It is 37 years since Willie Waddell, once a mighty Rangers player and successful manager, but by then the club’s managing-director, strode warily on to the Ibrox pitch to try to establish a defining moment in Rangers FC’s historic sectarian policy.
It is 37 years since Willie Waddell, once a mighty Rangers player and successful manager, but by then the club’s managing-director, strode warily on to the Ibrox pitch to try to establish a defining moment in Rangers FC’s historic sectarian policy.
In recent years Rangers have made considerable strides forward in addressing the issue
I was there that day at Ibrox as a 12 year old kid, and can still recall the episode, though the details of it that afternoon completely passed me by.
Rangers suffered a series of riots and setbacks involving their fans in the 1970s, and the latest incident had occurred in Birmingham, when a friendly against Aston Villa had been marred due to further delinquent behaviour by the Rangers hordes.
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