Originally Posted by
Callum Collum:
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What McCoist actually said was: "It's not even an issue for us. It never mattered to me before and it won't matter to me in the future. It's not an issue for us at all."
Sandaza blessed himself, nobody cared. He was applauded onto the pitch. Celtic fans are trying desperately to make something of this, perhaps to try to distract from events at Dundee.”
If it is not an issue, why did someone at Ibrox tell him not to bless himself? Is Sandaza lying? If he isn't, who told him not to bless himself? Has McCoist tried to find out who told him? Surely McCoist would want to find out who told him, after all, it isn't an issue, and he will wish to put the individual right that it isn't an issue!
Of course, Chuckles Green could just come out, perhaps in his New Year message, and make it very clear that this club has no problem what so ever with any Catholic player blessing himself running onto the pitch at Ibrox. That would set the record straight once and for all.
Failure for him to do so would suggest that it is still a problem at Ibrox, and McCoist, once again, isn't being quite truthful.
The Scottish media will make sure that Dundee isn't forgotten, don't worry about that. Yet, in the 21st Centuary, in a Scotland that hopes to be an independent nation soon, at a new football club, it seems that a player who is Catholic, is told not to bless himself as it will 'upset' a large number of that clubs fans.
A few idiots at a football match in Dundee or the same ongoing issue of sectarianism at a football club, just what is the bigger issue here?