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I had the dubious pleasure of watching Raith Rovers V Sevco on Friday evening on BT Sports. In all my years of watching football and having to put up with the horrid bile that emerges from the mouths of that support, eleven I was shocked as they sang almost for the whole game that Stan Collymore was ' a Black ****** B*stard" Unfortunately for their many apologists it was crystal clear and unlike one caller to 'Off the Ball' I doubt that accusatioNs that BT turned their mikes up just to catch a minority singing will bear even the scrutiny of Chick Dung. Even the most fervent Sevco fan, aka my father, must acknowledge that racist and sectarian chanting is unacceptable in 21st Century, in fact anywhere for that matter. In addition, whether Collymore eats babies or not is irrelevant. The football authorities must institute severe sanctions on 'ra peepil' or else they are guilty of bringing our game, for what's left into disrepute. This sort of behaviour from our friends inGovan has been going on for years and nothing at all has been done about it apart from the usual handwringing and pious platitudes. To be honest such was my disgust on Friday evening that if nothing is done, again it'll put me off going to football matches in this country. Finally, the first person to reply talking about Celtic will be outed as a bigot as this has absolutely nothing to do with them much as I dislike them. In the mainstream Scottish media the normative framing of any debate is to mention Celtic or in extremis someone else, whenever Rangers/Sevco are accused of anything, I really hope Jags fans are above that.