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Alan Thompson calls out Scotland’s ‘secret’ racism

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Alan Thompson has relived the match in which Rangers fans arrived at Celtic Park armed with potatoes to be thrown on the pitch.

The plan had been developed on an internet message board in the early days of this century and was given little condemnation in the media as potatoes were thrown at the pitch throughout the game.

What coverage it did get was largely put down to good natured banter as the away fans celebrated their Irish famine that led to the deaths of more than one million people.

A few years later the Rangers support created The Famine Song, responding to that in his Daily Record (2008) column James Traynor explained:

So, to all those, of any religion or race, who think Scotland is such a bad, twisted place full of bigots and racists there is only one thing to say.

Go.

Go on, just gather up your prejudices, take your suspicions and pack your loathing of Scotland.

Go find a better place to live and leave us to get on with the job of making something good of this country.

Traynor was also a regular presenter on Radio Scotland at the time, continuing with the state broadcaster until taking up a job offer from Charles Green at the newly formed Sevco club in early 2013.

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