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Posted By	Discussion Topic: Rangers - Embarassment of European Football
NYFenianBhoy	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 5:18 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	Why does the ENTIRE European football world hate Rangers FC? Rampant racism among players and supporters - 1997 goalkeeper Andy Goram calls a black player on Celtic a "black bastard." - 1999 defender Lorenzo Amorouso calls a black player on AS Roma a "black bastard." - 2001 striker Shota Averlardze calls Celtic defender a "black bastard." - 2001 Ranger fans repeatedly and shamelessly make monkey noises whenever Didier Agathe or Bobo Balde (two black players) of Celtic gain possession. - 2002 Ranger fans continue to make monkey noises at Agathe and Balde.
NYFenianBhoy	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 5:30 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	Nazi salutes by entire sections of Ranger supporters caught on television cameras in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Rotterdan.
NYFenianBhoy	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 5:32 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	Religious intolerance and sectarianism - From its beginnings in 1872 until 1984, Rangers FC refused to hire Roman Catholics. - Playing anti-Catholic songs over the PA system at Ibrox Stadium. - Permitting anti-Catholic songs to be sung by large segments of the home fans during games. - Permitting the display of anti-Catholic banners, flags, clothing, scarves and hats by their fans. - 1997 Club chairman, Donald Findlay, videotaped at a supporter's function singing anti-Catholic songs in public.
NYFenianBhoy	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 5:37 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	Suppporting paramilitary organizations - Selling tickets to known terrorists from the UDA, LVF, and Red Hand Defenders to home and away matches. - Permitting flags, banners, posters, scarves, and clothing containing paramilitary terrorist organizations to be displayed in Ibrox Stadium. - Permitting the singing and chanting of pro-terrorist paramilitary organizations. - Permitting the sale and distribution of paramilitary terrorist organizations' goods inside Ibrox Stadium. - Players of Rangers FC attending pro-terrorist organization functions. - Players of Rangers FC posing for photographs with known members of pro-terrorist paramilitary organizations.
darthziggy Isles fan for life	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 5:46 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00	Did somebody hear something? I thought someone was trying to talk, but it didn't sound like it was making any sense. Can anyone help me out? darthziggy@opieanthony.com Currently a student at Franklin Pierce College. Go Ravens! LET'S GO ISLANDERS My Website
diceisgod I ALWAYS LOSE.	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 5:54 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 01	Interesting list. But, Jesus Christ, what are ya from Manchester or something? Nobody fucks with Dice, Dice does the fuckin! I got into a fight in FU one time and this guy sez "F you man" so I sez "F you right back, sir, get it? In an hour? Back?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It was great! Then he sez "You're a semon slurper". So I sez "Yeah, off your mom's butt". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It was a good one I tell you. Well, later that evening another guy joined the fracus. So he sez, "Go f yourself DIG!" So I sez "Yeah, swallow my banna juice." I was LMAOSLINSMOD!! What a wonderful and memoriable fight that was. I stole this scrolling mindless banter idea off of someone's sig. It has a kind of ring to it that reminds me of the way men did things when the were dinosaurs. Poop is nice too but I don't want to step in any anytime soon. LMAO! I find such messages more interesting than many of the posts I read on this board, including my own. I suck. BLAH BLAH BLAH POOP!
Francine Banger	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 6:55 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00	What is their a thing where if your screen name starts with an NY, you dont have access to the edit button?
NYFenianBhoy	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 8:09 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01	Racism is a disease which turns ordinary supporters into savages GRAHAM SPIERS In Bobo Baldé's career, the battle he fought yesterday in trying to have a red card dropped by the SFA must be seen as a trifling matter. On the basis of what some of us witnessed at Ibrox on Sunday, Baldé, in this country at least, has far greater obstacles to overcome. A full day after the Old Firm match, the racial venom and degradation heaped on Baldé by a section of Rangers supporters still rankles in the mind. Racism in football, of course, is nothing new, and we often suffer fatigue over these issues, but when you witness such raw abuse in the flesh, as on Sunday, it takes on a menacing air. At one point early in the first half, Baldé sauntered over towards a corner of the Copland Road stand to take a throw-in. The image of this player collecting the ball, set against a frieze of around 100 supporters leaping up and down in their seats in imitation of apes, remains fixed in the mind. To this observer, it was one of those moments when there was a qualitative difference between idle comment about racism and the horror of it actually happening. Baldé played on bravely and effectively at Ibrox. He has been lampooned since he came to Glasgow for his physical awkwardness, but this player, with good coaching, certainly has the armour to be a fine defender. The question remains about whether he has the character to withstand prejudice. Racism is a virulent disease which turns ordinary football supporters into savages. No-one need waste much time going into the contradictions of all this. Baldé is black, a notion that obviously defeated the minds of these supporters. Mark Walters, a player those same fans adored, was also black. But just as Rangers supporters sing of their hatred of Catholics, while loving Lorenzo Amoruso, who is Catholic, the notion of Baldé's colour is also a hatred requiring selective amnesia. A contemporary writer in America wrote last week of his nation's "convenience prejudices", and I suppose this is another way of putting it. I shall try to spare myself, as well as any reader, the absurd vein of a sportswriter jacking-off about the "despicable atmosphere" of the Old Firm. From reporters who actually adore the lurid soundtrack of these fixtures, the triteness of such remarks became apparent long ago. Racism, though, should not be quietly excused as part of the West of Scotland brickwork. Baldé's treatment brought to mind an embarrassing truth, which is that Scotland remains an unsophisticated place when it comes to our national game and black players. Lacking the fuller, richer, more varied colours of England's ethnic mix, there is a feeling north of the border that racism in football, in relative terms, is worse here. The experiences of Paul Elliot, Mark Walters, and Kevin Harper when he was at Hibs, certainly attest to this. Harper, even when a young kid, regularly received the "black bastard" treatment from seasoned pros. Tony Higgins, a likeable Lech Walesa of the Scottish Professional Footballers Association, is one of many who have fought hard to put our racism problem on the agenda. Politicians and academics have also spoken on this, but the fact is that football - the players and their clubs - want to do very little. It would be good, armed with their all-seeing CCTV cameras, if Rangers were to announce action against their offending supporters on Sunday, though I suspect the Ibrox club will not even look into it. I hope Baldé, who is still a young player, survives such gruesome experiences. I also hope Martin O'Neill, his manager, and no stranger to prejudice himself, can wrap the best part of a long arm around him and offer every encouragement. If given a choice, frankly, I would accept vacuous religious stuff off the terraces, if the devil offered a deal to take racism out of the game.
NYR2119935	posted on 03-11-2002 @ 10:37 PM
Psychopath Registered: May. 00	Let's Go Rangers!!!!! CART Taco Bell Ice Hockey MetallicA

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