On the events of the last few months

On why a Celtic fan is happy they're dead, and why everyone objective is also happy about it:

The club is EVIL. And I don't mean evil in the way Alabama/USC/Liverpool/ManU/Arsenal/etc. are evil in the they're evil, haha, way. From the top-down, the club is despicable.

Until the signing of Mo Johnston in 1989, the club had a signing policy where they didn't sign Catholics.

The club, its employees, and its fans believe themselves to be superior to the rest of the world. Their main slogan is "We are the people". They act with "dignity". This WATP mentality is what got them into the present mess. Every follower of the SPL who was paying any attention knew what Murray was doing. We (the fans of the other clubs in the SPL) told Rangers what was going on. We were called "paranoid" and all talk of any shady dealings going on with Murray/Whyte/etc. was branded a "Timmy conspiracy" (Tim is one of the nicer terms for Celtic supporters that their support uses).

Their fanbase, by and large, are bigots. Here's the Famine Song. Although illegal in Scotland now, it still gets at least one airing every OF match and is heard at every RSC in the world, including America. Here's the Billy Boys. Note the lyrics of "Follow, Follow". This is what the main Rangers forum is called. Did you also hear "Up to our knees in Fenian blood"? Guess what that means? Songs about pedophilia also abound (aimed at the Catholic Church and Jock Stein, depending on which the bigots want to sing about at that moment). And to any Arsenal fans reading, you know Mikel Arteta? When he was signed, he had a habit of crossing himself before stepping out onto the pitch. After one match at Ibrox, that stopped. I'm sure the Rangers supporters on the forum will come back with one of two replies:

1. Rangers has a parternship with the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association). Well ain't that swell? They can't possibly be anti-Irish now, can they? The club still sells orange kits at Ibrox (notice, the club's 'official' kits aren't orange), orange scarfs are everywhere at Ibrox and at Rangers trophy celebrations most Rangers players carry one around, and the club has an annual match with Linfield, the club that outhuns the huns, complete with marches and Unionist flute bands. The club has also never apologized for its no-Catholic signing policy. Mixed signals?

2. Celtic fans are sectarian too. This is true. However, the tactics of the clubs are very different. The Rangers response has been summarized above. Celtic, on the other hand, repudiates all sectarian singing at their matches,including non-secatarian IRA songs, in case anyone is offended. Celtic even goes out and hunts down supporters groups which are even suspected of thinking about singing those songs. The club's highest scorer (Jimmy McGrory) and best manager (Jock Stein) were Protestants. See the difference?

Continuing on, did you notice that Celtic haven't come out and said that they're voting No to Newco? Zombie huns in the SPL was stopped by the rest of the SPL. The rest of the SPL doesn't like Rangers or their fans. The dislike of Rangers doesn't end at the SPL. Rapid Vienna placed a complaint with FIFA yesterday about Rangers cheating them of the Jelavic money. The huns rioted in Manchester in '08. They've rioted in Spain, Sweden, everywhere they've gone.

This is El Mundo Deportivo after the Rangers v Barca match at Nou Camp:

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Stay and vomit in your own home, urinate in the corner of your own sitting room, fight with your own neighbours Celtic (who deserve a medal for putting up with you) and foul the streets of Glasgow. Don't come back to Barcelona, you're an embarrassment. And while we're at it, don't play in the Champions League. You're not up to scratch, either on a sporting or human level.
There are noisy supports who, even though they drink large quantities of beer, make friends. Not you lot, because you turn everywhere you go into dumps. You are undesirables

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Here's Graham Spiers in March '11:

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The incessant bigoted chanting by Rangers fans at Hampden was shocking. Unarguably the most socially-backward fans in British football. The really damaging thing for RFC is, it’s not the mythical ‘small minority’. There appear to be 1000s upon 1000s singing these songs.

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Ian Archer in the '70s:

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This has to be said about Rangers, as a Scottish Football club they are a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace. This country would be a better place if Rangers did not exist.

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Ray Wilkins in '07:

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I'd just come from Italy and France which are catholic countries,very warm and friendly,and here I was in Glasgow with some of my team-mates [i.e. fellow Rangers players] hating catholics. I just couldn't understand it and frankly found it ridiculous.

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From a book on Rangers:

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It was not until the 1960’s that the burning issue of sectarianism reared its ugly head at Ibrox. A former player, Ralph Brand, made the sectarian policy at Rangers public knowledge and around this time the behaviour of Rangers fans was a real problem for the club. In 1963, Rangers fans jeered during the minute’s silence for assassinated Catholic U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Then, in 1967, then vice Chairman Matt Taylor was questioned about Rangers no Catholics policy and he stated that he felt that they policy was “part of our tradition....we were formed in 1873 as a Protestant boys club. To change now would lose us considerable support.

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France Football ('97):

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Rangers have spent fortunes on second-rate players and they keep getting knocked out in the first round of European competition. For these reasons they deserve the title of the stupidest club in the continent. As if further proof was needed, they went out against Gothenburg in the European Cup qualifiers after a 3-0 thrashing in Sweden

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Stuart Cosgrove (Journalist):

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...yes we've had some pretty rank poets over the years. Thomson was probably a Rangers fan in-waiting. Rule Britannia has no modern value and should be dumped in the dustbin of history. It celebrates sentiments and ideologies that have brought great shame on parts of 'our' collective British history. Anyone that thinks slavery is smart or justifiable or just a wind up should reconsider why this song still persists in parts of Neanderthal British life. Forget the 'Hokey Cokey' guff, Rule Britannia is a song that lords it over other races, celebrates institutionalised racism, and promotes racial supremacy and it should be banned. No correction it should not need to be banned. People should be so ashamed of its vile sentiments they would not knowingly sing it. Its hardly surprising that Rangers fans are the exception. No one else would want to sing this dated piece of imperialist cant.

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And this is just the tip of the iceberg.


Now do you see why we're happy?

Paging Atom-z with some TL:DR gifs ASAP

Both fan bases are equally entertaining. Have had a blast in Seville with both clubs.

Celtic gets the nod for being Catholic.

I hate Protestants too. So uppity.

Do you ever make non-biased posts, or are you content with spewing one-sided Glen Beck-esque conspiracy drivel?

Celtic need Rangers.

Scottish football needs The Old Firm.

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On why a Celtic fan is happy they're dead, and why everyone objective gives zero fricks about all of this

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FTFY

ahyacunt

Still king of the asses.

Welcome back.

I realize that I am probably speaking of that which I am ignorant of, but you know what, Bhoy? I'm with you. frick Rangers.

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Let's talk about the emerging SPL rivalry Motherwell and Celtic, shall we?

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I'd prefer Hibs, Ross County, or the Jambos.

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The fact that his posts still revolve around Rangers just exaggerates the fact that Celtic and Rangers are intrinsically linked.

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You don't think it's important to discuss the death of one of the members of the Old Firm?