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Cheer Up Stevie Clarke! It comes as no surprise to the members of Vanguardbears that the usual suspects have reared their ugly heads to have a go at Rangers Football Club and our fans, after all it’s what they live for and they couldn’t stick the knife in quick enough. We all know who they are! Personally, I don’t think Stevie Clark is a ****** and I don’t know the marital status of his parents when he was born, but let’s be honest being called a ****** must be one of the worse insults ever directed at anyone; a group of murdering cowards who slaughtered innocent men, woman, children and race horses. They also selected their victims based on their nationality and religion so I suppose they could also be labelled as sectarian and racist. No wonder Stevie was beeling. Let’s cut to the chase though; ****** isn’t a religion and it never will be. The word ****** isn’t sectarian. • They have no Sabbath or religious festivals. • They have no Deity, saints or prophets. • They have no place of worship unless you consider singing PIRA songs at Parkhead. • They have no scriptures. • They have no head of their church. • Other than their support for the murder of British people it’s hard to understand what it is exactly they worship. If we go into more detail it quickly becomes apparent that ******s aren’t exclusively Protestant or Roman Catholic. Some of the most prominent ******s were Protestant. Is that why Stevie was raging? On the other hand, the Orange Order is a Charitable Christian organisation which is exclusively populated by members of the Reformed faith, therefore “Orange Bastard” is extremely sectarian and intolerant of someone’s faith, and though Kris Boyd might not be a member of the organisation I can only assume the Celtic fans’ intolerance towards his religion was their motivation. In fact a stream of recent Rangers managers have been subjected to the “Orange Bastard” chant - strangely none of the usual suspects thought it worthy of a mention. Cheer up Stevie Clarke; we know you’re not a ****** so stop acting like one. https://www.vanguardbears.co.uk/article.php?i=249&a=cheer-up-stevie-clark

Rangers chairman has released a statement as has Club1872, what we should do now is back them, stop singing sectarian songs! Sunday will be interesting as the with hunt on Rangers has increased and the fans need to wise up.

Cheer Up Stevie Clarke! https://www.vanguardbears.co.uk/article.php?i=249&a=cheer-up-stevie-clark

Quite agree, however I personally don't sing/shout at any manager/players, I simply said I don't have any sympathy with anyone in Scottish football, any Rangers fans singing any songs that would harm the club are doing Rangers harm! again I didn't call him or anyone anything!!. And I don't give a fuck about any Scottish team, or the national team, I am allowed to say that and feel that!.

To be honest I have no sympathy for him, or anyone else, for targeting my club! I have no sympathy for any Scottish/Irish club for attacking my club, they will continue to attack my club. We were shown a lot of sympathy when we got voted out of the top league!!!!, I will never forget that, fuck them all & fuck Scottish football.

22 February, 2019 Club 1872 fully supports the stance of Rangers and Rangers’ manager, Steven Gerrard in condemning all unacceptable behaviour in Scottish football. It is absolutely clear to us that Rangers has done and continues to do what it reasonably can to address this issue, which remains a problem amongst a minority of all clubs’ supporters and wider society. We will be happy to work with the club on future initiatives in this area. Unfortunately we see absolutely no viable way to eradicate these sporadic instances of unacceptable behaviour, as long as elements of the Scottish media, Scottish politicians and interest groups continue to sensationalise incidents based on their own prejudice or self interest. We are in the absurd situation where last weekend Sky pundit, Andy Walker, laughed about sectarian abuse of Kris Boyd and then days later took the polar opposite approach to similar abuse of Steve Clarke. We have seen four BBC Scotland pundits and journalists completely ignore the sectarian abuse of Kris Boyd but comment extensively on social media following the Steve Clarke incident. This is not just a media phenomenon, however. James Dornan MSP, a self styled sectarianism crusader who himself posed in front of a terrorist flag, ignored the sectarianism directed at Kris Boyd by fans of the club he supports, Celtic, but has now publicly demanded talks with Rangers over the Steve Clarke incident. Groups like Nil By Mouth and Show Racism the Red Card Scotland have taken the same approach – they completely ignored “orange b****rd” chants directed at Boyd but immediately sprung into action when Steve Clarke spoke about the subject. If the Scottish establishment is serious about tackling these issues then we should have a real debate about the causes and possible solutions. This will require discussing not just football, despite its higher profile, but having a fair and honest discussion about other contributing factors in society. We sense absolutely no appetite in Scotland to have that debate – almost every comment on the subject is superficial, one eyed or sensationalised. The term ‘whataboutery’ is now routinely used to shoot down any voice that requests parity in the treatment of these events. In fact, the sum total of the debate thus far has been manufactured media outrage, politicians with an agenda to raise their own profile and groups who rely on the publicity around these issues, as they relate to football, for funding. Club 1872 will be happy to take part in any honest dialogue on this subject, if such dialogue ever begins. http://club1872.co.uk/news/club-1872-statement-on-unacceptable-behaviour/