These Are Not Scottish Football fans

They sing Rule Britannia and God Save the Queen, their manager walked out on Scotland in the middle of a World Cup Qualifying campaign, your lucky if their players turn up for Scottish national games and they sport England tops underneath the Butcher's Apron.

So what's Scottish about them?

Is that ridiculous? Certainly no more than Martin Bain having the gall to claim that they're not Rangers fans. Russian fans were stabbed in the stadium and fans chased police down like dogs. What will be done about this club? Probably nothing. Nothing by UEFA it seems, nothing by the Scottish Govt and nothing by the British either. A collective disgrace and abdication of responsibility.

As Graham Spiers (himself a Hun) writes:

"Utterly predictably, the fate of Rangers is once again to find excitement on the field marred by loutishness and delinquency off it. Losing the Uefa Cup final in Manchester on Wednesday night was no disgrace for Walter Smith or his team, whose very presence at the game was a triumph in itself. Beyond the stadium, however, before and after the match, events told their own story of how accursed Rangers remain as a club....

Rangers have a repeated get-out for these episodes: the script always says this is "just a small minority" of fans. Moreover, as incident upon incident passes with the club's supporters - at Villarreal in 2006, in Pamplona in 2007 and now in Manchester in 2008 - it is always "heavy-handed policing" and not the Rangers fans themselves who are said to be the blame. "

Read the full article here.

As the blood, puke and glass is hosed down from Manchester another consideration is the city and it's businesses that coined it in from the travelling Hun. Serving booze all day from tent and Offies opening 2 hours early, hoovering up a reputed £25 million.

A good way to make money?