate, in the ugliest, most loathsome way possible, by making Nazi salutes – shown live on BBC television - at an away tie against Hapoel Tel Aviv in February ‘07. Nazi salutes - in Israel, of all places. Their ignoarance and loathing knows no bounds. True to form, their onfield icons were gubbed 2-1 by a team of unknowns, ranked 73rd in Europe. The huns were later branded ‘ignorant and uneducated idiots’ by the very Loyalists they hero-worship, who slated them on Loyalist FM, with the following diatribe : “The ignorant and uneducated fans who continue to taint the name of Rankers by carrying out Nazi Salutes should be ashamed of themselves. The 'Red Hand Salute' is non existent. It is merely a symbol which fans embarrassingly hide behind to condone the support of Neo-Nazis. It's time to face facts – the Rankers support need to rid themselves of this disgusting salute. Why, within Britain’s shores are they saluting and displaying support for one of the most evil dictatorships in world history ? It's time to educate the uneducated, and make it clear to the idiots that this mythical 'Red Hand Salute' does not exist. Tell them to ask an Ulsterman about a ‘Red Hand Salute’ – they won’t know anything about it, because frankly, there isn’t one. Tell them to go along to a memorial service in November and to give their ‘Red Hand Salute’ at the Cenotaph. Let them explain then, that its not a Nazi Salute.”
Racially abusing Shunsuke Nakamura during a game at Celtic park in March ’07, and taunting him with aeroplane gestures about Hiroshima. During the same match, the huns’ repertoire of sectarian bigotry plumbed new depths, and not a single hate anthem was left out. The fact that the game was attended by a series of dignataries, from the clergy (who were prevented by Rankers FC from attending the previous match at The Death Star), and the Scottish Office, seems to have brought out the absolute worst in the sectarian reprobates, and everyone – including Jack MacConnell’s ‘whore’ wife, The Pope, Gordon Strachan, Neil Lennon, Aiden McGeady, the Catholic Church ……….. ad nauseum – were bitterly abused.
Brawling inside the Reyno de Navarra stadium in Pamplona, after being horsed out of the UEFA Cup by Osasuna. Permanently raging huns had to be battered senseless by Spanish riot police, in order to prevent them from attacking rival fans, whom they routinely abused with their dreary repertoire of drunken, anti-Catholic, sectarian intolerance and hate. As not-so-widely reported by a huge section of the Scottish pro-Rankers media, hooligan huns – many of whom were photographed flying a huge hooligan-ICF butcher’s apron – spent the entire match spouting bigotry and hate. One of the few to have the courage to actually report the facts, was surprisingly, James Traynor from the Daily Ranger, who noted : "Let's be brutally honest about this. The truth is Rankers' problems are a lot worse than anyone imagined. They returned from Pamplona with additional evidence that they are in danger of being condemned because of the bad and the ugly. Some of the things which took place in Osasuna's ground on Wednesday night were dreadful and horrible to witness. The behaviour was dredged from a dark and murky past. It was almost primordial. Somehow, Rankers must get rid of those fans, who continue to disgrace them, especially in away matches. Rankers continue to work on this problem, but there are many who refuse to heed the messages and warnings. These people will not give up their prejudices and insist on nurturing their compulsive hatred of Catholicism. It is difficult to know exactly what to do about this, and the majority will continue to suffer because of the actions of the minority - just as they did in Pamplona. But there were too many others who shamed Rankers. It is downright stupid, and frankly insulting to suggest that these fans did not sing about being up to their 'knees in Fenian blood,' or delight in screaming 'F*** The Pope'. They were right there in front of me and their sustained verbal abuse delivered with eye-popping, vein-bulging venom was a reminder of how much more has to be done in the fight against bigotry. Rankers know they have this problem, the chief executive Martin Bain is aware of it and must despair at times. Same with head of security Laurence McIntyre. Yet judging by the response yesterday, there are an awful lot of Rankers fans out there, who refuse to believe that many among them, still indulge, and that doesn't help. Somehow, it appears I am the vile person for having witnessed it at close quarters and apparently I shouldn't have used the figure of speech that this kind of person probably deserves a good hiding rather than the innocents who were beaten up by riot cops. So, what should we do ? Say ‘ignore them and they'll go away’ ? They haven't yet. Besides, it is hard to ignore people when they are only a few feet away and determined to make sure you get some kind of twisted message. Remember also that there are some who will not open their minds. There are some who quite simply are not decent and the good and allow anything I say to be twisted by idiots on websites. The vast majority have to stand apart from the morons hiding among them and please, do not ask me to apologise to the people who made such a point of demonstrating their hatred close up and personal the other night. It's almost as though they are raging at the dying of their light, but maybe the more they are exposed, the quicker their hatred will be extinguished."
Sending death threats to actor & TV presenter Danny Dyer after he touched a nerve whilst unearthing them as the bigots they are, whilst filming ‘The Real Football Factories’ at Legoland. Dyer sat in the Celtic end, and watched The Hoops triumph over The Forces Of Darkness, before commenting on the bitterness of the huns, and how palpable their hate and aggression was. Seemed not everyone appreciated his honesty, as he later revealed in an interview with FHM magazine. Dyer stated : "I’m getting death threats from a few Rankers fans at the moment. It's a cagey f**kin' subject. I did it, even though my agent didn't want me to do it, but I thought, 'I'll be fine' - you know because of ''The Football Factory and all that. Now I'm not so sure it was the wisest choice I've ever made. They’re not happy f**kin’ bunnies."
Having their hooligan reprobates hurl a hail of missiles at Hearts keeper Craig Gordon during a tempestuous match at Swinecastle in Nov '06. Among the missiles that Gordon had to clear from his goalmouth area were two bottles, a half-full soft drinks can, a Capri Sun drinks pouch, a number of pies, numerous coins, and at least two cups of Bovril, which were full of boiling hot liquid when thrown. The hooliganism was included in the referee's match report, after he was made aware of them by the assistant referee, who also informed the trackside police of them.
FF being slated in The Rankers News for their rabble-rousing on Edmiston Drive, which saw the permanently ragers going toe-to-toe with the Murrayites and UberFans. Murray's propagadist weekly dismissed the FF'rs as : 'people more interested in their own self importance and their own opinions' ..... 'often ridiculed by the main body of the support' ..... asking, 'who exactly elected them to speak on behalf of the majority ?'
Being slated by the influential VitalFootball.co.uk website for their putrid bigotry, racism, sectarianism, and downright hooliganism. In a scathing article entitled 'Rankers Away Support - Disgrace', penned after the Hearts v Rankers clash in Nov '06, the huns were slated for their bigotry and inability to drag themselves into the 21st Century. The article, written by an independant observer, stated : 'It's doubtful if more than a single song from their end of the ground, didn't involve something that could be construed as bigoted. In other words, it was business as usual when Rankers are in town. Barely a minute went by without hearing references to the Pope, Irish politics and wars from more than 300 years ago. Where is the relevance ?! To add to the normal repertoire of battle hymns from the blue hordes, we were also treated to the occasional Nazi salute. They also took a particular liking to Hearts' substitute Jose Goncalves, who was given the monkey noise treatment when he touched the ball near the corner flag at the Rankers end. Craig Gordon seems to have some fans from Ibrox too, as we saw when a couple of missiles were aimed at him midway through the second half. Perhaps this is their way of encouraging Craig to sign for Celtic at the end of the season ! I'm no lover of the PC brigade, but this sort of stuff is sickening and should have no place in society, let alone football. Rankers should have the book thrown at them if they're not prepared to take serious action to eradicate this sort of sectarian thuggishness. But they won't - we just know they won't. They've been getting away with it for years and will probably do so forever more. There's no way that Rankers will start banning their fans in bulk for singing sectarian songs. It just wouldn't make financial sense for them to do so - there are thousands of people singing these songs every week, not just a handful of 30 or 40. Don't let anyone kid you otherwise. It's just a shame that other clubs in Scotland do not have the same sort of huge fanbase and power as Rankers, whose away support have a problem that they are perenially in denial about. If that was the case then they could just ban these cretins from even coming to their grounds, which would make the afternoon infinitely more enjoyable for those of us who just want to watch the football. As we walked back to the car today after the match, we were given some abuse from a couple of Burberry-clad Rankers-supporting neds, who decided that we were 'Embra jakies'. They were urinating into someone's front garden in the Murrayfield area at the time. Just about says it all doesn't it ?'
Having an entire Suppoters’ Club banned from attending matches, after being found guilty of sectarian singing, and impeding an inquiry into the missile-throwing that marred the game v Hearts in Nov ‘06, in which a number of missiles were thrown at The Bestest Keeper In The Entire Universe Ever, Craig Gordon. Announcing the ban, Huns’ security chief Lawrence MacIntyre stated : "Supporters' clubs must realise that they will be held responsible for the behaviour of those occupying their allocated seats on match days. Objects were thrown on to the pitch during last month's game with Hearts. The club in question – the East Kilbride RSC - received only three tickets for the match but claimed they did not know who had used them. This obstructed our inquiries and prevented us from reaching the actual person or persons involved in this incident. We were also made aware of sectarian singing in the same seating area and, as a result of this, and the missile throwing incident, the registration of that supporters' club has been suspended. This means their registration has been cancelled and they will not be allocated tickets for any matches. The individual who accepted the tickets on behalf of the supporters club has also been banned from attending fixtures."
In a FF thread entitled : Broken Leg for Balde, in Dec '06, during the season of goodwill, posting the following comments : "Nae luck, ya f****** animal; Time for the vet to look out the 'humane' killer, it's what they do for other animals; Good to see a bit of payback; What chance a double with Gerry 'Tick Tock' McNee ?; Wonder how much it hurts - plenty, I hope; I very rarely cherish a footballer getting a serious injury but for Balde I will make an excpetion; Excellent news all round; Hope he never kicks another football again; GIRFUY ya scummy b******; I'd hate to laugh, but I'm gonna - Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha; Not nice to see a player suffer a serious injury but this thug deserves everything he gets; Nice to hear. Here's hoping the rest get their comeuppance shortly too; Get it right f****** up you, Balde; No sympathy. Hope it never heals, and causes him problems for ever more; At this time of year, I'd like to wish goodwill to all men - except you, you f****** c***; Hope it heals quickly. Then you fall and break it again ya big f****** wanker; Couldnt have happened to a nicer person. My only regret was that no-one had the pleasure of breaking it for him; hahhahahahahahah; Why couldnt he have done the two ?; F*** him WATP; I would lkike to wish Mr Balde a long, slow, and painful recovery; Nice late Christmas present for the f****** animal; Here's to hoping he'll break both elbows whilst hobbling around on his stookie; Boo F****** Hoo. Couldn't care less for the dirty bhastard. All this (and much more) from the same scum who have been bleating for twenty years about the reaction of Aberdeen fans, to Ian Durrant's knee injury. Hypocrite scum.
Hurling abuse at Bleu Le Goon as he stepped off the team bus at Fir Park on 2nd Jan ’07, after he had stripped The Shellsuit of the team Captaincy, and dropped him for the game v Murderwell. Le Goon was seen live on Satan TV being showered with hate-filled abuse, and being called ‘a fucking useless French bastard’ amongst other assorted expletives. The scenes of abuse, for those who would later attempt to deny their occurrence, were corroberated by both Richard Gordon and Chick Young on BBC Radio SportSound, and on Radio Snyde by match pundit for the day, Hugh Keevins, and guest panelist, Darryl King.
Giving Chris Burke dog's abuse during the Le Guen / Ferguson row game at Fir Park v Murderwell. Burke, who was amidst a wage row with the club was showered with a litany of hateful sectarian abuse from his own fans, which included him being called : "a useless fucking lazy Fenian bastard" as well as being referred to as : " a fucking waste of space" and "a fucking waste of twelve grand a week". With friends like that, who needs enemies ?!
Violent crazed hun knife thug James Smith being convicted of stabbing a complete stranger in an unprovoked attack, outside the notorious Loyalist hun bigot-hole, the District Bar, on Paisley Road West after a Rankers home match. A jury found Smith guilty of repeatedly striking John Ivory with a knife, to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement, after he was stabbed repeatedly with an eight-inch blade, in the abdomen and chest. At the time of the vicious assault, hun reprobate Smith - who had earlier in the day attended a Rankers v Aberdeen match - was on license from a previous prison sentence for violence and armed robbery. At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Hodge ordered that Smith be detained for a further five years - after he had finished serving the other 256 days of his previous sentence. One less drunken hate-filled hun psychopath inside The Death Star.
One of their criminal hun reprobates – there were more than a few of them - being filmed during a BBC documentary (Boys Behind Bars), being released after 18 months imprisonment, dressed resplendently in his tarnished blue jersey, complete with accompanying ‘Mad Squad No 1’ shirt printing on the back. Beforehand, the same knuckledragger was filmed in his cell at Polmont Young Offender’s Institution, the walls of which were adorned with images and posters of Kinning Park FC, and their over-rated, under-achieving, duffers. During an interview to camera, broadcast in February 2007, the hun was filmed bragging : “If any
in here slashed me, I’d boil a kettle, and throw the scalding water into his face. Then I’d stab the life out of him. I’d gladly take the 15 or 20 years for it.” The same nugget was later sacked from his job at the prison hotplate, for supplying and distributing heroin to other inmates in two of the prison’s halls, and was seen goading on other inmates as a ten-man brawl erupted with pool balls and pool cues being used as weapons. Nice to know that Dignity FC can be assured of the loyal support of deranged, violent, drug-dealing, criminal, sociopath ex-cons. Is it any wonder the rest of the planet lives in fear of a visit from Rankers FC ?! Showing their race-hate, in the ugliest, most loathsome way possible, by making Nazi salutes – shown live on BBC television - at an away tie against Hapoel Tel Aviv in February ‘07. Nazi salutes - in Israel, of all places. Their ignoarance and loathing knows no bounds. True to form, their onfield icons were gubbed 2-1 by a team of unknowns, ranked 73rd in Europe. The huns were later branded ‘ignorant and uneducated idiots’ by the very Loyalists they hero-worship, who slated them on Loyalist FM, with the following diatribe : “The ignorant and uneducated fans who continue to taint the name of Rankers by carrying out Nazi Salutes should be ashamed of themselves. The 'Red Hand Salute' is non existent. It is merely a symbol which fans embarrassingly hide behind to condone the support of Neo-Nazis. It's time to face facts – the Rankers support need to rid themselves of this disgusting salute. Why, within Britain’s shores are they saluting and displaying support for one of the most evil dictatorships in world history ? It's time to educate the uneducated, and make it clear to the idiots that this mythical 'Red Hand Salute' does not exist. Tell them to ask an Ulsterman about a ‘Red Hand Salute’ – they won’t know anything about it, because frankly, there isn’t one. Tell them to go along to a memorial service in November and to give their ‘Red Hand Salute’ at the Cenotaph. Let them explain then, that its not a Nazi Salute.”
Racially abusing Shunsuke Nakamura during a game at Celtic park in March ’07, and taunting him with aeroplane gestures about Hiroshima. During the same match, the huns’ repertoire of sectarian bigotry plumbed new depths, and not a single hate anthem was left out. The fact that the game was attended by a series of dignataries, from the clergy (who were prevented by Rankers FC from attending the previous match at The Death Star), and the Scottish Office, seems to have brought out the absolute worst in the sectarian reprobates, and everyone – including Jack MacConnell’s ‘whore’ wife, The Pope, Gordon Strachan, Neil Lennon, Aiden McGeady, the Catholic Church ……….. ad nauseum – were bitterly abused.
Brawling inside the Reyno de Navarra stadium in Pamplona, after being horsed out of the UEFA Cup by Osasuna. Permanently raging huns had to be battered senseless by Spanish riot police, in order to prevent them from attacking rival fans, whom they routinely abused with their dreary repertoire of drunken, anti-Catholic, sectarian intolerance and hate. As not-so-widely reported by a huge section of the Scottish pro-Rankers media, hooligan huns – many of whom were photographed flying a huge hooligan-ICF butcher’s apron – spent the entire match spouting bigotry and hate. One of the few to have the courage to actually report the facts, was surprisingly, James Traynor from the Daily Ranger, who noted : "Let's be brutally honest about this. The truth is Rankers' problems are a lot worse than anyone imagined. They returned from Pamplona with additional evidence that they are in danger of being condemned because of the bad and the ugly. Some of the things which took place in Osasuna's ground on Wednesday night were dreadful and horrible to witness. The behaviour was dredged from a dark and murky past. It was almost primordial. Somehow, Rankers must get rid of those fans, who continue to disgrace them, especially in away matches. Rankers continue to work on this problem, but there are many who refuse to heed the messages and warnings. These people will not give up their prejudices and insist on nurturing their compulsive hatred of Catholicism. It is difficult to know exactly what to do about this, and the majority will continue to suffer because of the actions of the minority - just as they did in Pamplona. But there were too many others who shamed Rankers. It is downright stupid, and frankly insulting to suggest that these fans did not sing about being up to their 'knees in Fenian blood,' or delight in screaming 'F*** The Pope'. They were right there in front of me and their sustained verbal abuse delivered with eye-popping, vein-bulging venom was a reminder of how much more has to be done in the fight against bigotry. Rankers know they have this problem, the chief executive Martin Bain is aware of it and must despair at times. Same with head of security Laurence McIntyre. Yet judging by the response yesterday, there are an awful lot of Rankers fans out there, who refuse to believe that many among them, still indulge, and that doesn't help. Somehow, it appears I am the vile person for having witnessed it at close quarters and apparently I shouldn't have used the figure of speech that this kind of person probably deserves a good hiding rather than the innocents who were beaten up by riot cops. So, what should we do ? Say ‘ignore them and they'll go away’ ? They haven't yet. Besides, it is hard to ignore people when they are only a few feet away and determined to make sure you get some kind of twisted message. Remember also that there are some who will not open their minds. There are some who quite simply are not decent and the good and allow anything I say to be twisted by idiots on websites. The vast majority have to stand apart from the morons hiding among them and please, do not ask me to apologise to the people who made such a point of demonstrating their hatred close up and personal the other night. It's almost as though they are raging at the dying of their light, but maybe the more they are exposed, the quicker their hatred will be extinguished."
The bigoted knuckledragging hun sociopaths who follow the huns, being slated by James Traynor, for their shameful sectarian hooliganism in Pamplona, during a UEFA Cup tie with Osasuna. In a scathing article, which also hit out at the jackbooted Fascists who run the club's bigoted mouthpiece web forums, Traynor - in a uniquely honest article, which for once, had the courage to state what has went unsaid by the Scottish media for decades - pulled no punches when he said : "Nothing has changed regarding those Rankers fans who opened their mouths wide and made sure their sectarian views could be heard. Many of my colleagues chose to ignore them but when the offence is being committed only a few feet away and when a great deal of it is directed at you it is difficult to ignore. It was these hate-filled people I was referring to when, in my match report, I wrote that there were some fans who deserved a good hiding. A figure of speech to convey the message that some people were indulging in behaviour which really should shame and embarrass decent people. Yet, on the sort of websites which often abuse one of our basic human rights, free speech, it appears that I have said Rankers fans deserve a good hiding. That was not at all I said, but even if the police had rounded on those so-called fans who are up to their knees in nothing other than vile sectarianism they would right now probably be showing off their bruises as badges of honour. The logic of some of the people in that corner of Pamplona last Wednesday was twisted and when they are up close and personal it is difficult to understand what might be done to help them see that they are offending and damaging their club and this country. Rankers have said repeatedly that they do not want such people following them. The club have pleaded with them to show sense and stop adding and inserting offensive lines to their songs, but they seem determined to have their say even if it means Rankers will continue to be targeted by UEFA. You know, I worry they might be aiming for a major ban so they can say they've finally been given wider recognition. It seems the more they are condemned for their behaviour, the louder they become, as if raging against the dying of their light. Just when Rankers' owner David Murray, chief executive Martin Bain, and head of security Laurence MacIntyre think the atmosphere might be clearing it is polluted by another shocking outburst from the "FTP brigade". We keep hearing it is only a small minority and that the majority also want these people silenced - yet since Wednesday night I have not heard a single Rankers fan say that what they heard in Pamplona was unacceptable. Instead, they have been quick to twist what I wrote and that is worrying. Why this refusal to say,"Yes, I heard it and it was shameful ?" Your silence on this issue is not helping your club and instead of trying to distort what was actually written to make it appear as though I am in favour of Rankers' fans being given a beating, you should be screaming at UEFA, who can only investigate if they receive complaints. It is time to face up to the truth. There is an unwanted element among Rankers' support. The vast majority are disgusted by this behaviour and that message has to be relayed. Someone who had been in Osasuna's ground recorded the "FTP brigade" in action and posted it on YouTube for all to witness. Rankers fans really need to stand against these clowns and not let the few taint the many any longer. Shout as loudly as you can and make sure these vile chants are drowned out. If enough of you have the will to do it then the cretins who are in danger of dragging Rankers down will shut up but if they are allowed to behave as they did last midweek a ban will be imposed. Don't let this happen. Don't let the diseased views on websites sway you. Stay strong on this issue. Let decency win the day."
Calling former icon, Artur Numan ‘a turncoat Timmy arse-licker’ and ‘a Judas publicity-seeking c*nt’ after he unselfishly donated £10,000 to a charity, championed by a former Celtic player. The commendable gesture was made after Numan and others participated in the Jimmy Johnstone Classic at Mearns Castle Golf Club, inaugurated in memory of the man who brought so much joy to lovers of the beautiful game, worldwide. Joy that is, unless you’re an embittered venomous hun, who can’t see past the end of your poison-filled, bigoted blue nose.
Spitting in the face of Davie provan, and sectarianly abusing him, after he chose to sign for Celtic rather than Rankers. As revealed in the book 'It's Rankers For Me' (Perspectives On A Scottish Institution : Fort Publishing), Provan revealed : "Although I played most of my career for Celtic, I came from a typical west-of-Scotland Rankers family. When I first heard Celtic were interested in me I was surprised, not because of my background but because a club like Celtic would consider signing me. There were other players from a Rankers background at Celtic such as Danny McGrain and Tom McAdam while Murdo MacLeod signed about eight weeks after me. The Celtic fans took to me right away, but I got a bit of stick from some people in Gourock, not friends but acquaintances who would give me the usual “turncoat” stuff. And it became apparent very early on that hassle was part of the deal. In a Glasgow pub one night a guy called me a turncoat then spat in my face. Most of the nasty element was verbal, usually after some punter had too much to drink. The biggest problem is the intelligent, professional, middle-class bigots. You can understand the knuckleheads who don’t know any better but if you have an intelligent man who can’t open his mind and see the stupidity in it all, then Scottish society is going to have a problem for a long time. The Rankers thing is gone for me. There is no part of me now that wishes I had played at Ibrox. It was my up-bringing and it was ingrained into me but I wouldn’t swap my Celtic career for anything. The irony is, between signing for Celtic in 1978 and 1986, when I played my last game for the club, Rankers didn’t win the title. I won four championship medals and Rankers were never at the races. Who knows what would have happened if I had signed for Rankers but I don’t have an ounce of regret, none whatsoever."
Having to close their own official stadium bar – Bar 72 - after a Celtic v Rankers game, due to drunken huns ignoring repeated pleas, to refrain from sectarian singing. The drunken bigots were season-ticket holders, watching a beamback of the game from Celtic Park on Sunday, March 11th 2007. As the knuckledraggers got more and more drunk, their simmering bigotry kicked in, and the hatred spewed forth, until those in charge could take no more. Time was called, the shutters drawn, and the drunken Catholic-haters turfed out onto the streets of Kinning Park, to carry on their bigotry elsewhere.
Sectarian hun hooligan Elliott Macrae being banned for life from following the huns after being caught on a European away game flight from Spain with a Nazi swastika flag. Macrae, 31, a furniture shop worker from Tullibody near Stirling, a leading figure in the hooligan hun joke mob, the ICF - also know as the Ice Cream Firm - was first banned in 1999 after being arrested for hooligan violence in 1999 after a full scale riot between the huns, and casuals from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven.
Sectarian hun hooligan Barrie Donnelly being banned for life from following the huns after being shown on website YouTube chanting sectarian songs during a UEFA Cup tie in Pamplona. Skinhead thug Donnelly 30, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, was previously banned indefinitely from following the huns, after being arrested for rioting in Holland, after a mass brawl between drunken hooligan huns, and casuals from PSV Einhoven in 1999. The following year, he was banned for life, after violence flared during a match v Sturm Graz at Legoland. Donnelly was also involved in serious brawling, after a UEFA Cup away tie to Paris St Germain was marred by violence in 2001. He was also part of the hooligan hun joke mob, who caused the kick-off of a match at Pittodrie in January 2002 to be delayed due to crowd trouble. A few months later, he was arrested in Bradford, as part of a drunken hooligan mob who travelled south for former hun player Stuart McCall's testimonial.
Being threatened yet again (anyone lost count yet ?!) by The Dark Lord – this time with being banned from travelling to both European and domestic away matches - in order to cut out the cancer of hate-filled, anti-Catholic, sectarian bigotry that continues to pervade the shamed Kinning Park outfit - as it has done, for their entire tarnished existance. In a frank interview, given as the huns await their fate from UEFA after the sectarian hooliganism that marred the UEFA Cup tie against Osasuna, a clearly worried Chairman Mao-rry blasted the hatemongers who continue to shame the hate-ridden club. Lambasting the bigots, Mao-rry raged : "We have an element of supporters who are totally unhelpful to Rankers Football Club. The majority of Rankers supporters go to games and go about their business in a correct manner. We're trying to isolate those who do not. That’s who our target is. We will consider, not only not taking tickets to away European games, but to domestic games also. We are agreed that the strongest possible action should be taken against people who continue to indulge in sectarian behaviour. This kind of behaviour will simply result in a doomsday scenario for the club and the vast majority of fans. It is clear to everyone that the future of fan behaviour lies in the fans' own hands and real improvement in fan behaviour must be seen to be being effected – and soon. For this to work effectively, an element of self-policing has to be implemented by those who abhor the sectarian and intolerant behaviour we have all witnessed. This, of course, will be done in addition to the stringent policing and enhanced stewarding measures already enforced by the club and the police."
Being fined £8280 by UEFA for the sectarian hooliganism, which marred the UC tie with Osasuna in Pamplona. In a statement, the hun’s official website announced : “We expect to receive the full reasons for the judgement from Uefa shortly. The club understands that the penalty reflects mainly, the discriminatory singing that took place at the end of the match.” The official UEFA website added : "Rankers have been ordered to pay 12,000 Euros for the improper conduct of their supporters."
Hun John Gardner being sacked from his job as Assistant Procurator Fiscal at Greenock Sheriff Court after calling a work colleague, a ‘Fenian bastard’, after watching a Celtic v Rankers game in March ’07, in the Waterline Bar in Greenock.
Invading the field of play in the 1969 Scottish Cup Final, causing riot police on horseback to be deployed, and hundreds of the hooligan hoardes being escorted out of Hampden via side gates. Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that the enraged knuckledraggers were getting horsed 4-0 by Celtic at the time, would it ?!
Phoning up George Galloway’s TalkSport radio show in April ’07, during a debate on the plight of 15 British captives held in Iran, and suggesting that Britain send in warplanes to ‘bomralottaerum’. After ripping ‘John, the Rankers fan from Glasgow’ a new one, Gorgeous George tore into the clueless ‘moron from the slopes of Ibrox Park’ and his warped murderous thinking, before cutting him off with the poignant epitaph : “THAT is the voice of Ibrox. THAT is the voice of the Rankers fanatics.”
Drunken hun yob Michael Duncan being served with an ASBO after being convicted of sectarianly abusing his neighbours during all-night drunken parties. During the mayhem, Duncan, 20, of Coupar Angus and his hun pals, sang the Rankers club anthem ‘Simply the Best’ with sectarian ‘add ons’ and engaged in foul-mouthed sectarian chanting, Sheriff Perth sheriff Michael Fletcher at Perth and Kinross Court was told. Duncan has now been banned from holding drunken late-night parties with loud music. The local Council were forced to step in after residents complained. In a statement, Perth and Kinross Council stated : "On several occasions, he has acted in an anti-social manner by shouting, swearing, playing audio equipment at excessively high volume, singing and slamming doors. He has hosted parties where those present have been permitted to shout, swear and play music at excessive volume, sing, bang and slam doors. On one occasion during summer 2006, loud music, shouting and swearing emanated from the property from 6.30pm until 9am the following morning. In November 2006, karaoke music was played at excessive volume and was accompanied by loud sectarian singing. This continued from just after the pub shut until 5am. Around the end of November 2006, loud singing and shouting emanated from the property at night after a football match involving Rankers. The phrases, 'if you are a f***ing Proddie, clap your hands', ‘Fuck The Pope’, 'Rankers' and 'Simply The Best' could be heard to the alarm and disturbance of neighbours." Neighbour Bill Stewart told the council and police he had been plagued by Duncan - who challenged him to a fight - and his friends for several months. The court heard police were called out on January 28 and discovered 25 drunk people within the flat and they confiscated the stereo. Duncan was given a fixed penalty notice. The police were called out twice in February over accusations Duncan and his friends had been intimidating residents, and had called them ‘Fenian bastards.’ The council said : "The actions of Duncan and visitors have caused significant alarmand distress to residents. They are reasonably apprehensive that he and his visitors have shown an intention to persist in their behaviour. It is absolutely necessary for the protection of relevant persons that an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) be granted."
After decades of calling ManUre fans 'tatty-picking, Timmy-loving, Fenian paddy bastards', and repeatedly slagging them off as 'customers and prawn sandwich eaters' as well as 'the Fenian scum who battered and indiscriminately attacked defenceless Bears on Paisley Road West' before a CL tie at The Death Star - then trying to cosy up to them for support, after ManUre hooligans got battered by Italian riot cops in Rome, not long after the huns got battered by Spanish riot cops in Pamplona. The huns twisted logic was that by portraying both clubs' hooligans as victims of heavy-handed policing, they could somehow use the weight and name of the Premiership club, to dupe UEFA into not punishing them for their violent sectarian hooliganism during the away leg of their UEFA Cup tie with Osasuna. During the same episode, the shameless hypocritical huns tried a similar tact with the Scottish First Minister, Jack MacConnell - despite persistent hate-campaigns by them on him, slating him as 'a Fenian-loving Timmy puppet.' Only weeks after standing on the slopes of Celtic Park, and chanting "Jack MacConnell's wife's a whore" the chancers in blue asked Mr MacConnell to take up their case with the Spanish authorities, and UEFA. When it comes to brazen-faced, hypocritical, shameless duplicity, and climbing into the beds of hated foes to save their own sorry arses, the huns have got it well and truly nailed.
Hun criminal Barry Smith turning up at Greenock Sheriff Court to answer a charge of breaking his bail conditions, attired head to foot in the full Rankers home kit. The gormless fat hun was threatened with jail by Sheriff John Herald, who warned him to reappear more suitably attired, or he would be sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court.
Being warned by a whole succession of players, ex-players, club officials, managers, (and everyone and their dog) to cease singing their engendered songs of hate and intolerance. The latest recruit to the campaign to beg the knuckledraggers to cease their anti-Catholic songs of hate was The Cardigan, who has been recruited to help try and prevent UEFA from frying the huns arses for their endemic hatred. In a frank and forthright statement on the latest charade (self-policing), Smith grumbled : "There can't be any support for that type of behaviour. We are looking at a situation where the club's long term future could be affected if there is no change in the attitude of those who choose to remain bigoted in their own lives. We could end up losing out enormously on a revenue that is available to clubs in bigger countries. Also, if we are tainted by sectarian singing and behaviour then, if a European League ever were to happen, it would affect our chances of getting in it. In the short term, from a financial point of view, we could face closure of the ground to fans. I don't know if they'd go as far as banning the team from Europe, but they can certainly ban supporters. There is no use looking at other people and saying they do this and they do that. We just need to look at ourselves and if we can eradicate that problem, then for me Rankers future will be far brighter. I think this initiative is a good one and I hope every right-minded fan will back it."
Rankers fanzine editor, Mark Dingwall, a member of the Rankers Alliance, and administrator of the main Rankers web forum, Follow Follow, standing for public office in the 2007 Regional Scottish Parliamentary Elections, as the Scottish Unionist Candidate for the Craigton Ward, on the south side of Glasgow - rather near The Death Star actually. The policies of the Scottish Unionist Party include dismantling the Catholic education system, and promoting the Unionist agenda, favoured those of a white, Protestant, Loyalist agenda. As their youth forum (scottishunionistyouth.co.uk) clearly demonstrates, most members are from an almost exclusively Protestant, Loyalist background, with almost all either belonging to, or being a member of, the Orange Order, the Apprentice Boys Of Derry, or a similarly-minded Loyalist flute band. With a membership like this, I guess Catholics and travellers need not apply. The Scottish Unionist Party, a convoluted mix of Rankers FC, the Orange Order, and the BNP.
Calling former icon, Artur Numan ‘a turncoat Timmy arse-licker’ and ‘a Judas publicity-seeking c*nt’ after he unselfishly donated £10,000 to a charity, championed by a former Celtic player. The commendable gesture was made after Numan and others participated in the Jimmy Johnstone Classic at Mearns Castle Golf Club, inaugurated in memory of the man who brought so much joy to lovers of the beautiful game, worldwide. Joy that is, unless you’re an embittered venomous hun, who can’t see past the end of your poison-filled, bigoted blue nose.
Spitting in the face of Davie provan, and sectarianly abusing him, after he chose to sign for Celtic rather than Rankers. As revealed in the book 'It's Rankers For Me' (Perspectives On A Scottish Institution : Fort Publishing), Provan revealed : "Although I played most of my career for Celtic, I came from a typical west-of-Scotland Rankers family. When I first heard Celtic were interested in me I was surprised, not because of my background but because a club like Celtic would consider signing me. There were other players from a Rankers background at Celtic such as Danny McGrain and Tom McAdam while Murdo MacLeod signed about eight weeks after me. The Celtic fans took to me right away, but I got a bit of stick from some people in Gourock, not friends but acquaintances who would give me the usual “turncoat” stuff. And it became apparent very early on that hassle was part of the deal. In a Glasgow pub one night a guy called me a turncoat then spat in my face. Most of the nasty element was verbal, usually after some punter had too much to drink. The biggest problem is the intelligent, professional, middle-class bigots. You can understand the knuckleheads who don’t know any better but if you have an intelligent man who can’t open his mind and see the stupidity in it all, then Scottish society is going to have a problem for a long time. The Rankers thing is gone for me. There is no part of me now that wishes I had played at Ibrox. It was my up-bringing and it was ingrained into me but I wouldn’t swap my Celtic career for anything. The irony is, between signing for Celtic in 1978 and 1986, when I played my last game for the club, Rankers didn’t win the title. I won four championship medals and Rankers were never at the races. Who knows what would have happened if I had signed for Rankers but I don’t have an ounce of regret, none whatsoever."
Having to close their own official stadium bar – Bar 72 - after a Celtic v Rankers game, due to drunken huns ignoring repeated pleas, to refrain from sectarian singing. The drunken bigots were season-ticket holders, watching a beamback of the game from Celtic Park on Sunday, March 11th 2007. As the knuckledraggers got more and more drunk, their simmering bigotry kicked in, and the hatred spewed forth, until those in charge could take no more. Time was called, the shutters drawn, and the drunken Catholic-haters turfed out onto the streets of Kinning Park, to carry on their bigotry elsewhere.
Sectarian hun hooligan Elliott Macrae being banned for life from following the huns after being caught on a European away game flight from Spain with a Nazi swastika flag. Macrae, 31, a furniture shop worker from Tullibody near Stirling, a leading figure in the hooligan hun joke mob, the ICF - also know as the Ice Cream Firm - was first banned in 1999 after being arrested for hooligan violence in 1999 after a full scale riot between the huns, and casuals from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven.
Sectarian hun hooligan Barrie Donnelly being banned for life from following the huns after being shown on website YouTube chanting sectarian songs during a UEFA Cup tie in Pamplona. Skinhead thug Donnelly 30, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, was previously banned indefinitely from following the huns, after being arrested for rioting in Holland, after a mass brawl between drunken hooligan huns, and casuals from PSV Einhoven in 1999. The following year, he was banned for life, after violence flared during a match v Sturm Graz at Legoland. Donnelly was also involved in serious brawling, after a UEFA Cup away tie to Paris St Germain was marred by violence in 2001. He was also part of the hooligan hun joke mob, who caused the kick-off of a match at Pittodrie in January 2002 to be delayed due to crowd trouble. A few months later, he was arrested in Bradford, as part of a drunken hooligan mob who travelled south for former hun player Stuart McCall's testimonial.
Being threatened yet again (anyone lost count yet ?!) by The Dark Lord – this time with being banned from travelling to both European and domestic away matches - in order to cut out the cancer of hate-filled, anti-Catholic, sectarian bigotry that continues to pervade the shamed Kinning Park outfit - as it has done, for their entire tarnished existance. In a frank interview, given as the huns await their fate from UEFA after the sectarian hooliganism that marred the UEFA Cup tie against Osasuna, a clearly worried Chairman Mao-rry blasted the hatemongers who continue to shame the hate-ridden club. Lambasting the bigots, Mao-rry raged : "We have an element of supporters who are totally unhelpful to Rankers Football Club. The majority of Rankers supporters go to games and go about their business in a correct manner. We're trying to isolate those who do not. That’s who our target is. We will consider, not only not taking tickets to away European games, but to domestic games also. We are agreed that the strongest possible action should be taken against people who continue to indulge in sectarian behaviour. This kind of behaviour will simply result in a doomsday scenario for the club and the vast majority of fans. It is clear to everyone that the future of fan behaviour lies in the fans' own hands and real improvement in fan behaviour must be seen to be being effected – and soon. For this to work effectively, an element of self-policing has to be implemented by those who abhor the sectarian and intolerant behaviour we have all witnessed. This, of course, will be done in addition to the stringent policing and enhanced stewarding measures already enforced by the club and the police."
Being fined £8280 by UEFA for the sectarian hooliganism, which marred the UC tie with Osasuna in Pamplona. In a statement, the hun’s official website announced : “We expect to receive the full reasons for the judgement from Uefa shortly. The club understands that the penalty reflects mainly, the discriminatory singing that took place at the end of the match.” The official UEFA website added : "Rankers have been ordered to pay 12,000 Euros for the improper conduct of their supporters."
Hun John Gardner being sacked from his job as Assistant Procurator Fiscal at Greenock Sheriff Court after calling a work colleague, a ‘Fenian bastard’, after watching a Celtic v Rankers game in March ’07, in the Waterline Bar in Greenock.
Invading the field of play in the 1969 Scottish Cup Final, causing riot police on horseback to be deployed, and hundreds of the hooligan hoardes being escorted out of Hampden via side gates. Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that the enraged knuckledraggers were getting horsed 4-0 by Celtic at the time, would it ?!
Phoning up George Galloway’s TalkSport radio show in April ’07, during a debate on the plight of 15 British captives held in Iran, and suggesting that Britain send in warplanes to ‘bomralottaerum’. After ripping ‘John, the Rankers fan from Glasgow’ a new one, Gorgeous George tore into the clueless ‘moron from the slopes of Ibrox Park’ and his warped murderous thinking, before cutting him off with the poignant epitaph : “THAT is the voice of Ibrox. THAT is the voice of the Rankers fanatics.”
Drunken hun yob Michael Duncan being served with an ASBO after being convicted of sectarianly abusing his neighbours during all-night drunken parties. During the mayhem, Duncan, 20, of Coupar Angus and his hun pals, sang the Rankers club anthem ‘Simply the Best’ with sectarian ‘add ons’ and engaged in foul-mouthed sectarian chanting, Sheriff Perth sheriff Michael Fletcher at Perth and Kinross Court was told. Duncan has now been banned from holding drunken late-night parties with loud music. The local Council were forced to step in after residents complained. In a statement, Perth and Kinross Council stated : "On several occasions, he has acted in an anti-social manner by shouting, swearing, playing audio equipment at excessively high volume, singing and slamming doors. He has hosted parties where those present have been permitted to shout, swear and play music at excessive volume, sing, bang and slam doors. On one occasion during summer 2006, loud music, shouting and swearing emanated from the property from 6.30pm until 9am the following morning. In November 2006, karaoke music was played at excessive volume and was accompanied by loud sectarian singing. This continued from just after the pub shut until 5am. Around the end of November 2006, loud singing and shouting emanated from the property at night after a football match involving Rankers. The phrases, 'if you are a f***ing Proddie, clap your hands', ‘Fuck The Pope’, 'Rankers' and 'Simply The Best' could be heard to the alarm and disturbance of neighbours." Neighbour Bill Stewart told the council and police he had been plagued by Duncan - who challenged him to a fight - and his friends for several months. The court heard police were called out on January 28 and discovered 25 drunk people within the flat and they confiscated the stereo. Duncan was given a fixed penalty notice. The police were called out twice in February over accusations Duncan and his friends had been intimidating residents, and had called them ‘Fenian bastards.’ The council said : "The actions of Duncan and visitors have caused significant alarmand distress to residents. They are reasonably apprehensive that he and his visitors have shown an intention to persist in their behaviour. It is absolutely necessary for the protection of relevant persons that an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) be granted."
After decades of calling ManUre fans 'tatty-picking, Timmy-loving, Fenian paddy bastards', and repeatedly slagging them off as 'customers and prawn sandwich eaters' as well as 'the Fenian scum who battered and indiscriminately attacked defenceless Bears on Paisley Road West' before a CL tie at The Death Star - then trying to cosy up to them for support, after ManUre hooligans got battered by Italian riot cops in Rome, not long after the huns got battered by Spanish riot cops in Pamplona. The huns twisted logic was that by portraying both clubs' hooligans as victims of heavy-handed policing, they could somehow use the weight and name of the Premiership club, to dupe UEFA into not punishing them for their violent sectarian hooliganism during the away leg of their UEFA Cup tie with Osasuna. During the same episode, the shameless hypocritical huns tried a similar tact with the Scottish First Minister, Jack MacConnell - despite persistent hate-campaigns by them on him, slating him as 'a Fenian-loving Timmy puppet.' Only weeks after standing on the slopes of Celtic Park, and chanting "Jack MacConnell's wife's a whore" the chancers in blue asked Mr MacConnell to take up their case with the Spanish authorities, and UEFA. When it comes to brazen-faced, hypocritical, shameless duplicity, and climbing into the beds of hated foes to save their own sorry arses, the huns have got it well and truly nailed.
Hun criminal Barry Smith turning up at Greenock Sheriff Court to answer a charge of breaking his bail conditions, attired head to foot in the full Rankers home kit. The gormless fat hun was threatened with jail by Sheriff John Herald, who warned him to reappear more suitably attired, or he would be sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court.
Being warned by a whole succession of players, ex-players, club officials, managers, (and everyone and their dog) to cease singing their engendered songs of hate and intolerance. The latest recruit to the campaign to beg the knuckledraggers to cease their anti-Catholic songs of hate was The Cardigan, who has been recruited to help try and prevent UEFA from frying the huns arses for their endemic hatred. In a frank and forthright statement on the latest charade (self-policing), Smith grumbled : "There can't be any support for that type of behaviour. We are looking at a situation where the club's long term future could be affected if there is no change in the attitude of those who choose to remain bigoted in their own lives. We could end up losing out enormously on a revenue that is available to clubs in bigger countries. Also, if we are tainted by sectarian singing and behaviour then, if a European League ever were to happen, it would affect our chances of getting in it. In the short term, from a financial point of view, we could face closure of the ground to fans. I don't know if they'd go as far as banning the team from Europe, but they can certainly ban supporters. There is no use looking at other people and saying they do this and they do that. We just need to look at ourselves and if we can eradicate that problem, then for me Rankers future will be far brighter. I think this initiative is a good one and I hope every right-minded fan will back it."
Rankers fanzine editor, Mark Dingwall, a member of the Rankers Alliance, and administrator of the main Rankers web forum, Follow Follow, standing for public office in the 2007 Regional Scottish Parliamentary Elections, as the Scottish Unionist Candidate for the Craigton Ward, on the south side of Glasgow - rather near The Death Star actually. The policies of the Scottish Unionist Party include dismantling the Catholic education system, and promoting the Unionist agenda, favoured those of a white, Protestant, Loyalist agenda. As their youth forum (scottishunionistyouth.co.uk) clearly demonstrates, most members are from an almost exclusively Protestant, Loyalist background, with almost all either belonging to, or being a member of, the Orange Order, the Apprentice Boys Of Derry, or a similarly-minded Loyalist flute band. With a membership like this, I guess Catholics and travellers need not apply. The Scottish Unionist Party, a convoluted mix of Rankers FC, the Orange Order, and the BNP.
Saying that Ioan Ganea ‘deserved a medal’ for his horrific and brutal tackle on John Kennedy during a Scotland v Romania match at Hampden Park in March 2004. Kennedy, representing the Scottish national team, needed four operations and was out of the game for three years after Ganea’s shocking onfield violence which left all decent-minded football fans disgusted and outraged. Whilst representing Timisoara, Ganea later went on to violently assault a Rapid Vienna player, before being red-carded by refereee Dorin Madura. Animal Ganea attacked Madura, grabbed him by the throat, punched him, and pushed him over a trackside advertising hoarding before he was hauled away by other players. Ganea was later banned for 22 matches for his violence. Awful strange, the people these huns look up to ?!
Sectarianly abusing a family of young Hibs fans, as they attended a match at Easter Road in April ‘07. As revealed in a letter to the local supporters association, the man revealed : "I'm absolutely fed-up tonight after enduring a gauntlet of bigotry and hate en route to the game and back. I am utterly disgusted that my 10-year-old laddie was pushed, shoved, spat on and abused by more than one set of morons whilst simply trying to either walk down Easter Road, or walk home (via the long road through Lochend Park) past the Meadowbank shops. Two neanderthals stood waiting for us to pass them, both clenched fists pulling pretend punches, as if they were going to lamp us on the way past. Ignorant, intimidatory tactics that merely culminated in one of them yelling at the top of his voice "F*** The Pope" in my ear, as I walked past him, trying to shield my boy. Before the game, we made the error of simply trying to walk down our street - to find about 20 of them tanked up, drinking from cans and blocking our only way out. The verbal tirade we endured was shocking. The bigoted bile spewing from every orifice. Fenian this, Fenian that. My younger laddie actually took my hand at this point, as he would have done when a wee yin. Down Easter Road, near the chippy, they had taken over the entire pavement. At this point the sly kicks and pushes rained in on my 10 and 12-year-olds, from these cowardly morons. How can we seriously believe that action is being taken against sectarianism when we all heard songs about the UVF, Derry and other niceties going completely unchallenged and unpunished ? Oh and if the scum who abused me and my children by shouting Fenian abuse, is reading this ..... I'm Church of Scotland. I really, really, really, really, really despair.
Voting for ‘Larsson’s leg going in two different directions’ in a poll to find their ‘Most Memorable Non-Rankers Footballing Moment’. These are the scum, that class themselves as football fans, yet rejoice in the fact that a talented footballer suffered a potentially career-threatening, horrific leg break, as well as at the misfortune of others affected by tragedy in the game. Other dishonourable mentions for their most memorable included : Watching the Bradford City fire unfold live on Grandstand; Paolo di Canio pushing over referee Paul Alcock; Zinedine Zidane’s violent headbutt on Marco Matarazzi; Watching the hooliganism and fighting at Heysel live on ITV; and Eric Cantona’s kung-fu kick and wild lunge at a Crystal Palace fan. Their hatred really knows no bounds.
Slating club icons Barry Ferguson and Artur Numan with absolute dog’s abuse, because they dared to afford Neil Lennon a modicum of respect for all that he had achieved during his six and a half trophy-laden seasons at Celtic. Numan, commented that Lennon ‘was a winner, with a great attitude, and a fantastic servant for his club’ and Ferguson, commented that Lennon ‘had shown immense character in the face of death threats; that he’d rather have a team-mate with Lennon’s mentality than someone who doesn't give a shit; and that he would rather have eleven players with his [Lennon’s] passion playing alongside him anyday.’ For their troubles, Rankers icons Numan and Ferguson were henceforth denigrated as : ‘Public embarrassments, who should shut up; Lying under Lennon's arse and top up their tans, cos that’s where they seem to think the sun shines out of; Pathetic comments from a Rankers captain, and ex player; More and more, I've come to the conclusion I actually hate the current Rankers captain - and that's something I never thought I'd hear myself say; Once again,the cow-towing goes on from our ex-pros; When they open their mooths, nothing but pish and shite come out; This shows that Barry knows even less about Scottish football history than he does about being a Rankers captain; There is no need for him to comment on their captain, never mind compare him to Greig; I hate him, and the time has come for him to move on; The more I read his comments about Lennon, the more he sounds like some lovesick teenage girl talking about her favourite popstar; I've disliked him for some time, but the emotion is becoming stronger and stronger to the point where it's now hatred; When I think of Rankers captains of the past, it sickens me to the pit of my stomach that this thick ned wears the armband; The man's a disgrace to the armband; I hate the fact BF sucks up Lennon’s arse at every opportunity, and how fukkin dare he put that chunt's name in the same sentence as Greig; A disgrace of a Rankers captain; A terrible statement to make; Fergie really has missed his calling as, i'm sure their must be a production of the Wizard of Oz missing a straw man - you know - "If I only had a brain !”; Shocking thing for a Rankers captain to say. I'd strip him of the armband - hopefully he'd take the huff and leave; A Rankers Captain he is most definitely not; As an orator, he should be told to keep his mouth shut. To be a true captain one needs to know how to conduct themselves on the park, and as an ambassador off the park. He should never have been made captain of Rankers.
Hooligan huns launching an acrid yellow smoke bomb into the Broomloan Stand during the May ’07 game v Celtic at The Death Star.
Plumbing a new depth during the May ’07 game v Celtic at The Death Star, with a vile song smearing the memory of the man who was voted ‘Scotland’s Greatest Ever manager’ - Jock Stein. The hun scum were seen and heard continuously giggling, laughing, joking, and gloating about an issue that they hypocritically claim to be the raison d’etre for their smear campaign, which has included printing stickers, leaflets, and banners, all repeating the same lie. The campaign has received the full backing of Mark Dungball (editor of Follow Follow fanzine, administrator of Follow Follow forum, and prominent member of the Rankers Trust) who has vociferously promoted it on The Lava Pit, and has repeatedly allowed the hun scum who frequent there, to persisitently spread their vile lies. Far from confronting the hate-filled bigots, many of whom are FF’s most prominent clique-members, he has abley assisted them, as they pervade their tawdry campaign of hate and lies. The smear campaign also has the full backing of Rankers’ official fans joke mob – The Blue Order – who are given privilaged access to the stadium, to promote their campaign of villification and lies, and it was in TBO’s designated seating area that the 20-minute video clip of laughing and gloating was filmed. All of this is done with the official backing of Rankers Football Club, who meet frequently with both The Blue Order, and the Rankers Trust, to discuss their activities inside the stadium on matchdays. The problem with these embittered bigots, is that even from the grave, Jock Stein casts a huge shadow over their abject mediocrity, and on a daily basis reminds them of their miserable failure. That misery has given way to hate and jealousy, which in turn has spawned a campaign of villification, smear, and lies – all done with the tacit backing and support of the administration of Rankers Football Club. Just when you thought they couldn’t possibly go any lower, they never fail to produce the goods.
Hun bigot Raymond Galbraith from Crieff, Perthshire being convicted of Breach Of The Peace Aggravated By Religious Prejudice, after hurling sectarian abuse at a Catholic Celtic fan, whom he spotted in a rival team at a club quiz night. John Malpass, prosecuting, told Perth Sheriff Court that the event descended into chaos when knuckledragger Galbraith leapt to his feet and started shouting abuse at Michael Lynch, screaming : "What the f*** is that f****** Fenian B*****d doing in the British Legion ?" The regular Sunday night quiz had to be halted as Galbraith continued his torrent of abuse, and became threatened to become violent. He was forced to leave by other club members, and was arrested nearby a short time later. Sheriff Michael Fletcher fined Galbraith £200, saying he was 'an embarassment to decent-minded people everywhere.' Galbraith was later forced to resign from the Legion in disgrace, and barred for life from the premisis.
Four reprobate sectarian hun knuckledraggers being arrested and convicted of sectarianism and racism during an away match at Pittodrie. Paul Reid and William McGregor brawled with stewards as they were physically ejected from the ground, whilst David Low and Kerr McIntosh sang racist and sectarian songs on their way to the ground. All four were convicted of the charges against them when they appeared at the city's Sheriff Court yesterday. Reid, of 15 Glen Alby Place, Glasgow, and McGregor, of 4 BenMcDui Gardens, Darnley, were both handcuffed and arrested, and were later convicted of breaching the peace at the stadium by shouting, swearing and refusing to leave. Reid also admitted being in possession of Cannabis. Sheriff James Hendry fined both men £200 and fined Reid an extra £100 for the drugs offence. Low, 25, and McIntosh, 23, were walking with a group on Park Road when they started singing sectarian Rankers songs. The court heard a black man passed the group and the words of the song were changed to racist chants about black people and Muslims. Both men admitted acting in a racially aggravated way. Sheriff Hendry said : "People should be able to go about their business in Aberdeen without hearing songs like these." He fined Low, of 10 Hay Street, Coupar Angus, £375. McIntosh, of 3a Black Path, Banff, was fined £525 as he was also on bail at the time of the offence.
Cowardly hun ned scumbag Mark Anderson, being indicted and charged with chasing an innocent postman with a meat cleaver. Anderson pulled the weapon on innocent Kevin Ashcroft, as he did his morning rounds in Johnstone. He was forced to run for his life, and as he did so, had to run in front of speeding traffic – many of the drivers, who immediately dialled 999. Anderson was later found hiding in bushes nearby and arrested. Depute fiscal Douglas Hamilton told the court : “Mr Ashcroft was on duty at 10am on July 8, last year, when he heard a voice shouting something. To his horror, Anderson produced a meat cleaver, and brandished it aggressively at him. The terrified postman took to his heels and began to weave in and out of the rush hour traffic in an attempt to escape. Police who had been called to the scene began an immediate search of the area and traced Anderson to a garden in Dimity Street, where he was crouching behind bushes. He was wearing a distinctive Rankers FC top and white tracksuit bottoms. As officers told him he was being arrested, he started to shout and swear, subjecting them to a tirade of verbal abuse and foul language, threatening ‘I'm going to slash you’. Once in custody, he started to spit inside the police vehicle.” In court, Anderson pleaded guilty to the assault and breach of the peace charges on indictment. Sheriff Ruth Anderson deferred sentence and ordered the Crown to ascertain what adverse effects the incident had on the accused's victim. "I would like to know if he is still a postman and if he had to take any time off work as a result of what happened," she said. The Sheriff called for background reports And ordered Anderson to appear for sentencing on July 31st.
Welcoming the news that Alan MacGregor was confirmed as the club's first choice goalkeeper with warm, supportive, and welcoming comments like : There's no doubt he saved us a few times last season, but equally he had the same number of gaffes. Is it a sign of our current state that we have to 'make do' with a guy that looked to be on his way out just 12 months ago ? >>> McGregor is back up at best. Some of his performances last season were shocking and a lot worse than Letizi, but he gets away with it. I also don't like the "I'll run to the media and moan when I don't get my way" attitude. Smith IMO isn't even good enough to even be at Rankers, so should McGregor ever have a long period of injury, we're fecked. >>> There's no doubt he made a few mistakes, but I'm hopeful for the season. At least thats what I keep on telling myself. >>> Reserve goalkeeper is about his limit. >>> His mistakes which led to goals against us ended up in double figures last season. >>> We've had better reserves in the past. >>> Agreed. Simply not good enough. >>> I’d like a better first choice option, but that goes for most of the team. >>> He's only of backup quality himself, so phuck knows what we'll do if he gets injured. >>> You can only wish that Smith has seen something in him. Would not be too confident going with him in the Champions League or an Old Firm game with him between the sticks. >>> My thoughts are dark. Grim times indeed. >>> Rankers have in the past signed experienced guys with plenty of first team and in some cases European football behind them. McGregor had neither. >>> Who was it chasing McGregor last season ? Dundee United and Dunfermline. That tells you all you need to know. >>> I've heard some saying that Nicky Walker was worse. Nicky Walker was twice the keeper McGregor will EVER be. >>> McGregor isn't good enough long term, but we were so sorrily deficient in almost every other area last season that there are other priorities right now. He has this season to improve, otherwise he can pack his bags. >>> He's prone to more than the odd horrendous error. I don't feel confident at all with him between the sticks. >>> McGregor for me is the perfect TV save keeper. Makes simple things look great, and gets the basics badly wrong. Thank god keepers tend to get better with age. >>> Who'll be first to claim he's the reason when we get knocked out of Europe ? >>> If McGregor hadn't conceded that howler out in Pamplona ......... >>> He's our best option just now - but that's not exactly saying much. >>> Come back Ally Maxwell. All is forgiven. >>> He's not good enough - makes too many mistakes and lack of confidence is infectious. >>> Whining in the papers was annoying, and laughing during minute silence for Kai was despicable. All in all, he's just not worthy of the jersey. >>> Back-up keeper at best. We really need better class. >>> Mistakes that cost us points ? McGregor : Twice at Dundee Utd, Celtic at Ibrox, ICT away & Aberdeen away. That is a total of 11 points dropped in games where he's fecked up. Throw in his two howlers in the Easter Road defeat, and his calamatious performance at East End Park in the Scottish Cup - Yeah McGregor was great for us. >>> Afraid he's more no-one than No 1. >>> His main fault, which has always worried me, is his cross-ball catching. He’s nowhere near as good as some would have you believe. Anyone who wants us to believe Letizi made more mistakes than McGregor, is factually incorrect. >>> May (??) be good enough for the SPL but he won't save us time after time like Klos did. >>> Alan McGregor should've been replaced. >>> I am not in the slightest bit comfortable with Allan McGregor being a "Rankers number one", even in a team as shit as ours over the last few years where he may just look like one of the slightly better of a bad lot, in reality he is not of the standard a club of our size and stature require. We are supposed to be "simply the best" Allan McGregor is "simply nowhere near it", his attitude is way off at times and he has many mad moments, which includes gaffs and getting himself sent off in europe. I cannot say that he fills me with much optimism or comfort. It tells a hard hitting story of what we have become. >>> Nowhere near the required calibre. I'd feel much better knowing we could bring in a top pedigree goalkeeper, but because the chairman and wee dick fhuckked us up royally, we now have to settle for the cheapest we can get. >>> McGregor is a decent back up - no more. Definitely not great, and makes far too many fundamental errors. >>> I'm disappointed that we haven't bought a new first team 'keeper and don't look like doing so. McGregor is very, very average. >>> His current form could hardly be described as top drawer. He lost far too many silly goals last season - and nearly lost more, but for some desperate last ditch defending. I seem to recall Svensson saving us in the last minute at Pittodrie, after McGregor had gone walkabout without getting anywhere near the ball. Don't even get me started on the Tannadice display - or the Celtic goal at Ibrox. >>> I am worried that he is our Number 1. I have very little confidence in him and another problem is that Smith has been signed as a backup so he does not have genuine competition for the Number 1 jersey. >>> He has simply made too many howlers. The one that sticks out is the error v Osasuna. I still cant work out what he was trying to do with that one. >>> Once he can deal with a cross ball and stop flapping he might get better. The way tight-arse Murray is being with spend the cash, to replace even Wattereus, would take up Watty's budget for the next two seasons.
Being the subject of a major investigation on the very first day of the season for singing sectarian anti-Catholic songs of hate during the opening match v Inverness Cally Thistle. Despite all the warnings from UEFA and the SFA, despite all the threats from The Dark Lord, despite all the desperate pleas by the hun icons, and the repeated threats of fines, bans, censure, and the possibility of the club banning it’s own fans from domestic and European matches – the more these bigoted, Catholic-hating sectarian neanderthals change, the more they stay the hate-filled same. Another ‘first’ for the tarnished Kinning Park outfit, and it’s litany of shame.
Sectarianly abusing a family of young Hibs fans, as they attended a match at Easter Road in April ‘07. As revealed in a letter to the local supporters association, the man revealed : "I'm absolutely fed-up tonight after enduring a gauntlet of bigotry and hate en route to the game and back. I am utterly disgusted that my 10-year-old laddie was pushed, shoved, spat on and abused by more than one set of morons whilst simply trying to either walk down Easter Road, or walk home (via the long road through Lochend Park) past the Meadowbank shops. Two neanderthals stood waiting for us to pass them, both clenched fists pulling pretend punches, as if they were going to lamp us on the way past. Ignorant, intimidatory tactics that merely culminated in one of them yelling at the top of his voice "F*** The Pope" in my ear, as I walked past him, trying to shield my boy. Before the game, we made the error of simply trying to walk down our street - to find about 20 of them tanked up, drinking from cans and blocking our only way out. The verbal tirade we endured was shocking. The bigoted bile spewing from every orifice. Fenian this, Fenian that. My younger laddie actually took my hand at this point, as he would have done when a wee yin. Down Easter Road, near the chippy, they had taken over the entire pavement. At this point the sly kicks and pushes rained in on my 10 and 12-year-olds, from these cowardly morons. How can we seriously believe that action is being taken against sectarianism when we all heard songs about the UVF, Derry and other niceties going completely unchallenged and unpunished ? Oh and if the scum who abused me and my children by shouting Fenian abuse, is reading this ..... I'm Church of Scotland. I really, really, really, really, really despair.
Voting for ‘Larsson’s leg going in two different directions’ in a poll to find their ‘Most Memorable Non-Rankers Footballing Moment’. These are the scum, that class themselves as football fans, yet rejoice in the fact that a talented footballer suffered a potentially career-threatening, horrific leg break, as well as at the misfortune of others affected by tragedy in the game. Other dishonourable mentions for their most memorable included : Watching the Bradford City fire unfold live on Grandstand; Paolo di Canio pushing over referee Paul Alcock; Zinedine Zidane’s violent headbutt on Marco Matarazzi; Watching the hooliganism and fighting at Heysel live on ITV; and Eric Cantona’s kung-fu kick and wild lunge at a Crystal Palace fan. Their hatred really knows no bounds.
Slating club icons Barry Ferguson and Artur Numan with absolute dog’s abuse, because they dared to afford Neil Lennon a modicum of respect for all that he had achieved during his six and a half trophy-laden seasons at Celtic. Numan, commented that Lennon ‘was a winner, with a great attitude, and a fantastic servant for his club’ and Ferguson, commented that Lennon ‘had shown immense character in the face of death threats; that he’d rather have a team-mate with Lennon’s mentality than someone who doesn't give a shit; and that he would rather have eleven players with his [Lennon’s] passion playing alongside him anyday.’ For their troubles, Rankers icons Numan and Ferguson were henceforth denigrated as : ‘Public embarrassments, who should shut up; Lying under Lennon's arse and top up their tans, cos that’s where they seem to think the sun shines out of; Pathetic comments from a Rankers captain, and ex player; More and more, I've come to the conclusion I actually hate the current Rankers captain - and that's something I never thought I'd hear myself say; Once again,the cow-towing goes on from our ex-pros; When they open their mooths, nothing but pish and shite come out; This shows that Barry knows even less about Scottish football history than he does about being a Rankers captain; There is no need for him to comment on their captain, never mind compare him to Greig; I hate him, and the time has come for him to move on; The more I read his comments about Lennon, the more he sounds like some lovesick teenage girl talking about her favourite popstar; I've disliked him for some time, but the emotion is becoming stronger and stronger to the point where it's now hatred; When I think of Rankers captains of the past, it sickens me to the pit of my stomach that this thick ned wears the armband; The man's a disgrace to the armband; I hate the fact BF sucks up Lennon’s arse at every opportunity, and how fukkin dare he put that chunt's name in the same sentence as Greig; A disgrace of a Rankers captain; A terrible statement to make; Fergie really has missed his calling as, i'm sure their must be a production of the Wizard of Oz missing a straw man - you know - "If I only had a brain !”; Shocking thing for a Rankers captain to say. I'd strip him of the armband - hopefully he'd take the huff and leave; A Rankers Captain he is most definitely not; As an orator, he should be told to keep his mouth shut. To be a true captain one needs to know how to conduct themselves on the park, and as an ambassador off the park. He should never have been made captain of Rankers.
Hooligan huns launching an acrid yellow smoke bomb into the Broomloan Stand during the May ’07 game v Celtic at The Death Star.
Plumbing a new depth during the May ’07 game v Celtic at The Death Star, with a vile song smearing the memory of the man who was voted ‘Scotland’s Greatest Ever manager’ - Jock Stein. The hun scum were seen and heard continuously giggling, laughing, joking, and gloating about an issue that they hypocritically claim to be the raison d’etre for their smear campaign, which has included printing stickers, leaflets, and banners, all repeating the same lie. The campaign has received the full backing of Mark Dungball (editor of Follow Follow fanzine, administrator of Follow Follow forum, and prominent member of the Rankers Trust) who has vociferously promoted it on The Lava Pit, and has repeatedly allowed the hun scum who frequent there, to persisitently spread their vile lies. Far from confronting the hate-filled bigots, many of whom are FF’s most prominent clique-members, he has abley assisted them, as they pervade their tawdry campaign of hate and lies. The smear campaign also has the full backing of Rankers’ official fans joke mob – The Blue Order – who are given privilaged access to the stadium, to promote their campaign of villification and lies, and it was in TBO’s designated seating area that the 20-minute video clip of laughing and gloating was filmed. All of this is done with the official backing of Rankers Football Club, who meet frequently with both The Blue Order, and the Rankers Trust, to discuss their activities inside the stadium on matchdays. The problem with these embittered bigots, is that even from the grave, Jock Stein casts a huge shadow over their abject mediocrity, and on a daily basis reminds them of their miserable failure. That misery has given way to hate and jealousy, which in turn has spawned a campaign of villification, smear, and lies – all done with the tacit backing and support of the administration of Rankers Football Club. Just when you thought they couldn’t possibly go any lower, they never fail to produce the goods.
Hun bigot Raymond Galbraith from Crieff, Perthshire being convicted of Breach Of The Peace Aggravated By Religious Prejudice, after hurling sectarian abuse at a Catholic Celtic fan, whom he spotted in a rival team at a club quiz night. John Malpass, prosecuting, told Perth Sheriff Court that the event descended into chaos when knuckledragger Galbraith leapt to his feet and started shouting abuse at Michael Lynch, screaming : "What the f*** is that f****** Fenian B*****d doing in the British Legion ?" The regular Sunday night quiz had to be halted as Galbraith continued his torrent of abuse, and became threatened to become violent. He was forced to leave by other club members, and was arrested nearby a short time later. Sheriff Michael Fletcher fined Galbraith £200, saying he was 'an embarassment to decent-minded people everywhere.' Galbraith was later forced to resign from the Legion in disgrace, and barred for life from the premisis.
Four reprobate sectarian hun knuckledraggers being arrested and convicted of sectarianism and racism during an away match at Pittodrie. Paul Reid and William McGregor brawled with stewards as they were physically ejected from the ground, whilst David Low and Kerr McIntosh sang racist and sectarian songs on their way to the ground. All four were convicted of the charges against them when they appeared at the city's Sheriff Court yesterday. Reid, of 15 Glen Alby Place, Glasgow, and McGregor, of 4 BenMcDui Gardens, Darnley, were both handcuffed and arrested, and were later convicted of breaching the peace at the stadium by shouting, swearing and refusing to leave. Reid also admitted being in possession of Cannabis. Sheriff James Hendry fined both men £200 and fined Reid an extra £100 for the drugs offence. Low, 25, and McIntosh, 23, were walking with a group on Park Road when they started singing sectarian Rankers songs. The court heard a black man passed the group and the words of the song were changed to racist chants about black people and Muslims. Both men admitted acting in a racially aggravated way. Sheriff Hendry said : "People should be able to go about their business in Aberdeen without hearing songs like these." He fined Low, of 10 Hay Street, Coupar Angus, £375. McIntosh, of 3a Black Path, Banff, was fined £525 as he was also on bail at the time of the offence.
Cowardly hun ned scumbag Mark Anderson, being indicted and charged with chasing an innocent postman with a meat cleaver. Anderson pulled the weapon on innocent Kevin Ashcroft, as he did his morning rounds in Johnstone. He was forced to run for his life, and as he did so, had to run in front of speeding traffic – many of the drivers, who immediately dialled 999. Anderson was later found hiding in bushes nearby and arrested. Depute fiscal Douglas Hamilton told the court : “Mr Ashcroft was on duty at 10am on July 8, last year, when he heard a voice shouting something. To his horror, Anderson produced a meat cleaver, and brandished it aggressively at him. The terrified postman took to his heels and began to weave in and out of the rush hour traffic in an attempt to escape. Police who had been called to the scene began an immediate search of the area and traced Anderson to a garden in Dimity Street, where he was crouching behind bushes. He was wearing a distinctive Rankers FC top and white tracksuit bottoms. As officers told him he was being arrested, he started to shout and swear, subjecting them to a tirade of verbal abuse and foul language, threatening ‘I'm going to slash you’. Once in custody, he started to spit inside the police vehicle.” In court, Anderson pleaded guilty to the assault and breach of the peace charges on indictment. Sheriff Ruth Anderson deferred sentence and ordered the Crown to ascertain what adverse effects the incident had on the accused's victim. "I would like to know if he is still a postman and if he had to take any time off work as a result of what happened," she said. The Sheriff called for background reports And ordered Anderson to appear for sentencing on July 31st.
Welcoming the news that Alan MacGregor was confirmed as the club's first choice goalkeeper with warm, supportive, and welcoming comments like : There's no doubt he saved us a few times last season, but equally he had the same number of gaffes. Is it a sign of our current state that we have to 'make do' with a guy that looked to be on his way out just 12 months ago ? >>> McGregor is back up at best. Some of his performances last season were shocking and a lot worse than Letizi, but he gets away with it. I also don't like the "I'll run to the media and moan when I don't get my way" attitude. Smith IMO isn't even good enough to even be at Rankers, so should McGregor ever have a long period of injury, we're fecked. >>> There's no doubt he made a few mistakes, but I'm hopeful for the season. At least thats what I keep on telling myself. >>> Reserve goalkeeper is about his limit. >>> His mistakes which led to goals against us ended up in double figures last season. >>> We've had better reserves in the past. >>> Agreed. Simply not good enough. >>> I’d like a better first choice option, but that goes for most of the team. >>> He's only of backup quality himself, so phuck knows what we'll do if he gets injured. >>> You can only wish that Smith has seen something in him. Would not be too confident going with him in the Champions League or an Old Firm game with him between the sticks. >>> My thoughts are dark. Grim times indeed. >>> Rankers have in the past signed experienced guys with plenty of first team and in some cases European football behind them. McGregor had neither. >>> Who was it chasing McGregor last season ? Dundee United and Dunfermline. That tells you all you need to know. >>> I've heard some saying that Nicky Walker was worse. Nicky Walker was twice the keeper McGregor will EVER be. >>> McGregor isn't good enough long term, but we were so sorrily deficient in almost every other area last season that there are other priorities right now. He has this season to improve, otherwise he can pack his bags. >>> He's prone to more than the odd horrendous error. I don't feel confident at all with him between the sticks. >>> McGregor for me is the perfect TV save keeper. Makes simple things look great, and gets the basics badly wrong. Thank god keepers tend to get better with age. >>> Who'll be first to claim he's the reason when we get knocked out of Europe ? >>> If McGregor hadn't conceded that howler out in Pamplona ......... >>> He's our best option just now - but that's not exactly saying much. >>> Come back Ally Maxwell. All is forgiven. >>> He's not good enough - makes too many mistakes and lack of confidence is infectious. >>> Whining in the papers was annoying, and laughing during minute silence for Kai was despicable. All in all, he's just not worthy of the jersey. >>> Back-up keeper at best. We really need better class. >>> Mistakes that cost us points ? McGregor : Twice at Dundee Utd, Celtic at Ibrox, ICT away & Aberdeen away. That is a total of 11 points dropped in games where he's fecked up. Throw in his two howlers in the Easter Road defeat, and his calamatious performance at East End Park in the Scottish Cup - Yeah McGregor was great for us. >>> Afraid he's more no-one than No 1. >>> His main fault, which has always worried me, is his cross-ball catching. He’s nowhere near as good as some would have you believe. Anyone who wants us to believe Letizi made more mistakes than McGregor, is factually incorrect. >>> May (??) be good enough for the SPL but he won't save us time after time like Klos did. >>> Alan McGregor should've been replaced. >>> I am not in the slightest bit comfortable with Allan McGregor being a "Rankers number one", even in a team as shit as ours over the last few years where he may just look like one of the slightly better of a bad lot, in reality he is not of the standard a club of our size and stature require. We are supposed to be "simply the best" Allan McGregor is "simply nowhere near it", his attitude is way off at times and he has many mad moments, which includes gaffs and getting himself sent off in europe. I cannot say that he fills me with much optimism or comfort. It tells a hard hitting story of what we have become. >>> Nowhere near the required calibre. I'd feel much better knowing we could bring in a top pedigree goalkeeper, but because the chairman and wee dick fhuckked us up royally, we now have to settle for the cheapest we can get. >>> McGregor is a decent back up - no more. Definitely not great, and makes far too many fundamental errors. >>> I'm disappointed that we haven't bought a new first team 'keeper and don't look like doing so. McGregor is very, very average. >>> His current form could hardly be described as top drawer. He lost far too many silly goals last season - and nearly lost more, but for some desperate last ditch defending. I seem to recall Svensson saving us in the last minute at Pittodrie, after McGregor had gone walkabout without getting anywhere near the ball. Don't even get me started on the Tannadice display - or the Celtic goal at Ibrox. >>> I am worried that he is our Number 1. I have very little confidence in him and another problem is that Smith has been signed as a backup so he does not have genuine competition for the Number 1 jersey. >>> He has simply made too many howlers. The one that sticks out is the error v Osasuna. I still cant work out what he was trying to do with that one. >>> Once he can deal with a cross ball and stop flapping he might get better. The way tight-arse Murray is being with spend the cash, to replace even Wattereus, would take up Watty's budget for the next two seasons.
Being the subject of a major investigation on the very first day of the season for singing sectarian anti-Catholic songs of hate during the opening match v Inverness Cally Thistle. Despite all the warnings from UEFA and the SFA, despite all the threats from The Dark Lord, despite all the desperate pleas by the hun icons, and the repeated threats of fines, bans, censure, and the possibility of the club banning it’s own fans from domestic and European matches – the more these bigoted, Catholic-hating sectarian neanderthals change, the more they stay the hate-filled same. Another ‘first’ for the tarnished Kinning Park outfit, and it’s litany of shame.
The knuckledraggers being slammed by their own joke-mob Trust for their vile sectarian chanting, bigotry, and venomous Catholic-hating. Painted into a corner on the issue of repeated threats, warnings, fines and censures over the sectarian behaviour of the club's supporters, with the very pertinent possibility of having SPL points deducted, the hun's T rust were forced to comment on the situation, stating : "Following the game at Inverness and subsequent media coverage, the Trust would like to stress that the Club and the vast majority of the support condemn the wreckless self-indulgence of a small minority of supporters. This conduct helps the enemies of the Club by offering them an easy target. The Trust again asks those who genuinely care about Rankers to consider how their conduct is perceived. Abusing the Pope and using the ‘F’ word are obvious examples of behaviour which will ultimately see Rankers FC fined and drastically punished." Even the bigoted huns are sick of the sectarianism of their fellow bigoted huns.
David Edgar (hypocritical, pious, bigoted, lying, head knuckledragger of the Rankers Supporters Trust) being molligated live on the Real Radio football phone-in show, and outed as a bigot by a fellow hun. After spouting his lying pish about being non-sectarian and whiter-than-white, the lying hypocrite was brought back down to size by a permanently-raging fellow hun who screamed at him : "Dont you dare call us morons Edgar. You should be helping to educate the fans about not singing objectionable songs, not calling us morons. I saw - and heard you - in the Glaswegian pub after the Chelsea game last week, when we were ALL singing our songs - yourself included - and you weren't exactly complaining about it at the time, so don't you dare come on here and call us morons."
Being banned from entering Podgorica City, before their European away tie with Montenegrin minnows Zeta. As reported by the BBC : "Rankers fans face being excluded from Podgorica city centre ahead of their team's Champions League tie with Zeta. The Glasgow club are expecting around 400 fans to travel to the Montenegrin capital to attend the match, and BBC Sport understands that the fans will be penned into an area outside the city until close to kick-off. Rankers' chief of security, Kenny Scott, hopes to meet the authorities in Podgorica in an attempt to ease the restrictions on fans' movements." Even the minnows of Europe know about the huns and their endemic culture of violence and hate.
Jim Templeton, Chairman of the Rankers Supporters Assembly, and boardmember of the Rankers Supporters Trust being forced to resign from his post after he dared to speak out on the issue of bigotry amongst the knuckledragging hoardes, and dared to criticise them for their inherent and intrinsic sectarianism. His honesty was more than the poor wee peepil could take (whatever happened to no-one likes us, we don't care ??) and for his services to the common decency and respect for our fellow human beings that the rest of us take for granted, he was rounded upon by the hun reprobates and stabbed in the back. Templeton was the head bluenose responsible for persuading the huns to U-turn on the idea of banning their own sectarian reprobates from away games. During hastily arranged summits, he convinced The Dark Lord, Baldy Bain, and security chief Kenny Scott that self-policing would cleanse Legoland of the bigotry, sectarianism, racism, xenophobia and blatantant anti-Catholic hatred, saying : "We had a very constructive meeting with the club and we are united in our desire to eradicate this kind of offensive behaviour. The club can only do so much - the rest is up to the fans. Rankers supporters no longer see themselves as sectarian and do not want to be seen as sectarian. They want to welcome everyone and accept it is time to move on. We now find ourselves with a minority who have not taken the warnings on board. We are now going to contact supporters clubs, and ask them to make sure their members know how to behave. The message will be reinforced on supporters' buses travelling to away matches. Cut out the FTP, cut out the addons and get on with supporting Rankers. The authorities also need to give us help because if we can't drown them out, they need to be willing to step in. We need the help of the police and stewards at away games so that people who are involved in this kind of behaviour are dealt with appropriately. Unfortunately, there are still some people who let us down, but we are united in our commitment to ensure they will not be allowed to prevail." Seems that one of their own, trying to drag them out of the 17th Century, and away from their hate-filled traditions, was more than they could take.
Posting sectarian hate messages on the Evening Times website, after the online version of the paper printed a story about the tragic death of 18-year-old Gerry McMahon, who died whilst falling down a stairwell at a concert in the Barrowlands. The comments, which could be read by Gerry’s grieving family, were so sickening, that the entire comments section was locked and deleted. Yet another milestone in the litany of hate that is the norm for these cretins.
Persistently wishing ill health on Gerry McNee, to the point of willing him to die of a heart attack. Frequent FF posts include phrases like : "Not long now eh Gerry ..... Tick Tock Gerry ..... Your coronary will be along any moment now Gerry - hope it's long, slow and painful ..... Never mind all this discreet tick tock stuff - the sooner that prick's dead the better. He constantly puts Rankers down, whether he tries to make a wonderful victory look shite, or whether he is calling us Nazis. The man is scum ..... Someday soon this cretin will have the chest clutching demise he fully deserves ..... Tick Tock Gerry, ya bitter old bastard." Charming.
Singing a despicable song about the murdered Polish student Angelika Kluk, a devout Catholic, who was killed by a sexual predator in Glasgow in September 2006. No-one is at peace from these degenerate hate-filled bastards.
Being called Nazi dimwits – by a reknowned hun hack – after they reverted to their predictable knuckledragging behaviour, after falling behind 1-0 to Dundee United at Tannadice. In his match report, Darryl Broadfoot, a prominent hun media cheerleader, was moved to say : “Rankers looked harassed from kick-off and only discovered a semblance of a groove after the half-time reshuffle. By then, frustration among a section of the away support manifested itself in unpalatable chants about Jock Stein and the nervous tick of Nazi salutes among a section of prime dimwits.” You know you’re a hun dimwit, when even your own feel moved to comment. Predictably, the huns went on to lose 2-1.
Having their CL away tie in Barcelona designated a "high-risk" match by Spain's anti-violence commission. The Spanish government's Ministry of the Interior, who set up a special anti-violence Commission to deal with matters of hooliganism and racism in football, announced that the huns' trip to Barcelona would be under scrutiny. A statement from the Commission stated : "The match between Barcelona and Rankers is a high-risk one, and we will monitor the match accordingly. Stringent security measures will be in place, to ensure that the capacity for any form of disorderly conduct is minimised, and that the visiting supporters are not permitted into areas of the stadium, other than their designated area."
Fighting inside Camp Nou during the game, and attacking Spanish supporters who flew an Irish tricolour. As BBC Radio Scotland’s Chick Young reported live, as the hooliganism unfolded right before his eyes : “A number of scuffles have broken out in that area behind the goal. The riot police with the visors and the batons are in among them. Cans are being thrown, and it's turning very ugly. Fighting is going on, and the police are moving in to break it up. One Rankers fan, wearing a kilt has been taken away, and it really is a powderkeg. Another fan wearing a Rankers shirt has also been dragged away.”
Being slated in the Spanish media for the scummy behaviour in Barcelona, and for turning one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, into a urine-stained rubbish tip, with their loutish, drunken, hooligan behaviour. As well as being photographed urinating on the Francesc Macia Monument – a Catalan hero – the huns were videoed brawling in Las Ramblas, and being dealt with by the Guardia Urbana riot police. Spanish media also reported bars being trashed as huns fought with huns, and one hooligan hun being ‘stabbed in the buttocks.’ The huns were also filmed making Fascist salutes, as one bright spark burned a Celtic shirt. Here’s me thinking they were supposed to be dignified.
Praising Benfica midfielder Augustin Binya, after his horrific and brutal challenge on Scott Brown during a Celtic v Benfica CL tie in Nov '07, which could easily have ended Brown's playing career in an instant. Such was the brutality of the tackle, Binya was hammered by UEFA, and banned for six European matches – but in the eyes of the hooligan huns, he deserved a medal. Strange the types of people these huns look up to ?!
Pledging support to Nigeria, and it's capital Abuja, as it went head to head with Glasgow to host the Commonwealth Games 2014. As the Glasgow delegation was in Sri Lanka, endeavouring to bring the games to Scotland, the huns on FF were busy hoing that Nigeria triumphed over Scotland, for no other reason than, that the opening ceremony would be held at Celtic Park, and that the east end of Glasgow would be regenerated with improved transport and sporting facilities. Bitter bastards, to a man.
FF posters RWA, Duranman & Clockwork Orange [amongst many others] making fun of, laughing at, and mocking former Celtic striker Phil O'Donnell as he lay dying on the field of play, at Fir Park. The posts were soon deleted by an embarrassed Admin (although not a single ban was issued over the vile posting), but not before the lowlife scumbags showed their total lack of decency for a dying man. RWA made his feelings pretty clear when he posted that he ‘couldnt give a shite about O’Donnell’ and Duranman aired similar sentiments moaning that he ’had no time for him at all – what position did he play for Rankers ?’ The shower of reprobate bastards further compounded their loathesome behaviour by claiming that subsequent match postponements involving Celtic [Celtic v Rankers, Motherwell v Celtic] where only made so that Celtic could benefit by resting players, and delaying a title challenge from the huns. This is despite the call offs being made by most member clubs of the the SPL, and after pleas from Rankers FC, Walter Smith, Ally McCoist, Barry Ferguson, David Weir, Lee McCulloch and others. Yet again, the warped, evil, and paranoid twisted hun bastards using human tragedy as a stick to beat Celtic with.
Z-list 'celebrity' huns Amy MacDonald, Leon Jackson, and John Smeaton slagging eachother off, and bad-mouthing eachother in the Daily Ranger, after it was revealed that the X-Factor no-mark was trying to charge club owners an extortionate £25,000 for a personal appearance gig where he would sing just three songs. Scots club owner Carlo Citti accused Leon of "greedy-itis", whilst MacDonald accused him of "lazy-itis" after he pulled out of three Hogmanay gigs in Glasgow, Falkirk and Dunfermline. Citti, who owns Campus in Glasgow, said : "Leon's agents have greedy-itis. I couldn't believe it when they asked me to fork out £25,000 for him to play my club on December 27 or Hogmanay. It wasn't just his festive price either. They told me the fee would be the same for other days over coming months. Celbrity hun Smeaton joined in the undignified rammy by slagging off MacDonald for slagging off Leon, whilst slagging off Leon himself. Dignity all the way huns.
David Edgar (hypocritical, pious, bigoted, lying, head knuckledragger of the Rankers Supporters Trust) being molligated live on the Real Radio football phone-in show, and outed as a bigot by a fellow hun. After spouting his lying pish about being non-sectarian and whiter-than-white, the lying hypocrite was brought back down to size by a permanently-raging fellow hun who screamed at him : "Dont you dare call us morons Edgar. You should be helping to educate the fans about not singing objectionable songs, not calling us morons. I saw - and heard you - in the Glaswegian pub after the Chelsea game last week, when we were ALL singing our songs - yourself included - and you weren't exactly complaining about it at the time, so don't you dare come on here and call us morons."
Being banned from entering Podgorica City, before their European away tie with Montenegrin minnows Zeta. As reported by the BBC : "Rankers fans face being excluded from Podgorica city centre ahead of their team's Champions League tie with Zeta. The Glasgow club are expecting around 400 fans to travel to the Montenegrin capital to attend the match, and BBC Sport understands that the fans will be penned into an area outside the city until close to kick-off. Rankers' chief of security, Kenny Scott, hopes to meet the authorities in Podgorica in an attempt to ease the restrictions on fans' movements." Even the minnows of Europe know about the huns and their endemic culture of violence and hate.
Jim Templeton, Chairman of the Rankers Supporters Assembly, and boardmember of the Rankers Supporters Trust being forced to resign from his post after he dared to speak out on the issue of bigotry amongst the knuckledragging hoardes, and dared to criticise them for their inherent and intrinsic sectarianism. His honesty was more than the poor wee peepil could take (whatever happened to no-one likes us, we don't care ??) and for his services to the common decency and respect for our fellow human beings that the rest of us take for granted, he was rounded upon by the hun reprobates and stabbed in the back. Templeton was the head bluenose responsible for persuading the huns to U-turn on the idea of banning their own sectarian reprobates from away games. During hastily arranged summits, he convinced The Dark Lord, Baldy Bain, and security chief Kenny Scott that self-policing would cleanse Legoland of the bigotry, sectarianism, racism, xenophobia and blatantant anti-Catholic hatred, saying : "We had a very constructive meeting with the club and we are united in our desire to eradicate this kind of offensive behaviour. The club can only do so much - the rest is up to the fans. Rankers supporters no longer see themselves as sectarian and do not want to be seen as sectarian. They want to welcome everyone and accept it is time to move on. We now find ourselves with a minority who have not taken the warnings on board. We are now going to contact supporters clubs, and ask them to make sure their members know how to behave. The message will be reinforced on supporters' buses travelling to away matches. Cut out the FTP, cut out the addons and get on with supporting Rankers. The authorities also need to give us help because if we can't drown them out, they need to be willing to step in. We need the help of the police and stewards at away games so that people who are involved in this kind of behaviour are dealt with appropriately. Unfortunately, there are still some people who let us down, but we are united in our commitment to ensure they will not be allowed to prevail." Seems that one of their own, trying to drag them out of the 17th Century, and away from their hate-filled traditions, was more than they could take.
Posting sectarian hate messages on the Evening Times website, after the online version of the paper printed a story about the tragic death of 18-year-old Gerry McMahon, who died whilst falling down a stairwell at a concert in the Barrowlands. The comments, which could be read by Gerry’s grieving family, were so sickening, that the entire comments section was locked and deleted. Yet another milestone in the litany of hate that is the norm for these cretins.
Persistently wishing ill health on Gerry McNee, to the point of willing him to die of a heart attack. Frequent FF posts include phrases like : "Not long now eh Gerry ..... Tick Tock Gerry ..... Your coronary will be along any moment now Gerry - hope it's long, slow and painful ..... Never mind all this discreet tick tock stuff - the sooner that prick's dead the better. He constantly puts Rankers down, whether he tries to make a wonderful victory look shite, or whether he is calling us Nazis. The man is scum ..... Someday soon this cretin will have the chest clutching demise he fully deserves ..... Tick Tock Gerry, ya bitter old bastard." Charming.
Singing a despicable song about the murdered Polish student Angelika Kluk, a devout Catholic, who was killed by a sexual predator in Glasgow in September 2006. No-one is at peace from these degenerate hate-filled bastards.
Being called Nazi dimwits – by a reknowned hun hack – after they reverted to their predictable knuckledragging behaviour, after falling behind 1-0 to Dundee United at Tannadice. In his match report, Darryl Broadfoot, a prominent hun media cheerleader, was moved to say : “Rankers looked harassed from kick-off and only discovered a semblance of a groove after the half-time reshuffle. By then, frustration among a section of the away support manifested itself in unpalatable chants about Jock Stein and the nervous tick of Nazi salutes among a section of prime dimwits.” You know you’re a hun dimwit, when even your own feel moved to comment. Predictably, the huns went on to lose 2-1.
Having their CL away tie in Barcelona designated a "high-risk" match by Spain's anti-violence commission. The Spanish government's Ministry of the Interior, who set up a special anti-violence Commission to deal with matters of hooliganism and racism in football, announced that the huns' trip to Barcelona would be under scrutiny. A statement from the Commission stated : "The match between Barcelona and Rankers is a high-risk one, and we will monitor the match accordingly. Stringent security measures will be in place, to ensure that the capacity for any form of disorderly conduct is minimised, and that the visiting supporters are not permitted into areas of the stadium, other than their designated area."
Fighting inside Camp Nou during the game, and attacking Spanish supporters who flew an Irish tricolour. As BBC Radio Scotland’s Chick Young reported live, as the hooliganism unfolded right before his eyes : “A number of scuffles have broken out in that area behind the goal. The riot police with the visors and the batons are in among them. Cans are being thrown, and it's turning very ugly. Fighting is going on, and the police are moving in to break it up. One Rankers fan, wearing a kilt has been taken away, and it really is a powderkeg. Another fan wearing a Rankers shirt has also been dragged away.”
Being slated in the Spanish media for the scummy behaviour in Barcelona, and for turning one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, into a urine-stained rubbish tip, with their loutish, drunken, hooligan behaviour. As well as being photographed urinating on the Francesc Macia Monument – a Catalan hero – the huns were videoed brawling in Las Ramblas, and being dealt with by the Guardia Urbana riot police. Spanish media also reported bars being trashed as huns fought with huns, and one hooligan hun being ‘stabbed in the buttocks.’ The huns were also filmed making Fascist salutes, as one bright spark burned a Celtic shirt. Here’s me thinking they were supposed to be dignified.
Praising Benfica midfielder Augustin Binya, after his horrific and brutal challenge on Scott Brown during a Celtic v Benfica CL tie in Nov '07, which could easily have ended Brown's playing career in an instant. Such was the brutality of the tackle, Binya was hammered by UEFA, and banned for six European matches – but in the eyes of the hooligan huns, he deserved a medal. Strange the types of people these huns look up to ?!
Pledging support to Nigeria, and it's capital Abuja, as it went head to head with Glasgow to host the Commonwealth Games 2014. As the Glasgow delegation was in Sri Lanka, endeavouring to bring the games to Scotland, the huns on FF were busy hoing that Nigeria triumphed over Scotland, for no other reason than, that the opening ceremony would be held at Celtic Park, and that the east end of Glasgow would be regenerated with improved transport and sporting facilities. Bitter bastards, to a man.
FF posters RWA, Duranman & Clockwork Orange [amongst many others] making fun of, laughing at, and mocking former Celtic striker Phil O'Donnell as he lay dying on the field of play, at Fir Park. The posts were soon deleted by an embarrassed Admin (although not a single ban was issued over the vile posting), but not before the lowlife scumbags showed their total lack of decency for a dying man. RWA made his feelings pretty clear when he posted that he ‘couldnt give a shite about O’Donnell’ and Duranman aired similar sentiments moaning that he ’had no time for him at all – what position did he play for Rankers ?’ The shower of reprobate bastards further compounded their loathesome behaviour by claiming that subsequent match postponements involving Celtic [Celtic v Rankers, Motherwell v Celtic] where only made so that Celtic could benefit by resting players, and delaying a title challenge from the huns. This is despite the call offs being made by most member clubs of the the SPL, and after pleas from Rankers FC, Walter Smith, Ally McCoist, Barry Ferguson, David Weir, Lee McCulloch and others. Yet again, the warped, evil, and paranoid twisted hun bastards using human tragedy as a stick to beat Celtic with.
Z-list 'celebrity' huns Amy MacDonald, Leon Jackson, and John Smeaton slagging eachother off, and bad-mouthing eachother in the Daily Ranger, after it was revealed that the X-Factor no-mark was trying to charge club owners an extortionate £25,000 for a personal appearance gig where he would sing just three songs. Scots club owner Carlo Citti accused Leon of "greedy-itis", whilst MacDonald accused him of "lazy-itis" after he pulled out of three Hogmanay gigs in Glasgow, Falkirk and Dunfermline. Citti, who owns Campus in Glasgow, said : "Leon's agents have greedy-itis. I couldn't believe it when they asked me to fork out £25,000 for him to play my club on December 27 or Hogmanay. It wasn't just his festive price either. They told me the fee would be the same for other days over coming months. Celbrity hun Smeaton joined in the undignified rammy by slagging off MacDonald for slagging off Leon, whilst slagging off Leon himself. Dignity all the way huns.
The Club
Being so football orientated, that they were started by a group of Protestant rowers, who named them after an English Rugby Club, and so that the founders – brothers Peter & Moses McNeill, William McBeath and Peter Campbell – could make a quick buck from flogging shirts from this new game of football. Their name was plagiarised from C W Alcock's : Manual Of English Rugby Teams. The huns set two very early precedents in their opening match at the first Ibrox - getting horsed, and hooliganism. On 20th August 1887, the oranges got murdered 8-1 by Preston North End, before the ref abandoned the game after 70mins, due to the hunnish hoardes rioting, and fighting amongst themselves.
John Ure Primrose, Club Chairman (1912-23), Unionist politician, and Worshipful Grandmaster of Plantation Lodge 581, immediately ruling, upon taking up his post at Ibrox, that : "Rankers could never field a Catholic player."
Achieving success during the World War Two era due to the fact that Bill Struth deliberately placed his players in reserved occupations in order that they might avoid active service. Plenty huns were to find sanctuary amongst their Loyalist bretheren in the Clyde shipyards, whilst plenty of others went off to war.
Vice-Chairman Matt Taylor openly stating in 1967 that Rankers policy of refusing to sign Catholics was 'part of our tradition .... we were formed in 1873 as a Protestant boys club. To change now would lose us considerable support.'
Playing in a strip that includes black socks with red tops, to signify being up to their knees in Fenian blood. Common smokescreens, cast to divert attention away from the reality include i) black and red are the colours of the local borough of Govan, and ii) the black and red represents a ship’s funnel, with Govan being the spiritual home of shipbuilding. The truth is somewhat more murky, and the real reason why so many huns vehemently and voiciferously oppose any changes to the club’s choice of sock colours.
Having a wartime friendly with Hibs abandoned, due to rioting huns invading the field of play and starting a mass brawl with the opposition fans. Probably didn’t at all, have anything to do with the fact that Hibs were winning 8 – 1 at the time !
Operating a sectarian, non-Catholic signing policy for nearly a century. Even employees who were married to Catholics suffered victimisation, and ostracisation including Sir Alex Ferguson who revealed in his autobiography that he was 'hounded out' of Ibrox because he was guilty of the heinous crime of having a Catholic wife. After the religion of his wife became known, Ferguson says he was ‘treated differently’ by former friends and colleagues.
Having their hooligan rioting history used as the basis for a study (Crowd Behaviour at Football Matches - A Study in Scotland : The Football Trust 1984) published by the Football Safety Officers (Scotland) who catalogued hun violence from the turn of the last century. The scathing indictment included the following litany of shame : " Riots, unruly behaviour, violence, assault and vandalism appear were a well established, and dominant part of the crowd behaviour from at the 1870s. Rankers had their quota of pitch invasions and abandoned matches, and their crowd seems to have gained a reputation fairly early on for having an unruly element. Neither of the New Year's Day matches in 1898 or 1905 finished, and the 1909 riot, in which 6,000 spectators beat up police, tore down goal posts, lit bonfires and cut firemen's hoses lasted for two and a half hours and resulted in 58 police and 60 others being treated at hospital. Influence from Northern Ireland was particularly strong during this period. Harland and Woolf started operating in Govan in 1912, bringing over many Protestant workers, while others came in the munition boom. Given that this was the bloody phase with war and then partition, it is not perhaps surprising that aspects of the culture of Ulster took deeper root in the West of Scotland. Disorder continued to be associated with Rankers' games, and there were notable outbreaks of disorder in 1941, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958 and on into the 1960s. The disorder comprised fighting, bottle throwing and pitch invasions, in addition to ritual chanting, obscenities, and jeering. The club appealed to their supporters in various ways to stop the rowdyism, which was seen as the work of a few hooligans. Certainly the Rankers' board seem to have been increasingly discomforted by the adverse publicity its supporters received and the open suggestions in the press that they were largely to blame for the problem and could help end it by signing a Catholic. There were significant crowd problems at Ibrox in 1973 and 1975, but it was a Rankers' fans riot in Birmingham in 1976 in a 'friendly' with Aston Villa, which provoked the biggest media storm. In general Rankers' expressions of disapproval and condemnation of 'certain sections' of their support, which had followed earlier outbreaks, were seen as irrelevant and now the Glasgow press severely criticised the club. The press detailed the Rankers' fans riots in Wolverhampton, Newcastle, Barcelona and now Birmingham, along with minor skirmishes elsewhere, and condemned the club. The general tone is revealed by Ian Archer in the Glasgow Herald, who stated : "This has to be said about Rankers ….. as a Scottish Football club they are a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace. This country would be a better place if Rankers did not exist".
The Death Star being the spiritual home of the Anti-Catholic Orange Order, and the huns holding the annual Divine Service there from the 1950's until 1997.
Don Kichenbrand having to keep his Catholic religion a secret from everyone at The Death Star during his years there as a player. He only revealed his religion after leaving Rankers, because he knew the club's sectarian signing policy would have meant instant pariah status for him, as Alex Ferguson later testified in his autobiography, whereupon he was ostracised and frowned upon for merely being married to a Catholic.
Recording a humiliatingly low crowd of just 2000 for a midweek fixture against Partick Thistle at Legoland in 1979, just 48 hours after getting gubbed 4-2 by ten man Celtic, who had won the League at Celtic Park. Newspaper articles at the time, prefaced match reports with the official attendance : 2000, as did the Rothmans Football Yearbook for that season. Davie Mackinnon, playing for Thistle that night, but who would later join Rankers, recalled the strange atmosphere : "I remember the match very well because it was also the day of my birthday - 23rd May. I had a picture of myself jousting with Davie Cooper for the ball. He’s coming at me and I have my back to the camera and all you can see in the background is terracing and not a single fan. I played at Ibrox for five seasons and although the club was going through a difficult period I don’t remember playing in front of anything as low at that." Other embarassingly poor attendances for the loyal and true followers of The Queen’s Eleven include just 4000 for a game against Ayr United in May 1972 – the season they won Europe’s third-best trophy, and were supposed to be flying high. They also embarassingly managed just 4500 for a Glasgow Cup tie with Clyde (1981/82), and a mere 5432 for a League Cup tie with Kilmarnock (1982/83). Follow, Follow …….. eh, mibbees not !!
Playing a benefit match against Partick Thistle to raise funds for a local 'community centre' which turned out to be a new Orange Hall, and the base for the local Orange Order - a sectarian organisation which is brazenly and unashamedly anti-Catholic.
Refusing to accept responsibility for the criminal and despicable actions of their players and fans. The club refuse to condemn the guilty parties, and indeed are often seen to condone their behaviour by failing to publicly - or even privately - censure them. There have been numerous incidents over the years in which criminal acts have gone unpunished, and similar despicable acts have been repressed and concealed. Cast your mind back, if you will to :
David Robertson vandalising parked cars on a drunken binge, Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson fighting in a kebab shop, Sandy Clark's sectarian abuse of Celtic Park ball-boys, Fernando Ricksen's litany of criminality - Paul Gascoigne's brutal domestic violence........ - Many of these incidents have resulted in criminal convictions, yet Rankers have still refused to condemn or sack the guilty parties - even though many have been found guilty in a court of law. Fernando Ricksen's violent conduct on Derek Riordan for example was dismissed as 'more reckless than violent' and Paul Gascoigne's spousal abuse was dismissed with the throwaway line 'what happens behind closed doors is no-one else's business'.
Playing a benefit match against Loyalist Linfield on May 10th 1955 (Linfield 0 - Rankers 2 : Waddell, Hubbard) to raise money for the anti-Catholic Orange Order, based at the Sandy Row Orange Hall.
Being caught cheating by tampering with the width of the park at Legoland before a CL tie with Dynamo Kiev. This was to try and stop the Kiev wide men from playing to their strengths. The unsporting behaviour brought furious reaction from UEFA who immediately instigated a new law to ban this kind of underhand behaviour from ever happening again. They criticised Rankers heavily for their ‘bad sportsmanship.’ Huns and level playing fields, eh ?!!
Umpteen members of the Legoland dressing room being members of the Catholic-hating Orange Order, including Eric Caldow and Bobby Shearer, and the revelation by former players that ex-Manager Jock 'The Bigot' Wallace encouraged players to scream 'No Surrender' in the dressing room pre-match, as they listened to Loyalist hate-anthems on cassette.
Rankers Vice Chairman, Donald Findlay being forced to resign from his position, and being fined £3500 by the Faculty Of Advocates, after being caught on film by a hidden camera singing sectarian, intolerant, and anti-Catholic anthems at a Rankers fans' victory celebration event. This is not the first time that repeated bigot Findlay has been embroiled in a sectarian incident. He was also forced to resign as Rector of St Andrews University after his despicable anti-Catholic and bigoted sentiments became public knowledge. This man was said to have been one of Scotland’s finest legal brains. If that’s how sectarian the intelligentsia are, what hope for the plebs ?
Claiming to be Scotland’s number one, despite finishing 5th in season ending ’80 - 3rd in seasons ending ’81, ’82 - 4th in seasons ending ’83, ’84, ’85, and back to 5th in season ending ’86. None of this however trumps their humiliating worst, which saw them finish 6th in season ending ’26.
Being dumped out of Europe yet again, this time from the UEFA Cup by Czech unknowns Viktoria Zizkov. Despite fielding a full-strength team (Klos, Moore, Konterman, Amoruso, Ricksen, Ferguson, Arteta, Numan, de Boer, Arveladze, Lovenkrands) - which included a string of highly-paid internationals, and allegedly ‘world class’ players, Rankers still managed to get embarassingly thumped by the anonymous Czech minnows. On the suggestion that Rankers were now the laughing stock of European football, one dejected Bear commented ‘I dont think our profile is now even high enough to be considered their laughing stock !?’
Graham Fyfe being forced out of Legoland, when the Ranker's administration found out of his intentions to marry a Roman Catholic. Despite spending seven years at the club, and scoring 31 goals in 87 matches, Fyfe was suddenly shown the door when his forthcoming controversial marriage plans attracted widespread media attention. By his own admission, Fyfe was twice summoned to manager Willie Waddell’s office, and told that to remain at Legoland, he would need to both, get married in a Protestant church, and would have to convert his new spouse to Protestantism. Anything else, would be unacceptable to the knuckledraggers who followed the club, and to the intrinsic bigots who ran it. When it became clear that Fyfe had no intention of complying with this outrageous sectarian intimidation, he was dumped from the first team, before being hastily transferred to Hibs.
Setting a European Cup record for being the team humped with the highest aggregate score (murdered 12 – 4 [1-6, 3-6] by Eintracht Frankfurt in season 1959/60) and a Champions League record as well (annihilated 8 - 1 [1-4, 0-4] by Juventus in 1995/96).
The cynical release of an orange Rankers shirt to appeal to the club's sectarian element - under the guise that they were celebrating the club's Dutch contingent. This blatantly profiteering charade was even derided by the club's own fans who disgustedly remarked that they (Rankers FC) strangely haven't celebrated the Dutch contingent at any other time - before or since. So blatant is the club’s homage to their sectarian fanbase and the orange pound that they soon after released another almost identical shirt – this time in a cynical and bizarre link-up with a team of Chinese minnows.
The shameful and cynical designing of a sash - sorry slash - across the chest of the current Away kit to pander to the club’s lowest common denominator and sectarian fan-base. Critics were accused of ‘paranoia’ over what was described as ‘a mere coincidence of design’. Funny, I seem to remember it co-incidentally happening at Loyalist-friendly Airdrie FC for a time as well.
The Beast confirming in his autobiography (Souness - The Management Years : Graeme Souness with Mike Ellis) that the huns were rife with anger and hate after the signing of Catholic footballer Maurice Johnstone. On the initial reaction, The Beast revealed : "He was the first Catholic to join the club, and some of our fans were outraged." On the subsequent completion of the transfer, The Beast further revealed : "I suggested Maurice and I, plus some club officials, should make a public appearance in front of the fans waiting outside the ground. We walked down the marble staircase and when I opened the front door there were a few hundred supporters present. Some of them were burning their season tickets and others were setting fire to their blue and white scarves. When I tuned around to see who else had come to the door with me there was nobody there. Don't ask me where they had all gone - my friends and colleagues must have found something else to do. All I know, is that I was left facing an angry crowd by myself."
Drowning in so much crippling debt, that they had to sell off an entire team to try and rid themselves of £80million worth of mismanagent and over-spending. Out went players like (Amoruso, Tugay, Albertz, Van Bronckhurst, Gattuso, Amato, Reyna, Cannigia, De Boer, Numan, Ferguson, Arteta, Mols) – and in came some of the biggest embarassments and over-the-hill duds ever to grace the field at Legoland (Capucho, Emerson, Vanoli, Nerlinger, Ostenstad, Berg, Mladenovich) to play alongside the likes of Ross, Malcolm, Hughes, Thompson, Rae, Hutton, Namouchi…… Oh dear.
Only preventing ‘celebrity’ Rankers uber-hun and convicted Loyalist paramilitary terrorist murderer Michael Stone from attending a Rankers -v- Celtic match after grave concerns over public order being expressed by Strathclyde Police, who threatened to arrest him if he attempted to enter the stadium. Michael Stone murdered three innocent Catholics in a cowardly, murderous, graveyard bloodbath as he attacked a funeral procession with hand grenades and a pistol.
Failing to censure Club-Captain Lorenzo Amoruso after he was convicted of spitting on Ayr United striker James Grady. The condemnation from within Ibrox was deafening in it’s silence, limited only to a pathetic moan by Gingerbaws who grumbled "We hoped that the player's version of events would be accepted. It's a major blow to lose Lorenzo at this stage of the season."
Being so football orientated, that they were started by a group of Protestant rowers, who named them after an English Rugby Club, and so that the founders – brothers Peter & Moses McNeill, William McBeath and Peter Campbell – could make a quick buck from flogging shirts from this new game of football. Their name was plagiarised from C W Alcock's : Manual Of English Rugby Teams. The huns set two very early precedents in their opening match at the first Ibrox - getting horsed, and hooliganism. On 20th August 1887, the oranges got murdered 8-1 by Preston North End, before the ref abandoned the game after 70mins, due to the hunnish hoardes rioting, and fighting amongst themselves.
John Ure Primrose, Club Chairman (1912-23), Unionist politician, and Worshipful Grandmaster of Plantation Lodge 581, immediately ruling, upon taking up his post at Ibrox, that : "Rankers could never field a Catholic player."
Achieving success during the World War Two era due to the fact that Bill Struth deliberately placed his players in reserved occupations in order that they might avoid active service. Plenty huns were to find sanctuary amongst their Loyalist bretheren in the Clyde shipyards, whilst plenty of others went off to war.
Vice-Chairman Matt Taylor openly stating in 1967 that Rankers policy of refusing to sign Catholics was 'part of our tradition .... we were formed in 1873 as a Protestant boys club. To change now would lose us considerable support.'
Playing in a strip that includes black socks with red tops, to signify being up to their knees in Fenian blood. Common smokescreens, cast to divert attention away from the reality include i) black and red are the colours of the local borough of Govan, and ii) the black and red represents a ship’s funnel, with Govan being the spiritual home of shipbuilding. The truth is somewhat more murky, and the real reason why so many huns vehemently and voiciferously oppose any changes to the club’s choice of sock colours.
Having a wartime friendly with Hibs abandoned, due to rioting huns invading the field of play and starting a mass brawl with the opposition fans. Probably didn’t at all, have anything to do with the fact that Hibs were winning 8 – 1 at the time !
Operating a sectarian, non-Catholic signing policy for nearly a century. Even employees who were married to Catholics suffered victimisation, and ostracisation including Sir Alex Ferguson who revealed in his autobiography that he was 'hounded out' of Ibrox because he was guilty of the heinous crime of having a Catholic wife. After the religion of his wife became known, Ferguson says he was ‘treated differently’ by former friends and colleagues.
Having their hooligan rioting history used as the basis for a study (Crowd Behaviour at Football Matches - A Study in Scotland : The Football Trust 1984) published by the Football Safety Officers (Scotland) who catalogued hun violence from the turn of the last century. The scathing indictment included the following litany of shame : " Riots, unruly behaviour, violence, assault and vandalism appear were a well established, and dominant part of the crowd behaviour from at the 1870s. Rankers had their quota of pitch invasions and abandoned matches, and their crowd seems to have gained a reputation fairly early on for having an unruly element. Neither of the New Year's Day matches in 1898 or 1905 finished, and the 1909 riot, in which 6,000 spectators beat up police, tore down goal posts, lit bonfires and cut firemen's hoses lasted for two and a half hours and resulted in 58 police and 60 others being treated at hospital. Influence from Northern Ireland was particularly strong during this period. Harland and Woolf started operating in Govan in 1912, bringing over many Protestant workers, while others came in the munition boom. Given that this was the bloody phase with war and then partition, it is not perhaps surprising that aspects of the culture of Ulster took deeper root in the West of Scotland. Disorder continued to be associated with Rankers' games, and there were notable outbreaks of disorder in 1941, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958 and on into the 1960s. The disorder comprised fighting, bottle throwing and pitch invasions, in addition to ritual chanting, obscenities, and jeering. The club appealed to their supporters in various ways to stop the rowdyism, which was seen as the work of a few hooligans. Certainly the Rankers' board seem to have been increasingly discomforted by the adverse publicity its supporters received and the open suggestions in the press that they were largely to blame for the problem and could help end it by signing a Catholic. There were significant crowd problems at Ibrox in 1973 and 1975, but it was a Rankers' fans riot in Birmingham in 1976 in a 'friendly' with Aston Villa, which provoked the biggest media storm. In general Rankers' expressions of disapproval and condemnation of 'certain sections' of their support, which had followed earlier outbreaks, were seen as irrelevant and now the Glasgow press severely criticised the club. The press detailed the Rankers' fans riots in Wolverhampton, Newcastle, Barcelona and now Birmingham, along with minor skirmishes elsewhere, and condemned the club. The general tone is revealed by Ian Archer in the Glasgow Herald, who stated : "This has to be said about Rankers ….. as a Scottish Football club they are a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace. This country would be a better place if Rankers did not exist".
The Death Star being the spiritual home of the Anti-Catholic Orange Order, and the huns holding the annual Divine Service there from the 1950's until 1997.
Don Kichenbrand having to keep his Catholic religion a secret from everyone at The Death Star during his years there as a player. He only revealed his religion after leaving Rankers, because he knew the club's sectarian signing policy would have meant instant pariah status for him, as Alex Ferguson later testified in his autobiography, whereupon he was ostracised and frowned upon for merely being married to a Catholic.
Recording a humiliatingly low crowd of just 2000 for a midweek fixture against Partick Thistle at Legoland in 1979, just 48 hours after getting gubbed 4-2 by ten man Celtic, who had won the League at Celtic Park. Newspaper articles at the time, prefaced match reports with the official attendance : 2000, as did the Rothmans Football Yearbook for that season. Davie Mackinnon, playing for Thistle that night, but who would later join Rankers, recalled the strange atmosphere : "I remember the match very well because it was also the day of my birthday - 23rd May. I had a picture of myself jousting with Davie Cooper for the ball. He’s coming at me and I have my back to the camera and all you can see in the background is terracing and not a single fan. I played at Ibrox for five seasons and although the club was going through a difficult period I don’t remember playing in front of anything as low at that." Other embarassingly poor attendances for the loyal and true followers of The Queen’s Eleven include just 4000 for a game against Ayr United in May 1972 – the season they won Europe’s third-best trophy, and were supposed to be flying high. They also embarassingly managed just 4500 for a Glasgow Cup tie with Clyde (1981/82), and a mere 5432 for a League Cup tie with Kilmarnock (1982/83). Follow, Follow …….. eh, mibbees not !!
Playing a benefit match against Partick Thistle to raise funds for a local 'community centre' which turned out to be a new Orange Hall, and the base for the local Orange Order - a sectarian organisation which is brazenly and unashamedly anti-Catholic.
Refusing to accept responsibility for the criminal and despicable actions of their players and fans. The club refuse to condemn the guilty parties, and indeed are often seen to condone their behaviour by failing to publicly - or even privately - censure them. There have been numerous incidents over the years in which criminal acts have gone unpunished, and similar despicable acts have been repressed and concealed. Cast your mind back, if you will to :
David Robertson vandalising parked cars on a drunken binge, Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson fighting in a kebab shop, Sandy Clark's sectarian abuse of Celtic Park ball-boys, Fernando Ricksen's litany of criminality - Paul Gascoigne's brutal domestic violence........ - Many of these incidents have resulted in criminal convictions, yet Rankers have still refused to condemn or sack the guilty parties - even though many have been found guilty in a court of law. Fernando Ricksen's violent conduct on Derek Riordan for example was dismissed as 'more reckless than violent' and Paul Gascoigne's spousal abuse was dismissed with the throwaway line 'what happens behind closed doors is no-one else's business'.
Playing a benefit match against Loyalist Linfield on May 10th 1955 (Linfield 0 - Rankers 2 : Waddell, Hubbard) to raise money for the anti-Catholic Orange Order, based at the Sandy Row Orange Hall.
Being caught cheating by tampering with the width of the park at Legoland before a CL tie with Dynamo Kiev. This was to try and stop the Kiev wide men from playing to their strengths. The unsporting behaviour brought furious reaction from UEFA who immediately instigated a new law to ban this kind of underhand behaviour from ever happening again. They criticised Rankers heavily for their ‘bad sportsmanship.’ Huns and level playing fields, eh ?!!
Umpteen members of the Legoland dressing room being members of the Catholic-hating Orange Order, including Eric Caldow and Bobby Shearer, and the revelation by former players that ex-Manager Jock 'The Bigot' Wallace encouraged players to scream 'No Surrender' in the dressing room pre-match, as they listened to Loyalist hate-anthems on cassette.
Rankers Vice Chairman, Donald Findlay being forced to resign from his position, and being fined £3500 by the Faculty Of Advocates, after being caught on film by a hidden camera singing sectarian, intolerant, and anti-Catholic anthems at a Rankers fans' victory celebration event. This is not the first time that repeated bigot Findlay has been embroiled in a sectarian incident. He was also forced to resign as Rector of St Andrews University after his despicable anti-Catholic and bigoted sentiments became public knowledge. This man was said to have been one of Scotland’s finest legal brains. If that’s how sectarian the intelligentsia are, what hope for the plebs ?
Claiming to be Scotland’s number one, despite finishing 5th in season ending ’80 - 3rd in seasons ending ’81, ’82 - 4th in seasons ending ’83, ’84, ’85, and back to 5th in season ending ’86. None of this however trumps their humiliating worst, which saw them finish 6th in season ending ’26.
Being dumped out of Europe yet again, this time from the UEFA Cup by Czech unknowns Viktoria Zizkov. Despite fielding a full-strength team (Klos, Moore, Konterman, Amoruso, Ricksen, Ferguson, Arteta, Numan, de Boer, Arveladze, Lovenkrands) - which included a string of highly-paid internationals, and allegedly ‘world class’ players, Rankers still managed to get embarassingly thumped by the anonymous Czech minnows. On the suggestion that Rankers were now the laughing stock of European football, one dejected Bear commented ‘I dont think our profile is now even high enough to be considered their laughing stock !?’
Graham Fyfe being forced out of Legoland, when the Ranker's administration found out of his intentions to marry a Roman Catholic. Despite spending seven years at the club, and scoring 31 goals in 87 matches, Fyfe was suddenly shown the door when his forthcoming controversial marriage plans attracted widespread media attention. By his own admission, Fyfe was twice summoned to manager Willie Waddell’s office, and told that to remain at Legoland, he would need to both, get married in a Protestant church, and would have to convert his new spouse to Protestantism. Anything else, would be unacceptable to the knuckledraggers who followed the club, and to the intrinsic bigots who ran it. When it became clear that Fyfe had no intention of complying with this outrageous sectarian intimidation, he was dumped from the first team, before being hastily transferred to Hibs.
Setting a European Cup record for being the team humped with the highest aggregate score (murdered 12 – 4 [1-6, 3-6] by Eintracht Frankfurt in season 1959/60) and a Champions League record as well (annihilated 8 - 1 [1-4, 0-4] by Juventus in 1995/96).
The cynical release of an orange Rankers shirt to appeal to the club's sectarian element - under the guise that they were celebrating the club's Dutch contingent. This blatantly profiteering charade was even derided by the club's own fans who disgustedly remarked that they (Rankers FC) strangely haven't celebrated the Dutch contingent at any other time - before or since. So blatant is the club’s homage to their sectarian fanbase and the orange pound that they soon after released another almost identical shirt – this time in a cynical and bizarre link-up with a team of Chinese minnows.
The shameful and cynical designing of a sash - sorry slash - across the chest of the current Away kit to pander to the club’s lowest common denominator and sectarian fan-base. Critics were accused of ‘paranoia’ over what was described as ‘a mere coincidence of design’. Funny, I seem to remember it co-incidentally happening at Loyalist-friendly Airdrie FC for a time as well.
The Beast confirming in his autobiography (Souness - The Management Years : Graeme Souness with Mike Ellis) that the huns were rife with anger and hate after the signing of Catholic footballer Maurice Johnstone. On the initial reaction, The Beast revealed : "He was the first Catholic to join the club, and some of our fans were outraged." On the subsequent completion of the transfer, The Beast further revealed : "I suggested Maurice and I, plus some club officials, should make a public appearance in front of the fans waiting outside the ground. We walked down the marble staircase and when I opened the front door there were a few hundred supporters present. Some of them were burning their season tickets and others were setting fire to their blue and white scarves. When I tuned around to see who else had come to the door with me there was nobody there. Don't ask me where they had all gone - my friends and colleagues must have found something else to do. All I know, is that I was left facing an angry crowd by myself."
Drowning in so much crippling debt, that they had to sell off an entire team to try and rid themselves of £80million worth of mismanagent and over-spending. Out went players like (Amoruso, Tugay, Albertz, Van Bronckhurst, Gattuso, Amato, Reyna, Cannigia, De Boer, Numan, Ferguson, Arteta, Mols) – and in came some of the biggest embarassments and over-the-hill duds ever to grace the field at Legoland (Capucho, Emerson, Vanoli, Nerlinger, Ostenstad, Berg, Mladenovich) to play alongside the likes of Ross, Malcolm, Hughes, Thompson, Rae, Hutton, Namouchi…… Oh dear.
Only preventing ‘celebrity’ Rankers uber-hun and convicted Loyalist paramilitary terrorist murderer Michael Stone from attending a Rankers -v- Celtic match after grave concerns over public order being expressed by Strathclyde Police, who threatened to arrest him if he attempted to enter the stadium. Michael Stone murdered three innocent Catholics in a cowardly, murderous, graveyard bloodbath as he attacked a funeral procession with hand grenades and a pistol.
Failing to censure Club-Captain Lorenzo Amoruso after he was convicted of spitting on Ayr United striker James Grady. The condemnation from within Ibrox was deafening in it’s silence, limited only to a pathetic moan by Gingerbaws who grumbled "We hoped that the player's version of events would be accepted. It's a major blow to lose Lorenzo at this stage of the season."
Being absolutely shredded by former hero Artur Numan, who slated them for being so tight-arsed, that he had to ask them to repeat their derisory contract offer to him, he was so shocked. As Numan revealed : "I was numb. I thought he (Bain) must have made a mistake, and I replied : "Can you repeat that please ?" He did and it was the same figure. So I was not hearing things. I thought they were taking the piss. I was a player with 45 Holland caps and someone who had helped Rankers win leagues and cups. But they insulted me, and made me feel like a 17-year-old kid. They could tell by my reaction I was far from happy. I felt it was an insult, a slap in my face. I left the room bitterly disappointed. I got the impression Rankers thought they could get away with offering me a drastically reduced deal because they were taking advantage of my loyalty. They took me for granted and expected me to settle for almost anything. "On 13th February at 3pm Bain sent a fax to my agent Joop Korevaar, saying there was no increase on the second offer and I had until 6pm that night to agree to the deal. I found a three-hour ultimatum insulting. So I said to Joop : "Fuck them. Rankers owner David Murray made two attempts to get me to change my mind and stay at Ibrox. On February 22nd we played in the Scottish Cup against Ayr United at Somerset Park. Murray said to me : "You haven't agreed terms. But you didn't speak to me." I told him : "And I'm not going to speak to you about it. Sorry - you had your chance and you blew it." I felt let down by Murray and the other people in power at Rankers. Towards the end of the season Murray had another go at trying to keep me. He asked me again, if I'd sign. Far too much water had passed under the bridge by that point and I said : "David you can offer me double the amount of money I'm on and I still wouldn't sign." I wanted to make it absolutely clear that my decision was not down to cash - it was about the manner in which they had insulted me. For a player who'd never caused them trouble, never attracted a negative headline for off-field behaviour, I should have been treated with a bit more respect."
Rankers director and second-largest shareholder Dave King being arrested and charged over further corruption and fraud allegations in South Africa. King, a hun previously from Castlemilk, is being quizzed over allegations that he bribed a water utility manager to ensure contracts would be awarded to one of his investment firms. King, who invested £20m in Rankers in 2000, already faces 11 counts of fraud involving non-payment of almost £60m in taxes. He has now been charged with an additional 311 counts of racketeering, tax evasion, money-laundering, and exchange control infringements. The latest charges follow allegations by David McLean, who succeeded him as chief executive at another of his companies, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). It is alleged that King enticed Greg Morris, the water firm manager, to join ERM with 400,000 share options in exchange for manipulating a contract. Morris, who later left the water company to work for King, has also been charged. King lives in luxury although he claims to to have no assets in South Africa. He is alleged to have declared income of only £3500 a year to tax authorities, although his personal wealth is estimated at around £200m. On this meagre income he is alleged to have bought a £7.8m Falcon 900B 13-seater jet, a Ferrari, two homes, a vinery, and share in a stud farm – although he didn’t get much use out of the jet. It, along with his passport, was seized by South African anti-fraud investigators. In April 2006, judges at the Supreme Court Of Appeal ruled that the jet – the main asset of his company Hawker Air (being forcibly liquidated by South African treasury lawyers) – be sold to cover his tax debts, which by now, had exceeded £235 million.
Refusing to sack Bob Malcolm for signing a Rankers fan's match programme with the sectarian slogan 'F*ck The Pope'. Despite claiming to be intolerant of such bigoted and hate-filled attitudes, and citing puppet initiatives as evidence of this, Rankers refused to terminate his contract. Surely actions speak louder than words ?!
Being pilloried by Radio One for being the only club in Britain not to donate a club shirt to Children in Need. Only in the face of rage and criticism, were the huns forced into a humiliating climbdown on their selfish and uncharitable stance.
Accepting a £1million investment from convicted drug-dealing, sectarian, sociopath Lotto thug Michael Carroll, who has over 30 convictions for almost every kind of anti-social offence imaginable. Carroll recently threatened to ‘knife anyone who tried to sponge off him.’ Hope Mr Murray’s got a good bodyguard. Having said that, when you’re drowning in a sea of debt, the psycho’s pound is as good as any, eh ?!
Alex McLeish’s disgusting defence of Alex Rae’s brutal onfield assault on CSKA Moscow player Sergei Dadu during a UCL qualification tie. After Rae brutally and thuggishly kicked Dadu in the head – despite the player lying face down on the ground, McLeish sickeningly claimed “the ball was there to be won…..it just so happened that a Moscow player was lying beside it at the time." Funnily enough, UEFA – and the rest of the civilized world - never saw it that way, and slapped a 5 match European ban on hot-head Rae for Gross Sporting Misconduct. In a further feat of refusal to accept any form of responsibility for his player’s thuggery, McLeish appealed the ban. Not surprisingly, he was told where to go.
The disgraceful situation in which Michael Ball was barred from playing for the first team, because any further appearances would invoke a clause in his contract which would force impoverished Rankers to pay Everton a further fee of £500,000. In order to avoid paying this amount, Ball was uncerimoniously dumped into the reserves and his career forced to stagnate. For a lengthy period, he faced the ignominy of being forced to pay the money out of his own pocket, just so he could resume his career – and later admitted that he was forced to do exactly that. Rankers repeatedly stalled until Everton were forced into accepting a hush-deal, with Ball being the one who footed the bill.
Being pilloried by ex-director Hugh Adam for their ineptitude and mismanagement. Adams lifted the lid on the culture of bullying, fear, and toadying that pervades Ibrox. Despite being a director for decades, Adams was forced out because he refused to be bullied by David Murray, whom he accuses of driving the club towards receivership.
Operating a club shop that is despised by the fans for it’s embarassing, shambolic, and money-grabbing ethos. The Rankers Shop is viewed by the huns as an embarassing rip-off merchant that lacks even the most basic knowledge about the club, whilst punting the fans the most inferior of products, at the most astronomical margins. One ‘fan’ who called in on a Saturday afternoon for a score update was asked “ Who’s playing ?” whilst another, when he asked for Jorg Albertz video ‘The Slammer’ was met with the reply “ Who ?”. On another occaision a customer was asked how to spell ‘Stefan Klos’ when he went in to get his shirt printed – although maybe not a bad idea since the ’50 League Titles Special’ jersey was released with a ‘special limited edition’ print that misspelled the names of two of their er, legends. The shop has also been asked by ‘the peepil’ to stop selling products that erroneously describe the club’s name as ‘Glasgow Rankers’. Mibbees Murray sold the original name when no-one was watching ?!
Branding Aberdeen fans as 'scum' and their players 'overpaid underachievers' in a 1998 Official Rankers Matchday Programme. Club captain Richard Gough also claimed that The Dons only try hard four times per season – against Rankers, and thug-in-a-blue-jersey, John Brown calling the Aberdeen fans 'morons'.
Artur Numan slating The Little Genital for being a despot who favoured his own little clique, who lost the respect of the players, and who openly slagged them off in the media. Numan revealed : "He absolutely slaughtered us in his post-match interviews. He called us 'shameful, hopeless and claimed that too many of us had big heads.' He claimed that 'the players were more interested in golf and PlayStations than turning out for Rankers.' The lads felt he shouldn't have gone public with that kind of criticism. I got the feeling there was no way back for him with several of the guys, and because the place had more unhappy faces than happy ones Dick could not do his job properly. The problems really started in the third campaign. By the time the 2000-01 term began we had Dutchmen at different levels of the club. Accusations of too much of a Dutch influence would start to come out if things weren't going right. A lot of the players were under-performing that season. Some players had fallen out during Dick's third season. But this is normal. What concerned me most was that guys like Sergio Porrini and Andrei Kanchelskis were happy NOT to see their names on the squad sheet. That behaviour was typical of the dressing room then, and I don't believe that Dick was blameless. He was sometimes too strict and things would have been different, if he handled things better."
Being criticised by FIFA, UEFA, and the Australian Soccer Association for their shameful and draconian treatment of Craig Moore. Guilty of nothing more than patriotism, Moore was stripped of his captaincy and immediately transfer-listed - all because he wanted to represent his country at the Olympic Games in Athens. Rankers only relented after being warned by the ASA, who threatened to ban Moore from playing club matches if they attempted to prevent him from travelling to Greece. Also withdrawn was the players right to a testimonial match which he had earned after showing over ELEVEN YEARS of loyal service and committment to Rankers. Rankers have a history of repeatedly withdrawing their players from international duty with convenient excuses, and temporary (and miraculously disappearing) injuries. At the same time, their fans and ex-players hypocritically criticise others who opt to play for the country of their birthright and democratic choice.
David Murray refusing to censure the Ibrox bigots after a full stadium of them were broadcast on live television openly and sectarianly abusing Martin O’Neill after he had the temerity to speak out on their repeated and continued despicable racial abuse of Neil Lennon. David Murray would later claim – in the face of blatant aural and visual evidence to the contrary – that Rankers fans were ‘decent, respectable people’.
Having to put typed song-sheets onto fans’ seats before a CL tie against ManUre because the loyal loyal billyboy true blue fans didn’t actually know the words to any of the club songs.
Getting embarassingly horsed out of Europe yet again - and again for the second time in the same season - after a woeful display against an ordinary Auxerre side. Despite being the group’s top seed, winning their opening two games, sitting atop the group on maximum points, and there being an incredible THREE qualification places up for grabs, Rankers finished in fourth place behind lowly teams like Dutch also-rans Alkmaar and Austrian unknowns Grazer. That is in addition to, and despite of, needing only a single point from their remaining two games, from one of the identified easiest groups of the round. Of the entire eight groups, Rankers were the only team who won two games, but still failed to progress. Even die-hard fans found it hard to stomach such an 'amatuer, shambolic, and woeful' performance, as hapless manager Alex McLeish was forced to concede. As Auxerre coach Guy Roux wryly commented, "I didn't expect it to be quite so easy tonight." It left Rankers European record under the clueless McLeish reading : Played 20, Won 6, Drawn 4, Lost 10. One of those wins came against the anonymous, and utterly unheard of Amica Wronki, whilst another only happened only after a 2nd leg last-gasp, extra-time, penalty shoot-out, against lowly Portuguese minnows Maritimo – who had already beaten Rankers in the 1st leg. Simply the best - hmm judge for yourself.
Being bent over and shafted – yet again – by The Beast, who uses them as a cheap feeder club. Souness impinges on Rankers desperate financial situation to bleed them of their only assets, and abuses his one-sided friendship with David Murray to lure away players like Tugay, Amoruso, Ferguson, and Boumsong.
Failing to take any action when one of their security staff was convicted of sexually harrassing two female collegues. James McVey, a senior recruitment manager at Ibrox stadium was investigated after numerous complaints regarding his sleazy conduct. Despite being found guilty during an internal investigation, McVey is allowed to keep his job, despite it giving him access to sensitive and personal information about his victims.
Having a fanbase so ‘loyal’, the club still can’t sell their full allocation of Season Books. Despite hawking them around for half their face value at Xmas, the club was still left with an abundance of them in mid-February. The tickets no-one wanted were being offered for £109.00 including the final game – v – Celtic, yet they still couldn’t shift them. Fickle gloryhunters – you better believe it.
Artur Numan revealing that The Little Genital oversaw a regime of favouritism and mismanagement during his time at The Death Star. As Numan revealed : "In November 2000, there was a training-ground bust-up, when Fernando Ricksen and Andrei Kanchelskis started fighting. They had a big argument over a tackle. Andrei threw the first punch and Fernando retaliated. Advocaat and some players stepped in to break it up. The gaffer sent Kanchelskis back to the bus to wait for the rest of the squad, which was wrong. He should have sent both players away as they were as guilty as each other. Kanchelskis wasn't happy and was shouting 'Dutch arseholes'. The incident came out in the papers and Advocaat was accused of favouring the Dutch. It was the last thing we needed. He failed to make the right call and didn't help himself. When he left Rankers, he wanted to go with a positive send-off but it never happened. He will always be remembered as the man who wasted £12million on Tore Andre Flo and brought too many of his countrymen to Ibrox."
Gingerbaws openly admitting in the media before the 'Cooper Cup Final' that he tried to offload Rankers resident psychotic timebomb, Fernando The Commando. After numerous drunken, criminal, and violent exploits that besmirched the club's already tarnished and infamous reputation for notoriety, McLeish decided enough was enough, and the man with the wild staring eyes would have to go. Rickhead received counselling and was ordered to curtail his drunken psychotic behaviour, as the club contemplated ways of offloading the weirdo. The problem was, Rankers never received a single offer for the drunk-driving, lampost-felling, nocturnal-trampolining, pyrotechnic, neighbour-from-hell, so they were up shit creek without a canoe - never mind a paddle. Reports of interest - even from his previous club AZ Alkmaar - were shown to be nothing more than a pathetic attempt by the Rankers-friendly media to shift on the problem, by trying to generate something even resembling an interest in this problematic and seemingly possessed, unsellable loser. Unable to get rid of psychoboy, Rankers promoted him to Club Captain. He repaid them by getting red-carded against Aberdeen.
Security Chief Lawrence Mackintyre assaulting a fan who ran onto the Ibrox pitch. After the 'Cooper' CIS Cup win at the national white elephant, TFOD returned to The Death Star to celebrate winning The Diddy Cup. An over-excited orc (they hadn't won a trophy for 2 years) ran onto the park and made a beeline for Celtic reject Nacho Novo for an autograph. Unfortunately for him, he was first arrested by the fluorescent-jacketed nazis, before being handed over to hired thug Macintyre, who was witnessed by many thousands of huns 'kneeing the wee ned in the bollocks." Mackintyre's violence was reported to a number of police officers in attendance, but so far, the silence from official circles has been deafening. Wouldn’t be because he’s ex-plod himself now would it ?!
Failing to hold a one-minute silence the day after the death of Pope John Paul II, despite every other match being played in England on the same day doing so. Matches being played all over the world did likewise, and in Italy they were cancelled completely. EPL players of all creed and denomination wore black armbands as a mark of respect to one of the greatest pacifists and humanitarians of our generation, but the small-minded bigots in Scotland couldn't be trusted to do likewise. Around the globe, his death was mourned by billions of Catholics and Non-Catholics alike - except by the huns who denigrated his memory with their vile and putrid sectarian chanting. This hatred is in direct contrast to the tens of thousands of Catholics and non-monarchists, who observed silence tributes after the deaths of The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and Diana - Princess Of Wales. This is additionally despite an Anti-Catholic constitutional decree that forbids a Catholic from becoming the Monarch.
Being slated by the influential 'GroundsTour' website during a matchday visit to The Death Star. Awarding Ibrox a measley 37 out of a possible 100, Steve Johnson notably observed : "The atmosphere was tedious, with the fans only making any effort when prompted to, and lacking any real passion. More than anything else, the home supporters were completely devoid of a sense of humour. Every chant from the Kilmarnock fans was greeted with two fingered salutes and vitriol from the Rankers spectators, with some ejected from the Broomloan Stand by police. The most innocuous challenges against Rankers players were met with tirades of verbal abuse being hurled at the match officials and opposition players, all highly unnecessary given the one-sided nature of the game. With fans sat in the ground wearing Ulster scarves, holding their arms aloft singing 'Rule Britannia', it was an uncomfortable and unpleasant ninety minutes sat amongst the Rankers spectators whose antics were as predictable as they were bigoted. It was not hard to see why so few Kilmarnock fans had wanted to make the trip, with the Rankers fans' never tiring of telling the Kilmarnock followers what they thought of the visiting team. I doubt I will return.”
Rankers director and second-largest shareholder Dave King being arrested and charged over further corruption and fraud allegations in South Africa. King, a hun previously from Castlemilk, is being quizzed over allegations that he bribed a water utility manager to ensure contracts would be awarded to one of his investment firms. King, who invested £20m in Rankers in 2000, already faces 11 counts of fraud involving non-payment of almost £60m in taxes. He has now been charged with an additional 311 counts of racketeering, tax evasion, money-laundering, and exchange control infringements. The latest charges follow allegations by David McLean, who succeeded him as chief executive at another of his companies, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). It is alleged that King enticed Greg Morris, the water firm manager, to join ERM with 400,000 share options in exchange for manipulating a contract. Morris, who later left the water company to work for King, has also been charged. King lives in luxury although he claims to to have no assets in South Africa. He is alleged to have declared income of only £3500 a year to tax authorities, although his personal wealth is estimated at around £200m. On this meagre income he is alleged to have bought a £7.8m Falcon 900B 13-seater jet, a Ferrari, two homes, a vinery, and share in a stud farm – although he didn’t get much use out of the jet. It, along with his passport, was seized by South African anti-fraud investigators. In April 2006, judges at the Supreme Court Of Appeal ruled that the jet – the main asset of his company Hawker Air (being forcibly liquidated by South African treasury lawyers) – be sold to cover his tax debts, which by now, had exceeded £235 million.
Refusing to sack Bob Malcolm for signing a Rankers fan's match programme with the sectarian slogan 'F*ck The Pope'. Despite claiming to be intolerant of such bigoted and hate-filled attitudes, and citing puppet initiatives as evidence of this, Rankers refused to terminate his contract. Surely actions speak louder than words ?!
Being pilloried by Radio One for being the only club in Britain not to donate a club shirt to Children in Need. Only in the face of rage and criticism, were the huns forced into a humiliating climbdown on their selfish and uncharitable stance.
Accepting a £1million investment from convicted drug-dealing, sectarian, sociopath Lotto thug Michael Carroll, who has over 30 convictions for almost every kind of anti-social offence imaginable. Carroll recently threatened to ‘knife anyone who tried to sponge off him.’ Hope Mr Murray’s got a good bodyguard. Having said that, when you’re drowning in a sea of debt, the psycho’s pound is as good as any, eh ?!
Alex McLeish’s disgusting defence of Alex Rae’s brutal onfield assault on CSKA Moscow player Sergei Dadu during a UCL qualification tie. After Rae brutally and thuggishly kicked Dadu in the head – despite the player lying face down on the ground, McLeish sickeningly claimed “the ball was there to be won…..it just so happened that a Moscow player was lying beside it at the time." Funnily enough, UEFA – and the rest of the civilized world - never saw it that way, and slapped a 5 match European ban on hot-head Rae for Gross Sporting Misconduct. In a further feat of refusal to accept any form of responsibility for his player’s thuggery, McLeish appealed the ban. Not surprisingly, he was told where to go.
The disgraceful situation in which Michael Ball was barred from playing for the first team, because any further appearances would invoke a clause in his contract which would force impoverished Rankers to pay Everton a further fee of £500,000. In order to avoid paying this amount, Ball was uncerimoniously dumped into the reserves and his career forced to stagnate. For a lengthy period, he faced the ignominy of being forced to pay the money out of his own pocket, just so he could resume his career – and later admitted that he was forced to do exactly that. Rankers repeatedly stalled until Everton were forced into accepting a hush-deal, with Ball being the one who footed the bill.
Being pilloried by ex-director Hugh Adam for their ineptitude and mismanagement. Adams lifted the lid on the culture of bullying, fear, and toadying that pervades Ibrox. Despite being a director for decades, Adams was forced out because he refused to be bullied by David Murray, whom he accuses of driving the club towards receivership.
Operating a club shop that is despised by the fans for it’s embarassing, shambolic, and money-grabbing ethos. The Rankers Shop is viewed by the huns as an embarassing rip-off merchant that lacks even the most basic knowledge about the club, whilst punting the fans the most inferior of products, at the most astronomical margins. One ‘fan’ who called in on a Saturday afternoon for a score update was asked “ Who’s playing ?” whilst another, when he asked for Jorg Albertz video ‘The Slammer’ was met with the reply “ Who ?”. On another occaision a customer was asked how to spell ‘Stefan Klos’ when he went in to get his shirt printed – although maybe not a bad idea since the ’50 League Titles Special’ jersey was released with a ‘special limited edition’ print that misspelled the names of two of their er, legends. The shop has also been asked by ‘the peepil’ to stop selling products that erroneously describe the club’s name as ‘Glasgow Rankers’. Mibbees Murray sold the original name when no-one was watching ?!
Branding Aberdeen fans as 'scum' and their players 'overpaid underachievers' in a 1998 Official Rankers Matchday Programme. Club captain Richard Gough also claimed that The Dons only try hard four times per season – against Rankers, and thug-in-a-blue-jersey, John Brown calling the Aberdeen fans 'morons'.
Artur Numan slating The Little Genital for being a despot who favoured his own little clique, who lost the respect of the players, and who openly slagged them off in the media. Numan revealed : "He absolutely slaughtered us in his post-match interviews. He called us 'shameful, hopeless and claimed that too many of us had big heads.' He claimed that 'the players were more interested in golf and PlayStations than turning out for Rankers.' The lads felt he shouldn't have gone public with that kind of criticism. I got the feeling there was no way back for him with several of the guys, and because the place had more unhappy faces than happy ones Dick could not do his job properly. The problems really started in the third campaign. By the time the 2000-01 term began we had Dutchmen at different levels of the club. Accusations of too much of a Dutch influence would start to come out if things weren't going right. A lot of the players were under-performing that season. Some players had fallen out during Dick's third season. But this is normal. What concerned me most was that guys like Sergio Porrini and Andrei Kanchelskis were happy NOT to see their names on the squad sheet. That behaviour was typical of the dressing room then, and I don't believe that Dick was blameless. He was sometimes too strict and things would have been different, if he handled things better."
Being criticised by FIFA, UEFA, and the Australian Soccer Association for their shameful and draconian treatment of Craig Moore. Guilty of nothing more than patriotism, Moore was stripped of his captaincy and immediately transfer-listed - all because he wanted to represent his country at the Olympic Games in Athens. Rankers only relented after being warned by the ASA, who threatened to ban Moore from playing club matches if they attempted to prevent him from travelling to Greece. Also withdrawn was the players right to a testimonial match which he had earned after showing over ELEVEN YEARS of loyal service and committment to Rankers. Rankers have a history of repeatedly withdrawing their players from international duty with convenient excuses, and temporary (and miraculously disappearing) injuries. At the same time, their fans and ex-players hypocritically criticise others who opt to play for the country of their birthright and democratic choice.
David Murray refusing to censure the Ibrox bigots after a full stadium of them were broadcast on live television openly and sectarianly abusing Martin O’Neill after he had the temerity to speak out on their repeated and continued despicable racial abuse of Neil Lennon. David Murray would later claim – in the face of blatant aural and visual evidence to the contrary – that Rankers fans were ‘decent, respectable people’.
Having to put typed song-sheets onto fans’ seats before a CL tie against ManUre because the loyal loyal billyboy true blue fans didn’t actually know the words to any of the club songs.
Getting embarassingly horsed out of Europe yet again - and again for the second time in the same season - after a woeful display against an ordinary Auxerre side. Despite being the group’s top seed, winning their opening two games, sitting atop the group on maximum points, and there being an incredible THREE qualification places up for grabs, Rankers finished in fourth place behind lowly teams like Dutch also-rans Alkmaar and Austrian unknowns Grazer. That is in addition to, and despite of, needing only a single point from their remaining two games, from one of the identified easiest groups of the round. Of the entire eight groups, Rankers were the only team who won two games, but still failed to progress. Even die-hard fans found it hard to stomach such an 'amatuer, shambolic, and woeful' performance, as hapless manager Alex McLeish was forced to concede. As Auxerre coach Guy Roux wryly commented, "I didn't expect it to be quite so easy tonight." It left Rankers European record under the clueless McLeish reading : Played 20, Won 6, Drawn 4, Lost 10. One of those wins came against the anonymous, and utterly unheard of Amica Wronki, whilst another only happened only after a 2nd leg last-gasp, extra-time, penalty shoot-out, against lowly Portuguese minnows Maritimo – who had already beaten Rankers in the 1st leg. Simply the best - hmm judge for yourself.
Being bent over and shafted – yet again – by The Beast, who uses them as a cheap feeder club. Souness impinges on Rankers desperate financial situation to bleed them of their only assets, and abuses his one-sided friendship with David Murray to lure away players like Tugay, Amoruso, Ferguson, and Boumsong.
Failing to take any action when one of their security staff was convicted of sexually harrassing two female collegues. James McVey, a senior recruitment manager at Ibrox stadium was investigated after numerous complaints regarding his sleazy conduct. Despite being found guilty during an internal investigation, McVey is allowed to keep his job, despite it giving him access to sensitive and personal information about his victims.
Having a fanbase so ‘loyal’, the club still can’t sell their full allocation of Season Books. Despite hawking them around for half their face value at Xmas, the club was still left with an abundance of them in mid-February. The tickets no-one wanted were being offered for £109.00 including the final game – v – Celtic, yet they still couldn’t shift them. Fickle gloryhunters – you better believe it.
Artur Numan revealing that The Little Genital oversaw a regime of favouritism and mismanagement during his time at The Death Star. As Numan revealed : "In November 2000, there was a training-ground bust-up, when Fernando Ricksen and Andrei Kanchelskis started fighting. They had a big argument over a tackle. Andrei threw the first punch and Fernando retaliated. Advocaat and some players stepped in to break it up. The gaffer sent Kanchelskis back to the bus to wait for the rest of the squad, which was wrong. He should have sent both players away as they were as guilty as each other. Kanchelskis wasn't happy and was shouting 'Dutch arseholes'. The incident came out in the papers and Advocaat was accused of favouring the Dutch. It was the last thing we needed. He failed to make the right call and didn't help himself. When he left Rankers, he wanted to go with a positive send-off but it never happened. He will always be remembered as the man who wasted £12million on Tore Andre Flo and brought too many of his countrymen to Ibrox."
Gingerbaws openly admitting in the media before the 'Cooper Cup Final' that he tried to offload Rankers resident psychotic timebomb, Fernando The Commando. After numerous drunken, criminal, and violent exploits that besmirched the club's already tarnished and infamous reputation for notoriety, McLeish decided enough was enough, and the man with the wild staring eyes would have to go. Rickhead received counselling and was ordered to curtail his drunken psychotic behaviour, as the club contemplated ways of offloading the weirdo. The problem was, Rankers never received a single offer for the drunk-driving, lampost-felling, nocturnal-trampolining, pyrotechnic, neighbour-from-hell, so they were up shit creek without a canoe - never mind a paddle. Reports of interest - even from his previous club AZ Alkmaar - were shown to be nothing more than a pathetic attempt by the Rankers-friendly media to shift on the problem, by trying to generate something even resembling an interest in this problematic and seemingly possessed, unsellable loser. Unable to get rid of psychoboy, Rankers promoted him to Club Captain. He repaid them by getting red-carded against Aberdeen.
Security Chief Lawrence Mackintyre assaulting a fan who ran onto the Ibrox pitch. After the 'Cooper' CIS Cup win at the national white elephant, TFOD returned to The Death Star to celebrate winning The Diddy Cup. An over-excited orc (they hadn't won a trophy for 2 years) ran onto the park and made a beeline for Celtic reject Nacho Novo for an autograph. Unfortunately for him, he was first arrested by the fluorescent-jacketed nazis, before being handed over to hired thug Macintyre, who was witnessed by many thousands of huns 'kneeing the wee ned in the bollocks." Mackintyre's violence was reported to a number of police officers in attendance, but so far, the silence from official circles has been deafening. Wouldn’t be because he’s ex-plod himself now would it ?!
Failing to hold a one-minute silence the day after the death of Pope John Paul II, despite every other match being played in England on the same day doing so. Matches being played all over the world did likewise, and in Italy they were cancelled completely. EPL players of all creed and denomination wore black armbands as a mark of respect to one of the greatest pacifists and humanitarians of our generation, but the small-minded bigots in Scotland couldn't be trusted to do likewise. Around the globe, his death was mourned by billions of Catholics and Non-Catholics alike - except by the huns who denigrated his memory with their vile and putrid sectarian chanting. This hatred is in direct contrast to the tens of thousands of Catholics and non-monarchists, who observed silence tributes after the deaths of The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and Diana - Princess Of Wales. This is additionally despite an Anti-Catholic constitutional decree that forbids a Catholic from becoming the Monarch.
Being slated by the influential 'GroundsTour' website during a matchday visit to The Death Star. Awarding Ibrox a measley 37 out of a possible 100, Steve Johnson notably observed : "The atmosphere was tedious, with the fans only making any effort when prompted to, and lacking any real passion. More than anything else, the home supporters were completely devoid of a sense of humour. Every chant from the Kilmarnock fans was greeted with two fingered salutes and vitriol from the Rankers spectators, with some ejected from the Broomloan Stand by police. The most innocuous challenges against Rankers players were met with tirades of verbal abuse being hurled at the match officials and opposition players, all highly unnecessary given the one-sided nature of the game. With fans sat in the ground wearing Ulster scarves, holding their arms aloft singing 'Rule Britannia', it was an uncomfortable and unpleasant ninety minutes sat amongst the Rankers spectators whose antics were as predictable as they were bigoted. It was not hard to see why so few Kilmarnock fans had wanted to make the trip, with the Rankers fans' never tiring of telling the Kilmarnock followers what they thought of the visiting team. I doubt I will return.”
Barring a matchday Pepperami promotion because pathetic bigoted Rankers fans would have caused a riot, due to the product being packaged in a green wrapper. The promotion was scheduled for a Tuesday night game featuring Dundee Utd, but club bosses turned away 70 Unilever (Pepperami's parent company) representatives at the last moment citing 'security issues.' A Unilever spokesperson admitted "We were ready to commence the promotion, when we were told we would no longer be going in. One of the bosses said it was because the wrappers were green, and this would cause trouble." No one from Rankers was available for comment. It is not known if this is because the pathetic bigots got humped 1 – 0 by the SPL’s bottom club.
Gingerbaws being such a clued-up manager that he couldn't remember whom he had on the bench. After a narrow win over Hunfermline at Plasticland, McLeish struggled to remember which substitutes he had at his disposal during a post-match radio interview on BBC SportSound. Probably the ultimate embarassment was having to be reminded by their resident trackside clueless nugget, Chick Young. Heh-Heh-Hehhhhhhh !!!
Being slated by a Sheriff for failing to ban a bigoted sectarian Season Ticket holder who was convicted of hurling despicable anti-Catholic sectarian abuse at Ibrox. Sheriff James Taylor reacted angrily after hearing the Ibrox club had failed to act after Kenneth Rodgers was arrested and convicted of a religiously aggravated Breach Of The Peace in January 2005. Sheriff Taylor said: "I find it surprising and disappointing that Rankers Football Club, being so public recently in decrying sectarianism, should find it sufficient only, to administer a warning." Rodgers of Renfrew, had been given a token warning by club officials after his hate-filled conduct earned him a £400 fine at Glasgow Sheriff Court. Once again, Rankers Football Club - long since the refuge of the bigot - abley demonstrate that their bogus initiatives are nothing more than a smoke and mirrors charade to appease their critics, whilst in reality, they continue to embrace a culture of bigotry and anti-Catholic sectarianism.
Being so bitter an bigoted that they ordered the Executive Chef to remove the dish 'Eggs Benedict' from the Ibrox hospitality menu for fear of offending anti-Catholic fat cats, with the name of the new Pope. On the back of the Peperami and 'green straws' fiascos, this little episode merely goes to show how bitter and twisted the mentality of these people really is. Despite the puppet initiatives, bigotry is well and truly alive and flourishing at The Death Star.
Being slated by Shota Arveladze for being 'inambitious ..... lacking commitment' and repeatedly 'failing in Europe.' No sooner had Arveladze given his honest opinion on the failings at Mordor, than his imminent departure was announced. Funny that.
Being slated by Donald Gorrie MSP for launching a range of orange clothing, despite The Grand Imperial Knight Wizard claiming to have launched a new era of anti-sectarianism. After being outed as a club steeped in sectarianism by BBC Panorama, Murray claimed to be launching a crackdown on bigotry and the 'FTP brigade.' The hollowness of his sham lip service ‘initiative’ was amply demonstrated by the cynical release of yet another orange-related product by the debt-ridden Ibrox money-grabbers. As Lib Dem MSP Donald Gorrie pointed out, "These garments contradict the points made by Mr Murray. This includes not selling merchandise that is perceived to be related to the Orange Order."
Agreeing to participate in a pro-Loyalist love-in with sectarian Linfield FC on July 16th – just a few days after the biggest date in the anti-Catholic Orange Order calendar. Yet more blatant evidence of Rankers inextricable links with the sectarian bigots of the Orange Order, and another example of The Grand Imperial Wizard’s continual pandering to the clubs lowest common denominator.
Dragan Mladenovic criticising the lack of cameraderie and team spirit within the Legoland dressing room, saying he much preferred it at his new club Real Sociedad, where “the spirit is far better to Ibrox, and the friendship between the players is much closer.”
Alex McLeish, in true Rankers tradition, making a poor taste joke about the ailing health of Pope John Paul II just a few weeks after the pontiff passed away.
Disgraced Ex-Vice Chairman, and repeated sectarian bigot Donald Findlay being forced to resign in disgrace as Chairman of the Faculty of Advocates, after yet another sectarian outburst. This time, the shamed bigot was witnessed telling a series of sectarian 'jokes' at an event in a Loyalist stronghold in Ireland which included derogatory references about Catholics, nuns, and the late Pope John Paul II. Amongst other remarks, Findlay asked an audience of around 140 people: "It's very smoky in here tonight – has another f*cking Pope died ?" Findlay later attempted to defend his remarks by claiming "I am not denying telling jokes. I do after dinner speeches and my act consists of swearing and dirty jokes. People do not have to listen to it. There's been a lot of bad language used here tonight." Also at the same event in the Larne Rankers Social Club was disgraced former Death Star goalkeeper and Loyalist-terrorist sympathiser Andy Goram, who also - but not wholly unpredictably - delivered a routine littered with sectarian obscenities, unashamed bigotry, and 'jokes' about Catholics. Findlay was later found guilty of professional misconduct, by the Faculty Of Advocates.
Being slated by Panathanaikos for "trying to move the goalposts" amidst the Kyrgiakos farce, whereupon Rankers tried to use disinformation to pressurise the Greeks into releasing the diving dud from his legally binding contract. Describing Rankers version of events as "science fiction" Pana's spokesman Theologos Alexandratos slated them for trying to "change the terms of the agreement and pay less than was appropriate." He then demanded the return of Kyrgiakos’s registration papers immediately. Rankers’ penny-pinching eventually lost them Kyrgiakos, but the predictable Legoland spin machine blamed Panathanaikos, Kyrgiakos, his lawyer, his agent, his Greek representatives, the Glasgow Fair, Santa Claus………………….
Drawing an absolutely embarassing crowd of only 18,159 (combined) for the much vaunted contest against Dynamo Zagreb in the Toronto SkyDome. Despite the Rogers Centre only having a capacity of some 50,516, the huns could only manage to sell around 9000 tickets. This paltry amount puts to bed the outlandish claims by some dreamers, that Rankers FC is a global brand. Whilst Celtic were able to sell out the SkyDome almost instantly for their friendly against Roma in 2004, Rankers own official research (conducted and authenticated by former director Hugh Adam) showed that suggestions of them having a 'global fanbase' were an absolute fallacy. As for the game, Rankers were predictably gubbed (by a Zagreb team that finished 7th in their league and had to slug it out in a relegation play-off), and the much-hated Dado Prso picked up a 'mystery injury' prior to kick-off, thus rendering him 'unable' to face those former compatriots who despise him.
Struggling desperately to offload hopeless, unsellable duffers like Maurice Ross, Michael Ball, Peter Lovenkrands, and Zurab Khizanishvilli, despite telling the fans for years that they were all quality players who could grace any team in any league. The deluge of offers from interested clubs has been deafening in it’s silence. The man with the mad staring eyes, Fernando Ricksen, had earlier proved to be so unsellable, that Rankers had no option but to keep him long term. He ended up as Club Captain.
Gingerbaws spending a full week moaning and excuse-making about how a referee had cost the huns the game at Pittodrie (after Fernando The Commando got his marching orders in a 3-2 defeat) only to suddenly clam up when a referee gifted them the game the following week at The Death Star (when Stuart Dougal red carded Alan Thompson, much to everyone’s astonishment in a 3-1 win). Forgetting his tirades of the previous week, Gingerbaws had suddenly discovered a previously unknown reticince, as he stated “I don’t want to talk about referees.” Huns – fickle – never !!
Branding Aberdeen fans as 'scum' in the official Rankers matchday programme, whilst The Death Star is populated by some of the vilest, bigoted, sectarian pondlife on the planet.
Being slaughtered by Famagusta manager Temuri Ketsbaia who labelled them ‘the biggest cheats in football.’ In a scathing attack on Scotland’s establishment team, Ketsbaia fearlessly stated what many people have known for years – namely that the huns routinely benefit from suspicious and bizarre refereeing decisions. During a pre-match press conference, Ketsbaia stated, "If you're asking me about cheating I would say what about the sending-off of the Celtic player on Saturday ? I didn't know such things happened in Scottish football - but we have seen this with our own eyes in the last week. I don't want to say the referee tried to help Rankers but his decision helped Rankers get the result they wanted. After that it was easy for them to get the win. After 23 minutes the match was finished. Then you look back to our game against them in Cyprus. Look at the fouls they made against us that night. They should have had two players sent off. We put out Trabzonspor in the last round and they have a better team than Rankers. The difference was luck and Rankers had all the luck in Cyprus. What disappoints me is the excuses Rankers made after that game.”
Gingerbaws screaming ‘bastard’ at Diddy PoorShow after the gangly cart-horse missed yet another glaring sitter against Famagusta. Gingerbaws could be clearly seen on TV by hundreds of viewers mouthing the obscenity at one of his own signings.
Having Bert Konterman tell a few home truths about their recent performances, when he admitted that ‘Celtic were the better team until the referee harshly sent Alan Thompson off’ and that ‘at 40 Temuri Ketsbaia caused Rankers no end of problems and was easily MOTM.’
Playing war-mongering triumphalist imperial anthems like The Dambusters etc whilst having German players in the team.
Legoland security chief Lawrence Macintyre, admitting that the club has a number of bigotry problems, as well as a rascism one as well. The head of safety for Rankers FC, admitted that whilst some of the bigotry was superficial, some of it - along with the club's notorious racism problem - was far more deep-rooted. In a forthright statement, Macintyre admitted, "There's a thing in a football ground called a 90-minute bigot, someone who has got a friend of an opposite religion next door to them. But for that 90 minutes they shout foul religious abuse at each other and we at Rankers have got to handle in the first instance, the 90-minute bigot. If we can get the person that doesn't mean it then we'll isolate the real racists and real bigots in numbers that are manageable to deal with."
John Hartson revealing that he was 'treated like a dog' by the medical staff at Ibrox, who lied about the condition of his knee, in order to mask their own incompetance and ineptitude. In a brutally frank interview, Hartson - who immediately went on to enjoy five trophy laden and glorious years across the city at Celtic - revealed that the supposed 'stringent' medical he was supposed to have received, didn't even scratch the surface, and that the subsequent smears regarding his fitness, could have irrepairably damaged his footballing career and reputation. Hartson, who went on to join an illustrious band of Celtic players that have scored more than 100 goals for the club, revealed : "The humiliation of being told that I was all washed up at the age of just 26 made me feel physically sick. When it all fell through at the last minute, I was treated terribly by the club. You simply do not treat people like that and, I wouldn't treat a dog that way. There was so much crap coming out of Ibrox I couldn't believe it. I was back in Wales the next day when a report came on the radio about my the collapse of my move. Rankers were describing it as 'the most stringent medical in the club's history'. That's when I felt physically sick. It was nonsense. It wasn't even the most stringent medical I had gone through that year. The medical I passed later to become a Celtic player was much, much tougher. The truth is the medical people at Rankers made a terrible mistake and it was the way they tried to justify their decision which hurt so much and did so much damage to my reputation. I felt I would be looked upon as damaged goods for the rest of my career. But now I can look back, put my hand on my heart and say that not signing was the best thing that ever happened to me. It's impossible to say how things would have worked out at Ibrox but what I can say is that I would have missed out on being a Celtic player. My five years at Parkhead were the most enjoyable and successful of my career. In hindsight, I wouldn't have had it any other way."
Gingerbaws – despite being the Scottish meeja’s darling – refusing to hold a press conference after his duffers could only manage to claw a 1-1 draw against lowly Falkirk (courtesy of an obligatory penalty). Despite his haughty claims of ‘132 years of unsurpassed dignity’, and the fact that he’s never found wanting when the huns produce a win – Gingerbaws stormed off in a strop, 14 seconds after reading out a prepared statement. ‘132 years of being embarrassing duffers with a shitebag of a manager’ would be a bit more apt.
Only managing to scrape a win over Porto by literally battering them off the park. Porto players Diego, Jorginho, Pepe and Victor Baia all slated the huns brutal style of murderball, whereupon they kicked, head-butted, and elbowed anything within a six-foot radius of the ball. Porto had to play the final 15 minutes of the game with only 10 men after Sokoto had his knee kicked in. Earlier PoorShow was incredibly lucky not to have been straight red-carded after he head-butted skipper Pedro Emmanuel full in the face after completely missing the ball. Emmanuel had to leave the field immediately, suffering from a broken nose, and later slated the brutal assault as ‘something you’d expect to see on the street, not on a football pitch.’ As Gingerbaws himself admitted “We don’t care how we win – as long as we win.” Sexy football, the ugly brutal hun thug way.
Confirming that bigotry is rife all the way to the highest echelons of the club as Rankers played a ‘behind closed doors’ match –v- Internazionale in the San Siro. In a stadium where you could here a pin drop, the Rankers Executive party comprised 300 members of the Ibrox privilaged insider cabal. Their choice of songs picked up on the media’s plethora of recording microphones : The Sash, Derry’s Walls, and No Pope Of Rome. Is it any wonder why the knuckle-draggers behave as they do, when this is the example set by those at the top ?!
Gingerbaws trying to claim that the vicious hun hoardes were'nt booing him and his hopeless duffers after the Artmedia game. Despite only managing to scrape a goal-less 0 - 0 draw - their fifth in a row - against a team that arrogant huns had previously described as 'an unheard of no-mark pub team', the ginger joker tried to dismiss what viewing thousands had just witnessed on live TV, by claiming that the venomous hoardes were booing the Artmedia players. One wonders if duffers, Namouchi, Thompson, and Nieto - all the target of abuse during the game - harbour the same blind ostrich perspective ?
Being voted The Dirtiest Team in the 2005/06 Champions league campaign, with Dado Prso also being voted The Dirtiest Player. The huns notched up an incredible 156 fouls (fourteen more than their closest rival) and persistant diver Prso an incredible 29 (five more than his closest rival), before he was finally forced out of the tournament due to suspension for receiving two yellow cards.
Gingerbaws trying to co-erce the referee to yellow-card an Artmedia player, by making a ‘booking’ gesture at him from trackside. Dignity indeed, and seems like an awful lot of effort for a wee no-mark from an unheard of pub team, as the huns were describing them !!
On the weekend where the huns went a humiliating TWELVE points behind League leaders Celtic, after a dreary goaless draw at home to Aberdeen, Gingerbaws being so much of a shitebag, that he sent out to do the post match interview ………. CHRIS BURKE !! Talk about sending a boy to do a man’s job - this is the kid who can’t even stay standing upright on a sunny day FFS. This is on the back of The Ginger Fool’s ground-breaking 14-second interview a few weeks previously.
Being such an unmittigated disaster zone, that even former idols are queing up to knock them back. This time it's Super-Sally McCoist, who despite not having a full time job, and only being marginally involved with the media, rejected them outright, citing 'other committments' as his reason for not accepting a coaching role at The Death Star. The words 'ten-foot bargepole' spring to mind.
Trying to prise Derek Riordan away from Hibs for an embarassing £400k, and then asking if they could pay the fee in istalments over THREE YEARS.
The Dark Lord arrogantly boasting in Dec '05 that come the Jan '06 transfer window, Rankers would be strengthening their squad with ‘considerable investment' and that they would be signing 'three new players - not loan deals or Bosmans.' He also claimed a 'major new investor' would be injecting a considerable cash sum into the club. Come midnight on Jan 31st, Rankers had signed Kris Boyd for a paltry £400k, and actually depleted their squad by offloading Stevie ‘Billy Ray Cyrus Mullet’ Thompson, and Franny ‘Never Scored A Single Goal’ Jeffers. No investor, big or small, joined the club. The questioning of this blatant lying by Murray's media pooches was as usual, deafening in it's silence. More smoke and mirrors wizardry from The Dark Lord, swallowed hook, line, and sinker by the knuckle-draggers.
Sectarian bigot, and shamed ex-Vice Chairman Donald Findlay being sacked from his job as a columnist at the Herald after only four weeks.
The club's Catholic players (Claudio Reyna, Gabriel Amato, Rino Gattuso, Lorenzo Amoruso, Mikel Arteta, etc) being warned not to bless themselves as they entered the field of play, as their safety ‘could not be guaranteed’ if the hate-filled hoardes erupted. As Claudio Reyna later revealed : If they wanted to bless themselves, 'they had to do it pre-match' before the knuckle-draggers had started arriving with their anti-Catholic bile. As later revealed by Lorenzo Amoruso in an interview with Setanta TV, he was sectarianly abused by his own fans, for committing the heinous crime of being a Catholic. Revealing that he was warned ‘not to bless himself whilst entering the field of play’, in an interview just prior to the May '07 Rankers v Celtic game, the if-I-was-chocolate-I'd-eat-myself hun admitted : "When I joined Rankers I was one of the few Catholic players at the club, and before I arrived in Glasgow people warned me not to cross myself on the pitch. I'm the kind of guy who does the opposite of what he's told in that kind of situation. The fans were brilliant with me but it was crazy that they would sing my name one minute, then sing against me. It really should be all about supporting Rankers. Nothing else matters, but that was not always the case."
Gingerbaws being such a clued-up manager that he couldn't remember whom he had on the bench. After a narrow win over Hunfermline at Plasticland, McLeish struggled to remember which substitutes he had at his disposal during a post-match radio interview on BBC SportSound. Probably the ultimate embarassment was having to be reminded by their resident trackside clueless nugget, Chick Young. Heh-Heh-Hehhhhhhh !!!
Being slated by a Sheriff for failing to ban a bigoted sectarian Season Ticket holder who was convicted of hurling despicable anti-Catholic sectarian abuse at Ibrox. Sheriff James Taylor reacted angrily after hearing the Ibrox club had failed to act after Kenneth Rodgers was arrested and convicted of a religiously aggravated Breach Of The Peace in January 2005. Sheriff Taylor said: "I find it surprising and disappointing that Rankers Football Club, being so public recently in decrying sectarianism, should find it sufficient only, to administer a warning." Rodgers of Renfrew, had been given a token warning by club officials after his hate-filled conduct earned him a £400 fine at Glasgow Sheriff Court. Once again, Rankers Football Club - long since the refuge of the bigot - abley demonstrate that their bogus initiatives are nothing more than a smoke and mirrors charade to appease their critics, whilst in reality, they continue to embrace a culture of bigotry and anti-Catholic sectarianism.
Being so bitter an bigoted that they ordered the Executive Chef to remove the dish 'Eggs Benedict' from the Ibrox hospitality menu for fear of offending anti-Catholic fat cats, with the name of the new Pope. On the back of the Peperami and 'green straws' fiascos, this little episode merely goes to show how bitter and twisted the mentality of these people really is. Despite the puppet initiatives, bigotry is well and truly alive and flourishing at The Death Star.
Being slated by Shota Arveladze for being 'inambitious ..... lacking commitment' and repeatedly 'failing in Europe.' No sooner had Arveladze given his honest opinion on the failings at Mordor, than his imminent departure was announced. Funny that.
Being slated by Donald Gorrie MSP for launching a range of orange clothing, despite The Grand Imperial Knight Wizard claiming to have launched a new era of anti-sectarianism. After being outed as a club steeped in sectarianism by BBC Panorama, Murray claimed to be launching a crackdown on bigotry and the 'FTP brigade.' The hollowness of his sham lip service ‘initiative’ was amply demonstrated by the cynical release of yet another orange-related product by the debt-ridden Ibrox money-grabbers. As Lib Dem MSP Donald Gorrie pointed out, "These garments contradict the points made by Mr Murray. This includes not selling merchandise that is perceived to be related to the Orange Order."
Agreeing to participate in a pro-Loyalist love-in with sectarian Linfield FC on July 16th – just a few days after the biggest date in the anti-Catholic Orange Order calendar. Yet more blatant evidence of Rankers inextricable links with the sectarian bigots of the Orange Order, and another example of The Grand Imperial Wizard’s continual pandering to the clubs lowest common denominator.
Dragan Mladenovic criticising the lack of cameraderie and team spirit within the Legoland dressing room, saying he much preferred it at his new club Real Sociedad, where “the spirit is far better to Ibrox, and the friendship between the players is much closer.”
Alex McLeish, in true Rankers tradition, making a poor taste joke about the ailing health of Pope John Paul II just a few weeks after the pontiff passed away.
Disgraced Ex-Vice Chairman, and repeated sectarian bigot Donald Findlay being forced to resign in disgrace as Chairman of the Faculty of Advocates, after yet another sectarian outburst. This time, the shamed bigot was witnessed telling a series of sectarian 'jokes' at an event in a Loyalist stronghold in Ireland which included derogatory references about Catholics, nuns, and the late Pope John Paul II. Amongst other remarks, Findlay asked an audience of around 140 people: "It's very smoky in here tonight – has another f*cking Pope died ?" Findlay later attempted to defend his remarks by claiming "I am not denying telling jokes. I do after dinner speeches and my act consists of swearing and dirty jokes. People do not have to listen to it. There's been a lot of bad language used here tonight." Also at the same event in the Larne Rankers Social Club was disgraced former Death Star goalkeeper and Loyalist-terrorist sympathiser Andy Goram, who also - but not wholly unpredictably - delivered a routine littered with sectarian obscenities, unashamed bigotry, and 'jokes' about Catholics. Findlay was later found guilty of professional misconduct, by the Faculty Of Advocates.
Being slated by Panathanaikos for "trying to move the goalposts" amidst the Kyrgiakos farce, whereupon Rankers tried to use disinformation to pressurise the Greeks into releasing the diving dud from his legally binding contract. Describing Rankers version of events as "science fiction" Pana's spokesman Theologos Alexandratos slated them for trying to "change the terms of the agreement and pay less than was appropriate." He then demanded the return of Kyrgiakos’s registration papers immediately. Rankers’ penny-pinching eventually lost them Kyrgiakos, but the predictable Legoland spin machine blamed Panathanaikos, Kyrgiakos, his lawyer, his agent, his Greek representatives, the Glasgow Fair, Santa Claus………………….
Drawing an absolutely embarassing crowd of only 18,159 (combined) for the much vaunted contest against Dynamo Zagreb in the Toronto SkyDome. Despite the Rogers Centre only having a capacity of some 50,516, the huns could only manage to sell around 9000 tickets. This paltry amount puts to bed the outlandish claims by some dreamers, that Rankers FC is a global brand. Whilst Celtic were able to sell out the SkyDome almost instantly for their friendly against Roma in 2004, Rankers own official research (conducted and authenticated by former director Hugh Adam) showed that suggestions of them having a 'global fanbase' were an absolute fallacy. As for the game, Rankers were predictably gubbed (by a Zagreb team that finished 7th in their league and had to slug it out in a relegation play-off), and the much-hated Dado Prso picked up a 'mystery injury' prior to kick-off, thus rendering him 'unable' to face those former compatriots who despise him.
Struggling desperately to offload hopeless, unsellable duffers like Maurice Ross, Michael Ball, Peter Lovenkrands, and Zurab Khizanishvilli, despite telling the fans for years that they were all quality players who could grace any team in any league. The deluge of offers from interested clubs has been deafening in it’s silence. The man with the mad staring eyes, Fernando Ricksen, had earlier proved to be so unsellable, that Rankers had no option but to keep him long term. He ended up as Club Captain.
Gingerbaws spending a full week moaning and excuse-making about how a referee had cost the huns the game at Pittodrie (after Fernando The Commando got his marching orders in a 3-2 defeat) only to suddenly clam up when a referee gifted them the game the following week at The Death Star (when Stuart Dougal red carded Alan Thompson, much to everyone’s astonishment in a 3-1 win). Forgetting his tirades of the previous week, Gingerbaws had suddenly discovered a previously unknown reticince, as he stated “I don’t want to talk about referees.” Huns – fickle – never !!
Branding Aberdeen fans as 'scum' in the official Rankers matchday programme, whilst The Death Star is populated by some of the vilest, bigoted, sectarian pondlife on the planet.
Being slaughtered by Famagusta manager Temuri Ketsbaia who labelled them ‘the biggest cheats in football.’ In a scathing attack on Scotland’s establishment team, Ketsbaia fearlessly stated what many people have known for years – namely that the huns routinely benefit from suspicious and bizarre refereeing decisions. During a pre-match press conference, Ketsbaia stated, "If you're asking me about cheating I would say what about the sending-off of the Celtic player on Saturday ? I didn't know such things happened in Scottish football - but we have seen this with our own eyes in the last week. I don't want to say the referee tried to help Rankers but his decision helped Rankers get the result they wanted. After that it was easy for them to get the win. After 23 minutes the match was finished. Then you look back to our game against them in Cyprus. Look at the fouls they made against us that night. They should have had two players sent off. We put out Trabzonspor in the last round and they have a better team than Rankers. The difference was luck and Rankers had all the luck in Cyprus. What disappoints me is the excuses Rankers made after that game.”
Gingerbaws screaming ‘bastard’ at Diddy PoorShow after the gangly cart-horse missed yet another glaring sitter against Famagusta. Gingerbaws could be clearly seen on TV by hundreds of viewers mouthing the obscenity at one of his own signings.
Having Bert Konterman tell a few home truths about their recent performances, when he admitted that ‘Celtic were the better team until the referee harshly sent Alan Thompson off’ and that ‘at 40 Temuri Ketsbaia caused Rankers no end of problems and was easily MOTM.’
Playing war-mongering triumphalist imperial anthems like The Dambusters etc whilst having German players in the team.
Legoland security chief Lawrence Macintyre, admitting that the club has a number of bigotry problems, as well as a rascism one as well. The head of safety for Rankers FC, admitted that whilst some of the bigotry was superficial, some of it - along with the club's notorious racism problem - was far more deep-rooted. In a forthright statement, Macintyre admitted, "There's a thing in a football ground called a 90-minute bigot, someone who has got a friend of an opposite religion next door to them. But for that 90 minutes they shout foul religious abuse at each other and we at Rankers have got to handle in the first instance, the 90-minute bigot. If we can get the person that doesn't mean it then we'll isolate the real racists and real bigots in numbers that are manageable to deal with."
John Hartson revealing that he was 'treated like a dog' by the medical staff at Ibrox, who lied about the condition of his knee, in order to mask their own incompetance and ineptitude. In a brutally frank interview, Hartson - who immediately went on to enjoy five trophy laden and glorious years across the city at Celtic - revealed that the supposed 'stringent' medical he was supposed to have received, didn't even scratch the surface, and that the subsequent smears regarding his fitness, could have irrepairably damaged his footballing career and reputation. Hartson, who went on to join an illustrious band of Celtic players that have scored more than 100 goals for the club, revealed : "The humiliation of being told that I was all washed up at the age of just 26 made me feel physically sick. When it all fell through at the last minute, I was treated terribly by the club. You simply do not treat people like that and, I wouldn't treat a dog that way. There was so much crap coming out of Ibrox I couldn't believe it. I was back in Wales the next day when a report came on the radio about my the collapse of my move. Rankers were describing it as 'the most stringent medical in the club's history'. That's when I felt physically sick. It was nonsense. It wasn't even the most stringent medical I had gone through that year. The medical I passed later to become a Celtic player was much, much tougher. The truth is the medical people at Rankers made a terrible mistake and it was the way they tried to justify their decision which hurt so much and did so much damage to my reputation. I felt I would be looked upon as damaged goods for the rest of my career. But now I can look back, put my hand on my heart and say that not signing was the best thing that ever happened to me. It's impossible to say how things would have worked out at Ibrox but what I can say is that I would have missed out on being a Celtic player. My five years at Parkhead were the most enjoyable and successful of my career. In hindsight, I wouldn't have had it any other way."
Gingerbaws – despite being the Scottish meeja’s darling – refusing to hold a press conference after his duffers could only manage to claw a 1-1 draw against lowly Falkirk (courtesy of an obligatory penalty). Despite his haughty claims of ‘132 years of unsurpassed dignity’, and the fact that he’s never found wanting when the huns produce a win – Gingerbaws stormed off in a strop, 14 seconds after reading out a prepared statement. ‘132 years of being embarrassing duffers with a shitebag of a manager’ would be a bit more apt.
Only managing to scrape a win over Porto by literally battering them off the park. Porto players Diego, Jorginho, Pepe and Victor Baia all slated the huns brutal style of murderball, whereupon they kicked, head-butted, and elbowed anything within a six-foot radius of the ball. Porto had to play the final 15 minutes of the game with only 10 men after Sokoto had his knee kicked in. Earlier PoorShow was incredibly lucky not to have been straight red-carded after he head-butted skipper Pedro Emmanuel full in the face after completely missing the ball. Emmanuel had to leave the field immediately, suffering from a broken nose, and later slated the brutal assault as ‘something you’d expect to see on the street, not on a football pitch.’ As Gingerbaws himself admitted “We don’t care how we win – as long as we win.” Sexy football, the ugly brutal hun thug way.
Confirming that bigotry is rife all the way to the highest echelons of the club as Rankers played a ‘behind closed doors’ match –v- Internazionale in the San Siro. In a stadium where you could here a pin drop, the Rankers Executive party comprised 300 members of the Ibrox privilaged insider cabal. Their choice of songs picked up on the media’s plethora of recording microphones : The Sash, Derry’s Walls, and No Pope Of Rome. Is it any wonder why the knuckle-draggers behave as they do, when this is the example set by those at the top ?!
Gingerbaws trying to claim that the vicious hun hoardes were'nt booing him and his hopeless duffers after the Artmedia game. Despite only managing to scrape a goal-less 0 - 0 draw - their fifth in a row - against a team that arrogant huns had previously described as 'an unheard of no-mark pub team', the ginger joker tried to dismiss what viewing thousands had just witnessed on live TV, by claiming that the venomous hoardes were booing the Artmedia players. One wonders if duffers, Namouchi, Thompson, and Nieto - all the target of abuse during the game - harbour the same blind ostrich perspective ?
Being voted The Dirtiest Team in the 2005/06 Champions league campaign, with Dado Prso also being voted The Dirtiest Player. The huns notched up an incredible 156 fouls (fourteen more than their closest rival) and persistant diver Prso an incredible 29 (five more than his closest rival), before he was finally forced out of the tournament due to suspension for receiving two yellow cards.
Gingerbaws trying to co-erce the referee to yellow-card an Artmedia player, by making a ‘booking’ gesture at him from trackside. Dignity indeed, and seems like an awful lot of effort for a wee no-mark from an unheard of pub team, as the huns were describing them !!
On the weekend where the huns went a humiliating TWELVE points behind League leaders Celtic, after a dreary goaless draw at home to Aberdeen, Gingerbaws being so much of a shitebag, that he sent out to do the post match interview ………. CHRIS BURKE !! Talk about sending a boy to do a man’s job - this is the kid who can’t even stay standing upright on a sunny day FFS. This is on the back of The Ginger Fool’s ground-breaking 14-second interview a few weeks previously.
Being such an unmittigated disaster zone, that even former idols are queing up to knock them back. This time it's Super-Sally McCoist, who despite not having a full time job, and only being marginally involved with the media, rejected them outright, citing 'other committments' as his reason for not accepting a coaching role at The Death Star. The words 'ten-foot bargepole' spring to mind.
Trying to prise Derek Riordan away from Hibs for an embarassing £400k, and then asking if they could pay the fee in istalments over THREE YEARS.
The Dark Lord arrogantly boasting in Dec '05 that come the Jan '06 transfer window, Rankers would be strengthening their squad with ‘considerable investment' and that they would be signing 'three new players - not loan deals or Bosmans.' He also claimed a 'major new investor' would be injecting a considerable cash sum into the club. Come midnight on Jan 31st, Rankers had signed Kris Boyd for a paltry £400k, and actually depleted their squad by offloading Stevie ‘Billy Ray Cyrus Mullet’ Thompson, and Franny ‘Never Scored A Single Goal’ Jeffers. No investor, big or small, joined the club. The questioning of this blatant lying by Murray's media pooches was as usual, deafening in it's silence. More smoke and mirrors wizardry from The Dark Lord, swallowed hook, line, and sinker by the knuckle-draggers.
Sectarian bigot, and shamed ex-Vice Chairman Donald Findlay being sacked from his job as a columnist at the Herald after only four weeks.
The club's Catholic players (Claudio Reyna, Gabriel Amato, Rino Gattuso, Lorenzo Amoruso, Mikel Arteta, etc) being warned not to bless themselves as they entered the field of play, as their safety ‘could not be guaranteed’ if the hate-filled hoardes erupted. As Claudio Reyna later revealed : If they wanted to bless themselves, 'they had to do it pre-match' before the knuckle-draggers had started arriving with their anti-Catholic bile. As later revealed by Lorenzo Amoruso in an interview with Setanta TV, he was sectarianly abused by his own fans, for committing the heinous crime of being a Catholic. Revealing that he was warned ‘not to bless himself whilst entering the field of play’, in an interview just prior to the May '07 Rankers v Celtic game, the if-I-was-chocolate-I'd-eat-myself hun admitted : "When I joined Rankers I was one of the few Catholic players at the club, and before I arrived in Glasgow people warned me not to cross myself on the pitch. I'm the kind of guy who does the opposite of what he's told in that kind of situation. The fans were brilliant with me but it was crazy that they would sing my name one minute, then sing against me. It really should be all about supporting Rankers. Nothing else matters, but that was not always the case."
Being officially declared ‘The Worst Team In Rankers 132 Year History’ in Dec 2005, after they recorded a hopeless ten games in a row without a single win.
The Dark Lord sacking Gingerbaws only 6 weeks after lying that his position as Rankers manager was not under threat, and that he would remain in charge of the Legoland dressing room. Gingerbaws had asked to be 'judged on his own team.' After signing nearly 40 degenerate losers, presiding over the worst run in the club's entire tarnished sectarian history, languishing mid-table for almost the entire campaign, delivering an empty trophy cabinet, and lapsing an absolutely catastrophic 21 points behind leaders Celtic, one suspects that the only judgement that can be sanely made, is that he was total and utter pish.
The Dark Lord bragging to all his pooches in the meeja about Rankers being big spenders, attracting major investors, and spending a ‘tenner’ for anyone elses ‘fiver’ – yet not even making the Top 20 of Europe’s richest football clubs. The Football Money League published by accountants Deloitte, highlights the difference between reality, and Murray’s media spin. Whilst Rankers are nowhere to be found, with a lowly turnover of £54million, Celtic are in 13th place with a turnover of £69million.
The Dark Lord claiming in Dec 05 that there would be 'major new investment' coming into the club in Jan 06, and then revealing that the 'major new investment' would actually be achieved by selling off the club's entire merchandising operation to sports retailer JJB. This selling of the family silver was greeted by Dodgy Dave's chums in the Scottish media as a financial tactical master-stroke, instead of the shady duplicitous smoke and mirrors that it was in reality.
UEFA launching two joint inquiries into Rankers hooliganism in Spain, that saw them enter every part of the El Madrigal Stadium with forged tickets, and also saw them attack the Villarreal team bus, smash it's window, and shower it with a hail of bottles, stones and other missiles as the club’s players and officials cowered inside. The official statement from UEFA read : ‘UEFA has instigated disciplinary proceedings against Scottish club Rankers FC for various infringements relating to the UEFA Champions League first knockout round tie against Villarreal CF. The European governing body will give particular attention to the improper conduct and hooliganism of Rankers supporters in the return leg in Spain on 7 March, as well as to the fans' discriminatory chants in both fixtures against the Primera División team.’
The Dark Lord making over 200 workers redundant after selling off the family silver, and punting the Rankers merchandising operation to JJB. At first, Murray lied that those affected would be found other jobs - either with JJB, or within Murray International - but as the smokescreen cleared, and 200 former Rankers Shop employees headed for the dole queue, his deceit became abundantly clear.
Gingerbaws claiming in May ‘05 that : “I think the institution that is Rankers has been unsurpassed in 132 years in terms of dignity. We would never bring into question the integrity of the officials”, before going on to hypocritically contradict himself on numerous occaisions, eg : “I thought the referee gave Inter everything - absolutely everything. The penalty was an unfair decision. Ronald got a touch on the ball before colliding with the guy's legs. You could see it from the dugout” (Alex McLeish : Sep 05); “I didn't think it was a penalty. If it was for something that happened earlier, then that's wrong. We were also already well over time by that stage. It was pretty galling. We can all improve and maybe referees need to do better as well” (Alex McLeish : Dec 05); “Soti is not the only one in Scotland who does it, but he has been targeted. I know he is a target and that he is the talk of the steamie amongst referees here. He knows he is now being scrutinised. Even in my day, there was some streetwise stuff. I watched the Dunfermline game again and it was only the last five minutes all hell broke loose. Until then he hadn’t done a thing” (Alex McLeish : Jan '06); “From the dug-out it looked a good goal but I'd need to see it again on TV. I'm not here to talk about the referee - they make mistakes like everybody else, but it looked like a goal from where we were” (Alex McLeish : Feb 06). Unsurprisingly, Bleu Le Goon, carried on the Eck-scuses mantle after a disasterous start to Le Revolution, when he piped up with some dignity of his own : “We should have had a penalty. The ref took a bad decision, a very bad decision, and not the first bad one against us. It was a clear penalty, and I don’t understand why. It was impossible not to see it.” Down at Dignity FC, the more things change (or should that be Revolutionise ?), the more they stay the same.
Being awarded the dubious honour of being the dirtiest, most fouling team in the entire 05-06 Champions League tournament, with a total foul count of 189 – an absolutely staggering average of 23.63 per match.
Rankers' hun-bigot kitman, James Bell refusing to participate in a minute's applause tribute to Scottish footballing legend Jimmy Johnstone, despite respects being warmly paid by almost every single other individual, inside every single other football stadium, across the entire nation.
Nacho Novo getting accosted at a Rankers' Supporters Club sash-up for wearing a Crucifix.
Being convicted of smashing the window of the Villarreal team bus, and receiving a 20,000 Swiss francs (£9000) fine from UEFA. William Gaillard, head of communications with European football's governing body, said: "They have been fined for smashing the window.”
The Dark Lord acknowledging that the huns suffer from a deep rooted and long standing bigotry and sectarianism problem, after they were convicted by UEFA of smashing the Villarreal team's bus window. The Dark Lord commented : "We were confident that the efforts made by the club to tackle sectarianism, racism and all other forms of inappropriate behaviour would be recognised by Uefa. None of this, however, should mask the fact that sectarianism remains a very serious problem, and it now has to stop. Nothing in our submission to Uefa denied this fact. A minority of our supporters are going to have to realise, and realise very quickly, that the controlling authorities in football, whether Fifa, Uefa, the SFA, the SPL or SFL, are going to be obliged almost immediately to impose the heaviest possible sanctions for discriminatory behaviour. It's time for the 90-minute bigots to remain silent, and for others to speak out, exerting a peer pressure on those that disgrace the club."
Paul Le Guen Being threatened with being officially reported to FIFA for his illegal approaches in trying to lure France Under-21 international goalkeeper Steve Mandanda away from his club Le Havre, in an illegal ‘tapping up’ attempt. Le Guen’s underhand behaviour was the subject of a blistering attack from the French club’s president Jean-Pierre Louvel who threatened to report him to FIFA. In a scathing attack, Louvel fumed: “I’ve looked carefully at the FIFA rules. Their Article 18 clearly states that it is forbidden for anyone to speak directly about a transfer with a professional player who is under contract, and whose deal isn’t expiring in the next six months, without first informing his club in writing. Paul Le Guen is therefore forbidden to discuss a transfer to Rankers next season over the phone with him. We know that Le Guen has been coming to watch games at our home, but he never had the courtesy to come and speak to me man-to-man about his intentions. I am extremely disappointed at the stance he has taken, I denounce it publicly, and I reserve the right to inform football’s highest authorities about it.”
Neil McCann being subjected to sectarian taunts whilst he played at The Death Star, as revealed by Claudio Reyna in his book.
Mikel Arteta revealing, during an April ’06 interview with the official Everton website, that he had to keep his Catholicism ‘under wraps’ during his time at The Death Star, because ‘the people at Rankers really did not like it.’ Rankers FC – bigoted to their rotten core.
Charging season-book holders £15.00 in order to transfer to a new seat within Legoland. Looks like The Dark Lord’s money-grabbing knows no bounds.
Having official club hospitality packages for the Meiklejohn & Ibrox Suites starting from 1690 pounds, per person, per season. In previous years, former club Captain Terry Butcher priced a dish on a menu at his Bridge Of Allan restaurant using exactly the same four digits - 16.90, which in an amazing coincidence, just happens to commemorate the date of the defeat of the Catholics, at The battle Of The Boyne. Seems Rankers not only pander to the knuckledraggers, but to the well-heeled bigots too. Curiously, the price was immediately deleted from the official Rankers site as soon as it was highlighted by others. An admission of guilt ? Judge for yourself.
Announcing an 'innovative new scheme' for fans to pay up shares in the club (at a tenner a month !!) and revealing that after a fortnight, they had still only received an embarrasing TWO HUNDRED applications. Announcing the ShareSave Scheme, Rankers Trust chairman Malcolm McNiven said: "A lot of hard work has gone into making this possible over the last 18 months. Already, there have been more than 200 applications."
Having a trip to The Death Star being considered so meaningless, and held in such low respect by Hearts, that the Edinburgh team made NINE first team changes, from the team that had secured second place in the SPHell – therefore knocking the mighty huns into third - just one week prior. Having said that, seeing as the huns spent most of the season berthed down in fourth and fith places, finishing third could be considered as a bit of a result for them !!
Sending a scout over to Lurgan in the mid 80’s to watch Neil Lennon play, with a view to signing him – but suggesting he signed for Murderwell instead, when the scout found out that he was a Catholic. In Lennon’s own words : “The scout watched me when I played for my boys club in Lurgan, but in those days, Rankers policy concerning Catholic players was still in force, and the scout made me the offer of putting me in touch with Motherwell instead.”
Paul Le Guen being forced to issue an appeal for less anti-Catholic intolerance from Legoland's resident knuckledraggers, before he'd even taken charge of his first match. With the sectarian bigot's reputation going well before them, and an upcoming UEFA inquiry facing them due to the behaviour of the club’s hardcore sectarian element, Le Guen stated : "I was a practising Catholic up to about 17 or 18 years old. That's the way I was brought up, so yes, you can say I'm a Catholic. I am not someone for whom religion is a big part of life, but I'm a tolerant man and I expect others to be the same."
Being convicted of sectarian and discriminatory chanting by the UEFA Appeal's Body in relation to numerous counts of bigotry and anti-Catholic intolerance during the 2005/06 CL campaign. Fining them £13,000, UEFA condemned the behaviour of Rankers notoriously sectarian supporters and warned them to desist from such conduct in the future, adding that they will be 'closely monitored for any future misconduct by supporters in relation to sectarian and discriminatory behaviour.'
Being threatened with having parts of The Death Star closed by UEFA if the bigoted and sectarian chanting failed to cease. A source at the control and disciplinary body said: "What we will be saying to Rankers will be no different from other instances where clubs have been at fault. For Rankers, that cannot be an option. Now we have to look at the club very closely next season. Rankers must be seen to stop the offensive chanting. If they fail to do so, the closing of one or more of the stands would be inevitable."
Having no-mark, has-been, hun, Bobby Davro as the guest entertainer at the 2006 official end of season club dinner at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow. During the event, Davro told a string of racist gags that had a number of guests – including two black Rankers’ players - so enraged, that they stood up, and threatened to walk out. Rankers FC, the all inclusive club. As long as you’re white and Protestant.
Having The Little Genital reveal that players would rather play in the English THIRD DIVISION than play for Rankers. In a pre-World Cup interview held at Murray Park, whilst the money-grabbing Dark Lord rented out the facility to Advocaat and the South Korea national team, to generate some much needed pennies, the baldy oranjj admitted : “Le Guen’s biggest problem will be getting the better players to come to Rankers. Nowadays, they prefer to go to England, for the money and the challenge. With all due respect, they would rather go to the Third Division down there, instead of Rankers. He will probably go for French players – like I wanted Dutch – but the biggest problem will be attracting the highest quality to Ibrox.”
Being threatened with legal action by the GMB, for sacking 250 members of Rankers retail staff, when The Dark Lord sold off the family silver to JJB. Senior GMB executive officer Ian King stated : “I have written to Rankers chief executive Martin Bain to warn him that we are looking at the possibility of litigation on behalf of the staff. Rankers have generated £48 million on the back of 250 workers who have helped to build the business up over the past ten years. What we have here is a flagrant breach of employment law, under the TUPE legislation.”
Being ordered by UEFA to 'make a public announcement at all of their home games prohibiting the chanting of' the club's sectarian anthem 'Hello, Hello'. The instruction came from Uefa as one of a number of directives aimed at stamping out the cancer of anti-Catholic sectarianism that pervades the club's notoriously bigoted supporters. Rankers were fined £13,000 for the sectarian behaviour of their fans after a Champions League match. As a result, The Dark Lord was forced to meet with supporters groups to make sure they comply. Later, he said : "In recognition of the importance of this issue, all parties are united in a bid to silence those that continue to tarnish the reputation of the Club. Over the last two years, the club has worked with the authorities to impose indefinite and lifetime bans. It is absolutely clear to all concerned that all supporters need to commit to silencing the minority." Rankers were also ordered to 'anounce measurable targets in order to reduce sectarian behaviour amongst its supporters' and were ominously warned that their fans must comply 'to avoid sanctions being imposed or expulsion from European competition altogether'.
Baldy Bain being so professional, mannerly, and clued up on the goings-on at the club, that he couldn’t even spell Ronald Watteryarse’s name properly in a fax to the player’s agent, offering a one-year contract extension, which The Mullet not surprisingly, told them to shove up their ‘ronson lighter’.
The Dark Lord sacking Gingerbaws only 6 weeks after lying that his position as Rankers manager was not under threat, and that he would remain in charge of the Legoland dressing room. Gingerbaws had asked to be 'judged on his own team.' After signing nearly 40 degenerate losers, presiding over the worst run in the club's entire tarnished sectarian history, languishing mid-table for almost the entire campaign, delivering an empty trophy cabinet, and lapsing an absolutely catastrophic 21 points behind leaders Celtic, one suspects that the only judgement that can be sanely made, is that he was total and utter pish.
The Dark Lord bragging to all his pooches in the meeja about Rankers being big spenders, attracting major investors, and spending a ‘tenner’ for anyone elses ‘fiver’ – yet not even making the Top 20 of Europe’s richest football clubs. The Football Money League published by accountants Deloitte, highlights the difference between reality, and Murray’s media spin. Whilst Rankers are nowhere to be found, with a lowly turnover of £54million, Celtic are in 13th place with a turnover of £69million.
The Dark Lord claiming in Dec 05 that there would be 'major new investment' coming into the club in Jan 06, and then revealing that the 'major new investment' would actually be achieved by selling off the club's entire merchandising operation to sports retailer JJB. This selling of the family silver was greeted by Dodgy Dave's chums in the Scottish media as a financial tactical master-stroke, instead of the shady duplicitous smoke and mirrors that it was in reality.
UEFA launching two joint inquiries into Rankers hooliganism in Spain, that saw them enter every part of the El Madrigal Stadium with forged tickets, and also saw them attack the Villarreal team bus, smash it's window, and shower it with a hail of bottles, stones and other missiles as the club’s players and officials cowered inside. The official statement from UEFA read : ‘UEFA has instigated disciplinary proceedings against Scottish club Rankers FC for various infringements relating to the UEFA Champions League first knockout round tie against Villarreal CF. The European governing body will give particular attention to the improper conduct and hooliganism of Rankers supporters in the return leg in Spain on 7 March, as well as to the fans' discriminatory chants in both fixtures against the Primera División team.’
The Dark Lord making over 200 workers redundant after selling off the family silver, and punting the Rankers merchandising operation to JJB. At first, Murray lied that those affected would be found other jobs - either with JJB, or within Murray International - but as the smokescreen cleared, and 200 former Rankers Shop employees headed for the dole queue, his deceit became abundantly clear.
Gingerbaws claiming in May ‘05 that : “I think the institution that is Rankers has been unsurpassed in 132 years in terms of dignity. We would never bring into question the integrity of the officials”, before going on to hypocritically contradict himself on numerous occaisions, eg : “I thought the referee gave Inter everything - absolutely everything. The penalty was an unfair decision. Ronald got a touch on the ball before colliding with the guy's legs. You could see it from the dugout” (Alex McLeish : Sep 05); “I didn't think it was a penalty. If it was for something that happened earlier, then that's wrong. We were also already well over time by that stage. It was pretty galling. We can all improve and maybe referees need to do better as well” (Alex McLeish : Dec 05); “Soti is not the only one in Scotland who does it, but he has been targeted. I know he is a target and that he is the talk of the steamie amongst referees here. He knows he is now being scrutinised. Even in my day, there was some streetwise stuff. I watched the Dunfermline game again and it was only the last five minutes all hell broke loose. Until then he hadn’t done a thing” (Alex McLeish : Jan '06); “From the dug-out it looked a good goal but I'd need to see it again on TV. I'm not here to talk about the referee - they make mistakes like everybody else, but it looked like a goal from where we were” (Alex McLeish : Feb 06). Unsurprisingly, Bleu Le Goon, carried on the Eck-scuses mantle after a disasterous start to Le Revolution, when he piped up with some dignity of his own : “We should have had a penalty. The ref took a bad decision, a very bad decision, and not the first bad one against us. It was a clear penalty, and I don’t understand why. It was impossible not to see it.” Down at Dignity FC, the more things change (or should that be Revolutionise ?), the more they stay the same.
Being awarded the dubious honour of being the dirtiest, most fouling team in the entire 05-06 Champions League tournament, with a total foul count of 189 – an absolutely staggering average of 23.63 per match.
Rankers' hun-bigot kitman, James Bell refusing to participate in a minute's applause tribute to Scottish footballing legend Jimmy Johnstone, despite respects being warmly paid by almost every single other individual, inside every single other football stadium, across the entire nation.
Nacho Novo getting accosted at a Rankers' Supporters Club sash-up for wearing a Crucifix.
Being convicted of smashing the window of the Villarreal team bus, and receiving a 20,000 Swiss francs (£9000) fine from UEFA. William Gaillard, head of communications with European football's governing body, said: "They have been fined for smashing the window.”
The Dark Lord acknowledging that the huns suffer from a deep rooted and long standing bigotry and sectarianism problem, after they were convicted by UEFA of smashing the Villarreal team's bus window. The Dark Lord commented : "We were confident that the efforts made by the club to tackle sectarianism, racism and all other forms of inappropriate behaviour would be recognised by Uefa. None of this, however, should mask the fact that sectarianism remains a very serious problem, and it now has to stop. Nothing in our submission to Uefa denied this fact. A minority of our supporters are going to have to realise, and realise very quickly, that the controlling authorities in football, whether Fifa, Uefa, the SFA, the SPL or SFL, are going to be obliged almost immediately to impose the heaviest possible sanctions for discriminatory behaviour. It's time for the 90-minute bigots to remain silent, and for others to speak out, exerting a peer pressure on those that disgrace the club."
Paul Le Guen Being threatened with being officially reported to FIFA for his illegal approaches in trying to lure France Under-21 international goalkeeper Steve Mandanda away from his club Le Havre, in an illegal ‘tapping up’ attempt. Le Guen’s underhand behaviour was the subject of a blistering attack from the French club’s president Jean-Pierre Louvel who threatened to report him to FIFA. In a scathing attack, Louvel fumed: “I’ve looked carefully at the FIFA rules. Their Article 18 clearly states that it is forbidden for anyone to speak directly about a transfer with a professional player who is under contract, and whose deal isn’t expiring in the next six months, without first informing his club in writing. Paul Le Guen is therefore forbidden to discuss a transfer to Rankers next season over the phone with him. We know that Le Guen has been coming to watch games at our home, but he never had the courtesy to come and speak to me man-to-man about his intentions. I am extremely disappointed at the stance he has taken, I denounce it publicly, and I reserve the right to inform football’s highest authorities about it.”
Neil McCann being subjected to sectarian taunts whilst he played at The Death Star, as revealed by Claudio Reyna in his book.
Mikel Arteta revealing, during an April ’06 interview with the official Everton website, that he had to keep his Catholicism ‘under wraps’ during his time at The Death Star, because ‘the people at Rankers really did not like it.’ Rankers FC – bigoted to their rotten core.
Charging season-book holders £15.00 in order to transfer to a new seat within Legoland. Looks like The Dark Lord’s money-grabbing knows no bounds.
Having official club hospitality packages for the Meiklejohn & Ibrox Suites starting from 1690 pounds, per person, per season. In previous years, former club Captain Terry Butcher priced a dish on a menu at his Bridge Of Allan restaurant using exactly the same four digits - 16.90, which in an amazing coincidence, just happens to commemorate the date of the defeat of the Catholics, at The battle Of The Boyne. Seems Rankers not only pander to the knuckledraggers, but to the well-heeled bigots too. Curiously, the price was immediately deleted from the official Rankers site as soon as it was highlighted by others. An admission of guilt ? Judge for yourself.
Announcing an 'innovative new scheme' for fans to pay up shares in the club (at a tenner a month !!) and revealing that after a fortnight, they had still only received an embarrasing TWO HUNDRED applications. Announcing the ShareSave Scheme, Rankers Trust chairman Malcolm McNiven said: "A lot of hard work has gone into making this possible over the last 18 months. Already, there have been more than 200 applications."
Having a trip to The Death Star being considered so meaningless, and held in such low respect by Hearts, that the Edinburgh team made NINE first team changes, from the team that had secured second place in the SPHell – therefore knocking the mighty huns into third - just one week prior. Having said that, seeing as the huns spent most of the season berthed down in fourth and fith places, finishing third could be considered as a bit of a result for them !!
Sending a scout over to Lurgan in the mid 80’s to watch Neil Lennon play, with a view to signing him – but suggesting he signed for Murderwell instead, when the scout found out that he was a Catholic. In Lennon’s own words : “The scout watched me when I played for my boys club in Lurgan, but in those days, Rankers policy concerning Catholic players was still in force, and the scout made me the offer of putting me in touch with Motherwell instead.”
Paul Le Guen being forced to issue an appeal for less anti-Catholic intolerance from Legoland's resident knuckledraggers, before he'd even taken charge of his first match. With the sectarian bigot's reputation going well before them, and an upcoming UEFA inquiry facing them due to the behaviour of the club’s hardcore sectarian element, Le Guen stated : "I was a practising Catholic up to about 17 or 18 years old. That's the way I was brought up, so yes, you can say I'm a Catholic. I am not someone for whom religion is a big part of life, but I'm a tolerant man and I expect others to be the same."
Being convicted of sectarian and discriminatory chanting by the UEFA Appeal's Body in relation to numerous counts of bigotry and anti-Catholic intolerance during the 2005/06 CL campaign. Fining them £13,000, UEFA condemned the behaviour of Rankers notoriously sectarian supporters and warned them to desist from such conduct in the future, adding that they will be 'closely monitored for any future misconduct by supporters in relation to sectarian and discriminatory behaviour.'
Being threatened with having parts of The Death Star closed by UEFA if the bigoted and sectarian chanting failed to cease. A source at the control and disciplinary body said: "What we will be saying to Rankers will be no different from other instances where clubs have been at fault. For Rankers, that cannot be an option. Now we have to look at the club very closely next season. Rankers must be seen to stop the offensive chanting. If they fail to do so, the closing of one or more of the stands would be inevitable."
Having no-mark, has-been, hun, Bobby Davro as the guest entertainer at the 2006 official end of season club dinner at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow. During the event, Davro told a string of racist gags that had a number of guests – including two black Rankers’ players - so enraged, that they stood up, and threatened to walk out. Rankers FC, the all inclusive club. As long as you’re white and Protestant.
Having The Little Genital reveal that players would rather play in the English THIRD DIVISION than play for Rankers. In a pre-World Cup interview held at Murray Park, whilst the money-grabbing Dark Lord rented out the facility to Advocaat and the South Korea national team, to generate some much needed pennies, the baldy oranjj admitted : “Le Guen’s biggest problem will be getting the better players to come to Rankers. Nowadays, they prefer to go to England, for the money and the challenge. With all due respect, they would rather go to the Third Division down there, instead of Rankers. He will probably go for French players – like I wanted Dutch – but the biggest problem will be attracting the highest quality to Ibrox.”
Being threatened with legal action by the GMB, for sacking 250 members of Rankers retail staff, when The Dark Lord sold off the family silver to JJB. Senior GMB executive officer Ian King stated : “I have written to Rankers chief executive Martin Bain to warn him that we are looking at the possibility of litigation on behalf of the staff. Rankers have generated £48 million on the back of 250 workers who have helped to build the business up over the past ten years. What we have here is a flagrant breach of employment law, under the TUPE legislation.”
Being ordered by UEFA to 'make a public announcement at all of their home games prohibiting the chanting of' the club's sectarian anthem 'Hello, Hello'. The instruction came from Uefa as one of a number of directives aimed at stamping out the cancer of anti-Catholic sectarianism that pervades the club's notoriously bigoted supporters. Rankers were fined £13,000 for the sectarian behaviour of their fans after a Champions League match. As a result, The Dark Lord was forced to meet with supporters groups to make sure they comply. Later, he said : "In recognition of the importance of this issue, all parties are united in a bid to silence those that continue to tarnish the reputation of the Club. Over the last two years, the club has worked with the authorities to impose indefinite and lifetime bans. It is absolutely clear to all concerned that all supporters need to commit to silencing the minority." Rankers were also ordered to 'anounce measurable targets in order to reduce sectarian behaviour amongst its supporters' and were ominously warned that their fans must comply 'to avoid sanctions being imposed or expulsion from European competition altogether'.
Baldy Bain being so professional, mannerly, and clued up on the goings-on at the club, that he couldn’t even spell Ronald Watteryarse’s name properly in a fax to the player’s agent, offering a one-year contract extension, which The Mullet not surprisingly, told them to shove up their ‘ronson lighter’.
Rankers chief executive Martin 'Baldy' Bain being investigated by French fraud police over accusations that he took £150,000 in illegal bungs during player transfers. Bain was accused of pocketing the cash in 2004 an article published in the influential French newspaper, L'Equipe. At the time, Rankers were involved with shady Serbian agent Ranko Stojic in deals to bring Jean-Alain Boumsong and Dado Prso to Glasgow from French clubs. At the same time, Bain and Stojic were involved in a side transaction over a property deal. French authorities are investigating the allegations, and agents from the French police's national division of financial investigations have visited Legoland to question Bain. Whilst probing deals involving Paris Saint Germain and Stojic, French authorities uncovered papers relating to two payments made by Stojic to Bain on August 20th 2004, through Stojic's account with the Rothschild Bank in Monaco. As part of their investigation, French police have also questioned former Rankers player Jean-Alain Boumsong. Bain was involved in a transaction with Stojic in which he obtained a house in France from Laurent Charvet - a player on the agent's books. At the same time, Stojic clients Boumsong and Prso signed for Rankers - raising suspicions among the French revenue investigators.
John Brown being sacked as U21 Reserve Team Coach, and paid to sign a confidentiality agreement, so he wouldn’t tell the fans what really goes on behind the locked gates at Murray Park, where the Rankers youth set up – despite acres of rainforest being used for the triumphalist boasting of The Dark Lord - hasn’t won a trophy since it’s much trumpeted opening in 2001.
The Dark Lord - yet again (how many times is that now ???) - being forced to issue a public statement to warn the sectarian knuckledraggers to desist from their bigoted anti-Catholic sectarianism, both at Legoland, and whilst Away. Warning that the arrival of Pepe Le Pew, the club's first Catholic manager would mean 'a new era' at the club, The Mint demanded an end to the club's notoriously deep-rooted hate problem. Ahead of the annual sash-bash against the bigots of Loyalist Linfield, Murray warned : "The season ahead is crucial, and none more so than in respect of how we respond to UEFA's recent directives following discriminatory chanting at the two Champions League matches against Villarreal. Ahead of our pre-season match in Northern Ireland, we have to move forward and can only do this with the commitment of 100% of our fans. It's time for the silent majority to isolate anyone who does not have the best interests of Rankers at heart. The club and the fans will now work together in a bid to tackle the sectarian minority."
Having their July 2006 pre-season friendly with Bolton Wanderers cancelled on the orders of Greater Manchester Police, who feared large scale disorder, and considered the travelling hun hoardes to be a major threat to public safety. The decision was taken after a meeting with several English forces who have policed similar matches involving the huns in the last 10 years. Part of the meeting included a briefing by Merseyside Police, who revealed that they had made over 60 arrests before a friendly against Everton had even kicked off. Given this, and similar accounts from forces in Newcastle and elsewhere, and following the hooliganism and drunken sectarianism espoused by the Rankers support after recent matches involving Villarreal and Derby County, the GMP refused point black to permit the match to be played under any circumstances. In a statement, GMP Chief Superintendant Dave Lea stated : “Following detailed discussions between the GMP, Bolton Wanderers and other regional forces, is has been decided, on the grounds of public safety, that this match will not be given authorisation to proceed. It is regrettable that this decision has had to be made, but public safety is paramount”. No-one likes them, they don't care.
The Dark Lord issuing yet another warning plea (how many is that now ??) to the sectarian knuckle-draggers to stop their hate-filled bigotry, before the club is hammered by football's governing bodies. Warning that the repercussions of bigots continuing with their sectarian bile, would be grave, The Mint ominously warned : "These supporters need to show a certain level of behaviour in the grounds. If they don't, be prepared for the consequences. We have been pleading with the fans to show respect, but there is only so much the club can do. We have a small group of fans who want to continue to behave in such a manner. They're doing no service to this club whatsoever and in the modern world we live in, that behaviour is totally unacceptable. You can only receive so many warnings and if it continues, we will receive a stiffer penalty, of which every Rankers fan will suffer. I ask those people who wish to continue to sing such songs to please stop. You are jeopardising the future of our club."
Being so entertaining, and a such a major big name draw, that only 468 Middlesborough fans could be bothered to attend a pre-season match in July 2006 at The Death Star.
Releasing - only after the threat of severe and dire sanctions by UEFA - an official club statement slating the sectarian degenerates who continue to spout their bigotry and hatred at Legoland. As The Dark Lord, better late than never, stated : 'The Club is determined to do everything in our power to eradicate this problem. There should be no doubt now in supporters’ minds that UEFA has made it clear that all forms of sectarian singing – including any version of 'The Billy Boys' – are prohibited at domestic and European matches, home and away. Whether people think that is right or wrong, that is the reality of the situation. Having asked UEFA for clarification following the fine they imposed, they have responded clearly, and there is no appeals process. The Appeals body determined that sectarian singing had taken place. If the supporters don’t take that on board then the Club faces further and more serious punishment. We have to deal with the situation we are in, and are in full agreement that Rankers should not suffer from the actions of a small minority who refuse to accept that their sectarian behaviour is prohibited." UEFA’s position is that all forms of sectarian singing are prohibited at matches involving Rankers, be they home or away, domestic or European. UEFA also ‘severely warned’ Rankers over the future conduct of supporters engaging in sectarian behaviour. As part of the UEFA judgement, Rankers are required to make an announcement to their supporters before each match stating that sectarian singing is prohibited. On July 31, UEFA issued new disciplinary sanctions on racist conduct and discrimination which apply to all member associations and clubs. Any member association or club whose supporters engage in behaviour which insults the human dignity of a person or group of persons, by whatever means, including grounds of colour, race, religion or ethnic origin will incur a minimum £13,000 penalty. In particular circumstances, the disciplinary body may impose additional sanctions on the member association or club responsible, such as the playing of one or more games behind closed doors, a stadium closure, awarding of a match by default, deduction of points or disqualification from the competition. Any form of extremist ideological propaganda is banned before, during, and after games. UEFA directives immediately enforced on Rankers include : Each fan entering the ground given a deemed acceptable Rankers song list; a Pride Over Prejudice section outlining the unacceptability of, and the dire need to, eradicate the current widespread sectarian hate problem; a list of penalties, supporters and supporters’ clubs face if they continue to engage in bigoted and sectarian behaviour; a telephone hotline for fans concerned over the sectarian behaviour of others; announcements being made to the crowd on sectarian singing before home games and during the game if necessary; bigoted fans who fail to comply will face loss of season ticket, lifetime bans from the stadium, or arrest; penalties being applied without warning.
Huns security chief Lawrence MacIntyre ridiculously trying to claim that the anti-Catholic pro-Loyalist sectarian singing at Legoland during a match v Dundee United, was coming from the opposition fans. This is despite a number of Rankers fans admitting on a BBC Radio Scotland phone-in, that their fellow knuckledraggers were indeed singing ‘Here Lies A Soldier’ and ‘Derry’s Walls’ during the game. The huns were later forced into an embarassing climbdown over the false allegation, when Baldy Bain was forced to contact Dundee United, an formally apologise to them. As United Chairman Eddie Thompson later stated, "I can confirm that we have received a formal apology from Rankers and have accepted it. The allegations made about our fans was erroneous, and we are pleased that Rankers accept this." So the question remains : If there were only two sets of fans inside Legoland that day, and Rankers publically and formally accept that the sectarian pro-Loyalist hate-anthems were’nt being sung by the Dundee United fans – what set of fans do they accept was doing the singing ??
The BNP being so popular down Kinning Park way, that they ‘sold out’ of their entire supply of their propagandist hate-mag ‘Voice Of Freedom’. As their Glasgow correspondent, Walter Hamilton, eagerly boasted on the official BNP website : “Glasgow BNP sold out of their complete stock of ‘Voice of Freedom’ newspaper, on Saturday afternoon. The last paper was purchased by an eager supporter at Ibrox Stadium, half an hour before the Rankers versus Dundee United match kicked off, on Saturday 5th of August. We have been busy of late with some form of activity taking place every weekend, and we are making a push to get more campaign work done. The ‘Voice of Freedom’, is recognised as an essential tool in recruiting new voters and new members and Glasgow BNP have decided to make a concerted effort to boost sales and income in the coming months. With the new football season under way again, Glasgow BNP have returned to their regular ‘pitch’ at Ibrox Stadium. Activists will return each month with every new issue of ‘Voice of Freedom’. On Saturday, the paper sales team phoned me at 2.30pm to tell me that sales were so brisk that they had already sold out our complete stock. The last half hour before kick off is usually our busiest period too. I’m going to have to up our order because many supporters left disappointed that they didn’t get a paper.”
The Dark Lord trying to dupe the knuckledraggers by lying about negotiations being underway to bring hun monkey Rino Gattuso back to The Death Star. The disinformation was released by Murray’s media pooches who loyally spread the myth, the day after Rankers humiliation at the hands of ICT, when 50,000 huns (minus those who had already upped and left) booed the team off the park, with many throwing their scarves away in abject disgust. A typical example of this Winalot-style hacking was reported (without foundation) in the Hunday Mail by Murray-poodle Gavin Berry, who lied : ‘World Cup winner Rino Gattuso has promised David Murray, at a secret summit in Edinburgh, that he will return to Ibrox, and again pull on the light blue jersey’. He went on to ‘quote’ the monkeyman as allegedly stating : “I spoke to David in Edinburgh, and now the door is open. I have a debt towards Rankers, and I just have to go back. It’s a promise I’ve made to myself, and to David, that I’ll be back when I still have something to offer at European level, not just when I’m ready to retire.” Unfortunately for The Dark Lord, his smoke & mirrors conjuring was rumbled in it’s infancy by the monkeyman himself who immediately rubbished the claims, stating : “I will be ending my career with Milan. I cannot thank the Rossoneri (red & blacks) enough for what they have given me, and I want to assure the tifosi (fans) that I will be going nowhere. I don’t know where these stories have come from, but they are simply not true. I haven’t spoken to anyone, anywhere about leaving Milan, at any point, and certainly not to the people suggested. It is utter nonsense.”
Archie MacPherson saying that Le Guen's duds (who fell 10 points behind Celtic before the middle of October '06) were 'worse than Alex McLeish's team of last season' - and they broke a record for being voted The Worst Rankers Team In History !!
Radio Scotland holding a poll at the end of October ’06, to see whom fans thought was the worst manager in the SPHell – Craig Brewster, who was sacked after his pathetic Hundee Utd team had only won two out of TWENTY EIGHT games - or Bleu Le Goon, whose ineptitude was likened to Inspector Clueseau, after dropping 12 points behind Champions Celtic, before the clocks had even been put back, and whose shower of inept Summer signings could only muster 5 wins out of 12, and 19 points out of a possible 36.
Andy Cameron having to beg The Subway Loyal not to leave Legoland, usually with around a quarter of the game still to be played. In his embarrassing pre-match snorefest, Scotland's unfunniest man implored the early skulkers : "When Inverness scored the goal against us with 14 minutes left this place cleared out. You must stay for 90 minutes and get behind the team. We must all stay for 90 minutes and get 100% behind the team." Maybe the day he actually pays to get into the stadium, as opposed to getting paid to be there, is the day the knuckledraggers might listen to this pathetic hun tosspot, and his dreary Murray arse-licking ?
Being confirmed as Scotland’s huns, after The Sun published a picture of Bleu Le Goon, under the caption ‘The Shakiest Hun In The West’. The strapline appeared on the first day in history (10th November 2006), that a Scottish tabloid newspaper printed a picture of a cracked Rankers club crest.
Promising the fans a multi-million pound Revolution, and delivering a French farce that had them languishing in third place after just 12 games, a massive FIFTEEN points off the lead, and dumped out of the League Cup. The brave new world saw them horsed by the likes of lowly ICT, St Johnstone, Dundee Utd (and of course, Champions Celtic), and had the protesters screaming for Murray & Le Guen's heads outside the front door before November.
Offering full adult Season Tickets for sale, in ALL sections of The Death Star, at an embarrassing FIFTY PER CENT OFF, on November 18th ’06, with only 14 games of the season played. Must have had something to do with the fact that they were trailing Champions Celtic by a gargantuan 15 points at the time. Talk about rats deserting sinking ships ?!!
Defending the shocking decision not to invite Cardinal Keith O'Brien, a representative of the Catholic Church to Legoland for a Rankers v Celtic game in Dec ‘06, as part of an anti-sectarian initiative, on the grounds that they ‘couldn’t guarantee’ his safety. If that's not a tacit admission that their tarnished environs are frequented and inhabited by some of society's vilest, rabid, venomous, Catholic-hating scumbuckets, then I don't know what is. It's a sad, sad day, when a man of the cloth is prevented from going about his business for 90 short minutes, without fearing for his personal safety.
Being fined 10,000 Swiss francs (£4,230) for the pitch invasion that interrupted the Uefa Cup tie with Maccabi Haifa on 2nd Nov '06, when a fan from the Rankers end, ran on to the field and attempted to chain himself to the goalposts.
Captain Shellsuit and Bleu Le Goon having a public slanging match about the role of team Captain. Ferguson seemed to think it made him second only to God in terms of global importance, gushing : “I wasn’t happy with his comment, or what he said about the role of Captain. To me, it’s the most important job that’s about. I grew up as a fan of the club, I played for them, and the captaincy has topped it off for me. I’m privileged to be the captain and all my friends and family are happy for me.” Le Goon had other ideas for his delusional Captain, stating quite publically : "The role is not so important in France, and the Captain is NOT my voice on the pitch. The gameplan has to be MY job." Le Goon also claimed to have spoken to Ferguson about the captaincy, but The Shellsuit denied this, replying angrily : “What meeting ? He didn’t say anything to me.” Later that day, after the huns had failed to claw their way out of third place, and narrow Celtic’s massive 16-point gap at the top of the table, Le Goon stated in a post-match interview with the ‘fishal Rankers’ site : “"He thinks what he thinks. But I am the boss." It would appear that something is rotten in the kingdom of Mordor. And then ……………..
The embarrassing, shameful, and undignified public slanging match between Captain Shellsuit and Bleu Le Goon – all conducted in the full glare of the national media. Captain Shellsuit contacted Iain King (who ghost-wrote his biography) and Peter Martin on New Year’s Day, to whinge about being dropped for his mutinous behaviour aboard Le Goon’s sinking ship. Le Goon meanwhile - raging that Ferguson had arranged a Christmas night out for the players against his wishes - had earlier accused The Shellsuit of trying to undermine him, stating angrily : "I have been patient, but I know what is good for the team. Fans must be aware that it's not a whim. Rankers are more important than Barry Ferguson. He tries to have too much influence. When adversity is outside, it is okay – you can stick together and fight it. But, when the adversity is inside, it's becomes a lot more complicated. When someone undermines you, it becomes harder and harder." And then …………………..
Sacking Bleu Le Goon after just SEVEN MONTHS ‘in charge’ of the club. ‘In charge’ refers to being ‘in charge’ of steering the rudderless ship to fourth place, losing to Falkirk, Dundee United, Celtic, Hibs, and Inverness Caley Thistle (TWICE !!), as well as dropping points to Motherwell, Dunfermline, and Kilmarnock. It also refers to being ‘in charge’ of a humiliating 0-2 loss to St Johnstone in the CIS Cup at The Death Star, and being seven points behind by the end of September, with just three wins recorded, out of eight. By October, Le Goon had steered them to third in the league, twelve points adrift, having recorded just five wins out of twelve. By turkey-time (and it was blatantly obvious to everyone in the country and beyond, who the turkeys were), Le Goon had ‘steered’ his sinking vessel to a gaping sixteen points behind, with his team of duds still languishing in third place. Before the turn of the New Year, Le Goon’s humiliating embarrassments had written his obituary. As his taxi arrived, and Le Goon’s jaikkit finally fell off it’s shoogily peg – just seven months after the hapless Gingerbaws’ had his own taxi phoned for him – the writing on the wall read : Played 23, Won 11, Drew 6, Lost 6, 17 points behind Champions, and Champions-elect, Celtic. Au Revoir Monsieur Le Goon. And then ……………….
On the same day that Le Goon bid them au revoir, selling official prints in the online Rankers store, of Kris Boyd celebrating his goal at Fir Park, by holding up six fingers – in support of the dropped shite-stirrer, Captain Shellsuit. What price undermining your own club’s manager, and profiteering from the club’s inner turmoil Mr Murray ?? “Err £9.99 for A4, and £14.95 for A3, should just about cover it, thanks very much !!”
John Brown being sacked as U21 Reserve Team Coach, and paid to sign a confidentiality agreement, so he wouldn’t tell the fans what really goes on behind the locked gates at Murray Park, where the Rankers youth set up – despite acres of rainforest being used for the triumphalist boasting of The Dark Lord - hasn’t won a trophy since it’s much trumpeted opening in 2001.
The Dark Lord - yet again (how many times is that now ???) - being forced to issue a public statement to warn the sectarian knuckledraggers to desist from their bigoted anti-Catholic sectarianism, both at Legoland, and whilst Away. Warning that the arrival of Pepe Le Pew, the club's first Catholic manager would mean 'a new era' at the club, The Mint demanded an end to the club's notoriously deep-rooted hate problem. Ahead of the annual sash-bash against the bigots of Loyalist Linfield, Murray warned : "The season ahead is crucial, and none more so than in respect of how we respond to UEFA's recent directives following discriminatory chanting at the two Champions League matches against Villarreal. Ahead of our pre-season match in Northern Ireland, we have to move forward and can only do this with the commitment of 100% of our fans. It's time for the silent majority to isolate anyone who does not have the best interests of Rankers at heart. The club and the fans will now work together in a bid to tackle the sectarian minority."
Having their July 2006 pre-season friendly with Bolton Wanderers cancelled on the orders of Greater Manchester Police, who feared large scale disorder, and considered the travelling hun hoardes to be a major threat to public safety. The decision was taken after a meeting with several English forces who have policed similar matches involving the huns in the last 10 years. Part of the meeting included a briefing by Merseyside Police, who revealed that they had made over 60 arrests before a friendly against Everton had even kicked off. Given this, and similar accounts from forces in Newcastle and elsewhere, and following the hooliganism and drunken sectarianism espoused by the Rankers support after recent matches involving Villarreal and Derby County, the GMP refused point black to permit the match to be played under any circumstances. In a statement, GMP Chief Superintendant Dave Lea stated : “Following detailed discussions between the GMP, Bolton Wanderers and other regional forces, is has been decided, on the grounds of public safety, that this match will not be given authorisation to proceed. It is regrettable that this decision has had to be made, but public safety is paramount”. No-one likes them, they don't care.
The Dark Lord issuing yet another warning plea (how many is that now ??) to the sectarian knuckle-draggers to stop their hate-filled bigotry, before the club is hammered by football's governing bodies. Warning that the repercussions of bigots continuing with their sectarian bile, would be grave, The Mint ominously warned : "These supporters need to show a certain level of behaviour in the grounds. If they don't, be prepared for the consequences. We have been pleading with the fans to show respect, but there is only so much the club can do. We have a small group of fans who want to continue to behave in such a manner. They're doing no service to this club whatsoever and in the modern world we live in, that behaviour is totally unacceptable. You can only receive so many warnings and if it continues, we will receive a stiffer penalty, of which every Rankers fan will suffer. I ask those people who wish to continue to sing such songs to please stop. You are jeopardising the future of our club."
Being so entertaining, and a such a major big name draw, that only 468 Middlesborough fans could be bothered to attend a pre-season match in July 2006 at The Death Star.
Releasing - only after the threat of severe and dire sanctions by UEFA - an official club statement slating the sectarian degenerates who continue to spout their bigotry and hatred at Legoland. As The Dark Lord, better late than never, stated : 'The Club is determined to do everything in our power to eradicate this problem. There should be no doubt now in supporters’ minds that UEFA has made it clear that all forms of sectarian singing – including any version of 'The Billy Boys' – are prohibited at domestic and European matches, home and away. Whether people think that is right or wrong, that is the reality of the situation. Having asked UEFA for clarification following the fine they imposed, they have responded clearly, and there is no appeals process. The Appeals body determined that sectarian singing had taken place. If the supporters don’t take that on board then the Club faces further and more serious punishment. We have to deal with the situation we are in, and are in full agreement that Rankers should not suffer from the actions of a small minority who refuse to accept that their sectarian behaviour is prohibited." UEFA’s position is that all forms of sectarian singing are prohibited at matches involving Rankers, be they home or away, domestic or European. UEFA also ‘severely warned’ Rankers over the future conduct of supporters engaging in sectarian behaviour. As part of the UEFA judgement, Rankers are required to make an announcement to their supporters before each match stating that sectarian singing is prohibited. On July 31, UEFA issued new disciplinary sanctions on racist conduct and discrimination which apply to all member associations and clubs. Any member association or club whose supporters engage in behaviour which insults the human dignity of a person or group of persons, by whatever means, including grounds of colour, race, religion or ethnic origin will incur a minimum £13,000 penalty. In particular circumstances, the disciplinary body may impose additional sanctions on the member association or club responsible, such as the playing of one or more games behind closed doors, a stadium closure, awarding of a match by default, deduction of points or disqualification from the competition. Any form of extremist ideological propaganda is banned before, during, and after games. UEFA directives immediately enforced on Rankers include : Each fan entering the ground given a deemed acceptable Rankers song list; a Pride Over Prejudice section outlining the unacceptability of, and the dire need to, eradicate the current widespread sectarian hate problem; a list of penalties, supporters and supporters’ clubs face if they continue to engage in bigoted and sectarian behaviour; a telephone hotline for fans concerned over the sectarian behaviour of others; announcements being made to the crowd on sectarian singing before home games and during the game if necessary; bigoted fans who fail to comply will face loss of season ticket, lifetime bans from the stadium, or arrest; penalties being applied without warning.
Huns security chief Lawrence MacIntyre ridiculously trying to claim that the anti-Catholic pro-Loyalist sectarian singing at Legoland during a match v Dundee United, was coming from the opposition fans. This is despite a number of Rankers fans admitting on a BBC Radio Scotland phone-in, that their fellow knuckledraggers were indeed singing ‘Here Lies A Soldier’ and ‘Derry’s Walls’ during the game. The huns were later forced into an embarassing climbdown over the false allegation, when Baldy Bain was forced to contact Dundee United, an formally apologise to them. As United Chairman Eddie Thompson later stated, "I can confirm that we have received a formal apology from Rankers and have accepted it. The allegations made about our fans was erroneous, and we are pleased that Rankers accept this." So the question remains : If there were only two sets of fans inside Legoland that day, and Rankers publically and formally accept that the sectarian pro-Loyalist hate-anthems were’nt being sung by the Dundee United fans – what set of fans do they accept was doing the singing ??
The BNP being so popular down Kinning Park way, that they ‘sold out’ of their entire supply of their propagandist hate-mag ‘Voice Of Freedom’. As their Glasgow correspondent, Walter Hamilton, eagerly boasted on the official BNP website : “Glasgow BNP sold out of their complete stock of ‘Voice of Freedom’ newspaper, on Saturday afternoon. The last paper was purchased by an eager supporter at Ibrox Stadium, half an hour before the Rankers versus Dundee United match kicked off, on Saturday 5th of August. We have been busy of late with some form of activity taking place every weekend, and we are making a push to get more campaign work done. The ‘Voice of Freedom’, is recognised as an essential tool in recruiting new voters and new members and Glasgow BNP have decided to make a concerted effort to boost sales and income in the coming months. With the new football season under way again, Glasgow BNP have returned to their regular ‘pitch’ at Ibrox Stadium. Activists will return each month with every new issue of ‘Voice of Freedom’. On Saturday, the paper sales team phoned me at 2.30pm to tell me that sales were so brisk that they had already sold out our complete stock. The last half hour before kick off is usually our busiest period too. I’m going to have to up our order because many supporters left disappointed that they didn’t get a paper.”
The Dark Lord trying to dupe the knuckledraggers by lying about negotiations being underway to bring hun monkey Rino Gattuso back to The Death Star. The disinformation was released by Murray’s media pooches who loyally spread the myth, the day after Rankers humiliation at the hands of ICT, when 50,000 huns (minus those who had already upped and left) booed the team off the park, with many throwing their scarves away in abject disgust. A typical example of this Winalot-style hacking was reported (without foundation) in the Hunday Mail by Murray-poodle Gavin Berry, who lied : ‘World Cup winner Rino Gattuso has promised David Murray, at a secret summit in Edinburgh, that he will return to Ibrox, and again pull on the light blue jersey’. He went on to ‘quote’ the monkeyman as allegedly stating : “I spoke to David in Edinburgh, and now the door is open. I have a debt towards Rankers, and I just have to go back. It’s a promise I’ve made to myself, and to David, that I’ll be back when I still have something to offer at European level, not just when I’m ready to retire.” Unfortunately for The Dark Lord, his smoke & mirrors conjuring was rumbled in it’s infancy by the monkeyman himself who immediately rubbished the claims, stating : “I will be ending my career with Milan. I cannot thank the Rossoneri (red & blacks) enough for what they have given me, and I want to assure the tifosi (fans) that I will be going nowhere. I don’t know where these stories have come from, but they are simply not true. I haven’t spoken to anyone, anywhere about leaving Milan, at any point, and certainly not to the people suggested. It is utter nonsense.”
Archie MacPherson saying that Le Guen's duds (who fell 10 points behind Celtic before the middle of October '06) were 'worse than Alex McLeish's team of last season' - and they broke a record for being voted The Worst Rankers Team In History !!
Radio Scotland holding a poll at the end of October ’06, to see whom fans thought was the worst manager in the SPHell – Craig Brewster, who was sacked after his pathetic Hundee Utd team had only won two out of TWENTY EIGHT games - or Bleu Le Goon, whose ineptitude was likened to Inspector Clueseau, after dropping 12 points behind Champions Celtic, before the clocks had even been put back, and whose shower of inept Summer signings could only muster 5 wins out of 12, and 19 points out of a possible 36.
Andy Cameron having to beg The Subway Loyal not to leave Legoland, usually with around a quarter of the game still to be played. In his embarrassing pre-match snorefest, Scotland's unfunniest man implored the early skulkers : "When Inverness scored the goal against us with 14 minutes left this place cleared out. You must stay for 90 minutes and get behind the team. We must all stay for 90 minutes and get 100% behind the team." Maybe the day he actually pays to get into the stadium, as opposed to getting paid to be there, is the day the knuckledraggers might listen to this pathetic hun tosspot, and his dreary Murray arse-licking ?
Being confirmed as Scotland’s huns, after The Sun published a picture of Bleu Le Goon, under the caption ‘The Shakiest Hun In The West’. The strapline appeared on the first day in history (10th November 2006), that a Scottish tabloid newspaper printed a picture of a cracked Rankers club crest.
Promising the fans a multi-million pound Revolution, and delivering a French farce that had them languishing in third place after just 12 games, a massive FIFTEEN points off the lead, and dumped out of the League Cup. The brave new world saw them horsed by the likes of lowly ICT, St Johnstone, Dundee Utd (and of course, Champions Celtic), and had the protesters screaming for Murray & Le Guen's heads outside the front door before November.
Offering full adult Season Tickets for sale, in ALL sections of The Death Star, at an embarrassing FIFTY PER CENT OFF, on November 18th ’06, with only 14 games of the season played. Must have had something to do with the fact that they were trailing Champions Celtic by a gargantuan 15 points at the time. Talk about rats deserting sinking ships ?!!
Defending the shocking decision not to invite Cardinal Keith O'Brien, a representative of the Catholic Church to Legoland for a Rankers v Celtic game in Dec ‘06, as part of an anti-sectarian initiative, on the grounds that they ‘couldn’t guarantee’ his safety. If that's not a tacit admission that their tarnished environs are frequented and inhabited by some of society's vilest, rabid, venomous, Catholic-hating scumbuckets, then I don't know what is. It's a sad, sad day, when a man of the cloth is prevented from going about his business for 90 short minutes, without fearing for his personal safety.
Being fined 10,000 Swiss francs (£4,230) for the pitch invasion that interrupted the Uefa Cup tie with Maccabi Haifa on 2nd Nov '06, when a fan from the Rankers end, ran on to the field and attempted to chain himself to the goalposts.
Captain Shellsuit and Bleu Le Goon having a public slanging match about the role of team Captain. Ferguson seemed to think it made him second only to God in terms of global importance, gushing : “I wasn’t happy with his comment, or what he said about the role of Captain. To me, it’s the most important job that’s about. I grew up as a fan of the club, I played for them, and the captaincy has topped it off for me. I’m privileged to be the captain and all my friends and family are happy for me.” Le Goon had other ideas for his delusional Captain, stating quite publically : "The role is not so important in France, and the Captain is NOT my voice on the pitch. The gameplan has to be MY job." Le Goon also claimed to have spoken to Ferguson about the captaincy, but The Shellsuit denied this, replying angrily : “What meeting ? He didn’t say anything to me.” Later that day, after the huns had failed to claw their way out of third place, and narrow Celtic’s massive 16-point gap at the top of the table, Le Goon stated in a post-match interview with the ‘fishal Rankers’ site : “"He thinks what he thinks. But I am the boss." It would appear that something is rotten in the kingdom of Mordor. And then ……………..
The embarrassing, shameful, and undignified public slanging match between Captain Shellsuit and Bleu Le Goon – all conducted in the full glare of the national media. Captain Shellsuit contacted Iain King (who ghost-wrote his biography) and Peter Martin on New Year’s Day, to whinge about being dropped for his mutinous behaviour aboard Le Goon’s sinking ship. Le Goon meanwhile - raging that Ferguson had arranged a Christmas night out for the players against his wishes - had earlier accused The Shellsuit of trying to undermine him, stating angrily : "I have been patient, but I know what is good for the team. Fans must be aware that it's not a whim. Rankers are more important than Barry Ferguson. He tries to have too much influence. When adversity is outside, it is okay – you can stick together and fight it. But, when the adversity is inside, it's becomes a lot more complicated. When someone undermines you, it becomes harder and harder." And then …………………..
Sacking Bleu Le Goon after just SEVEN MONTHS ‘in charge’ of the club. ‘In charge’ refers to being ‘in charge’ of steering the rudderless ship to fourth place, losing to Falkirk, Dundee United, Celtic, Hibs, and Inverness Caley Thistle (TWICE !!), as well as dropping points to Motherwell, Dunfermline, and Kilmarnock. It also refers to being ‘in charge’ of a humiliating 0-2 loss to St Johnstone in the CIS Cup at The Death Star, and being seven points behind by the end of September, with just three wins recorded, out of eight. By October, Le Goon had steered them to third in the league, twelve points adrift, having recorded just five wins out of twelve. By turkey-time (and it was blatantly obvious to everyone in the country and beyond, who the turkeys were), Le Goon had ‘steered’ his sinking vessel to a gaping sixteen points behind, with his team of duds still languishing in third place. Before the turn of the New Year, Le Goon’s humiliating embarrassments had written his obituary. As his taxi arrived, and Le Goon’s jaikkit finally fell off it’s shoogily peg – just seven months after the hapless Gingerbaws’ had his own taxi phoned for him – the writing on the wall read : Played 23, Won 11, Drew 6, Lost 6, 17 points behind Champions, and Champions-elect, Celtic. Au Revoir Monsieur Le Goon. And then ……………….
On the same day that Le Goon bid them au revoir, selling official prints in the online Rankers store, of Kris Boyd celebrating his goal at Fir Park, by holding up six fingers – in support of the dropped shite-stirrer, Captain Shellsuit. What price undermining your own club’s manager, and profiteering from the club’s inner turmoil Mr Murray ?? “Err £9.99 for A4, and £14.95 for A3, should just about cover it, thanks very much !!”
Bleu Le Goon revealing that one of the reasons he left the huns (as well as his bust-up with The Shellsuit, and the dressing room being littered with ‘undesirables’) was because of their engendered boozing culture, and the fact that the players appeared for training, frequently showing signs of having been on the booze the night before. The lack of professionalism was one of his main concerns, given that he was supposed to turn that alco-rabble into a winning team.
Having their season ended in record time – Sunday 7th January ’07 – after they were horsed out of the Scottish Cup by a Hunfermline side who previously couldn’t buy a goal for love nor money. That left them trailing 17 points behind in the league, and out of the CIS Cup after being on the wrong end of a 0-2 drubbing by St Johnstone at The Death Star. After Le Goon was shown the door, the hun with the ‘demons in his heid’ look, Ian ‘Durranty’ Durrant took charge for the journey up to East End Park, pronouncing that he ‘could now die happy’. After getting horsed 3-2 by the home side, one wonders if he might have considered it ?!
Walter 'The Cardigan' Smith being sued for 'Breach Of Contract' by the SFA after he walked out on the national side after being tapped-up by The Dark Lord - who himself was sued by the SFA for 'Inducement To Break A Contract'. Smith, never one to shy away from playing the Braveheart card when it suited him, dumped Scotland the moment his old paymaster came a-calling, and left the national team halfway through their vital qualifying phase for Euro 2008. Despite being refused permission by the SFA to enter into contract talks with Rankers, Smith stuck two fingers up at them, and walked out on the contract that helped to drag him out of the footballing wilderness, despite it still having 18 months on it, still left to run. SFA chief executive, David Taylor, said : "This departure is a serious blow to the Scottish FA. We are very disappointed that he has chosen to leave us at this critical time in our Euro 2008 qualification campaign. No agreement has been reached with Mr Smith or Rankers Football Club on any compensation payment to be made for the early termination of his employment, which is in breach of his contract with the Scottish FA." Such was the weight of their guilt, and rather than take any chances with an open-minded jury, Murray chose to settle out of court for some £500,000, on behalf of both himself, and the manager he tapped from the SFA.
Huns physio Joel Le Hir being arrested and charged with caught drink-driving after a night out partying with hun colleagues. Police stopped the 52-year-old French doctor after he was so drunk, he drove the wrong way round George Square in Glasgow, with no lights on. Le Hir was convicted of drink-driving at Glasgow Sheriff Court, banned from driving for one year, and fined £1,000. The court heard that about 1:35am, police saw a car with no lights on travelling in the wrong direction around George Square. Lynsey McMorran, prosecuting, said : "The vehicle was stopped and the accused - who was driving - was spoken to. Officers noted that his speech was heavily slurred and there was a strong smell of alcohol present. A breathalyser test was carried out and he was found to be over the limit. He was subsequently arrested and charged." Le Hir was a member of Bleu Le Goon's backroom team - the same Bleu le Goon who was said to be deeply concerned about the deep-rooted inherent drinking culture at Rankers ?!
Being slated as 'derisory' and 'insulting' by Wigan boss Paul Jewell, after the bankrupt huns entered an impoverished £750,000 bid for midfielder Lee McCulloch. "The offer they made can only be described as derisory - in fact, it's insulting," said Jewell. "We paid £700,000 for him when we were in the old Third Division. Since then he's become a Premiership player and a full international. If Rankers think we would sell an established player and international for such a paltry sum then they are sorely mistaken. Their offer is nowhere near what Wigan would need to let him leave the club." Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Wattie The Cardigan being slated by France coach Raymond Domenech in a scathing attack relating to Smith betraying his country, and chasing personal profit over national interest, when he walked out on Scotland to rejoin the tarnished Kinning Park outfit. In a verbal volley that pulled no punches, Domenech was one of the few who had the courage to publically state, what everyone else was thinking. He slammed Smith, stating matter of factly : "That's not club before country, that's bank account before country. In terms of sporting ethics I think it's a shame he has the right to abandon them like that. He is laughing in the players' faces. Simply put, he is taking advantage of Scotland's recent resurgence to further his own career. It's scandalous. He's taken advantage of the momentum they've given him and then dropped them. After all the hard work they've put in, he's left all of them. His departure could prove fatal to Scotland's Euro 2008 hopes."
Karl Svensson, William Stanger, and Jeremy Clement revealing that the huns dressing room is split along national lines, and that foreign players are treated like outcasts. Stanger was first to launch a bitter broadside at the tarnished Kinning Parkers by claiming that they don't want foreign players at the club. The striker voiced his disenchantment by stating : "It's not a good place to be right now. They don't want to have foreigners at Glasgow Rankers. I am hoping to move from Rankers, and away from Scotland. I am hoping to move to Sweden instead. The Swedish lifestyle is more like the French way of living. Karl Svensson told me to go to Sweden and try the football there." Meanwhile, Clement too claimed Rankers no longer want the foreigners around, saying : "This new regime has made it crystal clear that they want to send out an all-Scottish side if possible. The atmosphere is bad in the dressing room. Above all they [Rankers] want to work with Scots players, and that makes it very difficult for those of us who aren’t Scottish. We feel excluded, and I don't want to stay under the new regime. For me, the atmosphere at the club changed over-night when Paul Le Guen left. Staying in Scotland immediately lost its attraction because the league has such a poor reputation. I came to Rankers because I wanted to work with Paul and he believed he could achieve things at the club. But, with him gone, it's back to the situation beforehand where the SPL is not rated in France. I have ambitions to play for my country, but I would never achieve that playing in Scotland. That's why I asked to be released. If I'd stayed in Glasgow, I would only have ended up unhappy. It wasn't a nice atmosphere to be in if you are foreign."
Being described as ‘a joke - an absolute joke’ by Falkirk manager John Hughes, after they entered three pathetically impoverished bids of £100k, £115k, and then £130k for Falkirk’s £500,000 rated striker Alan Gow. Hughes was so incensed by the huns miserly approaches that he publically stated that he would ‘rather lose Gow for nothing in the Summer’ (2007) than accept any of Rankers pathetic and insulting bids. Can’t even afford a bog-standard SPHell player - my, how the mighty have fallen.
The huns’ Head Groundkeeper, David Roxburgh, saying on the Real Radio football phone-in, that the Legoland pitch habitually resembles a barren quagmire swampbog, because ‘it gets less sunlight than any other ground in Europe.’ One of my favourites, that one – even better than the last time, when he was claiming it was because of ‘the grass having a disease.’ Wouldn’t be anything to do with the donkeys, heffers, and swine that run around on it every fortnight, would it ?!
Being snubbed by Paul Hartley, despite The Cardigan trying with three last-minute bids (including one of £1m) to entice him over to The Death Star. Rankers boss Walter Smith believed he was set to clinch Hartley’s signature, but Hartley blanked his calls and headed straight into discussions with Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell, after which the lifelong Celtic fan insisted that at no point was there any chance of him straying over to the darker side of Glasgow. As revealed by Hartley himself in a frank interview after pulling on The Hoops : “It’s not right for anyone to say my mind was heading towards Rankers. I’d never spoken to anyone from Rankers and no bid was ever accepted by Hearts from them. They made three bids but when I got a call from my agent to say Celtic had made an offer and the bid had been accepted, it was an easy choice for me to make. I’m a Celtic supporter and my family and friends are Celtic people so it was very straightforward. I missed out on Celtic two years ago and I wasn’t going to let that happen again.”
Forty six workers losing their jobs, after David Murray’s luxury-property building company – Kelvin Homes - went into receivership, leaving several sub-contractors facing collapse, with some owed amounts ranging from £25,000 to £80,000. Murray was overseeing the renovation of the exclusive Schaw House development in Bearsden, which was bought by him for £4m in June 2005, when the property arm of his company spiralled into financial meltdown. Blair Nimmo, of accountants KPMG, stated : “Forty six people have been made redundant, and a number of contractors are owed some not inconsiderable sums of money. It’s bad news for Kelvin Homes, and bad news for those sub-contractors, who have been employed by them. More money was going out than was coming in, and the trading position became unsustainable. The directors took the decision, that the business was unable to continue.”
The Headmaster of Christ The King primary school, who won their way through to the final of a 7-a-side tournament being played at half time at The Death Star, being informed by Rankers officials, that his school would be called simply 'the red team' rather than by their proper school name, as the reaction of the crowd would be unpleasant and embarrasing for all concerned.
Fat Derek ‘The Pieman’ Johnstone saying on Radio Snyde, that Rankers’ highlight of the year 2006 was : "The day Peter Lovenkrands left Rankers for Germany."
Celebrity West-Brit, Terry Wogan ripping the pish out of them live on BBC Radio 2 in Feb ’07, when he said on his breakfast show : “Glasgow City Council have announced that they'll build a SuperCasino in Govan. There'll be the usual Roulette, BlackJack, and Poker - however, the Crap games will continue to be played along the road at Ibrox.” Ha Ha Ha - even the West-Brits know how truly pish they are.
Being slated by Hapoel Tel Aviv manager Nir Levin, who branded them as a team of ‘divers’ who conned referees, before labelling them ‘a dirty team’. Levin said : "We saw Chris Burke's dive in the game last week, and when we are talking about dives I was at Ibrox when Maccabi Haifa played here and Rankers got two penalties. I was working with the television and I can tell you for sure it was diving. The people of Maccabi Haifa were very angry with the referee. Also Rankers got a penalty against Kilmarnock, when they won 3-1, and Kris Boyd was not fouled for the penalty. The referee said afterwards it was his mistake."
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans posting on FF that Celtic Park had a far better atmosphere for a domestic SPHell game (Celtic v Hibernian), than The Death Star had for Wattie Smith’s much vaunted returning European tie (Rankers v Hapoel Tel Aiv).
Someone at the club finally admitting that the huns team is nothing short of goddam awful, masked by pro-Rankers media wishful thinking, coupled with a huge dose of papering over some rather cavernous cracks. In a post-match interview after an absolutely woeful Rankers team were literally played off the park at home, by Spanish strugglers Osasuna (at the time, 15th in their League), The Cardigan grumbled
Head of safety and security, Laurence MacIntyre, admitting that many hooligan huns - already serving life bans from The Death Star - were present at Osasuna, where widespread drunken hooliganism and sectarianism was only curtailed by Spanish baton-wielding riot police. Commenting on the shocking images of violence, and of flags bearing the name of the hooligan Rankers Inter City Firm seen inside the Reyno de Navarra stadium, MacIntyre admitted to the BBC : "There are people in that crowd who should not have been there, and they should not have been because I know that I've banned them either indefinitely or I've banned them for life, from attending Rankers games. One individual that I met only last week - and blocked him getting a ticket for that game and told him under no circumstances did I expect him to be there - is in that picture as well."
Being slated as a small fry with big dreams, but without the resources to match, by Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud, during their embarrassing attempt to land France international midfielder Julien Faubert. "It's simple," Triaud said. "The coach (Laurent Blanc) wants to keep the player but the player wants away. Given the player's wishes, we are prepared to consider it but it would need to be a significant bid. With Rankers the proposition was NOT significant, and nowhere near what Bordeaux expect. Any offer that might come thereafter, would come too late. Given that, a deal will not be done."
The Death Star being raided by Fraud Squad officers from the City Of London Police, investigating corruption and malpractice during football transfers. The early morning raid, by officers armed with Search Warrants, centred on the transfer of Jean-Alain Boumsong to and from Rankers.
After all The Dark Lord’s boasting over the years about how he’ll outbid everyone else for the right player, and how he’ll have two separate teams – one for Europe, and one for the SPL – and how that he’ll spend a tenner for every fiver Celtic spend, and about how Rankers always get their man, and about moonbeams of success, and about real signings – not loan deals or Bosmans – and about how he’ll get revenge for missing out on the signing of Scott Brown, by signing the kind of players that would make the knuckledraggers ‘drool’ ……….. not even being able to afford bog standard run-of-the-mill SPL player Steven Naismith from Kilmarnock.
Death star 'legends' Super-Sally McCoist and Sandy Jardine both warning the club's sectarian knuckledragging followers that they will personally intervene to stop the bigots from singing their anti-Catholic hate anthems on matchdays. With the realistic threat of SPL points deductions looming heavily, and in light of numerous and repeated warnings from UEFA, Rankers have finally been forced into making a move on the sectarian bigots who have funded the club for over a century. As McCoist stated : "I’ve got to stop it, of course I would. If my club is going to get docked three points I think it’s sensible to nip it in the bud straight away. We’ve already had warnings from Uefa and it’s getting serious. Once you start talking about getting points deducted – it’s a hard enough job trying to win cups and leagues as it is. We just can’t afford any setbacks, and we simply can’t afford it to happen. We’re not out of the woods, and I don’t think we ever will be. Anybody that’s going to sing a song that’s got a chance of us being deducted three points, you’d have to say that’s wrong. It was a lot more common years and years ago. As wrong as it was, there was nothing really getting done about it. Times have changed and fans from all over the country can’t sing songs they were singing before, and that’s the way it is." Sandy Jardine - admitting that Rankers have had 'sectarian issues' for over 80 years - also stated : "No one is under any illusions. Uefa have provided warnings about unacceptable behaviour to the club over the past two seasons, and now it’s not only the eyes of Uefa which are on us. The SPL have issued new guidelines which talk about unacceptable conduct. What you’ve got to remember is you’ve got 80 years of sectarian issues. You’re not going to clear it overnight. It might take another five, ten, or fifteen years, but the club is determined to get on the right lines, regarding this."
Ajax boss Theo Ten Cate describing Falkirk as ‘better than Rankers’ after playing both teams in a pre-season tournament in July ’07. Ten Cate slated the huns for being ‘too defensive’ and ‘lacking the desire to play an open game.’
Attracting a crowd of over 50,000 for a sectarian sash-up bigotfest against the Chelski scum, but drawing a home crowd of only 34,000 for a vital CL tie against Zeta of Montenegro. A few weeks later, the huns attracted a pathetic 35,364 for their all-or-nothing CL home tie with Red Star Belgrade – a match that would decide whether or not the huns would progress into the CL Group Stage, along with the accompanying revenue and prestige implications. Tells you everything you need to know about why the bigots are attracted to that particular tarnished football club, and what their reasons for doing so are.
Signing former Lens misfit Daniel Cousin, who was so hated by his old club's fans, that they wrecked his car, tried to attack him, and boo-ed him every time he appeared for the team, after he gave them a one-fingered salute during the 2006/07 season. As confirmed by Cousin himself : "There are people who have come to my home several times trying to attack me. One broke my car, another launched rocks at my window. I don't want to stay at Lens any more. I want to move and, if I have to stay, the one thing I'll definitely be doing is moving house." Such were the feelings of hatred and animosity towards him during home games, the hapless misfit asked Lens manager Guy Roux to only play him at away games. For his public show of hostility, Cousin was fined by the club, censured, dropped well down the pecking order, and hastily transferred. It seems only natural that someone of his ilk would find a natural home amongst some of the most hated, most antagonistic reprobates on the planet.
Having their season ended in record time – Sunday 7th January ’07 – after they were horsed out of the Scottish Cup by a Hunfermline side who previously couldn’t buy a goal for love nor money. That left them trailing 17 points behind in the league, and out of the CIS Cup after being on the wrong end of a 0-2 drubbing by St Johnstone at The Death Star. After Le Goon was shown the door, the hun with the ‘demons in his heid’ look, Ian ‘Durranty’ Durrant took charge for the journey up to East End Park, pronouncing that he ‘could now die happy’. After getting horsed 3-2 by the home side, one wonders if he might have considered it ?!
Walter 'The Cardigan' Smith being sued for 'Breach Of Contract' by the SFA after he walked out on the national side after being tapped-up by The Dark Lord - who himself was sued by the SFA for 'Inducement To Break A Contract'. Smith, never one to shy away from playing the Braveheart card when it suited him, dumped Scotland the moment his old paymaster came a-calling, and left the national team halfway through their vital qualifying phase for Euro 2008. Despite being refused permission by the SFA to enter into contract talks with Rankers, Smith stuck two fingers up at them, and walked out on the contract that helped to drag him out of the footballing wilderness, despite it still having 18 months on it, still left to run. SFA chief executive, David Taylor, said : "This departure is a serious blow to the Scottish FA. We are very disappointed that he has chosen to leave us at this critical time in our Euro 2008 qualification campaign. No agreement has been reached with Mr Smith or Rankers Football Club on any compensation payment to be made for the early termination of his employment, which is in breach of his contract with the Scottish FA." Such was the weight of their guilt, and rather than take any chances with an open-minded jury, Murray chose to settle out of court for some £500,000, on behalf of both himself, and the manager he tapped from the SFA.
Huns physio Joel Le Hir being arrested and charged with caught drink-driving after a night out partying with hun colleagues. Police stopped the 52-year-old French doctor after he was so drunk, he drove the wrong way round George Square in Glasgow, with no lights on. Le Hir was convicted of drink-driving at Glasgow Sheriff Court, banned from driving for one year, and fined £1,000. The court heard that about 1:35am, police saw a car with no lights on travelling in the wrong direction around George Square. Lynsey McMorran, prosecuting, said : "The vehicle was stopped and the accused - who was driving - was spoken to. Officers noted that his speech was heavily slurred and there was a strong smell of alcohol present. A breathalyser test was carried out and he was found to be over the limit. He was subsequently arrested and charged." Le Hir was a member of Bleu Le Goon's backroom team - the same Bleu le Goon who was said to be deeply concerned about the deep-rooted inherent drinking culture at Rankers ?!
Being slated as 'derisory' and 'insulting' by Wigan boss Paul Jewell, after the bankrupt huns entered an impoverished £750,000 bid for midfielder Lee McCulloch. "The offer they made can only be described as derisory - in fact, it's insulting," said Jewell. "We paid £700,000 for him when we were in the old Third Division. Since then he's become a Premiership player and a full international. If Rankers think we would sell an established player and international for such a paltry sum then they are sorely mistaken. Their offer is nowhere near what Wigan would need to let him leave the club." Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Wattie The Cardigan being slated by France coach Raymond Domenech in a scathing attack relating to Smith betraying his country, and chasing personal profit over national interest, when he walked out on Scotland to rejoin the tarnished Kinning Park outfit. In a verbal volley that pulled no punches, Domenech was one of the few who had the courage to publically state, what everyone else was thinking. He slammed Smith, stating matter of factly : "That's not club before country, that's bank account before country. In terms of sporting ethics I think it's a shame he has the right to abandon them like that. He is laughing in the players' faces. Simply put, he is taking advantage of Scotland's recent resurgence to further his own career. It's scandalous. He's taken advantage of the momentum they've given him and then dropped them. After all the hard work they've put in, he's left all of them. His departure could prove fatal to Scotland's Euro 2008 hopes."
Karl Svensson, William Stanger, and Jeremy Clement revealing that the huns dressing room is split along national lines, and that foreign players are treated like outcasts. Stanger was first to launch a bitter broadside at the tarnished Kinning Parkers by claiming that they don't want foreign players at the club. The striker voiced his disenchantment by stating : "It's not a good place to be right now. They don't want to have foreigners at Glasgow Rankers. I am hoping to move from Rankers, and away from Scotland. I am hoping to move to Sweden instead. The Swedish lifestyle is more like the French way of living. Karl Svensson told me to go to Sweden and try the football there." Meanwhile, Clement too claimed Rankers no longer want the foreigners around, saying : "This new regime has made it crystal clear that they want to send out an all-Scottish side if possible. The atmosphere is bad in the dressing room. Above all they [Rankers] want to work with Scots players, and that makes it very difficult for those of us who aren’t Scottish. We feel excluded, and I don't want to stay under the new regime. For me, the atmosphere at the club changed over-night when Paul Le Guen left. Staying in Scotland immediately lost its attraction because the league has such a poor reputation. I came to Rankers because I wanted to work with Paul and he believed he could achieve things at the club. But, with him gone, it's back to the situation beforehand where the SPL is not rated in France. I have ambitions to play for my country, but I would never achieve that playing in Scotland. That's why I asked to be released. If I'd stayed in Glasgow, I would only have ended up unhappy. It wasn't a nice atmosphere to be in if you are foreign."
Being described as ‘a joke - an absolute joke’ by Falkirk manager John Hughes, after they entered three pathetically impoverished bids of £100k, £115k, and then £130k for Falkirk’s £500,000 rated striker Alan Gow. Hughes was so incensed by the huns miserly approaches that he publically stated that he would ‘rather lose Gow for nothing in the Summer’ (2007) than accept any of Rankers pathetic and insulting bids. Can’t even afford a bog-standard SPHell player - my, how the mighty have fallen.
The huns’ Head Groundkeeper, David Roxburgh, saying on the Real Radio football phone-in, that the Legoland pitch habitually resembles a barren quagmire swampbog, because ‘it gets less sunlight than any other ground in Europe.’ One of my favourites, that one – even better than the last time, when he was claiming it was because of ‘the grass having a disease.’ Wouldn’t be anything to do with the donkeys, heffers, and swine that run around on it every fortnight, would it ?!
Being snubbed by Paul Hartley, despite The Cardigan trying with three last-minute bids (including one of £1m) to entice him over to The Death Star. Rankers boss Walter Smith believed he was set to clinch Hartley’s signature, but Hartley blanked his calls and headed straight into discussions with Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell, after which the lifelong Celtic fan insisted that at no point was there any chance of him straying over to the darker side of Glasgow. As revealed by Hartley himself in a frank interview after pulling on The Hoops : “It’s not right for anyone to say my mind was heading towards Rankers. I’d never spoken to anyone from Rankers and no bid was ever accepted by Hearts from them. They made three bids but when I got a call from my agent to say Celtic had made an offer and the bid had been accepted, it was an easy choice for me to make. I’m a Celtic supporter and my family and friends are Celtic people so it was very straightforward. I missed out on Celtic two years ago and I wasn’t going to let that happen again.”
Forty six workers losing their jobs, after David Murray’s luxury-property building company – Kelvin Homes - went into receivership, leaving several sub-contractors facing collapse, with some owed amounts ranging from £25,000 to £80,000. Murray was overseeing the renovation of the exclusive Schaw House development in Bearsden, which was bought by him for £4m in June 2005, when the property arm of his company spiralled into financial meltdown. Blair Nimmo, of accountants KPMG, stated : “Forty six people have been made redundant, and a number of contractors are owed some not inconsiderable sums of money. It’s bad news for Kelvin Homes, and bad news for those sub-contractors, who have been employed by them. More money was going out than was coming in, and the trading position became unsustainable. The directors took the decision, that the business was unable to continue.”
The Headmaster of Christ The King primary school, who won their way through to the final of a 7-a-side tournament being played at half time at The Death Star, being informed by Rankers officials, that his school would be called simply 'the red team' rather than by their proper school name, as the reaction of the crowd would be unpleasant and embarrasing for all concerned.
Fat Derek ‘The Pieman’ Johnstone saying on Radio Snyde, that Rankers’ highlight of the year 2006 was : "The day Peter Lovenkrands left Rankers for Germany."
Celebrity West-Brit, Terry Wogan ripping the pish out of them live on BBC Radio 2 in Feb ’07, when he said on his breakfast show : “Glasgow City Council have announced that they'll build a SuperCasino in Govan. There'll be the usual Roulette, BlackJack, and Poker - however, the Crap games will continue to be played along the road at Ibrox.” Ha Ha Ha - even the West-Brits know how truly pish they are.
Being slated by Hapoel Tel Aviv manager Nir Levin, who branded them as a team of ‘divers’ who conned referees, before labelling them ‘a dirty team’. Levin said : "We saw Chris Burke's dive in the game last week, and when we are talking about dives I was at Ibrox when Maccabi Haifa played here and Rankers got two penalties. I was working with the television and I can tell you for sure it was diving. The people of Maccabi Haifa were very angry with the referee. Also Rankers got a penalty against Kilmarnock, when they won 3-1, and Kris Boyd was not fouled for the penalty. The referee said afterwards it was his mistake."
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans posting on FF that Celtic Park had a far better atmosphere for a domestic SPHell game (Celtic v Hibernian), than The Death Star had for Wattie Smith’s much vaunted returning European tie (Rankers v Hapoel Tel Aiv).
Someone at the club finally admitting that the huns team is nothing short of goddam awful, masked by pro-Rankers media wishful thinking, coupled with a huge dose of papering over some rather cavernous cracks. In a post-match interview after an absolutely woeful Rankers team were literally played off the park at home, by Spanish strugglers Osasuna (at the time, 15th in their League), The Cardigan grumbled
Head of safety and security, Laurence MacIntyre, admitting that many hooligan huns - already serving life bans from The Death Star - were present at Osasuna, where widespread drunken hooliganism and sectarianism was only curtailed by Spanish baton-wielding riot police. Commenting on the shocking images of violence, and of flags bearing the name of the hooligan Rankers Inter City Firm seen inside the Reyno de Navarra stadium, MacIntyre admitted to the BBC : "There are people in that crowd who should not have been there, and they should not have been because I know that I've banned them either indefinitely or I've banned them for life, from attending Rankers games. One individual that I met only last week - and blocked him getting a ticket for that game and told him under no circumstances did I expect him to be there - is in that picture as well."
Being slated as a small fry with big dreams, but without the resources to match, by Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud, during their embarrassing attempt to land France international midfielder Julien Faubert. "It's simple," Triaud said. "The coach (Laurent Blanc) wants to keep the player but the player wants away. Given the player's wishes, we are prepared to consider it but it would need to be a significant bid. With Rankers the proposition was NOT significant, and nowhere near what Bordeaux expect. Any offer that might come thereafter, would come too late. Given that, a deal will not be done."
The Death Star being raided by Fraud Squad officers from the City Of London Police, investigating corruption and malpractice during football transfers. The early morning raid, by officers armed with Search Warrants, centred on the transfer of Jean-Alain Boumsong to and from Rankers.
After all The Dark Lord’s boasting over the years about how he’ll outbid everyone else for the right player, and how he’ll have two separate teams – one for Europe, and one for the SPL – and how that he’ll spend a tenner for every fiver Celtic spend, and about how Rankers always get their man, and about moonbeams of success, and about real signings – not loan deals or Bosmans – and about how he’ll get revenge for missing out on the signing of Scott Brown, by signing the kind of players that would make the knuckledraggers ‘drool’ ……….. not even being able to afford bog standard run-of-the-mill SPL player Steven Naismith from Kilmarnock.
Death star 'legends' Super-Sally McCoist and Sandy Jardine both warning the club's sectarian knuckledragging followers that they will personally intervene to stop the bigots from singing their anti-Catholic hate anthems on matchdays. With the realistic threat of SPL points deductions looming heavily, and in light of numerous and repeated warnings from UEFA, Rankers have finally been forced into making a move on the sectarian bigots who have funded the club for over a century. As McCoist stated : "I’ve got to stop it, of course I would. If my club is going to get docked three points I think it’s sensible to nip it in the bud straight away. We’ve already had warnings from Uefa and it’s getting serious. Once you start talking about getting points deducted – it’s a hard enough job trying to win cups and leagues as it is. We just can’t afford any setbacks, and we simply can’t afford it to happen. We’re not out of the woods, and I don’t think we ever will be. Anybody that’s going to sing a song that’s got a chance of us being deducted three points, you’d have to say that’s wrong. It was a lot more common years and years ago. As wrong as it was, there was nothing really getting done about it. Times have changed and fans from all over the country can’t sing songs they were singing before, and that’s the way it is." Sandy Jardine - admitting that Rankers have had 'sectarian issues' for over 80 years - also stated : "No one is under any illusions. Uefa have provided warnings about unacceptable behaviour to the club over the past two seasons, and now it’s not only the eyes of Uefa which are on us. The SPL have issued new guidelines which talk about unacceptable conduct. What you’ve got to remember is you’ve got 80 years of sectarian issues. You’re not going to clear it overnight. It might take another five, ten, or fifteen years, but the club is determined to get on the right lines, regarding this."
Ajax boss Theo Ten Cate describing Falkirk as ‘better than Rankers’ after playing both teams in a pre-season tournament in July ’07. Ten Cate slated the huns for being ‘too defensive’ and ‘lacking the desire to play an open game.’
Attracting a crowd of over 50,000 for a sectarian sash-up bigotfest against the Chelski scum, but drawing a home crowd of only 34,000 for a vital CL tie against Zeta of Montenegro. A few weeks later, the huns attracted a pathetic 35,364 for their all-or-nothing CL home tie with Red Star Belgrade – a match that would decide whether or not the huns would progress into the CL Group Stage, along with the accompanying revenue and prestige implications. Tells you everything you need to know about why the bigots are attracted to that particular tarnished football club, and what their reasons for doing so are.
Signing former Lens misfit Daniel Cousin, who was so hated by his old club's fans, that they wrecked his car, tried to attack him, and boo-ed him every time he appeared for the team, after he gave them a one-fingered salute during the 2006/07 season. As confirmed by Cousin himself : "There are people who have come to my home several times trying to attack me. One broke my car, another launched rocks at my window. I don't want to stay at Lens any more. I want to move and, if I have to stay, the one thing I'll definitely be doing is moving house." Such were the feelings of hatred and animosity towards him during home games, the hapless misfit asked Lens manager Guy Roux to only play him at away games. For his public show of hostility, Cousin was fined by the club, censured, dropped well down the pecking order, and hastily transferred. It seems only natural that someone of his ilk would find a natural home amongst some of the most hated, most antagonistic reprobates on the planet.
Being publically slammed by FC Zeta for stealing over £500 worth of footballs from them, before a CL qualification tie in August ’07. The Montenegrin outfit subsequently billed the huns for £500, for the balls they insist went missing before the game, after the huns failed to return seven balls loaned to them at training. Sporting director Vlado Sisevic slammed the theiving huns, stating : "Each ball costs about 100 euros and we have sent them a bill for the total amount. This is not the kind of behaviour one should expect from a rival club."
Breathing a major sigh of relief after their Masonic bretheren at the SPL inexplicably, and in the face of extraordinary conclusive evidence to the contrary, decided not to censure, fine, ban, or even warn them, for their hate-filled sectarian bigotry, during the '07 SPL season opener at Inverness CT. As stated by the huns' own Chief Executive, Baldy Bain : "We are pleased the SPL has recognised that our Club had done all it could to prevent unacceptable conduct by supporters at the match against Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The SPL has made clear what is expected of clubs and I am pleased that they have recognised our eforts to tackle unacceptable and offensive behaviour. This decision does not mean that offensive singing and chanting will be tolerated. Unacceptable conduct by a number of the fans at the match in question has been roundly condemned, and it is in everyone's interests this type of behaviour is eradicated. We fully recognise that if such behaviour continues the footballing authorities will take further action."
Actually having to release an official club statement thanking the knuckledraggers for not participating in their usual sectarian hate-filled anti-Catholic bigotry during an away match at Rugby Park in August ’07. The statement from Chief Executive Baldy Bain read : "I would like to thank our fans for the support they gave us today and for their efforts in recent weeks. Supporters groups said they would step up their self policing drive and they have done that by going out an talking to as many fans as possible, particularly those who travel to away games on supporters buses. That had taken a big effort and our fans deserve credit for their positive response. We have an extremely important game in Europe this week and the response and cooperation from fans travelling with us have been excellent." In other words, thanks for not showing us up, for the sectarian bigots that every right-thinking person and their dog knows we are, and please for Christ’s sake, don’t do it in the forthcoming European tie, where the eyes and ears of European football will be upon us !! However ………
The statement was seen to be nothing more than a blatant ruse to throw observers off the scent, and a clumsy attempt to dictate the tone for the Scottish meeja, after it was revealed that anti-Catholic bigotry did in fact occur inside Rugby Park, as reported the following day by Gerry Bryce (NOTW), Richard Wilson (Sunday Times) David Leggat (The People) and Gordon Waddell (Sunday Mail) who all mentioned the singing of sectarian add-ons, trying to be drowned out by other Rankers fans, in their match reports. For example, Richard Wilson’s report in the Sunday Times, entitled Fans Drown Out Chants, and typical of many others printed the same day, stated : “Rankers supporters disciplined themselves when a brief outbreak of sectarian chanting by a handful of fans was drowned out by the rest of the support at Rugby Park. As the match against Kilmarnock drew to a close, a group of Rankers fans in the the stand behind one of the goals added 'F*** The Pope & The Vatican' onto one of the supporters songs, but they were immediately drowned out by the booing of those around them. The match report of Willie McDougall, the SPL's observer at the game, will not include any mention of the incident."
Lyon coach Alain Perrin, heading for a seventh successive French title, and sitting atop the French league table, slating the dreary, negative, cumbersome huns as 'anti-football' and saying that they had managed only a 'freak result' against Lyon. Perrin laid into the boring huns, stating that his team's superb 3-1 victory at Bordeaux ‘came as a result of Bordeaux playing the game in the proper manner, unlike Rankers, who had played anti-football' during their recent 'freak result' Champions League tie at the Stade Gerland.
Just a fortnight after being slated by Alain Perrin, being slated again by Barcelona star Lionel Messi for the exact same reason - being ‘anti-football’. After a dreadful and ugly game at The Death Star, where the huns employed the most negative and football-killing tactics, Messi said : It was incredible; Rankers just did not want to play football. They practiced 'anti-football' from the first minute and I'm just sorry that we couldn't manage the win after creating a good number of chances. It's difficult and complicated to play against a team like that, but I think that when they come and visit us, it'll be different.” Messi's (and Perrin’s) ‘anti-football’ comments are backed up by official statistics, which reveal that after only three games played, the huns are last in UEFA's figures for possession, but top of the shame list for most bookings in the competition. The huns topped the shame list with nine cautions - three for Thomson, and two for Weir, with Ferguson, Faye, Papac and Hutton also all seeing yellow. The huns also only had an average of 39% possession during their three games - and on average had the ball for only 25 minutes each match.
Being sent bottles of urine by livid Barcelona residents, to convey their disgust and abhorrence at the manner in which the huns had left their city resembling a urine-staind rubbish tip. As reported in the Spanish daily, El Periodico : At the end of last week, a group of protesters in the Catalan city emptied their bladders into bottles, labelled them up, and sealed them. One batch was sent to the city authorities as a protest against their lack of action in the face of the disturbances local people had to put up with. A note that accompanied the bottles to the town hall read : "You knew 20,000 Rankers fans were coming and that only 6,000 of them had tickets for the game, and that the rest would be in the streets getting drunk and behaving with their usual aggressiveness, bearing in mind what these supporters did recently on their visits to Villarreal and Pamplona. This goes much further than the four tonnes of rubbish and the litres of urine that they left us with as a parting gift. Worst of all was having to watch them humiliate us in our own city while the police did nothing." As part of the same protest, the group sent a batch of bottles to Rankers in Glasgow, with a message this time reading : "This is to express our congratulations for the pleasantness and respect you showed to the people of Barcelona, and to show you that, from now on, we intend to treat you in exactly the same way."
Being slated by Graham Speirs for their continued denigration of Jock Stein, and their smear campaign which wallows in child abuse. In a scathing piece in the Times Online, Spiers wrote : "It truly beggars belief that a sizable and unfortunate section of the Rankers support have come up with a regular terracing song about a child sex abuse case. Today at Falkirk, where Rankers are due to play, will doubtless be the latest Scottish ground to be polluted with this dirge. Some of you may be aware by now of this excruciating embarrassment for Rankers known as the '###' campaign (henceforth ###). The chant, which has been fomented among the usual victims on a fans’ website and by certain Rankers supporters groups leaders, refers to a Celtic Boys Club controversy of more than 30 years ago. The episode shocked Jock Stein, then the Celtic manager, when he was informed about it. Yet this Rankers song, as factually flawed and repellent as it is, tries to infer that Stein either condoned or attempted to cover-up the incident, which is nonsense. I have to admit I never thought I’d ever see the day when Scottish football supporters sang a song about a child sex abuse case, yet Rankers have duly delivered. Even more amazing and shocking is Rankers FC’s ongoing silence on the matter, as this cretinous chant builds up its head of steam among supporters. But those days of our silence on ### are drawing to a close for one good reason – the longer this deafening silence from Ibrox about it prevails, the more decent people are starting to agitate for Rankers to actually do something about it. Gordon Smith, the SFA chief executive, had the guts and the moral fibre to refer to ### as “morally repugnant”. Yet what have Rankers got to say about it ? Does no one at the club actually possess the bottle to stand up and condemn it ? ### is now a ticking time-bomb for Rankers. It is The Billy Boys all over again and I am frankly amazed that the club hasn’t learnt lessons from their recent past and their prosecution by Uefa. Unless Rankers do something and act strongly, this benighted club is once more going to be stung."
Trying to mask their poverty by making claims that no players would be signed in the January '08 transfer window, as 'none could be found who would strengthen the current team' of flops, and then trying to backdoor a move for a bit part, journeyman, who knocked them back. Despite their inflated claims, the huns tried to sign ageing 34-year-old Christian Dailly on a temporary loan until June 2008, after he struggled to get a game at West Ham United. Yet again, The Dark Lord uses smoke & mirrors tactics to dupe the knuckledraggers. Christian Dailly might be a benchwarmer, but at least he’s not a gullible hun.
Warning bakery supplier McGhees, that 'under no circumstances' do they put green jelly tots on their (white fondant iced) Empire Biscuits, when fulfilling orders for The Death Star catering outlets.
The Dark Lord trying to deflect criticism away from his club's endemic sectarianism problem, by claiming that Scotland's 'real shame' was young kids eating junk food, and watching too much TV.
Filip Sebo being described by an Austrian newspaper as "the biggest waste of money in Scottish football".
Having The Death Star be described as ‘a bigotfest’ by Real Radio.
Micky Quinn on TalkSport openly stating : “Celtic are a big club – Rankers are not.”
Bleu Le Goon being voted ‘The Manager Most Likely To Be The First Sacking Of 2007’ in a poll by listeners to radio phone-in station TalkSport. As it turns out, they were bang on !!
Having matchday at Legoland likened to ‘a Nuremberg Rally’ by Hugh Keevins.
Being described by Villarreal chief scout Javier Cabello, as ‘weak, too slow, and with no technical ability.’
Being branded 'a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace' by Ian Archer, who asserted that ‘Scottish football would be better off’ without them.
Being called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr.
Being slated as ‘bigoted and abusive’ by MSP Donald Gorrie.
Being slagged off by Richard Gordon on BBC SportSound during the final hours of the Jan ’07 transfer window, who beautifully joked : "Edinburgh Zoo have accepted a bid for the transfer of Filip Sebo. He will be displayed there as an exhibit".
Being called ‘pig-ignorant, uneducated bigots from the lower echelons of society’ by Graham Speirs, who also likened them to ‘savages, cavemen, and vile troglodytes.’
Being compared to ‘like watching paint drying’ by Archie McPherson.
Being compared to ‘the Nazis at Nuremberg’ by Gerry McNee.
Being slated as ‘the biggest cheats in football’ by Famagusta Manager Temuri Ketsbaia.
Being branded ‘shameful, filth, and a disgrace’ by Sir Bobby Robson.
Being called 'the worst in Britain for bigotry' by James Traynor.
Being branded 'the stupidest team in Europe' by Christopher L'Archer of the esteemed ‘France Football’ magazine.
Breathing a major sigh of relief after their Masonic bretheren at the SPL inexplicably, and in the face of extraordinary conclusive evidence to the contrary, decided not to censure, fine, ban, or even warn them, for their hate-filled sectarian bigotry, during the '07 SPL season opener at Inverness CT. As stated by the huns' own Chief Executive, Baldy Bain : "We are pleased the SPL has recognised that our Club had done all it could to prevent unacceptable conduct by supporters at the match against Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The SPL has made clear what is expected of clubs and I am pleased that they have recognised our eforts to tackle unacceptable and offensive behaviour. This decision does not mean that offensive singing and chanting will be tolerated. Unacceptable conduct by a number of the fans at the match in question has been roundly condemned, and it is in everyone's interests this type of behaviour is eradicated. We fully recognise that if such behaviour continues the footballing authorities will take further action."
Actually having to release an official club statement thanking the knuckledraggers for not participating in their usual sectarian hate-filled anti-Catholic bigotry during an away match at Rugby Park in August ’07. The statement from Chief Executive Baldy Bain read : "I would like to thank our fans for the support they gave us today and for their efforts in recent weeks. Supporters groups said they would step up their self policing drive and they have done that by going out an talking to as many fans as possible, particularly those who travel to away games on supporters buses. That had taken a big effort and our fans deserve credit for their positive response. We have an extremely important game in Europe this week and the response and cooperation from fans travelling with us have been excellent." In other words, thanks for not showing us up, for the sectarian bigots that every right-thinking person and their dog knows we are, and please for Christ’s sake, don’t do it in the forthcoming European tie, where the eyes and ears of European football will be upon us !! However ………
The statement was seen to be nothing more than a blatant ruse to throw observers off the scent, and a clumsy attempt to dictate the tone for the Scottish meeja, after it was revealed that anti-Catholic bigotry did in fact occur inside Rugby Park, as reported the following day by Gerry Bryce (NOTW), Richard Wilson (Sunday Times) David Leggat (The People) and Gordon Waddell (Sunday Mail) who all mentioned the singing of sectarian add-ons, trying to be drowned out by other Rankers fans, in their match reports. For example, Richard Wilson’s report in the Sunday Times, entitled Fans Drown Out Chants, and typical of many others printed the same day, stated : “Rankers supporters disciplined themselves when a brief outbreak of sectarian chanting by a handful of fans was drowned out by the rest of the support at Rugby Park. As the match against Kilmarnock drew to a close, a group of Rankers fans in the the stand behind one of the goals added 'F*** The Pope & The Vatican' onto one of the supporters songs, but they were immediately drowned out by the booing of those around them. The match report of Willie McDougall, the SPL's observer at the game, will not include any mention of the incident."
Lyon coach Alain Perrin, heading for a seventh successive French title, and sitting atop the French league table, slating the dreary, negative, cumbersome huns as 'anti-football' and saying that they had managed only a 'freak result' against Lyon. Perrin laid into the boring huns, stating that his team's superb 3-1 victory at Bordeaux ‘came as a result of Bordeaux playing the game in the proper manner, unlike Rankers, who had played anti-football' during their recent 'freak result' Champions League tie at the Stade Gerland.
Just a fortnight after being slated by Alain Perrin, being slated again by Barcelona star Lionel Messi for the exact same reason - being ‘anti-football’. After a dreadful and ugly game at The Death Star, where the huns employed the most negative and football-killing tactics, Messi said : It was incredible; Rankers just did not want to play football. They practiced 'anti-football' from the first minute and I'm just sorry that we couldn't manage the win after creating a good number of chances. It's difficult and complicated to play against a team like that, but I think that when they come and visit us, it'll be different.” Messi's (and Perrin’s) ‘anti-football’ comments are backed up by official statistics, which reveal that after only three games played, the huns are last in UEFA's figures for possession, but top of the shame list for most bookings in the competition. The huns topped the shame list with nine cautions - three for Thomson, and two for Weir, with Ferguson, Faye, Papac and Hutton also all seeing yellow. The huns also only had an average of 39% possession during their three games - and on average had the ball for only 25 minutes each match.
Being sent bottles of urine by livid Barcelona residents, to convey their disgust and abhorrence at the manner in which the huns had left their city resembling a urine-staind rubbish tip. As reported in the Spanish daily, El Periodico : At the end of last week, a group of protesters in the Catalan city emptied their bladders into bottles, labelled them up, and sealed them. One batch was sent to the city authorities as a protest against their lack of action in the face of the disturbances local people had to put up with. A note that accompanied the bottles to the town hall read : "You knew 20,000 Rankers fans were coming and that only 6,000 of them had tickets for the game, and that the rest would be in the streets getting drunk and behaving with their usual aggressiveness, bearing in mind what these supporters did recently on their visits to Villarreal and Pamplona. This goes much further than the four tonnes of rubbish and the litres of urine that they left us with as a parting gift. Worst of all was having to watch them humiliate us in our own city while the police did nothing." As part of the same protest, the group sent a batch of bottles to Rankers in Glasgow, with a message this time reading : "This is to express our congratulations for the pleasantness and respect you showed to the people of Barcelona, and to show you that, from now on, we intend to treat you in exactly the same way."
Being slated by Graham Speirs for their continued denigration of Jock Stein, and their smear campaign which wallows in child abuse. In a scathing piece in the Times Online, Spiers wrote : "It truly beggars belief that a sizable and unfortunate section of the Rankers support have come up with a regular terracing song about a child sex abuse case. Today at Falkirk, where Rankers are due to play, will doubtless be the latest Scottish ground to be polluted with this dirge. Some of you may be aware by now of this excruciating embarrassment for Rankers known as the '###' campaign (henceforth ###). The chant, which has been fomented among the usual victims on a fans’ website and by certain Rankers supporters groups leaders, refers to a Celtic Boys Club controversy of more than 30 years ago. The episode shocked Jock Stein, then the Celtic manager, when he was informed about it. Yet this Rankers song, as factually flawed and repellent as it is, tries to infer that Stein either condoned or attempted to cover-up the incident, which is nonsense. I have to admit I never thought I’d ever see the day when Scottish football supporters sang a song about a child sex abuse case, yet Rankers have duly delivered. Even more amazing and shocking is Rankers FC’s ongoing silence on the matter, as this cretinous chant builds up its head of steam among supporters. But those days of our silence on ### are drawing to a close for one good reason – the longer this deafening silence from Ibrox about it prevails, the more decent people are starting to agitate for Rankers to actually do something about it. Gordon Smith, the SFA chief executive, had the guts and the moral fibre to refer to ### as “morally repugnant”. Yet what have Rankers got to say about it ? Does no one at the club actually possess the bottle to stand up and condemn it ? ### is now a ticking time-bomb for Rankers. It is The Billy Boys all over again and I am frankly amazed that the club hasn’t learnt lessons from their recent past and their prosecution by Uefa. Unless Rankers do something and act strongly, this benighted club is once more going to be stung."
Trying to mask their poverty by making claims that no players would be signed in the January '08 transfer window, as 'none could be found who would strengthen the current team' of flops, and then trying to backdoor a move for a bit part, journeyman, who knocked them back. Despite their inflated claims, the huns tried to sign ageing 34-year-old Christian Dailly on a temporary loan until June 2008, after he struggled to get a game at West Ham United. Yet again, The Dark Lord uses smoke & mirrors tactics to dupe the knuckledraggers. Christian Dailly might be a benchwarmer, but at least he’s not a gullible hun.
Warning bakery supplier McGhees, that 'under no circumstances' do they put green jelly tots on their (white fondant iced) Empire Biscuits, when fulfilling orders for The Death Star catering outlets.
The Dark Lord trying to deflect criticism away from his club's endemic sectarianism problem, by claiming that Scotland's 'real shame' was young kids eating junk food, and watching too much TV.
Filip Sebo being described by an Austrian newspaper as "the biggest waste of money in Scottish football".
Having The Death Star be described as ‘a bigotfest’ by Real Radio.
Micky Quinn on TalkSport openly stating : “Celtic are a big club – Rankers are not.”
Bleu Le Goon being voted ‘The Manager Most Likely To Be The First Sacking Of 2007’ in a poll by listeners to radio phone-in station TalkSport. As it turns out, they were bang on !!
Having matchday at Legoland likened to ‘a Nuremberg Rally’ by Hugh Keevins.
Being described by Villarreal chief scout Javier Cabello, as ‘weak, too slow, and with no technical ability.’
Being branded 'a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace' by Ian Archer, who asserted that ‘Scottish football would be better off’ without them.
Being called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr.
Being slated as ‘bigoted and abusive’ by MSP Donald Gorrie.
Being slagged off by Richard Gordon on BBC SportSound during the final hours of the Jan ’07 transfer window, who beautifully joked : "Edinburgh Zoo have accepted a bid for the transfer of Filip Sebo. He will be displayed there as an exhibit".
Being called ‘pig-ignorant, uneducated bigots from the lower echelons of society’ by Graham Speirs, who also likened them to ‘savages, cavemen, and vile troglodytes.’
Being compared to ‘like watching paint drying’ by Archie McPherson.
Being compared to ‘the Nazis at Nuremberg’ by Gerry McNee.
Being slated as ‘the biggest cheats in football’ by Famagusta Manager Temuri Ketsbaia.
Being branded ‘shameful, filth, and a disgrace’ by Sir Bobby Robson.
Being called 'the worst in Britain for bigotry' by James Traynor.
Being branded 'the stupidest team in Europe' by Christopher L'Archer of the esteemed ‘France Football’ magazine.
