“There will be a Rangers, another Rangers. This place, this culture’s known real disaster. Outside one corner of Ibrox a monument stands to the sixty-six who were crushed to death on a cold, foggy January night in 1971. Today an empty area, concrete bollards and a small street mark the area where Stairway 13 once stood and those supporters died in the crush”.
These are the words of Channel Four correspondent Alex Thomson, posted on his blog long before he thought it funny to mock the victims of the Ibrox disaster, by tweeting an animated video of the statue of John Greig, which stands outside Ibrox as a memorial to those who perished. It seems there is no end to the depth of hatred felt towards Rangers Football Club these days.
Alex has chosen a memorial to the sixty-six Rangers supporters who lost their lives supporting their team to throw more cheap slurs at Rangers. When confronted by the rage and disgust of the Rangers family, Alex stated via Twitter “I’ve apologised. We’re trying to do a feature on some of this internet stuff. Wasn’t aware of nature of memorial”. This seems to be contradicted by Alex’s own blog on the Ibrox disaster, repeated at the start of this blog.
The Fans who never returned. At the memorial service marking the recent fortieth anniversary of the disaster, Liverpool fans paid tribute in memory of the youngest victim, eight year-old Nigel Pickup, who had travelled from Liverpool to watch the game on 2 January 1971. Then came the most poignant part of the service, the act of commemoration, when Walter Smith, the Rangers manager, who himself survived the crush on Stairway 13, and John Greig, the Rangers captain at the time, read out the names of the sixty-six who died, while family members laid flowers.
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There are serious question marks over Alex Thomson’s judgement; his journalism has been seriously compromised. He obviously believes the mocking video of the statue of John Greig is funny. This type of reporting is similar to the Sun newspaper’s crass treatment of the Hillsborough disaster.
This man should be removed from the Rangers story immediately: to mock the death of football supporters is a new low, even in these days of hatred and bigotry in Scotland. Ranger’s supporters are used to hearing this type of hatred from the fans of Celtic and Aberdeen, who frequently use offensive songs to mock the Ibrox disaster. Who can forget the Celtic supporters using fake coughs to disrupt the minute’s silence at the start of the fortieth anniversary game?
The hatred now runs through Scotland like an open sewer towards Rangers, with a mentality when even the dead can be mocked with impunity, without a word of shame from politicians or the media. These are dark days not just for Rangers and Scotland but football itself.
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Pot kettle come to mind! RFC IS DEAD GOOD RIDDANCE SCOTLANDS SHAME!
Not all Celtic fans show this type of disrespect. I am never ashamed to
admit it brings a tear to my eye thinking of those 66 souls we as a nation lost that day.
great to see this creep alex thomson exposed for what he is a rangers hater with an agenda he will hopefully be sacked
The comment from the moron art mul says all you need to know about the lowlifes wasting air in Scotland
WATP
said Mr ed! the world will be a better place without rfc, a disgraceful club ! HH
And the world would be a better place without the likes of Art Mul and the rest of the hate mongers!
These people don’t (or won’t) see themselves as part of the problem, but in reality they are the problem.
I’ve seen this gif and it in no way makes fun of those that died at Ibrox.
It makes fun of the club as a whole, after McCoist made his ‘we don’t do walking away’ statement before half of the squad and all of the prospective ‘Rangers men’ walked away.
This basically played on that by adding the spin of an inanimate statue also walking away. That it represents the 66 who died is neither here nor there (what kind of club has a statue of a player to honour those that perished anyway – that’s the real disgrace)
You really do have a twisted viewpoint. Why would a so called serious journalist use a memorial dedicated to dead supporters in order deliver a cheap jibe?
Would he be so quick to use the cenotaph in the same way? No, I thought not. The man’s an utter buffoon.
Tommy Burns, BJK, famine song,bombs bullets,up tae your knees, non catholic policy…. could go on and on,goes around comes around!
Rangers do sign catholics your stuck in the past! Lets not forget your support of terrorist who used real bombs and bullets to kill many innocent people of all ages! Bitter people like you who cannot move on should be exiled!
So it is crass in the extreme to mock the dead (which I agree with) but it is ok to mock victims of child abuse?
Get a grip of yourself and write about something worthwhile.
Not mocking child abuse mocking celtic for covering it up!
Not mocking child abuse victims mocking celtic for covering it up!
Art Mul, still searching for that ever elusive bar of soap. His mind balanced only by the chip on both shoulders. A plastic man that dare not sit too close to a heat source in fear of melting. A lover of all things potato and hater of the British which can only mean he hates himself.
A pitiful man.
liquidation ! best thing for you! R.I.P
sewer best place for people like you!
Its amazing, I go on these websites to read news about rangers, but all I can find is comments from bitter shelic fans!!Must not be much happening at Torbet towers, did you not win the title this year!