SAME DIFFERENCE

The Daily Record had this to say in its editorial column the other day:
 
"So let us spell it out to the owners of Loch Lomond Waterfront and any other bigoted individuals as acts of Parliament have – we are all equal under the law.
Black, white, straight, gay, Muslim, Christian, atheist, male and female, we are all equal. Yes, male and female – or in this case male and male.
The struggle for equal rights in the UK has been too long, too hard and has had to change closed minds by persuasion, by example and finally by sanction.
It will not be undermined by the prejudice of some people towards others.
If your belief is rooted in compassion, love and sacrifice, as the world’s major religions are, then it is subverting that faith to act out a life that expresses itself in prejudice, hatred and intolerance.
It is simple – we are born equal, under the law.
Far from that moral high ground, which either side of this divisive debate might try to seize, is the very human, very awful, unthinking offence of telling people they are less value simply because of who they happen to be.
Compassion, respect and equality are what we expect from each other and for each other.
Most Scots believe that and thank goodness progressive legislation exists to protect minorities from those who do not share these values."
 
This was in response to the story about a wedding reception being cancelled at a Loch Lomond hotel because it was a same-sex marriage. The owner of the hotel said homosexuality was against her religious beliefs. The DR, commendably, comes out against the bigots. Strangely, though, they did not take their usual line when it comes to bigotry.
 
Gay folk go on marches, where they wave rainbow flags. Surely such flags are out of place? We don't live in Rainbowland, after all. And then there are the Gay Pride marches, which are held every June to celebrate violent riots in New York in 1969. They even have an organisation to stand up for their rights, Stonewall, which is named in honour of these riots. They have their own clubs and bars, promoting segregation and an apartheid system! Surely this means that the gay community and its detractors and haters are as bad as each other? Well, that's the line the Daily Record and the rest of our media usually takes, isn't it?

Meanwhile there are some strange goings-on going on at Ibrox. James Easdale has flaunted his wig for the last time in the boardroom, resigning his position, ostensibly to keep the 'fans' happy. Big brother Sandy, the main man in the family it seems, is still plying his lonely trade on the football board. He's also sold some of his shares to The Peeppul, which seems a bit strange since they're going to use those shares to try to vote him out. There are some shady doings afoot and the EGM is going to be a lot of fun.

The confidence of King and his Real Raynjurz Men has the Daily Record foaming at the mouth, convinced that they're going to win. We heard the same pile of shite on the run-up to the 2013 AGM, remember? And look how that turned out. The only difference this time is that there's no Leggat around to beat the drum for the Requisitioners. Last time round, he threw a tantrum like Rumpelstiltskin and disappeared up his own arse when things didn't go his way. It'll be Keith Jackson's turn this time!

It would be hilarious if King and his cronies did win at the EGM. Not only would they have all the onerous contracts and the debt to Ashley to contend with but there's another little matter too. Under company law, if a phoenix company conducts the same business, with pretty much the same name and with the same folk on the board as the old company, then they can be legally liable for the debts of the old company. HMRC are still pursuing their cash and, if they win their appeal then Bisto FC could find itself in deeper shit than Rangers ever did!

Finally, I'm starting up a Crowdfunding project to get 'Fear and Smear' advertised in The National. This begins on Monday and it would be great if everyone could give what they could to help. I don't usually ask for any donations on here but this is for a special, one-off cause. I'm looking to raise £1800, which will buy six one-page adverts. This isn't just to raise my profile but to get my book out there and in the faces of the lying scum of the 'Better Together' campaign. Remember, things aren't over by a long way and the likes of Murphy are still lying through their teeth. So please spread the word and donate whatever you can. I'll have more details here on Monday.

The changing face of Labour

 

 

 "...chloroform men day by day with drink they care not for the conditions under which they live." Will Crooks.

 

 "Emdy fancy gettin' pished at the fitba'?" Jim Murphy.

IT'S NOT SECTARIAN!

Keich Jackson has seemingly been forced into reluctantly giving his views on the vile singing by The Peeppul. Thanks to Stan Collymore they can no longer just pretend it never happened and say nothing. Jackson, of course, has to twist things, not only to bring Celtic into it, but to make it part of the DR's 'Real Rangers Men' crusade. It's quite desperate stuff. Oh, and by the way, Keith, it's spelt 'pus' not 'puss'!
 
He says that the singing "added another filthy layer of puss (sic) to the festering sore of relationship between football’s most dysfunctional neighbours" and that "there is a sizeable chunk of Celtic supporters...sometimes it can feel like a majority, whose loathing of all things Ibrox is so deeply ingrained that they would much rather this club was no more." That's not just Celtic supporters, Keith, it's a sizeable chunk of the Scottish, and, indeed, British, population. There's a name for it. It's called decency. And can you blame them, when, time after time, they've got to listen to this filth on television?

Jackson then goes on about a "dusting down of a songbook from another time and place" and the "recent return of outlawed sectarian chants". I've got news for you, Keith - it's never gone away. Just because you, and others in our media, have pretended it wasn't there, doesn't mean that it didn't exist. Stan Collymore has highlighted it, while you and your cronies turned a deaf ear. To cover your own embarrassment you're making out like it has just suddenly reappeared when it obviously hasn't. It has been heard at practically every game, while each demonstration outside Ibrox, against Whyte, Green or whoever, has witnessed an outing for these vile songs. It's as if they haven't got the brains to make up any chants about the ones they're demonstrating against and have had to revert to the only thing they know: hatred of Ireland and Catholics.

While we're on the subject, I believe that the word 'sectarianism' is a misnomer and is being used as a cover for what we are actually witnessing. Suppose it was Jews they were singing about; would that be hushed up as well? That would be called racism, even though our Jewish population has been here for centuries and are as British, or Scottish, as the next person. The excuse is always that singing and chanting about the Irish and their descendants is not racism; so what's the difference? Jewish people in this country are the same colour as me, speak the same first language, dress the same etc. etc. yet if I were to make derogatory remarks about them then I would be a racist. Why is it different when it comes to the Irish? It makes no sense and is just part of the big cover up that goes on in this country to pretend that all is well, or that 'both sides are as bad as each other'. There are no 'sides'; it's one group of people, or peeppul, being allowed to express hateful comments about another.

If one set of football supporters was well-known for hating Jews, could we then blame another set of supporters that sang and chanted about them being racists and Nazis? Nobody, but nobody, would claim that these two groups were as bad as each other. And yet, they do exactly that in Scotland. Keith Jackson's assertion that "chants which (sic) make reference to “Orange b*******” are offensive" is completely disingenuous. I'm pretty sure that football fans singing about Jews would bristle at being called 'Nazis', but there could be no denying that it's exactly what they would be. I've yet to hear Celtic fans chant or sing about 'Proddy bastards' or 'Presbyterian bastards' so it's hard to relate to Jackson's point. The answer is simple; if you don't want to be called an 'Orange bastard' then don't act like one! Or perhaps Jackson and the rest would rather twist this argument in the same way as the idiotic member of The Peeppul that posted this on Twitter:  "If you fuckers never existed there'd be no religion in Scottish football. You caused the division."

Jackson's contention that this is something that has just recently returned seems to point the finger at the current incumbents of the Blue Room. Surely it'll all change if the 'Real Rangers Men' come back? To be fair to Jackson, he does equate this 'return' of the songbook to the rebellion against the Bisto Board, but the underlying implication is that it's the fault of Ashley etc. He calls on Honest Dave to condemn the singing but, as we all know, that ain't gonna happen. Why should he when supposedly neutral observers, like Jackson, can't do it without unfairly condemning others in the process?

And the Daily Record also reports on Amy Macdonald having a go at Stan Collymore for his comments. I'm getting auld so I don't pay a lot of attention to what's going on in the music scene these days; and if the stuff my daughter likes is anything to go by, then I'm not missing much. I remember Amy Macdonald having a song called 'This Is The Life', which was quite good as a kind of novelty, but I could happily go to my grave never having heard any more of her stuff. I can't imagine that her stuff will be that great anyway; anyone that cites snooze-rockers Travis as an influence doesn't exactly inspire confidence! Anyway, I couldn't help noticing that while she's decrying Collymore she doesn't say one word against the Peeppul's choir. Maybe she was in Kirkcaldy herself, banging out 'No Pope of Rome' on her guitar, eh?

On a different matter, I see the DR is doing its best to try to turn us all against the SNP. The latest wheeze is letting us know what a mess the Scottish Government is making of the NHS with tales of lack of beds, big queues in A & E, overworked staff and brain drains. Of course, all of this is correct, but what the Record won't tell us is that it's the fault of the previous Labour administration. Even though it's been nearly eight years since Labour was in power in Holyrood, we're still living with its legacy. If you want to know more about it, then read 'Fear and Smear'! I'm not giving away the fruits of my research for nothing, you know! You can buy it here.

Finally, a big welcome back to Mick, over at Bampots Utd. I don't know where he's been but his site was becoming infested with all manner of rats and cockroaches in his absence. Monti was even driven to drink! Fortunately normal service has been resumed and we'll no longer have to read shite about child abuse; just listen to songs about it on the telly!

P.S. Shaun, where have you disappeared to? I haven't heard from you in ages. Get in touch, mate, and let us know you're okay!

 

Man with a drained brain, yesterday.

THE FILTH AND THE LACK OF FURY

As expected, the Daily Record played their usual game of 'both sides as bad as each other' yesterday. Keith Jackson obviously didn't want to get involved so somebody called Euan McLean was shoved into the firing line. While decrying The Peeppul for their singing at Hampden he added that he also condemned "those who glorify murders of innocent law abiding civilians in the name of a cause". I wonder who he's referring to there. Were those 'innocent law abiding civilians' the women and children that died in the concentration camps in South Africa, the peaceful demonstrators at Amritsar, the thousands slaughtered in Matabeleland, the Irish people murdered in their own homes or the innocent people of Dresden? Somehow I don't think so; we've to celebrate these folk that killed in the cause of empire on Armed Forces Day. For the same reason, it can't be the innocents that have died in Iraq.

We all know what this Euan McLean is talking about. But, really, what's the difference between the bombing of innocents in England and the bombing of innocents in Dresden? And what about the resistance groups in France and other countries? Many innocents were killed in their bombing campaigns as well. And then there's the ANC. Maybe we should be complaining whenever the radio plays Jerry Dammers's 'Free Nelson Mandela'?

The Peeppul would have you believe that Celtic supporters sing just as many, if not more songs of hate than they do. Strangely, though, they can never give any examples. Oh, wait, there's something about a song with lyrics about Lee Rigby, even though nobody has actually ever heard such a song being sung by Celtic supporters; nobody, that is, except The Peepul themselves, who started this story online. And I remember reading that somebody else once heard a line in a song that said, "Soon there'll be no Protestants at all", being sung sometime in 1963 or some such. The truth is that 'one side' as the media calls it is not as bad as 'the other'. The Peeppul don't sing songs about hating the IRA or the like; they sing songs about hating Irish people, Catholics and even the Pope. I've never heard Celtic supporters singing about hating Protestants or the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland! Anyway, whatever songs about the IRA get sung it is definitely only a few folk that sing them. Only The Peeppul and the members of our Fourth Estate seem to be able to hear them, with their ears pressed against the speakers on their tellies. The Peeppul's songs of hate, on the other hand, are belted out by practically all of them.

The Rangers (sic) Supporters Trust wrote to BT Sports telling their version of the truth, while bad-mouthing Stan Collymore (No doubt the death threats were sent in a separate attachment, leading to Collymore being removed from the coverage of last night's Bisto FC game against Raith Rovers.) They say that their club, and their old club, have done more to stamp out sectarianism than Celtic. Really? The thug with the name that suggests a bout of seaside onanism, Sandy Chugg, has been banned for life from Ibrox THREE times. How can you be banned for life three times? What the hell is he, Doctor Who? And then there's the official Ibrox songbook.

Every two weeks the song 'Follow Follow' blasts out over the tannoy at Ibrox. This little ditty contains the line, 'If they go to Dublin we will follow on'. Most sports supporters will claim that they will follow their team to hell and back, so the implication of this particular line is clear; Dublin is the last place on earth that anyone would want to go to. No doubt they would argue that this isn't the case, but why else include Dublin in the list of places they would follow follow to? It's not in Scotland, like the other places mentioned, so there is really only one reason why it would be there in the song. And that's supposed to be working to stamp out sectarianism and bigotry?

I had a look on Rangers Media and some of them seem to accept that they might have to change the words of their hymns of hate; not because they see anything wrong in them, but because it gives the 'haturz' a stick to beat them with. For 'The Billy Boys' some of them suggested being up to their knees in 'big tropheez' (which is a laugh, since they can't even win the Challenge Cup and it was envy over the biggest trophy that killed their old club). Some of them weren't too happy, wanting to maintain some measure of hatred in the song. One of them mentioned Bloody Sunday and the fact that the soldiers involved referred to each shooting as 'a trophy'. This seemed to tickle the funny bone of others on the forum. Talk about sick!

Last night the whole songbook was given an airing at Stark's Park, in a show of defiance against Stan Collymore and everyone else. The fact that Stewart Regan has more or less said that they can do whatever they like has obviously induced a sense of bravado and abandon in them. For good measure, they decided to abuse Colllymore directly, calling him a 'Black, Fenian bastard'. There were even reports of the 'N' word being used and a Nazi flag being waved. No doubt we'll be told, yet again, that it was just a 'small minority'; but the only reason that the singing wasn't as loud as it was at Hampden is that Stark's Park only holds about eight thousand-odd.

The Daily Record avoids reporting directly on last night's disgrace, which they refused to hear at all during their live updates, instead referencing it obliquely in a piece on the match delegate mentioning it in his report. Gary Ralston writes:

"Rangers (sic) face an SPFL probe after sectarian singing marred their victory over Raith Rovers at Stark’s Park. The Ibrox club have been reported by match delegate Tom Purdie after a section of the travelling support indulged in “sustained” sectarian singing during their 2-1 victory.
Pundit Stan Collymore took Rangers fans to task this week and he was the subject of their ire during the game as Kenny McDowall’s side avoided four defeats in a row for the first time in 30 years.
However, it was the chorus of controversy, including renditions of the Billy Boys, from a section of the support labelled the “FTP brigade” by former chairman Sir David Murray that have been mentioned in the report and not the jibes directed at the ex-Liverpool striker."

As usual, it's a 'section' of the support that gets the blame. The rest of the piece goes on about the match and how 'Boydy' managed to manoeuvre his fat carcass into the right position to score a goal, despite the headline being "SPFL will investigate Rangers (sic) for sectarian chanting during clash with Raith Rovers". The bit I've quoted above is all that Ralston has to say on the matter.

So the SPFL are receiving a report on the matter but it remains to be seen what they, or the SFA, will do about it. Probably nothing as usual. We'll get all the old noises about 'education' and a 'cancer' in our society and then the problem will be ignored again. Really, the club has to be hammered if this evil is going to be eradicated.

Go to any website where The Peeppul congregate, or even on Twitter, and you'll see how they go on about how Celtic supporters are the real bigots. They'll mention ridiculous things like Brother Walfrid only being concerned with the Catholic poor to the detriment of Protestants. Even if this nonsense were true it was a long, long time ago, just like how the Church of Scotland was calling for Irish Catholics to be repatriated. These days the Church of Scotland has distanced itself completely from such bigotry and, although I don't like the Church's theology and soteriology, I would say that the C of S is a force for good in this country and beyond. Even the Orange Order would balk at singing any of these songs nowadays. So why are these filthy songs still allowed to be sung by The Peeppul in the 21st Century? Only our authorities can answer that. The problem is that they won't!

It's time that our football, and government, authorities face up to this problem head-on. And our media, if they had any balls, would stop talking about 'sectarianism'. It's not sectarianism - it's out-and-out racial and religious bigotry. This problem wouldn't be hard to face and combat if it wasn't for the fact that everyone has spent so long pretending that it doesn't exist that they've almost made it impossible for themselves. It's something that they want swept under the carpet in the pretence that racism is somehow an English problem and doesn't exist in Scotland. Until everyone is prepared to face up to the truth then folk will still be discussing this in 2115.

A Peeppul's spokesman uses his right to reply:

"Yaaaaasssss! Raynjurz ur still gonny bae here in 2115!"

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Suddenly Stan Collymore is a 'controversial' pundit; well, according to the Daily Record at any rate. The controversy, of course, is that he's shoved a stick into a pile of shite and all the maggots have come crawling out into the light. He's simply said what everyone knows to be true but, in Scotland, pretends that it isn't. The singing of sectarian songs is not by a 'small minority' of The Peeppul; it's the vast majority of them that indulge and get away with it every time.

He's already received the customary death threats, while many of The Peeppul have been in touch with BT Sport demanding that he be sacked. No doubt Keith Jackson will be telling him what's what in the DR later, while loads of comments will be published in the 'Hotline' section banging on about Collymore beating up Ulrika Johnson. As Collymore himself has already pointed out, however, none of them has ever condemned Paul Gascoigne for doing exactly the same!

There are times when you read pieces by Phil Mac Giolla Bhain or Angela Haggerty and you think to yourself that they're exaggerating and that things aren't as bad as they make out. Then you see the furore when somebody like Collymore dares to speak the truth and you realise that perhaps things are even worse!

It seems that nobody in our country's media ever has the guts to condemn The Peeppul and their songbook. You'll maybe see a sentence about 'unsavoury chants' tucked away in a match report, but that's it. They've sung their vile songs of hatred the length and breadth of Scotland, and even at Berwick Rangers' ground, but not a word is said against them. It wouldn't be balanced, you see! It's always got to be 'both halves of the Old Firm' or not at all. Unless, of course, it's Celtic we're talking about. Even a tiny word of criticism of The Peeppul in our media elicits the response: "What aboot theym?"

Well, what about 'theym'? What the hell sectarianism do we ever hear from Celtic supporters? Who do the Celtic supporters sing about hating, or wanting to kill, or expel from the nation? Nobody. "But...but...but...they sing aboot the IRA 'n' at!" Do they? Well, how come I've never heard them? I've repeated on hear many a time - I don't know any IRA songs because I've never heard them. Maybe you get a few folk singing them and we can't hear them on the telly; but, by Christ, I know the words and music to The Billy Boys, No Pope of Rome and The Famine Song because I've heard the massed choirs belting them out frequently.

And then we get the usual shite about sectarianism directed against The Peeppul. Ah...the old 'hun' myth! I've seen some of them try to claim that the word started in Ulster and was picked up by Celtic fans! What a load of pish! It's amazing the barrels that get scraped trying to make excuses for these vile racists. Just so we're clear - 'Hun' does not mean Protestant, or even Orange bastard; it simply means, or did mean before they died, a Rangers supporter. The team might be dead, but The Peeppul are still around. As for what words mean in Northern Ireland - we don't live there. In Scotland a 'tout' is somebody that sells you a ticket at an inflated price and 'yir man' is something to say to a woman when talking about her husband! Of course, these phrases have entirely different connotations in Ulster.

A wee list for Chris Graham:

HUNS: Nacho Novo, Jorg Albertz, Dado Prso, Lorenzo Amoruso, Maurice Johnston.

NON-HUNS: Moderator of the General Assembly, the Queen, Billy Graham, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox etc. etc.

See a pattern?

And to the ones demanding of Stan Collymore if singing vile songs is worse than a young boy being hit with a bottle - give it a rest! I've read many times in the papers about white people being attacked, or even killed, by other folk that happen to be black. That must mean that the KKK, the BNP etc. must be right in everything they say! Then again, given your mindset you'll probably already agree with all those racist organisations, just like the hero you sing about!

THE PEEPPUL'S PHILOSOPHY

"It's aw theyr fawt. Thur widnae be any problems wi' sectarianism ur that if aw they Taigs an' Tarriers fucked off back tae Spudland where they belang!"

HUN PUN FUN

It's Comedy Capers with the Bisto FC EGM sending London into red alert. The Londoners withstood the Blitz, terrorist attacks and various riots but the idea of having the whole of Hundom descend upon them is too terrible to even contemplate. If Llambias is to be believed, the first hotel they picked was inundated with death threats from The Peeppul. I'd be inclined to believe Llambias on this one; after all, it's not as if it's the first time The Peeppul and death threats have been mentioned in the same sentence!

Speaking of believing Llambias, the Daily Record seems determined to make him out to be lying about being attacked. Apparently, there's no police record of the incident. That's funny; there were never any police records of death threats and attacks by Celtic supporters on referees but that didn't stop the Record telling us that they really happened, did it? In fact, they still dredge the stories up from time to time. Still, I suppose it's par for the course with the DR.

And it seems that Celtic supporters upset the whole world with their bigotry and sectarianism at Hampden. According to the DR there was a bit of singing heard but their main focus, and obviously the most offensive thing about the whole affair, was a banner held up by some Celtic supporters. The banner was apparently a pun on some verse about WWI. As if that wasn't bad enough, the banner also displayed the word - I can hardly bring myself to say it - hun! There have been official complaints to the Scottish and Westminster Governments and some nations have already withdrawn their ambassadors. One foreign official, who asked not to be named, said, "We can accept songs deriding the Pope, telling the descendants of immigrants to 'go home' and being up to the knees in folk's blood but using this word is a step too far. To say our people were shocked is an understatement." In a separate complaint, Angela Merkel has said that her country doesn't want itself associated with The Peeppul!

Meanwhile the Record continues its campaign to drive out the current board at Ibrox. The Fish-ell Rangers (sic) Fans Board had a meeting with Derek Llambias and finance director Barry Leach (who sounds like somebody from a Cillit Bang advert). The minutes of the meeting show that Leach said that the Three Bears had 'shit themselves' when it looked like the board was going to accept their loan deal. Supposedly, Llambias also denied that Ashley helped finance Charlie Green's buyout of the assets back in 2012. Halloween Houston is spitting fire about the meeting and even manages to keep a straight face when he accuses Llambias of 'rewriting history'. The actual question posed to Llambias was, "Did Mike Ashley fund Charles Green in the Rangers takeover?" Llambias's reply that he didn't is actually the truth; Green didn't take over Rangers - it was liquidated and he bought the assets in a shady deal with Duff and Phelps. What was that about rewriting history?

The Daily Record still can't seem to figure out why they've been banned from Ibrox. They disingenuously bleat that all they're doing is telling the truth; but everybody already knows that the DR wouldn't know the truth if it kicked them up the collective arse. In the same way that they're trying to tarnish Celtic supporters while letting The Peeppul off the hook, they print everything they can find bad to say about the current Ibrox board. Granted, they don't have to look very far to find what they're looking for but they hardly paint a balanced picture. A convenient veil has been cast over the fact that Honest Dave is nothing more than a crook and a swindler and the way they keep building him and his cronies up brings back memories of Craig Whyte. They must know that the 'Real Rangers Men' haven't got a hope in hell at the EGM, but still they persevere in their pathetic campaign.

The latest ruse was one of the DR's staff turning up in the dear seats at Ibrox. Presumably he paid for his seat and his place in the Executive box, or charged it to expenses, and Bisto FC is hardly in a position to be knocking back cash; so it was hardly a big deal that he was allowed in. In a hilarious piece of satire the guy turned up dressed like Charles Endell, to take the piss out of all the supposed spivs and gangsters at the new club. The Daily Record patted itself on the back for one of its staff 'sneaking' into Ibrox and pulling off this spiffing wheeze. The 'reporter' himself was last seen just outside Renfrew, being dragged on a rope behind a McGill's bus.

I see Jim Murphy has decided to go down the desperate route of currying favour by suggesting that drink should be allowed at football matches. Was he even around back in the bad old days? My abiding memory is not of drunken fights but the smell and the jumping about trying to avoid the rivers of pish running down the terraces. It would be even worse these days, stuck in a plastic seat while the tsunami builds up behind you. The DR dusts down and wheels out Archie McPherson again to join in on the side of allowing it. Are they kidding? Don't they think The Peeppul are angry and bitter enough without letting them get tanked up into the bargain? Times have changed, we're told. Yes, they have; unfortunately The Peeppul haven't.

The argument that drinking is allowed at Murrayfield is a bit disingenuous. You don't get any trouble at the ground itself, certainly; it's all saved for in the pub later. Have you ever been in an Edinburgh pub after a rugby international? The behaviour is atrocious but is very rarely reported. There are songs and chants about foreigners, racist insults hurled at black people and games where they throw pint glasses to each other and smash them with their foreheads. Women's tits and arses are grabbed constantly and if you say anything things turn ugly. You'll be the one thrown out, though, for 'spoiling the fun'. Outside at closing time they puke and pish all over the streets, in full view of everyone and often beat up people they don't like the look of. There have also been more than a few instances of gang rape in Edinburgh after rugby matches. Everybody looks the other way, however, and deludes themselves that all those lawyers and accountants wouldn't behave badly and it's all just good-natured fun!

Rather than balance things by allowing drink for the 'working classes' , they should be confronting the truth about rugby supporters and dealing with them the same way they would if it were football fans behaving like that. Then again, if you can only drink alcohol that you buy in the football ground then there's no need to worry. The exorbitant prices will ensure that nobody can afford to even get slightly tipsy. An Ibrox source, however, has already said that they'd be willing to take milk tokens.

Finally, a large group of protestors marched from Larkhall to Hamilton at the weekend to demonstrate outside the cinema. Imagine their embarrassment when they discovered that the film they wanted banned was actually called 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and not 'Forty Shades of Green'!

 The Peeppul get themselves geared up for the EGM
(What's Freddie Mercury doing there?)

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RANGERS FIRST - AND THEN CAME THE NEW CLUB

Well done to Hibs; a 2-0 win and second place in the Championship. The excuses for Bisto FC were being made well before the match over on McMurdo's Sooper-Dooper-Loyal-Supporters thingy:

"how conveniant that our keeper and captain both pick up bans which put them out of what may prove to be a crucial match on friday night,once more bbc tv evidence playing its part in mccullochs ban as its been reported time and time again despite the referee seeing the incident and giving a booking for the foul but nothing to suggest a stamp was deliberate,still never miss a chance to put the boot in when you can." (The atrocious spelling and grammar are all his own!)

How dare they apply the rules to The Peeppul! And we all know the referees see the incidents; the fact that they don't do anything about them is a fault on their part, not the authorities for finally doing something about McCulloch. As for Simonsen, all he got was a two-match ban, and one of them is suspended, so, really, he's only missing one game. He used the usual defence of The Peeppul of being too thick to know the rules and, the SFA being what it is, they allowed him to get away with it. Still, at least one of McMurdo's disciples had the good grace to admit that the loss of this pair wouldn't make any difference anyway since they're shite!

The Daily Record, meanwhile, are still backing the 'Real Raynjurz Men' and telling us how Rangers First is now the biggest fan group in British football. They quickly qualify this by saying that it's the biggest fan ownership group in British football. There are 8100 members and, as the Record would have it, "Rangers First now has more backers making a monthly contribution than the Foundation of Hearts who have 8000 members." They still don't get it, do they? They learned nothing from the farce of the 2013 AGM; the number of skulls means nothing - it's money that talks. Rangers First now owns 1.4m shares, the DR trumpets, as if that's something great. It isn't.

A share in Rangers Intergalactic is round about what - 30p? 35p? Tell you what, let's be generous and say that the average price the Rangers First group paid was 50p; after all, some of them were probably stupid enough to buy them in the first issue. That makes a grand total of £700,000. And since we're including shares bought in Green's first sale then that is a figure that has taken them about two-and-a-half years to raise. In contrast, the Foundation of Hearts raised a million quid between May and the beginning of September; a period of only four months. Rangers First doesn't seem as great as the Record makes out, does it? As usual, The Peeppul are great when it comes to mouthing off but not so good when it actually means putting hand in pocket! But I suppose those bedsheets don't pay for themselves.

This insidious incorporation of impecunious, inbred imbeciles was in evidence again outside Ibrox, while Sooperally's team was inside getting beaten. Bomber Brown is becoming a regular fixture at these events, dressed in a suit that first saw service riding on a Vespa to Brighton circa 1964. The man is in desperate need of a job. Also unemployed is Nacho Novo, who was unceremoniously turned down for a job at Ibrox; but he's not bitter or anything! At least this time there was no beating up old men or punching women; well, not that we've heard about yet!

Charlie Miller was in the Record yesterday, demanding that Bisto FC do the business against Hibs. He banged on about how Rangers beat Hibs 7-0 in 1995, with a team that included Gascoigne and Laudrup. He says about the new team, "the players have to find some belief in themselves again because on the evidence of recent games their confidence has gone." So that's why Rangers beat Hibs all those years ago; confidence. That and a batch of world-class players paid under the counter with EBTs and the like. Hopefully Miller shows a bit more knowledge when he's coaching kids!

I see The Peeppul left behind one of their number when they were attempting to destroy Manchester. He's been wandering about down there for the best part of seven years, pissed out his head and not knowing where he is or what year it is. He probably doesn't even realise that his team died. You can read about him here.

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COMEDY TONIGHT

Just when you think the Ibrox saga is getting boring and it's time to go looking for a different source of entertainment, they add a couple of new twists to let you know it's still the best comedy show out there. Remember last week Kenny 'Two Coats' Miller telling us how there wasn't really that much of a gulf between Celtic and Bisto FC? I wonder if he'd still have the gall to say that after Sunday's performance! My God, but they're shite! The Championship beckons for next season, methinks! Still, at least they'll get another go at the Challenge Cup, a trophy that Celtic will never win. Aye, they're coming down the road!

The board now has to find a new venue for the EGM since the hotel they were going to use in London has cancelled. Apparently staff are scared that there might be 'disruption' to other guests. Now there's a euphemism if ever I saw one! They've probably already received all manner of death threats and don't want to take any chances of another Manchester. Either that or they've seen the puss on Halloween Houston and decided that they don't want to be the setting for one of those found-footage horror films. The board is now seeking another venue, but word will soon get round and they'll be lucky to find anywhere willing to take the chance. I heard they approached London Zoo but concerns were raised about tourists thinking The Peeppul were part of the exhibits.

The Bisto Board has decided to blame the Daily Record for everything and banned them from Ibrox. Halloween Houston opines, "The thought of a ban is despicable in what is supposed to be a free country with freedom of speech." Isn't it funny how they come over all 'Charlie Hebdo' when it suits them? I don't remember any shouting about 'freedom of speech' when the BBC was banned because somebody pointed out the truth about it being a new club playing out of Ibrox. It's still the case that anybody in the media that has the nerve to tell the truth will be banned if they're lucky; more likely they'll be inundated with death threats. To The Peeppul 'freedom of speech' means sticking to the Big Lie and singing about being up to their knees in somebody's blood.

The Daily Record gets in on the comedy with the editor, Murray Foote, saying, "We're disappointed by this ban but will continue our robust, fair and accurate reporting of Rangers." Really? So when are you going to admit that Rangers are dead? Meanwhile Keith 'Off The Radar' Jackson glibly tells us all how great he is and what a wonderful job he's been doing reporting the truth about 'Rangers'. Learned well the young padawan has from his master, Jabba, about lying through his teeth while expecting the rest of us not to be able to remember the shite he came out with before.

"Yes, to this day we are reminded of the banner ‘billionaire’ headlines with which Whyte was first announced onto the scene, some five months before he finally took control in May of 2011. And that’s no bad thing. In fact, we remind ourselves of them on a daily basis and hold them up as embarrassment this paper must never repeat."

I must have missed that one. Not once has Jackson ever admitted responsibility for that. In fact, he's gone out of his way to blame everybody else for building up Whyte.

"Throughout it all, this newspaper has – without fear or favour – consistently exposed what has really being going on behind those old famous front doors when other newspapers have often found it easier to turn a blind eye."

Eh? You mean like Jabba sending articles to Whyte for his approval? Like Jabba suddenly buying into the Big Lie when there was a nice sinecure in it for him? Or do you mean the way you accuse those on the board of being spivs and crooks while covering up for a convicted criminal just because he's a 'Real Rangers Man'?

"That is why, long before Whyte’s buy-out was completed, Record Sport was warning of potential turmoil ahead if the deal was indeed completed. It’s why, less than two months after he was in power, we first wrote about the mortgaging of season tickets which was financing his regime. We were banned for that one, too."

Surely you don't think we're stupid enough to believe this shite, Mr Jackson! For months during 2011 there were rumours that Jabba was 'sitting' on a story about Whyte. Why was he 'sitting' on it? Was he waiting to see if Whyte was going to offer him a job? And, in reality, it was those pesky 'Internet Bampots' that told everybody the truth about Whyte. By the time you and your paper got in on the act the story was history!

Come on, Mr Jackson, tell the truth and shame the devil and Big Jabba! Rangers died and now we've got two sides fighting over the scraps. You and your paper have decided to take sides with the 'Real Rangers Men' and everything you're printing these days is just to serve them. The Daily Record gave up on the truth decades ago over a lamb dinner and you're still ploughing the same, pathetic furrow. And, speaking of Jabba, does he still have some kind of influence at the Record? After all, you regurgitate everything that comes out of Level 5 as if it's Gospel. Why don't you grow a pair, Mr Jackson, break away from Jabba's apron strings and prove that there's more than one brain cell crawling about inside that skull of yours?

Meanwhile, Stewart Regan has more or less given a licence to sing to anybody that wants to belt out banned songs; so long as there are enough folk singing. He made it plain on Twitter that nothing whatsoever will be done about the 'Up tae wur knees' brigade because there were too many of them. In effect he's admitting that Celtic supporters that sing about the IRA etc. are in a minority. I wonder what would happen if somebody at a Celtic match handed round the words to 'Roll of Honour' and got everybody to join in. We'd soon see if Regan still feels the same way when it's not The Peeppul involved! But then again, it'll never happen. The majority of Celtic supporters are more interested in their team and only want to sing the Celtic Song and the like. I suppose, in a roundabout way, Regan has confirmed that this is the case.

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THE RECORD'S DESPERATION

At last, one of The Peeppul on McMurdo's blog has admitted what we normal folk already know: they're supporting a new club.

"What the last liquidation and reformation showed is that post liquidation, everything carried on as before without the previous debt in terms of there being a club and a support (obviously the league changed but I will explain in a mo how that not need happen this time). There is a complete beleif that that the club survived liquidation, it was just that the actions taken to act and spend as if the club was still scottish champions and CL regulars has brought it back to this place. A new insolvency could again shed whatever debt there is, remove the onerous contracts and build a sustainable business model. There is not even a need to start out again in league 2 as the way the corporate vehicle has been set up this time allows RIFC to be liquidated and TRFC to be sold as a going concern thus maintinaing thier membership status and league placing whereas the 2 were one and the same the last time resulting in a complete new structure and the whole transfer of membership fiasco and need to be treated as new. What’s not to like?"

That's pretty conclusive and it also shows that they have the morals of a sewer rat. They're not worried about cheating everybody all over again, only that their club survives. One thing this character doesn't get about 'this time round' is that if liquidation comes then it might be a real liquidation instead of the cheating and backstairs dealing of Duff and Phelps.

The agnivores of our media are well pissed off with the Ibrox board's long diatribe against King and his cronies. Every word in the Bisto FC statement, however, was true so our 'sports journalists' can hardly turn round and argue about it. Instead they're playing tit-for-tat, bringing a disreputable character onto the stage, claiming that he's ready to buy into the new club. This guy, Modi, says, "Glasgow Rangers have a fabulous fan base, a solid home and heritage that dates back over 100 years, all of which make for great long-term value." Well, that just proves it's a load of shite! As Phil Mac Giolla Bhain is continually pointing out, Bisto FC is a "loss-making business with no line of credit from a bank." Throw in a fan base that's bitterly divided, money flowing out constantly due to onerous contracts and the fact that the whole place is in hock to Ashley up to its armpits and it hardly looks like a great investment opportunity! This support for the 'Real Raynjurz Men' is getting a bit desperate.

Meanwhile, Halloween Houston is moaning about the EGM being held in London. I thought they were meant to be the 'Quintessentially British Team', burning saltires in George Square and all that; so what the hell have they got to greet about? Houston says that they're going to lay on a fleet of buses to take a big mob down there. This being The Peeppul, of course, they don't want to pay for it and are looking for some bus company to volunteer its services. Aye, they'll be queuing up! The Daily Record says that it's going to be "the biggest mobilisation of their travelling support since the UEFA Cup final in Manchester". Hopefully the London Constabulary is on stand-by and there are no big tellies to break down! 

My wife was looking at the news online and two things struck her about the story of the guy that was beaten up in Newarthill: the first was how the guy's wife was so positive that his attackers were Celtic supporters when she wasn't actually present at the attack. The second thing was that she seemed not to be overly concerned about her husband making a rapid recovery and getting back to the bosom of his family; instead she was saying that she hoped his memory came back so they could catch the 'scum' that did it. My wife had a point. It's the same with the boy that got hit by a bottle. A Celtic supporter has already raised £4000 to give to the lad, while Celtic invited him, his brother and his dad to Lennoxtown. He's also getting to run out as the mascot for Bisto FC at this weekend's match. And what of The Peeppul; what's their contribution? Well, a businessman has offered a couple of ks as a reward to catch the person responsible. Wouldn't the money be better used in giving the boy and his family a luxury day out at Ibrox in one of the corporate suites? It seems that while everybody else is trying to make it up to the lad and let him know that football is not all violence and thuggery, all The Peeppul can think of is revenge!

A bit more politics, and the Daily Record is getting increasingly more desperate in its attempts to get people to vote Labour in the upcoming general election. Yesterday they ran a story about the SNP candidate for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, Mhairi Blach, who apparently put posts on Twitter a year and a half ago about hating Celtic. It looks like they're trying to promote her as a Scottish equivalent of the Derry Dinosaur Jockey, Gregory Campbell. During the referendum it seemed like most Celtic supporters were on the side of independence and this is obviously a pathetic attempt to turn Celtic supporters against the SNP. But, as long as she does the job she's elected to do then who gives a shit what football team she supports or doesn't? Our Unionist press is obviously running scared!

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P.S. I see the Daily Record has published some tips for the Newcastle loan players on how to get along with The Peeppul!

JABBA'S BACK AND ON THE ATTACK!

Have you seen the shite in the Daily Record yet? Yes, I know it's all shite, but this is a particularly fetid one. It's a Q and A session with Honest Dave, in which they claim to give him 'a grilling'. Grilling, my arse! The majority of questions are about Ashley and the board and what evil machinations might be put in place to stop King and his cronies from taking over. He is asked, tentatively, about being a 'fit and proper person' and he sees no problems with the SFA. Well, everybody already knew that! But he has the sheer brass neck to make out that he won against SARS, even though he pleaded guilty to avoid being slung in the clink! Of course, the DR lets him away with this, when any decent journalist would pull him up - "Come on, now, you lying, thieving bastard! Pleading guilty to 41 counts hardly equates to winning your case, does it?" Aye, some grilling!

Some of the questions were vomit-inducing in their sycophancy, like: "No date has been called yet (for the EGM), do you expect them to stall or trip you up?" and "Was Ashley’s £10m loan a final grab by him because he knew he would lose EGM?" It's enough tae gie ye the dry boak! No questions are asked either about SARS documents that show that King got most of his much-vaunted £20m back and he isn't pressed about the problems associated with previous board members being barred for five years. In their desperation to get 'Real Raynjurz Men' into the Blue Room the Record are willing to bow and scrape to a convicted criminal. Sickening.

All the pictures of Honest Dave and his hangers-on show 'Level 5' in the background. My immediate thought was - it isn't, is it? Sure enough, I went over to the website of Jabba's Blythswood Bordello and there were pictures of the whole gang at the press conference. It seems Traynor's bitterness knows no bounds and he's now siding with the 'Real Raynjurz Men'. The best thing, though, is that they're actually selling prints of the pictures of these chancers! No, I'm not kidding - have a look. They're being touted as 'The Perfect Gift' and you can get a framed print or even a canvas print. Shop early for Christmas! There's even a couple of pictures of Richard Gough, looking as if he's been dressed up for his own funeral. And there are umpteen pictures of the man himself, Honest Dave, to choose from. Anybody want one? Hello...? Where did everyone go?

To see all the stuff Honest Dave's coming out with you'd think his winning at the EGM was a foregone conclusion. He's claiming that he's got the votes to oust the current board and is telling them that they should start clearing out their desks. I'm sure the Kaiser was just as confident in 1914! As well as hurling threats at Ashley (a dangerous move, surely) he's also claiming that he's willing to work with him. That's a laugh. He's got no choice with all the contracts Ashley's got sewn up, not to mention being owed a fortune. Nothing short of liquidation is going to shift Ashley; and even then he's got first call on Murray Park and the Albion Car Park. In fact, he's probably not giving a shit if King wins control at the EGM or not!

A bit of politics to end with. I see John Swinney has got into an argument with local councils over class sizes and the falling number of teachers. Labour and the Record, of course, are siding with the councils. What short memories our politicians and media have! It was about eleven or twelve years ago that the Scottish (Labour) Government gave a sizable grant to each council so that they could employ more classroom assistants. The council I worked for used the money to clear a few debts, leaving Jack McConnell fuming. As far as I know they never got the money back. All manner of threats were made toward this particular council by the Labour Administration; a  different story now, eh?

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A NED IS A NED

I remember when I was at St Aloysius Primary in Springburn in the 1970s, every now and again our way home across the cowp would be blocked by a gang of neds from Colston Secondary, who were looking for a fight. It never occurred to these brave lads to walk over to Milton to fight with St Augustine's Secondary; I suppose it was easier to beat up wee primary-school weans! It never, however, even entered my head that this was some Protestant trait; bullying younger children. It wasn't the whole of Colston School that turned up, only a couple of dozen neds. And that was it - it didn't matter if they were Protestant, Catholic or what have you; they were neds, pure and simple. There were folk at my own schools that were just as bad.

Sometimes, if you were particularly unlucky, you'd get stopped by a gang, who'd ask you what team you supported. The fact that no matter what you said (if you said, 'Celtic' they'd claim to be Rangers supporters and vice-versa) you were going to get at least a punch, showed that the bastards weren't in the least bit interested in football, just violence. But that's neds for you!

I also remember local neds getting ready for an Old-Firm match by filing the edges of old pennies to make them sharp. One guy got his hands on some kind of metal ring with evil-looking spikes sticking out of it. He tested its viability as a weapon by throwing it at a garage door up at the Viewpoint high-rise flats. When he managed to pull it back out it brought a good chunk of the door with it, making him smile in delight. No wonder my da refused to take us to matches and no wonder I wasn't that keen on going anyway!

My point is that neds are neds no matter what scarf you wrap round their necks or what team they ostensibly support. The guy that picked on me and threatened to beat me up when I was a wee, skinny, seventeen-year-old student working at Greggs for the summer, didn't do it because he was a Protestant an Orangeman or a Rangers supporter; he did it because he was a ned and a complete cunt!

Our media, especially the Daily Record, seem determined to prove that Celtic fans are solely the ones at fault when it comes to all the hatred and thuggery. Not that I'm downplaying the violence suffered by that ten-year-old boy or the man that was beaten up outside a pub, but there has been far more coverage of this than there was when Rangers supporters ran riot in Manchester. A Celtic supporter has started a fund for the boy that was hit with a bottle; that piece of news, however, is hidden away among all the outrage and condemnation.

McMurdo and his disciples are glorying in all this, even though they still try to convince themselves that the media is somehow burying these stories away! They've got their usual shite to say. You know the kind of stuff, "If that'd been Raynjurz supporters that done that they'd bae aw ower it!" On the contrary, however, we don't know if there were any of The Peeppul involved in acts of violence because, ironically, nobody is telling us! One of the disciples tell us that it's all to do with the schools; apparently we're all taught to hate in Catholic schools! All that does is betray the filthy bigotry of the one claiming this!

The reality is that all schools struggle to eradicate sectarianism and bigotry; at least, most of them do. Let me, however, tell you about a couple of my own experiences. I was doing supply at a Catholic primary in Glasgow for a couple off weeks and, while I was there, a bit of a stooshy happened. Like all Catholic schools this one had many pupils that weren't Catholics. One of them brought a Rangers bag to school. His teacher remarked that he couldn't understand how anyone could support such a bigoted team. The boy's mother complained and the teacher found himself hauled before the head teacher and a couple of high heid-yins from the education department, from whom he received a written warning. He wasn't too chuffed but he was left under no illusion that such remarks would not be tolerated.

A couple of years later I was working in a Glasgow ND school. I was quite shocked to see pupils turn up to school wearing Rangers jerseys; football tops were banned in every other school I had worked at. There were a few Catholic pupils at the school, which the school auxiliary, an ex-policewoman, wasn't too happy about. She was quite vocal in her belief that 'they' should stick to their own schools and she had plenty to say about what she thought of Catholics in general. I complained to the head teacher, who simply shrugged and refused to do anything about it. She also refused to act when any of the pupils said anything bigoted, especially if they happened to be on the football team, which seemed to be all she cared about. Fortunately she is no longer there; the teachers had had enough, put in an official complaint and her useless arse was kicked out. Her attitude, however, had already corrupted many of those children and God knows what they've grown up like!

This brings me nicely to what causes all the hatred in the first place and is used as a rationalisation for violence. On Sunday we heard the whole of the Sevco support singing about their hatred of Catholics, the Irish and anyone descended from the Irish. No word of condemnation has appeared in our media and the SFA appears reluctant to do anything about it. In fact, the whole thing seems to have been buried under a carpet of blaming Celtic supporters for everything. And yet, it is precisely this in-your-face hatred, which seems to be tolerated in our society, that underlies all of the violence that has happened. And, despite what our media tries to tell us, this hatred is a one-way street. You don't hear Celtic supporters singing about hating Protestants, do you?

I don't mind admitting that I hate all that bigotry and it is difficult not to hate the perpetrators as well. Like many others, though, I am not a violent person. I will express my disgust through my words. There are plenty of folk out there, however, who are violent and, unfortunately, they feel perfectly justified in acting the way they do because of all the hatred that is allowed to fester without anyone doing a thing about it. I'm not excusing the behaviour of the thugs that attacked that minibus or the ones that beat up the man outside the pub; the explanation for it, however, is there for all to see. Sadly, though, our politicians and our media either try to pretend that it doesn't exist or keep peddling the myth that 'one side's as bad as the other'. Until they man up and confront the problem head-on then these horrible incidents will keep occurring.

Meanwhile, Ashley has done what some of The Peeppul have been begging him to do and brought in five players on loan from NUFC. The financial implications of this for Bisto FC and the probability of Ashley increasing his stranglehold are outlined here by Phil Mac Giolla Bhain. More concerning for the rest of Scottish football, however, is what one of these loan players, Remi Streete, has to say. He's in the same position as Hatem Ben Arfa, who was blocked from moving to Nice because FIFA rules say that you can only play for two clubs in the same season. Streete, however, sees no problems. He says, "Different federations in different countries have different rules. I know France stopped Ben Arfa but from what I’ve read on the internet and been told from my agent the Scottish FA have allowed me to make the transfer. So hopefully it should be fine." I wonder if the same would be true if it was another Scottish team that he was signing with. Hearts or Hibs would probably be blocked from doing the same thing, and we all know the reason why!

The likes of Jackson and McMurdo would have us believe that Scottish football can't secure sponsorship because there's no Rangers in the top tier. In reality it's probably more to do with Scottish football being a laughing stock due to its bending of the rules for the benefit of one team. If the SFA is going to flout FIFA rules in this way then we might find that Scotland is banned from FIFA and UEFA competitions. It's this possibility that no doubt makes potential sponsors hesitate. Scottish football is going down the pan not because there's no Rangers in the top tier; it's because our authorities are determined that there will be one, no matter what the consequences are!

So what about the players? Kevin Mbabu is prone to injury and it is this that has kept him on the fringes at Newcastle. Haris Vuckic is another one that has been plagued with injuries and he has never managed to live up to all the hype surrounding him. In fact, none of these players has managed to live up to their early promise and first-team football at St. James's seems to be beyond their reach. The Magpies are probably happy to get shot of them, especially if Bisto FC has to stump up their wages. The media are already saying that these loan players virtually guarantee that Bisto FC will win promotion. It remains to be seen, though, if ten legs of glass can stand up to the rigours of life in the Scottish Championship!

One thing seems certain: if these characters get to play week-in, week-out (if they can) then it puts a question mark over Kenny McDowall's authority. It also shows how much influence Ashley holds at Ibrox and raises the question of what the SFA is going to do about it. At present, he's supposed to appear before the beaks at Hampden in March but I've a sneaking suspicion that he'll refuse and the meeting will be postponed. No doubt if these five NUFC rejects do make a difference to Bisto FC's prospects then the SFA will take no action until the end of the season, when it'll be too late. And we all know what the punishment will be like - the five will be banned from playing for Bisto FC next season, when they've already gone back to Newcastle!

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AS BAD AS EACH OTHER?

As expected, nobody seems to be able to condemn The Peeppul for their filthy songs without dragging the Celtic supporters into it with their usual bad-as-each-other shite. So the word 'HUN' was on a banner - big deal! Talk about desperation. Everybody and his dug knows that all that is meant by 'hun' is a Rangers/Sevco/Bisto FC supporter. It might mean something different in Northern Ireland but, just in case nobody noticed, this is Scotland. It's like somebody going to the States and getting all upset because some woman talks about her fanny! It's only the true bigot, desperately looking for some justification for his bile, that would even suggest that the word has any sectarian meaning.

I've mentioned on here before that I'm an armchair supporter; I can't afford to go to matches unless there's a massive increase in the folk buying my book. (Hint! Hint!) As I've also mentioned before, I don't know any of the 'banned' songs of the Celtic support. I've seen mention online of a song called 'Roll of Honour' but I've no idea what it sounds like or what the words are. The only songs and chants that I know are the Celtic Song, Walk On, Come On You Boys in Green etc. On the other hand, I know ever word and note of the vile songs of the Ibrox choir. The only reason for this is that I've heard the songs of The Peeppul being belted out by thousands on numerous occasions; whereas the 'banned' songs of the Celtic support are obviously sung by a real minority and don't register on my telly's speakers.

The only song I heard on Sunday that referred to Ireland was the Soldier's Song; if anything else was sung then I didn't hear it. I was wearing headphones while watching the game; my wife and daughter were busy talking a load of shite at the time. I had to turn the volume down when I was deafened by renditions of 'No Pope of Rome', 'The Billy Boys' and 'The Famine Song'. It was not a minority of The Peepul that sang this stuff; it was pretty much all of them. Our media, however, are determined to keep peddling the myth that only a small minority of the Bisto support is involved in this bigotry.

So, while the Daily Record bangs on about Scotland being 'embarrassed' in front of a worldwide audience, it's really only one set of supporters that are doing the embarrassing. If someone abroad sees the word 'Hun' on a banner they'd probably think nothing of it. And if there were any songs about the IRA they'd have struggled to hear them. There is no doubt whatsoever, though, that they'd be able to hear, and understand, 'No Pope of Rome' or 'The Famine Song'. The fact that our media and football authorities keep pretending that one set of fans is as bad as the other shows an implicit support for these disgusting songs and the even more disgusting attitudes behind them. Otherwise, they would condemn them outright without desperately trying to 'balance things'. Would they be so desperate to look for balance if there were football supporters telling the descendants of Pakistani or West Indian immigrants to 'go home'? Then again, if The Peeppul were doing it...

As to the match itself some of The Peeppul are congratulating their new team for keeping the score down to 2-0. Apparently they believe that Bisto FC came out fighting in the second half and stopped Celtic in their tracks! Hardly! What really stopped Celtic playing well was having to play on a WWI battlefield and cope with a referee that was determined to stop the game from flowing. Kenny Miller, Mr. Cuprinol, says that the score shows that there's not much between the teams. Is he joking? On a proper pitch, with a proper referee, the result would have been a rugby score.

Meanwhile, Ian Black, the thug's thug, is greetin' again about tackles. This time it's Scott Brown he's moaning about, saying he should have been sent off for the tackle at the end of the game. "If that wiz me..." he sobs. I don't know what's funnier, Black's whining or the Daily Record calling him a 'Rangers ace'! I notice that neither he nor the Record bother to mention the frequent fouling by Black throughout the game. And, of course, nobody, but nobody, says a word anywhere in the DR about Bruce Lee McCulloch's disgraceful forearm smash, right in front of the linesman. Being hit on the back of the neck like that could paralyse you for life or even kill you and the look of hatred on McCulloch's face was disgusting. But he didn't even get a yellow card! No doubt it'll be shrugged off as McCulloch just 'letting him know he's there'! So there's only one thing to be said to Black: it begins with 'F' and ends with 'uck off!'

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'Fear and Smear pretty much summed up the whole campaign against Scottish independence. The peddling of fear was a constant tactic from the moment the referendum was first mooted. Scare stories about an independent Scotland having no jobs, no hospitals, no money, no defence capabilities and no way to pay for any kind of welfare screamed at us from our television screens and from every newspaper. Old people were told they would have no pensions and no medical care while there would be no schools for our children. There would be no money, in fact, to pay for anything. Within a decade life in an independent Scotland would be like a Mad Max film. As if that were not bad enough we would also be living under a one-party, fascist state. This was where the smear tactics came in. Alex Salmond was a crazed, power-hungry megalomaniac, while the SNP was nothing more than a latter-day version of the Nazis. The party even had its own version of the SA, the 'Cybernats', who were part of a concerted campaign of intimidation. NO supporters were targeted for abuse and worse, while English people in Scotland were being driven from their homes in an organised effort at ethnic cleansing. Here is the truth about the Better Together campaign. Mistruths, half-truths, disinformation, suppression of the facts and calumny; in fact, anything and everything was done to undermine the case for Scottish independence. Tories, Liberals and Labour all conspired against the independence campaign. There were secret meetings, coalitions in councils, plans to hijack anniversary celebrations and, ultimately, even flouting election rules. Nothing was sacred in the drive to stop Scottish independence happening; even the Queen conspired with politicians in secret. This book lays bare the whole story of this negative campaign. When you read it, and realise just how far the Unionists went, it is surprising that anyone voted for independence at all!'

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P.S. Well done the Bhoys - although we could have done with more goals. And I wonder if the police will carry out their promise to arrest those singing banned songs!