Celtic fans always knew Simon Jordan was clueless and he proves it with Rangers racism charge rant

Simon Jordan likes to pontificate about Celtic and Rangers whenever he gets the chance.

His disdain for Brendan Rodgers is an open secret, as he looks to take potshots at the Celtic manager at any given opportunity.

But this time, he’s leaving Celtic out of this argument as Jordan goes on a rant about Rangers’ UEFA charge for racism after the Ibrox Europa League banner earned the club a two-year suspended stand closure sentence.

Reacting to the sentence, the talkSPORT pundit went on a rant that proves he is clueless about Rangers and their previous charges for racism under the European governing body.

Simon Jordan fires at UEFA over Rangers racism charge

Taking to the airwaves, the former Crystal Palace owner didn’t hold back with rage

Jordan told talkSPORT, “There’s nothing racist or discriminatory about what that banner suggested,

“UEFA say there is but that’s because UEFA are being allowed to say it.

“We’ve got football lecturing everybody, all day, every bloody day about every single cause. And when the fans have an opinion, all of a sudden it’s sit down, shut up, you can’t have one.

“UEFA are in charge. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The fans are supposed to be the lifeblood of football. When they want to have an opinion, they can’t have one.

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“When the football authorities want to tell you which particular cause you should be aligning with – whether to light up Wembley for one particular country after a terrible tragedy or whether they want to talk about taking the knee or advance an LGBT cause – then everyone’s got to listen to that.”

Danny Murphy tried to to get out of Jordan what the banner meant and asked, “Can you enlighten certain listeners, and even myself, as to what that’s even referring to?”

Jordan replied, “I have no idea. But the suggestion it’s racist and discriminatory. I’d like to understand what’s racist and discriminatory about it? We had a discussion last week about what constitutes a woke or foreign ideology and I gave an example of one.

“The fact that the Gulf states believe homosexuality is illegal. Is that an ideology that we wouldn’t want in this country? I don’t suspect that it is.”

If Jordan did his homework, then he would know that the banner seems to have been aimed at the recent Iftar held at Ibrox and the fact that Rangers flew a Pride flag above their stadium just a week prior to that.

If Jordan did his homework, he would also know that Rangers have been in hot water with UEFA before and are, to date, still the only club in Britain to have had a stand closed due to anti-Celtic sectarian singing.

If Joradan did his homework, then he would have understood why UEFA took that stance and he would also have seen the bigoted and backwards replies on X to both the religious event held at Ibrox and the homophobic slurs when Pride was publicly backed.