Rangers win Barca hearts and minds - fan letter

[all_funkt_up]

Here's a letter to all Glaswegians that made the recent pilgrimage to Barcelona to watch the Champions League game between Barca and Rangers.

From El Mundo:

PLEASE, DON'T EVER COME BACK AGAIN

Dear Rangers supporters- never come back to Barcelona again. And not because your players themselves aren't a legitimate team. No, it's not because of that- the Nou Camp frequently hosts teams who are lazy, boring, who only defend, who run and kick their opponents, and who shouldn't be in elite competition. On top of this, Rangers merely defend, run at the opposition and play dirty. Their defenders are butchers, their midfielders, heavy-footed; and their strikers just stand there like the furniture.

But even apart from the footballing aspect, the best thing would be for Rangers never to return to Barcelona, because every time they do, they make a mess of the place. 35 years ago, you (the Rangers supporters) destroyed the seats at the Nou Camp. This time we have enjoyed no less than 48 hours of brawls, provocation, rackets, fights and common drunk women throughout the whole city, which you have fouled however you pleased.

Stay at home and vomit in your own living-room, urinate in your sitting-room corners, fight with your neighbours, the Celtic supporters (who deserve a prize just for putting up with you) and foul the streets of Glasgow instead. Don't come back here again, because it is not a laughing matter. And, by extension, don't play in the Champions' League either. You are not at that level neither in a sporting nor human sense.

There are noisy groups of supporters who, although they drink vast amounts of beer, make friends at the same time. But you? Not you, because everywhere you go, you turn into a rubbish tip. You are undesirables. And so are those who fraudulently sell, or "rent out" their tickets. These people screw Barca over, because they trade their season tickets illegally. And in doing this they cause massive annoyance for other members of the club. A true Barcelona fan would not re-sell their ticket for the match. If you are not going to the match, give it to a family member, or you could even use the 'Seient Lliure' service (an automated ticket service used by some Spanish clubs including Barcelona).

From now on, the responsibility lies with UEFA and the club itself to ensure who the ticket is sold to. The best thing for all of us would be that you as a supporter, in a moment of lucidity, decide not to travel if you do not have tickets. As that is never going to happen, those who sell the tickets illegally must be brought to justice. But the best thing would be if we never had to play Rangers again.

[AnothrSpacecat]

although they do have a large support in glasgow, i think its unfair to lay the blame or write letters to 'glaswegians'

rangers fans come from all over scotland, as do celtics, these people represent communities from towns and cities in huge numbers. for example, in inverness, well over 150 miles away from glasgow, they have about 20 buses running south every weekend and a shop in the city center that does a trade the northern clubs couldnt dream off. even in places with established and previously successful clubs like aberdeen, dundee and edinburgh suffer from it, last time celtic played hibs in a cup final the club (celtic) made a point of selling tickets in edinburgh to their fans, to prevent them being in the wrong end. the old firms 'away' fans in league games is for the most part made up of locals, 5,000 of them at an aberdeen game is the tip of the iceberg in the north east! dundee, kilmarnock, paisley, the rest are all the same.

i really couldnt give a monkies about the old firm, im just a bit annoyed at how the foreign press view the old firm, i think glasweigen football fans get a seriously raw deal. every rangers or celtic fan i know from the city is top notch and some would even do away with the rest of the country who cling on to them because of the school they went to or where their great grandfather was born

[ONEDUNME]

Bloody Jocks giving the good old British football supporter a bad name again.



I hope you're all going to behave better next summer.


Us English will be keeping an eye on you on the telly

[Tom Sawyer]

rangers fans mostly prefer england,go to ibrox on a saturday and you will see more england tops than you could swing a stick at,truth be told the old firm would be nothing without religous bigotory,thats why they turn up in there droves every week from all over britain and ireland.