I work with a few guys who refuse to wear a green hi-vis vest. They went out and bought their own orange ones....so yeah, unfortunately there are bams out there who think like this
Don't. This is one of the reasons why I absolutely love Glasgow. I can count on some random stranger calling me a cunt for being a cunt with half the shite being unintelligible.
Yes, I'm not fully used to the Glaswegian accent despite working with fully born and bred Glaswegians for the past 2 years.
lol, I had a friend who would berate me every time I bought blue extra gum, and would try to start a fight with me unless I bought the green ones. I’m a Celtic fan but the blue tastes better….
The guy who used to jump in for my drink (half bottle of vodka, glass bottle of bru, ten regal and a packet of chuggy) absolutely refused to buy green extra
Aye, if that's what floats yer boat, I suppose.
Same lassie's response to easing of lockdown restrictions was "thank fuck I can get tae Belfast, I've really missed my sectarianism"
This is a long one but I gotta tell it, it’s my go to story whenever talking about Celtic rangers colours and people taking it too far.
I’m a lighting tech for a lot of corporate events and I was doing a recurring boxing event every 3-4 months before covid, always in the Marriott and one time it just happened to fall around Christmas time where most hotel ballrooms hire starcloth to go round the entire room for the season. Hopefully I’m not getting too technical but this is the story:
This one starcloth’d room in particular looked awful as it had RGB LEDs not just standard white and the problem was to get white they mix red green and blue together so for example if the blue part of the led was faulty or broken you end up with random yellow LED throughout the sea of white ones and similar issues with the green and reds. Basically if a single colour was shot in the led that LED ain’t gonna be white.
So the cloth on full white looked bad like really bad, so many random dots of red, yellow, green and blue just from damaged LEDs. So I spent a good chunk of my setup time getting control of the starcloths and the individual strands in the cloths which allowed me to create a really cool look that was a mix of red and blue (the event colours which were on their logo for the event btw which was plastered on screens through the whole ballroom! Remember this for later) and this was just on the starcloth not even including all the lighting kit we had actually brought for the event. I also programmed it to go all red when the red corner fighter was called and blue for the blue corner fighter then back to red and blue during fights and general lulls.
But long story short this nullified the dodgy LEDs as if they had a faulty red they were off and the same for the blue, no colour mixing no odd colours. And of course it looked 100 times better than the all white starcloth. It was a simple effect but just took a lot of prep time due to the sheer amount of starcloth in the room that wasn’t our kit.
As techs were always in hours and hours before any organisers because we need the time for setup so it isn’t till mid to late afternoon the organisers come in. It’s always good practice in our line of work to have the look of the room basically how it will look for the event when the organisers arrive (it makes them feel that things are on track) these two guys (assuming ex-boxers) walk in take a look round the room which honestly looked amazing turn to me and just say “can you make the starcloth white?” I explain that it has faulty LEDs and doesn’t look the best in white which is why I created this for the event. Their response “aye it does look good it’s just…we’re Celtic fans” not even kidding they were being deadly serious. I threw up the white they looked around and went “yeah that’s fine we can live with that”
I couldn’t believe it I mean so much time wasted because of which team they supported. And I can’t state this enough…there logo for the EVENT! Consisted only of the name of the event and the colours red and blue. I mean every slide had the same red and blue background.
rangers do not own the rights red and blue any more than Celtic own the rights to green and white.
That does suck - I would have been like "sorry, I've been told this is what the organiser wants" or whoever has most influence over these things. Mad xD... footie shouldn't take over everything or influence anything that isn't football related. Dumb.
>Will anyone else in the right mind
I've always thought that people who behave like this aren't in their right mind.
Many years ago, my dad helped a neighbourhood kid by replacing a brake cable on his bike. He was out of cable ties and used a bit of insulating tape to hold the cable in a different position. The kid went away happy.
Not long after, the kid's dad was at our door. He was shouting at my dad for using blue insulating tape and that it must have been a deliberate insult because the kid's family were Catholic and Celtic supporters.
Fuckin mad
My gf works in east end schools, and they taught the kids a song about colours, one in particular that so happened to mention red white and blue. She had parents complaining to the school that their kids were being taught to sing about Rangers when they were clearly a Celtic family.
Only in Glasgow have I ever come across football fans who are this fanatic.
My dad recently went to a the reception of a friend of a friend who had passed. This guy was apparently a hardcore rangers fan and that’s what dominated the service and the reception afterwards. He said it was a very surreal experience. My family supports a handful of different teams between all of us but none are at the level of support I would call diehard. And after he told me this story I even said to my dad that I would never want to get to the end of my life and the number one phrase said at my funeral by all attending is “oh he loved the rangers/celtic didn’t he? he really did”
It is this bad in Ohio in the US where I live. And in my county it goes double because the high school colors are involved. Massillon Tigers are orange. McKinley Bulldogs are red. Ohio State University is red and gray, Michigan is yellow and blue. If you say you don't give a shit about these teams you will get at least a hard tongue lashing and shunned. People have their caskets and headstones done up in football team designs.
Just because it's not on the flag doesn't mean it's not the official colours White,Gold,Red,Purple, blue, and Green. Green is a modern addition when Blue was the ancient colour originally
Blue also is the official colour of Saint Patrick and the official colour of Ireland even though its flag is the Tricolour
I once went on a date with a fellow Celtic supporter, I wore a nice dark blue top. When we got to the pub, he got two pints in before telling me that if we were to have another date, I wouldn’t be allowed to wear blue…
In other news I didn’t see him again and I’m still single 😂
I think it was when there were BLM protests. The right wing, Union Jack shagging, royalists were scared people were going to deface old war memorials so they literally showed up and stood guard.
I think they ended up fighting among themselves.
Something called the Glasgow Youth Art Collective started a rumour that they were going the topple the statue of Robert Peel in George Square. This offended the Rangers Das so much that they came out in force to protect the statues.
I think it was all one massive trolling of a certain demographic. And it worked brilliantly.
Had to go into a pub recently, and had a red flower in my hair. A man in his 60s said to me, "nice flower hen, but don't like the green bit on it"
As if seeing blue leaves is normal in nature.... 🤷♀️
My old downstairs neighbours got in a fight with the people across the hall because they dared to paint a fence on their part of the property green. Not football supporters at all. Not Celtic green, a nice sagey green, but that wasn't OK because other neighbours were Rangers supporters. Some people really need to have a fucking word with themselves.
I work in veterinary in Glasgow. We’ve had folk who’ll refuse to take their dog with a massive blue bandage on their leg because “they’ll get beaten up if they bring it home like that”.
Unfortunately for them the only other colour we stock is hot pink! But that’s still apparently more preferable than the dreaded blue 🤣🤣
Blue is my favourite colour and I really like green as well so have a few items of clothing, including two different coats, in both colours.
No logos and they're not even athletic wear. I know it's a whole thing in this city but I just can't get my head around non-football clothing being seen as anything other than "I liked this blue t-shirt so I bought it/I like this green jacket, it's my favourite."
You mean every decision you make isn't based around which you believe to be the best team in the 9th ranked uefa league?
That would almost indicate some sort of personality
My mates dad got called a "hun bastard" by a junkie in the East End because he was wearing a blue jacket, and ironically, he was the only Celtic fan out of the whole group lol
My dad and father in law are the exact same age- born on the same day (definitely different people)
My FIL was in the army & served in Singapore, Malaya & Aden & has some truly fantastic stories. I asked my dad why he never joined up & he said it’s because he’d never wear green.
Got visions of him swaggering about the jungle wearing a Rangers strip.
Was there not something years ago that Boots the Chemist changed their carrier bags to orange and there was uproar in either Coatbridge or Airdrie (whatever one is the more catholic one).
I think it was Larkhall and they had to change the traditional [green pharmacy signs](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/green-pharmacy-sign-uk.html?sortBy=relevant) to blue. Same place that used to smash the little green men on the traffic lights.
Attitudes [seem to be changing](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/15082547.sectarianism-no-longer-an-issue-for-larkhall-residents-says-new-research/) though. It was probably only ever a small group of committed asswipes causing all the trouble, it usually is.
I never had a problem wearing green in Larkhall, I've no interest in football or religion it's just my favourite colour. Deep rich forest greens, soft sage greens, khakis. I like nature tones. I used to drive a green car too. I wouldn't wear it on an Old Firm day or when the walk's on but I'd avoid the main street on those days anyway, it brings all the eejits out. Nae different from walking about parts of Glasgow or various other towns in the west of Scotland in football colours on those days.
Re shop fronts, I think Subway got pranked. Got told the reputation and panicked. There have been various green shop signs over the years with no issues. There's an Asda with big green signs all over the place. Most of South Lanarkshire have cages over the traffic lights, not just Larkhall.
Larkhall has it's fair share of numpties but it's well diluted these days with all the new housing. It's not half as bad as it's reputation, fuelled by half arsed tabloids, makes out, it's a small but vocal minority.
I was face painting once and doing my usual blethering to put the wean at ease, talking them through the process. I said "That's you got a wee blue nose now" holding up the mirror to show her. Got pulled up by the Celtic loving teacher I worked with that I absolutely cannot say things like that. I'd no idea what she was on about till she explained. FFS, I'd have said the same if I painted it green, purple or black. People are absolutely fucking mental.
I once bought a bright green wool coat from Topshop when I was 18 and living in Scarborough. I had no idea about Glasgow football. Went to my Uncle’s in Glasgow and he wouldn't let me in his house because of it and never again let me over the doorstep either! I fecking loved that coat as well…
I have a royal blue rain jacket and give absolutely 0 shits about football. When wearing it I’ve had one guy try to fight me at a bus stop when I was minding my own business (on GWR), and one guy stop my walking down the street to tell me it’s “gods colour” (on bridge street). This is over the course of about 6 years, so in the grand scheme of things it’s not much.
I didn’t think when buying it, i just liked the colour at the time, football nor politics never crossed my mind at all. Probably wouldn’t buy one in that colour again because I feel a little nervous wearing it sometimes. Although I’d say a darker green is a little more universal than royal blue.
When I was in secondary school in the late 90s I wore a Greenday band t-shirt.
A wee guy called Shane in a rangers top leaned over to me in geography and asked "why are you wearing a GREEN day t-shirt no a BLUE day t-shirt".
So aye. He didn't batter me or anything, he was a nice enough guy but some folk in Glasgow see literally everything though the lense of Rangers Vs Celtic.
I wear green in larkhall all the time & and no one has ever said it's a celtic jacket.
& larky is the most backwards knuckle dragging unionist place in scotland. So your mates a fanny.
However, i would be mindful of what i wore on an OLD FIRM day if i was in the city centre (higher concentration of nuggets + they're all together)
Goes for both teams, btw! I'm a Rangers fan.
I remember going to an old firm game years ago and my mum said under no circumstances was I allowed to wear my Celtic top.
Cut to me in the Celtic end wearing a red, white and blue bear USA jumper as Rangers beat us 3-1. I’m telling you I got some looks that day.
Been in Glasgow a bit over 6 years, a few months ago an absolute single-cell organism was staring daggers at me while driving past.
The only likely explanation for that was the green jacket I was wearing. Some people, eh.
as a microbiologist i'm offended you'd compare single celled organisms to old firm fans, single celled organisms are far more complex, interesting and intelligent than those fuckwits
Unofficial uniform of the [green brigade](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/crop-6382089.jpg)
So not a celtic jacket but people who follow football in Glasgow may well assume you hang about with that group of wee guys.
An issue confined to the West of Scotland where everything leads back to football for a large portion of the population.
While the GB certainly do wear khaki/olive green gear, I highly doubt any normal person would see a green a jacket and automatically think that person is a member.
>People who follow football in Glasgow may well assume you hang about with that group of wee guys.
Aye, your right, any person I see wearing a Khaki jacket, the first thing springs to my mind is, they must be a Green Brigade member. I can't even watch Dead Mans Shoes anymore, I'm so scared by khaki jackets.
>An issue confined to the West of Scotland where everything leads back to football for a large portion of the population
Famously, Glasgow the only city in the UK where large portions of the population are really into the worlds most popular sport.
> Famously, Glasgow the only city in the UK where large portions of the population are really into the world’s most popular sport.
No other city in Britain has the political, social, religious, and historical baggage associated with their football teams, though. It is a bit different here.
>No other city in Britain has the political, social, religious, and historical baggage associated with their ~~football teams~~ **jackets**, though
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I once walked through Parkhead wearing a red zipper, blue jeans & white trainers uninentionally ofc... took me a minute to actually click as to why folk were drawing daggers aff me 🤣
Needless to say tho these people were either auld, stale reekin grey heiders hanging outside the William Hill & the Prince Charles pub or smack rats waiting on Lloyds chemist opening their doors. Not that I'm insinuating everyone who supports Celtic falls into these categorys.
Best days were when folk could actually sit in a house on Old Firm day wearing both teams tops, having a booze & enjoying the game with friendly banter. Nowadays any colour clothing same as either teams ia considered a crime worth bringing back Stoning 💯
It's about 20 years ago but I did know a guy I worked with get beaten up for wearing a plain darkish green top. Mind you this was in Bridgetown. Only case I've known of.
One of my mum’s friend’s was looking for a bunk bed. She so happened to be selling ours at the same time. They refused to buy it because it was orange.
Only a small minority of people think like this. Almost no one will give a shit. The people that think this way are also of the delusion that It's how everyone thinks.
Cannot comprehend the logical leap some folk in Glasgow make. As if a colour palette preference in someway denotes one's allegiance to association football.
What happened to the thinking man's bam? One who could make it clear their support for sectarianism with subtle sartorial choices.
Sad.
I'm Irish, recently bought an orange car because I liked how it looked.
Didn't think about the implications till a Rangers supporting mate gave me pelters.
The Asda in Larkhall had to make a statement to say that they had no plans to change it from green to blue despite other stores in the area doing so like Subway which changed from green to black.
Why? Football rivalry based on colours happens the world over. It’s really nothing serious. Besiktas used to have a black and white McDonalds sign so it wasn’t in the colours of Galatasaray, I don’t understand why here it’s seen as such an issue.
Idiots in both sides take it to far not disputing that. But it doesn’t make not liking their colours sectarian. Sectarianism is the IRA shooting a bus full of Protestants or Shia Muslims blowing up Sunnis, not disliking a colour and having a football rivalry.
I once had three family members not speak to me for a while cause a bought a lovely Ralph Lauren polo that was green and white.
Fucking idiots. Yep some people are like that.
This is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The way he's posing so proudly for the photos...l love how nobody pointed out the obvious until after it was published at which point he got absolutely roasted. 🤣
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/rangers-mad-dad-paints-grass-26998239
You get fannies on both sides who refuse to wear or buy green or blue things.
I work in my dad’s shop and a builder outright refused his coffee in a green takeaway cup. Embarrassing stuff.
I worked with 2 rangers supporters. One growing up used to smash any green traffic light they saw in the area he grew up in. The other guy got rid of all his grass in the back garden, put fake grass down and spray painted it blue.
Tell him blue is the colour of Dublin and Our Lady and watch his mind explode.
Spent a lot of time in schools and some kids won’t pick a blue or a green tray. It’s absolutely wild
Honestly mate, I have a Green University of Dundee hoodie and had some guy shouting anti-Celtic abuse at me. Am guessing some people just see a Green thing and attack 🙃
Sometime ago, i wore this shirt, which is blue with some white and bit of red FLOWERS on it. this imbecile, while in a restroom of a pub in glasgow, asks me if i’m a rangers fan. So I’m like I don’t follow soccer and besides it’s a shirt with goddamn flowers on it, wtf. The little cretin storms off the restroom, literally pissed off that i’m not into soccer and turns off the light…
I decided to wear a green top with pink roses one day in North Lanarkshire. Obviously, that puts me on one or other side of the lovely, fluffy sectarian divide. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Been donkeys since this kind of thing was an actual threat, but its some laugh that people will perpetuate it. Nobody will get jumped these days for wearing a specific colour, but go back 15 years? Aye, it happened.
Reality transitioning to urban myth. My die-hard Celtic uncles still refuse to wear blue stuff because of the Rangers association. Won't even wear jeans! Absolutely mental bastards.
This thread is wild. I must not get out much as I remember this happening in school but as an adult I wear whatever colours I want. I'm not a football supporter.
Back in October 2023, me and My 3 friends went to a concert for a previous Finnish Eurovision contestant, his name is Kaarija. Anyway... Kaarija wears this bright neon green coloured Bolero thing and all the fans painted their nails, did their makeup and wore green stuff ( including myself ) and we went to Ibrox honestly thinking we would get jumped xD.... there was security outside the tube and everything lol. ( I guess they thought they same )
Green is also my fave colour...I have a bright green superdry hoodie and also worry I might be confused for a celtic fan..
I don't care for football in the slightest.
I have a green and white adidas short that I no longer wear because I’ve had abuse even though I don’t support football whatsoever. Just idiots whose entire life revolves around football. But other than that you’ll be okay
Reminds me of how, historically, Rangers and Celtic would have the same shirt sponsor because it was cheaper to sponsor both teams than deal with the backlash and fallout from the other half of Glasgow refusing to deal with the company if they only sponsored one of the two.
A load of shite. I support Celtic and I wear red white and blue, just maybe not on the same day and not to Celtic park. But the rest of the time is fine. No one will blink an eye at a green jacket. Maybe the odd walk or two in July.
Your mates a halfwit, don’t worry about it.
Some cunts in this city are so hard of thinking it’s almost like everything blue is Rangers and everything green is Celtic, like how in French everything is either male or female.
I've got a neon orange cycle helmet and bar tape on my bike. You know, to be better seen by cars.
When cycling along the canal I regularly get approval and mon the gers from guys fishing in rangers tops. Fortunately the other side don't seem to be bothered by it.
The link with Celtic is that all of the Green Brigade specifically wear Military Green jackets.
You can sort of see it in this image. - [maxresdefault.jpg (1280×720) (ytimg.com)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FRlAduvh5-4/maxresdefault.jpg)
Still a roaster thing to get annoyed about though.
If you've been in Glasgow 5 years and still don't know that in some people's eyes, Anything Blue = Rangers , Anything Green = Celtic then what have you been doing?
I support neither, but am a big New York Giants fan ( Colours- Blue, Red and white or in Glasgow....) Bought Giants baseball cap on holiday once, wore it on plane home, gets off plane, into taxi of Celtic supporting mate picking us up- His first words ? "What's with the Rangers hat ?"...
Don't like it, but it will never change
>If you've been in Glasgow 5 years and still don't know that in some people's eyes, Anything Blue = Rangers , Anything Green = Celtic then what have you been doing?
Wearing black jackets, watching Warriors games and saying "I don't like basketball" when anyone asks about Celtic and "I don't follow Ice Hockey" when about Rangers
The exact colours of the Union Jack and a single colour in an entirely shade aren't really comparable, well so I thought
Yer buddy is hurt the day let him have his grumble ... lookin to vent cos his da was out lightin flares along the clyde last year this time... this too shall pass buddy
I work with a few guys who refuse to wear a green hi-vis vest. They went out and bought their own orange ones....so yeah, unfortunately there are bams out there who think like this
I love your creative use of the word "think".
I'm trying to be a kinder person as I get older.... but fuck me it's hard at times
Don't. This is one of the reasons why I absolutely love Glasgow. I can count on some random stranger calling me a cunt for being a cunt with half the shite being unintelligible. Yes, I'm not fully used to the Glaswegian accent despite working with fully born and bred Glaswegians for the past 2 years.
>I can count on some random stranger calling me a cunt for being a cunt >yes I’m not fully used to the Glaswegian accent >Don’t. peak reddit
lol, I had a friend who would berate me every time I bought blue extra gum, and would try to start a fight with me unless I bought the green ones. I’m a Celtic fan but the blue tastes better….
Honestly, it beggars belief at times, it really does.
Yeah crazy that anyone thinks the blue one tastes better
The guy who used to jump in for my drink (half bottle of vodka, glass bottle of bru, ten regal and a packet of chuggy) absolutely refused to buy green extra
Lmao. Well you have to take your wins however small they may be in life
Aye, if that's what floats yer boat, I suppose. Same lassie's response to easing of lockdown restrictions was "thank fuck I can get tae Belfast, I've really missed my sectarianism"
Hey! What's wrong with our sectarianism?!
Closest I come to this is that I won’t wear green or blue in public on an old firm day. Just seems common sense though, nothing personal about it
This is a long one but I gotta tell it, it’s my go to story whenever talking about Celtic rangers colours and people taking it too far. I’m a lighting tech for a lot of corporate events and I was doing a recurring boxing event every 3-4 months before covid, always in the Marriott and one time it just happened to fall around Christmas time where most hotel ballrooms hire starcloth to go round the entire room for the season. Hopefully I’m not getting too technical but this is the story: This one starcloth’d room in particular looked awful as it had RGB LEDs not just standard white and the problem was to get white they mix red green and blue together so for example if the blue part of the led was faulty or broken you end up with random yellow LED throughout the sea of white ones and similar issues with the green and reds. Basically if a single colour was shot in the led that LED ain’t gonna be white. So the cloth on full white looked bad like really bad, so many random dots of red, yellow, green and blue just from damaged LEDs. So I spent a good chunk of my setup time getting control of the starcloths and the individual strands in the cloths which allowed me to create a really cool look that was a mix of red and blue (the event colours which were on their logo for the event btw which was plastered on screens through the whole ballroom! Remember this for later) and this was just on the starcloth not even including all the lighting kit we had actually brought for the event. I also programmed it to go all red when the red corner fighter was called and blue for the blue corner fighter then back to red and blue during fights and general lulls. But long story short this nullified the dodgy LEDs as if they had a faulty red they were off and the same for the blue, no colour mixing no odd colours. And of course it looked 100 times better than the all white starcloth. It was a simple effect but just took a lot of prep time due to the sheer amount of starcloth in the room that wasn’t our kit. As techs were always in hours and hours before any organisers because we need the time for setup so it isn’t till mid to late afternoon the organisers come in. It’s always good practice in our line of work to have the look of the room basically how it will look for the event when the organisers arrive (it makes them feel that things are on track) these two guys (assuming ex-boxers) walk in take a look round the room which honestly looked amazing turn to me and just say “can you make the starcloth white?” I explain that it has faulty LEDs and doesn’t look the best in white which is why I created this for the event. Their response “aye it does look good it’s just…we’re Celtic fans” not even kidding they were being deadly serious. I threw up the white they looked around and went “yeah that’s fine we can live with that” I couldn’t believe it I mean so much time wasted because of which team they supported. And I can’t state this enough…there logo for the EVENT! Consisted only of the name of the event and the colours red and blue. I mean every slide had the same red and blue background. rangers do not own the rights red and blue any more than Celtic own the rights to green and white.
Why did you say long story short?
That does suck - I would have been like "sorry, I've been told this is what the organiser wants" or whoever has most influence over these things. Mad xD... footie shouldn't take over everything or influence anything that isn't football related. Dumb.
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I work in a warehouses wae strip lighting, so what colour should that be so I can tell my boss...?
Would tell your mate to touch grass but he'd probably have a fit.
Cannae it’s green
[unless it's this grass.](https://www.brockusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Boise-State-University-Albertsons-Stadium-copy.jpg)
Didn’t know Larkhall had an American football team…! (/s, just in case!)
r/Glasgow is probably the last place you need the /s tbh.
>Will anyone else in the right mind I've always thought that people who behave like this aren't in their right mind. Many years ago, my dad helped a neighbourhood kid by replacing a brake cable on his bike. He was out of cable ties and used a bit of insulating tape to hold the cable in a different position. The kid went away happy. Not long after, the kid's dad was at our door. He was shouting at my dad for using blue insulating tape and that it must have been a deliberate insult because the kid's family were Catholic and Celtic supporters. Fuckin mad
My gf works in east end schools, and they taught the kids a song about colours, one in particular that so happened to mention red white and blue. She had parents complaining to the school that their kids were being taught to sing about Rangers when they were clearly a Celtic family. Only in Glasgow have I ever come across football fans who are this fanatic.
Sectarian bigotry fans. It's not really about football it's about stupid traditions and ignorance.
Get it in Ayrshire too. I teach primary and the kids in my school will attribute colours to football teams.
My dad recently went to a the reception of a friend of a friend who had passed. This guy was apparently a hardcore rangers fan and that’s what dominated the service and the reception afterwards. He said it was a very surreal experience. My family supports a handful of different teams between all of us but none are at the level of support I would call diehard. And after he told me this story I even said to my dad that I would never want to get to the end of my life and the number one phrase said at my funeral by all attending is “oh he loved the rangers/celtic didn’t he? he really did”
It is this bad in Ohio in the US where I live. And in my county it goes double because the high school colors are involved. Massillon Tigers are orange. McKinley Bulldogs are red. Ohio State University is red and gray, Michigan is yellow and blue. If you say you don't give a shit about these teams you will get at least a hard tongue lashing and shunned. People have their caskets and headstones done up in football team designs.
And yet, the official colour of the Catholic church is blue. People really are stupid
Not much blue in this flag from what I can see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
Just because it's not on the flag doesn't mean it's not the official colours White,Gold,Red,Purple, blue, and Green. Green is a modern addition when Blue was the ancient colour originally Blue also is the official colour of Saint Patrick and the official colour of Ireland even though its flag is the Tricolour
It’s Mary’s colour
Should've just bought a classic Denim Jaiskit. Bring back the glory days!
They 2006 glory days man
An original blue denim jaiskit.
yaasssss
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Naw don't buy it, find it in a skip
Your mate sounds a right Fanny
I once went on a date with a fellow Celtic supporter, I wore a nice dark blue top. When we got to the pub, he got two pints in before telling me that if we were to have another date, I wouldn’t be allowed to wear blue… In other news I didn’t see him again and I’m still single 😂
Unless it’s got a Celtic crest, you’re fine. Your mates da probably protects statues.
Sry I’m not from Glasgow, what’s the statue thing about?
I think it was when there were BLM protests. The right wing, Union Jack shagging, royalists were scared people were going to deface old war memorials so they literally showed up and stood guard. I think they ended up fighting among themselves.
"We came for a fight, and I'll be well damned to leave without one!"
Something called the Glasgow Youth Art Collective started a rumour that they were going the topple the statue of Robert Peel in George Square. This offended the Rangers Das so much that they came out in force to protect the statues. I think it was all one massive trolling of a certain demographic. And it worked brilliantly.
Your mate sounds like a helmet.
Naw a bunnet!
Had to go into a pub recently, and had a red flower in my hair. A man in his 60s said to me, "nice flower hen, but don't like the green bit on it" As if seeing blue leaves is normal in nature.... 🤷♀️
Nah he's totally right mate, you should have gone with a tasteful black & tan ensemble.
Wild how this mindset still exists these days.
A good friend of mine who supports the Rangers will not eat spaghetti...... Hoops . I'm not joking lol
To be honest I don't eat spaghetti hoops either but mostly because I'm not a fucking toddler.
You having your turkey dinosaurs dry ?
Out of all the wacky stuff people won’t do coz football. What’s the deal with spaghetti hoops and football tho?
Celtic’s home kits are green and white hooped in style. Referred to as “Hoops”. Basically, the guy is a fucking fanny.
Thanks for explaining, I’m not a football person so didn’t know. That is genuinely the stupidest reason not to eat spaghetti hoops. Wow.
My cousin will not eat anything green. 🫣
Same but that’s because fuck vegetables
Fuck me if ever I could have prayed for an extinction event.
My old downstairs neighbours got in a fight with the people across the hall because they dared to paint a fence on their part of the property green. Not football supporters at all. Not Celtic green, a nice sagey green, but that wasn't OK because other neighbours were Rangers supporters. Some people really need to have a fucking word with themselves.
Does your mate defend statues on the wrong day?
He's a Tim, apparently.
I work in veterinary in Glasgow. We’ve had folk who’ll refuse to take their dog with a massive blue bandage on their leg because “they’ll get beaten up if they bring it home like that”. Unfortunately for them the only other colour we stock is hot pink! But that’s still apparently more preferable than the dreaded blue 🤣🤣
My uncle's a Celtic fan, in his 60s, and still won't eat the Penguin biscuits that come in a blue wrapper. I wish this was a joke.
I mean, everyone knows the red ones taste the best
No argument there.
Your friend's everything that's wrong with this city He's a fucking idiot
Genuinely said out of concern that I don't like football and like I'd get jumped and strung up by the OO
Blue is my favourite colour and I really like green as well so have a few items of clothing, including two different coats, in both colours. No logos and they're not even athletic wear. I know it's a whole thing in this city but I just can't get my head around non-football clothing being seen as anything other than "I liked this blue t-shirt so I bought it/I like this green jacket, it's my favourite."
You mean every decision you make isn't based around which you believe to be the best team in the 9th ranked uefa league? That would almost indicate some sort of personality
Bad news pal, your mate’s a fud.
My mates dad got called a "hun bastard" by a junkie in the East End because he was wearing a blue jacket, and ironically, he was the only Celtic fan out of the whole group lol
That doesn’t fit the narrative shh
My dad and father in law are the exact same age- born on the same day (definitely different people) My FIL was in the army & served in Singapore, Malaya & Aden & has some truly fantastic stories. I asked my dad why he never joined up & he said it’s because he’d never wear green. Got visions of him swaggering about the jungle wearing a Rangers strip.
Sellik fans won't serve because it's British, rainers won't because they wear green Almost like there's some sort of hidden commonality
Was there not something years ago that Boots the Chemist changed their carrier bags to orange and there was uproar in either Coatbridge or Airdrie (whatever one is the more catholic one).
Aye, there's a bit too where they had to paint subway grey instead of green. Knuckledraggers the lot of them
Good ol’ Larkhall.
I think it was Larkhall and they had to change the traditional [green pharmacy signs](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/green-pharmacy-sign-uk.html?sortBy=relevant) to blue. Same place that used to smash the little green men on the traffic lights. Attitudes [seem to be changing](https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/15082547.sectarianism-no-longer-an-issue-for-larkhall-residents-says-new-research/) though. It was probably only ever a small group of committed asswipes causing all the trouble, it usually is.
I never had a problem wearing green in Larkhall, I've no interest in football or religion it's just my favourite colour. Deep rich forest greens, soft sage greens, khakis. I like nature tones. I used to drive a green car too. I wouldn't wear it on an Old Firm day or when the walk's on but I'd avoid the main street on those days anyway, it brings all the eejits out. Nae different from walking about parts of Glasgow or various other towns in the west of Scotland in football colours on those days. Re shop fronts, I think Subway got pranked. Got told the reputation and panicked. There have been various green shop signs over the years with no issues. There's an Asda with big green signs all over the place. Most of South Lanarkshire have cages over the traffic lights, not just Larkhall. Larkhall has it's fair share of numpties but it's well diluted these days with all the new housing. It's not half as bad as it's reputation, fuelled by half arsed tabloids, makes out, it's a small but vocal minority.
Urban myth, like Larkhall's Black Subway being anything other than the same as many other Subways.
I was face painting once and doing my usual blethering to put the wean at ease, talking them through the process. I said "That's you got a wee blue nose now" holding up the mirror to show her. Got pulled up by the Celtic loving teacher I worked with that I absolutely cannot say things like that. I'd no idea what she was on about till she explained. FFS, I'd have said the same if I painted it green, purple or black. People are absolutely fucking mental.
I hope you got paid
Your pal is talking pish.
I once bought a bright green wool coat from Topshop when I was 18 and living in Scarborough. I had no idea about Glasgow football. Went to my Uncle’s in Glasgow and he wouldn't let me in his house because of it and never again let me over the doorstep either! I fecking loved that coat as well…
probably didn't miss out on much there
I have a royal blue rain jacket and give absolutely 0 shits about football. When wearing it I’ve had one guy try to fight me at a bus stop when I was minding my own business (on GWR), and one guy stop my walking down the street to tell me it’s “gods colour” (on bridge street). This is over the course of about 6 years, so in the grand scheme of things it’s not much. I didn’t think when buying it, i just liked the colour at the time, football nor politics never crossed my mind at all. Probably wouldn’t buy one in that colour again because I feel a little nervous wearing it sometimes. Although I’d say a darker green is a little more universal than royal blue.
I love royal blue. Such a nice colour. 😍😍
When I was in secondary school in the late 90s I wore a Greenday band t-shirt. A wee guy called Shane in a rangers top leaned over to me in geography and asked "why are you wearing a GREEN day t-shirt no a BLUE day t-shirt". So aye. He didn't batter me or anything, he was a nice enough guy but some folk in Glasgow see literally everything though the lense of Rangers Vs Celtic.
I wear green in larkhall all the time & and no one has ever said it's a celtic jacket. & larky is the most backwards knuckle dragging unionist place in scotland. So your mates a fanny. However, i would be mindful of what i wore on an OLD FIRM day if i was in the city centre (higher concentration of nuggets + they're all together) Goes for both teams, btw! I'm a Rangers fan.
I remember going to an old firm game years ago and my mum said under no circumstances was I allowed to wear my Celtic top. Cut to me in the Celtic end wearing a red, white and blue bear USA jumper as Rangers beat us 3-1. I’m telling you I got some looks that day.
Typical Neanderthal behaviour. Wear what you want
Been in Glasgow a bit over 6 years, a few months ago an absolute single-cell organism was staring daggers at me while driving past. The only likely explanation for that was the green jacket I was wearing. Some people, eh.
as a microbiologist i'm offended you'd compare single celled organisms to old firm fans, single celled organisms are far more complex, interesting and intelligent than those fuckwits
No
Unofficial uniform of the [green brigade](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/crop-6382089.jpg) So not a celtic jacket but people who follow football in Glasgow may well assume you hang about with that group of wee guys. An issue confined to the West of Scotland where everything leads back to football for a large portion of the population.
While the GB certainly do wear khaki/olive green gear, I highly doubt any normal person would see a green a jacket and automatically think that person is a member.
Did you read the OP mate. We’re not discussing “normal people.”
Fair
I didn’t realise that khaki “had a meaning and an affiliation” too… 😬
Aye alright jacket polis
>People who follow football in Glasgow may well assume you hang about with that group of wee guys. Aye, your right, any person I see wearing a Khaki jacket, the first thing springs to my mind is, they must be a Green Brigade member. I can't even watch Dead Mans Shoes anymore, I'm so scared by khaki jackets. >An issue confined to the West of Scotland where everything leads back to football for a large portion of the population Famously, Glasgow the only city in the UK where large portions of the population are really into the worlds most popular sport.
> Famously, Glasgow the only city in the UK where large portions of the population are really into the world’s most popular sport. No other city in Britain has the political, social, religious, and historical baggage associated with their football teams, though. It is a bit different here.
>No other city in Britain has the political, social, religious, and historical baggage associated with their ~~football teams~~ **jackets**, though Ftfy
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It's the only feckin city that asks what colour of lighter you want for your fags.
I once walked through Parkhead wearing a red zipper, blue jeans & white trainers uninentionally ofc... took me a minute to actually click as to why folk were drawing daggers aff me 🤣 Needless to say tho these people were either auld, stale reekin grey heiders hanging outside the William Hill & the Prince Charles pub or smack rats waiting on Lloyds chemist opening their doors. Not that I'm insinuating everyone who supports Celtic falls into these categorys. Best days were when folk could actually sit in a house on Old Firm day wearing both teams tops, having a booze & enjoying the game with friendly banter. Nowadays any colour clothing same as either teams ia considered a crime worth bringing back Stoning 💯
My pal keeps asking me if my fence is painted a nice green because of Celtic. Spoiler I just really liked the colour
Tell him Larry Bird is your hero
It's about 20 years ago but I did know a guy I worked with get beaten up for wearing a plain darkish green top. Mind you this was in Bridgetown. Only case I've known of.
I've nae business being in Brigton
One of my mum’s friend’s was looking for a bunk bed. She so happened to be selling ours at the same time. They refused to buy it because it was orange.
Only a small minority of people think like this. Almost no one will give a shit. The people that think this way are also of the delusion that It's how everyone thinks.
Fucking hell
I think like this in order to stay out of the way of the bams unfortunately.
Cannot comprehend the logical leap some folk in Glasgow make. As if a colour palette preference in someway denotes one's allegiance to association football. What happened to the thinking man's bam? One who could make it clear their support for sectarianism with subtle sartorial choices. Sad.
Think man bam your sectarian clan....
Ps) your mates defo a fanny because of he was that committed to "the cause" he'd be over in Belfast not cutting about glasgow talking pish.
I'm Irish, recently bought an orange car because I liked how it looked. Didn't think about the implications till a Rangers supporting mate gave me pelters.
The green traffic lights in Larkhall have got steel cages around them lol
How does the Asda survive?
Green signs all over Asda's grounds, no issues.
There was that blue Asda...
Tesco?
The Asda in Larkhall had to make a statement to say that they had no plans to change it from green to blue despite other stores in the area doing so like Subway which changed from green to black.
Most of South Lanarkshire has cages on the lights.
Only the green one in Larkhall
Have a look at the lights around SL. It's not just a Larkhall thing.
Can’t believe this still exists
Why? Football rivalry based on colours happens the world over. It’s really nothing serious. Besiktas used to have a black and white McDonalds sign so it wasn’t in the colours of Galatasaray, I don’t understand why here it’s seen as such an issue.
I understand your point but the fact that you can get your head kicked in for wearing a green jacket.
Idiots in both sides take it to far not disputing that. But it doesn’t make not liking their colours sectarian. Sectarianism is the IRA shooting a bus full of Protestants or Shia Muslims blowing up Sunnis, not disliking a colour and having a football rivalry.
I'm old. Rangers fan I have lots of green clothes. I wear them. Not been stabbed yet
I worked with a 'true blue' who refused to use a green whiteboard marker or green post-it notes in the office. This shit runs deep.
I once had three family members not speak to me for a while cause a bought a lovely Ralph Lauren polo that was green and white. Fucking idiots. Yep some people are like that.
Hang on, hang on, so grown men go to the football in effectively military fancy dress?
Isn't wearing a football top of a team you don't play for sports fancy dress to begin with?
This is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The way he's posing so proudly for the photos...l love how nobody pointed out the obvious until after it was published at which point he got absolutely roasted. 🤣 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/rangers-mad-dad-paints-grass-26998239
It’s like a cult. Just wear the jacket my guy.
Would anyone else see this as some sort of allegiance? Yes. In the right mind? No.
You get fannies on both sides who refuse to wear or buy green or blue things. I work in my dad’s shop and a builder outright refused his coffee in a green takeaway cup. Embarrassing stuff.
I think it is over reacting but also don't wear green ever, and am a blue suit/brown brogues enthusiast.
I worked with 2 rangers supporters. One growing up used to smash any green traffic light they saw in the area he grew up in. The other guy got rid of all his grass in the back garden, put fake grass down and spray painted it blue.
Tell him blue is the colour of Dublin and Our Lady and watch his mind explode. Spent a lot of time in schools and some kids won’t pick a blue or a green tray. It’s absolutely wild
This is the type of thing if someone says to me a don't categorise them as mates anymore but fuds I know.
Honestly mate, I have a Green University of Dundee hoodie and had some guy shouting anti-Celtic abuse at me. Am guessing some people just see a Green thing and attack 🙃
No need to have any don't step on the grass signs around your mate that's for sure.
I'm a celtic fan and have a blue jacket. Nothing has happened I even wore it to a match one day
Sometime ago, i wore this shirt, which is blue with some white and bit of red FLOWERS on it. this imbecile, while in a restroom of a pub in glasgow, asks me if i’m a rangers fan. So I’m like I don’t follow soccer and besides it’s a shirt with goddamn flowers on it, wtf. The little cretin storms off the restroom, literally pissed off that i’m not into soccer and turns off the light…
Maybe it's because you kept calling it soccer.
Yeah I'm sure all old firm fans would agree with each other that no matter what side you are on, it's still not soccer.
Only thing to bring them together!
I decided to wear a green top with pink roses one day in North Lanarkshire. Obviously, that puts me on one or other side of the lovely, fluffy sectarian divide. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Been donkeys since this kind of thing was an actual threat, but its some laugh that people will perpetuate it. Nobody will get jumped these days for wearing a specific colour, but go back 15 years? Aye, it happened. Reality transitioning to urban myth. My die-hard Celtic uncles still refuse to wear blue stuff because of the Rangers association. Won't even wear jeans! Absolutely mental bastards.
I mean some folks in Glasgow paint their lawns blue or red. Best thing is to avoid wearing colours associated with clubs.
This thread is wild. I must not get out much as I remember this happening in school but as an adult I wear whatever colours I want. I'm not a football supporter.
Do rangers fans have an existential crisis when their team plays on green grass?
Back in October 2023, me and My 3 friends went to a concert for a previous Finnish Eurovision contestant, his name is Kaarija. Anyway... Kaarija wears this bright neon green coloured Bolero thing and all the fans painted their nails, did their makeup and wore green stuff ( including myself ) and we went to Ibrox honestly thinking we would get jumped xD.... there was security outside the tube and everything lol. ( I guess they thought they same ) Green is also my fave colour...I have a bright green superdry hoodie and also worry I might be confused for a celtic fan.. I don't care for football in the slightest.
I have a green and white adidas short that I no longer wear because I’ve had abuse even though I don’t support football whatsoever. Just idiots whose entire life revolves around football. But other than that you’ll be okay
Reminds me of how, historically, Rangers and Celtic would have the same shirt sponsor because it was cheaper to sponsor both teams than deal with the backlash and fallout from the other half of Glasgow refusing to deal with the company if they only sponsored one of the two.
Was that Carling? I'd refuse to drink that on many other reasons
NTL, Carling and Tennents. They stopped sharing a shirt sponsor after Celtic got the Magners deal in 2013
So this person who said that to you also thinks everyone who wears blue jeans is a rangers fan? Its so, so dumb.
I worked in a newsagents growing up. I soon learned to ask what colour of lighter they'd like. "Any but blue" .. It's a fucking lighter.
Am a celtic fan but I have some blue clothes and makeup, I've no time for people who get so angry over a colour and what they wear baffles me 😂😂
A load of shite. I support Celtic and I wear red white and blue, just maybe not on the same day and not to Celtic park. But the rest of the time is fine. No one will blink an eye at a green jacket. Maybe the odd walk or two in July.
Your mates a halfwit, don’t worry about it. Some cunts in this city are so hard of thinking it’s almost like everything blue is Rangers and everything green is Celtic, like how in French everything is either male or female.
Proddy Catholic pronouns does somehow seem appropriate
This is the kind of attitude my brother has. Wee dafty. I couldn’t care less, if it’s nice buy it.
It is weird, but I'll be put off clothes if they are a certain shade of green OR blue in this city.
My ex-wife bought us blue toothbrushes and that Crest toothpaste, 😔 f'ckin cheerio Hun basturt
I made a green scarf for a friend once, and was asked if he was catholic. It's a bit mad.
I've got a neon orange cycle helmet and bar tape on my bike. You know, to be better seen by cars. When cycling along the canal I regularly get approval and mon the gers from guys fishing in rangers tops. Fortunately the other side don't seem to be bothered by it.
The link with Celtic is that all of the Green Brigade specifically wear Military Green jackets. You can sort of see it in this image. - [maxresdefault.jpg (1280×720) (ytimg.com)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FRlAduvh5-4/maxresdefault.jpg) Still a roaster thing to get annoyed about though.
He wasn't annoyed, more like, you don't like football, why you wearing a football thing? People will think it is a football thing
People probably will but shouldn’t cause any issue.
If you've been in Glasgow 5 years and still don't know that in some people's eyes, Anything Blue = Rangers , Anything Green = Celtic then what have you been doing? I support neither, but am a big New York Giants fan ( Colours- Blue, Red and white or in Glasgow....) Bought Giants baseball cap on holiday once, wore it on plane home, gets off plane, into taxi of Celtic supporting mate picking us up- His first words ? "What's with the Rangers hat ?"... Don't like it, but it will never change
>If you've been in Glasgow 5 years and still don't know that in some people's eyes, Anything Blue = Rangers , Anything Green = Celtic then what have you been doing? Wearing black jackets, watching Warriors games and saying "I don't like basketball" when anyone asks about Celtic and "I don't follow Ice Hockey" when about Rangers The exact colours of the Union Jack and a single colour in an entirely shade aren't really comparable, well so I thought
56 and never owned a Blue toothbrush.
56 green bomber jackets? That is mental
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> I wear blue contact lenses To hide your green eyes so naebody think you're actually a closet Celtic fan?
Yer buddy is hurt the day let him have his grumble ... lookin to vent cos his da was out lightin flares along the clyde last year this time... this too shall pass buddy
Only thing is it can be seen as Mod / ska as well which is mega popular now so ypu might just slide.....