Racism has no place in society, never mind football.
You would think that after all that has happened in the last calendar year, people would think before opening their mouths or their social media apps.
Racism has been at the forefront of the Scottish game since the Ondrej Kudela incident at Ibrox in the Europa League last season.
There was, quite rightly, outrage across the country and since then there has been a massive focus on trying to eradicate racism from the game.
Unfortunately there has still been some other incidents that have shamefully marked our game, and Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi has unfortunately been on the receiving end of it as well.
The well publicised Rangers bus chant, was well highlighted and seemingly dealt with swiftly by the club but on social media? It looks like there is some way to go yet.
On Twitter, Rangers supporting account @bluedougie shamed himself and highlighted his complete hypocrisy when it comes to his take on racism.
Basically, if anyone is racist towards any players at his club it is a disgrace, but when it comes to Celtic players? Fair game it seems.
The account tweeted about Glen Kamara’s treatment at Sparta Prague when he was booed every time he touched the ball.
The reason for the booing was argued by both Rangers and Sparta but it is widely accepted it was aimed at Glen Kamara as an attempt at racist abuse even thought the Czech club were cleared by UEFA due to insufficient evidence.
This account tweeted at the time:
https://twitter.com/bluedougie/status/1443624149008662528?s=20
But then this same account then tweeted about Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi less than eight weeks later:
https://twitter.com/bluedougie/status/1457338945931550726?s=20
The tweet was rounded on by Celtic supporters calling out the hypocrisy of the fan and a quick twitter search shows that for all the morality of the Rangers fans condemning racist abuse, there is a section that sees Kyogo as fair game.
I wrote about a prominent journalist using the term a couple of months ago [which you can read here] and he then, rather embarrassingly, tried to deflect from the issue rather than apologise.
The more these people are called out, the quicker this can be eradicated from our society.