Playing for Celtic makes you a target in Glasgow City Centre. That’s a fact.

If you happen to be born in Scotland and choose to play for the Republic of Ireland then in the small minds of Scotland’s Shame that makes you public enemy number one.

Aiden McGeady was the best player in Scottish football for the last three maybe four seasons. The type of player you would pay to watch.

Unfortunately, away from the football ground Aiden’s life was that of victimisation.

Sure he openly admits that he should have behaved differently when out in Glasgow, but who amongst us would turn the other cheek time and again when subject to hateful and racist abuse?

I thought this Scotland ‘one country, many cultures‘ was the place we could live and let live.

Unless your a Catholic, that is.

And before I get the ‘paranoia brigade‘ on at me, just think what goes on around us.

Darren O’Dea threatened while out in the city, Martin O’Neill’s house had a Union Flag stuck in his front garden after a derby match, while his wife and daughters were inside, current manager Neil Lennon viciously attacked, not once but twice in Glasgow.

A Gaelic football team’s new minibus and equipment firebombed, Scared Heart Church in Bridgeton constantly vandalised.

Even at the recent Albion Rovers and Airdrie match the game was spoiled by constant vile sectarian abuse from the Airdrie support.

All the while the Orange Order exercise  their ‘right’ to march down our High Street at nine in the morning, six at night or any other time they see fit, but we can’t walk the streets in safety.

For any of the apologists who may claim that it’s not as bad as it used to be, then I’m sorry, you must be living on a different planet.

Aiden McGeady was forced out of Scottish Football, plain and simple.

Good luck Aiden, you might get peace in Moscow.

Who’d a thought that would be the case?

I’m totally disgusted, although not surprised to discover that Scotland’s Shame have once again escaped with a fine for their loutish behaviour in Romania.

UEFA’s statement reads:

“UEFA’s Control and Disciplinary Body has today fined Rangers FC €20,000, and ordered them to pay the cost of the damage to the stadium infrastructure caused as a result of the improper conduct of the Scottish club’s supporters at the UEFA Champions League Group G match against FC Unirea Urziceni in Romania on 4 November.”

Another victory for the Scum that tramp all over Europe, courtesy of Platini and Co!

Please tell me this…How can a support be so victimised wherever they go?

Manchester, Pamplona, Barcelona, Newcastle, Birmingham, Villarreal and now in darkest Bucharest.

Each and every time the MM go outside Glasgow they cause bother, sometimes inside Glasgow as well, but that’s a different matter.

And every time it happens, they blame someone else. It’s never their fault.

Police, stewards, bank managers, bus drivers, The Pope, Catholic Church, the weather, a full moon……you name it, always someone else to blame.

They have become so used to shifting the blame that it has become second nature to them. Even their Rankers Supporters Assembly guy couldn’t accept his members are nutters.

He blamed the TURNSTILES!

Hopefully, UEFA will show some sort of guts and get them out of Europe once and for all, before they tramp all over Seville and tarnish the name of Scottish Football again.

The Rankers dressing room before Saturday’s Old Firm game and the players are about to have their team talk.

Gazza Before Charity Match!

“Right lads, I want 110% commitment from the word go against these bast*rds. Remember they are all f*ckin fenians and are full of tattie-munching bogtrotters from the Emerald Isle.

I don’t care if you punch, kick or headbutt your way to victory. Good luck and God Save The Queen.”

Then in walks Walter Smith and says, “Thanks Ref, I’ll take it from here!”

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During the run up to Saturday night’s World Cup qualifier between Nordern Irlind and Poland, Hun loving ‘striker’ Warren Feeney called on the ‘fans’ to turn Windsor Park into a mini-Ipox.

Well, the game was marred by violence, stopped for five minutes while the linesman was treated for an injury after he was hit by a coin thrown from the home support, and the chants from the terraces were littered with racist and bigoted obscenities.

Just like a mini-Ipox!

Whilst the silence eminating from Hampden & The Scottish Media is to be expected we are also very disappointed that Celtic Directors have not condemned Scotlands Shame in any way. The Bhoys & Ghirls in Paradise last Sunday and those watching worldwide live on TV should have expected Celtic Directors to immediately ask the Police Match Commander and Celtic Stewards to take some action to stop it whilst it was happening but then again maybe like the very impartial Scottish Media they couldn’t hear anything where they were sitting ? Aye right !!!

So whilst we await some positive news of how the SFA / SPL will re-act to the match inspectors report we could suggest they invoke “Article 55″ of their bosses, FIFA, rules and “Dock Points” from The Re-Arrangers…In case you don’t know about such a rule here it is below for you….

FIFA ARTICLE 55
Quote:
Par. 4: If any player, association or club official or spectator perpetrtes any kind of discriminatory or contemptuous act as described by par.=1 and/or 2 of this article, three points will automatically be deduct=d from the team concerned, if identifiable, after the first offence.<=B> In the case of a second offence, six points will automatically be deducted, and for a further offence, the team will be relegated….disqualified..

Paragraph 1 and 2 state
Quote:
Par. 1: Anyone who publicly disparages, discriminates against or denigres someone in a defamatory manner on account of race, colour, language religion or ethnic origin, or perpetrates any other
discriminatry and/or contemptuous act, will be subject to match suspension for at lest five matches at every level. Furthermore, a stadium ban and a fine of at least CHF 20,000 will be imposed on the perpetrator. If the perpetrator is an official, the fine will be at least CHF 30,000

Par. 2: If spectators display banners bearing discriminatory slogans, or are guilty of any other discriminatory and/or contemptuous behaviour at a match, the appropriate body will impose a sanction of at least CHF 30,000 on the association or club s0 that the spectators concerned support and force it to play its next  official match without spectators. If the spectators cannot be identified as supporters of one or the other association or club, the host association or club will be sanctioned accordingly.

There you have it FIFA rules in black and white….Will they be invoked fully ? We await sanctions imposed..if any ?……but as we said earlier in post…Don’t Hold You Breath on This….

Hail Hail … FRP …. 21st Feb 2009

Why not?

At a time when football is struggling and desperate for some transparency, the SPL have come out with the usual ‘ma ba’ stance.

Not that the report will amount to anything anyway.

The ‘threat’ of a points deduction after the last sectarian sing-song was reported at Inverness more than 18 months ago, is quite frankly b***shit!

The SPL won’t deduct points from Crimewatch FC. They won’t fine them either because they’re skint.

However, they might just give them a wee telling off and a slap on the wrist, I can just see it, “Now for the three hundred and forty-sixth time, don’t do that again, or else!”

How do I know?

All you have to to is listen to Fraser Wishart, the players onion rep, broadcast loud and clear on Clyde Superscoreboard, “We’re a lonnnngggg way off a points deduction,” he states. “Afterall, Ran**rs are doing all they can!”

Aye so they are.