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Originally Posted by AJ  Nah, the vast majority of them are just 90 minute bigots, then forget about it when they go to work on monday, it's tourism |
Yep exactly. I lived in Glasgow for 8 years - from the age of 18 up - going to football games and experiencing Old Firm games first hand. The chanting used to be much worse than it is now - but it is so engrained in some fans they will never change.
I remember being at a Scotland game at Celtic park - against Czech Rep - some of you might remember Gary McAllister being booed off - well during the game a portion of the ground started chanting 'Stand up if you hate Rangers' - at a fcuking Scotland game!! I have no doubt same thing would have happened at Ibrox too. But I vowed never to go and watch a Scotland game anywhere other than Hampden after that - there is no place at a national game for that sort of thing.
I really do not think for a second that the so called hatred is a personal thing, indeed some of my best mates are Celtic fans, however, there is a lingering untertone of religious hate that goes back so long that the uneducated 'fans' think that is how they are meant to act. The sooner they are out of the Scottish game the better.
Steve.