The Diary looks at some players who have embraced the shame.
As you would expect from a club with a history of hatred, bigotry and greed they attract a certain type of player. Some would call them ‘characters’ others, who have a sense of decency, call them despicable human beings whose parents really should have been neutered to stop them producing such Satan’s spawn.
Though their history is littered with such players but since the arrival of Graeme Souness in 1986 – the start of their Gordon Gekko: Greed is good era – there has been the addition of the foreign mercenary to the usual homegrown thugs that have been dragged up.
The foreign mercenaries were so desperate to endear themselves to the supporters that they embraced hatred, bigotry and greed like an In-Betweener grabbing the chance of another oral $ex joke. On one of those late night high brow BBC 2 shows, I’m sure, that this phenomenon would be described as art imitating real life. If there was anything artful about the way they play football or intelligence about the real life.
This modern day legacy was started by Souness who on his very first game for the club tried to half ex-Celt George McCluskey in two. One Beast signing, Jan Bartram, said at the time that Souness : “ wasn’t trying to build a football side, but a team full of hammer throwers” This was proved correct when Souness signed Terry Hurlock to do his dirty work as his fake tan wasn’t up to it anymore.
One of the first out the trenches was Graham Roberts. His conducting of the masses ensured he was accepted and he continued to appeal to the lowest life forms with repeatedly thuggish displays against Celtic. He also ensured that the fans knew he understood what they were about. His behaviour was as dignified as a homeless hobo who had soiled himself outside Primark.
We know about former R*ngers club captain Fernando Ricksen’s off field activities. They include drunk driving, wife beating, fighting with Police officers and fireworks. On the park he was also known for violent assaults. After booting Aberdeen’s Derek Young, Ricksen denied that he meant it before boasting on his website it was to teach him a lesson by straightening him out.
Ricksen also violently elbowed Derek Riordan in the face which saw the club show their disgust at this on field violence by fining him half a weeks wages and saying it was more reckless than violent.
Another Club Captain who endeared himself to the hoards was Lorenzo Amoruso despite those hoards roundly booing him early in his R*ngers career and him admitting to being bemused about why they abused his religion. Amoruso was a sleazy Italian who proclaimed to be god’s gift. He wasn’t and laughably claimed to be addicted to Bailey’s Irish Cream after he ballooned to the size of a blue whale that had eaten a house.
Amoruso was caught racially abusing Dortmund striker, Victor Ipkeba, an act which he denied, then had to admit after Tv cameras caught him mouthing racist remarks. This incident endeared him to the R*ngers fans. The club failed to reprimand their club captain and their was a reported increase of racist abuse in the stands of Ipox after the incident.
R*ngers silence was also deafening after Amoruso was banned for four games after he spat on James Grady who just happens to be a Celtic fan. Amoruso tried to defend his actions despite them being caught on Tv and the club only said that they were disappointed to lose their captain at this stage of the season.
Another player who was roundly booed, this time for blessing himself when coming on as sub, was Georgian Shota Arveladze who was caught racial abusing  Bobo Balde. Again, no condemnation from the club, though the player was sold after saying the club lacked ambition. That must have been a bigger crime.
Ok, to a Scottish Shame.
To end is the ballad of Alec Rae. Gollum’s stunt double got a 5 match European ban after kicking CSKA Moscow player Sergei Dadu twice in the head, leaving the player with concussion. Rae denied he meant the sicking attack and his manager, Big Feckless, said the ball was there to be won….it just so happened that a Moscow player was lying beside it at the time.
There seems to be a trend of denial developing here.
The player himself said on a Radio Station a few months later if I’d meant to kick Dadu at close range in the head he would have never have gotten up again.
Not bad for a bunch of rowers from Kining Park.
Amazing that you fail to see the irony that after choosing the headline you have for your article, then wading straight in with, “as you would expect from a club with a history of hatred”, followed by recommending enforced sterilisation of the masses – something I beleive Herr Hitler wanted to do. To be honest, I stopped reading soon after that, but felt the urge to comment anyway.
It’s fans like yourself that let the rest of our club down, propogating the “hate of them” rather than the “love for ours” component of so-called football support.
You also forget that we are all far from perfect, it’s as if you’ve never once cheered an onfield hardman – take our current manager for example!! A true character indeed!
Next to note, did our fans not throw bananas at Mark Walters back in the day? Hmmmm. Hardly the actions of an anti-racist, tolerant of all club support that deserves to be on the pedestal you make out. Thankfully, it is a minority over the masses, and still our club is working hard to root out this element of our support, as they believe they should have no place in our hallowed stands, and rightly so.
Now consider this, are you, by propogating articles such as these, helping that club cause, or indeed hindering it, by promoting and fueling hatred over and above the cause of Celtic itself.
Food for thought my comrade, though probably best to stay away from the bananas…
So, you compare me to Hitler and suggest that I’m racist. Worse was when you said that our manager was a hardman. You weren’t taking notes when he played then.
Hmmm…it’s a rivalry. Maybe you should get over that fact.
@Magma
Why is it, and it has been accounted, that a mass amount of rangers fans turn up to national front get togethers. Not long ago I witnessed the demolition of manchester by rangers fans plus a reported act of racial abuse to an asian police officer took place but yet that plus what LOTW said is not proof enough we are facing animals on sunday?
I do not remember us celts demolitioning a city via a drunken army. Im not saying we are saints as every club has its stupid tatties, but as arguements go the crude acts and situations the blue half have got into is shocking.
@Magma
Why is it, and it has been accounted, that a mass amount of rangers fans turn up to national front get togethers. Not long ago I witnessed the demolition of manchester by rangers fans plus a reported act of racial abuse to an asian police officer took place but yet that plus what LOTW said is not proof enough we are facing animals on and off the pitch on sunday?
I do not remember us celts demolitioning a city in a drunken wave of disgust. Im not saying we are saints as every club has its stupid tatties, but as arguements go the crude acts and situations the blue half have got into and sometimes got away with, is shockingly pushing the boat out so far that its lost at sea without land in sight.
@Magma
Celtic have racist bigots among our support, despite the ethos of the club. We also have junkies, robbers and murderers. As does every big club from a modern post-industrial city.
However, the difference between us and the Huns is that they (you?) have racist bigots in the support BECAUSE of the ethos of the club.
Talk about being obsessed with another club. Where do you nutters get off with this playing the victim and acting like Saints? Don’t suppose the Schottish media will be reporting on the convictions of 3 monobrowed mutants in Lincoln this week?
As for racism..I think we all know where the biggest racist incident ever to take place in a UK football ground took place.
Tell a lie often enough Bhoys and you’ll soon be catching up with Goebells. Come to think of it, what did Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Galtieri, Pinochet etc etc all have in common?
If you lot didn’t exist, we would have to make you up.
I read about those monobrowed mutants and I’m glad they got convicted. Now, I’m more interested in this lie you speak off…tell us more?
The Walters incident, yes it was shameful. It was openly discussed and dealt with within weeks unlike your mob that have been unable to change your ways since 1912…
Biggest racist incident in British ground? Dunno, would imagine it was in England in the eighties. You’re meaning the fruit throwing at related to Walters are you? Hardly an isolated incident in those days I’m sorry to say, Liverpool fans even reportedly throwing bananas in reference to their own player (Barnes). Indeed Rangers fans racially abused their OWN player resulting in some season ticket holders banned.
http://www.le.ac.uk/snccfr/resources/factsheets/fs4.html , pont 6.2
Might want to check out point 7.2 here, http://www.le.ac.uk/sociology/css/resources/factsheets/fs6.html.
Then get back to us from your moral lowground…
Go on Billy, enlighten us, what have they all got in common?
If it’s what I think you’re implying (a common religion), then why bring it up? Considering the fact you came on here to attack our “persecution complex” and to defend your own mob against charges of bigotry, methinks you’ve just scored an own goal.
Go on, make up some other common factor, link it to the topic under discussion, and try to show you’ve not just made a rip-roaring cunt of yourself, Billy-boy!
I was just googling the answer. Damn.
It came up with not one of them ever fought a r#ngers player in a war.
Don’t tell me – they all travelled with the Right-Wing Dictators Emerald CSC that used to leave from the Big Tree in Coatbridge?
Naw, it was the Phil Cole and I hear they all bought the box set of Blind Date. They loved a bit of Cilla.
@magma – do you not hate the Nazi’s then? I think your allowed to hate something and to show lack of tolerance should the thing you propose to hate be beyond reasoning. Not sure why the mark Walters incident (s) should stop the author highlighting instances of racist abuse uttered by not only fans but key players and then the lack of action by the club they represent. I don’t think many people ask a hun why they are Huns not because the team itself lacks style, the lack of numbers at greyskull shows no one cares that much for The Rangers… but why they share the same core values they all seem to share… It really is beyond me why someone takes pride in being a bigot, a racist and a willing witness to unreasonable hatred.
Oh, you called them huns.Perma-rage forthcoming.
Remember there is a comment facility at the bottom of the posts to comment directly poster…
maybe i should add that I relate a Hun to being the worst part of the rangers support… I know rangers fans that aint huns, like not all germans were nazi’s… think that’s fair.
Fair point. One that is valid.
Call them all Huns, mate. Don’t fall for the hype about it being some evil sectarian slur.
Not every Dundee Utd fan is originally from the middle east, and a Hearts fan is easily distinguishable from a sweet pastry, but we still call them “arabs” and “jam tarts”…
I like this description i found on the hun wiki –
” none describe the Huns as attractive either morally or in appearance.”
think this is also fair…
the hun yellow pages however shows a warmer more fun loving side to the average hun…
ahhh but would Dominik Diamond be a former hun? i mean he is ugly enough but he does have a moral compass
He would be confused.com. Like that we’d boy in Skippy.
Although it was a long time ago, I distinctly remember that it was infact rangers fans that threw the bananas at walters, the same fans that threatened to Kill amaruso for blessing himself. Yes, we all know that rangers fans hate Catholics but dont forget, they also hated Blacks…SHAME ON YOU…
You will also remember the r*ngers chairman attacking their support for monkey noises aimed at Sylla and Balde.
Back in the dark old days of the 80’s that was.
this argument will go on forever, who is the most bigoted and who hates who as long as we wear football shirts at various commemoration walks and people are violently attacked and despised for the club they support bigotry will be rife in the west of scotland.
I love my club Celtic and heaven forgive hate when we lose to Rangers but the diff between me and the idiots I get over it ten minutes after the game and get on with my life
Maybe one day bigotry will be eradicated totally and finally from the west of Scotland but i doubt it because of the reasons i mentioned above
So for this reason I shall watch the games in my house or my friends – who might I add is a bitter Rangers fan – and enjoy them in the safety of their environment knowing that after the game we will all still be friends and not want to attack someone or make a nuisance of ourselves
HAIL HAIL LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!1111111
magas at the wind up right-what about the anti irish/catholic/celtic chanting from the orcs because mcgeady and an 18yr old mc carthy because they play for ireland,not because they hate scotland but because eire asked them and made them feel wanted,while scotland didnt,as in mcgeadys case he knows how celtic greats like jinky were treated while on scotland duty