Ibrox Fans Seem To Want Strict Liability. Except We Know That None Of Them Do.

Ibrox fan forums are awash in disgust and rage tonight at a banner Aberdeen fans had at their game which read “Kill All Huns.” I’ve said for a long time that Aberdeen fans are every bit as bad as the support they claim to despise. That they have become a malefic echo of the Ibrox fan-base with their debased behaviour appears not to have dawned on them.

Ibrox fans really are hypocrites though. I guarantee that whole stadium reverberated today to the old “Build My Gallows” dirge, one of the most appalling songs ever tunelessly chanted by their support. How dare they wade up to their knees in fenian blood and sing lustily of mass murder whilst criticising a banner? They have no shame whatsoever.

“It’s a hate-crime!” some of them squeal. Well, they should know as they have a long experience in indulging in hate crime. Others want the SFA to take action.

But Ibrox, you see, doesn’t really. Their club (and ours ,by the way) strongly oppose the very thing they are talking about. It’s Strict Liability. For if the SFA had to take action against that diabolical flag today they might have to take action about the bigoted singing as well, and a host of other sins for which Ibrox is undisputedly guilty.

Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and I have talked about this quite a bit in the past; he thinks Celtic, on balance, should not only welcome Strict Liability but push for it because he points out that aside from a few halfwits in our support who we’d be better without anyway and thus forced to tackle, we have absolutely nothing to fear from its implementation.

I don’t want to see it, but I agree with him on general principle. We have nothing to fear from it and Ibrox does. That’s why when their fans rage like this and demand sanctions – remember, one demented fan site wanted a ten match ban for Martin Compston last week – we can laugh at them because that can’t possibly be a serious suggestion.

If it happened, they might as well close Ibrox right now and not wait for the inevitable to happen. That’s how sure I am that even our governing body would need to do it eventually.