Interesting Rumour

[KR's Post]

Just saw this thread now. There are some clowns on this forum, that's for sure.

[gspain]

FWIW 3 players born in what now is the Republic of Ireland played for Rangers in the last century. I have the exact stats at home and think I posted them on here before.

Alex Craig from Galway played over 200 times for the club. James Lowry McAuley from Portarlington made a handful of appearances if I remember correctly. The most prominent of all was Alex Stevenson from Dublin who played here for Dolphin in the early 30's and got a few caps as well albeit not when at Ibrox. I think he got them all at Everton. Rangers came to Dalyer for a friendly in 1933 to play Dolphin as part of the transfer. They also met Bohs on numerous occasions in Friendlies before WW2.

I don't particularly like Rangers FC btw. They play on the sectarian element of their rivalry. They tolerate sectarian singing of their fans particularly away fans. But they are not the only ones.

[Sheridan]

The most prominent of all was Alex Stevenson from Dublin who played here for Dolphin in the early 30's and got a few caps as well albeit not when at Ibrox.

Earned his first cap whilst at Dolphin, then had to wait fourteen years for his second (an Irish, and possibly world, record.)

[gspain]

Earned his first cap whilst at Dolphin, then had to wait fourteen years for his second (an Irish, and possibly world, record.)

He was capped for the All Ireland Ireland team in between - have the stats but not online.

Total aside but it appears in the 1930's players did not play for both associations at the same time. Jimmy Dunne among others who would have been top stars seemed not to be picked by us when they were playing in the same year for Northern Ireland. This changed after WW2.

[gspain]

still reading the Indo instead of using your own brains?!?!?

Barry Ferguson was booed cos he played for Rangers
Neil McCann was booed cos he played for Rangers

Barry is Protestant
Neil is Catholic...

now tell me how it's bigoted.

Anyone, bueller, anyone?

Fecking bigoted, Celtic-hating, west brit t.wats....

So assuming us fans of Limerick, shelbourne Cork City etc are west Brits ****s and anti Irish bigots for not supporting a British club what does that make fans of a real British club eg Celtic.

BTW was it the Greenock Morton Irish who called Neil McCann a Judas and a traitor?

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'd put the farm on Rory Delap. Rangers were in for him when he moved from Derby to Southampton but he apparently decided it'd hurt his international career. I wouldn't be suprised if he's decided that as two goals against Arsenal at Highbury didn't bring him onto the radar -he has no international career.

[town73]

Richard Dunne. As replacement for Boumsong.

[SaucyJack]

FWIW 3 players born in what now is the Republic of Ireland played for Rangers in the last century. I have the exact stats at home and think I posted them on here before.

Alex Craig from Galway played over 200 times for the club. James Lowry McAuley from Portarlington made a handful of appearances if I remember correctly. The most prominent of all was Alex Stevenson from Dublin who played here for Dolphin in the early 30's and got a few caps as well albeit not when at Ibrox. I think he got them all at Everton. Rangers came to Dalyer for a friendly in 1933 to play Dolphin as part of the transfer. They also met Bohs on numerous occasions in Friendlies before WW2.

I don't particularly like Rangers FC btw. They play on the sectarian element of their rivalry. They tolerate sectarian singing of their fans particularly away fans. But they are not the only ones.

any of them Catholic G.Spain?????...

[gypsyfella]

so arveladze and all those other guys were part of that history were they? I forgot shota was the grandmaster of the georgian orange lodge there's bigotry on both sides of that divide and I'm sick of all of it

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

poor you...
have you had to put up with iT? friends killed because of institutionalised racism and sectarianism.....

typical me fein attitude to life there....

[gypsyfella]

a bunch of Irish clerics set up a football club to help the Irish (Catholic) community in Glasgow, the club becomes relatively very successful., a very nice story, call me sentimental, but I like it..another club in the city somehow becomes rabidly anti-Catholic and rabidly anti-Irish.

..Irish Catholics immigrants and their offspring do the same in other far-flung places, various universities have been started by Irish clerics, one of the top 15 universities in the U.S., Georgetown University was founded by an Irish cleric,..Boston College, DePaul etc etc...open to everyone regardless of faith, or lack of faith...did other universities pop up to counter these institutions like in Glasgow with rabid anti-Catholicism?...can anyone name anything that relates to the Celtic-Rangers thing in other countries where Irish immigrants have settled? just curious.

good point SJ.

in fact Rangers FC won the sum total of NOTHING before the arrival of CFC onto the Scottish scene... they took it upon themselves to be the 'Protestant' team of the nation and so it began....

[Éanna]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

poor you...
have you had to put up with iT? friends killed because of institutionalised racism and sectarianism.....

typical me fein attitude to life there....

what has that got to do with anything? as it happens yes I have friends and family from the 6 counties who have suffered from this cráp, and also friends from palestine who have suffered even more. Fortunately none of them have been killed.

I agree with a lot more of what Celtic "fans" and Celtic fans say, then I with their counterparts from Rangers. But bigotry is bigotry- end of story. Just because one type of bigotry is closer to your own beliefs doesn't make it less wrong

[gypsyfella]

what has that got to do with anything? as it happens yes I have friends and family from the 6 counties who have suffered from this cráp, and also friends from palestine who have suffered even more. Fortunately none of them have been killed.

you saying that the whole issue has you 'sick'....
do you live in Glasgow? do you know what society is like there... it is not the two sided coin you often mention....

Scotland on Sunday newspaper had a front page report recently tha Catholics are 3 times more likely to be attacked in Scotland than any other ehtnic group.

this all blends with the football and social structures of the country. one of the most respected commentators in Scottish media (Graeme Spiers) touched a nerve when he wrote about it recently, stating that (despite him growing up a Rangers fan) he found them to be of a more sinister, bigoted strand, than any other club in Scotland.

If you;ve never been there you really wont understand it.

[Éanna]

you saying that the whole issue has you 'sick'....
do you live in Glasgow? do you know what society is like there...

no. and you've just reinforced my point. It's in Glasgow. Not in Ireland. Which is why I'm sick of people making it out to be an irish issue. thank you for confirming my point

[gspain]

any of them Catholic G.Spain?????...

No idea.

[Kingdom]

This thread has just gotten ridiculous. Whether or not it was started in a means to annoy people or not I don't know. But it turning into this is ridiculous.
Gypseyfella you have not once contributed to the actual subject of this thread but you have turned it into a slanging match. You started off by abusing the poster and that was it. Then you started waffling on about rivalries bigots et al and partially into a debate into how green and white Mark Viduka was.

Jesus christ some of us like to surmise what Irish International might be moving where and the fact that the club rumoured to be involved was Rangers made it even more juicier.

This site can be a joke sometimes.

[Donal81]

This thread has just gotten ridiculous. Whether or not it was started in a means to annoy people or not I don't know. But it turning into this is ridiculous.
Gypseyfella you have not once contributed to the actual subject of this thread but you have turned it into a slanging match. You started off by abusing the poster and that was it. Then you started waffling on about rivalries bigots et al and partially into a debate into how green and white Mark Viduka was.

Jesus christ some of us like to surmise what Irish International might be moving where and the fact that the club rumoured to be involved was Rangers made it even more juicier.

This site can be a joke sometimes.

Spot on, I was interested a while ago but couldn't be bothered following this rubbish, what could have been an interesting debate turned into a schoolyard mouthing-off session.

[gypsyfella]

Spot on, I was interested a while ago but couldn't be bothered following this rubbish, what could have been an interesting debate turned into a schoolyard mouthing-off session.

'an interesting debate' - begun with no-named speculation by a fella who called the celtic fans 'oktobebigots'....

i think that deserved a comment... to highlight his ignorance if nothign else..

for the record i doubt ANY Irish int'l will be in Ibrox's home dressing room anytime soon....

[Pablo]

It'd be Maybury if it was anyone...........he grew up a protestant in Ireland supporting Rangers. And good luck to him as it has no bearing on his ability as a footballer-which is all that matters

[Éanna]

Glasgow Celtic: The Pride of Ireland...

did you miss geography classes in school or something?

[Bondvillain]

'an interesting debate' - begun with no-named speculation by a fella who called the celtic fans 'oktobebigots'....

i think that deserved a comment... to highlight his ignorance if nothign else..

While not one to speak on behalf of other board members, I dont believe "okto...." was a reference to all Celtic fans in general, but just to the Hardcore Celtic set who went as far as to set up a website Called "Ok2boo" to promote & protect the activity of Booing players with either a current or past rangers association when they played for their national teams against Ireland. Very big and clever, but thats neither here nor there.

Oversimplification, perhaps, But I think that deserved a comment... to highlight that ignorance is in the eye of the beholder...