Sevco have been forced into issuing a statement after the sectarian singing of supporters was highlighted by ESPN.
Experienced anchor man Ray Stubbs apologised for the singing before the second half of the televised match
at Berwick Rangers.
Similar songs have been heard week in week out at Sevco’s away matches but been ignored by the Scottish football authorities.
At Hampden in December thousands of fans were heard singing the banned Billy Boys song with Scottish Football League chief executive David Longmuir praising supporters after the match.
After ESPN highlighted the singing claiming that the police were investigating it a club statement said: ”The Club is disappointed by certain outbursts of inappropriate singing by a section of the support at Berwick.
“Our fans have been excellent this season both home and away and we do not want to see this tarnished.”
Whether the SFA or SFL finally decide to investigate the issue remains to be seen.
Sectarian singing dogged the old club in their final seasons with Rangers fans banned from attending last season’s Champions League tie away to Malmo due to persistent offending.
Rangers first fell foul of UEFA in 2006 during the Champions League ties against Vilareal. Those incidents led to the banning of the Billy Boys with the Scottish authorities forced into repeating the stance of UEFA.
UEFA had Rangers in the dock again following the Europa League ties against Feyenoord in 2011 which led to the ban on supporters travelling to Malmo.
Sevco won
today’s match 3-1 at Berwick to strengthen their lead at the top of Division Three.
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the problem will never go away as long as clubs frame it as “we do not want our reputation tarnished”, “we do not want to see the club hurt”
saying this rather than saying “this is disgraceful and wrong and needs to stop” gives excuses to these morons, they see it and think “oh, see Rangers arent against it, these are our songs. We just cant get caught incase we get punished”
you have treat people who sing this like children, you cannot just keep saying “dont do that or you’ll get into trouble”, you have to teach them thats they shouldnt do it because its wrong