“I sat in Ibrox every week with other people who were fans,” Bobby Madden

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·5 mai 2023

“I sat in Ibrox every week with other people who were fans,” Bobby Madden

Tell us something we didn’t know Bobby…

Newly retired referee Bobby Madden admitted in his recent BBC Scotland interview that he was brought up in a family of Rangers supporters and attended Ibrox as a supporter when he was a child.

It wasn’t exactly a big exclusive as we’ve known for quite some time that Bobby was a supporter of Glasgow’s dark side.

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Kudos to Bobby for admitting so, but he used the well rehearsed excuse of ‘because of other commitments I turned by back on it’. He then went on to add that he regularly watched St Mirren as his brother was a season ticket holder at Love Street. Morton supporters will be happy at that.

If you believe Bobby, you’ll believe anything. No one can turn their back on supporting a football side to feeling nothing at all. It’s impossible.

Believe it or not I thought Bobby was one of the more better referees up here. But he also had his moments with his fair share of howlers against us. Was he anymore biased in the Rangers favour? You’d need to divulge into the stats to answer that, but it’s only natural that Bobby would feel a slight hint of favouritism towards his boyhood heroes.

It also again asks the question, should referees declare the club allegiances like they do down south? It will never happen up here, yes it should but it categorically won’t happen, I would bet my life on it.

Why? Well for one thing their would be no officials available to do any games as I would say 90 percent of them are supporters of the Rangers with the rest most likely Celtic supporters.

Referee Bobby Madden and Kyogo Furuhashi Photo: Malcolm Mackenzie

Unless they go down the Bill Leckie and Dougie Donnelly route and claim to be St Mirren and Clyde supporters. Incidentally don’t you ever find it humorous, that the Glasgow based media in particular, much like their referee counterparts all proclaim to have shunned supporting either of Glasgow’s big two? And instead supported a ‘local’ side.

How many work places have you worked in, the west of Scotland and Glasgow in particular that have a cluster of St Mirren, Partick Thistle, Clyde and Motherwell supporters yet no Celtic or theRangers supporters? None that’s the answer.

Yes. A lot of waffling. Yes. He went to games every week with his grandfather means YES. Just say yes, Bobby, it’s ok. ‘I sat in Ibrox every week with other people who were fans, but I was a runner and my grandfather was a fan’ Did u support Rangers, Bobby ffs 😂
– mercredi 3 mai 2023