I’m 60 now and vividly remember that Hogmanay didn’t start till the whole family had watched the” Scotch and Rye” New Year special . I loved the motor bike Policeman who’s goggles always flew off backwards when he tried to take them off 👍🏴😆
the three of them just brought back so many memories of New Year in the late 70’s 80’s As kids we’d get a wee Rum & coke. It was mandatory lol. Ricky playing policeman with the Google’s did get me every time too. 😂
@@Cassius.. abs my friend ! New Year didn’t start till Scotch n Wry came on - sadly that and the new tears we both remember are consigned to history now . All our neighbours used to go as a troupe to each other’s houses and us kids were allowed to stay awake as long as you could 😄 👍🏴
An Ibrox bigot told Jock Stein that the only way he won the European cup was because he had four Protestants in his team, Jock said "you have eleven in your team and can't win it" Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!
As a Rangers man, a canny fault the wit n quickness of that statement. Fuck being the guy that says it I’d have wanted the ground to open up n swallow me 🤣.
@@grouchomarxwisewords this the same Jock Stein that went to the guy and told him to get to fuck and hand in notice aye ?. Are all you bigots aware Jock was a die hard rangers fan ?
@@grouchomarxwisewords never i find it sad to get angry with those of lesser intelligence from your reply i see you have no points nor information to share almost neanderthal like of you will you may resume knuckle dragging🤘
may seem tame now, but this could be the most satirical sketch ever in Scotland. The fact it was on Scotch & Wry means it was dealt with with humour - disnae mean to say that even the thought of this would've had a large number of Rangers fans/West of Scotland prods foaming at the mouth (no, REALLY). It would take a while, but eventually players like Mo Johnston or Terry Butcher would sign for the Gers - of course if they played really well, then they were ibrox legends - if they didn't then you can guess the rest...
@HB 77 a classmate of mine from college years ago, used to live near him as a kid, and him and his mates used to call him it if they saw him, and he'd chase them up the street 🤣🙈💁🏻♂️
The West of Scotland what a wonderful place. It's a Nuthouse but you got to love it well it provides such great comady material no place quite like it. It's great to be from such a place.
Apparently this is “sir” Matt busby in reverse! ! He only signed catholic’s. The only reason George best got signed was because he supported a catholic team in Belfast so I was told
This is comedy gold 3 legends Gregor Fisher Rikki Fulton & Gerrard Kelly. Rikki’s face when Gerrard says he had to go to mass 1:19-1:37 😂😂one legged Rabbi. Sammy shut up 😂😂 RIP Rikki & Gerrard yous & Gregor made this clip legendary
Now at least 2/3 of the Rangers team are Catholic. How times have changed. Its always good to reminiscent from the past though to see how far we have come.
Hilarious, I remember watching it as a kid & that was in a time with less than a handful of channels so it was talked about all over Scotland for days. I’ve just shown my wife this clip , she’d never seen it , I thought everyone of an age had. I also remember going to see a play with Jimmy Logan & Una McLean at the Kings in Glasgow that took on the same subject around the same time, I don’t remember it’s name but Jimmy starred as a Rangers fan who got arrested for throwing an orange at a referee only to come home and find that same referee renting the spare room at home, he also had to suffer the indignity of jumping for joy at the news his son had signed a professional football contract only to discover that he wouldn’t be wearing the shirt he had dreamed about 😳 oops. I don’t know why some of the people commenting on this are getting heat up, if yea canny laugh then you’ve lost before yea start 😉
Johnston was a brave man tbf having both Celtic and Rangers fans upset. I’m sure he must have had 24/7 security as his life must have been threatened by fans of both clubs.
Rikki Fulton, what a comic. Remember him back in the day. Looking at this sketch and others of the same ilk - you'd never get away with this stuff in these politically correct times. You were, still are, a legend big man!!
There's nothing remotely offensive about this clip, and only football fanatics with religious issues would "maybe" take issue with it, so it's got nothing to do with being politically correct. Honestly, it's tedious to come on these classic comedy videos and always find a "You'd never get away with this these days" type comment (on the tamest of content too), so maybe stop making up problems which aren't there to try and make yourself look hard.
This sketch was inspired by the story told by ex - Celtic player , Danny McGrain , a Protestant , and Rangers fan at the time , who said he was turned down by the Ibrox club when they discovered his full name was Daniel Fergus McGrain . Aye , you couldnae make it up .
+Craig Wilson It never ceases to amaze me how your sort will shoehorn the ROI into any discussion about sectarian problems in your stupid society. Of course the FAI are going to target Nationalists who are culturally Irish. McNair refused the FAI, not the other way around.
Craig is typical of certain attitudes that emanate from Scotland. Hates the colour green most likely supports a dead club who banned their players from wearing green boots (you couldn't make it up) and most likely sings about been up to his knees in Catholic blood. Scotland's Shame indeed.
The Notorious Vito Corleone see his answer was pish ok, but your on the other side of fence. We see you's as the bigots and vice versa we'll never live in peace. Catholics are apart of Scotland's shame and play a bigger part than they'll ever realise, hardly either of any side go to church anyway. Its the cultural and moral sides that clash way too much as a protestant and a rangers fan, celtic fans ARE the bigots. We may have songs like the sash and derrys walls that you lot scream sectarian when we do sing those songs, crying over singing songs is petty. Scotland's real shame is giving in to cloud minded folk who offer no benefit to the country that wave a Irish flag have erin tattooed on his knuckles but has never left Glasgow apart from the occasional trip to blackpool. From me to all of you. Fuck the pope and yourselves you bunch of morally twisted fuckers. I moved 300 miles away from scotland to be away from that toxic pc Catholicised bullshit my country has turned in too
Ma best pal is a dIe hard Catholic Celtic fan n he pissed his frilleys when I showed him this video absolute Glasgow comedy genius we miss you Ricki gbnf
Mo Johnston signed for Rangers in 1989. I can't remember when this sketch was broadcast. Was it before or after? What a long expressive face Rikki Fulton has. Notice how much longer his face is than the other two. I always liked him from Francie and Josie onward.
Its hard to imagine Hundreds of wee bhoys were sexually abused at Celtic and the beasts were allowed to come back and continue their disgusting acts, a club like no other who allowed 50 years of attacks on innocent wee bhoys, hopefully THOMPSONS solicitors will get some form of justice in the courts in the coming months and let the world know how Celtic covered up these disgusting acts.
@@carradalebear840 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coach-trafficked-boys-over-border-3f2lcn9v2 - All clubs have problems yet you refuse to acknowledge your own, You dirty bastard, Using child abuse for your own agenda.
@@PepRex My club Ayr United have never been involved in child abuse unlike Celtic FC!! SO LOOK AT YOUR OWN DISGUSTING CLUB AND START CALLING OUT ALL THE PAEDOPHILES THAT ABUSED INNOCENT WEE BHOYS YOU IGNORANT REPULSIVE PIECE OF SHIT.
@@carradalebear840 You dumped your bigoted sectarian dead club very quickly didn't you? You are a supporter of the new club Sevco but too ashamed to say so. Ah well why not Ayr United. LOL! Oh ma sides......
No, Bunny was played by Gerard Kelly (died 2010) and this is Rikki Fulton (died 2004) EDIT: Just realised you meant the footballer! Bloody hell! It IS him!
Yes very good. And poor ol marco negri was warned not to bless himself. Great indeed!!!!!! And told not to wear a crucifix.!!!! Just wondering can catholics bless themselves now or is it still severely frowned upon. Genuine question.
Ciaran Murphy maybe you should watch the last goal rangers scored (on Wednesday night) joe Aribo blessed himself as his celebration! but why let facts get in the way of your ingrained opinion...
Ciaran Murphy O yes and Barisic, Kent, Goldson, Aribo, Morelos also crossed themselves as they walked on the pitch... but you will ignore this as it doesn’t suit your agenda...
@@terrencemunro yes. Infront of no fans!!!!! Ingrained opinion, its for all to see. Its OK when it's yer own player and not ok of its a celtic player!!!. Yes ingrained opinion indeed.!!!
I love this sketch and have seen it so many times. The only thing is that I'm a kiwi and don't really get why the the fact he's Catholic is such a deal breaker. I do remember once asking my dad, a kiwi by way of England, about it and all he'd say was "Rangers don't hire Catholics" which was obvious from the sketch. If someone could ELI5 it would be much appreciated.
It has as much to do with Northern Ireland as Scotland, madly enough. During the Irish Famine (1845-1849) Glasgow had a huge influx of Irish immigrants (mostly Catholics) and this caused quite a bit of anger in the local community who was largely Protestant. This kinda bubbled under the surface quite a lot, but manifested itself in the communities having things like different pubs or sports clubs that they went to. Rangers was founded in 1875 and didn't really have any religious leanings at the time; Celtic was founded in 1887 to provide a social outlet and resource for poor Irish Catholic immigrants. They established a sporting rivalry and then in the early 1900s with the First World War and the Easter Rising in Ireland politicising issues. Some would argue the biggest factor in the religious issue developing was Harland and Wolff - a Belfast shipbuilder notorious for refusing to hire Catholics - opening a yard in Glasgow due to instability in Ireland. It was opened in Govan, and it happened that Rangers were the closest football club, also based in Govan, so many of the Ulster Protestant shipbuilders who came over to work in the H&W yard adopted Rangers as their team. So it's kind of multifactorial: - west (Rangers) and east (Celtic) Glasgow - Protestant and Catholic - British identity vs Irish identity (you won't see many Scotland flags in either stadium) To answer your initial question Rangers had a long standing policy of not signing Catholic players for the reasons listed above - it was never said out loud but was widely accepted. Graeme Souness signed Mo Johnston and since then they've signed plenty of Catholics, like Gennaro Gattuso and Mikel Arteta, and even an Irish Catholic from Dublin, Jon Daly.
Sadly it's all to do with religion,rangers were exclusively protestants,celtic r a club open to all,all changed when Maurice Johnston signed for rangers to become the first roman Catholic to play for them,adding that Johnston previously played for celtic
Its always scottish when its pish but british when its good , i.e andy murray winning wimbledon he was british but when he won fuck all else he was scottish lol haha 😂😂
As a Rangers fan I find this sketch hilarious, but like all the best stories, it is based on myth and legend. Rangers had Catholics in their team in 1872, long before their Catholic rivals Celtc, were even formed in 1888. In fact, there hasn't been a decade where Rangers didn't have Catholics at Ibrox.
@@Crayfordceltic You're wrong. The old Celtc died in 1994. I think they had 6 paedo convictions by that time. In 2023, Celtc now have 9 convicted paedos.
Right now I'd sign anyone who can score goals, and a decent manager, no offence to Murty, but the board are fucking the club right up Still, Rangers till I kick the bucket! Mon the blues!
The way he puts his head in his hands and goes "Brendan O'Malley..." makes me lose it every time hahahahaha
That’s when I lost it. “Brendan O’Malley”
The slow realisation after he says "mass". Brilliant
Without a doubt one of the best sketches they ever did. Up there with Supercop and Mark McManus
Utter genius. Way ahead of its time. We miss you Rikki.
Definitely
Exactly of it's time.
That facials from Rikki from 1.23 - 1.34 fkn priceless 🤣
I’m 60 now and vividly remember that Hogmanay didn’t start till the whole family had watched the” Scotch and Rye” New Year special . I loved the motor bike Policeman who’s goggles always flew off backwards when he tried to take them off 👍🏴😆
@Captain slow takes me right back🤣
👍🏴
Awright, Sterling, oot the car! 🤣
*Stirling
the three of them just brought back so many memories of New Year in the late 70’s 80’s As kids we’d get a wee Rum & coke. It was mandatory lol. Ricky playing policeman with the Google’s did get me every time too. 😂
@@Cassius.. abs my friend ! New Year didn’t start till Scotch n Wry came on - sadly that and the new tears we both remember are consigned to history now . All our neighbours used to go as a troupe to each other’s houses and us kids were allowed to stay awake as long as you could 😄
👍🏴
Rest In Peace Gerald Kelly And Rikki Fulton,
One of the best sketches ever
joe Spence v.
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1:35 would have been a great place to stop this; with that reaction that deserved an Oscar.
3 comic legends this is what you call comedy Scotch & Wry absolute brilliance from Rikki Fulton Gregor Fisher & Gerard Kelly
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4:51 “ A wan legged rabbi” 😂
Loving it from Dublin 😂😂
Just Pure Utter Class, This Sketch Will Never Ever Got Old, Its Just A Classic,
Thomas Jones wanker
Paul Doherty how ??
Paul U Must Be A Tim,
@@ScottishUA-camr Tam is a class act...typical hun😂😂😂
@@ScottishUA-camr Paul just look at Jones’s profile photo. 😀😀😀😀
Always makes me laugh every time I watch this never tire of it😂😂😂
Funnily enough, within 5 years Rangers' first team was packed with English players. It was around 8 years prior to Maurice Johnston's signing.
During the late 1990s rangers signed lots of Italians. Hearts fans teased rangers fans 'you have more tims than Celtic!'
@@EmmyG7 bigoted moron
In time, they even signed a one-legged rabbi, a zulu warrior, and a Spanish hermaphrodite.
I guess that's progress, too.
I still think this is funny in 2021 . But I find this sad that only Gregor Fisher is still alive
@@chedz3409 123
@@chedz3409 qw
Great memories watch this show growing up
An Ibrox bigot told Jock Stein that the only way he won the European cup was because he had four Protestants in his team, Jock said "you have eleven in your team and can't win it" Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!
As a Rangers man, a canny fault the wit n quickness of that statement. Fuck being the guy that says it I’d have wanted the ground to open up n swallow me 🤣.
@@grouchomarxwisewords neely, Chalmers, dunn, rangers executive suite😴
@@grouchomarxwisewords this the same Jock Stein that went to the guy and told him to get to fuck and hand in notice aye ?. Are all you bigots aware Jock was a die hard rangers fan ?
@@Dark31420 ragin mate?
@@grouchomarxwisewords never i find it sad to get angry with those of lesser intelligence from your reply i see you have no points nor information to share almost neanderthal like of you will you may resume knuckle dragging🤘
Classic comedy.Just got mo Johnson written all over it.
how so? Souness actually wanted Johnston..
may seem tame now, but this could be the most satirical sketch ever in Scotland. The fact it was on Scotch & Wry means it was dealt with with humour - disnae mean to say that even the thought of this would've had a large number of Rangers fans/West of Scotland prods foaming at the mouth (no, REALLY). It would take a while, but eventually players like Mo Johnston or Terry Butcher would sign for the Gers - of course if they played really well, then they were ibrox legends - if they didn't then you can guess the rest...
The way he repeats "Brendan O'Malley" 😂
Rest In Peace Gerald Kelly I Loved City Lights, He Was Fantastic In That
@HB 77 NEVER call Andy Gray 'Chancer' to his face.. he feckin' hates it 🤣🙈
@HB 77 a classmate of mine from college years ago, used to live near him as a kid, and him and his mates used to call him it if they saw him, and he'd chase them up the street 🤣🙈💁🏻♂️
@HB 77 exactly 🙈🙄
....and yer granny's drawers tam jones😂😂😂
He was great in EastEnders.
Watching this in 2022 and it’s still brilliant 😂😂
The great Gerrard kelly and the legendary rab c nesbitt not to mention the ultimate rikki fulton lol classic Scottish comedy gold
As a Catholic i love this 😜
Ik really funny mate. 😂
You don't have to be Catholic to enjoy but I get it.!!!!
The West of Scotland what a wonderful place.
It's a Nuthouse but you got to love it
well it provides such great comady material no place quite like it.
It's great to be from such a place.
It’s like watching the entire negative nebulous mentality of orange ethos and belief in one sketch
Lighten up everyone! I’m a prod and can laugh 😂 at this
Apparently this is “sir” Matt busby in reverse! ! He only signed catholic’s. The only reason George best got signed was because he supported a catholic team in Belfast so I was told
@@nicksmart5469 Aye, so you were told, was it doon at the ludge you "were told"? LOL!
John Higgins Aye summat like that ! Lol 😂
Whit the F**k is a prod?
@@nicksmart5469 Sounds typical of orange bigotry talk alright.
These mugs are trapped in the 17th century.
This is comedy gold 3 legends Gregor Fisher Rikki Fulton & Gerrard Kelly. Rikki’s face when Gerrard says he had to go to mass 1:19-1:37 😂😂one legged Rabbi. Sammy shut up 😂😂 RIP Rikki & Gerrard yous & Gregor made this clip legendary
"Naw, ah hid tae go tae Mass". Class.
Ricky Fulton man was really funny and wil be sadly missed I really loved his banter was saddened when I heard he passed away RIP Ricky
"I had to go to mass." 😂
back when comedy was legal
RIP Gerard Kelly
Now at least 2/3 of the Rangers team are Catholic. How times have changed. Its always good to reminiscent from the past though to see how far we have come.
2/3? There's a fair few more than that nowadays
ya but theyre all catholics from south america or southern europe
@@1313tennisman Popery has no national borders . There millions of them.
@@conlaiarla Billions Of Us
@@conlaiarla The British don't actually hate Catholics or the pope, they just convince themselves they do as a vector for anti Irish sentiment
I love this sketch.
Aye, funny as f*
I had to go to Mass lol the face
Hilarious, I remember watching it as a kid & that was in a time with less than a handful of channels so it was talked about all over Scotland for days.
I’ve just shown my wife this clip , she’d never seen it , I thought everyone of an age had.
I also remember going to see a play with Jimmy Logan & Una McLean at the Kings in Glasgow that took on the same subject around the same time, I don’t remember it’s name but Jimmy starred as a Rangers fan who got arrested for throwing an orange at a referee only to come home and find that same referee renting the spare room at home, he also had to suffer the indignity of jumping for joy at the news his son had signed a professional football contract only to discover that he wouldn’t be wearing the shirt he had dreamed about 😳 oops.
I don’t know why some of the people commenting on this are getting heat up, if yea canny laugh then you’ve lost before yea start 😉
Johnston was a brave man tbf having both Celtic and Rangers fans upset. I’m sure he must have had 24/7 security as his life must have been threatened by fans of both clubs.
"Especially aboot deh hawnds"
@Sam's Gang CR Oh my sweet fifty five
Rikki Fulton, what a comic. Remember him back in the day. Looking at this sketch and others of the same ilk - you'd never get away with this stuff in these politically correct times. You were, still are, a legend big man!!
The look of slow realization on Rikki Fulton's face when Gerard Kelly says "mass"...😂😂😂
There's nothing remotely offensive about this clip, and only football fanatics with religious issues would "maybe" take issue with it, so it's got nothing to do with being politically correct.
Honestly, it's tedious to come on these classic comedy videos and always find a "You'd never get away with this these days" type comment (on the tamest of content too), so maybe stop making up problems which aren't there to try and make yourself look hard.
Don't be gay.@@nebularain3338
A young Rab C Nesbitt.
Scottish comedy at its finest , my cousin John Robertson was part of the Celtic training team ! That caused uproar in the family I can tell ya 😂😂😂😂
This was so funny total class
Brilliant Glasgow banter
Brendan O'Malley 😂😂😂
Bless me father for I have signed.
have you ever had had a plook the desperation of bigotry so funny
Still funny 😂😂😂😂😂 just saying from Glasgow 😎🇬🇧
Brilliant..
Brilliant stuff.
This sketch was inspired by the story told by ex - Celtic player , Danny McGrain , a Protestant , and Rangers fan at the time , who said he was turned down by the Ibrox club when they discovered his full name was Daniel Fergus McGrain . Aye , you couldnae make it up .
+Craig Wilson It never ceases to amaze me how your sort will shoehorn the ROI into any discussion about sectarian problems in your stupid society.
Of course the FAI are going to target Nationalists who are culturally Irish. McNair refused the FAI, not the other way around.
Craig is typical of certain attitudes that emanate from Scotland. Hates the colour green most likely supports a dead club who banned their players from wearing green boots (you couldn't make it up) and most likely sings about been up to his knees in Catholic blood. Scotland's Shame indeed.
The Notorious Vito Corleone see his answer was pish ok, but your on the other side of fence. We see you's as the bigots and vice versa we'll never live in peace. Catholics are apart of Scotland's shame and play a bigger part than they'll ever realise, hardly either of any side go to church anyway. Its the cultural and moral sides that clash way too much as a protestant and a rangers fan, celtic fans ARE the bigots. We may have songs like the sash and derrys walls that you lot scream sectarian when we do sing those songs, crying over singing songs is petty. Scotland's real shame is giving in to cloud minded folk who offer no benefit to the country that wave a Irish flag have erin tattooed on his knuckles but has never left Glasgow apart from the occasional trip to blackpool. From me to all of you. Fuck the pope and yourselves you bunch of morally twisted fuckers. I moved 300 miles away from scotland to be away from that toxic pc Catholicised bullshit my country has turned in too
Crystal Savery - you move to Orkney?
hmu05366 lmao that made me laugh, but no unfortunately pal orkney is still part of scotland. Hence my laughter lmao
Ma best pal is a dIe hard Catholic Celtic fan n he pissed his frilleys when I showed him this video absolute Glasgow comedy genius we miss you Ricki gbnf
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Mo Johnston signed for Rangers in 1989. I can't remember when this sketch was broadcast. Was it before or after?
What a long expressive face Rikki Fulton has. Notice how much longer his face is than the other two. I always liked him from Francie and Josie onward.
Brendan O’Malley😭😭😭😭😭
It's hard to imagine that such ignorance and hatred existed in Scottish football.
Its hard to imagine Hundreds of wee bhoys were sexually abused at Celtic and the beasts were allowed to come back and continue their disgusting acts, a club like no other who allowed 50 years of attacks on innocent wee bhoys, hopefully THOMPSONS solicitors will get some form of justice in the courts in the coming months and let the world know how Celtic covered up these disgusting acts.
@@carradalebear840 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coach-trafficked-boys-over-border-3f2lcn9v2 - All clubs have problems yet you refuse to acknowledge your own, You dirty bastard, Using child abuse for your own agenda.
@@PepRex My club Ayr United have never been involved in child abuse unlike Celtic FC!! SO LOOK AT YOUR OWN DISGUSTING CLUB AND START CALLING OUT ALL THE PAEDOPHILES THAT ABUSED INNOCENT WEE BHOYS YOU IGNORANT REPULSIVE PIECE OF SHIT.
@@carradalebear840 You dumped your bigoted sectarian dead club very quickly didn't you? You are a supporter of the new club Sevco but too ashamed to say so. Ah well why not Ayr United. LOL! Oh ma sides......
@@carradalebear840 But the club you really support was involved.
I would never have guessed in a million years that this is the same Guy who played " Bunny" in Extras and died in 2011 but it is , isn't it ?
No, Bunny was played by Gerard Kelly (died 2010) and this is Rikki Fulton (died 2004)
EDIT: Just realised you meant the footballer! Bloody hell! It IS him!
Exactly!
It was only reading the comments that I started to put two and two together....:)
Didn't realise it was him at all!
I knew it was him straight away, thought it was obvious
Yes,it's like when I saw Andy Bradbury again. It was, obvious to me, that it was him but others struggled,at first,to see it.
Funny then...funny now 🤣
It great To think Rangers have had catholic captains, catholic managers & catholic cult hero’s since then 💙💙💙💙
Yes very good. And poor ol marco negri was warned not to bless himself. Great indeed!!!!!! And told not to wear a crucifix.!!!! Just wondering can catholics bless themselves now or is it still severely frowned upon. Genuine question.
Ciaran Murphy maybe you should watch the last goal rangers scored (on Wednesday night) joe Aribo blessed himself as his celebration! but why let facts get in the way of your ingrained opinion...
Ciaran Murphy O yes and Barisic, Kent, Goldson, Aribo, Morelos also crossed themselves as they walked on the pitch... but you will ignore this as it doesn’t suit your agenda...
@@terrencemunro yes. Infront of no fans!!!!! Ingrained opinion, its for all to see. Its OK when it's yer own player and not ok of its a celtic player!!!. Yes ingrained opinion indeed.!!!
Ciaran Murphy so your agreeing Rangers players who are catholic’s cross themselves without any issues 👍
Classic Never Ever Dies,
Only Ricki Fulton could have got away with this at the time in Scotland!
I don't know. I think the last guy fits rangers image pretty well.
This is awesome
Mo Johnston predestination story.
I love this sketch and have seen it so many times. The only thing is that I'm a kiwi and don't really get why the the fact he's Catholic is such a deal breaker.
I do remember once asking my dad, a kiwi by way of England, about it and all he'd say was "Rangers don't hire Catholics" which was obvious from the sketch. If someone could ELI5 it would be much appreciated.
It has as much to do with Northern Ireland as Scotland, madly enough.
During the Irish Famine (1845-1849) Glasgow had a huge influx of Irish immigrants (mostly Catholics) and this caused quite a bit of anger in the local community who was largely Protestant.
This kinda bubbled under the surface quite a lot, but manifested itself in the communities having things like different pubs or sports clubs that they went to. Rangers was founded in 1875 and didn't really have any religious leanings at the time; Celtic was founded in 1887 to provide a social outlet and resource for poor Irish Catholic immigrants. They established a sporting rivalry and then in the early 1900s with the First World War and the Easter Rising in Ireland politicising issues. Some would argue the biggest factor in the religious issue developing was Harland and Wolff - a Belfast shipbuilder notorious for refusing to hire Catholics - opening a yard in Glasgow due to instability in Ireland. It was opened in Govan, and it happened that Rangers were the closest football club, also based in Govan, so many of the Ulster Protestant shipbuilders who came over to work in the H&W yard adopted Rangers as their team.
So it's kind of multifactorial:
- west (Rangers) and east (Celtic) Glasgow
- Protestant and Catholic
- British identity vs Irish identity (you won't see many Scotland flags in either stadium)
To answer your initial question Rangers had a long standing policy of not signing Catholic players for the reasons listed above - it was never said out loud but was widely accepted. Graeme Souness signed Mo Johnston and since then they've signed plenty of Catholics, like Gennaro Gattuso and Mikel Arteta, and even an Irish Catholic from Dublin, Jon Daly.
Sadly it's all to do with religion,rangers were exclusively protestants,celtic r a club open to all,all changed when Maurice Johnston signed for rangers to become the first roman Catholic to play for them,adding that Johnston previously played for celtic
I remember watching this the new year it came out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A touch of scotch n Wray 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 wonder if it was like that the morning Johnston aka le petit signed for them. 🤣🤣🤣 remember that to not so funny.
Petit merde
rangers sign a catholic ....yeah well.... hes awfully good...7 goals in the first haf
Brilliant I was at primary wae a Brendan o,malley
So wiz a .....
This is basically Graeme souness's transfer policy
Classic British comedy at its best 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✌✌✌🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its always scottish when its pish but british when its good , i.e andy murray winning wimbledon he was british but when he won fuck all else he was scottish lol haha 😂😂
@@christopherjolly3556 exactly
RAB in a different dimension, sober.
I'm a Rangers fan and I pissed myself. Funny as fnck.
Absolutely brilliant.
I can remember this when happen d. It was good when he done it every Hogmanay
:))))) superb lol
Shite
lightin up
500th sub 😎
Really funny.😂😂😂
That's brilliant
Priceless
This one sketch will beat every Only An Excuse for ever and has done.
Aye It Will Always,
both sets of fans love this sketch
I aye rangers good wee team that
Done in a funny way
no matter what Religion longs they score goals. watp🕞🕜🕔💙
We Aren't Tax Payers? 😂
Sorry, Brit Till I Die, you are not and never have been The Lost Tribe of Israel.
He's trying so hard to get out of the contract!
I bet Ally McCoist pretended he had just gone to mass when he signed as a joke,
Bunny!
It must be galling for the teddy bears, just days after signing their latest white elephant, it turns out they might have got Neil Lennon after all!
As much as I did laugh - well I was a child - I look back at this with a whole different view now and find it beyond disturbing.
Great we can still laugh at this without being prejudice
Hard to believe that such a bigoted and sectarian recruitment policy was tolerated by the powers that be.
@@EmmyG7 come on pal,the rangers were always a sectarian club and their fans to this very day remain so..
Is that Bunny from Extras?
Apparently so.
Classic Scottish humour - well acted out
Lucky he didn't mention the boyfriend.
Bless
What was the last fella supposed to be? I dont get it? The rest of the sketch, genius..........🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny....
As a Rangers fan I find this sketch hilarious, but like all the best stories, it is based on myth and legend. Rangers had Catholics in their team in 1872, long before their Catholic rivals Celtc, were even formed in 1888. In fact, there hasn't been a decade where Rangers didn't have Catholics at Ibrox.
Another sevconian trying to rewrite history. What catholics ever played for the club that died?
@@Crayfordceltic You're wrong. The old Celtc died in 1994. I think they had 6 paedo convictions by that time. In 2023, Celtc now have 9 convicted paedos.
I wonder if the anti Catholic bigotry some Rangers fans have didn't even exist before Celtic existed. Mabey it developed from football rivalry.
@@CrayfordcelticWe're not Sevconian, We're British. You silly Pacific Shelfian.
Right now I'd sign anyone who can score goals, and a decent manager, no offence to Murty, but the board are fucking the club right up
Still, Rangers till I kick the bucket! Mon the blues!
Least you lived to see your club die
very funny and oh so true!
Hilarious