With the Ibrox fan-base ramping up the hatred, and with our visit to their ground next Sunday certain to be a bile-soaked experience, there are some in our support who are debating whether or not we should respond in kind, and in particular with some sort of demonstration asking what senior officials at Ibrox knew of their own historic abuse cases.
I cannot stress enough how bad that idea is.
I have heard it from various places, and I understand completely the impulse; it is right to be angry at the way they have used this issue, flagrantly, shamelessly, disgracefully.
That does not convey on us the least justification for acting in a similar disreputable manner.
It would simply be wrong by any measurable standard. The Peepul we are up against have a dark obsession with this stuff which betrays their motives.
The question we have to ask ourselves, always, is this; do we care about this issue or do we care about scoring points?
Because if we have respect for the victims we’ll leave this stuff alone.
Ibrox’s fans are the most shameless hypocrites on this stuff, and we all know that to be the case. The merest mention of their own scandals outrages them, even as they rake through the coals of what they allege happened at Celtic Park.
This stuff does not belong in football stadiums.
It is a grotesque thing to be using to score cheap points, and Celtic fans should have nothing to do with it.
Let them wallow in filth on their own. Let them continue to disgrace themselves and shame their club by weaponizing this subject and showing the world how little regard for the victims they have.
Because that’s what it comes down to; if you do care about those who suffered you will not use this as a stick to beat someone with.
The victims deserve justice and until they get it the very least they deserve is to be treated with dignity and respect, and using their suffering as a means of embarrassing your rivals is simply not on.
James, couldn’t be more in agreement. If we for one second forget the victims should always be placed first or lower ourselves to carrying out the very behaviour we rightly detest and criticise, then we may as well take up their colours too.
We r better than them and shouldn’t allow ourselves to b dragged into their hell
The only thing that Deadco 1872 and Sevco 2012 have in common both are hypocritical filth.
Saw this asked the other day. Like you say James, the impulse to give them a taste of their own medicine is strong but we should never ever stoop to their gutter level if using these poor victims to score points over any rivalry.
Anyone who unfurls such a banner should be given a kicking tout-suite. Such hunnish behaviour must not be tolerated.
Gordon Neeley was on the old Rangers payroll.
I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse their obsession with this crime makes me sick nobody no matter what team they support should ever stoop to that level it’s disgusting and inhumane
We all know the reason behind the rangers fans interest in this sad case, not a jot of feeling for the victims, if this were any other club than Celtic, it wouldn’t rate a mention among them, hope the victims receive all the help and justice they certainly deserve.
Pot calling the Kettle