I was rather bemused yesterday as bigoted writer Phil Mac Giolla Bhain blogged that Rangers “downfall” was the biggest sporting scandal of all time.
The natural response to that ridiculous statement is to remind Mac Giolla Bhain and his apologists is to remind them of a twenty year cover up of sexual abuse of children by Celtic that was never punished.
That duly happened online and in Twitter land.
It’s the response from the Celtic Minded revisionists to that reminder that is the most disturbing.
For those Celtic fans who are not embarrassed by the lack of morality that their club displayed for twenty + years, the stock answer is loosely along the lines of trying to turn the tables on those criticising Celtic’s conduct by stating that the critics are obsessed with child abuse or similar.
These silencing tactics and a disgusting lack of acknowledgement of the sins of their club, are almost on a par with the actions of those named in court when Jim Torbett was standing trial.
Are today’s “fans” any better than the board members of their club during that dark period?
The more I read these responses, the more I believe that were any of these people in a similar position to those that refused to put a stop to the abuse, they would also do nothing and consign more children to years of abuse.
As sick apologists lined up to defend Mac Giolla Bhain, following his book being ditched by the Scottish Sun, the whole concept of Mac Giollabhain writing a book about Rangers becomes more absurd.
While most of the blogger’s critics rightly point to his incubator article as evidence of his sheer hatred, it is only one piece in a host of hate filled agenda led articles across various platforms.
My understanding is that this book, like his previous effort, is a collection of blog postings charting events at Rangers through his agenda led eyes, and consisting of inside information from agenda led Celtic supporting individuals in key positions to affect as much damage to Rangers as possible.
The very idea that Rangers fans should be interested in this is preposterous.
If they are interested, they shouldn’t be.
The events at Rangers can never be compared to Celtic covering up child abuse, sacking the individual involved, then rehiring him, while telling parents to keep quiet.
The act of the cover up and the failure to punish Celtic for that cover up together form the biggest scandal in UK sport.
There can be no “scandal” to compare. To suggest otherwise is sick, offensive, and an insult to the victims.
If there has been any scandal regarding the events at Ibrox over the last few years, it’s that a number of Celtic supporting individuals were in place to effect maximum damage on Rangers FC from various positions, and appear to have carried out an agenda to do so.
While it would be remiss of me to ignore the gross mismanagement of David Murray, Martin Bain and Craig Whyte, it should be pointed out that the accounts of Mac Giolla Bhain and “Rangers Tax Case” will most likely completely ignore the involvement of Fullerton, the possible illegal leaks from HMRC, and the shareholdings and conflicts of interests of various individuals working to “kill” Rangers.
It’s those individuals who should not be allowed to quietly fade in to obscurity, given their actions.
It has been hugely satisfying to see the Rangers support begin to wake up to some of the agendas in Scotland, and seeing Mac Giollabhain slated by many of his own, and also The Scottish Sun is a start.
Now the focus should be on the subject matter of the book(s), and more to the point, what is deliberately excluded.
Who is going to fill the blanks?
We as a support need to find out.
Bill.
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