Ally McCoist hit the headlines with some unfortunate Glasgow Derby comments as Celtic visit Ibrox today.
The former Rangers striker, now pundit for talkSPORT said he and 48,000 Rangers supporters will break the Scottish Government’s new Hate Crime bill that came into force this week.
Now we can all speculate as to what McCoist actually meant about that remark but looking at the song book the Ibrox support currently enjoy belting out, most Celtic fans knew exactly what he meant.
The sectarian songs that get sung with joy leave Celtic fans up to their knees in Ibrox bile, with the Scottish mainstream media all kicking the can down the road and failing to call it out.
Now as for McCoist, let’s not forget he tried to defend Donald Findlay who was filmed singing sectarian bile at a karaoke almost 25 years ago.
Watch as Ally stumbles over himself trying to explain that whilst Findlay was caught red handed belting out his hatefilled songs beside now BBC pundit, Neil McCann, he is most definitely not a bigot:
Ally McCoist struggling to articulate why Donald Findlay was both right and wrong for chanting ‘manifestations of religious hatred’ already punishable under Scots Law.
AMcC:
“He was made a scapegoat”.This was from 1999, we are now reaching the 25th anniversary of this incident. https://t.co/lWYjGVgfvb pic.twitter.com/dP0CTH1Wa1
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) April 2, 2024
Absolutely embarrassing from McCoist but hilarious to watch as a Celtic fan.
Why? Well this incident was filmed almost 25 years ago, the defence that McCoist used for his pal then is almost exactly the same excuses we are hearing about McCoist being caught out this week (I’ll get to that later).
The fawning over Findlay by McCoist is the exact same nonsense we we witnessed this week by Rangers minded pundits defending McCoist. Even though he openly defended a bigot, the timing of this video reappearing will please the Celtic fans who don’t buy his ‘cheeky chappy’ persona.
