2 questions

[boabie 230]

I don't really see the point of flying a flag of your country in a game against another team of your own country. In Europe it's different - where a Scottish flag would be appropriate but not really the union flag - especially as the English and Welsh won't let us join a British league.

 

I think doing so is a bit like usurping the flag of your nation for yourself which is pretty arrogant - and what England did with the union flag which made it so unpopular in Scotland for a while.

 

There is an argument that the country is correct and the colours correct for both flags...

 

One other argument is that when we play against Celtic - they are flying a flag of a different country and have an anti-British and Scottish sentiment, so flying both flags at those games have more of a point, and I find it very strange that other teams are not offended by their enmity towards our populace, and fly the flags also.

 

But it doesn't work in the rest of the league except perhaps against Hibs - and a lot of our singing repertoire then, makes it look as if we are defined by them - something we are always accusing them of.

 

IIRC when I was young, the predominant Rangers flags were actually French - just for the colours, maybe with an RFC motif on the white part. Mine certainly was.

 

I don't get flying flags from other places that are to do with that place - like the Red Hand of Ulster... We're a Scottish team, so while not being Scottish and following the team is fine, I don't think it's appropriate to fly a foreign flag, as it kind of insults the home nation of the team - if you support an English team would you take a Scottish flag to the game? I don' think that would be appropriate, nor a St George's Cross to a Scottish game.

 

The same goes for players wrapping themselves in their foreign national flags when they win something - it's not really that bad but it is just wrong in my eyes. There is a time and a place.

 

At Rangers matches in my youth I waved a saltire mainly because it was the same colours as ours, not because it was my national flag. The fact I could use it at international matches was a bonus.