Glasgow SNP Councillor apologises to Collymore after race row
The popular TalkSport presenter recalled an experience with Paul Gascoigne on England international duty while Gazza was a Rangers player.
Collymore’s insight was well received by most listeners with the debate picked up on twitter as news emerged that Gascoigne had flown to America for treatment.
For reasons best known to himself @JamesTorranceSNP decided to wade in and brought Celtic into the conversation.
Out of touch Torrance tweeted: “Stan I’m a Councillor for the Great City of Glasgow I would challenge anyone calling RFC/Celtic fans or any Glasweigen racist .”
Torrance added: “@StanCollymore No idea you were abused – didn’t recognise your name, it seemed you called all RFC fans racists, clearly you didn’t apologies.”
Of course Glasgow has racists. There are racists in every town and city in the UK and across Europe. If there were no racists in Glasgow why does the city support so many anti-racist events and organisations?
Collymore is well used to dealing with the hard of thinking, regularly taking racist abuse on his twitter account. Retweeting some of the abuse to his followers tends to have the desired effect shining the light on their ignorance.
In the cold light of day perhaps Councillor Torrance should get in touch with one of the many agencies dealing with racism in Glasgow and bring himself upto speed with the city he so proudly represents.
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