Many Glasgow Rangers fans are far from happy with a tweet from the club in the aftermath of the Glen Kamara racism row.
On Thursday, as the Gers were knocked out of the Europa League after losing 2-0 to Slavia Prague, the Finland international claimed to have been racially abused by Ondrej Kudela. This has led to Slavia releasing a statement defending their player (slavia.cz), while Rangers have also made it clear that they will be standing by their man and have offered him their full support (rangers.co.uk).
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On Saturday, a number of teams shared messages backing Kamara, and the Gers decided to retweet plenty of them. They even shared a photo from their Glasgow rivals of Scott Brown holding up a Show Racism the Red Card sign, and added the hashtag #OldFirmUnited.
There has been plenty of discussion about the use of the Old Firm phrase, with Celtic saying they are not a part of it while Rangers wear it with a badge of honour (Glasgow Times). In this case, however, many supporters were upset that the club decided to use Kamara’s situation to have a dig at their rivals.
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These fans took to Twitter to share their displeasure.
Let’s see what the Rangers fans had to say below
“Delete this before anymore people see it.”
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“Delete, the # at the end is a snide dig that seriously wasn’t needed during something like this.”
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“So many better copy choices could’ve been man than this. Delete this.”
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“no no I’m sorry but no”
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“No references specifically to Glen, an old stock picture with Brown smiling at what? And a dig at our club thrown in, This wasn’t support at all, Others yeah I get it but this no.”
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“Well said Rangers but that hashtag is just petty”
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