Fan's protest

Summed up perfectly by Tom English

http://m.scotsman.com/sport/football/spl/tom-english-an-overload-of-emotion-from-melodramatic-mccoist-1-2256036

'SO WHERE are we at with the Rangers supporters’ battle plan in the wake of the bombshell of Monday night?

A protest outside Hampden at the weekend. Another protest outside Hampden on cup final day. An anti-SFA banner hung from a low-flying aeroplane. Letters to MPs, letters to Alex Salmond, letters to David Cameron. A boycott of away games. A boycott of Scotland games. Does your company have links with the SFA? End it. Does your child have a Scotland jersey? Get if off his chest and post it back to Hampden.

What else? Sanctions against SFA sponsors. So, no milk from Robert Wiseman dairies, no motors from Vauxhall, no McDonalds, no Big Macs for the big man outside the “big hoose" that must stay open. No trainers from Greaves Sports, no specs from Specsavers, no Mars bars, no Adidas, no Thomson holidays and for the love of God no punting with William Hill. Cancel Sky and ESPN subscriptions, sue the SFA and Uefa, pack the bags and abandon Scotland, move south and embrace the football league.

Rangers fans are busying themselves with their response to the SFA after the transfer ban imposed on them for the sins of the Craig Whyte era. Bans, boycotts, protests, all understandable. But things are getting incendiary out there. Already the names of the three-man independent tribunal who sat in judgment on the case are known. Already there has been an allegation of a threat against one of them. Rangers fans say they have a right to know who has passed such a swingeing sentence on the club and in normal societies that wouldn’t be a problem, but it is here. The reason these guys are anonymous is because Glasgow football attracts some bad people and when these bad people are riled there is no telling what they’ll do.

Actually, there is. They’ll publish their names and addresses and phone numbers and photographs on the internet. They’ll intimidate and threaten. In extreme cases they might even parcel-up some bombs and send them to the objects of their twisted imagination. We know how combustible things can become. We know how it is. Anonymity is important. Every single club, including Rangers, signed up to this. It’s the way it has to be.'