After last Saturday exposed the true face, actions and behaviour of ‘Rangers’ fans a massive deflection exercise is underway across the Scottish media.
Less than a week after holding Glasgow city centre hostage as the poured out their ant-Catholic hatred and loyalist bile a campaign is underway to paint the 15,000 Covidiots as the victims, misunderstood and picked on by the ‘liberal left’.
The very rarely seen ‘Rangers’ fan has been getting promoted. They don’t seem to be part of any of the various fan groups, they don’t have a website, forum or even a twitter account. The nice bear only loves the football on offer at Ibrox, apparently all that religious stuff isn’t for them but they still go along to Ibrox in silent approval, tapping their toes to the tunes of hatred.
“Having stood in the Celtic end at an Old Firm cup final and heard fans talking about stabbing Protestants, don’t tell me sectarianism is a one-way street” | @johnmclellan https://t.co/bwSFf1WwrX
— The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) May 22, 2021
The character above is the Director of the Scottish Newspaper Society and a Conservative councillor in Edinburgh.
He seems disgusted by the attacks on chapels, violence and intimidation carried out by his fellow bears. Alas they are misunderstood, isolated and marginalised. It is apologists like McLellan that are the main problem not the morons sharing video clips of knocking lumps out of each other and throwing glass bottles about.
As a throwaway line to remind loyalist readers of The Scotsman of the Old Firm he writes:
But having stood in the Celtic end at an Old Firm cup final (I lost a bet) and heard fans talking about stabbing Protestants, don’t tell me sectarianism is a one-way street.
No detail is given about this match, it seems that Councillor McLellan has no evidence from the other half of the Old Firm to balance out his argument. With apologists like that the problem that Scottish football isn’t confined to yobs urinating across Glasgow city centre, it lies equally in the Scottish media and in the politics of one party which is led by a very close friend of the Scottish Football Association.