Rangers last night made it to the quarters of the UEL, an achievement matched only by Rangers in 2008, but instead of the Scottish or indeed national press exalting this, the focus was on:
Connor Goldson’s racism, and the melee at the end of the match.
Don’t get us wrong, these are worthy issues and legitimate to be raised, but the fact the press ignored Rangers’ Journey to the quarters or the gravity of the achievement in favour of tabloid stories and tittle about negative subjects rather summed up their mentality.
It wasn’t like the positive story for Scottish football as a whole was highlighted, instead, it was the negative stuff.
We get it, negative attracts more attention and more clicks – but there was something depressing seeing racism and melees as the highlight stories from most outlets, with barely a mention of the result itself.
This was Scottish football’s first Euro quarters in an age, and the press focused on the gutter, frankly.
We do want racism highlighted, and Rangers were basically attacked at the end of the match, but leading with that on a night that deserved our achievement in the spotlight summed up how ill the press actually is.
Depressing.
If it had been the tic they would have been hails as hero’s 😡😡
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The Sun also focused on Rangers fans singing banned songs while being attacked by Red Star thugs. Truly depressing.
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