Rangers supporters in Ireland thread

I doubt if Kerr was a rangers supporter, Maybury is though. Nothing wrong with following a team for football reasons but when politics influences the decision then that is wrong.

Walked into a rangers fans pub in glasgow city centre by mistake after the old firm derby last year. Thank fook I wasnt wearing colours as it was full of scum looking for trouble. Kept my mouth shut and walked straight out.

Citizen wrote: gspain wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: Not winding up here, and i know this thread was started as one of those completely unfunny and at this stage played out ybig 'jokes', however, are these people from Galway, Dublin or wherever that you know who support the Huns serious fans or just doing it for a bit of attention seeking and winding up?   do they support ireland as well? What do they think of every Irish international that plays at Ibrox being roundly booed for example? Brian Kerr is a Rangers fan as was his father and grandfather.  3 recent Irish Internationals Ritchie Sadlier, Alan Maybury and a 3rd who hasn't gone public are/were Rangers fans.  I know quite a few Rangers fans in the Republic and they are as serious as your average Man United or Liverpool fan eg 1 home game every couple of seasons and watch the games on tv.  I know of one of our regular aways fans under Jack who also followed Rangers everywhere at the time incl numerous european aways.  Haven't seen him at any of our games recently. I know of a family of season ticket holders in the Aviva who went to Ibrox at least once this season and do follow Rangers - father went a bit more often before he had the kids.   A former colleague goes to most home games and went to Japan(his only aways afaik although he could well be in Poland) and went to quite a few Rangers games. Just because Rangers fans don't feel the need to show their British club allegiances at RoI games doesn't mean they don't exist.  Spare me the anti Irish rubbish.  Rangers fans are anti Celtic (I wonder why ) not anti Irish. that must be one of the most ignorant statements ever on this forum. The whole make-up of the club was driven by its anti-irish agenda, how any irish person could support rangers is beyond me they are either extremely ignorant or are very self loathing Irishmen. An Irish man supporting rangers is one of the biggest contradictions going.

Agreed as they are a British club and surely Irish people should support an Irish club and hint I mean a real Irish club like Shelbourne or Cork City.  However the reality is that most Irish people support a British club although more likely to be Man Utd or Liverpool.

Re Andy O'Brien he was going the other way as part of the Boumsong deal.  All agreed until he got cold feet about the abuse he'd get from the Celtic support.  The first high profile Irish International to play for Rangers will become a figure of hate among the Celtic support aka Mo Johnson.  You need to be a particular type of character to accept that kind of abuse and most would say why bother?  Alan Maybury would have but he was never good enough. 

Alan Smith by all accounts seems to be getting on well and apparently got a great reception when introduced before  a home game a few weeks back.  

I think the anti Irish thing is a smokescreen from Celtic fans to try and take some sort of moral high ground as Celtic can hardly be considered anti British.  Rangers clearly have a hooligan element still in their support as do Celtic.  Rangers clearly have a bigoted sectarian element in their support as do Celtic.

give me an example of celtic bigotry then..?

ignorance once again, give me one example of celtics sectarianism, please do not confuse political ideals with secratiansim, sectarianism is based on religious discrimination. 

Shoco wrote: mate of mine, season ticket at dundalk and goes to every ireland home game is a rangers fan said it was from playing football in the back garden with his cousin who was celtic fan, so he picked rangers and it just went from there he has an ireland scotland match programme from a game in lansdowne signed by the rangers players that were in the squad that night

no offense to him, but they wouldnt piss on him after they set him on fire if he went over there.

Citizen wrote: Shoco wrote: mate of mine, season ticket at dundalk and goes to every ireland home game is a rangers fan said it was from playing football in the back garden with his cousin who was celtic fan, so he picked rangers and it just went from there he has an ireland scotland match programme from a game in lansdowne signed by the rangers players that were in the squad that night no offense to him, but they wouldnt piss on him after they set him on fire if he went over there.

have you experience of going over there and being set on fire?

Stumbled across an 'Ibrox Bar' in tenerife a few years back, happened to be wearing an Ireland jersey at the time. Went in to see what the craic was. The people couldnt have been more friendly, even offered to put on the GAA later that evening! Wouldnt say its representative of all Rangers, but the ones i've come across ive had no trouble with.

Citizen wrote: ignorance once again, give me one example of celtics sectarianism, please do not confuse political ideals with secratiansim, sectarianism is based on religious discrimination.

have to backtrack a bit here.sorry if my post came across like that.i didnt mean to imply celtic were sectarian because it would be a bit stupid if a club founded by immigrants became sectarian.i meant that celtic do have their own pricks in their support but rangers probably have a higher percentage given their reputation.