Rangers

16/05/2008 by admin.

As I walked across Manchester to Victoria Station on Wednesday morning after a night at the Piccadilly Hotel – where I had been stuck in a lift with about 10 Russians - I looked on fondly at the gathering Glaswegians, carrying their cases of lager and being loud.Naively, I was proud of Manchester for having the international clout to stage the EUEFA cup final and was intending to drone on about the Commonwealth Games and the need to hold the Olympic cycling at the Velodrome in 2012.I will never suggest that again.Because what happened on Wednesday night made me ashamed not only to be British…but to be human.

The sight of PC Mick Regan tripping while running from a gang of baying drunken Rangers supporters, who then proceeded to try to kill him, was just too  much to bear.

As he said himself: “I know that they will say it’s a minority - but a few thousand is a big minority.”

Now my old newspaper is shamefully backing the whingeing Manchester United fans who complain that the city council will not now provide big screens to watch the Champions League final in Moscow.

Manchester United fans, of course, have an unblemished record in Europe - I don’t think so. I was in Budapest shortly after the Reds smashed up the city.

And I was on duty in Manchester City Centre the last time they won the European Cup. There were no screens then, just Mayhem when the final whistle went which could just as easily turned nasty had tghe police tried to do their job.

I have a better idea than big screens in Manchester. Why don’t the players chip in for a free showing at Old Trafford?

Or why doesn’t Glasgow put up some big screens?????? 

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