The Official Scottish Football Thread

[Helicopter123]

Barga said:

Gone very quiet in here after the semis!
Great result for Celtic even after the assaults on Christie and Rogic.
Looked like Ferguson was auditioning for the rangers!

Well done to Hearts reaching the final.

It was one of those days for the Dons when everything that could have gone wrong, did.

The wheels came off, sadly.

The red cards were reds, the management team lost the plot, and the 9 left on the pitch did well to keep it down to 3.

Roll on next season!

[simoid]

As much as I would’ve liked the treble treble to fail at that hurdle, it was heartening to see Aberdeen’s ‘boot anything that moves’ tactics get called out with cards again.

Unfortunate that sectarian singing made the headlines once more, though. I did have a think about a rule that could sort it and is relatively easy and cost effective to enforce but is a massive can of worms (what isn’t?):

Caution a player if a match official hears bigotry from the stands, then send a player off for the next offence. Not a chance would anyone shout or chant fenian/Orange/black b****** if they thought it would have a direct effect on the pitch.

[Driver101]

Aberdeen have been physical in the bigger games. They just seemed overly angry yesterday.

Ferguson should have been sent off long before that shocker of a tackle. Can I even call it a tackle?

Aberdeen were awful yesterday. The defence parted easily twice in the first 3 minutes and it seemed obvious from that point it was a case of how many.

[technodup]

simoid said:

Unfortunate that sectarian singing made the headlines once more, though.

But Rangers weren't playing..?

[Kakopetria]

Scottish football you have just got to love it.Have thousands of people calling you a sad orange bd and your the one that ends up apologising.

[Driver101]

Kakopetria said:

Scottish football you have just got to love it.Have thousands of people calling you a sad orange bd and your the one that ends up apologising.

As he said he has heard this chant 100s of times and never bothered about it before. Why react so badly on Sunday? Why was he and the rest of the team so poorly disciplined the entire game?

He didn't have any issues when Aberdeen fans have being chanting the same to Gerrard every time Aberdeen have humped Rangers this season.

Why isn't he calling out his own fans if this chant upsets him?

You can't set your own double standards where you justify your own behaviour on one factor, but then excuse your own fans for doing the very same thing.

[Kakopetria]

I didn’t say that the way he reacted was right I was just trying a wee bit of irony seems I failed.

[Barga]

Muuuster King is obviously a comedian or on drugs with his latest statement.

[Edinburger]

simoid said:

As much as I would’ve liked the treble treble to fail at that hurdle, it was heartening to see Aberdeen’s ‘boot anything that moves’ tactics get called out with cards again.

Unfortunate that sectarian singing made the headlines once more, though. I did have a think about a rule that could sort it and is relatively easy and cost effective to enforce but is a massive can of worms (what isn’t?):

Caution a player if a match official hears bigotry from the stands, then send a player off for the next offence. Not a chance would anyone shout or chant fenian/Orange/black b****** if they thought it would have a direct effect on the pitch.

Can we really allow fan behaviour to influence cautions on the pitch or match points?

We'd have fans of team A going to team B's game and misbehaving, just to see team B docked points or players.

[Driver101]

Barga said:

Muuuster King is obviously a comedian or on drugs with his latest statement.

Season tickets to sell.

[moanthebairns]

I'd like to mention the championship if I may. 6 teams go into the last 3 weeks with all facing the possibility of relegation or the relegation playoffs. 2 points separate the bottom four.

[JuniorD]

Interesting attendence Stats for Scotland; 2013-2018 Celtic accounted for 36.5% of the total attendance figure in Scotland, and Rangers had 27.4%. That doesn't sound like a healthy stats at all

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47929074

[moanthebairns]

JuniorD said:

Interesting attendence Stats for Scotland; 2013-2018 Celtic accounted for 36.5% of the total attendance figure in Scotland, and Rangers had 27.4%. That doesn't sound like a healthy stats at all

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47929074

Are you really surprised. Just a few weeks ago in Inverness, stood in a pub with a Falkirk scarf on before the game I was asked, 'so who do you really support, aye but who will you be cheering on tomorrow in the old firm'.

Growing up in Falkirk I was one of the few who supported my local team at school, continually mocked from Rangers and Celtic 'fans' that had never been to a game. These kids are bred into supporting teams sometimes hundreds of miles away because club a or b is associated with their outdated religions beliefs.

Two clubs in which their support stems from religious hatred of one and another passed down the generations. Turns out there is a lot of thick s that believe in sky pixies in Scotland.

[JuniorD]

moanthebairns said:

JuniorD said:

Interesting attendence Stats for Scotland; 2013-2018 Celtic accounted for 36.5% of the total attendance figure in Scotland, and Rangers had 27.4%. That doesn't sound like a healthy stats at all

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47929074

Are you really surprised. Just a few weeks ago in Inverness, stood in a pub with a Falkirk scarf on before the game I was asked, 'so who do you really support, aye but who will you be cheering on tomorrow in the old firm'.

Growing up in Falkirk I was one of the few who supported my local team at school, continually mocked from Rangers and Celtic 'fans' that had never been to a game. These kids are bred into supporting teams sometimes hundreds of miles away because club a or b is associated with their outdated religions beliefs.

Two clubs in which their support stems from religious hatred of one and another passed down the generations. Turns out there is a lot of thick s that believe in sky pixies in Scotland.

I am surprised at that over 60% of all attendances are accounted for by just two clubs. I would never have guessed it to be greater than 40%.

As for the last comment, I can't speak for Rangers fans, but I have no religious hatred of Rangers supporters. I think it is fair to say that Celtic fans might hate the opposing club, and dislike their supporters, but their perceived religion - I've absolutely nothing against it. Any other fans willing to comment on that?

[moanthebairns]

JuniorD said:

As for the last comment, I can't speak for Rangers fans, but I have no religious hatred of Rangers supporters. I think it is fair to say that Celtic fans might hate the opposing club, and dislike their supporters, but their perceived religion - I've absolutely nothing against it. Any other fans willing to comment on that?

aw come on.....REALLY. I can buy that you might feel that way so do many others. But come on, its a well known fact the two clubs are built on the bigotry between one and another.

[Strocky]

The SOB chant is childish and intolerant and needs canned ASAP, however McInnes was at it during the presser, only bringing it up to cover up his teams performance and bad behaviour on and off the field

https://twitter.com/gibbogibby1/status/11174917664...

[Driver101]

moanthebairns said:

JuniorD said:

As for the last comment, I can't speak for Rangers fans, but I have no religious hatred of Rangers supporters. I think it is fair to say that Celtic fans might hate the opposing club, and dislike their supporters, but their perceived religion - I've absolutely nothing against it. Any other fans willing to comment on that?

aw come on.....REALLY. I can buy that you might feel that way so do many others. But come on, its a well known fact the two clubs are built on the bigotry between one and another.

There is less and less people even interested in religion. I would bet a very high percentage of Celtic and Rangers supporters from around Scotland have next to no interest in the religious side of things.

The reason most follow Celtic or Rangers will be linked to who was the most successful at that time.

It is the same with the amount of people who identify ad having an English team. They all end up supporting only the successful ones.

[sas62]

Driver101 said:

There is less and less people even interested in religion. I would bet a very high percentage of Celtic and Rangers supporters from around Scotland have next to no interest in the religious side of things.

The reason most follow Celtic or Rangers will be linked to who was the most successful at that time.

It is the same with the amount of people who identify ad having an English team. They all end up supporting only the successful ones.

Agree that most have no interest in actual religion but the majority definitely chose who to support according to familial loyalties which effectively means along religious lines. Its pretty tough to stand alongside your fellow supporters and listen to them singing and chanting against the religion you identify with. Similar as to why you don't get so many catholics following Norn Ireland. It's self perpetuating.

[moanthebairns]

Driver101 said:

There is less and less people even interested in religion. I would bet a very high percentage of Celtic and Rangers supporters from around Scotland have next to no interest in the religious side of things.

The reason most follow Celtic or Rangers will be linked to who was the most successful at that time.

It is the same with the amount of people who identify ad having an English team. They all end up supporting only the successful ones.

I must be imagining hearing tens of thousands singing about fking the pope or the IRA, on the tele or at matches. Being in pubs before the game hearing this, witnessing collection jars for the IRA.

I support your supporting successful team statement, I do, but the reason both teams are successful is because sectarianism was prolific decades ago in this country and it was passed down generations. In my lifetime I am seeing a change away from it but routing out the bigotry associated with your clubs will take another century at least.

The thing that annoys the rest of Scottish football club supporters is the denial of these acts. Like it doesn't happen. We all know there is rouge supporters of every club. Falkirk flung eyeballs onto the pitch against the pars, some supporters have acted like dicks at time, everyone has them. We don't try to cover them up or come up with 'yeah but what about them'.

[sas62]

sas62 said:

Driver101 said:

There is less and less people even interested in religion. I would bet a very high percentage of Celtic and Rangers supporters from around Scotland have next to no interest in the religious side of things.

The reason most follow Celtic or Rangers will be linked to who was the most successful at that time.

It is the same with the amount of people who identify ad having an English team. They all end up supporting only the successful ones.

Agree that most have no interest in actual religion but the majority definitely chose who to support according to familial loyalties which effectively means along religious lines. Its pretty tough to stand alongside your fellow supporters and listen to them singing and chanting against the religion you identify with. Similar as to why you don't get so many catholics following Norn Ireland. It's self perpetuating.

Actually its quite funny imagining the conversations. "Yeah da I know you and granpa follow Rangers but I've decided that Celtic are more successful so if you don't mind I'm going to support them going forward."