Hooligans on Film – Typical Ranger Behavior

By: Cham | November 9th, 2009

In college, my Greek professor would often tell a story about about how, during the American Civil War, Union troops came on to our (Hampden-Sydney) College campus in rural south-central Virginia. They searched (for who knows what)throughout the grounds, harassing students and faculty alike, and even busted down the college’s Presbyterian church door, what my professor deemed, “typical yankee behavior.”

An so it is, during Rangers Champions League fixture with their dreaded and age-old rival, the Romanian super power/footballing juggernaut Unirea Urziceni, Rangers fans make a mockery of themselves and their ability to travel in Europe yet again. (And to think of all the goodwill Motherwell generated as the Fair Play professionals of the Scottish Premier League.)

Perhaps this is not on the scale of the streets of Manchester following their Uefa Cup final loss to Zenit St Petersburg, but still this incident paints Rangers supporters with brush of poor losing hooligans.

Or, as I might by inclined to say, typical Ranger behavior. Typical of Scotland’s Shame.

[Update : Rangers have been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay the cost of damage.]

Category: Hooligans on Film

Tags: Champions Leauge, Hooligans on Film, Rangers, Scotland's Shame, Unirea Urziceni, Zenit St. Petersburg

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• Ryan McManus |  November 9th, 2009 at 11:42 am

  
  
  

  Scotland’s shame says it all.

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• JuanJo |  November 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

  
  
  

  Is that them at their worst? They started to swing then they backed off? Those kids don’t seem that bad.. Have you seen River Plate’s Hinchada go against the Brazilian Police? I’d have to see something worse before calling them Scotlands shame, then again you ARE a Celtic fan.

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• Celtic Shirts |  November 10th, 2009 at 3:44 am

  
  
  

  Other than the fact that reports seem to indicate that Rangers fans were enticed into the trouble in Romania there is no real defence for what happened in Romania or for Manchester but to brush all the Rangers fans with the same brush is unfair especially when there was not one single arrest in all the away games in Europe for Rangers apart from Romania and Manchester.

  Both sets of the old firm unfortunately have their sections of support that bring shame on their cub like the Celtic fans at the weekend who booed and sang religious songs during the minutes silence at the weekend to commemorate the soldier who lost their lives in the World Wars. Scotland’s shame fits there too does it not?

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