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The ultras of the rangers were castigated for a message of “disgusting” graffiti on Pope Francis wrote hours after his death.
The members of the Union Bears group degraded a motorway building with two messages after the pontiff’s death at the age of 88 on Easter Monday.
Pope Francis died peacefully ‘at 7:35 am, according to his doctors, after having undergone a brain stroke and subsequent heart failure.
Murching his death, artists from Graffiti have written “No Pope of Rome” and “Papa Francesco is dead”.
They also painted the wall around the letters in red, blue and white, the colors of the Ibrox outfit.
The building, right next to the M8 and M77 on rue Maclellan in Glasgow, is regularly used by fans of the Rangers and Celtic for graffiti because of its prominent location.
Rangers fans have been castigated for graffiti mocking the death of Pope Francis, with messages reading “No Pope of Rome” and “Papa Francesco”
Pope Francis died peacefully at 88 on Monday morning, according to his doctors
Rangers and Celtic have historically endured a sectarian fracture, the first considered as the Protestant club and the second considered as the Catholic side
“As a fan of the rangers, it disgusts me,” wrote a person on X. How many of our own players are we offering here? I have no religious beliefs but I respect those who do it. Keep him out of football.
Another said, “The only thing they can celebrate this season is an 88 -year -old Argentinian man living in Rome. A little depressing.
One said: “Hompe, disgusting and disrespectful.”
Another said, “It is wild that Christians are so anti-pope. He is a man of faith like them. We all praise the same God and aim for the same fate. Historically, there was a sectarian gap between the Rangers and Celtic.
We just asked: “A club for everyone?”
Given as a Protestant Unionist club, the Rangers would have had an unwritten rule according to which they would not sign any Catholic player between the 1930s and 1970s, although this was disputed. Meanwhile, Celtic was founded by an Irish Catholic, his brother Walfrid.
Celtic should boast of rangers’ rights for another season with the side of Brendan Rodgers on the right track for a triple domestic.
The Bhoys are 15 points ahead of the Rangers with five games to play, have already won the Scottish League Cup and will face Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final.
However, the Rangers sometimes made life difficult with two victories during four meetings of old companies in this campaign.
The Gers scored a dominant 3-0 victory in Ibrox in January and followed this with a 3-2 victory at the last blow to Celtic Park in March.
The pair will compete for the last time this season on May 4.
