Got to love Chris Sutton. When he played for the Hoops, he terrorised the old Rangers on the park.
The current Rangers?
Well, off it, he continues to get under their skin because his style of punditry does not sit well with them.
There has always been a kind of love/hate relationship between Rangers and Sutton but this time, it is going too far.
Now that Sutton has been banned, (let’s call it how it is because the official line of ‘security risk’ is just a load of nonsense), again from covering Europa League football in Govan, the Ibrox club continues to embarrass themselves with such a high profile exclusion, it makes a mockery of their ‘big club’ self labelling.
But as embarrassing as the clubs reaction is, it doesn’t come close to their fans reaction to it on their forum Follow Follow.
Anyone that has visited this site will testify that some of the threads generated on this platform can turn into a cesspit of abuse and loathing.
As their fans lauded in their clubs childish behaviour, the fans on the thread then accused Sutton of all manners of slanderous accusations.
One fan “fergie1959” said, “outspoken views on the game.?? bigoted comments against Rangers more like.”
Another, ‘RfcIbrox’ said, “Sutton constantly damages our brand. Perfectly entitled to ban him.”
‘mart22’ made the following outrageous claim, “Sutton is far more infamous to the Rangers support for his racist outbursts against Alfredo, and deeply prejudiced assessments of Steven Gerrard’s achievements.
“I take satisfaction from the fact he will never set foot in Ibrox again.”
But to add balance and to show that it wasn’t all just abuse aimed at the former Hoops hitman, there was some shining light within the madness.
One person spoke up and claimed this move will cause the Ibrox club to damage themselves as ‘g87’ posted, “100%, he clearly wasn’t doing punditry on the Rangers game. Instead of BT showcasing a full Ibrox we will have our game covered from Parkhead.
“I don’t think people realise that BT pays the club millions to cover these games, it’s not like we are in a position to turn our nose up on that.
“As usual far too many on here like to pretend Sutton doesn’t matter then proceed to wet their pants when he says something.
“He’s only relevant because folk on here rise to the bait.”
As long as this pettiness continues, there will be more hate directed towards Sutton unless the former Hoops striker or his employers take a stand.
We shall wait with baited breath.
That should be bated breath. Don’t give the huns any excuse to deflect from the fact that they are racists and bigots.
Yeah open and welcoming to everyone as long as you pay them £25000 per press briefing and you don’t ask questions they don’t like so we all know sevco are a joke club
When both side of fans realise that ‘punditry’ is only an opinion then we may move on from this childish behaviour. however, the people making these remarks/fights from The Rangers or CFC are clearly hell bent on stirring the pot and just keeping the bad feeling going… YAWN YAWN…. how about we both as football fans support our teams and get rid of the bigotry that’s costing us buying power for a better class of player, (according to our boards) All the stupid fighting that we as supporters cause give both of our clubs the power to argue & blame US for there shortfalls….. Or on the other hand just ignore this and continue to be bigots and give them free will to do what they want with our clubs….. Rangers SOLD FOR A £….REALLY???? CELTIC WIN 9 IN A ROW 4 TREBLES AND THEN PLAY LIKE HAMILTON ON A BAD DAY ALL SEASON???? COME ON GUYS WAKE UP….. WE PLAY INTO THE BOARDS HANDS YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT ….BOTTOM LINE IS WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WE FUND IT…… IF YOU WANT IMPROVEMENT IN YOUR CLUB THEN IT’S US SUPPORTERS THAT HAVE TO CHANGE…… OR THE CLUBS WILL JUST CONTINUE TO TAKE OUR MONEY AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE .