storia delle nefandezze dei Gers (è lunga, scusate)
rioted in Barcelona in 1972;
attacked Moscow Dynamo players;
were called ‘savages’ by UEFA President Gustav Wiedekehr;
received their trophy inside a dressing room because their hooligan fans were fighting on the pitch;
rioted inside and outside Old Trafford during a ‘friendly’ in 1974;
tried to start sectarian riots in Dublin before and during a game against Bohemians in 1984;
bottled sports photographer Eric Craig as they invaded the Hampden pitch after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final;
brawled with locals and police in Parma and Turin;
became the only club in football history to be unable to defend their trophy after receiving a UEFA one-year ban from European competition;
threw a golf-ball with nails projecting out of it at Peter Grant;
showed outrage after Rankers ended their sectarian signing policy - eventually - and signed a Catholic;
met the arrival of the said Catholic with protests, derision, boycotts, and the surrender and burning of numerous Season Books;
rioted before, during, and after the notorious Villa Riot game in 1976 where 8000 drunken huns went on an orgy of robbery, violence, and hooliganism which brought Birmingham to a standstill;
had 15 hooligan fans jailed in September 1999 by a Dutch court after they were convicted of mobbing and rioting before, during, and after a European tie with PSV Eindhoven;
had to refrain from playing a popular chart song over the Ibrox PA system at matches due to Rankers fans hijacking it, distorting the words, and turning it into a sectarian club anthem;
participated in persistant and widespread mobbing, looting, and fighting whenever they attended Away matches in Munich, Rotterdam, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Fulham, Liverpool, Bucharest, Paris.......... ;
caused widespread mayhem, violence and sectarianism during a European tie in July 1998 in Liverpool after the match - against Irish club Shelbourne - had to be moved to a neutral ground (Tranmere Rovers / Prenton Park) because club officials knew that the sectarian Rankers fans could not be trusted to travel to Ireland without the genuine fear that they would cause mayhem and injury – if not murder (See also Bohemians 1984);
smashed the windows of the Shelbourne FC team bus;
joined in the vitriolic hounding of Shota Arveladze because he had the temerity to bless himself before entering the field of play, during a recent trip to play the Catholic-hating, sectarian, Loyalist hate-mongers of Linfield FC;
printed the personal details in a Rankers fanzine of those certain people suspected of having handed the ‘Donald Findlay’ video tape over to the media, inferring that most fellow huns wouldn’t be too bothered if ‘some harm’ befell the culprit(s);
had three hooligan fans jailed for 20 months each in March 2004, after they brutally attacked an Aberdeen fan in Glasgow as he returned there to catch a train following a Scottish Cup tie in Dumfries;
desecrated silence tributes to football legend Sir Matt Busby - because he was a Catholic -
deliberately aimed and set off a pyrotechnic firework in the direction of the Family Section at Celtic Park in October 2002;
repeatedly vandalised the Away support section at Celtic Park;
had numerous arrests and subsequent detentions for fraudulently triying to pass off counterfeit Euro currency in Stuttgart before a recent European tie;
caused a near-riot on the stadium concourse at The Death Star after the refreshment stalls were found to be offering green and white straws (part of an assortment) to customers;
used 120 forged tickets to gain entry to a league match at Celtic Park, stealing the seats of fellow Rankers fans, leaving them locked out and unable to see the game;
got branded ‘shameful’, ‘filth’ and ‘ a disgrace’ by Bobby Robson after a pre-season match at St James’s Park where they persistantly abused Alan Shearer to such an extent, that Robson took him off the park;
had fans arrested and charged with verbally abusing Bobo Balde and Momo Sylla in a racist and sectarian manner during games at The Lava Pit;
attacked a Glasgow Merchant City bar (Locomotiv) filled with Celtic fans and pushing two of them through a plate glass window;
hurled sectarian abuse at four Catholic priests in Stornoway warning them to leave the island ‘before they were cremated’;
started a near riot at Pittodrie in a brawl with Aberdeen fans that caused many people to be injured before riot police had to be called in to take control;
racially abused two Muslims in Stuttgart Airport after 9/11, by shouting at them : ‘You murdering c**ts shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a f**king airport’;
had numerous members of thei much trumpeted ‘anti-sectarian’ joke mob The Blue Order being arrested for both sectarianism and overt rascism;
became the first club in Britain to have a fan convicted of religious bigotry after one of their sectarian hooligan fan-base was arrested at a match v Copenhagen at Ibrox in Aug 2003;
got described by MSP Donald Gorrie as ‘bigoted and abusive’ after bombarding him with hate-mail after he refused to back their twisted, biased, Rankers-based, Anti-Catholic, Pro-Loyalist agenda;
verbally attacked Jean-Alain Boumsong inside a Legoland hospitality suite;
wished the same Jean-Alain Boumsong a ‘career-ending leg break’, ‘permanent blindness’, and ‘malignant cancer’;
attacked a disabled Dundee United fan before the New Year's Day game at Tannadice;
had another of their vile, sectarian, bigot fans convicted of ‘Breach Of The Peace - Aggravated By Religious Prejudice’ when he was arrested during a game against Celtic in 2004;
had yet another bigoted sectarian fan convicted of a religiously aggravated assault after subjecting his victim - a Celtic fan - to a prolonged and vicious attack as he was sitting in his own front garden;
had 27 fans arrested at the Celtic –v- Rankers game in Jan ’05;
had their hooligan neds attack Chris Burke while he was out for a meal, and then subsequently try to blame Celtic fans;
verbally abused HIV-positive Labour politician Chris Smith, saying he deserves to die of AIDS for being gay, or volunteered to pull the trigger to 'finish him off early';
suggested that Tony Blair (and his Papist wife ?!!) should be executed, hung, and given the 'Kennedy treatment' after he publically apologised to Irish miscarriage of justice victims who had been wrongly imprisoned for over 15 years of their lives;
endangered the lives of other fans by deliberately starting a fire in the toilets at Celtic Park - after smashing them up first;
slashed a steward at Celtic Park during a match v Celtic;
stole the handbag of a fellow female fan during a match at The Death Star;
caused mayhem, rioting, and battling with rival fans during a testimonial match at Roker Park, in 1993, which included a number of Sunderland fans being slashed, and one being thrown from a moving train;
had one of their violent, drunken, bigoted, knuckle-draggers arrested at Celtic Park after he sneaked into a Celtic section, and subjected opposition fans to a torrent of religious and sectarian abuse;
showered the Inverness Caley players with a barrage of coins, after Brian Prunty equalised in the 90th minute during a game at The Death Star - only 3 days after hooligan Rankers fans threw coins at Mark Burchill after he equalised for Hearts at Swinecastle;
got slated by club Chairman David Murray for being Catholic-hating, sectarian bigots who weren't welcome at The Death Star (or anywhere else for that matter !);
never got called 'the FTP brigade' by the same man;
had 28 Blue Order reprobates banned for sectarian and rascist chanting; celebrated the death of Pope John Paul II – less than 24 hours after his passing - with some of the most repugnant, deranged, moronic, sectarian bile ever to have eminated from within the sewers of red, white, & blue repugnance;
assaulted Stilian Petrov with a plastic drinks container filled with ice cubes after he had scored a goal at The Lava Pit;
suggested that 'next time' the psychotic thug should throw ‘a half brick’ ….. ‘a golf ball with nails in it’ ….. or a ‘heavy ball-bearing';
let off a smoke grenade at Pittodrie and causing scores of fellow fans to run for safety from the blinding, acrid smoke;
caused a total ban on all football shirts to be imposed at Glasgow SECC concerts after they started a fight at a Rod Stewart concert;
smashed 114 green-light lenses (in a 16-month period) from traffic lights in Larkhall, where people's safety obviously comes secondary to hating anything coloured green;
forced the local chemist (Moss Pharmacy) in the same hun-filled sewer to change the existing colour of it's shop front from green and white (the company decals), after repeatedly vandalising the shop, and refusing to shop there;
got slated and condemned by Club Chairman John McClelland as rascists;
had four of their hooligan fans arrested on the P & O Troon - Larne ferry after they rampaged and fought with other passengers, whilst returning from a match at Legoland;
had three of their sectarian bigot hooligans fined and sentenced to 200 hours community service each, after they were convicted of attacking a number of people in a campsite in Perthshire, after residents objected to the hooligans blaring out their sectarian Rankers club songs in the early hours of the morning; had Follow Follow slated and condemned by an independent report (The Extent Of Online Sectarianism) on internet forum bigotry, which highlighted a sickening culture of blatant bigotry, sectarian hatred, pro-Loyalist sentiment, and fervent anti-Catholic antipathy;
had one of their violent thug fans described by a judge as ‘one of Scotland’s worst football hooligans’;
fought with Dynamo Zagreb fans outside the Toronto SkyDome after being gubbed 1 – 0 by the Croats;
had one of their hooligan bigoted sectarian reprobate fans convicted of threatening an 11 year-old girl, and screaming sectarian abuse at her – because she had a Celtic top on;
had two of their bigoted sectarian knuckledraggers fined €6000 each for organising an illegal Orange march in Benidorm;
racially abused Shunsuke Nakamura on his debut by hurling a torrent of vile abuse at him, with references to his nationality, colour, and his country’s involvement in a war over 60 years ago;
got banned from travelling with Stena Line for subjecting other passengers to hours of sectarian hatred and lacing the journey with hateful songs about murdering Catholics;
issued (yet more) death threats to Celtic player Neil Lennon, and threatened to burn down the Glasgow hotel where a gala evening was being held in his honour;
had The Blue Order starting a bar-brawl and assaulting members of The Rankers Club during a fight at a function held there;
had 19 of their drunken hooligan fans flung off an EasyJet flight bound for Bratislava;
became the club of choice for the rascist, bigoted, hate-filled deputy chairman of the BNP - Scott McLean;
had one of their lying bigots caught making up a fantasy about being attacked in Glasgow by Celtic players Craig Bellamy and John Hartson - whilst both were actually 200 miles away in Inverness;
battled with Bolton fans in the square after the CL away match in Porto;
mailed death threats and abuse to SoccerHell, after the humourous t-shirt printers produced one with David Murray and Rankers being the butt of the joke; rioted outside the Tehelne Pole Stadion in Bratislava, as ticketless huns, and those refused entry with forgeries were beaten back back riot police, after trying to barrage the turnstiles en-masse;
wished Kenny Miller ‘broken legs, spinal injuries and brain damage’ on the day he signed a pre-contract at Celtic Park;
promoted a hate campaign against a pregnant BBC Scotland weather presenter (Kirsty McCabe) after she jokingly referred to their stadium as 'Castle Greyskull' during a BBC2 Saturday morning weather bulletin;
forced their own players and officials to leave the ground by the back door after a baying hate-mob intent on violence, gathered at the front entrance after the 3-0 gubbing by Hibs (the third loss to them in a row) in the 05-06 Scottish Cup;
got threatened with having their Underground services withdrawn on matchday due to persistant threats, abuse, and violence on Subway staff during matches at Legoland;
had one of their pervert sickos arrested on a Rankers flight for public indecency, after he flashed his genitalia at an air stewardess;
had two sectarian huns arrested inside Legoland for attacking eachother, in a sectarian row about Loyalist bands in the Orange Walk;
attacked the Villarreal team bus outside the Madrigal Stadium, and smashed it’s window after hurling with bottles, stones, and other missiles at it, as the terrified Villarreal team and officials cowered inside;
had 8 huns arrested for fighting in Benidorm - whilst others brawled in Valencia and Villarreal ....................... to be continued for sure.