After his promise to commit Hate Crimes on Sunday Ally McCoist has gone strangely sheepish over his plans for the match.
His comments about committing Hate Crimes with 48,000 others were quickly picked up and highlighted on social media although there seemed little reaction from authority.
Show Racism The Red Card and Nil By Mouth can usually be relied on to get statements put out but this week they both seem strangely quiet.
Fearing that his media deals could be in doubt it took less than 24 hours for McCoist to backtrack, announcing that he won’t be at Ibrox on Sunday before covering matches involving Manchester City and Manchester United on successive nights for TNT Sport.
Listening in to TalkSPORT this morning the Daily Record reports:
Asked by Alan Brazil on the talkSPORT Breakfast Show if he was flying back to Glasgow for the game, McCoist said: “All I am prepared to say at this stage is that I won’t be at the game. I can guarantee I will be watching it. It’s a poor performance from me, but the only reason I won’t be there is because I will be watching it elsewhere.”
Dean Saunders then chimed in: “I go to Scotland quite a lot, and I played golf with a Celtic fan yesterday. He said ‘see that Ally McCoist, what a legend. He stuck by that club’ – you are the only man that everybody likes in Scotland.”
McCoist couldn’t resist a laugh as he alluded to the hate crime act fury. He replied: “Deano, if you had seen some of the messages I have received this week I can tell you that is not the case!”
After his Enoch Powell like address on Tuesday it seems like TalkSPORT are trying their best to play down McCoist’s comments, dressing it up as the type of banter that the cheeky chappie has cultivated a career out of.
Fortunately Steven Bonnar, the SNP MP for Coatbridge wasn’t slow to call out Tuesday’s comments:
McCoist seems to have let his cheeky chappy mask slip here. Perhaps he can enlighten us on which protected group it is he intends to target at the upcoming Glasgow Derby?
On a day when everyone connected to the game in Scotland should be working to unsure the focus is firmly on what happens on the park, his comments are completely offside.
McCoist never detailed the aspects of Hate Crime that he and 48,000 others intended breaking. All he has said is that he won’t be going to Ibrox, in 2011 he said that he signed a contract to manage Rangers without looking at the details of it.
Yep. Hate Crime McCoist could only have 2 groups to target with his intended foul outbursts; Catholics and Irish, or more likely a combination of both.
Now that he has shat it and won’t actually be there but will apparently still be watching the game, one can only assume that this will be in the bosom of his family.
Gives you a nice warm feeling doesn’t it?
He remains a class act, doesn’t he?
The dim commentator should stick to the gardening.
He was really good at that – when he was sevco manger.
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He only confirmed what we already knew. Hatred is their religion. Bred into them. The Billy boys with its ,up to our knees in fenian blood surrender or you’ll die, lyrics their anthem along with their history of religious apartheid ,they are Scotlands shame. No change there Ally.
Spot on John couldn’t have put it better myself,and I pride myself in destroying that poison! They are truly a horrible bigoted, racist sectarian anti social breeding ground of hate top to bottom. Now Brendan go do the business as per!! Hail Hail