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Members Blog 3
Danny - Me and Ma bro! - November 2009.
Big John: the love of the gers!
Since the age of 6, that's way back in '86 (see, am no that old), iv
followed rangers. I remember the souness revolution and grew up
watching legends the likes of coisty, cooper, durrant, mccall, the
goalie, gazza, laudrup and filip sebo! I lived rangers and never gave
ma mum peace for the new strips! But not all the family were chuffed
wae my choice of teams!
Motherwell 'support your local team'
When I was big enough (a few stone lighter than iam now), my dad took
me to my first game, Motherwell v st mirren! I wisnae happy, I said
'dad, I only came to see the rangers'. My dad persisted but eventualy
gave up and and took me into the old main stand at ibrox to watch, you
guessed it, rangers v Motherwell! He didnae give up! It was like that
for a few years and even when ma wee brother came to games it was off
to the old teraces at fir park! I know where my dad got it from! My
grandpa was forever sayin, 'it's no right son, your no fae govan, you
should b supporting your local team' but what my grampa doesn't get,
is that rangers are in my blood! It was different on my mums side tho,
My grandpa mckinstry was a true blue and loved watching the gers wae
us! I never seen him so happy when bomber brown scored in the n'er day
game!
For the future!
Even tho I live in carfin (don't hold it against me!) and there's more
bumblebee tops than actual bees in my street, my son john is following
in our family tredition, and not listening to his great grandpa
Russell! He and all other young rangers fans are the future of our
great club, and the pleasure it brings me to bring him on the bus wae
my brother and you's guys and experiance being part of the rangers
and holytown loyal family. Over the years goin to the football wae my
brother, there's been the highs of winning titles and going to
Manchester,(did you get a ticket martin?) to the lows of the le guen
era and loosing to urinea, but whatever the future brings at rangers
there's one thing for sure, I'm rangers till I die!
Daniel Russell- Brotherly Rivalry:
Anyone that grew up with their brother surely knows what it's like to fight
with one another. We fought about everything, who was having what, who was
playing the computer even as sad as who was getting in the toilet
first!...it was very annoying being the little brother though, because most
of the things we fought over... John won them all. The most annoying thing
of all though being the wee one that had to stay at home while John went to
the Rangers games. Meanwhile I had to be content staying at home and playing
johns Amiga, listening to the gers on the radio. (yes john-i was playing
your Amiga while you were out!)
The 12th man:
It wasn't all that bad as whe I got a little older and John started to drive
he would take me to the odd Rangers game. It was great, I always remember
the excitement when there was a chance of going to Ibrox. Ibrox always
seemed massive when you were younger and the atmosphere for a boy that age
was something else. Infact the greatest atmosphere I've ever heard at ibrox
was a game my brother took me to. It was a Champions league game against
Parma, he came home from work one day and we darted in To ibrox without a
ticket just on the chance someone might be selling two, it was a bit iffy
because no-one in their right mind would Sell these tickets, it was a huge
game, a complete sell out. (well i say darted in, we would've been quicker
walking, we took the m8 and it was a nightmare..it didn't help that the car
was an overheating piece of crap my dad used for work neither)We got to
govan just round the corner from the stadium bar and sure enough through the
large crowd was some guy standing at his house with 2 tickets. John applied
the brakes, lets just say rather abruptly and jumped out the car and bought
these tickets. Both suffering from whiplash, we got into the stadium and
I've never heard anything like it, it made the hairs stand up at the back of
my neck, everyone sang their heart out for the full 90mins and belted out
every song they know..we won that day and I swear it must have been the
atmosphere that done it, we definitely were the 12th man.
Wee spot in holytown:
I had always dreamed of a season ticket and it wasn't until I got a full
time job that I managed to get one with John, by then John had settled down
with wife and kids, so because we didn't see each other a lot it definitely
got on better. The next step as season ticket holders was to arrange how we
were going to get into ibrox every week. We thought the bus was a good way
to get in because then could get a wee drink and avoid trying to park in at
ibrox. I tried several times to join another bus but nothing ever came of
it. With our first game coming up we were struggling and then my partner had
said she got the bus at holytown a few times and I could probably go on
that. So we went to the Masonic arms and became members with holytown loyal
supporters club and from the moment we entered we were always made welcome
by everyone. This is now the third season we have been on the bus and unless
we lose our tickets, then we wouldn't go anywhere else. I had spoke about
the atmosphere in the last paragraph and we all know it's not the same as
the good old days as rightly or wrongly they have banned most of our songs
now and its took away all atmosphere from the games at ibrox, but the thing
that makes up for it is when the holytown loyal bus is in full voice!
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
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