This isn’t really a surprise is it? Sectarian hatred is what the majority of that fan base are brought up on.
There was a brilliant moment that was revealed yesterday when, after Ramsey his the back of the net, the Billy Boys were in full swing and the Sky camera panned the Ibrox crowd at the exact moment when they were all ‘up to their knees’ and the glee and dancing of the support at that point just shows you that their Everyone Anyone campaign is an absolute sham.
So was Sky’s lack of condemnation of it, which I’ll get to later.
But this has being on for decades and will continue to do so unless our governing body grows a backbone and deals with it just like UEFA have.
It’s so bad that even Talksport are now openly talking about it and revealed the time that Roy Keane was called a ‘fenian bas**rd’ by the Ibrox crowd at one Glasgow Derby.
Keane spoke about the derby in his book and said, “My first Old Firm game was at Ibrox and we won 1-0. It was brilliant. It lived up to all the expectations, probably because we won,” Keane wrote in his autobiography The Second Half.
“The start of my Celtic career hadn’t been great – losing to Clyde, and angry fans. But then, not long after, we go and win at Rangers, and I’m thinking, ‘This is what it’s all about.’
“The atmosphere was brilliant, f****** electric. The hatred – I enjoyed all that.
“I got a yellow card for a foul on [Dado] Prso and they were baying for a red card. Physically, I must have felt good. I was Man of the Match, and that was a little moment of satisfaction, another tiny victory.
“The dressing room afterwards was great. Again, this is what it’s all about.”
It really makes you despair that after all this time, although there has been huge changes at Ibrox, nothing has really changed.
