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UEFA has charged Rangers over an anti-woke banner displayed by supporters that the Scottish Premiership club have described as "shameful" and "embarrassing".

The message that was held by fans at Ibrox during Thursday's penalty shoot-out victory over Fenerbahce in the Europa League last 16, said: "Keep woke foreign ideologies out – defend Europe".

European football's governing body has described it as "racist and/or discriminatory", while Rangers said in a statement it was "deeply saddening and frankly embarrassing that the club is now set to face significant sanctions for the actions of a very small minority".

 

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Michael Kenrick
1 Posted 19/03/2025 at 14:14:59
I'm probably gonna regret asking… but what does this even mean?

And presumably, if you identify as 'woke' then you are automatically offended?

They should really at least provide a compendium of 'woke foreign ideologies' that we can review and decide whether we like them or not. Rather than this blanket exclusion order.

More to the point, why couldn't fucking Uefa just ignore this as fan banter and high jinks? Who exactly is being targetted and is suffering discrimination here? The Wagner Group???

Or is that the point? Trump and Musk have now infiltrated the bad Bhoys of Ibrox...

Emma Day
2 Posted 19/03/2025 at 14:18:07
I’m woke, proud to be woke, proud to “be aware and empathetic of social injustices”

People against “woke” just hate minorities, equality and inclusion.

Brian Williams
3 Posted 19/03/2025 at 14:39:16
Emma, that's complete rubbish. (IMHO).
Kieran Kinsella
4 Posted 19/03/2025 at 14:43:06
It is a bit contradictory as they say "defend Europe" from "foreign" woke ideologies. Where do these "foreign" ideologies come from? The Middle East? Africa? North Korea? Cuba?
Robert Tressell
5 Posted 19/03/2025 at 15:11:05
Newsflash "thick people unfurl daft banner and get an unwitting football team in trouble"
Danny O'Neill
6 Posted 19/03/2025 at 15:37:47
I don't really know what the definition of woke is, if there is one.

Emma, that's not the case and a bit strong. I do know that a lot of the population has concerns about certain matters and issues, but it's not always hatred towards minorities, equality and inclusion.

Suggesting that and dismissing those concerns, alienates groups of the population who are labelled just as some label so called woke. It actually fuels bad feeling.

Back to the subject of banners. I'm supposing that on the 2nd of April, we will be subject to having to face that disgraceful taunting banner celebrating Steaua Bucharest's 1986 European Cup victory.

Making a joke out of one of football's major tradegies that they caused and is airbrushed from their history. They really do not have any shame.

Bill Hawker
7 Posted 19/03/2025 at 15:52:01
I'm sorry Emma but that characterization couldn't be any further from the truth.
Bill Gall
8 Posted 19/03/2025 at 16:03:57
Hi Danny
I am with you not fully aware of the definition of woke, but at 84yrs old I am just happy that I woke up this morning feeling refreshed after a decent nights sleep.
Liam Mogan
9 Posted 19/03/2025 at 18:11:04
Woke me up before you go go
Danny O'Neill
10 Posted 19/03/2025 at 18:26:42
That'll do for me Bill!!
Tony Abrahams
11 Posted 19/03/2025 at 18:29:00
I personally think that a lot of European politicians should be investigated over the contracts that will have been given to their friends and families, with regards contracts for everything regarding Covid, and then the contracts that will have been given to the powers that be over this illegal immigration, racket.

They froze the bank accounts of the oligarchs, so I’d love someone to start looking into the bank accounts of a lot of these politicians, and the people that are close to them.

Everywhere you look there seems to be posters of Allah, advertised on billboards. Why do people want to start advertising their prophets on buses, and in train stations, or billboards, at the side of the road?

I suppose this might/will make me sound racist, especially to the people who have a completely absurd attitude like Emma@2, but in all honesty I’m curious, and although it goes against my most natural policy of just live and let live, I would love someone to be able to make me understand why Allah, is getting advertised all over our country.

Steve Brown
12 Posted 19/03/2025 at 18:33:12
Woke was originally framed by the BLM campaign in the US to raise awareness of racism, before it was hijacked by white people to signal their own virtue campaigns.

Before FIFA fine the club, they should ask the Rangers thickos to be more specific about which “woke foreign ideologies” they want to defend Europe from.

My money is still on the Catholic Church.

Raymond Fox
13 Posted 19/03/2025 at 18:33:19
We have enough woke and PC thinking in the UK thank you very much, I think they should be complaining about that.

We have been effectively gagged from pointing out issues that are plain and obvious to any sensible person

Steve Brown
14 Posted 19/03/2025 at 18:35:48
Tony, I doubt that there posters of Allah anywhere.

It is forbidden in islam to make a physical representation of the prophet.

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