•Manchester 2008. After a screen failure during the UEFA Cup Final between Scottish side Rangers and Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg, Rangers fans starting rioting throughout the city. Rangers would lose the Cup final (and the league that season). It was scenes of chaos, and seemed to have given Rangers a horrendous reputation in other countries, especially combined with other scenes in Spain. It should be noted that their rivals Celtic saw their fans awarded by FIFA for their behaviour during the 2003 UEFA Cup Final, showing how much the fans contrast.
I was there... what sticks in the mind ws that the Scottish fans were in no hurry at all to go home afterwards and the last of them were still staggering around Manchester three days later
it has to be said that on a previous visit, the Glasgow Rangers fans, who have he nickname of "the Huns" for very good reasons, distinguished themmselves by trashing the Catholic Truth Society bookstore on Albert Square, associating the word "Catholic" with "Irish", "IRA" and "Glasgow Celtic". Thanks a bunch, guys.
I remember 2008 for outbreaks of Bloody Hand of Ulster flags, chants of "fuck the Pope", "No Surrender to the IRA!" and singing of such traditional Irish folksongs as "The Sash My Father wore"....
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.
•Manchester 2008. After a screen failure during the UEFA Cup Final between Scottish side Rangers and Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg, Rangers fans starting rioting throughout the city. Rangers would lose the Cup final (and the league that season). It was scenes of chaos, and seemed to have given Rangers a horrendous reputation in other countries, especially combined with other scenes in Spain. It should be noted that their rivals Celtic saw their fans awarded by FIFA for their behaviour during the 2003 UEFA Cup Final, showing how much the fans contrast.
I was there... what sticks in the mind ws that the Scottish fans were in no hurry at all to go home afterwards and the last of them were still staggering around Manchester three days later
it has to be said that on a previous visit, the Glasgow Rangers fans, who have he nickname of "the Huns" for very good reasons, distinguished themmselves by trashing the Catholic Truth Society bookstore on Albert Square, associating the word "Catholic" with "Irish", "IRA" and "Glasgow Celtic". Thanks a bunch, guys.
I remember 2008 for outbreaks of Bloody Hand of Ulster flags, chants of "fuck the Pope", "No Surrender to the IRA!" and singing of such traditional Irish folksongs as "The Sash My Father wore"....
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.