r/Glasgow Tools

I'm absolutely fine with football in general; it's football in *Glasgow* I have a problem with. In my decades here, I've simply never had a positive interaction with anyone or anything connected to the Old Firm. It's just a source of danger, inconvenience or just plain having to put up with divisive, racist, boring shite from people day after day after day. From getting beaten up in school from literally day 1 through to marches and having to avoid the tube as a commuter at certain times, it's a constant tiring source of friction. If you support a team, you have something positive to counterbalance that. We don't.

However, it is just about the Old Firm- I live pretty much next door to Firhill and have never had any reason, bar the odd bit of dogshit and parking issues, to ever have any complaint about that club or its fans.

If someone's interest in the sport is solely and simply that then there is no reason for them to triballistically support one of the two main teams which represent the backwards sectarian/racist divide in Scotland.

My 'perspective on the world' is entirely informed by the fact I have never met a Celtic or Rangers fan who didn't hold an implicit tolerance for the shitty politics of sectarianism, even if they're not directly involved in it themselves.

If your love of football is literally just that, why be attached to one of the teams who explicitly continue to promote the backwards sectarian divide in our country? Why subscribe to the tribalism?

It's nothing to do with feeling superior, it's about being fucking bored of having to deal with the repercussions of a frankly completely unimportant thing that people ascribe a ridiculous level of importance to, and expect the rest of us to tolerate it when it spills over into our daily lives. Take control of your 'sport'.