GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 15: Rangers fans hold up a banner during a William Hill Premiership match between Rangers and Aberdeen at Ibrox Stadium, on January 15, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
The full racist and sectarian song book was out in force at Ibrox yesterday.
Police Scotland made four arrests. It seems that only one of the arrests was sectarian related.
It appears that Police Scotland just wanted to manage the event without actually ensuring that the Law of the land was upheld.
Both teams were held back in the tunnel as the Public Address system prepared for their Tina Turner classic.
Just as it starts the referee signals to the two captains to lead their teams onto the pitch.
‘The Best’ means very little at Ibrox these days. The main enthusiasm for it lies in the pauses between lines.
That is when the home fans bellow out their favourite add-ons.
Anyone with an awareness of football in Glasgow knows those add-ons. They are sectarian but no action was taken by Police Scotland.
The fans attending the match were home Season Ticket holders or supporters that bought tickets directly from the club.
Broadcaster Premier Sports passed no comment on the sectarian chants that they were sharing.
If a stray ‘f’ or ‘c’ word heard at Kilmarnock or St Mirren they rush to apologise with a chuckle.
Perhaps they are quite comfortable with the chants from Ibrox?
It’s about time society took a zero tolerance approach to everything and everyone that surrounds the current incarceration of Rangers.
— Mr Kïlmïstër (@jj_bruce) September 14, 2026
Police chiefs said the events surrounding the Old Firm match at the weekend “passed without major incident,” as first reported by The Glasgow Times.
However, the force confirmed that four people were arrested, with one person alleged to be threatening and abusive while resisting arrest and another arrested for an alleged breach of the peace.
Among the other offences, a police officer was allegedly assaulted, and one man was arrested for alleged sectarian abuse.
One man. Think about that. Alleged, think about that.
Police also issued a warning for a drugs offence, and a youth was reported for a Section 38 offence.
IBROX- WHERE DIFFERENT LAWS AND RULES APPLY
The Best isn’t on the play list before matches staged by UEFA.
But with the SFA it is a different matter, they are quite happy to cater for the excesses of Scotland’s newest football club.
A special agreement was created in 2012 to fast track Charles Green’s club into the top flight.
Legislation could have been brought in to ensure that the vile, racist songs and chants banned by UEFA were made law in Scottish football.
Instead the SFA under Stewart Regan and Ian Maxwell anything goes as they put commercial interests first.
Plenty of media outlets drool over the wonderful O** F*** atmosphere.
None of them scratch the surface or go near what the chants are and what they mean.
Only 1 person out of 50k singing sectarian filth….we’ll at least everyone/anyone campaign looks like it working at the bigot dome, just as well the huns wasn’t singing about killing Jews or Muslims because UEFA would close that shithole down
It wasn’t lost on me yesterday that all that anger hate and bile was directed at a football team , a side of 11 men walking out to partake in a sports event , the only way to end this is shut them down , put them out of business and Celtic have the powers to do that but that would be the end of the OF fantasy
Of course the events surrounding The GLASGOW DERBY passed off without incident because Sevco won…
Make no mistake – Cops and The SFA / SPFL will want them winning on Sunday as well for that very same fu**in reason !
Let’s hope Police Scotland return favour and pay a visit to them lowlife hun tramps this week to remind them of their responsibilities ahead of next weekend game at Celtic Park. Our board are weak and gutless, a f*****g disgrace
Remember the biggest silence is from our boardroom! !!!!!!! When the talk of 55 titles raises its head !!! Not a reply from our boardroom ,Shame on them all ?
I think that the guy arrested for “alleged sectarian abuse” could get away with it and blame police Scotland for victimisation, with his lawyer citing why the other 49,999 “singers” got off Scot free. :))))
An unwritten Ograngement
It’s common law Police Scotland are in harmony with the royal impropriety performances at Ibrox, barely restraining themselves from using their baton to lead the innocent choir of Charlie’s Angels in hate chimes.
The ensemble know the score, it’s music to their ears, Ludwig’s constabulary of laughing policemen find the lark offending pitch perfect, it is their duty to keep with the tone of those allowed to cross the thick blue line.