Soccer’s sectarian rabble should get the boot

IT is to be hoped the invitation extended to Eoin Ryan MEP to visit Scotland in relation to the sectarian chants by some Glasgow Rangers’ ‘fans’ will focus the minds of the Scottish authorities that the lumpen rabble involved are devoid of any social, moral or cultural breeding.

They bring nothing but shame on themselves and the club they purport to support. Unfortunately, such sectarian abuse is not uncommon in either Scotland or Northern Ireland.

In 1996, Jason Campbell, a 23-year-old Rangers’ ‘fan’ was convicted of the unprovoked murder of a 16-year-old boy because he was wearing a Glasgow Celtic jersey.