Going by the almost nuclear fall-out from the Scottish Premiership’s opening weekend, Rangers must’ve won or something.
The usual suspects have been out in force berating, over-exaggerating and criticising Rangers for everything from singing, to dancing, to scoring last-minute winners.
One game into a league season, it’s absolutely nothing we haven’t seen before. In fact, we’re almost getting used to it.
This isn’t about some staunch defence of the fans’ own misgivings.
Sectarian singing has no place at Ibrox – or any other stadium for that matter – and the club have been very clear on that [
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Idiotic fans too who danced on an admittedly poorly constructed disabled shelter causing it to collapse will also feel the brunt of the club’s frustration.
Even if it was entirely undeliberate, going by some reports you’d think it wasn’t.
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But no, rather it is about the unfair treatment of Rangers in the press and the continuing silence over our rivals’ own problems.
There is no balance here, just outright bias.
That’s despite the likes of Celtic fans flagrantly unveiling suggestive Irish republican banners as if the bloodshed of 1970s Northern Ireland were some kind of halcyon days for their support.
Anyone who can deny the likes of Tom English, Michael Stewart or the morbid BBC Scotland commentary team have an agenda against Rangers is either ignorant or wilfully blind.
The ongoing, tiresome nonsense between that depressing lot and the club is slowly turning into an embarrassing farce on the part of the broadcaster. As if it wasn’t already.
There are also the innumerable tabloid stories that come out off the back of these outspoken voices in the press, pejoratively pigeon-holing Rangers and their fans as some kind of wide-eyed, bloodthirsty loonies.
We’ve heard it all before, but generally, as a support, we are beginning to get numb from the entire thing.
Those fiery headlines, those outspoken remarks, those sensationalist stereotypes; they stoke a faint flicker whereas once they might’ve started a small fire.
Don’t bite, ignore them and focus on making sure we represent the club in the best possible light, not for them, but for ourselves.
And if the fall-out from week one is nuclear, should Rangers lift the trophy in week 38 the fall-out will be almost biblical.
