An Embarrassment to Scotland

Coronation Street bosses have changed the script for an episode of the soap after complaints from Rangers fans. Supporters complained after the character Tony Gordon - played by Scottish actor Gray O'Brien - made a jibe about the Glasgow club. O'Brien's character had said: "I could no more be interested in Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers."
An ITV spokeswoman confirmed that after "dozens" of complaints, the script for a forthcoming episode had been changed. ITV said that line seemed "to have caused some upset".

From the BBC News Website

I'm proud to be a Scot. To me there is no finer country in the world and this nation - and Scotland is a nation - has achieved so much and contributed much to the world. But sometimes I despair. And the occasional nonsense that emanates from the west of Scotland makes decent, upstanding Scots cringe with embarrassment. The above story is a case in point.

Clearly those Rangers fans who took the trouble to contact ITV don't feel at all foolish by their petty actions. Sadly, it's part of the sometimes poisonous substance of an element of Scottish society, all too prevalent in the west coast. This is hot on the heels of Celtic fans complaining about their Rangers counterparts singing songs about the Irish potato famine and Rangers fans in turn protesting - if you'll pardon the term - that they're being picked on. Faced with the threat of their club facing a possible points deduction, some Rangers fans have taken to humming the song Hello, Hello rather than chanting the words...

No doubt some in the west will find that ingenious. I find the whole Coronation Street/tasteless chanting saga disturbing. And, not for the first time - and certainly not the last - bringing shame and ridicule on our country.