The human cost of Rangers’ 2012 nightmare returns for Inverness | OneFootball

As Rangers fans will be well aware, former Scottish Premiership side Inverness Caledonian Thistle recently went into administration, and now face a battle to even survive as a club in League One.

This will apparently boil down to whether the administrators begin asset-stripping the players, or whether the club can hold onto their squad.

Now, of course, everyone reading this is hearing Rangers 2012, and we’re seeing so many Rangers fans filled with memories and rage of that time wishing the worst on ICT, hoping they go out of business, hoping they are ruined, because they didn’t vote Rangers into the Premiership in 2012.

Indeed there’s a lot of hate from Rangers’ support, which we are not dismissing at all – Rangers and our fans went through hell 12 years ago, and there was little-to-no support from the rest of the country – they did all want us to go bust, they wanted us gone, and they had nothing but hate in their hearts about us.

Which is why we’re saddened that our fans are acting exactly the same now, that instead of rising above that despicable conduct from the rest of the country towards us, we are acting the same towards them, with tonnes of ‘f*ck ‘em’, ‘let them die’ and all manner of the rest of it.

You might say karma, and you’d probably be absolutely right on the face of it, but in the way Rangers needed the country to be our friends in 2012, Inverness need the same now.

Are we just going to be as bad as them, Aberdeen and Celtic and just will their death, and the loss of tonnes of jobs?

Let’s not forget the victims here are the stadium and company staff. There are dozens, hundreds of people who work at Ibrox and for Rangers, who rely on the club and company for their livelihood. You probably have a few as friends.

Inverness are the same. We’ve already seen Duncan Ferguson, who many are showing sympathy to, lose his job – how can you reconcile wanting the club die with supporting Ferguson, who is suffering the club’s potential death and his own livelihood?

And there are others at that club who are Rangers fans. You want all of them in the jobcentre too?

We have no love for ICT, we have no real love for many Scottish clubs, but Scottish football needs its clubs to survive, and the hate Rangers fans are showing for them, based on their not voting us in in 2012, isn’t going to help the game as a whole or the likes of Ferguson and others.

Ordinary people, just like at Rangers, are losing their jobs and all our fans can say is ‘f*ck ‘em’?

Half the people who were at ICT back then aren’t even there now for goodness’ sake.

Maybe hate is a two way thing, and Rangers fans are being as guilty as the rest of Scottish football in 2012 of letting that hate cloud rationale.

If your mum, dad, daughter or son worked for ICT, would you still want the club to fold?