Was there ever a full moon on the night of an old firm match while you were here?
Haven't been to an OF game since the early 80s. But as much as the atmosphere on TV sounds brilliant and the TV commentators love it - it is (or was back then) actually poisonous and hate-filled - still...it's a brilliant racket having many 10s of thousands of home support bawling out the tribal songs and war-cries in a way that I'm not sure you get even at the most passionate of English derby matches. But it's not (or wasn't) nice.
Changing from being a Celtic fan to a Rangers fan is a backwards step if you don’t want to be supporting a club with a racist element in their fanbase.Just spotted that my last OF game was actually 1988 - the 'infamous' Mark Walters match. My brother was a Celtic supporter at the time and we were in the 'Celtic end' at Parkhead - until half time. My brother decided he'd had enough of the racist abuse coming out of that end and we went down the front and asked a bobby if we could move to the Rangers end. After a moment quizzical look we were escorted along in front of the main stand and into the other end. And that's when he became a 'bluenose' - now a ST holder. I think he prefers that his past isn't brought up - indeed he's in denial that he every did actually 'support' the eastenders (Desmond White was on his paper round and so tickets for big matches were easy - is what he'd say) - but I know better as I was there at his conversion - not that common an event in my experience
Don't feed the troll
I believe that Rangers have more racists in their fan base than Celtic. I doubt many would disagree that aren’t Rangers fans. Well, maybe Chelsea and Linfield fans would disagree.
That's what 'the best fans in the world' would have you believe. The fact is, the bad elements within the support are both as bad as each other, and in my experience have equal numbers on both sides.
...I have to say that my brother’s usual standing place was in the ‘Jungle’ - and the few times I joined him there it was - erm - ‘atmospheric’...
What - my brother changing camps? I assume not. Our parents were from ‘The Highlands and Islands’ with dad not being interested in football and mum being a Saints supporter (Some cheeky bizoms might say that’s just the same).
? Sorry no, not your post this time ?.
I’ve been in both Old Firm grounds, yes. I felt less safe in the middle of Ibrox, despite being from a Protestant family from Ian Paisley’s constituency. Make of that what you will.
Can you prove your statement about the racisism element? I will grant you however that there are some shall we say people with views that not all the support agree with-but would this not be pretty much as for nearly all pro teams with sizeable(ish) support?
