Weir nails government’s Rangers hypocrisy with perfect tweet
Reporter Stewart Weir has summed up the recent hypocritical actions of the Scottish Government towards Rangers in one excellent tweet.
Rangers and more specifically Rangers fans have been blasted by members of the government in recent weeks after the were scenes of crowds celebrating our 55th title win.
Some of the criticism is fair as those fans were breaking lockdown rules but we have seen such a huge overreaction from Nicola Sturgeon and Co because, presumably, we’re a football club.
Weir took to Twitter to vent his frustration at this narrative of blaming football fans for rising COVID cases after Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer explain how some fans who attended the celebrations had now tested positive for COVID.
Weir tweeted, “Rangers played Leverkusen the night before football was suspended in Scotland.
“Glasgow was full of Leverkusen fans when Germany was in the grip of the pandemic. There is a narrative here which at best is churlish, at worst, a targeted blame culture.
“Any figures from a year ago?”
This is an excellent point that has yet to be raised in the mainstream media and it shows how the government utterly failed to protect us from COVID-19 early in the pandemic.
Again, we recognise the risk that some Gers fans put themselves and others in as they celebrated the title but to continuously blame football fans for rising COVID cases looks like the government is trying to shift the blame.
We have been frustrated with the noises coming out of Holyrood in the last few weeks and those feelings couldn’t have been summed up better by Weir.
The government are in no position to criticise.
When that Bayer game was being played, COVID was tearing through Germany and it is not impossible that some of Bayer’s fans at Ibrox were infected.
Did we hear Sturgeon complaining then?
Of course not.
The hypocrisy from her and others in the last few weeks is not only irritating but incredibly, boringly predictable, change the record.
In other Rangers news, this Slavia player has revealed what he said to Ianis Hagi after the full-time whistle last week.